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

Chapter 75
Chapter 074

Laiyang County, Zhangjia Village, Shuangshan, Zhangjiazu House.

Chen Guodong was holding a cold face, wiping a straight Tang knife with a cloth.

In front of him lay a male corpse in a fine attire. The head of the corpse rolled to the floor three feet away. From the expression on the head, it could be seen that he was very frightened.

At that moment, Chen Guodong rushed into Zhang's old house with recruits from the Ning Navy, and captured the important members of Zhang's fourth house.Although the Zhang family began to rise in the era of Zhang Mengli, but Zhang Mengli is the tenth generation, and Zhang Huairen's father is the eleventh generation.Zhang Mengli was a Jinshi of the Bingchen Division in the 35th year of Jiajing, with 57 second-class Jinshi, and his eldest son Zhang Sicheng was a 23th Jinshi of the Yiwei Division in the 39rd year of Wanli.

A father and son, two Jinshi, was passed down as a good story for a while.It is much more difficult to enter the Jinshi exam than the university entrance examination in later generations, and it is not a level of difficulty.Three-year exams, more than 300 people were admitted to the top three at one time.Daming has a population of over 100 million, almost one out of [-] million.

Among Zhang's four houses, Zhang Mengli's house is the most prominent and the eldest house.Among the other houses, only three houses are doing well.

Just when Ning Haijun gathered the main members of the Zhang family in the compound, Chen Guodong hadn't had time to interrogate Cheng Shijie's whereabouts.All of a sudden, a woman with her hair disheveled suddenly rushed out and rushed towards one of the captured young men. The woman still held a pair of disassembled scissors in her hand.

Ning navy soldiers attacked Zhang's ancestral home and took these hostages. The main purpose was to exchange Cheng Shijie back. Naturally, this woman would not directly kill Zhang's people.

Two Ning Navy soldiers stopped the woman, only to realize that the woman was actually a young girl, who looked very embarrassed, but was actually young.

Chen Guodong asked subconsciously: "Who are you and why did you kill him?"

Women, many girls are like an angry leopard: "The slave wants revenge!"

After complaining bitterly for a while, Chen Guodong finally found out that the girl's name was Shan Rou, and she was originally a charlatan from other places.A native of Henan, he followed his father who was the head of the class for one month, and took his 13-year-old fourth sister Shan Xiaoxia.And a dozen brothers came to Zhangjia Village. Seeing the prosperity of Zhangjia Village, they started performing arts.

Shan Xiaoxia has practiced flesh and bone kung fu since childhood, and his whole body is extremely flexible. He can easily shrink his body into a ball and get into an urn.With the melodious sound of the music, Shan Xiaoxia will come out of the Weng and dance lightly.At the first performance, Zhang Huailiang, the fourth son of Zhang Sifang, took a fancy to Shan Xiaoxia.

So they snatched Shan Xiaoxia as a concubine, Shan Rou's father and Shan Rou's brothers tried to rescue Shan Xiaoxia, but they were discovered by Zhang's family, and they didn't even enter Zhang's old house.Shan Rou's father was injured at the time and just wanted to take care of his body. Laiyang County sued the officials, but he hadn't gone to the county yet.

The bad news came. Don't look at Shan Xiaoxia's young age, but he has a strong temper. When Zhang Huailiang wanted to occupy Shan Xiaorou's body, Shan Xiaoxia refused to do so. Zhang Huailiang who was empty did not succeed.But he has plenty of ways, so he sent someone to send Shan Xiaoxia to the dungeon and starve him for a few days.

Shan Xiaoxia's hands and feet were weak, and his limbs were weak, so Zhang Huailiang took over his body. Shan Xiaoxia scratched Zhang Huailiang's face with his hands, and while Zhang Huailiang was lifting his pants, he kicked his descendant Gen.It's just that Shan Xiaorou was so hungry that she had no strength, and her foot was not big enough to destroy Zhang Huailiang.

However, Shan Xiaoxia's behavior successfully aroused Zhang Huailiang's animal nature. He had Shan Xiaoxia's limbs broken, put them in an urn, and then set a fire under the urn to boil Shan Xiaoxia alive.

