Chapter 076

If it is changed to another time, another governor of Denglai, such as Chen Yingyuan, who only took office in August of Chongzhen's fifth year, or Xie Lian, then Cheng Shijie may really make a mistake and directly pull the flag and rebel.

Cheng Shijie consulted the relevant information in later generations, when Kong Youde surrendered to Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji attached great importance to their surrender, personally led Zhubeile out of Shengjing ten miles to greet him, and used the most solemn "hug ceremony" of the Jurchens to treat each other, still regard him as the marshal of the capital, place Tokyo (Liaoyang), form an army of his own, called "Tianyou soldiers", and give special treatment.

Some people say that this is because Kong Youde brought a large number of soldiers and artillery, so that Huang Taiji has the ability to attack fortifications and make up for the last shortcoming of Jiannu. At first, Cheng Shijie also thought that this statement should be justified.

However, Cheng Shijie found a post on Zhihu where an author was sprayed with autism, and only then did he see the truth from the fog. Huang Taiji won the Battle of the Daling River, successfully subdued the Khalkha and Chahar Mongols, and drove Lin Dan Khan to Qinghai, so to speak, he achieved great military success.

However, the nomads did not produce and relied on the capture of the war, although the battle was won, there is no doubt about it, but the problem is that the capture is not enough to make up for the consumption of more than 50,000 men and horses in the siege of the Daling River for more than three months, and at that time, Huang Taiji was a sick tiger.

It looks strong, but it's actually very weak.

Until the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Huang Taiji soldiers were divided into four routes, with Datong and Xuanhua as the main direction of attack, and broke through the pass respectively, "not attacking the city, only plundering in the villages and forts". The strategic purpose of this battle was to make up for the losses, mainly to capture materials.

Therefore, the real reason why Huang Taiji is heavy and virtuous is not because of his artillery and craftsmen, these craftsmen and artillery, as early as the second year of Chongzhen, when Huang Taiji led Jiannu into the customs, he continuously burned and looted in more than a dozen cities in Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, and even the Tongzhou camp was broken, whether it was artillery, craftsmen, or talents, everything he wanted had been obtained.

In the battle of the Daling River in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji used artillery to break through the camp of Zhang Chun's department, but the people were not as good as the sky, Zhang Chun set fire, the wind was blazing, and killed the Jiannu army Zhuo Na, the commander of the military garrison Da Mubu, the second-class light car captain Zhu San, the leader Bai Sangwu, the cavalry captain Nima Chan, the military academy Aisai, the cloud cavalry captain Varka, etc.

In the defeat of Zhang Chun's 40,000 Ming army, Huang Taiji did not get the food, ordnance and various materials he wanted, they were burned, and more than 50,000 troops were waiting to be fed.

At this most critical moment, Kong Youde reversed, not only containing more than 200,000 Ming troops for more than a year, but also fighting Shandong, the rear forward base of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, thousands of miles away, and his bones were exposed.

Without Kong Youde's mutiny, Huang Taiji was afraid that the Ming army would take advantage of his illness and kill him, so he walked around the ghost gate, so he treated Kong Youde with great courtesy.

Cheng Shijie can't be opposed, at least not now, he wants to take advantage of Huang Taiji's weakness to seize southern Liaoning, which is a rich land and richer than Shandong.

The most important thing is that where is different from Shandong, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, even if you want to deal with Cheng Shijie, the sailor is in the hands of Cheng Shijie, how can you cross the sea without a boat?

With the financial resources of the Ming court, it is also powerless to build a naval division with more than 300 warships, as for the cavalry of Jiannu......

Let's wait for Huang Taiji to raise enough grain and grass first, and then talk about it, he can't even take care of Jinzhou City, which is within reach, and he can also take care of the four states in southern Liaoning.

As for the current Ning Navy, it has a larger number of Thunderbolts, and when the time comes, Cheng Shijie will see if it is powerful in science and technology or barbaric. Is it technology that triumphs over barbarism, or savagery triumphs over technology.

Saying anything is false, and you can only know the result if you have beaten it.

Sun Yuanhua could only smile bitterly at this time, he was now stabbed left and right by Cheng Shijie, and only an empty shelf was left, without Cheng Shijie quelling Kong Youde's rebellion, what else could he do?

"Does this constitution still have the right to refuse?"

"Lord Futai, you will definitely be glad for your choice in the future."

