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

Chapter 106
Chapter 105

Song Xiance did not ask Mrs. Cheng Shijie where Mrs. Xiang was or where the eldest son was.In his mind, since Cheng Shijie didn't tell him, it showed that Cheng Shijie's trust in him was limited, at least he didn't tell him this secret.

It may also be that Cheng Shijie cares too much about his wife and children, and he doesn't want to be caught by his weakness, so he hides his wife, son and daughter tightly.

"My lord, there is one more question!"

"what is the problem?"

"It's time for Madam to show up!"

"Show up?"

Cheng Shijie smiled wryly, "Now is not the best time yet!"

"My lord, the meaning of the door is..."

"This world is dark and dark. Without military power, anyone can kill you with a single knife. We have too few people and too little power, so there are too few things we can do. Many injustices can only be watched. Well...but it's powerless, not only us, but even Mrs. Sun Futai and Mrs. Sun, in fact, they are just trying to save face!"

Cheng Shijie said with a wry smile: "As the governor of Denglai, he seems to have a high position and authority, but in the eyes of the court, what is it? Governor Sun is like this, let alone us little people? So we must hold on to the soldiers in our hands. This is strength, and it is also the reliance to protect ourselves. With soldiers in our hands, no one can do anything to us. Therefore, we must not only hold on to the military power, but also gradually train this soldier to become stronger and bigger."

Song Xiance knew that Cheng Shijie misunderstood what he meant, and explained again: "My lord, what I mean is that although it is inconvenient for the wife and the eldest son to show up, in the eyes of outsiders, the lord is a single widower. Why don't the lord find someone to temporarily pretend to be the wife and son?" Where is the son?"

"Fake, yes, just find a Jianghu person, someone who is good at disguise, and disguise according to the portrait of your wife!"

Song Xiance said slowly: "In this way, there are three advantages. It can not only make those who vainly manipulate the lord's marriage quit, but also catch those who vainly try to harm the wife... In the future, the lord will become stronger, and there will be no more scruples." , Madam can also comfort people's hearts!"

It has to be said that Song Xiance's suggestion touched Cheng Shijie's heart.

Cheng Shijie even immediately thought of a candidate, Yang Yunniang.

When Song Xiance told Yang Yuniang about this plan, Yang Yuniang refused without thinking: "No way!"

"why?"

"I am an unmarried, unmarried person, and I pretend to be a wife who has given birth to a son and a daughter. Can I hide it from the eyes of those who are interested?"

"This……"

There is an obvious difference between a woman who has not given birth to a child and a woman who has given birth to a child. In this era, there are too many professionals who are proficient in this field, just like the old bustard in the brothel, the broker in the renzi market, and the rich family. A female gentleman, an expert nun who guides children's growth.

They don't need to observe closely, they can tell whether this woman is perfect or not just from her appearance.

Even though Yang Yunniang was born in the Jianghu Yanmen, in fact, she is mainly responsible for accounting. The so-called "record" is either her hearsay, or her senior sister's real record. If she is really good at deception, or her Cheng Shijie might not be able to escape if his senior sister made a move.Yang Yunniang's senior sister has a kind of incense that can interfere with a person's mind. Once he is tricked, this person will be at the mercy of others within three hours.

As the so-called interlacing is like a mountain, although Song Xiance was also a quack warlock, he really doesn't know much about the secrets of Yanmen: "Do you have anyone you know?"

"This matter is not easy!"

Yang Yunniang sighed and said, "The only thing I can do is invite my master!"

"Your master?"

"My master and my wife are not much different in age, but they are a little thinner and shorter. This is easy to solve, but my master has already asked the Buddha, regardless of the world, I don't know if she is willing to help!"

In fact, Yang Yunniang also had selfish intentions. Her master Feng Sanniang met the scumbag Zhou Shichen. Not only was the money accumulated over the years cheated, but the key point was that Feng Sanniang lost her fighting spirit.Now Feng Sanniang is eating a green lantern, eating fast and reciting Buddha's name.If possible, she would like Master to live a good life.

While pretending to be Mrs. Cheng Shijie, Feng Sanniang had a place to eat.From the point of view of her heart, her master is not actually a bad person, they are all defrauding people who are rich and unkind, and most of the money that master defrauded, except for the part that was taken away by Zhou Shichen, was used to adopt disabled children .

