Chapter 184 shows our worth

Cheng Shijie is certainly not the youngest general of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not surprising that in the more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he has been promoted from a white body to the governor of the left capital of Zhengyipin, and Mao Wenlong also achieved this by virtue of his surprise attack on Zhenjiang Fort.

However, the Ming official system is divided into three types: central, local, and military, such as Sun Yuanhua, who is the right imperial history, which is equivalent to the senior officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the second rank is the left and right deputy imperial history, located in the third class, which is equivalent to the fourth in command of the Imperial Procuratorate.

This is a central official position, and he is also the deputy envoy of the Shandong Provincial Prosecutor's Department, which is a local official position, which is equivalent to the current vice president of the provincial court, deputy chief procurator of the provincial procuratorate, deputy director of the Department of Justice, and deputy director of the Public Security Department in the provincial-level public, procuratorial, and judicial organs. The governor has already written earlier, this is a military and political official position.

Although Cheng Shijie still holds the seal of the general of conquest, this only means that he has the power to start a war, and he can take the initiative to send troops to conquer one side without asking for instructions. Of course, Cheng Shijie still needs to complete the formalities in advance.

His real official position now is the crown prince Shaobao, which is an honor. The secretary of the military department, this is the central official position, Sun Chengzong also served as this official position when he passed through Liaodong, in order to avoid the court pulling back his legs, he himself is an honorary military department secretary, no real power.

Governor of Liaodong Military Administration, this is Cheng Shijie's actual job. However, this real position has never happened to Daming, and the speed of Cheng Shijie's promotion is really eye-opening.

Cheng Shijie stared at the minister of Qincha at this time, this chamberlain is a little familiar, but it is not Cao Huachun, nor Gao Qiqian, Wang Chengen, Wang Zhixin and several other chamberlains that Cheng Shijie is familiar with.

In fact, he was wearing the official uniform of the fourth rank of the chamberlain, and it was obvious that this was a high-ranking chamberlain, and in the palace, the eunuchs on his head could be counted in addition to the palm prints of the twelve eunuchs, four divisions and eight bureaus. Of course, most of the 12 supervisors, 4 divisions and 8 bureaus are high and light. For example, among the six departments, the six books are of the same level, and no one can deny that the official department is the first of the six.

The eunuch who passed the decree walked up to Cheng Shijie and said in a low voice: "Our family is Lu Jiucheng by the side of Father-in-law Cao, Cheng Shaobao can call our family Lu Jiu!" ”

As soon as Lu Jiucheng said this, Cheng Shijie understood that this was a change of person who wanted benefits.

Cheng Shijie is not afraid of corruption in the inner servants, these internal servants are much better than civil officials, and there are many civil officials who do not do things when they receive gifts, but the inner servants are different, they want word of mouth, and they are worried that if they smash their reputation, no one will give them gifts.

At least the high dive is doing a good job in this area.

Cheng Shijie didn't hide it, and said generously: "The things prepared for Your Majesty have been placed on the wharf of Jinzhou Port, a total of thirty ships." Grandpa Lu can take an inventory! ”

"There's no need to count, Cheng Shaobao is a smart person, he must not dare to joke with the emperor."

"That's, that's! By the way, I also prepared one for my father-in-law, which is not much, but it is worth about 20,000 taels, and I ask my father-in-law to smile! ”

Lu Jiucheng was a little shy: "How embarrassing is that?" ”

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, you can't let your father-in-law run for nothing, right?"

Cheng Shijie's so-called value of 20,000 taels of silver, of course, is value, but in fact, it is a bunch of worthless handicrafts, which were valuable in the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Jiucheng said with a smile: "Then our family will reluctantly accept it, don't take it as an example!" ”

The subtext of "don't take it as an example" is "do it again", and everyone understands this.

Lu Jiucheng was very satisfied with the harvest of this trip, and he got 20,000 taels of silver in one trip, where can I find such a fat difference? What makes him even more satisfied is that even the little eunuch beside him has also received a lot of benefits from Cheng Shijie, ranging from dozens of taels to hundreds of taels according to different identities, which is not too much, but no one will think it is less.

