Chapter 126

The salute officer stepped forward and said loudly: "Jinzhou civil and military, all the soldiers and soldiers welcome the emperor to make documents!" ”

On such a solemn occasion, there is no need to bow down. Since Cheng Shijie and below, you only need to bow down and listen to the order.

Fu Zonglong received the holy decree from the hand of the salute official and read it out: "On the fifth day of May of Chongzhen, the Ming Emperor said: The major affairs of the country are in the Rong worship, I inherit the order of the heavens, and Qin Shao Hongtu. The sea is swinging. The construction of slaves is rampant, the thieves are wantonly plundering, the false banners are indiscriminate, the conquest and punishment cannot be overcome, and there is no way to determine the border without crusade. The establishment of the general, the three generations of the sergeant, the commission of the Yuan Rong, the Han and Tang dynasties because of the war Dirong. Ritual treatment. Rong Shi conferred the title. The amount of work is based on the soil, and the princes who are rewarded for military merits are the princes who built Jiuding in Dayu, and the five lords of Zhou Gongyi, Bai Jing and Huang Cheng, and rewarded and punished ......"

Song Xiance and Lin Xuzong are okay, they can barely understand it, as for Cheng Shijie, he is already dizzy to hear it, as for Shen Mingyu, Zhang Yu, Zhou Yandong, Chen Guodong, Li Zhixiang and others, they are staring at each other, and they don't know what they mean at all.

However, Zhou Yandong and others have a very pious attitude.

"The capture of the general, the governor of Zuodu, and the general of the Ning Navy, the control of the Dongjiang army Cheng Shijie, the enemy to abandon the enemy, the construction of slaves to hear the fear, patrol the border, the three armies are excited. Therefore, the right attendant of the military department and the imperial history of the capital, the governor of Jimen, Liaodong, Baoding military affairs, the Dragon and Tiger Festival, the gold seal and purple ribbon, entrusted to the feudal territory, worship the strategy. The military and civilians of Liaodong are all from the order, Wenqing Wu Ben, with any rewards and punishments, the territory of the Ping country, the suppression of Jiannu with virtue, so that the old and young in Liaodong will be born and governed by Kangning, Li Shuye from Xile, Cheng Hao Tianqi Hangze, and the grace of bowing! The system is to be fed, and Erqi is admired......"

Cheng Shijie can understand almost all the words, but the questions, together, don't know what they mean, just when Cheng Shijie was still stunned, Song Xiance lowered his voice and said: "Lord, hurry up and give the edict!" ”

Cheng Shijie happily put his hands and shouted: "Minister, Cheng Shijie is ordered, thank you." ”

Sun Yuanhua and the others followed: "The ministers are grateful!" ”

Huang Long led the generals of the Dongjiang Army and said unevenly: "The ministers are ordered, thank you!" ”

It was the turn of the more than 6,000 officers and men of the Ning Navy who were present to the audience to say in unison: "The ministers are grateful!" ”

At this time, Cheng Shijie said: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Admiral Liuqianning said: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Fu Zonglong held the holy decree in front of Cheng Shijie and gave the holy decree to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie stretched out his hand to take it and handed it to Cheng Shi behind him.

Cheng Shi held the holy decree at this time.

Jingluo Liaodong, which can also be called Liaodong Jingluo Envoy, is actually a military official position, because Liaodong has no civilian institutions, and all military administration. In the entire Liaodong region, there is no state capital, only a health office.

However, from the Ariake generation, Cheng Shijie was the first person to serve as a military minister and a senior official.

After receiving the holy decree, the salutant gave Cheng Shijie the official seal and festival symbolizing the envoy of the scriptures: "In the past, from now on, the upper part is the sky, the lower is the spring, and the general system is it." ”

In view of the fact that Cheng Shijie beheaded Xiucai who committed the "Flower Case" when he was in his hands on Shang Fang's sword, this is an official with a bad record, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites had to re-teach Cheng Shijie the right to use Shang Fang's sword.

"The axe of the festival, the authority of the Son of Heaven is also, the lord of the people to give people and ministers, it is a reward and punishment on behalf of Hao Tianxing, so it must not be disrespectful, and it cannot be used wantonly......"

