Chapter 151
Gao Qiqian wanted to cause trouble because of Cheng Shijie.
In September of the fifth year after entering Chongzhen, the refugees from Henan had almost stopped migrating to southern Liaoning. The victims who were crossing the Yellow River in Mengjin and causing the embankment burst either died silently or were attracted to Damingfu by Lu Xiangsheng.
Although the current Lu Xiangsheng does not have the title of governor or governor, he is a junior governor and has jurisdiction over Daming Prefecture, Guangping Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture, two prefectures and 28 counties. In terms of actual jurisdiction area, it is almost equivalent to one-third of the nine prefectures in North Zhili.
After Lu Xiangsheng took the post of Daming Prefecture Military Prefecture, just like when he was the prefect of Daming Prefecture, he led the Tianxiong Army soldiers to farm fields and build cities and ditches, which attracted many refugees. In addition, with the Yellow River bursting in the fifth year of Chongzhen, like Kaifeng Prefecture and Guide Prefecture in Henan Province were a blessing in disguise, with a bumper grain harvest.
In short, the number of refugees has been greatly reduced.
When Cheng Shijie arrived in Dengzhou City, he made a special trip to visit his former boss, the commander of the Dengzhou Guards, Jin Yousheng. Cheng Shijie gave Jin Yousheng 10,000 taels of silver with a wave of his hand. Jin Yousheng didn't care about the relationship between Jin Qiaoer and Cheng Shijie. He directly took Cheng Shijie's arm and said, "Brother, what do you like about Dengzhou Wei? Just say it!"
Cheng Shijie was not polite: "Cheng was working in the fields in southern Liaoning and needed people, but too few people from Shandong went there. Cheng couldn't bear it when he saw that his old brothers were still hungry and poor, and wanted to find a way for them to survive! "
Jin Yousheng didn't believe a word of this, but for the sake of the money, he smiled broadly. For them, those ordinary soldiers are very cheap cannon fodder. As long as they have money, they can easily recruit tens of thousands of people. As long as they keep those servants, they will not lose any strength.
Cheng Shijie, this idiot, actually gave so much money in exchange for these cannon fodders. He is so hopelessly stupid!
Huang Zuxin even asked Cheng Shijie in a low voice: "Do you want more people? If so, I can give you another five thousand people. The price is easy to negotiate!"
"The price remains unchanged, five thousand people, five thousand taels of silver. Don't fool the old, weak, sick and disabled brothers, otherwise, this business will not be done!"
In this way, Cheng Shijie used the price of one tael of silver per person to get another 15,000 people from the Dengzhou Guard. As for why there are 15,000 people in the Dengzhou Guard, the reason is actually very simple. There are more than 14,000 people in each household, not to mention that there are still seven thousand households in Dengzhou Guard.
If it were not too miserable not to cheat Cheng Shijie and throw all the old, weak, sick and disabled to Cheng Shijie, Dengzhou Wei Balabala could draw out 30,000 to 40,000 people, and even maintain full strength even after deploying 30,000 to 40,000 people.
In this way, Cheng Shijie sent people to contact the counties he passed by. Under the offensive of money, the states and counties immediately tried the case overnight, and imprisoned the criminals who originally needed to be interrogated and executed, or the criminals who needed to be sent to the army or exiled , packaged and given to Cheng Shijie.
Similarly, it was a person with only one tael of silver per head, but the result was good. In the counties along the way, there were hundreds or thousands of people. For petty thefts that originally only required a slap on the wrist or being shackles in public, they were all renamed and sent to Liaonan.
Cheng Shijie went all the way north, spreading money all the way. From Dengzhou to Tianjin, Cheng Shijie brought a total of more than 14,000 people to Liaonan, plus the 15,000 people from Dengzhou Guards, nearly 30,000 people.
Gao Qiqian saw all of this. He asked the Jin Yiwei around him to investigate the Tianjin Guards. The total strength of the three Tianjin Guards was 16,800 people. But in fact, the Tianjin Guards, plus the Tianjin Guards Wei has more than 150,000 people.
Even if one third of the people were transferred from Tianjin Wei to Cheng Shijie, that would still be 50,000 people, and that would be 50,000 taels of silver. Who would feel bad about his own money?
