I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

chapter 103
Chapter 102

Cheng Shijie is still accustomed to the way of thinking of later generations. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so he has to give some benefits to his subordinates. Even if he doesn’t give money, he should at least give away a few catties of meat and a bag of noodles. No matter how difficult it is, he must live well this year.

But the problem is that now Ning Haijun is not the original Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households Office. At that time, there were less than 2 people in total. too big.

The population of southern Liaoning is increasing every day.

There is no way, the arable land on the coastal islands is too little, the sea wind is strong at sea, and the living environment is very poor. The key point is that the Dongjiang Army has run out of food, and there is only one dead end to stay on the island.

Therefore, the people under the jurisdiction of the Dongjiang Army arrived in southern Liaoning one after another. These Liaodong refugees who had skills were sent to factories, and those who had no skills could only be incorporated into hundreds of households in the village to farm.In fact, Cheng Shijie didn't know exactly how many people there were in southern Liaoning. There were only 490 households in the farmland, and there were [-] people. This was the data three days ago.

In other words, there are only 120 households of Tuntian soldiers, plus more than [-] Ning Navy officers and soldiers, as well as their family members, and more than [-] Dongjiang Army, including more than [-] soldiers. There are more than two thousand soldiers.

This means that even if one person distributes 40 catties of grain during the Chinese New Year, it would cost [-] million catties, and the landlord would have no surplus grain. Cheng Shijie was still worried.

The Meng Xianhan proposed by Li Fang was simply a pillow someone brought him when he fell asleep.

But for naval battles, Cheng Shijie is a complete layman, and professional things are left to professional people. Cheng Shijie gave Li Zhixiang a combat order, code-named "cleaning!"

The current Ning Navy Navy has more than 300 large and small warships, mainly concentrated in the two seaports of Jinzhou Port and Gaizhou Port, and of course Lushun Port, but even if the Dongjiang Navy Navy is added, there are nearly [-] ships The large and small warships have been acting as a transport team, and there has never been a battle.

No fighting means no rewards. The officers and men of the Ning Navy Navy are a little emotional. After all, the military regulations of the Ning Navy are there. They only have the opportunity to reward the land if they make contributions in battle.

When Li Fang arrived at the naval camp at Jinzhou Port with an order written by Cheng Shijie himself, more than [-] naval officers and soldiers began to emit green light: "Business is here!"

At this time, Ning Haijun was cultivated by Cheng Shijie into a monster army. He was happy when he heard the war, and he was decadent without a war.Because of fighting, they can have everything they want, fields, houses, and money.

This is more effective than any mobilization slogan.

For the battle to attack the South Island, Cheng Shijie acted as the shopkeeper, because he didn't understand naval warfare. things.

It’s like going to a latrine. This problem is very acute now. In just one month, Jinzhou Acropolis has grown from scratch, and its population has increased by 10,000+. The soldiers of the Ning Navy are fortunate to say that they have already formed a habit. Dongjiang The army's problem is not too big. Under the supervision of the instructors, they soon knew that they had to go to the toilet in the hut.

If they don't know, the pointer in the instructor's hand will let them know. If they don't know, they will know after a few meals.

But the problem is that Jinzhou Guard is not only Ning Haijun and Dongjiang Army, but also a large number of Liaodong refugees, especially most of these refugees have stomach problems. At the beginning, these Liaodong refugees will find places to solve by themselves. Excretion problem, but after having tens of thousands of people, this problem began to become acute.

If it is not dealt with, hundreds of thousands of people can poop every day, which is enough to turn the area around the Golden State Acropolis into a big hut full of yellow and white things in a short period of time, and there is no military mandatory system in the refugee isolation camp. This trend has already begun.

The reform of the toilet system is imperative.

Cheng Shijie felt a little tired. In later generations, even a five or six-year-old child would know that he had to find a toilet when going to the toilet. But the problem was that these Liaodong refugees were used to defecating anywhere, especially in the inner city and the city of Jinzhou City. In a very short period of time, the corners of the outer city wall became smelly and unpleasant, and patches of white alkali flowers even grew.

