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

Chapter 95 What exactly does Cheng Shijie want to do?

Chapter 094

Before Sun Yuanhua had time to read the victory report, he heard bursts of cheers from the street outside the Yamen.Sun Yuanhua's expression changed drastically, and he didn't even care to look at the good news in his hand.

As the saying goes, once you are bitten by a snake, you are afraid of the rope for ten years.

Now Sun Yuanhua is also afraid. Now he, the governor of Denglai, is at his weakest. The Denglai New Army, the Dengzhou Navy, and the Dengzhou Army are gone. The only person he can rely on is Geng Zhongming.

"Cloud platform!"

"The mark is here!"

"Go see what's going on outside!"

"It's Lord Futai!"

Geng Zhongming turned and left, while Sun Yuanhua quickly came to his study. There was a censer on the bookshelf. He twisted the censer vigorously, and there was a rattling sound.

The bookshelf that was originally one piece split from the middle, revealing a small door that could fit two people side by side. Sun Yuanhua rushed into the dark room with his official seal in his arms without even thinking about it.

Geng Zhongming came to the Gulou Street of the Governor's Yamen, and saw a crowd of people dancing on the street in spite of the biting cold wind.

A team of Ning Haijun knights held their heads high and raised their chests, shouting loudly: "Great victory, Ning Haijun has gone through ten months of bloody battles, and killed 450 second-level slaves in Jinshishan formation, 850 third-level Mongolian Tartars, and more than a thousand fake Tartars." level, killing countless people, recovering Jinzhou Wei and Gaizhou Wei..."

The crowd on the street followed the soldiers of the Ning Navy and raised their arms and shouted: "Great victory, great victory of the Ning Navy, 450 ranks of Jiannu, 850 ranks of Mongolian Tartars, more than [-] ranks of fake Tartars, countless casualties, recovery of Jinzhou Wei, Gai State guard!"

On the street, the shopkeeper of Liuji Inn was stunned, turned around and ran back to the inner hall, and asked the owner for instructions, and then a huge red paper was pasted on the door: "To celebrate the restoration of Jinzhou and Gaizhou by Ning Haijun, Liuji Inn offers half price meat. , drinks are free, limited to three days!"

"We at Daiji Restaurant, to celebrate the great victory of the Ninghai Navy, we will give you a [-]% discount!"

"Our Feng's Cloth Shop sells good cloth at half price!"

"Our Guoji coffin shop..."

"Fuck your mother, join in all the fun!"

……

Geng Zhongming saw countless people cheering, and a soldier of the Dongjiang Army stepped forward and said, "General Geng, the Ning Navy has recovered Jinzhou, so we can go home!"

"General, can we go home now!"

A well-dressed Liaodong merchant also looked at Geng Zhongming expectantly.

Geng Zhongming gritted his teeth, suppressing the joy in his heart: "We can go home, you, we can all go home!"

Geng Zhongming clenched his fists, raised his arms and shouted: "Fathers and folks who want to go home, you can go home!"

"go home!"

"go home!"

Some Liaodong people who worked as handymen resigned from their shopkeepers, and some merchants even stopped doing business. Many people can't wait to pack their bags and go home to their long-lost hometown.

In fact, these Liaodong people came across the sea. In Shandong, they were stared at. There is nothing they can do. Shandong is a province with a large population. Coupled with the help of caring people, Liaodong people in Shandong are almost synonymous with scourge.

After directly receiving the exact news from Xu Dacheng, which proved that it was not a mutiny, Sun Yuanhua crawled out from the secret passage in the bedroom. For more than a month, Sun Yuanhua did not do other things, but let the servants in the mansion hire more than 100 refugees , and built a secret path for him.

Although this secret passage could not lead directly to the outside of the city, it possessed extremely strong defense capabilities. Unless it was opened with explosives, it would be impossible to open the iron gate made of pig iron.

"It was Ning Haijun who won the battle!"

Sun Yuanhua wiped the cold sweat off his forehead before opening the news.