Cheng Shijie did not follow Gao Qiqian when he wanted to inspect Tianjin Guards and Tianjin Right Guards. This was Gao Qiqian's right. Eunuchs were originally the eyes of the emperor.
Cheng Shijie was invited by Tianjin Zuowei Commander Zhu Sheng and came to Tianjin Zuowei Commander's Yamen.
Zhu Sheng brought Tianjin Zuowei's commanding officials, commanding officials, town governors and other officials to greet Cheng Shijie.
"I received the general's order. Although I don't know what the intention is, I don't dare to neglect it! According to the general's wishes, we will clean up the hooligans in the army overnight!"
Although Cheng Shijie had a higher official position than Zhu Sheng, he did not have direct jurisdiction over Zhu Sheng, so Zhu Sheng did not need to respect Cheng Shijie so much.
However, Cheng Shijie has money in his hands, and Zhu Sheng actually respects Cheng Shijie's money. After all, no one has trouble with money.
Zhu Sheng held up a roster and said: "There are a total of 5,443 gangsters from Tianjin Zuowei, and they have all been sent to Liaodong!"
The definition of gangster in ancient times was different from that in later generations.
In ancient times, "those without land were called Liu", that is, people without land were all called "Liu". Those who do not have real estate are called "hooligans", and those who do not have land or real estate are collectively called hooligans.
Because having a house and land is the standard for judging a man's ability, and a man without a house or land will not only be questioned, but his neighbors will also belittle him, which creates a satirical meaning.
There are actually as many as 5,443 military households in Tianjin Zuowei who have no land. This number is already quite large.
"General Cheng, these gangsters are difficult to manage. Why not put a brand on their faces? This way, they will not be afraid of running away. Even if they run away, they can be easily caught!"
"Need not!"
Cheng Shijie said seriously: "If you are branded, I will not want you."
"Why?"
"I want these gangsters to help me cultivate land. You Tianjin Zuowei have no military land to cultivate, and I have a lot of land in southern Liaoning!"
Cheng Shijie continued: "If there are such gangsters again in the future, they can be sent to Liaonan. As long as they are sent to Liaonan, each person will receive two taels of silver!"
"Thank you, General Cheng!"
After resting for a day at Tianjin Zuowei, Cheng Shijie sat in a carriage and started driving towards Beijing. In addition to the various health stations, there were also counties along the way. Cheng Shijie was like a boy who scattered money, moving all the way, giving money to counties all the way. Ling and Zhizhou sent money to send the prisoners in the prison to Liaonan.
When arriving in the capital, Cheng Shijie used the military households in each guard station to reorganize 762 new military households. Among them, Tianjin Wei and Tianjin Youwei contributed more than 40,000 people to Cheng Shijie. These more than 40,000 taels of silver , naturally went into the pocket of Gao Qiqi.
When Cheng Shijie led more than 750 soldiers to the capital, more than a thousand elite troops from the Beijing camp came to greet Cheng Shijie.
Later, Cheng Shijie's personal troops were placed in a military camp outside Andingmen. During the period of entering the military camp, more than a thousand soldiers from the capital showed off their power against Cheng Shijie's personal troops.
These soldiers from the Beijing camp looked impressive with their shiny armor and superb war horses. When Chengzu made Beijing his capital, these soldiers from the Beijing camp were still world-famous elites, but now this elite force has transformed into a weak force.
Wu Sheng said with some dissatisfaction: "Just pretend, we can finish them off with a single charge!"
Cheng Shijie smiled and admired the performance of the Beijing camp. He seemed to be very interested in this unit. To be precise, he was very interested in the horses of this unit. Although Cheng Shijie's horses now exceed 10,000, especially since Hu Erqi just grabbed more than 8,600 horses for him, which can be regarded as a big fortune, no one will think that he has too many horses. ?
As Cheng Shijie's soldiers moved into the camp, a Beijing camp general said arrogantly: "This is your station. After you are stationed, you will stay in the military camp honestly. You are not allowed to leave the military camp without permission, let alone Enter the inner city or shoot to death!"
Wu Sheng stepped forward and explained: "We brothers have never been to the capital. Can we enter the capital without wearing military uniforms and weapons?"
"Your fucking ears are stuffed with donkey hair? If it doesn't work, it won't work!!"
