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

Chapter 88
Chapter 087

It took a while after the imperial decree was recited, but Cheng Shijie didn't react.

As a middle-level cadre, he naturally understands how difficult it is to get promoted within the system.However, the problem is that after he came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he discovered that the official system of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be a child's play.

For tens of taels of silver, you can buy an honorary title outside the staff.After spending 8000 taels of silver, he was able to become a fifth-rank official of Dengzhou Wei Zuo Qianhu. With the officers and soldiers of Zuo Qiansuo, he defeated a group of bandits in his own Qianhusuo, and was promoted directly to the fourth-rank Ning Navy. defense.

During his tenure as a garrison, without his knowledge, Ning Haijun launched a magical mutiny. He actually jumped to become the general who conquered the captives, the left commander, the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy, and controlled the Dongjiang Army.

In just over four months, is there such a magical thing?

Sun Yuanhua looked at Cheng Shijie's mind wandering outside his body. He had actually seen this kind of thing too much, so he had to step forward to remind Cheng Shijie: "Master Cheng, you should thank you!"

"Chen, Cheng Shijie thanked the Lord for his grace, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!!!"

Because Cheng Shijie traveled through the Ming Dynasty and later generations many times, his lacrimal glands are too developed, and tears will fall down as soon as his thoughts move.

Seeing this scene, Sun Yuanhua was even more impressed with Cheng Shijie.Of course he knew that Cheng Shijie was not really moved. Cheng Shijie was a decisive and ruthless person. For the sake of his military exploits, he massacred the surrendered rebel soldiers under Kong Youde's command.

It is not an exaggeration to call such a person hard-hearted, and he would never be so excited to cry because Emperor Chongzhen gave him a promotion.

Not only Sun Yuanhua thought that Cheng Shijie was too suitable for officialdom, but even Gao Qiqian did the same.This time Gao Qiqian came to pass the decree, just one of the convenient tasks, the most important thing is that he brought the order of Emperor Chongzhen to see Cheng Shijie.

As a person who can sneak into the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor and the admiral of the warrior camp from the palace, Gao Qiqian is also good at flattery, and is better at observing words and expressions. From the clarity in Cheng Shijie's eyes, he judged that Cheng Shijie's crying was faking of.

But the problem is, Cheng Shijie pretended so cleverly that he couldn't see the traces of acting, let alone affectation. If it wasn't for Gao Qiqian's good insight into people's hearts, he might have been deceived by Cheng Shijie.

He saw that it was actually useless. Almost everyone present thought that Cheng Shijie had a heart of a child. After receiving the imperial decree, he burst into tears like rain, and the tears shed were more than four or two.

If Cheng Shijie lost a few taels of flesh, if he entered the palace, he might become Wei Zhongxian's second.

Talent, Gao Qi potential secretly made a judgment in his heart.

In fact, Cheng Shijie didn't care about other people's opinions. He took the decree to consider one thing, whether to bring this decree that did not exist in history back to later generations, maybe it would become a huge discovery in the archaeological world and history.

The imperial decree is quite valuable for collection. In the 21st century, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is invaluable. If you bring it over and use it as a family heirloom, after 80 or [-] years, your children and grandchildren will sell it if they are short of money. problem?
However, Cheng Shijie also has opinions on Emperor Chongzhen. He has only achieved insignificant achievements, and he is given such a heavy reward. If he occupies southern Liaoning in the future, how should he be rewarded?

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie gradually understood that Emperor Chongzhen believed that Cheng Shijie could not succeed, and the civil and military ministers of the entire imperial court also believed that he could not succeed, so this one-time reward was the highest, and Zuo Dudu, the governor of the five armies, was second only to him. The left governor of the governor's office of the five armies.

This is an impossible task, and an extraordinary grace was given...

Then, Gao Qiqian gave Sun Yuanhua another imperial decree.

In fact, Sun Yuanhua has also been promoted. He, the governor of Denglai, is a counselor of military affairs. He changed two words to admiral of military affairs. Although the scope of real power has not been expanded, his rank has been raised.This is like a major general in later generations who was promoted to lieutenant general.

