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

Chapter 262 Fighting For My Daughter
Chapter 261

"My father is handsome?"

Cheng Jiayue couldn't believe it. She vaguely understood what a handsome man was. The handsome man in her impression was the one who followed Xiang Hui to watch the dramas of the Republic of China. He was fat and round, stupid and stupid.

It never occurred to her that Cheng Shijie could be associated with the word "Marshal".

"Don't you know?"

Zhou Dingguo was at a loss.

Have kids of your own who don't know what their dads do?

"I really do not know!"

Cheng Jiayue was a little puzzled, her father was neither stupid nor stupid, and he had nothing to do with the handsome man on TV, but at this moment, Cheng Jiayue thought of Zhu Weiti, Yang Yunniang, and her little sister Cheng Jiaxin .

In other words, Cheng Shijie is really similar to the handsome man on TV, that is, he married a lot of concubines, no wonder Zhu Weiti is Aunt Zhu, Yang Yunniang is Aunt Yang, and Jin Qiaoer is Aunt Jin.

Cheng Jiayue looked distressed: "How can my father become a handsome man?"

"It's also fortunate that there is a handsome man, otherwise... I would have died."

Chen Zhong recalled that four years ago, at that time, their family lived in a mountain village in Dengzhou Prefecture. Chen Zhong's original surname was Shi, and his name was Shi Zhong. His biological father Shi Wanyong was a stonemason, and his family only had four acres of land. It is impossible to feed their family.Fortunately, Shi Wanyong is dexterous and diligent, relying on quarrying to make stone tools, engrave inscriptions, or drum-holding stones, stone lions and other things, he can make money to subsidize his family.Although the days are bitter, they can still live on.

However, the peaceful days were finally broken. One day a group of bandits rushed into their village, killing everyone they saw and robbing everything they saw. And my sister hid in the cellar.

After the bandits withdrew, they saw Shi Wanyong who had been hacked to a pulp. In order to bury Shi Wanyong, his mother borrowed money from the rich man Liu in the village next door. After a few months, rich man Liu urged to pay back the money. In desperation, Shi Zhong's family's four acres of land became rich man Liu's land.

After losing the land, Shi Zhong's mother took him and his younger sister to Liaodong after more than half a year of displacement. By chance, Shi Zhong's mother became one of Chen Dayong's 53 concubines.Now Chen Zhong has become Chen Dayong's adopted son, and Chen Zhong's mother, 32-year-old Li, opened a clothing store in Jinzhou City with the help of Chen Dayong, specializing in the sale of ready-made clothes.The income is stable and the life is rich.

"When you encounter bad people, why don't you call the police? The teacher told us that it is difficult to find the police!"

"police?"

"You mean the reporter?"

"Yup!"

Zhou Dingguo felt that they and Cheng Jiayue were not from the same world, and they were not from the same world.

Zhou Dingguo said: "Four years ago, I was a poor military household in Weizuo, Dengzhou. I didn't even have a pair of unbroken pants. If it wasn't for the commander, I don't know if I would have survived!"

The topic was a bit heavy, which made Cheng Jiayue a little unhappy.

As for Sun Pu and Mao Yu, they did not come forward to speak out, because both of them are the real second-generation officials. Even after Mao Yuanyi was dismissed, she is still a child of officials.The same is true for Sun Pu. Although Sun Chengzong was dismissed, who would dare to underestimate the Gaoyang Sun family?Sun Chengzong has been an official for decades, and the popularity he has accumulated is not comparable to that of ordinary people.

Even so, they had to admit that Cheng Shijie was very powerful. In the Central Plains, in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, even in Beijing, there were beggars everywhere.

But the problem is that there is no beggar in Liaodong. As long as the hands and feet are healthy, it is not difficult to support yourself. Even if you are physically disabled, as long as you are willing to work, you can support yourself.

Cheng Shijie is well aware of the suffering of the disabled. In order to provide a living environment for these disabled people, Liaodong encourages employing units to employ disabled people, such as relocating disabled people. Enterprises or factories, including self-employed individuals, enjoy preferential taxation.Now there are institutions in Liaodong that specialize in training disabled people.

