Chapter 087

After the holy decree was recited for a long time, Cheng Shijie didn't react.

As a middle-level cadre, he naturally understands how difficult it is to be promoted within the system. However, the problem is that after he came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he found that the officialdom system of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be child's play.

For a few dozen taels of silver, you can buy an honorary title outside the staff. For spending 8,000 taels of silver, he was able to Dengzhou Wei Zuo Qianhu Zheng Wupin Qianhu Official, and with the officers and soldiers of Zuo Qianhuwei, he defeated a group of bandits in his Qianhu Station, and actually rose directly to the garrison of the Zhengsi Pinning Navy.

During the period of serving as a garrison, without his knowledge, the Ning Navy launched a magical mutiny, and he actually jumped to the rank of general of the conquest, the governor of Zuodu, and the chief officer of the Ning Navy, controlling the Dongjiang army.

In just over four months, is there such a magical thing?

Sun Yuanhua looked at Cheng Shijie's fugue outside the body, he had actually seen too many such things, so he had to step forward and remind Cheng Shijie: "Master Cheng, you should be grateful!" ”

"Minister, Cheng Shijie, thank you, Lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!!"

Cheng Shijie has traveled through the Ming Dynasty and later generations many times, his tear ducts are too developed, and as his mind moves, tears fall down.

When Sun Yuanhua saw this scene, he was even more impressed by Cheng Shijie. When he knew that Cheng Shijie was not really moved, Cheng Shijie was a decisive person, but also a ruthless person, for the sake of military merits, he also wantonly killed the rebel soldiers under Kong Youde's command, and killed people to the brim.

It is not an exaggeration to call such a person iron-hearted, and he will definitely not cry with tears because Emperor Chongzhen promoted him.

Not only Sun Yuanhua thinks that Cheng Shijie is too suitable for mixing officialdom, but even Gao Qiqian is the same. This time, Gao Qi sneaked to deliver the decree, which was just one of the handy jobs, and the most important thing was that he took the order of Emperor Chongzhen to come and see Cheng Shijie.

As a person who can mix with the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch and the commander of the warrior battalion from the palace, Gao Qiqian is also good at flattery, and he is even better at observing words and feelings, he judged from the clarity in Cheng Shijie's eyes that Cheng Shijie's crying was faked.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie pretended to be clever, and he couldn't see the traces of the performance at all, let alone the contrived ingredients, if it wasn't for Gao Qiqian's ability to perceive people's hearts, he might have been deceived by Cheng Shijie.

He saw that it was actually useless, almost everyone present thought that Cheng Shijie had a pure heart, and after receiving this canonization decree, tears rained down, and tears flowed more than four or two.

If Cheng Shijie is missing a few taels of meat, if he enters the palace, I am afraid he will become Wei Zhongxian's second.

Talent, Gao Qiqian secretly made a judgment in his heart.

Cheng Shijie actually didn't care about other people's opinions, he took the holy decree to consider one thing, whether to bring this holy decree that did not exist in history back to future generations, maybe it will become a huge discovery in the archaeological community and history.

The Holy Decree is quite collectible, put it in the 21st century, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth even the city, get it as a family heirloom, after a hundred and eighty years, the descendants will have a tight hand to take it out and sell it, and it will not be a problem to exchange it for tens of millions, right?

However, Cheng Shijie also has an opinion on Emperor Chongzhen, he has only achieved insignificant achievements, so he gives such a heavy reward, if he occupies southern Liaoning in the future, how should he be rewarded?

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie slowly understood, Emperor Chongzhen thought that Cheng Shijie could not succeed, and the ministers of civil and military affairs of the entire court also thought that he could not succeed, so this one-time reward was at the top, the Zuo Governor of the Five Armies, which was second only to the Zuo Governor of the Five Armies.

It was an impossible task, and it was given an exceptional favor......

Then, Gao Qiqian gave Sun Yuanhua another holy decree.

Sun Yuanhua was actually promoted, he, the governor of Denglai, was a counselor in military affairs, and two words were changed, and in order to supervise military affairs, although the scope of real power was not expanded, his rank was promoted. This is like the major general of later generations, who was promoted to lieutenant general.

The armies are still those armies, and the defense zone is still the same defense zone, but the rank has increased.

