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

Shen Mingyu is considered a child of a poor family, and he left home for more than seven years, until Shen Mingyu became one of the generals of the Ning Navy and became famous all over the world. Only then did Shen Mingyu's mother, Shen Rong, know that Shen Mingyu was here. In Liaodong, no matter how many grievances Shen Mingyu encountered, after seeing his mother, he couldn't say a word.

After Shen Rongshi found Shen Mingyu, she realized that after so many years, Shen Mingyu was still alone, and Shen Rongshi immediately became anxious. How could this child not be married?Of course, Shen Rong's heart was also broken because of Shen Mingyu's marriage. Even if Shen Mingyu's age was placed in future generations, he would still be considered an older leftover man.

But fortunately, Shen Mingyu is powerful and powerful now, and of course he has money. Shen Mingyu has [-] acres of land rewarded by his military exploits, among which he has houses in Jinzhou, Haizhou, and Liaoyang. In later generations, Shen Mingyu would be the fifth king of diamonds.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was actually similar to the later generations. Men only had land and houses, so they didn’t have to worry about marrying a wife. But in Liaodong, a place that lacks foundation, Shen Rong believed that no one was worthy of his family. son.

Later, Shen Rong found out that Xie Zongze's daughter, Xie Susu, was unmarried. With Xie Susu's family background, she was worthy of Shen Mingyu. After all, Xie Susu's father, Xie Zongze, was a member of the Liaoning Management Committee, responsible for education and culture, and placed it in the Central Plains. , at least an official at the promotion level.

As for Xie Susu's elder brother, Xie Jinglin, he was even more powerful. He was also a member of the management committee and the person in charge of business and diplomacy. His family background was not bad.

However, when Shen Rong wanted to find someone to propose marriage to Xie Zongze, she inquired about Xie Susu's principle: "First, the other party must be from southern Liaoning, and is not allowed to leave southern Liaoning for life. Second, after the other party gets married, they must not Take a concubine. Third, the other party must serve Xie Zongze and Xie Zongze together with Xie Susu for life."

For Shen Rongshi, the first and third clauses are both acceptable. After all, it is normal to be filial to parents and parents-in-law, but what makes Shen Rongshi the most unacceptable is that Xie Susu would not let Shen Mingyu take a concubine, If Xie Susu can't give birth to a child, wouldn't the Shen family be on the brink of death?

Shen Rong tried every means to find a wife for her son, but there was no suitable partner in Liaodong, so she returned to Guide Mansion. In August last year, Shen Mingyu married Yuan Shi of Guide Mansion. After getting married, Shen Mingyu and his 17-year-old wife, Yuan Shi, also get together less often and leave more. Seeing that her daughter-in-law's stomach has not moved, Rong Shi discusses with Yuan Shi to give Shen Mingyu a concubine.

Because Shen Mingyu didn't like him, Yuan shi hardly touched her. Naturally, she couldn't be pregnant. She was full of grievances, and she couldn't tell her mother-in-law. Of course, Yuan shi was also a ruthless person. Concubine?
As Shen Mingyu's main wife, she took in fourteen concubines for Shen Mingyu in one go, five of them were widows who had given birth to sons. This woman, although Yuan's was young and couldn't let go of face, but Shen Mingyu's concubines didn't have any worries in this regard, they already needed to rely on their heirs.

Soon, Shen Mingyu now tasted Chen Dayong's endless pain.

Shen Mingyu, who is over 40 years old, has already started to go downhill. How can he cope with fifteen women who are like wolves and tigers?He wanted to hide in the barracks like Chen Dayong, but it was a pity that at Shen Mingyu's level, he could bring his family.

In this way, Shen Mingyu had no choice but to hide from pain and happiness.

At the beginning of the year, Shen Mingyu weighed 180 jins. After only eleven months, his weight was still less than 140 jins, and he had lost more than 40 jins.

Cheng Shijie was actually very strange, what kind of diet pills did Shen Mingyu take, if he got the prescription, he could make a lot of money in later generations, but Cheng Shijie couldn't copy this prescription.

Later, after Cheng Shijie knew about Shen Mingyu, he joked, "Mingyu, your beauty is not shallow!"

