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

Chapter 6 Eat well before making money
Chapter 005

Chen Guodong is a general of the Dongjiang Army. He was originally from Haizhou Wei.

In April of the first year of Tianqi, his hometown Haizhouwei fell.Chen Guodong's family of eleven members, except for Chen Lian and his younger brother Chen Guoliang, survived, nine people, including Chen Guodong's father, mother, two older brothers, one older sister, two sister-in-laws, one nephew, and one younger sister, died at the hands of Jiannu.

Chen Guodong, who was only 11 years old at the time, and Chen Guoliang, who was nine years old, fled to Guanglu Island with the refugees.Later, after Mao Wenlong made a surprise attack on Jin Zhenjiang and opened the town of Dongjiang Town, he became a member of the militia of the Dongjiang Army.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, 17-year-old Chen Guodong officially became a member of the Dongjiang Army. He accompanied the Dongjiang Army to attack Jiannu several times, and was promoted from a small soldier to a general because of his meritorious service.

However, the good times did not last long.

Mao Shuai, who has always been rebellious, had a conflict with Yuan Chonghuan. As a result, Mao Wenlong was killed, and the Dongjiang Army became a mess. Yuan Chonghuan supported Chen Jisheng, the former deputy general of the Dongjiang Army, as the general, but Chen Jisheng could not convince the crowd and was resourceful.

In March of the third year of Chongzhen, Chen Jisheng, the second commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, was killed by Liu Xingzhi, Liu Xingji and others. Huang Long, who was born in the Guanning Army in western Liaoning, succeeded him as the third commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army.

Huang Long, the new general officer of the Dongjiang Army, took office three fires, and the first fire was on Geng Zhongyu, the younger brother of Geng Zhongming.

And Chen Guodong is one of the generals under Geng Zhongming's command. Unlike what ordinary soldiers imagined, Chen Guodong is very disgusted with those generals who fight one thing today and fight another tomorrow.

The Dongjiang army is united, even Jiannu can be treated with caution, but after the split, who will take them as dishes?

After arriving in Dengzhou, Chen Guodong deeply felt the malice of Dengzhou and Shandong people. Any Dengzhou people staring at them seemed to be guarding against thieves.

Chen Guodong led his subordinates on a routine patrol. Suddenly, a few soldiers of the Dongjiang Army rushed over.

"Chen Boss!"

"Why are you so panicked!"

"They...they... bully people!"

Chen Guodong came down to the south gate of Dengzhou City with his flag. This scene made his forehead twitch.

More than a dozen soldiers of the Dengzhou Army were threatening a group of refugees with shining weapons.Soldiers of the Dengzhou Army asked these refugees to open the packages they carried with them, throw gold and silver coins, jewelry, jewelry utensils and other items into a large basket, and even strip off their clothes.

The naked refugees curled up and shivered.Not only the men among the refugees were required to be naked, but also the women and children.The refugees are all skinny, even if their upper body is exposed, they still have to be pointed at by the soldiers of the Dengzhou Army, and if they move slowly, they will be punched and kicked.

If these refugees were from Shandong, Chen Guodong would never say a word and pretended not to see them.

But the problem is that these refugees are people who can't survive on the islands of Dongjiang Town. They saw that the Dongjiang Army was transferred to Dengzhou, and they were worried about the attack of the slaves. Without the protection of the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, they were just a group of cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

It is a pity that Shandong, which is extremely xenophobic, is not willing to accept the refugees from Liaodong. I don't know if it was the spontaneous behavior of the soldiers of the Dengzhou Army, or they were hinted from above.

These Liaodong refugees were driven to the moat below the city. A topless woman screamed and struggled to keep the Dengzhou Army soldiers from approaching. It turned out that the child in the woman's arms was wearing a silver coin on her neck. The longevity lock was discovered by the soldiers, who grabbed the longevity lock and yanked it.

There was a bloodstain on the child's neck, and the child's mother opened her mouth and bit the Dengzhou Army soldier.

The soldiers of the Dengzhou Army flew into a rage, threw away the woman, and stabbed the woman fiercely with a long gun.

"Puchi..."

The sharp spear pierced through the woman's back without any hesitation, and also penetrated the mother who wanted to protect her child with her body.The spear pierced the woman's back, but pierced the chest of the child in her arms.

Chen Guodong was furious. He walked up to the Dengzhou Army soldier and slapped him with a raised hand.

"Straight motherfucker!"

The Dengzhou Army soldier who was beaten threw down his spear and ran towards the city, shouting as he ran, "The Dongjiang Army has rebelled..."

As the so-called freezing three feet is not a one-day cold, the conflict and hostility between the Shandong Army and the Dongjiang Army were not created in a day, so the two sides began to hack and kill together.

……

Cheng Shijie was a little thankful that he brought the sword this time.With a knife in his hand, Cheng Shijie was somewhat confident.As long as someone came to kill him, he would not be helpless, like a soldier who could be blown away by a gust of wind, he should be able to hack two or three to death by himself.

