Chapter 155

Cheng Shijie talked to Emperor Chongzhen about a lot of problems about Jiannu, of which the focus was on Mongolia, Cheng Shijie did not hide it, and told Emperor Chongzhen bluntly and truthfully that the Ming Dynasty had missed a lot of opportunities, especially the strategy of economic encirclement, this strategy still had a certain opportunity when Sun Chengzong was serving as the Liaodong Economic Strategy and the Ming Dynasty still had hundreds of thousands of capable soldiers.

Now the Ming Dynasty can no longer be blocked, and regardless of the situation in Liaoxi, Datong, Xuanfu, including the three sides, there are too many places where Jiannu can be smuggled, and the best way for the imperial court is not to restrict trade with Jiannu, but to encourage, take the opportunity to collect heavy taxes from the hands of merchants, with money, everything is easy to do.

"The Ming Dynasty's policy of banning the sea has now existed in name only."

Emperor Chongzhen glared at Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie said: "Your Majesty, don't stare at it, staring at this is also the truth, now, the Dengzhou Naval Division, the Ning Navy Naval Division and the Funing Naval Division, including the Fujian Naval Division in the south, the Liangguang Naval Division, these naval divisions and ships together, are not as good as a fraction of Zheng Zhilong's Zheng fleet, and the combat effectiveness is also very weak. The imperial court can preside over the sea trade, and can refer to the opening of the law in the early days of the country, and the imperial court will issue a maritime trade license, and each license can be sold for 100,000 taels of silver, at least a few million taels of silver! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's eyes widened: "There will be so many?" ”

"But what?"

"The Cabinet will never approve this!"

"How is this possible?"

"You don't need to go through the cabinet, let Gonggong Gao be responsible for this matter, the minister can take the lead, introduce some businessmen, let them go to the sea to do business, millions of taels of silver into the account, Your Majesty will have money, whether you want to build a new army, or to help the victims, it is easy to do things if you have money, as for the problem of food, the minister can think of a way, next year in the southern Liaoning region to have more fields, there will be food!"

Gao Qiqian secretly gave Cheng Shijie a thumbs up.

Emperor Chongzhen is a poor ghost emperor, as Cheng Shijie said, he really has no money, but he copied Fan Yongdou's house, and he didn't know how much silver he could copy, but Cheng Shijie wanted to open the sea ban, which made Emperor Chongzhen embarrassed.

The only way is for the chamberlain to take action. The chamberlain will definitely be impeached, this is inevitable, as long as Chongzhen doesn't care, or delays tactics, this first dividend will come.

In fact, the collusion between the Jiangnan Maritime Group has caused countless wealthy businessmen to be jealous, and now that someone is going to take them to do it, they will definitely unite and work against the Jiangnan Maritime Group.

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Will this be too big to fall?" ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, there is no rebel army that the Ning Navy can't exterminate!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Your Majesty has given the minister the right to act cheaply in battle, as long as you believe in Weichen, no matter if there is news that the minister has defected to the enemy in the future, or the news that Litong has built a slave, as long as you don't believe these rumors, the minister can recreate a slave within three years, and within five years, he is guaranteed to catch Huang Taiji, or bring his body to the capital!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen was very excited: "Really? ”

"If the minister has half a word, the sky will hit five thunders!"

Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand and grabbed Cheng Shijie's hand and said, "What else does Cheng Qing need!" ”

"The minister wants two million salt leads!"

"Shigang, I'm ready!"

"Minister, two more people."

Emperor Chongzhen was slightly stunned: "Who?" ”

"Former scholar of the Middle Pole Palace, Lord Sun Chengzong, former governor of Denglai, Lord Yuan!"

Emperor Chongzhen muttered: "They ......"

"When the minister first entered the officialdom, it can be said that he doesn't know anything about officialdom, the minister confesses, the minister is worried that he can't fight them, so let the two bosses sit in southern Liaoning and shelter the ministers from the wind and rain!"

Cheng Shijie definitely didn't tell the truth, first of all, he has no one available now, Xu Guangqi's West French Party originally had two or three kittens, and most of them were not official materials, as academic research, these people are not bad, but being an official does not have the ability and strength of the ruling party.

However, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli are different, they both have countless protégés and former officials, as long as they can be invited out of the mountain, there are still a large number of people behind them.

