Chapter 094
Before Sun Yuanhua had time to read the good news, he heard bursts of cheers coming from the streets outside the Yamen. Sun Yuanhua's expression changed drastically, and he didn't even bother to look at the good news in his hand.
As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of ropes for ten years.
Now Sun Yuanhua is also afraid. Now he, the governor of Denglai, is at his weakest. There is no more direct Denglai New Army, no Dengzhou Navy, no Dengzhou Army. The only one he can rely on is Geng Zhongming.
"Yuntai!"
"The mark is on!"
"Go and see what's going on outside!"
"It's Mr. Futai!"
Geng Zhongming turned and left, and Sun Yuanhua quickly came to his study. There was an incense burner on the bookshelf. He twisted the incense burner hard, and a rattling sound sounded.
The originally integrated bookshelf cracked in the middle, revealing a small door that was large enough for two people to walk side by side. Without thinking, Sun Yuanhua rushed into the darkroom holding his official seal.
Geng Zhongming came to the Gulou Street of the Governor's Yamen and saw a huge crowd of people dancing on the street regardless of the biting cold wind.
A group of knights from the Ning Navy held their heads high and shouted at the top of their lungs: "A great victory. The Ning Navy went through bloody battles for ten months and killed 452 Jiannu slaves and 853 Mongolian Tatars at the Jinshi Mountain Formation. There are more than a thousand fake Tatars, killing countless people and recovering the Jinzhou Guard and Gaizhou Guard..."
The crowd on the street followed the soldiers of the Ning Navy and raised their arms and shouted: "Great victory, great victory for the Ning Navy. The formation killed 452 Jiannu, 853 Mongolian Tatars, and more than 1,000 false Tatars, killing countless people." , restore the Jinzhou Guard and Gaizhou Guard!"
On the street, the shopkeeper of Liu Ji Inn was stunned. He turned around and ran back to the inner hall to ask for instructions from his boss. Then a huge red paper was pasted on the door: "To celebrate Ning Haijun's restoration of Jinzhou and Gaizhou, at Liu Ji Inn, meat is half price." , free drinks, limited time only for three days!”
"We at Daiji Restaurant, to celebrate Ning Haijun's victory, are giving you a 30% discount!"
"Our Feng's Cloth Shop sells fine cloth at half price!"
"Our Guoji Coffin Shop..."
"Get the hell out of your ass, you'll join in any fun!"
…
Geng Zhongming saw countless people cheering and jumping, and a Dongjiang Army soldier stepped forward and said: "General Geng, Ning Haijun has recaptured Jinzhou, can we go home!"
"General, can we go home?"
A well-dressed Liaodong merchant also looked at Geng Zhongming expectantly.
Geng Zhongming gritted his teeth and suppressed the joy in his heart: "You can go home, you, we can all go home!"
Geng Zhongming clenched his fists, raised his arms and shouted: "Fathers and fellow villagers who want to go home, you can go home!"
"go home!"
"go home!"
Some people from Liaodong who were working as handymen resigned from their shopkeepers, and some merchants even stopped doing business. Many people were already packing their bags impatiently. They wanted to return to their long-lost hometown.
In fact, these people from Liaodong came across the sea. In Shandong, they were looked down upon and had no choice. Shandong was originally a province with a large population, and the land had reached its limit. As the people from Liaodong migrated to Shandong, there were many public security cases. Coupled with the help of caring people, Liaodong people are almost synonymous with scourges in Shandong.
After receiving the exact news directly from Xu Dacheng, which proved that it was not a mutiny, Sun Yuanhua crawled out of the secret passage in the bedroom. For more than a month, Sun Yuanhua did nothing else, but let the servants in the mansion hire more than a hundred people. The refugees built a secret passage for him.
Although this secret passage cannot lead directly to the outside of the city, it has extremely strong defensive capabilities. Unless explosives are used to open it, the iron gate made of pig iron cannot be opened at all.
"It was Ning Haijun who won the battle!"
Sun Yuanhua wiped the cold sweat from his forehead before opening the good news.
