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

Chapter 152
Chapter 151

Gao Qiqian wanted to make trouble, but it was actually because of Cheng Shijie.

In September of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the refugees from Henan hardly migrated to the south of Liaoning. The victims caused by the embankment breach of the Yellow River in Mengjin either died silently or were attracted by Lu Xiangsheng to the territory of Daming Mansion.

Although the current Lu Xiangsheng does not have the name of governor or governor, he is a junior governor, governing Daming Mansion, Guangping Mansion, and 28 counties in the three prefectures and two prefectures of Shunde.In terms of the actual jurisdiction area, it is almost equivalent to one-third of the nine prefectures in Beizhili.

After Lu Xiangsheng served as the military preparation of the Daming Mansion, just like when he was the magistrate of the Daming Mansion, he led the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army to garrison fields, build cities and ditches, which instead attracted many refugees. The Kaifeng and Guide mansions in Henan were blessed by misfortune, and the grain harvest was bumper.

In short, the number of refugees has been greatly reduced.

When Cheng Shijie arrived in Dengzhou City, he paid a special visit to his former boss, Jin Yousheng, commander of the Dengzhou Guard.Cheng Shijie gave Jin Yousheng 1 taels of silver with a big wave of his hand. Jin Yousheng didn't care what the relationship between Jin Qiaoer and Cheng Shijie was now, and directly took Cheng Shijie's arm and said, "My dear brother, what do you like about Dengzhou Wei? Just say it!"

Cheng Shijie is also not polite: "Cheng is farming in southern Liaoning and needs people, but too few people in Shandong go there. Cheng can't bear to see his old brothers in the past are still starving and poor, and wants to find a way for them to survive! "

Jin Yousheng didn't believe a word of this, but for the sake of money, he smiled.For them, those ordinary soldiers are very cheap cannon fodder. As long as they have money, they can easily recruit tens of thousands of people. As long as they keep those servants, their strength will not be lost.

Cheng Shijie, an idiot, actually exchanged so much money for this gang of cannon fodder, he is so stupid that there is no cure for it!
Huang Zuxin even asked Cheng Shijie in a low voice: "Do you want more people? If you want, I can give you another 5000 people. The price is negotiable!"

"The price remains the same, 5000 people, 5000 taels of silver, don't fool the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, otherwise, this business won't work!"

In this way, Cheng Shijie bought another 5000 people from Dengzhou Wei at the price of one tael per person. As for why there are 5000 people in Dengzhou Wei, the reason is actually very simple. There are more than [-] people, not to mention there are still seven thousand households in Dengzhou Wei.

If Cheng Shijie hadn't been too miserable and threw the old, weak, sick and disabled to Cheng Shijie, Dengzhou guard Balabala could draw 4 to 4 people, and even with [-] to [-] people, he could still maintain a full staff.

In this way, Cheng Shijie sent people to the counties and counties passing by. Under the offensive of Yinzi, the counties and counties immediately tried the cases overnight, and the criminals who needed to be executed in autumn, or the criminals who needed to be exiled and exiled , Packed it to Cheng Shijie.

Similarly, it was a tael of silver per person, but the result was good. There were hundreds or thousands of counties along the way. What petty theft originally only needed to be punished with boards or chains for public display, and they were uniformly renamed and distributed to southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie went north all the way, sprinkled money all the way, from Dengzhou to Tianjin, Cheng Shijie got a total of more than 5000 people to go to southern Liaoning, plus 3 people from Dengzhou Wei, nearly [-] people.

Gao Qiqian could see all of this. He asked the Jin Yiwei around him to investigate the Tianjin Guard. The total strength of the Tianjin Three Guards was 800. But in fact, the Tianjin Guard, plus the Tianjin Left and Right Guards , with more than 15 people.

Even if one-third of Cheng Shijie was taken away from Tianjin Wei, that would be 5 people, that would be 5 taels of silver. Who would feel bad about their own money?

For Gao Qiqian to go to Tianjin Wei and Tianjin Youwei to inspect, Cheng Shijie did not follow, this is Gao Qiqian's right, eunuchs are the eyes of the emperor.

