Chapter 118

The night was already very deep, and Emperor Chongzhen, the young son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, was still sitting in the side hall. He was very angry at this time, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were all rice buckets, and no one could read his mind.

At this time, he began to think of Sun Chengzong who was driven away, Sun Chengzong was a very smart person, in the battle of the breach, his emperor lost face, it was Sun Chengzong who led the men and horses to recover the four cities of Yongping, and it was Sun Chengzong who launched the Battle of Daling River in order to regain face for himself.

Emperor Chongzhen, who realized it later, now faintly understands that the battle of Dalinghe is a little anxious, and the Ming Dynasty is not prepared enough, so he should wait a little longer, even if it is another two and a half months, until the autumn grain is put into storage.

At that time, the weather was already cold, Zu Dashou would definitely prepare firewood and coal to burn, and he would also prepare sufficient food and clothing, and more importantly, Jiannu would not last long in the cold wind outside the city. It's really two and a half months late, maybe the outcome of the Battle of Daling River will be rewritten.

It's a pity that he was too anxious and forced Sun Chengzong to send troops, so that Sun Chengzong took the blame.

Of course, the Son of Heaven will not make mistakes, and it is always the capable courtiers who make mistakes.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the imperial eunuch Wang Chengen beside him and said, "Wang Companion!" ”

"The slave is here!"

"You go and pick some precious medicinal materials from the inner palace, take the imperial doctor, and go to Gaoyang ......"

Wang Chengen asked with some uncertainty: "What does the emperor mean ......?"

"Calm down Sun Ge Lao for me!"

"Yes, slave and maid!"

Emperor Chongzhen can only use this way to appease the hearts of the old ministers. I hope others can see what he meant. The current Emperor Chongzhen, like some scumbags on campus, can completely tolerate all her shortcomings when he likes someone, and can be infinitely good to her. When you have a new goal, you will kill her.

At the beginning, Yuan Chonghuan was in the emperor's heart, he drew a big cake for the young son of heaven, Emperor Chongzhen believed Yuan Chonghuan's nonsense, Yuan Chonghuan asked Zu Dashou to serve as the chief soldier of Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and Chongzhen agreed. Let He Kegang replace Zhu Mei Shouyuan, Zhao led the teaching to guard the Shanhaiguan, and Chongzhen also did not hesitate and agreed directly.

Yuan Chonghuan failed to mobilize Mao Wenlong, so he killed Mao Wenlong, the general of Pingliao, the governor of Zuodu, and the general of the Dongjiang Army. This power was given to Mao Wenlong by Emperor Chongzhen, but Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, and Emperor Chongzhen also pinched his nose and admitted it.

It wasn't until the change of Jisi that Huang Taiji raised hundreds of thousands of troops to enter Longjing Pass and Daankou respectively, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses came to the capital, and Emperor Chongzhen woke up and fell into Yuan Chonghuan's place.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was like a little virgin who had been split, how deep his love for Yuan Chonghuan was, how deep his hatred was, of course, Yuan Chonghuan was late.

Although there are countless people on the Internet who are upset and cry out for Yuan Chonghuan. Just ask a little question, as the governor of Ji, Liao, Tianjin, Baoding, Deng, Lai, and other places, and also quite the commander of the largest military region in the Ming Dynasty, let more than 100,000 Jiannu flock in, and the soldiers came to the capital, and the Jiannu plundered more than a dozen cities in Shuntianfu, Yongpingfu, and Zunhua Mansion, and the four cities of Liangxiang, Gu'an, Xianghe, and Sanhe were slaughtered, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, 200,000 people were arrested, and the loss of money and property exceeded 10 million taels......

In this case, is Yuan Chonghuan still innocent?

What if this is innocent? So what is malfeasance? This is the worst crime of malfeasance, right?

What is the logic of those Yuan fans who avenged Yuan Chonghuan's grievances? At this time, Yuan Chonghuan of the Ming Dynasty did things similar in nature to Zhang Shaoshuai and Han Fuqu, all of them were afraid of the enemy and avoided the war, and killed Yuan Chonghuan, just this one, the reason is enough.

Now Chongzhen has finally found a minister who can do things, and wants to reuse Cheng Shijie, but these ministers pretend to be deaf and dumb......

