The news of Liaodong was relatively delayed, after hearing the news of the fall of Beijing and the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Weiyuan cried loudly, and after the news spread in Liaodong, Liaodong was not peaceful.

Although Ning Haijun has been very disappointed in this empire, although he has had enough of the mean and unkind and self-righteous Son of Heaven, so in this catastrophe of collapse and collapse, Ning Haijun did not choose to stand idly by, and was ready to use the hands of the Qing army to uproot the extremely corrupt center and knock the class above all living beings to the mortal dust. 、

Especially when they saw that the national capital was easily breached like this, and the cities surrendered without a fight, the soldiers of the Ning Navy couldn't help but panic. They just wanted to overthrow that fucking class, but they didn't think about giving up the whole country to Jiannu!

"Go north immediately, recover Beijing, and beat Jiannu back!"

The Liaodong merchant group, the new scholars of the Ning Navy, the Liaodong Military Merit Group, and the Liaodong Ning Navy civilian group, which were highly consistent with the Ning Navy, were completely panicked and set off one after another, rushing to Jinzhou City day and night.

Their purpose is one, hoping that the Ning Navy can immediately recover Beijing and fight Jiannu back. Of course, there is another meaning, and that is persuasion.

In fact, not only Meng En, Li Xin, Zhou Ning and other Ning admirals hope that Cheng Shijie will be the emperor, in fact, people from all walks of life in Liaodong hope that Cheng Shijie will be the emperor, because Cheng Shijie has absolute ability, when Liaodong Nurhachi was almost killed in white land, the entire Liaodong thousands of miles of ten rooms and nine emptiness, white bones exposed, and thousands of miles of red land, it is because of Cheng Shijie, with a group of poor people, established the current Liaodong on the basis of one poor and two white.

Although the weather in Liaodong is bitter and cold, it has become a paradise on earth, more prosperous than the rich Suzhou and Hangzhou, there are no beggars here, and there are no poor people here, as long as they are willing to work, eat a full stomach, and wear warm clothes, it is not a problem. As long as half a year to a year, the problem of food and clothing can be solved.

Cheng Shijie has a strong sense of responsibility, in Liaodong to rule the country, whether it is an official of the Liaodong Management Committee, or a general of the Ning Navy, or a soldier, no matter anyone, as long as they break the law, they will be severely punished by the law, whether it is a poor person or a rich person, the entire Liaodong is people-oriented, human life is the greatest, and no one can be above the law.

In Liaodong, talents live like individuals, except for the dissatisfaction of scholars with Cheng Shijie, except that they have lost the privilege of overriding all beings, this can be said to be almost equal, even in the face of Cheng Shijie, as long as you are unhappy, you can not kneel to him, and there is no problem at all, and there is no need to worry about being punished.

The most important thing is that Cheng Shijie has a strong army, fighting in the east and west, fighting in the south and in the north, invincible, invincible, invincible, and the most commendable thing is that there is the unconditional support of the people of Liaodong, and even the barbarians love him very much, no one is more suitable to be this emperor than him!

Who said that the emperor must have the surname Zhu? As long as you can bring the country back to life, you can have a surname!

But Cheng Shijie never showed the slightest ambition in this regard, or did not have the slightest interest in this aspect, which made countless people very anxious, and it was difficult to open this mouth.

In Liaodong, who is qualified to speak, in fact, there is a person, one is Cheng Shijie's teacher, Sun Chengzong, as long as he speaks, Cheng Shijie will definitely not be able to refuse, and the other is Zhu Weiyuan.

If Zhu Weiyuan opened his mouth, Cheng Shijie would not be able to refuse.

It's just that under Cheng Shijie's order, they reached Liaodong, rushed to work overtime as quickly as possible, produced guns and ammunition, and opened the production capacity of arsenals in various places, and also transferred some military materials, such as clothing, shoes and socks, sleeping bags, tents, and even equipment such as backpacks, sappers, shovels, and kettles, to private factories, and all military factories were converted to produce guns and ammunition.

A large number of guns and artillery pieces were produced, and they were continuously sent north, and the transport convoys on the thousand-mile transportation line were endless. At this point, Cheng Shijie finally turned over all the hole cards, and the huge strength that he had worked hard for more than five years was put on the table little by little, which shocked everyone.

Soon, Huang Taiji and the Wenchen clique who betrayed their country for glory will painfully realize what a terrifying force they are about to face.

Cheng Shijie didn't know about the turmoil in Liaodong, and if the news reached Cheng Shijie's ears, it would take three to five days.

Of course, Cheng Shijie was not idle at this time, although Cheng Shijie led four brigades, one north and one south, to surround the capital, but these four brigades, three of which are newly formed brigades, have not had time to change the equipment of the troops, and more importantly, even if the change of equipment is completed, a certain degree of training is still needed for new firearms.

In this case, Cheng Shijie decided to use the original Ning Navy method to train in battle, while accepting the change of new equipment, and at the same time using combat to quickly train. to strengthen the killer feature of rocket artillery.

"How many guns do we have, how many guns do we have, how many ammunition do we have?"

In the military tent of the Ning Navy, Cheng Shijie asked quickly.

