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

Chapter 77 Kong Youde is about to become a master
Chapter 076

If it was changed to another time, another governor of Denglai, such as Chen Yingyuan who only took office in August of the fifth year of Chongzhen, or Xie Lian, then Cheng Shijie might make the mistake and directly raise the flag to rebel.

Cheng Shijie checked relevant information in later generations. When Kong Youde surrendered to Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji attached great importance to their surrender. With him as the Marshal of the capital, he was settled in Tokyo (Liaoyang), and formed his own army, called "Tianyou Bing", and was given special treatment.

Some people say that it was Kong Youde who brought a large number of soldiers and artillery, so that Huang Taiji had the ability to attack key points and made up for the last shortcoming of Jiannu.At first, Cheng Shijie also thought that this statement should be valid.

However, Cheng Shijie found a post on Zhihu where an author was sprayed with autism, and only then did he see the truth from the fog.Huang Taiji won the battle of Daling River, successfully conquered Khalkha and Chahar Mongolia, and drove Lin Danhan to Qinghai. It can be said that he achieved great military success.

However, the nomads do not engage in production and rely on war capture. Although this battle was won, there is no doubt about it, but the problem is that the capture is not enough to make up for the consumption of more than [-] troops in the Daling River siege for more than three months. At that time, Huang Taiji was a sick tiger.

It looks strong, but it is actually weak.

Until the seventh year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji's troops were divided into four groups, with Datong and Xuanhua as the main attack directions, and broke through the gates respectively, "not attacking the city, but only looting in the villages and forts."The strategic purpose of this battle is to make up for losses, mainly to seize materials.

Therefore, the real reason why Huang Taiji valued Kong Youde was not because of his artillery and craftsmen. Burning, killing and looting in the whole city, even the Lianzhou camp was breached, whether it was artillery, craftsmen, or talents, he had obtained everything he wanted.

In the Battle of the Daling River in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji used artillery to break through Zhang Chun's camp. Na, Guan Wubei Yuanshi Damubu, second-class light car captain Zhu San, Zuo Ling Baisangwu, cavalry captain Nima Chan, guarding military academy Aisai, Yunqi captain Valka, etc.

After defeating Zhang Chun's [-] Ming army, Huang Taiji did not get the food, ordnance and various supplies he wanted, and they were all burned. The more than [-] troops were waiting for food. In desperation, Huang Taiji had to dismiss his troops. In Shenyang, the capital of the country, there are only a few thousand horses left. There is no way, there is no food to feed.

At this most critical moment, Kong Youde turned against him. Not only did he contain more than [-] Ming troops for more than a year, but he also fought against Shandong, the rear frontier base of Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, and exposed his bones to the ground.

Without this mutiny caused by Kong Youde, Huang Taiji was afraid that the Ming army would take advantage of his illness and kill him, so he walked around the gate of hell before he treated Kong Youde with courtesy.

Cheng Shijie couldn't rebel, at least not now. Instead, he wanted to take advantage of Huang Taiji's weakness to seize southern Liaoning, which is a fertile land, richer than Shandong.

The most important thing is that it is different from Shandong, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Even if you want to deal with Cheng Shijie, the navy is in Cheng Shijie's hands, how can you cross the sea without a boat?

With the financial resources of the Ming court, it is also powerless to build another navy with more than 300 warships. As for the cavalry who built slaves...

Let's wait for Huang Taiji to raise enough food and grass first. He can't even take care of the easily accessible Jinzhou City, and he can still take care of the four states in the far south of Liaoning.

As for the current Ning Haijun, who has a larger number of Thunderbolts, Cheng Shijie will have to see if it is technologically advanced or barbaric.Is technology over barbarism, or barbarism over technology.

Everything you say is false, and you can only know the result if you fight it.

At this moment, Sun Yuanhua could only smile wryly. Cheng Shijie cut him to the left and right, leaving him with only a hollow frame. What else could he do without Cheng Shijie's quelling of the Kong Youde rebellion?
"Does this Constitution still have the qualifications to reject it?"

"Master Futai, you will definitely be grateful for your choice in the future."

Cheng Shijie watched Sun Yuanhua pick up the pen, write down the order ordering Cheng Shijie to suppress Kong Youde's rebellion, and then printed it.

