Chapter 105

Song Xiance did not ask Cheng Shijie's wife where the Xiang family was and where the eldest prince was. In his heart, since Cheng Shijie didn't tell him, it shows that Cheng Shijie's trust in him is limited, at least this secret has not been told to him.

It may also be that Cheng Shijie cares too much about his wife and children and doesn't want to be caught by his weakness, so he hides his wife, son and daughter tightly.

"Lord, there is one more question!"

"What's the problem?"

"It's time for Madame to show up!"

"Show up?"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "Now is not the best time!" ”

"My lord, the meaning of the door is ......"

"This world is dark, there is no military power, anyone can cut you with a knife, we are too few people now, and our strength is too small, so we can do too little, many unfair things, we can only watch and want to take care of it...... But there is a weak heart, not only us, even if it is Lord Sun Futai, in fact, it is just a face! ”

Cheng Shijie said with a wry smile: "As the governor of Denglai, it seems to be a high and powerful position, but in the eyes of the imperial court, what can it be regarded as?" Governor Sun is still like this, let alone us little people? Therefore, we must grasp the soldiers in our hands, which is strength and a reliance to protect ourselves. With soldiers in our hands, no one can help us. Therefore, it is necessary not only to grasp the power of the army, but also to gradually train this army to become stronger and stronger, and to bring it bigger and bigger. ”

Song Xiance knew that Cheng Shijie misunderstood what he meant, and explained again: "Lord, what the subordinates mean is that although it is inconvenient for the lady and the eldest prince to show up, but in the eyes of outsiders, the lord is a single widower, why don't the lord find someone to temporarily pretend to be the lady and the son?" ”

"Fake, yes, just find a person from the rivers and lakes, who is good at disguise, and disguise according to the portrait of his wife!"

Song Xiance said slowly: "In this way, there are three benefits, which can not only make those who vainly try to manipulate the lord's marriage retreat, but also fish out those who vainly try to be unfavorable to the lady...... In the future, the lord will be strong, and he will have no scruples, and his wife will be able to appease people's hearts! ”

I have to say that Song Xiance's suggestion touched Cheng Shijie's heart.

Cheng Shijie even immediately thought of a candidate, Yang Yunniang.

When Song Xiance told Yang Yunniang about this plan, Yang Yunniang refused directly without thinking about it: "No! ”

"Why?"

"I'm an unmarried person, pretending to be a lady who gave birth to a son and a daughter, can I hide it from the eyes of people with a heart?"

"This ......"

There is a clear difference between a woman who has not given birth to a child and a woman who has given birth, and there are too many professionals who are proficient in this area in this era, just like the old bustard in the green building, the broker in the human market, and the female gentleman of a large family, and the grandmother who is an expert to guide the growth of children.

They don't need to look closely, just from the appearance can determine whether this woman is complete or not.

Don't look at Yang Yunniang's background in Yanmen, in fact, she is mainly responsible for managing the accounts, the so-called "achievements" are either her hearsay, or her senior sister and sister's real achievements, if she is really good at fraud, or her senior sister makes a move, Cheng Shijie may not be able to escape. Yang Yunniang's senior sister has a kind of incense that can interfere with people's consciousness, once they are recruited, this person will be at the mercy of others within three hours.

As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains, although Song Xiance is also a warlock from the rivers and lakes, he really doesn't know much about the secrets of Yanmen: "Do you have any acquaintances?" ”

"This matter is not easy to do!"

Yang Yunniang sighed and said, "I can only invite my master to come out!" ”

"Your master?"

"The age difference between my master and his wife is not much, but the figure is slightly thinner and slightly lower, which is easy to solve, but my master has already asked the Buddha and does not ask about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, I don't know if she is willing to help!"

Yang Yunniang is actually selfish, her master Feng Sanniang met the scumbag Zhou Shichen, not only was the money accumulated over the years cheated, but the key was that Feng Sanniang's heart was like ashes and lost her fighting spirit. Now Feng Sanniang is a green lantern, eating fasting and reciting Buddha. If she could, she would like Master to live well.

During the period of pretending to be Mrs. Cheng Shijie, Feng Sanniang's place to eat was settled. From the bottom of her heart, her master is actually not a bad person, they are all deceived by rich and unkind people, and most of the money deceived by the master is used to adopt disabled children, except for part of the money that was swept away by Zhou Shichen.

Now this heavy responsibility falls on Yang Yunniang, she follows Cheng Shijie, eats and wears clothes every month, and has ten taels of silver, according to her life, she should have a good life, but in fact, Yang Yunniang is now a poor egg, and the money she earns will be sent to Shandong.