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen will never know how much effort the Wenchen bureaucracy has made in order to suppress the military generals and have the right to speak, and since the Tumubao Change, the Manchu Dynasty military commanders have been swept away, what a happy thing it is, they have suppressed the military attaches for more than a hundred years, how can they make the military ministers raise their heads?

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to reward Xu Guangqi, the Wenchen bureaucracy, and immediately agreed, Xu Guangqi served as the first assistant of the cabinet, and if Sun Yuanhua was promoted and let him be the governor of Shandong and Liaodong, there would be no problem.

No matter how poor Sun Yuanhua is, even if he is not a Jinshi, he is also their fellow Confucian.

What is Cheng Shijie?

A martial artist, hereditary military background.

Of course, if Cheng Shijie is willing to study honestly and be admitted to the Jinshi like Yuan Keli of Guide Mansion, even if he is a person, he can also become a feudal official.

It's a pity that he's just a martial artist.

The most despicable martial artist.

"Your Majesty!"

Empress Zhou took the ginseng soup and walked into the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, it's late at night, you have to take care of yourself, it's time to rest!"

Emperor Chongzhen turned to look at Empress Zhou: "Empress, you say, Cheng Shijie...... How should I reward him? ”

"Your Majesty, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics!"

In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one queen who had ever done politics, and that was Zhu Yuanzhang's Queen Ma, who could run away with Zhu Yuanzhang on her back in the chaotic army, and dared to hold shoes when she was angry, chasing Zhu Chongba's ruthless character.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about the ancestral system and sighed long: "I, the emperor, is too difficult!" ”

On the vast sea, the blue sky is like a wash, and the sun is shining, reflecting the sea more and more blue.

A flotilla of a dozen large ships is sailing against the wind. When the sailboat is headwinded, it can only take the zigzag route and move forward slowly. The huge sea breeze will blow the sails of the ship, and the sea ship will sail at a speed of seven knots to the Liaodong Peninsula across the sea.

At this rate, it takes about eight to nine days to travel from Shanghai to Liaodong when there is a tailwind, but now it is a headwind, and two-thirds of the journey is more, and it takes more than 20 days at the earliest.

At the head of this fleet is a very richly decorated Qianliu Guangfu ship, a group of young men and women, standing on the deck excitedly cheering, admiring the beautiful scenery of the sea.

In the distance, groups of graceful elves leaped high with their tail fins stretched out, flew far away, and then plunged into the sea like bullets, which caused a tall girl to exclaim: "Behold, flying fish! ”

Not surprisingly, this girl is Xu Guangqi's fourth granddaughter and the only unmarried granddaughter of the Xu family. Because of Xu Guangqi's aura, Xu Guangqi's granddaughters are married to wealthy families.

The husband of Xu Guangqi's eldest granddaughter is Ai Tinghuai, the grandson of Ai Kejiu, the political envoy of Nanjing; The second granddaughter married Xu Yuandu, the grandson of Xu Leshan, who also served as the political envoy of Nanjing; The third granddaughter married into the Qu family in Shanghai, her husband Qu Ye was a prisoner, and her grandfather Qu Yin served as Haicheng Zhi County, also among the Shanghai squires.

In the whole of Shanghai, those who can be more comparable to Xu Guangqi are the masters of Yu Garden, Pan Yunduan, Pan En and his brother Pan Zhong, and Dengkejia. Gongding official to the imperial history doctor, the two books of punishment and work". Pan En had three sons, the eldest son Yun Zhe and the second son Yun Duan were all Jinshi, so they had the reputation of "one family and three Jinshi" of the Pan family.

At this time, Xu Guangqi's fifth grandson, Xu Erlu, married the daughter of Pan Yunduan's son, Pan Yunlong, a member of the Ministry of Labor, as his wife.

With Martina's exclamation, a large group of dog-legged young men who wanted to marry the Xu family stepped forward one after another, including Pan Xiaona, Mardina's husband in history.

In order to win the heart of the beauty, Pan Xiaona said to his family: "Come on, hurry, take the fire gun, and let him run ......away."

At this moment, a sailor said with a serious face: "Stop, don't hurt the divine fish!" ”

"Divine Fish ......"

Pan Xiaona felt that a lowly sailor dared to sweep his face, and he walked towards the sailor: "Shenyu, Shenling Niang......"

