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

Chapter 137 The Pillow Is Infinitely Useful When The Wind Blows

Chapter 136

"As long as we take down the Guangning Acropolis and push the line of defense to the Guangning Guard line after the fall, this commander will have enough territory to support more soldiers!"

Cheng Shijie made up his mind to take the route of elite soldiers, and it is absolutely impossible to reduce the treatment of Ning Navy soldiers.Give the soldiers a low-quality knife or spear, and let them go to the battlefield.Such soldiers are not soldiers, but cannon fodder.

Cheng Shijie has no interest in cannon fodder, and he is not like the Guan Ning Army. The Guan Ning Army claims to have 20 horses. In fact, Cheng Shijie speculates that the Guan Ning Army even counts the relatively low-combat garrison, and has a maximum of 15 horses Among them, there are only [-] to [-] Ding soldiers with combat effectiveness.

The less than [-] combat-capable family soldiers were scattered in the hands of a dozen generals. It would be a strange thing to win tens of thousands of Eight Banners and Mongolian soldiers.Therefore, the Eight Banners' ability to defeat these soldiers actually depends on fighting more and less, rather than how strong the Eight Banners are.

The expansion plan of the Ning Navy was formulated in this way, adding a guard capital, and the guard capital under the jurisdiction of four commanders, a total of eleven bureaus, including eight infantry bureaus, one cavalry bureau, one artillery bureau, and one fire support bureau. Bureau.

The guards are the same as the left and right, with a total strength of more than [-] troops.

In Cheng Shijie's plan, one of Ning Haijun's commanders must have the strength to bear the banner of Jiannu. In the case of field battles, Ning Haijun can now pull out the left and right commanders, the guard commanders, and the cavalry commanders, a total of four A Dusi.

The focus of the army expansion is the guards and cavalry. Of course, the Ning Navy is an overall system. The expansion is not only soldiers, but also the supporting military supervision system.

Among the sixteen bureaus in the new capital division, six of them are cavalry bureaus, three of which are distributed to each capital division, one artillery bureau, one fire support bureau, and eight infantry bureaus.

Cheng Shijie's new Artillery Bureau is not equipped with Franc machine rapid-fire cannons, but the newly developed Flying Thunder Cannon. 580 mm.Flying Thunder Cannon can also be called Heartless Cannon.

Jiannu has not tried the power of this giant cannon yet, but in the not-too-distant future, they will have the opportunity to taste this power.

Although the Artillery Bureau of the Imperial Guards Division belongs to the Imperial Guards Division, it will be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation and deployed to the left and right Capitals during the actual battle.

As for the bulky, small-caliber, front-loading smoothbore gun that can only shoot solid shells, Cheng Shijie is completely uninterested in playing. The artillery unit he retains is used as the seeds of artillery to cultivate artillery talents for the future.The second is that when faced with enemy artillery bombardment, it can effectively suppress the opponent.

As for bombarding the enemy's infantry or cavalry units with artillery, that's what Feileicannon should do. Since the cost of Feileicannon is extremely low, it is to pour molten steel with manganese powder into the mold, and after cooling, it will be fine. .As for adding cannon picks and wheels, that's not necessary either.

When the Flying Thunder Cannon was launched, it used the soil to absorb the recoil. Although it was just an artillery bureau, it was equipped with more than 160 Flying Thunder Cannons with a diameter of 580mm. These more than 100 Flying Thunder Cannons If you open it and face the enemy for a round, the effect will be absolutely sour.

What Cheng Shijie wants to play is definitely a breech-loading rifle, but it is not easy to make a breech-loading rifle. It is a big problem just to carve the rifling inside the barrel. In addition, there are also shell processing, fuzes, explosives, etc., etc. They are all necessary, and the most unfortunate thing is that he basically doesn't know anything about them, and consulting some publicly available information from later generations will help the craftsmen very limited.

To achieve a breakthrough, a lot of money and experiments are required.