Cheng Shijie watched Sun Yuanhua pick up the pen and write down the order for Cheng Shijie to suppress Kong Youde's rebellion, and then used the seal.

After receiving this order, preparations for the relocation began.

In just four days, the treasury of the governor of Dengzhou City's yamen was empty, the grain depot was empty, the arsenal was empty, and the army was also empty.

Sun Yuanhua really didn't expect Cheng Shijie to have such ruthless methods, he knew that Cheng Shijie had no background, in his opinion, Cheng Shijie suddenly rose from a thousand households to the garrison of the Ning Navy did not have much time, and now he has the power of life and death of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dengzhou City and Penglai Water City, and it is inevitable that he will get carried away when he suddenly grasps the power.

Sun Yuanhua is actually most worried about this kind of thing, once it happens, it will also be the end of Sun Yuanhua's political career, and he needs to be buried with Cheng Shijie. Because the Ming court still has strength, there may be no way to deal with Cheng Shijie in a short time, but as long as the court reacts, it can still encircle and suppress Cheng Shijie.

Now Cheng Shijie did not do this now, but slowly handed over Sun Yuanhua's military and political power, at least now, Sun Yuanhua has mastered the governor's yamen, the soldiers of the Ning Navy in Dengzhou City are retreating, and the soldiers of Dengzhou Wei have also taken over the defense of the Ning Navy.

Sun Yuanhua has been in office for ten years, and he has seen all kinds of officials, some ruthless, vicious, cunning, and unscrupulous.

Sun Yuanhua also vaguely guessed Cheng Shijie's intentions, he wanted to abandon the foundation of Ninghai City and Ninghai Prefecture, go to southern Liaoning, and pull teeth from the tiger's mouth.

This also means that Cheng Shijie's withdrawal, even if Sun Yuanhua wants to take revenge on him, he has no chance.

Sun Yuanhua already knew that although Cheng Shijie did not burn and loot in Dengzhou City, he dug up Sun Yuanhua's roots, hundreds of various machines, more than 4,000 superior craftsmen, hundreds of top technicians, and Sun Yuanhua's proud gun factory.

Cheng Shijie did not move Dengzhou City on the surface, but dug up Sun Yuanhua's roots...... It's too ruthless.

Cheng Shijie asked for legalization of all his actions, it was legal to accept the Denglai New Army, it was legal to accept the Dengzhou Navy Division, it was legal to accept the gun factory, and it was legal to go to southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie had no interest in occupying the mountain as the king, but he wanted to be a feudal town within the governor of Denglai, a warlord on the warlord territory.

This person's mental tricks are terrible, and he does things without leakage.

After Cheng Shijie got the military order written by Sun Yuanhua to suppress the rebellion of Kong Youde, Cheng Shijie came directly to Penglai Water City, outside the city Ning Navy Camp.

"Meet the Commander!"

Since October 28, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie is no longer a general, but a handsome handsome.

As long as the imperial court approves it, Cheng Shijie will enjoy the Zuo Dudu, the chief military officer of the palm print of Zheng Erpin.

Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng Hu and said, "Is Mr. Song back?" ”

"Just came back!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Let all the officers above the hundred generals gather in the handsome tent!" ”

Cheng Shijie walked into the handsome tent, and Song Xiance hurriedly bowed down to Shi Limin: "Meet the lord at the door!" ”

"How's it going?"

"More than eighty percent of Ninghai households and artisan households, and more than seventy percent of Dengzhou artisan households are willing to follow the lord!"

Song Xiance pointed to the account book and said: "Those who are willing to follow the lord have already started to relocate, but they are just ......"

"What?"

"We can't move those iron mines and factories!"

"This is easy to do, you find that Gu Shizhang and tell him that Ben Shuai will sell him all the hot spring salt factory, iron factory, and those blast furnaces!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "As long as the price is right, Gu Shizhang should not refuse, but Ben Shuai doesn't want silver, he wants grain, the best rice in the south of the Yangtze River, 300,000 stones, Ben Shuai only needs 300,000 stones!" ”

In the middle of the year, 300,000 stone only needed 150,000 taels of silver, but with the cold weather and the interruption of transportation, the price of grain in Dengzhou City was close to eight taels of silver per stone, and these grains needed 240,000 taels of silver.

"Gu Shizhang's financial resources, he can't eat these industries!"

