Go back to ancient times to be God of War
Chapter 57 The Shaky Truth
"It's a bunch of nonsense! It's unreasonable!" Lu Kan became more and more annoyed as he listened, his thin body trembled, and he pointed at He Xiu's nose and scolded: "Isn't it a good thing that soldiers know how to fight? We must let all the generals follow the paper It's so mushy that it will break if you poke it, so can Elder He Ge be satisfied?"
By this time, the courtiers had naturally divided into three camps. The civil servants headed by He Xiu occupied most of the country, and the main battle forces led by Lu Kan and Xie Yingbo now lacked the support of the emperor, and their foundation was not stable enough. They seem to be quite alone, and there are some Qingliu who don't stand in line on both sides. They are staying as quietly as chickens at the moment, for fear that the big bosses on both sides will quarrel too much and get burned.
Emperor Tianqi's head was buzzing. He didn't know what happened recently. He always felt tired easily and had a severe headache. He really couldn't hear such a quarrel. The two parties in the hall were still arguing. And the people they are fighting for are no longer interested in listening.
"Quiet—!" Emperor Tianqi finally couldn't take it anymore and roared.
A word from the emperor is worth a thousand words, and the hall was instantly silent.
"Back to court, this matter will be discussed later."
After saying that, Emperor Tianqi flicked his sleeves, got up and left, leaving only the two parties still staring at each other bitterly, wishing to eat their flesh and blood.
On the other side, inside the palace.
Emperor Tianqi lay sideways on the small couch, frowning his brows with a pained look on his face. His head was resting on the lap of a beautiful woman in Chinese dress. The woman was gently massaging his head. Many servants knelt in a row, On one side of the small couch, a Taoist priest with a childlike face and white hair was lighting a paper talisman and throwing it into a cup of tea.
"My concubine's craftsmanship has improved a lot. I will let you be the queen someday, and don't want that stinky girl anymore." Emperor Tianqi was rubbed for a while, looking at the young and beautiful face in his eyes, he felt a lot better , and took the talisman water handed over by Lin Zhenren and drank it all in one gulp.
The woman in fine clothes was secretly pleased, but her face still showed a look of fear: "How can this concubine be, as long as I can accompany Shengjia, I will be satisfied."
Emperor Tianqi chuckled, noncommittal, swallowed the talisman water, a warm feeling ran down his throat, and his whole body was instantly refreshed, and the medicine cured his illness.
"The real man is indeed a god." Emperor Tianqi's head no longer hurts now, and he is full of praise for Lin Zhenren's godly skills, but when he thinks of the quarrel with Lu Kan and others in the court just now, he starts to have a headache again.
"What does the real person think about today's morning affairs?" He asked casually.
"Your Majesty, this old man is really pissed off." Master Lin said neither humble nor overbearing: "This old man is just a Taoist priest, how can he discuss state affairs indiscriminately?"
Emperor Tianqi didn't take it seriously. Seeing Immortal Lin's refusal like this, he felt that Immortal Lin was really high-spirited and upright, unstained by the dust of the world, and his trust in his heart increased a little, and a smile appeared on his lips: "You don't need to be humble, I just want to hear Your opinion."
"If that's the case, then the old man will show his shame." Master Lin swept the dust lightly, and said slowly: "The old man has experienced three Jiazi, and he has some understanding of the past, I don't know if the emperor still remembers how the Taizu ascended to God bit?"
Although Emperor Tianqi said he was useless, he did not lack the imperial education that he should have. Hearing this, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat!
Without him, the Taizu was originally a general of the Qi royal family, but later supported his troops and swung his spear to the capital, and then slaughtered the Qi royal family, and sat on the throne himself, and the Great Xia was established since then.
Although this period of history is not very glorious, and it is often covered up in the history books, but as a member of the royal family, Emperor Tianqi is naturally very clear about what happened to his ancestors.
In addition, the Qi of the Qi Kingdom happened to have the same pronunciation as the Qi of the Qi family, and even strangely aroused the infinite association of Emperor Tianqi.
Seeing Emperor Tianqi's unpredictable expression, Lin Zhenren showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
He will never let go of any of these people...
Although it is easier and more effective to do it yourself, wouldn't it be more enjoyable to watch the enemies kill each other, dogs biting dogs?
**
Changshan Mansion, Licheng Shenhuo Camp.
Today, he rested, but Qi Yang got up early in the morning, punched a set, danced with a gun for a while, and after a thin layer of sweat, he walked into the room casually to clean it, and then put on his coat again. He strolled outside the barracks, and then seemed to remember something, and touched the wooden pillar under the eaves in front of him with an indistinguishable expression.
Time flies, and soon another Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. The person who once stood under the window with his back against the pillar, waiting for him to open the door, is not around.
Qi Yang let out a long sigh, and couldn't help turning his eyes to the far east.
Li Nu has been away for more than half a month, and should have already returned to the capital city. According to what he said before, the capital city is very tense now, and he refuses to listen to persuasion. It is even more difficult for him to do such a risky thing. It's like walking on a tightrope, as long as you take half a step wrong, you will be lost forever. It is really impossible not to worry.
Qi Yang frowned tightly, his thoughts had already drifted to the capital.
Those treacherous and turbulent political struggles are not his forte. All he can do in front of him is to fight hard to drive the Rong people out of the western border as soon as possible. With his ability, he will definitely be able to find out all the treasonous black hands behind the scenes.
Thinking of this, Qi Yang immediately pushed open the door of the barracks, and walked quickly towards the center of the Shenhuo camp.