Sun Yuanhua looked at Cheng Shijie when he received the holy decree, and burst into tears, but his tear ducts were too developed, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't cry, but the problem was that Cheng Shijie cried, and he, the governor, didn't cry anymore, could it be that he was too young to be promoted?

This is in front of hundreds of brocade guards and dozens of chamberlains, these people will transmit his every move to the ears of Emperor Chongzhen, in desperation, Sun Yuanhua reached out and touched the soft meat on his waist, pinched a trace of soft meat, and twisted it hard.

"Hiss......"

Sun Yuanhua was so painful that he burst into tears, his tear ducts were stimulated, and he could finally cry out, he bowed deeply, burst into tears, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Minister, Sun Yuanhua received the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Cheng Shijie watched Sun Yuanhua burst into tears, and it was a little strange.

At this time, Sun Yuanhua wiped his hands vigorously, he was quite ruthless to himself, and the soft flesh on his back waist was wrung blood.

After the holy decree was read, Gao Qiqian followed Sun Yuanhua into the city, and Cheng Shijie also followed.

Originally, Gao Qi walked in front of him, Sun Yuanhua and his shoulders were half a shoulder apart, and Cheng Shijie was even further back.

Gao Qiqian took the initiative to stop a few steps and said to Cheng Shijie: "General Cheng, you have made a great contribution this time!" This great achievement has reached the heavens, Jane is in the emperor's heart, and it is impossible for adults to make peace and progress! ”

"The lower officials are just the rulers, and they are just worried about the king, and they don't dare to take credit."

Cheng Shijie bowed down, used the blocking of his body, and threw his sleeves.

Gao Qian's eyes are fast, and a golden thing is copied by him in his sleeve, looking at the proficiency of his movements, he can be regarded as familiar with the road.

Don't get me wrong, it's not gold.

Cheng Shijie will not give away the gold easily, he must keep it for himself. The thing given to Gao Qiqian was nothing more than a yellow crystal Maitreya Buddha.

Because the block is big enough, it can be sold for more than 400 in the jewelry store of later generations, which is a car ornament, but in Cheng Shijie's scrap collection station, this thing is the price of waste glass.

Gao Qiqian's wrist flipped and glanced at it quietly, his eyes were very vicious, and he could see at a glance that this was definitely not ordinary.

"Go on the road!"

It's worth a lot more than giving silver, or gold. Even if there is such a large piece of gold, how much can there be, fifty taels of gold, fifty taels of gold, now the price of silver is lower, originally one tael of gold can be exchanged for eight taels of silver, now one tael of gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver. Fifty taels of gold is equal to five hundred taels of silver.

Five hundred taels of silver is just a sprinkling of water for the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor and the commander of the warrior battalion, Gao Qiqian.

Entering the Yamen of the Governor of Denglai, he raised his hand and waved his hand: "Come on, bring over what Your Majesty gave to General Cheng!" ”

Several horsemen responded in unison, turned and walked out. After a while, they were seen walking in in a line with a few little eunuchs, and the eunuchs held a silver plate high in their hands, and a purple brocade robe made of silk was placed in it.

Purple is also the purple of the idiom, there is no first-grade and second-grade official rank, it is taboo to wear a purple brocade robe, who made Cheng Shijie have the title of Zuo Dudu now?

He's a military attaché from a first-class class.

Then there was a silver shining armor, this was Ming-style Mingguang armor, pure silver armor with no variegation.

"General Cheng, please change your armor!"

Cheng Shijie stepped forward and stretched out his hands. The four horsemen hurriedly stepped up to remove the armor for Cheng Shijie, and when Cheng Shijie's armor was removed, this piece of silver armor was draped on his body.

According to the records, this Mingguang armor requires 41 workers, and it takes more than 200 working days to complete one piece after dozens of processes such as punching, coarse grinding, perforation, wrong acupoints, and cutting, wrong graining, and fine grinding.

In fact, this kind of flashy armor, put on the battlefield, is the best target, Cheng Shijie would never dare to wear it, and this kind of armor has gorgeous patterns on it, shoulder pads and shawls have patterns, and it is actually still engraved, which is how afraid of strong nail blades.

