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

Chapter 277
Chapter 276

Cheng Shijie obviously underestimated these women, especially those who could survive the army of rogues. There is a catty of meat.

Of course, these meats are actually canned meat that is on the verge of expiration. It is said that it is meat, but in fact there is not much real meat. The canned food in Liaodong is similar to the canned food in later generations. One catty of meat plus ten catties of starch is considered conscientious canned food. More than 30 catties of starch are added to a catty of meat. This kind of canned meat tastes similar to the canned luncheon meat of later generations, and it is full of technology and hard work.

"Mrs. Han needs someone to work for her. If she knows how to weave or dye, the salary is a can of meat per day. If anyone is willing to work for Mrs. Han, then you can sign up with me."

After the Han family married Zhang Dazhuang, she became the Zhang Han family, but after Zhang Han's death, although the Han family's children were still surnamed Zhang, the Han family returned to their natal family's surname.

The Han family called herself Mrs. Han. In people's eyes, she married a man with the surname Han and became Mrs. Han, not Han.

Regardless, it’s not important, the important thing is that canned meat may be very unfamiliar to ordinary rogues, but the problem is that these old thieves’ families have enjoyed canned meat, and they know that canned meat is what.

"My lord, can I work for Mrs. Han? Although I don't know how to weave, I can print and dye. Our family used to run a dyeing workshop!"

"can!"

"Please let me work for Mrs. Han, I will work hard, I can also weave, and my family used to have an embroidery shop."

"I can do it too, let me do anything."

"Write down my name. My name is Zheng Yuanrong. I am a doctor. My father is a famous doctor in Shaanxi. People call him Zheng Yizhen. Although I don't know how to weave or print, I can learn..."

Cheng Shijie obviously underestimated the allure of a tin of canned meat.The statistical results of these rogue women and children are surprising. These women include not only doctors, teachers, but also painters, luthiers, kabukis who can sing, dancers who can dance, and arithmeticians who are proficient in arithmetic. .

Although Cheng Shijie was aware of the quality level of Daming's citizens, not to mention among women, even among men, the overall quality of these female camp rogues had already surpassed the overall level of Daming.

Perhaps seeing Cheng Shijie's doubts, Han explained: "Marshal, don't look at these people who are down and out now. In the past, they were either from a family of scholars, or a family of officials, or they were also famous prostitutes, otherwise they would not They will be seen by the leaders of the rogues, ordinary rogues looking for wives, as long as they are good-looking, when they reach a certain level, they will depend on the other party's ability!"

Cheng Shijie understands that this is an ancient tradition, taking concubines and sex, marrying wives and virtuous men.Moreover, these rogue leaders who were born as commoners prefer to find wives and concubines from official families as their wives, just like Gao Jie. In all fairness, the Xing family can only be regarded as average in terms of beauty. pretty woman.

But the problem is that Gao Jie just fell in love with Li Zicheng's wife, Xing Shi, rather than other women.The same problem is also true. Among the family members of the bandit leader, except for a small number of wives who were married before the rebellion, most of them are women from wealthy families.

Cheng Shijie looked at Han Shi and said, "You don't need so many people who are proficient in arithmetic, so give them to me?"

"Okay, Mr. Zhao, Mrs. Yu, Mrs. An, Mrs. Wu, Mrs. Li, Mrs. Qian, Mrs. Tian, ​​and Mrs. Yuan are all given to the commander, especially these eight are young and look very good!"

Han Shi covered her mouth and giggled, full of coquettishness, Cheng Shijie suddenly felt hot in his lower abdomen.

What a witch!
At the very beginning, Han's hair was withered and yellow, and her complexion was extremely poor. She seemed to be 50 to [-] years old, but with the nutritional supplements during this period, she changed from so skinny to a little round and round.

"No, I want this one!"

Cheng Shijie glanced at the birthplaces and ages of the eight talents. The oldest is 22 years old, and the youngest is 17 years old. No matter how smart they are, how much experience they have, Jia is different. Jia is older than Han. He is 35 years old this year. They are already 19 years old. As far as accountants are concerned, they are the same as Chinese medicine practitioners. The older they are, the more experienced they are.

Jia Shi is 35 years old, in future generations, it is the golden age of a person's career.

