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

Chapter 144 Cheng Shijie Wants to Be Like Liu Jinu

Chapter 143

The strategic deployment of the Ning Navy is actually not a secret.

Because this is the mobilization of tens of thousands of people and a large amount of materials, it is just that you are not blind, and it is easy to judge the information. What's more, the land in southern Liaoning is too small, and it is surrounded by the sea on three sides, so it can only develop north and northeast.

Even if it is a strategic deception, it doesn't make much sense.If it is said that there is no strategic doubt at all, it is impossible. The strategic layout of the Shuangchengwei is an act of doubt.

If Huang Taiji adopts a positive response strategy, then the Shuangchengwei can only be the Shuangchengwei, that is, occupying the Meituo Lake and building five cities along the Meituo Lake. It may become the new granary of the Ning Navy and the fur production base.

At least so far, the main development focus of the Ning Navy is in the direction of Guangningwei and Liaozhongwei, that is, the development of Beizhen City and Anshan City in later generations.

Even if it is any official of hundreds of households in farming or engineering, Ning Haijun has now canceled the official position of hundred households and changed his name to a member of the working committee.

At this level, they have all learned Cheng Shijie's real intentions through the meeting of the working committee. In the current development strategy of Ninghai Navy, build high walls and accumulate food widely. I dare not go south easily.

All fools know that Nurhachi and Huang Taiji have repeatedly eaten turtles under the cannons of the Ming army's fortified city. As long as they are united and the city wall is built more solidly, they can defend it.

And once it is defended, the fertile land in central and southern Liaoning will be owned by Ning Haijun. These lands are fertile and moist, and easy to irrigate, enough to reclaim tens of millions of acres of fertile land. It is a fool not to do such a cost-effective deal.

Therefore, this time Ning Haijun put all his strength into it. Only more immigrants from Henan, not to mention that Mengjin crossed the disaster victims, there are more than [-] young and strong, and the number is still increasing.

Now Ning Haijun already has a mature fortification engineering team, and the progress of the fortification work is very fast, looking for a good place to stand.Or the main roads, or the use of rivers, as long as they reach the nearest fortification site, a large amount of materials will be transported along the river, and construction will start immediately.

While excavating the foundation, start to store building materials, such as masonry, or cement, lime, especially when mixing mortar and composite soil. This is a very labor-intensive work, but with the animal-powered mixer, the speed is faster a lot of.

When constructing the reinforced concrete city wall, especially at the foundation stage, prefabrication was adopted, just like building blocks. Take the way of building a building.

In this way, the city wall is no longer two walls filled with mud or gravel, but the city wall is built into a five-story building with doors and windows facing the city. The outermost city wall adopts a ring beam structure and is painted with cement. , and then imagine Li Yanxue entering Caizhou at night, using the rammed earth potholes on the city wall to climb up the wall, it is almost impossible.

In order to ensure that the construction process will not be disturbed by the establishment of slaves, the Ning Navy dispatched more than [-] soldiers alone. The Zuodusi and Youdusi of the Ninghai Navy include the Guards, three reorganized infantry, and one cavalry from the Dusi. The generals and troops capable of fighting in the navy are basically dispatched.

Cheng Shijie also felt that there was not enough troops, so he recruited another [-] Dongjiang Army. In view of Cheng Shijie's black history, Huanglong did not send the elite of the Dongjiang Army this time, but gathered [-] heads from a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, and gave them to the army. Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie also knew that even if he squeezed the wool, he couldn't catch the Dongjiang army, but if he squeezed hard, the Dongjiang army would be bald by Cheng Shijie.

Of course, Cheng Shijie also looked down on the old, weak, sick and disabled of the Dongjiang Army. This time Cheng Shijie asked Chen Guodong to announce to the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army that it is forbidden to coerce the generals to join the Ning Navy by means of mutiny. Then give it to Huanglong.

Under such circumstances, some soldiers of the Dongjiang Army thought that Cheng Shijie was speaking ironically, so a guerrilla general of the Dongjiang Army led more than [-] soldiers under his command to surrender Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie, as announced, sent soldiers from the Dongjiang Army, Ning Haijun, to surround and disarm them, each of them distributed fifty catties of food, and told them to leave.

Although fifty catties of food is a lot, the problem is that they follow Ning Haijun and their meals are the same as Ning Haijun's soldiers. If you are not good, you can also eat salted fish, or big bone soup.

As for the officers and soldiers of Ning Haijun, the food is even better. Thanks to Hu Erqi’s chasseurs, they are not the same as Ning Haijun. Two catties of refined salt.

