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

Chapter 43
Chapter 042

People always grow up unexpectedly.

The same is true of Cheng Shijie. When he was Zuo Qianhu, he always rode in a car. It wasn't that he didn't want to ride a horse, but his butt was too big for the saddle to fit.

But during this period of time, Cheng Shijie has lost weight. Although his stomach is still there, his double chin has disappeared, and his weight has dropped to less than two hundred catties. However, he is tall and looks not so fat anymore.

The most important thing is that when he was fat in the past, he would feel very tired after traveling more than 200 miles from Dengzhou to Zuoqianhusuo, but now he doesn't feel tired anymore.

He brought more than 2000 military households, including the family members of military households, a total of 5000 people, and he felt a bit like occupying the mountain as king.To say that Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, is really courageous enough.

When it comes to the establishment of Ning Haijun, neither a supervisory army nor even an accountant was sent, and Cheng Shijie had full authority to handle it.

It's just a pity that Sun Yuanhua was dealt with by the court in a Wuqiao mutiny.In all fairness, the uprising at Wuqiao had nothing to do with Kong Youde, or whether the Dongjiang Army could fight. You must know that Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, and Geng Zhongming each commanded [-] soldiers.

And at the very beginning, only Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde were responsible. The combined number of soldiers and horses of the two was less than 2000, while the Shandong Metropolitan Commander could command more than [-] troops.As a result, Kong Youde's department fought more and more. In the final analysis, it was because the government forced the people to rebel.

The current Shandong is a situation where the fire is cooking oil, and if you are not careful, the problem will be serious.

Song Kangnian was a little puzzled. There were already more than 1 people in the Thousand Households Office. Why did they bring back another 5000 people?Apart from eating a few thousand more people, what advantage could Cheng Shijie take advantage of.

When Cheng Shijie failed in the competition for the first time, the leader gave him the evaluation that the structure was not big enough. At that time, he didn't quite understand why the structure was not big enough.

What is the big picture?

Later, he understood that as a person, one should not just focus on the one-acre three-point land of one's own home. When thinking about problems, one should not only consider one's own gains and losses. This is called the pattern.

These impoverished military households lived in Dengzhou City, and they would do everything possible to survive. When Kong Youde launched a rebellion, he waved his arms, and these poor military households and refugees all came from thief.It was because of the existence of these people that Kong Youde had enough soldiers, and Kong Youde fought more and more courageously.

Taking away these 5000 people will not fundamentally solve Kong Youde's destruction of Shandong, but it can weaken Kong Youde's power.

And these people can become Cheng Shijie's help.

"Master Garrison, are you serious? Are you kidding me?"

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "I have already said many times that as long as you arrive in Ninghai Prefecture, I will give you a piece of land so that you can live like landlords."

"We're serious!"

"Must be serious!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "This garrison is not only distributed to you. We, Ning Haijun, will build many factories in the future. You will all have dividends, and you will have no worries about food and drink in the future!"

"real!"

"Don't worry, follow this defense, you will never suffer!"

"Cheng Shoubei, do you mean what you say?"

"Forget it, of course it counts! If what I say doesn't count, then let Ben defend for the rest of his life!"

When everyone heard this, they burst out laughing.

These military households living at the bottom of the society are the most simple. If they have the right appetite, they can even sell you their lives. Cheng Shijie eats from the same pot, sleeps in the same tent with them, and has military achievements there. Naturally, he is very popular. .

However, when he said that he would share the fields and houses for everyone, everyone didn't really believe it. Everyone was looking forward to going to Ninghai Prefecture and Zuoqianhusuo soon, so that he could make a fool of himself.

Taking these military households on the march, Cheng Shijie was in a very happy mood.

Ninghai Prefecture is very desolate now. Now it only has more than 6 households and more than 700 people. In later generations, this place has a population of [-] million.

This made Cheng Shijie feel a little unbelievable. Not counting Muping County and Wendeng County, Weihai City alone has a grain output of 59 tons, while the current grain output of Ninghai Prefecture is less than 10,000 shi. It can be seen that the development here It is only equivalent to [-]+ mu of land.It is only equivalent to one hundredth of the future generations.

