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

Chapter 317
Chapter 316

Cheng Shijie is not a good man and a believer, he is very murderous. In Shandong, he killed more than [-] Kong Youde rebels, and in Liaodong, he killed [-] soldiers of Jiannu. The blood flowed like a river, and the bones were like mountains. In Luzon, in Nanyang...

It can be said that wherever Cheng Shijie went, blood flowed like rivers. Even in the capital, he did not restrain himself at all. Now that he dares to throw firecrackers at the ministers' homes, who can guarantee that Cheng Shijie will not throw grenades at them?

The cost of impeaching Cheng Shijie is too high, and if he fails to do so, his life will be lost. On the contrary, it is politically correct to scold Emperor Chongzhen, even if he is punished by Emperor Chongzhen, he can still be famous all over the world.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ministers and said angrily: "Who is the courtier? Who is the courtier?"

Hearing this, Wen Tiren lowered his eyebrows, closed his eyes and rested his mind, as if the emperor's anger had nothing to do with him.

All the ministers also held their voices and held their breath, secretly guarding against fear.

Wu Zongda was forced to have no way out, he bit the bullet and said: "The minister is Cheng Shijie, Governor of Liaodong!"

Hearing Cheng Shijie's order from this veteran minister who had been in the cabinet for three years since Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen was somewhat unbelievable. Cheng Shijie is a capable minister in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, who can govern the country and destroy the enemy. Front Yu Zhengrui , turn the tide in critical danger, and know nothing about politics, who has offended the civil and military of the Manchu dynasty all over the place, who will he use?

More importantly, Cheng Shijie also gave him a lot of face. Whether he was asked to govern Liaodong, or let him manage Liaodong, reorganize the army and military affairs, he did a brilliant job, which not only greatly improved the situation of Daming, but also made him the emperor How could it be a crime to anger the heavens to gain a reputation and reuse such a talent?
It's really unreasonable!Chongzhen couldn't figure it out, how did Cheng Shijie become a sycophant and jester?
However, the civil service group does not think so.From their point of view, Cheng Shijie promotes western learning and miscellaneous learning, and runs a large school to provide compulsory education so that everyone can afford to read books. The tricks and ingenious tricks have ruined the simple folk customs of the people in Liaodong, Shandong and other places, and everyone is proud of doing business for profit...

The most hateful thing is that this guy also used cheap potato noodles to attack the grain market, forcing many hoarding grain merchants to jump off the building; he used flax to attack the cotton cloth market, causing Jiangnan cloth merchants to suffer heavy losses; he used refined rock salt to compete with Jiangnan salt merchants in a price war The price of cabbage has made many salt merchants vomit blood at a loss.

The most hateful thing is that this guy even snatched the education rights of the prince. This is the patent of their civil servants. They have enjoyed this patent exclusively for almost 2000 years. Now a warrior has snatched it. How can they Tolerate!
Such a guy is not a courtier, who is a courtier?

Usually everyone can't do anything about that bastard, but now a large-scale natural disaster has occurred, and countless people have no food and clothing. Of course they want to take this opportunity to kill him!As for the common people... After we kill that courtier and jester, carve up his property and give it to you, if unfortunately you starve to death, it can only be said that your life is not good. The actions of these gentlemen are all for the benefit of future generations. We will never make mistakes, and it will only be the world that is wrong!

After the dynasty disbanded, Emperor Chongzhen angrily said to the queen: "All officials are too selfish. In this catastrophic year, they only care about fighting among themselves, and no one offers me a disaster relief plan. It really makes me feel sad. !"

Empress Zhou was silent for a long time and said: "Why don't you call Duke Hai into the palace to discuss countermeasures?"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled wryly: "Now the officials can't wait to peel off his skin and eat his flesh..."

Empress Zhou said softly: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much, Duke Hai is so powerful, he will definitely find a way!"

Chongzhen laughed even harder: "This is Tianwei, what can he do? Maybe I really have to wrong him temporarily... Sigh!"

Queen Zhou still said the same thing: "The Haiguo Guild has a solution!"

Queen Zhou was always full of confidence, even to the point of blindness.

Emperor Chongzhen murmured: "I'm afraid it's hard for him to protect himself now? I'm afraid the snowstorm in the capital and Liaodong will be even worse. No one will be immune to natural disasters..."

Emperor Chongzhen hadn't got an idea yet, but he still invited Cheng Shijie into the palace.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

"Cheng Qing, please sit down!"

"I don't know what His Majesty's summoning ministers are talking about?"

Emperor Chongzhen told the recent news that the ministers wanted him to condemn himself. Cheng Shijie had to do a science popularization for Emperor Chongzhen, explaining the causes and processes of terrible natural disasters such as heavy rain, snowstorm, hail, typhoon, and drought. Made popular science.

Emperor Chongzhen only now knew that when rain falls on the ground, it will evaporate and return to the sky as water vapor. When the water vapor is cold, it will condense. If it is summer and autumn, it will turn into rain and fall back to the ground. It will turn into frost and snow and fall on the world, and it may turn into hail at the turn of spring and summer.