Although the actual cost Cheng Shijie paid was not high, the problem was that the chasseurs got a lot of money, and they took three to seven points. Of course, the chasseurs got three, and Cheng Shijie got seven.

Hu Erqi frantically mopped up the tribes of Jiannu in front, and made dried meat from the captured cattle and sheep, or slaughtered beef or mutton.

"Marshal, although this way of building a city is fast, it's a waste of money!"

Song Xiance looked at the cast rebar built directly into the city wall, and he felt a little pain in his flesh. Since Ning Haijun went north, he has advanced nearly 10 miles to the north and northeast of the state, and built more than ten castles one after another. , But in this way, a lot of money has been spent, not counting the food and drink of nearly [-] young and strong, and the food and drink of nearly [-] soldiers of the Ning Haijun and Dongjiang Army, just the steel buried in the city wall is worth a few hundred thousand taels silver.

Song Xiance very much recognized Cheng Shijie's ability to make money. He had many wonderful ideas in his head, such as making a four-wheeled carriage, but only added less than 30 catties of steel (bridge type damping equipment, spring damping device and Bearings), a carriage that was originally only 200 taels of silver has increased more than ten times. Even the simplest four-wheeled freight carriage needs more than 600 taels of silver. As for the four-wheeled passenger carriage, it is even taller. 1000 taels of silver, the most luxurious carriage, even sold for more than [-] taels of silver.

You must know that although the custom-made carriages of Ning Haijun's carriage factory are very expensive, there are still many people who want to buy them. There is also salt. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, there has been a mature salt drying process. However, Cheng Shijie mixed plant ash with sea water , to analyze the salt water, separate the quality, then add kelp powder to the salt, and finally grind it into a powder. This kind of packaging is exquisite, and it has become the most popular iodized salt in Daming, even if it is three or four times more expensive than salt merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The price is still in short supply.

Especially for banks, this idea is really too high.All the banks use their own money to lend money to Don't eat interest, but Cheng Shijie uses other people's money to make loans.

As the Liaodong Bank became more and more famous, some landlords also dug out their silver from their homes and sent it to southern Liaoning for storage. Not only would the silver not be reduced due to oxidation, but the interest would increase instead. The monthly interest of 1 taels of silver is as high as more than 30 taels of silver. The more you save, the higher the interest.

Many landlords came to the bank to make deposits with silver. According to the last work report of the management committee, committee member Yang Yunniang reported the development of the bank. In the first seven months of the five years of Chongzhen, the bank had accumulated a total of 460 deposits of silver. There are more than a hundred taels of silver, and the monthly interest paid is as much as more than 14 taels of silver, while the loan out is as much as more than 690 taels of silver, and the monthly interest is as much as 1606 million. Two more silver.

Now the bank has more than 3000 employees, excluding the bank's expenses, the net profit is more than 100 million taels.Making money is only one of the functions of the bank, and the more important role is to prosper the economic environment in southern Liaoning.

In addition to salt factories, carriage factories, banks, and textile factories, who would have thought that wool without money could weave cloth?Moreover, the woven cloth has good air permeability, keeps cold and warm, and can earn 10,000+ taels of silver every month.

With the hard work of several generations, it is not bad for others to earn 10,000+ taels of silver, but the question is, how long will it take Cheng Shijie?

For Song Xiance, he disliked Cheng Shijie's prodigal.

Cheng Shijie just smiled bitterly and said, "Wenwen, do you know how much steel we have in stock now?"

Song Xiance shook his head: "I don't know the sect!"

Cheng Shijie casually asked for a shovel from a Ning Navy engineering soldier.

Song Xiance took the shovel. Its length was only three feet, and it felt heavier than ordinary swords.This is a typical sharp-nosed shovel, with azure blue metal primary color, one side is sharpened, the other side is serrated, and there are two small holes on each side, which looks a bit weird.Despite the fancy appearance, it is just a shovel, and there is no special purpose for it.

"This is……"

Cheng Shijie said: "This shovel is made of high-quality steel. It is extremely sharp and can cut off a steel bar as thick as a little finger. It must be broken in two!"

The engineering soldiers of the Ning Navy are not like the field soldiers. The field soldiers are equipped with a dogleg knife anyway, but the engineering soldiers are only equipped with such a shovel. This kind of shovel has many uses, such as digging pits, chopping wood, sawing wood, cutting vegetables, and even It can be used as a pot to fry a small dish. It is deeply loved by engineering soldiers, and many ordinary people also love it, and they don't hesitate to buy it at a high price.

