Shen Mingyu is a child of a family, and he has been away from home for more than seven years, until Shen Mingyu became one of the generals of the Ning Navy and became famous all over the world, Shen Mingyu's mother Shen Rongshi knew that Shen Mingyu was in Liaodong, no matter how many grievances Shen Mingyu encountered, but after seeing his mother, he couldn't say a word.

After Shen Rong's found Shen Mingyu, he found that after so many years, Shen Mingyu was still alone, and Shen Rong's suddenly became anxious, how could this child not be married? Of course, Shen Rong's heart was also broken for Shen Mingyu's marriage, and even if Shen Mingyu's age is placed in the next generation, he is still an older leftover man.

But fortunately, Shen Mingyu is now powerful and powerful, and of course there is money, because of the fields rewarded by military merits, Shen Mingyu has 7,800 acres, of which there are also houses in Jinzhou, Haizhou, and Liaoyang.

In the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it was similar to later generations, men only had fields and land, and they had houses, so they didn't have to worry about marrying a daughter-in-law at all, but in Liaodong, a place that lacked foundation, Shen Rongshi believed that there was really no one who could be worthy of his own son.

Later, Shen Rongshi inquired that Xie Zongze's daughter Xie Susu was unmarried, and Xie Susu's family background was worthy of Shen Mingyu, after all, Xie Susu's father Xie Zongze was a member of the Liaoning Management Committee, responsible for education and culture, and placed in the Central Plains, at least an official at the level of education.

As for Xie Susu's elder brother Xie Jinglin, he is even more advantageous, he is also a member of the management committee, and he is also the person in charge of commerce and diplomacy, and his family background is not bad.

However, when Shen Rongshi wanted to find someone to propose to Xie Zongze, she inquired about Xie Susu's principles: "First, the other party must be from southern Liaoning, and he is not allowed to leave southern Liaoning for the rest of his life. Second, after the other party gets married, he is not allowed to take a concubine. Third, the other party must serve the second elder Xie Zongze together with Xie Susu for life. ”

For Shen Rong's family, the first and third articles are acceptable, after all, it is normal to be filial to his parents and parents-in-law, but the most unacceptable thing for Shen Rong's is that Xie Susu actually did not let Shen Mingyu take a concubine, if Xie Susu can't give birth to a child, won't the Shen family be doomed?

Shen Rong's tried every means to find a daughter-in-law for his son, there was no suitable object in Liaodong, she returned to Guide Mansion, in August last year, Shen Mingyu and Guide Mansion Yuan married, after marriage, Shen Mingyu and his seventeen-year-old wife Yuan also gathered less and left more, seeing that the daughter-in-law's stomach did not move, Rong discussed with Yuan and gave Shen Mingyu a concubine.

Yuan's family didn't like him because Shen Mingyu didn't like him, so he didn't touch her, so naturally she couldn't be pregnant, she was originally wronged, and there was no way to tell her mother-in-law, of course, Yuan's family was also a ruthless person, didn't the old lady let her take a concubine?

As Shen Mingyu's wife, she accepted fourteen concubines for Shen Mingyu in one breath, five of which were widows who had given birth to sons, just like that, Shen Mingyu returned home and had to face fifteen women.

Soon, Shen Mingyu now tasted Chen Dayong's endless pain.

Shen Mingyu, who is over forty years old, has begun to go downhill himself, fifteen women like wolves and tigers, where can he cope with them? He wanted to hide in the barracks like Chen Dayong, but it was a pity that with Shen Mingyu's level, he could take his family with him.

In this way, Shen Mingyu has no way to hide, there is no way, he can only be painful and happy.

At the beginning of the year, Shen Mingyu, who weighed 180 pounds, weighed less than 140 pounds and lost more than 40 pounds after only 11 months.

Cheng Shijie is actually very strange, what kind of diet pills did Shen Mingyu take, if he gets the recipe, he can make a lot of money in the future life, but this recipe, Cheng Shijie has no way to copy it.

Later, after Cheng Shijie knew about Shen Mingyu, he joked: "Mingyu, your Yanfu is not shallow!" ”

"Dashuai, don't make fun of me, and don't look at how many people are around you!"

Cheng Shijie shrugged, he was really embarrassed to make fun of Shen Mingyu on this issue again.

