Waking up early in the morning by Wen Qing, under the escort of the bodyguards, Shen Jia was in a daze and killed to the south of the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the south of the city, there was a large place for people to trade, and slaves from Mongolia, Korea, and Manchuria were mixed with those from the Han land, and they were sold like cattle to various places here, as far as the capital. A maid is about five taels of silver, taking the story of "The Legend of Marriage in the Awakening World" at the end of the Ming Dynasty as an example, a tailor named Shen Shanle made clothes for others and made them bad, in order to repay the money, he had no choice but to sell his eleven-year-old daughter Sister Xi to others to repay the silver. Later, Sister Xi was favored by the good woman Mrs. Chao, so she first sold four taels, and then added five taels, but it was already a good price.

Shen Jia roughly estimated in his heart that it would be at most seven or eight taels of silver, but when he got to Renzizi, he found that it was completely different from what he imagined.

He was in his early thirties, wearing a tattered cowhide felt hat and a sheepskin gown, and his face was greasy. If you don't listen to him, you must think that he is a Mongol. The man opened his mouth and asked him what kind of background he wanted, and at the same time, a bad breath sprayed in his face, which made Shen Jiazhi shake his head. The man looked at him like a fool, and slowly explained: "Like the official eunuch's family declined halfway, or was distributed, and sold into slavery, this kind of woman knows a little bit about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, it is very expensive, and it is also a hot commodity outside the customs." In addition, they are tenants who have fled the famine, or hungry people, the price is moderate, and they are good at coolies, needlework, pulp washing and sewing, roughly about four taels of silver, depending on their appearance and figure. In addition, Mongolia came to escape the famine, which is the cheapest, on the one hand, because of the language barrier, on the other hand, they have a smell of sheep, put it in the bed to warm the bed, and the big families can't stand it. ”

As soon as Shen Jia heard that there were so many ways to buy a maid, he thought about it in his heart. I don't have much money in my hand, I have to deal with daily life, and I am not a savior, so I can solve the situation of so many slaves. In this case, we can only do things according to the moral standards of Ming Dynasty society. Besides, there are two bodyguards behind him, God knows how their report to their boss describes themselves, if they are too outstanding, maybe they will be arrested immediately and taken to Jinyiwei Zhenfusi Prison, and I really don't know what will happen when I go in.

Thinking of this, Shen Jia said to the people: "I want two grooms, four maids who sew and wash the pulp, and find orphans to pick first." "In his previous life, Shen Jia was raised in an orphanage, if he hadn't met Teacher Zhou, I'm afraid he would have been lost with the general trend. Therefore, he has a deep understanding of the situation of orphans who have lost their parents.

When Shen Jia was still pondering, Wen Qing beside her spoke, and she said loudly: "You must choose the one who is beautiful, has a good figure, and can read and write, and I will pay five taels of silver." ”

Shen Jia and Wen Qing didn't expect that the price of the maid at this time was no longer five taels. Most of the population is half-sold and half-give. This is the time of the year, the surplus food in the hands is not much, and many people have been robbed by Houjin, it is the house leak that happened to rain overnight, and it was unspeakably miserable. In some families, as long as they can get a bite to eat and drink, they will even give away their children. For Shen Jia and Wen Qing, they can't understand this kind of thing, but for people who are on the verge of despair, at least their children can live because of this, even if they live a humble life.

Shen Jia and Wen Qing didn't realize the embarrassment of the bottom society, and the two even looked at those parents who sold their children with a trace of contempt, especially Shen Jia.

Beware of Wen Qing, who was outspoken and fast-talking, when she reported five taels of silver to someone, a group of hungry people surrounded him, and his eyes emitted a faint green light, as if he wanted to eat people. Wen Qing had never seen such a scene, and was immediately startled, and hurriedly hid beside Shen Jia.

Shen Jia coughed falsely, and let people hurry up to calm everyone's emotions.