Lu Jiucheng didn't even eat, and he didn't drink the wine, so he returned to the capital directly.

Emperor Chongzhen had no money, and if he wanted to reward the army, he also needed wine, meat and food, but the price of goods in the capital was extremely high, and Cheng Shijie prepared 50,000 stone wheat, 100,000 stone rice, and 150,000 catties of meat, potatoes and sweet potatoes for Emperor Chongzhen, which was enough for 30 boats.

Watching Lu Jiucheng leave Liaoyang, Sun Chengzong looked at Cheng Shijie and sighed for a long time: "You don't ...... with them in the future."

Speaking of this, Sun Chengzong felt that he had too many words.

"Teacher, do you know a word?"

"What?"

"I'd rather offend a gentleman than a villain!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Lu Jiucheng's back and said: "They are all out-and-out villains, maybe they can't succeed, but the ability to do bad things is not small, if you want to do it, you must be recognized by the palace, like them, if you can not offend, you can't offend, if you offend, then you will be beaten to death with a stick, and you must not give them the opportunity to harm others!" ”

Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly: "The old man is pedantic!" ”

"Just like Zhou Dunyi's "Ai Lian Said", out of the mud but not stained, clean lotus but not demon!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "I have a very good relationship with Gao Qiqian, and my relationship with Cao Huachun is not bad, give them bribes, they can cover up the gossip for me, and now, I am afraid that the impeachment of me has been piled up!" ”

As the battle of Liaoyang came to an end, the families of those fallen soldiers also arrived in Baliwan City in Haizhou one after another, and the families of these fallen soldiers included men, women and children. If it is the family of the officers and men of the Ning Navy, it is better, and the Ning Navy does not have the problem of not being able to eat and wear clothes. But the families of the Dongjiang Army and the Guan Ning Army are different.

It is simply a copy of the Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households, these soldiers' families are in rags, their faces are yellow and thin, their faces are dirty and dish, men, women and children are waiting outside the city, looking anxious, and there are thousands of calls and miscellaneous sounds, with crying.

"Son, my son, where are you?"

"Daddy, Daddy, where are you?"

"You have no conscience, but you are willing to come back!"

"Brother! Brother! ”

"Uncle! Uncle! ”

"The third, the third!"

……

Whether it was the Ning Navy, the Guanning Army, or the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army, they heard the shouts of their relatives and ran out in unison, looking for their relatives in the crowd.

When they found it, they hugged each other and cried loudly, and those who didn't find it were in a hurry, calling out the names of their relatives loudly, and those family members were also trying to find their relatives, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

From time to time, there are weeping sounds, many family members are desperate to learn that the pillars of their homes can't come back, only a corpse comes back, that kind of despair, that kind of pain can be imagined, I don't know how many people hold the cold corpse, crying so much that the liver and intestines are broken, which is sad.

Due to the cold weather and natural refrigerators, these fallen soldiers were not cremated immediately, but returned to their roots and brought back to their ancestral homes for burial.

Cheng Shijie mobilized 200 projects and 100 households to quickly build coffins, so that all the fallen soldiers had a home.

Cheng Shijie silently looked at those poor people who were in pain, and sighed for a long time: "I...... Am I doing something wrong? If I hadn't forced them to die, maybe not so many people would have died, and their loved ones wouldn't have suffered so much......"

Sun Chengzong sighed and said: "It's better to cry all the way than to cry all the way, it's better to cry than a family to cry, you need to know, if you didn't force them to defend Haizhou, once Jiannu broke through Haizhou, I'm afraid that more than one million people in Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and Jinding would not survive, and there would be hundreds of thousands of blood and tears in their liver and intestines?" ”

Although Cheng Shijie understands the truth, the problem is that it is very difficult to accept.

Cheng Shijie looked at the Liao people who were shivering in the cold wind, sighed, and said, "Hurry up and give them a few sets of cotton clothes, let them eat a few good meals, and let them recover a little bit of vitality." ”

Now in southern Liaoning, there is no longer a shortage of materials, of course, the people who are assigned to cotton clothes kowtow to Cheng Shijie to thank him.