Just after taking a few glances, the eunuch Gao Qiqian came to the governor's office. Gao Qiqian was also very excited, and the flesh on his face was trembling: "Master Futai, what a great victory!"
"Great victory!"
Sun Yuanhua breathed a sigh of relief.
Gao Qiqian said excitedly: "Is it too much to behead four hundred and fifty-two slaves?"
Although Yuan Chonghuan's so-called great victory in Ningyuan was only the defense of Ningyuan City, more than 7,000 soldiers and civilians were killed on Juehua Island, and all the food and grass were burned. It is not an exaggeration to call it a huge defeat. Of course, Jiannu's attack on Ning was far from achieving its strategic purpose, and could be barely considered a victory. However, this victory had more political significance than practical significance.
In the Ningyuan victory, beheading was only four to five hundred levels.
As the saying goes, the butt determines the head, and the head determines the thinking.
This battle was won by Gao Qiqian who served as the supervisor in Dengzhou, Sun Yuanhua who was in command in Dengzhou, and Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun's soldiers. This battle must be won, otherwise Gao Qiqian would not be able to explain to Emperor Chongzhen.
Gao Qiqian said to Sun Yuanhua with a serious face: "Master Sun, you are also a battle-hardened man. Don't you know the rules of establishing a slave?"
"rule?"
"yes!"
Gao Qiqian said: "Nurhaci stipulated that anyone who snatches Paoze's body can get half of the body's wealth. Therefore, I, the Ming Dynasty, killed many Jiannu in front of the battle, but could not get Jiannu's head!"
Sun Yuanhua also witnessed the Battle of Ningyuan and personally commanded the defense of the Twenty-Eight Castles, so he knew about this.
Gao Qiqian said: "It can be seen that in this battle, Ning Haijun killed at least two to three thousand Jiannu. It's a pity that Jiannu's horse was too fast and Ning Haijun couldn't catch up, so Jiannu escaped!"
At this point, Gao Qiqian took out a memorial with fresh ink, and saw that it read: "There are so many slaves and the offensive is so fierce. The Ning Navy is in critical condition. Cheng Shijie, the commander-in-chief of the left army and the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy, personally braves the arrows and charges forward. After killing dozens of people in a row, the situation improved slightly, but the leader of the Jiannu thieves immediately sent his white-armored soldiers to dismount and fight on foot, leading Jiannu to charge into the formation. Seeing this, Shijie personally led the Ning navy to attack with spears, charging into more than ten formations, each formation The killing was so bloody that blood and flesh flew everywhere..."
In this memorial written by Gao Qiqian, Cheng Shijie resurrected Changshan Zhao Zilong, and the champion Hou Huo Qubing appeared. Not only was this battlefield scene described with nose and eyes, but also around the city of Jinzhou, he attacked east and west, hiding the truth from the truth, and the iron tree blossomed , go up to the house, take out the ladder, and wait for the thirty-six stratagems and a dozen consecutive stratagems.
Sun Yuanhua looked at this memorial and frowned.
Although he didn't know Cheng Shijie very well, he also knew that Cheng Shijie was really not a fierce man, he was just taller and more powerful, that's all. And he doesn’t like to charge into battle himself, especially since Cheng Shijie likes to enjoy himself and modify the carriage...
Gao Qipian looked at Sun Yuanhua and said, "What do you think, Mr. Sun, of this frontline memorial?"
"Wonderful!"
Sun Yuanhua knew the meaning of Gao Qiqian. As the civil servant group often tricked Emperor Chongzhen in the past few years, Emperor Chongzhen gradually came to understand it and began to reuse eunuchs, such as Gao Qiqian in front of him, as well as the eunuch Cao Huachun, the eunuch Bingbi, and the eunuch Cao Huachun. Li Chunsheng, the eunuch guarding Gaojing, and Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
These eunuchs may not be able to accomplish anything, but they can accomplish bad things. If they offend Gao Qiqian, not only will they be in trouble, but Xu Guangqi will also be in trouble.
In desperation, Sun Yuanhua wrote and Gao Qiqian jointly reported the victory of Jinshishan.
