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

Chapter 352 There must be other ways

Chapter 352

Cheng Shijie looked at the Ning Navy officers in the audience. Their sabers were already pressed against their necks, and the blades began to turn red. This meant that these five or six hundred Ning Navy officers were not joking. They really dared to commit suicide.

This is to put Cheng Shijie on the fire?

Will Cheng Shijie choose to compromise?
The answer is yes, he will not compromise.

If he compromises, it will become a habit in the future. Once there are differences of opinion and Cheng Shijie disagrees, they can use this method to force Cheng Shijie.

The Ming Dynasty was different from later generations. Human life was too cheap. Except in Liaodong, a dozen taels of silver could buy a human life. In fact, even in Liaodong, human life was not expensive.This is different from later generations. If someone takes money, it can make countless people risk their lives.

When Meng En committed suicide alone, Cheng Shijie could injure his arm with a pistol, but facing 600 people, Cheng Shijie had no choice.

Cheng Shijie looked at the soldiers and said, "What do you want to do?"

"We want to retaliate with death, so please let me, Commander-in-Chief!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the soldiers and said, "Do you still remember Ning Haijun's military discipline?"

"Remember!"

"What is the first rule of Ning Haijun's military discipline?"

"Obey orders unconditionally. When your boss formally issues an order, you must implement it without questioning, even if the order is wrong!"

The navy officers of Zhongning shouted at the top of their lungs.

"I now order you to put down your sword!"

The more than [-] Ning Haijun soldiers who had not drawn their swords immediately took off their sabers and put them on the ground in front of them without hesitation after Cheng Shijie's order was issued.

There were only five or six hundred Ning Haijun soldiers, and they were a little at a loss holding their swords.

"Where is the military judge?"

"Where's the military judge!"

"I am humble!"

"What should I do if I refuse to carry out my orders?"

The military judge said without hesitation: "If you can't hear the drum, take advantage of the wide space to stay, avoid and stop yourself, be close at first and then far away, you should not be called by your name, you don't have chariots and armor, and you are not prepared for weapons. This is a light army, and those who are light soldiers will be killed." Orders are not passed on, orders are passed on without trial, officials are confused, golden drums are not heard, banners are not seen, this is called slowing the army, and those who are slow in the army will be killed."

As the military judge loudly read Ning Haijun's military discipline, the five or six hundred soldiers present who raised their swords and prepared to remonstrate with death were even more confused. Cheng Shijie had ordered them to put down their swords. If they did not let go, they were violating military discipline. No matter whether they were given a lighter sentence , slow, back, wrong four dimensions can kill them.

Cheng Shijie said: "I will give you the best equipment, the best treatment, and the most rigorous training. What I want is not your allegiance, but to let you, when the Jiannu Tatars break through the barrier again, roll in like a flood of iron cavalry." When they are crossing the North China Plain, when their spears cover the ground like a forest, and when the cannonballs fired by the artillery batteries cover the sky, you can rush forward without hesitation, for this land and for those who support us with their blood and sweat. For our people, die without hesitation! What are you doing now? You have forgotten your original intention and your oath. What does your behavior represent? It represents cowardice and cowardice. This commander can judge you as deserters based on your actions.!"

Cheng Shijie's passionate roar was like thunder, shaking the eardrums of every soldier and shaking their hearts.

"How does Ning Haijun deal with deserters!"

Now the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy have dropped their swords one after another. They can die, but they cannot be counted as deserters. The punishment for soldiers who violate military disciplines in the Ning Navy has always been very harsh. Not only the soldiers will be punished, but they will also be implicated. Their families, including the land they had been given as bounties, were also taken back.

However, not all officers and soldiers of Ning Navy have families. Some of them are alone. They are alone and have enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry. Such people are not afraid.

A Ning Haijun officer knelt down towards Cheng Shijie: "Commander, you used military law to kill me. I violated military law and you are responsible for your own fault. You can kill me, but it is useless to kill me. We are all in this imperial court. We have already I’m so disappointed, Guo Wenlong, a humble employee, is leaving!”

The soldier named Guo Wenlong still slashed his neck with a knife, blood spurted out, and his body fell to the ground with a thud.

"Commander, my life was originally saved by you. If it weren't for Commander, Beizhi would have died in Laizhou four years ago. In these four years, Beizhi fought thirteen times, fought 27 small battles, and beheaded fifteen levels. If there is an afterlife, , Cao Rong, who humbles himself, will repay the commander-in-chief for his life!"

"Puchi..."