Cheng Shijie looked at the faces with tears of gratitude and reluctance, sighed with emotion, and said loudly to everyone: "Live well, the worst moment has passed, everything will be fine!" ”

A bearded white Liaomin shouted in a trembling voice: "Cheng Shuai, I have wanted to come back for a long time...... It's just that! ”

"Just what?"

"If Jiannu comes to beat us again, will you still come to save us?"

"Yes! Wherever Jiannu came from, I will fight there! If they still dare to follow our territory to spread wild, the tens of thousands of corpses lying outside Baliwan and the Liaozhong Acropolis are their examples! ”

Zu Dabi and Zu Dale, Zu Kefa, Wu Sangui and others bid farewell to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zu Dabi and said: "Thank you Zu Shuai for your support for me, without the help of Guan Ningjun, it's really hard to say that we have a battle!" ”

Zu Dabi smiled and said: "I don't thank you for you, let's leave for Beijing immediately, thank you yourself in person!" ”

"As the saying goes, there is borrowing and repaying, and it is not difficult to borrow again!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "This time, the brothers of Guan Ningjun are helping each other, if Ben Shuai doesn't say it, then he can't say it, Second General Zu!" ”

"The last general!"

"You have lost a lot, I will give 3,000 crossbows, 500,000 crossbow arrows, 3,500 pairs of iron armor, 3,000 sabers, 30,000 stones of grain beans, and 10,000 stones of horse material!"

Zu Dabi looked surprised: "Isn't this too much!" ”

"What are these things compared to the lives of my brothers?"

Cheng Shijie then said to Wu Sangui: "Uncle Chang, I will give you 1,000 crossbow machines, 200,000 crossbow arrows, and 1,500 pairs of iron armor......"

Wu Jiajun's losses are also objective facts, although he doesn't like Wu Sangui's personality, but the more generous Cheng Shijie is, the more soldiers of the Guan Ning Army, especially the wounded soldiers who are injured, they will not go back.

In addition to the soldiers who died in battle, there were six or seven thousand families of the soldiers who migrated from Ningyuan, and there were follow-up people who would come over, all of whom were surnamed Cheng.

Wu Sangui and Zu Dabi understood that Cheng Shijie took out these equipment to them just to gag them, they suffered heavy casualties this time, and those wounded soldiers were all treasures, but the problem was that they themselves did not have medical conditions, and they could get better medical treatment in the Ning Navy.

"Cheng Shuai, let's see you in the capital!"

"Well said!"

"Why put such a big amount of money on them?" looked at the officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army who were carrying goods shirtless in the cold wind and sweating.

Sun Zhilan smiled and asked, "Aren't you afraid that they won't come back?" ”

Cheng Shijie shrugged disappreciatively: "If they don't come back, it means that they are so stupid that there is no cure!" ”

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly: "Dashuai, I still don't understand why you put such a lot of money on Guan Ningjun. You must know that Guan Ningjun's record has not been very good......"

"I asked you to bring a group of hungry soldiers to fight, can you give me a good record?"

"How is it possible to let the horses run and not let the horses graze?"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Guan Ningjun received a lot of military expenses from the imperial court, but the problem is that these military expenses are spent on the generals' spending and drinking, and they do not fall on ordinary soldiers. What are they treated? What is the level of equipment of the troops? In this battle, you have also seen that Zu Dabi and Wu Sangui are all their descendants, and their equipment is no worse than that of the Ning Navy, do you know how much money they spend a year? ”

Sun Zhilan shook his head: "I really don't know!" ”

"This is actually only a part of the money, and the largest part is in the hands of Wu Xiang of Zu Dashou!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Guess how much land Wu Xiang has?" ”

"100,000 acres of fertile land?"

"Guess again!"

"A million acres!"

"Triple it!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "For the entire three million acres, almost ninety percent of the soldiers in the Guanning Army are actually treated similarly to the guards in the mainland, and they have all become slaves of the generals. ”

Cheng Shijie naturally knew that now that Jiannu and Daming's offense and defense were changing, Jiannu's next operation was to show weakness, and there was a possibility that he would beg to surrender, reduce the court's vigilance against them, and delay time in the negotiations.

