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

Chapter 315 The Peaceful Days Are Over
Chapter 314

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "I can't tell whether you are loyal to the imperial court or not, but everyone knows that you are bold!"

Cheng Shijie said with an aggrieved face: "Your Majesty, the sun and the moon can learn from my loyalty. If Your Majesty does not believe in my heart, I will judge myself!"

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie made a gesture and slammed into the big pillar in front of the imperial palace.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said: "Cheng Qing, you'd better plan to clear the line with Song Xian... You are a rare talent, I really don't want you to make a wrong step and become a sinner forever!"

Hearing what Emperor Chongzhen said, Cheng Shijie heaved a sigh of relief, and he passed this test.

As the deputy director of the office of the Hansteel Group, Cheng Shijie has a very wide scope of work. He needs to assist the leadership and coordinate the work of the agency, as well as the agency's foreign affairs activities and related reception work. If an enterprise is compared to a small country, then the office of the agency is basically the Government Affairs Council functions.

Cheng Shijie has a lot of mothers-in-law, so he has a lot of experience in dealing with leaders. As a cadre in the office, he must not be too upright. An upright person will definitely not be able to do the work in the office.

In fact, in front of Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie was more proficient than the cabinet ministers. He had to show his work achievements and leave some deficiencies that the leaders could see at a glance. Under the leadership, the work was done well under the guidance.

In this way, the leader has face and a sense of accomplishment.

Just like Emperor Chongzhen is very satisfied now, in his information, Cheng Shijie actually has a certain connection with Song Xiance, at least Cheng Shijie gave Song Xiance a certain amount of help when Cheng Shijie started the incident in Song Xiance.

As for not wanting to wipe out the Dashun Army prematurely, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie was actually preparing to support the bandits. Among them, Zhang Xianzhong, who was more famous, had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, and was wiped out by Cheng Shijie in less than two days.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen asked Cheng Shijie, who had been attacking in his childhood, to lead his army back to the army, and Cheng Shijie dropped the fat on his lips. This shows that Cheng Shijie still attaches great importance to the emperor Chongzhen.

In the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, he has been on the throne for more than eight years, and the various policies he proposed cannot be implemented at all. He is actually not satisfied with the gentry officials. Beneficial to the country and society.

It's just that Emperor Chongzhen couldn't do this, because it was the court's face.

What's more, now we have to face an urgent problem. Because of the Dashun Army's rebellion, the water transport was cut off. It was originally estimated that the grain storage was 360 million shi, and there was still a shortfall of more than 100 million shi. trouble.

Emperor Chongzhen said: "There is a serious shortage of food in the capital, and there is no need to delay!"

Emperor Chongzhen explained the water transportation to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly when he heard this: "Your Majesty means..."

"It is impossible for grain to arrive in Gyeonggi before the first ten days of April!"

Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Last year, the Yellow River flooded with mud and water, destroying and silting the canals in the floodplain area. It was originally planned to repair and dredge the canals this spring. For four months, the dredging of the river was delayed, and now the Jinan and Yanzhou prefectures have been devastated, and hundreds of officials have been arrested or killed, and they have almost been taken away. How can we organize the manpower?"

Cheng Shijie could only smile wryly.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, the division of the party, the division within the party, and the division of the faction are the norm in the officialdom. However, these people only have self-interest in their eyes and have no country. I oppose what you support, and you oppose it because you oppose Oppose my support, support because of support, without asking right or wrong.

"Your Majesty means that I want to put down the chaos of the Dashun army before the year?"

"Now it's not a matter of suppressing the rebellion or not. The big thing is that the canal canal is blocked. The canal is silted up and the weather is getting warmer. The sea, its land becomes a marsh, and the road is bound to be impassable."

The headache for Emperor Chongzhen was that the financial situation of the treasury, which had finally improved, was immediately turned down because of this canal. To dredge the canal, this is not a small project, but a large project. Scattering, and supervising the construction of the canal, these are all problems.

An idea flashed in Cheng Shijie's head. It is not difficult to solve this problem. It only needs to be transported by sea. The total length of the canal is 790 kilometers, which is 580 miles. Such a long canal requires a lot of water. It also requires a large number of tank boats, and now this canal has formed a huge interest group.

Just like Liao pay, it has become a long-standing disadvantage, because there are many people who benefit from the canal, and the governor of the water transport who guards the water transport canal is full of oil.This is like the medical reform of later generations. The more reformed the medical system, the more expensive it is, and the more medicines are reimbursed, the more ordinary people look down on medical treatment.

