Chapter 236

When Catherine heard Cheng Shijie's words, she immediately laughed dumbly, laughing at herself and saying that she was too worried.

As Cheng Shijie said, the current city-state republic of Venice, from the beginning of the 10th century, after the war from the Roman Empire to gain its own power, quickly became a rich commercial center, during the Crusades, Venice used commerce and war to annex large areas of territory.

With the strength of the economy, Venice has made extraordinary achievements in culture, shipbuilding, architecture, painting, and sculpture, and even though Venice has lost a large number of overseas colonies, the nationality of the Republic of Venice is still very sought-after in Europa.

People from other countries tried by all means to squeeze in and obtain the citizenship of the Republic of Venice, and some did not hesitate to spend 100,000 ducats, which was equivalent to 95,000 taels of silver. Even Venice, when facing the invasion of the Ottoman Empire, had many sailors and soldiers, in fact, including merchants.

The princes of Venice, however, would rather die than surrender. As for walking away after completing your studies? If your brain gets in the water, you'll be gone!

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Your Venice city-state republic as early as more than 200 years ago, after the beginning of the ten-member parliament became a lifelong system, your Venice was controlled by the oligarchs, this is the beginning of your weakness, if you don't change this situation, you will suffer more failures in the future, because the wealth of the oligopoly isolates the space for promotion, your Venetian nobles will always be nobles, and the commoner class has no room to change their fate, which is very dangerous!" ”

Catherine sighed and said, "My father is no longer the governor of Venice, and this kind of thing is no longer something I can change!" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "I believe that our Venice will become richer and more energetic, a vibrant country has an unlimited future, if anyone walks away after completing his studies, and is unwilling to repay Venice that has cultivated you for several years or even more than ten years, it can only prove that he is a fool!" Such a fool, all of them are gone, and Venice doesn't need to feel distressed! ”

This made Cheng Shijie think of later generations, on the Internet and among the people, he has always been distressed about the loss of talent, and even hated those who went to Europe and the United States. But in fact, this kind of thing is actually unfounded, it is undeniable that it is a pity for some people to go out, and some people are not worth regretting.

Influenced by the five mouths of the beautiful country, to the professor to the students, has been instilling the values of flattery, and their students in that kind of environment, there will be a beautiful country of the moon than the Chinese circle, in fact, it is normal.

Real people don't go out unless they have other ideas. Cheng Shijie knows very well that he is a commissioned trainee of Hangang Group, even if he is still in Hangang Group, he still has not left.

Because he has a different emotion towards Hangang Group, the state-owned enterprise system is a fairly fair and suitable environment with Chinese characteristics, at least talents will be reused, not buried.

Of course, some "talents" only think that they are talents, not real talents. Just like the author, he used to think that he was a talent, and he wanted to write different themes and different stories to prove that he was more awesome. As a result, the author understood, and the author was just a fool.

When others were writing popular themes, only the author wrote niche and unpopular themes, but he didn't take the express train of online literature development, and he was still in the pit for more than ten years.

In all fairness, Catherine thinks that although Cheng Shijie greedily accepted her one million ducats to solve Venice's problems, he also prescribed medicine for Venice's illness, but this medicine did not work, which was something Catherine could not predict.

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In Beijing City, the Forbidden City, Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, who was preparing to be on duty, heard the news of Zheng Zhilong's defeat, and the book in his hand fell to the ground.

For Wen Tiren, this is already an extremely embarrassing performance, but now he doesn't care about it at all, just glaring at his staff, trying to confirm whether the other party is joking with him: "What do you say, say it again, how can Zheng Zhilong fail?" ”

Wen Tiren's staff told Wen Tiren the original battle report he had just received.

For a long time, Wen Tiren sat on the soft couch and did not react.

In fact, for Cheng Shijie, an uncontrolled general, Wen Tiren and the entire civil official group have no good impression of Cheng Shijie, of course, if Cheng Shijie, like Zu Dashou, is willing to share the interests in his hands with the Wentuan Group, then Cheng Shijie will immediately become the pillar of the country in the eyes of the civil official group.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie does not bird the civil official group, but grabs meat from the civilian group everywhere. For example, Liaoyu was originally the money bag of the civil official group, a small treasury.