This was not the end, Zhang Huailiang also gouged out the eyes of Shan Xiaoxia's body, stripped him naked, and hung it at the entrance of the village for public display.

Shan Rou's father went to Laiyang County to sue the officials, but the Zhang family in Laiyang was too powerful, and Laiyang County would not accept the case. In the dark of night, unravel Shan Xiaoxia's body and prepare for burial.

However, after Xiangyong found out, he shot arrows at Shan Rou's father and 12 other seniors, and [-] of them were shot dead on the spot. Then Xiangyong threw the bodies and Shan Xiaoxia's body into Qinghe.

After Shan Rou told her tragic experience, Chen Guodong said: "There are so many people in the Zhang family, it shouldn't be a problem to lose one!"

"no problem!"

Cheng Shi said angrily: "Even if the foster father finds out in the future, he will understand you!"

"Then..."

Chen Guodong slashed Zhang Huailiang over 30 times in a row, and finally beheaded him with one blow.

"Help me..."

A woman's screams came from the direction of the backyard.

Chen Guodong followed the prestige and said, "What's going on? Go over and have a look!"

Soon, Chen Guodong and Cheng Shi came to the direction where the screams came from the inner courtyard, and the screams of women came from inside, accompanied by the unscrupulous laughter of Ning Haijun soldiers.

Chen Guodong had also heard rumors that Zhang Huairen's father, Zhang Sicheng, had seventeen concubines, of which the sixteenth and seventeenth wives were all stunning.More importantly, it is very young.

"Boom..."

Chen Guodong kicked open the wooden door of the room, and saw in the spacious room, a woman with a charming figure, wearing obscene clothes, was climbing on the beam, and several Ning Haijun soldiers, on a ladder, were about to catch the woman.

A family member of the Zhang family who knew the woman hurriedly said, "It's Mrs. Sixteen!"

Zhang Sicheng's No. 16 concubine, who was born in Huadan, was taking a bath when Ning Haijun rushed into Zhang's ancestral house.Ning Haijun's soldiers arrested Zhang's family members mainly from the outside in. As long as they came out to escape, they would definitely catch them. If they hid in the room and didn't come out, they could hide for a while.

Zhang's ancestral house is larger than the later Qiao's compound. It has 24 large courtyards and 72 small courtyards. There are five or six hundred houses in it. It will take a certain amount of time to search it all.

Mrs. Sixteen heard the noise coming from outside, but she didn't really pay attention to it. She thought she was punishing some clumsy servant.

Mrs. Zhang was extremely harsh on her servants, servants and maids. If she made a mistake, she would be arrested and beaten. This was not an individual punishment, but a gathering of all servants, servants and maids to make an example.

When Mrs. Sixteen finished her bath, she was wearing obscene clothes and hadn’t fully dressed yet. Ning Haijun’s soldiers searched here. Almost most of their recruits were veterans of the Dongjiang Army, or they could be called the monk army. Other people's wives and concubines?
Especially Mrs. Sixteen had just finished her bath and was dressed in obscene clothes. Not to mention the ordinary soldiers of Ning Haijun who had never seen the world, even Cheng Shi's eyes were straightened when he saw this scene.

Several Ning Haijun soldiers who saw the color and rebellion rushed forward, but Mrs. Sixteen, in desperation, performed supernormally and crawled along the bed in the bedroom to the beam.

However, although the beams of the house are a bit higher, they can still go up the ladder facing Ning Haijun's soldiers. It's just that these soldiers don't want Mrs. Sixteen's life, otherwise, with a spear stab and a crossbow arrow...

"what……"

Mrs. Sixteen fell from the beam, and the few soldiers in the brain did not realize that Chen Guodong had arrived at this time.

One of them, Big Yellow Fang, stretched out his arms to hug Mrs. Sixteen.

"stop!"

At this moment, no one listened to Chen Guodong's orders.

Chen Guodong was so angry that he swung his knife and slashed at these Ning Haijun soldiers.

"Pu Chi Pu Chi..."

Several Ning Haijun soldiers who were unsuspecting were chopped down to the ground by Chen Guodong, blood splashed all over Mrs. Sixteen, and Mrs. Sixteen was so frightened that she fell into a coma.