"Marshal, why don't you take them all away and bring them to Liaodong, and you can use them to set up a professional girls' school. There are teachers, painters, luthiers, musicians, and arithmeticians who are proficient in arithmetic among them. Shuai cultivates more talents!"

Han Shi came to his senses: "Is the commander-in-chief leaving now?"

"Yes, we're leaving!"

Cheng Shijie actually didn't think about beating Zhang Xianzhong to death at once. If Zhang Xianzhong could be easily killed by him, then Zhang Xianzhong would definitely not be able to create such a great reputation.

After all, the fighting power of Zhang Xianzhong's army is not strong. He was also defeated by Qin Liangyu and Zuo Liangyu. If Sun Kewang hadn't saved him, Zuo Liangyu would have killed Zhang Xianzhong. But the problem is, he has been living well of.Regardless of his ability to defeat, Zhang Xianzhong's ability to escape is not bad.

However, the problem is that what Cheng Shijie doesn't know is that Sun Kewang is not reconciled, Zhao Wencai is not reconciled, and Meng En is not reconciled either.

After Sun Kewang was found out by Zhang Xianzhong, he learned from the pain, regrouped and prepared to set off again.

"Big guy!"

"Hopefully, how's the injury?"

"The humble job is no longer a problem, please give the humble job another chance!"

The same thing, from different angles, will get different answers.What Cheng Shijie needed was a piece of blank paper, because it was easy to draw on blank paper.

But what Sun Kewang needed was military merit, and there was also the separation, the separation from Zhang Xianzhong, and the separation from the past.Since taking refuge in Cheng Shijie, Sun Kewang began to participate in the training of Ning Haijun.

During the training process, Sun Kewang, the former rogue, was assimilated by Ning Haijun. Like countless Ning Haijun soldiers, he blindly worshiped Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie is an inexhaustible genius. He is amazing. He can make steel, farm, do water conservancy, and train soldiers. My God, is there anything else he can't do?
Cheng Shijie is now the Duke of Hai of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Liaodong, and the general who conquered the captives. His future is definitely not limited to this. In this increasingly chaotic world, it is Cheng Shijie who is hardworking and talented. great time.Follow Cheng Shijie to fight on the battlefield, make great achievements, and shine on the lintel.

Of course, following Cheng Shijie, they can also get promoted and make a fortune. After this battle alone, at least a few thousand new landlords were born in the Ning Navy Cavalry Command and Guard Command.

If you don't catch Zhang Xianzhong, you will be sorry for Cheng Shijie's expectations of him.

"How many people do you want?"

"Humble jobs require 1000 people!"

"I will give you 1000 people, equipment for 3000 people, and a hundred blank confessions!"

Although Cheng Shijie wanted to use Zhang Xianzhong to cleanse the gentry, the problem was that Zhang Xianzhong was so destructive that almost no grass grew anywhere he and his army passed.

Now that Cheng Shijie has enough strength, he is not afraid that the gentry will not cooperate. Will those with knives be afraid of holding pens?What a joke, in fact, there are not many gentry who really have backbone.

Under the butcher's knife of the Manchu Qing, wouldn't they cooperate?In fact, it also cooperates.

If you don't cooperate, then make them cooperate.

Sun Kewang received Cheng Shijie's order and returned to the bandit camp again.

As time goes by, these rogues actually know what they will face in the future, ten or 25 years of reform through labor, which is too desperate.Although they will not die, they also want to be free.

However, there are only two ways for them to do so. Either go to Luzon and hack the Luzon natives to death. One leader will be sentenced to five years in prison. Even an old thief who has been sentenced to 25 years of labor reform only needs the heads of five indigenous men.

But the problem is that now they are only going to Luzon in batches, especially the landlubbers in Shaanxi. They train every day, making them miserable. If they want to stay in the Central Plains, they can only make meritorious deeds. Seizing Zhang Xianzhong is the best opportunity and the only opportunity.

As Sun Kewang went to the camp to recruit the Death Squad, tens of thousands of people signed up, and Sun Kewang selected more than a thousand people from them. Most of these people were strong and experienced old thieves. Each of them was either 15 years or 25 years old. Reform through labor, reform through labor under ten years is not eligible to participate.

In this way, Sun Kewang, regardless of his own injury, took more than 1000 old thieves and carried half a month's dry food into the mountain.

