Win the Ding 1617

() What kind of day is today? Some people say it is a day of victory, and some people say don’t let the tragedy happen again, but I think it’s more beneficial for the metabolism of the Chinese people and the people of the world to let the Japanese pirates sign the surrender letter again in front of the god’s toilet!

"it is finally over!"

Shou Han laid himself flat on the bed, allowing his tired body to have intimate contact with the soft bedding, so as to relieve the fatigue of these days.The fragrant bedding tainted by salt plums makes the guard a little bit mesmerized.

Although it is a triumphant return, things after winning a battle are no less than after losing a battle. The rewards of soldiers, the distribution of spoils or commercial profits are recorded, the loss statistics and replenishment of weapons and ammunition, and the summary statistics of the battles of each unit , Appreciation of merit and awards, and so on.

The most terrible thing is the establishment of military casualty insurance.

According to Li Shouhan's military principles of open economy and open personnel, the income from this trip to Luzon was calculated.

Obtained 700 million taels of silver.

Get 21 taels of gold.

Obtained copper, 43 jin.

Obtain more than 200 million catties of brown sugar.

Getting pig iron figures is being counted.

In addition to deducting the cost of the traded goods and the normal profit, there is still a profit of 900 taels!

Hearing this number, the whole army was in an uproar!

However, Shou Han's next move was even more shocking.

"This trip to Luzon, no matter the soldiers who stay in Hejing or those who go with the fleet, there will be rewards. It will still be carried out according to the previous standards!"

However, the way it is performed has changed.

900 million taels of the 200 million taels of silver were stored as casualty insurance reserves, 100 million taels were used for the construction of public facilities such as Siwucang in various places, and 200 million taels were used for roads leading to various places in Ha Tinh, For the bridge construction cost, another 100 million taels will be used as funds for the construction of Huimin and Jimin Second Bureaus.Huimin is a pharmacy, and Jimin is a relief institution for those widows and lonely.The remaining part will be distributed according to the proportion of three participants, two who stay behind in Ha Tinh, and half of those who receive training.At the same time, every soldier, including the sailors on board, and those young men who have received military training, has taken out personal injury insurance.

According to the insurance regulations, once a soldier suffers a personal injury or death during the execution of a mission, the policyholder will receive a certain amount of compensation, which can be withdrawn at one time, or handled by the beneficiary or the client on his behalf.As for the amount of compensation, it will be calculated comprehensively based on many factors and coefficients such as the position, level, and insured amount of the policyholder.

If there is no personal injury or death during the military service, the insured person can take out all the insurance money when he retires and use it as a pension.

Everyone is nervously calculating based on this principle, whether to accept this insurance, or to go home with real money to marry a wife and build a house?

After careful calculation, the vast majority of people chose the safest and prudent method: two-thirds of the gold and silver due to rewards will be used as insurance money, and the rest will be received in cash.

This is also within Shou Han's expectation.

However, after several wars, people discovered the benefits of insurance. It turns out that in addition to pensions for injuries and deaths, people can also receive a considerable amount of insurance.As a result, there are more and more brave and fearless people in the army, and more and more people even seek death.

For this reason, Shou Han had a headache for a long time, and finally had to issue an amendment. Anyone who did not follow the rules and regulations to carry out weapon operations, and who was injured or killed in battle due to disobedience to military regulations and disciplines, would receive a [-]% discount on the insurance benefits.Only then did this unhealthy wind be stopped.

Shouhan's vacation is over without enjoying a few days on Yanmeier's fragrant bed.

"Is it easy for me!? Why do other people can be the shopkeeper, why do I have to do everything myself? Why do Qianlong, Kangxi, etc. in the braided drama, wander around when they have nothing to do, and pick up their sisters, but I can't do it ?!"

Mumbling incessantly, Shou Han saw Li Peilin, Chen Tianhua and others who stayed behind for a while.

"My lord, please take a look." Li Peilin's eyes were slightly red and swollen, and he handed a stack of residence newspapers to Li Shouhan.

Hmm, this is Daming's newspaper?Shou Han read it with great interest. Of course, this kind of newspaper will not contain celebrity gossip and the like, and some of them are probably such as speeches by leaders and review of memorials.

However, the contents of a mansion newspaper caught Shou Han's attention.

