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

Chapter 35 Only Benefits Are Eternal

Chapter 034

Huang Zuxin took Cheng Shijie's victory report and glanced at it hastily. He subconsciously looked at the sky outside the window and murmured: "The sun hasn't set yet!"

Jin Yousheng is also suspicious, isn't Cheng Shijie too courageous?
Can this kind of joke be made?
"Cheng Qianhu is really..."

Another commander, Shi Wenli, read the official document, and said solemnly: "Master Commander, I'm afraid Cheng Qianhu has lost the battle!"

Hearing this, Jin Yousheng's heart sank.

That's right, Shi Wenli's words are not unreasonable. After all, only after a big defeat will he ask for supplies and support from the commander, Si Yamen, and he will call a big defeat a big victory. Such a nonsense.

It's just that they have the supplies they want. As for the beheaded bandits, it's too simple.

Now that there are so many refugees, if you randomly send out an army to surround a group of refugees and insist that the other party is the bandit of Qin Wusuo, what can those refugees do?

There are two official words, no matter how you say it is Cheng Shijie's reason.

Thinking of this, Jin Yousheng said: "Don't worry about this official document, the army is assembled, and we will set off tomorrow morning!"

After issuing this order, Jin Yousheng realized that this official document did not seem to be a false report of military achievements, because the number of captives and beheadings was mixed.

More importantly, Cheng Shijie has stated in the official document that he has captured the tyrannical Qin Wu. You must know that Qin Wu is not an unknown person, whether it is Dengzhou Wei or Dengzhou Mansion, there are too many people who know Qin Wu , it is easy to identify true or false.

"Could it be that Cheng Shijie really won the battle?"

This thought paused in Jin Yousheng's mind for a few breaths before he threw it out of his mind.

The Zuoqianhusuo should be the most corrupt among the eight thousandhusuos in Dengzhouwei. The former Zuoqianhu Gao Wang wanted to make money and sold almost all the weapons and equipment in the Zuoqianhusuo. Of course, Jin Yousheng also benefited from it, otherwise, he wouldn't be presumptuous.

More importantly, other thousands of households raise a few soldiers, and at the last time they will raise hundreds of soldiers, but Gaowang only has 23 soldiers. His soldiers only eat better than ordinary military households, and their equipment is not as good. Surprisingly, it means that Zuo Qianhu has almost no fighting power.

Without real information, Jin Yousheng was also a little irritable, so he took some random food, fell asleep, and recharged his energy to quickly reach Zuo Qianhu's house.

Dengzhou City, Shiqiao Lane, Cheng Shijie's residence.

Since Cheng Shijie left Dengzhou, he never came back, leaving only Yang Yunniang and the seriously injured Chen Guodong. After more than a month of treatment, Chen Guodong, who was seriously injured, came back to life.

Of course, over 100 of his brothers died due to his part, which took his spirits down a bit.After Chen Guodong recovered slowly, he took on the usual job of grocery shopping.

"Master Chen, good morning!"

"Morning, Aunt Hu"

"You go shopping!"

"Well, grocery shopping!"

At the entrance of Gulou Street, Chen Guodong hadn't had time to buy vegetables, but he saw Yang Yunniang walking quickly from a distance, her face turned pale, and she was a little unsteady when she walked.

Chen Guodong was a little surprised: "Yunniang, what's wrong with you?"

"go home!"

Yang Yunniang hugged Xiao Jiaxin and walked quickly towards the house in Shiqiao Lane.

Chen Guodong put the vegetable basket on the stone table, and then put a handful of copper coins on the table: "What happened?"

"My boss is in danger!"

Yang Yunniang suddenly took out a handful of copper coins, and there were a few broken pieces of silver in it: "The bandit Qin Wu led four or five thousand bandits to attack Zuoqianhu, the owner is probably in danger. Chen Guodong, help me look after the child , if I can't come back, you will raise Jiaxin as a daughter!"

Chen Guodong glanced at Yang Yuniang indifferently: "Okay, don't use aggressive methods, I will go, my boss gave me Chen Guodong's life, I know how to do it!"

"No, you can't!"

Yang Yunniang said anxiously: "No, I can see that you are very skilled, I am afraid that ten or eight people are not your opponent..."

"Okay, don't say any more, I will definitely bring my boss back safely!"

Chen Guodong went to the back room. Here are two long swords left by Cheng Shijie before he took office. One is a straight Tang sword and the other is a Qi family sword. The shape of the Qi family sword is very similar to the Japanese sword. The comprehensive advantages of Yanling Dao and Miao Dao, the invention of the Dao.

The biggest advantage of Qijia Dao is that it is cheaper than Japanese Dao, can be equipped in large quantities, and is convenient to manufacture.The Japanese sword has a steel-clad structure with a hard exterior and a soft interior, while the Qijia sword has a steel-embedded structure with a soft body and a hard blade.

Of course, this Qijia knife is an imitation shape, which is processed by the quenching process of high-carbon steel of later generations.The cutting tools produced by high-tech in later generations are almost never tempered, but are directly formed from steel billets, processed by lathes, and the surface is polished by data machine tools.