At this moment, Cheng Shijie found that several eunuchs around him were painting with brushes and drawing boards.

A spear that was also painted silver, the spear was more than four meters long, and was handed to Cheng Shijie, and after Cheng Shijie took it, he found that this was simply a martial arts prop in later generations, and it was light and almost weightless.

Gao Qiqian pointed to a lacquered carved bow and said: "General Cheng, this is a three-stone strong bow, please try it General Cheng, is the strength suitable?" ”

Cheng Shijie was slightly stunned.

"Are you kidding me?"

One stone in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to about 150 catties in later generations, and three stones are 450 catties. Cheng Shijie didn't have this ability, however, Gao Qiqian kept giving him a look, so he took it over.

Cheng Shijie pulled it gently, and the bow opened in response to the sound, and it was almost full moon.

"Smack......

The ornate lacquer-carved bow broke in response, and a severed bow struck a eunuch, who clasped his arm and shouted, "My arm is broken...... General Cheng is so powerful, the three-stone strong bow was broken in one stroke! ”

The eunuch who paints is drawing quickly, and the record is a quick record.

Cheng Shijie understood that this was this group of eggless eunuchs, teaming up with him to play for Emperor Chongzhen.

In fact, as Cheng Shijie guessed.

Cheng Shijie is now Changshan Zhao Zilong in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, although this Zhao Zilong is a little older, when he really saw Cheng Shijie, Gao Qiqian found that Cheng Shijie was extremely well maintained, and his skin was even a few points better than the nobles in the palace.

It doesn't look like a thirty-five-year-old at all, in fact, the aesthetic point of view of later generations doesn't like fat people, but fat people have an advantage, that is, there is more collagen, anti-aging.

When a fat person is in his twenties, he looks like he is in his thirties, but when he is actually in his thirties, he will look younger.

Cheng Shijie is different from the people of the Ming Dynasty, at least he is well nourished, even if he is a young general in his twenties, he seems older than Cheng Shijie.

It's just that Gao Qiqian watched Cheng Shijie's movements of turning over and dismounting, and judged that Cheng Shijie had no kung fu on him, so he made two preparations in advance.

In this way, a group of people painted the portrait of Cheng Shijie in person, including the picture of him dancing the spear and pulling the three-stone strong bow.

A group of eunuchs who acted as ears and eyes completed the task, did not stop, and began to set off immediately, reporting to Emperor Chongzhen the process and results of this meeting with Cheng Shijie.

Gao Qiqian participated in the banquet held by Sun Yuanhua.

The banquet was very lively and very sumptuous.

Sun Yuanhua looked at Cheng Shijie and said a little sourly: "Master Cheng, I'm afraid it won't be long before this constitution should salute you!" ”

"Really?"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Then it's like now you don't have to salute this official!" ”

Sun Yuanhua was speechless for a while.

That's true, Cheng Shijie is already the governor of Zuodu, so he should salute the officials, but the question is, is the commander of the Dengzhou Guard or the third-rank military position, he asked the prefect of Dengzhou Mansion to salute the fourth-rank civil official?

First ask Jin Yousheng if he dares to accept this gift.

However, Cheng Shijie is different, he really dares to take it.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was submersible to Gao Qiqian to drink, Cheng Shijie lowered his voice and said: "Lord Futai, let's talk!" ”

"Good!"

The status of the two is now the highest, so they have to say hello to Gao Qiqian.

Gao Qiqian took the opportunity to end the banquet.

Then the banquet dispersed, and the three of them came to Sun Yuanhua's study.

There is actually a huge map in the study, on which dozens of city patterns are roughly drawn, marked with Jinzhou Wei, Haizhou Wei, Gaizhou Wei, Shenyang Wei, etc., Cheng Shijie looked at it, the general direction of the location is good, but it seems very vague.

If you fight on a map like this, you will hardly have to fight. Soldiers will die of exhaustion, because many rivers and mountains are not visible.

Gao Qiqian sat on the main seat, looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "General Cheng, our family asks you a few questions, please answer them truthfully!" ”

"Father-in-law, please speak!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Gao Qiqian's posture, he came with Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree and oracle.

"What is the combat effectiveness of the Ning Navy now? If you meet Jiannu in the wild, will you be able to beat them? ”

This is a somewhat layman's question.

