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

Chapter 113 Xu Ge wants to marry Cheng Shijie

Chapter 112

The businessman's sense of smell is actually very keen. As early as when Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy across the south of Liaoning, the businessman who was originally doing business in Ninghai City also followed Cheng Shijie to the south of Liaoning.

Although it is said that southern Liaoning is still a desert of commerce, the problem is that commerce understands one thing, as long as there are people, there will be demand, and as long as there is demand, there will be business to do.

When the Ning Navy was migrating, although the population was not as large as it is now, with the captives of the Ning Navy, there were 6 to 6 people.These [-] to [-] people are the size of a medium-sized county.

There are 180 and eight prefectures in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, a total of 420 and seven counties, with an average population of more than 10 people in each county. 20 people, in the sparsely populated southwest, northwest, and northeast areas, the population of a county may be less than 3.

The current Jinzhou and Gaizhou under the control of the Ning Navy, because Gaizhou is relatively close to the area controlled by the Jiannu, mainly military defense, the Ning Navy now has a total of more than 500 garrison households, and new garrison households are added every day Therefore, it means that the population of southern Liaoning has expanded to the size of a county.

In addition to the various factories controlled by Cheng Shijie himself, there are also many private factories owned by businessmen, especially nearly half of the mills in Jinzhou, more than one-third of the fur processing factories, and some small textile factories. The merchants who came across the sea organized it themselves.

Especially in Jinzhou City, the commercial land that has been sold exceeds 30 taels of silver. In Jinzhou City, Cheng Shijie's eyelids are so weak that no one dares to play tricks on Cheng Shijie.

At least those who have dealt with Cheng Shijie know very well that Cheng Shijie is a man of rules. As long as he acts according to his rules and pays taxes according to his prescribed standards, no one will come to trouble them, and merchants can be at ease. do business.

However, those merchants in the town are actually small merchants. After all, Cheng Shijie’s commercial and industrial land in Jinzhou City requires 500 taels of silver at the cheapest level. Only merchants who do not have the capital to buy land and build stores in Jinzhou , will go to various towns to do business.

Cheng Shijie said: "This commander is going to set up urban management and law enforcement teams in Zhenbao, Jinzhou, and Gaizhou cities, referred to as urban management. This urban management enforcement team belongs to..."

Cheng Shijie didn't realize until now that he managed everything in southern Liaoning in a militarized manner. There is no government agency yet, so it is more convenient and more efficient to adopt military management.

But the problem is that it will easily cause military and political chaos in the future.Although the city management work is trivial and insignificant, it is closely related to ordinary people. Cheng Shijie is also an ordinary citizen in later generations.

Small citizens are not afraid of big tigers, corrupt officials, or thieves. Although these people are hateful and should be killed, they are too far away from the lives of small citizens. They seem to live in two different worlds, except for newspapers and news. , there will be almost no contact with each other, and naturally there is no such thing as a strong hatred.

It is the petty officials, local hooligans, village bandits and bullies who really scare and hate the common people.These people don't have much backstage background, and they may not cause much harm, but the harm they cause to the common people is the most painful and direct!And there are many of these people, too numerous to count.

Recently, the murder case in Pingyang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang has been widely circulated on the Internet, but in fact, as early as six years ago, in 2017, a similar case occurred in the author's hometown. The suspect Lu killed 3 people on the spot and injured 4 people with a knife. 2 seriously injured died after rescue failed...

This is a very important question.

If a city is to be managed cleanly, neatly and beautifully, it is inseparable from urban management, but in the process of implementing urban management, if the law is not properly enforced, it is most likely to arouse public anger and cause the loss of government credibility.

The management of the newly established urban management is subject to three layers of jurisdiction. It accepts Chen Guodong's Supervising Army and Road Administration to manage law enforcement, Yang Yunniang's Finance Department administers accounts, and accepts the command of the newly formed Civil Affairs Administration.

Although it is impossible to prevent problems from the system, now we can only cross the river by feeling the stones, and solve the problems after problems occur.

