Chapter 195

Zhu Weiyuan still wanted to get dressed, but the problem was that she looked at Cheng Shijie and was a little embarrassed, because she remembered that she hadn't done something very important, her heart was sour, but her mouth could not be opened.

And the layer of window paper was not pierced, and I couldn't help but feel frustrated.

Cheng Shijie, as a person who came over, immediately understood that the Ming Dynasty was different from later generations, and on the wedding night, a snow-white silk scarf or sweat towel should be placed under the body to prove Yuan Hong, and this square scarf would be regarded as the most commemorative thing for women to hide at the bottom of the box.

And the square scarf prepared by Zhu Weiyuan is still as white as snow.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Weiyuan's embarrassment, he didn't immediately pull out a ritual knife on the shadow wall, and gently slashed the blade on his arm, blood flowing.

Cheng Shijie said: "Hurry up!" ”

Zhu Weiyuan looked at the wound on Cheng Shijie's wrist and was a little scared: "Donkey, how can you ......?"

"You know this matter, I know, God knows, you can!"

Just as Cheng Shijie was talking, Gu Ziyi outside brought hot water to serve the bride to wash, and said, "Slave Ziyi to the princess and concubine, please ...... the princess."

Zhu Weiyuan was also caught off guard by Gu Ziyi, and hurriedly put away the blood-stained scarf, her face flushed, and then she snatched the copper basin: "You are not needed here!" ”

"Yes, slave and maid retire!"

What made Zhu Weiyuan's hanging heart let go was that Cheng Shijie was very considerate to her. After all, Cheng Shijie is used to dressing and washing by herself, and if she really asks Zhu Weiyuan to do these things, she actually can't do it.

Men's clothing is different from women's clothing, not to mention that Zhu Weiyuan has never been exposed to these things at all.

After changing clothes and washing the wall, I started to eat breakfast.

In the Ming Dynasty, in the homes of large gentry, wives and concubines were not at the same table, Cheng Shijie was not so particular, what he liked was the dining atmosphere of later generations, and Luo's had already prepared breakfast.

To say that in the past, the breakfast that Luo Shi prepared for Cheng Shijie was very simple, steamed buns, millet porridge, or fried buns, egg pancakes, etc., because Cheng Shijie is a northerner, he likes pasta, but he does not like to eat rice noodles or rice noodles and other foods.

But because Mrs. Zhu Weiyuan is here, when she prepares breakfast, she makes a lot of food, eight kinds of salty food, eight kinds of sweets, twelve side dishes, four hot dishes, and four kinds of soups, the soups are a pot of tofu and fish soup, a pot of pigeon soup, a pot of porridge mixed with more than a dozen kinds of sugar, a pot of wontons, and cold-cut ham, beef jerky, pig's trotters, which seem extremely luxurious.

If it were Cheng Shijie himself, he wouldn't be so extravagant, but now that he has Zhu Weiyuan, he naturally won't be as casual as before, of course, not to mention breakfast like now, even if it is ten times more extravagant, Cheng Shijie can afford to eat.

Although the officials of the Shu Dynasty were extremely low, not even a fraction of the Tang Dynasty, less than one-tenth of the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty inherited the Song system and also followed the Song Dynasty's Jilu system.

For example, Lu Xiangsheng, he is the governor of Shandong according to the judge, the right to the imperial history, the part-time daimyofu, the Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion, his salary is actually divided into three parts, the right Yushi is the fourth product, Shandong according to the judicial envoy is the third product, the governor of the six mansions is the second product, so when the salary is paid, Lu Xiangsheng is to receive a salary of Shandong according to the third grade of the judge, both 35 stone meters per month, 420 stone a year, and a central right Yu Shi is the fourth grade of the Yulu, both 24 stone per month and 288 stone meters a year, The sum of one and two grades of the governor is sixty-one stones per month, and seven hundred and thirty-two stones a year.

