Chapter 137
Li Hui was very clear about Zu Dashou's intentions.
Although she was born in the Korean clan, this is the task of a clan girl. When she was sent to Zu Dashou's mansion, she was still an ignorant girl, no, she should be a girl.
Now more than six years have passed, and she has grown up. It was absolutely impossible to say that she was not disgusted by the fact that she was being sent around like goods.
However, she did not have the power or opportunity to choose.
This is the sadness and helplessness of small countries. Their countries must rely closely on the Ming Dynasty to survive. Without the Ming Dynasty, their country would not exist.
As a clan girl, she must abandon all distracting thoughts.
"What should I do if my daughter goes to Golden State?"
Zu Dashou muttered: "You have the best appearance among all my daughters, the best dancing skills, proficiency in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. I want you to go to Jinzhou. Your background... is not a good match for Marshal Cheng, but It's not bad to be a concubine and a slave. With you by your side, Marshal Cheng's military career will not be too boring."
Li Hui smiled slightly: "My daughter accepts the order!"
Li Hui was destined not to be as carefree as the other singers in her ancestral home. There were many things she needed to pay attention to. As early as six months ago, she heard the name Cheng Shijie.
At that time, Cheng Shijie fought against the Azige tribe of Jiannu at the foot of Jinshi Mountain, and successfully captured more than 8,000 ancestral army soldiers from Azige.
Later, these soldiers were redeemed by Zu Dashou with a large sum of money, and Cheng Shijie extorted more than one million taels of silver. It must be a lie to say that Zu Dashou had no complaints in his heart.
Zu Dashou and Zu Dabi would occasionally discuss Cheng Shijie when they were drinking. At that time, Zu Dashou definitely did not have anything good to say about Cheng Shijie. In his mouth, Cheng Shijie was greedy, vulgar, despicable, shameless, and obscene...
In short, almost all the curse words were used by Zu Dashou on Cheng Shijie. However, not long after, Zu Dashou no longer heard him swearing. Whenever we talk about Cheng Shijie, Zu Dashou’s expression will change. Very serious and very pious.
Later, she learned that Marshal Cheng of Ning Haijun fought another great victory, killing more than 4,000 Jiannu. Li Hui was no stranger to the ferocity of Jiannu, and Cheng Shijie was taken note of by him.
She has learned a lot about Cheng Shijie's past, and the information inside is true and false.
"It is said that Cheng Shijie is the son of Cheng Yongxing of the Qianhu Station of the Fenghuang Mountain Guard of Fuzhou in the Ming Dynasty..."
"It is said that Marshal Cheng is seven feet tall (equivalent to two meters and two meters)"
"It is said that Marshal Cheng's arm strength is amazing and he can pull a three-stone bow (with a pulling force of 360 kilograms)."
"It is said that Marshal Cheng is so powerful that he can wear three layers of iron armor and swim across the sea without sinking!!"
"It is said that Marshal Cheng can run as fast as the wind and can catch up with a fast horse on foot!"
"It is said that Marshal Cheng is good at horse-drawing. His horses are like dragons. If he touches them, he will die. If he touches them, he will die..."
Zu Dacheng gave birth to his adopted daughter Li Hui, and now Li Hui changed her name to Zu Hui and became the daughter of his younger brother Zu Dacheng. This time Zu Hui went south to Jinzhou, accompanied by Zu Kefa, Zu Dashou's adopted son, and three hundred elite cavalry from the Zu family army.
The equipment of this cavalry is quite luxurious. Each person controls three war horses. These horses are all tall and strong Liaodong horses. In addition to Zu Hui, there are also twelve young beauties with excellent looks, twelve sixteen A seven-year-old boy.
More than 400 strong servants drove more than 200 carts, and the carts were loaded with tons of silks, gold and silver. These properties were nominally prepared for her niece Zu Hui.
As the head of the generals in western Liaoning, Zu Dashou keenly felt that Cheng Shijie's rise was irreversible, at least until Cheng Shijie's holy family declined.
Cheng Shijie and the Liaodong Generals will rise again. Maybe Cheng Shijie will replace Li Chengliang and become the head of the Liaodong Generals.