As the saying goes, "Eat a pit, gain a wisdom", Sun Kewang knew that he couldn't deceive Zhang Xianzhong, he didn't want to attack Zhang Xianzhong openly, but took a sneak attack, beat him with a sap, and secretly set fire to his food and grass.

Instead, Zhang Xianzhong was embarrassed.

Zhang Xianzhong wanted to fight back, but Sun Kewang immediately retreated and ambushed Zhang Xianzhong with the Ning Haijun, Zhao Wencai and Meng En's troops.

Susong County in the south of the Dabie Mountains was originally a bandit den.The head of the family was called Peng Heshang. Later, by chance, Peng Heshang and the others robbed a group of businessmen from Liaodong. phosphate rock veins.

This is a vein about 23 kilometers long, which belongs to the largest phosphate mine in China, and belongs to the Proterozoic sedimentary metamorphic phosphate mine together with the Maimangling phosphate mine in Hubei and the Haizhou phosphate mine in Jiangsu.

This group of businessmen told Monk Peng to beg for food with a cornucopia. Monk Peng knew that they were in a mine, so he traded phosphate rock with merchants from Liaodong. If there was a way, who would be willing to be a bandit?In this way, the phosphate rock here was mined, transported down the mountain, and then loaded on a ship, which could be transported to Liaodong, where they could exchange the phosphate rock for grain in Liaodong.

As the mining industry got better and better, Monk Peng grew from more than 1000 people to more than [-] people, but the problem was that when they were in full swing, Zhang Xianzhong led the remnants of his troops to the territory of Susong, and he dared not fight in the county. , Fear of alarming Ning Haijun, just drill the ravine.

He deserved Zhang Xianzhong's fate. He ventured into Sangong village and found that the village was too rich. The salt stored alone was more than 8000 catties, and there were also a large amount of dried mountain products, and the grain was more than [-] shi.

We must know that a county may not be able to grab more than 5 shi of grain at this lean time, which is enough to show the huge profits of mining.

Zi Jinxing, who was tall, with delicate features but dark eyes, looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said, "My lord, we got rich this time!"

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the neatly placed silver ingots in the silver vault in the cottage, and unexpectedly most of the silver was silver coins issued by the Bank of Liaodong, with a full 10,000+ taels of silver.In addition to silver, there are also a lot of cloth, knives, guns and crossbows. If these miners were not too vigilant, they would not have been taken over by Zhang Xianzhong.

"It's a pity that the leader of the bandit ran away. Otherwise, this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. I really want to set up camp here!"

Zhang Xianzhong knows that a cottage with more than [-] people can exist for so many years. It must have a backer. Maybe they will find their backer after they run away, especially because there are too many Liaodong products found here, whether it is standard knives and guns or fine wine. , even canned.

"My lord, the brothers have been holding back for a while, why don't you let the brothers relax?"

"Be careful, the bandit leader ran away, he must be going to rescue soldiers, we can't stay here for too long!"

"My lord, don't worry, I promise you won't delay the matter!"

Immediately there were shrill screams from Three Gong Village, as well as unscrupulous laughter from the rogues.

Zhang Xianzhong, the bandit leader, was naturally sent over a dozen beauties by the people below. Of course, the families of the miners in these cottages were not like the daughters of the big families in the Jiangnan water town.

The dozen or so women presented to Zhang Xianzhong were disheveled and dull-looking. There was only one young girl in a yellow skirt. Although her skin was dark, she was an ambitious beauty.

However, before Zhang Xianzhong could do anything to the beauty, the girl knew that she would not be spared, so she rushed towards one of Zhang Xianzhong's guards, who had a spear in his hand.

"Puchi..."

The sharp spear pierced through the girl's chest without any delay. The girl opened her mouth, but a mouthful of blood gushed out, and said indistinctly, "You must die!"

The girl died instantly.

The guard of Zhang Xianzhong was terrified: "My lord, no matter how small it is, she bumped into it herself!"

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the girl whose eyes were still wide open, and who was unwilling to die, and heaved a long sigh: "Beauty, why are you bothering, wouldn't it be good to enjoy happiness with this king?"

Zhang Xianzhong picked up a knife, cut off the girl's head, stretched out his hand to grab the hair on the head, then put the head on a plate, took a handkerchief, and gently wiped the blood on the head.

Seeing this scene, the guards around were trembling with fear.