The Civil Affairs Administration is also the civil affairs management organization that Cheng Shijie decided to establish. Although Cheng Shijie turned the farmers in southern Liaoning into a field army and accepted the management of the Military Affairs Administration, the problem is that there are still too many factories, especially Minsheng factories, which are inconvenient to accept the management of the Military Affairs Administration. , such as the production of tableware, quilts, clothes, textile factories, agricultural implement factories, furniture factories and so on.

The separation of the military and the government is something that must be done, and it is better to do it sooner than later.Just like during the founding period of the Song Dynasty, Song Taizu also realized that Kaifeng as a country has too many limitations. First of all, unlike Luoyang, there are eight outer passes that can be defended. Although the Yellow River is a natural danger, the problem is that the middle and lower reaches can cross the river. There are too many places. He once proposed to move the capital, but it was resisted by vested interest groups in the Song Dynasty, especially the resistance led by Zhao Guangyi, the governor of Kaifeng at the time, and the matter had to end without a problem.

Whoever eats the meat in his mouth will definitely not spit it out.

The Urban Management Brigade has jurisdiction over the Urban Management Squadron and the Urban Management Squad. Each town has an urban management team with one captain and eleven members. Four adjacent towns form a squadron with one urban management squadron leader and one deputy captain.

The captain of the urban management squadron is on the same level as the post chief. At the same time, the urban management brigade has eleven squadrons under its jurisdiction, with a total of 550 people. Cheng Shijie's adopted son Cheng Shi is the captain of the urban management brigade. The three classes of yamen servants in the county are the same, equipped with five iron rulers, five water and fire sticks, and the captain and deputy captain are equipped with dog-leg knives.

In order to distinguish the Ning Navy and the Military Law Team, the Ning Navy’s urban control uniform is a blue blouse and a red and black hat. Of course, due to the cold weather in southern Liaoning, there are two types of hats and uniforms. The uniforms are the same, including cotton jackets, cotton trousers, cotton shoes and cotton coats, plus red and black warm hats, and unlined clothing in summer.

Agriculture is the lifeblood of a country. If there is a problem in agricultural production, the whole country will have big problems. The saying "food is the first thing for the people" is not a joke.Now in the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters continued in the north, and agriculture was on the verge of collapse. It was impossible not to think about turbulence, and turmoil meant war, and war meant blood flowing into rivers!
The Ming Dynasty, whose national destiny has lasted for nearly 300 years, has entered the countdown. The regimes that cannot feed the common people will be overthrown without mercy. This is the iron law.

For the establishment of the Civil Affairs Department, Cheng Shijie doesn't have decent talents right now, and Ma Shilin, Qin Bocheng, Lu Conglong, and Sun Benju don't dare to trust it. Cheng Shijie can only let Cheng Shijie take part in the civil affairs department's participation in politics.

On New Year's Eve in the fourth year of Chongzhen, according to the regulations of later generations, it's time for a holiday.

In fact, the Ning Haijun and Tuntian Army in southern Liaoning, as well as the factory workers, have all been on vacation. The only ones who have not had a vacation are Cheng Shijie's four Zanhua, 43 town mayors, factory directors, and big businessmen, a total of three More than a hundred people.

"Meet the Master!"

"Everyone, no courtesy!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the mayors, factory directors, and businessmen sitting below and said: "Outside, I am the general of the Ning Navy, who controls the Dongjiang Army and conquers the generals. It's no problem for you to call Cheng a commander, but Here, what is this place? This is the Civil Affairs Bureau of our southern Liaoning, and it is also our official government in southern Liaoning, you should call Cheng a political participant!"

"Yes, see you in politics!"

Of course, this participation in politics was self-proclaimed by Cheng Shijie, and everyone present did not feel that there was anything wrong with it.

Cheng Shijie looked at the crowd and said: "Although you have received the invitation and came here for a meeting, I am afraid that you still don't know much about the government agency of the Liaonan Civil Affairs Bureau. Then, Cheng will briefly introduce to you. It means that everything except military affairs is under the management of the Civil Affairs Administration, population, household registration, taxation, business, economic management, supervision and management, social management, appease the people and the people!"