Now this important task falls on Yang Yunniang. She follows Cheng Shijie and provides food, clothing, clothing and ten taels of silver every month. According to her life, she should live a good life, but in fact, Yang Yunniang is now A poor person, all the money she earns will be sent to Shandong by someone.

Song Xiance said: "You, the commander-in-chief can be trusted, your master, if he leaks this secret, it will ruin the commander-in-chief's event!"

Yang Yunniang shook her head and said, "I lied to my master, as long as she comes to Liaonan, can she still go to heaven?"

"Your master is an old Jianghu, how can you lie to her?? Don't be self-defeating."

"No, my master's biggest knot is Zhou Shichen. As long as I tell her that Zhou Shichen is suspected to have appeared in southern Liaoning, she will definitely kill him immediately!"

"So good!"

……

On Xiaonan Island, under the leadership of Mr. Peng, the internal responder, the Ning Navy's navy found Meng Xianhan's bank and tested Ning's navy; the time has come for the hearts of the sailors.

As the water in the pond in the backyard was emptied, a clean gentle slope was exposed, and a road was dug out of the gentle slope, leading directly to the cave. After entering the cave, with the torches lit, Li Zhixiang, Li Fang, Chen Youshi, Shen Shikui Waiting for the generals of the Ning Navy Navy to be dumbfounded.

Chests of gold and silver.A stone room is filled with gorgeous, exquisite, golden wine accessories, silver melons weighing hundreds of catties each, copper pillars made of several thousand catties of brass, and boxes of jewels...

It took Li Zhixiang a long time to recover from the dizziness, and he stroked a giant silver winter melon, not without emotion: "It's unimaginable that so many treasures were looted just by pirates!"

Mrs. Peng shook her head and said, "This is not the treasure that Meng Xianhan obtained as a pirate, more than half of it is the accumulation of several generations of Xu Hongru, and it is all cheaper than Meng Xianhan..."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Peng consciously made a slip of the tongue, because now all these treasures have fallen into the hands of Ning Haijun.

"Great!"

Li Zhixiang smiled and said: "Our commander has always wanted to eliminate our [-]-material gunboats, but building new large warships requires a lot of money. With this money, it is enough for us to build dozens of [-]-material gunboats! "

A large ship with 700 materials, excluding the artillery, the cost of a ship is about [-] taels. This is free construction by craftsmen, but the cost of wood and matching canvas, ropes, tung oil and other materials. Based on the wages offered by the craftsmen, a large ship with [-] materials would cost at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

If according to the standard of the Europa battleship, a large ship with more than 48 materials is equipped with 56 or 6 cannons, and its firepower scale reaches the standard of the Europa third-tier battleship, then the manufacturing cost of a third-tier battleship is about [-] to [-] taels of silver.

In fact, although the Ming Dynasty’s finances are tight and its prosperity is rising every year, it is not short of money. Over the past two to three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has earned incalculable wealth in maritime trade. In one city, Li Zicheng copied out tens of millions of taels of silver. Who can say that he is poor?
The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was due to the fact that rich people did not have to pay taxes, and all taxes fell on the common people. Even this source of taxation also robbed many people from the court, such as vassal kings, officials, and gentry.According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, scholars who are famous and famous are exempted from tax, so whenever a scholar graduates from high school, many people will come to contribute their land, and they will naturally not have to pay taxes. .

The vassal kings and officials do not pay taxes either. Both of them are justified. Who dares to collect their taxes?As a result, the court's tax sources have dropped sharply, and it can only increase taxes desperately on fewer and fewer fields, and it is difficult to think of nothing.

In particular, there was no industry in the Ming Dynasty, and there were no wealth management products such as securities and stocks. Coupled with the old tradition of saving money since ancient times, the money earned was endless, and they were afraid of thieves, so they naturally hid it in the cellar. .Melting silver into a silver winter melon weighing hundreds of catties, even a few big men can't move it, so naturally no one can steal it.

The silver disappeared from the market and did not exist until the crisis came and the whole country fell into panic, the silver would flow out of the cellar and pour into the market to buy food, cloth and other daily necessities, causing prices to soar. In the end, the collapse of the entire country will be accelerated... There is no way, a country will always have several times more money than supplies, and if all the money flows into the market to buy goods, it will become inevitable that prices will get out of control.

Cheng Shijie used the seized money to buy grain in Dengzhou, which has caused a crazy increase in grain. Now he is afraid to buy grain in Dengzhou, but puts the work of buying grain in Jiangnan. It is cheap in Dengzhou, and high-quality rice only costs four qian per shi, which is almost half of the price of Dengzhou's grain.