Just glanced twice, the eunuch Gao Qiqian came to the governor's office, Gao Qiqian was also very excited, the flesh on his face was trembling: "Master Futai, great victory!"

"Great victory!"

Sun Yuanhua breathed a sigh of relief.

Gao Qiqian said excitedly: "Is it too much to behead Jiannu 450 Level [-]?"

Although Yuan Chonghuan's so-called Great Victory in Ningyuan only defended Ningyuan City, but on Juehua Island, more than [-] soldiers and civilians were killed, and the food and grass were burned. It is not an exaggeration to say that the battle was a big defeat.Of course, Jiannu's attack on Ningyuan did not achieve its strategic goal, and it can be barely counted as a victory, but the political significance of this victory is greater than the practical significance.

In the Ningyuan Great Victory, the beheading was only four or five hundred levels.

As the saying goes, the ass determines the head, and the head determines thinking.

This battle was won by Gao Qiqian who served as the supervisor in Dengzhou, Sun Yuanhua who was in command of Dengzhou, and Cheng Shijie who led the Ning navy soldiers to win. This battle must be won, otherwise Gao Qiqian would have no way to explain to Emperor Chongzhen.

Gao Qiqian said to Sun Yuanhua with a serious face: "Master Sun, you are also a person who has experienced battles, don't you know the rules of slavery?"

"rule?"

"Yup!"

Gao Qiqian said: "Nurhachi stipulated that whoever snatches back the body of Paoze, this person can get half of the corpse's family wealth, so I killed many Jiannu before the battle, but I couldn't get the head of Jiannu!"

Sun Yuanhua was also a witness to the battle of Ningyuan, and personally commanded the defense of the 28 castles, so he knew about it.

Gao Qiqian said: "It can be seen that in this battle, Ning Haijun killed at least two or three thousand Jiannu, but it is a pity that Jiannu was so fast that Ning Haijun couldn't catch up, so Jianu escaped!"

Speaking of which, Gao Qiqian took out a memorial with fresh ink, and saw that it read: "There are many slaves, the offensive is fierce, the Ning Navy is in danger, the left governor and the Ning Navy Commander Cheng Shijie personally charged forward After killing dozens of people in a row, the situation improved a little, but Jiannu bandits immediately dispatched white armored soldiers to fight on foot, and led Jiannu to charge into battle. Seeing this, Shijie personally led the Ning Navy to attack with long spears. Killing people's heads rolling, blood and flesh flying..."

In Gao Qiqian's memorial, Cheng Shijie Xiang is simply the resurrection of Changshan Zhao Zilong, and the champion Hou Huo Qubing is now alive. Not only is the description of the battlefield scene clear, but even the surrounding Jinzhou City is full of viciousness. , Go up to the house and pull out the ladder, and more than a dozen serial counts of 36 counts.

Sun Yuanhua looked at the memorial and frowned.

Although he didn't know much about Cheng Shijie, he also knew that Cheng Shijie was really not a fierce man, he was just taller and stronger, that's all.And he doesn't like to go to the battle by himself, especially Cheng Shijie likes to enjoy, likes to modify the carriage...

Gao Qiqian looked at Sun Yuanhua and said, "What do Master Sun think of this frontline memorial?"

"Wonderful!"

Sun Yuanhua knew what Gao Qiqian meant, and as the Wenchen Group had often cheated Emperor Chongzhen in the past few years, Emperor Chongzhen slowly figured it out and began to reuse eunuchs, such as Gao Qiqian in front of him, and Cao Huachun, the eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies, and the eunuch Li Chunsheng, the eunuch guarding Gaojing, and Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jinyiwei.

These eunuchs may not be able to accomplish anything, but they can succeed in doing bad things. If they offend Gao Qiqian, not only will they be in trouble, but Xu Guangqi will also be in trouble.

In desperation, Sun Yuanhua took up a pen and Gao Qiqian joined forces to report the victory of Jinshishan this time.