In order to prevent Emperor Chongzhen from being ignorant, Cheng Shijie asked someone to set up a stove in the imperial garden. Hot water was burning on the stove. The air turned into snowflakes, which swirled down one after another.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "If you find a way to lower the temperature of the pot lid to above zero, those water droplets will turn into ice beads and attach to it. These are natural phenomena, so don't make a fuss. The so-called Tianwei is actually a fart!"

Emperor Chongzhen pointed at Cheng Shijie and said, "You really... dare to say anything!"

Empress Zhou's complexion turned slightly pale. In the eyes of the ancients, "Heaven" is extremely mysterious and majestic, and it dominates everything. Even the emperor who is almost a demigod has to call himself "Son of Heaven" and consider himself the favorite of heaven. These concepts are deeply rooted and have influenced Chinese people for several years. Thousands of years, especially with the help of Confucianism, it has become more and more solid.

However, now Cheng Shijie let them see through: the so-called "sky" is just formed by the water vapor transpired from the ground, it is majestic and ethereal, it has no supernatural power at all!It is very stupid to attribute natural disasters to the emperor's immorality and God's anger. When encountering such a natural disaster, he does not want to organize the people to rescue the disaster, and pins his hope on the emperor's sinful edict to calm the anger of God and eliminate the natural disaster. To shirk responsibility is to disregard human life!
"The minister is right!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Some hail disasters can also be resolved. As long as they are discovered in time, try to use rockets to spread salt, dry ice, silver iodide and other things into the cold cloud, which can turn big hailstones into small hailstones and small hailstones into small hailstones. Rainwater, thereby reducing losses.”

"Are you going against the sky?"

Empress Zhou also stayed for a while before saying: "Duke Hai... is really too bold, it's simply whimsical!"

Empress Zhou looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "It would be a good thing to prove that these methods are effective. At least Your Majesty, you don't have to bear so many infamy!"

At this time, Fan Wencheng arrived in Shenyang in eight days and eight nights after running to death more than 80 horses.

In Shenyang Palace, it was very gloomy and cold, Huang Taiji sat on the soft couch, his face was terribly gloomy.

"Slave pays homage to King Khan!"

"Fan Qing, you are here!"

Huang Taiji's eyes, which were originally a ball of dead gray, showed a gleam of light: "Come here, give me a seat!"

"Thank you, King Khan!"

Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "Fan Qing, how much food did you bring with you this time?"

Fan Wencheng opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

It was only then that Huang Taiji realized that Fan Wencheng's complexion was very bad, there were blisters at the corners of his mouth, and frostbite everywhere on his face and hands.

"Someone...someone!"

When the imperial doctor from the palace came over, he began to diagnose and treat the unconscious Fan Wencheng. Fortunately, Fan Wencheng's problem was not serious. He looked very embarrassed, but he was just overworked. can be restored.

Huang Taiji didn't dare to be careless, and squatted directly in front of Fan Wencheng's bed, and sat there all night. If it was three years ago, when Jiannu was not defeated, Huang Taiji would never have treated Fan Wencheng like this, but the problem is, now Jiannu There is no way out, and Fan Wencheng is the only hope in Huang Taiji's heart.

Fan Wencheng slept for a full six hours before slowly waking up.

When Fan Wencheng opened his eyes, he found someone sleeping next to him. With his slight movement, Huang Taiji woke up: "Fan Qing, you're awake? That's great!"

"Slave He De, how can he bother King Khan so much..."

Seeing Huang Taiji guarding his bedside all night, Fan Wencheng was very moved, he felt moved to die for his confidant.

"How does Fan Qing feel? Come and see the imperial doctor..."

Before Huang Taiji could finish speaking, Fan Wencheng said: "King Khan, the servant is fine, but now Dajin is facing the critical moment of life and death, so he has to handle it carefully!"

"Ben Khan also knows, but the question is, what to do now?"

Huang Taiji smiled wryly: "Recently, ministers are arguing, saying they want to attack North Korea!"

"Absolutely not!"

Fan Wencheng said with a wry smile: "Now the northern defense line of North Korea is defended by the Ning Navy. Attack us in the same direction, no matter how many people go to North Korea, even if it is one person, one horse will hardly come back!"

"King Ben Khan also knows, but the question is, is our Dajin just waiting to die like this?"

Huang Taiji murmured: "Ben Khan is not reconciled, not reconciled..."

"King Khan is not reconciled, and the slaves are also not reconciled, but the problem is that the enemy is strong and we are weak. This is something that no one can do. At the beginning, the former master could use fewer enemies to defeat the strong. It was because the opinions of the Ming Dynasty were not unified. Some people advocate war, and some advocate peace, but the Ning Navy is a military group that started with war, and the most fearless thing is war!"

