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

Chapter 118 Huang Taiji began to doubt life
Chapter 117

At this time, the total number of the Ning Navy has expanded to nearly 8000 people.

Ning Naval General Mansion, under the jurisdiction of the Supervisory Department and the Military Affairs Department.

Among them, the Military Supervision Administration is responsible for Cheng Shijie's safety and protection work, with a large number of staff, a total of more than [-] people, while the Military Armament Administration has only more than [-] people, divided into six bureaus.A total of more than [-] non-combatants.

Ning Naval Field Hospital, and the hospital system.

It is directly under the dual jurisdiction of the General Military Office and the Military Affairs Administration. Due to the establishment of grassroots medical personnel in the field force, the current headquarters field hospital has a total of 120 doctors, which are divided into three branches of injury, disease, and obstetrics.Also non-combatants.

The non-combat personnel of the whole army totaled 3000 people.

Combat troops, divided into infantry units.

Zuo Dusi, more than [-] people, Shen Mingyu served as Zuo Dusi.

Youdusi, more than [-] people, Zhang Yu served as Youdusi.

The garrison division consists of 1 bureaus, with a total of 750 people, and Cheng Shijie also serves as the direct commander.

There are 500 cavalry troops in total, all under Zhao Wencai.

The naval forces are divided into three capital divisions, Li Zhixiang, Shen Shikui, and Li Fang respectively serve as capital divisions.All have 22 warships and [-] people.

The Artillery Force is a directly subordinate force with a decentralized organization during wartime. Yuan Shiliang, the artillery commander, has four divisions, a total of 96 artillery pieces, and a total of 970 artillerymen and artillery school teachers.

There are 6000 troops in the supply force, and Zhou Yandong is the commander of all of them. The highest unit is the general, and there are six generals in total.

In addition, directly under the Reconnaissance Bureau, there are 800 people, there is no commander in chief, but twelve divisions, a total of twelve hundred chiefs, under the jurisdiction of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Military Affairs Administration.

The total number of people in the army is 640.

Although Cheng Shijie has more than 4 horses, but when he actually fights, he can only pull out more than 500 people from the left and right at any time, plus 8000 cavalry, and more than [-] artillery. The upper reconnaissance force has less than [-] people at full strength, which is almost half of the total strength of the Ning Navy.

And this is the limit.

Considering that the Ning Navy may be transferred to the pass to quell the rebellion in the future, Cheng Shijie plans to equip the supply troops with two types of four-wheeled carriages, light and heavy, and a light four-wheeled carriage. Pack thirty or even forty stones of grain.

Cheng Shijie said that he wanted to build a model carriage, so the carriage factory could only rush to overtime production.

When the Ning Navy was training and preparing for war, the long winter finally ended. On the land of southern Liaoning, the ice in the river had melted, and the bare branches spit out strands of fresh green, and the land was revitalized.

The whole winter of last year, the factory was working hard to produce tools, such as shovels, which produced 10,000+ tools. Cheng Shijie considered that the weather might be drought during the Little Ice Age at the end of Ming Dynasty.Before starting spring plowing, dredge the ditches first.

As the ice and permafrost thawed, hundreds of households led by their respective households began to enter the ditch that was almost blocked by silt. A large amount of silt was dug out, which was good fertilizer. Because rainwater will carry the manure from the land into the ditches.

The ditches were dug again...

At this time, Sun Yuanhua, governor of Denglai, and his staff member Xu Dacheng arrived in southern Liaoning with great fanfare and the guard of honor of the governor.

The real purpose of doing this is that Sun Yuanhua is not at ease with Cheng Shijie, he thought to himself, I came here with such a big fanfare, if you want to kill me, you have to consider the consequences, right?
Of course, he was different from Huanglong. He was docked in the brigade, traveling all the way north, observing the development of southern Liaoning while patrolling.

The first impression of Liaonan to Sun Yuanhua was chaos, the second impression was still chaos, and the third impression was even more chaos.

What shocked Sun Yuanhua was the enthusiasm of those who dig ditches and those who build houses.

