Chapter 331

Li Dingguo said with some hesitation: "Big handsome, Xie Zhiliang Xie Shuai is too much trouble!" ”

"What's wrong with him? I just did what I had to do! ”

With Cheng Shijie's current identity and status, if he wants to protect someone, he can naturally do it. Back then, Di Qing couldn't protect his confidants and favorite generals, but Cheng Shijie was different from Di Qing, Di Qing didn't have his own territory, but Cheng Shijie did.

Whether in Liaodong, or in Dayuan or Luzon, the influence of the imperial court is very small, and it may have some influence in Liaodong, but in Luzon and Dayuan, the imperial court has no influence at all.

There is Cheng Shijie's kingdom.

Cheng Shijie wants to keep Xie Zhiliang, he can use many methods, the simplest and most brutal way, is nothing more than to bring Xie Zhiliang to Liaodong, and have the ability to let Jinyiwei go to Liaodong to arrest people?

See if you can catch it?

The answer is a very positive one, absolutely not.

Of course, Cheng Shijie must protect Xie Zhiliang, because Xie Zhiliang will have to fight with those bigwigs in the capital.

The core of the political struggle of the Ming Dynasty is the state power of the Ming Dynasty, which is the root of the internal struggle of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also for the development of state power. The power of the Ming Dynasty is now in the hands of the traditional bureaucratic capitalist class, while Cheng Shijie represents the emerging bourgeoisie.

This right is like a piece of cake, there is a certain amount, you eat a bite, he will inevitably eat a less, this contradiction is irreconcilable.

Cheng Shijie doesn't want to retreat, and he can't retreat, if he retreats, countless people who follow him will die tragically......

In all fairness, Cheng Shijie heard that Xie Zhiliang stepped forward and temporarily stabilized Pingdingzhou, although he did not recapture Taiyuan City, it was already a very rare situation, at least now it is much better than Cheng Shijie expected.

As long as the Mongol army in front of you is solved, at that time, you will settle the account with them.

Cheng Shijie's pressure suddenly relaxed, and he began to fall asleep.

Liaodong Jinzhou Liaodong Management Committee meeting hall.

Zhou Ning looked at the members of the Liaodong Management Committee and said: "All the militia and recruits in Liaodong are mobilized, the militia is deployed along the defense line of the Hunhe River, and the recruits of the Ningdong Navy are ready to support at any time. To mobilize all the militias, you need the assistance of the management committee! ”

Sun Zhilan said without hesitation: "There is no problem with this, we will do our best to assist, the handsome side...... I am afraid that the soldiers and horses will go first before the grain and grass are moved, and now we urgently need to transport grain and materials to the Guannei, what is the charter of the General Staff now? ”

Zhou Ning rubbed his head and said: "This is the most headache problem, we have more than 70,000 troops entering the customs now, and it is estimated that 200,000 stone of grain will be consumed, how much transportation capacity can the management committee provide?" ”

Sun Zhilan said: "The Transport Department and the Transportation Bureau have prepared 3,300 ice boats, and it is expected that 5,000 will be prepared within 10 days, and 8,000 will be raised within half a month!" ”

"Eight thousand, this is only the transportation capacity of 80,000 stones, too little!"

Zhou Ning smiled bitterly: "Eight thousand stone ice boats, more than 16,000 war horses are needed, war horses need to consume sixty catties of forage every day, these more than 80,000 stone grain and grass, on the road will be consumed seventy-seven, eighty-eight, I'm afraid that there are very few that can be transported to the hands of the big handsome!" ”

"It's just a pity, if it weren't for the heavy snow and ice, we could have used sea ships to transport ......"

"How to solve the problem of solving the problem of transportation difficulties......

At this time, Zheng Sen, an attendant of the General Military Mansion, that is, the companion of the eldest prince of Cheng Jialong, said forward: "Ladies and gentlemen, the eldest prince sent a certain person to tell him, he has a way to solve the problem!" ”

Sun Zhili and the members of the management committee all laughed lightly: "The eldest prince is worried about state affairs, this attitude is good, but it's just ......."

