Chapter 317

As the saying goes, the layman looks at the liveliness, and the insiders look at the doorway.

Fan Wencheng is also a person who knows soldiers, and he noticed that although many people do not have a unified military uniform, when they are doing things, they are well-founded, relaxed, and very disciplined.

He also noticed that after the snow was frozen, when the Ning Navy was dredging the road, it also repaired the road, and there were obvious traces of maintenance on the road, and a lot of small stones were used on the shoulder of the road, which were smashed very strongly, and it seemed that the Ning Navy had spent a lot of effort on this road.

You must know that they have just entered the territory of Liaoyang now, and there are still seven or eight hundred miles away from Jinzhou, why did Ning Haijun spend so much effort on the road of Liaoyang? To say that the Ning Navy is not ready for military action, Fan Wencheng does not believe it.

In fact, Fan Wencheng really guessed correctly at this point, the director of the Liaodong Management Committee is now Sun Zhixi, although he is a man from a high background, but there is Sun Chengzong, a grandfather who sits in Liaodong, and it is appropriate to teach face-to-face, even if Sun Zhili didn't think that Jiannu would take risks, but Sun Chengzong has been fighting with Jiannu for most of his life, and Sun Chengzong knows Jiannu too well.

In the face of such a catastrophe, Sun Chengzong told Sun Zhili to guard against Jiannu going south, after receiving Cheng Shijie's order, the General Staff of the Ning Navy planned to enter the first level of combat readiness for all the officers and men of the Ning Navy stationed in Liaodong, and even in order to prevent the frozen coast, the Ning Navy could not land at any time to support the army troops, Chen Wanshun, director of the Jinzhou Shipyard, transformed an icebreaker according to the Wuya warship during the Sui Dynasty.

Feels incredible, right? During the Sui Dynasty, six slap rods were set up on the left and right sides of the Wuya battleship, which were fifty feet high. Each mast is topped with a boulder, and a roller is set underneath, so that during battle and when an enemy ship is approaching, you can quickly use the roller to lower the boulder and smash the enemy ship. If you miss a hit, you can quickly put it away and put it away. If the enemy ships are surrounded on all sides, they can also "use six prongs at the same time," and their combat effectiveness can be seen.

Of course, this so-called slapping rod, from the point of view of appearance, is like a scale, a boulder is a weighing stone, using the principle of leverage, the heavy boulder will fall heavily, and the small warship will not be able to withstand this impact force at all. Chen Wanshun also adopts this principle, but adds a pulley block and a gear set, and if the sea is frozen, he will use this kind of racket to smash the ice.

Under the escort of a group of Ning Navy soldiers, Fan Wencheng rode in a carriage, following the principles cleared out by Ning Navy soldiers, and headed towards Jinzhou.

Although I couldn't see what kind of supplies were loaded on the carriage, I didn't need to think about it with my head, I knew with my knees that it must be military supplies used for the front line.

What made Fan Wencheng feel the most incredible was that all the post stations and towns and forts he passed through had entered a state of strict military control, and even if Dajin Guo launched a surprise attack, they would not want to deceive the city gates.

What made Fan Wencheng the most unbearable was that he and his convoy were strongly watched along the way, and these onlookers of the Ninghai Navy or the people of Liaodong who were watching them looked at their convoy with unkind eyes, and seemed to be considering where it was more appropriate to take the knife, which made Fan Wencheng puzzled.

Why did the people of the Ming Dynasty change so much when they arrived in Liaodong.

What a magical land.

Admiral Ning, who was responsible for escorting Fan Wencheng and his entourage, was a team of the Liaoyang Garrison Division, and Ma Hong, the team leader, looked angry: "Damn, my old horse never thought in my life that one day I would protect these dog-day slaves!" ”

"The two countries will not fight each other, besides, we are soldiers!"

Instructor Hope persuaded earnestly: "Now that the snow is a disaster, our Liaodong is fine, at least the house has not been crushed by the snow, there is no shortage of food, and there is no shortage of firewood for heating, but what is the Central Plains like, I think you should be no stranger, we are a feud with Jiannu, even if we can't solve the problem, it is okay to explore the possibility of solving it." ”

Mahon looked at Hope and said, "I want to take a knife and cut these bastards now!" ”

"It's easy to cut them, if you destroy the plan of the staff and the marshal, you have enough heads to cut off?"