After getting this order, start preparing for the relocation.

In just four days, the treasury of the governor's yamen in Dengzhou City was empty, the grain depot was empty, the arsenal was empty, and the army was empty. Now there is only an empty shelf left in the Denglai new army, as well as the young men who were reorganized and eliminated by Cheng Shijie. Two or three cats.

Sun Yuanhua really didn't expect Cheng Shijie to have such a ruthless method. He knew that Cheng Shijie had no background. In his opinion, it didn't take long for Cheng Shijie to suddenly rise from a thousand households to Ninghai's defense. Now he has mastered Dengzhou City, The life and death power of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Penglai Shuicheng suddenly grasped the power, and it was inevitable to get carried away.

In fact, Sun Yuanhua was most worried about this kind of thing. Once it happened, it would also be the end of Sun Yuanhua's political career, and he needed to be buried with Cheng Shijie.Because the Ming court is still powerful, it may not be able to deal with Cheng Shijie in a short period of time, but as long as the court reacts, it can still encircle and suppress Cheng Shijie.

Now Cheng Shijie did not do this now, but slowly handed over Sun Yuanhua's military and political power. At least now, Sun Yuanhua has mastered the governor's office. Ning Navy's defense mission.

Sun Yuanhua has been an official for ten years, and has seen all kinds of officials, some are vicious, some are vicious, some are cunning, and some are unscrupulous.

Sun Yuanhua also vaguely guessed Cheng Shijie's intentions. He wanted to abandon the foundation of Ninghai City and Ninghai Prefecture, go to southern Liaoning, and pull out his teeth.

This also meant that if Cheng Shijie withdrew, even if Sun Yuanhua wanted to take revenge on him, he would have no chance.

Sun Yuanhua already knew that although Cheng Shijie did not burn, kill and loot in Dengzhou City, he dug up Sun Yuanhua's roots, hundreds of machines of various kinds, more than [-] superior craftsmen, hundreds of top technicians, and The gun factory that Sun Yuanhua is proud of.

On the surface, Cheng Shijie didn't touch Dengzhou City, but dug up Sun Yuanhua's roots...too ruthless.

All of Cheng Shijie's actions require legalization. It is legal to accept Denglai's new army, it is legal to accept the Dengzhou Navy, it is legal to accept the gun factory, and it is legal to go to southern Liaoning. The feudal town in the inner city, the warlord on the warlord's territory.

This person's tricks are terrible, and he does things impeccably.

After Cheng Shijie got the military order written by Sun Yuanhua to suppress Kong Youde's rebellion, Cheng Shijie went directly to Penglai Water City, the Ning Navy camp outside the city.

"Meet the Master!"

From October 28th in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie was no longer a general, but a commander in chief.

As long as the imperial court approves, Cheng Shijie will enjoy the Zuo Dudu, the second-rank palm print commander in chief.

Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng Hu and said, "Has Mr. Song come back?"

"Just came back!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Let all the officers above the hundred generals gather at the commander's account!"

Cheng Shijie walked into the handsome tent, Song Xiance hurriedly bowed to salute the people: "Meet the master!"

"how is the situation!"

"More than [-]% of Ninghai households and craftsmen, and more than [-]% of Dengzhou craftsmen are willing to follow the lord!"

Song Xiance pointed to the account book and said, "Those who are willing to follow the lord have already started to move, but..."

"what?"

"We can't move those iron mines and factories!"

"This is easy to handle. You find that Gu Shizhang and tell him that the commander-in-chief sold him the hot spring salt factory, the iron factory, and those blast furnaces!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "As long as the price is right, Gu Shizhang will not refuse, but I don't want money, I want food, the best rice in the south of the Yangtze River, 30 shi, I only want 30 shi!"

In the middle of the year, 30 shi only needed 15 taels of silver, but as the weather was cold and water transport was interrupted, the price of grain in Dengzhou City had approached eight qian silver per shi, and these grains needed 24 taels of silver.

"Gu Shizhang's financial resources, he can't afford these industries!"

"He can't eat it, but Huizhou merchants can!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Huizhou merchants are the same as Shanxi merchants. There are countless small families under the five major families of Huizhou merchants. The Gu family is one of them. Huizhou merchants are happy to take over this business. Even if Gu Shizhang wants to take it, he can't keep these industries , but Huizhou merchants are different, their ability is great!"