In May of the third year of Tianqi (1623), the Yellow River broke through in Suiyang, Xu, and Pi areas, and within 150 miles up and down, it became flat land.

In May, Zhu Xieyuan sought Yongning. He concluded that the reason for his previous failures was the weak division of troops, so he withdrew all his troops and regrouped in Changning, breaking through the villages of Matangkan, Guanyin Temple, Qingshanya, and Tianpengdong.Join up with Qin Liangyu's soldiers, attack Yongning, defeat Sheyin at the land ridge, chase to the old army camp and the parasol shop, and burn his camp.Sheyin was wounded and escaped, Panhu was shot and died.He also pursued the defeated Hengshan, arrived at the city of Yongning, and then attacked and pulled it out, sending down [-] people.Qin Yanzuo, the deputy general, and others restrained Zunyi.Chongming and his son fled all the way to Linzhou City.In July, in order to conquer Luo Qianxiang in Linzhou, She Chongming fled to Kezhongba, Longchang, Shuixi, and defended under his sister Sheshehui.General Li Weixin broke Kezhong, Chongming and his son fled into Shenqing, and captured his wife Anshi and younger brother Chonghui alive.

On the third day of the third month, the Chinese side of the engineering department paid too much for the military: since the Liaodong War, more than 480 taels of new salary have been sent every year. "The common people knocked the bones and marrow, and the sons sold their wives for punishment."Only one pass in the mountains and seas requires 400 million taels a year.In addition, in recent years, more than 1000 new recruits have been recruited in Denglai, Tianjin, Jingshi, Tongshi, Miyun, Zhangjiawan, and the sea, and the annual fee needs to be 90 taels; the old soldiers in Ji Town have proposed an increase in salary, which is about tens of thousands of taels a year. ; Other expenses such as grass rewards, horse herding, boat carts, and salary will cost more than 120 taels a year.A total of 400 million taels of annual recruits' fees in various places, combined with Shanhaiguan's 520 million taels, makes a total of 4805 million taels.Even if all the 35 million taels of additional distribution are used inside and outside Shanhaiguan, there is still a shortage of 160 taels.In fact, there is still a shortage of [-] taels of wages in the Shanhaiguan area every year.Begging households and the two ministries of the army to sum up, to raise soldiers and pay wages, not to sicken the country, not to punish the people, and not to wait for changes and then plan it.The second department of Shangming Hubing discussed it in detail.

On the 37th day of August, Chen Eryi said in a brief statement: The price of weaving materials in Zhejiang Province is more than [-] taels, and the current deficit is more than [-] taels.Begging to reduce or exempt tens of thousands during the [-]th National Games, or suspend one annual sports event every year to make the people of Su suffer.The emperor does not allow.

I see!For several years, the She'an Rebellion, which caused disasters in the southwestern provinces, is about to be put down. However, the war in Liaodong is still protracted.No wonder the corners of Li Peilin's eyes were red, presumably because they heard that the inland officials and gentry brought up the matter of Liaodong and wanted to criticize Li Chengliang for raising tigers.If it were any other person, as long as he had a little heart, how could he not be moved when he saw his elders being humiliated like this after his death?

"Also, my lord, apart from the breach of the Yellow River, the severe drought in northwest Shaanxi has already led to civil uprisings." Li Peilin handed another copy of the residence newspaper to Shou Han.

This is a report to the imperial court by an official from Northwest China. It probably means that my hometown has lost crops due to successive years of drought.People eat grass roots if they have no food, and bark if they don't have grass roots. When there is no bark, the people have to go up the mountain to dig Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger.In order to survive, the hungry people gather together as "thieves", rather than waiting to die of starvation, it is better to die for "thieves".They also burned human bones for salary, and boiled human flesh for food, and the cannibals died of redness and swelling in the face within a few days.

finally come!Shou Han had an indescribable feeling in his heart. He knew that the Little Ice Age was about to begin. In the continuous famines, countless hungry people emerged. Among these hungry people, there was the power to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.In other words, there are several straws that crushed the Ming Dynasty hidden in it.

"How is our grain harvest?" Thinking of the straw, Shou Han asked about his own grain harvest.