There are also occasions where people with disabilities are needed, such as some high-end and private restaurants and teahouses, but they prefer to use deaf-mute people as waiters.

Luo Baofeng took the opportunity to let the students talk about the changes in his family, and flattered Cheng Shijie indirectly. However, it was a pity that Luo Baofeng didn't know, and Cheng Shijie understood Luo Baofeng's meaning after only listening for a while, so he turned around and left.

Luo Baofeng performed with all his might, but what he didn't know was that there was no audience left.

Zhang San looked at Luo Baofeng who looked like a clown on the stage, gritted his teeth and said: "Wen slave, gentle scum!"

Cheng Shijie returned to the study and began to browse the recently discovered things. First of all, as in history, since the Xingyang Conference was held, the rogue soldiers were divided into four groups, and Li Zicheng led an army of tens of thousands under his command to attack Guide City with Zhang Xianzhong.

Although the city of Guide Mansion is not big, it is because this city is built on an island in the middle of the lake, surrounded by lakes on all sides, and there are only four roads leading to the city from east, west, north, south, and Li Zicheng has an army of tens of thousands, but he cannot deploy it.

Li Zicheng could only besiege the city of Guide Mansion without attacking it. In fact, he wanted to attract the Kaifeng garrison to support Guide Mansion, and then waited for work with leisure, annihilated the reinforcements in Kaifeng, and then besieged Kaifeng.The battle lasted for more than a month, and Li Zicheng had more than [-] casualties under his command. However, instead of waiting for reinforcements from Kaifeng, he accidentally waited for the Shandong army.

Seeing this, Cheng Shijie suddenly remembered that Zhang Xianzhong captured Fengyang in history, destroyed the Fengyang Imperial Tomb, Emperor Chongzhen was furious, vomited blood and fell into a coma...

In history, Emperor Chongzhen did not have the Ning Navy to use. At this time, I am afraid that Emperor Chongzhen will transfer the Ning Navy to the Central Plains to counter the rebellion.

Now the Ning Navy is carrying out the Luzon clearance plan. Although he has reorganized the Zheng Group Army soldiers into 21 regiments, Cheng Shijie does not want the Zheng Group to flourish, not to mention the newly reorganized Zuozhongdu Division and the Central Division of the Ning Navy in Liaodong. Qiansi, Jeju Island Dusi, Pidao Dusi, and Shuangcheng Dusi, these five capitals have nearly 25 soldiers, and most of them are recruits. After the defeat of Jiannu, they have no actual combat experience.In order to train troops, Ning Haijun transferred a total of 29 generals from nine army field capitals and [-] garrison bureaus, and a total of more than [-] troops went south to Luzon to fight.

Of course, these Ning Navy soldiers did not go south all at once, but went south in batches. At the same time, they also left holidays for the recruits, so that the troops can maintain a strong combat effectiveness.

Although the entire Liaodong still protects nine infantry capitals, artillery and cavalry capitals, the actual strength of the eleven capitals is only [-] people. Of course, the number of the navy is larger, and the Zheng family has a total of [-] sailors. people are training,

Even though the Ning Navy now has more than 20 troops, among them there are 1 troops in Liaodong, and there are only more than [-] soldiers who can really be drawn out to fight.

"When the soldiers are in use, you will hate less!"

Cheng Shijie was also lamenting this, and Cheng Shijie immediately picked up a pen and prepared to order the four commanders of the cavalry capital to stop going south and let them stand by in Lushun.The four commanders of the cavalry commanders, plus the guard commanders and artillery, make up 6000 troops, which is enough to deal with Zhang Xianzhong.

At this moment, Song Xiance came to Cheng Shijie to sign with the budget.Cheng Shijie glanced at it, and saw that the public budget was 350 million taels: "Kang Nian, why don't you, the chief executive, come over for such a small matter in person?"

"The handsome is joking!"

Song Xiance said: "There are three matters coming from the sect, I hope the commander-in-chief can make a regulation!"

"Oh, what's the matter?"

"The first thing is that the rogues made a scene in Guide Mansion in Henan. Sun Futai personally led the troops back to the Mansion and captured more than [-] rogues from Li Zicheng!"

Song Xiance looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Sun Futai is going to sell these [-] rogues to us in Liaodong. Do we want it?"