Shen Mingyu is one concubine and fourteen concubines, he is good, but his wife has eight concubines and twelve concubines, although he is not as good as Chen Dayong, but there are five more than Shen Mingyu, how can he be embarrassed to say that people are not shallow?

Shen Mingyu saw that Cheng Shijie didn't speak, so he gossiped to Cheng Shijie: "Dashuai, do you know that Changyu is the real Yanfu now?" ”

"Oh?"

Cheng Shijie asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Didn't a few boatloads of prisoners of war send to Liaodong a while ago?"

"That's right!"

"Changyu found two or two beautiful and elegant widows from the prisoner of war camp as concubines!"

In all fairness, the number of little women in the prisoner of war camps is actually very small, and only women with a certain status can keep their innocence and save their lives. The two women found by Changyu are said to be the daughters of the feudal lord, and they are twins, they look almost identical, and what is even more rare is that these two women are nearly one meter seven tall, and they are also tall women in the Central Plains.

After gossiping, let's get to the point.

Zhou Ning said: "Since the marshal is going to attack Annan, we are ready to send people to contact the Champa State first, and the ideal state is to unite with the Champa State, they are in the south, we are in the north, and our navy will land behind Annan at any time......"

Without waiting for Zhou Ning to speak, Cheng Shijie said puzzledly: "The country of Zhancheng is still there?" ”

"Of course it still exists, and it was a big one two hundred years ago, their heroic monarchy Peng'e was a powerful soldier, organized an army, and captured Shenglong City several times, so that the Annan people had no power to fight back, if it wasn't for the later death of Peng'e in ambush, Annan didn't know what he would have ravaged it into."

Zhou Ning said with a smile: "However, after the death of the Peng'e in battle, the power of the Zhancheng country plummeted, and now there is only one capital left, which is no different from destruction." However, after all, the Champa state has lasted for thousands of years, and it has a deep influence in this land, as long as it forms an alliance with the Champang, the Champa people in all parts of Annam will definitely resound in groups, and attacking Annam, it will save us a lot of effort. ”

Cheng Shijie nodded and said, "Well, there are indeed many benefits to forming an alliance with the Champa State, but you have to be careful, don't be used as a gun." ”

Zhou Ning said with a smile: "I pity them for not being able to continue the national fortune for thousands of years, they have been bullied and invaded by the Annan people for hundreds of years before they formed an alliance with them, allowing them to continue to exist as a vassal state after we occupy the entire Annan, and continue their civilization, if they are still greedy enough, don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”

Later, the General Staff of Ning put the reorganization plan of the Annan Army on Cheng Shijie's desk, and more than two-thirds of the original Death Legion were tired of tearing and killing, and wanted to return to peace, for the resettlement of more than 6,000 soldiers of the Death Legion, Cheng Shijie was preparing to set up eight towns for these more than 6,000 people, with the principle of 100 households as the guarantee and 10 guarantees as the town, and placed them in Luzon.

In order to resettle these soldiers, Luzon set aside 600,000 mu of paddy fields, including 1.2 million mu of dry land, including sugarcane forests and grasslands.

As far as Luzon is concerned, it means a mere 1.8 million acres of land.

These more than 6,000 households will not even spend the Chinese New Year in Liaodong, and they immediately began to pack their bags and prepare to migrate.

There are no officers and men of the Death Legion, as long as the normal army units of the Ning Navy are transferred, but not completely from Liaodong, but from Luzon, seven regiments are transferred, and now Luzon has been cleaned up by the Ning Navy by nearly half, there is no urgent pressure, and naturally it will not use so many troops.

With 35,000 men and horses in seven regiments of the Luzon Army, more than 9,600 men and horses from the Left Capital Division of the Ning Navy, plus a field medical detachment, plus three artillery commanders of the Independent Artillery Division, and two cavalry commanders, there are 50,000 horses.

The Annan Army is headed by Shen Mingyu and is divided into ten combat divisions, and for the Annan Army, there is another reference role, which is to really experiment with the new musket of the Ning Navy, in fact, the Chongzhen eight-year musket now equipped by the Ning Navy is a bit similar to the Desaile rifle.

But unlike later rifles, it is essentially just an old rifle with paper shells. A rifle bullet consists of a lead bullet, an initiating charge, and black powder, which are encapsulated together by paper, and the initiating charge is not at the tail of the bullet, but at the tail of the projectile, which is the middle of the bullet.