"Marshal, don't make fun of me, and don't look at how many people are around you!"

Cheng Shijie shrugged, really embarrassed to make fun of Shen Mingyu on this issue again.

Shen Mingyu has one concubine and fourteen concubines, which is good for him, but his wife has eight concubines and twelve concubines, although he is not as good as Chen Dayong, but he has five more than Shen Mingyu, how can he have the nerve to say that he has a lot of good luck?

Seeing that Cheng Shijie didn't speak, Shen Mingyu gossiped to Cheng Shijie: "Marshal, do you know that Zhang Yu is the real beauty now?"

"Oh?"

Cheng Shijie asked, "What's going on?"

"Didn't a few boats of prisoners of war be sent to Liaodong a while ago?"

"Yup!"

"Changyu found two Japanese women with pretty looks and elegant temperament from the prisoner-of-war camp to serve as concubines!"

In all fairness, the number of young women in the prisoner-of-war camps is actually very small. Only women with a certain status can keep their innocence and their lives.The two women Zhang Yu found were said to be the daughters of the feudal lord, and they were twins. Xiaori Kingdom exists like a giant.

After talking about the gossip, let's get into the topic.

Zhou Ning said: "Since the commander-in-chief wants to attack Annan, we are going to send people to contact Champa first. The ideal state is to unite with Champa. They are in the south and we are in the north. Our navy will land behind Annan at any time..."

Before Zhou Ning could speak, Cheng Shijie asked puzzledly, "Champa still exists?"

"Of course it still exists, and it was a great success 200 years ago. Their heroic monarchy was so powerful that they mobilized their troops, organized and trained troops, and captured Thang Long City several times. It wasn’t that Zhi Peng’e was ambushed and died later, Annan didn’t know how he would be trampled by him.”

Zhou Ning said with a smile: "However, after the death of Zhi Peng'e, the power of the Champa Kingdom has plummeted, and now there is only one capital city left, which is no different from being destroyed. But after all, the Champa Kingdom has lasted for a thousand years. The land has a deep influence, as long as we form an alliance with Champa, the Champa in all parts of Annan will definitely raise their voices and attack Annan, which will save us a lot of energy."

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "Well, there are indeed many benefits to forming an alliance with Champa, but you have to be careful, don't be used by others."

Zhou Ning smiled and said: "I feel sorry for them. It is not easy for them to continue their national destiny for a thousand years. After being bullied and invaded by the Annan people for hundreds of years, they formed an alliance with them and allowed them to continue to exist as a vassal state after we occupied the entire Annan. civilization, if they are still greedy, don't blame me for being cruel!"

Later, General Staff Ning put the reorganization plan of the Annan Army on Cheng Shijie's desk. More than two-thirds of the original Daredevil Legion were tired of fighting and wanted to return to peace. For resettlement, Cheng Shijie plans to set up eight towns for these more than [-] people, and resettle them in Luzon based on the principle of one hundred households as protection and ten protections as towns.

In order to accommodate these soldiers, Luzon set aside 60 mu of paddy fields, including 120 million mu of dry land, including sugarcane forests and grasslands.

For Luzon, taking out a mere 180 million mu of land is trivial.

These more than [-] households will not even spend the Chinese New Year in Liaodong, and they immediately started packing their bags and preparing to move.

There are no soldiers of the Daredevil Legion, as long as the normal army troops of the Ning Navy are transferred, but they are not completely drawn from Liaodong, but seven regiments are drawn from Luzon. Now Luzon has been cleared by the Ning Navy for nearly half. There is no urgent pressure. It doesn't take that many troops.

There are 5000 troops in the seven regiments of the Luzon Army, with more than 5 troops from the Zuodu Division of the Ninghai Navy, plus a field medical unit, plus three artillery commanders from the Independent Artillery Division, and two cavalry commanders. If you have [-] people, you don't have to worry about Xiaotian playing tricks in Annan in a one-to-one situation.

The Annan Army, headed by Shen Mingyu, is divided into ten combat capitals. For the Annan Army, there is another reference function, which is to truly experiment with the new muskets of the Ning Navy. Desailey rifle.