"This year's second season of rice has been put into storage, and the third season of rice has begun to fill. It is expected to have a good harvest. Some of the wasteland reclaimed last year was given by the secret method of adults. This year, we have started to try to plant rice. The approximate area It is about 30 mu. There are nearly one million mu of newly reclaimed wasteland, and crops such as corn and sweet potatoes are planted. According to the minimum output estimate of three shi per mu, more than 120 million shi should be added to the storage. This is the second season. The public grain of rice." Li Peilin reported a series of numbers very responsibly.

The so-called secret method is nothing more than the so-called Litian powder produced by boiling plant ash and lime water for lodging rice fields proposed by Shou Han at the beginning.Farmers everywhere now regard it as a guarantee of a good harvest, and a large number of people carry it back on their shoulders and sprinkle it on their fields.

At the same time, Zheng Quanfang, who was in charge of land reclamation and farming, was faced with the problem of how to quickly turn large areas of newly reclaimed wasteland into mature land for crops. According to past experience, such a process would take at least two to three years to complete.

In line with the principle of handing over conflicts, this difficult problem was once again put in front of Shou Han.

"If you want me to come to everything, what's the use of you waiting for the Craftsman Association?" Shou Han half joked and half seriously replied in the post.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.

Looking at the reply post, the members of the Craftsman Association were a little apprehensive. "Those of us, thanks to your lord's favor, are well-fed and well-fed now, and we have face everywhere when we go out, and there are silver and copper coins in the cabinet at home, but how do we let your lord bother with these things?"

Several bigwigs from the Craftsman Association said so.

Therefore, it is necessary to concentrate manpower to tackle key problems.

Prompted by Shou Han based on his own smattering of knowledge, the craftsmen began to study such things as fly ash, plant ash, salt, urine, and coal gangue tirelessly.Mixing, dissolving, calcining.Ideas were proposed one by one, and one by one was overthrown.Experiments were carried out one after another, but the results of the experiments were all one word, failure.

Until the experimental records accumulated a full cabinet in the cabinet of the Craftsman Association.All kinds of experimental equipment are also piled up in the warehouse of the Craftsman Association.People discovered that there was no money and food for experiments!

Several directors of the Craftsman Association had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask Shou Han to continue to increase funds for this project, or to plead guilty.

At this time, Shou Han was preparing for the expedition to Luzon, and he was busy hitting the back of his head. However, he learned that several old gentlemen had been tossing for several months because of his own words, and they were covered in soot and plant ash every day. , mixed with the smell of urine sao.This made Shou Han very unbearable.

With a flick of a pen, 4000 taels of silver were approved from Shouhan's own internal treasury to the Craftsman Association as experimental funds.

To stabilize the hearts of several old gentlemen, it is necessary to sit together and discuss technical details and ideas.

That's a big deal!

Shou Han was a little stunned!

The idea of ​​the Craftsman Association has touched the edge of the famous Hou's soda making method.

Moreover, the most difficult link in the soda production method, the large-scale production of ammonia water, besides adding plant ash and other substances from urine to heat to produce ammonia gas, which can then be dissolved in water, the old gentlemen also discovered another way way.

在地下或地上用砧垒一个一丈来高直径2.5尺的恒温炉,在炉的顶端旁边留一个通气道,道口安上2、3根直径6寸粗的铁管,铁管向上伸长9尺左右,伸到用砧垒好并放有水的冷却池内。在冷却池内要安八根连接的细管,这细管一端连接粗管,一端伸出冷却池送出废气,在冷却池内管上,搞一个小口接上细管,细管伸出冷却池外,氨水溶解于水后就从此管流了出来。

With ammonia water, alkali-making activities can be carried out.It should be noted that ammonia water is one of the basic materials for making soda ash, and soda ash is one of the basic materials for making caustic soda, and caustic soda is one of the basic materials for making absorbent cotton.Without ammonia, there would be no soda ash, without soda ash, there would be no caustic soda, without caustic soda, there would be no absorbent cotton, without absorbent cotton, there would be no medical cotton, and without medical cotton, soldiers would not be equipped with first aid kits. . . . .Many things cannot be done.Shou Han was dazed by the results in front of him.He knew that the way to solve many things, or the key to open a new business, was in the hands of these craftsmen who thought they were useless and wasted a lot of money and food for adults.

It's just that they don't know it themselves.

Who said the ancients had no wisdom?It's just that wisdom is sometimes that layer of window paper!