Cheng Shijie didn't care about these side matters, bowed down and said: "The Ning Navy has been in army for a short time, and when it comes to Jiannu, if the number is the same, it can barely remain undefeated." It's just that the Ning Navy lacks horses and cavalry, so if you win, it will be a small victory, Jiannu wants to run, the Ning Navy can't catch up, if you lose, you must be defeated, and the Ning Navy can't escape! If it is in the field, the whole army of the Ning Navy meets the strength of Jiannu One Banner, and it can remain undefeated, no matter how much, the minister cannot guarantee it! ”

Of course, there is also an element of braggaking in Cheng Shijie's words, the Ning Navy is stronger than the bandits, and it is also stronger than Kong Youde's rebels, but the problem is that Jiannu's combat effectiveness is still a real small power in Northeast Asia. Not to mention anything else, in terms of their ability to bear casualties, they are absolutely the best in the world.

Gao Qiqian was slightly disappointed, and then he asked: "If Kuang recovers southern Liaonan, you can be sure!" ”

This problem is even more brain-dead, even if it is with the superior equipment of the beautiful national army, against Kadazuo, it is not guaranteed to win, and any accident is possible. Of course, the probability of this accident is very low and almost negligible.

"The minister can only guarantee that from the minister down, the generals of the Ning Navy will go forward and succeed, and they will die!"

At this time, Gao Qiqian no longer asked Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie's attitude was similar to Emperor Chongzhen's guess, he turned to look at Sun Yuanhua and said: "If the Ning Navy crosses the sea to fight, how much military ration can Denglai provide for the Ning Navy?" ”

This question has finally touched on the sidelines.

Sun Yuanhua's face was full of bitterness, originally Dengzhou had prepared 200,000 stone grain and grass, but the problem was that these grain and grass had been pulled away by Cheng Shijie, and his Dengzhou warehouse was empty enough to run mice, if it weren't for the gentry of Dengzhou City who supported Sun Yuanhua's 3,000 stone grain, the governor's yamen would have run out of grain.

Sun Yuanhua didn't dare to tell the truth, he said that he was revealing his shortcomings, he thought for a while and said: "Dengzhou can provide 15,000 troops with military rations for a month!" ”

"It's a little little!"

"However, if a month later, the minister transfers grain from Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion, it will be enough to ensure that the army can continue to fight!"

"That's great!"

Gao Qi looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "When will the Ning Navy be able to send troops?" ”

"The vanguard has set off, the follow-up troops, I am ready to leave tomorrow!"

Cheng Shijie had already received a military report from Shen Mingyu, the Jinzhou Acropolis, and the Jiannu herdsmen who were only a few hundred people in Maodong, after a round of shelling, hundreds of herdsmen fled, and they occupied the empty Jinzhou City.

Cheng Shijie pondered, he must send troops as soon as possible, otherwise Huang Taiji would definitely know that the Ming army attacked the Jinzhou Acropolis, although he judged that Huang Taiji was very weak at this time, but the judgment was a judgment, it did not mean that this was a fact, he must lead all the men and horses of the Ning Navy to go up in advance.

"We are ordered by His Majesty to temporarily take the post of supervising the army of the Ning Navy, and we are supervising the army in Dengzhou, wishing General Cheng triumphant"

……

Penglai Water City, a school field outside the city.

Cheng Shijie and Gao Qiqian and Sun Yuanhua reviewed the Ning Navy soldiers. The military flags of the Ning Navy are waving in the wind. The soldiers of the Ning Navy wore armor on their heads, held their heads high, lined up in a full thirty horizontal columns, and the sea breeze blew their black helmets, like clouds of ink dancing wantonly in the wind.

On the platform, the handsome flag of Cheng Zi was flying and flying, and the tiger was dancing with its teeth and claws, as if it wanted to break the flag and tear the people in front of him to pieces. Thousands of troops are silent, like a silent mountain, standing in front of them, it's hard not to let your hairs stand up one by one!

Let's not talk about the combat effectiveness of the Ning Navy, but their appearance is indeed not comparable to other Ming armies.