Song Xiance said: "Ling, the handsome can be trusted, your master, if he leaks this secret, it will ruin the big thing of the handsome!" ”

Yang Yunniang shook her head and said, "I tricked my master into coming over, as long as she comes to Liaonan, can she still go to heaven?" ”

"Your master is an old Jianghu, how did you lie to her?? Don't be self-defeating. ”

"No, my master's biggest knot is Zhou Shichen, as long as I tell her that Zhou Shichen is suspected of appearing in southern Liaoning, she will definitely kill her as soon as possible!"

"That's great!"

……

Xiaonandao, under the leadership of Peng's Neiying, the naval division of the Ning Navy found Meng Xianhan's silver treasury and tested the Ning Navy; The time has come for the heart of the sailor.

As the water of the pond in the backyard was emptied, revealing a smooth gentle slope, a road was dug out of the gentle slope, leading directly to the cave, and in entering the cave, as the torches were lit, Li Zhixiang, Li Fang, Chen Shishi, Shen Shikui and other Ning Navy generals were dumbfounded.

Boxes and crates of gold and silver. A stone room is full of gorgeous and delicate gold ornaments, silver winter melons weighing hundreds of catties, copper pillars cast from thousands of catties of brass, and boxes of jewelry......

It took Li Zhixiang a long time to recover from his dizziness, stroking a giant silver winter melon, and sighed: "It's unimaginable that so many treasures have been looted just by pirates!" ”

Peng shook his head and said: "This is not the treasure that Meng Xianhan got as a pirate, most of it is the accumulation of Xu Hongru for several generations, and all of it is cheaper than Meng Xianhan......"

Speaking of this, the Peng clan felt speechless, because now all these treasures have fallen into the hands of Ning Haijun.

"Great!"

Li Zhixiang said with a smile: "Our marshal has always wanted to eliminate our 400 gunboats, but the new construction of large warships requires a lot of silver, with this money, it is enough for us to build dozens of 34,000 ships!" ”

4,000 materials of the big ship, not counting the artillery, the cost of a ship is about 7,700 taels, this is the craftsman free construction, just wood and matching canvas, ropes, tung oil and other material costs, if according to Cheng Shijie's salary to the craftsmen calculation, a 4,000 materials of the ship, the cost of at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

If, according to the standard of Europa battleships, a large ship of more than 4,000 materials is equipped with 48 or 56 guns, and its firepower reaches the standard of Europa's 3rd class battleship, then the manufacturing cost of a 3rd class battleship is about 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver.

In fact, although the Ming Dynasty is financially tight every year, every year is red, in fact, there is no shortage of money, two or three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has earned immeasurable wealth in the sea trade, the silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty is as much as 400 million taels, just a city of Beijing, Li Zicheng copied out tens of millions of taels of silver, who said that the dynasty is poor?

The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was because the rich did not have to pay taxes, and all taxes fell on the common people, and a lot of people robbed the court of this tax source, such as vassal kings, officials, and gentry. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, scholars with meritorious names are exempt from taxes, so whenever a scholar reaches high school, many people will inevitably come to donate their land, and they will naturally not have to pay taxes if they donate their fields to their names.

The vassal kings and officials also did not pay taxes, both of which were justifiable, and who would dare to collect their taxes? As a result, the tax source of the imperial court has dropped sharply, and it can only desperately raise taxes on fewer and fewer fields, and it is difficult to think of it.

In particular, the Ming Dynasty did not have an industry, let alone securities and stocks, and the old tradition of Chinese people who were willing to save since ancient times, the money earned could not be spent, and they were afraid of thieves patronizing, so they naturally hid in the cellar. Melting the silver into a silver winter melon weighing hundreds of catties, a few big men can't move it, so naturally no one will be able to steal it.

The silver disappeared from the market and ceased to exist, until the crisis came and the whole country fell into a panic, and the silver would flow out of the cellars and pour into the market to desperately purchase food, cloth and other necessities, causing prices to skyrocket, and eventually accelerating the collapse of the entire country...... There is no way, a country's money will always be several times more than materials, and if all this money flows into the market to buy goods, it will become inevitable that prices will get out of control.

Cheng Shijie used the seized money to buy grain in Dengzhou, which has caused a crazy rise in grain, and now he no longer dares to buy grain in Dengzhou, but puts the work of buying grain in Jiangnan, which is far cheaper than Dengzhou, and the best rice only needs four coins of silver per stone, which is almost half of the price of grain in Dengzhou.