Seeing Sun Yuanhua's joint signature, Gao Qiqian was very happy. Once the good news came to Beijing, Gao Qiqian would be a great achievement. Maybe Emperor Chongzhen would be happy and give Cao Huachun the position of eunuch in charge of ceremonies.

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a eunuch who doesn't want to be a ceremonial supervisor is naturally not a good eunuch. Gao Qiqian is a big eunuch with ambitions.

Of course, this was the result of Cheng Shijie's gift. Taking advantage of Cheng Shijie, Gao Qiqian naturally had to do things. If he ruined the eunuch's reputation for taking money to do things, he would ruin the eunuch's job in the palace.He will be smashed into black bricks and stabbed with a knife.

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were not high, but the income of eunuchs was even lower than that of officials. For a fourth-rank eunuch like Gao Qiqian, his annual salary was only 120 taels of silver.Although there was a lot of money, for Gao Qiqian, it was not enough for him to reward the little eunuch with tea money.

……

Jinzhouwei in southern Liaoning has a total of 140 miles from Gaizhouwei to Jinzhouwei, and 120 miles from Jinzhouwei to Lushun.On this section of the road, most of the original official roads have been abandoned.

Cheng Shijie realized the seriousness of the problem on the way from Gaizhouwei to Jinzhouwei.

Even though Cheng Shijie was riding in a four-wheel shock-absorbing carriage, he was still terribly bumped.

"Welcome to the handsome tiger!"

"Welcome to the handsome tiger!"

Zhou Yandong and others who stayed behind at Golden State Guard lined up to welcome Cheng Shijie's arrival.

"You are free!"

Cheng Shijie beat his lower back hard, and while looking at the potholes on the ground, he pointed to the official road and said to Zhou Yandong: "The official roads and post stations in southern Liaoning have been disused for many years and have long been useless. After leaving southern Liaoning, Gaizhou and Jinzhou must communicate with each other, and there is no post station and smooth official road, which is very inconvenient."

Zhou Yandong smiled wryly: "The commander in chief... really has too many things to do, and the humble job is really... too busy!"

"Things must be prioritized. We need to re-establish the post station system. From Jinzhouwei to the north, we will build a post station 400 miles away, and set up four post stations in total. This time, the commander captured more than [-] war horses and raised them in these four post stations. , this matter must be done quickly, and strive to be completed before the end of the year!"

Zhou Yandong said: "There is no shortage of manpower now, but it's just construction in winter, and there are many problems!"

"That's no way, just make do with it!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the densely packed land nests outside the city, and said eagerly: "Jiannu will not give us time, this time Jiannu only hurt the skin, once they get over this breath, they will definitely come south to find the place, no matter what Whether it is transshipment of materials or news transmission, it needs a very special station!"

Cheng Shijie took a piece of wood, drew a square grid on the ground, and pointed to the winding official road: "To set up a post station here is to temporarily combine the post station with the Baihusuo. The post station is the Baihusuo." , Baihusuo is also a station. They also need to farm after the spring, but the task of farming can be reduced to ensure the normal operation of the station. As long as they can reclaim as much land as possible, if there is not enough part, it is Ning Naval Armament The department is responsible for subsidizing part of it!"

It is inevitable that the station system will lose money.After all, many places are sparsely populated, and there are not many people coming and going at ordinary times. There is no way for the post station to be responsible for its own profits and losses.

Cheng Shijie imitated the post office system of the later generations, not only responsible for the delivery of official documents, official business trips, and family members of officials, but also received business travelers in the past to make money.

It is also responsible for posting letters from soldiers and common people, parcels and the like.

Under Cheng Shijie's explanation, Zhou Yandong understood that this post station is completely different from the post station of the Ming Dynasty. Without the convenience of official document transmission and confidentiality, the entire post station will be like the high-speed service area of ​​later generations, not only providing food, accommodation, and car repair , refueling, shopping and other functions,

The post station is built on both sides of the official road. It chooses the appearance of a slave city. Along the official road, commercial shops and commercial blocks can be set up, and it is completely independent from military and official use.