But as the Ning Navy pressed Jiannu to the ground and rubbed it, Jiannu's vitality was greatly damaged, and the Guanning army was very incompetent, and Emperor Chongzhen embezzled the salary of the Guanning army three times and twice. If there was no Cheng Shijie, they could have instructed the Guan Ning army to mutiny, thus forcing Emperor Chongzhen to compromise.

But the problem is that now Emperor Chongzhen is wishing for the Guanning army to mutiny, because the Ning Navy stationed more than 20,000 troops in Guangning, a step away from Jinzhou, surrounded Jinzhou from three directions.

As Cheng Shijie's territory in Liaodong became bigger and bigger, the imperial court couldn't intervene at all, appointed officials to Liaodong, and pulled a faction to fight in Liaodong.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is a soldier in Liaodong, and the people have weapons captured by the Ning Navy in their hands, as well as bows and arrows and crossbow machines from Jiannu, including firearms, especially revolvers, this thing is very deadly, no matter how strong a man is, when facing a revolver, he will fall with one shot.

Almost everyone in Liaodong has weapons, and it is clearly stipulated that in order to prevent the attack of Jiannu, all weapons can only be used for self-defense, but weapons are not allowed to be taken out of the house without the permission of the Liaodong Management Committee.

This is extremely fucked, the officials sent by the civil officials to Liaodong want to exploit the local area, the risk is extremely high, and they want to pay harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, right? Okay, as soon as people close the door, I won't pay it, what can you do with me? Break in? Beware of someone inside who will kill you with a shot or a knife! The worst thing is that those fart people and Cheng Shijie supported them, and they were shot to death, and those officials died in vain!

The officials sent to Liaodong are unwilling to go alive or dead, and they are 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing Governor's Mansion for three years, but they don't know if they have the life to stay here for three years, this official can't be an official.

The key is that Cheng Shijie does not play cards according to the routine, as long as the corrupt officials are found out, not only will people die, but the whole family will also suffer, no matter which local officials, as long as there is an accident in Liaodong, their families will definitely encounter bandits, not to mention that the family property will be robbed, and all family members will disappear.

Of course, this is just a special task force in the hands of Chen Guodong by Cheng Shijie, with only one responsibility, specializing in corrupt officials, and under the deterrence of this special operation, go to Liaodong as an official? There is any way, I am absolutely unwilling to go to Liaodong as an official, and the only ones sent over are unlucky people who are not loved by my grandmother and uncle.

Such unlucky people can only be good officials in Liaodong, be Cheng Shijie's officials, listen to Cheng Shijie's words, and implement various management regulations in Liaodong, they have a life, and they can also live a good life.

The problem of corrupt officials that Zhu Yuanzhang did not solve by peeling the skin and filling the grass was solved by Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie does not need the triage of the three divisions, nor does he need evidence on the face of the court officials, let alone how many umbrellas there are, whoever has a problem will be cleaned up.

This special task force has been established for a year and a half, has carried out 15 outings, and is secretly called by officials as the soul seduction order, and it is the whole family with one hook.

After trying to invalidate impeachment, slander, and crackdown, Wen Tiren and the civil official clique took a lot of effort to provoke a fierce battle between Cheng Shijie and Zheng Zhilong, the two evil dragons, and got a perfect opportunity to sit and watch the tiger fight.

In fact, Wen Tiren also made a lot of efforts here, and even wrote for the governor of Fujian many times, so that the governor of Fujian mobilized the people around Zheng Zhilong to kill the people from the sea. This is the lifeblood of the Ning Navy, after the Ning Navy made a big move, Wen Xiuren couldn't sit still, so he simply sent someone to move to Fuxia to facilitate contact with Zheng Zhilong.

He dreamed that Cheng Shijie and Zheng Zhilong would fight, and it was best to lose both, as for how many crimes and how many people would die because of this, it was not in his consideration at all, he just wanted Cheng Shijie to die!

