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Chapter 167 Shen Daotai's men, only civil and military equality
Shen Shuren himself doesn't need to be in too much a hurry, he can wait until mid-February before returning to Wuchang in Nanjing, and make sure to return to his post before the end of February.His new official appointment edict will also be sent directly from Beijing to Wuchang.

However, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen couldn't wait along the way.

According to the practice in previous years, shortly after the Lantern Festival, the sea transport can go north, because when the fleet sails for half a month and arrives in the Bohai Sea, the vicinity of Tianjin Bay in the Bohai Sea has already thawed and can sail.

Two years ago, the time Shen Shuren and Fang Yizhi went to Beijing to take the exam by personally depositing food, didn't they just go north the next day of the Lantern Festival.

It is now the end of January, ten days later than in previous years.Counting the days, when the fleet arrives in the Bohai Sea, not only Tianjin Bay will thaw, but even the mouths of the Linghe River and the most difficult to thaw in the northeast corner of the Bohai Sea will probably melt.

That period of time was also the time when the Tazi soldiers were most lax in patrolling and most prone to flaws, so they must be seized.If no Ming army is rescued at this time, the follow-up hope will be even slimmer.

Because in winter, when the river is dry and the riverbed is frozen, the Tartars are not afraid of the navy of the Ming Dynasty at all, and it is impossible for them to think of the navy coming to die.The cavalry can gallop directly on the river bed of the Ling River and the Daling River, and the party relying on the warship can do nothing at all.

After the river thawed and the early flood caused the water level to rise, a short window period was created.

Therefore, Shen Shuren only rewarded Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen for a short time in Nanjing City, and then had to send them off.

After all, the army is going to carry out the task of licking blood with the knife head. Even if it is just to respond, there is a high probability that they will not have to fight a land battle with the Tartars. , I am afraid that morale will definitely be low.

The southern troops under Shen Shuren, except for a few veteran battalion soldiers who surrendered, have never fought against Jiannu, at most they beat the peasant army.

After this experience, as long as he can come back, it must be a full baptism for the military discipline and courage of the troops.In the future, at any rate, I can brag: We also came back from fighting the Tartars.

And because Zheng Chenggong was going, the Zheng family also had Zheng Hongkui come forward to reward the escort warships, sailors and soldiers that the Zheng family would follow.So the Shen family only needs to worry about their direct troops.

On the side of the Shen family, after discussing with his father, Shen Shuren allocated [-] elite servants—at least nominally servants—to participate in this food delivery and response mission.Other sailors do not count.

The so-called 2000 servants, in fact, only [-] are real servants, they are the desperadoes accumulated by the Shen family from traveling across the sea for many years and performing escorts.

The remaining 3000 people can only be regarded as "worked as comrades with Shen Jiajia Ding", and then were transferred back by Shen Shuren in reverse.

When Shen Shuren went to Huangzhou to take office, didn't he bring a thousand elite servants with him, and later they were dismantled and filled in the two guards in Huangzhou and Suizhou, bringing the old to the new and training some elite soldiers.

Therefore, according to the ratio of one belt to three, Shen Shuren recruited the new army trained by Shen Jiading as a companion, and tried to select those who were good at water and capable of amphibious warfare, and brought back 3000 people to join forces with Zhen Jiading.

No matter how much he smoked, Shen Shuren was also worried that Huguang and Zhang Xianzhong would make moves after the beginning of spring, which would unduly weaken the defensive forces on the Huguang battlefield.

On the other hand, the troops Shen Shuren trained in Huguang, that is, those soldiers who were born as dock workers, were pretty good at swimming.As for soldiers from miners, hunters, and old bandit camps, many of them can't even swim, and being transferred to fight by sea would only be a disservice.

If you only pick soldiers with good water skills, you won't be able to get more people.

Moreover, this time the Shen family’s fleet can be regarded as the main force. Before the water transportation was changed to the sea, the Shen family had nearly [-] large ships. Sea-going ships, reaching a scale of more than [-] sea-going ships after the five-year period expires, can ensure that most of the court grain is transported by sea.

Now that this plan has only been carried out to the beginning of the third year, the total number of large ships owned by the Shen family is already close to [-].

Shen Tingyang assigned more than 100 emergency and daily maintenance ships to transport food.The remaining two-thirds were used to carry out this mission. In the end, the actual statistics showed that as many as [-] to [-] large ships were used.

After careful calculation, each ship is equipped with an average of 15 capable sailors and 15 sailors who are good at water. There are 30 people in total. More than 300 ships have also used tens of thousands of people, with half and half sailors and soldiers.

When I go, I will be fully loaded with the military rations required by the defenders in Shanhaiguan and other places this year.

After unloading the military rations, if the timing is right on the return journey, theoretically, each ship can carry 80 people, including supplies, and return directly to Liujiagang, Suzhou.That would be equivalent to rushing back more than 2 people.

If there is an extreme situation where more people can be rescued, it is also possible to carry an additional 100 people on each ship to reach a total of 150 people including sailors.