Although Cheng Shijie vigorously developed Liaodong, Shandong, which is separated by a sea from Liaodong, because of the need for seaborne merchant ships to dock from Dengzhou, and the refugees flocked to Liaodong, Shandong developed because of the development of Liaodong, especially when Cheng Shijie brought the new army of Denglai to Liaodong. After leaving, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, rebuilt the Denglai new army.

This pure Western-style army has a total of more than [-] troops, of which more than [-] cavalry are in charge of the general Geng Zhongming, and the infantry is in charge of Liu Zeqing who has defected to Sun Yuanhua.

After three days and three nights of fighting between the Denglai New Army and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the Denglai New Army won the battle relatively easily.

"Sell? How much money does Sun Futai plan to ask for?"

"Three million taels of silver!"

In all fairness, more than 80 people cost [-] taels of silver, which is really dark.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "80 taels of silver is too much. I will give him 20 taels of silver in memory of my previous love affair with Sun Futai. If you want to sell it, you can sell it. If you don't want to sell it, you will lose it!"

"Under the door understands!"

Song Xiance said: "There is another thing, that is the problem of talents. With the increasing population of Liaodong, we have established 25 counties successively, and there is a huge problem of talents!"

"How do you think about it!"

"Grace comes from above!"

Song Xiance said: "My subordinates thought that my lord could set up a recruiting hall to recruit talents from all over the world for my lord's use!"

"It's not that simple!"

Cheng Shijie said indifferently: "Let's do this, set up the Liaodong Shuan Selection Office, responsible for the appointment and selection of officials, as well as promotion matters!"

This is actually the Ministry of Officials without the name of the Ministry of Officials.

"Save at the door!"

"Any thing else?"

"Marshal, we are spending more and more now. We cast silver ingots. After spending them, the common people will grind the silver ingots and turn them into broken silver. When we collect them again, once they are in the warehouse, they need to be recast. It seems to be a good way to cast the compensation silver sent by the Dutch into silver coins of uniform weight!"

Cheng Shijie also thinks that casting silver coins is a good way, and it is very necessary to cast silver coins.For a long time, the Ming Dynasty had no silver coins, only copper coins, but the copper coins issued by the government cut corners very seriously. Generally speaking, copper coins should be seven cents copper and three cents lead, but they did the opposite, three cents copper and seven cents lead , People infiltrate lead into copper, they infiltrate copper into lead, and the copper coins that are minted will shatter when broken.

This is also something that can’t be helped. After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he immediately cleaned up Wei Zhongxian, abolished the station system, and abolished the mine supervisor. The power of mining in the whole country is no longer in his hands. Emperor Chongzhen is no longer qualified to issue currency.

Those guys who cast private money have far more copper mines than the imperial court, and the copper coins they cast are far better than those of the imperial court. What qualifications does the imperial court have to issue copper coins?
With the flood of private money, it is difficult to guarantee the value of copper coins, and silver has become a hard currency.However, as more and more silver was produced, especially foreign trade earned a large amount of deficit, initially six or seven hundred copper coins could be exchanged for one tael of silver, and eight taels of silver could be exchanged for one tael of gold.However, now 15 to [-] pennies can be exchanged for one tael of silver, and [-] to [-] taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold.

Although silver is convenient, the purchasing power of silver is very good. Even now, one tael of silver can buy about 300 catties of rice. If calculated in this way, one tael of silver is equivalent to more than [-] yuan in later generations.

But running around the world with a piece of silver ingot and cutting off every little thing you buy is too inconvenient, and it also gives some bastards a chance to take advantage of it.That's how the fire consumption comes from. It doesn't take much to melt these bits and pieces of silver into silver ingots?Pay [-]% or even [-]% more tax!
But once the silver coins with stable currency value and full credit are minted, these problems will be solved. I handed in the whole silver coin, and there is no need to recast it. Why do you have to fight me?Consume your uncle!

Song Xiance has stored a large number of gold and silver coins brought by European merchants. He is amazed at the fineness and exquisite patterns of those gold and silver coins. He thinks that casting silver coins is beneficial to the country and the people. If there is enough silver, he must mint it himself. silver.

