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

Chapter 273 The Ambitious Sun Kewang
Chapter 272

Cheng Shijie found the information, and he knew that Sun Kewang was not a good guy. Historically, with Zhang Xianzhong's death, Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous descendants, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and Li Dingguo, inherited most of Zhang Xianzhong's inheritance.

The rest of the Great Western Army marched into the Yunnan-Guizhou area, as the anti-Qing base, conquered Zunyi and Guiyang all the way, and entered Yunnan.

In 1647 AD (the first year of Yongli and the fourth year of Shunzhi), Sun Kewang became king together with Li Dingguo and others.

Later, the Nanming army aggressively invaded Hunan. After the Great Western Army united with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty, they won the first test and regained most of Hunan's counties.Li Dingguo became a famous king for two years, and he regained dozens of states and counties one after another, shaking the world.Sun Ke saw Li Dingguo's great military exploits and was very jealous.

Due to the assassination of Sun Kewang, the good situation between Li Dingguo and Nanming was completely destroyed. Otherwise, Nanming might fight against the Qing Dynasty in a separate court like the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, in this time and space, Sun Kewang deceived Li Dingguo and played against Li Dingguo, showing his selfish behavior to the fullest.

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Kewang and said, "Get up!"

"The crimes of the criminals are serious, and there is no redemption for ten thousand deaths, and they dare not be put down!"

"Ben handsome let you get up!"

"Yes!"

Sun Kewang is very regretful that he did not become Cheng Shijie's adopted son. Even though Sun Kewang followed Zhang Xianzhong, he started to collect information on Cheng Shijie early on, because Cheng Shijie defeated Jiannu several times in Liaodong and became famous all over the world. The navy will definitely confront them.

Later, Sun Kewang also knew that Cheng Shijie's two adopted sons, Cheng Hu and Cheng Shi, were young and they were alone, especially Cheng Shi, who directly became the uncrowned king of Luzon.

This made Sun Kewang very envious. If he could become Cheng Shijie's adopted son, his achievements must be much better than Cheng Shi's.

However, Sun Kewang was also very happy to become the commander of Cheng Shijie's personal guard. This meant that Cheng Shijie trusted him. Cheng Shijie actually didn't trust Sun Kewang, but after Wu Sheng became the commander of Wusongkou, he lacked expert protection around him.

This boy Li Dingguo caught Cheng Shijie's bodyguards by surprise, making Cheng Shijie's bodyguards very passive. Although Sun Kewang's character is poor, he still has problematic abilities, especially his good skills.

It's good to be a bodyguard, what's more, Cheng Shijie is planning to use Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang will be the commander of the left, and Li Dingguo will be the commander of the right.

Besides, Cheng Shijie's soldiers are all soldiers Ning Haijun is most loyal to Cheng Shijie, even if Sun Kewang wants to do something, he can't do it.

Sun Kewang became Cheng Shijie's personal commander, and was immediately distributed two sets of brand new black military uniforms, as well as two pairs of sheepskin boots, washbasin, lunch box, bedding, mosquito net, and backpack.

Sun Kewang is most interested in weapons. The horizontal knife he received is slightly different from the horizontal knife used by ordinary soldiers. The horizontal knife equipped by ordinary soldiers has no ornaments on the handle, scabbard, and blade. A chilling and terrifying murderous look.

As for the commander level, it is actually the level of the company commander. The scabbard is made of crocodile skin, the handle is made of yellow ox horn, and the handguard is decorated with brass tiger head. , is also cold and cold, cutting iron like mud.

Sun Kewang lamented that Cheng Shijie really trusted him and equipped him with such a good magic weapon.

Regardless of the cold water in the river, Sun Kewang took a cold shower and put on a new military uniform, looking very energetic. It was only then that he felt Ning Haijun's generosity.

As the commander, he has a tent of his own, about [-] square meters, and bedding and other equipment, which are loaded on the carriage like other soldiers.

Especially when eating, Sun Kewang almost wanted to cry. As Zhang Xianzhong's adoptive son, when he followed Zhang Xianzhong, he naturally had no shortage of supplies, but the problem was that no matter how much he didn't lack, he could barely eat enough. Salt meat, but the problem is that Ning Haijun's food is not only rich, but also delicious.

