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

Chapter 322 You Can Really Do Anything With Money
Chapter 321

"The soldier ran away!"

Hearing this, Cheng Shijie's face was bitter.If he hadn't become the commander of the Ning Navy in the past, he would have believed that the soldiers would fear the enemy and flee in embarrassment.

However, in this time and space, Cheng Shijie has been the commander of the Dorning Navy for four years, and Cheng Shijie knows very well that the frontier troops on the Nine Frontiers are all elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty with rich combat experience.As a veteran, it is absolutely possible to show your back to the enemy, let alone a group of enemies riding horses.

No matter how people can run with two legs, they can't run as fast as four-legged beasts. In a field situation, the Ming army might be overrun by Jiannu or Mongol cavalry. Anbao, the front foot of Jing'anbao, which has persisted for more than two months, is still as hard as iron, but the back foot has stepped over?
The old man was actually more indignant than Cheng Shijie, with deep helplessness in his indignation: "Jing'an Fort is often attacked by Mongolian Tartars. For many years, it has been as solid as a mountain. What do those generals think, they obviously have so many troops, but they just don’t want to fight a good battle with the Tatars, they retreat when they look at the dust, and surrender at the wind, and a few hundred Tartars can rampage in Jing’an Fort and be invincible!”

"What? What did you say?"

Cheng Shijie was struck by lightning: "Only a few hundred Tartars?"

"My lord, haven't you understood?"

The old man smiled sadly: "The defense line of the Xuan Mansion has collapsed, and the Tartars have broken through Jing'an Fort!"

Jing'an Fort, also known as Jinghu Fort, was built in the Ming Dynasty. Because it guards the Baihe Gorge, it is commonly known as Baihe Fort. Jing'an Fort is not an independent fort. , is the frontier of Jing'an Fort.

There is a garrison in the city.The garrison is a higher-level military officer who has a mansion and is stationed here all year round to command the defense of this area.There are many soldiers stationed in the city, including "880 and eight members of the real army". Soldiers need barracks to rest. There are barracks and official residences in the city.

Jing'an Fort belongs to the east road of Xuanzhen, and it controls important passes such as "Donghekou in the east, Xihekou in the west, Cuotoudun in the north, and the extreme edge of the road. Luanquan Temple and Xujiachong are six or seven miles away from the border. There are natural risks.

"Yanqing Zhou Zhi" records that the castle has a south gate and a west gate, and it is a brick city.Most of the castles in this area are earthen cities, but this place is a brick city.The city wall covered with bricks is expensive, but it is strong and can withstand fierce attacks, which shows its military status.

The crux of the problem is that Jing'an Fort is the gate of the capital, and it is in Miyun.Miyun was the main road leading to the capital in ancient times.

"Hundreds of Mongol Tartars attacked cities and plundered land all the way, as if they were in an uninhabited land, so many fortified cities were not defended at all, and the enemy troops surrendered as soon as they arrived..."

When the old man said this, his eyes were about to burst into flames, and he let out a mournful roar towards the hazy sky: "God, open your eyes and see! This country is about to perish, it is perishing... "

The mournful roar made Cheng Shijie's hands and feet cold, and he was speechless. There was only one thought in his mind: "Why is this happening? Why is this happening?"

As early as when Cheng Shijie took over as the Prime Minister of the Nine Frontiers, he sent out military orders to the generals of the Nine Armies to guard against death. As long as the soldiers died, he would replenish them, and if the armor was lost, he would replenish them. , but also shoot to kill.

As long as the border town is kept intact, Cheng Shijie personally pays 50 taels of silver for every level of beheading a Mongolian Tartar.

It can be said that Cheng Shijie used a big stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other to temporarily stabilize the morale of the army. In order to prevent food shortages in the nine borders, Cheng Shijie tried every means to transfer food from Liaodong to the customs, but because of the cold weather and the freezing of the Bohai Sea, It cannot be transported temporarily. Although the Bohai Sea is frozen, the Liaodong Ordnance Bureau temporarily built an ice boat.

This kind of ice boat uses the base of a four-wheeled carriage, removes the wheels, and installs a sled. In order to prevent the sea ice from breaking suddenly, each ice boat uses a sheepskin raft as a buoy. Once it accidentally falls into the water, the air-filled sheepskin raft can Provides buoyancy so it won't sink.