"Yes"

The salute officer said: "The reward is exclusive, and all officials below the fifth grade will be exempted." The general can do it himself. Below the third grade, more than five grades will be promoted. The general must play the pavilion and give orders to his subordinates. ”

Cheng Shijie said: "Yes! ”

"Without exception, the Taiwan Cabinet will not reject the general's request...... If the Cabinet refuses the General's request for recital, the General may play directly to His Majesty, and the Cabinet has no right to inquire about the Commander's Recital, and the Cabinet will go directly to the Holy Hearing through the celebrant ......"

"Yes!"

The official is a famous instrument of the imperial court, not a general who governs the people. Not to be taken lightly; If you are not incompetent and mediocre, you must not take it without permission! ”

"Yes!"

"Jie Ji kills, where officials below the seventh rank are guilty, the general can be beheaded immediately, the fifth grade below the seventh grade can be beheaded first and then heard, and the general below the third grade and above the fifth grade can participate in the impeachment, and will be convicted after the reconsideration of the Taiwan Cabinet!"

In fact, Yuan Chonghuan at the beginning, not to mention Mao Wenlong, who killed the first grade, he didn't even have the power to directly behead a general of the third grade, even if he killed a general of the third grade, he needed to be impeached by the imperial court, and the cabinet would reconsider it before convicting.

Under normal circumstances, the cabinet would not refute Yuan's request.

When the ceremony was completed, Cheng Shijie held another banquet in Jinzhou City to entertain Fu Zonglong and his party.

Sun Yuanhua looked at Cheng Shijie and said with a solemn face: "The authority in hand, although it is a good thing, but it is necessary to use the power well in order to finally become a good thing, does Beiping understand the meaning of this constitution?" ”

Cheng Shijie bowed down and said: "The subordinates understand that playing with authority will only harm others and themselves!" ”

"It's good that you can understand, in today's world, power often uses power everywhere, and there are very few people who can make good use of power!"

Sun Yuanhua was also observing Cheng Shijie during this time.

Although it is said that Cheng Shijie's career has not been long ago, the more at this time, the easier it is to see the problem. For example, if the poor get rich, they are the most likely to consume with revenge. A person like Cheng Shijie, who suddenly grasped power, is the most prone to cronyism.

Sun Yuanhua has observed that there are many people around Cheng Shijie, such as Song Xiance, Zhou Yandong, Chen Guodong and others. They are all Cheng Shijie's original team, and it is said that the most important thing for Cheng Shijie should be the military power, and Zhou Yandong, Chen Guodong, Song Xiance and others should be allowed to lead the troops.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie's approach made Sun Yuanhua a little incomprehensible.

Zhou Yandong, the second person in the Ning Navy below Cheng Shijie, takes care of everything except the army, but he doesn't care about the army. But Chen Guodong is only in charge of military law, and in Sun Yuanhua's view, Chen Guodong is actually a military judge.

In fact, Chen Guodong is Cheng Shijie's biggest help to effectively control the army, followed by Yang Yunniang and Liaonan Bank. Because of the existence of the bank, it is impossible for officers to meddle in the salaries of all officers and soldiers, so as to prevent officers from taking over and deducting military salaries.

Unlike other armies, ordinary generals do not have the right to recruit soldiers, and all recruits are recruited by the Military Training Bureau, and after passing the training, they are uniformly assigned to all divisions, generals, bureaus, and divisions, so that in this way, coupled with the irregular transfer of generals, it is possible to avoid officers from having too much influence in an army.

Cheng Shijie is not a saint, and he is not exempt from clichés, the people he uses are also the original team around him, like the family Ding Bing who was born in Dengzhou Zuo Qianhu, or the military households of Dengzhou Wei Zuo Qianhu, as long as they are not stupid, they can also be mixed with the officials of Tuntian and 100 households at the worst, which is the official position of Zheng Liupin.

Others want to become a hundred household officials, that needs to show extraordinary ability, extremely loyal, in comparison, more than 10,000 military households in Zuo Qianhu, whether in the combat army, or in the tuntian system, even if it is to manage the factory, can be promoted relatively quickly.

According to the management method of later generations, Cheng Shijie divided the factories under his name into different levels according to the size of the factory, that is, the factory with less than 300 employees is the general level of the company. The factory director and manager enjoy the treatment of 100 general managers, with an annual salary of 36 stone of grain and 60 taels of silver.