Cheng Shijie's attraction of the Guanning Army is mainly to attract the low-level soldiers of the Guanning Army, as well as their families, the climate of Liaoxi and Liaodong is almost the same, and it can also be suitable for the living environment of Liaodong, as long as there are enough people, Cheng Shijie can pinch Jiannu to death.

Just like now, if Cheng Shijie attacks again, Jiannu doesn't fight, and continues to flee in the northeast or northwest direction, even if Cheng Shijie tries his best, he can only pursue one or two thousand miles.

Since ancient times, no dynasty has been able to completely defeat a powerful nomad in a head-on hard carry, never!

The Han Dynasty fought the Xiongnu by first dividing the Xiongnu into two parts, the north and the south, and then gradually eliminated. The Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, in fact, as early as the Sui Dynasty, Changsun Sheng and Pei Ju fooled the Turks into splitting. The Eastern Turks are divided into Eastern and Western Turks, and the nomads are all this urine, and if they are isolated, they are weak, if they are weak, they will have internal strife, and if they are in civil strife, they will be besieged by the whole world.

Xiongnu, Turkic, Tibetan, Jurchen...... This is how these once-prosperous steppe empires died.

Cheng Shijie now wants to leave a retreat in the hearts of the officers and soldiers of Guanning Army, as long as they can't survive, with the head of a Jiannu, in southern Liaoning, on Cheng Shijie's territory, they can get the land, food, and treatment they want.

Guan Ningjun is not monolithic, they will split, as long as some people are towards Cheng Shijie, when they do it again, it will be much simpler.

Sun Chengzong had to sigh that Cheng Shijie was too good at grasping people's hearts.

In fact, from the moment Cheng Shijie took Liaonan, Jiannu's nightmare began.

With Cheng Shijie here, Jiannu wants to fight a fair battle, but he has no chance.

……

Jinzhou, in the backyard of General Ninghai's Mansion, in the warm pavilion of the left wing, because this house is burning with earth dragons and fire walls, despite the biting cold wind outside, the inside of the house is as warm as spring. Yang Yunniang was wearing a milky white Luo skirt at this time, and she was looking through the account book.

Yang Yunniang's maidservant is also the righteous daughter adopted by her master Feng Sanniang, Feng Cui'er pushed the door in a panic: "Commissioner Yang...... Member Yang...... Commissioner Yang! ”

Yang Yunniang's pretty eyebrows furrowed, and she said helplessly: "Cui'er, when will you be able to change your hairy problem?" ”

Shen Cui'er gasped, leaned on the table and said, "Handsome...... Da Shuai...... Sealed the country!?

Yang Yunniang smiled indifferently and said: "If you wait for you to shout, I won't know about it, this Golden State, there is no place for me to stand for a long time!" ”

Shen Cui'er opened her mouth wide and said, "Ah...... You know it all? ”

Yang Yunniang sighed and said: "I not only know that the marshal worships the military department and is named the Duke of Haiguo, but also knows that the little girl of the Xu family is gone!" ”

Miss Xu Shumin and Miss Xu Si left Liaonan because she knew that she had no chance.

But Yang Yunniang is also having a headache, if she knows practice, she should move out of the Ninghai General Military Mansion, but the problem is that although Cheng Shijie is lukewarm to Yang Yunniang, he is very good to Xiao Jiaxin, no matter how tired or busy she is, she will find time to hug Xiao Jiaxin, and now Xiao Jiaxin is babbling.

It is precisely because of Cheng Shijie's teaching that Xiao Jiaxin's accent is Mandarin with correct words.

Her master Feng Sanniang also persuaded Yang Yunniang, since Cheng Shijie was not interested in her and did not receive the idea of entering the room, why did she bother to post it upside down?

With Yang Yunniang's status and power today, what kind of man is she looking for that she can't find?

