Chapter 150

No plan can keep up with change.

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to try this case publicly to lay the foundation for the construction of the rule of law in southern Liaoning. But the problem is that an unexpected accident disrupted Cheng Shijie's deployment.

This change is actually not the military intelligence brought by Jinyi Wei Qin Buregret, but a transaction from Fan Yongdou.

At the time of the autumn harvest, Fan Yongdou saw the bumper harvest and Cheng Shijie's delivery capacity, and now the grain in southern Liaoning is piled up, and hundreds of granaries have been built alone, and any one of these granaries is enough to store more than 100,000 stone of grain.

At this time, Fan Yongdou accelerated the transaction process and sent people to Liao Zhongwei to inform the men who had already been stored in Liao Zhongwei to drive the cattle, sheep and horses that had already been prepared to southern Liaoning.

Cheng Shijie was ready to pit Fan Yongdou from the beginning, why didn't he want his silver?

Because silver is too easy to hide and transport, there are many channels for silver to flow into southern Liaoning, which can be transported by water or by land. A two-wheeled carriage can pull seven or eight hundred catties at the most, and if there is a good road like Liaonan, a two-wheeled carriage can pull 1,500 catties.

Even if it is 300,000 taels of silver, the total weight is 18,750 catties, and more than a dozen carriages can be pulled away at one time, so that convoys are too common in southern Liaoning.

But the livestock is different, the goal of the livestock is too big, 5,000 horses and 5,000 or 6,000 cattle, at least 1,000 people need to take care of it, the goal is very large, and it is easy to do tricks.

As long as it is not in the territory of southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie can send someone to grab it in advance.

In addition to the 2,000 iron-hoofed horses, which were normal trade, 1,600 Hequ horses, including 3,400 Liaodong horses, plus those cattle, this was a huge team.

After Fan Yongdou sent his own messenger to order the camel caravan that took care of the cattle and horses to come to southern Liaoning to trade, Fan Yongdou's men left Jinzhou City on the front foot, and were followed by the scouts of the Ning Navy.

Although the messenger sent by Fan Yongdou was very vigilant, the problem was that Su Wan Nayan under Hu Erqi was proficient in hunting, and in the words of later generations, he was a self-taught expert in trace science.

This thing sounds a bit mysterious, but it's not hard to guess, thousands of horses, and more than 8,000 cows, which must rely on freshwater lakes or rivers.

As a result, the cattle and horses stored in the territory of Liao Zhongwei were finally found by Hu Erqi, with 5,000 good war horses, more than 8,000 cattle, and tens of thousands of sheep.

In fact, this is all drawn from various ministries, and Fan Yongdou is just Huang Taiji's white glove, responsible for this transaction. Hu Erqi was overjoyed, a raid, and the guys who were responsible for taking care of these cattle and horses, there were more than 1,300 people, and they were also captured by Hu Erqi in one fell swoop.

Now Fan Yongdou has no cattle and horses to trade, what can he use to buy Cheng Shijie's grain?

Without money, Cheng Shijie would not give Fan Yongdou a grain of grain.

After Hu Erqi's department attacked Fan Yongdou's men, he sent Su Wan Nayan to lead the department to take charge of the palace, because the movement speed of cattle and sheep was too slow, even most of the Jurchens in Hu Erqi's department were proficient in domesticating cattle and sheep, but the problem was that cattle and sheep could not move as quickly as war horses.

However, Su Wan Nayan found that Jiannu had hundreds of cavalry chasing after him, and a counter-charge repelled the other party, and in the process of pursuit, he swept away more than a dozen tribes around Liao Zhongwei in one go, and grabbed tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and thousands of war horses.

Su Wan Nayan is also a ruthless character, seeing the northwest wind direction, he sent people to set fire to Fushunwei in the middle reaches of the Hunhe River, and the fire rose into the sky, out of control. From the banks of the Hunhe River, the fire burned for one or two hundred miles, and the fire effectively stopped Jiannu's pursuers.

As for the forage they burned, it is impossible to estimate.

Now Hu Erqi can be said to have returned with a full load, not only successfully brought back Fan Yongdou's cattle and horses, but also made a lot of money by beating rabbits with grass. While reporting to Cheng Shijie, he slowly returned to Haizhou with the war horses, cattle, and tens of thousands of sheep captured by Fan Yongdou.