Once the money reaches a certain scale, gods can block and kill gods, and Buddhas can block and destroy Buddhas.

"Tell foster father, they are all here!"

"Mr. Song, let's go together!"

"Yes!"

Song Xiance followed behind Cheng Shijie.

"Meet the Master!"

Cheng Shijie took a large stack of blank complaints. These complaints were made by Sun Yuanhua who had the right to directly appoint the military officers of the fourth rank and below. Cheng Shijie took seven of the fourth rank and his 25 fifth rank, Sue him as a member of the fifth rank.

"Now, as everyone wishes, the promotion will begin!"

Hearing Cheng Shijie's words, all the officers were very excited.

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said, "Now, I will ask you a question. Tell me, what is the military rank?"

"report!"

"Shen Mingyu, tell me!"

"A military rank is a grade, it is a top and bottom. The military rank in the army is like the rank in the court. It shows the size of the official position, the level of the rank, the sequence of orders and official documents, and the answer is over!"

"very true!"

Cheng Shijie took a piece of official fourth-rank military officer to report himself, wrote down Shen Mingyu's name, and then said: "Shen Mingyu, awarded the fourth-rank general Guangwei, the actual post of the left commander of the Ning Navy!"

"Thank you, Master!"

"Changyu!"

"I am humble!"

"Awarded the fourth rank, General Guangwei, the real commander of the right commander of the Ning Navy."

"Thank you, Master!"

"Li Zhixiang!"

"I am humble!"

"Conferred the fourth rank, General Guangwei, the former commander of the Ning Navy Navy!"

"Thank you, Master!"

"Liu Qingsong!"

"I am humble!"

"Awarded as a fifth-rank general of martial arts, and actually appointed as the right front thousand general of the Ning Navy!"

"Thank you, Master!"

"Zhou Ning!"

"I am humble!"

"Awarded as a fifth-rank general of martial arts, and a real post as the left front thousand general of the Ning Navy!"

……

When Cheng Shijie spent half an hour conferring the ranks on the Ning Navy officers above [-] generals and promulgating their actual posts, Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and said: "This time, what the big guys have done has already gone to the end of the road. This handsome doesn't want to be settled by others, do you understand?"

"Then kill the one surnamed Sun!"

"Kill, kill, kill, you know how to kill!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Can killing people solve the problem?"

"This……"

"This Ning Haijun, we can't stay any longer, and offended Mr. Futai, who of you can sleep well?"

Cheng Shijie's words made everyone think about their mistakes.

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie continued: "Our only way is to bite the bullet and go on. Now we need to survive!"

"Dare to ask the commander-in-chief, how do you survive death?"

"Liaonan!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the map behind him and said: "The four prefectures in southern Liaoning are now unable to take care of Jiannu. It is a land without an owner. Let's go to southern Liaoning, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. You have to have this ability!"

Shen Mingyu frowned and said, "But Southern Liao is too close to Jiannu!"

"Anyone who is afraid can choose not to go!"

Cheng Shijie said indifferently: "If you settle accounts in the future, don't worry about my commander not reminding you!"

"But……"

"unwilling?"

"Yes!"

Zhang Yu smiled wryly: "It's not easy for us to find a place to stay, but now..."

"If you are not reckless, we can naturally survive in Ning Haijun, it is too late now!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the four states in southern Liaoning on the map and said: "The four states in southern Liaoning can reclaim more than 500 million mu of land, and they are all fertile land. In fact, it is a blessing in misfortune now. The land reclamation work in Ninghai City is still in progress. It didn't unfold, what are you distressed about?"

"But southern Liaoning is bitterly cold..."

"We have no choice!"

Cheng Shijie dispelled the last luck of all the officers. They occupied Dengzhou City and robbed Governor Sun Yuanhua's money bank, grain depot and factory. Not to mention Sun Yuanhua, even they themselves would not be generous. Said to open the net.

"Except for the right front commander, all other ministries are preparing to move immediately!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The migration work requires the full cooperation of the navy. We took a boat from Dengzhou and went straight to Jinzhou Weicheng. We first occupied Jinzhouwei, and based on Jinzhouwei, we were the first batch, Shen Mingyu!"