Although the current Cheng Jialong was taken by Cheng Shijie to a small day, he would occasionally come to the management committee to watch the government, but the problem is that no one believes that Cheng Jialong will solve this problem.

Zheng Sen looked at this scene and was a little anxious: "The eldest prince asks the princes to move!" ”

Zhou Ning said: "Where are you going?" ”

"Athletic Town!"

Athletic Town is Cheng Jialong's toy, after the end of the athletic meeting, it quickly calmed down, and many businesses saw that it was unprofitable, so they naturally quit the lease.

This blow made Cheng Jialong realize that it is not a good thing to engage in real estate in Daming. In fact, Cheng Jialong just knew that real estate in later generations was a money-making industry, but in fact, real estate in later generations could only soar in price, which was inseparable from the policy.

If it weren't for the house and educational resources tied together, the desire to buy a house would be reduced too much, at least two or three billion parents would not buy a house, and a middle-aged man like Lao Cheng would not buy a house, after all, there is a house to live in in his hometown, and in the countryside of his hometown, there is a two-story small building, why crowd in the city?

But there is no way to buy a house, children need to go to school, and the rural education system has almost collapsed, which has stimulated high housing prices. With the current loosening of the policy, it is possible to go to school if you have a rental contract, which has caused the price of housing to fall.

Cheng Jialong didn't figure out this problem, in Liaodong, Cheng Shijie has never tied household registration and educational resources together, so it is not impossible to speculate on real estate in Daming, but only one person can. That is Cheng Shijie, even if Cheng Shijie draws a piece of land casually, the value of this land will skyrocket.

However, the eldest son of Cheng Jialong Cheng does not have this ability yet.

When Sun Zhixi, Zhou Ning and the members of the management committee arrived at Jingjing Town, they saw a behemoth, which was about six feet high and about one foot and two feet long.

The vast majority of people have never seen such a huge steel machine in their lives, and they all made it stunned, looking at it, a steel-like mountain of mountains and mountains poured in, making them breathless!

"This is a fire ox cart?"

Cheng Shijie named the steam engine as the fire cow, then everyone called it the fire cow, and now Liaodong is not too unfamiliar with the fire cow machinery, and now there are steam engine rollers, mixers, crushers, cutting machines, plate rolling machines, lifts and even textile machinery.

Cheng Jialong smiled proudly: "This is a steam engine!" ”

"Dashuai said, this is a fire cow!"

"Okay, this is jointly developed by Guo Dajiang (Guo Xin) and Wang Dajiang (Wang Zheng)!"

Although Cheng Jialong has not experienced the steam era, he has visited the kind of bus in the fifties and sixties of the last century, which is a trailer bus.

In fact, he used half-baked painting techniques to draw this kind of car, and after Guo Xin and Wang Zheng researched it, it seemed feasible, so they built the largest steam engine in Liaodong at present. The front of this steam engine is a bit like a tractor of later generations, but it is a large kind of tractor, and it is the kind with a front-engined engine.

"Train start!"

Cheng Jialong saw the audience enter, began the experiment, in fact, this experiment has been done several times, under Cheng Jialong's order, a craftsman has ignited the boiler, and then a strong man picked up the shovel, shoveled the anthracite into the boiler, and soon, the fire was blazing......

Fortunately, anthracite coal was burned, otherwise the scene would have been covered by thick smoke and dark clouds.

As the fire burned, the machine gradually emitted a trace of white vapor, which made a low noise from the inside, which was not obvious at first, but the sound was getting louder and louder.

A tow hook is taken at the back of the car, and three flatbed cars are towed, on which are densely packed with sandbags and bags of sand.

Sun Zhilan seemed to understand: "How many stones can this fire ox cart hold?" ”

Cheng Jialong said with a beaming face: "Guess what Lord Sun? ”

"Three hundred stones?"

"No, guess again!"

"Five hundred stones?"

"No, guess again!"