If there are more than 300 people but less than 800 people, it is at the level of the General Bureau. Seventy-two stone of grain was enjoyed annually, plus a hundred taels of silver. If there are more than 800 people but less than 1,500 people, it is the general level of 1,000 people. The annual salary is one hundred and twenty stone of grain, plus two hundred taels of silver and corresponding dividends.

More than 1,500 people are all division-level enterprises, factory directors and managers, enjoy the treatment of the division-level, so far, Cheng Shijie's factories in southern Liaoning, only military units have reached this scale, such as steel factories, gun factories, ordnance factories, and carriage factories. The farm tool factory is the only private factory with more than 1,500 employees, reaching more than 2,800 people. It's just that not long ago, the farm tool factory was divided into two and divided into Jinzhou factory and Gaizhou factory.

In Chongzhen's five years of spring ploughing, the main reclamation area is concentrated in Jinzhou, and next year while developing Jinzhou, it will also be dumped in the direction of Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and Haizhou, and a factory will be set up in Gaizhou, which is also to reduce transportation pressure.

"By the way, Beiping, what are you going to do about entering Beijing?"

Sun Yuanhua continued: "Today, the Holy Lord intends to summon you to the court to report on your majesty, but I am afraid that you will be suspicious, so I made it clear that it depends on your own wishes, if you are not willing to go, you will send an envoy to accompany Master Fu into the court!" ”

Under normal circumstances, when the governors of various provinces took up their posts or were transferred, they would enter Beijing to meet the emperor in person. This is because the emperor needs to conduct a face-to-face investigation, and there are some important matters that need to be explained in time, and they will be encouraged and supervised. In other words, if a governor has served in a foreign country for a long time and his political achievements have been affirmed by the emperor, then under normal circumstances, he does not need to enter the capital to face the saint. This was widespread, especially among the governors of the interior provinces.

Cheng Shijie's situation is relatively special, his political achievements have been affirmed by Emperor Chongzhen, and according to the convention, he does not need to enter Beijing to face the saint, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie has become the idol of Emperor Chongzhen invisibly, so this young son of heaven very much wants to meet Cheng Shijie, the "Changshan Zhao Zilong!" of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Cheng Shijie also knew that if he dragged on and did not go to the capital, I am afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would have the idea that he would definitely go to the capital, but at the moment, the spring ploughing work is basically over, although it has not rained for more than 20 days, but the crops can be irrigated through the waterwheel in the ditch, Cheng Shijie really has not many things, and he will also go abroad in the future life, and he needs to leave for a while.

When more than 100 Beijing officials came to southern Liaoning, the military households and workers in southern Liaoning were so surprised that they even spoke much softer. Fu Zonglong was full of interest, facing the wine banquet provided by Cheng Shijie, the fried brown duck, the fat chicken, the lamb that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, the vegetables that were fried green, and the thick broth, this meal was considered a luxury wherever it was placed.

Fu Zonglong, the squire of the military department, only drank three glasses of wine before pretending to be drunk, and Cheng Shijie couldn't figure out how much Fu Zonglong was drinking, and he didn't desperately persuade him to drink. As a result, Fu Zonglong returned to the guest room where he was staying, wiped his face with a towel, his eyes were clear, and there was no trace of drunkenness.

Fu Zonglong changed into a long robe, took his personal entourage, and turned the entire Jinzhou City, and he was full of praise for Ning Haijun's free bathhouses, free pharmacies, free medical halls, and hot factories.

Although it is said that free medical care for all people has been achieved in southern Liaoning, in fact, this free medical care makes Cheng Shijie feel helpless, because there is a field hospital of the Ning Navy in Jinzhou, five pharmacies, eleven medical centers, and fifteen cooperative medical centers, the number of doctors, not to mention in Shandong, even in the capital, is already relatively dense.

But the problem is that in order to make money, those cooperative medical centers began to mobilize their men to look for patients everywhere, and after the patients were treated in the medical center, they did not need to take money, but only needed to press their own handprints, and wait until three months, the cooperative medical center settled the accounts with the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ning Navy.