"To!"

"Whether we can gain a foothold in Golden State in the future depends on you!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the map of Jinzhou Wei and said: "It has been more than three years since Jiannu abandoned the four states in southern Liaoning. Now Lushun is in the hands of the Dongjiang Army. There is no Dongjiang Army garrison in Jinzhou Weicheng. This is just the situation in the governor's office. , or it may be accurate, or it may not be accurate, this requires you to send people to reconnaissance, obtain reliable information, and take down the Golden State Guard if you are sure!"

"Yes!"

"Li Zhixiang!"

"To!"

"If more than [-] soldiers from the Zuodu Division of the Ruoning Navy cross the sea, can the navy complete a one-time delivery!"

"Yes, I promise to complete the task!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Mr. Song!"

"Under the door!"

"You follow Shen Mingyu, the first batch to go to Jinzhou Acropolis, and you accompany the army as a military counselor!"

"The subordinates take orders!"

"Louis!"

"exist!"

Luis is a bearded man in his 40s. Before retiring from the army, he was a major in the Spanish Empire and the commander of the Musketeers of the Mexican Colonial Army's Legion of Juan.

"Your staff, accompanying the army, needs you to do your due diligence. This commander hopes that you can be worthy of the salary that this commander gives you!"

Sun Yuanhua spent all his money on this mercenary army formed by 27 officers.On average, each of them gets an annual salary of 80 taels of silver. Of course, this is only a junior officer at the second lieutenant level, and the highest is the commander Gongsha.

Gongsha is a Portuguese. In the first year of Chongzhen, he led more than 140 mercenaries, including six artillery experts, four firearms craftsmen, two translators, 25 officers, and 23 assistants. He carried ten artillery pieces to the capital.And arrived in Zhuozhou in the second year of Chongzhen, and fired at Jiannu according to Zhuozhou City.

At that time, Jiannu saw that Zhuozhou was defended by troops, so he retreated to Gu'an and slaughtered more than [-] soldiers and civilians in Gu'an and Liangxiang.Sun Yuanhua's ability to become the governor of Denglai also meant that the Ming Dynasty carried out military reforms.

Xu Guangqi is writing a letter to Emperor Chongzhen, requesting to "exhaust Western art".Xu Guangqi plans to train 15 western-style battalions, each with 4000 people, equipped with 16 cannons, 80 medium cannons, and 100 turtledove guns (longer and more powerful than the common bird guns equipped by the Ming army, and similar in status to today's anti-material sniper rifles) There are 1200 standard bird guns.

This matter was abandoned due to the lack of financial resources of the Ming Dynasty, but small-scale reforms began in Dengzhou, which is now the Denglai New Army.When Kong Youde rebelled, this Western mercenary army participated in the battle of Dengzhou City, and 12 people including Gongsha were killed in the battle, and the rest were injured.

It can be seen that this Western mercenary still has a bit of professional ethics.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Even though it was very important to cross the sea to attack Jinzhouwei, Cheng Shijie did not participate in their send-off, but directly led the old department of the Ning Navy, which is now the Youdusi.

Because the movement of Kong Youde's rebellion was too great, Kong Youde accepted Li Jiuzheng's bewitchment and launched the Zhaoyuan Rebellion that did not exist in history.

His first step was to attack the Zhaoyuan Gold Mine, rescued more than [-] absentees from the mine, and then used these local miners in Shandong to pretend to be ordinary people who had entered the city and successfully sneaked into Zhaoyuan County.

When Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng led the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army to Zhaoyuan City, the miners immediately launched an attack, killed the soldiers defending the city, and successfully captured Zhaoyuan County.

After conquering Zhaoyuan County, Kong Youde's troops seized a large amount of food. The soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were full for the first time since they defected to Sun Yuanhua.

The soldiers of the Dongjiang Army who were full, with high morale, began to attack the nearest gentry Deng's compound in Zhaoyuan County.

Shandong folk customs are more aggressive.There is no way, there are too many refugees coming from Henan and Dongjiang Town, and there are as many bandits as a cow. In order to protect themselves, many wealthy landlords have spent their money to build strong watchtowers, buy a large number of bows and arrows, and even manufacture earth cannon.