Song Xiance flicked the shovel blade, and only heard the sound of Jin Ming, he looked horrified: "Such a good steel is used to make a shovel, do we have so much steel?"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said, "Yes, there are so many of them!"

From the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, iron and steel has been a strategic material for 2000 years, firmly controlled by the central government, and iron smuggling is a felony because the output of iron and steel is scarce and extremely expensive.

If you don’t have an intuitive understanding of the preciousness of steel in ancient times, you can ask your ancestors. Many people of their generation are still using wooden plows until 30 or [-] years after the founding of New China.

Steel is hard to find, and steel with superior performance is even more difficult to buy. The better ones are used to make weapons, and the lower ones are used to make agricultural tools, so nothing will be wasted.

Now that Cheng Shijie uses such good steel to make shovels, and he still has one, it can only show that Cheng Shijie has more steel resources than everyone imagined, and he doesn't regard steel as a rare commodity at all.

Cheng Shijie said with a wry smile: "We have seven steel mills in operation now, and four more are under construction. Steelmaking works around the clock, and we can produce more than 160 million catties of steel a month."

"More than 160 million catties?"

"That's just one month's production!"

"Wasn't that year..."

"That's right, nearly 2000 million catties. By the end of next month at the latest, the eighth steel plant will also be put into operation, and the ninth steel plant will be officially put into operation in early November!"

Cheng Shijie said: "It is estimated that by the end of the year, our monthly steel production capacity will be 500 million catties!"

Song Xiance took a deep breath and said, "Twenty-five million catties?"

In the past few years, it has almost reached Daming's annual steel production. If it is a year, then this number will be multiplied by ten times. A population of 5000 million is far from enough.

But the problem is, Cheng Shijie can only be regarded as a small warlord, which is an astronomical figure, but considering the superior performance of those steel materials, people dare not underestimate it.

Cheng Shijie said: "The cheapness of the grain will hurt the farmers, and the cheapness of the iron will also hurt the factory, so I can only consume the steel, what else should I do? Sell it to Jiannu?"

Song Xiance shook his head: "That won't work!"

Cheng Shijie is also very distressed now. With the increasing steel production capacity, the steel in stock has piled up like a mountain, but steel is a strategic material. Unlike later generations, even a residential building needs dozens of tons of steel.

"Now we can only build these steel and cement together into a strong castle!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "This is not a waste, nor is it a prodigal, but good steel used wisely!"

Cheng Shijie was very clear about Huang Taiji's intentions, he was waiting, waiting for Ning Haijun's autumn grain to go into storage, and for Ning Haijun to collect the grain from the field, so that they could pick up ready-made ones.

Cheng Shijie was not greedy. He stopped at the Taizi River and continued to advance north. This line of defense was built along the Taizi River to the east. From the west to the Sanchakou, along the Taizi River, Baliwan, Liujiabao, Xishanbao, Shui Four castles in Ye Town, then Ximazhai, Dongmazhai, Qianshan Town and Xiaotanghe built twelve town castles along the way.

Since most of these places have no names, Cheng Shijie chose the place names quite randomly.

Twelve new castles were under construction at the same time. Numerous engineers and military households were busy constructing the battlements and strengthening the city walls. The Ning Navy Army successively marched into the battlements built on the side of the road and in the dangerous places of the mountain to formally deploy their defenses.

The morale of the whole army is high, Jiannu is coming soon, and another great victory in Haizhou is not far away from them.

……

In the Imperial Palace of Shenyang City, Huang Taiji received very bad news, and successively received bad news that the tribe was wiped out by the entire tribe.

On the avenue outside the city of Shenyang, smoke and dust billowed, flags fluttered, people shouted and horses neighed, it was a grand sight.

Zhenghong Banner, Xianghong Banner, Zhenghuang Banner, Xianghuang Banner, Zhenglan Banner, Zhengbai Banner, Xianglan Banner, Xiangbai Banner... The banner owners or participating leaders of the Jiannu Eight Banners gathered in Shenyang City, begging to see Huang Taiji.

They have had enough.

They have always robbed Daming, slaughtered its towns, and robbed its people.

However, at some point, these Ming soldiers actually changed their nature and dared to rob them.In particular, this Ming army is actually the scum of the Jurchens.

Their secrecy is very strong, speaking Jurchens words, wearing Jurchens clothes, whether it is appearance or behavior habits, it is impossible to tell the difference.

Some herdsmen even led the way for them, and specially attacked their defenseless places, hitting their vital parts every time.

Although it is said that the more than 7000 riders under Hu Erqi's command did not blow the rotten momentum, but this kind of blunt knife cuts the flesh, but it is very painful. Various degrees of losses, incomplete statistics, they have lost [-] people, including as many as [-] elites.

