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Chapter 188 Two phone calls(1/2)

This time, Zhang Cheng prepared more thoroughly. He brought five nanorobots that could form human-sized sizes. With these five almost omnipotent nanorobots, there is no way to go in the world.

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Cheng spread the two nanorobots in all directions, one was to inquire about the news, and the other was to find a suitable place to replicate themselves - this is the benefit of the new robot. All one needed between one and a bunch was just some raw materials and time from nature.

After walking by the river for a while, Zhang Cheng also understood the location. This is Balipu, south of Yangzhou. As the name suggests, it looks about eight miles away from Yangzhou. Because of the prosperity of Yangzhou, a small town has formed. The only boats on the river surface are those who transport grain, salt, and groceries, but there are many pleasure boats coming and going.

There are three or five boat girls or more than a dozen girls on the large and small pleasure boats, all of which are radiant, which is really a scenic spot. It is not difficult to see how prosperous the wind and moon in Yangzhou are, and what kind of spring scenery should be on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, not far from Zhenjiang on the other side of the river. When Zhang Chengxin saw this scene, he said to me next time that the ancient women were conservative and I would strangle him to death.

More importantly, the spirit is the first time that Zhang Cheng, a native of the Ming Dynasty, has seen it, but both the rich and the poor and poor people, are full of anger. Zhang Cheng has seen this temperament in old photos of the Republic of China and in old photos 49 years later, but it is not in old photos of my Qing Dynasty.

This may be the spiritual temperament of a nation. A slave does not have such things, and a slave does not need such things. Zhang Cheng thought so and stopped a pleasure boat that was attracting guests by the river.

"Are there any guests on the boat? No, then, charter the boat."

The cost of two taels of silver is about enough to be a peddler selling along the street. However, Zhang Cheng does not like the scene of selling oil men who monopolizing the courtesan, and it is more reasonable to be a rich bully who monopolizing the courtesan. Since Zhang Cheng often maintains the miracle of being able to play with the fish mouth to get silver at any time, the silver in Qiankun bag is only a few thousand taels - in addition, there are also a lot of gold and jewelry that are more valuable than silver, which is a small idea to pack a pleasure boat.

Zhang Cheng booked a small and medium-sized pleasure boat. There were only ten girls in the pleasure boat, along with rowers, chores, and cooking, and Lao Ya.

This boat is two floors above and below. Although it is not the largest, it is much larger than the black-sailed boat loaded with three or five people on the river. Even this kind of black-sailed boat also has a boatwoman who can attract passengers.

The smiling old crow led Zhang Cheng onto the boat and asked, "Is that the man alone?"

Zhang Cheng didn't give her a good look and asked, "Can you just take this boat alone?"

Lao Ya hurriedly said, "My grandma is our parents for food and clothing. Even if he is alone, we must do our best to serve him."

Lao Chou led Zhang Cheng to sit down on the upper floor. Then the four girls on the boat who had just glared at the pedestrians passing by the river were now shy and reluctant to refuse. They were half-rejected and half-stopped by Lao Chou.

Not long after, a large teapot (Guizuki) brought tea, refreshments, fruits and dried fruits.Guizuki arranged the tea and tea refreshments one by one. However, he did not leave the upper cabin, but took two steps back and stood with his head down on one side. It was very annoying to stand a Guizuki opposite the guests who came here to drink wine.

Zhang Cheng then remembered that the Ming Dynasty was like the United States, and they were both tipping countries. It seemed that the habit of tipping was no longer there. Speaking of which, it was said that it had also led to a marriage.

The matter is that it is said that a Russian lady checked into a star-rated hotel in China. This hotel did not specifically deliver luggage to customers. This was done by security guards - foreign security guards are security guards, so they didn't care about their luggage. The security guards took the luggage to the room according to the previous practices, and went out without asking for tips (not this habit). The Russian lady thought that the security guard wanted to pursue her, and sent her luggage to the room just to see her more, so she was very moved. So after going back and forth, the two got married and had children.