Seeing Sun Yuanhua's signature, Gao Qiqian was very happy. Once the good news came to Beijing, Gao Qiqian would be a great contributor. Emperor Chongzhen might be happy and give Cao Huachun the position of chief ceremonial eunuch and eunuch.
A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a eunuch who doesn't want to be the ceremonial officer is naturally not a good eunuch either. Gao Qiqian is an ambitious eunuch.
Of course, this was the result of Cheng Shijie's gift. Taking advantage of Cheng Shijie, Gao Qiqian naturally wanted to do things. If he ruined the reputation of eunuchs for collecting money to do things, it would ruin the jobs of the eunuchs in the palace. He will be hit with black bricks and stabbed with knives.
The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were not high, but the income of eunuchs was even lower than that of officials. The annual salary of a fourth-grade eunuch like Gao Qiqian was only one hundred and twenty taels of silver. Although the money was quite a lot, for Gao Qiqian, it was not enough for him to reward the young eunuch with tea money.
…
In the Jinzhou Guard in southern Liaoning, there are 140 miles from Gaizhou Guard to Jinzhou Guard, and 120 miles from Jinzhou Guard to Lushun. On this stretch of road, most of the original official roads have been abandoned.
Cheng Shijie realized the seriousness of the problem on the way from Gaizhou Guard to Jinzhou Guard.
Even though Cheng Shijie was riding in a four-wheel shock-absorbing carriage, he was still jolted terribly.
"Welcome to the handsome tiger!"
"Welcome to the handsome tiger!"
Zhou Yandong and others who stayed in Jinzhou Guard lined up to welcome Cheng Shijie's arrival.
"Excuse me!"
Cheng Shijie hit his lower back hard, while looking at the bumpy road on the ground, he pointed at the official road and said to Zhou Yandong: "The official roads and post stations in southern Liaoning have been in disuse for many years and are no longer useful. We, Ning Haijun, occupy After arriving in southern Liaoning, Gaizhou and Jinzhou must communicate with each other. There are no post stations and smooth official roads, which is very inconvenient."
Zhou Yandong smiled bitterly and said: "Commander... there are really too many things to do, and the humble position is really... too busy!"
"Things need to be prioritized. We need to re-establish the post station system. We will build a post station thirty miles north from Jinzhou Wei. There will be a total of four posts. This time, I captured more than 400 war horses. They were placed in each of these four posts. Breeding, this matter needs to be done quickly, and we should try to complete it before the end of the year!”
Zhou Yandong said: "There is no shortage of manpower now, but there are many problems due to construction in winter!"
"There's nothing we can do about it, just make do with it!"
Cheng Shijie looked at the dense dens outside the city and said anxiously: "Jiannu will not give us time. This time Jiannu has only scratched the surface. Once they calm down, they will definitely go south to find their place, no matter what Whether it’s transporting supplies or delivering messages, it all requires a very special stop!”
Cheng Shijie took a tree branch, drew a square grid on the ground, and pointed to the winding official road: "Set a post station here to temporarily combine the post station with the Baihu Suo. The post is the Baihu Suo." , Baihusuo is also a post station. They will also need to farm fields after the beginning of spring. However, the tasks of farming fields can be reduced to ensure the normal operation of the post station. They can cultivate as much land as they can. If there is a shortage, it will be Ning Haijun's military equipment. The office is responsible for subsidizing part of it!”
The inn system will suffer losses, this is inevitable. After all, many places are sparsely populated and not many people come and go, so the inn has no way to pay for itself.
Cheng Shijie modeled the post system on the postal service of later generations. It was not only responsible for delivering official documents, official business travelers, and family members of officials, but also received business travelers and made money.
He is also responsible for delivering letters and packages to soldiers and civilians.
Under Cheng Shijie's explanation, Zhou Yandong understood that this post station was completely different from the post station of the Ming Dynasty. There was no convenient delivery of official documents and confidentiality. The entire post station would be like a high-speed service area in later generations, not only providing meals, accommodation, and car repairs , refueling, shopping and other functions,
The post station was built on both sides of the official road, in the shape of a slave city. Commercial shops and commercial blocks could be set up along the official road, while being completely independent from military and official uses.