About sixty miles away from Sangong Village, there used to be a grass market here, but at this time it has been ransacked by the bandits under Zhang Xianzhong's command.This Ruoda bazaar has been turned into ruins, and dozens of corpses have been burned like coke.

"Monkey, look at the situation here!"

This time, Sun Kewang had the support of Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun, especially Zhao Wencai handed over the captured more than 160 bad horses to Sun Kewang. Since then, Sun Kewang and others moved more than twice as fast.

The monkey reached out his hand to a burning wooden stake, tested the temperature, grabbed a pile of horse manure, squeezed it open, and observed it. After a long time, he said to Sun Kewang: "Commander Sun, it's them, not ordinary people. Bandit, looking at this method, it must be the gang from the old camp!"

"Which way did they go, and how long?"

"The footprints are too messy. Judging from the traces of the footprints, these people are carrying heavy things and walking towards the southeast, but something is not right!"

"What's wrong?"

"Commander Sun, think about it carefully, how big is this grass market? There are only two to three hundred households in the sky, and the two to three hundred households are all poor ghosts. How many things are worth grabbing?"

"Are they playing the falsehood, the true and the false?"

Sun Ke looked to the northwest, saw only a few footprints and asked, "Are they fleeing in this direction?"

"I judge, nine out of ten, it's in this direction!"

"Fight, chase!"

The information between Sun Kewang and Houzi was asymmetrical. If Zhang Xianzhong really fled to the southeast, he would crash into Zhao Wencai's troops. Even if he chased him, he would not be able to outrun the four-legged cavalry.If Zhang Xianzhong enters the mountain, his great luck will come.

The monkey led the way ahead, chasing this small army that seemed to have only 300 to [-] people. After less than [-] miles, there were more footprints on the road.

"Commander Sun, they are catching up, coming from the two ridges on the left and right!"

"Ok!"

Sun Ke looked at the dense jungle and said: "The mountains here are high and dense, and the mountains are rugged. It is not a problem to hide thousands of troops..."

He stopped talking suddenly, frowned, and listened intently with his ears pricked up.

The monkey who was gnawing on the pie was startled, its cheeks puffed up, and it asked vaguely, "What's the matter, Commander Sun?"

"There is a situation!"

Sun Kewang said: "Someone is coming, hurry up and hide!"

At this time, there was a loud voice from far away. It was obvious that someone was coming along the mountain path, and there were quite a few of them. The thieves did not dare to neglect, and hid behind trees and stones one after another.

The old thieves equipped by Ning Haijun skillfully took out the formation-breaking crossbow, put the sharp crossbow bolts into the arrow slots, and pointed at the road.Not long after, the footsteps became more and more clear, and these footsteps seemed a little messy.

Sure enough, before half a stick of incense, about 200 young and strong men in tattered clothes appeared on the mountain road. At the front of the line, there was a simple stretcher with a bloody man on it. know life and death.

"Go, go!"

"Second leader, those thieves didn't come after us, let's..."

"We must rush to the county seat immediately, otherwise, our family members will be finished!"

At this moment, Sun Kewang had already recognized that these people's accents were not from Shaanxi, and it seemed that they were not from Zhang Xianzhong. Listening to them, it seemed that they had met Zhang Xianzhong.

He took out his revolver and shot into the sky.

"boom!"

The group of young men jumped in fright, some ran away in fright, and some fell to the ground with weak feet, the whole scene was very chaotic.

Sun Kewang appeared in the middle of the road, looked at the crowd and said, "Which one of you is in charge, come out and speak!"

Not long after, the Erdangjia came out obediently. The Erdangjia was a failed scholar, known as Sun Xiucai. In fact, he was an unlucky guy. He didn't even pass the exam for more than ten years. The rich man's stupid son, Zhang Rui, who didn't know a lot of characters, was admitted as a scholar. This made Sun Xiucai explode all of a sudden.

Although the county edict is of the eighth grade, it is equivalent to the county education and culture bureau chief of later generations, but it is also an official ordered by the imperial court. Sun Xiucai beat him, but it is not like later generations who will spend a few years in prison at most. charges.

Sun Xiucai fled to the mountains, just when Monk Peng started to do ore business with Liaodong. Although this Sun Xiucai was old, he didn't even dare to kill a chicken, but the problem was that he could read and settle accounts, so he became the second master of Sangong Village .