Zhang Cheng took out a purse from his sleeve, took out a piece of broken silver weighing about two cents (0.2 taels), and threw it to the Turtle Master: "Don't need to serve here, I will call you if you have any questions."

"Mr. Xie, you're rewarding!" The turtle man looked at the weight of his wallet and estimated that there were about a hundred taels of silver in it (he read it correctly). He knew that this person was not here to have a meal, so he went on with peace of mind.

If you really meet someone who eats a meal, you will also compensate them if you sink into the river afterwards. This is something that customers with new faces should pay special attention to.

After Zhang Cheng leaked his fortune, the four girls became much more enthusiastic and handed Zhang Cheng some snacks and continued tea. A girl next to Zhang Cheng fed Zhang Cheng a piece of dried fruit and asked, "I don't know what business I do?"

Zhang Cheng thought about it and found a position for himself: "Sales in Huzhu."

No woman doesn’t like pearls, but she doesn’t like wearing pearls. However, pearl powder is a first-class material for nourishing yin and skin or making pearl powder masks.

The four girls' eyes lit up when they heard Huzhu. The girl who was talking just now asked, "Master, can we open our eyes?"

Zhang Cheng: "What's the difficulty? But I still don't know what the four girls are called?"

The girl on Zhang Cheng's left hand first said her name: "Hanchun."

Then there is the first girl on the right: "Daichun."

"Play the flute."

"Nanyu."

Zhang Chengyi curled his lips: "It's all stage names, I don't have sincerity."

Hanchun said, "Young Master, you have to understand us poor people. If you tell your true name, it is nothing more than Da Ya Er Ya, Zhao Zi, and Nian Zi. What's the good thing about it?"

Zhang Cheng thought that most of these girls were sold since childhood, so he became excited.

Daichun asked, "I don't know what the young master is called?"

Zhang Cheng: "Just call me Brother Cheng."

Daichun: "Brother Cheng, let's open our eyes."

Zhang Cheng touched his sleeves, then clenched his fists on the table, and said mysteriously: "You are the seven-point beads and eight-point treasures, and there is also the one-point beads and one-point beads and one-point beads. Today, let you see the nine-point beads and nine-point beads and nine-point beads."

The four girls gathered at the table, waiting for Zhang Cheng to have fun. Hanchun and Daichun kept shaking Zhang Cheng's arms. It was not until Zhang Cheng used his arms to eat Hanchun Daichun's tofu that he opened his palm with satisfaction. Inside was a perfect white pearl with a diameter of 15 mm. After opening it, it was really full of pearls.

Zhang Cheng clamped the pearl with two fingers, shook it around in front of the four women, and put it away: "This one is not a priceless treasure, but it is also worth a thousand gold."

Hanchun was confused in front of the pearl for a while before saying, "Young Master's pearl is more than nine cents. I think it's only 9 cents if you don't have two cents. One or six cents if you don't have two cents. This kind of pearl is enough to make a tribute."

As for it? Zhang Cheng suddenly remembered that the weights and measures of each dynasty are different. Just like the Han Dynasty did not use the Qin ruler, the Ming Dynasty also had its own weights and measures. In addition, the lake and sea pearls have been developed for thousands of years. Pearl resources have probably been exhausted. Such a plate bead with a diameter of 15 mm is afraid it can really be used as a tribute.

If an ordinary person loses money, he will have to worry about his life, but Zhang Cheng feels that there is not even a big Ivan Poplar in this world, which is very safe.

With the sound of "Wine and Food" outside the cabin, Zhang Cheng was sitting a little while, a pot of hot daughter red, a plate of fried river shrimp, two steamed white fish, and a plate of steamed crab roe steamed dumplings.

