Chapter 099
The thoughts of these Dongjiang Army soldiers were actually very simple. They were willing to be loyal to Cheng Shijie because Cheng Shijie could make them eat well.
In fact, if you want to join Ning Haijun with the intention of having a good meal, it is really not difficult. As long as you are more than 1.68 meters tall, if you are not tall enough, have good endurance, and have certain specialties, such as being good at climbing and having good eyesight. Good, proficient in hunting and tracking, good at archery and horseback riding, the height limit can be relaxed appropriately. If you have good endurance and train hard, you can successfully enter the Ning Navy.
However, the problem is that although Ning Haijun's food is rich, it is not easy to eat.
More and more Dongjiang Army soldiers came to Jinzhou. After they arrived, they immediately changed into new cotton jackets, cotton trousers, cotton coats and cotton shoes. Each of them was also issued a sleeping bag. This kind of sleeping bag was made of waterproof cloth. It is sewn and filled with eight pounds of cotton. If you cover it with your own coat, it will not be too cold no matter how cold the weather is.
They were issued with Ning Haijun's standard equipment: dogleg knives, spears, waist knives, or shields. Those who were good at archery were also issued with bows and arrows. Except for the firearms unit, which did not change much, their equipment was changed from the inside out. A whole crop.
Every Dongjiang army that came to Jinzhou Acropolis grabbed equipment, cotton-padded clothes, and shoes in the same chaos. When eating, they also grabbed frantically.
Cheng Shijie successively told generals such as Mao Chenglu, Shang Keyi, Xiang Zuolin, Fan Hualong, Zhang Dalu, Li Weiluan, He Yongsheng, and Du Jincai: "The Dongjiang Army has poor military discipline and needs to be reorganized, and new equipment also needs training!"
Therefore, Huang Long led the eight generals of the Dongjiang Army. They had no choice but to follow Cheng Shijie's instructions and follow the example of Ning Haijun, forming a team of twelve people and four teams of forty-eight people, plus a sentry commander and a cook to become a sentry.
Four sentries plus five teams, a total of 260 people, form a division, with one hundred commanders.
There are two divisions plus four posts directly under the division to form a bureau. There is one person in charge, and each bureau has 770 people.
For the two bureaus, the Military Justice Department will be added to form one chief. There will be one thousand chief, and each chief will have 1,500 people.
Each of the four generals formed a capital division and established a front division, a left division, and a right division of the Dongjiang Army, with a total of 24,000 people. Cheng Shijie asked Huang Long to transfer another 2,000 men and horses from the Dongjiang Army, equipped with a thousand carts, as the transportation team of the Dongjiang Army. As the supervisor of Ning Haijun, Chen Guodong will also take advantage of the situation to establish the Dongjiang Army supervision system. Of course, the supervisory army will not It’s called the Supervisory Army, but it’s called the Military Law Patrol Team.
Chen Guodong summoned Dongjiang Army officers above 100, as well as the corresponding division supervisors, directors and governors, including Mao Chenglu, Shang Keyi, Xiang Zuolin, Fan Hualong, Zhang Dalu, Li Weiluan, He Yongsheng, Du Jincai and other generals. In addition to Dongjiang Army Except for General Huang Long, they held an unusual meeting.
In Ning Haijun's newly renovated supervisory meeting hall in Dengzhou Acropolis, a long table was placed in the hall, with basins of dumplings placed on the table.
There are dumplings stuffed with meat and cabbage, mutton and cabbage, leeks and eggs, radish and tofu. Anyway, whatever filling you get depends on your character and luck.
While eating dumplings, Chen Guodong began to conduct ideological education with the supervisors, directors, and supervisors. Among them, the most distinctive propaganda words were: "Father and mother are not as good as Cheng Dashuai!", "The sky is big and the earth is not as big as Cheng Dashuai's." The kindness is great!", "There are thousands of good things, but they are not as good as Marshal Cheng!", "The river is deep and the sea is not as deep as Marshal Cheng's love!"
While eating dumplings, all the officers expressed their opinions that they must strengthen ideological education and training.
