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

Chapter 272

Chapter 271

The refugees of the Ming Dynasty were actually very talkative, they could feed their stomachs, give them a little care, and they could sell their lives to you.

Cheng Shijie adopted the principle of resettlement for the hundreds of thousands of rogues, and tried to use the family as the unit. There are already too many tragedies of separation of flesh and blood, and Cheng Shijie does not want to make this evil himself.The rogues were both apprehensive and expectant.

"I heard that Cheng Shuai is going to give us land?"

"What do you want to eat?"

"No points?"

"It's reform through labor. You tell yourself what you have committed in the past three years. Don't try to hide it. As long as someone reports you, you will be punished tenfold!"

"When I beat Fengyang, I beheaded two officers and soldiers."

"Any more?"

"Yes, I stoned to death our rich man Zhu in Fengyang. His son seems to be some kind of warehouse ambassador!"

None of the words on the paper in front of Ning Haijun, who was in charge of recording, fell: "Is there any more?"

"No, I stole two bowls from the imperial mausoleum and sold them for three renminbi!"

"Has anyone reported it?"

After finding no one to report, finally, Ning Haijun, who was in charge of the records, wrote down: "Zhang Hesheng, male, 43 years old, a thief, four months, one year of labor reform!"

After writing the household registration, the person in charge said to Zhang Hesheng: "When you arrive in the military area, you will need to undergo labor reform for one year. Within one year, you should work hard and only care about food. You can eat enough, but there is no wages!"

"Didn't you say to give us land?"

"As a military colony, you still need to cultivate the land for three years. During these three years, 5.00% of the annual harvest must be handed in. After the three-year period expires, the military land you are responsible for planting will automatically be converted into civilian land. The civilian land needs to pay [-] yuan. % tax, if you don’t sell the food and eat it yourself, then you don’t have to pay tax!”

Zhang Hesheng seemed to understand a little bit: "My lord, what you mean is that I want to work for four years starting from this year, and then I can get the land?"

"That's right, you can also understand it this way. In these four years, your wife and children, no matter boys or girls, will share the land. Each of them will have [-] acres of land. Even if it is less than a month, the land will be divided!"

"Thank you, Master Qingtian!"

For Zhang Hesheng, four years is not a long time. Unfortunately, his three sons and five grandsons are all dead, leaving him alone in the family.But he is only 43 years old and can still give birth.

"Next!"

"Name!"

"Wang Dazhuang!"

"age?"

"25 years old!"

"Nation?"

"Yaozhou Tile Bridge in Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province!"

"How long have you been a thief?"

"Three years!"

"How many crimes have you committed?"

"I have never killed anyone. I am a chef. I was arrested by them three years ago. Because I can cook, I have been cooking with them."

"Nonsense, I want to report!"

"Say!"

"Wang Dazhuang is the brother-in-law of the head of He Da. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, he killed several people in Xingyang, Henan, and one of them was his younger brother..."

"Is there any evidence!"

"I can prove it too!"

The staff of Ning Haijun who was in charge of the record wrote: "Wang Dazhuang committed a heinous crime. He tried to conceal it. He will be punished with extreme punishment and will be given 25 years of labor reform!"

"Next!"

"One year of labor reform!"

"Innocence, coercion, three years in the farmland!"

Cheng Shijie discovered that the Han family was actually a talented person. In the process of counting the household registration of the rogues, she selected thousands of people who could read and write from among the vagrants. When interrogating the rogues, she took repeated checks to avoid misjudgments.

Of course, misjudgments are inevitable. After all, there are some people who only have a single witness and no evidence at all. In this case, she judges based on her household registration and the time she joined the bandits.

If the ancestral home is Shaanxi, and he has been a thief for more than three years, he basically has a life in his hand, otherwise it is impossible to live to the present, especially the elimination rate of rogues is too high.

More than [-]% of the people would not survive three months at all.

Although Cheng Shijie was a woman, he didn't hold grudges against the Han family like other Ming officials. As long as he had the ability, no matter whether he had fame or not, Cheng Shijie dared to use it, whether he was a man or a woman.

Han Shi also sighed with emotion: "Commander, don't you choose some of these people as the army?"

"Choose 5000 of them!"

