Chapter 301

Today, the size of the Yining Navy has exceeded 300,000 troops, including the four major fleets, a total of more than 200 warships of the 4,000 material level, and the number of naval guns alone is 5,000 or 6,000.

In fact, if the Ning Navy relied exclusively on Liaodong's agriculture to provide support, even if the size of the troops was reduced by ten times, Liaodong would not be able to afford it.

Thanks to the industry and commerce in Liaodong, especially industry, the price of steel has been suppressed by Liaodong's iron and steel production capacity, from the original 200 yuan a catty to the current 50 or 60 yuan per catty. Like sea salt, in particular, it has been suppressed to six cents per catty, and basically all people can afford it.

Cheng Shijie has the salt quotation issued by the imperial court, and the salt merchants have no choice, sue, sue and win, fight, can't fight, they can only sulk, and more importantly, Cheng Shijie never suffers losses when he fights, and the troops are getting stronger and stronger.

Fighting with bandits, the money and food accumulated by bandits over the years have become Cheng Shijie's spoils, even if he fights with Jiannu, he also gains well, and the biggest benefit is with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong has been squeezed dry by Cheng Shijie. Fighting with the Dutch and Spaniards, Cheng Shijie wants both face and lining.

After learning that Cheng Shijie was going to fight a small life, not only the prisoners in Liaodong were boiling, but even the officers and men of the Ning Navy signed up one after another, asking to participate in the battle of crossing the sea and attacking Japan. In just a few days, Cheng Shijie received tens of thousands of blood letters in Golden State.

Daming and later generations are still a little different, in later generations how there is still a group of things that do not eat food, what Hari, Jingri, Flattering Japanese elements, but in Daming it is different, although some people think that the small day is listed as a country that is not levy by Emperor Taizu Hongwu, but to fight a small day, or to eliminate the Japanese Kou, this is the consensus of the whole people.

"Dashuai, someone asks to see you!"

Cheng Shijie took the famous thorn, looking at the four words "Erzhu Guangqi" on it, he was slightly stunned, he can now be sure that he has no friendship with this Erzhu family, in fact, the surname Erzhu originated from the surname Hu, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, a large number of talents emerged, such as Erzhurong, Erzhu Yanbo and so on.

However, this surname has disappeared in later generations, and most of them have been changed to the surnames Zhu, Er, Rong, Hu, Zhao, Zhao, Long, etc.

Cheng Shijie said: "Did you ask him what he wanted to see Ben Shuai?" ”

"Erzhu Guangqi is a Zhejiang businessman, and he has not yet been naturalized in Liaodong, but he has many assets in Liaodong......"

"Let people go to the front hall and wait!"

Cheng Shijie found that the current attendants were not as flexible as Sun Kewang, if Sun Kewang dealt with similar problems, he would definitely even inquire about the eighteenth generation of the other party's ancestors.

"Grass people, Erzhu Guangqi greets the handsome!"

When Cheng Shijie came to the front hall, a middle-aged man in a cyan robe looked white and clean, and there was a bookish smell between his eyebrows.

"Are you Erzhu Guangqi?"

"It's the grass people!"

"What do you want to do with Ben Shuai?"

"I heard that the big marshal is going to attack Xiao Ri?"

"That's right!"

Erzhu Guangqi said: "Dashuai, the grass people are willing to donate 15,000 taels of silver to Dashuai!" ”

"What do you want to do?"

"The grass people have a beloved son, nine years ago, followed his mother, returned to Quanzhou Province, never thought that on the road to meet the Japanese Kou, the Japanese extorted 60,000 taels of silver from the grass people, the grass people went bankrupt, sold their belongings, and scraped together 60,000 taels of silver, however, the group of beasts ......"

Although Erzhu Guangqi is a maritime merchant, compared with the maritime merchant with a net worth of millions or tens of millions, he is a small trader with seven or eight old and broken ships under his name, nothing more.

Since Erzhu Guangqi's wife and children were brutally killed by the Japanese invaders, Erzhu Guangqi began to prepare a revenge plan, but it is a pity that although Xiaori is closed to the country, but they are not alone to deal with, Erzhu Guangqi has been preparing for several years, the more absolute the more desperate.

