please make me king

Chapter 1049 A Nuremberg Egg

"What did you take from her?" Seeing that Zhang Shun was holding a walnut-like object, Ma Yingniang couldn't help asking.

Well, just play and play, and there is a token of love?

Zhang Shun originally wanted to answer "I took her heart", but if he really said this witty line, he probably would be dead.

He couldn't help but chuckled, threw it to her and said, "Look for yourself!"

This object originally belonged to Chen Yuanyuan, he was so surprised when he saw it for the first time, he had to come and play with it for two days.

To be honest, Chen Yuanyuan is such a famous woman that even Zhang Shun, who was a bit of a shit in the late Ming Dynasty, has heard the story of her "becoming a beauty with anger".

It's just that he had suffered the loss of "Sun Chengzong" before, and Zhang Shun also knew that there were many people with the same name in the ancients.

"Yuanyuan" claimed that her surname was Chen Mingyuan, and her nickname was "Yuanyuan". She was born in Liyuan, Suzhou, and her name was Dongjiangzuo.

A few days ago, she was "invited" by Huaiyang merchant Cheng Jia to sing and dance, but the liar turned around and "sold" her to Li Baihu Li Jingu, and then Li Baihu gave her to his daughter Li Xiangu. Be a girl.

Oh it's you?Zhang Shun, who was blind, realized that this Yuanyuan was [-]% similar to the original "Zhen Ji".

In fact, Zhang Shun doesn't know whether this "Chen Yuanyuan" is the other "Chen Yuanyuan", but judging from her series of complicated life experiences, this woman is most likely to be the historical Wu Sangui's "Chen Yuanyuan who is furious and crowned as a beauty".

But does it matter?

Whether it's true or not, I'm already asleep anyway, Wu Sangui, you have the ability to come and beat me!

"What is this?" Ma Yingniang looked over and over again for a long time, and couldn't help but asked inexplicably, "Little incense burner?"

"Give it back to me!" Zhang Shun narrowed his eyes, stretched out his hand and smiled.

"Cut, who cares!" Ma Yingniang threw it back casually.

It's just that Zhang Shun was not as good as Ma Yingniang, so he was in a hurry and almost missed and fell to the ground.

"Look at your virtue, what a rarity!" Seeing this, Ma Yingniang couldn't help becoming more and more unhappy.

"Why are you so jealous? Yuanyuan earned it back after singing two songs. I'm afraid she'll break it." Zhang Shun couldn't help explaining.

"Yeah, what do I think of as a valuable thing, seeing how expensive you are!" Ma Yingniang couldn't help but rolled her eyes.

Zhang Shun didn't know what expression he should show, so he had no choice but to say expressionlessly: "It is said that Yuanyuan will accompany you to a banquet, or you will be charged five taels of gold for a song!"

"Hardware?" Ma Yingniang couldn't help being taken aback, "Is she inlaid with gold, or with silver?"

In the Ming Dynasty, one gold can be exchanged for five taels to ten taels of silver, which means that this thing is worth fifty to one hundred taels of silver.

Ma Yingniang herself was born as a puppeteer, so of course she knows how difficult it is to "cheat money" from the crowd.

Let's not say that they don't sell their bodies, but some prostitutes who sell their bodies still owe money on credit. I didn't expect this girl to be so able to "cheat money"?
If "Yuanyuan" hadn't been taken into Zhang Shun's house, Ma Yingniang would have wanted to capture her and "rent" her out to earn money.

Zhang Shun frowned when he heard her pun, and scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Ma Yingniang curled her lips, a little bit unconvinced, but she didn't dare to say anything.

Baoqin saw that the hostess didn't make a sound, and even more muffled her head and didn't say a word.

Not long after, Zhang Shun brought the two of them to the Palace of Cunxin, pointed at the paperwork piled up on the table and said, "You two help me sort it out and sort it into categories!"