Cheng Shijie said: "These 5000 people are responsible for managing these immigrants. How about you command them?"

"Nuhe De how can!"

"Old General Qin also led his army to fight, invincible!"

"I heard from the Commander-in-Chief that there is a lot of wasteland in Luzon. I'm afraid that hundreds of thousands of people are enough. It's not a big problem to enslave some old thieves to coerce some people, and then bring in a few hundred thousand people!"

In front of Cheng Shijie, Han Shi immediately showed what it means to determine the head by the ass.

Cheng Shijie stared at Mrs. Han with a faint smile: "Don't be too greedy, this kind of thing can't be done in one step, first settle these 10,000+ people, give them fields, give them jobs, wait until these 10,000+ people are in Luzon Once you have taken root, you will be able to house hundreds of thousands of people. You can pick more skilled craftsmen from among them, which will be much more convenient.”

"Thank you, handsome!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "The biggest problem facing Daming right now is neither bandits nor natural disasters, but man-made disasters. In the next period of time, the climate in most parts of Daming will become colder and colder every year. The drought is getting worse every year, and this situation will continue for more than ten years. This kind of cold and drought will directly lead to a decrease in grain production or even a loss of harvest, causing a large-scale famine. It is not known whether Daming can survive it."

The real reason why Cheng Shijie didn't go to Liaodong to resettle immigrants was that Liaodong also experienced rare weather. Now it was the end of March, and it was still snowing in Liaodong, making it impossible to start spring plowing.

Now that there is no spring plowing, the autumn harvest will definitely be delayed. With the weather in Liaodong, autumn will definitely come earlier. Whether it is corn, sweet potatoes, or potatoes, the production will inevitably be reduced.

The weather in the Little Ice River has had a great impact on Daming, and Cheng Shijie is now unable to fight against natural disasters, so he can only move immigrants to Luzon Dayuan, where Luzon Dayuan will be developed into a grain production base, while Liaodong will only be used as a pure industrial base.

Cheng Shijie said: "The rogues are like a swarm of locusts, they run around, take down the ground and eat up the ground, and grow like a snowball. Wherever they go, famous cities are burned, the old and the weak are slaughtered, and the young and strong are engulfed. The productivity has been completely destroyed, if they cannot be wiped out as soon as possible, I am afraid that Daming will eventually die in their hands!"

"Then why don't you..."

Sometimes Cheng Shijie let these rogues slaughter all the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, because these gentry are more annoying than the rogues, just like this time, if they cooperate with Cheng Shijie and provide Cheng Shijie with food, Cheng Shijie doesn't have to be in Heshun Village. While leaving more than 3000 soldiers, they can pursue Zhang Xianzhong with all their strength.

But the problem is that these gentry have food, and they neither sell nor give it away. They guard against Cheng Shijie more closely than they guard against bandits.

In the face of these people who are holding back, Cheng Shijie has to sigh, if you really want to save this country and do something for the people, you can't just be loyal to the emperor himself, doing so will only attract the suspicion of all civil and military officials And jealousy, nothing can be done in the end, and there will be death!
You have to sing against the court at the right time, or even be tough, to let them know that you are not a puppet at their mercy!Only by making them care about the strength in your hands and dare not point fingers at you at will, can you be free to do what you want to do!
Cheng Shijie looked at the guards beside him and said, "Order the troops to set off, let's go in the direction of Huangzhou Mansion!"

"Yes!"

Although Huangzhou Prefecture is only 200 miles away from Macheng, for the infantry of the Ning Navy, they can arrive in two days at most, but the problem is that these rogue prisoners are in poor health, even if they walk more than 30 miles a day, there will be many people Can't keep up.

When a cloudy rain was falling, Ning Haijun and tens of thousands of captives, no, it should be said that they were immigrants from Luzon, went on the road under the light rain, supporting each other to the unknown front.

Although Ning Haijun has tried his best to take care of them, there are still those who are too weak or injured in the battle and die on the side of the road from time to time.

The officers of Ning Haijun angrily scolded the soldiers and asked them to grow up. This is a human being, a person whose parents have pulled their shit and piss, not a wild dog!

The refugees spoke up for the soldiers who had been trained like grandchildren, saying that it was their fate that they died on the road, and that these young men could not be blamed, they could just dig a hole and bury them.