Canned fruit, which is a rare luxury in Zhang Xianzhong's army, is a standard item in the Ning Haijun army. In addition, there is cheese and milk tea that can be drunk unlimitedly. The most important thing is that he still has military pay.

You can get six taels of silver every month. Although six taels of silver is not too much for Sun Kewang, the key is to take the money comfortably.

Cheng Shijie looked at the arrogant Sun Kewang and said: "Commander Sun, although you are the commander, our Ning Haijun is a place where rules are followed, and officers must abide by the rules. Take what you should take, and don't reach out for what you shouldn't take, otherwise It won't do you any good."

Sun Kewang's heart trembled slightly, he cupped his hands and said solemnly: "Thank you for your teaching, Marshal, I will keep my humility in mind!"

"The commander-in-chief's former commander, the current commander-in-chief of Wusongkou, is in charge of the commander-in-chief. I hope you will not disappoint the commander-in-chief!"

Sun Kewang was overjoyed, this is to train him.In the past, he was a rogue that everyone despised, but now he not only has an establishment, but more importantly, the development of Ning Haijun through Cheng Shijie is almost changing every day, not only has millions of people in Liaodong, but also Tens of thousands of troops, six or seven thousand factories, and millions of hectares of fertile land, what a terrifying scale. If you can join their circle, the benefits you will get are definitely ten times and a hundred times better than tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Of course, the information obtained by Sun Kewang is not the real core secret of the Ning Navy. In fact, the Ning Navy in Liaodong ruled 900 million people. The navy, the total number of the Ning Navy, exceeded 30 troops.

"The humble job will never disappoint the commander-in-chief!"

"So best!"

As the supervisor of Ning Haijun, Gao Qiqian hurriedly followed Cheng Shijie from Wusongkou when he heard the news that Cheng Shijie led the army to quell Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

But the problem is that when Gao Qi was lurking in Nanjing, he was taken by the eunuch guarding Nanjing, his confidant Lu Jiuyi, to drink and eat a meal of fish sticks.This fish meat is sashimi, which is one of the quintessence of small days in later generations, Japanese cuisine.

In fact, fish sticks originated in China. There are clear records as early as the Zhou Dynasty, which can be traced back to "The Book of Songs Xiaoya June": Dear friends, the soft-shelled turtle and carp. Who is here? Zhang Zhongxiaoyou", where "cooking carp" refers to raw carp slices.Later, "The Analects of Confucius" in the Spring and Autumn Period and "Mencius" in the Warring States Period all had records about "sweet".

After the continuation of the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, in the Tang Dynasty, Yusheng officially became famous, and even had its pictures in many poems, such as: Li Bai's "Twelve Poems Imitating Ancient Times" said: "Blowing the flute and dancing the colorful phoenix, drinking wine and carp "God Fish"; in Du Fu's "Night Two Poems", "Temporarily Reminiscing Jiangdong Carp, and Disembarking in the Snow"; Bai Juyi's "Light Fat" mentioned "cutting Tianchi scales" and so on.

After Xiaotian learned the yusheng of the Tang Dynasty, he began to carry it forward, such as sashimi, eel, and sukiyaki.Especially this sashimi has become the most characteristic dish of Japanese national culture.

Although the fish meatballs are delicious, there is no way to deal with the parasites inside. After all, Gao Qiqian is nearly 50 years old, and he is a eunuch with poor resistance. He has had diarrhea since he was in Nanjing, and his health is not good. It is also impossible to rush on the road desperately.

After finally rushing to Macheng, they found that there were no traces of the rogues in Macheng, only a few large mounds were left, and thousands of rogues who died in battle were buried.

"What?? Zhang Xianzhong's 10,000+ rogues, just settled like this?"

A Jin Yiwei reported to Gao Qiqianhui: "Elder-in-law, in fact, there was no fighting at all. Cheng Shuai just shot a few rounds of fire dragons out of the water, and then fired a few rounds with Thunderbolts. After that, Zhang Xianzhong fled. All the rogues Surrender now!"

