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

Chapter 156 Can old man Sun Chengzong refuse?
Chapter 155

Cheng Shijie talked with Emperor Chongzhen a lot about the establishment of slaves, among which the key point was about Mongolia. Cheng Shijie did not hide anything, and told Emperor Chongzhen frankly and truthfully that Daming had missed many opportunities, especially the strategy of economic containment. When Sun Chengzong was in charge of Liaodong Economic Strategy and Ming Dynasty still had tens of all-round soldiers, he still had a certain chance.

The current Ming Dynasty can no longer be blocked, and regardless of the situation in western Liaoning, Datong, Xuanfu, including the three sides, there are too many places where slaves can be smuggled and built. The best way for the court is not to restrict trade with Jianslaves, but to encourage them. The machine collects heavy taxes from merchants, and with money, everything is easy to handle.

"Da Ming's sea ban policy has now existed in name only."

Emperor Chongzhen glared at Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie said: "Your Majesty, don't stare, staring is also true. Now, the Dengzhou Navy, the Ning Navy Navy and the Funing Navy, including the Fujian Navy in the south, and the Guangdong and Guangxi Navy, these navy ships Taken together, it is not as good as Zheng Zhilong's Zheng's fleet, and its combat effectiveness is also very weak. It is impossible to count on the navy to ban the sea. , the imperial court will issue maritime trade licenses, and each license can be sold for 10 taels of silver, so it can be sold for at least several million taels of silver!"

Emperor Chongzhen's eyes widened: "There will be so many?"

"But what?"

"The cabinet will never pass this matter!"

"how can that be?"

"There is no need to go through the cabinet. Eunuch Gao is responsible for this matter. The minister can take the lead, introduce some merchants, and let them go to sea to do business. If several million taels of silver are credited, His Majesty will have money. Whether it is to build a new army or to help the victims, As for the food problem, I can think of a way, and next year, we will set up more fields in the southern Liaoning area, and we will have enough food!"

Gao Qiqian secretly gave Cheng Shijie a thumbs up.

Emperor Chongzhen is a poor emperor. As Cheng Shijie said, he really has no money, but he doesn't know how much money he can steal by copying Fan Yongdou's house. However, Cheng Shijie wants to open the sea ban, which makes Emperor Chongzhen difficult.

The only way is to use the servant.The servant will definitely be impeached, this is inevitable, as long as Chongzhen ignores it, or delays tactics, the first bonus will come.

In fact, the Jiangnan Marine Business Group has colluded with each other, which has caused the jealousy of countless wealthy businessmen. Now that someone is leading them to do it, they will definitely unite and fight against the Jiangnan Marine Business Group.

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Will it be too late?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, there are no rebels that Ning Haijun can't destroy!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Your Majesty has given me the right to act cheaply in front of the battle. As long as you believe in my humble minister, no matter whether there are news in the future that the minister surrenders to the enemy or Litong builds slaves, as long as you don't believe these rumors, the minister can re-establish the government within three years. Slave, within five years, I promise to capture Huang Taiji, or bring his corpse to the capital!"

Emperor Chongzhen was very excited: "Really?"

"If the minister speaks half a word of falsehood, the sky will be hit by five thunders!"

Emperor Chongzhen reached out to grab Cheng Shijie's hand and said, "What help does Cheng Qing need!"

"I want 200 million salt!"

"Ten Gang, I agree!"

"Chen, I need two more people."

Emperor Chongzhen was slightly taken aback: "Who?"

"Master Sun Chengzong, the former scholar of Zhongji Temple, and Mr. Yuan Keli, the former governor of Denglai!"

Emperor Chongzhen pondered: "They..."

"I just entered the officialdom, so it can be said that I don't know anything about officialdom. I confessed that I was worried that I would not be able to fight against them, so I asked the two elders to sit in the south of Liaonan to protect me from the wind and rain!"

Cheng Shijie absolutely did not tell the truth. First of all, no one can use him now. Xu Guangqi’s Western French Party has two or three kittens, and most of them are not expected to be officials. capacity and power of the party.

However, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli are different. They both have countless disciples and old officials. As long as they can be invited to come out of the mountain, there will be a large group of people behind them.