The first step in the training of the Dongjiang Army is not actually alignment, but the "Ning Admiral's Code". Although the "Ning Admiral's Code" is based on three major disciplines, eight points of attention, three major principles, three major rights, and three obligations. The basics have been established, but there are hundreds of them. Not to mention reading, most of the soldiers are illiterate. Just asking them to listen makes them stick out their tongues. It's too strict!
They are not allowed to fight in crowds, drink alcohol without permission in the military camp, or smoke (smoking is already available now). They are not allowed to engage in any form of commercial activities, gambling, or fornication in the military camp. They are not allowed to leave the military camp without permission, and they are not allowed to bring their family members with them. When entering the military camp, you are not allowed to accept any gifts from outsiders at will. Sales must be fair and no credit is allowed...
To put it simply, once you enter this military camp, you will not be able to eat, drink, whore, gamble, smoke, cheat, cheat, abduct, cheat, or rob them. You can hear them complaining endlessly: "Are we here to be soldiers or are we here?" Practice!?"
There were also soldiers from the Dongjiang Army who were very dissatisfied and roared to the military judge: "Why can slaves be robbed and fucked by strong women without restraint, but I can't?"
The military judge was already familiar with this situation. "Then the dog still eats shit. Do you want to follow the dog's lead and eat shit? Are the Jian slaves human beings? Obviously they are not, they are beasts and beasts. Do you also follow the example of the Jian slaves? And , just like the slave woman, can you kill her with your hands, or can you kill her with your mouth?"
All the Dongjiang Army officers and soldiers were speechless.
As a veteran, what you are best at is not to contradict your superiors, but to find loopholes in the system and take advantage of them. These veterans studied Ning Haijun's generals, soldiers and defenders, and finally came to the conclusion that as long as we abide by discipline, No one will touch a hair on our head!
It can be seen that following Marshal Cheng is still a very cost-effective thing. Not only will you not be punished for no reason, but you will also get good treatment, and your financial future will be promising.
However, these Dongjiang Army soldiers soon stopped laughing. Ning Haijun is a professional army. They only do two things, fight or prepare for war. Therefore, when Ning Haijun is not fighting, he is training.
After the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army recovered for a few days in Jinzhou Guard, they began to conduct daily training. Of course, considering that the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army was not very good, the training was carried out slowly.
Cheng Shijie served as an instructor, responsible for training the generals of the Dongjiang Army and Ning Haijun. These generals include Shen Mingyu, Zhang Yu, Liu Qingsong, Zhou Ning, as well as Zhao Wencai, Yuan Shiliang, Li Zhixiang, Chen Sometimes, as well as the generals under Huang Long. .
Although Cheng Shijie has a serious lack of military command experience, he has a lot of theoretical knowledge. If you search on the Internet, you will find a lot of military theories, such as blitzkrieg, mobile warfare, sparrow warfare, guerrilla warfare, large-depth warfare theory, etc.
"As a soldier, we have only one goal, and that is to kill the enemy. No matter who our enemy is, whether they are bandits, traitors, robbers, slaves, Mongolian Tatars, or Westerners, we strictly obey the military orders and whoever the military orders say to hit. , you can hit whoever you want. Before you hit someone, you must learn to make weapons. Of course, making weapons does not mean you can make swords, or guns and artillery!"
"Report!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "Speak!"
Shen Mingyu asked: "Then how do we make weapons?"
"On the battlefield, you must take advantage of all available advantages, such as a river, a mountain, a fire, a strong wind or a heavy rain. Don't underestimate these things that may seem ordinary on weekdays. On the battlefield, those who are good at using these things will be invincible..."
When Cheng Shijie said this, he glanced at Zhao Wencai intentionally or unintentionally and said: "Take the Battle of the Boundary River we had in Denglai, Shandong a while ago. In normal times, we would definitely not be able to catch up with Kong Youde's cavalry. The weather was not good at that time. It’s too cold, so this gives us a chance!”
Shen Mingyu raised his hand and said, "Is it because of the boundary river?"
"The boundary river is only part of it, and there is also the weather. Although the water level of the boundary river is not deep, the weather is cold. If the war horses go down into the river, they will soon freeze. So in that case, we Ning Haijun don't have to worry about Kong Youde's cavalry behind us. There is no way to get behind us..."
"Report!"
"speak!"