It's just that the supplies will be relatively short. If you can't make it back to Suzhou directly, you have to stop on the Shandong Peninsula to replenish fresh water and food.

Of course, Shen Shuren believed that this back-up plan was basically useless.Hong Chengchou's troops besieged the last three isolated cities, how could there be as many as [-] to [-] troops?
Even if there are, it is impossible to save them all.

Once the rescue of the first city is successful, the Tazi soldiers in the other two cities will definitely be vigilant and strengthen the siege, and will not give another chance.

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The Shen family was most willing to spend silver, so this time they went to sea to perform missions, and everyone gave at least ten taels of silver as a settling allowance, including both soldiers and sailors.

Among the soldiers, those who will perform the task of going ashore will receive an additional five taels.For these two expenses alone, a team of nearly 10,000 people directly sent out [-]+ taels.

But compared to being able to rescue some of the elite elites of Ming Dynasty for their own use, this price is definitely worth it.

10,000+ taels is just a direct reward.Before setting off, Shen Shuren also sent some fish, meat, grain and oil directly to the local sailors at home in Nanzhili.

Giving the silver directly is inconspicuous, and the silver ingots of twelve taels are invisible.

Rice, meat, oil and wine are distributed in kind, and a few pieces of cotton cloth are given to the family. It looks much better, and it can please all the family members of the expeditioners, so that they can encourage the sons, husbands, and fathers who are going to the expedition. worries.

In addition to distributing supplies to the family, the daily rewards of wine and meat before sailing were also inevitable. All the soldiers found a port town outside Nanjing City, and had a three-day feast with enough wine and meat.

These soldiers are all foodies. They are open to eating meat and not eating. It is no problem to eat four or five catties a day.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, prices were so high that a catty of pork around Nanjing cost seven or eight cents of silver, but during the Wanli period, five cents were not needed.The three-day reward is worth more than one tael to five dollars for the meat eaten by each soldier, and it can be close to three taels including wine and food.

Shen Shuren also invited the half-closed doors and dark kilns inside and out, and booked the place to send women over to let everyone vent.However, due to the large quantity, of course the cheapest place to go is one or two pennies.

Shen Shuren didn't think there was anything wrong. Although he was relatively modern in nature, these soldiers were all going to take risks with the Tartars, and they were all fighting for the interests of the nation. Before they set off, they vented what was wrong.

As for high-end places such as Meilou and Meixianglou, Shen Shuren also spent a lot of money to hire people, but mainly to invite generals like Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen who are about to go to war. Ordinary military officers are not treated so well.

Even the most ordinary sisters in Meixiang Building can only guarantee the participation of military officers above Qian Zong and above.

The other civilian officials who did not go to the expedition could only drink with these military generals and enjoy the glory along the way. Those who could not be served by the generals got their turn, or they simply paid for it at their own expense.

Last year, because Shen Shuren made people in Hou Fangyu and Gong Dingzi's faction dirty, Gu Mei didn't want to be entangled by Gong Dingzi anymore, so she chose to redeem herself and jumped out of the circle.So now the top oiran on the top of Meilou doesn't have much reputation.

The girls on the other floors didn't seem to be aware of the changes of the times, and they still had the idea of ​​advocating literature and suppressing martial arts in their hearts.

At the beginning, they heard that Shen Daotai spent a lot of money to treat guests, and they all came here cheering. No one knew how righteous Shen Shuren was after Li Xiangjun was bought by Shen Shuren last year, and he still refused to give up under Zuo Liangyu's pressure.

Hearing that his family didn't like his "mistakes for sex", Shen Daotai still resisted his parents' orders and insisted on refusing to treat Li Xiangjun badly.

In the eyes of an upright gentleman and scholar-bureaucrat, these deeds must be bad deeds, even a little unfilial.

But in the eyes of the Qin Huai sisters, it was a great act of kindness.He can cover Li Xiangjun like this, he must be a kind person.However, he is still the richest man in Nanzhili. Who wouldn't want to go to a place invited by such a person?

It's a pity that when they arrived at the place, the girls in Meixianglou and Meilou were all as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

The dreamy good thing about drinking with Shen Daotai himself didn't happen, instead they were asked to accompany those rough warriors.

Among the girls, the one with the highest "Jiang Hu status" is naturally Liu Rushi.

Liu Rushi was supposed to be redeemed by Qian Qianyi at the end of last year, but now because of the butterfly effect, she hasn't established a relationship with Qian Qianyi for a long time——

Historically, Qian Qianyi had a relationship with Ruan Dacheng, and Ruan Dacheng tried to whitewash the people around him after Zhou Yanru took office, so Qian Qianyi should have whitewashed with Ma Shiying.

Now, Zhou Yanru's entry to Beijing has been delayed, and the benefits of Ma Shiying, Qian Qianyi and others have also been delayed.Qian Qianyi's own affairs hadn't been settled yet, and the offender's hat hadn't been taken off, so he didn't have the face to be too flamboyant, and he just hung Liu Rushi for a long time.

