Chapter 355

Over the years, Cheng Shijie did not ask Emperor Chongzhen for a penny, nor did he ask for a state and a government, Liaodong was originally lost in the first year of the Apocalypse, but Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to take it down.

Cheng Shijie took the four prefectures of southern Liaoning, used the land in southern Liaoning, immigrated to Tuntian, built factories, raised military funds by himself, and became stronger and stronger, but once Cheng Shijie fell, who could hold on to southern Liaoning?

In that year, Sun Chengzong was guarding Liaodong, and the Guanning Army he personally established, Yuan Chonghuan replaced Sun Chengzong, and the situation in Liaodong took a sharp turn, not to mention the five years of Pingliao, and only the second year Jiannu came to the capital.

Is Cheng Shijie really in trouble with his body now? I'm afraid it's not all, it should be a psychological blow, he can't fall now, once he falls, the consequences are unimaginable.

No, Cheng Shijie must not fall, even if he falls, his new policy cannot fall, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't want to live the kind of bitter life where smoke and fire are everywhere and the treasury can starve rats to death!

Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind and threw all the impeachment of Cheng Shijie into the trash, directly rejected Cheng Shijie's resignation due to illness, and at the same time, let Wang Chengen take the imperial doctor with the most skilled medical skills in the palace to Yanqing to treat Cheng Shijie.

Emperor Chongzhen used such a ruthless trick of hereditary replacement, just to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang, when Mu Ying guarded Yunnan for ten years, greatly revitalized Tuntian, persuaded agriculture and mulberry, rejuvenated the virtuous and virtuous, spread the culture of the Central Plains, and stabilized the frontier. After Mu Ying's death, the descendants of the Mu family guarded Yunnan for generations.

The three generations of the Marquis of Xiping, the thirteenth Duke of Qianguo, the son of the Mu family, controlled the Yunnan army, although Yunnan did not belong to the nine-sided system, but because of the Tusi rebellion, Yunnan still had nearly 200,000 troops, including the establishment of 16 guards (abolished Ma Longwei) 20,000 households (including the elimination of Heqing thousand households).

To say that the army controlled by the Mu family is in the war book of the Ministry of War, there are 15 guards, a total of 19,000 households, a total of 100,000 people, a total of 5,280 people, and the Mu family relies on tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to divide in Yunnan?

In fact, no, the Mu family is still quite loyal to Daming.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to put the Cheng family in Liaodong, Shizhen Liaodong should be not bad, in fact, the current Liaodong has a certain similarity with the original Mu family, Mu Ying's son Mu Xin is the captain of the horse, married to the daughter of Chengzu Princess Changning, and the daughter of Mu Ying married to Xu Zengshou, the prince of Dingguo.

Emperor Chongzhen decided to let Princess Kunxing marry Cheng Shijie's son Cheng Jialong as his wife in the future, as for Cheng Shijie's daughter Cheng Jiayue, she can't marry the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

The change in Emperor Chongzhen's attitude made the ministers feel that what it meant to accompany the king like a tiger, and at the same time, the ministers were also thinking about what Emperor Chongzhen meant.

Emperor Chongzhen's will was unanimously resisted by the ministers, and a group of old ministers sought death and life, burst into tears, and moved the ancestral system out and said it again and again.

Chongzhen made three holy decrees in a row, and was beaten back by the cabinet three times, the cabinet's attitude is very clear, now Cheng Shijie takes the initiative to resign, you don't want to take the opportunity to take the Liaodong region, let everyone make a windfall, and you still want to seal that Cheng Shijie's son as the general of Dingguo and the prince of Haiguo, this is impossible!

But what if Cheng Shijie's son is even more powerful than Cheng Shijie? You must know that although Cheng Jialong has not done much, he began to toss at a young age, and when Cheng Jialong grows up in the future, will we not be able to live? Absolutely not!

In the face of the tough ministers, Emperor Chongzhen was also very troubled, the attitude of the ministers was very clear, they and Cheng Shijie can only choose one of the two, you can choose yourself!

