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

Chapter 74 Kong Er, Let's Rebel Too

Chapter 073

Sun Yuanhua has more than [-] Western-style firearms troops under his command. Even if Chen Guodong is covered with iron, he can be beaten into a sieve in front of the firecrackers.Sun Yuanhua has the power to mobilize tens of thousands of troops. He can set up a trick at will, or use crowd tactics. No matter how fierce Chen Guodong is, he can't fly out of Dengzhou City.

I haven't heard that a governor can run away if he wants to deal with a person.This in itself is the biggest loophole.

Doesn't Song Xiance understand?
He actually understood, but he pretended to be confused.

Some people really don't understand. For example, Zhang Yu, he was young and suddenly rose to his current position. He has never experienced this level of struggle.

If Sun Yuanhua is really dissatisfied with Cheng Shijie, he will beat Cheng Shijie first, kill Cheng Shijie, and then train a new person. The cost will be higher than pulling Cheng Shijie back from the wrong path.

Shen Mingyu might not understand, but Zhou Yandong definitely did.

If Cheng Shijie hadn't been in the office for many years, it would be impossible for him to immediately understand the twists and turns.

When people make choices, they consider gains and losses.When dealing with a certain matter, the first consideration is actually the price and cost.

Song Xiance knelt down in front of Cheng Shijie.

"There is a crime under the door."

"You are guilty, guilty..."

However, Song Xiance was actually a meritorious deed. If it wasn't for the mutiny, and Cheng Shijie was unprepared this time, and accidentally came to the end of the Ming Dynasty when he touched the wrong door, then he might have an accident.

Compared with the trouble Song Xiance brought to Cheng Shijie, but the credit for saving lives is greater, the world is big, why is Cheng Shijie's own fate greater?
Cheng Shijie didn't have Song Xiance because he wanted to let him know what to do and what not to do in the future.

His sharp eyes swept across the crowd, and he found that Chen Guodong was not there, so he asked suspiciously, "Where is Chen Guodong?"

Song Xiance said: "Reporting to my lord, we found out that it was the Laiyang Zhang family who did it, but we couldn't find the lord. In order to prevent the Laiyang Zhang family from jumping over the wall in a hurry, we sent an army to Laiyang!"

"How many people went?"

"Chen Guodong brought along Cheng Shi's ex-president, a total of more than a thousand people."

"1000 people?"

Cheng Shijie felt that he was sitting on the crater of a volcano that was about to erupt.Ning Haijun plus sailors and recruits, there are only more than [-] people at full strength. This force is placed in Dengzhou City, and it is not enough to stand on the city wall.

However, they still dared to divide their troops.

"Your guts...really..."

Cheng Shijie was almost speechless with anger.

Chen Guodong led a thousand recruits to dare to go to the lair of the Zhang family in Laiyang. This Chen Guodong was really ignorant and fearless. In Cheng Shijie's view, the tyrants and gentry in the late Ming Dynasty were all local emperors.

They monopolize the land and bind the people to the land.Farmers in this period are not like the later generations, who can work part-time even if their crops fail.

In all fairness, as long as you have hands and feet in future generations, and you are not lazy or slippery, you can't earn ten or twenty thousand, and you can't earn three or four thousand?Even if you serve dishes and clean up in a restaurant, you can earn two to three thousand yuan a month, and it should not be a problem to solve food and clothing.

But the people of the Ming Dynasty had no way out, they could only accept the exploitation of the landlords and gentry, otherwise they would not be able to survive.Therefore, the tenants are the slaves of the landlord. They can do whatever they are asked to do, or they will starve to death if they are not leased to them.

Under the threat of death, many people can only compromise.

The Zhang family in Laiyang was fighting locally, and Chen Guodong led more than a thousand recruits from the Ning navy.

Seeing Cheng Shijie's unkind expression,

Shen Mingyu said cautiously: "We asked Zhou Xie to guard and mobilized our military households in Ning Haijun, and came to Dengzhou City to form 20 reorganized hundred households, leaving more than [-] hundred households in Ning Haijun to guard their hometowns. These military households , five buckets of grain every day."

"Not stupid yet!"