But the problem is that this kind of transportation volume and transportation speed are far inferior to those of big ships, but the way of transportation by sea, in a straight line, saves distance and time, but...

All this fell short because of the fall of Jing'an Fort.

In Miyun County in December, the air is overwhelming, and the cold wind is like a long knife, repeatedly sweeping away all living things, and the sky and the earth are vast.It's cold, it's too cold!
Surprisingly, even in this hellish season of splashing water and ice, you can still see a large number of people dragging their families, braving the cold wind, and taking heavy steps towards Miyun County.

They were cold, hungry, and exhausted. Many of them fell down because they exhausted their last bit of strength. Once they fell down, they couldn't get up again.These are the people who have been evacuated from Xuanfu East Road. Originally, they have lived in Xuanfu for many years. Who knows that the situation suddenly changed, and the Mongols rushed to Xuanfu East Road like crazy, and started fighting with them.

As the people of Xuanfu, in fact, there are no farmers in the pure sense. The cruel battles continued from the Jiajing Dynasty to the Qiu Chongzhen Dynasty. The endless wars forced every farmer into a warrior. They guarded the settlements with weapons. , fighting to the death, some settlements were breached, but most of the settlements are still in their hands.

Every time the Mongols attacked, they fought back.They firmly believe that as long as the imperial court can give them strong support, they can make the Mongols bleed dry on the Great Wall defense line on Xuanfu East Road!

However, everything has changed now. Many frontier troops suddenly turned their backs and gave way to the line of defense. The Mongolian army rushed in from the line of defense like a flood that had been breached. The originally unbreakable Xuanfu East Road made the Mongols cry in despair. The line of defense collapsed like this, and the soldiers of the Ming army distributed along the long border line were divided and surrounded one after another, and the rear was messed up by the Mongolian cavalry, and smoke and fire were everywhere.

The Xuanfu army had no time to protect themselves and could no longer provide strong support to the people. Many settlements were flooded by the surging Mongolian cavalry...

One can imagine the mood of the frontier soldiers who have guarded this land for generations and shed too much blood. They covered the retreating common people. The defense line was opened rashly, and they did not dare to go too deep, for fear that the Ming army would set up a trap to ambush them.

Fortunately, the Mongolian army had lingering fears, otherwise these people would have no chance to evacuate to Miyun County, but the small Miyun County is already overcrowded, there is no food, no winter clothes, and no charcoal fire to keep warm. The people who have arrived in Miyun are also complaining every day.

At a critical moment, a convoy appeared outside Miyun County. It was a very large convoy, with hundreds of carts. A steward in a thick cotton coat stepped forward and shouted: "Listen up, everyone, we are now We need some people to come over and help with the work!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment. They couldn't enter the county town. They stayed outside the city and didn't know when the Mongolian army would kill them. Those who stuttered and had a mouthful of hot soup could survive. As for work, what was it?

Someone boldly asked: "We are willing to help, can you feed us?"

"Okay, the people who come to work each have two big bowls of soybean porridge, with oil and salt, just eat enough!"

With a bang, young people with a lot of strength swarmed up, and the old, weak, sick and disabled also rushed up. As long as they could move, they all rushed to the convoy.

Naturally, this convoy came from Liaodong. Now as Liaodong's industrial development is getting faster and faster, coupled with the cessation of large-scale immigration, Liaodong has a problem of labor shortage.

Now that there are refugees on the Great Wall defense line, it can just solve the problem of insufficient manpower in Liaodong. Come to Liaodong to receive refugees.

These refugees need a certain amount of money to go to Liaodong. According to this season, without ten or eight taels of silver, these refugees will never even think about reaching Liaodong alive.

Relatively speaking, in order to solve the problem of difficult recruitment, companies are naturally willing. Unlike later generations, migrant workers will automatically flock to big cities to find jobs. In this era, people still habitually guard the one-acre three-point land in their hometown , Even if you can't survive, you won't leave your hometown easily.

More than sixty miles northwest of Miyun, on the banks of the Baihe River, and ten miles away from Jing'an Fort, a Mongolian cavalry roared in. They were chasing and killing a group of fleeing civilians.

However, when they slashed and killed the fleeing civilians recklessly, the earth shook and the snow particles were beating. The Mongolian cavalry straightened up and looked to the south.

A black line appeared on the horizon, and the pitch-black cloak fluttered in the cold wind, with a murderous aura rushing towards him.Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy cavalry vanguard to arrive here.