Cheng Shijie naturally wanted to give Zhao Wencai, one of the victims, a chance to express his rebuttal.
Zhao Wencai said: "That's because General Kong... Kong Youde's sworn brother died in the hands of the commander, and he was eager for revenge..."
"This is the advantage that can be exploited. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" preaches in the eighth chapter of the Nine Changes: Therefore, there will be five dangers: death, which can be killed; life, which can be captured; anger, which can be insulted; integrity, It can be humiliating; it can be annoying to love the people. If the general fails to do these five things, it will lead to disaster in the use of troops. To overthrow the army and kill the general, there will be five dangers, so we must pay attention to them."
Zhao Wencai scratched his head: "This humble position doesn't understand!"
Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and said, "Who can explain to Zhao Wencai?"
Huang Long imitated Shen Mingyu and raised his hands: "Report!"
"Shuai Huang, please speak!"
Huang Shuai coughed and continued: "The meaning of this passage is that generals have five kinds of weaknesses. Mortal means not afraid of death. Dare to fight to the death. Must survive. It can be understood as greed for life and fear of death. Anger means bad temper. Integrity means excessive self-interest and love for the people, which means that you don’t really love the people, but cherish your feathers and cherish your own reputation. This kind of weakness will be exploited by others..."
"Report!"
The person who raised his hand this time was Mao Chenglu. He asked with some confusion: "If you are not afraid of death, is it still wrong to dare to fight to the death?"
"It's not a mistake to not be afraid of fighting to the death, but it just means that such a general will fail, especially when there is a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, or when the enemy is pretending to retreat. The harder he attacks, the more vulnerable he is to an ambush by the enemy! "
Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and said: "If the Jian Nu invade southern Liaoning in large numbers, even if the Jian Nu are outnumbered, even if the enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered, I will fight to the end without retreating. This situation requires a specific condition. , for example, there are hundreds of thousands of people behind us. Even if we are all killed, we cannot let it go, because if we retreat, the people of Li will be slaughtered by the slaves. If we attack, In other words, all the people behind us have retreated, so we have to be flexible and retreat temporarily, because there is still hope if we are alive, but if we die, there is nothing!"
The generals began to reflect.
Cheng Shijie continued: "You must live and be captured. This sentence means that generals must not be greedy for life and afraid of death. Everyone should have heard of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". In the Battle of Hefei, Zhang Liao led 800 soldiers to attack Sun Quan's 100,000-strong army at night. At the military camp, Xu Sheng, under Sun Quan, took the lead in fleeing, causing the entire army to rout. Although Sun Quan was not captured, many of Sun Wu's troops were captured!"
Having said this, Cheng Shijie looked at Zhao Wencai and said: "When I ordered Liu Qingsong to lead 300 soldiers to raid Lou Jian's headquarters in Crouching Tiger Village, my original intention was to lure Lou Jian into pursuit. I had already prepared an ambush, but something happened. Lou Jian was killed. Kong Youde was eager for revenge and lost his mind. This was a inevitable defeat. When Guan Yu died, Liu Bei was eager for revenge and hastily launched the Battle of Yiling. The Shu Han army was defeated. You all think about it, my commander. Knowing that Lou Jian and Kong Youde had a close personal relationship and that Lou Jian was dead, how could I not be prepared for Kong Youde's revenge?"
"cannot!"
Huang Long said subconsciously.
"Yes!"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Knowing that Kong Youde wants to take revenge, I will naturally use all available terrain, and the boundary river is the most ideal terrain nearby!"
"Report!"
“Isn’t Zhaoyuan County the best defensive location?”
"If you were Kong Youde and knew that there was a fortified city and you only had cavalry, would you still attack?"
"this……"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "People's anger will slowly dissipate, and time will dilute everything. At the beginning, Kong Youde will be eager for revenge and lose his mind. He is not a fool, and his mind will slowly come back. When the time comes, I can only A small victory, but unable to hit him hard!"
Only then did the generals suddenly realize.
"As a general, if you want to control your temper, you must consider all aspects when making any choices and decisions, because one of your decisions will be borne by countless soldiers with their blood!"