Gao Qiqian found it unbelievable: "It's that simple?"

"It's that simple!"

"10,000+ rogues were wiped out so easily?"

"It is said that Zhang Xianzhong is surrounded by more than a thousand people!"

This is of course an exaggeration. Zhang Xianzhong fled too quickly, and there were tens of thousands of bandits blocking him. In fact, he was accompanied by 3 to [-] people. It can be said that Zhang Xianzhong still has at least [-] people.

This was actually the hole Cheng Shijie had to dig at the beginning. He had already guessed that someone would snatch his battle fruits, and he didn't know which unlucky person would be unlucky.

Gao Qiqian was stunned for a long time before he slapped his forehead and sighed: "This is too incredible! More than 10,000 riders, fighting more with less, annihilated [-]+ bandits in one meal, without any casualties. How did the news report tell our family to write, alas!"

Judging from Gao Qiqian's expression, he seems to be really distressed now!

Several Jinyiwei all curled their lips at the same time. They didn't know that there was a word called Versailles in later generations, and the current Gao Qiqian is very Versailles.

However, in the eyes of these Jin Yiwei, Gao Qiqian is very pretending now, who doesn't know that you are already happy in your heart?Think about Yang He, think about Chen Qiyu, those two unlucky bastards, they have been tossing around for several years, and there are more and more rogues. Compared with Yang He and Chen Qiyu, Gao Qiqian, the supervisor, is so happy!
In fact, Gao Qiqian is not really the happiest, the happiest is Zhang Fengyi, the current minister of the Ministry of War. After Chen Qiyu's defeat, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty began to habitually change people.

During the incident, Liu Chang impeached Feng Yi to push Chen Zhuangyou, the general soldier, and accepted heavy bribes.In order to show his innocence, Zhang Fengyi personally wrote a letter, served as a supervisor, and went out to put down the rebellion.

In March of the eighth year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Fengyi had just served as the supervisor of the suppression of bandits, Cheng Shijie's soldiers defeated Zhang Xianzhong.

Before Zhang Fengyi left the capital, a great contribution fell on him. After all, Zhang Fengyi is now Cheng Shijie's boss.

Gao Qiqian continued to chase Cheng Shijie's army. As Cheng Shijie went to Huangzhou, the logistics force of the Ning Navy finally transported the grain to Huangzhou. Meng En and Yuan Shiliang led the infantry and artillery main forces of the Ning Navy to join Cheng Shijie in Huanggang County.

Since the food was brought up, Cheng Shijie was not stingy.

Whenever meals are prepared, meals will be distributed to the refugees. Of course, the principle remains the same. The old, the weak, women and children are given priority, and the young and strong are the last. Because these refugees are in poor health, I am afraid that they will be full, eat bad stomachs, and eat too much. It still needs to be controlled. First of all, children, the elderly, women, and sick patients each have a bowl of rice, a spoonful of broth, and a bowl of dried sweet potato porridge.

Although there is already enough food, the supply will not be insufficient, but the problem is that these rogues are already hungry, and they are not afraid of being scalded after receiving it. He couldn't bear to spit it out, but stretched his neck and swallowed hard.

Sun Kewang followed Cheng Shijie, a little puzzled as to why Cheng Shijie was being nice to these rogues, maybe because he saw the doubts of the Commander, a veteran soldier taught Sun Kewang his experience.

Only then did Sun Kewang know that Cheng Shijie was very experienced in making money, Ning Haijun started his business by fighting bandits, and Ning Haijun was very experienced in how to settle bandits and refugees.

Ning Haijun's model is actually similar to the communes established before the 80s.The commune system used to be criticized, but it was not so bad, especially in the first 20 years, the effect was very significant, and it solved the problem of food for the Chinese people at once. Although the population has been expanding, food security has always been guaranteed Yes, except for the three difficult years, no one died of starvation.

The current situation is much worse than when the country was founded. Land mergers are extremely serious, land resources are exhausted, seeds are degraded, and fertilizers and pesticides are even more unthinkable. Under such circumstances, it is suicide to divide land into households. .