Hope said with a fierce face: "Actually, I want to cut down these bastards more than you!" ”

"......"

"I'm from Liaodong, and I'm from the same place as our Cheng Dashuai!"

"Phoenix Mountain guards the Thousand Households?"

"Yes, there are almost more than 10,000 of us in Phoenix Mountain, and five or six hundred of us escaped, and we were chased and killed by Jiannu along the way, and when I ran to Lushun, we only had ...... left."

Speaking of this, Hope's eyes were frighteningly red: "I'm the only one left, I swore to kill Jiannu to take revenge, but it's a pity that I only killed two, it's far from enough!" ”

Looking at the murderous gaze, Fan Wencheng felt like a man's back, and when Fan Wencheng was heading towards Jinzhou, Sun Zhilan, director of the Liaodong Management Committee, also received the matter of Fan Wencheng carrying the Dajin State Letter and sending an envoy to Liaodong.

Sun Zhili couldn't figure out what the intention of solving Jiannu was, as the so-called people became old and refined, but Sun Chengzong said the intention of breaking Jiannu: "They are here to ask for help." ”

Sun Zhilan's face was full of disdain: "What are they daydreaming about? Although we in Liaodong now have food and silver, how can we support Jiannu? Even if the grain is used to feed the pigs, it is absolutely impossible to give it to them! ”

Sun Chengzong smiled faintly: "Yongyan, you are also a big official now, and the pattern must be opened!" ”

"No matter how there is a pattern, it is impossible to accept the blackmail of Jiannu, right?"

"Maybe you'll have to accept their blackmail!"

"How is this possible?"

Sun Zhilan shook his head and said: "If I compromise with Jiannu, this director of the management committee will definitely do it!" ”

Sun Chengzong smiled faintly and said: "You rejected Jiannu in one go, I'm afraid that the director of the management committee will be even better!" ”

"What confidence does Huang Taiji still have?"

"Do you think Huang Taiji has no cards?"

"What other cards do you have to play?"

"He's got a lot of cards!"

Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly: "Over the years, there have been hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers and civilians captured by Jiannu, what if Huang Taiji exchanged these people for food?" Do you change or not? ”

"Don't change!"

"If you don't change it, Jiannu will kill these captives and civilians as soon as possible, and then kill the traitors of the Han military banner, and finally it will be the turn of the Mongols, this heavy snow has made Jiannu suffer heavy losses, but the problem is that it will not let them perish the country!"

Sun Zhili was a little difficult to decide: "Do you really want to accept their coercion?" ”

"Or else?"

Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "Suffering a temporary loss may not be a disaster, taking advantage of a temporary advantage may not be a blessing, eating a temporary loss not only wins the hearts of the people, but also reduces the contradictions, why not do it?" ”

Sun Zhilan picked up a newspaper, he actually just used the way of reading the newspaper to hide his inner panic, but at this moment, his eyes fell on the newspaper, and the front page of the newspaper read: "Natural and man-made disasters!" ”

This is an article signed by Cheng Shijie, in all fairness, Cheng Shijie's writing skills are still good in later generations, at least most of the speeches used by leaders for meetings are written by Cheng Shijie, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie's vernacular writing is not very good in the Ming Dynasty.

Cheng Shijie used a flat and direct narrative to explain to readers the causes and processes of terrible natural disasters such as heavy rain, blizzard, hail, typhoon, and drought in the vernacular.

After several years of operation, the influence of the "Liaodong Times" has spread throughout the north, and the dignitaries naturally disdain this kind of newspaper that writes articles in the vernacular, but the children of the cold window and the common people like it very much, believing that the articles in the newspaper are not only easy to understand, but also have a lot of very valuable information and knowledge to draw on.

Therefore, the circulation of the "Liaodong Daily" has now increased to 500,000 copies, of which about 350,000 are circulated locally in Liaodong, 100,000 in Beizhili and Gyeonggi, and 50,000 in Dayuan, Luzon, and Nanyang.

However, the capital is the capital after all, no matter how the supply exceeds the demand, it will not let the capital cut off the supply, and there are people everywhere in the streets and alleys holding newspapers to read and even read to everyone.