After the recruitment of new recruits, the training for the new recruits in the training bureau lasted only half a month, and these recruits were assigned to various capital divisions and units, together with the veterans, for more rigorous training.

Li Zhixiang, Shen Shikui, Li Fang, Chen Shiyou and other naval officers and soldiers were very disappointed. This time the army expansion, like the last one, had nothing to do with them.

However, after the meeting, they were taken by Cheng Shijie to Lushun.

At the southwestern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, on the north shore of the Yellow Sea, the majestic Golden Mountain is on the east, the Tiger Tail Peninsula is on the west, and the majestic Laotie Mountain is on the southwest, surrounded by Lushun Port. "Lushunkou" and "Shizikou" are nearly 300 meters wide and formed by the confrontation of two mountains.There is only one channel of 300 meters in the 91 meters, and only one large warship can pass each time. It can be said that "one man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it".

The current Ning Navy has no pressure from the sea. After the management committee negotiated with the Dongjiang Army, the jurisdiction of Lushun was transferred to the Management Committee, and this place was used by Cheng Shijie as the new naval base of the Ning Navy.

Li Zhixiang and other navy generals saw a scene that shocked them. Thousands of workers were under construction. A large amount of steel, cement, sand, and wood were transported from all directions. Thousands of workers were working in full swing.

"Master... this is..."

Li Zhixiang became excited.

Cheng Shijie explained: "This is a large-scale naval base built by the commander-in-chief for the navy. The pressure on your naval forces is very heavy. The safety of the eight ports in Lushun, Jinzhou, Haizhou, Fuzhou, and Gaizhou requires You are protected by the navy, and there are still a large number of immigrants who need to be transported by you!"

Li Zhixiang looked at the lumber on the shore, which had piled up into a hill. He was a little uncertain and said: "Marshal, we can't use so much lumber to build a port!"

"This is not for building a port, this is for a future shipyard!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the dilapidated warships on the sea and said: "Take the [-]-material gunboat, the main battleship of our Ning Navy Navy, as an example. This kind of ship is too small. When encountering larger waves, it cannot go to sea at all. Even if it is forced to go to sea, That will also face the disaster of extinction!"

On this point, Li Zhixiang was also a little embarrassed.

During this period of immigration work, it was not all smooth sailing. The Ning Navy Navy lost seven warships of [-] materials and eleven old broken ships.The loss accepted nearly half of Ning's navy, which was enough to fight a small-scale naval battle.

Since the navy joined Cheng Shijie of the Ninghai Navy, the navy has almost divided into two shifts, without rest for a whole month, transporting supplies and immigrants to southern Liaoning, and the work is quite hard.

If Cheng Shijie hadn't raised the salaries for the officers and soldiers of the navy, the soldiers of the navy would pay four kuai more than the infantry soldiers every month, and these soldiers of the navy would still be close to the water, and they would be the first to contact refugees and refugees when transporting immigrants. , When you meet a woman who looks right to you, then find a matchmaker.

If they were originally poor soldiers, naturally no one would marry their daughters to these poor soldiers as wives, but the problem is that Ning Haijun is different, they spend almost no money on food and lodging in the barracks.

Every month's military salary can be saved. The officers and soldiers of the navy army are the same as the infantry officers and soldiers. Each of them has a minimum of [-] acres of military land and a homestead ranging from one to three acres.The current Ning Navy soldiers are all rich people with land and houses.

Many soldiers of the Ning Navy Navy have recently married. Even if they are old bachelors who have been fighting for 30 or [-] years, some people are willing to marry.

For these newly married soldiers of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie stipulated that each person should be given two red bedding, bed sheets, washbasins, a large wardrobe, plus sixty catties of flour, sixty catties of rice, ten catties of oil, ten catties of caramel, and He Yi with two or three taels of silver.

Adding up these things is almost equivalent to half a year's salary for soldiers.

Of course, there are more congratulations for officers. The standard for congratulations is to multiply the salary of Ning Navy soldiers by two, which is equivalent to two months' salary.