In this way, Lu Xiangsheng's real salary in a year is 1,440 stones, and if the value of one stone of grain in the capital is 1,26 yuan of silver per stone according to the current grain price, then Lu Xiangsheng's annual income is equivalent to 1,692 stones of grain. However, Lu Xiangsheng is the champion Hou, which is 1,200 stones, which adds up to 2,892 stones.

Of course, this is only a theoretical salary income, in fact, the real income of officials in the Ming Dynasty is much lower than the theory, this is because part of the money is to be settled with treasure money, at first the treasure money is still worth a little money, in the Chongzhen Dynasty treasure money has become butt paper.

The biggest income item of an official is the income brought by tax exemption, and an official of Lu Xiangsheng's level can enjoy a preferential tax exemption of 8,008 mu and exempt 24 people from military service.

Cheng Shijie's salary classification is also the same, however, he has more officials, his Beijing official is the Zuo Du Governor of the Five Military Governor's Office, Cong Yipin, the crown prince Shaobao is the second product, the governor of Liaodong is the second product, and he is the Duke of Haiguo.

In fact, Cheng Shijie's current Yulu is theoretically the Duke of Haiguo, 4,000 stones, and the crown prince Shaobao and the governor of Liaodong are the second grade, both 732 stone per year, from 888 stone to 1st grade, a total of 6,352 stones, and the actual amount of silver is 6,000 and 36 taels.

With such an income level, you can still afford to eat these meals a day.

While eating breakfast, Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Weiyuan and said, "Princess, there is something to discuss with you!" ”

"Speak, please!"

Cheng Shijie is considering the words, if in the past, when Cheng Shijie was unmarried, Cheng Shijie's life was very simple, and the food and clothing were all in the public account, but the problem is that now it is different, not only with Zhu Weiyuan, the Duchess of Haiguo, but at the same time, Zhu Weiyuan married Cheng Shijie not alone, she not only brought Gu Ziyi, a personal palace e, but also more than 2,000 palace eves and eunuchs.

In this case, Cheng Shijie must establish two sets of account systems, namely public accounts and internal accounts, and the overall operation of the Ning Navy is planned in detail and clearly, and there are places where money is used everywhere.

Zhu Weiyuan can withdraw it at any time, and spend money as she wants, it's not that Cheng Shijie is reluctant to give her up, the key is that there is a real need for these money, in case it delays the needs of other parties, this is a matter that affects the whole body.

The construction of the inner library is not a matter of two sentences, when Cheng Shijie gave Emperor Chongzhen a dowry, it was worth 30,000 or 40,000 taels of silver, this dowry, Emperor Chongzhen did not take a penny, as a dowry for Zhu Weiyuan to bring back to Chengfu, but also made up 800 taels of gold, 8,000 taels of silver.

When Cheng Shijie needed money, he gave another 40,000 taels of silver, in all fairness, Emperor Chongzhen was very interesting, in addition to the dowry brought by Zhu Weiyuan was included in the inner treasury, the gifts given by the guests of this big wedding were also included in the inner treasury.

The gift money, to the ancestor of the heaviest life, two boxes of gold, eight boxes of silver, a box of South Pearl, a pair of glazed copper pot treasures, as well as a number of precious books. Except for the books that are difficult to estimate, the other congratulatory gifts are worth nearly 200,000 taels of silver, which cannot be said to be a heavy gift.

Zu Dashou is now basically torn up with the ministers in the court, and the implication of stammering Cheng Shijie is very obvious, not to mention, this time, Zu Dabi and Zu Dale got the official positions of two general soldiers, which can not be easily bought with money, one family, three brothers and three general soldiers.

In the face of the aggressive Wu Xiang within the Guanning Army, this is a direct threat to Zu Dashou, hoping to take this opportunity to pull Cheng Shijie's tiger skin to deal with Wu Xiang.

Secondly, the heaviest is Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui was promoted to deputy general, Wu Xiang was reinstated as a general soldier, it can be said that in the battle of Liaoyang, Wu Sangui's income is not small, the gift he gave is basically the same as Zu Dashou, it is also two boxes of gold, eight boxes of silver, about 160,000 taels of silver, and other property is about 340,000 taels of silver, with a total value of 200,000 taels of silver.