The army is still the same army, and the defense area is still the same defense area, but the rank has been improved.

Sun Yuanhua watched Cheng Shijie burst into tears when he received the imperial decree, but his tear glands were too developed, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't cry. Is it too small?

This was in front of hundreds of brocade guards and dozens of servants, who would transmit his every move to the ears of Emperor Chongzhen. In desperation, Sun Yuanhua reached out and touched the soft flesh in his lower back, pinched a piece of soft flesh, Twist hard.

"hiss……"

Sun Yuanhua burst into tears from the pain, his lacrimal glands were stimulated, and finally he could cry, he bowed deeply, tears streaming down his face, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Sir, Sun Yuanhua accepts the decree, long live my emperor! "

Cheng Shijie was a little surprised to see Sun Yuanhua's tears kept flowing.

At this time, Sun Yuanhua wiped his hands vigorously, he was being cruel to himself, the soft flesh in his lower back was wrenched and bleeding.

After the edict was read, Gao Qiqian followed Sun Yuanhua into the city, followed by Cheng Shijie.

Originally, Gao Qiqian walked forward, Sun Yuanhua was half shoulder away from him, and Cheng Shijie was further behind.

Gao Qiqian took the initiative to stop for a few steps, and said to Cheng Shijie: "General Cheng, you have made a great contribution this time! This great contribution has reached the heavens, and Jane is in the heart of the emperor. It is impossible for you not to make progress!"

"The lower officials are nothing more than eating the king's salary, sharing the worries for the king, and dare not take credit for it."

Cheng Shijie bowed, using his body to block him, and flicked his sleeves.

He raised his eyes and moved quickly, and he held a golden thing in his sleeve. Judging from the proficiency of his movements, he could be regarded as very familiar with the road.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't gold.

Cheng Shijie won't give away the gold easily, he must keep it for himself.What was given to Gao Qiqian was nothing but a piece of yellow crystal Maitreya Buddha.

Because the size is big enough, it can be sold for more than 400 in jewelry stores in later generations. This is a car decoration, but in Cheng Shijie's waste collection station, this thing is the price of waste glass.

Gao Qiqian flipped his wrist and glanced at it quietly. His eyes were very vicious, and he could tell at a glance that this was definitely not ordinary.

"On the road!"

This is much more valuable than giving silver or gold.Even if there is such a large piece of gold, how much can there be? 50 taels of gold is equivalent to 50 taels of silver.

To Gao Qiqian, the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor and the admiral of the warrior battalion, 500 taels of silver was nothing more than sprinkled water, a trivial matter.

Entering the governor's office in Denglai, Gao Qiqian waved his hand and said, "Come here, take the things that His Majesty gave to General Cheng!"

Several Tiqi responded in unison, turned and walked out.After a while, they were seen walking in with several young eunuchs in a row. The eunuch held up a silver tray in his hand, and inside was a purple brocade robe made of real silk.

Purple is also a reddish purple idiom. There is no first-rank or second-rank official rank. It is taboo to wear purple brocade robes. Who made Cheng Shijie now have the title of Zuodudu?

He is a first-rank military officer.

Then there is a shiny silver armor, which is Ming-style Mingguang armor, pure silver armor without variegated colors.

"General Cheng, please change your armor!"

Cheng Shijie stepped forward and stretched out his hands.The four riders hurried up to remove Cheng Shijie's armor. When Cheng Shijie's armor was removed, the silver armor was put on him.

According to records, this Ming-style Mingguang armor required 41 workers, and it took more than 200 working days to go through dozens of processes, such as punching, rough grinding, perforation, wrong holes, and cutting, wrong edges, and fine grinding. , to complete one piece.

In fact, this kind of flashy armor is the best target on the battlefield. Cheng Shijie would never dare to wear it, and this kind of armor has gorgeous patterns on it, such as shoulder guards and capes. Yes, this is how afraid that the nail blades will be strong.

At this moment, Cheng Shijie noticed that several eunuchs around were painting with brushes and drawing boards.