Pan Xiaona kicked at the sailor, the sailor's feet seemed to have roots, and he didn't move, but Pan Xiaona fell on the deck, causing a group of boys to laugh.

It's not that this sailor is a skilled sailor. In fact, he is just a steady player, but Pan Xiaona is a weak scholar, and if he really fights, a sailor can beat Pan Xiaona ten by himself.

"You ............"

Pan Xiaona didn't have time to speak, he gasped in pain, and at this time, a group of Pan family members pounced on the sailor, divided five by two, and grabbed the sailor.

"Throw him down and feed him to the fish!"

"Puff ......"

The sailor was thrown into the sea and disappeared in an instant. After a while, the sailor came out of the sea, and the fish was facing the sailor.

The crowd exclaimed, "It's amazing! ”

"This is a divine fish!"

Other sailors said: "It is the patron saint of the sea, the embodiment of Mazu Niangniang, and I don't know how many times I have brought back a ship that has been lost in the sea to the fairway, or rescued a ship trapped in a reef!" It is our protector! ”

Maldina also felt the magic and cried out: "You must not hurt it!" ”

The sailors were rescued, and Pan Xiaona still wanted to clean up the sailors.

At this time, Chen Zilong came out of the cabin: "Mr. Pan, can you give Chen a certain face, this matter has been revealed!" ”

"Humph......"

Pan Xiaona didn't have the face to stay on the deck and returned to the cabin.

Although Chen Zilong is not a few years older than Mardina and is the same age as her third brother Xu Erdou, Chen Zilong is a student of Xu Guangqi and is the same age as her father Xu Ji.

Facing Chen Zilong, Martina obediently saluted: "Uncle Chen! ”

"Hmm!"

Chen Zilong nodded slowly, the sea breeze at this time was very soft, Chen Zilong asked people to bring a soft couch, a small table, a small red clay stove on the small table, the servants were boiling tea on the side, and some people sent fruit plates and snacks.

Martina asked with some curiosity: "Uncle Chen, the letter from the ancestor mentioned that Cheng Shijie many times, what kind of way does Uncle Chen see this Cheng Shijie......?"

Chen Zilong read the preserved fruit in his mouth, and was a little vague: "The number of roads? I don't know how high the sky is, I don't know how thick the ground is, such an arrogant posterity, and I owe it to the teacher to take him as a treasure......"

Chen Zilong didn't have a good impression of Cheng Shijie at this time, he was just a disciple of his senior brother Sun Yuanhua, a martial artist, nothing more. In the Di newspaper, he once Ning Hai Cheng Shijie hung the seal of the chief soldier, and then recovered southern Liaoning. But it was done.

Chen Zilong gave Cheng Shijie an arrogant evaluation, that was because one of Chen Zilong's relatives returned to Shanghai from Dengzhou, and when Chen Zilong asked about Dengzhou's Ning Navy, his relatives replied that the Ning Navy only had more than two or five hundred people, a new army.

"Arrogant?"

Maldina was puzzled.

Chen Zilong sighed and said: "Cheng Shijie, who was originally a Qianhu of Dengzhou Weizuo, was good at martial arts and exterminated dozens of bandits, so he didn't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth, and he actually crossed east to southern Liaoning, intending to recover southern Liaoning, is he really Huo Quai's resurrection?" The crux of the matter is that he actually succeeded, and such a person must be even more arrogant! ”

In Chen Zilong's view, Cheng Shijie's military exploits have a great element of luck.

In fact, Chen Zilong's judgment is very correct, Cheng Shijie's military exploits are not only a matter of great luck, but almost all by luck.

Chen Zilong was even worried that once Jiannu reacted, Cheng Shijie would not be able to hold southern Liaoning.

This time. Xu Guangqi asked him to lead the Department of Agriculture to southern Liaoning, and Chen Zilong could not help but listen to Xu Guangqi's orders. But the problem is that he doesn't believe Cheng Shijie, obviously five ships can load more than a hundred agricultural scholars, as well as their servants, food and supplies, he uses more than a dozen, because if something is bad, he can retreat at any time.

Maldina was even more puzzled, she believed in Xu Guangqi's vision, and even more believed in Xu Guangqi's judgment, which could be called a young talent by Xu Guangqi, and no one in Jiangnan could beat it.