When Cheng Shijie came to Zuoqianhusuo, these 5000 people did not enter the city, they were only temporarily arranged outside the city.

"Master Qianhu!"

The enthusiastic military household saluted Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie nodded slightly as a response.

However, Cheng Shi and Cheng Hu corrected immediately: "Now foster father is no longer Lord Qianhu, but Lord Guard!"

"Master Guard?"

The military households still don't know that Cheng Shijie is no longer Dengzhou Wei Zuoqianhu, but the garrison of Ning Haijun.

Cheng Shijie didn't have time to rest, and Zhou Yandong, deputy thousand householder, reported to Cheng Shijie the development during this period.

"Congratulations, Sir Chito"

Cheng Shi corrected: "The adoptive father is no longer Qianhu, but Ning Haijun!"

"Congratulations, Lord Guard, this can be regarded as a double blessing!"

"Oh, what double happiness?"

"You asked the officials to lead the craftsmen to search for ore veins. We found two iron mines and one copper mine in the territory!" Zhou Yandong waved his hand and said, "Bring them here."

Cheng Shijie watched as two military households carried a huge sack into the hall.

"Boom..."

The sack was placed on the ground, making a dull sound.He untied the sack, revealing a sack of black iron ore. Cheng Shijie picked up a piece of ore and looked at it over and over again.The tube ore is heavy and diamond-shaped, with a slight luster in the black lacquer, and it seems that the grade is not bad.

Cheng Shijie is a professional in metallurgy and steelmaking. He can see that the quality of these iron ores is good, and of course it is much worse than the iron ores imported from Australia.

Zhou Yandong leaned over and said, "Master Garrison, this ore is one of the best in Dengzhou. The quality of the iron produced is excellent, and it can be easily refined into refined iron. It will be very popular."

Cheng Shijie has now almost understood the prices of goods in the late Ming Dynasty. The special prices in the Ming Dynasty were very strange, and the very cheap things in later generations were ridiculously high in the Ming Dynasty.Just like this iron, iron is rarely used in later generations, and most of it is alloy steel.However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a catty of iron cost one coin of silver.

Let's put it this way, the value of five catties of iron is equal to 150 and three point five catties of rice, who would dare to imagine this?Equivalent to one catty of iron is equal to thirty catties of seven or two rice.Even the cheapest rice is two yuan and five pounds, which is equivalent to 76 yuan.It is almost thirty times that of later generations.

As a technician of Hansteel Group, Cheng Shijie has access to the distribution of mineral resources in later generations. Of course, he knows that there are iron mines of fairly good quality in Ninghai Prefecture.

"Has the iron ore been mined?"

"opened!"

Zhou Yandong said: "At least five or six thousand stones of iron ore can be mined a year!"

"What?"

Cheng Shijie's eyes widened: "Only so little in a year?"

"The veins there are a bit complicated, there are too many messy things!"

Zhou Yandong said: "In the future, more miners will be added, and the output can be increased!"

Five or six thousand stones are about 90 million catties, which is about 450 tons when converted into a ton, which is less than the output of a branch factory of Hansteel Group in one hour.You must know that Hansteel Group has a production capacity of 5000 million tons, and 80.00% of the production capacity has been shut down because there are not so many quotas.

Cheng Shijie said: "The production capacity is too low. To increase the production capacity, it must be expanded by at least ten times!"

Iron ore is not equal to iron, let alone steel. 450 tons of iron ore can only produce more than 200 tons of iron. According to the technical level of the Ming Dynasty, the output is even lower.

According to Zhou Yandong, steelmaking is too troublesome, it is better to sell iron ore directly.

Cheng Shijie firmly disagreed with this, it would be too wasteful.

"Zhou Yandong, this matter is entirely up to you to handle the defense. You can choose craftsmen in our Qianhu Office, no, Ning Haijun internally selects craftsmen. If you want people to guard you, you need money. There is only one requirement. Increase production capacity!"

"Yes!"

"I'll give you another 1000 people!"

"What!"