Cao Rong was even more ruthless than Guo Wenlong. With his huge strength, he chopped off his head and fell to the ground, but his body could not stand upright.Cheng Shijie really couldn't stand it anymore: "What do you want? Those people in the center are bastards, but because of this, you can sit back and watch with peace of mind as Jianjin marches straight into the capital?"

Meng En choked with tears in his eyes: "Commander, you are dedicated to the country and don't care about your own interests. We all know that, and it is precisely because of this that we have always followed you, trusted you, and obeyed you unconditionally. This will always be the case from now on." That's true too! But..."

"But... look at the bastard things this bastard country has done! Just because you were ordered to face danger, in order to drag you into trouble, they can ignore the life and death of millions of people, use all means to destroy border defenses, and lure wolves into the house. , is there anything more ridiculous than this??”

Cheng Shijie was really speechless.

"In the past, there were no rewards for meritorious service, and we were often made things difficult and ridiculed in the local area. We have endured all this, even if we bite our teeth into pieces, we can endure it! But their attitude of not taking this country seriously makes us sad. We can't bear it anymore! Since they can't listen to our advice and don't take the fate of this country seriously, let's find someone who can listen to our advice and still have this country in their hearts!"

Zhou Ning, who had been silent all the time, also knelt in front of Cheng Shijie: "Commander, with the strength of our Ning Navy, it is only a matter of time before we conquer Shenyang City, and it is only a matter of time before we eliminate Jiannu. When we defeat Jiannu, our end will come." ! Even if it is just to cover up our ugliness, the emperor will not let us go. Besides, since ancient times, how many commanders have turned the tide from extreme dangers to a good end! Emperor, will he still trust you as before? Those who have thoughts in their hearts Can the damn scholar-bureaucrats let us go? What awaits us is absolute disaster!"

Meng En said: "You are not afraid of death for your humble position, but we don't want to be guillotined on an unfounded charge even though we have made great achievements, and we don't want to harm our relatives!"

Cheng Shijie was speechless...

In fact, Cheng Shijie was eager to resolve the crisis, turn things around, and turn the tide, but he unknowingly led the entire Ning Haijun to the edge of the cliff. If he took one more step forward, he would fall to pieces!
Emperor Chongzhen could tolerate a Ning Navy with only tens of thousands of troops. Even though the Ning Navy had very strong combat effectiveness, the problem was tens of thousands of troops. In Emperor Chongzhen's eyes, tens of thousands of Ning Navy officers could not threaten Emperor Chongzhen's status.

But now it's different. Ning Haijun revealed his overall strength. He led more than [-] cavalry to the north for the first time, then mobilized more than [-] infantry for the second time, and in the third wave, he mobilized hundreds of thousands of militiamen. These In Cheng Shijie's eyes, the Liaodong militiamen were just farmers with temporary symptoms.

But the problem is that in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen and the Manchu princes, the transport team that has been transfusing blood to the capital is also an elite unit of the Ning Navy, only missing a name and equipment.

Why can Meng En, the commander of the guards, persuade countless Ning navy officers and men?This is because Ning Haijun started to open a literacy class for officers four years ago. After more than four years of study, even those who were once illiterate have some knowledge in Ning Haijun's system.

Especially the ideological education of Ning Haijun, ordinary soldiers recalled the bitterness and sweetness, listened to storytelling or cross talk. Of course, the cross talk in the Ming Dynasty was called onomatopoeia, which was mainly imitation, with dialogue and jokes. It has formed the four major cross talk in later generations. Features, speaking, learning, teasing, and singing, it can be said that just a veteran of the Ning Navy may not have much literacy, but it does not mean that they have no knowledge.

Like Wu Qi, Shang Yang, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, and Yue Fei, their stories are very familiar to Ning Navy soldiers. It is precisely because of their familiarity that they feel the crisis.

These outstanding figures used their own fate or that of their relatives to tell future generations that they were the most poisonous to the emperor. For the benefit of the royal family, they would do any ungrateful thing. It was amazing that after their death, their sons paid tribute to their father on their behalf. The wronged man admits his mistake!

If he leads the Ning navy to destroy the Jiannu now, unless he usurps the throne and becomes self-reliant, his fate will definitely not be much better. He will either die with his eyes open like Wu Qi, Shang Yang, and Yue Fei, or he will die like Wei Huo, who was a highly respected minister during his lifetime. Afterwards, the whole clan was executed, and no chickens or dogs were left alive!
Cheng Shijie was a fan of the authorities and did not see through it, but Sun Zhiyi, who was familiar with history books, saw through it, and so did Li Xin, chief of operations staff of the Ning Navy General Staff.