In this way, any medical center is overcrowded, according to the theoretical standards of traditional Chinese medicine, the people of the Ming Dynasty, there are few normal and healthy, especially kidney deficiency, and there are ten people with nine deficiency, which has caused a new problem, the really sick people, there is no chance to be treated, and there is no big problem of idlers, but occupy limited medical resources.

Cheng Shijie originally decided to expand the cooperative medical center, but finally had to propose that kidney tonic medicinal materials, aphrodisiac medicinal materials, and large tonic medicinal materials are no longer free of charge.

Fu Zonglong only glanced at the so-called free medical hall and asserted: "Cheng Jingluo was cheated!" ”

Cheng Shijie also knew that he was a little naïve.

When there are no sufficient medical resources, it is purely uncomfortable to forcibly start free medical care for all.

When Fu Zonglong came to Jinzhou Academy, he saw that in the spacious classroom of Jinzhou Academy, sixty or seventy children were dressed in neat and uniform Confucian shirts, sitting upright, holding books and shaking their little heads to follow Mr. and read: "Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe ......is desolate."

When I came to another year's class again, I found that the children were shaking their heads and reciting: "Three three get nine, three forty-two, three fifty-five, three sixty-eight......

Originally, there were not many teachers in Jinzhou Academy, but since Xie Zongze became the dean of Jinzhou Academy and enjoyed the treatment of Jiupin Official, he wrote to his classmates and friends, asking them to come to Jinzhou Academy to teach, while studying, without spending money and food at home, and have the opportunity to take the examination department, how good is this treatment?

Soon, there were more teachers in Jinzhou Academy, and there were nearly one million books in Jinzhou Academy, which made great contributions. What these poor talents are rushing for is not the salary Cheng Shijie gave them, nor the treatment they are given, but the opportunity to give them free sincere letters.

Fu Zonglong came to the outside of the city and saw the cattle farm in Jinzhou City, the cattle farm at this time was located in a huge ravine, full of cattle grazing leisurely.

Fu Zonglong's eldest follower, Fu An, was stunned and said, "My God, how many cows are there here?" ”

"So-so, more than seven thousand!"

Fu Zonglong followed the prestige, only to see Cheng Shijie and Sun Yuanhua coming together.

Since Fu Zonglong announced his decree to Cheng Shijie, after Cheng Shijie accepted the strategy, his official position has actually been higher than Fu Zonglong.

Although it is said that in the Ming Dynasty, the highest level of the superintendent was generally held by the secretary of the military department, followed by the governor, and the governor would be the governor of one or several provinces, but the official position of the economic strategy was established when the military threat was most serious. When Sun Chengzong served as the envoy of Liaodong, he controlled the military and political affairs of Liaodong, and the war with Houjin was under his control.

Fu Zonglong's military squire is the third rank, and the highest official position on his body is the governor, which is only the official position of the second grade. And Cheng Shijie is the commander of the Liaodong Metropolitan Envoy and the commander of the second product, and the Liaodong Economic Strategy Envoy is also the second product, but Cheng Shijie is a golden seal and purple ribbon.

Of course, Cheng Shijie did not actually teach the first-grade Guanglu doctor, but he gave the first-grade golden seal purple ribbon.

This is equivalent to the deputy section-level section chief of later generations, presiding over the company, and correcting is only a matter of time and seniority.

"Cheng Jingluo!"

Fu Zonglong smiled and asked, "Where did Cheng Jingluo get so many cows?" ”

"Of course I bought it!"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "When Cheng first came to southern Liaoning, there were only more than 1,700 cattle in total, more than 5 million acres of fertile land, and more than 1,700 cattle could be used for anything, so Cheng took out a sum of money and bought more than 5,000 strong cattle from cattle dealers. ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie made a bitter face, "The price of cattle is too expensive, ten taels of silver for a head, and five thousand heads will cost me 50,000 taels of silver, it's just a money grab!" ”

Fu Zonglong could only smile bitterly. Over the years, the price of cattle has continued to rise, from five taels of silver in the Wanli period to eight taels of silver.

Cattle are an indispensable aid to farming, as a large agricultural country, the Ming Dynasty's cattle are never enough, there is no surplus, so the more you buy, the more expensive it is, because even the most powerful cattle dealers, it is not easy to get hundreds of strong cattle at once.