Zhou Yandong was responsible for allocating eight hundred households from the farmland and building the first batch of post stations in Ninghai Haijun, namely Fenglin Post, Qingshan Post, Qingliangsi Post and Mantoushan Post.
After arriving at Jinzhouwei, Cheng Shijie did not bother to rest, and began to visit non-stop to express condolences to the migrating craftsmen and the living conditions of the military households in the fields. This was a political show.
Cheng Shijie was not just a show, but also gave hope to the military households and craftsmen's families in the field. They will get at least one acre of homestead in southern Liaoning and build a new house that is no worse than Ninghai City. These new houses will The buildings are built with red bricks and red tiles, and each household has its own independent pressurized water well. Ninghai Haijun's Machinery Bureau will be responsible for providing technical support so that they can settle down in Liaonan with peace of mind.
Each household was given a bucket of grain per person, and these military households in the field all expressed that they must follow Marshal Cheng and work hard.
The following evening, Cheng Shijie held a report meeting on the unification of the countryside. At the meeting, Cheng Shijie said straight to the point: "Do you know why I am unwilling to give you fields and let you each be responsible for your own fields?"
All the military households in the field expressed their ignorance.
Cheng Shijie explained: "There are two reasons for me to organize collective farms according to the method of hundreds of households. First, you are incapable... When it comes to this, many people will be unconvinced. I have been farming for my whole life, so why should I say that? I don’t have the ability to farm? The answer is actually very simple. You pat your own chest and say, what do you have now? To organize a collective farm, you don’t have to worry about seeds, cattle, farm tools, fertilizers, and they don’t even have to worry about paying taxes. If they take good care of the crops, they will be rewarded enough to provide enough food and clothing for their family!"
All the military households in the field suddenly realized that this was indeed the case. The military households in the field were either prisoners of the rebels, refugees, or military households from Zuo Qianhu Station of Dengzhou Guard. They all had one common characteristic, that is, they were poor.
Why is it difficult for poor people to get rich? The biggest problem is that there is no capital. The author started doing business in 2007 and lost more than 70,000 yuan. It was not until 2013 that he paid off the debt.
One of the author's classmates, a second-generation rich man, had family support for his business. He worked in restaurants, opened hotels and guesthouses, contracted the school canteen, sold clothing and home appliances, opened a decoration company, and worked in logistics and transportation. Within a few years, all these businesses were lost, and millions of dollars were lost one after another. Later, he made a short play and published it. In just two years, he made back all the money he had lost in the previous ten years.
This is the gap between the poor and the rich. The poor do not have the cost and opportunity of trial and error, but the rich do. The same problem is actually more cruel. No one is born an elite. The so-called experience is actually accumulated slowly after suffering a lot. No matter how smart a poor person is and has no capital, he is still a pauper. The more he works, the poorer he becomes.
Cheng Shijie said: "You may have reclaimed wasteland at the beginning, but what was the result? No matter how hard you worked, the fruits of your labor became the meat of the gentry. You can't fight them, your strength is too weak. In fact, my strength is They are also weak. Why do I have to run to Liaonan? Because I can't actually fight them. However, it is different in Liaonan. Whoever dares to attack Ning Haijun's military fields, I will follow their hands and chop them. Take their heads off!”
The land conflict has always been the main contradiction in China. This problem has been plaguing China for thousands of years. But the output of the land is limited. When the population reaches a certain level, the land will exceed its endurance limit. Natural and man-made disasters and wars occur frequently. After many years of chaos, enough people have died, and the land is redistributed. A new dynasty and a prosperous age will come.
Cheng Shijie cannot solve all poverty problems, he can only reduce polarization as much as possible.
Song Xiance asked after Cheng Shijie's meeting: "Lord, is the land problem you mentioned unsolvable?"
"No, there is a way to solve it!"
"How to deal with it!"
"Actually, it's very simple. There are two ways. One is to expand, and the second is to revitalize industry and business!"
Cheng Shijie pointed to the factories under construction and said: "That is to open factories and let all the gentry in the world see that the benefits of opening factories are far greater than the benefits of farming, so they will not focus on competing with farmers for food. . Because the power of the gentry is too strong, farmers and ordinary people can't fight them at all. You have traveled around Jianghu and you have seen a lot. No matter whether the people are reasonable or not, they can't fight the gentry!"