"The old man's surname is Sun Ming'an, and his name is Zixia. He is the mine head of Sangong Mountain. Dare to ask the strong man's name!"

"A certain family's surname is Sun, and their name is Kewang!"

Sun Kewang asked: "Master Sun, what's going on with you?"

"To tell you the truth, we are the people who fled from Anqing, Huizhou, Huangzhou and other places. We set up shacks in the Sangong Mountain area, accompanied wild animals, and ate bark and grass roots. They bought a lot of phosphate rocks there, and our Sangong Mountain happened to have phosphate rocks, so we organized a group of strong young people, mined the ore and transported it to Liaodong to sell, and bought some food for a few dollars to make ends meet. It’s tough, but there’s always hope.”

Sun Xiucai was so anxious that he wiped away tears: "Just today, these goddamn beasts came to our Sangongshan mining area under the name of begging. Our head saw them pitiful and was willing to reward them with a bite of food, but , They came later and killed a lot of people with a wave of a knife! Poor those folks, they were already decapitated before they knew what happened. A few children who were running slowly were caught by them and got used to the rocks Life and death!"

Speaking of this, Sun Xiucai burst into tears: "We just want to dig some mines for some money. We have never done anything illegal. Why are they killing us! Poor my mother-in-law can't get up because she is pregnant. bed, hid in the shack, and they burned him alive, beasts, all beasts!"

Sun Kewang fell silent, and so did the old thieves around him.

Sun Xiucai's accusation, murder and arson, these people have done it before. The old thieves looked at Sun Kewang and asked Sun Kewang if he wanted to kill people to silence them.

Sun Kewang said: "How far is your cottage from here?"

Sun Xiucai became vigilant, he found that Sun Kewang was similar to those goddamn thieves, what should we do?
Looking at the doubts and indignation of Sun Xiucai and others, Sun Kewang said: "Master Sun, you don't have to be afraid, I am the Commander of the Ning Navy's guards, Si Zuo!"

"Are you really Marshal Cheng?"

Sun Xiucai almost heard Cheng Shijie's name from the population of Liaodong, and heard that Jiaozi was coming.

Sun Kewang looked smug: "Is there anyone in this world who dares to pretend to be our Ning Haijun?"

"But you..."

Sun Xiucai pointed to the clothes on Sun Kewang: "Your clothes?"

"We are makeup scouts!"

Sun Ke looked at Sun Xiucai and said, "How many thieves are there?"

"There are tens of thousands of people!"

"Ten thousand people!"

Sun Kewang hesitated. He could doubt Zhang Xianzhong's character, but he couldn't doubt his ability to fight. There are tens of thousands of veterans, let alone 1000, even if they have 5000, they are not sure how to deal with them.

To deal with Zhang Xianzhong, Ning Haijun still needs to come forward.

"Qin Zhuang"

"exist!"

"You go to the cavalry to inform General Zhao and General Meng, let them come over for a big meal!"

"Yes!"

After Qin Zhuang and a group of old thieves left, Sun Ke looked at Sun Xiucai and said, "We are going to chase those thieves, do you dare to lead the way?"

Among the crowd, a thin voice came: "Dare!"

"Fifth girl!"

Fifth girl said stubbornly: "They arrested my sister, I must rescue my sister!"

All the young and strong looked at Wu Yatou with a heavy heart. How could a big girl with yellow flowers fall into the hands of their group of beasts?
Seeing someone leading the way, Sun Kewang said excitedly, "How many roads are there in your cottage? Can they lead to the outside?"

"There are three ways!"

Wu Yatou pointed to the road in front of her: "This is one, leading to the county seat, another one leading to the wharf, and the other one is in the back mountain, it's a small road!"

"Monkey, you are quick on your feet, take a group of people to the back mountain!"

"Are there any brothers willing to lead the way?"

Sun Kewang was crazy to think about the credit, now that he touched Zhang Xianzhong's tail, he would never act recklessly again. Although they were few in number, the problem was that they still had grenades and landmines in their hands.

Although the number is not large, it is enough to trap Zhang Xianzhong.

"Brothers, the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune is here, let's see if you can seize it!"

Sun Kewang said excitedly: "Follow the commander-in-chief and make contributions! It's now!"

(End of this chapter)