As for the issue of people's hearts, the West French Party, Sun Chengzong's Northern Zhili, and Yuan Keli's Henan talents in Guide Mansion will come forward one after another, and the three-legged stand is the most stable situation.

In the future, when Cheng Shijie's talents in southern Liaoning grow up, the talents of Sun Yuan's second line will slowly take a back seat.

Gao Qi felt that Cheng Shijie's words were too modest, Sun Yuanhua was his top boss, and Jin Yousheng, the commander of Dengzhou Wei, these two people who were Cheng Shijie's top bosses, absolutely disagreed with what Cheng Shijie said.

What does Cheng Shijie mean that he can't be an official?

If he doesn't know how to be an official, 90% of the people in the Ming Dynasty won't be an official.

In the face of the Dengzhou mutiny, how many people will resist being the king and hegemon, and calm things down?

Only Cheng Shijie, a person who knows how to advance and retreat, and who knows how to lose, can stabilize Sun Yuanhua and force Sun Yuanhua to compromise.

Gao Qiqian thinks that he is not a good person, however, he has always hated Cheng Shijie.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "I will think about this matter again......"

What I mean by thinking about it is that there is no following.

Cheng Shijie said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, if the ministers don't have the help of the two bosses, I'm afraid that the ministers will be impeached into a sieve......"

"If I invite them out of the mountains, what position will I place them in?"

"Otherwise, the minister will come forward and implore Sun Chengzong and Lord Sun to come out of the mountain and come to ......southern Liaoning as a teacher."

Emperor Chongzhen did not directly express his position on this point.

In law, there is a saying that anyone who does not forbid the law can do it.

In the officialdom, the leader did not express his position, in fact, he has already made a statement, although you do it, out of the basket, it has nothing to do with me, with credit, it is the boss's leadership.

"It's not too early, the minister is leaving!"

"Hmm!"

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Gao companion, send Cheng Qing for me!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

When leaving the noon gate, Gao Qiqian said: "General Cheng, hey, it should be called Cheng Juma in advance, this matter will be on the agenda in a few days, our family congratulates Cheng Juma in advance!" ”

Cheng Shijie said: "My father-in-law is polite! ”

Gao Qi lowered his voice and said: "Master Ma, we are our own people, you tell the truth, does Fan Yongdou have tens of millions of family wealth?" ”

"If you start quickly, he didn't have time to hide his assets, tens of millions of family wealth is trivial, if he hears the wind, don't say tens of millions of family wealth, he can't even touch millions!"

Cheng Shijie turned to look at the Forbidden City and said: "The Forbidden City can't hide secrets, maybe what we said today, the outer court has already gotten the news!" ”

"Definitely not, our family didn't give it for nothing!"

Gao Qiqian smiled and said: "With the words of the horse master, our family also has the bottom!" ”

"I'll see you later, I'll leave for Gaoyang County in the evening!"

"Don't worry just yet!"

"What else does my father-in-law command?"

"Zhang Jin, that person offended the master of the horse, our family pleaded for Tai Kangbo, and we have to spare and spare people."

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Since Gonggong Gao said so, Cheng will definitely give this face, 50,000 taels of silver, half of each of us!" ”

"Fifty thousand taels?"

Gao Qiqian's face was cloudy.

"What's too much?"

"It's too little, isn't it?"

Gao Qiqian said: "Tai Kangbo's only son, how is it worth 50,000 taels of silver?" ”

"Then 100,000 taels of silver, let's 50,000 taels of silver each!"

Gao Qiqian groaned: "Tai Kangbo is only afraid that there are no 100,000 taels of silver!" ”

"Does he have a house? Cheng is in the capital and doesn't have a house yet......"

"Counting the house, 100,000 taels of silver, Tai Kangbo will definitely be able to take it!"

"I want the house, the silver ......"

"Happy working together!"

"Happy working together!"

Coming out of Beijing City, Cheng Shijie walked like the wind, gave Emperor Chongzhen a gift worth 30,000 taels of silver, and turned around and took 50,000 taels of silver from Tai Kangbo's hand, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't mention a word about it, it's not too beautiful.

"Meet the Commander!"

"Prepare the car and leave for Gaoyang immediately!"

Wu Sheng was a little puzzled: "Let's go to Gaoyang?" ”

"That's right, go to Gaoyang right away!"

