After hearing Tang Ruowang's words, Zhou Shixian was stunned.

Everyone knows about this case in Dengzhou, but Joshua Tsang actually intervened, so Zhou Shixian didn't know about it. As for the fact that he had made a dying confession for Sun Yuanhua, it was even more incredible.

The Ming Dynasty adopted the Western firearm system, which started with Xu Guangqi. Sun Yuanhua was Xu Guangqi's disciple. He inherited Xu Guangqi's aspirations and studied Western artillery techniques carefully.

Later, Sun Yuanhua was promoted to Governor of Denglai and accepted 31 Portuguese artillery officials, craftsmen and companions recruited by the court. The person who led the team was named Desera, a professional Portuguese soldier, known as the Western commander and Xilao of Gongsha.

Governor Sun handed over the artillery team to his subordinate general Kong Youde, so Kong Youde learned the art of firing and manufacturing cannons from the thirty-one Portuguese.

When Kong Youde was sent to assist Liao, he launched a mutiny on the way, returned to Shandong, and besieged Dengzhou. He used a 100-cannon array to fight against his Portuguese teacher in Dengzhou City, causing damage to each other.

Originally, Geng Zhongming in the city contacted the generals, and the Ming army in the city rebelled together. Dengzhou was suddenly lost. Only the Portuguese fought to the end. Sixteen people from Xilao from Gongsha were killed in battle, and fifteen people were seriously injured and captured.

Sun Yuanhua also fell into the opponent, but Kong Youde still had three points of incense, so he did not kill him and let him go. He came to Tianjin and was arrested by Chongzhen and was immediately sentenced to great destruction.

The officials in the border area lost the city and had no choice but to die. I don’t know why Sun Yuanhua did not commit suicide, but wanted the emperor to chop off his head.

Zhou Shixian's question will be answered soon.

"Governor Sun believed in religion and could not commit suicide, so he would live in Kong Youde's hands when he broke the city." Tang Ruowang sighed, "He arrived in Tianjin, and was actually waiting for the emperor to kill him."

"Sun Yuanhua was imprisoned in the imperial prison!" Zhou Shixian remembered the story of Tang Ruowang's repentance at the end of his life and asked, "Then how did you see him?"

"Now I'm not afraid of telling the prince-consort," said Tang Ruowang shrugged, "It was the family who bribed Beifu. The night before the execution, I was disguised and sent in."

Beifu is the Beifu Department of the Jinyiwei, in charge of the Emperor's Imperial Prison. After hearing what Tang Ruowang said, it seems that the net of heaven is vast and sparse and leaky. Zhou Shixian, as a person from the Jinyiwei, had nothing to say for a while.

Losing face in front of foreigners made the prince consort very depressed. After a while of silence, he spoke again.

"Mr. Tang, your work is done very well this time. I want to thank you. Long live your life and you will be praised," Zhou Shixian reminded, "But now it is a troublesome. Since you are on the side of the court, I will ask you for something next. After you settle down, let's talk in detail. OK?"

"I will follow the orders of the prince-consort and wait for the call at any time."

Joshua Chan said beautifully, and the conversation ended here. Joshua Chan took out two boxes from his arms and placed them on the table.

"This is what I brought back from Macau and gave it to the prince consort as a private gift."

"Oh?" Zhou Shixian was very interested and asked with a smile: "What is a good thing?"

Johnson Chan opened a box and took out a small metal disc with a chain tied.

"Have the prince-consort has ever seen a bell ringing?" Johnson Chan planned to start from the beginning.

Zhou Shixian already understood and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a pocket watch."

Tang Ruowang was shocked and thought to himself that this was the first time I saw him. Why did the prince-consort know about this thing again?

"It's the clock in my arms... I originally planned to call it a clock, but now I think about it. It seems more appropriate for the prince-consort to call it a pocket watch."