A spear also painted in silver, more than four meters long, was handed to Cheng Shijie. After Cheng Shijie took it, he found that it was simply a martial arts prop for later generations, so light that it had almost no weight.

Gao Qiqian pointed to a lacquered bow and said: "General Cheng, this is a three-stone strong bow, please try General Cheng, is the strength suitable?"

Cheng Shijie was slightly taken aback.

"Are you kidding me?"

In the Ming Dynasty, one stone was equivalent to about 150 catties in later generations, and three stones was 450 catties.Cheng Shijie didn't have this ability, but Gao Qiqian kept giving him winks, so he took it.

Cheng Shijie pulled lightly, and the bow opened in response to the sound, until it was almost full moon.

"Snapped……"

This gorgeous lacquered bow broke at the sound, and a part of the bow arm hit an eunuch. The eunuch clutched his arm and shouted: "My arm is broken... General Cheng is so powerful, how can a three-stone bow be so powerful?" Pull it and break it!"

The eunuch who is painting is drawing quickly, and what is being recorded is a quick record.

Cheng Shijie understood that it was this group of eggless eunuchs who teamed up with him to play for Emperor Chongzhen.

In fact, as Cheng Shijie guessed.

Cheng Shijie is now Changshan Zhao Zilong in Emperor Chongzhen's heart. Although this Zhao Zilong is a bit old, when he really saw Cheng Shijie, Gao Qiqian found that Cheng Shijie was well maintained, and his skin was even better than the nobles in the palace. point.

It doesn't look like a 35-year-old at all. In fact, the aesthetic point of view of later generations doesn't like fat people, but fat people have an advantage, that is, they have more collagen and anti-aging.

When a fat person is in his 20s, he looks like he is in his 30s, but when he is actually in his 30s, he will look younger.

Cheng Shijie is different from the people of the Ming Dynasty, at least he has enough nutrition, even a young general in his 20s looks older than Cheng Shijie.

However, Gao Qiqian watched Cheng Shijie turn over and dismount, and judged that Cheng Shijie had no kung fu, so he made two preparations in advance.

In this way, a group of people finished the portrait of meeting Cheng Shijie, including the scene of him wielding the spear and breaking the three-stone bow.

A group of eunuchs who acted as eyes and ears completed the task without stopping, and started to set off immediately to report the process and results of this interview with Cheng Shijie to Emperor Chongzhen.

And Gao Qiqian attended the banquet hosted by Sun Yuanhua.

The banquet was very lively and rich.

Sun Yuanhua looked at Cheng Shijie and said sourly: "Master Cheng, I'm afraid it won't be long before Benxian should salute you!"

"is it?"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "That's as if you don't have to salute to me now!"

Sun Yuanhua was speechless for a while.

That's true, Cheng Shijie is already the governor of the left, so he should salute to the superior officer, but the question is, is the commander of the Dengzhou guard still a third-rank military officer?

First ask Jin Yousheng if he dares to accept this great gift.

However, Cheng Shijie was different, he really dared to take it.

While everyone was urging Gao Qiqian to drink, Cheng Shijie lowered his voice and said, "Master Futai, let's have a chat!"

"it is good!"

The status of the two is now the highest, so they have to say hello to Gao Qiqian.

Gao Qiqian took the opportunity to end the banquet.

Afterwards, the banquet dispersed, and the three of them came to Sun Yuanhua's study.

There was actually a huge map in the study room, on which roughly dozens of cities were drawn, marking Jinzhouwei, Haizhouwei, Gaizhouwei, Shenyangwei, etc. Cheng Shijie looked at it, and the locations were roughly The direction is good, but very blurry.

If you rely on such a map to fight, you will hardly need to fight.Soldiers will die of exhaustion, because many rivers and mountains are not shown.

Gao Qiqian sat on the chief seat, looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "General Cheng, our family asks you a few questions, please answer them truthfully!"

"Father, please speak!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Gao Qiqian's posture, he came with the imperial decree and oral order of Emperor Chongzhen.

"How is Ning Haijun's combat effectiveness now? If we meet Jiannu in the wild, can we beat them?"