Fan Wencheng said with a wry smile: "The only way we can do now is to march towards Hetao, take Ordos and Tumochuan as the foundation, recharge our energy and store up energy, and plan for the future!"

Developing the Hetao area and managing Ordos is a plan formulated by Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng. Fan Wencheng has already made a good start. If there is no snow disaster, next year, he plans to move 10 more horses to the Hetao area. By then, Fan Wencheng can Manage millions of fields in the Hetao area and feed tens of thousands of laborers.

It's just a pity that the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and the heavy snow disrupted Fan Wencheng's plan.Now that the heavy snow has made Shenyang's Dajin Kingdom unable to persist, it needs a blood transfusion from Fengzhou, but the problem is that Fengzhou has just started, and if the grain is transferred, next year's spring plowing will be in crisis.

What's more, Mongolia has now moved south, and the Great Wall defense line has been under martial law. It is impossible for Da Jin to surprise and attack Da Ming by surprise. The only way is to attack head-on.

The problem now is that Liaodong must be the wealthiest place on the entire defense line of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty, but the defense line of the Liaodong Ning Navy is the most difficult to fight, and even if all the soldiers and horses of the Dajin Kingdom are pressed up, it may not be possible to break through Ningdong. The defense line of the navy, the defense line of the Guan Ning Army is a little weaker, but if they dare to attack the defense line of the Guan Ning Army, the Ning Navy will be dispatched [-]%.

People like Datong, Xuanfu, and Jizhou, including Ningxia, will be relatively easy to use, but the problem is, even if they successfully break through the Great Wall defense line, so what?

Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xuanfu, Datong, and Jizhen are all poor places, caused by rogue bandits, who have left the northwest deserted. Even if they cross the Great Wall, they can't get any food.

Huang Taiji chatted with Fan Wencheng for a long time, but did not find a solution to the problem. However, when Huang Taiji lost his composure, he saw that Fan Wencheng was full of confidence.

"Fan Qing already has a countermeasure?"

"It's not a countermeasure, it's just some mature ideas!"

"Appreciate further details!"

"The only way for our Dajin to survive is actually in Liaodong!"

"Liaodong?"

Huang Taiji said in disbelief: "How is it possible?"

"The servant is not absolutely sure, he can only try!"

Fan Wencheng said: "Fengzhou can house 4 horses, and the maximum is no more than 5. They can carry dry food on the road. The servants have already arranged food and lodging in Fengzhou."

Huang Taiji nodded and said: "No more than 5 people, doesn't that mean that more than half of the Eight Banners will die?"

"It's not that serious. The froze-to-death cattle and sheep will not deteriorate for the time being. The slaves are going to sell these cattle and sheep to Liaodong, exchange some grains from Ning Haijun, and distribute 5 people from Shenyang. The pressure will be much less!"

This is the only way Fan Wencheng can think of to solve the problem.

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Liaodong was also hit by severe snowstorms, but the situation in Liaodong is different from that of Gyeonggi. Since Liaodong is a new place, there are almost no houses older than five years. Even newly built houses are made of very solid materials, especially many Wealthy people all use reinforced concrete to build their houses, and the worst is to use pine or fir as the main beam.

This kind of house will be crushed by the snow when it encounters heavy snow. The problem is that there have been many cases in Liaodong where the doors and windows were blocked by snow, and the people in the houses were poisoned by carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide due to burning coal for heating.

On the second day after the snow stopped, the Liaodong Management Committee received an order from Cheng Shijie to take the initiative to provide disaster relief, mainly dredging roads and inspecting remote villages and towns. Due to the special environment of Liaodong, the current Liaodong is not the kind of natural village in later generations. Although the smallest administrative unit is a hundred households, the problem is that when building a town, ten hundred households are put together.

Although it is inconvenient to work at ordinary times, some people build a few small houses in their own fields and live there temporarily during busy farming hours. It can be said that the biggest impact of the snow disaster in Liaodong on the people of Liaodong is that the transportation is inconvenient, and they cannot visit relatives. Friends, that's all.

Life in Liaodong is becoming more and more affluent. Every household in Liaodong has surplus food, especially the stored briquettes, which are enough to burn for at least half a year. There will be no food problems in a short period of time. As for the vegetable problem, every household in Liaodong also has a cellar, which stores edible food Food and vegetables for several months.

Fan Wencheng arrived in the area controlled by the Ning Navy in Liaodong when the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong were cleaning the snow-covered roads. Fan Wencheng watched teams of Ning Navy soldiers holding shovels, brooms, and various tools. Clear snow.

Many officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy said with a smile: "Auspicious snow heralds a good year, with this snow, next year will be another good year!"

"It's a pity, food prices are getting lower and lower, and farming is getting less and less profitable!"

Fan Wencheng watched Ning Haijun's soldiers gather in large numbers. He didn't believe that Ning Haijun was sweeping the snow. In his eyes, it was fortunate that Jiannu didn't make a plan to go south, otherwise it would be a disaster.

(End of this chapter)