Zhang Cheng's hand was always on the woman, but the women around him would naturally pour wine for Zhang Chengbu's vegetables. During the meal, Zhang Cheng asked, this pleasure boat packed only ten taels of silver a day - the ten taels of silver was for Lao Ya without any tips. Zhang Cheng calculated this way, and the tips for Gui Gong and the woman were only more than ten taels a day, which was really cheap.

You should know that this amount of money is not enough to have a cup of tea at the Bayan of Qinhuai in the late Ming Dynasty. Although most of the reputation of Bayan of Qinhuai was gained, on the other hand, we can also see the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty Jiangnan and the power of the silver black hole.

In addition to selling pearls, Zhang Cheng also thought of another business, that is, arms. No matter in any era, arms business was profitable. The Ming Dynasty had many types of firearms, but most of them were not satisfactory. When he was a child, Zhang Cheng had long dreamed that one day if the US imperialists sold arms all over the world, it seems that it could be realized here.

In fact, according to Zhang Cheng's opinion, as long as the soldiers and people of the Ming Dynasty were equipped with the simplest single rifle or pistol, I would never be able to get through the Qing Dynasty in my life. When the wild boar skin rebelled, there were only thirteen pairs of armor, and firearms were the best at breaking armor. The European iron canned heavy cavalry disappeared because of the development of firearms. There is no reason that European iron canned can not block Asian wild boar skins, but they can block them.

However, there is a problem that the Ming Dynasty also prohibited the public from hiding firearms privately. Of course, it is not as strict as the Qing Dynasty. This ban is similar to the Ming Dynasty's ban on the seas. It is like a waste of time. But it would be a bit troublesome to open a gun shop on the street - although many landlords and old cadres in the Ming Dynasty had cannons and guns on the walls of their homes.

Zhang Cheng's idea was to send a human-shaped nanorobot to do this. The human-shaped nanorobot has no feelings. If it is replaced with a cool expression, it is probably the same as t800. Moreover, the production of guns and ammunition must be completed by nanorobots, so just one-stop service is needed for production, sales and payment.

According to the Technology Non-Proliferation Treaty of the Three Kingdoms Agreement, advanced arms can be gradually sold in such a relatively backward world. Zhang Cheng decided to use the sample gun above. The rifle is a 10mm caliber rear-mounted smoothbore rifle without a bayonet. It uses copper shell bullet technology (the copper shell bullet and paper shell bullet appeared at the same time, but it is obvious that the copper shell bullet appears more high-end). The launching medicine is still the original launching medicine, but it is just the base fire.

The design concept of the rifle is that it can break iron armor by 150 meters, and the effective killing distance for armor-free targets is 200 meters. As the first generation of products, it is enough to be stronger than all the muskets and bows of the old era.

The first generation of pistols also use a single-handed pistol with the same caliber and the same bullet. The design goal is that bullets within 30 meters can break iron armor. If assassination is not calculated, the pistol is more of a self-defense purpose. As long as there is such a very concealed pistol, at least it will not be left in front of the robbers and will be killed.

The second-generation pistol just became a revolver that can fire six consecutive shots. In fact, the design idea of ​​the three-eyed gun in the Ming Dynasty has already had this meaning, but it has not been developed. Moreover, the second-generation rifle is also a strange design with the revolver with a lengthened barrel. The six-shot revolver rifle has actually appeared in history. At least the designers said so confidently - the second-generation rifle pistol has obvious advantages over the first generation. You see, if you have five more bullets in one loading situation, it is not.

The pleasure boat floated on the river in a row. Occasionally, like other pleasure boats, all kinds of moans, such as high and low, came from women. At this time, even the rowers had to work hard to stabilize the boat, so as not to collide with other boats during the quake.

In the afternoon of the sun, the pleasure boat was floating on the water surface that entered the mouth of the Yangtze River. While Zhang Cheng and the four girls were making fun of each other, they suddenly heard the sound of fighting and killing coming from the river. The genes of Chinese people watching the fun made the pleasure boat unknowingly surrounded. In fact, there were already a circle of boats watching the fun at a distance of hundreds of meters around the three fighting boats.