Chen Guodong also resolutely carried out Cheng Shijie's order when he killed the Ning Haijun soldiers who saw the color uprising.

As early as when Cheng Shijie formulated military discipline, insulting women was a death clause. Even if a bandit committed a flower case, he would be executed after surrendering.

It's not that Cheng Shijie has an obsession with mental cleanliness, nor that he wants to be a saint, but that he will never open this hole. As long as he dares to open this hole, Ning Haijun will become an army of beasts.

Chen Guodong killed four soldiers who violated military discipline, and finally stabilized the situation.

Until now, the former commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy killed four soldiers in Laiyang, none of whom were killed by the enemy, four were executed, and one died accidentally.

As the Ning Navy occupied the Zhang family, they began to count the properties in the Zhang family's ancestral house.

When the warehouses were opened, they found piles of grain inside, boxes of silver, sacks of copper coins, and livestock and poultry.

Ning Haijun soldiers occupied Zhang's old house, and a large number of Zhang's servants came to help. After half a day of counting, Ning Haijun's seizures in Zhang's old house in Zhangjia Village were preliminarily counted.

There are a total of 19 shi and more than 300 shi of grain stored in Zhang Jiazu's house, of which 13 shi is newly harvested wheat, more than [-] shi of soybeans, more than [-] shi of rice, and various miscellaneous grains.

According to the more than 30 members of the Zhang family, even if each person eats ten stones a year, it will take more than [-] years.

Of course, there are still many babies, old people, women and children in the Zhang family. They can't eat ten shi of grain at all. As for the seized cloth and silk, there are more than [-] bolts of various cloth.

"Then damn it, this Zhang family is really rich!"

"It's all black money!"

The document responsible for the statistics is actually Mr. Lin Xuzong, the teacher of the Zhang family.When Ning Haijun rushed into the Zhang Family Ancestor, he knew that the Laiyang Zhang family was over.

Of course, Lin Xuzong, a scholar, thought it was Sun Yuanhua who did it, and sent troops to directly arrest the members of the Zhang clan.

The magistrate of the broken family and the prefect of the Miemen government office.

Because of the extermination of a family, such power requires the approval of the emperor. Although the magistrate also has the power to submit a memorial, the eight magistrates of the Ming Dynasty in 180 have close relatives.Sun Yuanhua has the power to deliver the memorial directly to the cabinet without going through the six departments.This is the power of the governor, and the cabinet cannot stop it. As the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the governor has the power to impeach the cabinet ministers.

The governor was a Beijing official in the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Xuzong immediately decided to change his employer. He did not discriminate against the military officer, but thought that through this incident, he could get on the line of the governor's yamen and take the opportunity to mix up a family background.

Lin Xuzong surrendered immediately, and Chen Guodong took Mr. Zhang's accountant with him, and under the supervision of the Ning Navy officers and men, he started the money statistics work.

Lin Xuzong handed over the statistics book of the seized materials to Chen Guodong: "General Chen, the statistics are out."

Chen Guodong looked at the numbers and was dumbfounded: "The Zhang family has so much money?"

"This is actually not all the wealth of the Zhang family. The bulk of their wealth is actually...!"

"what is that?"

"land!"

Lin Xuzong said with a smile: "Over 70% of the land in Laiyang County is owned by the Zhang family. Their family has more than [-] mu of fertile land, and there are many fields that have been used for tax avoidance, which amount to more than one million mu!"

Chen Guodong also knew the price of the land, which could be worth tens of millions of taels of silver.

Lin Xuzong continued: "The Zhang family still owns more than 350 shops in Laiyang, Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, Jinan, Dongchang, Nanjing and Beijing. There are more than 30 tenants in their family, nearly [-] people!"

Cheng Shi said in surprise: "Oh, this family is much richer than the bandits!"

"Bandits are nothing!"

Lin Xuzong said: "Bandits use knives to kill people, while the Zhang family use power to kill people. Can it be the same?"

Chen Guodong looked at the account book and threw it to Lin Xuzong.

"Go ahead!"