It was fine if Cheng Shijie didn't explain it, but after explaining it like this, almost everyone was dizzy.

The function of the Civil Affairs Bureau explained by Cheng Shijie is the functional management of the city government in later generations, but the problem is that the official management of the Ming Dynasty was too careless.

Cheng Shijie has no way to use it at all. The government structure of the Ming Dynasty was simple. In a county, only the county magistrate, county magistrate, master Bo, and county lieutenant managed a large county with several 10 people.

Moreover, in order to avoid officials disturbing the people, Zhu Yuanzhang strictly ordered officials not to go to the countryside. In this way, the county magistrate could not leave the county seat, and the national policy could be implemented at the county level at most. Then the question came, who was managing the townships below the county level for the imperial court, Picture, where?

It is a gentleman.

Let the old cat manage the salted fish, so it's no wonder it doesn't get eaten up.

Just like later generations, because of masks, students take online classes and let students take online classes with their mobile phones. Not to mention 90.00%, at least [-]% of the students have a significant decline in grades and are playing with mobile phones.

In later generations, many people summed up the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, saying that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was due to official corruption?In terms of corruption, who can compare to my Qing Dynasty?Some people talk about the Little Ice Age, but in fact, the north of the Ming Dynasty was not an important area for grain production at all.

In the Ming Dynasty, food was always sufficient for most people. Although it was affected by the weather in the Little Ice River, the problem was that the influence of Huguang and Jiangnan was limited. The problem was that the government of the Ming Dynasty lost its ability to execute.Others say that the peasants rebelled...

In fact, the most fundamental reason is political carelessness.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry class, who had been raised and abandoned by the Ming court, found that the court’s ability to govern was declining and began to act like monsters. They welcomed the Manchu Qing cavalry into the pass, thinking that it would be easier to change their masters.In fact, after the Manchus entered the customs, they realized that Zhu Mingchao was too kind to them.

Unfortunately, Zhu Ming died.

The taxation in the Qing Dynasty was heavier than that in the Ming Dynasty, but people were almost killed, and the per capita land was more, so they could barely survive. Even in the so-called Kangxi and Qianlong heydays, there were more than 500 recorded peasant uprisings.My Qing Dynasty is best at self-whitening. Behind the prosperous age, there are thousands of miles of red land and countless bones.

Cheng Shijie knew the root cause of Daming's illness, he had no better way now, he could only treat his head when he had a headache, and heal his feet when his feet hurt, to solve the problem from the root.

Cheng Shijie saw the reaction of the people below, and knew that they didn't understand, so he changed to a way that they could understand, subtly, and slowly cultivated his own team of officials, learning like PLA.

"Ben Shuai, I would like to tell everyone that our plan for next year, which is Chongzhen's five-year plan, is first of all in terms of land reclamation. Ning Haijun has now established a total of 550 farm households, which is an increase of six from yesterday. In the coming spring, there will be at least 150 or even 200 farming households. The land reclamation planned for each of the 300 households by participating in politics is [-] mu. Of course, [-] mu is only the goal, and it is not enough to complete one third of it. Forget it, it means that next year in southern Liaoning, we will be able to cultivate at least [-] million mu of land, and it is expected to exceed [-] million, or even [-] million mu!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Although the newly reclaimed fields will not have a high grain yield due to the poor soil quality, it should not be difficult to produce one stone of grain per mu. I have already prepared 70 mu of land for planting. Wheat seeds, 40 mu of bean seeds, 28 mu of corn seeds, and more than [-] mu of potatoes and sweet potatoes, do you all know what this means?"

Zhang Huaize raised his hand and said, "Report!"

"speak!"

Zhang Huaize got up and said: "This means that our Ning Haijun can basically be self-sufficient in food..."

Sitting in the back seat, Gu Shizhang timidly raised his hand: "Report!"

"Gu Shizhang, tell me!"

"Yes!"

Gu Shizhang got up and said: "It means that next year we will make a fortune. Gu has already built nineteen mills. It seems that he needs to recruit more people and expand..."

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "There is another problem. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are new crops that are not easy to store. If you want to store them, you can only process potatoes or sweet potatoes directly into powder, just like flour. , stored in a dry environment, there is no problem for two years.”