Because the common people know that the ditches they dug can irrigate the fields they planted in the future, and the grain harvest will be good. Whether it is military households in the fields or those Ning Haijun soldiers who own their own fields, they know that these ditches are related to their harvest. It is also about their own interests.

Today's people in southern Liaoning work almost day and night. During the day, they do collective work, dredging ditches, or building roads, and at night they do their own work.

Especially the housing problem. They lived in the diwozi for several months. When they were allocated their own homesteads, some people eagerly started building houses. Several neighbors helped each other, and it was their turn. Whoever repairs the house can just take care of the food.

The rich buy bricks and tiles and build brick and tile houses.Although many people are poor and white, not all of them are poor and white. For example, the military members of Ning Haijun, as long as their families serve as soldiers in Ning Haijun, they can get military pay and rewards. They all have money.

After issuing a passbook, you can withdraw money, buy bricks and tiles, buy building materials, and start building brick and tile houses.From south to north, [-]% of the brick and tile houses are family members of Ning Navy officers and soldiers, and the other [-]% are merchants and wealthy people who migrated.

Although most of the refugees have no money, there are also some who are dressed in rags and hide silver and gold in their rags...

Of course, there are more poor people without money.But only when I came to southern Liaoning earlier, in fact, I have saved more or less in my family. A bucket of grain a day, grain is also money.If you really have no money, you can build an adobe house. The adobe house does not need to cost a lot of money, and building two or three rooms can also provide shelter from wind and rain.

Even at night, southern Liaoning is brightly lit everywhere, and there are construction scenes.

Due to the planning of southern Liaoning, the towns are built along the roads to facilitate travel. In the future, the harvest of grain will be easy to transport. Sun Yuanhua has seen a busy scene along the way.

In particular, there are too many factories along the way, kilns, some for firing bricks, some for firing tiles, some for firing lime, and some for firing porcelain.There are various wood factories, textile factories, fur processing factories, footwear factories, and other value-added factories.

Some of the roads along the way have been repaired evenly. According to the actual situation, Zhang Huaize originally wanted to build a road paved with stones, but the problem is that due to the heavy pressure of transportation, he had to make a second choice and build a road paved with three-component soil. .

This combination of lime, clay and sand is configured according to the proportion. After compaction, the road surface is hard and will not be soaked by water.

This road was being built while allowing people to pass. What made Sun Yuanhua very curious was that there was a big wooden barrel not far from the construction site, and a donkey was pulling the big wooden barrel in circles like a mill.

After watching it for a long time, Sun Yuanhua, a technocrat, understood the usefulness of this large wooden barrel. This is actually a mixer, a rotating shaft, a gear set, plus a large wooden barrel, and it's done.

Although this animal-powered mixer is very primitive, its efficiency is not bad. One donkey can replace ten laborers.When building roads, it is necessary to mix a large amount of triadic soil. With this kind of animal-powered mixer, the construction efficiency has been greatly improved.

As the weather gets warmer, more and more people come to southern Liaoning to discuss life.Many refugees come here with their families, trying to find opportunities to work part-time and earn a bowl of food. Their wishes will not come true.

Ning Haijun is doing all he can to reclaim the military land, and he also needs to raise a large number of livestock and repair the buildings in the towns and forts. Manpower is needed everywhere. As long as he is willing to work hard, he will not worry about food.

The first stop Sun Yuanhua arrived at was the Fenghuo Station, but it was habitually called the Paradise Station, because the displaced people would be properly resettled, and it was also the first diversion.

A group of refugees who had just bathed and changed their clothes lined up to have a hot meal, and they were gathered in the open space outside the post station.

A group of stewards with big tin horns were shouting at the top of their voices: "Is there anyone who knows how to be a carpenter? The carpentry factory recruits workers. The master master has three buckets of grain every day, the master has two buckets of grain, and the apprentice has one bucket and five liters!"

"Any basket weavers? Come here!"

"Is there anyone who can read?"

"Is there a mason?"

"Is there a blacksmith?"