Cheng Shijie thought to himself, this is simply a mercenary model.

In fact, this is exactly the case. The cobblers of the Ning Navy not only mobilized the military households, but also used the captured silver and grain to hire the infantry and sailors of the Dongjiang Army. The new army was very serious. In three days, the more than [-] soldiers of the Denglai new army did not dare to make trouble.

Shen Mingyu continued: "Even if the garrison can't be the governor, then we'll occupy Dengzhou City and turn against his mother's court!"

"Now we have occupied Dengzhou City and stabilized the situation, but..."

Cheng Shijie looked at the generals sharply and said, "We can't do this!"

"why?"

Cheng Shijie bowed his hands to the generals and said: "Cheng now knows that the brothers risked their entire wealth and lives for Cheng. After more than three days of hard work and bloody fighting, Cheng was rescued. Cheng is very grateful." Brothers, Gao Yi, thank you for looking up to me, Cheng Shijie, and willing to risk the world for Cheng. I also know the truest thoughts of the brothers, and you are counting on me to stand up."

"Yes!"

"It is true that I can take over the governor's territory and army, and control the military affairs of the three states of Denglaiqing. If you follow me, Cheng, you can get promoted and get rich... But it's still not possible now."

Shen Mingyu said: "I don't understand the humble job!"

"First of all, grace!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Like everyone else, Cheng has no prominent background, and his parents are ordinary people. When he came to Dengzhou City, he followed Governor Sun's footsteps and bought an official from the Zuoqian Household Office for the blessing of his brothers." , We successfully fought off Qin Wu and Qin Wu, the thugs, and Cheng was able to enter the eyes of Master Futai, and he asked the court to set up the Ning Navy, so Cheng has become the garrison of the Ning Navy, the kindness of knowing you, and supporting him Zhien, if Cheng takes over Dengzhou and seizes Lord Futai's territory and army, then what is Cheng? He is a wolf-hearted dog, and he will repay his kindness with revenge...Is I, Cheng, such a person?"

"no!"

No one wants to follow a ruthless boss. It is said that this time there is a change, whether it is Zhang Yu or Shen Mingyu, including the loudest Liu Qingsong, Zhou Ning, and Zhou Yandong, who has no selfishness?
Zhou Yandong knew that this matter could not be easily concluded, and he also felt that something was wrong, but he did not dare to insist, because the emotions of Ning Haijun soldiers had been mobilized, and Zhou Yandong was afraid of stopping the mutiny, not only would he be detained for disloyalty to Cheng Shijie hat.

This shows that he did not stick to his reasons and positions, nor did he take responsibility.

Young men like Zhou Ning and Liu Qingsong all want to take advantage of the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune. Changyu is their role model. Why can Changyu be the chief executive while they can only be the chief executive?
"The second point is the most critical point. We don't have the strength to separate one side and dominate the other side!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said: "We are just taking advantage of the tiger's nap, so we gave the tiger a stick and knocked him out. The disappearance did not spread. Once the disappearance spreads, we will be in big trouble!"

"It's their group of soft-legged shrimps, cowards... We, Ning Haijun, won't be afraid of them!"

Liu Qingsong said with some pride: "The humble staff rushed into the camp with 50 people, and more than 1000 of them surrendered. There are no cowards..."

"If you really think this way, you are really close to death!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You may think that the imperial court is far away in the sky and has no time to deal with us, but everyone must not forget that the imperial court occupies the name of righteousness, as long as there is an imperial decree and a military order, the world's soldiers and horses, at least 20 of us in Shandong Thousands of troops will rush towards us. Among other things, the Dongjiang army in Dengzhou is very capable of fighting. The Dongjiang army has fought with Jiannu for more than ten years without food and pay. How many Dongjiang troops are there in Dengzhou now? Army? Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan...their two thousand cavalry are charging towards us, can we stop them?"

The generals fell silent for a moment.

Cheng Shijie continued: "The third and most important point. Master Futai did not apologize to me, Mr. Cheng, nor to all of us. We can't do this. What's more important is that the imperial court is now fighting with Jiannu in Liaodong. , if we rebel now, we are becoming Jiannu's accomplices, this matter will be stabbed in the back, even if we come down in the future, we will be ashamed of our ancestors."