After a day and a night of counting, the final result of the seizure of Xiaonandao was counted, a total of 2.5 million taels of silver, 63,000 taels of gold, 190,000 catties of brass, more than 1,600 pearls, in addition to silk, jade, porcelain, mahogany furniture and the like of valuable things are also countless.

As for the weapons captured, it was not too much, but more, and Sun Yuanhua alone spent a lot of money to manufacture more than 200 muskets and more than 100 large and small artillery......

As for food, Meng Xianhan is also a talent, more than 2,000 pirates, actually stored more than 58,000 stone of grain, the entire South Island, even the old and weak, women and children, enough for these people to eat for more than two years.

Li Zhixiang said: "I am going to transport these things to Jinzhou Wei ......."

Without waiting for Li Zhixiang to finish speaking, Chen Shi stepped forward and said, "General Li, don't be busy yet. Have you forgotten one of the most important things? ”

"What?"

"It's dirty!"

Li Zhixiang and Li Fang were taken aback: "Dirty? Have you forgotten the military regulations of our Ning Navy? ”

"All seizures must be returned to the public, but the rules are dead, and people are alive!"

Shen Shikui looked at the soldiers around him and said with a smile: "Since the brothers surrendered to Cheng Dashuai, we have indeed lived a lot better with Cheng Dashuai than before, but the problem is that the brothers have been busy for more than a month, and we can't let our seven or eight thousand brothers work in vain, right?" Even if Shen agreed, the brothers would not agree! ”

Chen sometimes hurriedly echoed: "That's it, Vice General Shen is reasonable, the brothers won't agree!" ”

The dozens of Ning Navy soldiers around him were all henchmen of Chen Shiji, Shen Shikui, Li Zhixiang and others, including Li Fang's cronies, and their eyes also showed essence.

Li Zhixiang was taken aback: "What do you want to do?" ”

"The old rule, Cheng Dashuai takes the lion's head, after all, the brothers still need to eat with Cheng Dashuai, let's only take a part, a very small part!"

Shen Shikui said confidently: "Shen thinks so, jade, porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and painting, pearls, gold and silver jewelry, furniture and other miscellaneous things, we don't want it, all leave it to Cheng Dashuai, the silver ingots are divided into two scales, fifty taels and ten taels, these silver totals more than 537,000 taels, our four families divide it equally, General Li takes 200,000 taels, Shen and Chen brothers take 150,000 taels of silver, and the remaining 37,000 taels of silver belong to ......Li Fang's brothers."

Shen Shikui talked eloquently, and at a glance, he knew that he had a lot of experience in sharing spoils, could it be that he often did this kind of thing?

Chen sometimes was overjoyed when he heard this, he had less than 2,000 men and horses, 150,000 taels of silver, he himself could get 100,000 taels, and then 50,000 taels of silver could be divided equally among the generals below, and each person could also share 20 or 30 taels of silver, which was equivalent to their military salary for two years, and the military salary of the officers and soldiers of the naval division was slightly higher than that of the infantry, and the ordinary soldiers were 125 taels of silver per month.

Li Zhixiang's little heart was beating wildly, like a deer crashing inside, he looked at the mountain of gold, silver and jewelry, his mouth was dry, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty: "Vice General Shen, is this inappropriate?" ”

"What's wrong?"

Shen Shikui smiled disapprovingly: "If the water is clear, there is no fish, Cheng Dashuai is a good handsome, Shen serves him, he can be served, and the brothers also have to support their families, the brothers say yes?" ”

"That's right, Vice General Shen is right, the brothers also have to support their families!"

"Let's don't put our heads on our belts, and eat this bloody rice for a few taels of silver?"

"Let's get those guys in our Ning Navy, they're all fucking fat balls, how much meat have we eaten? Didn't the handsome man just do the same? ”

"If I can divide dozens of taels of silver, my brother will go back to Guo Lao to ask for advice, and smash the silver directly in his face, to see if he still looks down on me......"

Seeing that Li Zhixiang was hesitating, Shen Mingkui was adding material again: "Brother Li, we have captured a lot this time, you forgot that there are also five Western ships, which are loaded with ivory, sulfur, gunpowder and artillery, we don't touch them, they are all handsome!" ”

Li Fang was a little anxious, and reached out to hold the Qi family knife on his waist, and at this time, as soon as Peng grabbed Li Fang's hand, Li Fang broke free and became him hugging Peng.

The surrounding soldiers noticed Li Fang's abnormality and immediately burst into laughter.

"Li Fang, can you fucking wait!"

"You're going to die in front of us widowers!"