A middle-aged man became ruthless, and he was afraid.

The clerk was still a little puzzled, but he remembered very clearly that when Cheng Shijie moved in, he brought very few things and absolutely no knives, especially the straight Tang knife that Cheng Shijie was holding now, which seemed to be of quite good quality.

"Guest officer, don't worry, there's no mess here!"

"So much the better!"

The Liuji Inn is also considered a local snake in Dengzhou City. When the chaos started, the staff had already started to close the door. The gate of the Liuji Inn was very thick, a full three-inch thick wooden plank. Unless it was burned with fire, it was really difficult to break through. enter.

The chaos lasted for half an hour before it slowly stopped.

The smell of blood began to fill the air, and it seemed that there were many murders.

Cheng Shijie watched the door vigilantly until the handsome guy came back.

"Guest officer, it's all right!"

"what happened?"

"I heard it was Liaodong soldiers making trouble!"

This made Cheng Shijie feel a little uneasy. If he hadn't consulted the historical data, he really wouldn't have figured it out. Now he knows that Dengzhou City is already a volcano that is about to erupt, and it may shake the mountain at any time.

Cheng Shijie decided to try his luck at the governor's office in Dengzhou. Sun Yuanhua was training the Denglai new army. Maybe he needed such a magic weapon in his hands.

The purchase cost varies from more than 200 yuan to more than 300 yuan. As long as he can sell more than ten taels of silver, he will have more than ten times the profit.

Walking out of the Liuji Inn, people were shouting on the street, a group of yamen servants drove the people away, and were cleaning the street. Buckets of water were poured on the street, which soon turned a faint red.

"Wow wow..."

Just as Cheng Shijie was walking forward, he suddenly heard bursts of shrill babies crying. He followed the sound, but he didn't see the baby, nor the woman holding the baby.

Obviously the baby's cry was not far away, Cheng Shijie walked over subconsciously, and saw a swaddling baby appearing on the mound next to it, and there were bursts of crying in the swaddling baby.

Cheng Shijie gently picked up the baby. The baby was very thin, with dry skin on his mouth. It was obvious that he hadn't eaten for a long time. He shouted at the surrounding crowd, "Whose child is this?"

However, if no one pays attention to him, the pedestrians around will walk on their own.

"Abandoned baby!"

Cheng Shijie quickly thought of this situation. He pretended to leave the street, put the phone upside down in his palm, exposed the camera lens, and started recording.

Not long after Cheng Shijie left, a woman protruded from the corner of the wall. The woman knelt down and kowtowed to Cheng Shijie's back.

Just when the woman was about to get up, Cheng Shijie walked over with the baby in his arms.

The woman looked up and looked at Cheng Shijie's feet.

"Why are you so cruel, why did you throw away your child?"

Cheng Shijie's daughter was congenital heart disease and was also a premature baby. When she was just born, she was raised in the hospital for more than half a year before she was successfully discharged.For this, he spent nearly one hundred thousand.

Many people persuaded Cheng Shijie to pretend that he had never had this child, that he was still young, and that he could have another one.

Cheng Shijie has some contempt for mothers who abandon their children.

The woman covered her face and wept bitterly.

"Follow your child!"

Seeing that Cheng Shijie had no intention of adopting the child, the woman picked up the child and stretched out her hand to pinch the child's neck.

"Snapped……"

Cheng Shijie was really angry, and slapped the woman on the face: "You are such a cruel woman, I want to report to the police..."

But the woman kowtowed to Cheng Shijie, choking with sobs while kowtowing: "I don't want to... But I can't help it... The home is gone, the money is gone... I can't live..."

Following the woman's mourning and pain, Cheng Shijie finally understood what was going on.

This woman was originally from Liangxiang County, her surname was Yang, and her first name was Yunniang.In the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, Liangxiang County was conquered by Jiannu, and Liangxiang County was massacred. The fate of women was more tragic than that of men, and Yang Yunniang was abducted by Jiannu.

In the last five years, the imperial court recovered Yongping Fucheng. Because of her serious illness, Jiannu did not plunder her outside the pass, but abandoned it in Yongping Fucheng.After the recovery of Yongping Mansion, the government repatriated the captured people to their original places. Yang Yunniang was ruined and became pregnant. Her natal family despised her for shame, so they drove her away.

Yang Yun thought about committing suicide, but when she threw herself into the river, she was rescued and filled her belly with river water, so she was too scared to die. In desperation, she had no choice but to go south while begging.

On the way to the south, Yang Yunniang met Luo Gui, a middle-aged widower. Luo Gui did not dislike her experience, so he brought her to Dengzhou City.Then the two got married, but with the birth of the child, rumors emerged, and her husband Luo Gui thought the child she gave birth to was a wild species and drove him out.