Make up your mind and try to calm yourself down.Shou Han began to communicate with the craftsmen in front of him.

"Gentlemen, don't panic. I read everyone's test records. It should not be too far from what I want!"

Shou Han's words are not hypocritical to comfort people's hearts, but they are true.With ammonia, bicarbonate can be formed, and with bicarbonate, you can find a way to crystallize it.

This is the essence of Hou's soda making method.

Hou's soda-making method is the most efficient among all soda-making methods and has the lowest requirements on the industrial base. Except for a gas-guiding circulation pipe, the others have no technical pressure and can be practiced in any era.As for this air duct, Shou Han has already decided to use the most mature and stable bronze to make it.

As long as there is sufficient guarantee of ammonia water.

Today, thanks to the burning of coke, a large amount of coal gangue has been singled out as industrial waste, but waste is a misplaced treasure.

The treasure that is also misplaced is the fly ash produced after a large amount of coke steelmaking or ironmaking.

This thing pollutes the environment very much, but it is actually a kind of treasure. Under the encouragement and guidance of Shou Han, the craftsmen mixed the fly ash and soda ash evenly at a ratio of 1:0.87, and put them into the furnace calcined.The temperature is 875c, and the calcination time is about 1.5 hours. The material formed after calcination is a fully qualified silicon fertilizer.

Silicon fertilizer is usually used as base fertilizer, and 50-100 catties is applied to one mu of land.However, it should be noted that it must be applied in acidic soil. The higher the acidity of the soil, the better the effect.

Therefore, the first batch of silicon fertilizer produced was used on the wasteland newly opened by the Li family.People were surprised to find that those soils were undergoing rapid changes visible to the naked eye. After half a year, rice planting experiments were already possible.

"Although the 30 mu of new paddy fields can grow rice, there are some disadvantages." Li Peilin's words brought Shouhan back from ecstasy to reality.

"What's the disadvantage?" Shou Han was a little flustered. Could it be that the use of chemical fertilizers has caused some new problems?!

"My lord, according to the farmers' feedback, these paddy fields cannot be used to raise rice and fish. The fish fry will die soon after being put into the water."

It's no wonder he didn't die!When Shou Han heard this, a stone fell from his heart.The water in the rice fields is a chemical fertilizer solution. How long can fish fry survive in the chemical fertilizer solution?

"This, it's okay! Brother Zong, you go back and discuss with Uncle Fu, and then ask the people in my house to issue a notice in the name of my Li family. For all the farmers who plant the newly opened paddy fields of my Li family, I will personally subsidize each household by one or two." Baiyin, please eat fish. In addition, after harvesting this season's rice, they can try interplanting rice and rapeseed next year. The rapeseed is supplied by Li's family, and the harvested rapeseed is purchased by my family at the market price." Shou Han couldn't help but Let out bursts of triumphant laughter.The fish is gone, but I can promote the interplanting technology of rapeseed and rice, so as to obtain a large amount of oil.

With grain in hand, don't panic in my heart.

This is a sentence that Shou Han's grandfather has been babbling for many years.

"Nowadays, the various places under my General's Mansion, because they eat more meat, have a surplus of rice and so on. The households have ordered that for farmers who are willing to sell surplus grain, the warehouse and grain merchants must not take the opportunity to lower the price."

Because the schooner is used as a trawler, a large amount of seafood has been put into the market. In the past, a strong laborer needed at least two catties of grain a day to meet his nutritional needs. With the combination of fish floss, meat, eggs and many other non-staple foods, it has been reduced to one catty. Left and right can guarantee the demand.

But people in this era can't explain the relationship between fat, starch, and protein, and can only explain it in a self-deprecating way: "People are cheap, always want to eat when they don't have it, but can't eat it when they have it. "

"My lord, how to deal with the food problem?" Uncle Fu, Wu Cunjie, and Li Peilin, as cadres of the administrative system, stared at Shou Han eagerly, hoping to get his instructions.

"Let me go on, the Hanyuan Company, Yuhetai, Tonghe Dyefang, etc., are open to buying farmers who sell grain." Just kidding, it won't be long before grain, like oil, may become a strategic material of the Ming Dynasty.