"He can't eat it, but Hui Shang can!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Hui Shang is the same as Jin Shang, there are countless small families under each of the five major families of Hui Shang, and the Gu family is one of them, and Hui Shang is happy to take over this business." Even if Gu Shizhang wanted to eat it, he wouldn't be able to keep these industries, but Hui merchants were different, they were very capable! ”

Once the money reaches a certain scale, then God will block and kill God, and Buddha will block and destroy Buddha.

"Tell my father, they've all arrived!"

"Mr. Song, let's go together!"

"Yes!"

Song Xiance followed behind Cheng Shijie.

"Meet the Commander!"

Cheng Shijie took a large stack of blank confessions, these confessions were all military attachés who were directly appointed by Sun Yuanhua with the power to directly appoint the fourth rank and below the fourth grade, Cheng Shijie took seven confessions of the fourth grade, as well as his twenty-five grades and five grades.

"Now, as everyone intended, I am starting to be promoted!"

Hearing Cheng Shijie's words, the officers were very excited.

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said: "Now, Ben Shuai asks you a question, you tell Ben Shuai, what is the military rank?" ”

"Report!"

"Shen Mingyu, come on!"

"The military rank is the rank, that is, the upper and lower, the military rank in the army is like the rank in the court, showing the size of the official position, the level of the rank, the order and the order of the official documents, the answer is finished!"

"Quite right!"

Cheng Shijie took a four-rank military attache and wrote down Shen Mingyu's name, and then said: "Shen Mingyu, confer the four-rank Guangwei general, and serve as the left commander of the Ning Navy!" ”

"Xie Dashuai!"

"Changyu!"

"Humble duty!"

"Conferring four products, General Guangwei, and the right commander of the Ning Navy."

"Xie Dashuai!"

"Li Zhixiang!"

"Humble duty!"

"Correct the four products, General Guangwei, the former commander of the Ning Navy Naval Division!"

"Xie Dashuai!"

"Liu Qingsong!"

"Humble duty!"

"Awarded the five-grade martial arts general, the real post Ning Navy right front thousand general!"

"Xie Dashuai!"

"Zhou Ning!"

"Humble duty!"

"Awarded the five-grade martial arts general, the real post Ning Navy left front Qianzong!"

……

When Cheng Shijie spent half an hour to complete the awarding of the title of 100 officers and above officers of the Ning Navy and promulgated the actual position, Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and said: "This time, what the big guy has done has been exhausted, and the commander doesn't want to be settled by others, can you understand?" ”

"Then kill the one surnamed Sun!"

"Kill, kill, kill, know kill!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Can killing people solve the problem? ”

"This ......"

"This Ning Haijun, we can't stay any longer, if we offend Lord Futai, who can sleep well?"

Cheng Shijie's words made everyone have to ponder their mistakes.

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie continued: "Our only way is to go hard, and now we need to survive in death!" ”

"Dare to ask the big handsome, how to survive in death?"

"Liaonan!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the map behind him and said: "The four states of southern Liaoning, now Jiannu can't afford to take care of it, it's a borderless land, let's go to southern Liaoning, the emperor of southern Liaoning is far away, even if Lord Futai wants to settle accounts after the autumn, then you have to have this ability!" ”

Shen Mingyu frowned and said, "But Liaonan is too close to Jiannu!" ”

"If anyone is afraid, they can choose not to go!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "If you settle accounts after the autumn in the future, then don't worry if Ben Shuai didn't remind you to wait!" ”

"But ......"

"Reluctant?"

"yes!"

Zhang Yu smiled bitterly: "We finally have a place to stay, but now we ......."

"If you don't be reckless, we can naturally survive in the Ning Navy, it's too late now!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the land of the four states in southern Liaoning on the map and said: "The four states in southern Liaoning can be reclaimed more than 15 million mu, all of which are anointed land, in fact, it is a blessing in misfortune now, the reclamation work of Ninghai City has not yet begun, what do you feel sorry for?" ”

"But the bitter cold ...... southern Liaoning"

"We don't have a choice!"

Cheng Shijie's words dispelled the last luck of all the officers, they occupied Dengzhou City, robbed the governor Sun Yuanhua's treasury, grain depot and factory, not to mention Sun Yuanhua, even if it was themselves, they would not generously say that they wanted to open the net.