Cheng Shijie said: "If you face a favorable opportunity, you need to attack decisively. Just like in the Tang Dynasty, the Turks were powerful and fierce, and the Turkic cavalry galloped across the northern prairie. Countless tribes surrendered. The powerful Xianbei tribe, Completely disappeared, the powerful Turks even mobilized 200,000 iron cavalry to reach the city of Chang'an, forcing Emperor Taizong Li Shimin to empty out the Tang Dynasty's treasury. In the second year of Zhenguan, there was a great famine in Guanzhong, and people died of hunger everywhere. The Tang Dynasty was at its weakest. , the country's soldiers did not exceed 200,000, and the cavalry did not exceed 20,000. However, in the winter of the third year of Zhenguan, a rare snow disaster occurred on the grassland. More than half of the East Turkic cattle and sheep were lost, and they were very weak. Li Weigong and Li Jing only relied on three With a thousand Qingqi, the Turkic tribes with the ability to mobilize hundreds of thousands of cavalry will be completely wiped out."
Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and asked: "Do you know why Li Weigong was able to easily destroy the Eastern Turks and capture the Eastern Turks' Jieli Khan?"
Liu Qingsong raised his hands very excitedly and said: "I know!"
"speak!"
Liu Qingsong listened to Song Xiance's analysis of this battle. The Eastern Turks encountered a snowstorm. Jieli Khan led an army of hundreds of thousands south to escape the cold. From Jieli Khan on down, almost all the Eastern Turks despised the Tang Dynasty and believed that the Tang Dynasty did not dare to attack. The defenses of the East Turks were very lax, followed by the Weishui Alliance. For the proud Tang people, this was a great shame and a great humiliation, and the seeds of revenge were planted in the hearts of every Tang people.
Just when Cheng Shijie was training General Ning and the generals of the Dongjiang Army on the battlefield, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army also started training. Their training was relatively simple, such as standing in a military posture and turning in all directions with three major steps.
In order to allow the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army to distinguish between their left and right feet, the left foot was not allowed to wear socks. In such a cold weather, the ankle was exposed to the air, which gave a very sour taste.
In particular, Ning Haijun's instructors were simply a bunch of beasts. At dawn, I would rush into the dormitory with a pointer and drive them out. Then I would go on a five-kilometer cross-country trip in full gear. If I ran too slowly, I would not even have food when I came back.
The officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were a little dissatisfied. The Huotou Army said that military expenses were tight. As long as the three sentries who came back late could only skip one meal and make do with it, they would not die if they skipped a meal.
At this time, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army realized that it would not be easy for them to eat Cheng Shijie's food.
However, think about how difficult it is to find a place to eat now. Although the instructors of Ning Haijun were trained hard and were simply inhumane, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army gritted their teeth and persisted. No one was willing to leave, because if they left the Jinzhou Guard, they might die.
Compared with the five-kilometer cross-country, the queue training was even more disgusting to the Dongjiang Army soldiers. They hated Ning Haijun's instructors to death.
"To the left!"
"turn right!"
"turn back!"
"Turn left and back!"
"Stand still!"
"Look to the right!"
These passwords made them so confused that they could hardly tell the difference between east, west, north and south. Or they were standing in a military position, and some hateful guys deliberately brought them to the wind.
The cold wind is like a knife. Even if they wear cotton-padded clothes and stand still for half an hour, their bodies will still be numb from the cold...
In the Forbidden City in Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen has not had a peaceful sleep since the tragic defeat at Dalinghe. He fought hard for more than three months and lost 100,000 troops and horses.
The crux of the problem is that Chongzhen, the young emperor, has no solution at all. The Ming Dynasty is like a broken house with air leakage everywhere. In Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia (the Ming Dynasty is not a provincial level, it is just a prefecture) and Henan, rogue bandits are everywhere. Like a gourd in a water tank, if you press one end, the other end will rise again.
The key is that the defeat of Guan Ning's army made the young emperor very worried. If Huang Taiji's head got hot and he led an army of 60,000 to 70,000 to the capital city, Huang Taiji was not prepared last time and did not have the heavy siege force. Weapons, if it happened again, Huang Taiji would definitely bring cannons. Let alone capture the city of Beijing, as long as a Jiannu appeared under the city, where would the young emperor's face be?