The number of people lost was not large, and most of them were not elites, but the problem was that this kind of attack hurt morale too much.

Some aristocrats who built slaves had no place to vent their anger, so they had no choice but to beat their coated slaves with whips. On the contrary, hundreds of them were beaten to death recently.

Not to mention the coated slaves, even those Han soldiers who surrendered to Jiannu or the original Ming Dynasty generals have now become Jiannu's thorn in the side and thorn in the flesh.

Sun Degong, who surrendered to Jiannu at the same time as Bao Chengxian, was beaten to death when he saw Sun Degong because Duoduo was upset.

The current Jiannu is full of resentment, almost everyone is shouting and killing, and must take revenge on Ning Haijun, this idiot who knows nothing about the heights of the sky and the earth, and dares to break ground on Tai Sui.

Among these Baylors and Beizis, there was a lot of excitement and curses, but the only one, Baylor Azig, was very silent. He neither called for beatings nor shouted for killing.

In fact, until now, the only person who has really seen Ning Haijun's sharp firearms is Azig. Although Duduo suffered a worse loss than him, in fact Duduo did not see Ning Haijun. Almost the entire army was annihilated.

Huang Taiji was also quarreled like a fight.

He cursed in his heart, he has no brains, is his brain filled with shit?
There is still more than a month before the autumn harvest. At this time, it is also the most critical moment for cattle and sheep to grow fat. Can you easily mobilize troops?
Even if you don't want to bear it anymore, once the army goes south, what will happen to the crops of the Ning Navy's more than 500 million mu of land?
Cheng Shijie of Ning Haijun has already been initially corrupted by Fan Yongdou. He is their own person, and he is not their own person, and he is also the most ideal potential friend.

No one knew Cheng Shijie's fighting skills. If he was beaten hard, Ning Haijun ran away in a boat and threw Liaonan to them. What would they do?
Without Ning Haijun's tens of thousands of military households harvesting these crops, would it be possible to let the grain of millions of acres of land rot in the ground?
It is better to expect the sows to climb trees than to expect these Eight Banners to be able to hold sickles.

"master!"

Fan Wencheng knelt in front of Huang Taiji, and said with a humble face: "Master, this slave thinks that going on like this is not an option!"

"What's Fan Qing's opinion?"

"The slave thought it could be delayed!"

"drag!"

"Yes, order all the ministries of the Eight Banners to gather in Shenyang, and even the Mongolian tribes to gather in Shenyang. When the time comes, the Great Khan will personally lead an army of [-] to pacify southern Liaoning and the Ning Navy in one fell swoop."

Fan Wencheng smiled faintly: "It will take at least a month for all the elites of the Eight Banners to gather, and then draw out all the Mongolian ministries to cooperate with the elites of the Eight Banners to fight. The master can secretly order those messengers, and don't rush to Horqin. It is enough to delay for two months, when the time comes, Ning Haijun will also finish harvesting the autumn grain, and our army will go south, and the crops of more than 500 mu and ten thousand fields will all be in the pocket of the master!"

Huang Taiji nodded and said: "That's right, let's do what Fan Qing wants!"

At this time, Huang Taiji didn't have to pretend to be sick anymore, he walked out of the bedroom and walked towards the Chongzheng Hall.

Chongzheng Hall, also the Golden Luan Hall of Huang Taiji, is the highest-ranked and most important building of the Shenyang Manchu Palace.It is also the place where the daily court affairs are handled.

"King Khan is here!"

Sing and drink with the eunuch.

His Highness Chongzheng, who was as chaotic as a vegetable market, immediately calmed down.

All the civil and military ministers of Jin Kingdom knelt down one after another and shouted: "Your slave pays homage to King Khan!"
As the ministers in the Chongzheng Hall shouted, the elite of the Eight Banners outside the Chongzheng Hall also followed Da Kong: "The servant pays homage to King Khan!"

The cheers of tens of thousands of people spread from far to near, like a raging tsunami, drowning out all voices.

At this time, Huang Taiji had already secured his position. Even in the Kingdom of Jin, some people dared to slander Nurhachi, but they did not dare to slander him.

Huang Taiji is an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs. He is not only good at fighting, but also has a lot of knowledge. When talking with civil officials who surrendered in the Ming Dynasty, he was more like a learned and polite Confucian than a general who killed people without blinking an eye.

