Chapter 316

Cheng Shijie is not a good man and a woman, he is very murderous, in Shandong, he killed more than 30,000 Kong Youde rebels, Liaodong, killed 40,000 Jiannu troops, blood flowed like a river, corpses and bones are like mountains, in Luzon, in Nanyang......

It can be said that where Cheng Shijie passed, it was definitely a river of blood, even in the capital, he did not restrain at all, and now he dared to throw firecrackers at the ministers' homes, who dared to guarantee that Cheng Shijie would not throw grenades at them?

The cost of impeaching Cheng Shijie is too high, and if you don't get it right, your life will be gone, on the contrary, scolding Emperor Chongzhen is politically correct, even if he is punished by Emperor Chongzhen, it can be famous all over the world.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ministers and said angrily: "Who is the minister?" Who are the Rigoletto? ”

Hearing this, Wen Tiren lowered his eyebrows and closed his eyes, as if the anger of the Son of Heaven had nothing to do with him.

The ministers also held their breath and secretly guarded against fear.

Wu Zongda was forced to have no way out, and he stubbornly said: "Yu Chen is Cheng Shijie, the governor of Liaodong!" ”

Hearing Cheng Shijie's order from the mouth of this old minister who has entered the cabinet since Chongzhen three years ago, Emperor Chongzhen was a little unbelievable, Cheng Shijie is a capable minister in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, who can not only govern the local area but also destroy the enemy, turn the tide in extreme danger, and know nothing about politics, don't use the people who have offended the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, who does he use?

What's more important is that Cheng Shijie also gave him a long face, whether it was for him to govern Liaodong, or for him to go through Liaodong to organize the army and run the military, he did a good job, not only greatly improved the situation of the Ming Dynasty, but also won him a reputation as an emperor.

How unreasonable! Chongzhen couldn't figure it out, why did Cheng Shijie become a courtier and a courtier?

However, this is not the case with the civilian clique. In their view, Cheng Shijie has greatly promoted Western studies and miscellaneous studies, and has run schools to engage in compulsory education so that everyone can afford to read, so that the gold content of the word "scholar" has plummeted, and he has also opened mines, engaged in textiles, and developed industry, and engaged in some strange and obscene things, which has completely corrupted the simple folk customs of the people in Liaodong, Shandong, and other places, and everyone is proud of doing business and pursuing profits......

The most hateful thing is that this guy also used cheap potato flour to impact the grain market, forcing many hoarding grain merchants to jump off the building, using flax to impact the cotton cloth market, causing heavy losses to Jiangnan cloth merchants, and using refined rock salt to fight a price war with Jiangnan salt merchants, turning salt raw into cabbage prices, making many salt merchants vomit blood.

The most hateful thing is that this guy even snatched the prince's right to education, this is their civil patent, they have enjoyed this patent exclusively for almost 2,000 years, and now they have let a martial artist rob it, so how can they bear it!

Such a guy is not a minister, who is a minister?

Usually everyone can't do anything about the second goods, but now there is a large-scale natural disaster, and hundreds of people have no food and clothing, of course they want to take this opportunity to kill him! As for the people...... When we kill that courtier, a courtier, and divide his property, and then pick out a little bit from between the teeth and give it to you, if you unfortunately starve to death, it can only be said that your life is not good, in short, what we righteous men and gentlemen do is all for the benefit of future generations, we will never be wrong, what is wrong will only be this world!

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen said angrily to the empress: "The selfishness of the hundred officials is too heavy, and in this year of great disaster, they only care about internal fighting, and no one offers disaster relief measures to me, which really makes me feel cold!" ”

Empress Zhou was silent for a long time and said, "Why don't you summon the Duke of Haiguo into the palace to discuss countermeasures?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled bitterly: "Now the hundred officials can't wait to pick his skin and eat his flesh......"

Empress Zhou said softly: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much, the Duke of Haiguo is so powerful, he will definitely have a way!" ”

Chongzhen smiled even more bitterly: "This is Tianwei, what can he do?" I really have to wronged him for a while...... Alas! ”

Empress Zhou still said the same thing: "The Haiguo Guild has a way!" ”

Empress Zhou was always full of confidence, even to the point of blindness.

Emperor Chongzhen muttered: "I'm afraid that he can't protect himself now, right?" The blizzard in the capital, Liaodong is afraid that it will be heavier, and no one will be spared in the face of natural disasters......"

Emperor Chongzhen hasn't gotten an idea yet, but he still invited Cheng Shijie into the palace.

"Meet Your Majesty!"

"Cheng Qing is exempt, sit!"

"I don't know what His Majesty summoned his ministers to do?"

Emperor Chongzhen told him about the recent things that the ministers wanted him to make an edict, and Cheng Shijie had to give Emperor Chongzhen a popular science popularization, and made a popular science on the causes and processes of terrible natural disasters such as heavy rains, blizzards, hailstorms, typhoons, and droughts.