But unlike the rifles of later generations, it is essentially just an old rifle with paper shells and fixed ammunition.Rifle bullets consist of lead bullets, priming powder and black powder, which are packaged together by paper. The priming powder is not at the tail of the bullet, but at the tail of the projectile, which is the middle of the bullet.

After the trigger is pulled, the long firing pin will directly penetrate the paper package, pierce the primer at the bottom of the projectile, detonate it, and then ignite the nitrocellulose.The Dresser M41 rifle uses black powder.

Gun cotton is a good thing. It is easy to make and has great power. After the explosion, there is very little residue, which is easy to keep the inside of the chamber clean. It is an ideal launch.However, dry gun cotton is very dangerous, a little spark will explode, so it must be kept slightly damp, or treated with methanol-mixture to reduce its sensitivity, otherwise it will definitely kill people.

Of course, the Chongzhen eight-year-style rifle and the Dresser M41 have different rotating and rear-action bolts. The Dresser M41’s bolt only serves as a lock, and there is no such thing as a bolt-action rifle that pulls back and pulls the shell. function.The Chongzhen eight-year-style rifle has this function of extracting shells.

In the next 30 to 20 years, flintlock guns have quietly emerged in Europe, and will become the mainstream equipment of the European Army within the next 60 years.Rifled flintlock guns will not appear until about 200 years later, and the Chongzhen Eight-Year-Type Rifle of the Ning Navy is a product of more than [-] years later.

When a group of crossbowmen go to shoot at the enemy armed with arquebus and flintlock, they will not suffer a loss. When they only have rifled flintlock guns, they will suffer from the range. Now Cheng Shijie is far away from the world's most advanced. Front.

Although Cheng Shijie actually still has time, the problem is that there are still considerable difficulties in making copper bullets. At least the Gun Bureau has not solved this problem.In fact, the principle of the bullet and the shell is the same, and the cannon is also an enlarged version of the gun, but it is easy to make it bigger, but it is difficult to make it small.

Cheng Shijie is quite satisfied with this at present. After the Chongzhen eight-year-style rifle was finalized, it has been fully produced. Now it can produce about [-] to [-] pieces per month.This is also the result of extensive use of hydraulic machinery, steam machinery, and assembly line operations.However, this kind of output is enough to be proud of most arsenals in this era.

The Ning naval forces of the Annan Army, each division has four types of equipment: cavalry, infantry, artillery, guns, and cold weapons. In fact, the bows and knives and guns equipped with cold weapons are served by the mad dog army. The soldiers are served by Ning Navy soldiers.

According to this plan, the reorganization of the Annan Army will be completed within two to three months at the earliest. Of course, the Rabid Dog Army can also receive further training.

Cheng Shijie took the battleship Zhili and went to the capital. When Cheng Shijie came to Beijing, he found that the city of Beijing had hardly changed. There is no change, but more refugees. The skinny beggars begging around on the street and the children with grass bones on their heads standing timidly on the side of the street, waiting for buyers with their mothers, made Cheng Shijie feel heavy.

Cheng Shijie looked at the officials who came to greet him and said: "What do those officials do for food? So many people have been displaced, so why don't they see it?"

The official who was in charge of welcoming him had a wry smile on his face: "Duke Hai doesn't know something. This is all caused by the Dashun army. Originally, the capital's food storage did not exceed 260 million shi. During the four-month freezing period, it was barely enough. But in late September, the Dashun army The Shun army rushed to the state, and the grain was robbed many times, and the governor of the water transport had to stop the grain transport. Now that the grain reserves are less, I am afraid that it will not be enough to wait until the opening of the canal next year!"

Cheng Shijie came to live in the mansion in the capital, and Cheng Shijie took a beautiful bath. Before the bath was finished, Wang Chengen came to the mansion and let Cheng Shijie enter the palace.

"Sir, Cheng Shijie pays homage to His Majesty the Emperor..."

Before Cheng Shijie could finish speaking, Emperor Chongzhen said, "There are no outsiders here, so feel free!"

"Your Majesty, this etiquette is indispensable."

"How is Liaodong now?"

"The situation is very good! In the past few months, we have easily sold more than 400 million shi of old grain that cannot be sold, and there are also a large amount of iron and cloth. The supply is simply in short supply!"