In fact, until now, Cheng Shijie didn't know that the young and handsome chief of staff Li Xin who followed Zhou Ning was actually the famous Li Yan in later generations.Li Xin was the first to see through it and successfully persuaded Zhou Ning. However, he did not suggest that Zhou Ning come forward. Instead, he persuaded Meng En to let Meng En come forward.

Li Xin thought more deeply than Meng En. Cheng Shijie was the commander-in-chief of Ning Haijun. Whether he persuaded him to join or forced Cheng Shijie to change his mind, such a person would not end well. Cheng Shijie was now only the commander-in-chief of Ning Haijun, but the problem was , he would never allow anyone to force him to do something he didn't want to do, even if it was right.

In fact, just as Li Xin judged, Meng En used coercion and Cheng Shijie did not compromise. Li Xin also knew that Cheng Shijie was not an easy person to compromise, let alone a soft-hearted person.Ning Haijun's Luzon Legion only rewarded more than 750 million acres of land.

This means that the Luzon Army of the Ning Navy killed at least 1205 million people in Luzon. This number can only be more, and it is absolutely impossible to be less. It is more than 100 million lives. Who sees Cheng Shijie hesitate or can't bear it?

No, whether it was the Spaniards or the Dutch, including the Luzon native pigs, Cheng Shijie would not frown even if he killed a mountain of corpses and a river of blood.

This is Cheng Shijie. In Liaodong, he was a benevolent Bodhisattva with countless living people. It can be said that thousands of families have Buddhas. In Luzon and Nanyang, in his childhood, Cheng Shijie was an out-and-out devil.

Cheng Shijie now understands that he has no way to let the Ning Navy go north to the north of the Great Wall to attack the Jian Nu from the east and west with the Liaodong Ning Navy and eliminate the Jian Nu in one fell swoop.

As time goes by, Huang Taiji will definitely receive news that Shenyang is attacked by Ning Haijun. Facing the treacherous Ning Haijun, the only way to build a slave is to go south and attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty at all costs. The capital is bound to be a sea of ​​blood and millions of people will be killed. All living beings were reduced to withered bones, and Cheng Shijie did not care about the eternal infamy of losing the capital.Because he knows that as long as he succeeds, there will be people who will clear his name for him.

History is like a little girl who can be dressed up as she pleases. Emperor Xin only had one wife, two concubines, and two sons, but was scolded as licentious. Ji Chang had 4 wet nurses, 24 concubines, and 99 children, but he was a wise king.At the same time, there is Yang Guang. Although Yang Guang was described by Li Shimin as a dissolute and immoral monarch, he really only had nine recorded concubines in his harem.In the emperor's harem, this is not much at all.Don't you know that Sima Yan has tens of thousands of beauties in his harem? Even Li Shimin, who has been slandering Yang Guang, has 21 sons and [-] daughters.His fifteen wives and one queen and fourteen concubines did not prevent him from becoming the Khan of Heaven.

Li Zhi, who married his stepmother, did not prevent him from being described in European historical materials as a tall and mighty general. His name became a symbol of terror and awe, and he was called the "Yellow Peril."His image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has become the protagonist of countless stories and legends.

Cheng Shijie is worried about the dead. Now that the industrial revolution has begun, if the Ming Dynasty can have one or two billion people and has the technological advantages of the industrial revolution, there will be no problem in sweeping the entire world. However, once the population is too small, no matter how long it will take To develop?
Cheng Shijie closed his eyes and asked in a hoarse voice: "Meng En, does it have to be like this? Is there no other way?"

Meng En shook his head: "After Jian Nu conquers the capital and proclaims himself emperor, and all the debris comes to the surface, the prince becomes the new king and vows to fight for the Northern Expedition. After defeating Jian Nu, he will build a prison and uproot all the old forces that are hostile to the new army. This must be the case. ! Only in this way can the peaceful and prosperous age be restored, only in this way can the Ninghai model be promoted to the whole country, and only in this way can we, the meritorious ministers, truly retire without having to worry about unwarranted charges falling on us!"

Zhou Ning said: "Commander, these things are indeed dirty, but they must be done. Builders will never be able to defeat the troublemakers, and uprightness will never be able to deal with the despicable villains! If you want to build a peaceful and prosperous age, the only way is to destroy all the troublemakers. Send to hell!"

Cheng Shijie said feebly: "A lot of people are going to die...Although I didn't kill them, I have to bear the main responsibility. There may not be any other way!"

(End of this chapter)