Sun Zhilan was about to guess again, but Yang Yunniang came over and asked, "How much?" ”

Cheng Jialong saw Yang Yunniang's head shrink, Cheng Jialong knew that Yang Yunniang was in charge of Cheng Shijie's bank, and in Cheng Jialong's eyes, Yang Yunniang was Cheng Shijie's junior.

He couldn't afford to provoke Yang Yunniang, and said nervously: "A total of eight hundred bags, this is not the limit...... What the limit is, I don't know. ”

Sun Zhili was dumbfounded: "So many? ”

In fact, there are really not many 1,200 stones, one stone in the Ming Dynasty is one hundred and fifty-four catties, and eight hundred stones totaling 123,200 catties, which is equivalent to sixty-one tons and six, which is less than a heavy truck in later generations.

As the steam pressure reached the standard, the steam engine tractor began to tow three flatbed cars slowly, a little slow at first, but as time went on, the speed became faster and faster.

Cheng Jialong was overjoyed and said: "It's a success, it's a success!" ”

Looking at this train cow, Sun Zhilan let out a long sigh.

Cheng Jialong asked puzzledly, "Why is Lord Sun sighing?" ”

"How long does it take to build this car?"

"About three months, if there are enough people, then it will be faster!"

"This fire bull can't solve the problem!"

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly: "Even if a car can hold 8,000 stones, even if it is 80,000 stones, it can't solve the problem in front of you!" ”

When the train oxen made by Cheng Jialong roared forward in the town, hundreds of people and merchants cheered, and they had been groping for the use of the steam engine for some time. No, it should be a fire cow.

Not far away, Father Robben watched the scene, dumbfounded.

Robben has been in Daming for more than ten years, and this country has given him the impression that this is a very unique country, the vast majority of people are very diligent, studious, love cleanliness, and fear their ancestors more than gods.

To put it simply, the whole world is full of myths of ancient floods, all the myths about ancient floods are the same as the gods who can't bear to exterminate all human beings and save them, only the myth of the Ming Dynasty is: our ancestors have a hero, leading everyone to brave hardships and dangers, eliminate all difficulties, dredge the river, one after another, and finally the flood bows to us!

Some of the most brilliant minds ruled this vast empire, relying only on millennia of statecraft and moral codes handed down from the classical golden age, where religion had no market for the ruling class, and any religion that tried to control the country's regime would suffer a very tragic fate.

For example, Buddhism was so arrogant at the beginning, but after the three martial arts and one sect destroyed the Buddha four times, it was completely cowardly. This country can tolerate all religions, but it will never allow any religion to threaten the rule of the country.

In addition, the attitude of the Ming people towards science is also tolerant, and many doctrines that are regarded as rebellious in Europe are popular here, such as the banned book "The Movement of the Heavenly Bodies", which has been printed and sold in more than 60,000 copies in just one year, and the supply exceeds demand.

But the Ming people are different, they are discussing with great interest, researching, trying to do all kinds of experiments to verify, and that kind of inclusive attitude is amazing.

Once upon a time, the Ming Dynasty, which needed to spend a huge amount of money to import red-coated cannons to Europe, in turn exported more powerful cannons to Europe, and the scientific theories from Europe and the scientific views accumulated by the Ming Dynasty for thousands of years have sparked dazzling sparks, such as mathematics, which is simply blooming everywhere, and the speed of development is jaw-dropping, in this regard, Europe has fallen behind! Now they have a steam engine again......

"Hey, Robben, what are you thinking?"

"I wonder if we did something wrong...... With the steam engine, the behemoth of Daming will soon be rejuvenated, and they can easily tear the whole world to pieces! ”

Father Sean shrugged his shoulders and said, "Your concerns are valid, but what does it have to do with us?" We're all big now! ”

Father Robben laughed dumbly...... That's right, they all joined the Daming Liaodong household registration and became Daming people, will Daming tear the world to pieces, what does it have to do with them?