Song Xiance nodded. What Cheng Shijie said is very correct. The people will not fight with the rich, and the rich will not fight with the officials. This is a cruel reality.
“Could expansion solve this problem as well?”
"Of course!!"
"Just like our Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty was founded, there were 60 million people and more than 800 million acres of land in the country. On average, each person could own dozens of acres of land. Many of them did not need to farm at all, so the average per capita The fields are enough to feed and drink the people of Ming Dynasty!"
Cheng Shijie sighed: "During the Chengzu period, Nurgan Dusi, Daning Dusi, Hannan River Guards, and the Eight Guards of Guanxi were successively abandoned. The territory became smaller and smaller, and the population increased. Naturally, a large number of people appeared. The refugees, as well as the imperial family members, raised a group of rice bugs. During the Ming Dynasty, a total of more than 18,000 people were trained. These are the tax-free privileged class. They are more than 18,000 families, and each Each family controls tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of acres of land.”
Cheng Shijie pointed in the direction of Liaodong and said: "There is a fertile treasure land there. You can live with a chopstick. It's just a pity that it is now in the hands of Jian Nu. As long as our Ning Navy destroys Jian Nu, take back the land and resettle it." Ten or twenty million people won’t be a problem. If we expand, we won’t be afraid of any more people in the future!”
Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie felt his blood burning.
However, at this time, Cheng Shi reported to Cheng Shijie: "Father, Huang Long, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, wants to see you!"
"Huanglong?"
Song Xiance reminded: "My lord, you are still part-time controlling the Dongjiang Army. He, the commander-in-chief, came to pay homage to Shangguan..."
"I'm afraid the person who came here is evil!"
Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "I have been in southern Liaoning for more than half a month, and he has not come to visit me once. Now that I heard that I have captured Gaizhou and Jinzhou, he is willing to show up!"
"The commander-in-chief means..."
"Let him come!"
Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said: "I am waiting for him at Jinzhou Acropolis!"
Huang Long is Cheng Shijie's subordinate. He and Cheng Shijie have lost face. Naturally, Cheng Shijie cannot warm up to his cold ass.
The army is a place that pays attention to strength. Huang Long may not know the details of Ning Haijun's mutiny and the dispatch of troops to Liaonan, but he definitely received the imperial edict from the court. He now has a mother-in-law in his head as the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army.
In fact, just as Cheng Shijie guessed, Huang Long received an order from the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Governor's Office half a month ago. The Dongjiang Army was placed under the control of Cheng Shijie, the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy. Huang Long also knew that Cheng Shijie was holding the Shang Fang Sword. Cheng Shijie's Shang Fang A sword cannot kill him, the commander-in-chief of a town, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie can kill the Dongjiang Army within the scope of his authority.
Huang Long really couldn't bear to accept the order of Cheng Shijie, a little-known Xingjin villain. When he learned that Ning's navy crossed the sea with more than 10,000 troops, especially when he heard that Jian Nu was coming, Huang Long felt that his opportunity had come.
With the strength of Ning Haijun, it was okay to fight against the small group of Jiannu troops, but to deal with the elites with white flags, they were powerless. Huang Long waited for Cheng Shijie to come to ask for help. By then, he would have both dignity and face.
However, the problem is that things did not go as Huang Long expected. Cheng Shijie neither asked him for help nor summoned this nominal subordinate. Cheng Shijie used his own power to kill the invading Jiannu and beheaded more than two thousand people... …
Huang Long miscalculated. He still wanted to hold the shelf, but the Dongjiang Army did not have much rations. If he continued to hold the shelf and waited for Cheng Shijie to come, the Dongjiang Army would starve to death again.
Speaking of which, Huang Long was also a very unlucky man. After Mao Wenlong's death, Dongjiang Town fell into pieces, and the replacement of general soldiers was like a revolving door. Chen Jisheng took over from Mao Wenlong, but only served as the commander-in-chief for one year before he was killed by Liu Xingzhi. Liu Xingzhi replaced Chen Jisheng, and Huang Long also became the deputy commander-in-chief.