Until now, Cheng Shijie raised troops to attack Xiaori, which made Erzhu Guangqi see hope.

Erzhu Guangqi said: "The grass people hope that they can give the marshal a little silver, let the marshal make more artillery, kill a few more widows, and the grass people want to buy a hundred heads of the widows from the handsome to pay tribute to the souls of the deceased wife and beloved son in the sky."

"Well said, well said!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the 15,000 taels of silver and said with a smile: "Ben Shuai will give you 300!" ”

After Er Zhu Guangqi left, Zhu Weiyuan walked over.

"Xianggong, can you take a look?"

"What's wrong?"

"This is the Xu Su clan of Songjiang Mansion recommended by Zhang Chen."

Zhu Weiyuan handed a gift list to Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie took it and looked at it, which read: "Eight thousand pairs of mille-feuille bottoms, eight thousand pairs of cotton socks!" Three hundred fat pigs! ”

Xu Sushi, this person Cheng Shijie has really heard of it, if Zhang Chen is the richest woman in Liaodong, then Xu Sushi is the largest private clothing store owner in Liaodong. This Xu Su came to Liaodong with five children, and later married Xu Shi Peng of Guangning as his wife.

If in the later life, it is definitely not easy for a woman with five children to remarry, but the problem is that the situation in Liaodong is not too different, as long as it is an ordinary person, it is a woman who divides the land according to the head, like the Su family, with five children, is actually fragrant.

Later, Xu Peng was blown off his legs by a Dutch shell in the battle against Dayuan, if it was the medical conditions of later generations, he could still save his legs, in this era, he could only amputate his legs. Xu Peng retired due to injury, because he had the exploits of killing seven enemies, and Xu Su's family had the start-up capital to make a fortune.

Soon Xu Su's business in Liaodong flourished, and he became worth hundreds of thousands in just three years, this time he heard that Cheng Shijie was going to attack Xiaori, Xu Su's used Zhang Chen's connections to find Zhu Weiyuan and give Zhu Weiyuan a gift!

At the same time, there are also 50,000 taels of silver donated by Zhang Chen.

"Are there many cases like this?"

"It's really a lot, most people actually don't have the opportunity to meet the marshal, they can only donate to our Ning Navy through their own channels, you one or two and I five taels!"

Within half a month of Cheng Shijie's decision to attack Xiaori, Ning Haijun accepted donations from the people, including more than 153,000 cans of canned beef, more than 63,000 pairs of shoes, more than 155,000 stones of grain, 18 million catties of potatoes, and more than 40,000 bags of starch.

There are also donations of more than 1.3 million taels of silver.

Cheng Shijie sighed: "It's really expected to be a small day!" ”

On the fifteenth, that is, when the Ning Navy was about to go to sea, Wang Chengen crossed the sea and brought the holy decree of Emperor Chongzhen, and read the holy decree of Emperor Chongzhen in front of the officials of the Liaodong Management Committee.

The words of the holy decree are quite beautiful, five and six, quoting scriptures, and it is very enjoyable to watch, but the content is not beautiful at all. The core content is just one: Aren't you trying to rob Japan? I agreed, let it go, grab it!

Sun Chengzong's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and he shouted at Wang Chengen: "How is it possible? Taizu is a country that is not conquered for a long time, is the saint confused, and he actually disobeyed Taizu's edict!? ”

Wang Chengen said with a smile: "Elder Sun Ge, you don't know, at this time, at that time, when Taizu sealed Xiaori as a country that was not conquered, Xiaori did not send troops to invade the Ming Dynasty's fence, let alone go to Jiangnan to kill people and set fire!" Since the little day is so ignorant, of course we have to return the color! ”

"Well said! The little day is shameless, let's list them as a country that does not conquer, and want to coexist peacefully with them, they are good, they first ran to Jiangnan to harm Jiangnan enough, and after being beaten away, they intensified, and dispatched hundreds of thousands of troops to fight North Korea, who can swallow this breath? ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "In the past, it was a continuous war disaster, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty was greatly damaged, and we couldn't do anything about them. ”

"Beiping, you are confused!"

"Teacher, students don't understand, why are students confused?"

"Emperor Taizu Hongwu listed Xiaori as a country not to be conquered, out of multiple considerations!"