"What are you doing, looking for death? If you offend the nobles, believe it or not, I will immediately drive you out of Shenyang City and get out of the way. ”

The people hold the vouchers of the government's population in their hands, not the kind of practice on the street, where there is no guarantee for planting grass mustard. When the hungry people heard what the man said, they squatted on the ground again with dull eyes, and the noise gradually calmed down.

Only then did Shen Jia learn that last winter's disaster in Mongolia, nearby Mongolian victims fled to Liaodong, and human trafficking occurred from time to time, causing prices to fall all the way. At the same time, relying on Fushun, the Houjin continued to plunder the means of production and grain around Shenyang, causing a large number of peasants to go bankrupt and flock to Shenyang City. The man-made disasters of the Han people outside the Guanxi and the natural disasters of the Mongols were mixed, and the number of people trafficked was rising. At the same time, some large households outside the border have begun to move inward, affected by the war, business began to shrink, shops began to go bankrupt, and the demand for maids did not rise but declined.

Ren Yanzi first took Shen Jia to see some orphans, most of them were nine to twelve years old, there were more women than men, because of long-term nutritional deficiencies, many of them looked skinny. The man told Shen Jia that if the grade was too young, he would not be able to work, and he could only eat the food of the master's family; Too old, more than fifteen years old, although experienced in doing things, but the price is high, in addition...

The man stopped talking, and seeing that Shen Jia had some questions, he hurriedly said with a sneer: "The maid who is too old, when she comes out of the master's house, her body is not very innocent, and the big families generally don't buy it again." ”

Shen Jia wants to really do a line of love and love, this person is a professional here.

After being busy for a while, Wen Qing picked four maids, and she picked two slightly taller boys, one to be a groom, and the other to be a caretaker when he grew up.

Waiting for others to do a good job of government certificates and deeds of sale has been in the middle of the day. Shen Jia led a group of maids and horse boys home, gave them some rice and military biscuits, and asked He Shixian's personal soldiers to familiarize them with the yard. Wen Qing's vision is good, and the four orphans she picked are all very handsome. The people were worried that they wouldn't be able to sell it at a good price, so they cleaned up the maid's body.

Shen Jia secretly asked Wen Qing, you picked so many beauties, and when they grow up in the future, do you plan to be green leaves. Wen Qing glanced at him and said, "I plan to set up a jade girl sect and appoint myself as the head." ”

After speaking, he renamed the four maids, named Mandarin Duck, Zijuan, Ping'er, and Qingwen. Hearing the names of the four maids, Shen Jia's eyes almost protruded.

"You're planning to be Baoyu."

"I don't want to be that big-faced person, I want to be the queen."

I'll take it, Shen Jia has a heart that wants to die, she wants to be a queen, and it is estimated that she will have to serve her as a eunuch nine times out of ten.

When Shen Jia and Wen Qing were arguing at home, someone came to report that it turned out to be Zou Tai, the eunuch of Shenyang Mansion, who had come back and wanted to see him by name.

When Shen Jia heard that it was a eunuch, he immediately packed up and prepared to go out. At this time, anyone can be offended, but they can't offend eunuchs.

If I remember correctly, Wang An, the eunuch who contributed the most in the palace transfer case, had already lost his position and was killed, followed by Wei Zhongxian, a fighter in the eunuch world. Gonggong Wei used the means of cracking down on dissidents to the point of reaching the pinnacle, and his reputation was simply stinky, so that as long as he had studied a little and knew a little bit about history, there was no one who didn't know Gonggong Wei.

Shen Jia followed the messenger all the way to the prefect's yamen, but saw that everyone was chatting in the middle hall. In addition to the prefect Chen Fuke, the chief soldier Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua, as well as He Shixian and You Shigong, there was also a young man with a medium stature and a fair face beside him. Seeing Shen Jia come in, the young man immediately got up, pulled the male duck's throat and said, "Could it be that this is an overseas master, why don't you come to our house, I'll take a closer look." ”

These words were full of ambiguity, which made Shen Jia's whole body uncomfortable, and Shen Jia had no choice but to glance at Chen Fuke. Chen Fuke understood and said loudly: "In the battle of Shenyang, Brother Shen deserves the first credit, and today's proposal to recover Fushun is also proposed by Brother Shen." ”

"Oh, I didn't expect that Brother Shen turned out to be a talent, our family is blind."