Cheng Shijie received information from Hu Erqi on the fourth night of the ninth lunar month, and also received information from Qin Buregret, a brocade guard, he could conclude that in this case, Huang Taiji would definitely not be able to sit still.

If he can sit still, the nobles of the Eight Banners will not sit still, this time, Hu Erqi is too ruthless, taking advantage of the northwest wind whistling, a fire burned down one or two hundred miles of grassland, which means that in addition to the snow disaster last year, Jiannu will encounter a serious shortage of pasture this year.

Cheng Shijie was worried that Jiannu would send troops to block Hu Erqi's department, and hurriedly ordered the entire army of the Ning Navy to enter a state of first-class combat readiness, and at the same time asked Zhao Wencai's department of the cavalry division to lead the cavalry of the Ning Navy to meet Hu Erqi's department.

Because of this unexpected situation, Cheng Shijie could only temporarily give up the public trial of this major case, and to avoid Zhang Chen's persecution by public opinion and Zhang Daqiang, he ordered the management committee to start formulating the "Law on the Protection of Military Families and Martyrs of the Ning Navy", and use legal means to protect the interests of the military and martyrs of the Ning Navy from being infringed upon by his clan or foreign forces.

Considering that Jiannu is now ready to act, Cheng Shijie can rest assured that he will go to the capital, or it won't be long before he can receive the news of Jiannu's abnormal movements, and Cheng Shijie will be able to return to southern Liaoning smoothly.

"Cheng Jingluo is going to the capital to report on work?"

"Of course I'm going, I'm very busy for a while, and finally the autumn harvest has ended, Cheng heard that His Majesty is too bitter!"

Cheng Shijie's current acting skills are definitely at the level of an actor, and tears flow when he says it.

Gao Qiqian also admired Cheng Shijie very much, just this tearful look, how true it is, if Cheng Shijie is really missing two taels of meat, he may also be able to mix in the palace.

"Master Cheng, hurry up and prepare!"

"Well said!"

Cheng Shijie's preparation really made Gao Qiqian's jaw drop, sixty good horses, two hundred sheep, four thousand catties of fish and shrimp, two million catties of sweet potatoes, two million catties of potatoes, 800,000 catties of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, and sorghum 10,000 stones each.

Gao Qiqian saw this scene and said to his godson beside him: "It's still General Cheng who will be an official, and other generals are crying poor when they see Long Live Lord, and they will do everything they can to get some benefits from Long Live Lord, and he is still the first general to give such a generous gift to His Majesty!" ”

Wang Muzhi opened his mouth.

In fact, like Gao Qiqian, he has already seen the momentum of the southern Liaoning Domain. It is political logic for any central court to suppress the feudal town when the power of the feudal town has not yet taken shape.

But the problem is that Gao Qiqian is reluctant to say.

Because in this year's time, Cheng Shijie directly or indirectly gave Gao Qiqian more property than he got in the past ten years.

These numbers sound like a lot, if converted into tons, two million catties of sweet potatoes are only 1,000 tons, and all the grain added up is only six or seven thousand tons, and these things are less than one percent of the autumn harvest in southern Liaoning.

However, these sweet potatoes and potatoes are carefully selected and very large, sweet potatoes are more than two catties, and potatoes are also large pieces of more than one catty.

Sixty-two transport ships, loaded with these supplies, were ready to go to the capital. In addition to the generous gifts to the emperor, there are also gifts to Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi.

Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, Cheng Shijie is also vulgar.

On the night before leaving, Yang Yunniang and Feng Sanniang came to Cheng Shijie's study to ask for a meeting.

"Meet Master Cheng!"

"Excuse me!"

The moment Cheng Shijie saw Feng Sanniang, he guessed that she must have come for Hao Wuniang, after all, the impact of the Southern Liaoning case is too great, and Zhang Chen's wealth, in the eyes of ordinary people, Zhang Chen's money is not glorious, otherwise, who can go from extreme poverty to wealth in just one year?

Under the psychology of hating the rich, those who sympathize with Zhang Daqiang and Zhang Dongyuan and others actually account for the majority.