Seeing that the new refugees were diverted here, Sun Yuanhua lamented that Cheng Shijie was not only good at fighting wars, but also good at governing the region.

pity……

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In Tianjin Port, as the large ship of the Ninghai Navy docked, hundreds of officials from the Ministry of War, and hundreds of others were transferred from various places to work, and immediately surrounded it.

In the Ming Dynasty, the method of testing military merits, especially the heads, was to use very experienced foremen. Whether they killed the good and pretended to be meritorious, whether they used ordinary people as the heads of the slaves, there are many ways to do it.

Even if the Guan Ning army has a strong background and strong influence, they can't play tricks in this regard, because the officers in charge of inspecting the heads are all dispatched temporarily, which avoids being bribed.

Just like this time, some of the officials in charge of testing the authenticity of the heads are from Shuntian Mansion, some from Guangping Mansion, some from Daming Mansion, some from Hejian Mansion, and some from Guide Mansion...

This time the official leading the army was named Fu Zonglong. He was originally a servant of the Taipu Temple, but he was promoted to the Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple because of his meritorious service in quelling the rebellion of An Bangyan, the chieftain of Guizhou.But this buddy is unlucky, his father died just after he was promoted.In desperation, Ding You went home according to the rules.

Until the third year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong recommended that Fu Zonglong be promoted to be the censor of Youqin Capital, succeeding Liu Zongzhou, and governor of Shuntian.Soon, he was transferred to the right servant of the Ministry of War and the censor of the capital, and the governor of Jimen, Liaodong, and Baoding military affairs, replacing the original position of Liu Ce.

Fu Zonglong watched the big trucks coming from the pier, filled with heads pickled with lime, and waved his hand: "Go and see!"

"Yes!"

As soon as these experienced clerks and inspectors from the Ministry of War surrounded him, they noticed something was wrong at a glance.

"This... this is actually a true slave!"

The appearance of Jiannu is obviously different from that of the Ming people. Of course, the future generations are different. There is no difference in the mixed blood of the later generations. Some people actually have no Jurchen blood at all, but are carried up by Chinese records, and some pretend to be ancestors.

Because the household registration management was not strict at the beginning, it was handwritten, and Shaomin had privileges such as being able to have more children and reducing points in the college entrance examination, so it was changed to Shaomin, abandoning the identity of the Han nationality.

There are many such examples, so the appearance is almost indistinguishable in later generations.

But in the Ming Dynasty, the difference was very big.

The first is the shape of the face. Regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, the head shape and face shape are mostly "round" and "long plate".The second is the eyes, regardless of men and women, the eyes are brown or blue.The author went to see the photos of that camp. She does not have these characteristics, but her nose is partly similar. It can be judged that the camp must be of mixed blood, not a purebred Manchurian. The blood on her body is at most one-eighth, or less.

Secondly, their head type can be divided into two types: long head type and round head type. The south of Jilin is mostly long head type, and Heilongjiang and the Far East (Tungus ethnic group in Russia) are mostly round head type, that is, broad face, temporal lobe ( The sides of the eyes) are well developed.

There are also beards. The beards of Jurchen men grow very slowly, almost not long, and most of them are "goatee" or "horse mustache".In the movies and TV dramas, Oboi has a bearded face, which is wrong. If Oboi really looks like that, then he is not a Jurchen, but a Mongol.

Finally, the most obvious part is the nose. Jurchens, regardless of men or women, have a high bridge of nose, and their noses are often in the shape of a hook. The scientific name is "Hooked Nose" or "Luofeng Nose".In addition, the nose of the Jurchens is relatively small, scientifically named "seagull nose", and the nose is mostly vertically downward (hawk-hooked nose), and rarely has the shape of "upturned nose" and "slumped nose bridge".Basically every Jurchen, most of them have a high nose bridge.

Even if the head of the Jiannu Jurchen is faked, the face must be disfigured first, that is, the nose, mouth, eyes and other obvious characteristics of the Jiannu Jurchen are all destroyed.

