Chapter 111

"Rob? Rob whom? ”

Cheng Shijie turned around and followed the prestige.

I saw Huang Long, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, and his generals Mao Chenglu, Shang Keyi, Xiang Zuolin, Fan Hualong, Zhang Dalu, Li Weiluan, He Yongsheng, Du Jincai and other generals coming together.

When Cheng Shijie saw Huanglong's arrival, he knew that something big might happen.

The generals of the Dongjiang Army, including Huang Long, were very respectful: "The last general will meet Cheng Dashuai!" ”

Cheng Shijie nodded and said, "Go back to the military headquarters first!" ”

Huanglong was a little strange.

Right here, the surrounding military households listened to the voices of Huang Long and others, and rushed in the direction where Cheng Shijie was, and thousands of people were crowded together, and it was easy to form a stampede.

"Cheng Dashuai is here!"

"The grass people knock to see Cheng Dashuai!"

"The handsome prince Wandai!"

At this time, the soldiers and civilians of southern Liaoning who were present kowtowed to Cheng Shijie.

Even though Cheng Shijie was far away, these soldiers and civilians still didn't get up, even if there were mountains of materials next to these people, no one came to grab them.

Huang Long looked at Cheng Shijie's back and was very envious.

is also a chief military officer, he, the chief military officer, was cut off by the mutinous soldiers under his command, but Cheng Shijie has supreme prestige among the military and the people.

Of course, Cheng Shijie didn't know what Huang Long was thinking.

If Cheng Shijie knew, he would only smile faintly, if Huanglong could get two or three hundred million mu of reclaimable wasteland for the Dongjiang Army, six or seven hundred thousand stone grain, and seven or eight million taels of silver, Huanglong's prestige would also be so high.

It's just that Cheng Shijie's today, including everything in the Ning Navy, has an irreproducible accident. If it weren't for the fact that Cheng Shijie accidentally killed Zhang Huairen, who was stamped "Zhen Sanshan", when he was exterminating the bandits, he would not have offended the behemoth of Laiyang Zhang.

If Cheng Shijie didn't offend this behemoth, he wouldn't have been arrested. If Cheng Shijie had not been arrested by Zhang Shigang, the soldiers of the Ning Navy would not have launched the Dengzhou Mutiny, and launched a mutiny with a new army that had been in the army for more than a month, attacking Dengzhou City, a military town defended by more than 20,000 elite troops.

The Ning Navy seized more than 100,000 taels of silver from Sun Yuanhua to feed the Dengzhou Army, the Dengzhou Navy Division and the Denglai New Army, as well as 200,000 or 300,000 stone of grain. The Ning Navy was even more surrounded in one fell swoop, and was looted of the wealth and grain operated by the Zhang family in Laiyang for several generations, so that it had the capital for the initial development of southern Liaoning.

What's more critical is that in the Kong Youde Rebellion, Ning Haijun accidentally killed Kong Youde's brother and defeated Kong Youde's will to fight, which can easily quell Kong Youde's rebellion, and what is even more surprising is that in order to seek a way for the people of Liaodong, Kong Youde gave all the money and wealth of the gentry he plundered to Cheng Shijie.

All of this, even if it is calculated by all means, it is impossible to calculate so accurately, and if there is a mistake in any link, it will fall short.

Of course, Cheng Shijie's luck is too good.

It is impossible for Huang Long to replicate such success, it is impossible for anyone to replicate such success, even if Cheng Shijie is asked to do it again, he does not have such ability.

Huang Long asked Cheng Shijie to come over, but in fact, it was because there was no way.

Originally, Cheng Shijie summoned more than 24,000 elites of the Dongjiang Army to prevent Jiannu from attacking southern Liaoning.

The Ning Navy defended Tieshan Fort with all its might, while the Dongjiang Army defended the Stone Castle in the west, of course, Cheng Shijie was still a little worried about the Stone Castle, but the Stone Castle was close to the Liaodong Bay in the west.

The problem is that the plan is wrong.

Although Jiannu suffered a loss and lost thousands of men and horses, Huang Taiji did not send troops to retaliate, this is because Huang Taiji considered that even if the Ning Navy could easily defeat the attack of the 3,000 men and horses with white flags, it would mean that it had a certain strength, and it was useless to send fewer troops, and if there were too many troops, it could not be supported by logistics.