Sun Chengzong said earnestly: "The Yuan Dynasty crusaded against Japan twice, but the result was the annihilation of the whole army. No, the old man wants to enter the Beijing Face Saint and let His Majesty take back his life, and the Ming Dynasty cannot repeat the mistakes of the previous dynasty! ”

"Teacher, when Emperor Hongwu, there was Mongolia in the north, not the main opponent of the Ming Dynasty, the small day is a corner of peace, there is the sea apart, although there is a killing of the envoy and not the subordinate, it is really a disease of ringworm, not a henchman, at that time the Ming Dynasty was not good at the combat strength, and it was urgent to restore the national strength, and the Great Yuan failed to conquer the day, and lost tens of thousands of troops twice, therefore, the Hongwu Emperor listed the small day as a country without conquest!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "The Mongols can't fight a small life, because their shipbuilding technology is not good, now, the seven major shipyards in Liaodong can make dozens of large ships with more than 4,000 materials, and it is still difficult for the sailors to exterminate pirates in the early Ming Dynasty, let alone expedition to Japan." And the formation of a sailor is not a day's work, and it requires a lot of money, for this matter of the Ming is obviously a bit out of place, but the Ning Navy built by the students to fight Jiannu, fight Spain, and expedition to Batavia, has never lost, and this time is no exception! ”

Sun Chengzong looked at Cheng Shijie with a resolute attitude, of course, he also knew the reason why Cheng Shijie said, he reminded Cheng Shijie just to let Cheng Shijie pay attention to it, don't repeat the mistakes of Dayuan.

"It's a good thing that you have faith, don't be angry!"

Sun Chengzong looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "The land is not as good as the sea, if you encounter a storm on the sea, you should not be called every day, and the earth is not spiritual, you can send a general to supervise the expedition for a small day!" ”

"Teacher, attacking Xiaori has been a long-cherished wish of students for many years, and this time, students must go!"

Cheng Shijie said loudly: "If you don't go to the Great Wall, you are not a hero, and you have no regrets when you step on Mount Fuji!" ”

Sun Chengzong looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Beiping, this time, you have to be prepared to lose money!" ”

"Loss?"

Cheng Shijie said in disbelief: "How can you lose money? ”

"That place is too poor in Xiaori, you can't get anything except salted fish!"

"Impossible, Xiaori has a silver mine that has not been mined for hundreds of years, and there are a large number of associated copper mines in Iwami Silver Mine, and the copper that can be minted is enough for tens of thousands of tons!"

"That's all it ...... say"

Sun Chengzong trembled and left the Ning Navy General Mansion, Cheng Shijie didn't believe it, but he was about to be slapped in the face.

After the war machine of the Ning Navy is activated, it will not stop, in fact, to start this war, Cheng Shijie is also to consume the inventory of Liaodong, whether it is shells, armor, blades, there is a shelf life, after the shelf life, it is no longer safe, of course, there is also food.

In particular, the warehouse in Liaodong has a large number of long-shelf life foods, such as compressed biscuits, canned food, sugar cubes, glucose, salt water, etc., which have too many backlogs and need to be disposed of.

At the beginning in Chibi City, some of it had been consumed, but this was far from enough, and many people may say that since there are so many materials in Liaodong, why not send them to the Central Plains.

But there is no such consumer market in the Central Plains, if it is sent for free, it is the factory that suffers, if the factory does not make money, then it will stop production, and the workers will be unemployed, one or two factories, the problem is not big, if a large number of factories stop production, a large number of unemployed people will emerge in Liaodong, which is very unfavorable to the economic development of Liaodong.

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to take the opportunity of Jiannu's invasion to fight a large-scale war with Jiannu, but the problem was that after the battle of Longgang Mountain, Jiannu immediately moved, and 10,000 or 20,000 horses began to migrate.

Of course, Cheng Shijie didn't get the exact information, Huang Taiji just asked Fan Wencheng to start the westward strategy, passing through Ningxia, at this time, Xiao Ri actually bumped into Cheng Shijie's muzzle, didn't say it, just do it.

"Meet Princess Chongming, meet Princess Changping!"

Although Cheng Shijie resigned, the only decree made by Queen Zhang in the past eight years was naturally to make the world clear, and Cheng Shijie was not given a chance to refuse at all.