Cheng Shijie is very clear about this situation.

There are some things that many people's butts sit crooked in the first place.

"This matter, Ben Shuai will definitely handle it impartially!"

When Feng Sanniang heard this, she felt very uncomfortable. If she hadn't brought Hao Wuniang to southern Liaoning, Hao Wuniang would not have become Zhang Chen's guard, and if she hadn't become Zhang Chen's guard, Hao Wuniang would not have caused this disaster.

Feng Sanniang's legs weakened, knelt in front of Cheng Shijie and said, "Ask for grace!" ”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Ben Shuai already knows about this matter, and Ben Shuai will let Judge Zhang handle it properly and discretionally!" ”

"But ......"

Yang Yunniang hurriedly gave Feng Sanniang a look.

When Feng Sanniang left Cheng Shijie's backyard, she asked puzzledly, "Why don't you intercede for Hao Wuniang?" ”

"Because you don't have to!"

"Don't ask for it? She's killed eight people! ”

"It's okay to kill eighteen people!"

Yang Yunniang sneered: "Who is your own person and who is the enemy, the handsome man can tell the most." ”

Before going to the capital, Cheng Shijie finally sold the secret recipe for processing sweet potatoes and potatoes to all the customers who bought sweet potatoes and potatoes at a price of one hundred and fifty taels of silver, including Fan Yongdou.

As long as you follow Cheng Shijie's secret recipe, you can process sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes, or sweet potato vermicelli, and of course, you can also process them into sweet potato flour.

After entering the study, he calmly spread out the paper, dipped the pen in ink, and wrote a letter to Huang Taiji who was far away in Shenyang.

Fan Yongdou summarized what happened in his recent period to Huang Taiji: "From the perspective of Yongdou, although the general army of the Ning Navy has been established for many years, it is not as wise as the Chinese, and the heart of the border is contingent, and the ambition to enter the dynasty is not. Si people are inferior ......"

"Knock Knock ......"

There was a knock at the door.

At this time, Fan Yongdou did not open the door immediately, but quickly finished writing the letter with a few strokes, drying the ink, and putting it in the envelope, and then opened the door.

"Fan Jian!"

"Sir!"

A tall man with a tiger's back walked over.

Fan Yongdou handed him the letter: "Take this letter, set off for Shenyang at night, arrive in Shenyang within five days, and hand it over to Master Fan's mansion, it doesn't matter if the outside is a bag, the letter inside must be handed over to Master Fan to open in person, the matter is critical, you must be careful, if something goes wrong, you won't come back......"

"Yes!"

Fan Jian turned to leave.

A scribe with a baby face slowly entered the study, this person was Fan Yongdou's staff strategist, surnamed Cao Mingxu, the word Dongsheng, was Jiexiu. His fate is similar to that of Song Xiance. Daming is an era of looking at faces, but all officials or people with academic qualifications or above, the first thing to pass is their appearance.

If you don't have good looks, you can't get your academic qualifications. Although Cao Xu is not a dwarf, he has a baby face, and he has also cut off his career path.

"Dongsheng is coming!"

Fan Yongdou invited Cao Xu into the room.

Cao Xu looked at Fan Jian's back and said, "Proprietor, have you written a letter to Shenyang?" ”

"That's right, I've already sent Fan Jian over."

"The proprietor is in a hurry!"

Cao Xu sighed and said, "Things are wrong!" ”

"Bad?"

"From Zhang Hong and below, sixteen people, all planted!"

Fan Yongdou was able to mix like a fish in water in Xuanfu and Datong because of his money, which opened the way and could buy off the generals and civil and military officials of various towns.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were low and the cost of corruption was low, so Fan Yongdou was full of friends in Datong and Xuanfu, walking on any pass, as if walking on the ground.

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou broke out in a cold sweat: "All planted? ”

"The students wanted to make some friends in southern Liaoning, but they never thought that they would go to give gifts on the front foot, and they would be reported on the back foot."

Cao Xu said with palpitations: "Fortunately, I am useless to our people this time!" ”

Responsible for bribing the civil and military officials in southern Liaoning, it is Zhang Hong, Zhang Hong is ostensibly a broker, and his ancestral home is Yangzhou. On the surface, he didn't have anything to do with Cao Xu, and he didn't have anything to do with Fan Yongdou.