When the trigger is pulled, the long firing pin will directly penetrate the paper package, pierce the bottom of the projectile where the detonator is, detonate it, and then ignite the nitrocellulose. The Dresser M41 rifle was made of black powder.

Cotton wool is a good thing, it is easy to make, it is very powerful, there is very little residue after the explosion, it is easy to keep the inside of the chamber clean, and it is very ideal for firing. However, dry cotton wool is very dangerous, and a little spark will explode, so it must be kept slightly moist, or treated with a methanol-mixture to reduce its sensitivity, otherwise it will definitely die.

Of course, the Chongzhen eight-year rifle is not the same as the rotary rear pull bolt of the Dresser M41, and the bolt of the Dresser M41 only plays the role of locking, and does not have the function of pulling the shell after bolting the rifle. The Chongzhen eight-year rifle has this shell function.

In the next two or three decades, flintlock pistols have quietly emerged in Europe, and will become the mainstream equipment of European armies in the next two decades. It was about sixty years before rifled flintlock pistols appeared, and Ning Haijun's Chongzhen eight-year rifle was a product of more than 200 years later.

A group of crossbowmen went to shoot at the enemy armed with arquebuses and flintlock pistols, and they did not suffer a loss, and only when the rifled flintlock pistols were rifled, they suffered a loss in range, and now Cheng Shijie is far ahead of the world.

Although Cheng Shijie actually still has time, the problem is that there are still considerable difficulties in manufacturing copper bullets, at least the Gun Bureau has not solved this problem. In fact, the bullet and the principle are the same as the principle of the shell, and the cannon is also an enlarged version of the gun, but it is easy to make it bigger, but it is difficult to make it small.

Cheng Shijie is quite satisfied with this at present, and after the Chongzhen eight-year rifle was finalized, he went all out to produce it, and now it can produce about 2,600 to 2,900 rifles per month. This is also the result of the extensive use of hydraulic machinery, steam machinery, and assembly line operations. However, in this era, such an output is enough to be proud of the vast majority of arsenals.

In fact, the bows and crossbows and knives and guns equipped with cold weapons are served by the Rabid Regiment, and the artillery and cavalry and long-range soldiers are served by the Ning Navy soldiers.

According to this plan, the Annan Corps will be reorganized within two to three months at the earliest, and of course, the Rabid Legion can also receive further training.

Cheng Shijie took the battleship Zhili and went to the capital, when Cheng Shijie came to Beijing, he found that Beijing City has almost no change, it is far from Liaodong, even if it takes a few months, earth-shaking changes will occur, Beijing is not actually no change, but has become more homeless, the skinny and begging around on the street called Huazi and stood timidly on the side of the street with grass bones on his head, waiting for the buyer's child with his mother, but Cheng Shijie's mood was heavy.

Cheng Shijie looked at the officials who came to greet him and said: "What are those officials doing to eat, so many people are displaced, they shouldn't have seen it?" ”

The official in charge of greeting him smiled bitterly: "Haiguo Gong doesn't know, this is all caused by the Dashun army, originally the grain in the capital did not exceed 2.6 million stones, and the four-month ice period was barely enough, but in late September, the Dashun army rushed to the state and hit the government, and the grain was robbed many times, and the governor of Caoyun had to interrupt the grain transportation, and now the grain reserves are less, I am afraid it is not enough to wait until the canal opens next year!" ”

Cheng Shijie came to live in the mansion in the capital, Cheng Shijie took a beautiful bath, and before he took a good bath, Wang Chengen came to the mansion and let Cheng Shijie enter the palace.

"Minister, Cheng Shijie pays a visit to His Majesty the Emperor......"

Without waiting for Cheng Shijie to finish speaking, Emperor Chongzhen said: "There are no outsiders here, feel free!" ”

"Your Majesty, this ceremony is indispensable."

"How is Liaodong now?"

"The situation is very good! In the past few months, we have easily sold more than 4 million stone of stale grain that cannot be sold, as well as a large amount of iron and cloth, which is simply in short supply! ”

"How was the capture of this expedition?"

"Your Majesty, you ......"