After the first emperor gave the name of Shenhuo Camp, the amount of money and food allocated by Changshan Mansion to Shenhuo Camp and Jingyuan Army each year has increased significantly. Still, Qi Yang didn't have any family members, since he got married with Xie Tingchun, he didn't think about starting a family and raising children, and he didn't care about things outside his body, so he threw all the rewards he received into the Shenhuo Camp.
The results are remarkable.
At this time, the middle part of the Shenhuo camp has been set aside by Qi Yang to become a special firearms factory. It is quite different from the small workshop Xie Tingchun saw a few years ago. Today's firearms factory is quite large and covers an area of large It was as big as the original Changshan Mansion Camp, and the factory was neatly divided into several areas, including those for sorting pig iron, forging steel, and factories for producing different types of weapons. At this early morning, the Firearms Factory Work has not started yet, but there has been movement in a workshop.
Qi Yang pushed open the wooden door in front of him, and there was a middle-aged man with a stooped back sitting in the workshop. His dark skin was full of wrinkles, and his right arm was obviously thicker than his left arm. It looked like he had been doing physical labor all year round. Damn, when this person saw Qi Yang coming in, a smile appeared on his gentle face, and he didn't get up to salute, looking very familiar: "General."
"Morning, Cao Hui." Qi Yang nodded, also not being polite to him, he directly dragged a small stool and sat in front of the middle-aged man, looking at the messy papers on the table together: "How about it, what I said a few days ago Has your waterwheel been made yet?"
This Cao Hui was one of the several craftsmen who were good at making fireworks and firecrackers that Xie Tingchun gave to Qi Yang back then. He is responsible for the design of new weapons. Qi Yang provides ideas and blueprints, and then Cao Hui makes the model, and finally the craftsmen complete the sample mass production together.
Such a process has greatly accelerated the process of improving various weapons in the firearms battalion. Qi Yang was not originally a craftsman. It is really difficult for him alone, but with Cao Hui's help, it will be different. The experienced old craftsman will know if there is any.The "waterwheel" Qi Yang mentioned was also a new idea he had a few days ago.
In "Aipad", he once saw a scene where in a huge factory building, many craftsmen were arranged horizontally and sat in front of a long table. The objects are constantly rolling forward, conveying the parts of the firecracker one by one, and each of those craftsmen is only responsible for installing one part, which is faster than the craftsman in Qi Yang's firearms camp making a firecracker from start to finish. out several times.
According to the narration in "Ai Paide", this is called "assembly line".
Ever since he began to equip the Jingyuan Army with a large number of flintlocks, Qi Yang has been focusing on this magical "assembly line", but he soon encountered the biggest problem.
How did that black thing move?Has someone been pulling?
It shouldn't be, the factory doesn't stop around the clock, if so, the person responsible for pulling the cloth would have been exhausted long ago.
As for this question, it was not until he took a bath in the river that he suddenly had a perfect answer.
The water in the small river was turbulent, and a banyan leaf fell from the top of the head and got stuck in a small groove on the bank, rolling and turning continuously with the gurgling water.
Qi Yang originally just picked up the banyan leaf and played a tune on a whim, but suddenly his heart was blessed.
Isn't this water flow the most convenient and continuous source of power?
Returning to the firearms camp in a hurry, he shared this idea with Cao Hui. Cao Hui immediately praised him, and Dang even dropped all the work in his hand and started to do it.
"You came just in time." Cao Hui was beaming, with two bruises under his eyes, but his expression was still excited: "It's ready. Actually, I saw this thing in the village when I was in the south. Some villagers used it like this The waterwheel brings water to the fields to irrigate the crops, but what we want is not water, but the power of water flow, so I made some changes.”
After finishing speaking, he carefully lifted a small wooden model two palms high from under the table.
"Put this end in the river water, the water will drive the roller to rotate, and the upper part will be connected with this bracket, so it can be driven by this push rod. Look." Cao Hui flicked the small roller vigorously with his hand, and saw the delicate There is a piston-like thing at the other end of the structure, which is constantly moving back and forth with the rotation of the roller.
Connecting this machine and stretching the cloth with a cover on it, it can be like the "assembly line" that Qi Yang has seen before, and the parts can be continuously conveyed!
Qi Yang's eyes lit up in an instant, as if he saw a steady stream of finished firecrackers being taken off the "assembly line" and distributed to the Jingyuan Army. The whole army had one hand, and they looked invincible from now on in battle!
After bringing Cao Hui and his model to the factory, and instructing the craftsmen to build a scaled-up version of the waterwheel, Qi Yang immediately went out of the camp and into the city without stopping, planning to go to Mrs. Zhu's embroidery building to find her and order a waterwheel. A batch of cloth that can be used on the "line".
However, just as he dismounted at the gate of the city, he ran into an acquaintance unexpectedly.
"Brother Yang?"
A somewhat old voice sounded behind him in disbelief.
Qi Yang turned around and saw that the person calling his name was an old woman about 60 years old, holding a bundle in her hand, standing by the side of the bullock cart, who had just passed the inspection by the soldiers at the gate of the city, and was about to enter the city.
Dust-laden memories flooded into his mind for a moment, Qi Yang was a little embarrassed for a while, and after a while, he asked, "Aunt Lin? Why did you come to Licheng?"
"Hey, the old man is dead. I was alone in Meng County and didn't have any thoughts, so I thought about coming to Licheng to join my sister's family." The old woman sighed a little melancholy, and then asked: "Lesheng is still with you?" in one place?"
This person is Lin Lesheng's mother.
Before Lin Lesheng did those things, when the two were still in the Zou family's camp in Meng County, and had a good relationship, Qi Yang once went to Lin Lesheng's home in Meng County, and met his parents several times Later, Lin Lesheng was sent to prison for treason, Qi Yang was angry, disappointed, and embarrassed, and after that he was busy in the Licheng camp, so he never met Lin Lesheng's parents again.