These hands are all cannon fodder used to test Cheng Shijie, even if he can't stand the torture and confess, he can't find their heads.

Fan Yongdou looked at Cao Xu and asked, "Dongsheng, what do you say Cheng Shijie is like?" ”

Cao Xu's face became solemn. I thought about it for a while. Fang Cai said slowly: "It's hard to say......"

"Can't say?"

"yes, it's hard to say!"

"This man is dignified and tall, but he has a philistine face, and he does not look like a hero. He speaks and acts informally, and has no scruples about officials like Gao Qiqian and officials like Sun Yuanhua, and he doesn't seem to know the depth of the imperial court. ”

Cao Xu sighed and said: "But the soldiers under his command are very good, standing there is a bloody color, although I don't know the soldiers, but I can also feel the killing spirit of these people, no real swords and guns have been on the battlefield, there is no such temperament." I dare to conclude that in the whole world, I am afraid that I will not find a single soldier like this. These soldiers obey this Cheng Shijie, and it seems that they can go to the soup with just one look...... There is no need for verbal commands at all, it is a real tiger and wolf army......"

Fan Yongdou nodded and said, "This person's rise time is extremely fast!" ”

Cao Xu said: "I can go from an unknown man to Liaodong within a year." If this person is not a puppet pushed out by some people, or he has concealed his own background, it is not known what there may be in it! ”

Fan Yongdou said: "Dongsheng, Ling means ......"

"There is no meaning in being humiliated, it is just to present a possible inside story!"

Fan Yongdou smiled and said: "Dongsheng and I are nominally separated, but in fact they are no different from family members, you don't have to say anything, but you might as well talk about it!" ”

Cao Xu said: "The proprietor, please think carefully, if this Cheng Shijie is from a martial arts family, he has been skilled in the camp since he was a child, but his family is in the middle of the road and has become a businessman, then what is his family background?" And when did it fall in the middle? Even if he loses, since he is a general in the battalion, with his uncle's ability and skill, it is not difficult to get ahead, right? ”

"It is rumored that he is the son of Cheng Yongxing, the guardian of the Thousand Households of Phoenix Mountain......"

Cao Xu shook his head and said: "Just listen to this, the surname Cheng is not a small surname, when Cheng Shao, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, the word Gongye, Cheng Ne, the governor of Henan in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Cheng Shizhen, who had a good relationship with Qian Qianyi, and Cheng Shichang, looking at his name, isn't it more like his brothers?" ”

Fan Yongdou frowned and said, "Go on!" ”

Cao Xu said: "It can only be said that he has a hardship, and this hardship is not enough for outsiders." Otherwise, it will kill him......"

Fan Yongdou's eyes lit up and said slowly: "He is thirty-six years old this Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

Cao Xu smiled and nodded: "According to the number of years, he is just seventeen years old in the forty-third year of Wanli!" ”

"In the forty-third year of Wanli, the court attack case...... The implications are widespread. Fan Yongdou was very puzzled and said: "But why is he ...... now?"

"Proprietor, what does this have to do with us?"

Cao Xu said: "No matter what Cheng Shijie's background is, it is not uncommon for a general who can manage the army, but a general who can run a bank is rare, at least the family may have access to the affairs of the bank, this kind of secrecy is not something that can be accessed casually!" ”

Cheng Shijie can do business and make money in Tuntian, any of these skills are not unusual, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie can do these things.

"The proprietor just wants to make money, why bother with the affairs of Huang Taiji? From a humble point of view, Huang Taiji is a mean person, and he is the most unreasonable, and if he refuses to help him follow him, he is his enemy, not to mention that the proprietor is such a wealthy businessman, it is their Eight Banners nobles, and the siblings have also suffered enough of his temper! ”

Fan Yongdou smiled faintly and said: "So, a companion is like a tiger, in the past three or four years, I have never dared to go to Shenyang!" ”

"I think it's meaningless!"

"Not big?"

"Yes, Jiannu now seems to have suppressed Daming everywhere, and there are many people who surrender to Shenyang, and they don't care if the proprietor takes refuge in him, otherwise, he won't send Bao Cheng over first, which shows that he doesn't believe in the proprietor!"