As for the problem of people's hearts, the Xifa Party, Sun Chengzong's Beizhili, and Yuan Keli's Guide Mansion Henan Department talents will come forward one after another, and the three-legged confrontation is the most stable situation.

In the future, when Cheng Shijie's talents from the Liaonan line grow up, the talents from the second line of Sun and Yuan will gradually retreat to the second line.

Gao Qiqian felt that Cheng Shijie's words were too modest. Sun Yuanhua was his immediate boss, and Dengzhou Guard Commander Jin Yousheng, these two people who were Cheng Shijie's immediate boss absolutely disagreed with what Cheng Shijie said.

What do you mean Cheng Shijie can't be an official?
If he doesn't know how to be an official, 90.00% of the people in Daming won't be an official.

In the face of the Dengzhou mutiny, how many people would hold back their tyranny and settle down?
Only Cheng Shijie, who knows how to advance and retreat, and who knows how to lose, can stabilize Sun Yuanhua and force Sun Yuanhua to compromise.

Gao Qiqian thinks that he is not a good person to get along with, but he has always been unable to hate Cheng Shijie.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "I'll think about this matter again..."

Think about it, there is no more text.

Cheng Shijie said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, if I don't have the help of the two elders, I'm afraid I will be impeached by the ministers..."

"If I invite them to come out of the mountain, what position will I place them in?"

"Why don't you come forward and beg Sun Chengzong to come out of the mountain and come to southern Liaoning as a teacher..."

On this point, Emperor Chongzhen did not directly express his position.

In law, there is a saying that whatever the law cannot restrain is feasible.

In the officialdom, the leader did not express his position, but in fact he has already expressed his position. You can do this, and if you make a mess, it has nothing to do with me. If you have credit, it is because your boss has a good leader.

"It's getting late, the minister will leave!"

"Ok!"

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Ban Gao, send Cheng Qing off for me!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

When leaving the Meridian Gate, Gao Qiqian said: "General Cheng, oops, I should be called Cheng Concubine in advance, this matter will be put on the agenda soon, our family congratulates Cheng Concubine in advance!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Father-in-law, you are polite!"

Gao Qiqian lowered his voice and said: "My son-in-law, we are our own people, tell the truth, does Fan Yongdou have tens of millions of wealth?"

"If you act quickly, he hasn't had time to hide his assets. It's a trivial matter to have a fortune of tens of millions. If you let him hear the news, let alone a fortune of tens of millions, you won't even be able to touch a million!"

Cheng Shijie turned to look at the Forbidden City and said: "The Forbidden City can't hide secrets, maybe the Outer Court has already got the news of what we said today!"

"Of course not, our family didn't give it for nothing!"

Gao Qiqian smiled and said: "With the words of the son-in-law, our family has a solid foundation!"

"See you later, I will leave for Gaoyang County in the evening!"

"Take it easy for now!"

"What else does the father-in-law want?"

"Zhang Jin, that person offended the son-in-law. We are begging for Tai Kangbo to forgive him and forgive him."

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Since Eunuch Gao said so, Cheng will definitely give this face, 5 taels of silver, half of each of us!"

"5 million taels?"

Gao Qiqian's face was cloudy and uncertain.

"Why are there too many?"

"Is it too little?"

Gao Qiqian said: "Tai Kangbo's only son, why is he worth 5 taels of silver?"

"That's 10 taels of silver, 5 taels of silver for each of us!"

Gao Qiqian muttered: "I'm afraid Tai Kangbo doesn't have 10 taels of silver!"

"Then does he have a house? Cheng is in the capital and doesn't have a house yet..."

"Counting the house, 10 taels of silver, Tai Kangbo will definitely be able to get it!"

"I want the house, money..."

"Happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!"

Coming out of Beijing, Cheng Shijie walked like the wind, gave Emperor Chongzhen a gift worth 3 taels of silver, and turned around and took 5 taels of silver from Tai Kangbo, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't mention a word about it. It's so beautiful.

"Meet the Master!"

"Prepare the car and set off for Gaoyang immediately!"

Wu Sheng was a little puzzled: "Shall we go to Gaoyang?"

