"Flattery and flatterer!"

Song Yingxing was slightly displeased. Building a ancestral temple or an ancestral hall to worship ancestors has been a tradition for more than two thousand years, but this tradition was ruined by Wei Zhongxian.

Chen Zilong shook his head and said: "No, Chang Geng, how long do you think it will take to carve this stone statue?"

Song Yingxing was slightly startled: "This..."

With the use of machinery in later generations, a stone statue could be carved in about half a month. In the Ming Dynasty, due to the manual and primitive carving techniques, it took a long time. For example, the stone statues of the Ming Tombs took two years to quarry. Selection. That is with the power of craftsmen across the country. If it is a private person, I am afraid it will take five years.

What was Xu Guangqi doing five years ago?

When Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs were in power, in order to win over people's hearts, they planned to appoint Xu Guangqi as the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and assistant bachelor of the Hanlin Academy to serve as the assistant director of Zhan Shifu. However, Xu Guangqi refused to take up the post, which aroused the eunuchs' dissatisfaction and was impeached. The emperor ordered him to " The crown belt stays idle."

Xu Guangqi stayed in Shanghai from the third year of Tianqi to the first year of Chongzhen, compiling the "Complete Book of Nongzheng". In other words, when Cheng Shijie ordered people to carve this stone statue, Xu Guangqi had no official or position at the time. He was just a compiler of "The Complete Book of Nongzheng". 》Just an old man.

If you need to curry favor, do you need to curry favor with Xu Guangqi?

This is of course a misunderstanding. In fact, it only took these craftsmen more than two months to carve Xu Guangqi's stone statue. That's all. Especially for the polishing and finishing parts, sandpaper and polishing machines were used. Although they were animal-powered, they were not very precise. Stable, but much faster than manual refinement.

Cheng Shijie is not trying to curry favor with Xu Guangqi. As one of the four major agricultural experts in ancient China, Xu Guangqi deserves Cheng Shijie's respect.

Gu Shizhang opened a huge store in Zhenhai City covering an area of ​​more than 14 acres, or nearly 10,000 square meters. It specializes in Huizhou specialty rice paper, ink, and inkstones, and also provides services such as calligraphy and framing.

Xie Jinglin opened two specialty restaurants in the city, which could serve beef, mutton, roe deer, rabbit and other game. Cheng Shijie also made a lot of wine.

Zhang Chen's Oriental Trading Company also opened a branch in Zhenhai City...

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Jinzhou City, Haining Army General Military Mansion.

In the side hall of the right front hall, an old man wearing a blue military uniform is sitting there drinking tea. This old man is about sixty years old, with a wrinkled face and gray beard.

Cut from fine silk and satin, it is gorgeous and elegant. This outfit would be priceless if sold overseas.

Sitting on his left side is a man in his thirties. He is quite tall, has a scholar's crown and white clothes. He looks pretty good, but his eyeballs rotate a little too fast. He is shrewd in everything. It is best to deal with him.

Be careful;

An eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl was admiring a landscape painting with her hands on her back. She was dressed in a light yellow dress and was a little over 1.7 meters tall. She had long hair reaching her waist and her fingers were twisted together habitually.

, an oval face with a light and delicate face, not stunning, but very attractive, and the kind that becomes more and more beautiful the more you look at it, the eyes are sharp, the lips are thin and delicate, like cherry petals, you can tell at a glance that he is an eloquent person

host.

As for Yang Yuniang next to her, she seemed a little uneasy. Although Cheng Shijie's property was getting bigger and bigger and his business was getting better and better, Cheng Shijie paid more and more to Yang Yuniang in order to win over Yang Yuniang. In less than a year,

Yang Yunniang's net worth is already very high.

She herself had not calculated how much money she had. Anyway, Cheng Shijie made a kerosene lighter. At first, it was just for the convenience of scouts, thunder gunners and artillerymen to light fires.

However, sometimes the flowers fail to bloom and the willows grow unintentionally. More than 2,000 of these lighters were produced, which also brought Yang Yunniang hundreds of taels of dividends. But the problem is, when you get it,

The operator of the finished Thunderbolt Gun, Su Huaicai, a soldier from the Fourth Division of the former Youdu Division who had just joined the army for just three months, actually succeeded in making a Thunderbolt Gun-type tap fire based on the principle of the lighter.