What happened to Yang Yunniang, Cheng Shijie could only sigh.

"What month was this child born?"

"July [-]st"

Cheng Shijie can be sure that this child should belong to Luo Gui. After all, Yongping Mansion was recovered in May of the third year of Chongzhen. It only takes 280 days to conceive a child, even if it is beyond the expected date of delivery, at most two weeks.

Cheng Shijie hesitated, if he didn't care about Yang Yuniang, Yang Yuniang and her child, there would only be a dead end.

But, manage, how to manage?He is just a passerby.

Cheng Shijie touched the silver in his bosom, he still had more than seven taels of silver, although it was not much, it was not a bad idea to give some to Yang Yunniang.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie took out the silver and gave Yang Yunniang a piece, about one or two yuan, and Cheng Shijie didn't know the exact amount.

"Xie Engong, but slaves can't take it!"

"Why!"

Yang Yunniang held the child and looked into the depths of the alley.

In the depths of the alley, three big yellow teeth were exposed, and they were dressed in ragged clothes. They should be beggar leaders. After all, ordinary beggars can't eat greasy faces.

A woman with a baby who is not yet a month old and has money in her hand is the original sin.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie said, "Come with me!"

Cheng Shijie didn't think much about it, he decided to rent a room for Yang Yuniang in the Liuji Inn, as long as he sold the sword in his hand, he would have a lot of money, at that time, if he paid more for the room, Yang Yunniang could live on.

As for the future, that is fate.

Cheng Shijie walked ahead, and Yang Yunniang followed behind.

He had a vague feeling that there was a tail behind him.

He took out his mobile phone again, put it in his sleeve and clicked on the recording function,

Cheng Shijie didn't look back, and clicked on the video playback. Sure enough, three tails appeared behind him, but they weren't the beggars in the alley, but three people dressed in cyan clothes with waist knives.

How is this going?

Cheng Shijie thought, it is very likely that he is from the pawn shop of Xingping, 1000 taels of silver was a huge sum of money in the late Ming Dynasty, could it be that he wanted to cheat?
Two thugs must be hired immediately, or else...

It's really not safe.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie tightly clenched the Tang Zhidao in his hand.

I'm still not prepared enough, unfortunately, the electric shock batons can't be purchased directly online, otherwise, I don't know how to be so frightened.

At this moment, Cheng Shijie found a beggar on the side of the street.

The difference between this beggar and other beggars is that the beggars around him are out of place. This beggar is covered with scars on his face, neck, chest, and arms, but they are all old wounds, especially a scar on his face. The hideous scars make people feel shuddering.

Especially the clothes on the beggar's body were turned into rags, and his beard and hair were already gray. He looked about five or sixty years old, and the beggar moved lazily, revealing his back, but there was no scar on his back.

Just you.

Cheng Shijie walked towards the beggar, he knelt down slowly, and took out a silver nugget from his arms. He had already sold the copper coin, and now he still had six or seven taels of silver in his hand.

This piece of silver is the smallest piece among them, and it can be exchanged for hundreds of copper coins.

"I want to hire you to do things for me!"

"This old man can only kill!"

Cheng Shijie's eyes lit up: "If someone kills me, kill him for me!"

"If you want to hire me, pay me first!"

"Give you!"

The beggar took Cheng Shijie's money and weighed it in his hands: "Old man Shen Mingyu's life is yours!"

Cheng Shijie took Yang Yunniang and Shen Mingyu towards Liu Ji Inn.

When he came to Liuji Inn, the clerk looked at Cheng Shijie with a puzzled expression.

Fortunately, Yang Yunniang said that although the clothes were tattered, they were still clean, but that Shen Mingyu had a bad smell all over his body.

Cheng Shijie stuffed a piece of silver into the clerk's hand: "Get him some hot water, let him take a bath, and find him some clothes. It doesn't have to be too good, just wear it!"

"Please come inside the guest officer!"

Having money works well.

However, with the outfit for Shen Mingyu and the money for Shen Mingyu, Cheng Shijie only had a tael of silver left in his hands.

After more than half an hour, Cheng Shijie was in Liu Ji's upper room, and Shen Mingyu, who had changed his clothes, appeared in front of him again.

Cheng Shijie was stunned, he almost didn't recognize Shen Mingyu, the original Shen Mingyu had gray hair and beard, and his face was covered with dirt, he looked like he was 70 or [-] years old.

But now he has become a middle-aged man.

"Shen Mingyu pays homage to the master..."

"Don't call me master, call me boss... let's call me boss!"

"Yes, master!"

"Shen Mingyu, how old are you?"

"The old man is thirty-six years old!"

"It looks like you are 63 years old, not 73!"

"Cuckoo..."

Shen Mingyu looked at Cheng Shijie embarrassedly.

Cheng Shijie took out the last piece of silver: "Man, prepare the food and drink!"

He decided to eat first and then make money.

(End of this chapter)