Who is willing to sell a strong cow unless it is absolutely necessary? He pointed to the calves who were struggling to stand up on their knees on their forelegs, and said, "Everything is difficult at the beginning, but after this pass, it will be very smooth." You see, you have just given birth to two calves, and there are a few calves over there, and the herd will continue to give birth next year, and your herd will grow more and more, and in a few years, you will no longer have to worry about the lack of cattle. Best of all, you don't have to worry about the lack of fertilizer anymore. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Yuanhua's face became even more bitter.

Cheng Shijie's first destination for buying cattle was Dengzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion in Shandong Province, because Cheng Shijie had a high price, and he did not make money alone, but also used grain. Now the price of grain in Shandong has exceeded one tael of silver, and even reached one tael or two of silver per stone, but Cheng Shijie is good, he bought good rice from Jiangnan, and the cost price of transporting it to Dengzhou is less than seven coins of silver per stone.

Those people who were so poor that they couldn't survive had to sell their cattle for grain to eat, after all, a cow could be exchanged for more than 1,000 catties of fine rice.

There are several sources of fertilizer in these years, the first is silt with a lot of humus, such as pond mud, the second is plant ash, and the third is livestock manure.

Silt doesn't cost money, but you have to have a pond, and if you don't have a pond, you only have a ditch. Cheng Shijie overhauled the ditch, can dig the silt also needs to hire people, but also needs costs, if there is no money, you have to wait for the flood to wash the silt over, it will be a disaster.

The problem is that wheat straw and straw are firewood and grass in the farmers' homes, and it depends on it to cook rice and water, and it is impossible to burn them all at once. There is not much grass and trees to burn in Jinzhou now, and the fertility of plant ash is relatively poor, so it can't be done by relying on it.

Livestock manure is the best farm fertilizer, fertility, and stable supply, with such a good fertilizer, crops will naturally have a good harvest, but raising a large number of livestock needs to consume a lot of food.

This falls into a strange circle: in order to have a good harvest, you must have enough manure, if you want to have enough manure, you must raise a large number of poultry and livestock, and if you want to have a large amount of surplus food, you must have a good harvest......

This is an unavoidable circle, and if any link goes wrong, a vicious circle will be formed, but if one of the links can be unraveled, a virtuous circle can be formed.

It is very easy to see how the common people are doing, and you don't have to read official articles, but you can see everything at a glance at the farmers' chicken pens and cattle pens. Just like in later generations, looking at the recipes of the common people, you can know what the cost of living of the people is, throughout last year, Lao Cheng went to buy beef five times a year, because it was too expensive, and he couldn't afford it. Lao Cheng is a fat man, but last year, he lost more than 30 pounds and lost weight successfully.

Because Cheng Shijie was rich, he successively bought more than 4,000 cattle from Shandong, while Xie Jinglin bought more than 1,000 cattle and more than 2,000 war horses from Jiannu.

Now the number of war horses in Cheng Shijie's hands has exceeded 5,000, and the number of cultivated cattle has exceeded 8,000, but as for the development of cultivated land in southern Liaoning, it is actually not enough, and on average, there is only one cultivated ox on average of more than 600 acres of land.

Especially donkeys, don't look at donkeys are not as fast as horses, nor are they tall and mighty, but in fact, donkeys have very strong endurance, eat less, have good endurance, and belong to animals that are easier to feed. In the whole of southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie alone has more than 23,000 donkeys, most of which serve major factories and are used as power for animal power machinery.

In addition, there are many donkeys among the people.

Because Cheng Shijie has money, he has enough manpower to dredge the ditch and compost with the silt in the ditch, and now he has enough grass and grain to feed a large number of ploughing cattle and donkeys, mules, war horses and other livestock, with only more than 8,000 cows, which can produce 300,000 catties of cow dung every day.

In addition, Cheng Shijie also has tens of thousands of pigs, hundreds of thousands of sheep, piles of manure outside the farm, and solved the irrigation problem, and the foundation of a virtuous cycle has been laid.

In fact, many people think that Cheng Shijie why he didn't distribute the land to the people, in fact, it is useless to divide it, ordinary people have no money, they have no ability to feed livestock at all, and they do not have the ability to get enough fertilizer.

PS: Lao Cheng continues to write, if the twelve and a half are not sent, there is no need to wait.

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