Cheng Shijie heard the quarrel outside and came out and asked, "What's going on?"
Wu Sheng said: "Commander Qizhen, they won't let us enter the city!"
"Why?"
Cheng Shijie looked at the Beijing general and said, "Who stipulated this?"
"Where is all this bullshit!"
The general in the capital camp stared at Cheng Shijie and said with a sneer: "Do you think the capital is a restaurant run by your family, where you can come in when you want and leave when you want? Let me tell you, you guys can't even enter the outer city. It’s already a blessing from my previous life, and I still want to enter the inner city..."
The Beijing camp general looked at Cheng Shijie with great contempt, even a little disdain.
Cheng Shijie was a little uncomfortable being stared at by the generals of the Beijing camp. He coughed, and saw one of Cheng Shijie's soldiers rush out and rush towards the general of the Beijing camp like lightning. Before the general of the Beijing camp could react, he grabbed He pulled the general from the capital camp off his horse and pushed the guy to the ground very lightly, regardless of whether he was hurt by the fall or not.
Even though the guy was pushed to the ground, his attitude was still not arrogant: "You're done, you're all done. Do you know who my father is?"
Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Who is your father? You don't need to ask me about this. You need to ask your mother!"
There was a burst of laughter all around.
The soldiers from the Beijing camp hurriedly wanted to come over and snatch people away, but a eunuch hurriedly shouted: "Stop!"
The surrounding soldiers of the Beijing camp did not dare to move.
Cheng Shijie turned around and walked towards the camp.
Navy officer Ning brought the general from the Beijing camp to the camp and hung him up.
At this time, the general from the Beijing camp stopped being arrogant and softened his attitude: "Misunderstanding, General Cheng, misunderstanding, I am Zhang Jin, the training general of the Shenshu camp..."
The handsome eunuch wanted to open his mouth, but was frightened and shut up when Ning Haijun pointed his gun at him.
Just after Cheng Shijie entered the tent, Wu Sheng came in and lowered his voice: "Commander, I'm afraid there will be trouble this time!"
"What trouble could there be?"
Cheng Shijie sneered: "Are you trying to say that Zhang Jin has an extraordinary background and a tough background?"
"It's very hard, and not ordinary hard. His father is Tai Kangbo!"
"Zhang Guoji?"
Cheng Shijie didn't expect this. Although Zhang Guoji's family was average, his daughter Zhang Yan was the queen of Tianqi and the emperor's sister-in-law. Because Emperor Tianqi died early and his eldest sister-in-law was like a mother, Zhang Yan took care of Emperor Chongzhen a lot after marrying Emperor Tianqi.
Even though Queen Zhou is now the mother of a country, with power over the Sixth Palace, she still has to pay respects to Zhang Yan, a has-been queen, every day. Zhang Guoji's son provokes Cheng Shijie when he comes up. If he says it's just a coincidence, no fool will believe it.
Cheng Shijie muttered: "If you catch me, you will catch him. He is hanging like this. I want to see who is behind it!"
Sure enough, for this conflict that did not break out, revenge came very quickly. In the evening, a group of officers and soldiers delivered several carts of old, moldy grain and more than a dozen jars of smelly sauerkraut. I opened the tank cover and took a look. Not only was it covered with a layer of mold, but there were also some fat and white insects soaked in salt water.
If it were other armies, facing this situation, they could only bow their heads. But the problem is that Ning Haijun did not expect the imperial court to provide them with supplies since the founding of the army. Faced with the supplies sent by the imperial court, the Huotou Army said that they could use the waste. Feed the horses.
As a result, Wu Sheng scolded him: "Do you know how valuable our war horses are? Are you responsible if your war horses are damaged?"
Yes, these moldy grains were thrown directly outside the camp by Ning Haijun, and they were quickly robbed by the surrounding people.
Cheng Shijie created a situation for everyone. Ning Haijun was very arrogant and domineering.
Although Zhang Jin made it clear that Ning Haijun officers could not enter the city, Cheng Shijie still asked the officers to enter the city in batches. After entering the city, they naturally clashed with the officers from the Beijing camp.
First, a Ning navy soldier was attacked by two soldiers from the Beijing camp while he was peeing. In a one-on-two situation, the Ning navy soldier was completely victorious. The soldiers in the Beijing camp who suffered a loss began to shake people.