This is also what Cheng Shijie learned from Hansteel Group. Hansteel Group has its own large supermarkets, large shopping malls, and more than a dozen hotels such as Hanhai Hotel, Hanhai Hotel, and Hanhai Business Hotel. The hotel can enjoy a [-]% discount for banquets.When buying enough wedding supplies, you can also enjoy a [-]% discount, including home appliances, furniture, etc. purchased by the newlyweds, there are [-]% discounts.

The sum of these discounts is almost tens of thousands of yuan. If there are more tables, more alcohol and tobacco will be used, and more discounts will be given. At the beginning, Cheng Shijie planned a baby banquet for his son, Cheng Jialong, with only 7000 tables. Six [-] yuan.

Cheng Shijie said: "This commander plans to change the name of Ning Haijun Navy to Ning Haijun Navy in the future. Do you know the difference between navy and navy?"

Li Zhixiang shook his head and said, "I don't know the sect!"

"Now the warships of our Ning Navy can only undertake offshore operations. Only fleets that can perform ocean-going operations can be called navy. The difference is very big."

Cheng Shijie said: "In our Ming Dynasty, it can be called a navy. Zheng He's fleet can be regarded as a navy, and a part of Zheng Zhilong's fleet can also be regarded as a navy!"

Li Zhixiang seemed to understand a little bit: "What the commander means is that the navy needs large ships that can sail far away?"

"The size and quality of a ship are actually not necessarily related!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The key is to have ocean-going capabilities. The farthest our Ning Navy navy is to the Korean Peninsula, or Dengzhou, Jinzhou and Haizhou, is such a short distance, and it can sink nearly [-] A ship... you guys are really capable!"

Shen Shikui explained: "Marshal, it's just that the transportation task is too tight!"

"This is nonsense. No matter how tight the task is, can you go to sea without overhauling the ship?"

Cheng Shijie stared at the generals and said: "What do you think in your heart? I know best that transporting immigrants and equipment is not a war mission, and everything is about safety... But this commander considers that our Ning Navy's navy will grow stronger in the future." , I will build more and bigger warships!"

Li Zhixiang stared at the wood mountain like a hill, and now there are still a lot of wood nailed into rafts, dragged by the big boat, and piled on the pier.

"How many ships can be built with this wood?"

"It doesn't need much, as long as the flag of Ming Dynasty can be planted in every corner of the world, and our flag is enough wherever the sun shines!"

"That would require several thousand ships!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "Are thousands of ships a lot?"

"Thousands of ships are indeed not many!"

At this time, a foreign devil who was working not far away raised his head and said proudly: "In the Republic of Venice, we have more than 3000 armed merchant ships. Our merchant ships are everywhere in Europe, and there are also our Venetians. The Golden Lion Banner!"

Catherine has always wanted to meet Cheng Shijie. In order to be able to meet Cheng Shijie, she was even willing to become Miss Xu Si's chef (according to readers' comments, Miss Xu Si's name is now Xu Shumin). Unfortunately, she still failed to meet Cheng Shijie.

However, Giovanni, who is a laborer, got in touch with Cheng Shijie because of a mistake anyway.

"Listen, Venice is just a small country with 10,000+ people, but there are more than 3000 ships!"

Li Zhixiang said in disbelief: "A country with only 10,000+ people, not an army of 10,000+? How many people do they have on a ship?"

According to the population ratio, at least half or almost half of the 10,000+ people are women, then Venice has only 8 people, and among these 8 people, more than 4 to [-]% are old and weak, and the young and strong will not exceed three [-] people.

On average, there are only ten people on a boat. How small is this boat?
Giovanni shook his head and said: "Our Venetian's more than 2000 merchant ships employ a large number of foreigners to serve as our sailors, boatmen and helmsmen. Our Venetian only needs to be the commander of the fleet!"

"I see!"

Cheng Shijie waved and said, "Come here!"