Everyone knows how much a stone of grain is lost. In fact, the water transport in the Ming Dynasty has reached the point of blatantly. Cao grain is not as good as the annual loss of Ming Dynasty river transport.”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the cost of building a tank ship in Qingjiangpu Dock was about 105 taels of silver. If calculated based on the need to replace 2000 tank ships every year, the annual shipbuilding cost was about 21 taels of silver.Every year, 400 million shi meters of grain are transported, and the direct freight of river transportation reaches 800 million shi meters.

This is no less than the imperial court's expenditure on the Liao pay, not to mention the loss of 30 to 80 ships every year, the average death of more than [-] Cao Ding every year, and the loss of [-] shi to [-] grain. Between ten thousand stones.

It’s hard to say whether an accident really happened. Using Cheng Shijie’s own example, a ship of 45 shi of grain was transported from Luzon. Calculated on the basis of 21 people per ship, it takes [-] days with the wind and [-] days with the headwind, and each person eats food every day. For three liters of food, the consumption is only equivalent to two or three percent.

However, abolishing water transport and changing it to sea transport is equivalent to letting water transport millions of water workers, 12 water workers, and millions of water transport workers. Whoever dares to lift the lid will be the enemy of this interest group.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Cheng Shijie, and he naturally hoped that Cheng Shijie would lift the lid. Once lifted, this problem could be solved perfectly.

Cheng Shijie looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, do you want me to submit this note?"

In fact, Cheng Shijie didn't want to wade into this muddy water. Whoever wants to poke this cover will be removed, and whoever wants to cover it up is allowed to cover it up. He only does what he thinks is right.

"How do you get the memorial?"

Cheng Shijie said: "My minister thinks that the central government has bluntly stated the three strategies of asking the central government to transfer grain from the south of the Yangtze River, temporarily open the sea canals, and move the garrison to places with ports along the coast to eat. It is good for the court to adopt these three strategies. There is no harm in adopting it... There is no other better way to solve the food shortage in Gyeonggi. Time is really tight, and the grain in Gyeonggi may only last until mid-April. We must fight for every hour, and we must not wait until Beijing and China reach a resolution. If there is more action. If it is delayed for a day, I don’t know how many people will starve to death in Gyeonggi."

The food shortage in Gyeonggi is not only a shortage of [-] shi or [-] shi of grain, but a shortage of millions of shi of grain.

Gyeonggi is responsible for solving the food problems of Xuanhua, Jizhen, and the two towns of 18 frontier troops, 300 forbidden central defenders, and [-] to [-] army horses. To maintain such a large army, one year's military food plus transportation loss, More than [-] million stone grains are needed.

The North China Plain was originally an important grain-producing area. In the past, the Gyeonggi needed grain, and Baoding Prefecture (the five prefectures of Hebei in later generations, and now the five prefectures of Beizhili) could solve part of it; The food relief for two to three million refugees.

One plus and one minus made the food shortage in Gyeonggi worse and fueled the fire.

If there is no water transportation, even if there are so many cattle and horses in Liaodong, it will not be able to bear such a transportation volume. Take the four-wheeled heavy-duty horse-drawn carriage in Liaodong as an example. Barely transporting ten stones, 300 million grains require 30 carts, 60 mules and horses, and 30 coachmen to transport. Such huge carriages are lined up in a long line and walk on the post road. long queue.

If it is a ship by sea, it is much simpler. The transport ship of the Ning Navy can transport [-] shi a ship, and [-] ships are almost the same. Yes, one trip every half a month, one round trip a month, only one hundred five-thousand-stone ships, plus thirty thousand boatmen and sailors, can solve the problem.

Everything is easier said than done.

Emperor Chongzhen understood Cheng Shijie's meaning. His main intention was to transfer 18 bans from the capital to Tianjin for food, but the question is, how could there be no troops stationed in the capital?

If there were no 18 forbidden troops, Emperor Chongzhen would not sleep well, and the soldiers and horses in Xuanfu and Jizhen would not be able to move. What if the nearly [-] troops were mobilized and Jiannu came back?
Who can guarantee that Jiannu will not invade the border again?
Who can guarantee that Jiannu will no longer send troops?

No one can guarantee this, even Cheng Shijie can't guarantee it. Under rational circumstances, it is best for Jiannu not to provoke Ning Haijun, but if a snowstorm breaks out in Liaodong in winter, Jiannu can't survive in Liaodong, and they can only go south .