Cheng Shijie rode a tall horse and followed behind the endless line, looking at the new graves on the side of the road with a compassionate expression.

If he hadn't wiped out the main force of the rogues in one battle, these 10,000+ refugees would have to be coerced into rushing to the state, and eventually either died in battle or died of cold and starvation on the way, and became a delicious meal for wild beasts. It is really unknown whether people survived!
Suddenly, there was a small commotion in the calm queue.The white-haired old man sat down on the rocks on the side of the road, hammering his legs with both hands: "Oh, my mother, I'm too tired to walk, let my old lady die here!"

"Mother, if you don't leave, I won't leave! My son will die here with your old man." The old man's son and daughter-in-law knelt down. The son was also in his 30s, and with two children, the family hugged their heads and cried together. group.

The people around shook their heads, and kindly said: "You guys make a sliding pole and lift the old lady up."

The old woman shook her head: "It's hard to walk on this mountain road empty, how can I lift my old bones? Son, our Guo family has been passed down for three generations, you can't let the old Guo family lose their incense. You go, you go! Don't go again , the old lady bumped her head to death in front of you!"

Everyone sighed for a while, and those who wanted to help were powerless: Who can carry a person on the mountain road of more than 200 miles from here to Huangzhou?
As long as you fall behind, you will surely die!

At this moment, Cheng Shijie came over to ask questions on a tall white horse, accompanied by Mrs. Han in a white robe, but Han was riding a maroon horse.

All the refugees saw Cheng Shijie's luxurious clothes and stepped off the BMW, so they knew that he was a high-ranking official, and they told the situation honestly.

"That's right," Cheng Shijie got off the horse, and handed the reins to the old woman's son, "Help your mother on the horse, and lead her away carefully."

The man hesitated a little.I dare not pick it up.

"Take it, quickly help the old man get on the horse!"

The man thrust the reins into his hand.Shi Shi ran to the front.

All the refugees kowtowed to Cheng Shijie: "My lord is a good man, my lord will live a long life, my lord and his wife will have hundreds of sons and grandsons, and live a happy and healthy life!"

Han's face flushed, and she hurriedly explained: "Slave is not madam!"

But these refugees didn't care about Han's explanation.

Cheng Shijie didn't care, he knew very well that this Han family was a very scheming woman, if it wasn't for the Shaanxi accent of these booing refugees, Cheng Shijie would have believed it was a coincidence.

Obviously, the Han family is taking advantage of Cheng Shijie's influence.

Cheng Shijie is not afraid that he will use this method to take advantage of the situation. After all, as a woman, if she wants to become the leader of a party, she must have one man, or countless men.

Han Shi is very smart, she saw Cheng Shijie staring at her with a half-smile, and knew that Cheng Shijie had discovered his little trick.

In this embarrassing situation, there was a sound of horseshoes from behind.

"Marshal, please forgive me!"

Zhao Wencai knelt in front of Cheng Shijie and said, "The last general has been chasing him for three days, that thief Zhang Xianzhong can run faster than a rabbit!"

As the saying goes, it is unintentional to say it, but it sounds intentional.

Zhang Dingguo, no, it was Li Dingguo in the crowd, heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this.

He saw that there were not many guards around Cheng Shijie. If he attacked Cheng Shijie by himself, as long as Cheng Shijie died, Ning Haijun would be in chaos.

Thinking of this, Li Dingguo took advantage of his young age and pretended to fall to the ground.

Cheng Shijie didn't see this scene, he looked at Zhao Wencai and said, "If you run away, just run away, it's Zhang Xianzhong's fate!"

The fact is that both Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have a bit of Liu Daer's ability, and when they saw that the momentum was wrong, they immediately ran away.

Just like in the First Battle of Heshun, Zhang Xianzhong had tens of thousands of horses, but only less than 8000 or [-] casualties, less than [-]%, and he fled immediately.

Just when Li Dingguo fell to the ground, he pursed his mouth and began to cry. On his tattered trousers, bloody knees were exposed.

A Ning Navy medical soldier stepped forward. This was a female soldier. The female soldier helped Li Dingguo bandage his wound, but Li Dingguo took the opportunity to take the female soldier's short knife behind him.