Cheng Shijie's words were very serious, and everyone understands them now. Their biggest mistake this time was a big oolong, which not only destroyed the relationship between Cheng Shijie and Sun Yuanhua, but also forced Ning Haijun into a dilemma.

Shen Mingyu bowed and said: "Master Garrison, I was wrong, I was the one who missed the garrison, and I was also the one who missed the brothers. This matter started with the humble officer, and the inferior officer was willing to plead guilty to the Lord Futai, and the garrison beheaded the inferior officer. , I have no regrets even if I die in a humble position..."

"What crime please?"

Cheng Shijie stared at Shen Mingyu and said, "Get up, the defense is not dead yet, and it's not your turn to take responsibility. Brothers used their blood to kill the enemy and made meritorious deeds. Cheng Mou followed suit. Now that the brothers have something to do, how can Cheng Mou do it?" Stay out of it!"

Zhang Yu made a gesture to kneel down.

Cheng Shijie raised his voice an octave higher: "You guys haven't understood the meaning of this defense yet. You are concerned about the safety of this defense. Although you are a bit reckless, you are not guilty. But there is one thing, you did wrong!"

"wrong?"

"wrong!"

"This garrison will lead you to get promoted and make a fortune, and to live a good life. It is far from enough to rely on some small means and tricks. We need to be hard on ourselves. If our strength is really strong, we can live a better life." Good day."

Cheng Shijie said: "If you believe in me, I will take you down. Of course, this is an extremely dangerous road, and it is also an extremely difficult road. On this road, murderous opportunities are everywhere and thorns are everywhere. If you want to walk over it, you want to go there. It is impossible to be easy without bleeding or sweating...Those brothers who want to get rich easily, they can't walk this road, and they can't walk through it. Only those who have given up all their delusions of prosperity and wealth It is possible to pass this road, as a veteran, you should know that it is right to treat yourself as a dead person on the battlefield, the more you are not afraid of death, the more you will not die."

"I am willing to be loyal to Lord Guard!"

"I will be loyal to Lord Guard!"

"You all go back now, take care of your respective parts, whoever has a problem, who will be dealt with by this defense!"

Cheng Shijie said: "It's almost time now, Lord Futai should calm down, I'll go talk to him!"

When Cheng Shijie walked outside the lobby, he felt a chill on his face, and he raised his head: "It's raining, it's actually raining!"

The climate of Jiaodong Peninsula is very stable and mild. There is no severe heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The annual frost-free period is between 160 and 250 days. In addition, the terrain is flat and the land is fertile. The crops can be harvested twice a year. Paradise in general.

But this year's climate is abnormal. In September, a heavy snowfall happened unexpectedly, and then snowflakes followed one after another. Now it actually rained when it was supposed to snow.

It doesn't rain when it should rain, and it rains when it shouldn't rain. This is simply torturing the suffering people in different ways.

Of course, this rain tortured not only the common people, but also the Kong Youde Department of the Dongjiang Army.

Four days ago, the day before the Ning Haijun mutiny, on October 25th in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Sun Yuanhua recovered from a serious illness, and issued an order to order the Kong Youde Department of the Dongjiang Army stationed in Laizhou Fucheng to gather in Dengzhou City.

Kong Youde received the order on the evening of October 26, and he was about to lead his troops to Dengzhou. Unfortunately, when Sun Yuanhua's order was sent to Laizhou, the prefect of Laizhou, Zhu Wannian, happened to be too busy.

Speaking of Zhu Wannian, he is also a strange person.He is a native of Liping Prefecture, Guizhou Province. He and his first wife, Chang's, got married in their infancy.This Chang family is not Miss Jiao from a rich family, she is of ordinary background, tall and tall, after marrying Zhu Wannian, Zhu Wannian is studying, and Chang family is in charge of farming.

Later, Zhu Wannian was promoted all the way to the position of magistrate of Laizhou, Shandong, but he was very harmonious with his wife.But this Zhu Wannian is also a double-faced person. In front of his first wife, Chang Shi, he is a generous husband.He is also a bold and generous official in officialdom, and his official voice is not bad.