This question is a bit of an outsider.

Cheng Shijie didn't care about these trivial matters, bowed and said: "Ning Haijun has only been in the army for a short time. If they meet Jiannu, if they have the same number, they can barely remain undefeated. It's just that Ning Haijun lacks horses and cavalry, so Er Ruo Victory is a small victory. Jiannu wants to run, but Ning Haijun cannot catch up. If he loses, he must be defeated. No matter how many defeats there are, the minister cannot guarantee it!"

Of course, there was bragging in Cheng Shijie's words. Ning Haijun was stronger than the bandits, and also stronger than Kong Youde's rebels.Among other things, their ability to withstand casualties is absolutely the best in the world.

Gao Qiqian was slightly disappointed, and then he asked again: "If Kuang recovers Liaonan, you can be sure!"

This problem is even more brain-dead, even with the superior equipment of the beautiful national army, there is no guarantee of victory against Ka Dazuo, any accident is possible.Of course, the probability of this accident is very low, almost negligible.

"I can only guarantee that from the minister down, the generals and soldiers of Ning Haijun will go forward and succeed, and die!"

At this time, Gao Qiqian no longer asked Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie's attitude was similar to what Emperor Chongzhen had guessed. He turned to look at Sun Yuanhua and said, "If the Ning Navy crosses the sea and fights, how much military rations can Denglai provide for the Ning Navy?"

This issue finally got a little bit of an edge.

Sun Yuanhua's face was full of bitterness. Originally, Dengzhou had prepared 20 shi of grain and grass, but the problem was that these grain and grass had been taken away by Cheng Shijie. His warehouse in Dengzhou was so empty that mice could run away. If it wasn't for the support of the gentry in Dengzhou City Sun Yuanhua had three thousand shi of grain, and the governor's office ran out of grain.

Sun Yuanhua didn't dare to tell the truth, and if he said it, he would expose his shortcomings. He thought for a while and said, "Dengzhou can provide [-] troops with rations for one month's battle!"

"It's a little bit less!"

"However, if a month later, I transfer food from Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture, it will be enough to ensure that the army can continue to fight!"

"So good!"

Gao Qiqian looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "When can Ning Haijun go out?"

"The vanguard has already set off, the follow-up troops, I am going to set off tomorrow!"

Cheng Shijie has received a military report from Shen Mingyu, Jinzhou Weicheng, and there are only a few hundred slave herdsmen in Maodong. After a round of shelling, hundreds of herdsmen escaped, and they occupied Jinzhou City, which was empty. .

Cheng Shijie thought, he must send troops as soon as possible, otherwise Huang Taiji would definitely know that the Ming army attacked Jinzhou Acropolis. Although he judged that Huang Taiji was very weak at this time, but judgment is judgment, it does not mean it is true, he must lead all the troops of the Ning Navy, Go up first.

"We are ordered by His Majesty to temporarily take the post of supervisor of the Ning Navy. We supervise the army in Dengzhou. I wish General Cheng a triumphant return."

……

Penglai Water City, the school grounds outside the city.

Cheng Shijie, Gao Qiqian, and Sun Yuanhua reviewed the Ning Navy soldiers.The military flags of the Ning Navy fluttered in the wind.The soldiers of the Ning Navy, with armor on their heads, held their heads high, lined up in a full thirty rows, and the sea breeze blew their black helmet tassels, dancing wantonly in the wind like clouds of black ink.

On the stage, the Cheng Zishuai flag fluttered, and the tiger opened its teeth and claws, as if it wanted to break the flag and tear the person in front of it to pieces.Thousands of troops and horses are silent, like a silent mountain, standing in front of them, it is hard for you not to let the hairs all over your body stand on end!

Let's not talk about the combat effectiveness of Ning Haijun, but their appearance is indeed not something that other Ming armies should compare with.

However, Gao Qiqian frowned.The equipment of Ning Haijun is really weird. There are more than [-] soldiers in the army, but there are not many firecrackers. The main equipment of Ning Haijun is actually long guns and crossbows.

