Chapter 40 The Forgotten Man
At dawn, when Yun Zhao was washing, he suddenly heard Yun Chun's scream from outside the house.
After he hurriedly washed up, he came to the yard and looked in the direction of Yun Chun and Yun Hua's fingers. He saw a glider circling in the sky. Qian Duoduo held a telescope and looked at it. After a while, he said to Yun Zhao: "Husband, the guy above is looking down at you with a telescope. Is it a crime to peek into your harem?"
Yun Zhao got money from Qian Duoduo. He took the telescope in his hand and looked at the glider. Sure enough, there was a soft pocket on the belly of the glider. There was really a guy in the soft pocket holding a telescope with one hand and looking down.
Yun Zhao put down his binoculars and said to Yun Qi, who was coming with a gun: "Go, arrest this guy."
Yun Qi said: "What's the crime?"
p>"Peeping at national secrets."
Yun Qi agreed, and soon a group of people on horseback followed Yun Qi.
Not long after Yun Qi left, Yun Chun, Yun Hua and the others seemed to be excited again. Yun Zhao went out to look again, only to find a huge hot air balloon slowly coming from Yun's mansion. Drifting overhead, he could even see the occasional orange-red flame erupting from underneath the hot air balloon because it wasn't flying very high.
Qian Duoduo held up the telescope and continued to look at the hot air balloon. This time she did not say anything about the people on the hot air balloon peeping at Yun's mansion. She just happily called out to Yun Chun and Yun Hua.
That's it for gliders. Without independent power generation and without the ability to enter the stratosphere, it can't fly very far.
So, it didn’t take long for Pei Yong, a student of the 19th term of Yushan who was riding a glider, to be captured alive by Yun Qi.
He was caught, but he was not afraid. He smiled and raised his hands to Yun Zhao.
Looking at this tired boy, Yun Zhao lazily said: "Hit him." Hearing Yun Zhao say this, the tired boy couldn't laugh anymore and said quickly: "Your Majesty, the student just wants to show this glider to His Majesty, and there is no such thing." The idea of peeping into the harem.
Besides, both Empress Feng and Empress Qian have been seen in the academy many times, and they are both students’ mentors, so how can they be considered voyeurs? ”
Yun Zhao snorted and said: "This is the secret of the empire."
Pei Yong immediately became anxious and said quickly: "Your Majesty, students have recently developed an aircraft that can fly autonomously. , the design has been finalized, it’s just time to experiment. If your majesty is willing to invest a thousand silver dollars, the student can come up with a prototype.”
Yun Zhao naturally doesn’t believe that this guy can make an engine now, no. He waved his hands patiently and said: "Pull him out and give him a good beating."
"Your Majesty, wait!"
Yun Zhao turned around and saw Qian Duoduo coming out, so he smiled and said: " It seems that you are interested in this guy’s aircraft, so I’ll leave it to you.”
After that, he lifted his legs and walked out of the door, handing the student to Qian Duoduo. Anyway, no matter how hard this guy tried, with the current scientific level, it is still possible to play with hot air balloons and hydrogen balloons. As for airplanes, there are two Something from more than a hundred years later.
That’s it for hot air balloons. The conditions for making hydrogen balloons are already mature. Since Nanyang sent a large amount of natural rubber, Yun Zhao’s self-confidence has greatly expanded.
If one or several giant hydrogen balloons appear in the sky in this era, even if they have no actual combat significance, they will scare the shit out of many armies, especially when facing barbaric peoples. The effect should be better.
When I returned to the big study, I looked at the busy staff on both sides of the big study. I felt a sense of satisfaction rising from the soles of my feet to the top of my head... These people were all working for him alone. .
This is the proudest place since he became emperor.
Through these people, every order he issues will eventually be spread to all places where Ming people live.
Yun Zhao thought so, and Han Xiufen thought so too at first. She believed that Yun Zhao's power could reach any corner where Ming people lived, and she was willing to shine Yun Zhao's brilliance to the whole world.
After defeating the Dutch and the Dutch East India Company, the entire Java Island finally fell into Han Xiufen's hands.
This is a huge island with no boundaries. In Han Xiufen’s view, this island alone is enough to feed millions of people in the Ming Dynasty.
To this end, she sent warships to circle around this giant island, hoping to accurately map the exact edges of the island. After that, she would send troops to re-survey the entire island. Not until this huge island is clear.
This is a rich island that makes Han Xiufen crazy. Just the two-foot-thick layer of volcanic ash on the ground makes Han Xiufen feel that a thousand people died fighting for this island. More than three hundred Ming soldiers died with great value.
In order to declare sovereignty, from the moment Earl Lane fled Java Island by boat, Han Xiufen erected a huge Lantian County boundary monument on the island to declare that the island belonged to the Ming Empire. an integral part of the territory.
For this reason, she even ordered an iron pillar with a diameter of two feet and a height of two feet to be erected here, and an inscription was engraved on the iron pillar to declare the Ming Dynasty's love for this area in an almost immortal way. Sovereignty of land.