Gu Shizhang and the businessmen's eyes became brighter and brighter.

"report!"

Gu Shizhang stood up and said, "Cheng Shuai, we don't have the technology to process sweet potato flour and potato flour!"

"You don't have it, I have it in politics!"

Cheng Shijie packed a few sheets of paper that had already been printed in a cowhide envelope.He raised his voice and said, "Who will buy..."

Gu Shizhang was the first to raise his hand and said, "Gu bought it, willing to pay 5 taels... 6 taels of silver!"

Gu Shizhang, who is rich and powerful, made many businessmen flinch.

There is no way, the wealth is big, and there are many things that can be done.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "This technology is not worth that much money, 1000 taels of silver, just 1000 taels of silver!"

Dozens of envelopes were immediately looted and emptied.

Cheng Shijie went on to say: "You guys who bought technology, please remember for me to participate in politics, whoever dares to evade taxes and evade taxes, wait to go bankrupt, let me start with the ugly words of this politics, and evade taxes by one or two silver, and the punishment will be ten times higher. 100 taels of silver, a penalty of 1 times, taxes exceeding [-] taels, family raids, and family extermination. Don’t think that since your family is not in southern Liaoning, I have nothing to do with you if I participate in politics. You can try it, my commander The soldiers, can you go to your local area to raid your house!"

Several people who were familiar with Zhang Huaize immediately set their eyes on him.

Zhang Huaize shook his head and smiled wryly.

If you stomp your feet in Laiyang, Laiyang will cause an earthquake. The Zhang family in Laiyang, facing the army of Ning Haijun, has no ability to resist at all.

Cheng Shijie went on to say: "I would like to inform you about the second thing. Ben is participating in politics. He plans to start building an official road from Lushun to Gaizhou next year. This official road adopts a hard-surface design, with a total length of [-] miles, and can run parallel in one direction. Two carriages, that is two-way four-lane."

The merchants were ecstatic. There is no glutinous rice in southern Liaoning now, and there are few kilns for burning lime, which means that they have another chance to make a fortune.

"The third thing is that Ben participated in politics. The 39 mine exploration teams sent during this period, after more than a month of hard work, they found five iron mines. After the Chinese New Year, the ice and snow will melt, and the iron mines will be mined immediately..."

"it is good……"

With new iron ore, it means that they can use cheap steel as before.

"The fourth thing, we are not far from Jiannu. If you want to do business with Jiannu, you must report to the Civil Affairs Bureau."

Cheng Shijie said: "Business is only allowed after approval. If you do business without reporting it, you will be punished as collaborating with the enemy and treason, and your house will be ransacked... and your family will be wiped out. I am not a bloodthirsty person who is easy to kill. I will not punish you and other nine clans. I won't cut off your heads, but you will be reformed through labor!"

This meeting was held from the morning of the New Year's Eve to the first day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Chongzhen. None of the members who participated in the meeting fell asleep. They ate something when they were hungry, and drank water when they were thirsty. , all trotting all the way.

Because in this meeting, the content of the speech is related to the interests of all of us.

From land reclamation, grain production and processing, construction of industrial and mining factories, taxation, tasks that towns need to undertake, and powers that should be obtained, etc., Cheng Shijie involves transportation, safe production, eating and drinking, and other aspects.

Cheng Shijie stipulated that in the future, in each town, a town primary school would be set up to train the children in the town to study free of charge. After four years of study, they would take the senior high school entrance examination, and if they passed the entrance examination, they could enter Jinzhou Academy.

"Clap clap clap clap..."

With bursts of crisp firecrackers, the fifth year of Chongzhen arrived as scheduled, and Cheng Shijie also announced the adjournment of the meeting. At the same time, the people attending the meeting went back to their homes one after another, looking for their mothers.

The New Year's atmosphere in the late Ming Dynasty was far more grand than that of later generations.Especially in this era of relatively scarce materials, Cheng Shijie at least completed his task, distributing twenty catties of flour and five buckets of grain to each household.