Then there are Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua them, Sun Chengzong is a teacher, the teacher is like a father, but in the same way, the apprentice is also half a son, once Sun Chengzong drives the crane to the west in the future, Cheng Shijie will also wear linen and filial piety, this is the ancient rule.

Not to mention Xu Guangqi, whether Cheng Shijie admits it or not, Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua are Cheng Shijie's benefactors, and the gifts of the three of them are not light or heavy, and they look like thirty or forty thousand taels of silver.

The most surprising thing for Cheng Shijie is Hou Sui, who has 600 acres of fertile land, 600 cattle and 600 good horses.

Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and Zhu Dadian also had gifts of more than two taels of silver, and the vast majority of the civil and military officials of the imperial court followed the salute, even enemies like Wu Zongda and Wen Tiren, who were not friends.

However, the number of people could not be increased, and all this silver was included in the inner treasury, and the silver in the inner treasury would reach more than 1.1 million taels, and at this time, after nearly five months of consumption, a large amount of silver had to be allocated as the start-up capital for the development of weapons, and in the end, the funds set aside for raising the army that would no longer be used were more than 4 million taels.

Hearing Cheng Shijie hand over the internal account to her, Zhu Weiyuan immediately nodded and agreed, Cheng Shijie has not been an official for a long time, even if his current income is more than 6,000 taels of silver a year, and if he doesn't eat or drink for two years, he will only have more than 10,000 taels of silver, but he didn't expect that there are more than 1.1 million taels of silver.

Zhu Weiyuan was instantly frightened: "Donkey...... Husband, how much? ”

"One hundred and thirty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty taels, and there are still a lot of property, there is no way to calculate, at the latest tomorrow night, it can be settled!"

Zheng Qi said to Zhu Weiyuan: "According to the statistics of the subordinates, it should be about 1.4 million taels of silver!" ”

After Cheng Shijie finished eating, he was going to go to the Haiguo Mansion in Daxing County, where he went to participate in the arms exhibition, and more than four million taels of silver looked like a lot, but the problem was that the Ning Navy was expanding too fast, especially the navy, and there was too much shortage, and according to Cheng Shijie's standards, there were no qualified warships for the warships of the Ning Navy Naval Division.

It's a gold-eating beast.

……

Just like Cheng Shijie's wedding, although it was a big banquet, it benefited the surrounding areas of the capital, and more than 8,000 tables were prepared, but the problem is that compared with the past five years of Chongzhen, Henan in the six years of Chongzhen is more difficult than last year.

After the flood in June of the fifth year of Chongzhen, God seems to have concentrated the rain of the year into June, especially November and December, including the first three months, and most areas of Henan did not snow.

As the so-called Ruixue Trillion Year, because it did not fall when it should have snowed in winter, experienced farmers have judged that the six years of Chongzhen will be very difficult.

Although Jiannu was beaten miserably by Cheng Shijie, the special tax increase that the people were looking forward to for exempting Liao was not canceled, but became heavier and heavier.

The heavy taxes are like a mountain, weighing heavily on the common people, making them unable to straighten their waists.

The Liukou also became more and more noisy, although the Liukou's attempt to try the capital was ruthlessly crushed by the Tianxiong Army, but such a result is difficult to reassure people, a large number of Liukou fled into the Taihang Mountain, taking advantage of the winter Yellow River ice, actually flowed to Henan.

After so many years of suppressing bandits, millions of military salaries have been consumed, but they have never been able to exterminate the Liukou, on the contrary, the Liukou still have the momentum of spreading from the northwest to the Central Plains! This is undoubtedly a very bad sign.

For the people of southern Liaoning, they are happy, no matter how difficult it is, the most difficult time has passed, Cheng Shijie got married in the capital, but he has not forgotten the people of southern Liaoning, as well as the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy.