There is no better solution. As Ninghai’s panacea, the Tuntian Hundred Households Office has undertaken this task. At the junction of Jinzhouwei and Lushun, outside the north city of Weiwu City, Ninghai’s first organic Fertilizer distribution center, in the era without chemical fertilizers, Cheng Shijie would not waste these excrement.

When the crops start to be planted in the spring of next year, the hundred households in the village can come here to pick fertilizer at any time. The conditions are difficult and no resources should be wasted.

Starting from Weiwu City, more than [-] public toilets that can accommodate [-] male and female toilets at the same time have been built successively. However, this problem has not been completely solved, because many people cannot read at all. Finally, in desperation, they only need to find a painter , At the door of the toilet, a portrait of a man and a woman were drawn respectively, and this problem was finally solved.

This also made Cheng Shijie realize that it is urgent for the whole people to get rid of blindness.

In addition to the problem of convenience, there is also the problem of hygiene.Even if the weather is cold, there is an urgent need to solve the problem of bathing for the soldiers of the Ning Navy and the Dongjiang Army. Because the problem of infectious diseases cannot be completely eliminated, Cheng Shijie did not build a large pool for later generations, but asked craftsmen to make showers.

Even if plastic pipes or steel pipes are not used, craftsmen use bamboo pipes to solve this problem. This problem is solved simply and crudely. The public bathhouse is built with two floors. The first floor is used for bathing, and the second floor is used for adding water. The bamboos go straight to the lower layer, and a small hole is punched in a gourd, and the problem is simply solved in this way.

Of course, when heating the water, it still needs to be added manually. Hundreds of large buckets are rotated back and forth, which can not only exercise the physical strength of the soldiers of Ning Haijun and Dongjiang Army, but also allow them to solve the problem of bathing by themselves.

There are too many people, and you can’t do anything without swarming on the ground. Basic life matters such as eating, shitting, and bathing need to be done one by one.Everything is not isolated. The overall arrangement of time involves daily training, mobilization, and all aspects of theoretical study and cultural study. Only an extremely detailed time schedule can coordinate all of these, ensuring that no time is wasted. It is also guaranteed that each soldier will not miss any learning and training items.

Cheng Shijie handed over this job to Chen Guodong, in the name of decentralization of power, but in fact he was being lazy.

Cheng Shijie suffers from too few talents, and he is very envious of future bosses. As long as he has capital and a high enough salary, he can recruit excellent talents, which is really convenient.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is rich but can't find enough talents. Ma Shilin under him is busy, Song Xiance is almost divided into three people, Zhou Yandong is busy, and Chen Guodong is also busy.

In desperation, he only needs to publish a recruitment announcement... Cheng Shijie also knows that southern Liaoning is different from Shandong at this time. Shandong is a province of culture and education, while southern Liaoning is a cultural desert.

With the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, I never thought...

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Zhang Huaize is 32 years old this year. His father, Zhang Siyou, was once the head of the second house in the south of the Zhang family in Laiyang. He was a Juren in the 37th year of Wanli (1609).It is said that Zhang Huaize is backed by the Zhang family in Laiyang, and has a father who is a county magistrate, so it should not be difficult to find a family background.

However, the problem is that the big family is actually equivalent to a small court. Zhang Siyou and Zhang Sicheng once competed for the position of Patriarch of the Zhang family in Laiyang, which is equivalent to intervening in the court's battle for the throne.But Zhang Siyou was defeated and was killed violently.At that time Zhang Huaize was still young, orphans, widows and mothers had no one to rely on, Zhang Sicheng was forced by the pressure of the clan, but he did not kill them all.Zhang Huaize grew up under the care of his widowed mother.