Lin Xuzong thought that this Chen Guodong should be illiterate, so he introduced: "There are 1000 silver ingots in Zhang's bank. These were recast in the last month, totaling 6 taels. Zhang’s inscription was engraved on the silver ingots, and the scattered silver totaled more than 500 taels, and the copper coins were too late to count, so we weighed them directly, and there were more than 300 million taels in total!”

In the Ming Dynasty, one penny was 300 grams, and more than 3000 million was more than eleven tons of copper coins. Eleven tons of copper coins sounded like a lot. According to the exchange rate of one to one thousand, it was only equivalent to more than [-] taels of silver.

Lin Xuzong led Chen Guodong into the bank vault. There were huge irregular objects piled up in the huge bank vault, some were black, and some were shiny silver.

"It's not all silver, is it?"

Lin Xuzong smiled and said: "It's all silver. These black and helpless things have been around for some years. This is the big head of the Zhang family!"

"what is this?"

"Nothing, silver wax gourd. The small one is 1000 catties, the big one is 57 catties, and the largest is more than 70 catties. There are [-] pieces in total. These silvers are at least [-] million taels of silver. There is no way to weigh them, only to estimate them. , if General Chen gives Lin some time, Lin can find out the specific figures from their account."

"Mr. Lin, you don't need to check!"

An old accountant said timidly: "Little old man knows, there is nothing to do with it, the total is 70 catties, which is about 960 taels. Of course, as the years go by, the money needs to be cleared and burned." consumption, but definitely more than 70 taels of silver!"

Cheng Shi was dumbfounded.

Chen Guodong was dumbfounded: "This..."

Cheng Shi said: "Brother Chen, how do we transport the money back now?"

Lin Xuzong said: "There are two ways, either to re-melt the silver and cast it into silver ingots, either 50 taels or 100 taels, or remove the gates of these silver warehouses and load them directly into the carts."

"The question is, we don't have so many big cars!"

"Yeah, there are too many things!"

The problem facing the former General Consulate of the Ning Navy is that they have seized too many materials. The food alone is nearly 20 shi. Even if a cart can pull fifteen or sixteen shi, it will cost 1 shi. Multiple large vehicles.

In addition to food, more than 7 taels of silver, plus 57 grains, would require fifty or sixty carts. If copper coins were included, there would be more than 3 bolts of cloth and more than 20 catties of cotton. Thirteen to four thousand carts can be transported away.

There are so many big cars, not to mention that there are none in Zhangjia Village, nor does Ning Haijun.

Zhang originally planted more than 4 mu of cotton, but it was a pity that he sold some of them, and now only these are left, otherwise Ning Haijun would no longer need to lack clothes.

"It's actually not difficult. Mrs. Zhang puts the grain in the granaries of their old house, because these granaries are very close to the wharf, only more than 600 steps away."

Lin Xuzong said: "The general can recruit water transport ships. Besides, this is actually only a part of the Zhang family. They also have two farms in Shuangshan, and there are granaries in the farm!"

Think about it too, a huge family with more than 70 mu of fertile land has a very considerable annual grain income.

According to Lv Xiang, the owner of Tongxiang in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, said in "Bu Nong Shu": "The field is extremely ripe, rice is three stones, and spring flowers are one and a half stones, but there are some. The three stones in Dayun are Changer." Zhang's The so-called upper ripening field is "three stones" for rice and "one and a half stones for spring flowers".

Of course, this is the guide. Shandong belongs to the north. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was seriously affected by the weather of the Little Ice River.

It can collect more than 70 shi of grain a year, and the land rent of the Zhang family in Laiyang is half of that of the tenants.That is 50.00%, and more than 30 shi of grain can be harvested a year.

Chen Guodong gritted his teeth and said: "If you hire people on the spot and are willing to help us with our work, we will give food. Those who have livestock will be worth one person, and those who have a cart will also be worth one person. I don't believe it anymore. Can't find anyone yet!"

Chen Guodong announced the conditions for recruiting the common people: "One stone of grain per person, if you own a cart, with people and carts, you can get two stones of grain a day, if you have cattle or horses, and bring a cart, that is
Just outside the grass market in Zhangjia Village, Ning Haijun soldiers are cleaning the battlefield. Ning Haijun is a group of people who are used to hard times. Most of these recruits are from the Dongjiang Army, and they are even more miserable.