Zhou Shixian took it and saw that there was no glass mask on the dial, but a very exquisite metal cover was used to replace it. He thought that the West had already had a pocket watch at this time, which was very interesting. Old Man Tang was very interested.

"There is another one for the red leaves...the red leaves," said Tang Ruowang with a smile, "please give it to the prince consort."

Zhou Shixian saw the old man stammering and guessing what he was thinking. He smiled and said, "Miss Xiu has no other relatives in the capital. She lives with me for the time being, just like my sister."

"Oh, so good, so good."

Tang Ruowang didn't know that Hongye was driven here. After hearing Zhou Shixian's words, he verbally agreed, but he thought to himself, you are the son-in-law of the current dynasty, and you dare to live in the mansion with a beautiful girl like Hongye. It's extremely bold.

When Tang Ruowang quit, Zhou Shixian called Hongye over, held the pocket watch she gave her in her hand, pinched one end of the gold chain, let go and fell down. With a thud, the silver-plated pocket watch appeared shiny in front of Hongye's eyes.

"For you!" Zhou Shixian smiled reservedly, "I have one for you when Tang Ruowang bought it from Haojiang."

"What is this?" Hongye asked in surprise, "It's so beautiful."

"Have you seen the self-ringing bell?" Zhou Shixian also planned to start from scratch.

"No." Hongye shook his head.

Zhou Shixian was speechless for a moment and thought to himself that the self-ringing bells of this era were probably royal tributes, not just for it. Even if Hongye was born into a wealthy family, it would be normal that she had never seen her before.

"You've seen the sundial, have you?"

"Of course, otherwise how do you look at the time?"

"This is called a pocket watch," Zhou Shixian opened the cover and held it in his hand to show her. "Just think it is a small sundial, which can be carried around with you, and it seems very convenient to watch the time!"

"Really?"

Hongye carefully took it, held it in his hand and looked left and right, and tried to aim the pocket watch at the sun in the sky.

"No shadow?"

"It's not about looking at the shadows," Zhou Shixian smiled, "You see there are two pointers on it. The long one refers to the hour and the short one refers to the minute. It can walk by itself without shining on the sun."

"What is a small hour?"

Zhou Shixian had no choice but to start from the beginning and talked about the Western timing rules to Hongye, how to calculate the time, how to calibrate it, and how to put the clockwork on it.

This set was not so easy to understand, but fortunately, Hongye held a pocket watch in his hand and listened to it, and things became much easier.

"Did you remember?" he asked Hongye.

"Well, remember... If I forget, I'll ask you again." Hongye said happily, "Is this pocket watch as accurate as a sundial?"

"That's not OK, otherwise there's no need to calibrate it," Zhou Shixian smiled, "but that's enough. At the end of the day, the speed is only a quarter of an hour."

"Is that so? Use your part to match each other and see if we are going the same time."

This is interesting. Zhou Shixian picked up his pocket watch from the table and matched Hongye for a while. One was two minutes faster and the other was two minutes slower. I don’t know who is accurate, but in this era, it can be considered extremely accurate.

Hongye put away the pocket watch with great importance, thinking that he said he sent Mr. Tang to Haojiang to buy something for him. Could it be that he just bought this pocket watch for me?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel shy and sneaked into Zhou Shixian, but I saw Zhou Shixian with a confused look on his face, so I didn't know what I remembered. I was stunned for a while and suddenly slapped my forehead.

"My brain is broken, why didn't I expect it?"

Seeing him like this, Hongye asked carefully: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Zhou Shixian came to his senses and said with a smile: "Hongye, do you think the pocket watch is good?"

"Okay." Hongye's face turned slightly red.

"If Wei Donglai, Rui Chang, Yu Fangren, Qi Sizhu, Luo Xiucai, Xu Yong and Shiba, everyone has one, wouldn't it be better?"

"..." Hongye pouted.

"You can be thousands of troops." Zhou Shixian waved his hand and said decisively.
Chapter completed!