After all, it is better to fight to death from freezing to death in Liaodong.

After Chongzhen finished chatting with Cheng Shijie, he was not angry this time, but his expression became bitter.Of course he knew where the problem was. Daming was already rotten to the core. He was fighting against the corrupt officials in Daming alone. Even if he knew where the problem was, so what?
"Cheng Qing, if you are, what should you do now?"

"First of all, let's temporarily put aside the issue of the Dashun Army and let them fight..."

"You are rebellious, I don't want to hear this anymore!"

Cheng Shijie ignored Emperor Chongzhen's furious eyes, stared at him firmly, and asked word for word: "Your Majesty, always think about the princes and clan, have they ever thought about His Majesty? Your Majesty is always thinking about scholars and gentry, have they ever thought about it Has Your Majesty thought about it?"

Chongzhen slapped the table with his palm, causing the cup to jump up: "Shut up! Just talking nonsense at you, ten heads are not enough to cut off!"

Cheng Shijie stopped talking, but his expression was very stubborn, and he didn't mean to bow his head to admit his mistake.

Emperor Chongzhen stared at him with a gloomy complexion and flickering eyes, probably wondering if Jin Yiwei should come over to arrest him.

The air seemed to freeze, and even the maids standing in the distance shuddered, even though they couldn't hear what the two were arguing at all.

Silence, disturbing silence.

After a long while, Chongzhen finally broke the silence: "If you tell me these outrageous things, aren't you afraid that I will chop off your head and punish your nine clans?"

Cheng Shijie said: "Your Majesty is concerned about the humiliation of the minister, and the minister is humiliated to death. Your Majesty works hard on state affairs all day long, wanders around day and night, asks his advice, and I naturally have to make suggestions. This is my duty. To what extent it is adopted is up to His Majesty."

Emperor Chongzhen's expression was a bit complicated: "You are so bold!"

Cheng Shijie saw that Emperor Chongzhen was stern, and said very calmly: "If a person doesn't even have the courage to speak out what's in his heart, what's the taste of life?"

Emperor Chongzhen took a deep breath and changed the subject: "The rebels really only kill the local tyrants and evil gentry, and don't hurt the common people?"

"There are still bad stories of massacres of the people, which cannot be avoided, but they dare not do too much. So far, no atrocities have occurred in the massacre of the city, because they are the closest to Ning Haijun, and they know that what Ning Haijun hates most is the massacre of the people and the humiliation of women. !"

Chongzhen nodded slightly and said: "If the rebels really clean up those officials and vassals in Shandong, can the grain payment that Shandong and Henan can pay ten times?"

"That depends on who is going to govern. It may be less than it is now if someone else changes, but if you change ministers to govern, it will definitely increase tenfold."

Cheng Shijie said in his heart: "Just kidding, in later generations, the grain output of Shangqiu alone will reach more than 2000 million tons a year! Of course it is not as good as it will be a few hundred years later, but the phosphate fertilizer, pesticide and other industries are also getting better. One-tenth of the output of agriculture cannot be achieved, right?"

明朝全国两京十三省一年交纳漕粮400万石，基本上能给国家交比较多粮食的也就是6个省!其中南直隶每年交180万石、浙江63万石、江西57万石、河南和山东各38万石，湖广25万石。

If Henan and Shandong were really handed over to Cheng Shijie, it would be ten times more than 760 million shi, or about 11 billion jin, converted into tons, less than 9000 tons.

In the lands of Shandong and Henan, there is sufficient supply of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but there is still less than 60 tons of grain to hand over, so he simply hangs himself with noodles.

"You can not!"

Emperor Chongzhen can't move Cheng Shijie now, but it doesn't mean he wants to give Cheng Shijie more power and territory. Now Liaodong is monolithically managed by Cheng Shijie, and Shandong and Henan are handed over to Cheng Shijie. Officials had no other ideas.

"Then, I have nothing to do!"

"You recommend a minister to govern Shandong and Henan!"

"The minister really has a candidate!"

"who is it?"

"Elder Sun Chengzong, Sun Ge!"

"No, Sun Ge is getting old..."

Cheng Shijie said: "Sun Ge's prestige is enough, I'm afraid there are not many criticisms in the court!"

In Cheng Shijie's mind, Wen Tiren opposed Sun Chengzong because he was afraid that Sun Chengzong would take his position, but the governor of Henan and Shandong, or the governor, was just a local official and could not threaten Wen Tiren's position.