Wen Tiren hated Cheng Shijie so much, not all because of jealousy, of course, he was indeed crazy with jealousy of Cheng Shijie, and became the head of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, at most he was majestic in the court, and Cheng Shijie, who was much younger than him, had become a feudal official who held the power of life and death in the Ming Dynasty.

Cheng Shijie is not from a Jinshi background, and he can't threaten Wen Tiren's status, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie has Xu Guangqi behind him, as well as Sun Chengzong, in the original history, with the Dengzhou Rebellion, Sun Yuanhua, a student, was beheaded, and Xu Guangqi's body also crossed.

But now Xu Guangqi's health is fine, he has a serious illness, and his spirit is getting better and better after recuperation, especially Cheng Shijie worships Sun Chengzong as his teacher, these two gods have the absolute strength to crush him.

Especially Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, because of the relationship between Cheng Shijie, were relied on by Chongzhen as the pillar of the town.

Wen Tiren and Cheng Shijie are incompatible, the most important reason is that it is rumored that Cheng Shijie is the successor of the Mo family and the Legalist family, and he is burdened with the important task of revitalizing the Mo family and the Legalist family!

At first, he thought it was a rumor, but after carefully studying Cheng Shijie's political measures and style of treating people, he was shocked to find that this guy was almost the embodiment of the Mo family and the Legalist family!

The most striking point is that the matter is handled according to the law, there is no hierarchy of punishment, whether it is a gentleman, a high-ranking official, or a peddler and pawn in his jurisdiction, once the crime is dealt with according to the law, the punishment that should be received is what punishment is the punishment, and there is absolutely no room for flexibility.

As for the Mohist thoughts, it is too obvious in him, first of all, this guy has an almost fanatical hobby for mechanical arts, natural science, etc., and strives for perfection, and the Mohist ideas of "both love", "non-attack", "Shangxian", "Shangtong", "Tianzhi", "Ming ghost", "non-life", "non-music", "festival funeral", "saving use" and other ideas have been implemented one by one under his vigorous promotion......

Well, while playing "non-offensive", this guy is even more aggressive than a mad dog!

Legalism and Moism, the two most glorious schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, had a profound impact on the trajectory of China's development. Although these two schools of thought have gradually declined since the Western Han Dynasty dominated Confucianism, especially the Mohists, which have almost disappeared, it does not mean that Confucianism can sit back and relax.

The inheritance of the Mo family has not been broken, no matter how it declines, it has always gritted its teeth and persevered, survived the long two thousand years, and finally came to the sudden rise of today's army, which swept Liaodong with lightning speed.

The most serious thing is that the Mohists are a mortal threat to Confucianism and must not be tolerated!

The battle between the Wenchen and the military generals has become a life-and-death contest between Confucianism, Legalism, and Moism.

However, Wen Tiren never thought that before he knew it, Cheng Shijie had become a big mountain, which overwhelmed him, and he wanted to overturn it in his dreams!

However, the news he received gave him a headache, Zheng Zhilong was defeated by Cheng Shijie, all kinds of warships lost thousands, the main battleships lost one-third, as many as more than 300 main battleships were wiped out, especially Zheng Zhilong's elite sailors, more than 15,000 people were killed and wounded, and the losses of the land troops were not heavy, but they also exceeded 10,000 people.

Whether it is a land battle or a naval battle, the Zheng Group is vulnerable! Such bad news made Wen Tiren very devastated, Jiannu, who was like a wolf and a tiger, became impotent when he met Cheng Shijie, and Zheng Zhilong, who was majestic, also vented when he met Cheng Shijie.

Could it be that Cheng Shijie is invincible?

Seeing Wen Tiren's face as if he was constipated, staff member Yang Siyuan smiled reluctantly: "Elder Ge, please rest assured, this little failure is not worth mentioning to Zheng Dudu, it is just a drop in the bucket...... Besides, Cheng Shijie's losses are also quite heavy, and he only needs to concentrate all his strength to make a thunderous blow to make him wipe out......"