"Good!"

Wu Sheng also has no problem with the reason why Cheng Shijie wants to go to Gaoyang.

Soon Cheng Shijie prepared the four-wheeled carriage, and the troops began to pull out the camp.

In just a quarter of an hour, the barracks outside the city were empty.

In addition to Cheng Shijie's desire to use Sun Chengzong's protégé, there is another reason, that is, Sun Chengzong is one of the few pillars of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also an upright person, and he is a good person. But in this era, their character is destined to change anything, and upright people will never be able to fight those villains with honey-bellied swords......

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen in history, the Qing army entered the customs again, and went south to attack Gaoyang County, which has neither economic nor strategic value.

The purpose of the Qing army was actually to take revenge, in order to retaliate against Sun Chengzong's fortress strategy, Jiannu fell into a food crisis, and the Jin merchants sold grain to eight taels of silver in order to make money, and in this case, many people starved to death.

So, Sun Chengzong led the whole family to resist the invasion of the Qing army, and after 11 days of bloody battles, Gaoyang City was broken, and Sun Chengzong was full of loyalty......

In this time and space, Cheng Shijie will never let this tragedy happen again.

……

Jinzhou City, located near the West City Gate, is said to be the third expansion of Jinzhou City, and it is all castle-like buildings.

The materials used a large number of new materials such as reinforced concrete, so it was completed in such a short time, and the entire castle has a total of more than 40 rooms, although the scale is not large, but the victory is in the exquisite structure and unique shape.

"Just these more than 40 houses, it cost more than 10,000 taels of silver?"

Fan Yongdou smiled faintly: "Mr. Bao doesn't know, more than 10,000 taels of silver was the price three months ago, and now such a house, a set of this number ......."

Fan Yongdou stretched out a hand.

"Fifty thousand taels?"

"It's fifty-five thousand taels of silver!"

Fan Yongdou pointed to a house opposite and said: "The house on the opposite side has just been completed, this is the courtyard of the Lian family in Henan Guide Mansion!" ”

"Lianjia? Shaanxi governor practice state affairs? ”

"Or else? Who in an ordinary family can come up with 55,000 taels of silver? ”

"I really don't know what these people are trying to do!"

"The picture is safety!"

Fan Yongdou pointed to the gazebo in the small courtyard and said, "You try to knock it with a hammer?" Such a house, the courtyard wall is six feet high, and there are also thistles on it, the little thief doesn't want to come in, and it is useless to bombard it with cannons, isn't it worth 55,000 taels of silver? ”

"The army is surrounded by ......"

"There is a well in this courtyard, and the granary can store the whole family's grain for three to five years, and there is no problem with burning this pile of coal for three or five years."

Fan Yongdou said: "Who has grain and grass to surround for three or five years? ”

"This ......"

Bao Chengxian asked, "When will the grain be shipped?" ”

"Soon, there will be a bumper harvest of grain in southern Liaoning, not to mention 400,000 stones, even if it is four million stones, they can take it, as long as my cattle and horses arrive, the Commerce Department of the Management Committee will deliver them!"

Fan Yongdou said with a relaxed face: "Starting from Jinzhou Port, you will pick up the goods in Donghu Town, northeast of Meituo Lake!" ”

As he was talking, he didn't expect a strong man in a green shirt to break in recklessly, and he crawled and knelt down in front of Fan Yongdouji while exclaiming: "Master...... Master, it's not good...... That...... The surname is Niu Ma...... No ......."

A foul smell emanated from him, and Bao Chengxian's eyes couldn't help but focus on his placket, only to see that the strong man's placket was wet.

Fan Yongdou immediately covered his nose and scolded: "You killing talent, what's wrong, what cattle and horses are gone?" ”

The person who came was one of Fan Yongdou's chief stewards, Chen Gan, who was responsible for guarding the cattle and horses in the territory of Liao Zhongwei.

Chen Qian was stunned for a moment, only to find that even Bao Chengxian was present, and suddenly his neck shrank, and he stood up: "Master...... Master! ”

Chen Qian's gaze swept towards Bao Chengxian from time to time.

Bao Chengxian heard that the cattle and horses were gone, and his heart was shocked, but his face was silent, as if he had heard but not heard: "Fan Da shopkeeper, you are busy first, Bao Mou will retire first!" ”

"Tell me about it!"