The young emperor Chongzhen wanted to build slaves. Not to mention the generals of the Ming army who were as fearful of the enemy as tigers. What was more important was the empty treasury and the increasingly depleting tax sources...
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and ordinary people still have to pay off their debts before the end of the year. He, the big boss of the Ming Dynasty, also has to pay salaries to officials. But the problem is, he has less than 600,000 taels of silver in the national treasury, so how can he pay it?
What hair?
The composition of the fiscal expenditures of the feudal dynasty was also relatively simple, consisting of nothing more than the royal family, administration, military expenditures, river works, and relief. Among them, the royal family, administration, and military expenditures were the three largest ones, that is, supporting the royal family, supporting the bureaucrats, and supporting the army.
Emperor Chongzhen had a huge headache when he thought of paying wages to those officials. After being emperor for more than four years, he had already seen that these officials were not good at what they did, they didn't have enough to eat, and they were just a bunch of losers.
There are so many major national affairs, but there is nothing that can make him worry. Ever since he came to the throne, he has not had a chance to breathe. Natural disasters, slave establishment, and rogue bandits are getting closer and closer. When the night is quiet, he can clearly listen. The cracking sound made by Daming when this hollowed-out tree slowly fell down was not loud, but it made his hair tremble.
Daming can't hold it any longer...
Looking back, Ming has not fallen yet, he is not dead yet, so he still has to do things and worry about this rotten country. The Battle of Daling River is in the past. It is useless to think about it too much. It is better to think about it like celebrating the New Year.
He steeled himself, suppressed his inner restlessness, and listened to the opinions of his courtiers.
Regarding how to solve financial problems, the ministers of the imperial court still reiterated the same old tune. They only used two methods, increasing revenue or reducing expenditure. When the ministers thought about how to reduce expenditure, they first targeted the clan.
But the problem is that since his grandfather, Emperor Wanli, has begun to default on the salary of the clan. Now, 1.92 million shi of grain must be allocated from the treasury every year to the vassal king and the clan. This number is very huge. , accounting for slightly less than one-third and slightly more than one-quarter of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue, which was also a heavy burden.
Black Ming trolls on the Internet have been trolling the Ming Dynasty. However, the problem is that the annual expenditure for raising Eight Banners disciples in the Manchu Dynasty ranged from more than 1,300 taels of silver to 16 million taels of silver. This figure is higher than that of the Ming Dynasty. The clan was three or four times bigger. But the problem is that the Manchu Qing levied excessive taxes on the gentry class, so they could collect money. Especially the Daxing Literary Prison, the Kangxi Thirteenth Case, the Yongzheng Seventeenth Case, and the Qianlong One Hundred and Thirty Case. Those who were killed were all the gentry, that is, the wealthy class.
Lao Cheng did not find out the exact number of this number, but in just one Ming Dynasty case, 70 people were killed, 18 people were killed in Lingchi, and more than 3,000 people were implicated. Almost all of these people's homes were ransacked.
In the early Qing Dynasty, the Jiangnan gentry who escaped Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were massacred and their homes were ransacked. The Qing Dynasty obtained a large amount of silver and money, most of which went into the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
But the emperor couldn't do it. He didn't have the execution power. The second solution of the civil servants was to raise taxes, which was to increase taxes. Emperor Chongzhen forced millions of farmers to rebel because of the tax increases in the four years of Chongzhen. He saw the result. We know that we can no longer raise taxes. If we continue to increase taxes, the Ming Dynasty will be gone.
At dinner time in the evening, facing a bowl of millet porridge worth thirty taels of silver, Emperor Chongzhen only drank most of the bowl. What he didn't know was that such a clear and watery millet porridge only cost two cents if left outside. Money, even thicker millet porridge, can be sold for seven or eight cents at most. Even if it costs ten cents, it is three thousand times more than what is available on the market outside.
"Your Majesty, get up and seek an audience!"
"pass!"
Chongzhen had actually forgotten the news about Cheng Shijie's troops in Liaonan, because his brain was blown away by these gossiping ministers.
Emperor Chongzhen was very surprised when he saw Gao Qiqian again. Gao Qiqian's face was blown blue and white by the north wind, and his lips were cracked by the frost. Although his clothes had been temporarily wiped, there were still a lot of mud, making him extremely miserable.
