Cao Huachun said: "Jinyiwei and Dongchang have dispatched more than 3,000 people to various places to investigate, but there is no result yet!"

"Looking for it, you want to see the person alive, and you want to see the corpse if you're dead!"

Emperor Chongzhen was in a pretty good mood, but on the contrary, the ministers in the court were as disgusted as if they had eaten a fly.

The inkstones in the capital suddenly became much more expensive. Apparently, many civil servants smashed the inkstones and broke their own inkstones after hearing that Zheng Zhilong, who had 200,000 to 300,000 men and more than 3,000 warships, was defeated and surrendered.

Mao Bi, how much effort did they put into inciting the Zheng Group to go to war with Cheng Shijie?

Moreover, even when the war was unfavorable, he spared no effort in writing articles to build momentum for Zheng Zhilong, waving flags and shouting, and packaging Zheng Zhilong as a hero against the warlord Cheng Shijie.

What are they trying so hard for? Isn't it because they hope that Zheng Zhilong can cause Cheng Shijie to fall into a big somersault, and it is best for the two of them to fight to the death?

The result was good, Zheng Zhilong gave up in defeat, and the control of Dahai was handed over to Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie gained another large piece of territory!

Cheng Shijie, who was in Luzon, was watching Ning Haijun training Zheng's recruits.

Li Zhixiang asked: "Commander, should we build a shipyard in Luzon?"

"unnecessary!"

"Why?"

"Luzon is positioned as a raw material and grain production base, not a completed industrial system!"

Cheng Shijie has not yet established a truly complete industrial system in Liaodong, so how can it be possible to develop and construct it in Luzon?

If a country really wants to become strong, power and maneuvering are nothing more than fleeting smoke. Vertical and horizontal disruptions are also rootless trees. What really supports a country's national strength is comprehensive industrialization!

Now the Ming Dynasty is not far behind the technological development of the West. In fact, it has a stronger advantage than it would have to catch up more than three hundred years later.

The development of the Ming Dynasty in the field of machinery was not lagging behind that of the West. Whether it was agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, or astronomy, it was clearly ahead of the West.

As Liaodong's industrial base develops, more and more people choose to cooperate with Ning Haijun and contribute their own unique secret recipes. Liaodong produces a large amount of machinery and equipment, and Liaodong actually develops a

A large number of hydraulic machinery.

For example, water-powered textile looms can be used, and water-powered forging presses can be used. Cheng Shijie found it incredible. In fact, the Ming Dynasty had strong technical reserves, and the research and development of steam engines was sufficient.

The water drain invented in the Han Dynasty, the piston bellows invented in the Song Dynasty, and the water drain drive device have solved the problem of power generated by reciprocating motion. The invention of the steam engine was just a matter of time.

While Cheng Shijie was reading Ning Haijun's official documents from the Liaodong Management Committee, one thing caught Cheng Shijie's attention.

That was the case in which Mr. Yan sued her husband Wang Zheng, which caused a huge sensation in Liaodong.

Cheng Shijie felt that the name Wang Zheng was very familiar. After thinking for a long time, Cheng Shijie finally remembered that Wang Zheng was actually a great scientist in the Ming Dynasty, second only to Song Yingxing and Zhao Shizhen.

Wang Zheng has three characteristics: he is an official, a scientist, and he believes in Catholicism. He wrote a book called "Pictures of Newly Made Various Utensils", and later compiled a book called "Illustrated Notes on Newly Made Various Utensils" with Deng Yuhan, a missionary from Switzerland.

"Illustrated Description of the Strange Weapons of the Far West" was published in 1627 and played an important role in the introduction of Western science and technology in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the strange book "Pictures of Newly Made Various Weapons", there is a record that is still difficult to understand. "The fire ship goes away, the fire and thunder explodes, the wind wheel rotates, and the windmill travels far." According to the record in the text,

, according to our understanding today, the "fire ship going away" most likely refers to a steam-powered ship.

Wang Zheng once served as the deputy envoy of the Shandong Advocate and was also a good friend of Sun Yuanhua. In history, due to the Dengzhou Rebellion, Kong Youde rebelled, and Wang Zheng was sent to the army.

In this time and space, because of the influence of Cheng Shijie, a butterfly from another world, he was not dismissed. However, after Cheng Shijie landed in Liaodong and allowed Liaodong Catholics to build churches, Wang Zheng, who was obsessed with religion and scientific research, was invited by the godfather Lu Ruohan.

Official, resigned and went to Liaodong.

As a missionary in Haizhou, Lu Ruohan recommended Wang Zheng because he was from Shaanxi. As the peasant rebels became more and more powerful, more and more people could not survive in Shaanxi. Except for the southeastern coast and southwest, the Ming Dynasty

There is almost no peace left.