With a knife in his hand, Li Dingguo rushed towards Cheng Shijie like a leopard.

"Master, be careful!"

Han Shi hurriedly stood in front of Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie's personal guards acted instantly, blocking Cheng Shijie's surroundings with their bodies.

Several personal guards moved towards Li Dingguo at the same time, and were about to kill Li Dingguo with a knife. Unexpectedly, Li Dingguo knocked down the four personal guards in an instant, and took a Tang Hengdao from one of the personal guards.

With a knife in his hand, Li Dingguo seemed to be walking among the sheep like a lion. As long as he attacked, Cheng Shijie's guards would fall.

In just one stick of incense, six or seven of Cheng Shijie's bodyguards fell down. However, Cheng Shijie had a lot of bodyguards. Even if Lu Bu was still alive, he would have been exhausted to death.

Cheng Shijie looked at Li Dingguo, who was moving up and down on the battlefield, and his sword was like the wind, and asked: "Who is this person? Does no one know?""

Han was slightly taken aback and said: "I know, he is Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Xianzhong's second son!"

"Zhang Dingguo, isn't that Li Dingguo!"

Seeing that Li Dingguo was getting braver, the guards who were anxious to take down Li Dingguo took out their revolvers, and pointed a dozen revolvers at Li Dingguo. Unless he would be like Neo in the Matrix, he would have no choice but to die.

Cheng Shijie said with some viciousness: "Capture him alive, whoever can capture Li Dingguo alive will be promoted to three ranks!"

All the guards held fishing nets, preparing to catch Li Dingguo with one net.

However, at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.

"Dingguo, stop!"

Li Dingguo saw that this was actually Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang looked at Li Dingguo and said: "Dingguo, those who know the current affairs are heroes. The adoptive father was defeated, and we did our best. Cheng Shuai is the number one fighter in the Ming Dynasty. We surrender him, no shame!"

Li Dingguo was a little annoyed.

Sun Kewang walked towards Li Dingguo: "Dingguo, listen to me..."

Li Dingguo slowly lowered his guard, and Sun Kewang walked within three steps of Li Dingguo. He suddenly got up, kicked Li Dingguo on the chin.

Sun Kewang kicked Li Dingguo's jaw hard, the sound of teeth colliding was clearly audible, and a mouthful of blood and two broken teeth burst out.

In fact, after fighting for so long, Li Dingguo was at the end of his strength. With this kick, Li Dingguo was kicked flying, fell straight down, and passed out.

Sun Kewang turned around and knelt down to Cheng Shijie: "Sun Kewang, I'm paying my respects to Cheng Shuai, I'm here to return you to Li Dingguo for my humble job!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Kewang, as if swallowing a fly in his heart, he didn't expect that Sun Kewang was not dead.

This is because Zhang Xianzhong ran too fast. The battlefield was very chaotic at that time, and the Ning Navy only had 6000 troops, which was less than one-twentieth of Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were not dead at that time, they took off their armor and mixed in the crowd.

Zhang Xianzhong's old battalion had all run away, and most of their headquarters had died on the battlefield, but no one knew them. If the Han family was not the daughter-in-law of Sun Kewang's general He Jiuyi, she would not have known Li Dingguo.

Cheng Shijie didn't like Sun Kewang very much.

But the problem is, he has already said that whoever wins Li Dingguo will be promoted to the third rank. It is impossible for Cheng Shijie to slap himself, so he can only helplessly say: "Sun Kewang, you did a good job. The previous things, I can do it." Don't pursue it, you are not from our Ning Haijun, and this commander cannot promote you..."

"Cheng Shuai, I am willing to go through fire and water for the commander-in-chief's pawn!"

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly: "You must know that our Ning Navy training is very hard!"

"A humble job is not afraid of hardship!"

"Very good!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You are by my commander's side, and you are the commander of the personal guard Zuo!"

"Thank you, Master!"

Sun Kewang is also a follower, he said seriously: "Cheng Shuai, Kewang's parents have both died since he was a child, but seeing Cheng Shuai is like seeing his own father, and the child is expected to pay homage to his adoptive father and return to his foster father." Complete!"

"Nima!"

Cheng Shijie thought to himself: "I don't dare to be your adoptive father!"

PS: Everyone, I will update [-] words for the company team building trip tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)