As a result, Cheng Jiayue has now become the princess of Changping in the Ming Dynasty.

Cheng Shijie looked at Wang Chengen and said, "What is the situation in the capital?" ”

Wang Chengen smiled bitterly and said, "What else?" It's all a mess. Countless officials and imperial histories have written to impeach the Duke of Haiguo......"

Cheng Shijie scolded: "Those guys have in their brains, right?" ”

Wang Chengen sighed: "Those guys are completely against it for the sake of opposition, the development of Liaodong, they still don't see it, they only care about the impeachment of Hai Guogong by talking to themselves, which makes the emperor very angry, and dismisses several officials of the imperial history in a row, and finally makes them learn a little smarter." But even so, the impeachment of Hai Guogong still flew like snowflakes, and our family had to command people to carry several baskets out and burn them every day. ”

"Ben Shuai didn't throw their children into the well, why can't they get along with Ben Shuai?"

Although Cheng Shijie did not throw other people's children into the well, Cheng Shijie was digging the roots of Confucianism, and of course their Confucian disciples and grandchildren had to jump out and bite people.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little overwhelmed, so he risked the world to let Cheng Shijie lead the army to conquer Japan, firstly, to show the evil anger of the invasion of Korea for Emperor Shenzong, and secondly, to divert the attention of those crazy people, and continue to let them bite the accident so crazy!

Wang Chengsi said: "This time to conquer Japan, our family is here to wish the flag of Haiguo a victory!" ”

"I love to hear that!"

Cheng Shijie lowered his voice and said to Wang Chengsi: "Go back and get you tens of thousands of taels of silver back as pocket money." ”

Wang Chengen was taken aback: "Don't don't, tens of thousands of taels are too much, our family doesn't dare to accept them...... 10,000 taels is enough! ”

"Let's see your luck!"

Cheng Shijie said: "If you seize more, you will be given 100,000 taels of silver, and if you are less, you will be given 30,000!" ”

Wang Chengen thanked him repeatedly, and secretly said in his heart that it was no wonder that Gao Qiqian was willing to follow Cheng Shijie, look at others, this pattern ......

The Ning Navy did not move in formation, but took the commander-in-chief as the unit, and the rain and dew were evenly distributed, and six generals were transferred from the cavalry units, three from the artillery units, and 16 from the 14 capital divisions, one of which was the Guards Division, so that there were no complaints.

After half a month of preparation, the Ning Navy mobilized 352 transport ships of the 3,000 or more class to undertake this transportation task; after the end of the last Batavia naval battle, the Ning Navy's shipbuilding plan was mainly armed with merchant ships, after all, the transportation capacity of the Ning Navy was too weak.

A small Venetian city-state republic could gather thousands of armed merchant ships at one time, while the Ning navy, although the total number of ships exceeded three or four thousand, most of them were old and broken ships captured from Zheng Zhilong. One-third of the more than 350 ships were newly built, and 22 of them belonged to the 5,000-material class, or more than 1,600 tons.

On September 15, the eighth year of Chongzhen, outside the city of Jinzhou, on the school field, more than 30,000 troops of the Ning Navy formed a huge phalanx, with swords and guns like a forest, the iron armor shining with cold light, and the armor was majestic and murderous.

"Meet the handsome, the handsome wins!"

Cheng Shijie rode a war horse and walked through a square array, and the cavalry of the Ning Navy carried six firecrackers, which had a range of more than one hundred and fifty steps, and within fifty steps, they could ignore the three-layer heavy armor of Jiannu, and they could break the heavy armor in one hundred steps, but one hundred steps away, the hit rate was not high, not that the range was insufficient.

Even if it is a precision rifle of later generations, it is not easy to shoot the target within 150 steps, not to mention riding on a horse, in addition to the six guns, they also have sabers and spears in their hands, and they control the horse with their legs.

The number of heavy cavalry of the Ning Navy is not much, only 500 horsemen, all of them are Frisian horses purchased from the Venetians, this kind of war horse is tall and sturdy, with a strong load-bearing capacity, and at the same time the character is approachable and relatively stable, coupled with its good pulling force, it was once active on the stage of European history as an all-round war horse, carrying Germany and Friesland pragmatically participating in the Crusades, showing good mobility in a series of wars.