Due to misfortune in his childhood, Zhang Huaize matured relatively precociously, had no contact with other Zhang brothers in the clan, and lived a rather poor life.Until Chen Guodong took Ning Haijun to arrest more than [-] members of the Zhang family in Laiyang, and Zhang Huaize was arrested because his surname was Zhang, and then sent to Jinzhou.

Although Zhang Huaize was lonely, he worked hard since he was a child and studied classics and history hard. Although in order to avoid being exposed to the limelight and being jealous by his family members, he never took part in the academic examinations, and he did not get a good reputation in the examinations. Carefully.

Zhang Huaize did not take advantage of the benefits of the Zhang family in Laiyang. Instead, he became a prisoner of Ning Haijun and accepted the labor reform of Ning Haijun. The other Zhang family children hated Cheng Shijie, but Zhang Huaize not only did not hate, but admired and admired him. .

Zhang Huaize has been secretly observing Cheng Shijie's every move. After learning that Cheng Shijie recruited a large number of refugees as tenants of Ning Haijun, these refugees or prisoners of war became tenants of Ning Haijun's public land, which is naturally a rare act of kindness.

But as Ning Haijun recruited more and more refugees and refugees, Zhang Huaize sensed Cheng Shijie's ambition and structure, and other guard generals were all focused on making money.

Cheng Shijie is not only good at fighting, but also good at managing the local area. Hundreds of thousands of refugees flocked to southern Liaoning, but there was no trouble. This is much better than the Laiyang county magistrate.

Tens of thousands of refugees, how much food do they need to consume in a day?Recruiting so many refugees, even if there is a mountain of food, it will be eaten up...

At this moment, Zhang Huaize saw Cheng Shijie's recruitment notice, and this was his chance.He immediately went back to the place where he lived, and discussed with the widow and mother, not for anything else, but for Cheng Shijie's monthly salary of five silvers.Now Zhang Huaize can get five buckets of grain for one stone through physical labor, and the mother and son can barely make ends meet. Five taels of silver is a very considerable income for Zhang Huaize.

Zhang Huaize's mother, Zhang Lishi, is very supportive of his son's joining Cheng Shijie, especially Zhang Huaize cannot be integrated into the Zhang family in Laiyang. It is not easy to live to this day. A 32-year-old man is not considered a big man in later generations, but the problem is that Zhang Huaize was at the same age in the late Ming Dynasty. Everyone is old enough to be a grandfather, he is still unmarried, and the incense of the Zhang family will be cut off.

If you can earn five taels of silver, why worry about not being able to marry a daughter-in-law?
Encouraged by his mother Zhang Lishi, Zhang Huaize decided to take the risk.

After learning that Zhang Huaize was going to apply for Cheng Shijie's recruitment, the soldiers in charge of Ning Haijun were very polite to him. They not only took Zhang Huaize from Fenglin Town to Jinzhou Acropolis, but also provided meals and escorted him along the way.

Although there are tens of thousands of people in southern Liaoning, there are not a few large wild animals such as wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains and forests. A few days ago, there was an accident of wild boars attacking a refugee settlement, and there were about [-] wild boars. The wild boars rushed to the refugee settlement in mighty force, and happened to be discovered by the Ning Navy patrol team. With a meal of crossbow arrows and firecrackers, these more than fifty wild boars became extra meals for Ning Navy soldiers.

When we arrived at the south of Jinzhou Acropolis, a huge camp that could accommodate tens of thousands of refugees was busy in the open space in the south of the city. Rows of neat but very simple adobe houses appeared on the flat ground. , Ragged farmers are busy in front of and behind the house.

"Why is this house built outside the city?"

"Hehe, what happened outside the city? Isn't there a city wall outside?"

"This chest-high low wall can only protect against wild animals, right?"

"It is enough to prevent the beast!"

The Ning Navy soldier said with some pride: "It's better for Jiannu to come...""

"Better come?"

"Yeah, when Jiannu came, I would have the opportunity to cut off their heads. A Jiannu's head can reward fifty acres of land, which is much more valuable than bandits!"