Cheng Shijie was invited by Zhu Sheng, the commander of the left guard in Tianjin, to the Yamen of the commander of the left guard in Tianjin.

Zhu Sheng brought along the Tianjin Zuowei's commander Tongzhi, commander Qianshi, Zhenfu envoy and other officials to meet Cheng Shijie.

"The lower officials received the general's order. Although they don't know what the intention is, they dare not neglect! According to the general's wishes, we will clean up the gangsters in the army overnight!"

Although Cheng Shijie's official position was higher than Zhu Sheng's, he did not have direct jurisdiction over Zhu Sheng, so Zhu Sheng didn't need to respect Cheng Shijie so much.

However, Cheng Shijie has money in his hands, and Zhu Sheng actually respects Cheng Shijie's money, after all, no one has trouble with money.

Zhu Sheng held up a roster and said, "There are a total of 440 hooligans in Tianjin Zuowei, and all of them were sent to Liaodong!"

The definition of hooligans in ancient times is different from that of later generations.

In ancient times, "the landless are the flow", that is, people without land are all called "flow".Those who have no real estate are called "rogues", and those who have no land and no real estate are collectively called hooligans.

Because having a house and land is the standard for judging a man's ability, and a man without a house and land will not only be questioned, but also belittled by his neighbors, which creates a sense of irony.

There are as many as 440 military households without land in Tianjin Zuowei, which is already quite a number.

"General Cheng, these hooligans are not easy to manage, why don't you brand them on their faces, so that they won't be afraid to run away, and even if they run away, they can be caught easily!"

"Need not!"

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "If you are branded, I will not be handsome."

"Why is this?"

"I want these hooligans to reclaim wasteland for me. Tianjin Zuowei has no army fields to reclaim. I have a lot of land in southern Liaoning!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "If there are such hooligans in the future, they can be sent to Liaonan. As long as they are sent to Liaonan, each person will receive two taels of silver!"

"Thank you General Cheng!"

After resting in Tianjin Zuowei for a day, Cheng Shijie began to drive towards Beijing in a carriage. In addition to the guards, there were also counties along the way. Ling and Zhizhou sent money to let them send the prisoners in the prison to southern Liaoning.

When he arrived in the capital, Cheng Shijie used the military households of the various guards to newly reorganize 760 two hundred households in the field. Among them, Tianjin Wei and Tianjin Youwei contributed more than [-] people to Cheng Shijie. High dive fanny pack.

When Cheng Shijie arrived in the capital with more than 750 soldiers, more than [-] elite troops from the Beijing camp came to greet Cheng Shijie.

Then Cheng Shijie's personal troops were placed in a barracks outside Andingmen. During their stay in the barracks, more than a thousand soldiers from the capital showed their strength against Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers.

These Jingying soldiers have shiny armor and horses, and they look very good.When Cheng Zu established his capital in Beijing, these soldiers of the Beijing camp were still famous elites in the world, but now this elite army has transformed into a full-fledged army.

Wu Sheng said with some dissatisfaction: "Just pretend to be an egg, and you can finish them with a single charge!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and enjoyed Jingying's performance, and seemed to be very interested in this army. To be precise, he was very interested in the horses of this army.Although Cheng Shijie's horses have exceeded 600 now, especially Hu Erqi just snatched more than [-] horses for him, which can be regarded as a fortune, but no one thinks that he has too many horses, right?

As Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers moved into the camp, a general of the Beijing camp said arrogantly: "This is your garrison. After you are stationed, you will stay in the barracks honestly. You are not allowed to leave the barracks without permission, let alone Enter the inner city, or shoot to kill!"

Wu Sheng stepped forward and explained: "Our brothers have never been to the capital, can we enter the capital without wearing military uniforms and weapons?"

"Your fucking ears are stuffed with donkey hair? If you can't do it, you can't do it!!"

Cheng Shijie heard the quarrel outside, came out and asked, "What's going on?"

Wu Sheng said: "Report to Commander-in-Chief, they won't let us enter the city!"