Under these circumstances, the 26,000 men and horses transferred by the Dongjiang Army to southern Liaoning, including 2,000 people, did not fight, but enjoyed the benefits of the Ning Navy and carried out training.

At this time, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army scattered on the islands were unwilling to do it, if they were to fight with Jiannu in the stone castle, no matter how well the troops of the Dongjiang Army transferred in southern Liaoning were well fed and warmly dressed, no one would have an opinion, because these treatments were exchanged for their lives.

However, in the absence of a fight, they were equivalent to eating white food, and the guerrillas and generals within the Dongjiang Army asked Huang Long, the general soldier, for instructions, and they also had to go to southern Liaoning to receive training from the Ning Navy, strictly enforce military discipline, and strive to better cooperate with Cheng Dashuai in the future.

Although the Dongjiang Army did not like mutiny in the Mao Wendong era, since Mao Wenlong's death, the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army have learned a lot from each other, mutiny at every turn, and mutiny at every turn.

The hearts of the people are scattered, and the team is not easy to lead.

In desperation, he had to come to Cheng Shijie's rescue. When he learned that Cheng Shijie was not in the Jinzhou Acropolis Ning Navy General Mansion, Huang Long took a group of generals of the Dongjiang Army and directly found Luoshan Town.

Just as he heard Cheng Shijie say that there was no money to rob, Huang Long felt that the opportunity had come.

When he came to the front hall of the Ning Navy General Mansion, Huang Long smelled the enticing fragrance.

For the food of the Ning Navy, there is nothing that the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army do not like, because the food of the Ning Navy is not only good, but also very rich in oil and water.

The Ning Navy is different from other armies in the Ming Dynasty, the Ning Navy trains every day, and the physical consumption of the soldiers is very huge, in order to ensure that the nutrition of the Ning Navy officers and soldiers can keep up, Cheng Shijie also takes great pains.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, unlike later generations, there were a large number of breeding plants, like pig factories and chicken farms, and any city that wanted to eat pigs and sheep, mutton, and beef could basically be supplied openly.

But the problem is that the grain production at the end of the Ming Dynasty was small, and there was not enough food for people, let alone those pigs, sheep and other poultry and livestock?

Even if they had silver, they could not purchase enough meat for more than 20,000 Ning Navy soldiers and more than 2,600 Dongjiang Army soldiers to eat.

Even the most common and cheapest chicken in later generations could not guarantee the supply, so in desperation, Cheng Shijie had to take the silver and purchase a large amount in Jiangnan.

Although Shandong is closer, the problem is that Cheng Shijie's large purchases in Shandong have caused a crazy rise in prices in Shandong, and the grain in Dengzhou is more than eight yuan of silver per stone, while the best rice in the south of the Yangtze River is less than seven yuan of silver when it is transported to southern Liaoning.

In fact, the main reason for the poverty of the peasants in the Ming Dynasty had a great relationship with the monopoly of the market by the merchants, for example, the peasants worked hard for a year, and there were less than two stones of grain per acre, but when the grain merchants collected grain from the peasants, they desperately lowered the price, especially the fine rice in the south of the Yangtze River, which could be sold for four cents of silver per stone, and the price of most of the rice was between three and a half cents per stone or three cents of silver.

According to the record of "Ming Shilu", the orthodox four-year governor of Datong Xuanfu and the imperial envoy Lu Rui wrote that Shanxi's annual grain and silver are 100,000 taels, one tael of silver per silver and four stones, and the price of rice in Xuanfu is churning, but it is only one tael of silver and two stones and five buckets of quasi-grain.

Wang Zhen, a native of Zhejiang, also said in his book "Wulun Book": "The price of Zhejiang rice is extremely cheap. "Miscellaneous Records of Experiences and Experiences" recorded: The famine was severe in the sixteenth year of Wanli, and the price of one stone of rice rose to six yuan, and Mao Yuanyi's "Palm Notes" wrote: "The price of rice at that time was only seven yuan of silver!" ”

And Mao Yuanyi was in the fourth year of Chongzhen, after Sun Chengzong stepped down, he was stripped of his official position and returned to his hometown in Jiangxi. (The author speculates) there is an inscription in Shaanxi that records that "rice and corn are two or three dollars per bucket", so the price is very outrageous, and it also fully proves that the disaster in Shaanxi is serious.