Even if he is from Shandong, Zhang Huaize has heard of Jiannu's infamous reputation. In Shandong, Jiannu can make children stop crying, but in the hearts of Ning Haijun soldiers, Jiannu is actually a reward in their eyes.

Zhang Huaize was a little confused.

This is confidence.

Strong self-confidence.

Think about later generations, why did the three PLAs who were left alone dare to fight against a battalion of Yinjun?If an online author dares to write such a plot, he will definitely be scolded to death.

This is a war with hot weapons, not a war with cold weapons.

However, it is true.

At that time, holding a weapon of the Wan Guo brand, he actually launched an attack on the most powerful army on the planet, and beat this powerful army with a powerful air force, army, and navy into a mess.

What does this rely on?
In fact, it is because of having strong self-confidence.

Because of his self-confidence, Jiannu blew out that "Jurchen is full of ten thousand, and full of ten thousand is invincible."

Jiannu's random Niu Lu rushed towards the Ming army with an army of [-] people without any scruples, and had an absolute chance to defeat the Ming army.

This is Jian Nu's self-confidence.

Of course, Tang Jun also had self-confidence. Li Jing led 10,000 cavalry to attack Yinshan Mountain at night. If he didn't have self-confidence, what kind of courage would it take for them to defeat [-]+ troops with [-] enemies?And still win?
But the problem is, following the battles of Sarhu, Hunhe, Liuhe, and Dalinghe, the Ming army lost a lot, lost their confidence, and lost their confidence.

However, the problem is that Ning Haijun is the biggest anomaly in the world. They are not afraid of Jiannu, because they believe that they can defeat Jiannu, and make Jiannu's head become the silver in their hands and the reward field.

"Humble Zhang Huaize pays respects to Marshal Cheng!"

When Zhang Huaize saw Cheng Shijie, he was in a shed, instructing craftsmen to deal with some unnamed parts, but these parts made Zhang Huaize guess what kind of machinery it should be.

"Are you here to apply?"

"Yes!"

"Ben Shuai wants to build a road!"

Zhang Huaize bowed and said, "As long as someone has money, it doesn't take much effort to build this road...Is it going to be built in Jinzhou City?"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said, "No, this road is very long!"

"how long?"

"About five hundred miles!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the south and said, "From Lushun to Gaizhou, the whole journey is five hundred miles!"

Ning Haijun is now an army of mules and horses. A four-wheeled carriage can carry a team of twelve fully armed soldiers, and they can change horses every thirty or forty miles. Within two hundred miles, Jinzhou's troops were sent.

There is a prerequisite for this, that is, to have a post station for raising horses. Now that the post station has been established, a relatively complete official road is needed.

People without thought, he must worry about.

Cheng Shijie is now thinking about building a highway. Of course, this highway and the highways of later generations are two completely different concepts.Although Cheng Shijie did not have enough ambitions to build a complete transportation network in the backward environment of the late Ming Dynasty.

However, this does not prevent Cheng Shijie from better dredging his own transportation lines. Next year will be the fifth year of Chongzhen, Ning Haijun will definitely have a tragic bloody battle with Jiannu, because Huang Taiji can't watch Cheng Shijie set up farming.

If Huang Taiji did not send troops in spring, he would lose the whole of southern Liaoning forever. At that time, Ning Haijun had gained a firm foothold in southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie's army has expanded to 2 horses, and the Dongjiang Army has more than 4 people. The army cannot be expanded, and any further expansion will exceed the limit of Cheng Shijie's financial resources.

With a relatively small number of people, how to solve the security problem in southern Liaoning?That can only learn from the German army during World War II and conduct mobile defense.

This is facing a serious problem. Southern Liaoning must have a road that can pass four-wheeled carriages smoothly.

However, the problem is that in the eyes of Zhang Huaize, who is proficient in common affairs, Cheng Shijie is too whimsical.

The hard road for more than [-] miles will cost a lot of money. If you have money, it is not impossible.