"More than 20 days ago, the men were guarding the cattle and horses, and as long as they received the order of the big treasurer, they would drive the cattle and horses to Jinzhou, however, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared and attacked the pasture, and they not only injured our people, but also robbed the cattle and horses!"

Fan Yongdou was angry and anxious when he heard this: "Who are they?" ”

"Jiannu!"

Chen Qian swore solemnly: "Look at their dress, they are Jiannu, and what they say is also the truth of Jiannu, weapons, and blades are all Jiannu's equipment......"

"How could they ......"

Fan Yongdou found Bao Chengxian and said angrily: "You don't keep your promises!" ”

"What?"

Fan Yongdou said: "The cattle and horses I put in the territory of Liao Zhongwei were robbed, and they were done by Jiannu!" ”

"This ......"

Bao Chengxian really didn't dare to pack the ticket, because he was now in a high position in the Jin Kingdom, enjoying the level of deputy general, compared to the Jiannu Eight Banners, which was equivalent to the level of the deputy capital commander, that is, the level of the deputy flag master.

Supposedly, his level is high enough, right? But the problem is that Jiannu will never treat them as a person, and the daughter-in-law he bought for Bao Jing last year, Duoduo said that he would sleep when he slept, and he cooked a pot of meat before sleeping.

He didn't even have a place to reason with this.

What's more, let alone someone whose rank and status are far inferior to him? This matter is commonplace in Jiannu, and if any of the Eight Banners nobles saw Fan Yongdou's thousands of horses and cattle, they would definitely see bad intentions.

If you grab it, you will grab it.

Bao Chengxian hurriedly reassured: "Don't worry, if it was really them who did it, whoever dared, King Khan would definitely be the master for you." ”

"Come on, through our people, chase the food back!"

"Don't worry, Shopkeeper Fan!"

"Don't be in a hurry, the needle doesn't prick your flesh, you don't feel distressed!"

Fan Yongdou said: "This is not tens of thousands of taels of silver, this is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!" ”

Fan Yongdou is rich, but the problem is that no matter how rich he is, it is impossible for him to treat hundreds of thousands of taels of silver as air.

Bao Chengxian hurriedly wrote a letter and informed the Shenyang side by means of a harrier eagle, of course, this matter will not be found out so quickly for a while.

When Huang Taiji received the news, he did not make up his mind.

After all, he knows too well what kind of goods the Eight Banners nobles are, Fan Yongdou is a fart in the eyes of these nobles?

So, Huang Taiji hurriedly summoned the owners of the Eight Banners and asked who had done this, whether it was Daishan, Yue Tuo, Azig, Mang Gurtai, Haoge and others, they didn't dare to pat their chests to ensure that this matter had nothing to do with them.

can only press one level at a time, grab thousands of horses and cattle, this matter is too small, for Baqi, there are too many people who can do it, just a cow Lu Ezhen, has this strength.

In fact, although the Niu Lu of the Eight Banners is an establishment of 300 people, there are countless people in addition to the staff, just like the Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Office, nominally, in the compilation of the military department, Zuo Qianhu has 1,120 people. But in fact, there are more than 14,000 people in Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households.

Each Niu Lu is a compilation of 300 Zhengding, but in addition to Zhengding, there are also Qiding's fathers and sons, brothers, clothed minions, armored war slaves and other people, once all mobilized, one or two thousand people belong to normal operation.

In a short period of time, the chickens and dogs in Shenyang City jumped, and due to the different distribution of the stations and pastures of the Eight Banners, this matter was not an easy matter to investigate.

……

When Jiannu chickens flew and dogs jumped, Hu Erqi also returned to Haizhou smoothly. It wasn't until they entered the territory of Haizhou that they breathed a sigh of relief.

Due to Su Wan Nayan's greed, he snatched tens of thousands of sheep, thousands of war horses and thousands of cattle in one go, and as for the forage burned by them, it was impossible to estimate.

At this time, Su Wan Nayan stabbed the hornet's nest, they carried a large number of cattle, horses and sheep, don't think about it fast, on the third day, there were a lot of scouts around them, and they didn't attack, but just wandered around the power guard curtain, as if looking for the weakness of Hu Erqi and the others' chasseurs.