In this case, it is more correct to have a good relationship with Cheng Shijie than to suppress him.
Zu Dashou also lamented Cheng Shijie's opportunities. Just like when he met Sun Chengzong, in a short period of time, with Sun Chengzong's support, he skyrocketed.
Now Cheng Shijie meets Xu Guangqi, Chongzhen's most trusted deputy minister of the cabinet, who is trusted by teachers and students. A deputy minister of the cabinet, a governor of Denglai, and even the new governor of Liaodong can only hide in Ningyuan and act like an ostrich.
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Gao Qiqian was filled with joy when he met his godson Wang Muzhi, because Wang Muzhi brought him two treasures from southern Liaoning. These two treasures were self-ringing bells from the "Western".
In fact, these are two antique clocks received from Cheng Shijie's scrap collection station. They should be ancient art pieces from the 1980s and 1990s. The outer shells are made of brass.
Cheng Shijie actually brought this kind of thing to Gao Qiqian, and he was a little worried. In fact, after checking the information, he found that this kind of Western-style clock was as early as the tenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1582). The Jesuit Luo Mingjian made a clock with wheels. The Grand Sonnery Bell was dedicated to Chen Rui, the then governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who "suddenly lit up his eyes" and made an exception to allow Luo Mingjian to carry out missionary activities there.
Matteo Ricci came to Beijing and presented two self-ringing bells to Emperor Wanli. One of them was a tower type, higher than the roof of the inner hall. Emperor Wanli was so excited that he ordered a bell tower to be built in the Imperial Garden. A thousand taels of money were spent on luxurious decoration just to house this clock. The other chiming clock was a desktop type, and Emperor Wanli also treasured it. He kept it in his bedroom and listened to it telling the time in the morning and evening, just like listening to a music box. The Queen Mother borrowed it and hid it.
After finding out this news, Cheng Shijie felt relieved, so he disassembled the brass casings and kept only the internal mechanical parts. In this way, these two sitting clocks, which were stripped of their casings and weighed more than 50 kilograms, were Cheng Shijie was divided into two parts and moved to the Ming Dynasty.
Then, in order to increase the value of these two clocks, Cheng Shijie asked Ming craftsmen to use more than 600 kilograms of brass to make the bases of two clocks, one of which was shaped like a welcoming pine. On the trunk of the pine tree A clock is installed, and the other one is used as a peacock with its tail open.
More than 600 kilograms of brass, plus the craftsman's craftsman's fee, almost more than 500 taels of silver. This is the most valuable thing Cheng Shijie has ever given to Gao Qiqian.
But the two clocks, in Gao Qiqian's eyes, were definitely priceless treasures. They were much more expensive than giving him tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
You know, this is the best treasure that Gao Qiqian can come into contact with.
After Cheng Shijie received these salt quotations, he got benefits. These salt quotations created a wealth of 3.6 million taels for Cheng Shijie. In addition to giving gifts, Cheng Shijie also wrote back a letter to Gao Qiqian. The letter was very Thanks to Gao Qiqian for his support, Cheng Shijie wrote three to four thousand words in one go about the free flattery.
This is what Cheng Shijie is best at. Without excellent eloquence and extremely high emotional intelligence, it would be impossible for him to secure that position.
If Hansteel Group is compared to a small country, his position is equivalent to the magistrate of Jingzhao County, one of the most difficult positions to hold, high but not high, low but not low.
In Cheng Shijie's letter to Gao Qiqian, he told Gao Qiqian that if it weren't for these salt guides, he would have jumped into the sea in a hurry. He had less than 30,000 shi of military rations left. According to the hundreds of thousands of people in southern Liaoning, but There won't be much time to eat. If there is no food, Ning Haijun's officers will curse their mothers.
Now that these salts are brought here, it can be regarded as solving Ning Haijun's urgent need.
Facing these two exquisite clocks, Gao Qiqian found that he did not dare to keep them to himself. After much thought, he gave one of them to Emperor Chongzhen and placed the other in his house near Zhimen in the west of the city.