Cheng Shijie sent the dare heavy cavalry to the battlefield of Xiaori Kingdom, and the most important thing was the ability of the heavy cavalry to sweep everything like a tank. This kind of heavy cavalry, all men and horses are wearing heavy armor, only two eye sockets are exposed on the top and bottom of the body, and the knight is holding a horse lance eight feet long in one hand, it is not difficult to imagine how terrifying it will be when these four-legged mecha monsters are launched!

The crossbowman has disappeared from the regular combat sequence of the Bining Navy, but this time the expedition is small, and the army is still followed by a unit of dead soldiers.

They are the rogues from the Central Plains, you must know that these people are murderous beasts, whether they are adults or children, they can do it, as the elite of Zhang Xianzhong's army, where they pass, chickens and dogs are not left, and no grass is born.

More than 3,000 are archers, their bows are as thick as children's arms, and the sharp arrows in the quiver are thick and long.

Behind the archers are pikemen, and after the pikemen are hoplites, they are not many in number, but they are dressed in two layers of iron armor, and they look like moving iron towers, and the Mo knives in their hands are shining.

Behind this are the elite soldiers of the Ning Navy, everyone's armor is polished, and the military appearance is shocking. These are the elite divisions that Cheng Shijie painstakingly built with resources, and they are the only capital he has based on this land.

Cheng Shijie looked at the soldiers and said, "Soldiers, you should have heard of Luzon, right?" ”

The officers and men of Zhongning Navy said in unison: "I heard it!" ”

"In recent years, the weather in Liaodong has become colder and colder, although we have tried our best, but God still makes us fail to harvest every year, Ben Shuai also has no way to take this ghost weather, Ben Shuai has set up a home for us in Luzon, where there is no severe cold, no drought, just scatter seeds, you can get a bumper harvest, however, some people are red-eyed, the Japanese invaded us Luzon, slaughtered more than 500 of our robes, you say, what should I do?"

"Kill them all!"

The officers and men of the Ning Navy roared like thunder: "Kill them all!! ”

"yes, kill them all!!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Ben Shuai will take you to kill all the little days!" ”

Cheng Jialong, who was dressed in armor, was very excited.

As the officers and men of the Ning Navy began to line up to board the big ship, the armed merchant ships loaded with supplies and soldiers of the Ning Navy began to set sail until all the warships and armed merchant ships disappeared from the sea.

Zhu Weiyuan also began to turn around and go back with the crowd of people who saw them off.

However, at this moment, Gu Ziyi said with a panicked face: "Princess, something is wrong?" ”

"What's going on?"

"The eldest lady is missing?"

"Is she in the Panda Pavilion?"

"There is no trace of the eldest lady in the panda pavilion!"

"Did you ask the doorman? When did you go out? ”

"The bad thing is here, there is no record of the eldest lady leaving the mansion on the doorman's side!"

"What about the four companions?"

"They're gone, no one knows where they are!"

Zhu Weiyuan was flustered at this time: "Hurry up and find it!" ”

If Cheng Jiayue can't be found, Zhu Weiyuan doesn't know how to explain to Cheng Shijie.

In September, the East China Sea was windy and rough, and the gloomy dark clouds rolled in the sky, covering the sky, bringing a heavy rain from time to time, and the howling sea breeze already brought a hint of winter chill.

The officers and men of the Ning Navy stayed in the armed merchant ships that swayed like drunks, the soldiers born in the coasts of Liaodong, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Shandong were fine, and those rogues who were sent to Liaodong to serve hard labor had fallen into bad luck for eighteen lifetimes, vomiting one by one with straight eyes, and expressing their true feelings with the most ugly swear words.

Sun Kewang looked at the undulating peaks on the sea, and said to Cheng Shijie with a slight fear: "People are too small in front of the moody sea, a storm can make 100,000 troops die in the belly of the fish, no wonder Meng Yuan's two attacks on Little Japan were defeated!" ”

Cheng Shijie was about to speak, when a voice came from a distance: "Dad......"

Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng Jiayue with a cute face in a daze: "Why are you here?" ”

"I'm going to fight the little devils!"

(End of chapter)