Although spears and crossbows are one of the best weapons to restrain cavalry, Jiannu not only has light cavalry, red armored soldiers, but also white armored soldiers wearing three layers of iron armor. , can ignore the shot of the ballista.Unless it is when the white armored soldiers are within [-] steps before the crossbow.

In addition to these crossbows and long spears, Ning Haijun also has a one-foot-long dog-leg-shaped machete pinned to his waist. This machete is sharp enough, but is it too short for a frontal fight on the battlefield? a little bit?

Gao Qiqian looked at Cheng Shijie and sighed in his heart, Cheng Shijie still didn't understand Jiannu, how could he only use the crossbow?He thought that Cheng Shijie had never fought Jiannu before, and he was relieved.

What can I do if I don't feel relieved, now the arrow is on the string and I have to send it.

From the cathedral in Dengzhou City, bells rang, one after another, resounding throughout the city, at twelve o'clock at noon.

"It's auspicious time!"

"Dong dong..."

The war drum sounded, as if the ground was shaking, hundreds of buglers blew their horns at the same time, and the gloomy and desolate sound of the horn resounded through the sky, bringing everyone to the bloody battlefield in the setting sun.

Cheng Shijie boarded the general platform, and his personal guards brought a sheep over. Cheng Shijie pulled out the Tang Zhidao and chopped it off. flag.

The soldiers lined up the sheep's head in front of the commander's platform with great importance, and brought another ram. Cheng Shijie cut the sheep's head again, and the sheep's head fell to the ground.He cut off the necks of three sheep in a row, and the blood of the sheep splashed all over the platform.

Cheng Shijie gave the knife to the guards to wash it, wiped off the blood on his hands, looked around the three armies with piercing eyes, and asked in a deep voice, "Everyone must know where we are going, right?"

"Kill Jianu! Kill Jianu!"

"That's right, kill Jiannu!!"

Cheng Shijie said loudly: "Soldiers, are you ready? Are you ready to get rich? This commander can tell you that the heads of Jiannu are more valuable than the heads of bandits. The court rewards them with 50 taels of silver for each head. Niu Lu'er is really a head, promoted to a higher level."

Hearing Cheng Shijie's words, Ning's navy officers and men's eyes immediately glowed green, and some even cheered loudly.

"Ready!"

"set off!"

Cheng Shijie waved his hand, and Ning Haijun soldiers lined up and began to advance slowly.

Cheng Shijie walked towards Sun Yuanhua and said, "Master Futai, I will leave Ning Haijun's retreat to you!"

"Cheng Shuai, don't worry!"

Cheng Shijie walked towards the distant pier.

With the movement of Ning Haijun, Gao Qiqian felt that Ning Haijun was different. He raised his legs neatly, set his feet neatly, and waved his arms neatly. No matter from which angle, the soldiers of Ning Haijun seemed to have been measured with a ruler.

Perhaps seeing Gao Qiqian's dissatisfaction with Ning Haijun, an eunuch lowered his voice and said: "Godfather, Cheng brought thousands of people to fight against Jiannu? He won a few battles by chance, and then He couldn’t tell the difference between east and west, north and south, he thought that Jiannu was just like bandits and rogues, he could come here however he wanted! Hmph, let a group of infantry with few firearms fight to the death with Jiannu’s cavalry? It's a shame he figured it out!"

Gao Qiqian sighed and said: "Our family doesn't know where he got the courage to bring such a group of soldiers... We haven't seen any army in Ming Dynasty that doesn't have firecrackers!"

Jiannu always likes to throw the white armored heavy infantry into the battlefield at the most critical moment, like a hammer, breaking through the defense of the enlightened army, and when the time comes, cover up and kill the Ming army when it is defeated.

Of course, Gao Qiqian didn't know that Cheng Shijie had his own confidence. After the practice of Kong Youde's Department of the Dongjiang Army, it was a joke for cavalry to charge in front of the Thunderbolt.

PS: Did you think it was gone?Lao Cheng finally wrote it out with exhaustion.There are still 23 hours of double monthly tickets, please ask for a ticket.

(End of this chapter)