After weighing it again and again, he had to find a pen and paper, wrote a very sincere letter to Cheng Shijie, explained his hardships, and finally said helplessly: "Cheng Qing, the ministers are collectively opposed, this is related to the safety of the country, I must not back down, I can only wronged you for a few years!" ”

When this letter arrived in Cheng Shijie's hands, he had actually just arrived in Tongzhou, in fact, Cheng Shijie didn't want to wade into this troubled water, after seeing that Meng En and Admiral Ning wanted to do it for their own interests, and the ministers also made great changes for their own interests, if it weren't for the existence of his otherworldly butterfly, what would it be?

Now it is only the ninth year of Chongzhen, there are still eight years before the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and the Ming Dynasty can still toss for eight years, so Cheng Shijie directly took the pen and replied to Emperor Chongzhen: "Weichen is shallow in learning, shy and shy according to the high position of the prime minister of the nine sides, conscientious, walking on thin ice, for fear of any mistakes, already physically and mentally exhausted!" The ministers are amazingly talented, no one can match, there are all the ministers, and the Ming Dynasty will sit back and relax! As long as you can keep the ministers, why don't the ministers suffer some grievances! ”

When he saw Cheng Shijie's reply, Chongzhen was so moved that he couldn't speak.

In the end, after repeated tug-of-war, Emperor Chongzhen finally made concessions and dismissed Cheng Shijie, the prime minister of the Nine Sides, for corruption and dereliction of duty, but Cheng Shijie continued to serve as the governor of Liaodong and was not allowed to enter Beijing without an edict. Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took over as the prime minister of the Nine Sides, and Yang Sichang, the son of Yang He, took over as the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Politics is a mutual compromise, Emperor Chongzhen made such a big concession, the ministers naturally can't be too aggressive, so, Feng, Cheng Shijie's son Cheng Jialong for the general of Dingguo and the prince of Haiguo The will was smoothly issued, Cheng Shijie continued to serve as the governor of Liaodong, and the hearts of the people in Liaodong suddenly settled down.

Emperor Chongzhen, who breathed a sigh of relief, didn't know that the moment he ordered the dismissal of Cheng Shijie, the prime minister of the Nine Sides, his destruction would enter the countdown.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that although politics is the art of compromise, politics is more like drowning in a boat, if you don't advance, you will retreat, Emperor Chongzhen thought that wronging Cheng Shijie could make the ministers stop for a few days, but his wishful thinking failed, and the situation did not ease with Cheng Shijie's dismissal from the post of Prime Minister of the Nine Sides, on the contrary, it became more tense.

During Cheng Shijie's tenure as prime minister of the Nine Sides, in order to prevent the Nine Border Army from mutiny due to lack of food, the Ning Navy sent five or six million stone of grain to Gyeonggi back and forth, and the grain merchants who originally wanted to hoard strange goods suffered heavy losses, and more than 100 grain merchants committed suicide in Gyeonggi alone because of bankruptcy.

Just when Cheng Shijie was no longer the prime minister of the Nine Sides, Ning Haijun, an organization that lost money and transfused blood to Daming, was completely chilled, and it completely angered Ning Haijun Group.

The grain sales channels and stores controlled by the Ning Navy have been transferred one after another, and the listed grain has been sold out, closed down and closed the stores, and the grain source of the Ning Navy has been lost, and the grain merchants in the north have already sold the grain cheaply.

The local government came forward one after another and began to deal with the grain merchants of the Ning Navy, however, the Ministry of Commerce of the Ning Navy retreated very resolutely, and the shops were directly sold at half price, or even three folds. If it is a store that cannot be sold, it can be demolished and smashed, and what is left is nothing more than land that cannot be moved.

In the process of confronting the civilian clique, Xie Jinglin also knew that these ordinary people did not dare to eat the property left by Ning Haijun at all, but someone dared to eat it, that is, the feudal kings and Buddhism of the Ming Dynasty, and threw out the bones and let them eat dogs.

The channels for obtaining grain from Liaodong were almost completely cut off, and the market fell into a panic, grain merchants frantically hoarded and raised grain prices, and many wealthy merchants flocked to Liaodong to buy grain with their entire wealth, and countless people became rich overnight.

Echoing the sneering laughter of the merchants is the screams of the common people, the price of grain has risen so exaggerated that they can't afford to buy a stone of rice even if they go bankrupt! Many officials came to Beijing to complain and ask the imperial court for disaster relief.