Cheng Shijie pretended to be reluctant and said: "The minister finally defeated Nagasaki, and before he had time to fight with the Tokugawa shogunate, you asked the minister to inform him to return to the division, and the minister only seized two or three million taels of silver this time!" ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie took out a fold, which recorded the two million taels of silver that Cheng Shijie brought into Beijing this time, as well as 3,000 stone of rice seized from childhood, as well as all kinds of seafood, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the basket next to the imperial case and pointed: "These are all the twists and turns of impeaching you, they say, you actually sell grain to the rebels?" ”

"That's right!"

Emperor Chongzhen thought that Cheng Shijie would quibble, but Cheng Shijie directly admitted: "Last month, Liaodong sold 100,000 stone of old grain and 500,000 catties of potatoes to Shandong, earning 200,000 taels of silver!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen patted the imperial case: "You are an enemy, do you know what crime you should be guilty of?" ”

"If you want to talk about the enemy, none of the gentry in Shandong and Nanzhili can jump out, and they are the ones who do the happiest business with the rebels, selling medicines, selling grain and gunpowder, and some generals who went to quell the rebellion even sold military rations, artillery, swords and guns to the rebels, and we only sold a little old grain, which is already very polite."

Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that his body trembled slightly: "How can this be true, it is really unreasonable, it is simply lawless......

"Your Majesty, what do you know? If I don't provide them with enough food, they will rob the people of their survival food, and eventually make more people unable to live, and then join the rebels; If I don't earn enough money from them, I won't be able to use the money to reclaim the wasteland and set up factories to absorb the homeless, and those who can't find a way to survive will eventually join the rebels without hesitation! ”

Emperor Chongzhen laughed angrily: "Are you still reasonable? Do you know that it is precisely because of your capital that the rebels have grown stronger and stronger, growing to more than 500,000 people in just a few months, and killing countless officials and gentry? ”

"What's the matter with Guan Chen? It's not a minister's doing! ”

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Besides, those rebels who were executed by the rebels are not a good thing, killing them all must be wronged, but if you kill eight out of ten, there must be something missing!" The rebels copied 600,000 taels of silver from the prefect's house alone, and even 1.6 million taels of silver from the treasury of the prefect of Dongchang, and as for the silver and grain copied from the gentry's house, they couldn't count......"

Emperor Chongzhen was silent, and those gentry were full of benevolence and morality, but when they encountered something, they pretended to be deaf and dumb.

Cheng Shijie continued: "They guarded the mountains of goods, and they refused to take out a little bit of the grain to help the hungry when it was moldy in the warehouse, and finally broke out in this rebellion, who can blame them?" These bastards are dead, and I won't sympathize with them. ”

This remark was simply deviant to the extreme, and Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and speechless.

After a long time, Emperor Chongzhen put the teacup on the table and shouted: "Shut up!" Your courage is getting bigger and bigger, just for your rebellious words just now, it is enough to destroy the whole door, do you want to cause the entire Liaodong to bleed? ”

Since Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang came back from Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen knew the true situation of Liaodong, and now Liaodong has formed a climate, and the tail is too big to fall.

It is impossible for the imperial court to move Cheng Shijie again, unless Cheng Shijie really pulls the flag and rebels.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen is also testing Cheng Shijie, if Cheng Shijie denies selling food to the rebels, it means that Cheng Shijie already has a heart of disobedience, then he must leave Cheng Shijie in the capital, and he can't let Cheng Shijie leave for the rest of his life.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie's answer is as honest as ever, which proves that Cheng Shijie is not dissenting.

Cheng Shijie said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, the minister is not wrong, do you know why there have been more and more displaced people in the past hundred years?" It's not a natural disaster, it's a man-made disaster! It was they who occupied the people's fields, and it was they who pushed the taxes they should pay on the people, sucking the blood and tears of the people and living a life of fine clothes and food! ”

Cheng Shijie's voice became louder and louder: "The state has increased taxes again and again, and it has cheapened these bastards, and when one tael of silver enters the treasury, it means that ten taels of silver have entered the pockets of these resident insects!" Those officials and gentry who have lost their conscience all deserve to die! If they don't die, the thousands of ordinary people will have to die, and if they don't die, the Ming Dynasty will be eaten by them! ”

Cheng Shijie snorted: "Instead of letting tens of millions of people cry in despair, it's better to let their family cry; It is better to send thousands of towns to hell where they can be sent to hell because they are not inhabited and only ghosts cry! ”

Cheng Shijie and Emperor Chongzhen launched the rebellion of the Shandong Dashun Army, Cheng Shijie truthfully introduced the truth of the Shandong rebellion to Emperor Chongzhen, and bluntly said that the rebels only punished the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and did not hurt the people, and it was best for the court not to send troops to exterminate them, at least not to exterminate them before they washed the entire southeast of Shandong.