"Then mint silver coins!"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "We not only want to mint silver coins, but also copper coins!"

There is no technical problem in casting silver coins in Liaodong now. In fact, if strict requirements are met, Ming craftsmen can cast silver coins with an error within one centimeter.

Song Xiance then came up with a casting plan for silver coins, which was one tael in the Ming Dynasty, that is, one coin weighing 37.125 grams. The designed mother coin had Ninghai Bank on the front, four official script Yangwen small characters, and a seal script Cheng in the middle. On the back, there are Liaodong Pingkuyin one, two and seven characters.

Cheng Shijie looked at this scene and heaved a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that he would appear like Yuan Datou on silver coins in later generations. Although Yuan Shikai only served as emperor for 83 days, Yuan Datou became popular after his death. For more than 30 years, even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there is still a certain purchasing power.

This is mainly because these silver coins are fine in color, exquisite in production, suitable for market circulation and transactions, and have won the recognition of the general public.

Cheng Shijie looked at another design plan. On the front, there was a [-]-masted battleship of the Ning Navy Jusha class engraved with the words Ninghai Bank. On the back, there was a tiger head and a Tang straight knife. standard.

Cheng Shijie didn't say he was satisfied or dissatisfied, so he looked at Song Xiance and asked, "Is there any more?"

"and also!"

Song Xiance came up with a total of seven design schemes, in addition to Cheng characters, sailing boats, and seven schemes of Huitong Tianxia, ​​Chongzhen Silver Treasure, Liaodong Silver Treasure, Great Wall, and Yellow River Coin.

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "According to these seven plans, the commander-in-chief all agreed. Cheng Zi coins were minted into gold coins, weighing ten taels, and sailing coins were minted into one tael of gold coins. Great Wall coins were minted into ten taels of silver coins, and Huitong Tianxia was minted into one tael of silver coins. Chongzhen silver treasures are minted into five coins (18.5625 grams), Liaodong silver treasures are cast into one coin (3.725 grams), Great Wall coins are cast into copper coins worth one hundred, and Yellow River coins are cast into ten coins."

"Isn't that too much!"

"It's not much at all. In addition to the pawn coins we originally minted, Chongzhen Tongbao coins, it should be able to satisfy the market circulation!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The quality must be checked carefully. Silver coins use nine tins and one silver, and copper coins use eight coppers and one lead and one tin!"

What Cheng Shijie needs is to occupy the entire Daming market with the currency issued by Liaodong Ninghai Bank. As for the fact that the copper coins make too little profit, it is a long-term goal.

In fact, although the Ming Dynasty is now at sunset, the copper coins minted by the Ming Dynasty are normally circulated in Xiaotian, North Korea, and Vietnam. They are regarded as regional currencies, similar to the current Eurozone.

Originally, Cheng Shijie was unable to mint copper coins on a large scale. The problem of silver coins was not a big deal, but after the occupation of Luzon, this problem was no longer a problem.

Luzon is very rich in resources, especially copper mines, gold mines and silver mines, which are quite a lot.Although it has not been discovered now, in the 70s, the Dingjidi porphyry-type gold-copper deposit was discovered in the northern part of Luzon Island, which has resources of 1.24 million tons. In addition, it also includes a high-grade core belt, which has 790 million tons of copper-gold alloy.

According to statistics from the Philippine Australia New Zealand Chamber of Commerce, the value of Philippine metal deposits has reached 1387 trillion US dollars.Gold, nickel and copper account for 75% of the total valuation, and gold accounts for 26%. The Philippine copper mine reserves are about 53 billion tons. Not to mention minting coins, brass will be enough for wires in the future.

This is also the real reason why Cheng Shijie put two-thirds of the Ning Navy's troops here in a mere Luzon. Whoever robs Cheng Shijie of Luzon Island, Cheng Shijie will fight with him.

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to meet Wang Zheng, but Meng En approached Cheng Shijie instead: "Master, something is wrong!"

"What's the matter?"

"Something happened in Mongolia!"

"What happened?"

"Lin Danhan is dead!"

Cheng Shijie was not surprised by the death of Lin Dan Khan.In fact, Lin Dan Khan has some similarities with Emperor Chongzhen.