Emperor Chongzhen had actually been worried about Cheng Shijie. Although Cheng Shijie raised military expenditures by himself, he started from scratch and used Sun Yuanhua's limited help to establish the Ning Navy. This army with extremely strong combat effectiveness developed without the support of the court. Getting better and better.
This was not a good thing for the emperor.
Until Gao Qiqian went to Chongzhen to ask for Yan Yin, what did Yan Yin mean to Emperor Chongzhen? ? With a big wave of his hand, 800,000 salt coins were given to Ning Haijun.
"What did you say?"
Emperor Chongzhen looked at the beautifully packaged salt in front of him and said in disbelief: "This salt can still cure diseases?"
"How dare I deceive the emperor? Even if the emperor lends me ten courages, I will not dare to deceive your majesty!"
Gao Qiqian pointed to the salt in front of him and said: "General Cheng Shijie sold this salt to Huizhou merchants... If this salt had not been diverted to southern Liaoning, General Cheng's command would have been out of food."
"No food?"
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately became anxious. Back then, Guan Ning's army was known as the camp-bombing army and often mutinied at intervals. If Ning Haijun also ran out of food, Cheng Shijie, no matter how capable he was, might not be able to turn the tide.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. With these salts, General Cheng can buy grain from Huizhou merchants. With hundreds of thousands of grains, General Cheng's army can still hold on!"
Emperor Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief.
Ning Haijun can be controlled by Yan Yin, which is good. Ning Haijun must not lose control.
But the problem is that salt alone is not safe. The safest thing is to strengthen the connection with Cheng Shijie.
But what if we contact you?
If Emperor Chongzhen had a daughter, then he would marry a daughter and let Cheng Shijie become Princess Consort and become the Prince Consort. But the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen was born in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli. He is fifteen years younger than Cheng Shijie, and his eldest daughter Princess Kunxing is only four years old, which is too young. If Princess Kunxing is fourteen, she can get engaged first.
Just when Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about it, an idea flashed in his head. I don't have a daughter of the right age to marry, but I do have a sister...
His father, Emperor Taichang Zhu Changluo, who had been emperor for a month, was also a poor man. He gave birth to seven sons, five of whom died in infancy. Except for the eldest Zhu Youxiao and the fifth himself, the other brothers lived to be eight years old.
Among them, Zhu Changluo also had ten daughters. The eldest, Princess Huaishu, lived to be eight years old. The second, third, and fourth eldest children all died in infancy. The fifth, Princess Ningde, married Liu Youfu, and the sixth sister, Princess Suiping, Zhu Weijing, married in the seventh year of Tianqi. Qi Zanyuan, the emperor's seventh daughter Zhu Weiwan, the emperor's ninth daughter Zhu Weiqi, and the emperor's tenth daughter Zhu Weijian also died in infancy.
Now there is only one unmarried sister, and that is the eighth daughter of the emperor, Zhu Weiti. But the problem is that her mother, Concubine Li Kang, is disliked by Chongzhen very much...
This is a famous shrew throughout the ages. As a concubine of Kang, she dared to commit a crime and beat Queen Wang to death, who was the biological mother of his eldest brother Zhu Youxiao.
Concubine Li Kang was the heroine of the palace transfer case, one of the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty. Although Concubine Li Kang was kind to Emperor Chongzhen in caring for and raising him, the problem was that this woman did not give Chongzhen any good fruits to eat.
Otherwise, the eighth daughter Zhu Weiti, who was only one year younger than Emperor Chongzhen, should have married early, but Emperor Chongzhen pretended to be deaf and dumb and dragged his sister into an old girl...
But the problem is, now this girl has become the most popular...
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Cheng Shijie did not expect that Zu Dashou, who was far away in Jinzhou, gave him a niece, but Emperor Chongzhen found him a sister.
Cheng Shijie's biggest headache is that he doesn't have enough manpower.
Shipbuilding is a very important technical activity. Whether it is ancient or modern, it is a reflection of a country's industrial strength. Even in ancient times, wooden sailboats seemed relatively easy.
First of all, not all wood can be used to build ships. This requires selecting the best from countless woods and making sure that there is no insect hole before the wood can be smoked and dehydrated.