"Please forgive me." Qi Yang said subconsciously, but in an instant, he caught something wrong in the old woman's words, immediately frowned, and asked: "Mother, what you just said... Le Sheng is with me What's going on here?!"
Could it be that no one told his parents about Lin Lesheng's imprisonment at that time?No, this matter is causing a lot of trouble in Licheng. If Mrs. Lin's younger sister is in Licheng, she shouldn't know about it...
Aunt Lin seemed a little surprised, and took a look at Qi Yang: "Isn't it? But about a month ago, Le Sheng came to see me once, saying that he came out to make me feel at ease, and left some money for me to help the old man. funeral..."
Qi Yang's mind was shocked instantly!
After Lin Lesheng was captured by him and Li Nu, he was escorted to Beijing together with the Changshan Mansion Tongsan at that time, awaiting trial in Beijing Zhongtian Prison, and was finally sentenced to beheaded for treason. In theory, he should have been executed long ago!
Can people who have already died come back to life?
Thinking of his miraculous experience, Qi Yang couldn't help his heart skip a beat, but after a while, he forced himself to suppress his beating heart and took a deep breath.
No, no, how can such weird things happen so frequently?
After Lin Lesheng went to the capital, there was never any news that he was released, nor did he hear that a fugitive escaped from the sky prison. From this point of view, no matter whether he escaped from prison or was pardoned, someone must have secretly covered it up. I don't want others to know this news.
Who is it?
Qi Yang pondered for a moment, and immediately thought of Rong Guo, which Lin Lesheng contacted at that time.
Just as he was frowning and thinking about why Rong Guo made such a move, Mrs. Lin let out a long sigh and spoke again:
"Lesheng is a very conscientious child. Although he is not a relative, after so many years of raising him, he still has feelings..."
"Wait, aunt." Qi Yang was taken aback again, and asked, "Isn't Lin Lesheng the son of you and the uncle?"
"No. When we adopted him, he was just a weaned child who didn't know anything." Aunt Lin was a little perplexed, and gestured with her hand, as if recalling the milk doll from the past: "Who will become the baby?" I thought, after twenty years, his own father actually came and wanted to take him away. The old man and I talked together, and he was a rich man at first glance. We are old and poor, and Le Sheng followed the two of us. , he can't even get a wife, let him live a happy life with his own father..."
Qi Yang's heart was pounding at this moment.
It turned out to be the case.
When Lin Lesheng's case happened, he talked with Li Nu, and he felt very strange. Why did a young officer with a bright future and good moral character suddenly choose to betray his country?Could it be that something happened in his life that made him embark on this road of no return?
Now, after listening to Mrs. Lin's words, it seems that all the weird places have been connected successfully!
Lin Lesheng's strange change of style suddenly; the sudden appearance of his biological father; Yu Tongpan who called Lin Lesheng an "adult" for some reason and respected him; The sentence "let's have that first"...
Reminiscent of what Li Nu said to him, many officials in the capital were suspected to be under the control of drugs, and Qi Yang broke out in cold sweat for a moment.
After stringing together all the clues, he almost immediately came to the most likely conclusion.
Lin Lesheng's "biological father" is likely to have some relationship with Rong Guo, and it is also likely to be related to the incident where officials in the capital were controlled by drugs!
"Ma'am, do you still remember what Lin Lesheng's biological father looked like?"
Qi Yang's piercing eyes fixed on Aunt Lin, with an irrepressible solemnity in his expression.
Mrs. Lin was quite surprised. It had been a few years since the incident, and her memory was already a little fuzzy. After thinking about it for a while, she frowned and said unsurely: "He is a very energetic person, about 50 or [-] years old, with a white face and no beard. Wearing a bamboo hat, the eyes look quite similar to Le's, but you can't tell if you put them together, and you can tell that they are the father and mother."
Qi Yang silently wrote it down in his heart, after saying thank you, he didn't even bother to go to Mrs. Zhu's embroidery building to order cloth, so he hurried back to the camp, rushed into the barracks to grind ink and spread paper, and told what he heard and thought All written on letter paper.
Putting down the brush, he was about to call his own soldiers in to deliver the letter to the station, but he hesitated at the last moment.
"No." He said to himself, "This is not possible."
Li Nu must be notified of this matter as soon as possible, but he is in the capital, there must be many eyes watching his movements all the time, if the official sent a letter rashly, exposing his close relationship with Li Nu, it would definitely be bad for him !
But if he didn't go through the official post, how would he let the raccoon slave know about it?
Qi Yang bit his lip and eagerly knocked on the desk in front of him with his fingers.
After a while, he couldn't help touching the Buddhist beads on his wrist again, but the tried-and-true methods in the past couldn't calm down his urgent mood now, Qi Yang let out a long breath, and pressed his hands on his chest again.
There was a piece of jade there, its tentacles were warm and slightly cool, as if it could take away the heat in his heart.
Qi Yang's rapidly spinning brain gradually slowed down. After a moment of contemplation, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared, and he asked tentatively, "Xie Yi...Xie Er? Are you there?"
**
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the imperial palace of the capital, Xie Tingchun was standing in the main hall with his head bowed. Emperor Qi.
"Hahaha! Well said! Xie Aiqing's witty words, she really deserves to be the youngest Tanhualang in the history of my Great Xia!" His head didn't seem to be so painful anymore, and seeing Xie Tingchun became more and more pleasing to the eye, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Come here, reward me!"
"My humble minister, thank the emperor!" Xie Tingchun made a look of overjoyed, and immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed to thank him.