……

Ningyuanwei, Xingshui Fort, Garrison Mansion.

Wu Sangui received the news that more than 100 of his subordinates ran away, and his face was livid with anger.

Fang Yizao, the new minister of the Ministry of Rites, after Xu Guangqi entered the cabinet, his official position was the second assistant of the cabinet, and the position of minister of the Ministry of Rites was vacated. , served as governor of Liaodong.

Fang Yizao, the new governor of Liaodong, planned the Battle of Youma Mountain for his political achievements. The young general Wu Sangui was dismissed because his father, Wu Xiang, fled without a fight in the Battle of Dalinghe. When his father came out, he led the soldiers of Wu's family and charged wildly. He successfully beheaded 54 heads of Jiannu and captured more than 100 Mongols.

If this battle was under real circumstances, it would definitely be a great victory that shocked the court.However, the problem is that Wu Sangui's luck is too bad. His victory report document was sent to the capital one after another with the Haizhou victory that Gao Qiqian sent to the capital.

Then there is no more then.

In the Battle of Youma Mountain, although the Guanning Army had thousands of people participating in the battle, there were less than 300 slaves in total, which is too small.Wu Sangui's luck is actually not bad. In the original history, Fang Yizhan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, served as the governor of Liaodong and was in charge of the Liaodong military.

But the problem is that at this time, Cheng Shijie became the Liaodong strategist, while Fang Yizao, a dignified scholar, the Minister of Rites and the governor of Liaodong became Cheng Shijie's subordinates.

He couldn't afford to lose this person, so Fang Yizao stayed in Ningyuan Acropolis and didn't move at all, and didn't go to see Cheng Shijie, a superior official, but the problem was that Cheng Shijie didn't understand the scale of the officialdom at all, and didn't notice it. In fact, he also has a subordinate of the governor of Liaodong.

In order to rescue his father, Wu Sangui worshiped Fang Yizao, and it was purely to disgust Cheng Shijie. The first thing Fang Yizao did when he took office was to recommend Wu Sangui to be the guard of Ningyuan and Xingshuibao. Coincidentally, He ordered Wu Sangui to form the Xingshui Army, with no more or no less than 500 soldiers.

According to the practice of the Guan Ning Army, not to mention Wu Sangui, a regular fourth-rank garrison general, even if he is a regular third-rank general, he actually commands more than a thousand people.

Wu Sangui was born in Jiangmen, and grew up in the big dye vat of Jiangmen in the west of Liaoxi since he was a child. He saw a lot of intrigues, and saw a lot of corpses and seas of blood outside the pass. It can't be done, but it's absolutely fine if you don't show your emotions or anger.

However, now, he was furious and roared again and again. In his rage, his study seemed to be swept by a tornado. All kinds of books and documents were swept all over the floor, and several pieces of expensive porcelain were thrown by him viciously. It fell to the ground and fell to pieces.Just as the servant was about to come in to clean up, he kicked over and kicked the servant to the ground...

"Too deceitful...too deceitful..."

In fact, Cheng Shijie's only contact with Guan Ning's army was to sell more than [-] ancestor army prisoners rescued from Azige to Zu Dashou.

He didn't even have any contact with Wu Sangui of the Guan Ning Army.However, because of the development of southern Liaoning, the Ning Navy in southern Liaoning received good treatment, and the equipment of the Ning Navy was good. When the soldiers under Wu Sangui heard that Southern Liaoning was recruiting troops, they ganged up and ran away.

This matter had nothing to do with Cheng Shijie, but Wu Sangui believed that Cheng Shijie was bullying him.

Wu Xiang walked in frowning, staring at her son with a sullen face without saying a word.Being stared at by him, Wu Sangui immediately calmed down a lot, let go of the servant, and said nonchalantly, "Father..."

"Snapped!"