Cheng Shijie looked at these Mongolian cavalrymen quietly. Each Mongolian cavalryman had one or two bloody heads hanging from his horse's neck. Some belonged to men, some were women, and some were children. , Not angry and arrogant, Zhengmobei Mongolia Tuxietu Khan's fierce general Qiaktu.

Cheng Shijie waved his hand angrily: "Cut these bastards to me!"

Although the cavalry of the Ning Navy has always been the shortcoming of the Ning Navy, the problem is that the cavalry of the Ning Navy is weak, and it is relatively strong compared to the Jiannu cavalry. They are not stronger than the Mongolian cavalry at 01:30 .

The Ning Navy cavalry roared to attack the Mongolian cavalry, and the Baihe River became the main battlefield. These crazy Mobei Mongolian cavalry had never seen the strength of the Ning Navy, and they had never even heard of the Ning Navy. .

When the distance between the two sides was more than 500 meters, the Ning Navy cavalry rode their horses and loaded ammunition at the same time. The Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side saw that the Ning Navy cavalry used muskets against them, and they suddenly laughed.

They are no strangers to muskets, they only have a range of [-] to [-] steps, and more importantly, their accuracy is extremely poor. Even if they stand still, at a distance of [-] steps, the accuracy of muskets is less than [-]%. It can barely reach [-]%, and if you want to hit the target accurately, you need to reach a range of about twenty steps.

However, the problem is that the rifles equipped by the Ning Navy cavalry are Chongzhen's eight-year-style bolt-action rifles. Let alone 150 paces, even [-] paces have a high target rate. Of course, this must be an elite shooter.After the Ning navy cavalry was loaded, when the distance from the opponent was about [-] steps, they stopped advancing and steadily raised their guns to aim.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

With a burst of crackling gunshots, the Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side fell in large numbers.These Mongolian cavalrymen who were shot and fell to the ground did not understand why the Ninghai cavalry guns could hit so far and be so accurate until they died.

Of course, the Ning Navy cavalry didn't care about the reaction of the Mongolian cavalry. After they fired the first shot, they put away their rifles, drew out their sabers, clamped the horse's belly, and rushed towards the Mongolian cavalry. Killed to the ground, they are far from Ning Haijun's opponents in terms of combat effectiveness and head-on fighting!
The fighting power of the Ning navy cavalry was still extremely strong, and soon the remnants of the Mongolian soldiers fled towards the distance.

Looking at the vigorous figure of Ning Haijun's cavalry, these fleeing civilians feel a sense of security in their panic. These brave and brave soldiers are still there, and there is hope. Daming still has hope, and Daming will definitely fight back. can go home.

Cheng Shijie didn't pay attention to this battle, victory is inevitable, only failure is a problem.

When Meng En entered the big tent of the Chinese army, Cheng Shijie was staring at the sand table, helpless.

"Big guy!"

"Did you find out what you asked to check?"

"Reporting to the Commander, I have already found out that the garrison of Jing'an Fort is called Qiao Zhaolin. It was Qiao Zhaolin who ordered the entire garrison to retreat. Sun Wei, the deputy garrison of Jing'an Fort, retreated because he was dissatisfied, and was beheaded by Qiao Zhaolin..."

Cheng Shijie said: "Dug out Qiao Zhaolin for the commander, and move to Dongchang and Jinyiwei. Spend money when you need it. Now is not the time to save money!"

"Yes!"

Meng En asked again: "If you find Qiao Zhaolin..."

"This commander wants Qiao Zhaolin, no one in the three clans can be spared."

Cheng Shijie was very angry. Now it is basically certain that Qiao Zhaolin was recruited by someone. The surviving soldiers in Jing'an Fort confessed that Jing'an Fort has a total of more than [-] shi of grain, and it can last at least four more months. There is no shortage of ammunition, and there are more than [-] troops, so it is not a situation that cannot persist.

The Mongolian army fought around Jing'an Fort for more than half a month, and Jing'an Fort suffered no more than a hundred casualties. It would be a joke to say that Jing'an Fort could not be defended. No matter how much it cost, Cheng Shijie would kill Qiao Zhaolin alive.

There are many problems facing Cheng Shijie now, and the Nine Sides Army does not know how many people have been wooed.Ning Haijun's more than 1 troops are placed on the defense line of more than 300 miles in Xuanfu, with an average of less than ten people per mile.