Chongzhen only thought it was incredible, there was no natural disaster in Gyeonggi, and he actually came to the imperial court to ask for relief, are you kidding me?

Officials said that Gyeonggi has completely relied on Huguang and Shandong for grain supply, and now that the canal has been cut off, there is no grain to come, and they all say that the grain is insufficient and they refuse to sell it, and we have no food to eat, so who are you looking for?

In desperation, Chongzhen allocated 100,000 stone rice for disaster relief, and the result can be imagined, the 100,000 stone relief rice was divided up as soon as it came out of the grain depot, and then it was bought by merchants at a higher price and hoarded, and the people of Gyeonggi did not eat a single grain.

However, this problem was reported by the "Liaodong Times" using Jinyiwei's intelligence system to report the detailed transaction data, which is a lot of fun! "Liaodong Times" made a special report on this, and the flow of that batch of grain, the names of the people who handled it, and the amount of transactions were all in great detail, and once it was published, it immediately set off an uproar!

Although Chongzhen was so angry that he almost lifted the dragon chair, the people in the Gyeonggi area were also extremely angry, and wherever those rich businessmen went, they no longer got the envious eyes of the common people, but an angry curse: "Let these moths die, the lives of our poor people are also their lives!" ”

This incident has dealt a big blow to the prestige of the Gyeonggi gentry, of course, they don't care, in their eyes, their father and mother are not as good as the silver relatives, who takes the lives of those poor ghosts seriously?

What annoyed them was the "Liaodong Times", a newspaper with an increasing circulation and influence, always troubled them, and they did something ugly, and the newspaper published it as soon as they could, making them quite embarrassed. The Donglin Party asked Chongzhen more than once to seal the "Liaodong Times".

It's just a pity that the voice of the people is simply something that the government can ban, besides, the situation in the world is turbulent, and the people who read the newspaper are their scholars, and they love to read it, of course, it is not the current political content of the Liaodong Times, or a lot of scripts.

Compared with Daming's home, the network of later generations, especially the romance section, is described with eroticism, that is, the weft reduction blow.

……

When Chen Guodong found Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie had already arrived in Tianjin Wei.

"Dashuai!"

Chen Guodong didn't come empty-handed, when he came to find Cheng Shijie, he had already asked the people from the Military Supervision Department to tie up Meng En, Zhou Ning, and Li Xin.

Of course, Cheng Shijie has not authorized Chen Guodong to be tried, otherwise, Cheng Shijie will see three heads. You must know that the Ning Navy's Supervision of the Military Highway Department is similar to the system of the chief commission, and within the Ning Navy, the military chief officer is a person who has no right to intervene in the system of supervising the Military Affairs Bureau.

On the contrary, they accepted Chen Guodong's orders, at first they did think that admonishing Cheng Shijie to death was a normal behavior, but under Chen Guodong's explanation, they realized that this was actually a mutiny in disguise, especially Cheng Shijie was angry and left, these supervisors, directors, supervisors and supervisors took action, and arrested Meng En and Zhou Ning and others without much effort.

Cheng Shijie saw the three people in front of him clearly, and was slightly stunned: "Chen Guodong, what are you doing?" ”

"Dashuai, they dare to eat inside and out, betray Dashuai, I ......"

Cheng Shijie stepped forward to untie the ropes of Meng En, Li Xin and Zhou Ning: "They betrayed Ben Shuai? When to betray? If Ben Shuai is unwilling, how can they betray? ”

Cheng Shijie's words made Chen Guodong slightly stunned.

In fact, Cheng Shijie's words were not wrong, he not only used the Supervision Military Highway Administration to set up two sets of management systems for the Ning Navy, but also controlled the military salary and logistics of the Ning Navy. As long as Cheng Shijie announced that a certain Ning Navy was a rebel army and directly froze their salaries and deposits in the bank, this army would not be able to hold out for even three days.

"Dashuai!"

When Zhou Ning faced Cheng Shijie, he actually regretted it now.

"Now that Gyeonggi is in a mess, is this the result you want to see?"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "You want to use the hands of Jiannu to kill all the officials in Gyeonggi, but the question is, even if Wu Zongda dies, Wen Zhenmeng will be the one who is lacking, has the problem changed?" ”

Cheng Shijie knows very well that the Chongzhen Dynasty has changed more than 50 cabinet ministers, he executed two military ministers, committed suicide, 17 criminal ministers, and executed 17 governors, and the average tenure of all cabinet ministers is less than six months, so it is strange that such a cabinet can do something.