Zhou Yandong was in charge of mobilizing eight hundreds of farm households and building the first batch of post stations in Ninghai Navy, namely Fenglin Station, Qingshan Station, Qingliangsi Station and Mantoushan Station.

Upon arriving at Jinzhouwei, Cheng Shijie didn't care about resting, and began to condolences to the living conditions of the migrating craftsmen and the military households in Tuntian non-stop, which was a political show.

Cheng Shijie is not just a show, but also sent their hopes to the military households and craftsmen's families in the village. They will get a homestead of at least one mu of land in southern Liaoning, and build a new house that is no worse than Ninghai City. These new houses will be Red brick and red tile buildings are adopted, and every household has its own independent pressurized water well. The Machinery Bureau of Ninghai Navy will be responsible for providing technical support, so that they can settle down in southern Liaoning with peace of mind.

Every household is given a bucket of grain according to the hair of each person. These military households in the field all said that they must work hard with Marshal Cheng.

Later that night, Cheng Shijie held a meeting to report on the unity of thought in Tuntian.At the meeting, Cheng Shijie said straight to the point: "Do you know why the commander-in-chief is unwilling to give you fields and let you each be responsible for your own fields?"

All the military households in Tuntian said they did not know.

Cheng Shijie explained: "This commander organized collective farms according to the method of Baihusuo. There are two reasons. First, you are not capable... Speaking of which, many people will not be convinced. I have been farming for a lifetime. Why should I say I don’t have the ability to farm? The answer is actually very simple. You pat yourself on the chest and say, what do you have now? To organize collective farms, you don’t have to think about seeds, cattle, farm tools, fertilizers, and they don’t even have to worry about paying taxes. If the crops are well taken care of, they will be paid enough to feed and clothe their family!"

All the military households in Tuntian suddenly realized that this is indeed the case. The military households in Tuntian were either captives of the rebels, refugees or military households from the Zuoqianhu Office of Dengzhou Guard. They all have one common characteristic, that is, they are poor.

Why is it difficult for the poor to become rich?The biggest problem is that there is no capital. The author has been in business since 7 and lost more than 13 yuan. He didn't pay off the debt until [-].

And a classmate of the author Jun, a rich second generation, his family supported him in business, worked in restaurants, opened hotels, guesthouses, contracted school canteens, sold clothing, home appliances, opened a decoration company, and worked in logistics and transportation. In a few years, these businesses were all lost, losing millions one after another. Later, they made short dramas and published them. In just two years, they made back all the money they lost in the previous ten years.

This is the gap between the poor and the rich. The poor do not have the cost and opportunity of trial and error, but the rich can. The same problem is actually more cruel.No one is born to be an elite. The so-called experience is actually accumulated slowly after suffering a lot. Even if a poor person is smart and has no capital, he is still a poor man. The more he struggles, the poorer he becomes.

Cheng Shijie said: "You may have reclaimed wasteland at the beginning, what happened to the result? No matter how hard you work, the fruits of your labor have become the fat of the gentry. You can't fight them, and your strength is too weak. In fact, the strength of the commander-in-chief They are also weak, why did I have to go to the south of Liaoning, because I can’t beat them, but it’s different in the south of Liaoning. Whoever dares to attack Ning Haijun’s military fields, I will follow their hands and chop Take their heads off!"

The land conflict has always been the main contradiction in China.This question has plagued China for thousands of years.But the output of the land is limited. When the population grows to a certain amount, it will exceed the limit of the land, so natural disasters and man-made disasters, frequent wars, after many years of chaos, people died enough, land redistribution, a A new dynasty, a prosperous age will come.

Cheng Shijie can't solve all the problems of poverty, he can only reduce the polarization as much as possible.

After Cheng Shijie's meeting, Song Xiance asked, "My lord, is the land issue you said unsolvable?"

"No, there is a solution!"

"How to deal with it!"