Needless to say, Cheng Shijie's article stirred up a thousand waves and shocked everyone. In the next few days, pondering the lid of the pot at home has become the favorite thing for many people to do, every time after cooking, when the lid of the pot is cold, someone will go to remove it to see if there are really water droplets falling like rain, and if possible, even get ice cubes to put on the lid of the pot, and then uncover it to see if the water droplets inside have become frost flowers or ice beads.

And countless experiments have proved that Cheng Shijie is not bad at all, water, ice, frost, etc., are indeed formed by water vapor condensation, this simple fact shocked everyone's heads, and it was almost impossible to distinguish between east and west, north and south.

in the Cabinet. Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, Wu Zongda and other ministers each held a newspaper, their faces gloomy and silent.

What can make their faces so ugly is naturally Cheng Shijie's article. The article was like a powerful hand, slapping their faces left and right, and a loud snapping sound could be heard through the newspaper.

In fact, being slapped in the face is nothing, who can get into this position, which one is not an extraordinary character who is as thick as body armor and can spit on his face? The problem is that Cheng Shijie is not only slapping them in the face, but also demolishing their stage!

This article has smashed the theory of "Heavenly Grant of Monarchy" that has been circulating for thousands of years into the dust, and clearly told everyone: That majestic heaven is just a group of people with ulterior motives who made up and deceived people, and it does not exist at all!

The so-called emperor's immorality and disasters from heaven are even more fucking nonsense, and people treat you as fools! This is simply the skin of the Doctor Group, and no matter how much you can bear it, you can't help but burst into flames!

Wang Yingxiong slapped the newspaper on the table and said sharply: "That minister is really rebellious, lawless, I don't know that the sky is high, I dare to talk nonsense, and I am not afraid of being thundered by the sky!?" ”

Wu Zongda sneered: "He's pouring dirty water on us and the others, trying to get by!" He was afraid that the people of the world would know that it was because His Majesty favored him as a minister that such a serious natural disaster was caused, and he was afraid that the people would eat his flesh raw after knowing the truth, so he sensationalized and attacked the Heavenly Dao...... To put it bluntly, it's a dying struggle! ”

It may be an exaggeration to say that Cheng Shijie is dying, but now Cheng Shijie's situation is really not very good. The concept of "the unfathomable power of heaven" is deeply ingrained in China, and even the emperor who is high above has to submit to the majesty of heaven, let alone his courtiers!

In ancient times, every natural disaster, the emperor had to prepare a large number of sacrifices, fasting and bathing, holding a grand sacrificial ceremony to pray to the heavens sincerely, praying for God's mercy, as for the ministers, not to mention, in the Han Dynasty, every natural disaster or special celestial phenomenon, the three princes had to take turns to take the blame and resign. Now that there is a large-scale hail disaster across the country, the literati of the whole country are pointing the finger at Cheng Shijie, and that pressure can really drive people crazy!

Wen Tiren exhaled lightly, and his tone was a little gloomy: "In order to keep his wealth and wealth, this minister really doesn't care about anything!" Just make such a rebellious remark against him, I will never let him go! Mobilize all the officials, mobilize all the students of the Tai Academy, and go to the book together, and be sure that the Holy Admiral will take him down, and he will be cut with a thousand cuts! If this person does not die, there will be endless troubles! ”

Wu Zongda hesitated a little and said: "Those officials are okay to say, but there are quite a few people in the Tai Academy who are confused by his fallacies, and if they want to mobilize them, I am afraid that it will not be easy to ......."

Wen Tiren shouted: "Stupid! Don't they understand that this courtier is digging up the roots of our scholars! If he doesn't die, we scholars and doctors will one day be beaten into a situation from which he will never recover, let alone keep his current esteemed position, but I am afraid that I will not even be able to save my life! ”

Wen Tiren has always been known for his gentleness and elegance, even if he is a political enemy, he is quite impressed by his demeanor and appearance, but now he has thrown all this out of the clouds, his face is distorted, his eyes are spewing fire, it is very terrifying, it scares Wu Zongda two trembles, and the cabinet princes are also silent!