Zhou Ning smiled bitterly: "Dashuai, now that Gyeonggi is in chaos, Jiangnan is also in chaos, there are grain merchants everywhere doing trouble, and the people's grievances are boiling, what should we do now?" ”

"Wait!"

"Wait?"

A few were a little puzzled.

Li Xin seemed to understand what Cheng Shijie meant: "What does the marshal mean, can we wait for the sea to thaw?" ”

"The Bohai Sea ice used to thaw in early February, but now it is less than half a month, and the ice boat is no longer passable, as long as the river is solved, our navy can take the river boat to transport supplies, let them toss first, and then clean up the mess when they toss the hearts of the people!"

Cheng Shijie is actually not worried about Jiannu going south now, because during this time, the news of Ning's navy attacking Shenyang has already reached Huang Taiji's hands, Huang Taiji did not lead Jiannu to kill Shenyang, nor did he mean to recapture Shenyang, Huang Taiji had long expected Cheng Shijie to do it.

Cheng Shijie said: "I'm afraid you didn't think of it, right? Shenyang is actually a vacant land, the families of the nobles of the Eight Banners of Jiannu are not in Shenyang, in December last year, they went north to Kaiyuan, and then braved the wind and snow, migrated to Horqin, Zhang Yu took the soldiers and horses to kill Horqin, it is estimated that there will be no result, in this case, he did not have the courage to fight hard, he must have fled to Mobei, we do not have the strength to expedition to Mobei now! ”

This heavy snow also caused huge losses to the Ning Navy in Liaodong, plus this time in order to support the Gyeonggi region, in order to support the Nine Border Defense Line, Liaodong consumed too many military supplies before and after, not to mention, this time the Ning Navy lost more than 10,000 horses.

Chen Guodong told Cheng Shijie the information sent by Concubine Li Kang.

Cheng Shijie heard that Li Guofu was discussing to provoke a fight between Zhou Yandong and Cheng Shijie, and Zhou Ning's face instantly became embarrassed.

He secretly prayed in his heart that his father Zhou Yandong would not be stupid.

Don't look inside Liaodong, almost everyone thinks that the first family in the Liaodong Ning Navy is Cheng Shijie, the second family is Zhou Yandong, and the third family is Xie Zongze.

But in fact, that's not the case at all.

Xie Jinglin, who is in charge of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Xie Zongze, who is in charge of the Ministry of Education, Cheng Shijie can replace them with a word, and it will not cause any waves.

But in the same way, Zhou Yandong's family is the same, he, the chief of staff of the Ning Navy, can usually give orders for Cheng Shijie, however, Chen Guodong is just an order, he sleeps at night, and as soon as he wakes up, he leaves Yanqing County in a carriage, without the slightest ability to resist.

On the surface, there are only members of the military justice team, superintendents, superintendents, and metropolitan supervisors, but their internal superintendent members are secretive and only accept the leadership and command of the superintendent at all levels.

Li Xin was strong and more vigilant, and the four prison soldiers who were responsible for capturing him were wounded by him, but when he was faced with more than a dozen revolvers, and the sentence "On the order of Inspector Chen, arrest the traitor Li Xin!" ”

Li Xin's personal guards numbered two or three hundred, but they were indifferent, all the officers and men of the Ning Navy knew one thing, without Cheng Dashuai, there would be no where they are today, who is a traitor, they are powerless to distinguish, they can only identify, Chen Guodong ordered, Li Xin only asked for more blessings.

Cheng Shijie said: "We have killed a prison soldier in the Ning Navy, so it's not strange to die another one, right?" ”

Chen Guodong understood.

Whether it is the officials sent by the imperial court to Liaodong or the supervisors sent to the Ning Navy, whoever Cheng Shijie lets die, he must die.

……

Li Guofu is faster than Cheng Shijie, he has already arrived in Jiangnan, his purpose is very clear, even if he wants to win over Zhou Yandong and the generals of the Ning Navy, it will take real money. But he had no money in his hands, and Emperor Chongzhen had no money.