"It's actually very simple. There are two ways. One is to expand, and the second is to reinvent the wheel!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the factories under construction and said: "That is to open factories, so that all the gentry in the world can see that the benefits of opening factories are far greater than the benefits of farming, so they will not focus on competing with farmers for food. .Because the power of the gentry is too strong, farmers and ordinary people can't beat them at all. You have seen a lot of people in Jianghu. No matter whether the people are reasonable or not, they can't beat the gentry!"

Song Xiance nodded. What Cheng Shijie said was very correct. The people do not fight with the rich, and the rich do not fight with the officials. This is a cruel reality.

"Can expansion solve this problem too?"

"Of course!!"

"Just like our Ming Dynasty, when the country was founded, it had a population of 6000 million, and the country had more than 8 million mu of land. On average, each person could own dozens of mu of land, and many of them didn't need to farm at all, so the per capita farmland Enough for the people of Ming Dynasty to eat and drink enough!"

Cheng Shijie sighed: "During the Chengzu period, Nurgandusi, Daningdusi, Hannanhewei, and Kansai Bawei were abandoned one after another. The land became smaller and the population increased, and naturally a large number of people appeared. Refugees, as well as imperial supporters, raised a group of rice worms. During the Ming Dynasty, a total of more than 8000 Juren were trained. These are tax-free privileged classes. They are more than [-] families. The families all control fields ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of mu.”

Cheng Shijie pointed in the direction of Liaodong and said, "It's a fertile treasure land where you can live with a stick of chopsticks, but it's a pity that it's in the hands of Jiannu now. As long as we, Ning Haijun, destroy Jiannu, take the land back, and resettle 2000 million people is not a problem, if it expands, it will not be afraid of more people in the future!"

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie felt his blood burning.

However, at this moment, Cheng Shi reported to Cheng Shijie: "Father, Huang Long, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, begs to see you!"

"Huanglong?"

Song Xiance reminded: "My lord, you are still working part-time to control the Dongjiang army. He, the chief soldier, came to visit the Shangguan..."

"I'm afraid the visitor is not kind!"

Cheng Shijie said with a faint smile: "This commander has been in Liaonan for more than half a month, and he didn't come to see him once. Now that he has heard that this commander has captured Gaizhou and Jinzhou, he is willing to show up!"

"The commander-in-chief means..."

"Let him come!"

Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said, "This commander is waiting for him in Jinzhou Acropolis!"

Huang Long is Cheng Shijie's subordinate, he shook face with Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie naturally couldn't put his face on his cold ass.

The army is a place that pays attention to strength. Huanglong may not know the details of Ning Haijun's mutiny and sending troops to southern Liaoning, but he has definitely received the imperial edict. Now he has another mother-in-law on the head of the Dongjiang army commander.

In fact, just as Cheng Shijie guessed, Huang Long had received orders from the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies as early as half a month ago. The sword can't kill him, the commander-in-chief of a town, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie can kill the Dongjiang army once within his scope of authority.

Let Huang Long accept the order of Cheng Shijie, a little-known lucky villain, Huang Long really can't bear this face.After he learned that Ning Haijun had more than [-] troops crossing the sea, especially when he heard that Jiannu was coming, Huanglong felt that his opportunity had come.

With the strength of the Ning Navy, it is okay to fight against the small group of Jiannu soldiers, but it is powerless to deal with the elite Xiangbaiqi. Huanglong waits for Cheng Shijie to come to ask for help, and then he will have both face and face.

However, the problem is that things did not go as Huanglong expected. Cheng Shijie neither asked him for help, nor summoned this nominal subordinate. Cheng Shijie used his own power to kill the intruder Jiannu and beheaded more than [-] levels... …

Huang Long miscalculated, he still wanted to hold the air, but the Dongjiang Army had no more rations, and if he held the air and waited for Cheng Shijie to come to the door, the Dongjiang Army would starve to death again.

Speaking of which, Huang Long was also a very unlucky person. After Mao Wenlong's death, Dongjiang Town fell apart, and changing the general army was like a revolving door.Chen Jisheng took over from Mao Wenlong's squad, and was killed by Liu Xingzhi after only one year as the chief soldier. Liu Xingzhi replaced Chen Jisheng, and Huang Long became the deputy chief soldier.