Wen Tiren waved his hand vigorously and said loudly: "Tell those students that if they want to get ahead, they will go to the book to impeach that minister, even if they fabricate charges at will, they are innocent and meritorious, otherwise they don't want to get ahead, even if they go back to their hometowns to be a farmer's child!" ”

The cabinet princes pursed their lips, and the fierce light flashed in their eyes, like a group of wild beasts surrounded by hunters, and the image of a humble gentleman in the past was ruined to the Lao Lao's house.

The theory of Confucianism, which has been inherited for 2,000 years, has been strongly questioned, and it is very likely that their way of fooling the common people will be debunked, so how can they endure it!

Wang Yingxiong said viciously: "Not only to mobilize the students of Tai Academy, but also to mobilize the world's scholars, this minister's article is equivalent to pushing himself to the opposite side of the world's scholars, such a good opportunity, how can you let it go!" Qianfu pointed out, but he ended up without a problem, but I want to see what he uses to deal with the anger of the students in the world! ”

Wu Zongda said: "It must be fast!" That minister often has unexpected actions, if he doesn't make a decision for a long time, it will be uncertain again, let him turn over! It's best to organize an army to take him down with lightning speed, once and for all! ”

It's okay not to mention this, but when I mention it, everyone laughs bitterly. Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, how many people dare to confront Cheng Shijie? Even the fierce Jiannu let him hang and fight, Daming, a group of waste wood generals...... It's better to save it!

Wen Tiren smiled bitterly: "Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, there is only one person who can match that minister, Lu Jiandou!" ”

Wu Zong's brown eyes showed a fierce light: "I'll go to Lu Jiandou and talk to him about it!" Although he is a feudal official, he is also a scholar, so it is impossible not to understand the power of it! ”

Wen Tiren said: "That's the only way!" ”

……

Just when the cabinet was discussing how to deal with Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie was in the imperial study, he looked at the war reports sent by Datong, Xuanfu, Jizhen, and Yulin, and said indignantly: "Those guys simply read the book into the dog's stomach!" Now the whole north is full of mourning, the Great Wall's thousand-mile defense line is full of wolf smoke, they don't think about how to provide disaster relief, and they don't think about how to support the Great Wall defense line, but they are bent on forcing His Majesty to make an edict, which is simply a matter of disregard for human life! This is a matter of human life! Even if Your Majesty issues an edict ten times, it will not help, the snow disaster will not stop because of this, but the common people will be desperate because they can't get relief, once the defense line of the Great Wall is breached, when the time comes, the entire north will be full of flames, and the situation that has been stabilized with great difficulty will be chaotic again! ”

Emperor Chongzhen still met a bosom friend, when Zhang Xianzhong unexpectedly conquered Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang's Longxing land, digging Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestors of the Ming Emperor's tomb and burning it, the raging fire and smoke lasted for several days.

Emperor Chongzhen took a step that embarrassed his self-esteem, that is, for the first time, he issued the "Edict of Guilt" to the whole world, and for the first time admitted to the subjects of the world the policy mistakes of the imperial court and the sinister situation in the world.

The edict said: "I use Liangde, inherit the unification, renew the world, and return the old ancestors." Unexpectedly, he relied on non-people, which led to rampant captives. Fu Jianzhou originally belonged to me, and the atmosphere was originally my child. If you make it appropriate, how dare you go against my face. In the heyday of the world, many people in the civil and military forces have no choice but to boast and deceive people, and the real merit is rare, and the captives are three in, and Kou is seven years. The master and apprentice were exposed, and Li Shu was ......"

Now under the influence of Cheng Shijie, a butterfly from another world, originally in Chongzhen for ten years, the northern drought, the Central Plains, thousands of miles of red fields, starvation all over the wilderness, the people are not living, and the local officials are still forcing grain to urge the department, exploiting the people, and many places are also boiling with public grievances, dry firewood, and burning at the touch of a button, in the face of such a crisis, Emperor Chongzhen is very sober-minded, but he is helpless, the emperor is far away, and the center of the court is also out of reach of the corruption of the grassroots officials.

Later, Chongzhen issued another edict.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is very firm that the so-called natural disaster warnings are actually, which is just a natural weather phenomenon and a man-made disaster. It is caused by the inaction of officials.