Zhou Ning also replied quickly without hesitation: "Up to now, as many as 60,000 rifles, 146 three-inch guns, 240 rocket artillery, 36 four-inch guns, and ammunition have as many as 800,000 bullets, 2,000 shells of various flowering cannons, 8,000 rounds of rocket artillery shells, and 20 tons of explosives!" ”

These data are really not enough to see now, but they are appalling in the Ming Dynasty, such a military production capacity, it is no problem to beat the whole world!

"In addition, 10,000 rifles, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 16 three-inch guns, and 144 rocket launchers have been loaded onto the ship, and they can be transported to Funing and Tianjin in three days at the latest!"

Li Xin added.

Cheng Shijie then asked: "How much military ration there is, we must fully consider the refugees in the Gyeonggi area!" ”

"More than enough!"

Li Xin then added: "The 8 million stones of high-quality rice mobilized by the Luzon side are still worried that it will not be enough to raise more than 3 million stones from Nanyang, and the first batch of these grains, about 1.5 million stones, has already been shipped, and the follow-up will be divided into six batches, all of which will be shipped to Tianjin within three months!" ”

Thanks to the increasingly powerful maritime transportation capacity of the Ning Navy, otherwise, the Ming Dynasty could only transport more than 8 million stone of grain in a year with millions of workers, while the Ning Navy could transport grain from Luzon or Nanyang to Gyeonggi in three months at most, which made the Ming Dynasty very ashamed.

Cheng Shijie heard that there was no shortage of food and sufficient ammunition, and he was even more confident in this battle.

"Very good, so much ammunition, enough! Strengthen training, and after three days, let Jiannu taste the taste of being buried alive with ammunition! All the generals agreed in unison, and the sound was like thunder.

Although the bolt-action rifle is not the same as the firearm, but the difference is not big, the three-point and one-line aiming method, the Ning Navy has been trained, and is also familiar with, the biggest advantage of this weapon is that this thing is very simple to use and maintain, and a soldier can learn how to aim and shoot in only half a day.

And the lethality is very amazing, no armor can resist the bullets it shoots, a strong man who has only received half a day of training can kill a white-armored soldier wearing heavy armor and practicing martial arts for more than ten years by gently pulling the plate machine, is there any more ideal equipment than this?

Zhou Ning looked at Cheng Shijie and asked, "Dashuai, have you made up your mind?" ”

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "I have made up my mind, three days later, it will be the death of Huang Taiji!" ”

Zhou Ning said: "What about now? Now that the imperial capital has fallen, the life and death of the Son of Heaven are uncertain, and the whole country is hesitating, what are you going to do? ”

Cheng Shijie was silent for a moment, and said firmly: "There has to be someone to stand up ......!" ”

Cheng Shijie tapped his fingers on the table, frowned and said, "The ammunition is still too little!" Urge the tubes to be transported, so that they can be more efficient! The commander hopes to see a doubling of the ammunition base of our army in ten days! ”

Cheng Shijie did not have much confidence to quickly take the capital, this was not because he was worried about the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, but because he was worried about the surrender of the Ming army.

What's more, the Qing army occupied the capital and had the technical craftsmen accumulated by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, not that the craftsmen of the Staff Bureau were not skilled, but they were damaged by corrupt officials, and it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Huang Taiji will not be short-sighted, after he gets the capital, he will definitely make the capital's staff bureau and gunpowder bureau rejuvenated, and the production capacity and quality will be greatly improved.

Zhou Ning was taken aback: "Double!?" ”

You must know that the special ammunition for rifled bolt-action rifles is not cheap, this is not something that can be made by melting a small piece of lead ingots when a soldier is camping, there must be skilled workers with supporting machinery and equipment, such ammunition is worth a lot of money every time, hundreds of thousands of rounds are already a bit scary, Cheng Shijie is good, and he threw more than a million rounds as soon as he opened his mouth!

"They can do it, just press it tighter!"

Just as he was talking, Hou Xi walked in and reported: "Dashuai, Xiyi wants to see you!" ”

Cheng Shijie was stunned: "Where is sacred, come to me at this juncture?" ”

Hou said: "It's a Spaniard!" ”

Only then did Cheng Shijie remember that he beat the Spaniards the year before last, captured thousands of prisoners, and then because the Spaniards did not negotiate with him, he ran around the world and completely forgot about it.

Although Cheng Shijie forgot about it, the Spaniards did not forget, the capture of thousands of people was just a trivial matter for the Ming Dynasty, but it was very fatal for the Spaniards, and it could be called a heavy loss. You must know that there are not many Spanish troops now, and there are so many colonies to defend, and the troops are stretched, and thousands of them have been captured at once, which is really fatal!

So during this time, the Spaniards were looking for Cheng Shijie all over the world like crazy, trying to get these soldiers back through negotiations. Not only the Spaniards, but also the Dutch are making the same effort, but Cheng Shijie is so busy that he never stops at all, these unlucky people have to run around behind his ass, tired and half dead!