In name, he is the co-owner of the various tribes of Mongolia and the master of the Chahar tribe. He is determined to unify the tribes of Mongolia and reproduce the glory of the Genghis Khan era.However, this "Genghis Khan" was very unlucky. He encountered the rise of Jiannu early on, and inevitably broke out in war with Hou Jin, and then was beaten and fled again and again. Like Chongzhen, he was completely Huang Taiji's sandbag , When you are in a good mood, punch twice, and when you are in a bad mood, kick your feet.

When the establishment of slaves was strong, he adopted the strategy of uniting the Ming Dynasty to resist the gold, which was wise. However, after repeated fiascos, he ransacked the nine border areas of the Ming Dynasty in a whimsical way, trying to get some compensation from the Ming Dynasty. It can only be described as "retarded". Instead of saving his tribe, he turned himself into a common target for Jiannu and the Ming Dynasty.

After Lin Danhan was driven to Qinghai by Huang Taiji, Lin Danhan's tribe almost collapsed. Many heads surrendered to Huang Taiji with cattle, sheep, horses and Dingkou. Even his wives escaped several times. Lin Danhan this The bare commander is marching towards the bachelor commander.

However, this guy is somewhat similar to a cockroach. It is easy to crush him, but it is quite difficult to kill him. After fleeing to Qinghai in a panic, he quickly became friends with some chieftains in Qinghai and Tibet, trying to use this The power of the alliance continued to fight against Hou Jin.

It's just a pity that when Ning Haijun recreated the slaves and Lin Danhan was about to recover the loss and revive the glory of Mongolia, he died of smallpox last year, the seventh year of Chongzhen, at the age of 43.

Just after Lin Dan Khan's death, Lin Dan Khan's son E Zhe and Lin Dan Khan's nine wives, a total of more than [-] tribes, surrendered to Dorgon.

It's just that Lin Dan Khan's son surrendered to Jian Nu. In the original time and space, Lin Dan Khan's son E Zhe surrendered to Jian Nu.You must know that in the Battle of Baliwan and the Battle of Liaoyang, Jiannu suffered heavy losses. The Eight Banners were defeated and four banners were disabled. Except for the Zhenghuang Banner, all other banners were severely damaged.

According to the natural development of Jiannu, it will take at least seven or eight years to recover, but the problem is that as more than [-] Mongol households surrendered to Jiannu, Jiannu's strength will soon rise.

However, the delay of the news gave Cheng Shijie no chance to counterattack, but the problem was not big, and it was still within the control range, because the strength of Ning Haijun was not something that Jiannu could turn over if he wanted to.

As long as Catherine transports Sharma to Liaodong, the Ning Navy's artillery and supplies can launch an expedition against Jiannu.

Cheng Shijie hadn't heaved a sigh of relief yet, but he received news that Cheng Jiayue didn't want to eat.

Zhu Weiti had no choice but to find Cheng Shijie.

When Cheng Shijie came to the backyard, Cheng Jiayue hugged a panda silently, as if in a daze: "Xiao Huahua, do you miss your mother? Jiayue misses her!"

Looking at this scene, Cheng Shijie couldn't help feeling sad.

Zhu Weiti said: "Master, can you bring my sister back?"

"I think so too, but the problem is..."

If Cheng Shijie had the ability to bring Xiang Hui to the Ming Dynasty, would Xiang Hui really be able to hack Cheng Shijie with a knife like in his dream?

Even if Xiang Hui could chop, the guards around him were not vegetarian.

Cheng Shijie walked towards Cheng Jiayue: "Jiayue, why don't you eat!"

"I want mom!"

"You are growing your body now, you can't do without food!"

"I want mom!"

Cheng Shijie reached out to hug Cheng Jiayue.

However, Cheng Jiayue stared at Cheng Shijie with a look of disgust: "Dad, do you have a mistress?"

"I……"

Cheng Shijie really didn't know how to answer Cheng Jiayue's innocent question.

Cheng Jiayue said: "Are you lying to me, have you divorced your mother?"

"No, what are you thinking!"

"Then why don't you let me see mom!"

Cheng Shijie was now helpless and decided to try again.

(End of this chapter)