Although Wu Xiang was released from prison, he did not return to his original post. Wu Xiang cheated Zu Dashou. If according to history, Zu Dashou was left alone, he would not have any strength to check and balance Wu Xiang, nor would he have the strength to take revenge on Wu Xiang. .

However, in this time and space, Zu Dashou had [-] more direct descendants of the ancestral army in his hands. He successfully held the power of Jinzhou again, controlled Jinzhou, and began to pay attention to this brother-in-law.

Wu Xiang begged Zu Dashou's forgiveness many times and blamed Song Wei, but Zu Dashou no longer believed him.In this day and age, having soldiers is strength, not having soldiers is nothing.

Wu Xiang slapped him across the face, and Wu Sangui immediately had a blood-red palm print on his left cheek, and blood oozes from the corner of his mouth, but he didn't say a word.

Wu Xiang pointed at his nose and cursed angrily: "You are the eldest son of my Wu family, and all the hopes of the Wu family's prosperity and prosperity are on you! Look at what you look like now. I think you are really It's a mad dog! How can you tell me to hand over the Wu family to you with confidence!"

Wu Sangui raised his head and said, "Father, Cheng is a bully!"

Wu Xiang asked sharply, "Why did he bully you?"

Wu Sangui pouted his neck and said: "Cheng, he took away my soldiers! The elite soldiers I trained with great difficulty were taken away by more than 100 soldiers!"

"You really let me down!"

Wu Xiang said angrily: "You have been living on a dog all these years? Cheng Shijie bullied you, what are you, worthy of him bullying you? Don't say you are in Xingshuibao, even if you are in front of Cheng Shijie, he will not even look at you You have no interest at all. Are you qualified?"

Wu Xiang was very right. Before the rise of the Ning Navy, the Guan Ning Army was the heart and soul of the imperial court.

The current Guan Ningjun has become Mrs. Niu.

How likely is Cheng Shijie to come?Don't want the court's military salary, don't want money and food, raise food and grass by yourself, recruit soldiers by yourself, and make armor and weapons by yourself.

The imperial court didn't spend a single penny to get such an army capable of fighting for nothing, so why not do it?
Although it is said that the Liao pay has fattened up a large group of moths in the court, the problem is that the current court really has no money, and the Battle of Daling River wiped out the last bit of wealth of the Ming court.

Wu Xiang continued: "As for the soldiers you mentioned, if they run away, they will run away!~"

Facing Wu Sangui, Wu Xiang was distressed and worried.

The current Wu Sangui is not a good guy or a bad guy. He is ambitious, full of energy, skilled in bow and horse, and outstanding in martial arts.

However, Wu Sangui had never encountered setbacks, his eyes were high above the top, and he managed to lead the army alone, ambitious to do a career, but as a result, the soldiers here had just achieved some good quality, but more than 100 people ran away.

He immediately lost his mind!
This is actually like some employees in the workplace complaining that the boss deliberately put on small shoes for him.

In fact, the boss may not even know him. The real reason is that he has not done his job well.

Wu Sangui's mood gradually calmed down.Of course, the calmness was only on the surface, his fists were crackling, and he was obviously still very angry. He didn't listen to Wu Xiang's words at all.

Wu Xiangyu said earnestly: "I know you are arrogant, you don't want others to be better than you, you don't want others to stand out, and you feel proud, but... I must tell you that Cheng Shijie is the sharpest long sword, no one can cover it It is definitely not a good idea to be an enemy of his sharpness!"

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Jinzhou City, General Pingliao's Mansion.

Afterwards, Zu Dashou received the report, his eyeliner made Wu Sangui out of control, Wu Xiang angrily reprimanded Wu Sangui, and reported to him in detail.

Zu Dashou was very angry with Wu Xiang, his brother-in-law, who was eager to step on him to the top.

As the saying goes, eat a cut, grow a wisdom.

Now Zu Dashou will not believe Wu Xiang's words, and he doesn't need to reuse Wu Xiang. In the army, he has already consciously cleaned up Wu Xiang's people, and the generals who were close to Wu Xiang were all sent away by Zu Dashou .