When Huang Taiji ascended the throne in April, he knew very well that the enemy of his enemy was his friend, so Huang Taiji sent people south to find the Spaniards and the Dutch. When they learned that Huang Taiji was preparing to replace the Ming Dynasty and fight against Cheng Shijie, the Spanish and Dutch were more than happy to facilitate the battle between the Qing army and the Ning navy.

Proxy wars? As Western colonizers, they all played very smoothly with this set. However, Huang Taiji's way of thinking was different, seeing that the Spaniards supported him with 500 guns and 16 guns, the Dutch were more wealthy and promised to support Huang Taiji with 1,500 guns and 38 guns.

In Huang Taiji's opinion, I am the king of a country, if I don't take out tens of thousands of firearms, at least a few thousand, right? It's just 500 branches, who is disgusting? The Dutch are not atmospheric enough, what bullshit Europa's first maritime power, 1,500 firearms, less than one-fifth of the Han army.

Seeing that after Huang Taiji ate these weapons, he didn't treat them as dishes, they decided to have a good talk with Cheng Shijie.

After Cheng Shijie dealt with the two military affairs, he asked everyone to step down, and by the way, he asked the Spanish envoy to roll him in. Originally, he used those thousands of Spanish prisoners of war to open up wasteland and build roads for hard labor, since the Spaniards attached so much importance to the captured soldiers, he was not polite, and he must exchange them for greater benefits!

The first to walk in was Catherine, who was always bright and moving. It seems that the Spaniards were able to find this place under the guidance of the beautiful countess, who would not miss any opportunity to increase the prestige of the Venetian polis and to profit for the polis and herself.

Catherine was very serious at this time, and gave a big salute to Cheng Shijie: "Meet Your Majesty!" ”

Although there were emperors and kings in Europe, which country received the "imperial crown" of the Roman Empire, the monarch of which country could be called emperor, otherwise he could only be called king. For example, the kings of England, Spain, the Netherlands, etc., they have never been crowned and recognized by the Roman Empire.

Just like the Spanish Empire, even if it became the first empire in the world where the sun never sets, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Spain was the hegemon of the world, but Spain was only a king, not an emperor.

In Catherine's view, Cheng Shijie is the king.

Cheng Shijie was a little unaccustomed to Catherine's sudden respect, but now was not the time to pursue this issue, Cheng Shijie said: "You brought the Spaniards here, right?" ”

Catherine smiled: "Yes, they found me and begged me for help, we have a lot of business dealings, I still want to sell this favor, so I helped a little." ”

Cheng Shijie said angrily: "I think you are too idle, and I think that everyone in the world is as idle as you, and you are bent on finding things to do for others!" Alright, let the messenger in! ”

As Cheng Shijie's order was issued, the gorgeously dressed Spanish envoy walked in quickly. This envoy was only about fifty years old, which was definitely an advanced age in Spain, with a beautiful beard, light steps, and decent manners, and quite an aristocratic demeanor.

He bowed to Cheng Shijie and spoke a word in Spanish quickly, and the tone was quite gentle and respectful, which made people feel comfortable.

Catherine translated: "Your Majesty, the Venerable and fearless King of the East, I, Pablo Alfonso de Todos Los Santos, on the orders of Philip IV, King of Spain, have come to pay tribute to you! ”

Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said: "Don't talk about these time-wasting nonsense, just say it, what is the matter with you coming to me?" ”

Catherine shrugged her eyebrows and wanted to laugh, but she held back......

This guy really didn't plan to play cards according to the routine from beginning to end, and when he met such a negotiation opponent, the Spaniards had fallen for eight lifetimes.

Although he had heard of Cheng Shijie's simple and rude and straightforward style, Marquis Pablo was still caught off guard when it fell on him.

Hell, is this really the way the nobles communicate?

It's too simple and crude, even a European hillbilly wouldn't do that!

Pablo swallowed with difficulty, and said, "Your Majesty, you know, we had a regrettable conflict in Formosa, and several thousand of our soldiers were taken prisoner...... His Majesty the King is so concerned about the fate of these captives that he has sent me to negotiate with you about the exchange of prisoners......"

Cheng Shijie lazily: "Have any of my soldiers been captured by you?" ”

Pablo said: "Not really! ”

"What a? I don't have any soldiers captured by you at all, exchange a fart? ”

Pablo was a little mad: "But according to our European tradition, after the end of the war, both warring sides should unconditionally release the prisoners of war and send them home!" Da Ming has always prided itself on being a country of etiquette, so shouldn't it be as good as us in a small country like Taixi? ”

Cheng Shijie pouted: "That's your way of playing, we don't play like this!" If you want to get back those captured soldiers, you can exchange them for what I'm interested in! ”

Pablo shouted: "Your Majesty, this is not the proper behavior of a nobleman!" You are blackmail, blackmail! ”

"Whatever you want, the prisoners are in my hands anyway, I have the final say on what to do with them, if you are not convinced, you can send a large army over and we will fight again!"

Pablo almost didn't vomit blood. With Spain's bull-like temper, if he could fight, he would have sent seven or eight legions to kill him and trampled this second cargo into a pulp, the question is...... Can't beat it.

Cheng Shijie knew that these Spaniards wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, and he said lightly: "You'd better think clearly before answering, otherwise the consequences will be very serious!" (End of chapter)