……

Jinzhou City, the outside is bitterly cold, but the ancestral mansion is as warm as spring, and it can even force people to sweat slightly. Although Zu Dashou is a martial artist, but he knows how to enjoy, as soon as the heating system in Liaodong is listed, he has traveled thousands of miles to let people purchase dozens of sets back, some sets are given to relatives and confidants, and a set is enjoyed by himself.

The technicians in southern Liaoning were hired with high salaries to teach, install, and debug, and they were finally completed before the winter of the year before last. Not to mention, this thing really works, a few shovels of coal past, a wave of heat will overflow from the heat sink, warm, thousands of miles of ice outside, thousands of miles of snow drifting, just wear a single shirt inside.

In addition, Zu Dashou also built a greenhouse and planted leeks, tomatoes, bean sprouts and other vegetables in it. The Northeast is too cold, once the autumn passes, there is no greenery at all, Guan Ningjun can't buy vegetables no matter how rich he is, he can only gnaw on cabbage, but it is easy to do with a warm house, under the careful care of the agronomist, he has grown a variety of vegetables in Liaoxi, which is splashed with water and ice.

Now there is a plate of tomatoes on Zu Dashou's desk, as big as an egg and as red as blood, and the servants who come in and out swallow their saliva violently, dreaming of getting one over and taking a bite. However, this thing is now more expensive than silver, and the vast majority of the generals of the Guanning Army are not blessed, let alone their servants?

Zu Dashou held a book of soldiers and looked at it carefully, picked up a tomato and sent it to his mouth, opened his mouth, but he didn't bite it down for a long time, and put it back for a while.

Mrs. Zuo, who was sitting opposite him and painting with a pen, stopped her pen and looked up, looked at him, and asked softly, "Master, do you have something on your mind?"

Zu Dashou shook his head and said, "No ......"

How can you be careless?

In the battle of Daling River, the ancestral Guanning army suffered extremely heavy losses, and they have not recovered so far, and they have not had a smooth time since the battle. He first surrendered by fraud, and then escaped from Houjin and returned to Jinzhou, and the court did not investigate his surrender, so that he was reinstated and continued to guard Jinzhou.

Speaking from the heart, although the ancestral Guan Ning Army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Daling River, if it weren't for the appearance of Cheng Shijie, the Zu clan would still have no way to recover its strength now.

During the Battle of Haizhou, Cheng Shijie rescued more than 8,000 soldiers of the ancestral army from Jiannu, and later, Zu Dale and Zu Dabi occupied the Baliwan in Baliwan, and also learned a set of subverted traditional tactics and extremely powerful combat methods from the Ning Navy.

Zu Dashou is willing to invest enough patience and resources, and it is only a matter of time before the ancestral Guan Ning army makes a comeback. However, time is not on their side, in the battle of Haizhou, the Ning Navy became famous in a battle, rose at an astonishing speed, and then won successive battles, and the name of the strong army resounded throughout the country, forming a three-legged momentum with the Tianxiong army.

This is the last thing Zu Dashou wants to see, which means that the pattern of Guan Ningjun's family dominance has been broken, and the imperial court will no longer rely on them as before, and will take what they want!

Sure enough, in the ensuing series of battles, Cao Bianjiao and Cao Wenzhao, Zu Dale, Zu Dabi, Zu Kuan and other generals were transferred into Guannai one after another to cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng or Hong Chengchou to fight, and the Guanning Army was no longer the dominant force.

At present, Mobei Mongolia suffered a snow disaster, and Liaoxi also suffered a snow disaster, the loss was not light, hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops went south, in the west to Hexi, east to Xuanfu up to two or three thousand miles of defense line, wolf smoke everywhere, but the Guanning army did not move. The imperial court seems to have forgotten about the Guan Ning army.

No, I haven't forgotten that the dissatisfaction of the DPRK and China with the Guan Ning Army is getting worse day by day, and many imperial historians who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic even turned over the broken matter of Zu Dashou's gold reduction and criticized him verbally and penually.