"why?"

Cheng Shijie looked at the general of the Beijing camp and said, "Who made the regulations?"

"Where is so much bullshit!"

The general of the Beijing camp stared at Cheng Shijie and said with a sneer: "You think the capital city is a restaurant opened by your family, and you can enter as you want, and get out as you want? Let me tell you, you guys with mud legs can enter the outer city." It is already a blessing from the previous life, and I still want to enter the inner city..."

The Beijing camp general looked at Cheng Shijie with contempt, even a little disdain.

Cheng Shijie was a little uncomfortable being stared at by the general of the Beijing camp. He coughed and saw one of Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers rushing towards the general of the Beijing camp like a lightning bolt. Pulling the general of the Beijing camp off his horse, regardless of whether he hurt him or not, he knocked that guy down very lightly.

Even though that guy was knocked down to the ground, his attitude was still not arrogant: "You are finished, you are all finished, do you know who my father is?"

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly: "Who is your father, you don't need to ask me, you need to ask your mother!"

There was laughter all around.

Those officers and men of the Beijing camp rushed over to snatch them away, but an eunuch hurriedly shouted, "Stop!"

The surrounding soldiers of the Beijing camp did not dare to move.

Cheng Shijie turned around and walked towards Daying.

Ning Haijun took the general of the Beijing camp into the camp and hung him up.

At this time, the general of the Beijing camp was no longer arrogant, and his attitude softened: "Misunderstanding, General Cheng, misunderstanding, I am Zhang Jin, the training general of the Shenshu camp..."

The handsome eunuch wanted to open his mouth, but was pointed at with a gun by the Ning Haijun soldier, so he shut up quickly in fright.

Just after Cheng Shijie entered the big tent, Wu Sheng came in and said in a low voice: "Commander, I'm afraid this time it will be troublesome!"

"What can be the trouble?"

Cheng Shijie sneered and said, "Are you trying to say that Zhang Jinjin has an extraordinary history and a strong backstage?"

"It's very hard, and it's not so hard. His father is too Kang Bo!"

"Zhang Guoji?"

Cheng Shijie didn't expect this. Although Zhang Guoji's family background is average, his daughter Zhang Yan is the queen of Tianqi, and she is the sister-in-law of today's son.Because Emperor Tianqi died early and his elder sister-in-law was like a mother, Zhang Yan took care of Emperor Chongzhen after marrying Emperor Tianqi.

Even if Empress Zhou is now the mother of a country, with power in the six palaces, she still needs to pay her respects to Zhang Yan, a past queen, every day. Zhang Guoji's son provokes Cheng Shijie when he comes up. If it is just a coincidence, no fool will believe it.

Cheng Shijie pondered: "If you catch it, you will catch it, just hang it like this, I want to see who is behind it!"

Sure enough, for this conflict that did not break out, the revenge came very quickly. At night, a team of officers and soldiers brought several carts of stale and moldy grain and dozens of jars of stinky sauerkraut.I opened the tank cover and took a look. It was covered with a layer of mildew, and there were some fat and white bugs soaked in salt water.

If it is other armies, facing this situation, they can only bow their heads, but the problem is that Ning Haijun has not expected the imperial court to provide them with supplies since the establishment of the army. feed the horses.

As a result, Wu Sheng scolded him: "Do you know how precious our war horses are? Are you responsible for eating the war horses?"

Well, these moldy grains were directly thrown out of the camp by Ning Navy officers and soldiers, and soon the surrounding people snatched them up.

Cheng Shijie just created a situation for everyone, Ning Haijun is very arrogant and domineering.

Although Zhang Jin made it clear that the soldiers of the Ning Navy could not enter the city, Cheng Shijie still let the soldiers enter the city in batches. After entering the city, they naturally clashed with the soldiers of the Beijing camp.

First, when a Ning Navy soldier was peeing, he was attacked by two soldiers from the Beijing camp. In a one-to-two situation, the Ning Navy soldier won.The soldiers of the Beijing camp who suffered a loss began to shake people.