Peng pretended to be shy, slapped Li Fang's chest, and while secretly giving Li Fang a look, Li Fang understood, picked up Peng's waist, and walked towards a room not far away.

The distance was a little farther, and Peng Shi lowered his voice and said, "Li Lang, don't act rashly......"

"They're betraying the marshal!"

"You can't object now, and if you dare to object, they will kill you!"

"They dare ......"

"How dare they!"

Peng and Li Fang entered the room, Li Fang poked open the window paper, and quietly looked at several sailor generals from the Dongjiang Army outside.

Peng suddenly exclaimed: "Li Fang, don't ......"

Li Fang looked back at Peng in surprise, very puzzled.

Peng pointed out the window.

Sure enough, a group of generals laughed unscrupulously.

Li Fang gritted his teeth and said: "A group of beasts who eat inside and out......"

"It's human nature!"

Li Fang said with a solemn face: "Cheng Dashuai has the grace of knowing me and the grace of promotion, I can't betray Dashuai for the sake of silver......"

"You can't object now, and if you do, they're going to kill you, and then they're going to kill you or make you missing."

"So what do I do now?"

"Pretend to agree, participate in the division of dirt, and report this matter to the marshal!"

Li Fang looked embarrassed: "I can't read!" ”

"Slave literacy, this letter slave to write!"

"That's great!"

As more officers participated in the distribution of dirty, more than 500,000 taels of silver, and there was not much left, everyone's eyes began to fall on five Western ships, not to mention just five armed merchant ships, these are all large armed transport ships of more than 1,000 tons, and the five ships have more than 100 small naval guns, which are also Franc machine cannons.

The generals of the Zhongning Navy began to divide artillery, muskets, armor, and even directly melted 60,000 catties of copper to divide these copper pillars.

Copper, in the Ming Dynasty, had almost a monetary value.

The Ning Navy Navy Division is divided into three command divisions, which means that the Ning Navy Navy has three supervisors, but the supervision team of the Ning Navy Navy Division is far less than the infantry, there is no way, Cheng Shijie's rise is too fast, and his background is slightly insufficient.

At this time, the eyes of the three Ning Navy Commanders met in the air, and they all looked at Chen Dayong.

Chen Dayong was originally an ordinary military household in Ganquan Baihu, belonging to the first batch of family soldiers to join Cheng Shijie, and belonged to his own people. When Chen Dayong was in the Ning Navy, he became the general manager of the Commander, and now he has been directly promoted to the level of the capital supervisor, that is, the level of the commander of the capital, which is as high as the level of Shen Mingyu and Zhang Yu, and he was originally the most suitable candidate for the commander of the former capital of the Ning Navy.

It's just that when Cheng Shijie annexed the Dengzhou Navy Division and the Dongjiang Army Naval Division, Chen Dayong was sent to Li Zhixiang's side to serve as the commander of the Ning Navy Naval Division.

Chen Dayong did not order the military law team to dispatch at the first time, once the military law team was dispatched, it was indeed possible to take down Shen Shikui, Chen Shi and other generals who provoked trouble by surprise, but the problem is that a civil war will be inevitable, besides, violating military discipline and launching the embezzlement of seized materials, this matter should be handled by Cheng Shijie, or Chen Guodong, and he does not have the power to directly deal with generals at the same level.

Chen Dayong gave the other supervisors and directors a look: "Write it down first, let's settle the accounts after the autumn!" ”

"General Li, another new situation has been discovered!"

"What's going on?"

"We found a gang of Xiyi in the dungeon!"

Although the Ming Dynasty was very poor and its national strength was weak, the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards Western devils was really not like that of later generations, even if it was an ordinary Ning naval soldier, there was no politeness in his eyes.

"Kill it!"

"Don't!"

Li Zhixiang hurriedly said: "People must be employed everywhere in southern Liaoning, send them to Liaodong, and let them go to mining!" ”

On December 24, the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign, the naval division of the Ning Navy transported five captured Western ships, 17 pirate ships, and more than 1,400 pirate family members, as well as captured grain, silver, gold and silver treasures, to southern Liaoning.

Almost at the same time, in the cabin of a flat-bottomed ship, more than a hundred Westerners in ragged clothes with a strong smell on their bodies, with big eyes and small eyes, and their faces full of depression, they had just come out of the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den.

Their Western fleet was not the Dutch, nor the Spaniards, nor the Portuguese, who often traveled to and from the Ming Dynasty, but the combined fleet of the Republic of Venice and the city-state, and their arrival in the Ming Dynasty was completely unexpected.