After a day and night of counting and statistics, the final results of Xiaonan Island’s seizures were calculated. There were a total of 250 million taels of silver, 3000 taels of gold, 19 catties of brass, and more than 600 pearls. , Porcelain, mahogany furniture and other valuable stuff are also countless.

As for the seized weapons, they are not too many. There are more. Sun Yuanhua spent a lot of money to manufacture more than 200 muskets, and more than 100 large and small artillery...

As for food, Meng Xianhan is also a talent. There are more than [-] pirates in the area, and they have stored more than [-] stones of food. The entire South Island, including the old and weak, women and children, is enough for these people to eat for more than two years. .

Li Zhixiang said: "We are going to transport these things to Jinzhouwei..."

Before Li Zhixiang could finish speaking, Chen sometimes stepped forward and said, "General Li, don't be too busy. Have you forgotten one of the most important things?"

"what?"

"Dirty!"

Li Zhixiang and Li Fang were taken aback: "Dividing the dirty? Have you forgotten the military regulations of our Ning Navy?"

"Everything seized must be returned to the public, but the rules are dead, but people are alive!"

Shen Shikui looked at the soldiers around him and said with a smile: "Since brothers surrendered to Marshal Cheng, our life with Marshal Cheng has indeed been much better than before, but the problem is, the brothers have been busy for more than a month, and we can't let us seven Eight thousand brothers, are you busy for nothing? Even if Shen agrees, the brothers will not agree!"

Chen sometimes hastily echoed: "That's right, Vice General Shen's words are reasonable, brothers won't agree!"

Dozens of Ning Navy soldiers around are all confidantes of Chen Shishi, Shen Shikui, Yi Li Zhixiang and others, including the cronies of Li Fang's subordinates, and their eyes are also shining.

Li Zhixiang was taken aback: "What do you want to do?"

"Old rules, Marshal Cheng takes the bulk. After all, the brothers still have to eat with Marshal Cheng, so we only get a part, a very small part!"

Shen Shikui said confidently: "This is what Shen thinks. We don't want jade, porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, pearls, gold and silver jewelry, furniture and other miscellaneous things. We leave all of them to Marshal Cheng. Silver ingots are divided into two sizes. 50 Two and ten taels, the total amount of silver is more than 53 taels, and the four of us will share it equally. Brother Li Fang..."

Shen Shikui talked eloquently, and one could tell at a glance that he had a lot of experience in dividing spoils. Could it be that he often did this kind of thing?

Chen was overjoyed when he heard it. He has less than 2000 troops and 15 taels of silver. He can get 10 taels for himself, and then the 5 taels of silver can be divided equally among the generals below. It is equivalent to their two-year military salary. The military salary of the navy officers and soldiers is slightly higher than that of the infantry.

Li Zhixiang's little heart was beating wildly, like a deer bumping into it. Looking at the mountain of gold, silver and jewels, he swallowed with difficulty, "Lieutenant Shen, do this!" Is it wrong?"

"What's wrong?"

Shen Shikui smiled disapprovingly and said: "When the water is clear, there will be no fish. Marshal Cheng is a good marshal. Shen can obey him, and he can be subdued. Brothers have to support their families, don't you think?"

"That's right, Lieutenant General Shen is right, the brothers also have to support their families!"

"Let's put our heads off our belts and eat this bloody meal, isn't it just for a few taels of money?"

"The guys from our Ning Haijun are all fucking fat. How much meat have we eaten? Isn't the commander in charge the same?"

"If you can share dozens of taels of silver, my brother will ask Guo Laokou to ask for advice, and throw the silver directly in his face to see if he still looks down on me..."

Seeing that Li Zhixiang was hesitating, Shen Mingkui added more information: "Brother Li, we have seized a lot this time. You forgot that there are still five large Western ships. We will not touch the ivory, sulfur, gunpowder and artillery contained in them." , are all handsome!"

Li Fang became a little anxious, and stretched out his hand to hold the Qi family knife on his waist. At this moment, Mrs. Peng grabbed Li Fang's hand, and as soon as Li Fang broke free, it turned into him hugging Mrs. Peng.

The surrounding soldiers burst into laughter when they noticed Li Fang's abnormality.

"Li Fang, can you fucking wait a while!"

"You are going to die in front of us widowers!"

Peng Shi pretended to be shy and slapped Li Fang on the chest, while secretly winking at Li Fang, Li Fang understood, hugged Peng Shi by the waist, and walked towards a room not far away.