Now Cheng Shijie sent the investigation report of Liaodong to Emperor Chongzhen, and the disaster in Liaodong was actually more serious than that of Gyeonggi, and the heavy snow fell for half a month, and the snow was about eight feet thick. However, the snow in Gyeonggi is just over three feet, which is only one-third of the heavy snow in Liaodong.

"Cheng Qing, do you have a way?"

"Minister, there is no perfect way, you can only reluctantly try!"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Cheng Shijie and said: "You have to think clearly, you are fighting against the ethics and Taoism that have been passed down for thousands of years, and if you take this step, there is no turning back." If you fail, not only you, but I will be ruined, or even ...... There is no place to die, this is by no means alarmist, and if you look back now, it is still too late. ”

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Turn back? If the minister turned back, he would be killed as a minister and sacrificed to the sky, and then, His Majesty was forced to issue an edict of guilt, and then, thousands of ordinary people continued to struggle in the snowstorm, displaced, and starved all over the wilderness...... Mongolia broke through the barrier, Jiannu killed a river of blood, the country will not be a country, and the ministers have no room to turn back! ”

Cheng Shijie's words made both the monarch and the minister silent.

Cheng Shijie has never looked back, he was doomed from the beginning, even if he wanted to compromise, the scholar class who had realized the deadly threat would not let him go! Those guys may seem sanctimonious and gentle, but when their vital interests are threatened, they will soon become even more ferocious than jackals!

This is a never-ending war, and if Cheng Shijie wants to survive and go further, he must fight them. His wealth, his vast army, and his unrivalled influence among merchants could not help him, and the only thing that could help him was his wisdom.

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen spoke: "I'm going crazy!" ”

The next day, in the early dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order: "Canonize Cheng Shijie's son Cheng Jialong as the general of the dragon and tiger, the prince of Liaoguo, the commander of Liaodong, and the quasi-commander of the horse, and will marry Princess Kunxing, and when Princess Kunxing is fifteen years old, marry Cheng Jialong as his wife." ”

This move was unanimously opposed by the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, because in the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor had not yet tried to appoint a child under 14 weeks old as a general, and Cheng Shijie was already unreasonable for a martial artist to be crowned the prince of the country, and his son inherited his title, which was also something to be done after Cheng Shijie's death.

One and two kingdoms, the Ming Dynasty is not nothing, but the problem is that the Duke of Wei was won by military merits, and Cheng Jialong did not make an inch of merit and was awarded the title of Duke of Liao, isn't that ridiculous?

But this time Chongzhen behaved extremely stubbornly, and without saying a word, he slapped several civil officials who danced the most fiercely, and whoever opposed it would be jerked off. He used this decree to show his ministers his attitude.

At the same time, Cheng Shijie officially paid homage to the prime minister, and the prime minister Liaodong Town, Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Taiyuan Town (also known as Shanxi Town or Sanguan Town), Yansui Town (also known as Yulin Town), Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town (also known as Shaanxi Town), and Gansu Town Jiubian Military Affairs.

Prime ministers, all of whom are appointed for the sake of the matter, or are dismissed at any time, have great powers, and their status is above that of the governor.

Emperor Chongzhen thought that Cheng Shijie's appointment would be blocked by the ministers, but the problem was that this appointment was approved without delay.

In fact, what Emperor Chongzhen didn't know was that in the eyes of the ministers, the greater the authority, the greater the omission, especially the management of the military affairs of the Nine Sides, and the Ning Navy ministers could not intervene, but the army of the Nine Sides had been infiltrated into a sieve, what did Cheng Shijie command them?

What's more, as long as any point of defenders is mobilized and the Mongol army swarms, when the time comes, the people will be killed, the blood will flow like a river, and Emperor Chongzhen can only slash the horse with tears.

So in this case, the ministers naturally won't stop Emperor Chongzhen from reusing Cheng Shijie, they just look forward to how Cheng Shijie will end.

Although the Ning Navy said that it was strong in combat, the problem was that the Ning Navy in Liaodong could not grow wings, so how could they fly to the nine sides?

With the advent of this appointment, all the pressure of Daming was concentrated on Cheng Shijie.

It only depends on how Cheng Shijie copes.

PS: There are still twelve hours left, begging for a monthly pass, Lao Cheng continues to work hard, and strives for another chapter in the evening.

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