Huffing and puffing, dozens of soldiers from the Beijing Camp rushed towards the Ning Haijun soldiers with swords and guns. The Ning Haijun soldiers cocked their crossbows without saying a word. The Jingying soldiers had seen the world and knew the power of the crossbows.
In the end, no melee broke out between the two sides. Under the mediation of their respective presidents, the two sides proposed to send ten people each to fight and compete in boxing and kicking skills.
Meng En, Wu Sheng's second apprentice, killed everyone. Nine of the ten masters sent by the Beijing camp did not go three rounds under Meng En. In the end, Ning Haijun paid forty taels of medicine and put four people on the line. The banquet is over.
Although Cheng Shijie spent money, he felt comfortable.
Meng En, the CEO, came into Cheng Shijie's sight. Although he was not promoted, he would definitely be promoted if there was an opportunity in the future.
When it was time to turn on the lanterns in the evening, it actually started to rain in the capital, and the weather suddenly turned cold.
Cheng Shijie looked at Wu Sheng and said: "It is easy to catch cold in the autumn rain. Let the brothers go back to the camp to rest and leave a few sentries!"
"No!"
Wu Sheng resolutely rejected Cheng Shijie's order.
"This is the capital, and safety is not a big concern. Don't let our brothers get cold outside!" Cheng Shijie did not mind Wu Sheng's rebuttal and gently ordered.
"Commander, since the evening, there have been some people walking around the camp. Although I don't know who they are, they come out to wander around in the rainy night. They are not good people. The situation is unknown and the sentry cannot be withdrawn!"
"oh!"
Cheng Shijie wrinkled his head and thought with bright eyes...
Although Wu Sheng's report doesn't mean anything, it cannot be ignored. Since time traveling, I haven't had a bloody feud with any larger forces.
Although some of the people he killed had family members, they were not wealthy and powerful families, and it was impossible for them to organize forces to do anything detrimental to themselves.
However, Cheng Shijie knew about his family's affairs. The industrial development in southern Liaoning had a huge impact on the economy of rural small farmers in Ming Dynasty.
Just like Cheng Shijie's textile factory in southern Liaoning, the woolen cloth, linen, salt, and steel produced have affected the interests of too many people, and these people may not rule out looking for opportunities to kill themselves.
The conflict between himself and Jiannu is actually a mixture of national conflicts and national interests. His own existence is the biggest threat to Jiannu at the moment.
Especially Hu Erqi's fire, this conflict gradually escalated. Every child in the Aixinjueluo family hated themselves because they were about to starve this winter. With Jiannu's comprehensive strength, it is undoubtedly quite cost-effective to send some groups such as killers to eliminate this big threat invisibly.
There is also the imperial court. As the central imperial court, it is also a normal thinking mode to nip an unformed vassal town in the bud.
However, if you eliminate yourself, will you really eliminate the rising Liaodong feudal town?
The biggest difference between the Liaodong vassal town under the leadership of Cheng Shijie and other vassal towns in other places is that there is no hereditary tradition. If he dies, there will definitely be other successors.
Of course, who will succeed is a big problem. Currently, there is indeed a lack of someone in his team who has the prestige and ability to replace his role. Whether it is Shen Mingyu, Chang Yu or Chen Guodong, they are far from qualified.
As for Zhou Yandong, who has always been his deputy, he may be able to compromise and control the economic development of southern Liaoning, but his ability is absolutely impossible to truly control the army and become a real power figure.
In fact, Zhou Yandong, the number two figure, was in charge of everything in southern Liaoning except the army. Zhou Yandong had no right to mobilize even a single sentry unit.
As for Song Xiance, Lin Xuzong, Qin Bocheng, Ma Shilin, they... let alone them.
The most important thing is that Liaodong lacks a person who can unite the power of both civil and military forces and coordinate the relationship between civil and military forces without Cheng Shijie.
This job doesn't seem difficult. In fact, if Cheng Shijie hadn't promoted Yang Yuniang from a young age, Cheng Shijie would have solved a lot of problems for Cheng Shijie, and even he would have found it difficult to do things himself.
But the problem is that getting rid of himself may not directly eliminate the rising new vassal town of Liaodong, but it may interrupt or even reverse the development process of this vassal town.
