Chapter 261
"My father is a handsome man?"
Cheng Jiayue couldn't believe it. She vaguely understood what a marshal was. The marshal in her impression was the marshal in the drama about the Republic of China that she followed Xiang Hui to watch. He was fat, round-waisted, stupid and clumsy.
She never thought that Cheng Shijie could be associated with the word "marshal".
"Don't you know?"
Zhou Dingguo was confused.
Have a child of your own who doesn’t know what his father does?
"I really do not know!"
Cheng Jiayue was a little confused. Her father was neither stupid nor stupid, and he had nothing to do with the handsome man on TV. However, at this moment, Cheng Jiayue thought of Zhu Weiti, Yang Yuniang, and her little sister Cheng Jiaxin. .
If you put it this way, Cheng Shijie is really similar to the handsome man on TV, that is, he is married to a lot of concubines. No wonder Zhu Weiti is Aunt Zhu, Yang Yuniang is Aunt Yang, and Jin Qiaoer is Aunt Jin.
Cheng Jiayue looked troubled: "How can my father become the commander-in-chief?"
"It's a good thing that I have a commander, otherwise... I would be dead."
Chen Zhong remembered four years ago, when his family was in a mountain village in Dengzhou Prefecture. Chen Zhong’s original surname was Shi, and his name was Shi Zhong. His biological father Shi Wanyong was a stonemason. The family only had four acres of land. If there were only four acres of land, It is impossible to feed their family. Fortunately, Shi Wanyong was skillful and diligent. He could make money to support his family by quarrying stone to make stone tools, carving inscriptions, or making drum stones and stone lions. Although life is hard, we can still get through it.
However, the peaceful days were finally broken. One day, a group of bandits rushed into their village, killing people and robbing things. In order to protect Shi Zhong's mother and sister, his father Shi Wanyong went up to fight the bandits desperately. Shi Zhong and his mother and the sister hid in the cellar.
After the bandits retreated, they saw Shi Wanyong who had been chopped to pieces. In order to bury Shi Wanyong, his mother borrowed money from Mr. Liu from the village next door. Originally, she only borrowed five coins to buy a thin coffin, but there was no money. After a few months, Mr. Liu pressed for repayment. In desperation, the four acres and three-quarters of Shi Zhong's land became Mr. Liu's land.
After losing their land, Shi Zhong's mother took him and his sister to Liaodong after more than half a year of wandering. By chance, Shi Zhong's mother became one of Chen Dayong's fifty-three concubines. Now Chen Zhong has become Chen Dayong's adopted son, and Chen Zhong's mother, 32-year-old Li, opened a clothing city in Jinzhou City with the help of Chen Dayong, specializing in selling ready-made clothes. Stable income and prosperous life.
"If you encounter bad people, why don't you call the police? The teacher told us to call the police if you have any difficulties!"
"police?"
"You mean reporting to the official?"
"yes!"
Zhou Dingguo felt that they and Cheng Jiayue were not from the same world, and they were not from the same world to begin with.
Zhou Dingguo said: "Four years ago, I was a poor military household from a thousand households in Weizuo, Dengzhou. I didn't even have a pair of unbroken trousers. If it weren't for the commander-in-chief, I don't know if I would have survived!"
The topic was a bit heavy, which made Cheng Jiayue a little unhappy.
As for Sun Pu and Mao Yu, they did not show up to speak out, because they are both real second-generation officials. Even after Mao Yuanyi was dismissed from office, she was still a descendant of officials. The same goes for Sun Pu. Although Sun Chengzong was dismissed, who dares to underestimate the Sun family of Gaoyang? Sun Chengzong has been an official for decades, and the popularity he has accumulated is not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Despite this, they had to admit that Cheng Shijie was very powerful. In the Central Plains, in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, even the city of Beijing was full of beggars.
But the problem is that there is not a single beggar in Liaodong. As long as the hands and feet are sound, it is not difficult to support oneself. Even if one is physically disabled, as long as he is willing to work, he can support himself.
Cheng Shijie is well aware of the suffering of disabled people. In order to provide these disabled people with a living environment, Liaodong encourages units to use disabled people, such as placing disabled people, and enterprises or factories, including self-employed people, enjoy tax incentives. There are now institutions in Liaodong that specialize in training people with disabilities.
There are also occasions where disabled people are needed, such as some high-end and private restaurants and teahouses, but they prefer to use deaf-mute people as waiters.