This is a very high evaluation, to put it simply, there is no one in the entire Jiangnan who can compare with Cheng Shijie.

But Chen Zilong's attitude ......

Let Maldina not know who is right and who is wrong.

The sunset disappeared behind the sea level little by little, and the flaming clouds were swallowed up by the boundless darkness little by little, flying fish, dolphins, and seagulls...... It's all gone, and the sea temporarily reclaims its incomparably beautiful garden, leaving everyone with a black face.

After watching the sea for a day, the young men and women were a little tired and returned to the cabin one after another.

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People's desires and goals are constantly improving with the improvement of living standards.

When there is no food to eat, it is enough to have food to eat.

When you don't have clothes to wear, you can be satisfied if you have clothes to wear.

When you are satisfied with the basic necessities, you will start to pursue a higher level of enjoyment.

Just like the current Zhang Chen of the former Dengzhou Wei, she was originally the daughter-in-law of Zhang Dongfang, the former military household of Dengzhou Wei, and after Zhang Dongfang was killed in the battle of guarding a thousand households, Cheng Shijie gave her twenty stones of grain and ten taels of silver. She took Zhang Saihu to live in Dengzhouwei.

Later, the Ning Navy was established, the military regulations system was also changed, and she was rewarded with another 100 acres of land. The wasteland of one hundred acres had not yet had time to be reclaimed, and later the Ning Navy migrated from Shandong to southern Liaoning. She felt sorry for her land, so she took her son to southern Liaoning.

After coming to southern Liaoning, because she was a martyr, she was the first batch to be sent to the homestead in batches.

Originally, Zhang Chen's family could only own one acre of land, and the population was small, but because her husband was a martyr, the homestead became two acres, because Zhang Saihu was too small, Zhang Chen's family did not have to work, and he could also be rewarded with three liters of grain and some daily necessities.

Zhang Chen's family had ten taels of silver and grain, so she took advantage of the time when the displaced people flocked to southern Liaoning, and used the grain in her hand to hire the displaced people to build a house for her.

If it were elsewhere, a little widow in her twenties like her, with a son of seven or eight years old, would definitely be a fat sheep in the eyes of the homeless.

But the problem is that southern Liaoning is the territory of the Ning Navy, as the widow of the martyrs of the Ning Navy, who dares to be unfavorable to her, she only needs to shout, and a large group of military households or Ning Navy soldiers will immediately rush out to take charge of her.

A few years ago, Zhang Chen's family built a nine-room house on his family's homestead, with five main rooms and two wing rooms on the left and right.

Later, Zhang Chen found that the road in front of his house was getting wider and wider, forming a main road, and Zhang Chen, who did not have to work, was also afraid of sitting and eating empty, according to the system, she could enjoy basic living security without working.

Zhang Chen didn't want to be idle, so he set up a small stall in front of his house, just at first just boiled water, free of charge to the military households of Ning Haijun to drink, and later at the request of the military households, she began to increase the scope of business, selling steamed buns and noodles.

She cooked, Zhang Saihu helped after school, but I didn't expect that the business was still very good, or the Ning Navy soldiers took care of this martyr's family, in short, when the New Year was approaching, she actually earned more than 4,000 copper coins, and a few pieces of broken silver, almost ten taels of silver.

This made Zhang Chen stunned.

At the same time, it also allowed Zhang Chen to win the first pot of gold.

After the Chinese New Year, Zhang Chen hurriedly asked people to build seven front rooms in her front yard, and she recruited two widows with children like her.

Zhang Chen himself is a widow, and he knows very well how difficult it is for him to carry a child, and he is lucky, with the help of the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy. It will only be harder for widows like them to be without men.

Chang's restaurant has expanded to offer noodles, steamed buns and steamed buns, as well as dishes that can be purchased, and business is still booming because there is no other semicolon.

Zhang Chen's recruited professional cooks, professional shopkeepers, and professional runners from the new immigrant army, and slowly expanded their business from seven door-to-door rooms.

Although there are many poor people in southern Liaoning, there are also some rich people, as long as they have hands and feet, they can earn money, although the major factories of the Ning Navy have just started to issue grain as wages, slowly, many people don't want food, they want money.