Cheng Shijie purchased 300,000 stones of wheat from Jiangnan to Jinzhou Port, and the price of rice was 450,000 stones, and the price of 6 yuan and 8 cents to the port was 5 yuan and 6 cents per stone.

In order to eat dumplings for the people of southern Liaoning for the New Year, a large number of mills grinded a lot of flour, but after the wheat was grinded, there was only wheat bran left, which was the outer skin of the wheat, of course, it could also be eaten, but it was difficult to swallow. Cheng Shijie asked people to use these wheat bran to raise pigs.

At present, Ning Haijun's breeding factory has raised more than 6,000 pigs in captivity, and these pigs are more than 100 catties large, 800 or 90 catties small, and the largest is 2,300 catties. Of course, the piglets in the breeding factory are like dozens of catties of pig seedlings, and they must not be killed.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the big basin in the lobby of the front hall and said: "Today, Ben Shuai invites you to eat pig-killing dishes!" ”

Huang Long looked at the pig-killing vegetables in the big pot, a layer of oil floated on the top of the vegetables, and he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva: "Cheng Shuai, how embarrassing is this...... Isn't that too ...... Broke the ......"

"It's okay, by this time next year, Ben Shuai can guarantee that the people of southern Liaoning and every household will be able to eat meat!"

Cheng Shijie sat down: "The pig was raised by our Ning Haijun himself, and it doesn't cost a few dollars, so you don't have to be polite, eat it with your belly open!" ”

Huang Long looked at the generals of the Dongjiang Army and said: "Don't thank Cheng Shuai, Cheng Shuai has a way to make money, and he can't eat him!" ”

The generals of the Dongjiang Army sat down one after another and laughed: "Thank you Cheng Shuai for your generosity!" ”

This meal of killing pigs was only a civilian dish in later generations, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even the most present were the generals of the fourth and fifth grades, but they rarely ate a bite of pork.

The generals of the Dongjiang Army all propped up their bellies and burped.

didn't drink wine, but after eating, everyone's eyes fell on Cheng Shijie.

At the instigation of the generals under his command, Huang Long looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "Cheng Shuai now has a way to make a fortune, don't forget Huang!" ”

The reality is so helpless, although Cheng Shijie has received a lot of people from Liaodong, and since then, the logistical pressure of the Dongjiang Army has been greatly reduced, but the reduction does not mean that there is none.

In fact, many of the military families of the Dongjiang Army and the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army themselves are also unable to solve the food problem, just like they want to learn from Cheng Shijie to reclaim the famine, but many of the coastal islands of the Dongjiang Army are uninhabited small islands that are not suitable for human habitation, and some do not even have fresh water, and farming is nonsense.

The land that can be cultivated is almost already cultivated.

Counting on the imperial court, they can only starve to death, and Huanglong also wants the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army to be fed and clothed, but the problem is that the strength does not allow it.

"The way to get rich!"

Cheng Shijie muttered: "Then we can only wait for the beginning of spring, we can join forces to dry salt on the seaside, and bring down the price of salt controlled by salt merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang!" ”

"Now?"

Huang Long smiled bitterly: "Don't hide it from Cheng Shuai, now the Dongjiang Army can't open the pot, some soldiers are very dissatisfied, they are about to rebel, I don't know, Cheng Shuai can ...... it."

Huang Long wanted Cheng Shijie's territory in southern Liaoning to be allocated to the Dongjiang Army, but the problem was that Huang Long still wanted face, and he was really embarrassed to open up to Cheng Shijie.

No matter how good his personal relationship with Cheng Shijie is, Cheng Shijie can manage the 2,600 men and horses of the Dongjiang Army to eat a full meal for several months, but when it comes to the fields, even if Cheng Shijie agrees, the generals of the Ning Navy do not agree.

Cheng Shijie only controlled the Dongjiang Army, not the general officer seal of the Dongjiang Army, if Cheng Shijie was willing, the general officer seal of the Dongjiang Army, Huang Long could hold it with both hands and give it to Cheng Shijie.

Although Huang Long only said half of it, Cheng Shijie is also a clear man about the predicament faced by the Dongjiang Army.