Cheng Shijie put in so much effort, but in the end he still wanted to turn all these 10,000+ rogues into military households or workers. These are all labor forces. It would be a pity to kill them.

After finding out Cheng Shijie's intentions, Sun Kewang approached Cheng Shijie and said, "Master..."

When Sun Kewang looked up, he realized that Li Dingguo was standing next to Cheng Shijie. At this moment, Li Dingguo looked at Sun Kewang, and his eyes could almost burst into flames.

"Hopefully, you came at the right time. This Commander appreciates Li Dingguo's skill very much, and decided to appoint him as the Commander-in-Chief of the Commander's personal army. You will cooperate wholeheartedly in the future!"

"Yes!"

Sun Kewang naturally understands Cheng Shijie's true intentions. Although he and Li Dingguo are both adopted sons of Zhang Xianzhong, the problem is that he put Li Dingguo together, and now Li Dingguo has no possibility of easing up with him, which means that Cheng Shijie can balance their interests. contradiction.

Sun Kewang didn't care about these things. If he cared or said he was dissatisfied, it wouldn't change anything. Cheng Shijie certainly couldn't care about his dissatisfaction.

Sun Kewang did not forget his original intention: "Marshal, do you want someone?"

"Naturally, human beings are precious resources, and naturally, the more the better!"

Sun Kewang said: "Humble job has a way, it can get more people for the commander in chief!"

"Oh!"

"What can you do?"

"I talked to my old brothers in the past. Although they are now sentenced to reform through labor, they don't have to worry about food, clothing, and encirclement by the army. This kind of life is for them. Where is reform through labor? It is to enjoy the blessings. At least it is much more comfortable than being a rogue!"

Sun Kewang continued: "Although Zhang Xianzhong is newly defeated, there are still a lot of scattered rogues around. I think I can let some people go out and let them persuade those scattered rogues to abandon the dark and turn to the bright!"

Cheng Shijie is no longer worried about Sun Kewang's request. He rejected Han's proposal at the beginning because of a severe shortage of food. Now that Cheng Shijie has food, even if Sun Kewang didn't mention this, Cheng Shijie is still planning to take a steamed bun offensive.

It is to let some of the local rogues of the Huangfu who have been coerced hold steamed buns, and as long as they turn around casually, they can deceive a large number of vagrants.

"The commander-in-chief agreed, and you will be responsible for this matter!"

What Sun Kewang wanted was not to deceive a few rogues. This was not his real goal. His real goal was Zhang Xianzhong. As long as Zhang Xianzhong was caught, it would be a great achievement, and he could step on Li Dingguo's head.

In this way, after some preparations, Sun Kewang took off the Ning Haijun uniform he had just worn for a few days, folded it neatly, then locked it in the box, and told his orderly: "Show me, Laozi This time, I will make a great contribution, even if I don’t get promoted to three ranks in the future, I will be promoted to two ranks!”

As the time of joining Ning Haijun became longer and longer, Sun Kewang discovered that there are many benefits to becoming Ning Haijun. Not only will they be given free land, but they will also be given houses. An officer of his level can be given three acres. The big house on the ground is divided into ten mu of land, or fifty mu of land.

With Sun Kewang's skill, he can gain the greatest military exploits in the shortest time. As long as Zhang Xianzhong and the people around Zhang Xianzhong are captured, he can become a big landlord immediately and live a happy life every day.

In this way, Sun Kewang selected more than 200 disbanded old ministries from among the captives. Sun Kewang didn't tell them the truth, but contacted them. As a result, these old ministries didn't care about his boss at all, and turned around and tied up Sun Kewang .

Seeing Sun Kewang being bundled into rice dumplings and thrown in front of Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie couldn't be bothered: "Kewang, you are..."

"Marshal, that bastard Sun Kewang wanted to betray you, so we arrested him and begged Marshal to let him go!"

In fact, these rogues are already used to living in Huangzhou Mansion. They don’t have to work every day, they just train. With a hundred households as a unit, they go to the boat by the river to train for a day in the morning. At night, the time is at their own disposal.