"How about the small days of this expedition?"

"Your Majesty, you..."

Cheng Shijie pretended to be reluctant and said: "I finally took down Nagasaki, and before you have time to fight against the Tokugawa shogunate, you have someone notify you to return to the teacher. This time, I only seized two or three million taels of silver!"

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie took out a booklet, which recorded the 200 million taels of silver that Cheng Shijie brought to Beijing this time, and the three thousand shi of rice seized from his childhood, as well as various seafood, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and the like.

Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the basket next to the imperial case, and said, "These are memorials to impeach you. They said that you actually sold grain to the rebels?"

"That's right!"

Emperor Chongzhen thought Cheng Shijie would argue, but Cheng Shijie directly admitted: "Last month, Liaodong sold 50 shi of aged grain and 20 catties of potatoes to Shandong, earning [-] taels of silver!"

Emperor Chongzhen slapped the case: "You are an enemy, so you know what crime you should be guilty of?"

"As far as the enemy is concerned, none of the officials and gentry in Shandong and Nanzhili can escape. They are the most happy to do business with the rebels. They sell medicine, grain and gunpowder. Some generals who went to suppress the rebellion even took Military rations, cannons, knives and guns were all sold to the rebels, and we only sell a little old rations, which is already very polite.”

Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that his body trembled slightly: "It's unreasonable, it's really unreasonable, it's simply lawless..."

"Your Majesty, what do you know? If I don't provide them with enough food, they will rob the people of their lives, and eventually make more people unable to survive, and then join the rebels; if I don't earn enough from them If I don’t have the money, I can’t spend money to cultivate fields and set up factories to attract refugees, and those refugees who can’t find a way to survive will eventually join the rebels without hesitation!”

Emperor Chongzhen laughed back angrily: "Are you still reasonable? Do you know that it is because of your support that the rebel army has grown stronger and stronger, and it has grown to more than 50 in just a few months, killing countless officials and gentry?"

"Then what happened to Guan Chen? It wasn't the minister's fault!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Besides, those rebels who were executed by the rebels are not good people. It must be wrong to kill them all, but if eight out of ten are killed, there must be omissions! The rebels are just 60 taels of silver were confiscated from the house of the prefect of Yanzhou, and 160 million taels of silver were confiscated from the treasury of the magistrate of Dongchang.

Emperor Chongzhen was silent, and those gentry were full of benevolence and morality, but they pretended to be deaf and dumb when they encountered problems.

Cheng Shijie continued: "They are guarding the piles of goods, and the food is moldy in the warehouse, and they refuse to take out any food to help the hungry people. In the end, this rebellion broke out. Who can blame? These bastards are dead, and I will die." Have no sympathy for them."

This remark was so deviant to the extreme that Emperor Chongzhen was so shocked that his eyes were filled with stars and he was speechless.

After a long time, Emperor Chongzhen put his teacup on the table and sternly said: "Shut up! Your courage is getting bigger and bigger. It is enough to punish the whole family for your rebellious words just now. Do you want to kill me?" Will the whole of Liaodong flow into rivers of blood?"

Ever since Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang came back from Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen knew the real situation in Liaodong.

It is impossible for the court to move Cheng Shijie again, unless Cheng Shijie really raises the flag to rebel.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen was also testing Cheng Shijie. If Cheng Shijie denied selling food to the rebels, it meant that Cheng Shijie already had a heart of disobedience, so he should keep Cheng Shijie in the capital and never let Cheng Shijie leave for the rest of his life.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie's answer is as frank as ever, which proves that Cheng Shijie has no resentment.

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "Your Majesty, I'm not wrong. Do you know why there are more and more refugees in the past century? It's not a natural disaster, it's a man-made disaster! It's them who took the common people's fields, and they are the ones who took what they should pay. Taxes are pushed to the common people, sucking the blood and tears of the common people to live a life of rich clothes and fine food!"

Cheng Shijie's voice became louder and louder: "The country raises taxes again and again, which makes it easier for these bastards. When one tael of silver goes into the treasury, it means that ten taels of silver go into the pockets of these resident insects! Those funerals All conscientious officials and gentry deserve to die! If they don’t die, thousands of ordinary people will die; if they don’t die, Daming will be eaten up by them!”