But Yang Yunniang has her own concerns and thoughts, she is in Cheng's mansion, no matter how bad Xiao Jiaxin is, she is also Cheng Shijie's righteous daughter, the same as Cheng Jing and Cheng Anning, at least the Liaodong Management Committee gave Xiao Jiaxin a household registration, her surname is Cheng, her big name is Cheng Jiaxin, and the household registration is also under Cheng Shijie's name.

Once she leaves the Cheng Mansion, what will Cheng Jiaxin do?

So, Yang Yunniang had an excuse: "It's all for the children!" ”

"Win! Win! ”

At this time, the soldiers, farmers, workers, merchants, and soldiers left behind in Jinzhou shouted wildly, and their joy was overflowing.

For this war, the Ning Navy can be said to have gone out of their nests, they have suffered huge sacrifices, and they have also won a huge victory, what is more exciting than this!

This time, Ning Haijun really beat Jiannu badly, and Cheng Shijie's promotion is inevitable!

The bigger Cheng Shijie's official position, the bigger the territory he manages; The bigger the territory he manages, the more opportunities everyone has to make a fortune following behind, and what could be more joyful than this?

In a short period of time, the whole of southern Liaoning fell into a carnival.

Since Nurhachi rebelled, the Ming army has been defeated and retreated, losing the city and land again and again, and the corpses outside the gate are a sea of blood, the people of the Ming Dynasty have been holding back for more than 30 years, dreaming that the Ming army can win a big battle, and now, their wish has finally come true!

When Cheng Shijie returned to Jinzhou from Haizhou, more than ten miles outside Jinzhou City, it was already crowded, and the roadside couldn't stand at all, but fortunately, the weather was cold, and the ditch on the side of the road had been frozen.

Push the cart into the ditch and stand on the roof of the carriage, you can also see Cheng Shijie on the road.

In the Central Plains, there are few carriage-type carriages, flatbed carriages, and ox carts, but Liaodong is too cold, and it is also a crime to sit in the car. In particular, Cheng Shijie's horse-drawn RV has caused a trend.

Of course, wealthy people buy two-wheeled or four-wheeled horse-drawn caravans directly from the carriage factory, and even if it is a truck-type flatbed carriage, there is a small carriage in front of the carriage that can shelter from the wind and cold, just like the cab of a truck.

The common people cheered loudly, rushed towards them, and handed the wine and food in their hands to these soldiers, and Shang Keyi, the former Dongjiang Army, saw that his nose was a little sour, and muttered: "Our old man has fought all his life, and it is the first time that he has been loved by the people like this!" It's worth it to fight for this love and fight for them! ”

Shang Kexi looked at the Liao people who couldn't kneel on the shore, his heart fluctuated, and then he thought that he wanted to stand still, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, his face was hot, and he suddenly had the urge to find a crack in the ground to get into.

In the crowd, Xu Shumin looked at Catherine beside her and said, "Let's go, let's go too." ”

Hearing this, Catherine was so excited that she wanted to cry.

She and her fleet were forced to flee to the far east three years ago, but they never thought that when they arrived near Dengzhou, they were overshadowed by pirates and served as prisoners for nearly three years, first at the hands of Meng Xianhan, although Cheng Shijie did not treat them as prisoners, but did not give them the necessary help.

They can only rely on their own two sides to work hard to make money, some are teachers at Golden State College, some are working in factories, and some are like Catherine, who have become the maidservants of a rich lady.

After more than half a year of getting along, Catherine finally gained the trust of Xu Shumin, Xu Shumin actually has limited trust in Catherine, this time to go to sea, Xu Shumin used nearly 600 people from the Xu family, a total of five sand boats.

The three major sea ships of the Ming Dynasty were sand boats, Fu boats (both Fu built), and Guangzhou ships (made in Guangdong), in fact, sand boats were a kind of anti-sand flat-bottomed wooden ships used for navigation in ancient times. Appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Small ones are 250-400 tons, medium ones are 500-800 tons, and large sand ships are more than 1,200 tons.