It is also different from the wood used to make furniture, doors and windows. That kind of wood needs to be completely free of moisture so that it will not deform. However, the wood used to make ships must neither be wet nor too dry. Too dry will cause it to swell when soaked in sea water. , absorb water and become heavy.
It doesn't matter if it's too wet. The wood will dehydrate under the scorching sun at sea and the entire hull structure will be destroyed. Too dry or too wet will kill people. Only the most experienced craftsmen know what to do to keep the wood in its best condition, ensuring that the hull structure is stable and strong, which is why those old craftsmen are so valuable.
Cheng Shijie is an engineering student. He knows very well how difficult it is to train a high-level technician. It is no exaggeration to say that it not only requires him to have extremely high talents, but also requires him to make efforts that ordinary people cannot imagine. There are not dozens of people. After years of hard work and study, it is simply impossible for such a talent to emerge.
In the general environment of the Ming Dynasty, if such talents really appeared in the family, it would not be a good thing for a family, because the status of craftsmen was too low and their income was too low.
It is impossible for such a talent to appear in an official family, nor in a scholarly family, nor in an elite family, because with their conditions and abilities, they can choose an easier choice with a lower rate of return. A higher job, such as a doctor, a lawyer, or a career in business or politics is far better than being a dirty craftsman in a factory.
But the problem is that a small number of high-income people such as doctors, lawyers, officials, and businessmen cannot support a country, or a local government.
Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty did not give these precious craftsmen the treatment they deserved, and neither did the Qing Dynasty.
However, there is a country in far away Europe that has done this, and this country is Germany. The German Employment Research Institute released the results of a survey on the lifetime wages of different professional and technical personnel. Research results show that the lifetime salary of senior technicians in 29 occupations, including machinery, papermaking, printing and media technology design, and professional technicians in 13 other occupations exceeds 1.6 million euros, which is higher than that in industries such as tourism, hotels and catering.
Hansteel Group has actually achieved this. At least the salary income of management positions at the department level, including those below the department level, is far lower than the salary income of front-line workers and technical workers. Take the senior technician as an example. This senior technician is almost equivalent to the original eight technicians. After restructuring, the technical levels range from junior worker, intermediate worker, senior worker to technician, and senior technician.
The salary and bonus income of senior technicians of Hansteel Group is much higher than that of Cheng Shijie, the deputy director of the department office, and even higher than the salary of Director Xu. In the company's internal welfare policies, such as welfare house purchase indicators, management position technical Job concessions are made, and auxiliary jobs are given concessions to front-line workers.
Cheng Shijie planned to implement a technical hierarchy system for workers in the late Ming Dynasty. This system would encourage craftsmen to work hard to study technology, so that they could break through technological changes and development.
According to Hansteel's internal management system, entry-level workers are relatively easy to obtain. After passing the probation period for one year, you can take the entry-level worker skills test. The exam is divided into two parts: theory and practical operation. If you obtain the entry-level worker qualification, you will be required to take the entry-level worker skills test every month. The salary will be increased by 180 yuan per month on the original basis, which will be 2160 yuan per year.
Those who have been qualified as junior workers for more than three years but less than five years can take the intermediate worker examination. The process and mode are the same as those for junior workers. After obtaining the junior worker qualifications, the monthly salary will be increased by 360 yuan on the basis of junior workers. , which is 540 yuan per month higher than ordinary employees in the same position, which is 6,480 yuan a year.
Senior workers need to have been qualified as intermediate workers for five years or more, or have been working in this project for more than eight years. College graduates in this major or related majors have obtained an intermediate professional qualification certificate, and have been working in this occupation continuously for more than two years without major disciplinary violations. Sign up for the senior worker exam, and the exam process is the same as that for junior workers.
As long as you become a senior worker, your salary will no longer increase by hundreds or thousands of yuan. Instead, you will receive a salary coefficient. Senior workers enjoy a factor of 1.8 times. It is 1.8 times the average salary. For corresponding management positions, for example, the squad leader only gets 1.2 times the average salary, the team leader enjoys 1.4 times, and the section leader enjoys 1.6 times.