Cheng Shijie snorted: "Instead of letting tens of millions of people cry in despair, it's better to let their families cry; instead of turning tens of millions of towns into a hell where there are no people but ghosts crying, it's better to send them to hell!"

Cheng Shijie and Emperor Chongzhen started the rebellion of Dashun Army in Shandong. Cheng Shijie truthfully introduced the facts of the Shandong rebellion to Emperor Chongzhen. Don't exterminate them until Zhili in southeast Shandong has been washed.

"In fact, not only Shandong, but the entire North China Plain, Shandong, Henan, North Zhili, and South Zhili. Most of the land is in the hands of officials and gentry who do not pay taxes. Putting down the rebellion of the Dashun Army will not benefit the court at all."

Cheng Shijie said excitedly: "But if the rebel army uproots the huge bureaucratic gentry interest group, distributes their fields to the common people, and then wipes them out, the imperial court can collect taxes from the common people who have distributed the fields. , the money and grain that can be collected in Shandong and Henan can easily be doubled or doubled!"

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "I'm afraid that the rebel forces will be stable by then, and they won't be able to suppress them even if they want to."

Cheng Shijie proudly said: "There is no rebel army that Ning Haijun can't destroy!"

Cheng Shijie is telling the truth.

Now the Dashun Army's active area is between the Yellow River and the Huaihe River. The Ning Navy can attack from the Shuihe River, attacking from north to south,

With the incomparable fighting power of the Ning Navy, how difficult is it to wipe out the rebels?

The problem is that the Dashun Army is different from the rogues who can only destroy but not build. They don't kill innocent people indiscriminately, they don't rape or rape women, they don't loot the village, and they distribute the land to the common people every time they lay down a field, organize production, and start early. Is it really good for the imperial court to wipe out this gangster?

Perhaps, as Cheng Shijie said, it would be better for the imperial court to wait until they wiped out the entire Shandong, Henan, Zhili, and even Huguang officials and gentry groups?
Emperor Chongzhen stared at Cheng Shijie: "Does this rebellion have anything to do with you?"

Cheng Shijie was taken aback and said, "How is that possible! I am loyal to the imperial court..."

"The Marshal of the Dashun Army is Song Xiance, don't say you don't know him!"

Emperor Chongzhen stared into Cheng Shijie's eyes.

However, how could Cheng Shijie, who had been the deputy director of the office for many years, be easily seen through by Emperor Chongzhen?
His eyes were as calm as water, and he said slowly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, Song Xiance used to be a minister's staff, but later, after Song Xiance followed the minister, he made money and married a wife who was as beautiful as a flower and a jade. Xiance was also Lin Xuzong's benefactor. It was Song Xiance who introduced Lin Xuzong to his ministers, and he was reused. This bastard Lin Xuzong was ungrateful. He committed adultery with Song Xiance's wife, but was smashed by Song Xiance. However, Lin Xuzong escaped from Song Xiance's home. Song Xiance took his family members to Lin Xuzong's mansion, and set fire to Lin Xuzong's mansion, causing casualties to innocent people. At that time, I asked my adopted son Cheng Hu to arrest Song Xiance... However, Song Xiance accidentally killed Cheng Hu, the adopted son of the minister, and escaped from Liaodong!"

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie said: "Originally, I was a nostalgic person. Song Xiance did a lot of things for me. He escaped from Liaodong. I didn't send anyone to continue chasing and killing him. After all, it's a master and servant!"

Regarding Cheng Shijie's statement, Emperor Chongzhen had already investigated it, and Cheng Shijie's statement was basically consistent with his investigation results. He dispatched [-] elite troops to prepare to kill Song Xiance.

Song Xiance's subordinates were beaten to pieces. As a result, Song Xiance bribed Cheng Shijie with 80 taels of silver, so Cheng Shijie withdrew his troops and stopped fighting.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen thought that everything was under his control, but this was Cheng Shijie's plan. The highest state of lying is that there is truth and falsehood, and falsehood is true.

For Cheng Shijie, he is professional in lying and dealing with leaders. (end of this chapter)