Emperor Tianqi raised his hand to signal him to excuse him, seeing Xie Tingchun's energetic appearance, he suddenly remembered the thing that he had been thinking about for a while.
Although he listened to Lin Zhenren's words, he was a little jealous of the two generals surnamed Qi at the border, but when he thought that after all, these were the loyal ministers his father had told him before his death, he was a little cowardly and didn't dare to go too far. In the end, he came up with a solution that he thought was a compromise.
"Xie Aiqing, tell me, I want to confer the title of General Qi and Er Qi as the duke of the country, and order him to enter the country, and take the post of governor of the capital camp and the governor of the governor, how about it?"
Xie Tingchun's heartbeat almost stopped for a moment.
Oops!
The position of the Governor of the Beijing Camp seems to be a first-rank official with unlimited glory, but under the gorgeous coat, there is a huge trap hidden.
Those who don't know may not know that the Governor of the Beijing Camp seems to be a high-ranking and powerful person, but in fact he is under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor and has no military power in his hands. It can be said that the foundation of a general's life is instantly transformed in the position of the Governor of the Beijing Camp. For nothing, it is simply the most suitable sugar-coated bullet to check and balance generals and weaken their strength!
Xie Tingchun felt that he had never been so nervous in his life.
It is obvious that Emperor Tianqi is very suspicious of the eldest brother's family. The capital is currently in chaos, and the black hands who framed the eldest brother behind the scenes and contacted the Yi country have not been found out. If the eldest brother returns to Beijing at this moment, without the protection of the army, he will be under the enemy's back and forth. He can't take the risk!
Xie Tingchun's brain was spinning rapidly, and he knelt down immediately, and said with great pain: "Your Majesty is wise, this matter must not be done!"
"Oh?" Emperor Tianqi frowned slightly, as if a little unhappy, he thought this method was very decent, not only gave the two people enough face, but also took back the military power without bloodshed, how could Xie Tingchun open his mouth to object ?
Xie Tingchun made an appearance of worrying about the country and the people: "Your Majesty, the Changshan area has long been the territory of the second Qi. Don't hide it from the emperor. When I was working in the Changshan Mansion, everything was restricted, but The matter of people's hearts is really quite complicated. If the emperor directly seizes the military power of General Xiao Qi like this, things will be reversed. Then the officers and soldiers of the Great Xia in the western region may cause trouble. Xia is in danger!"
Emperor Tianqi thought about it, and immediately felt that it was the same reason, so he couldn't help but nodded and said: "What Aiqing said is reasonable, this matter still needs to be figured out slowly, and a long-term plan is needed."
"The emperor is holy!" Xie Tingchun heard that Emperor Tianqi had changed his mind, so he let go of his heart, and continued to blow rainbow farts until Emperor Tianqi felt comfortable and relaxed, and then he had a smoky voice left the palace.
The face is calm, but the bottom of the heart has set off a huge wave.
No... At this time, I can't let the eldest brother know.
Unlike himself, Xie Tingchun knows very well that his eldest brother is the most innocent and straightforward person. Except for fighting the enemy, the rest of the time, whether it is scheming or political sense, he is almost zero. He only cares about protecting the people and serving the motherland. If he knows The king of a country whom he worked so hard to be loyal to is thinking about how to deal with him. I don't know how sad he must be...
When Xie Tingchun thought of the disappointment and sadness in his eldest brother's beautiful amber eyes, he couldn't help but feel angina in his heart.
But the current situation can only be delayed a little by Emperor Tianqi. The most urgent thing is to immediately remove the cancerous tumors hidden under the treacherous waves of the capital. It's just that these people are very cunning, and now the person behind He Xiu Has not revealed any horse feet.
Just as he was thinking about countermeasures quickly, the carriage he was riding in suddenly stopped.
"Young master, someone is looking for him, and he said... Mr. He Ge has invited you to discuss something important."
Fugui came in with his head in, and said with some trepidation.
coming.
Xie Tingchun's heart skipped a beat.
It seems... It is the conversation between himself and Emperor Tianqi in the palace today that has been spread to He Xiu's ears, and he has most likely aroused his suspicion at this time.
"Turn around and go to He Ge's old mansion."
Xie Tingchun said in a deep voice.
With the sound of hoofbeats, he quickly turned a corner and drove in the opposite direction to Little Chestnut Street, and soon stopped at the corner door of an exquisite and luxurious house.Xie Tingchun's slender fingers tightly gripped the edge of the car window, and his fingertips were even a little white because of too much force.
However, in just a moment, he adjusted the expression on his face and stepped out of the carriage calmly.
The servant lowered his eyebrows and led him through the corner door and came to a small reception room. He Ge was sitting in it, and when he saw him enter the door, he showed a smile that was not very sincere.
"Thank you for coming, please sit down."
Xie Tingchun was kind, with a very relaxed expression on his face, and seemed to be a little excited, lowered his voice, and asked impatiently: "What do you want to order, Mr. Ge?"
Seeing his restless appearance, He Xiu couldn't help but sneered inwardly, but still pushed an object on the table affectionately, with a somewhat inquisitive look on his face: "It's nothing, it's just that you and I forget the year Today, when I suddenly remembered, I just wanted to talk to you."
"By the way, this is a new good thing I got recently. It has a refreshing effect. Thank you for trying it, sir?"
Xie Tingchun lowered his head, and when he saw that thing clearly, his pupils shrank slightly.
It was a beautifully shaped tobacco pipe, with some fine black flakes stuffed at one end, it didn't look like shredded tobacco, but some kind of plant.
