Chapter 050

Zhang Huairen's family background in Zhensanshan is very thick, and he actually has more than 150 sets of armor, more than 600 spears, spears, and horse lances, as well as more than 200 fine ash rods.

There are more than 400 long knives and short knives, more than 8,000 catties of pig iron, more than 300 sets of plows and carts for cultivated land, and there are not many firearms, only 21 guns.

The most shocking thing for Cheng Shijie was that at the gate of Zhangzhuang Village, there were actually four Thunderbolts.

Thunderbolt is the Ming Dynasty Wanli period of the weapon invention master, this is named Thunderbolt firecracker, in fact, is the original version of the machine gun, with eighteen guns, take the wheel type to fire, a load, can continuously fire eighteen five money lead, five money is 18.6 grams.

Although this kind of firearm is troublesome to load, and because the cost is too high, it is not easy to build, and there is no equipment for troops, but it has become an artifact for landlords and wealthy families to guard their homes.

If these bandits did not surrender at that time, but took advantage of the intensive attack of the Ning Navy to shoot, just these four eighteen-barreled Thunderbolts would have caused dozens of casualties to the Ning Navy.

This thing has a large caliber and a lot of charges, although the accuracy is not high, but it can ignore the defense of the armor, even if it is a Jiannu white armor soldier wearing three layers of armor, he can only kneel down and sing conquest when he encounters a thunderbolt.

"Good stuff!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Look everywhere, even if you scrape the ground, you have to find out all the thunderbolts." ”

"For these four bodies, it is said that one thunderbolt costs one hundred and eighty taels of silver."

"It's a pity, take it all back and study it slowly."

This time there were too many seizures, if it weren't for the more than 1,000 carts that Qin Wu had built at the beginning, it would have been really difficult to transport all the supplies.

Only more than 50,000 catties of cotton can be loaded with more than 100 carts, there is no way, although the cotton is not heavy, but the problem is that the number of carts can be loaded is limited. As for grain, cloth, gold and silver jewelry, and in Zhang Huairen's treasure house, he found a crystal carriage and a citrine fortune tree.

Faced with Zhang Huairen putting these two treasures in a box of gold leaves, Cheng Shijie didn't know what to say.

Zhang Huairen's gold is more than Qin Wu's, a total of three thousand taels, and fifty taels is taken as an ingot, even if it is fifty taels of gold, it is actually very small.

Cheng Shijie can't bring it back to the future at one time, but the most important thing is that there is too little silver.

"That's not right!"

Cheng Shijie frowned and said: "Qin Wu feeds more than 4,000 people, and there is an inventory of more than 50,000 taels of silver, although the number of people here in Zhensanshan is small, it can be entrenched for a longer time, and it should be more than this silver!" ”

On the way to pursue the three mountains of Zhensan, they also picked up more than 1,000 taels of silver, and on average, each bandit carried four or five taels of silver, but when they went to their hometown, they did not find the silver, which was obviously a problem.

Just when Cheng Shijie asked Ning Navy soldiers to search everywhere, a young girl who looked like a maid of about fifteen or sixteen years old stepped forward timidly and said, "Slave...... Slaves, know where their money is! ”

"Where?"

The maid pointed to a stone table in Zhang Huairen's courtyard and said, "This is it!" ”

"Below?"

"It's not!"

The girl thought for a while, picked up her copper hairpin, walked to the stone table in the gazebo, and gently scraped the paint of the stone table with the hairpin, revealing a silver light as the paint layer peeled off.

Cheng Shijie couldn't help but look in the direction of Zhang Huairen: "This Nima is really a talent!" ”

This stone table placed in the open air, and the stone table is not engraved with patterns, it seems to be shoddy, Cheng Shijie has passed here four or five times, and no abnormalities have been found.

This rough-shaped stone table weighs 16,700 pounds, and even the six stone benches around the stone table are actually cast in silver.

Zhang Huairen's silver here is more than 2,600 catties, a total of more than 41,600 taels, plus more than 7,000 taels of silver, less than 50,000 taels.

At the beginning, Zhang Huairen proposed to buy his life with 50,000 taels of silver, but he actually hollowed out his family's funds.

"General, what to do with these captives?"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Take it back first, interrogate them one by one, and cut down all those who have murder cases and flower cases in their hands, and there are no murder cases, just those who block the road to grab some money, and throw them to the mines and farms for them to reflect on for a few years!" By the way, if there is a murder case, it must also be clear, it is to rob the rich and help the poor to leave a way to live, let them go to the mine to work and reform for fifteen years, and don't be polite to those who slaughter the villagers! ”

Song Xiance was obviously relieved, Cheng Shijie's heart was soft, as the lord, kindness is the blessing of his subordinates. But the problem is that blindly indiscriminate with good people is not a good thing. Fortunately, Cheng Shijie is not a blind good person, he does not lack the ruthlessness and iron blood necessary for generals, but he is not cold enough and not iron enough.

"My lord."

Song Xiance looked at the surroundings and there was no one else, only Chen Guodong seemed to be a statue. He lowered his voice and said, "I don't know what to do with this Zhuangzi!" ”

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to give up this Zhuangzi.