Of course, this kind of idiot made Chongzhen kick back to his hometown to gnaw old rice, grandma, you don't think the world is chaotic enough, right? Despite this, Zu Dashou still felt a burst of fear and hesitation, the glory of the Zu family stems from the court's dependence on the Guanning army, that is, relying on the court's dependence on them, they have done too many things that should not be done, and now the court no longer relies on the Guanning army.

Where is the way out for Guan Ningjun?

Zuo seemed to see through his thoughts, put down the pen and walked over, kneading his shoulder, and said: "Master, don't worry too much, the ancestral family has guarded Liaodong for generations, and there is no merit and hard work, no matter what the court says, it has to be affectionate." Besides, the Guanning defense line guarded by tens of thousands of tigers in our Guanning army is the lifeline of the Ming Dynasty, although Jiannu has been weakened, but as long as it can pass through the Guanning defense line, it can still pose a fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty, and before the destruction of Jiannu, Your Majesty will not dare to touch our ancestral family! ”

Zu Dashou smiled bitterly: "What if Jiannu is destroyed?" ”

Zuo smiled lightly: "Whether Jiannu is destroyed or not, it doesn't matter what others say, it doesn't count what we Guan Ningjun said, Cheng Shijie is willing, a lesson from the past, Cheng Shijie is actually more worried about Jiannu being destroyed than our Guan Ningjun." ”

Zu Dashou's expression was even more bitter. Zuo's is right, whether Jiannu is destroyed or not, others say it doesn't matter, Ning Haijun says it, with Ning Haijun here, no matter how strict the Ming blockade is, Jiannu also has a lot of energy, and he can't die at all!

Now that he has heard the rumors, Cheng Shijie has opened the mutual market in Liaoyang and traded with Jiannu, who can obtain grain through the Ning Navy, a large amount of grain.

Now Jiannu has almost become a vicious dog in captivity by the Ning Navy, and only the Ning Navy can subdue this vicious dog, and now the Mogu army is storming the three sides, what should the Guan Ning army do?

The army of tens of thousands of Jiannu has disappeared, Zu Dashou is very nervous now, he doesn't know whether Jiannu is attacking Liaoxi, or going to the Hetao area, preparing to unite with Mongolia to deal with Datong?

Now Guan Ningjun's position is very embarrassing, they don't even have the qualifications to continue to raise their own respect, Zu Dashou has seen the terrible crisis hidden under this good situation. In the face of this rapidly changing situation, where should the twilight Guan Ning Army go?

Zuo is a very assertive woman, she can't have children, there are no other shortcomings, she looked at Zu Dashou and said: "Master, you have done well enough." He has been in charge of the Liaoxi Jiangmen for more than ten years, but, sir, to put it mildly, you still lack a pattern! ”

Zu Dashou's face was full of doubts: "In the pattern? ”

"When the little tree is facing the wind, he must not straighten the tree and carry it hard, and the catkins must float away by the fist in the face of the iron fist that is beaten hard, and in the same way, in the face of a strong enemy that he can't fight, fighting to the death is the stupidest in the end!"

Zuo continued: "When Ning Yuanbo (Li Chengliang) was in charge of the Liaodong Generals, including the Zu clan, who didn't bow his head to Ning Yuanbo? Bow your head to Ning Haiguo, and you will not be ashamed. ”

Zu Dashou was stunned and said, "Madam, do you mean to let me surrender to Cheng Shijie?" ”

Zuo smiled faintly: "Why not? This opponent is so powerful, even if we resist to the death, there is no chance of victory, and it will involve hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Guanning Army and nearly 10,000 people in Liaoxi. It's better to take advantage of the fact that you still have some capital and take refuge in it, and you can get a better condition! ”

Zu Dashou said suspiciously: "Do we still have the capital to bargain now?" ”

"Why not? Are the Mongol Tatars now killing the Great Wall defense line, slaughtering Ming subjects, vainly trying to drink the Yellow River and occupy the north? ”