The tip of his nose moved slightly, and a familiar smell that made his soul tremble floated into his nostrils, slightly sour and slightly bitter, with a trace of undetectable rancidity.
The smile on He Ge's face did not change, and he raised the pipe at him: "What? Don't give me face?"
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By this time, the courtiers had naturally divided into three camps. The civil servants headed by He Xiu occupied most of the country, and the main battle forces led by Lu Kan and Xie Yingbo now lacked the support of the emperor, and their foundation was not stable enough. They seem to be quite alone, and there are some Qingliu who don't stand in line on both sides. They are staying as quietly as chickens at the moment, for fear that the big bosses on both sides will quarrel too much and get burned.
Emperor Tianqi's head was buzzing. He didn't know what happened recently. He always felt tired easily and had a severe headache. He really couldn't hear such a quarrel. The two parties in the hall were still arguing. And the people they are fighting for are no longer interested in listening.
"Quiet—!" Emperor Tianqi finally couldn't take it anymore and roared.
A word from the emperor is worth a thousand words, and the hall was instantly silent.
"Back to court, this matter will be discussed later."
After saying that, Emperor Tianqi flicked his sleeves, got up and left, leaving only the two parties still staring at each other bitterly, wishing to eat their flesh and blood.
On the other side, inside the palace.
Emperor Tianqi lay sideways on the small couch, frowning his brows with a pained look on his face. His head was resting on the lap of a beautiful woman in Chinese dress. The woman was gently massaging his head. Many servants knelt in a row, On one side of the small couch, a Taoist priest with a childlike face and white hair was lighting a paper talisman and throwing it into a cup of tea.
"My concubine's craftsmanship has improved a lot. I will let you be the queen someday, and don't want that stinky girl anymore." Emperor Tianqi was rubbed for a while, looking at the young and beautiful face in his eyes, he felt a lot better , and took the talisman water handed over by Lin Zhenren and drank it all in one gulp.
The woman in fine clothes was secretly pleased, but her face still showed a look of fear: "How can this concubine be, as long as I can accompany Shengjia, I will be satisfied."
Emperor Tianqi chuckled, noncommittal, swallowed the talisman water, a warm feeling ran down his throat, and his whole body was instantly refreshed, and the medicine cured his illness.
"The real man is indeed a god." Emperor Tianqi's head no longer hurts now, and he is full of praise for Lin Zhenren's godly skills, but when he thinks of the quarrel with Lu Kan and others in the court just now, he starts to have a headache again.
"What does the real person think about today's morning affairs?" He asked casually.
"Your Majesty, this old man is really pissed off." Master Lin said neither humble nor overbearing: "This old man is just a Taoist priest, how can he discuss state affairs indiscriminately?"
Emperor Tianqi didn't take it seriously. Seeing Immortal Lin's refusal like this, he felt that Immortal Lin was really high-spirited and upright, unstained by the dust of the world, and his trust in his heart increased a little, and a smile appeared on his lips: "You don't need to be humble, I just want to hear Your opinion."
"If that's the case, then the old man will show his shame." Master Lin swept the dust lightly, and said slowly: "The old man has experienced three Jiazi, and he has some understanding of the past, I don't know if the emperor still remembers how the Taizu ascended to God bit?"
Although Emperor Tianqi said he was useless, he did not lack the imperial education that he should have. Hearing this, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat!
Without him, the Taizu was originally a general of the Qi royal family, but later supported his troops and swung his spear to the capital, and then slaughtered the Qi royal family, and sat on the throne himself, and the Great Xia was established since then.
Although this period of history is not very glorious, and it is often covered up in the history books, but as a member of the royal family, Emperor Tianqi is naturally very clear about what happened to his ancestors.
In addition, the Qi of the Qi Kingdom happened to have the same pronunciation as the Qi of the Qi family, and even strangely aroused the infinite association of Emperor Tianqi.
Seeing Emperor Tianqi's unpredictable expression, Lin Zhenren showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
He will never let go of any of these people...
Although it is easier and more effective to do it yourself, wouldn't it be more enjoyable to watch the enemies kill each other, dogs biting dogs?
**
Changshan Mansion, Licheng Shenhuo Camp.
Today, he rested, but Qi Yang got up early in the morning, punched a set, danced with a gun for a while, and after a thin layer of sweat, he walked into the room casually to clean it, and then put on his coat again. He strolled outside the barracks, and then seemed to remember something, and touched the wooden pillar under the eaves in front of him with an indistinguishable expression.
Time flies, and soon another Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. The person who once stood under the window with his back against the pillar, waiting for him to open the door, is not around.
Qi Yang let out a long sigh, and couldn't help turning his eyes to the far east.
Li Nu has been away for more than half a month, and should have already returned to the capital city. According to what he said before, the capital city is very tense now, and he refuses to listen to persuasion. It is even more difficult for him to do such a risky thing. It's like walking on a tightrope, as long as you take half a step wrong, you will be lost forever. It is really impossible not to worry.
Qi Yang frowned tightly, his thoughts had already drifted to the capital.
Those treacherous and turbulent political struggles are not his forte. All he can do in front of him is to fight hard to drive the Rong people out of the western border as soon as possible. With his ability, he will definitely be able to find out all the treasonous black hands behind the scenes.
Thinking of this, Qi Yang immediately pushed open the door of the barracks, and walked quickly towards the center of the Shenhuo camp.
After the first emperor gave the name of Shenhuo Camp, the amount of money and food allocated by Changshan Mansion to Shenhuo Camp and Jingyuan Army each year has increased significantly. Still, Qi Yang didn't have any family members, since he got married with Xie Tingchun, he didn't think about starting a family and raising children, and he didn't care about things outside his body, so he threw all the rewards he received into the Shenhuo Camp.