Refugees from Shaanxi will automatically go to Liaodong. Thanks to the help and attraction of the Liaodong Immigration Administration, Liaodong now has more than 500,000 people from Shaanxi.

This is a very rich Christian resource, but only Liaodong is the most tolerant of Catholics, so Wang Zheng came to Liaodong. However, the problem was that Wang Zheng’s first wife, Shang, had several sons, but they all suffered from acne.

With only two daughters left, Wang Zheng's mind relaxed under the circumstances of "his wife and daughter were in mourning, his brothers and nephews were surrounded by tears, and his father's orders were strict", so he married the fifteen-year-old daughter in the third year of Tianqi without making it public.

Shen is a concubine, hoping to have a son to continue her legacy.

Since taking a concubine has always been regarded as a serious crime by the Catholic Church in China, Wang Zheng felt that his sin was serious, so he asked Jin and other priests to absolve him of his sin several times, but they were not allowed. Wang Zheng then regretted it and decided to marry a concubine to atone for his sin. But the Shang family tried their best to persuade her to stay, and the Shen family also cried bitterly and declared that she was willing to join the church and remain chaste and would never remarry until she died. Wang Zheng was helpless.

However, Wang Zheng accepted the Shen family but did not have sex with her. After many years, Shen's belly had not moved, so she was criticized by her neighbors. Shen was not willing to be scolded as a chicken that could not lay eggs, so she hanged herself.

As a result, Wang Zheng was determined to completely solve his marriage problem. He published an article in the "Liaodong Times" (Praying for Exoneration), admitting that he had seriously violated the "Ten Commandments" and said that he had read it recently As well as the fact that he once declared that he did not want to take a concubine in "The Miracle of Miguel Zhang Ziling" and "Koudo Richao", he felt even more ashamed and regretful, so he swore from now on to treat the Shen family as a guest and friend, and never let go. Find solutions to sin.

This pushed the Shen family to the forefront, but Liaodong's "Marriage Protection Law" had already been introduced, and Wang Zheng had clearly violated the "Marriage Protection Law". At the instigation of Yang Yuniang, Shen family filed a lawsuit with the Liaodong court based on the "Marriage Protection Law" Sue Wang Zheng.

Now Cheng Shijie understands that Shen's case has not yet been formally heard in court. Is this Yang Yuniang using legal means to force Cheng Shijie?

In fact, Cheng Shijie's approach was similar to Wang Zheng's. In addition to his wife Zhu Weiti, he also had four concubines, Yang Yunniang, Yang Waner, Jin Qiaoer and Gu Ziyi. Now he had eight more concubines.

Looking at the red-marked documents, Cheng Shijie suddenly felt like his head was as big as a bucket.

"That's sloppy!"

The real reason why the Marriage Protection Law was established in the first place was to avoid taking advantage of legal loopholes like Chen Dayong's father. In fact, Chen Dayong's father was not the most outrageous. The most outrageous was a businessman named Fang Yongchun, who opened a boot factory. , produced sheepskin boots, and his business was good. In order to avoid taxes and save money, he took 509 women from the Central Plains as concubines at one time, most of whom were used as free slaves.

Due to the unrest in the Ming Dynasty, human trafficking was legal in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Central Plains. During the famine period, a yellow flower girl could not even sell two buckets of grain. As Liaodong's economy developed better and better, the labor cost became higher and higher. It is getting higher and higher, especially now that the monthly salary of female workers has increased to one tael of silver, and skilled technical female workers can even get two, two, or three taels of silver.

In order to avoid salary expenses, many businessmen purchased people in the Central Plains. Of course, Liaodong did not recognize human sales contracts, so they adopted the method of taking concubines. Rich people could take in countless concubines. These concubines were actually slaves. It can be said that he is a slave, which makes people of later generations like Cheng Shijie feel very uncomfortable.

At the same time, in order to prevent wealthy merchants from taking concubines to avoid taxes and prevent women from being bought and sold, this law was formulated. If you have money, you can take concubines, but if you take a concubine, you must have sex with her. Cheng Shijie also took this law into consideration when he formulated this law. If you have bad taste, you must share the same room, and not less than once. If you do not share the same room for more than two months, you can be fined, and the fine is cumulative.

For example, if Chen Dayong has not had sex with his fifty-three concubines for two months, Chen Dayong will be fined one tael of silver. If he has not had sex with his concubines for three months, he will be fined two taels of silver. If he has not had sex with his concubines for four months, he will be fined two taels of silver. If you don't have sex with someone for five months, you'll be fined eight taels of silver, and if you don't have sex for six months, you'll be fined 16 taels of silver.

If there are hundreds of concubines, unless they have a strong backbone, they will be punished and lose their entire fortune.

Faced with the case of Shen's lawsuit against Wang Zheng, Cheng Shijie not only shot himself in the foot, but also created a great scientist for Cheng Shijie.
Chapter completed!