Zhang Huaize asked: "I don't know how much Cheng Shuai can give Zhang, how many people? How many stones?"

"this?"

Cheng Shijie said: "I don't have any stone materials at present. I can transfer 25 villages and 500 households to you, [-] people, and give you another batch of [-] young and strong refugees. If there are more refugees in the future, you can Gather up [-] heads for you!"

Zhang Huaize felt that his head was as big as a bucket, and the road of five hundred miles was only for 6000 people. He really wanted to ask Cheng Shijie if he knew how big the project was?
Cheng Shijie continued: "I don't have any money, but I can give you [-] shi for food!"

Zhang Huaize calculated silently in his heart, if the road was built narrower, it could be done: "How wide does this road need to be?"

"Two cars can run side by side, two-way four-lane, it can't be narrower!"

Cheng Shijie thought about it, and the two-way four-lane of later generations is 26 meters, but the width of the four-wheeled carriage in the late Ming Dynasty was about 1.8 meters six, which can be narrowed appropriately.

"At least eight feet wide!"

"How long will it take for the master to finish?"

"How long will it take you to build it?"

"At least three years!"

"Three years, too long!"

"Marshal, you only give 6000 people to humble positions, and you don't have ready-made stone materials. This is the shortest time. There is nowhere to buy stone materials in southern Liaoning. They can only be collected and mined from everywhere. Fortunately, Jinzhou's There are a lot of usable stones, which can be mined, but these stones must be hammered, smashed and pounded until they are usable, and the stones used for a mile of road are more than one million catties?"

Zhang Huaize said with a wry smile: "Six thousand people smashed stones day and night, and each person can only smash seven or eight hundred catties of stones every day, and they have to be pounded before they can be used... In this way, the stones used for a mile of road are at least It takes five to ten days, and it takes three years for a five-hundred-mile road, which is already a very fast speed..."

Song Xiance also persuaded: "My lord, if you want to use work for relief, it's better than letting these people idle here. It's just that the spring plowing will take three months at most. Don't you need people in the field? Building roads and bridges, although it is necessary Good governance will always hurt farmers, if the weather is delayed, it will involve a year's harvest..."

Only then did Cheng Shijie understand what Zhang Huaize was worried about. He smiled, patted Zhang Huaize's shoulder lightly, and said in a low voice: "Please rest assured, I won't do anything that damages the harvest and hurts the farmers. You It only considered the progress of manpower, and did not consider that machines are more powerful than humans!"

"mechanical!"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie continued to laugh and said, "Look at this machine. This is a hydraulic crusher. As long as the water is rushing in the spring, it can break the stones to a level that can be paved!"

The working principle of the crusher is very simple. Cheng Shijie prepared this machine for burning cement. In addition to the crusher, there is also a ball mill for making cement. However, this thing has not been manufactured yet, and there is still a long way to go.

While Cheng Shijie and Zhang Huaize were discussing how to build the highway in southern Liaoning, densely packed warships appeared on the sea surface of the South Island. These warships sailed against the wind and waves with full sail.With dozens of nautical miles away from the South Island, the soldiers of the Ning Navy Navy on the battleship eagerly took off the gun cover and prepared the shells.

On the flagship of the Ning Navy Navy, Li Fang stood on the deck, looking very excited, ready to move, gearing up.

"You're just for a bitch..."

Li Zhixiang glared at Li Fang and said, "Do you dare to confuse the general to send troops?"

"What is bewitchment?"

Li Fang said forcefully: "The commander-in-chief also needs Meng Xianhan, a big fat pig. The bastard Meng Xianhan has a lot of money. The commander-in-chief took Meng Xianhan's money, and I got it."

Li Zhixiang asked in confusion: "It's not difficult for you to marry a good family with your current status? Just stare at an abandoned woman?"

"What is an abandoned woman? That is my true love!"

"Well, your love, what's good"

Li Fang shook his head and said, "That's why you don't understand mature women!"

(End of this chapter)