"Except for the right front command, the other departments are immediately preparing for the migration!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The migration work needs the full cooperation of the sailors, we took a boat from Dengzhou, went straight to the Jinzhou Acropolis, occupied Jinzhou Wei first, and took Jinzhou Wei as the base, our first batch, Shen Mingyu!" ”

"Here!"

"Whether we can gain a foothold in Golden State in the future depends on you!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the map of Jinzhou Wei and said: "It has been more than three years since Jiannu gave up the four states of southern Liaoning, and now Lushun is in the hands of the Dongjiang Army, and there is no garrison of the Dongjiang Army in the Jinzhou Acropolis, this is just the situation in the governor's yamen, or accurate, or inaccurate, which requires you to send people to reconnoitre, obtain reliable information, and take Jinzhou Wei with confidence!" ”

"Yes!"

"Li Zhixiang!"

"Here!"

"If more than 6,700 officers and soldiers of the Zuodu Division of the Ruoning Navy cross the sea, can the sailor complete the one-time delivery!"

"Yes, I guarantee that the mission will be completed!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Mr. Song! ”

"The door is here!"

"You follow Shen Mingyu, the first batch to go to the Acropolis of Jinzhou, and you follow the army counselor for military affairs!"

"Commanded!"

"Louis!"

"In!"

Luis was a bearded man in his forties, who was a major in the Spanish Empire before retiring and the musket commander of the Juan Regiment of the Mexican Colonial Army.

"Your staff and army need you to do your duty, and the commander hopes that you can be worthy of the salary that the commander will pay you!"

Sun Yuanhua invested heavily in this mercenary army formed by 27 officers. They each received an average annual salary of eighty taels of silver, of course, this was only a junior officer at the rank of second lieutenant, and the highest was the commander of Gongsha.

Gongsha was a Portuguese, who led more than 140 mercenaries in the first year of Chongzhen, including six gunners, four firearms craftsmen, two interpreters, 25 officers, 23 assistants, and 10 artillery pieces to the capital. And in the second year of Chongzhen, he arrived in Zhuozhou, and opened fire on Jiannu according to Zhuozhou City.

At that time, Jiannu saw that Zhuozhou was defended by an army, so he immediately retreated to Gu'an, and slaughtered more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians in Gu'an and Liangxiang. Sun Yuanhua was able to become the governor of Denglai, which also meant that the Ming Dynasty carried out military reform.

Xu Guangqi wrote to Emperor Chongzhen, asking to "exhaust Western techniques". Xu Guangqi planned to train 15 Western-style battalions, each with 4,000 men, equipped with 16 cannons, 80 medium guns, 100 turtledove guns (longer and more powerful than the ordinary bird guns equipped by the Ming army, similar to today's anti-materiel sniper rifles), and 1,200 standard bird guns.

This matter was stopped due to the financial deficit of the Ming Dynasty, but the small-scale reform began in Dengzhou, which is now the Denglai New Army. At the time of Kong Youde's rebellion, this Western mercenary army participated in the battle of Dengzhou City, and twelve people, including Gongsha, were killed, and the rest were wounded.

It can be seen that this Western mercenary army still has some professional ethics.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Even if it was very important to cross the sea to attack Jinzhouwei, Cheng Shijie did not participate in their expedition to see them off, but directly led the old department of the Ning Navy, which is now the Right Capital Division.

Because Kong Youde's rebellion was too big, Kong Youde accepted Li Jiucheng's demagogy and launched the Zhaoyuan Rebellion, which did not exist in history.

In his first step, he first attacked the Zhaoyuan gold mine and rescued more than 2,000 absentees from the mine, and then used these local miners in Shandong to pretend to be ordinary people in the city and successfully infiltrated the county seat of Zhaoyuan.

When Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng led the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army to Zhaoyuan City, these miners immediately attacked, killed the soldiers defending the city, and successfully captured the county seat of Zhaoyuan.

After conquering the county seat of Zhaoyuan, Kong Youde's troops seized a large amount of grain, and these soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were fed for the first time since they defected to Sun Yuanhua.

The well-fed soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, their morale was high, and they began to attack the Deng family compound, the nearest gentry in Zhaoyuan County.

Shandong's folk customs are relatively tough. There is no way, there are too many displaced people from Henan, Dongjiang Town, and there are more bandits, in order to protect themselves, many landlords with financial resources have spent their money to build strong watchtowers and dock forts, buy a large number of bows and arrows, and even make earthen cannons.