The core of mobile defense is information.The fundamental reason why the Desert Fox can adopt the mobile defense of equipped troops is information. At that time, there were telegrams and telephone calls. Rommel could quickly respond to any enemy situation found.

Now Cheng Shijie does not have this condition. He decides whether to return to later generations and get a batch of high-power radio stations. time, greatly discounted.

It is not true to divide the troops, and it is even more impossible not to divide the troops, which makes Cheng Shijie very headache.

Suddenly, there was a gust of cold wind outside the tent.

"Report to Commander-in-Chief, Eunuch Gao to see you!"

"Let him in!"

"Yes!"

Not long after, Gao Qiqian stepped into the big tent, and he said with a complaining face: "General Cheng, why did you come here?"

From Gao Qiqian's point of view, Cheng Shijie shouldn't take over the mess of the Nine Borders Defense Line at all. This is simply a hot potato, and whoever touches it will be unlucky.

Now it's just that there is a problem with Jing'an Fort. Of course, this is just the beginning, far from the end.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "If the commander-in-chief doesn't care, who cares about this matter? No one cares. Could it be that hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops went south smoothly? Blood flowed like a river?"

Gao Qiqian patted his thigh and said, "General Cheng, you are in big trouble this time!"

Gao Qiqian didn't finish his sentence, Cheng Shijie said: "The eunuch of Xuanfu Town Supervising Army is called..."

"Lu Weining is Lu Jiuzheng's godson!"

"This person is reliable!"

"It's hard to say, whether it's reliable or not depends on the situation!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "Lu Baozhong, the chief soldier of the Xuan Mansion, Chen Xinjia, the governor, and Lu Weining, the supervising army, these three people, please Eunuch Gao help me keep an eye on them!"

"Is it useful to stare at them?"

Gao Qiqian sighed and said, "How many clean asses are those officials, as long as they are caught by them, they really care about the dough, and they can pinch it however they want!"

At first, Cheng Shijie only considered who was being bribed and wooed. After Gao Qiqian reminded him, Cheng Shijie realized that Qiao Zhaolin might not be wooed, but threatened.

In any case, this matter is not easy to solve.

Gao Qiqian picked up the teacup and found that the water inside had already frozen into thin ice.

Cheng Shijie said: "Come here, serve hot pot!"

He and Gao Qiqian were eating hot pot while thinking about countermeasures.

The news Cheng Shijie received was not all bad news, at least the news came from Liaodong. Huang Taiji accepted Cheng Shijie's proposal and returned more than 20 Ming and Ming military battles to Liaodong, but these 20 people survived and sent In time, most of them are already skinny and skinny, and if this continues, they will only die.

As the more than 20 soldiers and civilians were sent to southern Liaoning for resettlement, Ning Haijun began to open a mutual market and Jianshou trading in Liaoyang. The head of the Mongols.

In fact, Cheng Shijie didn't expect Huang Taiji to serve as Ning Haijun's mercenaries honestly, to kill these Mongolian troops for them, and most importantly, to use food to stabilize millions of slaves, this is the greatest victory.

After all, dealing with more than [-] Mobei Mongolian troops is enough for Cheng Shijie to have a headache. If one million Jiannu troops are added, even if no one retreats, it will be difficult for Cheng Shijie to deal with so many Jiannu and Mongolian coalition forces.

As the weather became colder and colder, Cheng Shijie's greatest difficulty was to rescue the people of the Ming Dynasty in the north, as well as the Mongolian army. In fact, in Cheng Shijie's view, the easiest solution to these problems was the Mongolian army, followed by rescue of the people.

Under such circumstances, Cheng Shijie decided to divide his troops into two groups. On the one hand, the members of the Liaoning Management Committee were responsible for the relief of the victims, and the follow-up reinforcements of the Ning Navy continued to support the Great Wall defense line.

In contrast, Wu Zongda, who was sitting on the soft couch of the cabinet, was very happy. He drank tea soup relaxedly. He turned a blind eye to the refugees flocking to Miyun and Changping. Breaking through, the Mongolian army can turn a blind eye to the fact that the Mongolian army can approach the capital at any time.

Wu Zongda said with a faint smile: "It is thanks to His Majesty's wisdom that he appointed that courtier as the Prime Minister of the Nine Sides, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with him!"