The scouts sent by Hu Erqi tried to expel them, but these Jiannu scouts did not intend to have a fierce scout fight, seeing the chaser scouts rushing over, they immediately retreated far away, and when the scouts of the chasers stopped pursuing, they immediately hung up again, this kind of ghost followed as if they were ghosted, and the feeling of not being able to fight was really maddening.

Of course, if the chasers were ruthless and desperate to pursue, they could still catch up with these damn Jiannu scouts and beat them up fiercely, but Hu Erqi didn't intend to do this, he didn't want to see his troops being led by a small group of scouts all the way to the nose, rushing into the ambush circle of others, and the tragedy of ambushes occurred when the horses were out of breath.

Therefore, he commanded the army to drive the herd and retreat calmly and orderly, as long as those Jiannu scouts did not take the initiative to attack them, he ignored them, and you can follow if you like.

If the Jiannu Scout initiates an attack...... He said that he was happy to see that just a little scout attacked the chasseurs with more than 2,000 horses?

He really couldn't find any other word to describe this kind of behavior than to seek death.

Fortunately, Hu Erqi entered the territory of Haizhou without danger, and at this time, the Ning Navy reconnaissance cavalry, which had been covering Hu Erqi's department, began to take the initiative to surround and launch a surprise attack.

In other words, none of the Jiannu cavalry scouts who followed Hu Erqi's department ran away......

Gaoyang County is almost 400 miles from Beijing, and for other armies, it only takes seven or eight days or even half a month to arrive.

However, the Ning Navy is different.

The Ning Navy is a force that has achieved partial mule and horse-based marching, with a large cart for each outpost, and soldiers can march in mules and horses.

Although it is not a war horse that is used to pull the cart, most of them are mules, but they can still move at a speed of twenty or thirty miles per hour, and with rest time, they can easily run more than one hundred and sixty or seventy miles a day. In case of forced march, the highest record is five hundred kilometers.

For the distance of 400 miles, Cheng Shijie took eighteen hours to arrive at Gaoyang City in the middle of the night the next day, because Gaoyang City had been locked, the city gate was closed.

Cheng Shijie and Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers were stationed in the direction of the north city of Gaoyang City.

Because of the car, Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers were not particularly hard, and they could still persevere, they were used to this kind of long-distance training.

The training method of the Ning Navy is actually cyclical and gradual, just starting to enlist new recruits, most of the recruits have poor physical fitness, they all start to supplement nutrition, in the time of supplementing nutrition, military discipline and internal affairs training, these training is not too physically demanding.

Therefore, the enlistment of new recruits is the happiest time for the soldiers of the Ning Navy, and as time goes by, the physical fitness of the soldiers recovers very quickly, and their training volume begins to gradually increase. After the completion of the training of the three major footwork and the four-sided turning method, the training of armed marching will begin.

On the contrary, it is combat skills that are the final training subject.

A troop appeared under Gaoyang City, which frightened the soldiers and civilians of Gaoyang County, but fortunately, the military discipline of the Ning Navy was strict and directly identified itself.

However, the soldiers and civilians of Gaoyang County, who are like frightened birds, do not agree with Ning Haijun to enter Gaoyang County en masse, even if Cheng Shijie reveals his identity.

In desperation, Cheng Shijie carried the gifts prepared for Sun Chengzong, three cars, and more than a dozen personal soldiers, and entered Gaoyang County.

Sun Mansion is naturally a famous building complex in Gaoyang County, covering an area of forty or fifty acres. This belongs to the wealthy families of Gaoyang County.

Cheng Shijie handed over the famous thorn and successfully met Sun Chengzong.

"Meet Master Sun!"

"I don't know what General Cheng wants to do when he sees the old man?"

"Cheng wants to invite Lord Sun to go to southern Liaoning!"

Sun Chengzong smiled: "Cheng Shijie, the old man has heard of you, the old man is old............ General Cheng, when will the old man leave? ”

This book has been received from 2,400 to 9,500 so far, with more than 1,000 orders and 1,900 high orders, thank you very much for your support. The slow update during this period of time is because Lao Cheng's body has a problem, and he has been taking medicine recently, which contains sleeping pills, and he can't sleep enough every day. When his health improves, Lao Cheng will work hard to improve.

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