However, Gao Qiqian frowned. The equipment of the Ning Navy is really strange, there are more than 4,000 soldiers in the whole army, but there are not a few firearms, and the main equipment of the Ning Navy is actually spears and crossbow machines.

Although it is said that spears and crossbows are one of the best weapons to restrain cavalry, however, Jiannu not only has light cavalry, red-armored soldiers, but also white-armored soldiers wearing three-layer iron armor, which can ignore the shooting of crossbow machines. Unless it's when the white-armored soldier is within thirty paces of the crossbow.

In addition to these crossbows and spears, the Ning Navy soldier also had a dog-legged scimitar more than a foot long pinned to his waist, this scimitar is sharp enough, but is it too short for frontal combat on the battlefield?

Gao Qi looked at Cheng Shijie, and sighed in his heart, Cheng Shijie still didn't understand Jiannu, how could he only use a crossbow machine? He thought that Cheng Shijie had never fought with Jiannu, and he was relieved.

What can I do if I am not relieved, now that I am ready to fly, I have to send it.

There was a bell ringing in the cathedral of Dengzhou City, one after another, ringing throughout the city, at twelve o'clock in the afternoon.

"It's auspicious!"

"Knock Knock ......"

The war drums sounded, as if the ground was shaking, hundreds of trumpeters blew their horns at the same time, and the gloomy and desolate trumpets resounded through the sky, bringing everyone to the bloody battlefield at once.

Cheng Shijie boarded the platform, the guards led a sheep over, Cheng Shijie pulled out the Tang straight knife, cut it off with a knife, the sheep's neck was cut off by the brush, and a stream of blood arrows spurted out two meters away, dyeing the battle flag red.

The soldiers lined up the sheep's head in front of the point platform, and brought a ram, Cheng Shijie was another knife, and the sheep's head fell to the ground. Bringing three sheep in a row made him cut off his neck casually, and the blood of the sheep was splashed all over the platform.

Cheng Shijie handed the knife to the guards to wash it, wiped off the dirty blood on his hands, looked around at the three armies with blazing eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "Everyone must know where we are going, right?" ”

"Kill Jiannu! Kill Jiannu! ”

"That's right, kill Jiannu!!"

Cheng Shijie said loudly: "Soldiers, are you ready?" Ready to get rich? Ben Shuai can tell you that the head of Jiannu is much more valuable than the head of the bandits, and the court will reward them with fifty taels of silver for one head, and the head of the cow will be recorded as a real one, and the official will be promoted to one level. ”

Hearing Cheng Shijie's words, the eyes of Admiral Ning immediately glowed green, and some people even cheered loudly.

"Ready!"

"Let's go!"

Cheng Shijie waved his hand, and the soldiers of the Ning Navy lined up and began to move forward slowly.

Cheng Shijie walked towards Sun Yuanhua and said, "Lord Futai, the back road of Ning Haijun will be handed over to you!" ”

"Cheng Shuai, don't worry!"

Cheng Shijie walked to the dock in the distance.

With the movement of the Ning Navy, Gao Qiqian felt that the Ning Navy was different, neatly raised his legs, landed neatly, and waved his arms neatly, no matter from which angle, the Ning Navy soldiers were like measuring with a ruler.

Perhaps seeing Gao Qiqian's dissatisfaction with Ning Haijun, a eunuch lowered his voice and said: "Godfather, the surname Cheng is taking so many thousands of people to fight hard with Jiannu?" He was lucky enough to win a few battles, and he couldn't distinguish between east and west, north and south, he thought that Jiannu was the same as bandits and rogues, and he could come as he wanted! Hmph, let a group of infantry who don't even have a few firearms fight to the death with Jiannu's cavalry? It's a shame he figured it out! ”

Gao Qiqian sighed and said, "Our family doesn't know where he got the courage to bring such a group of soldiers...... We haven't seen any army in the Ming Dynasty that is not equipped with firearms! ”

Jiannu has always liked to throw the white-armored hoplites into the battlefield at the most critical moment, like a hammer, to break through the defense of the Ming army, and then take advantage of the defeat of the Ming army to cover up the killing.

Of course, Gao Qiqian didn't know that Cheng Shijie had his own confidence, and after the practice of Kong Youde of the Dongjiang Army, in front of Xunlei, the cavalry rushing into battle was a joke.

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