Dozens of soldiers from the Beijing battalion rushed towards the soldiers of the Ning Navy with knives and guns.

In the end, no melee broke out between the two sides. Under the mediation of their respective bosses, the two sides proposed to send ten people from each to fight and compete in martial arts.

Wu Sheng's second apprentice, Meng En, killed all directions. Among the ten masters sent by the Beijing camp, nine of them did not go three rounds under Meng En's hands. In the end, Ning Haijun paid 40 taels of soup and medicine, and set up four tables. The banquet is over.

Although Cheng Shijie spent money, he felt at ease.

Meng En, the hundred-president, came into Cheng Shijie's field of vision. Although he didn't get promoted, he would definitely get promoted if he had the opportunity in the future.

When it was time to light up the lanterns at night, it began to rain in the capital, and the weather suddenly turned cold.

Cheng Shijie looked at Wu Sheng and said: "Autumn rain is easy to catch cold, let the brothers go back to the camp to rest, just leave a few guard posts!"

"No!"

Wu Sheng resolutely rejected Cheng Shijie's order.

"This is the capital city, so safety is not a big issue. Don't let the brothers suffer from the cold outside!" Cheng Shijie didn't mind Wu Sheng's rebuttal, and gently ordered.

"Commander, since the evening, there have been some people walking around the camp. Although I don't know who they are, they came out to wander around in the rainy night. They must not be good people. The situation is unknown, and the guards cannot be withdrawn!"

"Oh!"

Cheng Shijie wrinkled his head, his eyes were piercing and pondering...

Although Wu Sheng's report didn't explain anything, it couldn't be ignored.Since the crossing, he has never formed a blood feud with any relatively large forces.

Although some of the people he killed had family members, they were not rich and powerful families, and it was impossible to organize their forces to do anything that was not good for them.

However, Cheng Shijie knew about his family's affairs. The industrial development in southern Liaoning had a great impact on the rural small peasant economy of the Ming Dynasty.

Just like Cheng Shijie's textile factory in southern Liaoning, the wool cloth, linen cloth, salt, and steel produced have affected the interests of too many people. These people may find opportunities to kill themselves.

The conflict between himself and Jianu is actually a mixture of ethnic conflicts and national interests. His own existence is the biggest threat to Jianu right now.

Especially Hu Erqi's fire, this kind of conflict gradually escalated, and every child in Aixinjueluo's family hated themselves, because they were going to starve this winter.With the comprehensive strength of Jiannu, it is undoubtedly quite cost-effective to send some killers and other groups with the intention of eliminating this big threat.

There is also the imperial court. As the central imperial court, it is a normal way of thinking to wipe out an unformed feudal town in its infancy.

However, if he eliminated himself, would he really eliminate the rising Liaodong feudal town?

The biggest difference between the Liaodong feudal town under the leadership of Cheng Shijie and other feudal towns is that there is no hereditary tradition. If he dies, there will definitely be other successors.

Of course, who will take over is a big problem. At present, my team really lacks a role with prestige and ability to replace me. Whether it is Shen Mingyu, Changyu or Chen Guodong, they are far from qualified.

As for Zhou Yandong, who has always been his deputy, he may become a compromise to control the economic development of southern Liaoning, but his ability is absolutely impossible to truly control the army and become a real power figure.

In fact, Zhou Yandong, the No. [-] man, is in charge of everything in southern Liaoning, except the army. Even a sentry army, Zhou Yandong has no right to mobilize.

As for Song Xiance, Lin Xuzong, Qin Bocheng, Ma Shilin, they... let alone.

The most important thing is that Liaodong lacks a person who can condense the strength of both civil and military forces without Cheng Shijie, and coordinate the relationship between civil and military.

This job does not seem difficult.In fact, if it wasn't for Cheng Shijie's mistake to promote Yang Yunniang from a young age, Yang Yunniang had solved Cheng Shijie a lot, and it would be difficult for him to do things himself.

But the problem is that getting rid of yourself may not directly eliminate Liaodong, a rising new feudal town, but it may interrupt or even reverse the development process of this feudal town.