"Hufang will allocate funds to various villages and forts to increase the construction of Siwucang, and various villages can also build various righteous warehouses according to their own conditions. At the same time, the number of Siwucang directly under the General's Mansion will also increase. This, Hufang takes Come up with the rules."

If each mu of paddy fields in the jurisdiction can reach an average annual output of [-] to [-] jin in the future, coupled with the terrifying speed and transportation capacity of scissor ships and schooners, Shouhan will have the confidence to exchange grain for Daming American silver drawn for centuries. "It's better than falling into the hands of Jiannu to repair the garden and smoke opium!"

Flipping through the mansion newspapers up to last month, which is August of the third year of Tianqi, Shou Han suddenly remembered another important event.

"Brother Zong, what do you think of the Ning Qian soldier who is stationed in Zhongqian?"

Regarding this person, the Internet of later generations can be said to be very different. Those who destroy it call him Han Jian, and those who praise him call him the reincarnation of Marquis Wu, the injustice of Wu Mu.

"This person? I have seen his name and resume in the list of gentry. This person was born as a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli. No heels. But I don’t know how capable he is, but judging from his actions, he is afraid that his virtue and ability are inconsistent! He doesn’t know about the war, but he says something, “Give our army horses and money, and I will guard it alone!” But I don’t know, what Daming lacks today It's the money and rations for the army and horses! In the future, the fate of this person will definitely be a hundred times worse than that of Yang Gao." Li Peilin curled his lips.

"Brother Zong, why did you see him? Some people call him Qi Shaobao today!"

"How can he be compared with Qi Shaobao?! Then Qi Shaobao, the southern Japanese and the northern captives, is equal wherever he goes, and has won many heads. Is there such a person?"

"After Qi Shaobao died, the family had no money left, only dozens of volumes of military books. However, Yuan was originally poor. After he became an official, the family suddenly became rich. His younger brother has become a leader in salt merchants in Guangdong Province."

"Great ambition and lack of talent, but also in power. He is suspicious, and he likes to kill people without authority. The power and ability are seriously inconsistent, and he is facing constant attacks from the slaves. Alas! This person is bound to become the biggest disaster for the Ming Dynasty." <, Supervisor Sun Chengzong ordered him to appease Haci was careful about his ministries and ordered him to move out of Balipu to Ningyuan, recovering 270 miles. Is this a reward strategy? . . . . . . "

As Li Peilin, who is familiar with the complicated situation between the enemy and our friends in Liaodong, he began to explain Li Shouhan's questions to him.

At that time, Shanhaiguan was occupied by the Harashen tribes of Monan Mongolia. In order to divide and disintegrate the tribes outside the Great Wall, the imperial court adopted the proposal of Wang Xiangqian, governor of Jiliao, and implemented a "reward" policy for the Mongolian tribes outside the border. Forming an alliance with the Ming Dynasty to jointly resist the Houjin, at least maintained a neutral posture; some Mongolian tribal leaders accepted the reward.

"This policy must be a policy for the sick and the people to harm the country!" After explaining the policy of rewards, Li Peilin made a conclusion for this policy.

"Brother Zong, why do you say that?"

"My lord, when I was in Liaodong and the capital, I often heard my uncle at home say that barbarians outside the Great Wall are like hungry eagles, and they will go far away when they are full. If you want this generation to obey you, you need to face him with prestige, so that you will be afraid even in your dreams." , and then lure them for profit, promise to make a lot of profit, and use the grain, cloth, salt, tea and other things from the Central Plains to trade the products of other tribes. In short, it is not like cutting meat and feeding tigers."

"Let's not talk about getting rich through the hands of officials. If I am Taiji, Mongolia, outside the Great Wall, I will definitely open my mouth and ask for a lot of rewards. I will also ask to open a border market to buy grain, rice, cloth, salt, pig iron, etc. Then, I will sell it to others. Liaodong established slaves for huge profits."

"If I, Da Ming, haven't satisfied my desires, then there is a danger of defecting to Jiannu. Just imagine, will Da Ming try his best to meet the demands of this generation?"

"My lord, just now you have seen that there are floods and droughts all over the Ming Dynasty. It is already chaotic. How can we spare enough energy to meet Liaodong's money and food?"

"If the princes of the court cannot satisfy this generation's greed, or ask questions, I dare say that this generation will definitely take risks. This person is a student of Yushi Hou Xun, so who is Hou Xun? Donglin rat you!"