The results are remarkable.
At this time, the middle part of the Shenhuo camp has been set aside by Qi Yang to become a special firearms factory. It is quite different from the small workshop Xie Tingchun saw a few years ago. Today's firearms factory is quite large and covers an area of large It was as big as the original Changshan Mansion Camp, and the factory was neatly divided into several areas, including those for sorting pig iron, forging steel, and factories for producing different types of weapons. At this early morning, the Firearms Factory Work has not started yet, but there has been movement in a workshop.
Qi Yang pushed open the wooden door in front of him, and there was a middle-aged man with a stooped back sitting in the workshop. His dark skin was full of wrinkles, and his right arm was obviously thicker than his left arm. It looked like he had been doing physical labor all year round. Damn, when this person saw Qi Yang coming in, a smile appeared on his gentle face, and he didn't get up to salute, looking very familiar: "General."
"Morning, Cao Hui." Qi Yang nodded, also not being polite to him, he directly dragged a small stool and sat in front of the middle-aged man, looking at the messy papers on the table together: "How about it, what I said a few days ago Has your waterwheel been made yet?"
This Cao Hui was one of the several craftsmen who were good at making fireworks and firecrackers that Xie Tingchun gave to Qi Yang back then. He is responsible for the design of new weapons. Qi Yang provides ideas and blueprints, and then Cao Hui makes the model, and finally the craftsmen complete the sample mass production together.
Such a process has greatly accelerated the process of improving various weapons in the firearms battalion. Qi Yang was not originally a craftsman. It is really difficult for him alone, but with Cao Hui's help, it will be different. The experienced old craftsman will know if there is any.The "waterwheel" Qi Yang mentioned was also a new idea he had a few days ago.
In "Aipad", he once saw a scene where in a huge factory building, many craftsmen were arranged horizontally and sat in front of a long table. The objects are constantly rolling forward, conveying the parts of the firecracker one by one, and each of those craftsmen is only responsible for installing one part, which is faster than the craftsman in Qi Yang's firearms camp making a firecracker from start to finish. out several times.
According to the narration in "Ai Paide", this is called "assembly line".
Ever since he began to equip the Jingyuan Army with a large number of flintlocks, Qi Yang has been focusing on this magical "assembly line", but he soon encountered the biggest problem.
How did that black thing move?Has someone been pulling?
It shouldn't be, the factory doesn't stop around the clock, if so, the person responsible for pulling the cloth would have been exhausted long ago.
As for this question, it was not until he took a bath in the river that he suddenly had a perfect answer.
The water in the small river was turbulent, and a banyan leaf fell from the top of the head and got stuck in a small groove on the bank, rolling and turning continuously with the gurgling water.
Qi Yang originally just picked up the banyan leaf and played a tune on a whim, but suddenly his heart was blessed.
Isn't this water flow the most convenient and continuous source of power?
Returning to the firearms camp in a hurry, he shared this idea with Cao Hui. Cao Hui immediately praised him, and Dang even dropped all the work in his hand and started to do it.
"You came just in time." Cao Hui was beaming, with two bruises under his eyes, but his expression was still excited: "It's ready. Actually, I saw this thing in the village when I was in the south. Some villagers used it like this The waterwheel brings water to the fields to irrigate the crops, but what we want is not water, but the power of water flow, so I made some changes.”
After finishing speaking, he carefully lifted a small wooden model two palms high from under the table.
"Put this end in the river water, the water will drive the roller to rotate, and the upper part will be connected with this bracket, so it can be driven by this push rod. Look." Cao Hui flicked the small roller vigorously with his hand, and saw the delicate There is a piston-like thing at the other end of the structure, which is constantly moving back and forth with the rotation of the roller.
Connecting this machine and stretching the cloth with a cover on it, it can be like the "assembly line" that Qi Yang has seen before, and the parts can be continuously conveyed!
Qi Yang's eyes lit up in an instant, as if he saw a steady stream of finished firecrackers being taken off the "assembly line" and distributed to the Jingyuan Army. The whole army had one hand, and they looked invincible from now on in battle!
After bringing Cao Hui and his model to the factory, and instructing the craftsmen to build a scaled-up version of the waterwheel, Qi Yang immediately went out of the camp and into the city without stopping, planning to go to Mrs. Zhu's embroidery building to find her and order a waterwheel. A batch of cloth that can be used on the "line".
However, just as he dismounted at the gate of the city, he ran into an acquaintance unexpectedly.
"Brother Yang?"
A somewhat old voice sounded behind him in disbelief.
Qi Yang turned around and saw that the person calling his name was an old woman about 60 years old, holding a bundle in her hand, standing by the side of the bullock cart, who had just passed the inspection by the soldiers at the gate of the city, and was about to enter the city.
Dust-laden memories flooded into his mind for a moment, Qi Yang was a little embarrassed for a while, and after a while, he asked, "Aunt Lin? Why did you come to Licheng?"
"Hey, the old man is dead. I was alone in Meng County and didn't have any thoughts, so I thought about coming to Licheng to join my sister's family." The old woman sighed a little melancholy, and then asked: "Lesheng is still with you?" in one place?"
This person is Lin Lesheng's mother.
Before Lin Lesheng did those things, when the two were still in the Zou family's camp in Meng County, and had a good relationship, Qi Yang once went to Lin Lesheng's home in Meng County, and met his parents several times Later, Lin Lesheng was sent to prison for treason, Qi Yang was angry, disappointed, and embarrassed, and after that he was busy in the Licheng camp, so he never met Lin Lesheng's parents again.
