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

Chapter 51 The Darkest and Dirtiest Means

Chapter 050

Zhang Huairen's family background in Zhensanshan is very rich. He actually has more than 150 sets of armor, more than 200 spears, spears, and horses, and more than [-] high-quality ash poles.

There are more than 8000 long knives and short knives in total, more than 300 catties of pig iron, more than 21 sets of plows and carts for farming, and not many firecrackers, only [-].

What surprised Cheng Shijie the most was that there were actually four Thunderbolts at the gate of Zhangzhuang Village.

The Thunderbolt was the master inventor of weapons during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. This firecracker, named Thunderbolt, is actually the original version of the machine gun. It has eighteen barrels and is fired in a rotating wheel. Once loaded, it can fire eighteen consecutive shots. A five-coin lead is [-] grams.

Although this kind of firecracker is troublesome to load, and because the cost is too high, it is not easy to manufacture, and it is not equipped with troops, but it has become a magic weapon for landlords and powerful families to guard their homes.

If these bandits hadn't surrendered at that time, but had fired while Ning Haijun was intensively attacking, these four [-]-tube Thunderbolts alone would have caused dozens of casualties to Ning Haijun.

This thing has a large caliber and a lot of charge. Although the accuracy is not high, it can ignore the defense of the armor. Even a Jiannu white armor soldier wearing a three-layer armor can only kneel down and sing conquest when encountering the Thunderbolt.

"nice one!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Look around, even if you scrape the ground three feet, you have to find all the Thunderbolts."

"Only these four, it is said that one Thunderbolt needs 180 taels of silver."

"It's a pity, take them all back and study them slowly."

There were too many seized this time. If Qin Wu hadn't built more than 1000 carts at the beginning, it would have been really not easy to transport all the supplies.

Just over 5 catties of cotton are loaded into more than 100 carts. There is no way. Although the cotton is not heavy, the problem is that the amount that the carts can carry is limited.As for food, cloth and silk, there are also a lot of gold and silver jewelry. In Zhang Huairen's treasure house, he found a crystal carriage and a citrine fortune tree.

Facing Zhang Huairen putting these two treasures in a box of golden leaves, Cheng Shijie didn't know what to say.

Zhang Huairen's gold was more than Qin Wu's, a total of 3000 taels, and 50 taels was used as an ingot, even if it was 50 taels of gold, it was actually very small.

Cheng Shijie couldn't bring it back to the future generations at once, but the most important thing is that the money is too little.

"That's not right!"

Cheng Shijie frowned and said: "Qin Wu feeds more than 4000 people, and there are more than 5 taels of silver in stock. Although the number of people in Zhensanshan is small, they have been entrenched for longer, and there should be more than this amount of silver!"

On the way of chasing the town's Sanshan Division, they also picked up more than 1000 taels of silver. On average, each bandit carried four or five taels of silver with them, but when they went to their hometown, they did not find any silver. This is obviously a problem.

Just when Cheng Shijie asked Ning Haijun soldiers to search everywhere, a young girl about fifteen or sixteen years old who looked like a maid timidly stepped forward and said, "Slave... Slave, I know where their money is!"

"where?"

The servant girl pointed to a stone table in Zhang Huairen's courtyard and said, "This is it!"

"Down?"

"no!"

The girl thought for a while, picked up her copper hairpin, walked to the stone table in the gazebo, and gently scraped the paint on the stone table with the hairpin. As the paint peeled off, a piece of silver light was revealed.

Cheng Shijie couldn't help but looked in Zhang Huairen's direction: "This nima is really a talent!"

This stone table was placed in the open air, and the stone table was not engraved with patterns, which seemed to be crudely made. Cheng Shijie passed by here four or five times, but did not find anything unusual.

This rough stone table weighs a full sixteen to seven hundred catties, and even the six stone stools around the stone table are actually made of silver.

The sum of Zhang Huairen's silver here is more than 600 jin, a total of more than 7000 taels, plus more than 5 taels of scattered silver, less than [-] taels.

When Zhang Huairen offered to buy his life with 5 taels of silver, he actually emptied his family.

"General, how to deal with these prisoners?"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Go back first, and interrogate them one by one. Those who have murder or flower cases in their hands will be cut off. If there are no murder or flower cases, those who just block the way to grab some money will be thrown into mines and farms to let them reflect on how many times they have. Years!, By the way, those who have murders should also find out that they are robbing the rich and helping the poor to make a living, let them go to the mine for 15 years of labor reform, and those who massacre the villagers should not be polite to them!"

Song Xiance was obviously relieved, Cheng Shijie's heart was soft, as the lord, kindness is the blessing of his subjects.But the problem is, blindly abusing good people is not a good thing.Fortunately, Cheng Shijie is not blindly abusing good people, he does not lack the ruthlessness and iron blood necessary for a general, but he is not cold enough.

"Lord."

Song Xiance saw that there were no other people around, only Chen Guodong was like a statue.He lowered his voice and said, "I don't know how to deal with this Zhuangzi, my lord!"