"1000 people?"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie said: "If you use 500 people to open iron mines, 300 people to make steel, and 200 people to make weapons and armor, 1000 people may not be enough!"

"Do your best!"

"It's not about doing your best, but about doing it!"

Cheng Shijie stared at Zhou Yandong and said: "The wages of the miners are doubled, and they must be fed. If there is not enough food, you can buy it!"

Mining iron ore now is simply a huge profit. If the rations and wages of the miners are deducted, it will be too inhumane. Of course, this is not conducive to the development of iron ore.

Zhou Yandong also introduced to Cheng Shijie several newly opened factories, a kiln factory, which can produce porcelain. By the way, Ning Haijun also has a large amount of kaolin resources, which is the raw material for firing porcelain.In later generations, Linyi, Zibo, Weifang and Weihai in Shandong were the main production areas for ceramic tiles and ceramics.

Unknowingly, Cheng Shijie established a furniture factory, seven kilns in Zuoqianhusuo for firing bricks, tiles and porcelain, a military uniform factory, a salt factory, and now two small iron factories. mine and a copper mine.

Although the production capacity of these factories is seriously insufficient, the production capacity can be increased by increasing manpower.

While Cheng Shijie was watching Zhou Yandong report to him on the construction progress of Qianhu House and barracks, Yang Yunniang was holding a teapot and pouring tea for Cheng Shijie and Zhou Yandong.

Zhou Yandong bowed and said, "Thank you Ma'am!"

Yang Yunniang was stunned for a moment, then blushing suddenly flew up her cheeks, and she glanced at Cheng Shijie, seeing that he was also smiling, she was even more embarrassed.

Although he was embarrassed and shy, he still lowered his head and reminded in a low voice: "Master Xie Shou... I am just a servant girl of the Cheng family."

"Uh……"

Only then did Zhou Yandong realize that he had made a mistake, but the question is, isn't this the first time?A few times before Cheng Shijie was away, he sent the accounts to Qianhuzhai, also known as Mrs. Yang Yuniang, but Yang Yuniang did not remind.

Zhou Yandong smiled at Cheng Shijie: "Master Guard, I'm an officer..."

"Those who don't know are not guilty, and there is nothing!"

"I wonder if Mr. Cheng is single?"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said, "Cheng has already married a wife, but..."

It's a pity that he has a son and a daughter in later generations, but the problem is that they can't make it through.

Zhou Yandong continued to report on work, but Yang Yunniang felt Cheng Shijie's gaze on her, her face turned even redder, she didn't dare to look at Cheng Shijie anymore, she turned and ran to the inner room.

By the way, Cheng Shijie is now serving as the garrison of the Ning Navy, and the Dengzhou Wei Zuo Qianhu Office must be renamed.

Cheng Shijie's opinion is that it is straightforward, simple and trouble-free, and it is called Ninghai City.

Although Ninghai Prefecture has a state government, but it shares a city with Muping County, it seems that there is no problem in calling it Ninghai City.

After arranging the factory and development plan, Cheng Shijie began to recruit soldiers, and based on his more than [-] famous Ding soldiers, he was preparing to expand the army.

There are more than 5000 military households in Zuoqian households, plus the newly recruited 2 people, which is almost 2 people. Selecting 2000 people out of [-] people is considered one out of ten.

The task of selecting the source of troops was handed over to Shen Mingyu.

Shen Mingyu first used a bamboo pole to stand on the school field, and he was brushed off at the first level if he was not tall enough, and then it was endurance. Cheng Shijie's servants were treated well, and many people were willing to become his servants. The key was to want to be Cheng Shijie's servants Bing, it is too difficult.

Watching so many people being brushed off one by one.

A military household lamented: "Is this picking soldiers? It's harder than choosing a son-in-law for a commanding officer!"

"No, it's not that difficult for the Commander to choose a son-in-law. I heard that whoever is the Commander's son-in-law looks crooked..."

All the military households felt the same way, it was really difficult to become Cheng Shijie's servant.

Cheng Shijie's principle is that lack is better than abuse.

(End of this chapter)