Before the Chinese New Year, the Military Affairs Department of the Ning Navy distributed New Year's gifts to all officers and men of the army, and each soldier distributed a bag of 100 catties of wheat flour, 10 catties of horse meat, 10 catties of pork, 2 catties of candy, and 5 catties of oil in addition to the military salary. And a piece of cloth for each soldier.

The veterans of the Ning Navy who followed Cheng Shijie from Dengzhouwei, Shandong are accustomed to this matter, and during the New Year's holidays, Yang Menglong always has to send something to everyone, never without exception, but this time there are just too many points, but with the Ning Navy openly annexing the Dongjiang Army, these officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army can't believe their eyes.

The officers and men of the Dongjiang Army are okay, after all, they are used to being poor, the most important thing is that many of the soldiers who received the gifts are the wounded soldiers of the Guanning Army, and they are still recuperating in southern Liaoning, and they also sent these things, the same as the standard of the Ning Navy, the difference is that the official position is high, and the New Year's gifts will be slightly more.

The officers and men of the Ning Navy who received the New Year's gifts also tried their best to have a good New Year for their families, especially the cloth they received, most of these cloths are good cotton cloth, one piece of cloth is not much, and it is enough to make a new set of clothes for the mother-in-law doll.

The pork and horse meat they got were reluctant to stew, but they were added with Chinese cabbage and vermicelli, chopped into dumpling filling, and 100 catties of white noodles could be enough for their family to eat for a long time.

The dumplings of pork and cabbage vermicelli are also delicious in the future generations, but the problem is that if you eat too many dumplings, you will still get tired, and some soldiers' children don't want to eat dumplings, so they beg their parents to improve their food and change their taste.

A big mouth twitched over: "Beautiful you, do you know how difficult it was to eat dumplings in the past?" ”

In addition to the officers and men of the Ning Navy, ordinary military households also received gifts for the New Year, even if they were prisoners of labor reform, they could also eat dumplings filled with meat, and ordinary military households received too few things, each household was given a bag of ten catties of flour, two catties of pork, a catty of candy, and a few feet of cloth.

Looking at the smell of dumplings wafting from the house of Sergeant Ning, ordinary military households were so red that they said in their hearts: "What's the big deal, when the next conscription is made, Lao Tzu will also be a soldier!" ”

When Cheng Shijie came to Daxing County, it was already afternoon, there was no way, there were too many people out of the city, and it was still the Chinese New Year period, visiting relatives and friends, blocking the road tightly, and the carriage couldn't run at all.

When Cheng Shijie arrived at the Haiguo Mansion, the porter and servants gave salutes one after another.

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Zhili and said, "How many people came?" ”

Sun Zhili said: "There are a lot, there are dozens of people, all of them are performing martial arts!" ”

On the martial arts field, there are now only more than 300 cavalry of the Ning Navy, these soldiers of the Ning Navy are acting as business personnel, they are wearing plate armor made by the Ning Navy, this kind of plate armor is produced very quickly, composed of six steel plates, with human body curves, and the defense ability can withstand the test of the battlefield.

The more than 300 soldiers of the Ning Navy were divided into a sentry of 50 heavily armed cavalrymen, a sentry of 50 crossbowmen, a sentry of 50 pikemen, a sentry of 50 musketeers, an artillery of 50 sentry and a baggage guard of 50 men.

For the Thunderbolt is on display, after all, the Thunderbolt is not cost-effective, as for the sailor soldiers, there is no exhibition, and the exhibition is useless, except for Cheng Shijie, no general is willing to spend a lot of money to develop the sailor, of course, except for Sun Yuanhua, an outlier.

Although there are only 50 troops in each branch, the Ning Navy is lined up in a neat line, and they are all in one, advancing and retreating together, and this kind of momentum alone is very terrifying.

Hou Sui could see what the real strength of Admiral Ning was, he looked at Zuo Liangyu and asked, "How?" ”

"Strong, too strong!"

"Xiaguan meets Hai Guogong!"

