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

Chapter 28 Fishing law enforcement volunteers take the bait

Chapter 027

Cheng Shijie naturally heard Xiao Qi's hint.

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't tell, Cheng Shijie had lived on a dog for so many years.

He is an official bought with money, which means that he is equivalent to being airborne in later generations.

Since it was airborne, it must have blocked the way of some people. It is strange that they are not jealous.

Zuo Qianhu had a high expectation to become an official, and Han Wenfei's deputy Qianhu had no ambition to make progress, which means that the person who succeeded Zuo Qianhu should come from outside the Zuo Qianhu office in Dengzhou, which is actually not difficult to guess.The transfer across thousands of households, whether it is a flat move, a left move, or a Jin move, can only be a big shot in the Si Yamen, the commander of the Dengzhou Guard.

It is said that there are three fires for a new official to take office, but in fact, why is there no test?
Now comes the test.

Cheng Shijie ordered to call the Baihu, Shibaihu, Zongqi, Xiaoqi and other officers from Zuoqianhusuo to come to Qianhusuo for a meeting.

According to the past, they would have delayed this order and could not find excuses, but now, with the rich and powerful Cheng Daqianhu, they are building kilns to fire bricks and tiles, wood factories, and salt factories in Qianhu House.

The military households participating in the work will be paid a bucket of grain per day, which greatly boosts the morale of the military households in the entire Qianhu Office. Even after the fall, many people still come to work in the Qianhu Office.

More importantly, the two camps of Zhongzuo and Zhongbaihusuo have taken on a new look, and the other [-]husuos are in a hurry. They also want to live in a new house and want to live with their wives like Zhongzuo and Zhongbaihusuo. The little days when the children were hot and cold.

"Meet Lord Qianhu!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the crowd and said: "Ben Qianhu called everyone here today. The main reason is that the commander ordered us Zuo Qianhu to put down the bandit Qin Wu. Let everyone tell us about the origin of this Qin Wu!"

Zhou Yandong coughed and said, "Lord Qianhu, you should have pushed this matter away!"

"If you can push it, you will definitely push it, isn't it impossible to push it away!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Our Thousand Households Office has been busy for so long, and nearly one-third of the houses have not been repaired. If the houses are not repaired, how can we survive the winter!"

"This battle is not easy to fight!"

Zhou Yandong said: "Speaking of Qin Wu, in fact, in the second year of Chongzhen, the world's soldiers and horses Qin Wang. Zhejiang Dusi sent a troop north to Qin King. After this army of Qin King arrived in the capital, Jiannu had already withdrawn. The court Order the army of King Qin from all over the place to return!"

Cheng Shijie understood.

At that time, the court had no money, and when they came to King Qin, local officials from all over the country provided food for the army that came to King Qin for a day, but when they returned, no one took care of them.There was a situation where the army looted the place, and some of the Zhejiang army died of illness and exhaustion on the way.

Liu Yiqing, who was the commander of the Zhejiang Army at that time, was also a talent. He couldn't raise food and couldn't bring a large army back to Zhejiang, so he sold part of the army to a miner in Terengganu Prefecture, and sent about 12 Zhejiang soldiers Sold as a miner.Qin Wu was a lower-ranking officer in this miner slave at that time, and served as the post chief.Because the Jianjun Army was influenced by the Qi Family Army, its organization was different from that of the Daming Guards, with 50 people forming a team, four teams plus chief and deputy post chiefs, and [-] people forming a post.

Digging coal in the mine is a very heavy manual labor. The miners are poorly fed and suffer heavy casualties.The unbearable Qin Wu led the miners to riot and went out of the coal mine.

This Qin Wu is very cunning. He is different from ordinary rebels rushing to the state. He neither goes to the county nor the state, but specifically selects the farms of the landlords outside the city.

Dengzhou Wei once sent people to encircle and suppress, but they all failed, and the losses were very heavy.

"This battle cannot be fought!"

Zhou Yandong said: "Qin Wu has a cavalry team with about 300 riders. We people can't stand a round of shock at all. Besides, Qin Wu has captured several cannons. He wants guns and cannons. The guns are better equipped than the most elite troops of the Dengzhou Guard!"

Other hundred households are also persuading Cheng Shijie not to fight.

Cheng Shijie's eyes glowed green. It is really difficult for him now. Although he still has more than 4000 taels of silver, they have to pay more than 600 taels of silver every month, and they have to prepare cotton-padded clothes for the winter. Differently, the cotton clothes and cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty were frighteningly expensive.

With a soldier's cotton-padded clothes, cotton-padded shoes and overcoat, this outfit would cost at least 15 taels of silver. This is not buying ready-made clothes directly, but buying cloth for the women of the Thousand Households to process uniformly.The female workers only have seven liters of grain wages per day, which is equivalent to 35 copper coins if converted into copper coins.However, the wages of male workers are [-]. This is the result of everyone's resistance, and they are determined to make equal pay for men and women.

Even if ordinary military households are ignored, more than 400 household soldiers need more than 6000 taels of silver, and Cheng Shijie's money is not much.