"That's right, go to Gaoyang immediately!"

"it is good!"

Wu Sheng also had no question about why Cheng Shijie was going to Gaoyang.

Soon Cheng Shijie prepared the four-wheeled carriage, and the troops began to move out of camp.

In just a quarter of an hour, the barracks outside the city were empty.

Apart from Cheng Shijie wanting to use Sun Chengzong's protégé and old official, there is another reason, that is, Sun Chengzong is one of the few pillars of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also an upright person and a good person.But in this era, their personality is doomed to be unable to change anything. Honest people will never be able to defeat those villains with honey and swords...

In the 11th year of Chongzhen in history, the Qing army entered the customs again, and went south to attack Gaoyang County in one go. This is a county with neither economic value nor strategic value.

The purpose of the Qing army was actually for revenge. Under Sun Chengzong’s fortress strategy, Jiannu fell into a food crisis, and Shanxi merchants sold food for eight taels of silver in order to make money. In this case, starve to death many people.

Therefore, Sun Chengzong led the whole family to resist the invasion of the Qing army. After eleven days of bloody battle, Gaoyang City was destroyed, and Sun Chengzong was full of loyalty...

In this time and space, Cheng Shijie will never let this tragedy happen again.

……

Jinzhou City is located near the West City Gate. It is said that this is the third expansion area of ​​Jinzhou City. Here are all castle-style buildings.

The material used a lot of new materials such as reinforced concrete, so it was able to be completed in such a short period of time. There are more than 40 rooms in the entire castle. Although the scale is not large, it is superior in its exquisite structure and unique shape.

"Just over 40 taels of silver for these more than 1 houses?"

Fan Yongdou said with a faint smile: "Mr. Bao doesn't know something. More than 1 taels of silver was the price three months ago. For a house like this, the amount for a set..."

Fan Yongdou extended his hand.

"5 million taels?"

"It's fifty-five thousand taels of silver!"

Fan Yongdou pointed to a house on the opposite side and said: "The house on the opposite side has just completed the transaction. This is the other courtyard of the Lian family in Guide Mansion, Henan!"

"The Lian family? The Shaanxi governor Lian Guoshi's family?"

"Otherwise? Who can come up with 5000 taels of silver from ordinary people?"

"I really don't know what these people are planning!"

"The picture is safe!"

Fan Yongdou pointed to the gazebo in the small courtyard and said, "Try hitting it with a hammer? In such a house, the courtyard wall is one foot six feet high, and there are barbed wires on it. Little thieves don't want to come in. It's a fart to bombard it with a big cannon." It’s useless, isn’t it worth fifty-five thousand taels of silver?”

"Surrounded by the army..."

"There is a well in this courtyard, and the granary can store food for the whole family for three to five years. Just this pile of coal can be burned for three to five years without any problem."

Fan Yongdou said: "Who has food and grass to surround them for three to five years?"

"This……"

Bao Chengxian asked: "When can the food be shipped?"

"Hurry up, the harvest of grain in southern Liaoning is huge, let alone 40 shi, even if it is 400 million shi, they can afford it. As soon as my cattle and horses arrive, the Commerce Department of the Management Committee will deliver the goods!"

Fan Yongdou said with a relaxed face: "Depart from Jinzhou Port, and you will receive the goods at Donghu Town, northeast of Meituo Lake!"

While talking, a burly man in green clothes rushed in recklessly and disheveled, he knelt down in front of Fan Yongdouji and screamed repeatedly: "Master...Master, it's not good...then... ...the surname Niu Ma...is gone..."

A stench emanated from his body, Bao Chengxian couldn't help but focus on his lower skirt, and saw that the brawny man's lower skirt was wet.

Fan Yongdou immediately covered his nose and scolded: "You murderous talent, what's wrong, what's wrong with you?"

The person who came was one of Fan Yongdou's chief stewards, the chief steward Chen Gan who was in charge of guarding the cattle and horses in Liao Zhongwei.

Chen Gan was stunned for a moment, only to realize that even Bao Chengxian was there, and suddenly he shrank his neck, and he hesitated: "Master...Master!"

Chen Gan glanced at Bao Chengxian from time to time.