Although meat cannot meet the supply, each household can still get six taels of mutton, half a catty of pork, and can eat dumplings stuffed with cabbage, pork and mutton. For these people, this is a surprise.

Feng Sanniang, the fake Mrs. Cheng, sent warmth to all the women in southern Liaoning. Everyone gave three feet of red silk, and the three feet of cloth was too short to make a pair of trousers, and the clothes were a bit small. As for how to use it, it was their own business. up.

Now Cheng Shijie's family is a little poor, so he can only make do with it. In the coming year, Cheng Shijie secretly vowed that by then, every family must have meat to eat.

……

Dengzhou City, Dengzhou Prefecture, the backyard of Denglai Governor's Yamen.

Although Sun Yuanhua did not hold a government affairs work conference like Liaonan, in fact he had an extremely difficult year.

As the governor of Denglai, the capable leader of the Western Han Party, except for the second person under the party leader Xu Guangqi.

In fact, Sun Yuanhua at this time was actually a blessing in disguise.

According to the historical situation, he should be questioned because of Kong Youde's rebellion, and he was almost impeached as a sieve. Xu Guangqi was sent to the cabinet.

He entered the cabinet six months earlier than in history and became the second assistant of the Ming cabinet. The Western Han Party also benefited from this. Many Western missionaries came to him and asked to go to southern Liaoning to preach.

Sun Yuanhua did not dare to hide Xu Guangqi, told Xu Guangqi the secret of the Dengzhou mutiny, and revealed that the relationship between Cheng Shijie and him was not like the outside rumors, Cheng Shijie was the number one general under Sun Yuanhua.

Nonsense.

Is there any general who locked his immediate superior, the governor of a province, in the sundry room for three days in the cold?

not at all.

On New Year's Eve, Sun Yuanhua received a letter from his teacher Xu Guangqi, in which Xu Guangqi advised Sun Yuanhua to put aside his past suspicions and focus on the overall situation.

Seeing this, Sun Yuanhua also wanted to cry.

He stopped thinking about taking revenge on Cheng Shijie. He couldn't keep going. When Cheng Shijie was serving as the garrison of the Ning Navy, his generals raided for more than two hundred miles and rushed into Dengzhou City to arrest him. Now Cheng Shijie's strength is stronger than before. Almost ten times more, especially Dongjiang Army Huanglong, who has no backbone at all.

Cheng Shijie used this money to buy Huanglong. More than half of the elite troops of the Dongjiang Army are now being trained by Cheng Shijie. This is sending soldiers to Cheng Shijie for reorganization.

Sun Yuanhua now has two or three kittens in his hands, what can he do to get revenge on Cheng Shijie?
Thousands of Jiannu fled in embarrassment after being beaten by Cheng Shijie, and Jiannu who had suffered a great loss did not dare to retaliate against Cheng Shijie, which shows that Jiannu was also cowardly...

What does this make Sun Yuanhua do?
He would like to let go of the past, but the problem is that the key is not with him, but with whether Cheng Shijie agrees or not.

The most troublesome thing for Sun Yuanhua was his teacher Xu Guangqi. Xu Guangqi was so anxious that he had already sent a letter to another student under his command, Chen Zilong, asking him to bring the manuscript of "Nongzheng Quanshu" and the hundred books that Xu Guangqi taught in Shanghai. More than a few students went to southern Liaoning to be in charge of agricultural experiments in southern Liaoning.

Xu Guangqi taught Sun Yuanhua and Chen Zilong the whole body of knowledge respectively. Sun Yuanhua learned industrial technology and military technology, while Chen Zilong learned agricultural technology and the cultivation technology of improved varieties of new crops.

Let Chen Zilong go to southern Liaoning, wouldn't that mean sending sheep to the entrance?

Secondly, Xu Guangqi is also very concerned about Cheng Shijie's singleness. This is actually Emperor Chongzhen's own imagination. Now Cheng Shijie is 35 years old, and he will be 36 years old after the new year. He is still single.

This is like Hou Huo Qubing, the champion of the Han Dynasty, who made a great wish: "The Huns are not destroyed, so what is the family!"