Reselling crystals or steel knives involves a problem of thinking that rare things are expensive, and the risk is too high. Cheng Shijie doesn't want to smash the crystal glass products market in Dengzhou.This is just like the diamond market in later generations. Diamond production can be increased by a hundred times. Once the production is too high, the diamond market will avalanche.

People are not rich without windfall, and horses are neither night nor fat.

Cheng Shijie's troop training time is not long, just in time to practice with these bandits.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Cheng Shijie took a fancy to Qin Wu's savings over the past two years. Given Qin Wu's reputation, he should have robbed a lot of money.

"Where is Qin Wu's lair, does anyone know?"

"It's not a secret!"

Zhou Yandong said: "It's in Linglong Mountain in Huang County, but there are continuous hills and ravines, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The last time Dengzhou Guard's [-] troops failed to take down..."

"That's the end of the matter. After everyone goes back, harvest the military fields of their respective hundred households and put them into the warehouse as soon as possible!"

"But this year's drought has caused almost no food harvest!"

"It's okay to accept a little bit, anyway, no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat!"

With hundreds of households leaving.

Song Kangnian looked at Cheng Shijie with a half-smile and said, "Master Qianhu is worried about how to deal with the bandit Qin Wu?"

Cheng Shijie said flatly: "Speak if you have something to say, and fart if you have something to say!"

Song Kangnian looked at Cheng Shijie in surprise: "Why is Master Qianhu so vulgar?"

"I was a rough person, I'm fine now, stop pretending!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Song Kangnian and said, "Does Mr. Song have three strategies for Cheng to choose?"

"Uh……"

Song Kangnian was slightly taken aback: "Master Qianhu can read minds?"

"Fart mind reading skills, I've seen a lot of people like you!"

Cheng Shijie got up and made a gesture to leave.

Song Kangnian said: "I said, I said..."

……

After Cheng Shijie received the order, the whole Qianhu House was still the same. Those who should be busy with the autumn harvest were busy with the autumn harvest, those who should be repairing the house were repairing the house, and those who should be training were still training.

Before the routine training, Cheng Shijie still gave lectures.

"Today I can tell you a piece of good news. The collective bathhouse built by Benqianhu has been completed, and everyone can take a free hot bath tonight!"

The soldiers of the family were very happy. In fact, no one wanted to be sloppy, but bathing was fine in summer, and it was a very luxurious thing in winter.

You can take a hot bath to relieve fatigue, which has many benefits.But in many cases, the conditions do not allow it.

Cheng Shijie said: "The second thing is that this Qianhu is going to set up a primary school in Qianhu's residence. Any of your relatives or your own children can be sent to the school. There is only one teacher in the school for the time being!"

In fact, Cheng Shijie didn't think too much at this time.I just want to find something for Song Kangnian to do, so that he won't pretend to be a fool.

However, Cheng Shijie ignored the desire for knowledge in the late Ming Dynasty. The children of military households have been military households for generations, but there is only one exception, and that is to participate in the imperial examination.Many high-ranking officials and dignitaries from military households in Ming Dynasty, including Zhang Juzheng, Hai Rui, and Yuan Keli were all from military backgrounds.

Pity the parents of the world.

"Master Qianhu can go to school for free?"

Cheng Shijie asked, "Are you rich?"

"no!"

"That's it. Since everyone has no money, this thousand households will naturally not accept money, and neither will you!"

Everyone laughed, and many laughed so hard that tears flowed out.

Who doesn't want their kids to read?It’s just that studying costs a lot of money, paper, pen and ink, going out to study, buying books, and the salary for the husband are not small sums. In addition, there are very few schools. They are either government schools or private schools run by landlords and gentry, which only recruit clan children. The poor have no blessings.

It can be said that the right to read and write has been monopolized by the rich, and the poor can only drool.

Cheng Shijie wanted to open a primary school, and in Song Kangnian's view, Cheng Shijie was building a talent pool to wait for the right time.As long as the time comes, Cheng Shijie will soar into the sky.

Just when the troops were training.

A huge convoy appeared in front of the north gate of Zuoqianhusuo. The entire convoy consisted of more than 100 large vehicles. Looking at the ruts formed by the wheels on the ground, it was obvious that they were loaded with heavy objects.

The soldier guarding the city gate asked, "What is this?"

"The grain purchased by Master Qianhu. Lord, this is the certificate, please look over it!"

"Let go!"

Pedestrians and military households were also talking about it.

"Hey, have you guys heard? Lord Qianhu is buying food again!"

"The densely packed carts are full of grain, and the warehouse is almost full!"

"Why do you buy so much grain?"

"Eat, idiot!"

The folks of these convoys put the grain in the warehouse of Qianhusuo, and then left, almost every day.

After five days in a row, it finally attracted the attention of interested people.

……

Huang County, Linglong Mountain.

A fast horse ride broke through the tranquility of the morning.

"I want to meet the head of the family, I have important information!"

Qin Wu looked at the fine work in front of him: "Did you see it clearly?"

"It's so real, in order to prevent it from being fake, I even got a closer look!"

"The head of the family, could it be something tricky?"

Qin Wu was still hesitating.

"They said they had ordered Zuo Qianhu to attack us... Are they buying grain at this time?"

(End of this chapter)