The distance was a little farther, Peng said in a low voice: "Li Lang, don't act rashly..."

"They are betraying the Marshal!"

"You can't object now, once you dare to object, they will kill you!"

"They dare..."

"How dare they!"

Peng Shi and Li Fang entered the room, Li Fang opened the window paper, and quietly looked at several naval generals from the Dongjiang Army outside. Officers of the above ranks were called together to discuss the matter of dividing the dirt.

Peng Shi suddenly screamed: "Li Fang, don't..."

Li Fang looked back at Mrs. Peng in surprise, very puzzled.

Peng pointed out the window.

Sure enough, a group of generals laughed unscrupulously.

Li Fang gritted his teeth and said: "A group of beasts who eat inside and outside..."

"It's human nature!"

Li Fang said solemnly: "Marshal Cheng has shown me the kindness of understanding and promotion. I can't betray Marshal Cheng for money..."

"You can't object now. Once you object, they will kill you, and then let you die or disappear."

"Then what should I do now?"

"Pretend to agree, participate in the division of the viscera, and report the matter to the commander-in-chief!"

Li Fang looked embarrassed: "I can't read!"

"I can read, I will write this letter!"

"So good!"

As more military officers participated in the division of dirt, there was not much left for one cent of more than 50 taels. Everyone's eyes began to fall on the five western ships. Don't look at just five armed merchant ships. There are more than 100 small naval guns on five of the large armed transport ships above the ton level, and they are also Franc machine guns.

The generals of the Zhongning Navy began to divide artillery, muskets, and armor, and even melted [-] catties of copper directly to divide these copper pillars.

Copper almost had currency value in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ning Navy Navy is divided into three commanders, which means that the Ning Navy Navy has three supervisors, but the Ning Navy Navy has far fewer supervisors than the infantry. There is no way, Cheng Shijie's His rising speed is too fast, and his background is slightly insufficient.

At this time, the eyes of the three Ning Haijun captains met in the air, and they all looked at Chen Dayong at the same time.

Chen Dayong was originally an ordinary military household in Ganquan Baihusuo. He belonged to the first batch of family soldiers who joined Cheng Shijie, and he belonged to Genzheng Miaohong's own people.When Chen Dayong became an army in the Ninghai Navy, he became the chief executive officer, and now he has been directly promoted to the capital supervisor, that is, the rank of the commander of the capital, which is as high as Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu. He was originally the most The best candidate for the appropriate former commander of the Ninghai Navy.

However, when Cheng Shijie annexed the Dengzhou Navy and the Dongjiang Navy, Chen Dayong was sent to Li Zhixiang's side as the captain of the Ning Navy Navy.

Chen Dayong did not immediately order the military law team to dispatch. Once the military law team is dispatched, it is indeed possible to take down Shen Shikui, Chen Youyou and other provocative generals by surprise, but the problem is that a civil war will be inevitable. Besides, violating Regarding military discipline, it should be handled by Cheng Shijie, or by Chen Guodong, who launched the embezzlement of seized supplies. He, the capital supervisor, does not have the power to directly deal with generals of the same level.

Chen Dayong winked at the other capital supervisors and directors: "Write it down first, and we will settle the score later!"

"General Li, another new situation has been discovered!"

"what happened?"

"We found a group of Xiyi in the dungeon!"

Although the Ming Dynasty was very poor and its national power was weak, the attitude of the people of the Ming Dynasty towards Western devils was really not like that of later generations. Even an ordinary Ning Navy soldier had no kindness in his eyes.

"Kill it!"

"do not!"

Li Zhixiang hurriedly said: "Everywhere in southern Liaoning needs to employ people, send them to Eastern Liaoning, and let them dig mines!"

On December 24th of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Navy of the Ning Navy transported the captured five Western ships, [-] pirate ships, and more than [-] pirate family members, as well as the seized food, silver, and gold and silver treasures to southern Liaoning. .

Almost at the same time, in the cabin of a flat-bottomed boat, there were more than 100 Westerners in ragged clothes and a strong smell, with big eyes and small eyes, and depressed faces. tiger den.

Their western fleet is not the Dutch, the Spaniards, or the Portuguese who often travel to and from Ming Dynasty, but the combined fleet of the Venetian city-state Republic. Their arrival in Ming Dynasty was completely an accident.