Not long after, Liu Xingzhi led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to surrender to the Jin Dynasty and betrayed the Ming Dynasty. Huang Long, the deputy commander-in-chief, became the commander-in-chief. But at this time, Dongjiang Town had actually been abandoned by the Ming Dynasty. Food and wages were scarce, business travel was extinct, and hundreds of thousands of Liao people were suffering from hunger.
Finally, the Dongjiang Army gave up, launched a mutiny, kidnapped him, and divided up the tens of thousands of taels of silver in the Pidao Bank. Although Huang Long managed to escape in the end and quelled the mutiny, his nose and ears were cut off, and he lost three points. He doesn't look like a human being, he looks more like a ghost.
When Huanglong arrived in the Jinzhou Guard, he and his cronies were disarmed. Under the leadership of Ning Haijun soldiers, they came all the way towards the Jinzhou Guard.
Although Huang Long and Li Weiluan were disarmed, they were not angry, because the army is a place that values strength. Ning Haijun used practical actions to prove their strength, especially the Ning Haijun unit that led them, although the number was only three hundred. Everyone was wearing brand new cotton clothes, cotton shoes on their feet, five-finger gloves on their hands, holding long guns, dog-leg knives hanging on their waists, and carrying crossbows on their backs. There were two full pots of crossbow arrows in the quiver.
The most annoying thing is that almost all of these Ning Navy soldiers are wearing armor.
Li Weiluan lowered his voice and said: "Huang Shuai, these people are probably Cheng Shuai's servants!"
"pretty close!"
Huang Long's eyes were also very poisonous. He could tell at a glance that these soldiers had evil spirits on their faces. They were obviously veterans who had experienced battles for a long time. What was even more commendable was that they actually remained silent during the march. That was it. The atmosphere of silence makes people feel very stressed.
"How...this...is possible?"
The closer they get to the Jinzhou Guard, the more and more Ning Haijun soldiers come. They have the same equipment as the Ning Haijun soldiers accompanying them, the same armor, the same black cloak, the same black armor, and the same equipment. These soldiers added up one after another, at least five to six thousand people.
Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, relied on 8,000 Li family soldiers to dominate Liaodong for decades. Cheng Shijie actually had thousands of soldiers. How much money would this cost?
Li Chengliang relied on the twenty-five guards of Liaodong and the four million people of Liaodong to support the Li family's soldiers. What did Cheng Shijie rely on?
"Stand at attention and look to the right!"
"Look forward, gun raised!"
"salute!"
Under Ning Haijun's command, thousands of Ning Haijun's soldiers moved in unison, with the same silence, making Huang Long, a warrior, feel inexplicable panic.
What made Huang Long even more nervous was that the grain trucks transported from the dock entered the city one after another. These trucks were filled with grain. Looking at the grain, Huang Long had a bitter smile on his face: "We, the Dongjiang Army, are indeed stepmothers. Grandma doesn't care about us, and uncle doesn't love us. We don't even have to eat. Look at them, it's better!"
At this time, outside Jinzhou City, groups of Dongjiang Army sergeants and civilians were lining up outside the city, waiting to be given porridge.
What made Huang Long and Li Weiluan even more uncomfortable was that the civilians of the Dongjiang Army who received the meal all expressed their gratitude to Ning Haijun and greeted Huang Long's whole family from time to time.
To be fair, Huanglong didn't eat as much as he wanted, nor did he drink the blood of his soldiers. It was because the court didn't give them food at all, and he couldn't produce food.
It is even more impossible to be like Cheng Shijie, who took the opportunity of suppressing bandits and seized a large amount of property from the bandits. In fact, many of the bandits of this era were chamber pots of the gentry, who were raised by them to do illegal work, so those bandits had certain Cheng Shijie even confiscated the treasury of Zhang family and Sun Yuanhua in Laiyang.
"The last general Huanglong!"
"Last General Li Weiluan!"
"Meet Cheng Shuai!"
PS: I could have uploaded it before twelve o'clock, but I had too many things to do, so I answered a phone call, and I hope you can forgive me.
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