Shou Han secretly sighed in his heart, don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients!You know, after a few years, Huang Taiji will send his troops into the pass, and at that time, Governor Yuan's Huangquan Road will be near.

When it came to the political situation in the distance, Chen Tianhua, Fu Bo, Wu Cunjie and others were naturally unable to intervene. When the topic of the two relaxed a little, Chen Tianhua and others took up the topic.

"My lord, more than ten spies have been captured recently!"

The spies were mainly sent by the Ruan family in the south and the Zheng family in the north.For a political force or military group that suddenly broke out under his nose, no political force would sit idly by.

In particular, the expansion speed of this force is extremely fast.

"During my lord's trip to Luzon, nearly 3 people immigrated into Fujian and Guangdong provinces in the Ha Tinh area, and nearly 2 of them were strong men. The subordinates separated the strong men from these people, and ordered them to settle in various immigration camps. Take care of your body and do some odd jobs."

This is the result of the immigration plan of Li Shouhan and Li Peilin.Under the temptation of "I will only tell you one person", people immigrated to the He Tinh area in large numbers, preparing to reclaim the [-] acres of land that belonged to them.

The strong men receive military training in the training camp. When they wave their arms for queue training, they think of the land far away;

well!I didn't expect that a small technical method would have such an effect.Shou Han looked at the immigrant's expense book, feeling a little heartbroken and heartbroken.

There is no way, every immigrant, except for the expenses on the road, has to figure out his own way, as long as he arrives at Hongji Port in Ha Tinh, as long as he is healthy, his rations and accommodation will be borne by the general's mansion.Not to mention the rations for the strong men during training.

After that, after going to the Shuichenla area to open up wasteland, Li Shouhan will be responsible for all expenses such as rations, tools, seeds, weapons, buffaloes, houses, etc. within three years.

If it weren't for the support of trade income from salt, sugar and other gold-absorbing weapons, I'm afraid Li Shouhan would be on the verge of bankruptcy.

"These people can be organized into thirty infantry battalions. If they go south or north, the Ruan family in the south and the Zheng family in the north will have to think about how to deal with them. Moreover, our caravan transports salt and cloth to the south. Going north also attracted the attention of these two families."

While Li Shouhan's fine salt brought him astonishing profits, it also attracted the attention of Zheng Bing in the north and Ruan Fuyuan in the south.Although fine salt has brought convenience to him, at the same time, a large amount of gold and silver outflow is something that no ruler wants to see.

"It's not just the forces of the North and the South. Guangxi in the northeast is also making moves."

Speaking of the concerns of all parties, Li Peilin also took out an official document.

"This is a joint document issued by the governor of Guangxi and the chief soldier, asking why the current guard did not go to the chief soldier and the governor's office to report and receive the seal after the previous garrison of the Thousand Households Office was vacant, but accepted it by himself? Such a private transfer, And you said it wasn't me, an official of the Ming Dynasty?"

"How did Guangxi notice us?" Shou Han was a little surprised. If the Ruan family and Zheng family had noticed, that's fine. After all, there were caravans traveling from north to south, and he was also connected to these two families by land.

However, Guangxi is separated by the sea!

"My lord, our ships can go to the north to sell salt. Why can't the ships from Guangxi come to Hongji? After all, Hongji is only a few hundred miles away from Beihai, Lianzhou and other ports. Besides, our mill has already opened and needs a large amount of sugar cane. These people transported them from the south, and when they went north, they just transported salt and white sugar back.”

Li Peilin smiled wryly. You must know that there is also a shortage of table salt in Guangxi. When they learned that there was a place that could provide fine salt not far away, how could those businessmen not go after it?What's more, there is also that snow-white granulated sugar, which one is not something that can make people's eyes shine?When the businessman learned about the source of the goods, it was like a fly seeing blood!Soon, when the merchants learned that the salt was guarded by Qianhu, the guardian of Daming, almost all of them began to use their brains.

How many big businessmen in this era have no official background?

So, there is this writing.

"Fortunately, we are just testing the waters. If we are too weak, they will have countless follow-ups waiting, such as reprimands, resignation, redeployment, etc. The purpose is to seize this salt source."

Li Peilin knew the filth of these officialdoms very well, and he told the truth with one word.