But the problem is that Ning Haijun’s great victory this time was all picked heads, almost all of which were frozen to death. During the real pursuit, hundreds of Jiannu who were still alive were found, but although they were alive, they were also the last ones. It's just a tone, it can only be the military exploits of Ning Haijun.

In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to be recognized for killing good people and taking meritorious service, first of all, all the members of the Ministry of War must be collectively blinded, otherwise it is impossible. The hair quality of the position where the head is often shaved is harder, the hair root rate is thicker, and the scalp is black and black, which is obviously different.

Fu Zonglong also knows that there are constant hints from the big bosses above, and he must check it out, because Cheng Shijie's victory means that Xu Guangqi will gain momentum and the West Fa Party will rise.

"Report to Lord Bingxian, the inspection has been clear, a total of 670 nine pieces, and [-] fake slaves."

Fu Zonglong looked at Yang Siqian, the head of the Ministry of War, who hesitated, and scolded: "What is inconvenient to say, say it!"

Yang Siqian said: "These fake slaves are old fake slaves!"

Fu Zonglong understood what Yang Siqian meant. Even these Han troops were all Ming troops who surrendered and built slaves in the early years. They had already betrayed Ming Dynasty with determination. The combat effectiveness of such Han troops was actually stronger than most Jiannu soldiers. It's just that their equipment is poor and they cannot display their true strength.

With the same equipment, the Han army of Jiannu can be one against three without losing the wind.

At this time, the people surrounding the pier were already crowded with people, and Fu Zonglong heard the exclamation of the crowd: "There are really thousands of Jian slaves, oh my god, how did they do it!"

Counting on the Ming army to win Jiannu is actually almost as difficult as counting on the national football team to qualify.It is difficult to say that it is difficult, and it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult, because the problem of the Ming army is the same as the problem of the national football team, which is the overall corruption.

Those who can play football will never be able to enter the national team, and the same is true in the Ming Dynasty. Generals who can really play have no chance to lead the army. Yan Yingyuan is still a classic history, equivalent to the county-level public security bureau chief of later generations, at the official level.

Sun Chengzong rushed back to his hometown,
Li Dingguo followed Zhang Xianzhong to rebel.

Fu Zonglong breathed a sigh of relief, thank God, this battle was finally won.

Afterwards, Fu Zonglong was ecstatic, not only him, but all military officials were the same.

Beheading 670 ranks nine, and the Han army ranks [-], this is the first feat since the Liao incident!

Of course, they will not be short-sighted to steal Cheng Shijie's limelight, but they are the Ministry of War, managing the country's soldiers and horses, and they have credit for any victory. Besides, they stay in the rear to raise military funds and food. Hard work, a share in this great effort is indispensable!

Get promoted and get rich!
With this great achievement, it will be difficult for them not to get promoted and make a fortune!

Not only the officials were happy, but also the surrounding Ming people were very excited. After all, this was a big victory...

Contrary to the ecstatic situation of the people of Ming Dynasty, at this time Huang Taiji even had the heart to eat Duoduo, 1 people went south without even seeing the face of the Ming army, and fled back to less than 300 people in embarrassment. people.

There are nearly 700 corpses left scattered on the way to Shenyang. Ning Haijun pursued and stopped in Guangning, otherwise, more heads could be picked up.

Huang Taiji wanted to weaken Duoduo's strength, make him suffer, and lose hundreds of troops, so that he could use his status as King Khan to beat Doduo.

However, the problem is that this battle is really difficult to talk about.

As a Jurchen living in the Northeast, Baimaofeng would take so many lives. In fact, Jiannu's loss this time is definitely not limited to Duduo's team, but to all other banners and tribes.

The white hair wind did not only blow to southern Liaoning, on the contrary, Liaodong suffered even greater losses.

Duoduo was unconscious due to severe frostbite. The shaman danced for three days, but he still didn't wake up.

Even if he wanted to punish Duoduo to vent his anger, he couldn't do it.

On the contrary, he had to pinch his nose to appease the old twelfth, old fourteen, and old fifteen, don't look at Duoduo's appearance, but he has [-] elite guards, and there are [-] more. Dorgon and Azig had to go.