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to give up this Zhuangzi.

However, Song Xiance has different considerations.There is a huge difference between this place and Qinwu's Linglong Mountain. Linglong Mountain is just a mountainous area with almost no applicable arable land, but here is a plain. The developed fields in Zhangzhuang Village alone have more than [-] mu. Located in the Rushan River, irrigation is very convenient, these are rare good land.

Song Xiance said: "My lord, none of this land appears in the official records!"

"you sure?"

Song Xiance said: "Ninghai Prefecture leads a county in eighty miles, but there is no record of Zhangzhuang Village!"

This incident is very strange to say. In fact, the government was corrupt in the late Ming Dynasty. Many landlords and powerful farms did not exist in the official records, not only the fields, but also the population.It started in the sixth year of Wanli and lasted for three or four years. Finally, 1.55 million mu of unreported arable land was cleared, and the national arable land area was 600 million mu.However, in the 30th year of Wanli, the area of ​​cultivated land reached the highest in the history of the Ming Dynasty, 11 billion mu (Ming Shenzong Records), but in the Chongzhen Dynasty, there were only 6000 million mu left. (public records)
However, from the 30th year of Wanli to the fourth year of Chongzhen, there were actually only 30 years. In just 30 years, 800 million mu of land disappeared from the imperial government's Hubu field mu book.

These fields were either abandoned by farmers who were overwhelmed, or were concealed by gentry and tyrants.

"My lord, you can set up an army station here, and move a hundred households from Ninghai City!"

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to demolish the houses in Zhangzhuang Village. These are high-quality bricks and tiles. If they occupy them by force, it would be a good choice. Unexpectedly, Ning Haijun can arrive within a day.

"So good!"

The plan has changed, but there are more things left. Originally, Cheng Shijie planned not to leave even a nail, but now not only need to leave some supplies, but also need to leave a certain amount of food.

Fortunately, the plan was changed. When I came here, the autumn grass was withered and yellow. In just three days, when I went back, there was a lot of snow in the sky. In one night, the snow could be buried up to the calf.

However, snowflakes were still fluttering in the sky, neither the sun nor a single cloud could be seen in the gloomy sky, and the low-hanging sky was like an upside-down cauldron, covering the vast white sky.The dense chill in the air made everyone's blood approach the freezing point unknowingly,
Despite the cold weather, the more than [-] soldiers of the Ning Navy felt like fire in their hearts.Because of this easy battle, they seized a lot of supplies and money.

Cheng Shijie also asked Song Xiance to write a victory document and send it to Dengzhou City.

……

Dengzhou City, Governor's Yamen of Denglai.

"Master Futai, it's time to eat!"

"Ben Xian can't eat it!"

Sun Yuanhua was so angry that he dropped his 11-year-old inkstone when he received the information from Jinzhou.Wu Xiang and Song Wei led [-] elite Guanning troops to support Dalinghe, and suddenly encountered Huang Taiji who led [-] cavalry to patrol.

Huang Taiji ordered his subordinates to attack the Guanning Army. The [-] elite Guanning Army was defeated by Huang Taiji's [-] soldiers. They failed to support the old lady Linghe three times in a row. Zu Dashou was in a hurry. He asked Jinzhou and the capital for help. .

Where are the reinforcements in the capital now?
The only elites that could be mobilized were the Denglai New Army in the hands of Sun Yuanhua, and the troops he had accepted from the Dongjiang Army Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Li Jiucheng, totaling more than [-] troops.

In addition to the newly formed Ning Navy, Sun Yuanhua can mobilize more than 1 troops, but these elites cannot move in Shandong. Once these troops are mobilized, God knows what will happen.

He was really afraid that as soon as he left, Dengzhou would be copied by someone.Point to Shandong Dusi and Shandong Beiwosi to lean on, and sows can climb trees.

"You're so stupid, let alone [-] elites, even if it's [-] pigs, Jiannu can't catch them all in a month!"

In Sun Yuanhua's view, the Liaoxi generals are simply a bunch of stupid pigs, knowing that Huang Taiji led the Jiannu and Mongolian allied forces with more than 6000 troops. Such a huge force cannot be shaken by a mere [-] or [-] people.

However, the Guan Ning Army sent thousands of troops up one at a time.

Sun Yuanhua thought of the word "send" and almost didn't bring it up.

Now he finally understands why those people sent the officers and men of the Guanning Army to die time and time again. This is fucking politics again, fighting for the sake of fighting.

It really is the darkest, dirtiest, and meanest.The most shameless and indecent means.

Because it is Sun Chengzong who sits in Liaodong, in order to pull Sun Chengzong to step down, these people will do everything they can.

More than [-] well-equipped officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army were discarded as pawns.

"Zhuzi, Zhuzi...that's his mother."

Sun Yuanhua was furious and cursed.

Xu Dacheng didn't know who Sun Yuanhua scolded, he only knew that Sun Yuanhua was in a very bad mood now.But at present, this official report of victory may make Sun Yuanhua feel better.

"Master Futai, good news!"

(End of this chapter)