Although they haven't really broken up with Wu Xiang yet, the real reason is that the Wu family is originally a wealthy family in western Liaoning. Although Wu Xiang is not good at fighting, he is good at managing family power.The Wu family was originally a powerful force in western Liaoning. After Wu Xiang entered the officialdom, he expanded his strength with great fanfare and encroached on the army.At that time, it was well known that the generals of the Liaodong Ming army embezzled the military settlements.

Although Wu Xiang also embezzled the military settlements, Wu Xiang used all the money to train his own private soldiers.Wu Xiang himself was wearing coarse brown clothes, but this private soldier was dressed in rich clothes. Wu Xiang ate simple tea and light food, while the private soldiers under his command ate fine wine and fat sheep.

Even if the imperial court sometimes owes them wages, their own private soldiers can still live comfortably.Wu Xiang also distributed the fields embezzled by the military households to his private soldiers, and each householder had hundreds of acres of farmland.Such a private soldier who is absolutely loyal to the Wu family is why Zu Dashou is very afraid of Wu Xiang.

The family of the Wu family has 3000 soldiers, all of which are composed of Wu Xiang's children, brothers of the children, and relatives.And Wu Xiang knew that in order to keep the family's power from falling, the family needs to continuously produce talents.

For talents with foreign surnames, for example, the wives of Li Chunhua, Liu Jiwu, and Wang Gui, the fierce generals under Wu Xiang's command, are all Wu Xiang's adopted daughters.

After much deliberation, Zu Dashou decided to learn from Wu Xiang.

Of course, he never thought about marrying Cheng Shijie and directly sending a daughter or granddaughter to Cheng Shijie as his legal wife. Cheng Shijie is not a fool, how could he agree to this.

Zu Dashou said: "Come here!"

"master!"

"Go and call Huier over!"

"Yes!"

Huier, her real name is Li Hui.

But it was not a Han, but a Korean, who was born in the clan. This was a beautiful woman given to him by the King of Joseon in order to please his ancestor's birthday.

However, Li Hui was only 12 years old when he was sent to Zu Dashou's mansion in Jinzhou. Now Li Hui has been raised by Zu Dashou for six years.

At the beginning, Li Hui could barely speak Chinese. Zu Dashou found more than a dozen teachers to teach Li Hui Qin, calligraphy, painting, poetry and poetry. So proficient.

Not long after, Li Hui, dressed in a splendid attire, moved lightly with lotus steps, and floated over with a gust of fragrant wind.

Li Hui combed her side temples, her long hair cascaded down to her waist, smooth as silk, she was dressed in white, her face was clean, her oval face with willow eyebrows, her starry eyes, her nose and her red lips matched naturally, it was not The sky is full of country and city, but there is a kind of tranquility like water.

"Hui'er pays homage to Daddy!"

Li Hui's voice was so waxy and soft that it made one's bones feel lighter.

"Hui'er, how are you doing recently?"

"Father is worried, Huier is well!"

"You haven't gone out to play in Jinzhou in the past few years, so go to Jinzhou now!"

In fact, Zu Dashou was raising Li Hui, and he was planning to curry favor with the big bosses of the imperial court. He was promoted by Sun Chengzong. Contradicting Liaodong Jinglue, the immediate boss, shows that there are people behind him, and he has some people's instructions.

Under such circumstances, it was a matter of time before Sun Chengzong resigned, so he randomly found an adopted daughter and gave it to Qiu Hejia, but kept Li Hui.

In Zu Dashou's mind, if Cheng Shijie accepted Li Hui, even if he didn't give him a title, as long as Li Hui could blow the pillow, he could maintain his relationship with Cheng Shijie.

You must know that when the wind blows on the pillow, it will be of great benefit.

The officialdom is the same as the rivers and lakes, it is not only fighting and killing, but also the sophistication of the world.

Zu Dashou deeply admired this way.

(End of this chapter)