Cleaning up the battlefield is really ruthless.

All the corpses were stripped of all their clothes, and only one piece of underwear was used to cover their bodies, leaving them with the last decency. As for the tattered swords, broken armor, and even the lead in Xiangyong's body, they had to be taken back. , recast into lead bullets for subsequent use.

Some people even opened the mouth of the corpse to see if there were gold teeth inlaid. If there were any gold teeth, those gold teeth were also buckled, and those cotton clothes that had been sieved were also pulled out.

They Ning Navy officers and soldiers are not too dirty, take it back to wash, dry it, and make it into cotton shoes, which are still warm on the feet.

It's just that the weather is cold now, and it's raining again, making it extremely difficult to clean the battlefield.

"Stop cleaning the battlefield!"

"What? Why didn't you clean it up!"

"That's right, our guards have always said that no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat!"

"No more cleaning, we don't want it anymore, there are too many good things, and the good things can't be finished, what more do you need to do with these rags!"

"That's right, who would eat steamed buns if they have steamed buns!"

After Chen Guodong learned that the Zhang family had other granaries in Shuangshan, it was naturally impossible to stay, so he sent out three posts to seize the granaries.

Food, that's everything.With food, Cheng Shijie can further expand his troops. The more soldiers and horses, the larger the territory he can occupy.

Just when Chen Guodong seized Zhang's granary in Laiyang, Cheng Shijie also walked into Sun Yuanhua's study again. If Cheng Shijie knew what Chen Guodong had gained in Zhang's Laiyang, he would definitely be moved.

Compared with the Zhang family in Laiyang, Sun Yuanhua, the governor, is a poor ghost.

In fact, the governor’s yamen also has money, and there is a lot of silver, as much as 12 taels, of which more than [-] are silver coins. These silver coins are very complicated, including Dutch horse sword coins, Spanish eagle coins, and shield coins. But it is a pity that this silver coin has no collection value.

Because the stock is too large, more than one silver coin, one silver coin is sold online for between 180 and [-] yuan. Of course, Cheng Shijie will not be polite to Sun Yuanhua.

After he walked into the study, Sun Yuanhua was like Xu Shu entering Cao Ying without saying a word.

Cheng Shijie was not in a hurry, and he didn't care whether Sun Yuanhua listened or not, just like Tang Monk chanting scriptures, he told him that Sun Yuanhua was ill, and under concern, he searched all over Ninghai City, found an ancient prescription, found the medicine, I can't wait to come to Dengzhou City.

As a result, just when he was about to go back, he was lured by Sun Yuanhua's confidant Sun Fu into the governor's yamen's Dongkuayuan, Dongpianyuan, and a big fishing net was thrown over him.

When Cheng Shijie woke up, it was already today. He was imprisoned for five days without water or rice. He was cold and hungry, so he lost his life. He didn't eat for five days, and Cheng Shijie himself was so hungry that he lost his shape.

Sun Yuanhua couldn't bear it anymore, so he looked at Cheng Shijie squarely.

Sun Yuanhua found that Cheng Shijie had indeed lost some points, and more importantly, although Cheng Shijie was wearing a bearskin robe, he was wearing single clothes.

At this time, Sun Yuanhua already knew that Cheng Shijie also brought disaster to Chi Yu in this mutiny, but the problem was that he, Sun Yuanhua, was a dignified second-rank governor.In the Ming Dynasty, the first rank of civil officials was basically a false title, and the second rank was the ceiling.

The dignified second-rank official was arrested by his subordinates and locked in the utility room for three days.

He also wants face.

Cheng Shijie watched Sun Yuanhua remain silent, waved his hands and said, "Come here, have a hot pot!"

This copper hot pot has the style of Donglaishun hot pot restaurant in later generations, but the hot pot is more delicate.

As the hot pot was served, Cheng Shijie prepared the sauce and cooked the mutton.

Sun Yuanhua, I really want to eat.

It's been more than half a month since he fell into the sea and contracted the wind and cold, and he was close to death. The key is that during this time, he can only drink some porridge.

In front of an old man who drank porridge for half a month and didn't eat meat for half a month, brushed mutton.