When Bao Chengxian heard that the cows and horses were gone, he was startled, but his face remained calm, as if he didn't hear it: "Master Fan, please do your work first, and Bao will leave first!"

"Speak carefully!"

"More than 20 days ago, my subordinates were guarding the cattle and horses. As long as they received orders from the big shopkeeper, they would drive the cattle and horses to Jinzhou. However, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared and attacked the ranch. They not only injured our people, They also took away the cows and horses!"

Fan Yongdou was angry and anxious when he heard this: "Who are they?"

"Jian slave!"

Chen Gan vowed: "Looking at their attire, they are Jiannu. What they say is also the truth of Jiannu. Weapons and weapons are all Jiannu's equipment..."

"How could they..."

Fan Yongdou found Bao Chengxian and said angrily, "You don't keep your word!"

"what?"

Fan Yongdou said: "All the cattle and horses I put in Liaozhongwei were robbed, and it was Jiannu who did it!"

"This one……"

Bao Chengxian really didn't dare to make a promise, because he is currently in a high position in the Kingdom of Jin and enjoys the rank of lieutenant general. Compared with Jiannu Eight Banners, he is equivalent to the rank of deputy capital commander, that is, the rank of deputy banner master.

Ordinarily, his level is high enough, right?But the problem is that Jiannu never treats people like them as human beings. The daughter-in-law he bought for Bao Jing last year, Duduo said she slept as soon as she fell asleep, and she cooked a pot of meat before going to sleep.

He didn't even have a place to reason about this matter.

What's more, let alone people who are far inferior to him in rank and status?This matter is commonplace in Jiannu. If any Eight Banners nobleman sees Fan Yongdou's thousands of horses and cattle, he will definitely be hostile towards Cai.

Grab it and grab it.

Bao Chengxian hastily comforted him: "Don't worry, shopkeeper Fan Da, if they really did it, who dares to do it, King Khan will definitely decide for you."

"Come on, through our people, recover the food!"

"Treasurer Fan Da, don't worry!"

"Don't worry, if the needle doesn't pierce your flesh, you don't feel bad!"

Fan Yongdou said: "This is not a few tens of thousands of taels of silver, but a few hundred thousand taels of silver!"

Fan Yongdou is rich, but the problem is, no matter how rich he is, it is impossible for him to treat several 10 taels of silver as air.

Bao Chengxian hastily wrote a letter and informed the Shenyang side by means of a kite hawk. Of course, this matter will not be found out so quickly.

When Huang Taiji received the news, he did not jump to conclusions.

After all, he knows too well what the nobles of the Eight Banners are. In the eyes of these nobles, is Fan Yongdou considered a fart?
Therefore, Huang Taiji hurriedly summoned the owners of the Eight Banners to ask who did this, no matter whether it was Daishan, Yuetuo, Azige, Manggurtai, Haoge, etc., they did not dare to pat their chests to guarantee that this matter had nothing to do with him .

It's just too small to grab thousands of horses and cattle. For the Eight Banners, there are too many people who can do it. Any cattle recorder can have this strength.

In fact, although the Niu Lu of the Eight Banners has an establishment of 300 people, there are countless people outside the staff, just like the Dengzhou Wei Zuo Qianhu Office. people.But in fact, there are more than 120 people in Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households.

Each Niulu is made up of 2000 Zhengding, but in addition to Zhengding, there are Qiding's father and son, brothers, coated slaves, armored war slaves and other troops. Once all mobilized, [-] people are normal operations.

In a short period of time, the city of Shenyang was flying like cats and dogs. Due to the different distribution of the resident and pastures of the Eight Banners, it was not an easy task to investigate this matter.

……

When Jiannu was flying around, Hu Erqi also returned to Haizhou smoothly.They didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they entered Haizhou territory.

Because of Su Wannayan's greed, he snatched tens of thousands of sheep, thousands of horses, and thousands of cattle in one go. As for the fodder they burned, it is impossible to estimate.

This time, Su Wannayan had stabbed a hornet's nest. They carried a large number of cattle, horses and sheep, so they couldn't speed up. On the third day, many scouts appeared around them, and they didn't attack. Wandering around the mighty security screen, they seem to be looking for the weak point of Hu Erqi and others' chasseurs.