The salary coefficient of 1.8 times is the same as that of the workshop director (scientific level). When it comes to technicians and senior technicians, Cheng Shijie is not sure because he is only a senior worker. After being transferred to a management position, he lost his ability to continue. Obtain technician qualifications.
To implement this skill level assessment, it was actually very difficult in the late Ming Dynasty. First of all, most craftsmen were not literate at all. It was almost impossible for them to take the theory test. Many people could not even write their own names. Some people They are literate and can easily pass the theoretical exam, but the problem is their skills...
Cheng Shijie was very troubled by this problem and handed it directly to the Management Committee, asking the Management Committee to face the entire southern Liaoning to hold a technical competition, select dozens of people from the winners of the technical competition, and formulate the technical level of Ming Dynasty.
Cheng Shijie plans to be in line with the new eight levels of later generations. The eight levels are apprentices, junior workers, intermediate workers, senior workers, technicians, senior technicians, special technicians, and chief technicians. Each level corresponds to a first-level salary income. Cheng Shijie In the plan, the chief technician's income should be higher than or at the same level as the general manager's income.
He had no time to deal with these things, because in the future, he had a very important thing that he had to do personally. His uncle Jiang Wenhua and Qiao Shuyuan finally achieved enlightenment and were about to get married.
Cheng Shijie's grandfather Jiang Feng no longer had the energy to deal with this matter.
Getting married is not an easy thing because two people have different opinions.
Jiang Wenhua believed that marriage should be taken seriously, and at least it should be a grand marriage, but Qiao Shuyuan believed that she was a divorced woman. Qiao Shuyuan's husband abandoned her, and she filed for divorce. She is currently single. Because of his appearance, he naturally did not want to embarrass Jiang Wenhua.
Besides, of the two of them, one is disabled and the other is disfigured. Their appearance in public is just a joke.
According to Qiao Shuyuan's idea, it's just two people going to get the certificate, and then the two families have a meal together and it's enough.
Cheng Shijie didn't know who to listen to, but it was Cheng Shijie who bought Jiang Wenhua's wedding house. Now Cheng Shijie is not like before. Buying one house or two houses is really not a problem for him.
What he bought for Jiang Wenhua, his cheap uncle, was a ready-made house in Times City. It was one of the few luxuriously decorated houses in Hanhai City, not a common rough-hewn house.
Cheng Shijie considered that Qiao Shuyuan already had a son and a daughter. If they had another child in the future, they would have three children. Three bedrooms and two bedrooms would definitely not be enough.
So, he bought a 155-square-meter apartment with four bedrooms, two living rooms, and two bathrooms. Due to the recent delay in housing prices, the developer also gave away a 19-square-meter window sill, which can actually be converted into a sun room.
I took Jiang Wenhua and Qiao Shuyuan to see the house, and Xiang Hui and Cheng Jiayue also came to see it. Looking at this spacious house, Xiang Hui showed a trace of envy in his eyes.
But there are some things that you can't envy.
As an abandoned baby, Jiang Wenhua was abandoned under the railway bridge of the Second Ring Road in Hanhai City more than 20 years ago and was picked up by a passing Fengfeng.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Wenhua's parents came over in the end, but Jiang Wenhua didn't know about it. The other party did not ask to recognize Jiang Wenhua, but they offered compensation.
Cheng Shijie's waste collection station now has four supermarkets in his two major business deals. They have long-term cooperation. They go around half the city and drive more than 20 kilometers to deliver waste, which speaks volumes.
Especially when buying this house, someone also said hello.
Cheng Shijie looked at Qiao Shuyuan and Jiang Wenhua and said, "Brother-in-law, auntie, this house is a bit unlucky. Have you seen it? There is a red word for happiness posted here!"
Jiang Wenhua was a little curious: "This is new, only a few days ago, right?"
"Yes, within a few days!"
Cheng Shijie explained: "Everyone was getting ready to get married in this house, but on the day of the wedding, the bride and groom had a conflict at the wedding, and they broke up before even moving into the new house. If you don't mind, you can buy this house, it's very cheap!"
(End of chapter)