Emperor Chongzhen now knew that the rain would evaporate when it fell to the ground, turning into water vapor and returning to the sky, and the water vapor would condense when it was cold, if it was summer and autumn, it would become rain and fall back to the ground, if it was winter, it would become frost and snow to fall on the earth, and at the turn of spring and summer, it might turn into hail.

In order to prevent Emperor Chongzhen from not understanding, Cheng Shijie asked a stove to be raised in the imperial garden, and hot water was boiling on the stove, and as the water vapor rose, after suddenly lifting the lid of the pot, the water vapor met the cold air, and it turned into snowflakes and rose down.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "If you find a way to reduce the temperature of the pot lid to above zero, those water droplets will become ice beads attached to it, these are natural phenomena, no need to make a fuss." The so-called Tianwei is actually a fart! ”

Emperor Chongzhen pointed at Cheng Shijie and said, "You are really ...... Dare to say anything! ”

Empress Zhou's face turned slightly pale. "Heaven" is extremely mysterious and majestic in the eyes of the ancients, dominating everything, even the emperor who is almost a demigod has to call himself "the Son of Heaven", thinking that he is the darling of heaven, these concepts are deeply rooted, affecting the Chinese for thousands of years, especially under the promotion of Confucianism, it is more and more solid.

However, Cheng Shijie is now stabbing them through in a big way: the so-called "sky" is just formed by water vapor evaporating from the ground, it is ethereal, and there is no divine power at all! It is very stupid to blame natural disasters on the emperor's immorality and the anger of God, and when encountering such a natural disaster, I don't want to organize the people to relieve the disaster, and pin my hope on the emperor to calm the anger of God and eliminate the natural disaster, which is not only to shirk responsibility, but also to disregard human life!

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Some hail disasters can also be resolved, as long as they are discovered in time and try to use rockets to spread salt, dry ice, silver iodide and other things into the cold clouds, you can turn large hail into Xiaoice hail and Xiaoice hail into rain, thereby reducing losses." ”

"Are you going against the sky?"

Empress Zhou also stayed for a long time before saying, "Haiguo Gong...... It's so bold, it's just whimsical! ”

Empress Zhou looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "It would be a good thing if we could prove that these methods were effective, at least Your Majesty, you don't have to bear so much infamy!" ”

At this time, Fan Wencheng ran and killed more than 80 war horses, and it took eight days and eight nights to arrive in Shenyang.

In the Shenyang Palace, it was very cold, and Huang Taiji sat on the soft couch, his face was gloomy and terrifying.

"Slaves meet the Khan!"

"Fan Qing, you're here!"

Huang Taiji's originally dead gray eyes appeared with a gleam: "Come on, sit down!" ”

"King Shekhan!"

Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "Fan Qing, how much food did you bring with you when you came back this time?" ”

Fan Wencheng opened his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound.

Huang Taiji found that Fan Wencheng's face was very bad, the corners of his mouth were blisters, and his face and hands were full of chilblains.

"Someone...... Come! ”

Waiting for the imperial doctor in the palace to come over, he began to diagnose and treat the unconscious Fan Wencheng, fortunately, Fan Wencheng's problem is not big, he looks very embarrassed, he is just overworked, drink some ginseng soup, sleep a little, and recover.

Huang Taiji didn't dare to be careless, squatted directly in front of Fan Wencheng's bed, and actually sat all night, if it was three years ago, when Jiannu was not defeated, Huang Taiji would never have been so to Fan Wencheng, but the problem is that now Jiannu has no way out, and Fan Wencheng is the only hope in Huang Taiji's heart.

Fan Wencheng slept for six hours before waking up slowly.

When Fan Wencheng opened his eyes and found that there was a person sleeping next to him, he moved slightly, and Huang Taiji woke up: "Fan Qing, are you awake?" That's great! ”

"How can the slave He De bother the king of Khan to be so ......"

Seeing Huang Taiji guarding the night in front of his bed, Fan Wencheng was very moved, and he felt a sense of death for his confidant.

"How does Fan Qing feel, come here, find the imperial doctor......

Without waiting for Huang Taiji to finish speaking, Fan Wencheng said: "King Khan, the slave is fine, but now Dajin is facing a life-and-death situation, and he has to deal with it carefully!" ”

"Ben Khan knows it, but the question is, what now?"

Huang Taiji smiled bitterly: "This time, the ministers are arguing, saying that they are going to fight North Korea!" ”

"Never!"

Fan Wencheng said with a wry smile: "Now the northern defense line of North Korea is defended by the Ning Navy, they have put more than 20,000 men and horses on this defense line, once we march to North Korea, the Ning Navy will attack us from the two directions of Shuangchengwei and Jinzhou, no matter how many people and horses go to North Korea, I am afraid that it will be difficult for one person and one horse to come back!" ”

"King Ben Khan also knows, but the question is, is our Dajin just waiting to be killed?"

Huang Taiji muttered: "Ben Khan is unwilling, unwilling to ......"