Is there anything worse than this?
Indeed, Cheng Shijie felt that the aroma of the hot pot was not exciting enough, so he asked someone to come in with a small oven, and then Cheng Shijie began to barbecue skewers in front of Sun Yuanhua.

To make matters worse, what was roasted was Sun Yuanhua's favorite beef.

"Zizi..."

The oil on the beef skewers dripped in the oven, making a sizzling sound.

The strong fragrance irritated Sun Yuanhua's nose and stomach.

However, he didn't want Cheng Shijie to compromise.

Tolerate……

It has to be said that Sun Yuanhua is also a ruthless person, so he actually held back.

However, just when Cheng Shijie was proud, Sun Yuanhua grabbed the beef skewers and grinned from the heat while eating.

However, Sun Yuanhua was still unwilling to communicate with Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie sneered: "Stay up late, who is afraid of whom?"

Cheng Shijie also had to work overtime in later generations. Once he participated in the national standardization inspection, he worked for 39 consecutive hours and did not close his eyes for nearly two days and two nights.

It's a pity that the hero doesn't mention the bravery back then.

Cheng Shijie persisted for half the night, and fell asleep unconsciously.

Cheng Shijie was asleep, but his snoring made Sun Yuanhua want to bang his head against the wall.

However, he is still enduring.

Until the noon of the next day, Cheng Shijie changed his method again. After traveling to the late Ming Dynasty and later generations many times, Cheng Shijie can now send and receive tears freely.

So, Cheng Shijie wailed in front of Sun Yuanhua: "Master Futai, you must believe me, I was wronged..."

What's more, Cheng Shijie threw himself at Sun Yuanhua, putting most of his body weight on him.

In just half a stick of incense, Sun Yuanhua couldn't hold on anymore.

"Cheng Shijie, get up quickly!"

"No, if Lord Futai doesn't want to forgive me, I won't get up if I die!"

"You can't die... Ben Xian was crushed to death by you!"

Sun Yuanhua pushed Cheng Shijie hard: "Get up quickly, as a garrison of the Ning Navy, surrounded by your soldiers, how can you cry like this?"

"If the head is gone, what's the use of being decent!"

"Get up!"

"Can't afford it!"

At this moment, hurried footsteps came from outside the door.

"report!"

"Come in!"

"What happened?"

"Report to the garrison, I just received the news that Kong Youde..."

"What's up with him?"

"He reversed!"

The soldier who came to report said: "Last night, Kong Youde led more than a thousand elites under his command to raid Zhaoyuan City. After half an hour of bloody battle, Zhaoyuan fell!"

"what?"

Sun Yuanhua didn't want to compromise with Cheng Shijie at first, he thought that Cheng Shijie didn't dare to kill him, otherwise he wouldn't take this kind of trick to let him go, but the problem is that Kong Youde also turned against him.

Take Zhaoyuan.

The gold mine in Zhaoyuan is the money bag of many big people. If there is a problem with the money bag, Xu Guangqi will not be able to keep him even if he becomes the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Sun Yuanhua Sun Yuanhua had to compromise with Cheng Shijie. His small body really couldn't bear Cheng Shijie's weight of more than 200. What was even more helpless was that there were bedding and bear skin on Cheng Shijie's body, which made him breathless.However, Kong Youde has turned against him now, and his goal is the Zhaoyuan Gold Mine.

However, Kong Youde's rebellion became the last straw in Sun Yuanhua's heart.He had to compromise, and hurriedly said: "Ben Xian forgives you!"

When Cheng Shijie heard this, it was like drinking honey water, and his whole body was called Tongtai.

Because of Ning Haijun's oolong incident, a group of clubs put Ning Haijun's game of chess to a dead end.

If Cheng Shijie wanted to change this situation, he would either make the mistake or rebel directly, but the problem is that rebellion is actually too cheap to be a slave now, and he hopes to sharpen his sword and endure it.

Cheng Shijie heaved a sigh of relief, now the game of chess is over.

PS: Today is the first update of 367 words. I have to be busy at work at night. Let's see what happens. Lao Cheng will continue to break through 297 as much as possible and get the explosive update badge.I would like to report the data to everyone, the high order is [-], and the average order is [-], which is one step closer to the goal.

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