Once a large group of bandits descended from the mountain, all the children of the relatives twisted into a rope to resist to the death, and these small landlords were often stronger than the officers and soldiers. Officers and soldiers can flee if they can't win, they have nowhere to escape, and if they can't win, their families will be ruined!

Therefore, whether it is a rogue or an officer and an officer who is more ruthless than a rogue is not very willing to gnaw on these strong dock forts, even if they extort some money and food, if they really have to fight with blood, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses.

However, these soldiers and miners of the Dongjiang Army were not afraid of death, wave after wave of charge, after a night and half a day of bloody battles, Kong Youde paid the price of more than 600 miner casualties, as well as more than 100 Dongjiang Army soldiers casualties, and won a crushing victory to defeat the Deng family compound.

Kong Youde's ministry seized far more grain than the county seat in the Deng family compound, and the county town totaled less than 3,000 stone of grain, because the autumn grain had been escorted into Beijing, and these more than 3,000 stone grain were the grain that the officials of Zhaoyuan County withheld from the mouths of the people.

However, in the compound of the Deng family, they seized more than 40,000 taels of silver, more than 1 million copper coins, more than 800 stones of rice, more than 5,000 stones of wheat, and more than 300 head of cattle such as cattle, mules, donkeys, and horses.

Kong Youde was killing cattle and donkeys, so that the soldiers of the whole army had a full meal, and Kong Youde was surprised to find that he could not carry all the captured materials.

In order to advance lightly, or to gain the advantage of cavalry speed, Kong Youde distributed the grain that could not be taken away to the people, and burned the Deng family's land deeds and IOUs.

This time, Kong Youde found the wealth code, although during the attack on the Deng family compound, Kong Youde killed more than 700 people, for a team of more than 3,000 people, this loss is quite heavy.

As a result, hundreds of people around scrambled to seek refuge with Kong Youde, and Kong Youde found that he seemed to be able to use Shandong people to fight Shandong people.

As a result, these Shandong locals who took refuge acted as the leading party, and they knew very well which big families had grain and which big families had money, and they picked fat sheep to start.

After conquering the Deng family's compound, nearly 2,000 people were added, Kong Youde's strength did not decrease but increased, he led his subordinates to attack frequently, and their group of rebels had high morale and were not afraid of death.

There was a dock fort with a large number of people with a high wall, and it repelled several attacks by Kong Youde's army, but Kong Youde asked people to bring a few cast iron cannons captured in the Deng family compound, and the cannons bombarded the enclosure, firing more than a dozen shells, and the earth enclosure was punched a gap, and before Kong Youde rushed to attack, the people inside were all urinated, and obediently opened the door and surrendered.

Kong Youde concocted the same method, distributed the seized grain that could not be taken away to the people, burned the landlord's land deeds and IOUs, and constantly had people who could not survive to join Kong Youde's rebels.

In just two days, Kong Youde's rebels captured more than a dozen dock forts in Zhaoyuan County, and he continued to distribute a large amount of money and food seized from the captured land to attract people to join the rebels.

In this way, more and more rebels joined Kong Youde's department, and in just three days, Kong Youde's department grew from more than 1,000 people to more than 14,000 people.

Kong Youde is getting stronger and stronger, and the soldiers and horses are fighting more and more, at this time, he is no longer satisfied with taking refuge in Cheng Shijie and acting as a soldier leader, he wants to establish himself as the king and be the boss himself.

It is true that no one wants to find a father for himself, so he is unwilling to be Cheng Shijie's son.

At the same time that Cheng Shijie handed over Dengzhou City to Sun Yuanhua, Kong Youde actually took an army of 15,000 people who came from all over the world, falsely claiming to be 50,000 horses, and attacked the capital city of Laizhou.

Cheng Shijie received this news, he couldn't wait any longer, and if he waited any longer, Kong Youdebu would be like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger. The Right Capital Division of the Ning Navy has removed the naval division units under its jurisdiction, removed more than 100 veterans who are responsible for serving as instructors in the Left Capital Division, and removed more than 1,000 former commanders of Chen Guodong, and now there are only more than 3,000 men left.

In this case, Cheng Shijie can only attack in advance, otherwise Kong Youde will become a refinement.

PS: Today's two updates, more than 13,000 words, Lao Cheng continues to write, the next chapter will come out as much as possible, it is estimated that it will be two or three points. Happy New Year to all!!

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