From this point of view, the possibility that the imperial court wants to get rid of itself is not non-existent. The question is, what benefits can the imperial court gain from doing so.
If Cheng Shijie dies, it will certainly eliminate an unformed vassal town, but it will also turn the newly formed Liaodong defense system into a mess again. The threat of establishing slaves has just been partially weakened, and he dies.
The imperial court was about to start having a headache again over establishing slaves.
From the perspective of national interests, killing Cheng Shijie would do more harm than good to the court. But the problem is that Ming's internal struggle has evolved into a struggle for the sake of struggle, and opposition because of opposition.
After the defeat at Liuhe, the censor Yanguan was impeached, and Sun Chengzong, Yu Anxing, and Yuan Keli, the then governor of Denglai, were dismissed at the same time. Gao Di took charge of Liaodong.
But anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that Sun Chengzong and Denglai Governor Yuan Keli cooperated well in strategic arrangements, but they were still replaced by Gao Di.
Yuan Keli's resignation directly caused the Dongjiang Army to lose control. Although Mao Wenlong had a donkey temper, he obeyed Yuan Keli and was willing to accept Yuan Keli's command and dispatch. He could also better lead Jiannu from the side.
It obviously has a good promotion effect on national interests and the overall national strategy, but several key important figures resigned one after another, and there was also the Battle of Daling River.
Sun Chengzong personally sat in Jinzhou and personally commanded the Battle of Dalinghe. Zu Dashou personally took action. However, Guan Ning's army made many stupid moves one after another. In fact, it was to give Jiannu his life and take advantage of the defeat to drive Sun Chengzong out of power.
Those people can ignore the interests of the country for their own interests... To put it this way, killing Cheng Shijie is the easiest thing for them to do.
It also conforms to their logic of doing things.
Cheng Shijie thought for a moment and said, "I will write a few military orders and have them delivered!"
Cheng Shijie ordered the Imperial Guard to enter the first level of combat readiness overnight and wait for the navy warship to arrive at Haizhou Port and board the ship immediately from Haizhou Port.
The second order was given to the Ning Navy Navy, ordering the navy to go to Haizhou Port, pick up the Imperial Guard, arrive in Tianjin, and cruise in the Bohai Bay.
The third order was given to the Immigration Department of the Administrative Committee, asking the Immigration Department to suspend the transportation of immigrants from Tianjin to Liaonan, and instead conduct centralized management and recovery training outside Tianjin.
To put it simply, if the Immigration Department wants to transport food to Tianjin, there is no need to go to the three to four hundred farmhouses in southern Liaoning, which can become Cheng Shijie's reinforcements at any time.
Finally, for his own safety, Cheng Shijie gave Wu Sheng an order. Without his own orders, if he encountered an attack, he would fight back on his own and break out immediately.
As for Cheng Shijie himself, he quietly returned to future generations.
According to Cheng Shijie's time travel principle, if he returns to later generations from the late Ming Dynasty, he will definitely be in this military camp. If Ning Haijun is gone, this military camp will be unmanned and it will be safe for the time being.
"The commander-in-chief means..."
"I will leave here quietly!"
"My subordinates sent someone..."
"You don't need to send anyone. It's safest for me to leave alone!"
"yes!"
…
Emperor Chongzhen did not know what was happening inside and outside the capital. Of course, Gao Qiqian must have known about it. Like Cheng Shijie, he was waiting...
Wait for some people to jump out.
At this time, Gao Qiqian had changed from the most knowledgeable eunuch to a great chef.
The eunuchs in the palace and the chefs in the imperial dining room began to cook sweet potato feast and potato feast for Emperor Chongzhen.
"Your Majesty, please try it. This dish is called spicy and sour potato shreds!"
The chef in the imperial dining room has excellent knife skills. The potatoes were shredded as neatly as if they had been measured with a ruler, neither too big nor too small.
Emperor Chongzhen was full. He picked up a shredded potato with his chopsticks and chewed it: "Crispy, delicious, delicious, delicious... You mean, the yield of these potatoes is three to four thousand kilograms per mu?"
"Exactly like this, more than 700,000 acres have been planted in southern Liaoning, and the potatoes harvested have piled up into mountains!"
(End of chapter)