"Gao Banban, what's wrong with you?"
"Your Majesty, I have important military information to report, so I rode a fast horse in the wind and snow from Dengzhou back to the capital. I suffered a lot along the way, but the matter was so important that I couldn't care less!"
Gao Qiqian was also an expert in deceiving the emperor. He was riding along the way, especially when he saw Sun Yuanhua's four-wheeled carriage, and wanted to ask for it, but Sun Yuanhua didn't dare not give it to him, so the car he rode was actually given to Sun Yuanhua by Cheng Shijie. A four-wheeled carriage, this carriage and RV is full of technology.
No matter how bumpy the road is, sitting on the carriage will feel a slight shaking, just like sitting on a rocking car, making people drowsy. I walked slowly for twenty-three days, averaging dozens of miles per day. I walked, ate, and accepted tributes from officials along the way. I arrived in Beijing happily.
Of course, in order to pretend to be pitiful in front of Emperor Chongzhen, he wore single clothes and froze for half the night outside the capital, which gave him the image of embarrassment. If the cavalry is traveling all night, it will be a problem if the potential is high and it cannot survive.
The key to the problem is that Chongzhen has been kept in captivity in the palace. He does not even understand many basic common sense of life. Looking at Gao Qiqian's embarrassing image, Emperor Chongzhen was so moved that his eyes turned red: "Military conditions are of course important, but you You can’t be too desperate, if anything happens to you, who will help me?”
Gao Qiqian screamed loudly and suddenly: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, Congratulations, Your Majesty!"
Gao Qiqian's voice almost sent Emperor Chongzhen away.
After a long while, Emperor Chongzhen finally came to his senses and said, "Gao Banban was joking, where does the joy come from?"
"Liaonan!"
Gao Qiqian reached into his arms and placed three good news reports in front of Emperor Chongzhen. These three good news reports were reported by Ning Haijun Commander and Left Governor Cheng Shijie, one was reported by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, and one, naturally It was Gao Qiqian himself who reported it!
Acting naturally means doing the whole thing.
Cheng Shijie did not report victory to Emperor Chongzhen. In Gao Qiqian's view, Cheng Shijie was a good person and he was more sensible. He knew that even if he wrote a victory report, it would fall into Gao Qiqian's hands in advance. If there was a memorial that was unfavorable to Gao Qiqian, or There was no way that Gao Qiqian's dissatisfied memorial would appear in front of Emperor Chongzhen.
In this case, he simply wrote a profit number to Sun Yuanhua, did nothing else, and left the decision to Gao Qiqian himself.
It is precisely because Cheng Shijie is knowledgeable that Gao Qiqian does not embarrass Cheng Shijie, but rather praises him.
Gao Qiqian said in an emotional voice: "Since the defeat of Dalinghe, the arrogance of the slaves has become increasingly arrogant, rumors are rampant, and the soldiers and civilians are in fear. General Cheng Shijie resolutely leads the 8,000 Ning navy and 6,000 elite civilians without hesitation. Attacked southern Liaoning and fought bloody battles with Jiannu until the fields were filled with corpses. Ning Haijun devoted himself to serving the country and moved forward bravely, never to turn back to the death..."
"The results of it!"
Emperor Chongzhen was very excited at this time. He hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Gao Qiqian's hand and asked, "What's the result?"
Emperor Chongzhen was also a fan of the authorities. He had three memorials in his hand, and the results would be obvious just by looking at them.
Gao Qiqian said: "General Cheng restored the Jinzhou Acropolis and the Gaizhou Acropolis, and restored the two states. God bless the Ming Dynasty. Congratulations, Your Majesty, for getting a good general!"
Emperor Chongzhen was so excited that he couldn't help but use some strength to squeeze Gao Qiqian's hand, but he didn't dare to move or say a word.
"Okay, okay, okay, my Changshan Zhao Zilong really did not disappoint me!"
Cheng Shijie didn't know that Sun Yuanhua had found a father for him, and Emperor Chongzhen had even changed his surname for him.
PS: I really didn’t hold it last night, I’ll see what happens tonight. It's a bit special right now, so there aren't many updates, so I hope everyone will bear with me.
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