The scouts sent by Hu Erqi tried to drive them away, but these Jiannu scouts did not intend to have a fierce scout fight. When they saw the chasseur scouts rushing over, they immediately retreated far away, and waited until the chasseur scouts rushed forward. He stopped chasing, and was immediately hoisted up again. This feeling of being followed like a lingering ghost, hit but unable to hit is really maddening.

Of course, if the chasseurs were ruthless and desperate to pursue, they could still catch up with these damn Jiannu scouts and beat them up, but Hu Erqi didn't intend to do this, he didn't want to see himself The army was led by a small group of scouts and rushed all the way into the ambush circle. When the horses were panting for breath, the tragedy of ambushes happened.

Therefore, he commanded the army to drive the herds and retreat in a calm and orderly manner. As long as the slaves and scouts did not take the initiative to attack them, he would ignore them. Follow if you like.

If the Jiannu scouts took the initiative to attack...he said he was happy to hear it, just a few scouts attacking the chasseurs with more than [-] troops?
He couldn't find any other words to describe this behavior other than courting death.

Fortunately, Hu Erqi entered Haizhou territory without any risk. At this time, the Ning Navy scout cavalry who had been covering Hu Erqi's troops began to actively surround and launch a surprise attack.

In other words, none of the Jiannu cavalry scouts following Hu Erqi's troops escaped...

Gaoyang County is about [-] miles away from Beijing. For other armies, it may take seven or eight days or even half a month to arrive.

However, Ning Haijun is different.

The Ning Navy is a force that has realized part of the mules and horses. Each sentry has a cart, and the soldiers can carry out mule-horse marches in the carts.

Although the carts are not drawn by war horses but mostly by mules, they can still move at a speed of 70 to [-] miles per hour. With rest time, they can easily run more than [-] miles a day.If you march by force, the highest record is [-] kilometers.

For the distance of [-] miles, Cheng Shijie spent eighteen hours and arrived at Gaoyang City at midnight the next day. Since Gaoyang City had been locked, the city gate was closed.

Cheng Shijie and Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers stationed in the direction of the north city of Gaoyang City.

Because of the car, Cheng Shijie's soldiers didn't have to work hard, and they could persist. They were used to this kind of long-distance training.

Ning Haijun’s training method is actually cyclical and gradual. The recruits have just started enlisting. Most of the recruits are poor in physical fitness.

Therefore, the enlistment of recruits is the happiest period for the Ning Navy soldiers. As time goes by, the soldiers' physical fitness also recovers very quickly, and their training load gradually increases.After the training of the three major steps and the four-sided turn method is completed, the training of armed marching will begin.

On the contrary, combat skills are the final training subjects.

The appearance of a troop under Gaoyang City shocked the soldiers and civilians in Gaoyang County. Fortunately, Ning Haijun's military discipline was strict and he directly showed his identity.

However, the soldiers and civilians of Gaoyang County, who are like frightened birds, do not agree with Ning Haijun's collective entry into Gaoyang County, even if Cheng Shijie reveals his identity.

In desperation, Cheng Shijie entered Gaoyang County with a gift for Sun Chengzong, three large carts, and a dozen personal soldiers.

The Sun Mansion is naturally a famous building complex in Gaoyang County, covering an area of ​​[-] to [-] mu.This belongs to a wealthy family in Gaoyang County.

Cheng Shijie handed over the famous thorn and successfully met Sun Chengzong.

"Meet Lord Sun!"

"I don't know what's important for General Cheng to see this old man?"

"Cheng wants to invite Master Sun to southern Liaoning!"

Sun Chengzong smiled: "Cheng Shijie, I have heard of you before, I am old...General Cheng, when will I leave?"

　The book has been on the shelves since [-], and so far, [-] have been collected, all ordered over [-], and the high order is [-]. Thank you very much for your support.The slow update during this period is because of Lao Cheng's health problems. He has been taking medicine recently. The medicine contains sleeping pills, and he doesn't get enough sleep every day.When the body is better, Lao Cheng will work hard to add more.

　　
　
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