There are two major hobbies in his life, one is drinking, and the other is lust.Later, he found it troublesome to raise a widow who had been widowed for many years as his concubine.Chang actually knew about the widow, but pretended not to.

As soon as he was on duty that day, he hurriedly went to the outer room. Zhu Wannian, who had eaten and drank enough, fell asleep soundly, and he did not receive Sun Yuanhua's order.

The system of the Ming Dynasty was very pitiful, especially for military officers and the army.Just like the mobilization of the army, the government along the way will indeed prepare food for them.But the problem is that there is no food to take that day.

Only the next day.And there are not many provisions, barely enough to eat two meals.This is to prevent the army from causing trouble when they are full and have the strength...

The brain circuit of officials in Ming Dynasty, I have to say, is very strange.

It was the next day, October 27th, that Zhu Wannian issued the order to have food prepared, and Kong Youde set out not long after receiving the food.

It's just that when he just walked to Zhaoyuan County, Dengzhou Prefecture, it was already raining.

In fact, if Zhu Wannian hadn't been delayed for a day, at the marching speed of Kong Youde's troops, he could have reached Dengzhou City before Ning's navy soldiers found Cheng Shijie.

But because of the delay, when they arrived in Zhaoyuan County, Zhaoyuan County did not provide them with food and grass. The reason was that they should have arrived yesterday, and if they were a day late, they deserved to be hungry.

Kong Youde was angry, but he couldn't get angry, as long as he dared to say that it was Zhu Wannian who made things difficult for him, he would not be able to get a grain of grain in other counties and cities.

I had no choice but to grit my teeth and hurry.

Driving in snowy weather does not affect the cavalry too much, but in rainy days, the impact is great. Many war horses fell to the ground because of the slippery dirt road, and many Kong Youde cavalrymen were rolled into mud monkeys. How embarrassing how embarrassing.

But the problem is that civil servants in the Ming Dynasty had extremely strict requirements on generals. He had been delayed for more than a day, and if he continued to delay, he would not be able to arrive at Dengzhou City on time.

In desperation, the soldiers of Kong Youde's family galloped back and forth on fast horses, waving whips to order everyone to march, but they were cursed a lot.This army has not had a meal for a day, its morale is low, and it can't get up soon.

Someone simply jumped off the horse, sat down on the side of the road, and shouted: "I won't go, I won't go, even if I'm killed, I won't go!"

It looks like a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, they have not eaten for a day, how can they be expected to be obedient?
Seeing someone picking the head, in the hearts of the soldiers, the whole army was instantly herding sheep.

"Yes, if you hit grandpa, grandpa won't leave, and if you run away, you will be useless!"

"That's right, if you want, you can bring some food!"

"Then damn..."

Seeing this scene, Kong Youde felt bitter in his heart, and he said loudly, "Brothers, if you work harder, we will be able to reach Qixia in no time! When we arrive at Qixia, we will have something to eat!"

Kong Youde wrote too many bad checks, and the soldiers no longer believed him, thinking that he was just a talker who didn't count what he said. There were too many lies and no effect.

The soldiers were lying in the mud, and they didn't care about Kong Youde at all.

At this time Kong Youde was also very helpless.

As a bitter man, he once worked as a miner and also suffered from starvation.If Mao Wenlong hadn't rescued him back then, his grave, no, there would be no grave, maybe the bones would have turned to ashes.

From a poor background, he is quite good at his own trilogy, at least he only drinks [-]% of the blood of soldiers, which is more benevolent and righteous than other generals.He also wants his troops to eat and drink enough to march in good spirits.But firstly, they were short of cash, and secondly, Shandong merchants were very unfriendly to them soldiers and generals from the Dongjiang Army, even if they had money, they could not buy food.

At this moment, there was a rush of horseshoes approaching from a distance.

This is a knight, oncoming.He was wearing a strange kind of clothes that looked like a cloak, but wrapped his whole body in it. A thick layer of waterproof mulberry oil paper was sewn on the outside, making it an absolutely practical raincoat.