"The documents that have been approved are put in one place, and the documents that have not been approved are classified and placed according to military rations, Qingtun rations, criminal cases, and other four categories."

"No, you called the two of us over to do this?" Ma Yingniang couldn't help jumping up, feeling that she had been greatly insulted.

There are two lively beauties in front of you, it's fine if you don't want to be tempted, and let us do coolies, do you still have any humanity?
"That's right, I'll go to your place again at night!" Zhang Shun said as if it was a matter of course.

"Ah? Who wants you?" Ma Yingniang blushed from her neck to her ears when she heard this.

Baoqin couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly pulled Ma Yingniang, for fear that she would push Zhang Shun away again with a word.

My old lady has been doing this job for ten days, and she hasn't gotten any better, so just have fun!

Seeing that they were silent, Zhang Shun didn't care about them, and took the walnut-shaped "small incense burner" since ancient times and disassembled it.

Of course, this is not a small incense burner, let alone a walnut, but a rare pocket watch. To be precise, its name is "Nuremberg Egg".

Of course, neither Chen Yuanyuan nor Zhang Shun knew the name "Nuremberg Egg", they only knew that it was a Western pocket watch.

Unlike the various clocks and watches that are common in later generations, it does not have a transparent glass cover, but a hollowed-out brass cover.

Zhang Shun opened the brass cover and saw that there were twelve hours written on the dial: "Zichou Yinmao, Chensi Wuwei, Shenyou Xuhai". Apart from the same, it is roughly equivalent to the [-]-hour system of later generations.

Only then did Zhang Shun know how the word "noon" came from. "Chuwu" is eleven o'clock, and "noon" is twelve o'clock.

In fact, Zhang Shun was right in guessing that the communication between the East and the West in ancient times was far faster than imagined.

The "miraculous objects" that appeared in the West were quickly spread to China through missionaries, and even craftsmen in coastal areas began to imitate them soon, and the pocket watch in Chen Yuanyuan's hand should be a product of local imitation.

"Why is there only one needle? Could it be that the other two are broken?" Zhang Shun looked at it for a long time, and found that except for one hour hand, the other two needles could not be seen.

He couldn't help scratching his head, and boldly pried open the pocket watch from the middle, only to see that there were many gears arranged in a dense order, and it was impossible to see how many hands there were.

Why don't you take it all off?

After hesitating for a while, Zhang Shun thought to himself: I am a dignified traveler, can I still not handle this thing?

Just doing what he said, Zhang started to dismantle the gears by the way.

It's just that I just disassembled two, and suddenly there was a "crash", and I don't know how many gears and accessories all fell off.

Zhang Shun was stunned. Although I memorized every position of the dismantled gear, I didn't understand the position of other parts at all. Why did they all fall off?

It's okay, I am a traveler who knows five hundred years before and five hundred years later, and is omnipotent.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shun boldly installed it backwards based on memory and guesswork.

After a lot of effort wasted in the middle, Zhang Shun finally restored this "little incense burner".

It's just that there are a few more accessories?
It's over, I can't explain to Chen Yuanyuan that the matter is small, and it will be troublesome if the sample is damaged.

Why do you ask Zhang Shun to ask Chen Yuanyuan for this western pocket watch?
It turns out that as a visitor from later generations, his knowledge of timekeeping tools such as clocks and watches far exceeds that of this era.

If there is a more accurate timing tool, it can cause earth-shaking changes in the field of military tactics.

To give the simplest example, Zhang Shun developed the "Infantry Coordination Tactics". Even if the gunners and infantry have been trained repeatedly, accidental injuries will still occur frequently.

And if you have an accurate clock, then things are much easier.

Zhang Shun can measure the time required for infantry and cavalry to charge and retreat, and can also measure the time for the gunner to drop the shells to the ground after giving the order.

Then he can use this as a basis to formulate a model regulation, when to order the soldiers to charge, and when to order the gunners to shoot, he can do everything he wants without any risk of accidental shooting.

(End of this chapter)