Once a large group of bandits came down the mountain, all the relatives and children would twist into a rope to resist desperately. The armed forces of these small landlords were often stronger than the officers and soldiers.Officers and soldiers can escape if they can't win, but they have no place to escape. If they can't win, their families will be destroyed!

Therefore, no matter whether it is the rogues or the officers and soldiers who are more ruthless than the rogues, they are not very willing to gnaw on these strong docks. It is fine to extort some money and food.

However, these soldiers and miners of the Dongjiang Army were not afraid of death, and they went up one after another to charge. After a night and a half day of bloody battle, Kong Youde's troops paid the casualties of more than [-] miners and more than [-] soldiers of the Dongjiang Army. At the price, the Deng family compound was taken down with a tragic victory.

Kong Youde's department seized far more grain in the Deng Family Courtyard than the county seat. The county seat had a total of less than [-] shi of grain, because the autumn grain had already been escorted to Beijing, and the more than [-] shi of grain was seized by Zhaoyuan County officials from the mouths of the people. food.

But in the Deng family compound, they seized a total of more than 100 taels of silver, more than 800 million copper coins, more than 300 shi of rice, more than [-] shi of wheat, and more than [-] cattle, mules, donkeys, and horses.

Kong Youde was killing cattle and donkeys to feed the whole army. Kong Youde was surprised to find that he could not carry all the captured supplies.

In order to advance lightly, or to gain the advantage of the speed of the cavalry, Kong Youde distributed the food that could not be taken away to the people, and also burned all the land deeds and IOUs of the Deng family.

This time, Kong Youde found the wealth code. Although Kong Youde killed more than 700 people during the attack on the Deng family compound, for a team of more than [-] people, this loss is quite heavy.

As a result, countless people around were scrambling to join Kong Youde, and Kong Youde found that he seemed to be able to use Shandong people to fight Shandong people.

Therefore, these Shandong locals who took refuge acted as the leading party. They knew very well which big households had food and which big households had money, and they picked fat sheep to start.

After conquering the Deng family compound, nearly 2000 people joined in. Kong Youde's strength increased instead of declining, and he led his subordinates to attack frequently. The morale of their rebels was high, and they were brave and fearless.

There was a Wubao with a high wall and a large number of people, which repelled several attacks by Kong Youde's army, but Kong Youde asked people to carry some cast iron cannons seized in the Deng family compound, and the cannons blasted at the fence, firing ten shots. A few shells were fired, and a gap was opened in the earth fence. Before Kong Youde's troops rushed to attack, all the people inside urinated, and opened the door obediently and surrendered.

Kong Youde followed suit, distributing the seized grain to the common people and burning the land deeds and IOUs of the landlords. People who could not survive continued to join Kong Youde's rebel army.

In just two days, Kong Youde's rebel army captured more than a dozen Wubao quilts in Zhaoyuan County, and he continued to distribute a large amount of money and food from the captured land to attract people to join the rebel army.

In this way, more and more rebels joined Kong Youde's department. In just three days, Kong Youde's department grew from more than 1000 people to more than [-] people.

Kong Youde became stronger and stronger, and he fought more and more soldiers. At this time, he was no longer satisfied with relying on Cheng Shijie as a soldier leader. He wanted to be the king and the boss by himself.

It is true that no one is willing to find a father for himself, so he is not willing to be Cheng Shijie's son.

At the same time when Cheng Shijie handed over Dengzhou City to Sun Yuanhua, Kong Youde unexpectedly brought together an army of 5 people, falsely claiming [-] horses, to attack Ye County, the capital city of Laizhou.

When Cheng Shijie received the news, he couldn't wait any longer. If he waited any longer, Kong Youde's department would be like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.The Youdu Division of the Ninghai Navy removed the naval forces under its jurisdiction, removed more than a hundred veterans who were responsible for serving as instructors in the Zuodu Division, and removed more than a thousand former generals of Chen Guodong. Now there are only about 3000 people left.

In this situation, Cheng Shijie could only attack in advance, otherwise Kong Youde would become a master.

PS: There are two updates today, more than [-] words, Lao Cheng will continue to write, and the next chapter will be published as much as possible. It is estimated that it will take two or three o'clock.I wish you all a happy new year! !

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