Because they originally set out from the Port of Venice, loaded with supplies, most of which were sulfur, saltpeter, and finished gunpowder and shells, ready to support the struggling Crete Island.

Crete is the symbol of the Republic of Venice as a maritime state, their largest and last stronghold in the Mediterranean; after the Venetian city-state Republic acquired the island from Byzantium in 1204 through the Fourth Crusade, the Venetians poured countless money and painstaking efforts to build and protect this important base.

Now, the Ottomans judged that the European countries caught in the 30-year war could not support the Venetians, and the Venetians could not support them alone, and they would easily capture Crete.As a result, the Ottoman Empire's navy totaled more than [-] people, and with the cooperation of more than [-] warships, they attacked Crete.

It is a pity that the Ottomans made a mistake in their judgment. This war lasted for 25 years until the 30-year war in Europe came to an end. The European countries began to gain energy and began to send reinforcements.The fighting in Venice won the praise of European countries. Young nobles and knights began to regard it as an honor to go to Venice to join the army; many mercenaries from France, Germany, Spain, Italy and other countries went to Crete to join the war, and even distant Sweden .

As a result, with the help of almost all European countries, the Ottoman Empire fought the Battle of Crete for 25 years, but got nothing but nearly 30 corpses.

But it is different now. The 30-year war among the European countries was fought so fiercely that the dog's brains were shot out. What's more, the Venetians were not aware of the Ottomans' attack, and the battle was very passive. Therefore, from the Republic of Venice The consul selected a group of noble children to support Crete.

However, as soon as they set off, they were targeted by an Ottoman fleet. The Ottoman navy knew that this small fleet wanted to support Crete, so they waited for work. This fleet originally consisted of eleven warships and armed forces. The combined fleet composed of merchant ships was ambushed, four warships were sunk, and they retreated in desperation.

The Ottoman Empire has never achieved such an amazing record at sea. They wanted to wipe out the Venetian fleet. The two sides chased and fled, and slowly fled the Mediterranean Sea and entered the Atlantic Ocean. Coincidentally, they were captured by a French drunk commander. , as the Spanish fleet.

This is not a mistake, but because the Venetian United Fleet wanted to raise the banner of the tiger. It is conceivable that Spain is strong and powerful in Europe, but the problem is that Spain is now the enemy of Europe. The French beat them, the Dutch beat them, even the Portuguese beat them.

They had no choice but to escape all the way. It took more than ten months to escape from Venice to Dengzhou. They heard that the "governor" of Dengzhou was actually the governor Sun Yuanhua who was very friendly to the faithful. They hoped to get help from Sun Yuanhua, but they happened to meet him. Meng Xianhan.

At that time, in order to eliminate Sun Yuanhua's hostility, they put away their naval guns, and they were unprepared for the small fishing boats approaching. They were afraid of arousing the hostility of the Dengzhou Navy. After killing the master, their five warships, together with more than 100 surviving sailors and officers, all became prisoners of Meng Xianhan.

They heard the sound of guns, and they heard the guns of the most advanced rapid-fire ships, thinking that they could be rescued, but the problem was that they thought too much. The only difference was that the food given to them by the Ning navy soldiers was a little better.

Because in the eyes of the soldiers of the Ning Navy Navy, they are fifteen acres of land.If you die, you can only get ten acres, this is the difference.

On the way of Ning Haijun's navy to Jinzhouwei, Cheng Shijie received information from Chen Guodong. There were [-] pieces of intelligence. For Chen Dayong and others, the content of the information is similar to that of Li Fang.

It is said that Shen Shikui and Chen sometimes proposed to share the seized money privately, inducing the soldiers to put pressure on Li Zhixiang.

The 7000 taels of dirty silver that Li Fang received was untouched, and then he was escorted to Jinzhou Wei. As for Shen Shikui's defense, he knew that many generals of the Dongjiang Army had dirty hands and feet, so he set up In one game, all the generals of the Dongjiang Army were included, and he said that except for Shen Shikui himself, no one else could be trusted, especially Li Zhixiang, who was deeply trusted by Cheng Shijie, was not a thing, eating from a bowl and looking at what was in a pot .

Cheng Shijie couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this.

Among the generals of the Ning Navy, they all wanted to be superior, and they all wanted to cheat their teammates, but they actually thought of going together, a group of old six.

PS: I’m very sorry last night. When I was writing at [-] o’clock, I received a call from a friend. I was lying on the bed to answer the phone, and fell asleep again.Routine tickets.

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