So everyone greeted each other again and made their own introductions.

It turned out that this eunuch Zou personally went to Liaoyang to ask for help a few days ago, but did not return. I heard a big victory last night, so I rushed over from Liaoyang early in the morning, on the one hand, I wanted to meet the legendary flying chicken, and on the other hand, I wanted to see overseas masters. Unexpectedly, after arriving in Shenyang City, several general soldiers were arguing over whether to attack Fushun.

The main battle faction led by Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua, He Shixian, and You Shigong agreed to send troops to Fushun as soon as possible, but yesterday afternoon, Zhu Wanliang, another group of deputy generals of the Ming army, who had arrived belatedly, was resolutely opposed. On the one hand, it is because in the previous battle, Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua, He Shixian, and You Shigong's armies were damaged to varying degrees, while Zhu Wanliang was to preserve his strength, and if he sent troops to Fushun, Zhu Wanliang would inevitably bear the brunt.

On the other hand, after Zhu Wanliang fled without a fight from Jifengbao, he worshiped under Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong Economic Strategy. At this time, Yuan Yingtai was far away in Liaoyang and did not express his position, so Zhu Wanliang resolutely disagreed.

Zhu Wanliang's mentality is that as long as he is safe and sound, whether he can take it or not is secondary. If he fails, he will be reprimanded at most, but if it falls on Yuan Jingluo's head, I'm afraid it won't be so simple, at that time, not to mention him Zhu Wanliang, even Chen Ce's old qualifications are not enough to kill his head.

And the prefect Chen Fuke was originally going to be transferred to another place, so it was inconvenient to express his position on this matter.

As a result, the originally very feasible plan to attack Fushun gradually became more and more impossible. And the return of Zou Tai, the eunuch of Shenyang, gave the main battle faction a glimmer of hope. Although he had a bad reputation for dealing with eunuchs, he was in a hurry, and everyone couldn't take care of it too much, so he pulled Shen Jia over to explain the details of the battle.

However, the next scene made the main battle faction even more depressed, and I saw the eunuch holding a teacup and saying unhurriedly: "Our family is friendly with Yuan Jingluo, and Yuan Jingluo's opinion is our family's opinion, and Yuan Jingluo does not agree to rashly raise troops." ”

Shen Jia couldn't help but be confused in his heart, he remembered that it seemed that the Donglin Party and the eunuchs were natural mortal enemies, there was no reason to cooperate so closely, could he not remember wrongly.

Shen Jia didn't know that Wei Zhongxian's earliest strategy was to take the initiative to throw an olive branch to the Donglin Party, but the leaders of the Donglin Party didn't buy it, and reminded the eunuchs not to disturb the government, but Wei Gonggong had to stand on his own and fight-for-tat. The Donglin Party regards itself as high, and even the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, and the Qi Party composed of scholars are not eye-catching, not to mention the eunuch group.

"Father-in-law Zou, the battle situation in Shenyang cannot be generalized, presumably Yuan Jingluo is only a rough one-two knowledge, father-in-law's eyes are like torches, today Brother Shen is also here, if you cooperate with Brother Shen's siege weapon, it is not impossible to take Fushun. At that time, my father-in-law will be the first person to recover the land since the Battle of Salhu. ”

Jiang is really old and spicy, this sycophant, Shen Jia secretly said that he was ashamed, and several general soldiers next to him also bowed to Chen Ce.

Zou Tai listened to Chen Ce's words, his stiff face suddenly smiled, and said: "Our family is not an unreasonable person, Yuan Jingluo also told me that the camera moved, since Lord Chen said so, several general soldiers also supported it, then please ask Governor Chen to decide." ”

Chen Fuke secretly cursed in his heart, this is really a typical master who wants to take advantage and not suffer a loss, and he took himself out so quickly.