The bordered yellow flag, the true yellow flag, the true blue flag, the bordered red flag...

Huang Taiji's hands trembled as he looked at the numbers lost, and the more he looked at it, the more trembling his hands became.

Although the Battle of Hunhe was a nightmare for Dajin, in this battle, due to the frenzied counterattack of the Sichuan Army and the Qi Family Army, all the Jiannu banners were beaten badly, and it was also a tragic victory.

Only nearly [-] Jurchen soldiers died, and the Mongolian army did not have the courage to count the casualties.

But once, the five-day white hair wind in the cold spring was as powerful as the three Hunhe battles. Fortunately, the national habit of building slaves made their casualties mainly concentrated on the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Not counting the Duoduo Department of the Zhengbai Banner, and adding the other seven banners together, the number of Jurchens lost was less than 2. This is no longer a serious injury to vitality, but a broken bone. This time, Huang Taiji felt a sentence : "Heaven's power is unpredictable".

He even doubted one thing.

"Does Da Jin really have a destiny?"

If there is destiny, why did it come to him so suddenly?

God's stick hit Huang Taiji so much that he doubted his life.

He was shaky.

At this moment, Fan Wencheng stepped forward and supported the body of the fat old Eight Emperor Taiji: "King Khan, you have to hold on!"

"Hold on!"

Huang Taiji smiled wryly: "Who doesn't feel pain if the needle doesn't pierce it!"

"Fortunately, the disaster is over and the weather is getting warmer."

Dai Shan also thought that Huang Taiji was uncomfortable, and persuaded: "The ice and snow have melted, and the cattle and sheep can give birth. Let's go in autumn when the horses grow fat..."

Daishan didn't even dare to mention the name Liaonan again, I'm afraid it will arouse the sadness of everyone, especially the red-eyed Dorgon, who lost 7000 people in Liaonan before and after the two white flags, and there are also a large number of horses and armor and weapons.

Yue Tuo didn't have so many scruples, and said directly: "I heard that Ning Haijun has built a lot of fields in southern Liaoning, let them farm them, and in autumn, they will all be ours!"

After all, Huang Taiji is a hero, after a short period of panic, he regained his composure. He looked at all the ministers and said, "Scholar Bao!"

Bao Chengxian quickly knelt down and said, "The servant is here!"

"King Ben Khan gave you money, and you brought the money into the customs to buy food from the Han people. Now that they know that we have suffered a disaster, they will definitely open their mouths and want to kill Ben Khan severely. Now, no matter how much silver they want, Ben Khan will give them. Ben Khan wants food, salt, cotton, and cloth. Let them prepare supplies. Ben Khan has plenty of silver..."

This sentence, Huang Taiji did not brag.

Kong Youde only robbed a few counties in Dengzhou Prefecture, and got more than 300 million taels of silver. In the second year of Chongzhen, he established a slave and broke through the customs, but he directly looted more than a dozen people in the three prefectures of Zunhua, Yongping, and Shuntian. In Gezhou County, the four cities of Liangxiang, Gu'an, Sanhe, and Xianghe were slaughtered.

This time alone, Jiannu looted more than 800 million taels of silver and tens of thousands of people.

The situation was grim, and Huang Taiji didn't give Bao Chengxian too much time. Five days later, Bao Chengxian entered the customs with 30 taels of silver, and the next 70 taels will be sent to him through various channels.

Huang Taiji was also a big spender, throwing millions of taels of silver at once.

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In the Forbidden City, Emperor Chongzhen was also worried.

Ning Haizhou's victory in Haizhou is real. There is no doubt about it. Thousands of pairs of eyes have tested it, and it is more real than gold.

But the question is, how to pay for it.

If Cheng Shijie's achievements are not rewarded, who will work for him in the future?

Because Emperor Wanli had no money, he saved the rewards for the soldiers who entered the court and the pensions for the soldiers who died in battle. The combat effectiveness of the Ming army plummeted.

Cheng Shijie saw this.

Emperor Chongzhen also saw it, and all the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty saw it.