Although this running fire device weighs more than eight kilograms and looks very large, it saves the process of lighting the match rope.

Cheng Shijie transferred Su Huaicai from the Fourth Infantry Division, and then gave Su Huaicai a large amount of information and asked him to research more powerful and faster fire guns.

The accumulation of wealth did not bring much sense of security to Yang Yunniang. Perhaps only in the dead of night did Yang Yuniang think of whether it was all worth it.

Originally, Yang Yuniang was a layman when it came to bank management. She was a person who was trying to cross the river by feeling the stones. She would do whatever Cheng Shijie asked her to do. However, the problem was that the method provided by Cheng Shijie had always been tried and tested without success, but it happened in the bank.

Something isn't working right up there.

Especially the dynamic password, this thing simply restricted the development of banks.

This is why Cheng Shijie thought too simply. Dynamic passwords require huge data support. In later generations, supercomputers and central processors can easily solve this problem. If all manpower is used, Cheng Shijie's bank will be the same even if it lends all loans.

You will also lose money.

Three subordinates under Yang Yunniang proposed a solution to her.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is too busy to care about this problem at all.

Emperor Chongzhen once again urged Cheng Shijie to go to the capital to report on his duties. According to regulations, even when Cheng Shijie was just promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy, he had to go to the capital to express his gratitude.

However, Cheng Shijie didn't have time.

Now he is dealing with a fatal matter, that is, the group of young masters who came to Zhenhai City caused trouble. They insulted Ning Haijun's soldiers with unbridled words. Ning Haijun's soldiers got angry and killed the three

The scholar with an unshakable reputation was thrown into the septic tank.

If these Ning navy soldiers killed these three scholars, the matter would be easy to solve. If they are dead and there is no witness, they can just take two heads to touch them and pay some money, and the matter can be solved.

When the laws of the Ming Dynasty were formulated, they were biased in favor of scholars. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty were not the stinky Laojiu of the Yuan Dynasty. How did the title Laojiu come from?

In the Yuan Dynasty, people were divided into ten classes: one official, two officials, three monks, four Taoists, five doctors, six workers, seven hunters, eight commoners, nine Confucians, and ten beggars.

The status of Confucian scholars is only slightly better than that of beggars.

But it was different in the Ming Dynasty. For example, when a county magistrate tried a case, he would first be beaten with a killing stick, or he would be tortured if he did not confess, but the scholar could not be beaten. The scholar was a disciple of the emperor, and he needed to be expelled from his honor before he could be beaten...

Now that Ning Haijun's soldiers are beating up the scholar, the problem is getting bigger.

Now these three scholars, plus two to three hundred young men, are making trouble against Cheng Shijie every day.

Cheng Shijie was so angry that he could only attack Chang Yu: "Look, look, what are you doing? It would be easier to just kill him and bury him casually. Where are they going to find someone?"

There have been incidents of large animals injuring people in southern Liaoning. Nowadays, wild boars can eat people.

Zhang Yu said: "General, I will arrest the soldiers who committed the crime..."

"asshole!"

Cheng Shijie angrily scolded: "I have finally brought up Ning Haijun's morale and morale. With your treatment, our Ning Haijun soldiers will bow their heads and become timid whenever they see a scholar..."

This is just like in later generations, some trolls are complaining about security guards' brutal law enforcement. When security guards (meaning, not real security guards) encounter emergencies, they will immediately consider whether they will violate the law when enforcing the law.

The matter is not handled immediately, but self-protection is considered first. Only ordinary people can be injured.

"Then what does the commander-in-chief mean...what should we do now?"

"You're like this!"

Cheng Shijie lowered his voice and said: "Make some tofu with brine and drop everything. You go to the labor camp, bring up some vicious gangsters or gangsters, and announce to the outside world that there is a riot in the Ning Haijun labor camp and that some labor reform prisoners have escaped..."

Zhang Yu suddenly realized.

Cheng Shijie doesn't want to rebel directly now, because it will make it easier for him to establish slaves, so he can only settle for the second best.

There is no harm without comparison.

When there is comparison, there is harm.

Let them suffer a little first, so that they can know that Ning Haijun is their protector.
Chapter completed!