From this point of view, it is not impossible for the court to get rid of itself. The question is, what benefits can the court gain by doing so.

If Cheng Shijie died, it would certainly eliminate an unformed feudal town, but it would also turn the newly formed Liaodong defense system into a mess again, and the threat of building slaves had just been weakened, and he died.

It's time for the imperial court to start worrying about Jiannu again.

From the perspective of national interests, killing Cheng Shijie would do more harm than good to the imperial court, but the problem is that Ming's internal struggle has evolved into a struggle for the sake of struggle, and opposition because of opposition.

In the defeat of Liuhe, the official censor was impeached, and Sun Chengzong, Yu Anxing, and Yuan Keli, then governor of Denglai, were dismissed at the same time.From Gao Di's generation to manage Liaodong.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that Sun Chengzong and Governor Yuan Keli of Denglai cooperated very well in strategic arrangements, but they were still replaced and replaced by Gaodi.

And Yuan Keli's resignation directly caused the Dongjiang Army to lose control. Although Mao Wenlong had a donkey temper, he obeyed Yuan Keli and was willing to accept Yuan Keli's command and dispatch, and he could better lead Jiannu from the side.

Obviously, it has a good promotion effect on the national interests and the overall national strategy, but several key important figures have resigned one after another, and there is also the battle of Dalinghe.

Sun Chengzong personally sat in Jinzhou, personally commanded the battle of Dalinghe, and Zu Dashou personally went out, but the Guan Ning army made a lot of tricks one after another.

For their own benefit, those people can disregard the national interest... To put it this way, killing Cheng Shijie is the easiest thing for them to do.

It is also in line with their logic of doing things.

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said, "I will write a few military orders and let someone deliver the letter!"

Cheng Shijie ordered the guard capital to enter the first-level combat readiness state overnight. When the warships of the naval forces arrived at Haizhou Port, they immediately boarded the ship from Haizhou Port.

The second order was given to the navy of the Ning Navy, ordering the navy to go to Haizhou Port, pick up the guard capital, arrive in Tianjin, and cruise in Bohai Bay.

The third order was to the Immigration Department of the Management Committee, asking the Immigration Department to suspend the transport of immigrants from Tianjin to southern Liaoning, but to conduct centralized management and restorative training outside Tianjin City.

To put it simply, the Immigration Department wanted to transport food to Tianjin, and there was no time to go to the three or four hundred villages in southern Liaoning, which could become Cheng Shijie's reinforcements at any time.

In the end, for his own safety, Cheng Shijie gave Wu Sheng an order. If he did not have his own order, if he encountered an attack, he would fight back and break through immediately.

As for Cheng Shijie himself, he quietly returned to the later generations.

According to Cheng Shijie's traversal principle, if he returns to later generations from the end of the Ming Dynasty, he will definitely be in this barracks. If Ning Haijun is gone, this barracks will be ungarrisoned and it will be safe for the time being.

"The commander-in-chief means..."

"Ben Shuai will leave here quietly!"

"Send someone under the door..."

"You don't need to send someone, it's the safest way for me to leave alone!"

"Yes!"

……

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know what happened inside and outside the capital. Of course, Gao Qiqian must have known about it. Like Cheng Shijie, he was waiting...

Wait until someone jumps out.

At this time, Gao Qiqian has changed from the most knowledgeable eunuch to a great chef.

Commanding the eunuchs in the palace and the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room, they began to cook sweet potato feasts and potato feasts for Emperor Chongzhen.

"My lord, try it, this dish is called hot and sour potato shreds!"

The chef's knife skills in the imperial dining room are excellent. The potato shreds are cut neatly, as if measured by a ruler, not too big or too small.

Emperor Chongzhen had already eaten enough. He picked up a piece of shredded potato with his chopsticks and chewed it: "Crispy, delicious, delicious, delicious... You mean, the yield of this potato is three to four thousand catties per mu?"

"That's right, more than [-] mu have been planted in southern Liaoning, and the harvested potatoes have piled up into mountains!"

(End of this chapter)