It is absolutely impossible to let Cheng Shijie give the territory of the Dongjiang Army, unless the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army send their families to southern Liaoning and accept the adaptation of the Ning Navy, and the Ning Navy treats them as Tuntian military households, Cheng Shijie will give them wasteland for reclamation, and will also provide them with seeds and farming tools.

But the problem is that since then, the families of these officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army have become the Ning Navy's own people, and they are just wearing the skin of the Dongjiang Army.

"It's hard right now!"

"Cheng Shuai, no matter how difficult it is, our Dongjiang Army will never forget Cheng Shuai's great kindness!"

"You're welcome!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Back then, in order to prevent Mao Shuai from luring Jiannu to North Korea, North Korea ceded Phi Island and Mao Shuai to station, if it was ......"

Cheng Shijie walked to the map of the Korean Peninsula and smashed his fist on the position of Tamna Island: "Why doesn't Huang Shuai borrow Tamna Island to raise troops?" ”

"Borrow Tamna?"

Huang Long's eyes lit up suddenly, and then dimmed again: "I'm afraid that North Korea will not will!" ”

"No, it's so easy!"

"Simple?"

"If the Japanese invade North Korea, will they be able to resist the Japanese with the military strength of North Korea?"

"But the ...... of the Woko"

Huang Long is not a stupid person, and immediately understood what Cheng Shijie meant.

As a real Ming Dynasty person, Huanglong knew that the Japanese were not the same as the records of later history.

"Ming Shizong Records" records that "in the name of the Japanese Invaders, in fact, there are very few real Widows". At the same time, due to the Japanese pirates "dare to fight", the officials of the Ming Dynasty were frightened, so the pirates of the Ming Dynasty took the Japanese as the name, "special coercion is just the number, and in fact, they are all people from Zhongzhou." "The leaders of the Ming Dynasty were all Ming people, such as Wang Zhi, Xu Hai, Ye Qinman, Mao Haifeng, Peng Lao, etc.

In the later period, it was encountering the Japanese shogunate's seclusion, especially in the later stage of the Kansai War, when Satsuman was defeated, and a large number of Japanese ronin and forced warriors surrendered to Zheng Zhilong.

It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it's important to see what is clear.

As Cheng Shijie opened a window in front of the generals of the Dongjiang Army, the heads of these Dongjiang Army officers began to come alive.

"Thank you Cheng Shuai!"

Huang Long smiled excitedly: "Huang knows what to do!" ”

"It's so good, if you need any help, just say it!"

Huang Long had dinner and returned to Lushun overnight to prepare for the Dongjiang Army's reclamation plan, at this time the Dongjiang Army's war machine began to start, in order to help the Dongjiang Army complete the plan to borrow the east wind, Cheng Shijie was very generous to provide the Dongjiang Army with 6,000 stone of grain, as well as 17 pirate ships captured from Meng Xianhan.

These pirate ships were originally planned to be chopped for firewood, but now they are nothing more than waste.

……

The servants of the Ning Navy General Military Office began to paste Spring Festival couplets and began to arrange red lanterns to prepare for the Spring Festival, but Cheng Shijie was still a hard worker.

Located on the wharf of Jinzhou Port, rows of large transport ships are unloading goods, which are rice and wheat purchased from Jiangnan, as well as some caramel and other materials.

Workers on the docks loaded sacks of grain onto carts, which loaded carts of grain and other supplies to the Acropolis of Golden State.

Cheng Shijie's ultimate goal was not achieved, he originally planned to distribute fifty catties of flour per capita to the people of southern Liaoning, although the grain was bought, but the work efficiency of the mill was too low, so he could only retreat and distribute twenty catties of flour to each of the people of southern Liaoning, this benefit is available to the whole people, even if it is an eighty-year-old man, or a newborn baby, it is counted.

Ordinary people are 20 catties of flour, Ning Navy officers, military families, and martyrs are 40 catties per person, and rice is 5 catties per capita for ordinary people, which is also divided according to the head.

However, the soldiers of the Ning Navy, their families, and the families of the martyrs were given one stone each. When distributing New Year's benefits, Cheng Shijie was angry.

In order to facilitate management, Cheng Shijie combined the ten Tuntian and 100 households together, and set up 43 towns, including Maqiao Town, Gushan Town, Luoshan Town, Tonggou Town, Shahe Town, Lijia Town, and Dongjia Town, respectively.