Because they had set out from the port of Venice, they were laden with supplies, most of which were brimstone, saltpeter, and finished gunpowder and cannonballs, ready to support the bitter fighting island of Crete.

Crete is the symbol of the Republic of Venice as a maritime nation, their largest and last bastion in the Mediterranean; After the Venetian city-state republic acquired the island from Byzantium through the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians poured countless money and effort into building and protecting this important base.

Now, the Ottomans judged that the European nations that had been trapped in the Thirty Years' War could not support the Venetians, and that the Venetians would easily take Crete. As a result, the Ottoman navy, with a total of more than 20,000 men, with the cooperation of more than 600 warships, attacked Crete.

Unfortunately, the Ottomans misjudged and the war lasted for twenty-five years, until the end of the Thirty Years' War in Europe, and the countries of Europa began to have the energy to send reinforcements. Venice's battles won the praise of European countries, and young nobles and knights began to go to Venice to fight in the army as an honor; Many mercenaries from France, Germany, Spain, Italy and other countries went to Crete to fight, even as far away as Sweden.

As a result, with the help of almost all the countries of Europe, the Ottoman Empire fought the Battle of Crete for twenty-five years, and received nothing but nearly 300,000 corpses.

But now it is different, the Thirty Years' War in the countries of Europa was fought very fiercely, and the dog's brains were all beaten, not to mention, the Venetians did not realize the attack of the Ottomans, and the battle was fought very passively, so a group of noble children were selected from the consuls of the Republic of Venice to support Crete.

However, as soon as they set off, they were targeted by an Ottoman fleet, which knew that this small fleet wanted to support Crete, so they waited for their work, and the combined fleet, which originally consisted of eleven warships and armed merchant ships, was ambushed, and four warships were sunk, and they retreated in desperation.

The Ottoman Empire had never achieved such an amazing record at sea, and wanted to annihilate this Venetian fleet, so the two sides chased and fled, slowly escaping from the Mediterranean Sea and entering the Atlantic.

This is not a mistake, but because the Venetian combined fleet in order to pull the tiger Pila flag, the result can be imagined, in Europe Spain is strong, but the problem is that the current Spain is the enemy of Europe, the French beat them, the Dutch beat them, and even the Portuguese beat them.

They could only flee all the way, which lasted more than ten months, and fled from Venice to Dengzhou, where they heard that the "governor" of Dengzhou was actually the governor Sun Yuanhua, who was very friendly to the parishioners, and they hoped to get Sun Yuanhua's help, but they ran into Meng Xianhan.

At that time, in order to eliminate Sun Yuanhua's hostility, they put away the naval guns, and they were defenseless in the face of the small fishing boats that came over, for fear of arousing the hostility of the Dengzhou sailors, in line with the idea of many friends and many articles, they were killed by Meng Xianhan's fists, and their five warships, together with more than 100 surviving sailors and officers, all became prisoners of Meng Xianhan.

They heard the sound of cannons, and they heard the sound of the most advanced rapid-fire naval guns, thinking that they could be rescued, but the problem was that they thought too much, and the only difference was that the Ning Navy soldiers gave them a little better food.

Because in the eyes of the soldiers of the Ning Navy, they are fifteen acres of land. If you die, you can only get ten acres, and that's the difference.

On the way to Jinzhouwei by the naval division of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie received information from Chen Guodong, and there were 19 pieces of information, which came from Li Fang, Li Zhixiang, Shen Shikui, Chen Shi, and Chen Shi, including the capital supervisor Chen Dayong and others, and the content of the information was also similar to Li Fang's intelligence.

It is said that Shen Shikui and Chen sometimes proposed to privately divide the seized money, and tricked the soldiers into putting pressure on Li Zhixiang, and for the sake of the overall situation, he Li Fang could only make a false commission with the snake and was forced to agree.

Li Fang divided the dirty silver of 37,000 taels of silver, one tael was not moved, and then escorted to Jinzhouwei, as for Shen Shikui's defense, he knew that the generals of the Dongjiang Army had many people whose hands and feet were not clean, so he set up a bureau and put all the generals of the Dongjiang Army into it, and said that except for Shen Shikui himself, no one else could be trusted, especially Li Zhixiang, who was deeply trusted by Cheng Shijie, was not a thing, eating from the bowl and looking at the pot.

When Cheng Shijie saw this, he couldn't cry or laugh.

Among the generals of the Ning Navy, they all thought about their superiors and their teammates, but they actually thought of a group of old six.

PS: I'm very sorry last night, but when I was writing at about ten o'clock, I received a call from a friend, and I was lying in bed answering the phone, and I actually fell asleep again. Routinely ask for votes.

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