"Please forgive me." Qi Yang said subconsciously, but in an instant, he caught something wrong in the old woman's words, immediately frowned, and asked: "Mother, what you just said... Le Sheng is with me What's going on here?!"
Could it be that no one told his parents about Lin Lesheng's imprisonment at that time?No, this matter is causing a lot of trouble in Licheng. If Mrs. Lin's younger sister is in Licheng, she shouldn't know about it...
Aunt Lin seemed a little surprised, and took a look at Qi Yang: "Isn't it? But about a month ago, Le Sheng came to see me once, saying that he came out to make me feel at ease, and left some money for me to help the old man. funeral..."
Qi Yang's mind was shocked instantly!
After Lin Lesheng was captured by him and Li Nu, he was escorted to Beijing together with the Changshan Mansion Tongsan at that time, awaiting trial in Beijing Zhongtian Prison, and was finally sentenced to beheaded for treason. In theory, he should have been executed long ago!
Can people who have already died come back to life?
Thinking of his miraculous experience, Qi Yang couldn't help his heart skip a beat, but after a while, he forced himself to suppress his beating heart and took a deep breath.
No, no, how can such weird things happen so frequently?
After Lin Lesheng went to the capital, there was never any news that he was released, nor did he hear that a fugitive escaped from the sky prison. From this point of view, no matter whether he escaped from prison or was pardoned, someone must have secretly covered it up. I don't want others to know this news.
Who is it?
Qi Yang pondered for a moment, and immediately thought of Rong Guo, which Lin Lesheng contacted at that time.
Just as he was frowning and thinking about why Rong Guo made such a move, Mrs. Lin let out a long sigh and spoke again:
"Lesheng is a very conscientious child. Although he is not a relative, after so many years of raising him, he still has feelings..."
"Wait, aunt." Qi Yang was taken aback again, and asked, "Isn't Lin Lesheng the son of you and the uncle?"
"No. When we adopted him, he was just a weaned child who didn't know anything." Aunt Lin was a little perplexed, and gestured with her hand, as if recalling the milk doll from the past: "Who will become the baby?" I thought, after twenty years, his own father actually came and wanted to take him away. The old man and I talked together, and he was a rich man at first glance. We are old and poor, and Le Sheng followed the two of us. , he can't even get a wife, let him live a happy life with his own father..."
Qi Yang's heart was pounding at this moment.
It turned out to be the case.
When Lin Lesheng's case happened, he talked with Li Nu, and he felt very strange. Why did a young officer with a bright future and good moral character suddenly choose to betray his country?Could it be that something happened in his life that made him embark on this road of no return?
Now, after listening to Mrs. Lin's words, it seems that all the weird places have been connected successfully!
Lin Lesheng's strange change of style suddenly; the sudden appearance of his biological father; Yu Tongpan who called Lin Lesheng an "adult" for some reason and respected him; The sentence "let's have that first"...
Reminiscent of what Li Nu said to him, many officials in the capital were suspected to be under the control of drugs, and Qi Yang broke out in cold sweat for a moment.
After stringing together all the clues, he almost immediately came to the most likely conclusion.
Lin Lesheng's "biological father" is likely to have some relationship with Rong Guo, and it is also likely to be related to the incident where officials in the capital were controlled by drugs!
"Ma'am, do you still remember what Lin Lesheng's biological father looked like?"
Qi Yang's piercing eyes fixed on Aunt Lin, with an irrepressible solemnity in his expression.
Mrs. Lin was quite surprised. It had been a few years since the incident, and her memory was already a little fuzzy. After thinking about it for a while, she frowned and said unsurely: "He is a very energetic person, about 50 or [-] years old, with a white face and no beard. Wearing a bamboo hat, the eyes look quite similar to Le's, but you can't tell if you put them together, and you can tell that they are the father and mother."
Qi Yang silently wrote it down in his heart, after saying thank you, he didn't even bother to go to Mrs. Zhu's embroidery building to order cloth, so he hurried back to the camp, rushed into the barracks to grind ink and spread paper, and told what he heard and thought All written on letter paper.
Putting down the brush, he was about to call his own soldiers in to deliver the letter to the station, but he hesitated at the last moment.
"No." He said to himself, "This is not possible."
Li Nu must be notified of this matter as soon as possible, but he is in the capital, there must be many eyes watching his movements all the time, if the official sent a letter rashly, exposing his close relationship with Li Nu, it would definitely be bad for him !
But if he didn't go through the official post, how would he let the raccoon slave know about it?
Qi Yang bit his lip and eagerly knocked on the desk in front of him with his fingers.
After a while, he couldn't help touching the Buddhist beads on his wrist again, but the tried-and-true methods in the past couldn't calm down his urgent mood now, Qi Yang let out a long breath, and pressed his hands on his chest again.
There was a piece of jade there, its tentacles were warm and slightly cool, as if it could take away the heat in his heart.
Qi Yang's rapidly spinning brain gradually slowed down. After a moment of contemplation, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared, and he asked tentatively, "Xie Yi...Xie Er? Are you there?"
**
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the imperial palace of the capital, Xie Tingchun was standing in the main hall with his head bowed. Emperor Qi.
"Hahaha! Well said! Xie Aiqing's witty words, she really deserves to be the youngest Tanhualang in the history of my Great Xia!" His head didn't seem to be so painful anymore, and seeing Xie Tingchun became more and more pleasing to the eye, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Come here, reward me!"
"My humble minister, thank the emperor!" Xie Tingchun made a look of overjoyed, and immediately fell to his knees and kowtowed to thank him.
Emperor Tianqi raised his hand to signal him to excuse him, seeing Xie Tingchun's energetic appearance, he suddenly remembered the thing that he had been thinking about for a while.