The New Year's benefits are distributed according to the actual number of people in each town, but the problem is that despite the fear that there will be problems, problems still arise.

The mayors of the forty-three towns, headed by Ma Shilin, stood in front of Cheng Shijie and were trained like grandsons.

"Look, what are you doing?"

Cheng Shijie threw a stack of rosters on the ground: "Let you report the number of people, names, ages, genders, and places of origin of the town to this marshal, and you only need to distribute the forms to the military households and let them fill in their names, ages, genders, and places of origin, is it difficult?" What a big deal, you have been doing it for half a month and a week, and you still make a mess for Ben Shuai, how can it be more difficult for you to do something than Ben Shuai himself? ”

The mayors of the towns, according to their own understanding, should be the lords of a thousand households, and the so-called town is actually the original thousand households.

Ma Shilin was scolded so much that he couldn't raise his head, and only after a while did he stammer: "Big ...... Dashuai, they ...... They're illiterate......"

At this time, Ma Shilin wanted to cry aggrievedly, he thought that he was quite capable, and he also thought that he could be a good county magistrate, but the problem was that he completed the task given to him by Cheng Shijie very badly.

"If you can't read, you're still a mayor!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the mayors and said: "Ben Shuai will give you three months, no matter what method you use, in short, you must learn to write and count for me, no matter how high your level is, at least you can't even fill in a form!" ”

These statistical tables, which were all printed by Cheng Shijie in the later generations, were printed by a printing agency in later generations, and then moved to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it took three days to bring these tables to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Distributing physical objects like this is the most likely to cause problems.

Cheng Shijie also has a headache now, everyone has gone to school, and knows that it will take at least three or four years to learn from not knowing a word and being able to read and write articles normally, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie does not have this time.

What's more, if you can't even do a very simple household registration statistic, what else can you do?

Directly herding sheep?

Some readers commented in the book review area that the author is stupid and doesn't know how to carry technical books......

But the question is, who will show it? Can you read it? Not to mention the people of the Ming Dynasty who have not received modern education, readers with junior high school education, give you professional books on metallurgical engineering, how many people can understand?

Cheng Shijie did not let go of these mayors, and began to criticize fiercely.

"And who else! Liu San! ”

Liu San, who was named by Cheng Shijie, almost hung his head to his knees.

"You have been with Ben Shuai from the earliest, and you haven't learned anything about what Ben Shuai did? Let you be the mayor of the town, you have made a mess of the mayor, you have been tossing for so long, and you haven't even done a good sanitation, a good Maqiao Town, let you make a big latrine......"

Cheng Shijie's finger almost touched Liu San's head: "What's even more excessive is that the businessmen are doing business in Maqiao Town, and you don't let them pay taxes!" ”

"Dashuai, those businessmen are too difficult, they just don't want to pay taxes, so I have to kneel down with them!"

"That's your incompetence!"

Cheng Shijie's voice raised an octave and said: "You are the mayor of the town, the head of a town, and you are the biggest in Maqiao Town, how can you not use the power given to you by this commander?" Who dares not to pay taxes, close the shop and arrest people, starve them for three days, and see if they can pay or not! Also, all of you are the same, those who do business in our southern Liaoning must pay taxes. ”

Cheng Shijie has no good impression of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of the merchants, there is nothing that cannot be sold, and they would rather spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to bribe, but they are not willing to pay a tax of thousands of taels of silver. In the logic of a businessman, paying taxes is the most incompetent manifestation.

There are taxes that can't come up, which is also the root cause of the Ming Dynasty's demise.

Ma Shilin opened his mouth: "The ...... of the dynasty is preferential"

Ma Shilin did not continue to say this, because the Ming Dynasty gave preferential treatment to scholars, gentry, officials, and officials, but never preferential treatment to merchants.

"Dashuai, all the good things to say about the lowly position, they just don't pay taxes!"

"Then find a few thugs to smash their shops, and send a few more people to sneak in and order a few shops while they are not paying attention, and see if they pay taxes!"

The mayors of the town broke out in a cold sweat: "Dashuai, this ...... It's against the law! ”

Cheng Shijie's eyes showed a fierce light, and his sharp gaze swept over everyone's faces: "What is the law?" In southern Liaoning, Benshuai's words are the law. ”

PS: It's written, this chapter is 6,000 words, and it will continue tomorrow!

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