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie's garrison of thousands of households in Fenghuang Mountain was broken by slaves, his family died for the country, and he fled alone. With Cheng Shijie's ability and appearance, even if he is a poor man, many people are willing to marry their daughters to him.

Emperor Chongzhen guessed right on this point, Cheng Shijie's height was his great advantage, women liked strong men, because strong men would bring them a sense of security.

Cheng Shijie has not remarried for more than ten years, which shows that he is unwilling.

By chance, Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou talked about Cheng Shijie's marriage, and asked Empress Zhou to find Cheng Shijie in the imperial clan.

There are no secrets in the palace, even the whispers between Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou quickly spread to the outer dynasty, Xu Guangqi, as the second assistant of the cabinet, quickly received the news.

Just like Sun Yuanhua, Xu Guangqi suggested that it is best to marry Cheng Shijie before Queen Zhou and marry Cheng Shijie.

Sun Yuanhua knew Xu Guangqi very well. When Xu Guangqi was baptized, he had only one grandson named Xu Ji, and his physique was weak, so his relatives and friends advised him to marry more side houses according to the traditional custom so as to have more children. extremely common among.

Xu Guangqi once mentioned this matter to Father Luo Ruwang who baptized him. Luo Ruwang replied: "Having a son but not having a son is an order of God. Besides, if you have a son, you will prosper in the future, and you don't know."

After meditating for a long time, Xu Guangqi got up and said, "You can have no heirs, but God's commandment cannot be violated."

Hearing this, Luo Ruwang happily cupped his hands and praised: "Sir, if you can obey the Lord's order, God will also allow you, and you will see your descendants Shengsheng."

Later, Xu Guangqi's son, Xu Ji, became stronger and stronger, and gave birth to five sons, namely the eldest son Xu Erjue, the second son Xu Erjue, the third son Xu Erdou, the fourth son Xu Ermo, the fifth son Xu Erlu, and four daughters.

Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi not only have a teacher-student relationship, but also an in-law relationship. Xu Guangqi's third grandson, Xu Erdou, and his wife Wang Shi are Sun Yuanhua's adopted daughter. Although this adopted daughter is not Sun Yuanhua's own, she is the niece of his wife Wang Shi .Sun Yuanhua's elder brother Wang Ziquan died early, leaving behind a son and a daughter who were raised by Sun Yuanhua's wife Wang.

Xu Guangqi has no daughters, but he has granddaughters. Xu Ji's fourth daughter (real name not found, Christian name Mardina) is fifteen years old and has not yet married.

Sun Yuanhua had a very headache, looked at his cronies and staff and said, "Dacheng, how did you investigate the matter that you were asked to investigate?"

Feng Sanniang went to southern Liaoning as Cheng Shijie's wife, which caused a sensation in southern Liaoning. This also let Sun Yuanhua get the news, but as Cheng Shijie's boss, Sun Yuanhua did not have a wife at all when he first came into contact with Cheng Shijie's resume.

As for the rumors that the husband and wife are at odds, and the Xiang family is a big family, it is okay to deceive the common people. At Sun Yuanhua's level, I don't believe it at all. If the Xiang family is really from a rich family, Cheng Shijie will be in trouble. Xiang Shi will be drowned.

This is the power of etiquette. Xiang's family is also socially dead, and it is more serious than later generations. If Xiang's children have official positions, they will all be dismissed. This is an outrage.

Xu Dacheng pondered: "The students sent 11 people to Jiangxi, but there is no news yet."

Sun Yuanhua murmured: "If Benxian goes to southern Liaoning, will Cheng Shijie...be detrimental to Benxian?"

Xu Dacheng shook his head, and said resolutely: "Probably not, Cheng Shijie is just a rootless duckweed now, and there is no backer in the court. With the lessons learned by Mao Wenlong, he will definitely not follow in Mao Wenlong's footsteps!"

Sun Yuanhua didn't have the confidence either, but this time, he had to go.

If he chooses not to take the risk, he will let Chen Zilong, his junior, take the risk. The key is that although the teacher didn't say it clearly in the letter, his attitude is indeed a bit ambiguous!

(End of this chapter)