Cheng Shijie was originally the governor of Liaodong, and the defense area was only in Liaodong, but Cheng Shijie frightened Jiannu. No matter how they wooed Jiannu, Jiannu refused to accept their request and did not dare to attack Liaodong.

It's all right now, the prime minister's army of 60 troops, there will always be generals who will be wooed by them, and now Qiao Zhaolin, the garrison of Jing'an Fort, accepts his wooing, and withdraws more than [-] soldiers under his command from Jing'an Fort.

Following the opening of Jing'an Fort, a gap appeared in the defense line of Xuanfu East Road, and the Mongolian army marched southward along this gap.Now the trouble is all Cheng Shijie's fault. If Cheng Shijie can't expel Mongolia, regain the lost, and let the people in Gyeonggi be massacred, then he must be held accountable.

If it is a problematic crime, Cheng Shijie, who was given high hopes by Emperor Chongzhen, will naturally bear the brunt.

Wen Tiren said indifferently: "Shang Yu, don't be too happy!"

"Too early? Is there any chance for Cheng Shijie to come back?"

Wu Zongda said with a smile: "Now the sky is on our side. Now that the Bohai Sea is frozen, his naval forces cannot move down, and the road is blocked by heavy snow. Can the Ning Navy in Liaodong still fly over?"

"That sycophant is insane, he can do anything!"

"No matter how crazy you are, you still have to deal with it!"

Wu Zongda said indignantly: "Thanks to the person surnamed Cheng, the original simple folk customs in Liaodong have long been corrupted, rituals and music have collapsed, everyone is proud of profit-seeking, and ashamed of reading. He destroyed forests and springs, built factories, and destroyed many beautiful and historic sites! Today's Liaodong can no longer see the beauty of spring and flowers, and all you can see are chimneys billowing with smoke! If you don't stop him, I'm afraid Daming's splendid country is about to be destroyed in his hands, what face do I have to face future generations!"

"Your Majesty, be careful. You must know that there are many people here. If it is exposed, it will be extremely detrimental to us."

Wen Tiren gestured to the officials outside the door with his gaze.

Wu Zongda snorted, and said disapprovingly: "Now he has crossed the river like a mud bodhisattva, and he can't protect himself. He dares to touch me and wait!"

"Be careful, it's better to be careful."

Wen Tiren said: "The most urgent thing now is, isn't that courtier going to spread his fallacies and heresies? I'll wait for a while and sneak in when the time comes to refute his fallacies and expose his ugly face. Wouldn't it be better to show off his tongue here? Faster is better?"

Wu Zongda laughed and said, "Master Chief Assistant, let's do it this way! Then I want to see how that thief can get down!"

How Cheng Shijie resigned is unknown for the time being, but some people must be unlucky, such as Qiao Zhaolin who managed to escape to the capital, who was placed in a three-entry house in Wanping County by Wu Zongda.

In fact, Qiao Zhaolin didn't even dare to leave the door, he was afraid Cheng Shijie's people would come and kill him, however, he could hide from the first day of the junior high school, but he couldn't hide from the fifteenth day of the junior high school. Jin Yiwei wanted to investigate a person, which was much easier than later generations.

Because the population mobility in this era is very small, sometimes, in a county town, very few people leave or enter the city within a day, especially those who are responsible for guarding the city gates. This is one of their ways of making money, and of course there is another aspect, which is to record the appearance and age of everyone who enters the city. This is important information, and they can make a lot of money by selling it.

Cheng Shijie asked Huazi for 1000 taels of information on Qiao Zhaolin, 2000 taels for Qiao Zhaolin's body, and 3000 taels for his living body. For the sake of money, Jin Yiwei was naturally very careful.

As the largest intelligence agency in Ming Dynasty, it was very easy for them to investigate a person who was not a prince or nobleman. After only two days, they found information about Qiao Zhaolin.

"Bang bang..."

For 3000 taels of silver, Jinyiwei actually dispatched a hundred households from the Qianhu House in Dongcheng. More than 100 members of Jinyiwei came to this humble house. In order to prevent Qiao Zhaolin from escaping, they blocked the front and back doors respectively.

Qiao Zhaolin didn't dare to open the door. Jin Yiwei Xiaoqi stepped forward and kicked the door open. After only a dozen kicks, the door was opened.

Jin Yiwei pulled out Qiao Zhaolin from under the bed: "Qiao Zhaolin, Master Qiao"

"Yes, sir!"

"Come with us!"

(End of this chapter)