Anyway, redeeming himself or not, he wanted to see Liu Rushi anytime.He is a 60-year-old man, and he is not jealous of a 24-year-old woman who has been in the party for more than ten years.

Even if Liu Rushi will accompany other men in the past few months, he doesn't care, it's not short of time.

At this moment, after the girls came, they were distressed, and they wanted to follow Liu Rushi's lead, see what she said, if she could rely on a little friendship with Shen Daotai, and politely decline, don't let the sisters accompany those military officers.

However, among the Qinhuai women, Liu Rushi was more discerning and cared about current affairs, not too rigid about civil and military dignity.

She asked Shen Shuren in private, what kind of mission do these soldiers have.

It is impossible for Shen Shuren to reveal the military situation, so he just talked casually: "The East China Sea is not peaceful now, and the reform of grain grain to the sea has been tried for three years, and the surrounding sea forces are aware of it. The red barbarians and Japanese pirates have intensified their harassment last year, and they want to take advantage of the chaos. water transport.

So this year, we need to add more manpower to escort. These soldiers are all licking their blood with swords, and they want to fight to the death with Japanese pirates and red barbarians. Of course, I will reward them heavily.I, Shen, never send hungry soldiers. "

Shen Shuren downplayed the matter of guarding against the Tartars as red barbarians and Japanese pirates. After all, Liu Rushi had never traveled across the sea and did not understand the details of the market, so he believed it.

She just said suspiciously: "Mr. Shen is a benevolent, civil servant of the Ming Dynasty, who can be so sympathetic to the generals and soldiers. The little girl has not seen a second one in more than ten years. Since she is sincerely defending her family and defending the country, drinking and singing with her, It's nothing."

Liu Ru agreed, so she didn't become the first bird again.And after all, she is the best among these women, she has the qualifications to choose her own wine partner,

It seems that among all the civil and military expeditions, only Zheng Chenggong, the sixth rank, is a civil official, and he looks young and not very lustful. Liu Rushi sat down at Zheng Chenggong's table generously, helped pour the wine, and asked Zheng Chenggong what he wanted to hear with a pleasant face song.

The other female branches with lower status had to go to Zhang Mingzhen and others one by one. It would be nice to be able to accompany a lieutenant general, a general, or a guerrilla, at least a high official.

Seeing this scene, Shen Shuren felt quite emotional in his heart.In history, Zheng Chenggong should have just arrived in Nanjing this year, but now because of his own butterfly effect, it has been three years earlier.

The original Zheng Chenggong should have worshiped Qian Qianyi as his teacher. When he was studying as a teacher, Liu Rushi had just entered the door, and he was regarded as his little mistress.Now, it is very ironic to ask the teacher's wife from the previous life to drink with Wansheng and be taken advantage of by his siblings.

However, this is nothing to spray.

Shen Shuren is not a very possessive person, and he didn't say that Qinhuai Bayan wanted to fuck anyone he knew.

After all, Liu Rushi is old, three years older than Shen Shuren, he became the concubine of Zhou Daodeng at the age of 12, and was sold to Qinhuai at the age of 14, this is a veteran in Fengyuechang.

Shen Shuren had never thought of possessing her, nor could he be disgusted, but he just felt a little uncomfortable that a woman with a bit of backbone like Liu Rushi would end up in the hands of a soft-boned traitor like Qian Qianyi.

Therefore, as long as Qian Qianyi can be more green, associate more with anti-Qing righteous men, and avoid traitors, Shen Shuren can contribute to the flames.

Zheng Chenggong is still young, and he is not very lustful. He got married last year, and now he has no feelings for this kind of woman who is six or seven years older than him, just pure curiosity.

Shen Shuren looked around the audience, and he didn't force those who were unwilling, but just said a few words impassionedly to boost morale:
"I, Shen, will never look down on people who are in charge of various industries, but even a Qinhuai woman can choose what kind of person she will become. If she becomes Liang Hongyu, she will be famous in history.

In these difficult times, if the culture is respected and the military is still respected, it is inevitable that the business woman will not know the hatred of subjugation.Whether it's Meilou or Meixianglou, whoever doesn't give me face, our Shen family will never support me again. "

Zhang Mingzhen and other generals were quite moved when they heard this.This is the first time that a civil official has sincerely shown civil and military equality in this kind of matter. If the officials of the Ming Dynasty can do this, the morale of the army will not be so low.

The few days of rewards passed quickly, and on the fourth day of February, Shen Shuren went to Jurong Wharf in person to send Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen off with [-] soldiers and [-] sailors.

A considerable part of the fleet was stranded in Taicang, Suzhou, and not all of them came to Nanjing. There were only more than a hundred ships gathered in Nanjing, which was enough to transport all the people and weapons away.

For the smoothness of the trip, Shen Shuren even equipped Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen with a batch of bayonet Lumi guns, as well as a few newly forged Hongyi cannons from Daye County, Wuchang Prefecture, as naval guns on the main warships.

Shen Shuren personally rode a tall horse, with a sword and a fan, drank wine and faced the river, and repeatedly told the generals to go away.

(End of this chapter)