"Although Mr. Sun Ge is a great talent, he has enough qualifications to be a governor of Henan and Shandong. However, the bandits in the northwest are getting more and more violent, and Jiannu is about to make trouble in Hetao. Cheng Qing, according to the memorial sent by Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, said that The slaves are frequently mobilized in Hetao, and may attack Ningxia Mansion at any time, what do you think?"

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The ancient city of Fengzhou in the Hetao area was established in 618 AD when the Tang Dynasty changed the county from the Sui Dynasty to a prefecture and established Fengzhou.Fengzhou City is located in the Kubuqi Desert (known as Kujiesand) in the territory of Gegengzhao Sumu, and it was the hub of transportation to the north at that time.

In the Ming Dynasty, Batu Mengke Dayan Khan unified the Mongolian ministries, and restored the Wanhu organization for the convenience of governance.At this time, Wanhu in Ordos was the backbone of the [-] households on the right wing, stationed in Hetao.After Lin Dan Khan's death, his son E Zhe surrendered to Huang Taiji, and this place became the territory of the Kingdom of Jin.

At the beginning of the year, Fan Wencheng brought more than [-] Jiannu, more than [-] Han army banners, and more than [-] Mongolians, a total of more than [-] people, came to Fengzhou Ancient City. state city.

After Fan Wencheng arrived in Fengzhou, he tried his best to recruit bankrupt farmers from Shanxi and Shaanxi, built water conservancy, dug wells and repaired canals, reclaimed wasteland and cultivated fields, and he insisted on reclaiming 40 mu of land in this barren and barren place. More than 3 refugees.Looking back at the experience of the past half a year, he felt a little unbelievable, he couldn't believe that he had such a powerful energy!

Speaking of which, Fan Wencheng was very lucky. He got a kind of millet from the refugees in southern Shaanxi. This kind of valley is called Langwei Valley. It is also known as the king of millet in later generations. It is not afraid of birds to eat; Whole); not afraid of wind and grinding; early tolerance; firm seeds; appropriate maturity; high yield, 2 stones 2 liters per harvest, 1 catties of grass.The corn seeds bought secretly from Liaodong actually had a bumper harvest, with a yield of 329 stone and 1 buckets per mu.

As far as Fengzhou is concerned, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the climate was good, but the Ming Dynasty was already very dry, cold and dry, with frequent sandstorms and lack of water, which made people crazy.But Fan Wencheng likes this kind of life. He thinks that he is participating in a great cause that can be recorded in the annals of history.

Ten years of studying hard in the cold window, isn't it just a show of ambition?Being an official should come to such a poor place and make achievements. As long as you succeed, you will be the Optimus Prime of the Dajin Kingdom.

Thanks to these two kinds of drought-tolerant seeds, Fan Wencheng got off to a good start.

"Let's have dinner!"

At this time, the gang leader came over with a bucket and a big bamboo basket, and put the things down. The Jiannu soldiers couldn't wait to open them. The tempting food smelled, and everyone couldn't help cheering.

Although the rice is made of Wowotou made from Langwei Valley, the tea soup is made by first boiling water and then adding cheese, salt and tea leaves. It is sweet, delicious and very nutritious.

A Niu Lu looked at Fan Wencheng happily and said, "Master Fan, let's eat together."

Fan Wencheng was really hungry, and said with a smile: "Then the official will not be polite!"

Fan Wencheng rolled up his sleeves and sat on the floor, picked up a steamed bun, and a Jian slave filled him with a bowl of broth, and everyone ate it with their cheeks off.

Just as he was enjoying his meal, the sound of galloping horseshoes came over. Niu Lu was stunned for a moment, jumped up, and ran to Qiaolou to have a look. Good guy, two Jiannu cavalry are galloping here on fast horses. Come on, a ball of white foam spewed out from his mouth and nose every time he took a step, obviously his physical strength had been squeezed to the limit.

Fan Wencheng's heart sank, and an ominous premonition came to his heart.He knows these cavalry too well. For these super narcissistic cavalry, horses are their second life. Unless it is extremely urgent, they are absolutely reluctant to treat their partners like this!
The Jiannu held up a long scroll wrapped in cloth, and shouted: "King Khan's golden arrow sends an order!"

Hearing this, Fan Wencheng heaved a long sigh: "The peaceful days are over!"

(End of this chapter)