Chen Fuke knew his military level, since the four commanders said that it would be okay, then the feasibility must be very high, anyway, he was going to go to work, and he didn't care about carrying such a black pot again.

Thinking of this, Chen Fuke said: "I believe that the four general soldiers, since they want to do it, please discuss a plan as soon as possible and implement it as soon as possible." ”

The people of the main battle faction breathed a long sigh of relief. Chen Ce, Tong Zhonghua, as well as He Shixian, You Shigong and others are not afraid of responsibility, fighting is their business, but the constraints of civil officials and eunuchs are what they are most worried about. Now that the eunuch and the prefect have agreed, everyone is happy in their hearts.

Chen Ce glanced at Zhu Wanliang and said lightly: "Vice General Zhu, yesterday your army also had a small gain in Baitapu, and the boat master was tired, so he must need to rest for a while, so it is better for you to sit in Shenyang this time, and I will do the Fushun matter." ”

Shen Jia secretly said that Chen Ce really said it well, this Zhu Wanliang is greedy for life and afraid of death, whoever dares to be with him on the battlefield may be secretly sold by him. Shen Jia was thinking about how to get rid of this pig teammate, but he didn't expect Chen Ce to have already calculated it, and he was really a master of it. Shen Jia secretly glanced at Chen Ce, admiring himself in his heart. It seems that this old martial arts is also very slippery in politics, and he really doesn't dare to underestimate it.

"What Mr. Chen said is that our people are tired and tired, so I am afraid of dragging down Mr. Chen, since the boss said so, the villain is disrespectful." Zhu Wanliang looked down at Chen Ce with a smile, and then left with a biased general.

At this time, only the main battle faction and the Chen prefect were left in the house, as well as the eunuchs guarding the town. Chen Ce first asked Shen Jia to explain the reason for attacking Fushun.

Shen Jia repeated yesterday's words as they were, and from the perspective of modern military strategy, he added: "To the east of Fushun is the Hunhe River valley, with lofty mountains on both sides, which is not suitable for large-scale military use. Therefore, the only strategic access to Hetuara is along the valley of the Hun. Fushun is a strategic place at the confluence of mountains and plains, as well as on the valley of the Hunhe River. As long as Fushun is in the hands of Jiannu, they can peek westward into Liaodong and connect with the Tieling Kaiyuan and the Horqin Mongol tribe, forming an arc-shaped encirclement and strategic pressure on Liaodong, making it difficult for the Ming Dynasty to judge the direction of Jiannu's troops. In the same way, if the Ming Dynasty takes Fushun as soon as possible, it can cut off the strategic support of Jiannu and Kaiyuan Tieling, and second, it can attack its connection with Mongolia and trap Jiannu in the mountains. “

Shen Jia did not say that Shanxi merchants used this channel to carry out commercial activities with Jiannu through Mongolia, at this time, more than one thing is better than one less.

Everyone listened to Shen Jia's analysis from the perspective of terrain strategy and was quite shocked. It's not that the military level of the Ming military attaché is too poor, but they saw a fifteen-year-old boy talking eloquently, although mixed with some incomprehensible terms, but in terms of strategic cognition, it is indeed quite thorough. For a while, everyone was silent.

With a snap, just when Shen Jia was secretly complacent, He Shixian slapped the back of his head.

"You stinky boy, you are not afraid to flash your tongue, and you will go cool and cool."

"Mr. He, what Brother Shen said is good, very insightful, if you don't like it, you can put him here with me." Chen Ce stroked his beard and laughed.

"Master Chen, don't cheat me, my army staff officer is left for Brother Shen." He Shixian's bitter face caused everyone to laugh, but only Zou Tai, the eunuch guarding the town, glanced at Shen Jia thoughtfully.

At this time, Shen Jia's heart suddenly shocked, after all, he was an outsider, and there were not a few people who observed him, and he was careless just now. As the saying goes, if the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, not to mention that his indescribable life experience is a natural handle.

Next, everyone chatted for a while about the marching strategy and preparations, and Shen Jia left ahead of time under the pretext that there was something.