Looking from the window of the pleasure boat, more than twenty people on the three tangled boats on the river were merging together, and they were so lively that they were so lively.

Daichun glanced at it and said, "It's the Yangzhou Gang and the Taihu Gang fighting again. I'm not really good at it."

Zhang Cheng asked: "Do you know why the Yangzhou Gang and the Taihu Gang fight?"

Daichun poured a glass of wine for Zhang Cheng. He put it in his mouth and fed it to Zhang Cheng. Then he said, "Why else can you do it? Private salt."

Daichun gave Zhang Cheng a general explanation. It turned out that both the Yangzhou Gang in Jiangbei and the Taihu Gang in Jiangnan were trafficking in private salt, and these two places were close to the salt-producing land. However, the amount of salt eaten per month was limited. If you eat too much salt, you would also get poisoned. The two gangs started by trafficking in private salt around their respective surrounding areas. However, when the gangs gradually grew, they needed to dump private salt on the territory to support more gang members.

However, there are already gangs that dump private salt in other areas. The salt ships of the Taihu Gang arrived at the Yangzhou Gang's territory. Even if the military guards collect the benefits, the Yangzhou Gang itself must also take care of it. Otherwise, the private salt of the Yangzhou Gang cannot be sold, and hundreds of brothers and thousands of families in the gang will have to drink the northwest wind. While the Yangzhou Gang is strictly investigating other private salt dealers near Yangzhou, it also escorts the private salt to sell further away.

In this way, armed fights in the rivers and lakes have become commonplace. This time, Daichun probably encountered both sides on the Yangtze River and had to fight for the sake of interests.

Zhang Cheng nodded and said to himself earnestly: "So this is the world of the world."

More importantly, the heroes in the books used to always serve the country and the people, or eliminate the demon sect, but now they seem to be making up. Fighting in the martial arts world can only be for the benefit of the world - who will fight to the death without any benefit?

There was only one boat on the Taihu Gang, and there were fewer people. Soon, the remaining people were at a disadvantage in the fight. The remaining people dived and fled. The victorious Yangzhou Gang followed the law of the defeated enemy. He ignored those who escaped. Instead, he moved the Taihu Gang's ship clean and moved the bodies of more than a dozen people who died on both sides of the fight to the Taihu Gang's ship, and then burned the stolen ship with fire.

Now, all the evidence is lost. As the saying goes, the people do not procurate the officials, but there is only one thing in ancient times, and there is no complaint from the miserable. The master of the yamen also thought that it is better to have less than more things. Those who really like to sue are a group of clerks and yamen runners and litigants who specialize in this bowl of rice.

As the blazing fire was burning like the sunset, the turtle man on the pleasure boat came in with a sad face and said with a sad face: "Master, sister, it's not good. A strong man swam onto the boat and forced his mother with a knife. Now he is in the bottom warehouse. Let Lao Zhuang, who is rowing, go to Jiangyin, or he will kill his mother with a knife and he will be willing to release him in Jiangyin."

The four girls were naturally screaming. Zhang Cheng remembered that the man who was swimming in his direction had several wounds on his body just now, and threw a bottle of high-end golden sore medicine from his sleeve to the Turtle Master: "This is golden sore medicine, I will use it for that strong man. Let's go to Jiangyin, it will be smooth anyway. I will pay the money for chartering a boat on the way to Jiangyin, and that person's food and drink are all counted on my account. I think the Taihu Gang is also a well-known gang, so he will naturally not go back on his word."

"Thank you, my son, for being righteous." The turtle man who left with the golden sore medicine did not forget to thank him.

This is the sequelae of watching the fun.

The pleasure boat went down the river, and Zhang Cheng was drinking and playing with a boat. He didn't think there was any risk of a person with wounds and knives in the lower class. As for the hijacked crow, he was even ignored. The four women even said a lot of bad things about the crows through alcohol. At some point, they didn't recruit any business for a day, and it was common for them to be beaten by hunger.