"Kong Er!"

Kong Er is Kong Youde's nickname.

The second is also a kind of stunned meaning. When Mao Wenlong was under Mao Wenlong, Kong Youde was a mighty general. That is, he is the real second.

"How did you come"

Kong Youde saw the person who came, and the person who came was also his acquaintance, Li Jiuzheng from the Dongjiang Army.

Li Jiuzheng is a gambler and a slut.When Ning Haijun was attacking Dengzhou City, he was gambling with a group of gamblers, but Ning Haijun killed the local hooligans in Dengzhou.

Don't look at these hooligans who don't have any great skills, but their vitality is quite tenacious.These community rats escaped outside Dengzhou City through secret passages.

Li Jiuzheng snatched a horse from a landlord's farm outside the city, and prepared to report to Kong Youde.

"Great opportunity for Kong Er!"

"what?"

"Ning Haijun and Cheng Shijie rebelled, Ning Haijun has now entered Dengzhou City!"

"How is it possible, there are only a few people in Ning Haijun?"

"Hey, Cheng Shijie is very ambitious. Ning Haijun only has 9000 soldiers, but he has [-] people under his command. Dengzhou City is now Cheng Shijie's territory!"

Li Jiuzheng looked at the soldiers around Kong Youde.

Kong Youde understood, and immediately ordered: "Within thirty steps, no one is allowed to approach!"

Kong Youde's personal guards immediately dispersed, forming a human wall outside.

Li Jiuzheng said in a low voice: "Kong Er, Cheng Shijie rebelled, let's do the same!"

"Are you crazy?"

Li Jiuzheng said viciously: "Old Geng's boss is called Chen Guodong, do you know him?"

"know!"

"Chen Guodong followed Cheng Shijie, and now he is Cheng Shijie's confidant. The promotion is really fast!"

Li Jiuzheng said excitedly: "There is also our Li Zhixiang from the Dongjiang Army, faster!"

"how?"

"He has become the general manager from a young man, and now he is the general manager!"

"General!"

Li Jiucheng said: "I don't know too much in detail. He now has a town, a wharf, and a salt factory with more than [-] salt workers. You should know how much oil and water there is?"

In fact, the more the news spreads, the more distorted it becomes, and the more it spreads, the more outrageous it becomes.

Li Zhixiang used more than [-] soldiers to watch [-] to [-] naval captives, plus tens of thousands of horses in the Yamen of Beiwa, the capital of Shandong.He definitely couldn't see it.In order to bribe and win over the old acquaintances of the Dongjiang Army, Li Zhixiang proclaimed himself the commander-in-chief of the navy. He is now stationed in Wenquan Town. It is said to be a town, but it is actually a city.

The area of ​​the city is larger than that of Penglai Water City. There is also a salt factory and more than 600 salt workers there. However, it is rumored that everything here has become Li Zhixiang's own.

Li Zhixiang, the general manager, is only a junior in the Dongjiang Army. Kong Youde's qualifications are much older than Li Zhixiang. Before the Dongjiang Army was established, he was already a soldier under Mao Wenlong. At that time, Li Zhixiang was still playing with urine and mud.

In an instant, Kong Youde was moved.

Ning Haijun has good welfare, good food, warm clothes, and good equipment, all of which they can inquire about.

"Are we going to join Master Cheng Shijie?"

"Are you going empty-handed?"

"I mean……"

"Let's turn around and take Zhaoyuan County!"

"Only by them..."

Kong Youde looked at the group of exhausted soldiers under his command, feeling powerless.

"No, Kong Er, you are also a miner, what kind of life do these miners live?"

Li Jiuzheng said with a smile: "You go to the mine first, raise your arms, those young and strong are still like a cloud of followers? You bring your soldiers, plus thousands of miners, are you afraid that you won't be able to take down Zhaoyuan County?"

Kong Youde said with a smile: "It makes sense, if he brings these more than 1000 exhausted soldiers to Mr. Cheng, he will appoint me as a deputy commander at most. If our old Kong has thousands of troops under his command..."

"There is also Zhaoyuan City, which is the west gate of Dengzhou Prefecture!"

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