Li Guofu could only get the silver from the inspection department in Wusongkou first, and then go to Liaodong. When he arrived at the inspection department, Li Guofu looked at the account books, although the Wusongkou inspection department only had more than 1,800 people and forty or fifty ships, the speed of making money was really not slow, and in just over a month, it had earned more than 560,000 taels of silver.

Just got the Di Bao, seeing that Emperor Chongzhen only dismissed Cheng Shijie as the premier of the Nine Sides, but retained Cheng Shijie's position as the governor of Liaodong, Li Guofu seemed to be really wise in Emperor Chongzhen's opinion.

Only in this case can Cheng Shijie relax his vigilance, and at the same time, it can also release a signal to the outside world that there is a rift between Cheng Shijie and Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Guofu took the letter of the superintendent, took away 560,000 taels of silver from the Wusongkou Inspection Division, and took the original high-diving boat, a 4,000-material Sea Shark-class battleship, which was a high-level and self-begging customized battleship, equipped with 16 three-inch guns and eight inch guns, and its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

At first, the battleship was badly damaged in the Battle of Manila, and Gao Qiqian spent 40,000 taels of silver to buy it from the shipyard to serve as his own ship. Originally, the ship was named Shaoxing, and Shaoxing was renamed Jinling by Li Guofu, and Jinling, escorted by more than a dozen gunboats, went to Liaodong.

I had just come to the river at Wusongkou when I suddenly heard a cannon sound in the distance.

"Boom!"

This one was nearly missed, and the shell landed on the starboard bow of the Jinling, and the shell exploded on the river, stirring up waves more than ten meters high.

Li Guofu's face changed greatly: "What's going on?" Where did the cannon fire? ”

A little eunuch pointed to the Wusongkou Fort and said, "It's the fort!" ”

"Bastard thing, who let them shoot!"

As soon as Li Guofu's words fell, more than a dozen shells came again. This was not a false alarm, but two four-inch shells directly opened two large holes with a diameter of five or six meters directly on the Jinling's body, and the blast wave of the explosion swept through, and the sails and sailors flew into the air together.

Seeing this, the other sailors and brocade guards hurriedly jumped into the sea.

A large amount of seawater poured in, and the Jinling only held on to the river surface of Wusongkou for less than a quarter of an hour before breaking into two and sinking to the bottom of the river.

Wu Sheng, the chief soldier of Wusongkou, reported to the imperial court: "On the eighth day of the second month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, when the Wusongkou Fort was in routine artillery training, Li Guofu and Li Gonggong, the superintendent of the Ning Navy, took the Jinling on the ship, did not report, and sailed directly into the river, and the training shell accidentally hit the Jinling, and the Jinling sank after two cannons...... The sin of despicable duty is grave, please punish your majesty! ”

Wu Sheng wrote a fold and dried the ink: "Send it to the capital!" ”

"Wu Shuai, you are not afraid to write like this......"

"I'm afraid of a bird!"

Wu Sheng said disappreliantly: "I dare to hit Li Guofu this time, who guarantees next time, where will the shell hit?" ”

Cheng Shijie originally had the ability to kill Li Guofu unconsciously, but the problem is that killing Li Guofu is not Cheng Shijie's real goal, his goal is to give Emperor Chongzhen a wake-up call.

Cheng Shijie is unhappy now.

Cheng Shijie has been spoiling Emperor Chongzhen recently, which has made Emperor Chongzhen a little drifting. I don't know what the severity is, now it's just a wake-up call for Emperor Chongzhen.

As Cheng Shijie expected, after Wu Sheng's recital was sent to the capital, the cabinet ministers celebrated with each other, knowing that the rift between Cheng Shijie and Emperor Chongzhen could not be repaired.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw this twist, he was so angry that he smashed his favorite inkstone, but unfortunately, it happened to hit Wang Chengen's head, and Wang Chengen's head was bloody.

However, this is just an impotent rage and does not help.

What can Emperor Chongzhen do? Kill Wu Sheng, the chief soldier of Wusongkou?

Wu Songkou has already died a general soldier, besides, if he wants to kill, Wu Sheng is not necessarily willing to die.

I can only admit this.

(End of chapter)