Although he listened to Lin Zhenren's words, he was a little jealous of the two generals surnamed Qi at the border, but when he thought that after all, these were the loyal ministers his father had told him before his death, he was a little cowardly and didn't dare to go too far. In the end, he came up with a solution that he thought was a compromise.
"Xie Aiqing, tell me, I want to confer the title of General Qi and Er Qi as the duke of the country, and order him to enter the country, and take the post of governor of the capital camp and the governor of the governor, how about it?"
Xie Tingchun's heartbeat almost stopped for a moment.
Oops!
The position of the Governor of the Beijing Camp seems to be a first-rank official with unlimited glory, but under the gorgeous coat, there is a huge trap hidden.
Those who don't know may not know that the Governor of the Beijing Camp seems to be a high-ranking and powerful person, but in fact he is under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor and has no military power in his hands. It can be said that the foundation of a general's life is instantly transformed in the position of the Governor of the Beijing Camp. For nothing, it is simply the most suitable sugar-coated bullet to check and balance generals and weaken their strength!
Xie Tingchun felt that he had never been so nervous in his life.
It is obvious that Emperor Tianqi is very suspicious of the eldest brother's family. The capital is currently in chaos, and the black hands who framed the eldest brother behind the scenes and contacted the Yi country have not been found out. If the eldest brother returns to Beijing at this moment, without the protection of the army, he will be under the enemy's back and forth. He can't take the risk!
Xie Tingchun's brain was spinning rapidly, and he knelt down immediately, and said with great pain: "Your Majesty is wise, this matter must not be done!"
"Oh?" Emperor Tianqi frowned slightly, as if a little unhappy, he thought this method was very decent, not only gave the two people enough face, but also took back the military power without bloodshed, how could Xie Tingchun open his mouth to object ?
Xie Tingchun made an appearance of worrying about the country and the people: "Your Majesty, the Changshan area has long been the territory of the second Qi. Don't hide it from the emperor. When I was working in the Changshan Mansion, everything was restricted, but The matter of people's hearts is really quite complicated. If the emperor directly seizes the military power of General Xiao Qi like this, things will be reversed. Then the officers and soldiers of the Great Xia in the western region may cause trouble. Xia is in danger!"
Emperor Tianqi thought about it, and immediately felt that it was the same reason, so he couldn't help but nodded and said: "What Aiqing said is reasonable, this matter still needs to be figured out slowly, and a long-term plan is needed."
"The emperor is holy!" Xie Tingchun heard that Emperor Tianqi had changed his mind, so he let go of his heart, and continued to blow rainbow farts until Emperor Tianqi felt comfortable and relaxed, and then he had a smoky voice left the palace.
The face is calm, but the bottom of the heart has set off a huge wave.
No... At this time, I can't let the eldest brother know.
Unlike himself, Xie Tingchun knows very well that his eldest brother is the most innocent and straightforward person. Except for fighting the enemy, the rest of the time, whether it is scheming or political sense, he is almost zero. He only cares about protecting the people and serving the motherland. If he knows The king of a country whom he worked so hard to be loyal to is thinking about how to deal with him. I don't know how sad he must be...
When Xie Tingchun thought of the disappointment and sadness in his eldest brother's beautiful amber eyes, he couldn't help but feel angina in his heart.
But the current situation can only be delayed a little by Emperor Tianqi. The most urgent thing is to immediately remove the cancerous tumors hidden under the treacherous waves of the capital. It's just that these people are very cunning, and now the person behind He Xiu Has not revealed any horse feet.
Just as he was thinking about countermeasures quickly, the carriage he was riding in suddenly stopped.
"Young master, someone is looking for him, and he said... Mr. He Ge has invited you to discuss something important."
Fugui came in with his head in, and said with some trepidation.
coming.
Xie Tingchun's heart skipped a beat.
It seems... It is the conversation between himself and Emperor Tianqi in the palace today that has been spread to He Xiu's ears, and he has most likely aroused his suspicion at this time.
"Turn around and go to He Ge's old mansion."
Xie Tingchun said in a deep voice.
With the sound of hoofbeats, he quickly turned a corner and drove in the opposite direction to Little Chestnut Street, and soon stopped at the corner door of an exquisite and luxurious house.Xie Tingchun's slender fingers tightly gripped the edge of the car window, and his fingertips were even a little white because of too much force.
However, in just a moment, he adjusted the expression on his face and stepped out of the carriage calmly.
The servant lowered his eyebrows and led him through the corner door and came to a small reception room. He Ge was sitting in it, and when he saw him enter the door, he showed a smile that was not very sincere.
"Thank you for coming, please sit down."
Xie Tingchun was kind, with a very relaxed expression on his face, and seemed to be a little excited, lowered his voice, and asked impatiently: "What do you want to order, Mr. Ge?"
Seeing his restless appearance, He Xiu couldn't help but sneered inwardly, but still pushed an object on the table affectionately, with a somewhat inquisitive look on his face: "It's nothing, it's just that you and I forget the year Today, when I suddenly remembered, I just wanted to talk to you."
"By the way, this is a new good thing I got recently. It has a refreshing effect. Thank you for trying it, sir?"
Xie Tingchun lowered his head, and when he saw that thing clearly, his pupils shrank slightly.
It was a beautifully shaped tobacco pipe, with some fine black flakes stuffed at one end, it didn't look like shredded tobacco, but some kind of plant.
The tip of his nose moved slightly, and a familiar smell that made his soul tremble floated into his nostrils, slightly sour and slightly bitter, with a trace of undetectable rancidity.
The smile on He Ge's face did not change, and he raised the pipe at him: "What? Don't give me face?"
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