Wen Tiren let out a long sigh and said, "This time, Cheng Shijie can't hold it down!" ”

"If you really can't hold it down, then you can only roast him on the fire!"

"Siyuan, do you have any good ideas?"

"The students have some foolish opinions!"

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"Then the bottom of the kettle!"

"But how do you draw it?"

Yang Siyuan said gloomily: "Push Cheng Shijie out and remove him from the position of governor of Liaodong!" ”

"Get out of the way?"

Wen Tiren smiled faintly and said, "Do you think it's easy to move Cheng Shijie away?" Believe it or not, as long as Cheng Shijie on the front foot has just left, Jiannu on the back foot will resurge? ”

Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, is also extremely difficult, in all fairness, Cheng Shijie knows many things, and he also knows that Cheng Shijie knows that Jin merchants are collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

But can this Shousuke not know?

Of course, Wen Tiren also knows, but Cheng Shijie can pierce this layer of window paper, but he can't, because he is a party with vested interests, if he betrays his class, Wen Tiren will be hacked very much like Pan Renmei of the Great Song Dynasty, or Su Dingfang of the Tang Dynasty.

It will definitely stink for thousands of years.

"Siyuan, don't you know, Cheng Shijie has been in Dengzhou for less than a year, and now there are Cheng Shijie's people in Dengzhou, as well as Cheng Shijie's influence, if he leaves Liaodong, who can guard Liaodong?"

Wen Tiren actually knows very well that he must not let Jiannu resurrect, otherwise if he comes to the city again, he, the first assistant, will be the end.

Emperor Chongzhen is a person who holds grudges, none of the cabinet members were gone, and all of them were cleaned up by Emperor Chongzhen when he found an opportunity, not only the cabinet, but even the officials above the six ministries and all the ministries and hall level were all settled after the autumn.

Wen Tiren doesn't want to be raided by Emperor Chongzhen, is it easy for him to get some money after all these years as the first assistant?

"Then let him go back to Beijing and serve as the governor of the Governor of the Five Armies, and let him tear them apart with Wei Guogong!"

"Wei Guogong, he doesn't even dare to fart!"

Wen Tiren smiled faintly: "Zheng Zhilong is not a wolf, the wolf is not a tiger opponent, this is understandable, but Wei Guogong is just a dog, let the dog fight the tiger, the dog doesn't even dare to bare his teeth." ”

Yang Siyuan thought for a while and said, "There is only one last way. ”

"What's the solution?"

"Three people become tigers, and all mouths are gold!"

This is the easiest way to save trouble, just use the pen, easy and happy.

Wen Tiren immediately wrote two words, "Reverse Journey" and handed it to his protégés, and these protégés immediately understood the meaning of Lord Shoufu.

"The minister impeached Cheng and Ma Duwei for bullying the monarch and recklessly ......"

Princess Duwei Shang, the princess of the horse, was originally a great kindness from the heavenly family, Cheng Shijie was good, and he actually accepted several concubines, where is this princess?

"The minister impeached Governor Cheng and privately awarded military merits ......"

"The minister impeached General Cheng, bullied and oppressed the gentlemen, and wantonly extorted and killed, which is to destroy the national capital of the Ming Dynasty......"

This matter is not only the officials of the DPRK and China, but also the scholars in the provinces also jumped up to make trouble, among which the most ferocious is the scholars in Jiangnan, Jiangnan is a paradise for tax evasion, this is a magical place where the salt tax and tea tax paid in a year add up to less than two hundred taels of silver!

But Cheng Shijie is now stuck in Wu Songkou to collect taxes, this is to snatch food from their mouths, these Jiangnan scholars chant poems and write articles, which is already very hard and expensive, otherwise how can they have the money to go to Qinhuai River to praise singers.

Those impeachment of Cheng Shijie, and the vicious articles also flew over like snowflakes, and he was embarrassed to go out to greet people if he didn't receive one or two hundred a day.

Cheng Shijie didn't know anything about the turmoil in the DPRK, of course, he was not interested in knowing.