The five large sand ships that Xu Shumin gave to Catherine were not actually large, but could only be regarded as medium-sized ships, each of 800 tons, loaded with materials purchased from southern Liaoning, such as white sugar, blue and white porcelain, sea pearls, woolen cloth, potato wine, and a large amount of steel produced in southern Liaoning.

That's right, Catherine bought the most steel, with a ton of steel for a full hundred and sixty taels of silver, equivalent to eighty yuan per catty, this price is not cheap, of course, due to the large quantity, it is slightly lower than the market price.

Catherine had no money, and he promised Xu Shuyuan that as long as it was shipped to Venice, he could earn ten times as much. Comparable to the profits of silk, Catherine did not mention silk as well.

When it came to silk, Xu Shumin asked people to buy silk in Shanghai, and they collected 120,000 horses and spent more than 1 million taels of silver, and the steel part was purchased by him in the name of Xu's name by borrowing from the bank and purchasing more than 600 tons.

Catherine's plan succeeded, and she was to open a commercial trade route between Venice and the Ming Dynasty.

"Which of you is the owner of the ship!"

Catherine stepped forward and said, "I am!" ”

"When you lower your sails and allow you to go to sea, you will go to sea!"

"Why?"

"Never mind, it's a military secret!"

Soon Catherine knew why they were not allowed to go to sea, and Cheng Shijie's convoy arrived at the Golden State Port wharf, and the people and merchants who went to see them off were still crowded.

When Cheng Shijie walked along the trestle to the battleship, he didn't know who took the lead, and tens of thousands of people on the pier knelt down in a hula, hissing: "Cheng Shuai, you must have a safe journey!" ”

Cheng Shijie, Sun Chengzong, and Sun Zhili did not stop in Jinzhou, they still had to go to the capital to present their victory and hold a New Year's military parade, so they could only go, after all, the time was too tight.

Cheng Shijie boarded the new ship of the Ningbo Navy, which was the first batch of 2,000 large ships produced by the Lushun Shipyard of the Ningbo Navy, with a full load displacement equivalent to 650 tons.

This new type of warship adopts a slender hull, five masts, and has a speed of 9.8 knots when the sail is full, which is two knots faster than the speed of the 400 gunboats at 7.8 knots.

Cheng Shijie's battleship is the "Jinzhou", and adjacent to it are the four King Kongs of the Ning Navy Naval Division, namely the Haizhou, the Fuzhou and the Gaizhou, these four warships are all 2,000 large ships, equipped with 24 three-inch smoothbore guns.

The main reason why the infantry army did not have time to equip more three-inch guns was actually to give priority to equipping these four King Kongs, which were ninety-six three-inch guns, which exhausted the great production capacity of the Gun Bureau.

Although the smoothbore breech gun was not as accurate as the breech rifled gun, the problem was that the three-inch gun had a range of 2,000 meters, which was much farther than the Franc gun.

At least six or seven hundred meters away, in a naval battle, the superiority of this kind of artillery will be directly converted into combat effectiveness.

As the Jinzhou set sail for the sea, the Gaizhou, Haizhou and Fuzhou followed, and in addition to these four King Kongs, more than 200 warships of the Ning Navy accompanied the escort.

Of course, it is not because Cheng Shijie is ready to go to the capital to pretend to be forced, but because there are too many captives and Jiannu heads, which occupies a great carrying capacity, followed by the Ning Navy to the capital, which is from the left, right, and the three guards of the three divisions, each of which is drawn from each of the generals, in addition to one artillery general, two cavalry generals, a total of nine generals, more than 10,000 people.

Until there was only a little sharp sail shadow left at sea level, the Liao people on the dock still knelt and kowtowed to it, and none of them stood up.

Catherine saw Cheng Shijie and his fleet leaving, so she said sourly: "Giovanni, you see, this is just a governor of the Ming Dynasty, he has hundreds of thousands of troops (exaggerated), he has just won the Jin army, it is said that he has annihilated more than 80,000 enemies!" ”

"That's more than the population of Venice!"

Catherine smiled faintly: "This is an opportunity, if you have a good relationship with Duke Cheng......"

"But what are we supposed to do?"

"It's simple, show our value!"

(End of chapter)