After doing these things, Han Xiufen completely blocked the island. The 30,000 marines under Sun Chuanting, plus the 21,000 navy from Han Xiufen's headquarters, were on the island. A dragnet search began.
Han Xiufen spent six months searching the island... During this period, giant sailing ships continued to travel to and from the islands. Even the small primitive people in the island's rainforest could not escape. The fate of being caught and sent away.
From the first moment Han Xiufeng set foot on this island,I have no intention of letting people of other races live on this island.
She believes that as long as there are enough Ming people here, within a hundred years, this place will definitely become a wealthy and prosperous place, and it will also become a military and cultural center of the Ming Dynasty in Southeast Asia.
For this reason, she devoted all her energy to cleaning up the island. As long as the island was cleaned up, it would be able to welcome a large number of people from the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty to settle the land.
It wasn't until Liu Mingliang captured an ancient man and brought it to Han Xiufen that she stopped what she was doing.
The man who was caught was very calm. He did not panic like those savages, nor did he struggle like those cannibal savages. He just stood there quietly without saying a word. hair.
Ow-ear shoes woven from beaten coconut skin, calf-nosed shorts woven from beaten coconut skin. The upper body is naked, but the head is combed in a bun, fixed with a wooden hairpin.
His skin was dark, but not the pure black of the aborigines on the island. It looked a bit burnt. His black eyes made Han Xiufen think that this guy looked like a Ming Dynasty at the first time!
"Only found this one?"
Han Xiufen asked Liu Mingliang.
Liu Mingliang said: "It should be a group, but this guy led us away and we caught him with a fishing net before he was about to jump off the cliff."
Han Xiufen Glancing at the man, he opened his mouth and said, "Are you from Ming Dynasty?"
The man remained silent.
Han Xiufen said calmly: "Since they are not our common people, then let's kill them."
Liu Mingliang thought deeply and waved his hand, and two sergeants came over immediately. , pushing this man to go out.
When he went out, Han Xiufen said to Liu Mingliang: "He actually understands what we say."
Liu Mingliang said: "But we have already revealed our identity, why would he rather Are you unwilling to speak?"
Han Xiufen shook her head and said: "There must be something weird here. Since you can catch one, you should be able to catch more. You know, Ren Yi "There is basically no such thing as a hero."
After saying that, the two went out to watch the execution of this man.
There was a gallows erected outside Han Xiufen's camp. It was erected here by the Dutch East India Company. It is said that three thousand people were hanged on this gallows alone.
The rope buckle fell on the man's neck. When the executioner shouted slogans and was about to trigger the flip mechanism, the man suddenly shouted heartbreakingly towards the depths of the Java Mountains: "Mom, my child is unfilial. I will be your son in the next life."
Liu Mingliang was stunned for a moment and said, "It's actually the standard Hangzhou dialect."
Han Xiufen looked at Liu Mingliang and said : "How do you know this is Hangzhou dialect?"
Liu Mingliang said: "When I returned to China, I bought my wife from Hangzhou.That's the way she talks. "
Han Xiufen's eyebrows almost stood up, and she said in a deep voice: "You said you were going back to marry a wife, but you didn't say you bought your wife.
Liu Mingliang smiled bitterly and said: "My reputation is bad. The daughter of a good family in Lantian County refused to marry me, so I had to ask someone to buy a Yangzhou thin horse from Hangzhou. It turned out that it was from Hangzhou and she was deceived." ”
“Is there still human trafficking in the country? What do Zhang Guozhu, Zhou Guoping and the others do for food? Besides, you, a bastard, actually buy and sell people? "As Han Xiufen spoke, she grabbed Liu Mingliang's neck and lifted him up.
Liu Mingliang didn't struggle. Fortunately, she could still speak, so she sighed and said: "Buy with her mother... bah bah. Phew, her mother was willing to marry her daughter to me only after giving her a lot of money as a betrothal gift. In addition, she would not suffer any loss by marrying me. I treated her very well, and even gave her the official land allocated to me by the court. After taking care of it, the little girl was very satisfied. "
When Han Xiufen heard that Liu Mingliang's wife was married, she let him go. Then she looked at the crying man and said, "Hey, we are the imperial army, not pirates. "
The man cried and said: "The Song Dynasty has long been destroyed, so don't try to deceive me. ”
“Song Dynasty? "
Han Xiufen and Liu Mingliang looked at each other, and Liu Mingliang said: "Are you from Song Dynasty? "
"Are you northerners under the Mongols? "
Liu Mingliang sneered and said: "The Mongols have almost been killed by me. I am a real Han, and now I am a Ming Dynasty. My emperor is a Han. They are also from the Ming Dynasty. As for the Mongols, they are now raising cattle and sheep for me. "
As he spoke, he walked up to the gallows, took the noose off the man's neck, untied his ties, slapped him on the back and said, "Go back and kill all your people." Shout out, Master Wang is here, why are you running so hard? ”