Cao Xu continued: "In Huang Taiji's view, the proprietor is a businessman, and he can just use it. Didn't the proprietor find out that General Cheng was not here? ”

Cao Xu found that Cheng Shijie had created a set of systems that were different from the three provinces and six ministries since the Han and Tang dynasties, and also different from the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, but adopted a system that he had not seen or heard of.

The Liaodong Management Committee is under the jurisdiction of the Executive Committee, the Executive Committee is under the jurisdiction of the Working Committee, the first level of management, this is not abnormal in itself, but compared with the current Daming Prefecture system, the power of this management system is more decentralized, and the director of a working committee wants to control a working committee, and must obtain the support of more than half of the members.

However, there is no distinction between high and low committee members, and in this case, the committee members and committee members are actually all mountains.

What's more, Liaonan does not discriminate against businessmen, people like Fan Yongdou, such as Gu Shizhang, have now become a member of the Jinzhou Executive Committee, such as Gu Shizhang, a rising star, his wealth or influence is far inferior to Fan Yongdou.

If Fan Yongdou takes refuge in Cheng Shijie, he will definitely get more than Jiannu.

Fan Yongdou sighed and said: "Actually, if I take refuge in Cheng Shijie, in the short term, I can get cheap salt, grain, steel and other materials from southern Liaoning, and the profit is certain, but in the long run, the risk is too great." ”

After all, Huang Taiji has already pulled the flag and rebelled, but Cheng Shijie has not, although Fan Yongdou can see that Cheng Shijie has built a country within a country in southern Liaoning, but there is still great uncertainty about how this southern Liaoning will develop.

……

Leaving southern Liaoning and stepping on the boundary of Dengzhou, this is already another world. Like last year, this spring was a terrible drought, with so little rainfall that the land was cracked. The autumn grain harvest did not fail, but the output was seriously reduced.

Sun Yuanhua couldn't complete the tax with autumn grain, and there was a faint rumor in the court that he wanted to replace Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, if it wasn't for Xu Guangqi speaking for him in the court, at this time, Sun Yuanhua might have packed up and left.

For Sun Yuanhua, the only good thing was that a large number of refugees could go to southern Liaoning, and it was impossible to form a rebel army in Shandong, and after a short stay in Dengzhou, Cheng Shijie unloaded some gifts and the fleet went all the way north.

On the tenth day of September, Cheng Shijie's fleet docked at the port of Tianjin, although Tianjin is Tianjin, it is different from Tianjin in later generations.

At this time, Tianjin is very desolate, far less prosperous than Dengzhou, this thing is said, I am afraid no one will believe that Tianjin is actually not as good as Dengzhou.

The current Tianjin, in fact, Tianjin Wei, and later added Tianjin Left Guard and Tianjin Right Guard. It is a purely military city with no civil administration.

When Cheng Shijie arrived at the Tianjin Acropolis, he found that there was some déjà vu here, almost similar to the original Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu, which was a city that was almost deserted, and all the military households were ragged and lifeless.

Tianjin has three guards, and the three guards are stationed in the same city, each with its own commander, and there is no control over each other. When Cheng Shijie arrived in Tianjin with his own soldiers, only Zhu Sheng, the commander of the Tianjin Left Guard, led more than 100 people under his command to meet him.

Cheng Shijie didn't feel anything wrong, but Gao Qiqian's face couldn't hold it, he looked at the more than 100 soldiers, and said with displeasure on his face: "Hmph, Tianjin Wei Commander ...... What a big shelf! ”

Cheng Shijie raised his eyebrows, and secretly thought in his heart: "This dead eunuch wants to make trouble!" ”

Cheng Shijie actually guessed correctly, Gao Qiqian wanted to make trouble.

Gao Qiqian really wanted to make trouble, and someone immediately handed the ladder.

Zhu Sheng said with a smile: "Lord Cheng Jingluo, Gonggong Gao, the commanders of Tianjin Wei and Tianjin Right Guard are busy rectifying military affairs, and they really can't leave......

"Our family is going to see how Tianjin reorganizes military affairs!"

(End of chapter)