But the problem is that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the court has no money.

When the court had money, it could reward silver more than officials and titles. Now that the court has no money, it can only retreat and pay more attention to officials and titles than money.

He understands the reason, but the question is how to reward him?
Everything is undecided, and the ministers of the Great Court will discuss it.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't write any ink, and said straight to the point: "Now, the Ministry of War has made an investigation and it is clear that Cheng Qing, the Haizhou Great Victory, did not falsely report his military exploits, nor did he kill the good and pretend to be meritorious. How to reward?"

Zheng Yiwei, the chief assistant of the cabinet, watched his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, just like an old monk in meditation.

Xu Guangqi, the second assistant to the cabinet, said immediately: "Your Majesty, Cheng Shijie is recommended by the minister, and the minister should avoid suspicion..."

For good reason, very powerful.

Xu Guangqi picked himself out.

He Ruchong, a cabinet minister and a bachelor of Wuyingdian, looking up at the sky...

Cabinet Minister Zhou Yanru, a scholar of the Jianji Temple: (*￣rǒ￣)
Warm body benevolence: Σ(°△°|||)︴

Ministers: ━┳━━┳━
Emperor Chongzhen understood that these ministers couldn't do anything, and they didn't have enough food.

In desperation, his eyes fell on Xu Guangqi, who was able and willing to do things: "Xu Qing, you don't shy away from relatives when you are a virtuous person. There is no need to shy away from this matter!"

Xu Guangqi's face was dripping with sweat: "My minister, I thought that the treasury was empty, and there was no reward for meritorious service. The only way to reward officials was to give officials... But now Cheng Shijie is the governor of the left, the general who conquered captives, and the only minister... Kill him, it's over!"

As soon as Xu Guangqi's voice fell, a member of the Sixth Division immediately said: "Hey, traitorous minister, Mr. Xu Ge is the traitorous minister Qin Hui who killed Yue Fei at that time... Your minister impeached Xu Guangqi..."

"My minister impeached Xu Guangqi..."

"My minister impeached Xu Guangqi..."

"The minister agrees..."

The originally silent court suddenly boiled.

Xu Guangqi is also helpless, he can only retreat now, even if he wants to promote Cheng Shijie, as long as he speaks, he will definitely be criticized.

What Daming lacks most is trolls.

He did the opposite, borrowing the power of the troll.

Some people say that Cheng Shijie is Yue Fei. If this tune is settled, whoever impeaches Cheng Shijie will be Qin Hui, a treacherous minister...

However, these trolls are all smart people, they are all scratching their heads, and none of them has a real solution.

Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Household Department, said: "Your Majesty, I think that the posthumous posthumous title should be given to Cheng Yongxing, Cheng Shijie's father, who died for the country in the past, Cheng Yongxing, a thousand households guarding Fenghuang Mountain..."

It is too difficult for Bi Ziyan, the big housekeeper, to manage the treasury. Everything needs money, but the treasury has everything, but no money.

"The minister thought that he could be given the posthumous title "Wu Zhong""

Bi Ziyan gave a flashy solution, which is not a solution.

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head: "Less!"

"Then the cute son will be the hereditary Jinyi Qianhu!"

The anger in Emperor Chongzhen's heart.

Forget it.

What he wanted most was to confer a title on Cheng Shijie.

Just give him the title of champion.

However, the problem is that the ministers don't mention this.

This is the character problem of Emperor Chongzhen, he is good-faced and thin-skinned.

When he wanted to execute Yuan Chonghuan at the beginning, he asked his ministers to discuss it. It took more than eight months and more than 50 special meetings before Yuan Chonghuan was killed.

With all the ministers chattering about, the court meeting broke up unhappy.

"Mr. Xu Ge wait a moment!"

Zheng Yiwei looked at Xu Guangqi and lowered his voice, "What does your majesty mean?"

Xu Guangqi smiled wryly: "Reward officials and bestow honors!"

PS: I wrote the chapter in the morning and in the evening, I guess it’s a bit overdue, [-] words, everyone read it first, if you like it, you can vote or give a reward.

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