Zuo said lightly: "If you announce what the Mongolian Tatars have done in Shanxi now, and then announce that you are willing to join forces with the Ning Navy to deal with those lawless Mongolian Tatars, you will definitely win a full house." If Hai Guogong agrees, it means that we have room for bargaining, if he does not agree, of course, he has no reason not to agree now, in the pattern of Hai Guogong, he will definitely not ignore the interests of the country, I think, he is so smart, he will definitely make a wise choice! ”

Zu Dashou's eyes lit up, he pondered for a long time, and said excitedly: "Listen to Mrs. Listen, open up for the husband!" My husband knows what to do! ”

Zuo said: "Then hurry up and arrange it, time waits for no one." ”

Zu Dashou immediately went to the festival hall, and Zhang Luo opened.

When Zu Dashou left, Zuo's two palms struck, and a white-clothed and heroic figure flashed out from the darkness.

This woman is none other than Gu Ziyi, a confidant next to Zhu Weiyuan.

Zuo Shi bowed to Gu Ziyi and said, "Gu Niangzi, I have done everything you asked me to do!" ”

Gu Ziyi was on Zhu Weiyuan's order and came to Jinzhou.

Although it is said that the Liaodong Management Committee used the means of food and military threats to temporarily contain Jiannu, the Guanning Army is now also a time-varying bomb, and if it is detonated, the consequences will be unimaginable.

At this time, Zhu Weiyuan obviously felt the pressure and responsibility that Cheng Shijie was facing, and Zhu Weiyuan decided to take action, in fact, this time it was only Gu Ziyi who led the team and dispatched dozens of deacons in the palace.

Women and husbands are also the same. From the female, from the, from the again. Again, the matter is held, and the wife is also the wife.

Zhu Weiyuan only helped Cheng Shijie in this regard.

As Zu Dashou decided to take the initiative to join Cheng Shijie, in Zhu Weiyuan's eyes, she just hoped that Cheng Shijie could become the head of the generals and the emperor's right-hand man, like Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan County in the early Ming Dynasty.

Why did Xu Da become the head of Jiangmen? Because the founding generals, those founding fathers, and founding princes all obeyed Xu Da.

……

Taiyuan Province, Binh Dinh Prefecture.

Xie Zhiliang led the remnants of Pingding Prefecture and the Mongolian army to carry out a bloody tear killing, killing flesh and blood, the Mongols besieged day and night, rushed into the city several times, and were beaten out, the city and outside the city are dead corpses, layer upon layer, the degree of tragedy is indescribable.

The army of more than 100,000 Mobei Mongols was besieged on all sides, and all the elite soldiers were pressed up, and they were repelled by Xie Zhiliang again and again, and suppressed by Xie Zhiliang again and again.

This bloody battle lasted for seven days, and the Mongols, after paying a heavy price of 30,000 dead and wounded, finally broke through the walls of Shangpingzhou, and at this time, there were only a few hundred wounded soldiers left in Pingding, who were tired and hungry and could not even stand up.

Xie Zhiliang's injuries were not good in the first place, these seven days of high-intensity combat seriously overdrew his life, and now he is seriously injured and unconscious, Xie Shangkui is also covered in blood, and he can't even hold the knife.

At this time, Xie Zhiliang slowly opened his eyes: "Shangkui, give my father a ride, my father doesn't want to be unsure of the late festival......"

"No ......"

"Shang Kui, my father can't fall into the hands of the Mongols alive......"

"Yes!"

Xie Shangkui gritted his teeth and slowly raised the knife.

At this time, Xie Shangkui gritted his teeth and raised his knife and slashed at Xie Zhiliang's head. Bursts of gunfire could be heard in the distance.

Xie Shangkui heard a faint cheer in the distance: "Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming......

Just when the Mongols climbed the western city wall of Pingdingzhou and were about to take Pingdingzhou, Cheng Shijie led the scout cavalry of the Annan Army of the Ning Navy to Pingdingzhou.

Cheng Shijie looked at Pingdingzhou City and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's still there, it's not too late!" ”

"Li Dingguo, rush over!"

(End of chapter)