The strong man on the lower level of the Huafang was not polite. It is said that after using the golden sore medicine, the blood was stopped quickly and then he asked for food. Although he also asked for a portion of food for the hijacked crow, the crow was not in a mood to eat at all. However, the strong man was a food basket according to the Turtle Master. He could eat seven or eight bowls of rice with just a few salted fish.

At noon the next day, the pleasure boat arrived near Jiangyin and, under the guidance of the strong man, he stopped at a wharf in a town near Jiangyin. The strong man jumped onto the wharf, drooped his Japanese sword in his hand and bowed his hand and said, "I have disturbed you this day, but it has saved my life. I, Wang Dali, thanked me here. And the golden sore medicine of that benefactor is really useful. Wang Dali and his brothers make a living on the edge of the knife every day, and I will stay the rest. Maybe I can save a few brothers."

Last night, Zhang Cheng had already thought about it on the pleasure boat. It took three years. It seemed to be a little longer. If you choose to live in seclusion, you can let the nanorobots go. This location in Taihu Lake is many times better than that in Yangzhou. So last night, he sent the nanorobots to arrange it between Wuxi and Suzhou. Since Wang Dali is a local snake from the Taihu Gang, he naturally has to use it, otherwise the bottle of high-end gold sore medicine would not be given in vain.

As soon as Wang Dali finished speaking, Zhang Cheng walked out of the pleasure boat: "Sir Wang, please stay."

Wang Dali said a few words and was called before leaving. He asked, "Is this the benefactor who gave me medicine? What else is there?"

Zhang Cheng: "I'm going to visit friends in Taihu Lake, so I'm just walking together."

There is nothing to say about this. In ancient times, it was very dangerous to go on a long journey with one or two people. The military and military yamen runners in various places were actually only responsible for the security of the city. As for outside the city, sorry, there were not so many people. So it was very normal to travel with fellow villagers and friends when going out. As for the courage to walk with strong people, it can only be said that this person is really big.

Wang Dali naturally did not doubt the others: "Okay, it's better to have a companion together."

Zhang Cheng left thirty taels of silver for Lao Ya, which was the shipment for the past two days. After the four women's farewell, he jumped off the pleasure boat and headed south with Wang Dali.

After thirty miles away, the two found a teahouse to rest. Wang Dali came up and slapped the two-foot-long Japanese sword on the table, which scared the small and medium-sized shops in the teahouse to serve them carefully.

Zhang Cheng looked at the Japanese sword from his appearance and said, "Mr. Wang..."

Wang Dali: "What kind of hero is not a hero? Just call me Dali."

"Da Li, I think this Japanese sword is quite sharp, but it is not considered a fine product among Japanese swords."

Wang Dali: "Brother Zhang doesn't know that this Japanese sword costs seven taels of silver. I have seen the finest products of the Japanese sword and seedling sword, but I often have dozens or hundreds of taels of silver. With this money, I will marry a wife in my hometown to buy a few acres of land to grow mulberry trees and raise silkworms. Why do I have to go out and exchange my life for money? This knife is still fully equipped with the help of the kid. Brother, I am a bachelor and a big appetite. I don't want to use me in ordinary places because I think I eat too much, so I do this beheading business."

"Brother Dali, I think when you fight in the water, you use bows and arrows to fight in the distance and swords and axes to fight in the close, which is a bit out of date."

Wang Dali asked a question: "This is not necessary for long battles, and there is no need for knives and axes to fight in close combat. What should I use?"

Zhang Chengshen said mysteriously: "Brothers Dali can tell the firearm."

Wang Dali: "For muskets, there are several gangs. There are two 3 General Cannons. However, gunpowder is prone to moisture, which is not conducive to water wars, and it is troublesome to fill it. But I have seen the third General Cannon fire, and its power is really earth-shaking. It can decay dozens of steps."
To be continued...
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