Now the Oriental Restaurant has become a famous brand in the southern city of Jinzhou, if you want to dine here, you don't have a reservation, there is no place at all, unless you are willing to spend half an hour, or even longer in line.

By February, Zhang Chen's careful calculation showed that in addition to four cooks, more than 20 men, plus the salary of the shopkeeper, she actually had more than 60 taels of silver.

At this time, more and more people have built their own houses, and many people's houses are empty, and the empty houses are really not like words, so they want to find someone to fill their homes with some empty utensils.

But the problem is that the production tasks of the carpentry factory are too heavy, especially during the spring ploughing period, they need to build a large number of farm tools, and there is no time to make furniture.

Zhang Chen discovered this problem, and she rode in a carriage to the Paradise Post Station to look for a carpenter in the crowd.

Not to mention, he was really found by Zhang Chen, this carpenter is nicknamed the old deaf, in fact, he is not deaf, but his hearing is not very good, when the homeless people were assigned, he didn't hear the steward's shouting, so he was mixed with the ordinary homeless.

Zhang Chen used the salary of one bucket of grain per person per day to hire a family of four old deaf people to make furniture, and the Oriental Furniture Factory was opened.

From Zhang Dongfang used his life to exchange ten taels of silver for Zhang Chen's family, these ten taels of silver became more than one hundred and sixty taels in Zhang Chen's hands in just four months, an increase of sixteen times.

The most important thing is that Zhang Chen's current two-acre homestead has been built by her more than 50 houses, and she has a family of seven doors, two in front and back, which can eat more than 60 tables of guests at the same time.

It also has a furniture factory, and production orders have been scheduled for six months.

Zhang Chen's is very just a microcosm of the development wave of southern Liaoning, she is lucky, but she is definitely not the only one in southern Liaoning. In time, Zhang Chen will become the most famous rich woman in southern Liaoning.

"Boss, this is today's account, you're right!"

Chen Zhang's was originally illiterate, but the woman was a mother, Zhang Sai studied in the school, and after returning home, she learned to tell her, she slowly learned a lot of words, especially hired a shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper is an old man in his fifties, who manages the store and teaches at the same time, and Zhang Chen can actually understand the accounts......

No one can succeed casually, behind Zhang Chen's success is her hard work and dedication.

"Shopkeeper Lu, I don't have to worry about the accounts you make!"

After the shopkeeper left, Zhang Chen checked the accounts one by one, very seriously.

Sun Yuanhua came to Jinzhou City, found that it was very lively, the wood factory has been expanded again and again, and now the wood factory has a heavy production task, day and night, in addition to creating farm tools, furniture, doors and windows, but also took some private orders, and was tired half to death after a day's work.

Originally, Cheng Shijie planned to hold an opening ceremony for Jinzhou Academy in February, but after learning of Sun Yuanhua's arrival, he changed the opening date until the day after Sun Yuanhua arrived in Jinzhou, that is, on the fifth day of the third month of Chongzhen's fifth year.

The opening ceremony was officially held.

With the sound of firecrackers, rows of students wearing brand new clothes in Jinzhou Academy, which was the former Jinzhou Weizuo Qianhu military camp, Jinzhou Academy was expanded in the military camp of Zuo Qianhu.

These students, carrying school bags, not on their shoulders, of course, but on one shoulder, lined up in a neat queue, accompanied by deafening liturgical music, and began to pay homage to Confucius and Mencius.

Confucius and Mencius were both saints and had extremely high status, and for thousands of years, the first lesson of the unmath was to worship these two saints, passed down from generation to generation, without exception.

It's just that more than 6,000 students, plus the leaders of Jinzhouwei gathered together, such a festival is inevitably too exaggerated, not to mention those old pedants, even Sun Yuanhua who came to see it dizzy.

Sun Yuanhua's eyes were a little strange when he looked at Cheng Shijie.

Xu Dacheng was a little puzzled: "Lord Futai! ”

"Why doesn't the old man have a girl!"

Sun Yuanhua is now sadly dead.

Cheng Shijie's generosity, these students do not have traditional Confucianism, but Western-style education that is closer to the concept of the Western French Party, literature and art, craftsmanship, and even farming, which is quite complete.

PS: There are guests here today, for the time being, the next chapter may be later.

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