Cheng Shijie greeted everyone very warmly, in Cheng Shijie's eyes, these people are his God of Wealth, and they all came to give him money.

Don't look at Cheng Shijie's public account, there are still more than 4 million taels of silver, but the problem is that these silver are really not spent, Ning Haijun's normal expenses are five or six hundred thousand taels of silver, but after the beginning of spring, there are more roads and ditches to be built, and spring ploughing is required, and there are too many places to spend money, and it is necessary to wait until August and September to make profits.

Without these grievances, how could Cheng Shijie persist until the autumn harvest.

"Guys, what do you think!"

"Hai Guogong is a well-trained soldier!"

Everyone looked at the more than 300 soldiers on the Ninghai Naval Exercise Ground, their eyes hot and dangerous.

Cheng Shijie said: "Wu Sheng! ”

"Here!"

"Get them moving!"

"Yes!"

With Wu Sheng's order!

"Knock Knock Knock"

The sound of the thick drums sounded, and when they heard the drums, they marched forward and withdrew their troops. This is actually the basic way of transmitting military orders in ancient times, and the sound of drums will be fundamental to the rhythm and convey orders.

Of course, the command of the rhythm is not static, and only a soldier who is familiar with this rhythm will really understand what this means.

Fifty crossbowmen were the first to appear, and these crossbowmen silently stepped forward to the beat of the brisk drums, and when they were only a hundred paces away from a large row of targets, the drummers struck an accent vigorously, and fifty pairs of feet stopped at the same time, the first row of crossbowmen crouched, the second row half kneeled, the third row stood upright, and the fourth row split in two, protecting the left and right wings.

Fifty men with crossbows aimed at the target.

With a heavy hammer, these crossbowmen who heard the order began to fire their arrows, of course, they did not shoot directly in one go, but the first row fired first, followed by the second row, and then the third row.

"Woo Woo ......"

Fifty crossbowmen fired three rounds of crossbow arrows at the target, and the target in front of them immediately became dense, as if the target was overgrown with weeds.

When the fifth round of firing was over, and then the drums changed their rhythm again, fifty musketeers began to appear, and they performed the subject of the three-stage strike of the musket.

"Bang ......"

As the sound of firecrackers sounded like popping beans, the entire martial arts arena was soon filled with a thick smell of gunsmoke.

"Cheng Shuai is really a genius in the sky, and he actually thought that the fire gun could be used like this!"

Lu Xiangsheng saw that this set was not invented by Cheng Shijie, but the tactics created by Mu Ying, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, when the founding general Mu Ying passed through Yunnan, the natives of Yunnan repeatedly rebelled, and the giant beast elephant that was invulnerable rushed into battle, and General Mu Ying lined up the firecrackers in three columns, and took turns to load and fire, I don't know how many elephants became a sieve under the rain of bullets.

After the collective martial arts exercise, Cheng Shijie asked for a spear in the hands of a pikeman, and with a flick of his wrist, he played with a spear flower.

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Bring a pig here!" ”

"It's handsome!"

Soon, a big fat pig of about two or three hundred catties was led in by a Ning Navy soldier.

Cheng Shijie suddenly let out a loud shout, a stab like lightning, then another false stab, and then another stab, the action was simple and sharp, murderous, screaming, when everyone was dazzled, Cheng Shijie stabbed the spear into the chest of the big fat pig, and the sharp spear passed through the body of the fat pig, and directly shot a heart.

Then the blood flowed incessantly, and it didn't take long for the pig to die, which was the result of stabbing in a non-vital part!

Zuo Liangyu looked at the spear in Cheng Shijie's hand and faintly found something.

"Lord Hou, I want to buy this spear too!"

Zuo Liangyu suddenly watched Cheng Shijie lose his spear and take a Tang Zhi knife, he then played a knife flower and slashed at the big fat pig, and the fat pig's huge head rolled down.

Zuo Liangyu said excitedly: "This gun is weird!" ”

(End of chapter)