"The king of Khan is unwilling, and the minions are also unwilling, but the problem is that the enemy is strong and I am weak, this is something that no one can do, the first master can use less enemies and more enemies, and overcome the strong with weakness, that is because the internal opinions of the Ming Dynasty are not unified, some people are the main battle, some people are the main peace, but the Kening Navy is a military merit group that started with war, and the last thing that is not afraid is war!"

Fan Wencheng smiled bitterly: "The only way for us now is to march to the Hetao, take Ordos and Tumochuan as the foundation, recuperate and recuperate, and plan for the future!" ”

If there is no snow disaster, next year, he is ready to move more than 100,000 horses to the Hetao area, and then Fan Wencheng can operate millions of fields in the Hetao area and feed tens of thousands of laborers.

It's just a pity that the plan can't catch up with the changes, and this heavy snow disrupts Fan Wencheng's plan. Now the heavy snow makes the Dajin country in Shenyang unable to hold on at all, and it needs blood transfusion from Fengzhou, but the problem is that Fengzhou has just started, and if the grain is pumped, it will cause next year's spring plowing to fall into a crisis.

What's more, Mongolia has now gone south, the Great Wall defense line has been under martial law, Dajin wants to surprise and sneak attack Daming, it is no longer possible, the only way, that is, a hard attack.

The problem now is that on the entire Great Wall defense line of the Ming Dynasty, the richest must be Liaodong, but the defense line of the Liaodong Ning Navy is the most difficult to fight, and even if all the soldiers and horses of the Dajin Kingdom are pressed up, they may not be able to break through the defense line of the Ning Navy, and the defense line of the Guanning Army is slightly weaker, but if they dare to make a move on the defense line of the Guanning Army, the Ning Navy will be 100% dispatched.

Like Datong, Xuanfu, Jizhou, and Ningxia, it will be relatively easy to use them, but the question is, even if they succeed in breaking through the defense line of the Great Wall, so what?

Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xuanfu, Datong, and Jizhen are all poor places, caused by the rogues, and have made the northwest barren, even if they cross the Great Wall, they will not be able to grab any food.

Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng chatted for a long time and did not find a solution to the problem, however, just when Huang Taiji was a little out of shape, he saw that Fan Wencheng was full of confidence.

"Fan Qing already has a countermeasure?"

"I can't talk about countermeasures, just some mature ideas!"

"I want to hear about it!"

"The only way for our Dajin to survive is actually in Liaodong!"

"Liaodong?"

Huang Taiji said in disbelief: "How is it possible? ”

"The minions are not absolutely sure, so they can only try!"

Fan Wencheng said: "Fengzhou can accommodate 40,000 horses, no more than 50,000 people, they can carry dry food on the road, and the slaves have arranged food and accommodation in Fengzhou." ”

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "No more than 50,000 people, doesn't that mean that more than half of the Eight Banners will die?" ”

"It's not that serious, the frozen cattle and sheep will not deteriorate for the time being, the slaves are ready to sell these cattle and sheep to Liaodong, exchange some grain from Ning Haijun, and take 50,000 people from Shenyang, the pressure will be much less!"

This is the only solution that Fan Wencheng can think of to solve the problem.

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Liaodong was also hit by severe snowstorms, but the scene in Liaodong was different from that of Gyeonggi, because Liaodong was a new place, there were almost no houses more than five years old, even if they were newly built, the materials were very solid, especially many wealthy people, who used reinforced concrete to build houses, and the worst of all were pine or fir as the main beams.

When such a house encounters heavy snowfall, it will be overwhelmed by snow at all, and the problem is that there are many cases in Liaodong where the doors and windows are blocked by snow, and the people in the house are poisoned by carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide due to burning coal for heating.

On the second day of the snow stop, the Liaodong Management Committee received an order from Cheng Shijie and began to take the initiative to relieve the disaster, mainly by dredging the roads and checking the remote villages and towns.

Although there are some inconveniences in the work, some people build a few small houses in their own fields, and live temporarily during the busy farming time, it can be said that the biggest impact of the snow disaster in Liaodong on the people of Liaodong is that the transportation is inconvenient, and they cannot go to relatives to see friends, nothing more.

Life in Liaodong is getting richer and richer, and every household has surplus grain, especially the stored briquettes, which are enough to burn for at least half a year, and there will be no food problems in a short period of time.

Fan Wencheng arrived in the area controlled by the Liaodong Ning Navy when the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong were cleaning the snow-covered roads, and Fan Wencheng looked at a team of Ninghai officers and soldiers, holding shovels, brooms, and various tools, clearing the snow.

Many Ning Navy officers said with a smile: "Ruixue is a mega year, with this snow, next year will be another big harvest year!" ”

"It's a pity, the price of food is getting lower and lower, and farming is becoming less and less profitable!"

Fan Wencheng watched the officers and men of the Ning Navy assemble in a big way, he didn't believe that the Ning Navy was clearing the snow, in his eyes, fortunately Jiannu did not make a plan to go south, otherwise it would have been miserable.

(End of chapter)