Of course, they are still in hard labor and cannot go out freely. If they want to go out, they must apply and be accompanied by someone before they can go out.Besides, although their training is hard, is it hard to become a rogue?

As veterans from Shaanxi, each of them is a reform-through-labour prisoner. In their eyes, no matter where they serve the reform-through-labor camp, they are simply enjoying a blessing.

In desperation, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to tell them the truth. As soon as these rogues heard that they had carried out their mission, their eyes widened.

Such a good thing?
"As long as you capture an old thief, can you reduce your sentence for one year?"

"That's right, I know, your name is Fang Daqiang, and you have been in labor camp for 15 years. You only need to capture 15 people, and you can immediately become a hundred households in the farmland. In the future, you only need to pay [-]% of the rent for the land. After three years, what you planted The land is yours!"

"Thank you, Master!"

As Sun Kewang left the Huangzhou temporary camp with more than 200 rogues, within a few days, people brought the rogues back one after another.

These "rogue bandits" are actually locals of Huangzhou Prefecture. There are tens of thousands of people, and most of them are old and weak women and children. However, Cheng Shijie doesn't dislike them. The old people can't do heavy work, so let them go to Luzon to herd cattle. Chickens, the weaker ones can also be arranged to clean the streets.

The little kid who was younger than eight years old was kicked into school by him, still wearing crotch pants, not honestly going to school, and running all over the mountain with his buttocks naked!As for those women, just help with washing clothes and cooking. It is not tiring to work with men and women, anyway, there are plenty of work to do!

Cheng Shijie also specially ordered that rogues who want to get married can apply, and single soldiers of the Ning Navy can also apply to find someone to marry from among the vagrants without a bride price.

The current Cheng Shijie is also rich and powerful. As long as the soldiers of the Ning Navy get married, he will give the newlyweds a gift of ten taels of silver in the name of the commander of the Ning Navy.

This move made the refugees and Ning Haijun soldiers grateful to Cheng Shijie, and they naturally worked harder whether it was training or working.

Since Huangzhou Prefecture is located along the river, many refugees are able to swim and will not get seasick. As the first batch of immigrants, they began to climb the mountain and embark on the journey to Luzon Island.

This day was another day when a group of more than a thousand refugees embarked on the journey. Cheng Shijie looked at the immigrants from four hundred households. Each of them distributed sufficient dry food, canned food, clothes, medicines, including, Knives, guns, armor and all kinds of equipment.

Most of the equipment seized this time was junk. Cheng Shijie didn't like it, and it happened to be distributed to these hundreds of households. When they arrived in Luzon, these hundreds of households also had a certain amount of self-protection power.

In fact, using rogues to garrison Luzon is killing two birds with one stone. These rogues have seen blood and killed people, and they are not good birds. The rogues who had been bathed in blood, the two really collided. These rogues could easily deal with the natives of Luzon without the help of Ning Navy soldiers.

In the Dabie Mountains, Sun Kewang and more than 200 bandits are struggling forward. Unlike the north, the rainfall in the Dabie Mountains is low and it often rains.

In fact, it will be wet without rain.Dabie Mountain is really not a good place. The humidity here is so heavy that clothes can't dry at all.It's not easy to get along in this kind of ghost weather in the mountains. After a few days of progress, Sun Kewang lost a lot of weight.

However, Sun Kewang didn't back down, he had already touched the bandit's tail.

: What if the mouse got into the gunpowder magazine with the fire in its mouth?The answer is to let the cat chase the mouse with water in its mouth.

Now Sun Kewang is a cat with water in his mouth, he is chasing Zhang Xianzhong, a mouse.

After finally turning over a mountain, a rugged path appeared in front of them, intermittently extending toward the depths of the mountain forest.

The thinnest rogue wiped off his sweat, pointed to the path and said, "Commander Sun, we have finally caught up. The traces along this path will take no more than four hours at most, and we will be able to catch up to them." !"

"Monkey, you can't be wrong in your judgment, right?"

Sun Kewang held the binoculars and looked ahead. There was a vast expanse of whiteness, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

"You can't make a mistake, if you make a mistake, you will take Xiao's eyes off and use it as a tramp!"

"Boost!"

(End of this chapter)