Chen Guodong pinned the Tang Zhidao and the imitation Qijiadao on his waist, wrapped a bag of pancakes with a cloth from the kitchen, took a gourd of wine, and left Shiqiao Lane just like that.

When Cheng Shijie returned with the prisoners, everyone cheered like thunder.When they saw the bandits attacking in large numbers, the military households of Zuoqianhusuo were frightened to the point of tearing their hearts apart.If it was the past, everyone would die, and they wouldn't be afraid.

But the problem is that since Cheng Shijie has been in charge of Qianhu, he has used the method of work-for-relief to let all the military households repair the city walls, warehouses, and barracks, and even level the roads in the Qianhu House and dredge the underground drains in the city. Through their own hands, in less than two months, they have accumulated two or three stones of grain.

Thanks to Cheng Shijie's foresight, he repaired the city wall in advance. Although it was protected by a thick city wall, he was frightened and didn't know if he could hold it.When the military households faced the siege of the bandits, they desperately resisted, on the one hand for Cheng Shijie's heavy reward, and on the other hand for themselves.

It's all right now, Cheng Shijie has ridden all the bandits in one battle, and the big stone in everyone's heart has finally been let go!

Cheng Shijie returned to Qianhu House. Although he did not fight this trip, he walked back and forth for more than 500 miles. Although he was riding in a carriage, he was very tired.

Cheng Shijie had just drank a cup of hot tea when Song Kangnian came over.

"Master Qianhu, what are your plans!"

"What's the plan?"

"Your Excellency Qianhu wiped out more than [-] members of the bandit Qin Wusuo in one battle. Such a record is nothing to the frontier army, but it is very dazzling to the Dengzhou Guard!"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "Cheng also knows these things. Last year, the Dengzhou Guard encircled and suppressed Qin Wu, and suffered a disastrous defeat, losing more than a thousand people, and almost defeated the entire Dengzhou Guard. Share a fortune!"

"If Lord Qianhu agrees and they get a piece of military exploits, then everyone will be happy; if Lord Qianhu refuses to agree, you will be their enemy, and they will do their best to hold you back from now on."

Cheng Shijie smiled wryly and said: "A tree is as beautiful as a forest, but the wind will destroy it!"

"Master Qianhu is now the towering tree of Dengzhou Wei. If you can't let them stand by, they will definitely do whatever it takes to uproot you!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Then let's share a share of the military exploits. However, this military exploits cannot be distributed in vain. Thousands of households need horses, equipment, and money!"

"These things are not a problem, I'm afraid Lord Qianhu doesn't want them!"

Cheng Shijie is very clear about the truth that a bird in hand is worse than a thousand birds in the forest.

The Wuqiao mutiny that is about to break out will tear away the veil of false prosperity in Shandong, and it will also reveal the disguise of Ming's weakness. Under such circumstances, Cheng Shijie actually does not want to be promoted.

What position can he rise to if he is promoted again?
Just like he promoted Zhou Yandong to be the Deputy Qianhu of Zuo Qianhu, he went one step further and at most served as the commander of the Dengzhou Guard, which is a fourth-rank military position.

Although the official position of the commander is higher than that of a thousand households, the management of the guards, military training, patrols, weapons and other things, in terms of real power, is not even as good as a regular thousand households.

Especially when there are three mother-in-laws on top of her head, the feeling of doing things under the eyes of her mother-in-law is actually not pleasant.

Giving up part of the military merits in exchange for some benefits is to maximize the benefits.

Now Cheng Shijie's family property is too small. He only has more than 200 high-quality sabers, 47 horizontal knives, six bowl-mouth guns, three old-fashioned cannons, 22 fire guns, and [-] birdcages. There are quite a few swords and weapons seized, these things are tattered and there is no way to use them directly.

Cheng Shijie had no choice but to recruit craftsmen from Qianhusuo to recast these seized weapons, recast them, and repair them. In addition to weapons, Cheng Shijie set up a complete quilt factory in Qianhusuo, specializing in the production of cotton clothes, military uniforms, and shoes. And socks and the like, mainly to meet domestic demand.

The garrison has expanded to more than 500 people, with two divisions, plus a military law team directly under it, a guard team directly under it, and a medical care unit directly under it.

So far, the medical team has only two doctors with average medical skills.

Cheng Shijie even sent out two of his pronouns, letting Cheng Shi be the commander of the military law team, and Cheng Hu be the commander of his personal guard.

It took three days to distribute the rewards of the family soldiers and military households this time. Cheng Shijie's one-time expenditure was more than [-] shi of grain, plus more than [-] taels of silver.

The military households and household soldiers who received the rewards were very happy.

On the fourth day, that is, August 21st of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Hu reported to Cheng Shijie: "Father, Dengzhou Wei sent people here!"

"How many people came?"

"There are 5000 people, and the team stretches for more than ten miles!"

Cheng Shijie asked: "How far is it from our Qianhu City? It's less than [-] miles. According to their marching speed, they should be able to reach Qianhu City before sunset in the afternoon!"

"Very well, then let's start preparing too!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Put the heads in the car and escort the prisoners, let's go to Dengzhou City!"

(End of this chapter)