However, Song Xiance had a different consideration. There is a world of difference between Linglong Mountain and Qinwu, Linglong Mountain is only a mountainous area, there is almost no applicable cultivated land, but here is a plain, only Zhangzhuang Village has developed more than 6,700 acres of land, because it is located in the Rushan River, irrigation is very convenient, these are rare good land.

Song Xiance said: "My lord, none of the land here appears in the official records!" ”

"Are you sure?"

Song Xiance said: "Ninghai Prefecture is eighty miles away from a county, but there is no record of Zhangzhuang Village!" ”

In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many landlords and powerful granges did not exist in the records of the government, not only the fields, but also the population. Just like the sixth year of Wanli, it lasted for three or four years, and finally cleared out 155 million mu of concealed cultivated land, and the national cultivated land area is 786 million mu. However, in the thirtieth year of Wanli, the cultivated land area reached the highest in the history of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1,162 million mu (Mingshenzong record), but in the Chongzhen Dynasty, only 784 million mu remained. (Register)

However, from the 30th year of Wanli to the 4th year of Chongzhen, there was actually only 30 years, and in just 30 years, 378 million mu of fields disappeared from the imperial court's household land book.

These fields were either abandoned by the peasants or concealed by the gentry and the powerful.

"The lord can set up a military camp here, move a hundred households from Ninghai City, and you can!"

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to demolish the houses in Zhangzhuang Village, these are all good bricks and tiles, if they are forcibly occupied, it is a good choice, first of all, this is very close to the Purple Mountain camp of the Ning Navy, only seventy-five miles, if there is an accident, the Ning Navy can arrive within a day.

"That's great!"

The plan has changed, but there are more things left, Cheng Shijie originally planned not to leave even a nail, but now not only need to leave some supplies, but also need to leave a certain amount of food.

Fortunately, the plan was changed, and when I came, the autumn grass withered and yellowed, and in just three days, when I went back, there was snow in the air, and overnight, the snow could be buried in the calves.

But the sky was still fluttering with snowflakes, the sun was not visible in the gloomy sky, nor could there be a tangible cloud, and the low-hanging sky was like an inverted cauldron, shrouded in a white expanse. The dense chill in the air makes everyone's blood unconsciously close to the freezing point of coagulation,

Despite the cold weather, the more than 2,500 officers and men of the Ning Navy were on fire in their hearts. Because of this easy battle, they captured a lot of supplies and money.

Cheng Shijie also asked Song Xiance to write a letter of victory and send it to Dengzhou City.

……

Dengzhou City, Denglai Governor Yamen.

"Lord Futai, it's time to eat!"

"I can't eat it!"

Sun Yuanhua received the information that he came to Jinzhou and was so angry that he dropped the inkstone that he had used for eleven years. Wu Xiang and Song Wei led 6,000 elite Guanning troops to support Daling River, and suddenly encountered Huang Taiji, who led 200 cavalry out to inspect.

Huang Taiji ordered his command to attack the Ning army, and the 6,000 elites of the Guan Ning army were actually killed by Huang Taiji's 200 personal soldiers, and failed to support the old lady Linghe three times in a row, Zu Dashou was already anxious, and he asked for help from Jinzhou and the capital one after another.

Where are the reinforcements in the capital now?

The only elite that can be mobilized is the Denglai New Army in Sun Yuanhua's hands, and he accepted Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Li Jiucheng's troops of the Dongjiang Army, totaling more than 3,000 people.

Coupled with the newly formed Ning Navy, Sun Yuanhua can mobilize more than 12,000 troops, but these elites can't move in Shandong, and once these troops are moved, God knows what will become.

He was really afraid that as soon as he walked on his front foot, he would be copied on his back foot. Pointing to Shandong Dusi and Shandong Beiwei Si leaning on, the sow can go up the tree.

"Stupid to death, let alone 14,000 elites, even if it is 14,000 pigs, Jiannu can't catch them in a month!"

In Sun Yuanhua's view, Liaoxi Jiangmen is simply a group of stupid pigs, knowing that Huang Taiji led the Jiannu and Mongol coalition armies to have more than 50,000 men, and such a huge force is not something that can be shaken by just 2,000 or 6,000 people.

However, the Guanning army sent thousands of troops one at a time.

Sun Yuanhua thought of the word "send", and almost didn't mention it in one breath.

He now finally understands why those people sent the soldiers of the Guan Ning Army to die again and again, this is fucking politics again, fighting for the sake of struggle.

This is really the darkest, the dirtiest, the meanest. The most shameless and indecent means.

Because it was Sun Chengzong who sat in Liaodong, in order to pull Sun Chengzong down, they did everything they could.

More than 14,000 well-equipped officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army were abandoned as pawns.

"Shaft, shaft...... His mother's. ”

Sun Yuanhua was so angry that he couldn't stop scolding.

Xu Dacheng didn't know who Sun Yuanhua was scolding, he only knew that Sun Yuanhua was in a very bad mood now. But at present, this official document may make Sun Yuanhua feel better.

"Lord Futai, good news!"