In fact, his relationship with Gao Qiqian is a relationship of interest. Because he is a tiger, Gao Qiqian can snatch food from the mouths of the Jiangnan gentry.

Cheng Shijie didn't pay attention to the movement in the capital, but Gao Qiqian, who had played a power struggle all his life, keenly noticed this problem, so he didn't say a word and rushed back to the capital all the way.

Gao Qiqian who came to the capital was very embarrassed, he deliberately made himself stinky, and then exposed his tanned skin in Jiangnan, and directly came to Emperor Chongzhen to take the blame.

Gao Qiqian hugged Emperor Chongzhen's thigh and cried.

cried for a long time, which made Emperor Chongzhen feel a little inexplicable: "Tall companion, you are ......"

"Emperor, the slave is bitter!"

The tears of the high dive are like pearls with broken threads, snapping and falling.

Under Emperor Chongzhen's repeated questioning, Gao Qiqian was reluctant to express his grievances, and he told Emperor Chongzhen that Zheng Zhilong bribed the gentry officials because he couldn't beat Cheng Shijie and was unwilling to hand over the benefits he swallowed.

Emperor Chongzhen is still wondering why there have been more twists and turns in the impeachment of Cheng Shijie these days.

It turns out that the root is here.

Gao Qiqian, this guy wants to say that he framed someone, he is definitely an expert, and he immediately took out Jinyiwei's secret report.

Jinyiwei has long since lost the prestige of the early Ming Dynasty, but the hundred-legged insects are dead and not stiff, so it may be a little difficult for them to steal military intelligence, but let them check the officials who danced the most, what color of the underwear they are wearing tonight, that is not a problem at all.

Gao Qi sneaked to guard the Yangtze River estuary to collect merchant ship tax, now it is not bad money, and the remuneration for Jinyiwei is quite generous, this kind of low-risk and high-return beauty has always been everyone's favorite, Jiangnan Jinyiwei has become the most professional paparazzi, if you want to check which one, just say it, and promise to turn out all the ugly things of their ancestors for the eighteenth generation!

These officials from Jiangnan are not clean in the first place. Because the Ming Dynasty has always treated the gentlemen well, their encroachment on fertile land and tax evasion are not a big deal.

But the problem is that these things are already there, plus selling salt and iron to the rebels, receiving the looted property of the rebels, and cashing in to the rebels, including raising prices, as for bullying men and women, this is all pediatrics.

The key is that the most desperate thing about Gao Qiqian is that there is a large list of figures, such and such an official, how many fields and properties, how many shops, how many silver deposits there are at home, and how many usury there are.

Seeing that the minister who cried with Emperor Chongzhen all day long was so rich, Emperor Chongzhen's face turned green: "What a good minister of mine!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and said, "Tall companion! ”

"The slave is here!"

"I'll take care of it!"

"The slave doesn't know what to do?"

"Raid the house!"

Gao Qi immersed himself in ecstasy, and the opportunity to make a fortune came.

"Slave and maid command!"

Originally, Emperor Chongzhen's temperament has been familiar with the ministers, it can be said that he loves face, and his vanity is particularly strong, as long as everyone makes trouble and cries, Emperor Chongzhen will compromise.

But the problem is, this time they miscalculated.

If you are not afraid of hooligans, you are afraid that hooligans are educated.

When Cheng Shijie decided to fight Zheng Zhilong, what really moved Emperor Chongzhen was the more than 10 million taels of silver.

What can impress Emperor Chongzhen?

There is only silver, and he can't beat Emperor Chongzhen, which can only mean that there is too little silver.

But which of these officials and gentry is not worth millions of taels of silver?

The action of high diving is very fast, starting from the capital, within one day, three houses were copied in a row, and the silver alone was copied to more than 1.6 million taels of silver.

Soon, Wen Tiren pondered the taste, these officials who were raided all have a characteristic, impeaching Cheng Shijie is the most fierce and ruthless person, and he is also the most happy person.

Wen Tiren didn't understand why Emperor Chongzhen changed his sex?

(End of chapter)