"In fact, not only Shandong, but the entire North China Plain, Shandong, Henan, North Zhili, and South Zhili, most of the fields are in the hands of the official gentry who do not pay taxes, and it is not beneficial to the imperial court to quell the rebellion of the Dashun army."

Cheng Shijie said excitedly: "But if the rebels uproot that huge bureaucratic gentry interest group, distribute their fields to the common people, and then exterminate them, the imperial court will be able to collect taxes from the ordinary people who are allocated to the fields, and the money and grain that Shandong and Henan can collect can easily double or quadruple!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "I'm afraid that by then, the rebel forces will be stable, and they won't be able to suppress it." ”

Cheng Shijie said proudly: "There is no rebel army that the Ning Navy can't destroy!" ”

Cheng Shijie: This is the truth.

Now the activity area of the Dashun Army is between the Yellow River and the Huai River, and the Ning Navy can attack from the Shuihe River and attack from the north and south.

With the powerful combat effectiveness of the Yining Navy, why is it difficult to exterminate the rebels?

The question is, the Dashun army is different from the rogues who can only destroy and not build, they do not kill innocents indiscriminately, do not force and rape women, do not plunder the township, and distribute the fields to the common people every time they are killed, organize production, and exterminate this rogue as soon as possible, is it really good for the imperial court?

Perhaps, as Cheng Shijie said, it is better to wait for them to wipe out the entire gentry group in Shandong, Henan, Zhili, and even Huguang before exterminating them?

Emperor Chongzhen stared at Cheng Shijie: "Does this rebellion have anything to do with you?" ”

Cheng Shijie was taken aback and said, "How is it possible! I am loyal to the imperial court......"

"The generalissimo of the Dashun army is Song Xiance, don't say that you don't know this person!"

Emperor Chongzhen stared at Cheng Shijie's eyes.

However, how could Cheng Shijie, who had been the deputy director of the office for many years, be easily seen through by Emperor Chongzhen?

His eyes have been as calm as water, and he said slowly: "Back to Your Majesty, Song Xiance used to be a staff member of the minister, but later, after Song Xiance followed the minister, he made money and married a flower-like wife Wang, Song Xiance was also Lin Xuzong's benefactor, it was Song Xiance who introduced Lin Xuzong to the minister, and was reused, this Lin Xuzong, this bastard is ungrateful, he committed adultery with Song Xiance's wife, and was broken by Song Xiance, Song Xiance wanted to kill Lin Xuzong, but Lin Xuzong escaped from Song Xiance's house, Song Xiance took his family to Lin Xuzong's mansion, and burned Lin Xuzong's mansion, causing innocent casualties...... With Song Xiance's experience, how could the minister give him justice, however, Song Xiance accidentally killed the minister's adopted son Cheng Hu and escaped from Liaodong! ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie said: "Originally, the minister was a nostalgic person, Song Xiance did a lot of things for the minister, he escaped from Liaodong, and the minister did not send someone to continue to hunt him down, after all, the master and servant are a servant!" ”

For Cheng Shijie's statement, Emperor Chongzhen has actually investigated, and seeing Cheng Shijie's statement, it is basically the same as the results of his investigation, the only discrepancy is that Song Xiance just started an incident in Yanzhou Mansion, and Cheng Shijie sent 3,000 elites under his command to prepare to kill Song Xiance.

Song Xiance's subordinates were beaten to pieces, and as a result, Song Xiance bribed Cheng Shijie with 800,000 taels of silver, and Cheng Shijie withdrew his troops and stopped fighting.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen thinks that everything is under control, but this is Cheng Shijie's plan, the highest level of lying, that is, there is truth and falsehood, false and true.

For Cheng Shijie, he is professional in talking about panic and dealing with leaders. (End of chapter)