Not long after, Liu Xingzhi led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to surrender Houjin and betrayed Daming. Huang Long, the deputy chief soldier, rose to become the chief soldier.But at this time, Dongjiang Town has actually been abandoned by the Ming Dynasty. Food and salaries are scarce, business travel has disappeared, and 10,000+ Liao people are suffering from hunger.

Finally, the Dongjiang army quit, launched a mutiny and tied him up, and divided up the tens of thousands of taels of silver in the Pidao silver warehouse. Although Huanglong managed to escape and quelled the mutiny, his nose and ears were cut off. Not like a human, but [-]% like a ghost.

When Huanglong arrived in Jinzhouwei, he and his cronies were disarmed. Led by Ning Haijun soldiers, they came all the way to Jinzhouwei.

Although Huang Long and Li Weiluan were disarmed, they were not angry, because the army is a place where strength is emphasized. Ning Haijun has proved their strength with practical actions, especially the Ning Haijun that led them, although the number is only 300 , but everyone was wearing brand-new cotton-padded clothes, cotton shoes on their feet, five-fingered gloves on their hands, long guns, dog-leg knives on their waists, crossbows on their backs, and two pots of crossbow arrows in the quiver.

The most exasperating thing is that almost all of these Ning Navy soldiers are wearing armor.

Li Weiluan lowered his voice and said: "Huang Shuai, these people are probably Cheng Shuai's servants!"

"pretty close!"

Huang Long's eyes are also quite poisonous, and one can tell at a glance that these soldiers have a fierce look on their faces, they are obviously veterans who have experienced many battles, and what is even more commendable is that they were silent during the march. The atmosphere of silence makes people feel stressed.

"This...this...how is this possible?"

The closer they were to Jinzhouwei, the more and more Ning Haijun soldiers were. They had the same equipment, the same armor, the same black cloak, the same black armor, and the same equipment as the Ning Haijun soldiers who accompanied them.Adding up these soldiers one after another, there are at least 6000 people.

Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, relied on [-] soldiers from the Li family and dominated Liaodong for decades. Cheng Shijie actually had thousands of soldiers from his family. How much does it cost?

Li Chengliang relied on the 25 guards of Liaodong and 400 million Liaodong people to support this army of soldiers from the Li family. What did Cheng Shijie rely on?
"Stand at attention, look to the right!"

"Look forward and raise your gun!"

"salute!"

Under the command of Ning Haijun, thousands of soldiers of Ning Haijun moved in unison and moved at the same time. The same silence made Huang Long, a mighty general, feel inexplicable panic.

What made Huanglong even more nervous was that the grain carts transported from the pier entered the city one after another. These carts were full of grain. Looking at the grain, Huanglong had a bitter smile on his face: "Our Dongjiang army is really raised by our stepmother. Grandma doesn't love me, uncle doesn't love me, and we don't even have food. Look at them!"

At this time, outside the city of Jinzhou, teams of Dongjiang army sergeants and civilians lined up outside the city, waiting for porridge.

What made Huang Long and Li Weiluan even more uncomfortable was that the people of the Dongjiang Army who received the meal were all grateful to Ning Haijun, and greeted Huang Long's family and women from time to time.

In all fairness, Huanglong didn't eat more and take more, nor did he drink the blood of soldiers. The court didn't give them food at all, and he couldn't produce food.

Not to mention Cheng Shijie, who seized a large amount of property from the bandits by taking the opportunity to suppress the bandits. In fact, many bandits in this era are chamber pots of the gentry, and they are the ones who specialize in black work. Cheng Shijie even copied the treasuries of the Zhang family and Sun Yuanhua in Laiyang.

"The last general Huanglong!"

"The last general Li Weiluan!"

"Meet Cheng Shuai!"

PS: I could upload before [-]:[-], but there are too many things, so I answered a phone call, I hope everyone will forgive me.

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