Whether he is facing the Jurchens, the Mongols, or the Han people, he seems to have an innate strong self-confidence. He can calmly discuss with the captured civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty, and he can ride a horse with the Jurchen athletes. Hunting in the mountains and forests, you can bend your bow and shoot eagles on the prairie, no matter who you are, you will be conquered by his extraordinary charm and willing to be driven by him.

Huang Taiji is also a ruthless conspirator. When Nurhachi was dying, he told the four major Baylors to unite and discuss things. Help brother.

In the third year of Chongzhen, Amin failed to rescue the four cities in the pass, and fled back with a group of defeated soldiers. He was immediately locked up by him and deprived of all powers;
After the Battle of Dalinghe, he also shut down Mangurtai on the grounds that Mangurtai was fond of hunting and his horses were exhausted, so that many soldiers and horses could not be dispatched, which disrupted his overall plan. After getting up, the Niulu and Coating slaves of these two hapless bastards naturally belong to him...

There are also three brothers, Dorgon, who were alienated by him.

In the current Eight Banners, no one can challenge his authority. Of course, no one has the strength to contend with him, which does not mean that there is no...

Some people hate that Huang Taiji is not dead, but that he has no strength, that's all.

Huang Taiji looked at the civil and military ministers and said: "To tell you the truth, Ben Khan already knows about the recent discovery. As for southern Liao... the general who conquered captives who was placed high hopes by Chongzhen's children, Cheng Shijie, envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy, Ben Khan I have already known that he has been provoking Ben Khan recently, trying to anger Ben Khan, hoping that Ben Khan will send troops to attack southern Liaoning! Do you know why Cheng Shijie did this?"

The banner owner of the inlaid red flag, Huang Taiji's good nephew Yue Tuo said: "Your servant knows!"

"Tell me!"

Yue Tuo thought for a while and said, "According to the scout's report, Cheng Shijie led more than [-] Ning Haijun and more than [-] Dongjiang Army, a total of more than [-] troops, and stationed a permanent-style barracks on the south bank of the Prince River. Formation awaits our attack."

Mang Gurtai smiled contemptuously and said: "Isn't that just right? We are heroes of the Eight Banners, how can we be afraid that the dog will fail?"

"It's not that I'm afraid, as long as we attack Ning Haijun's camp according to Cheng Shijie's intention, then we will fall into the trap!"

"What a shitty trick, I'll slap him to death!"

Huang Taiji waved his hand, he wanted to hear Yue Tuo's opinion.

Yue Tuo continued: "You don't study history well, don't you know Liu Jinu back then?"

"Who is Liu Jinu?"

Fan Wencheng hurriedly explained: "Liu Songwu Emperor Liu Yu!"

Hauge said disapprovingly, "I've never heard of it!"

"you shut up!"

Huang Taiji gave Hauge a hard look.

Hauge was terrified of Huang Taiji, he shrank his head in fright and stopped talking.

Huang Taiji looked at Yue Tuo: "Go ahead!"

"According to the information we got, Cheng Shijie deployed more than 40 gunboats, four to five thousand cavalry, dozens of cannons, and a large number of crossbowmen on the Taizi River. Send slaves, set up the Moon Formation to resist our Eight Banners elite!"

Mang Gurtai said indifferently: "What is the moon formation, even if it is a turtle formation, I will punch..."

Huang Taiji nodded and said: "Yue Tuo is right, King Ben Khan thinks the same way. Cheng Shijie dared to raid southern Liao, so he must have some real skills. Riding, however, has a very big limitation in the moon array, that is, it does not have to fight against the water. We Eight Banners warriors are not familiar with the water, so we cannot take advantage of our advantages and attack sideways. If we attack rashly, we will definitely suffer heavy losses. Yue Tuo , what do you think?"

"Wait!"

"Wait?"

"That's right, the Taizi River will freeze until mid-October at most, and Cheng Shijie's navy will not be able to move out, but we can use the ice to attack Cheng Shijie's abdomen and back from the side!"

Yue Tuo laughed and said, "At that time, Cheng Shijie will only die!"

"Pass down the order of Ben Khan!"

All the civil and military ministers became serious.

Huang Taiji said loudly: "Zhenghuang Banner, Bordered Yellow Banner!"

"The minions are here!"

"Two red flags!"

"The slave is here!"

"Two Blue Banners, Two White Banners, Mongolian Left and Right Battalions (There are only two left and right battalions in the Mongolian Eight Banners, with a total of more than [-] people.) Hanjun Banner"

"The slave is here!"

Huang Taiji went on to say: "Each cow record, two dice draw one, and gather in Shenyang at the end of September. At that time, troops will enter southern Liaoning. Violators will be severely punished."

"Slave waits to obey the order!"

(End of this chapter)