Luo Baofeng took the opportunity to let the students talk about the changes in his family, and indirectly flattered Cheng Shijie. However, it was a pity that Luo Baofeng didn't know. Cheng Shijie understood what Luo Baofeng meant after only listening for a moment, and he turned around and left.
Luo Baofeng performed hard, but what he didn't know was that there was no audience anymore.
Zhang San looked at Luo Baofeng who was like a clown on the stage, gritted his teeth and said: "Wen slave, you are a polite scum!"
Cheng Shijie returned to his study and began to browse the recently discovered things. First of all, as in history, after the Xingyang Conference was held, the rogue soldiers were divided into four groups. Li Zicheng led tens of thousands of troops under his command to attack Guidefu City with Zhang Xianzhong.
Even though Guide City was not big, because the city was built on an island in the middle of the lake and surrounded by the lake, with only four roads from east to west, north and south leading to the city, Li Zicheng had tens of thousands of troops, but he was unable to deploy them.
Li Zicheng could only besiege Guide Mansion without attacking it. He actually wanted to attract the Kaifeng garrison to support Guide Mansion, and then wait for work, annihilate Kaifeng's reinforcements, and then besiege Kaifeng. This battle lasted for more than a month, and Li Zicheng suffered more than 10,000 casualties. However, instead of waiting for reinforcements from Kaifeng, he unexpectedly waited for the Shandong army.
Seeing this, Cheng Shijie suddenly remembered that in history, Zhang Xianzhong captured Fengyang and destroyed the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum. Emperor Chongzhen was furious and vomited blood and fell into coma...
Historically, Emperor Chongzhen did not have the Ning Navy to use. At this time, I am afraid that Emperor Chongzhen will mobilize the Ning Navy to enter the Central Plains to quell the rebellion.
Now Ning Haijun is carrying out the Luzon clearing plan. Although he has reorganized the Zheng Group's army soldiers into twenty-one regiments, Cheng Shijie does not want the Zheng Group to flourish, not to mention Ning Haijun's new Zuozhongdu Division in Liaodong. , Central Front Division, Jeju Island Du Division, Pido Du Division, and Shuangcheng Du Division. These five divisions have nearly 50,000 soldiers, and most of them are new soldiers. After the defeat of Jiannu, they have no actual combat experience. In order to train troops, Ning Haijun transferred a total of 29 generals from nine army field divisions and 25 garrison bureaus, and a total of more than 75,000 troops went south to Luzon to fight.
Of course, these Ning navy soldiers did not go south all at once, but went south in batches. At the same time, they also left holidays for the new recruits. Only by relaxing appropriately can the troops maintain a strong combat effectiveness.
Although the entire Liaodong still protects nine infantry commanders, plus artillery and cavalry commanders, the actual strength of the eleven commanders is only more than 54,000 people. Of course, the navy number is more, and the Zheng family has a total of more than 40,000 sailors. People are training,
Despite the fact that Ning Haijun currently has more than 200,000 troops, including 100,000 troops in Liaodong, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers who can actually be mobilized to fight.
"When the troops are used, they will hate the few!"
Cheng Shijie also lamented this. Cheng Shijie immediately picked up a pen and prepared to order the four generals of the Cavalry Division to stop going south and let them stand by in Lushun. The four generals of the Cavalry Division, plus the Guards Division, and the artillery, together totaled 15,000 to 15,000 troops, enough to deal with Zhang Xianzhong.
At this moment, Song Xiance came to Cheng Shijie to sign the financial budget. Cheng Shijie glanced at it and saw only 3.5 million taels of public budget: "Kangnian, why don't you, the chief director, come over personally for such a small matter?"
"The handsome man is joking!"
Song Xiance said: "I have three things to do here. I hope the commander can make some rules!"
"Oh, what's the matter?"
"The first thing was that the bandits made a big fuss in Guide Mansion, Henan Province. Sun Futai personally led his troops back to Guide Mansion and captured more than 56,000 bandits from Li Zicheng!"
Song Xiance looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Sun Futai is going to sell these 56,000 remaining bandits to us in Liaodong. Do we want them?"
Although Cheng Shijie vigorously developed Liaodong, Shandong, which is separated from Liaodong by the sea, because merchant ships needed to dock from Dengzhou and refugees flocked to Liaodong, Shandong developed due to the development of Liaodong, especially after Cheng Shijie brought the Denglai New Army to After leaving, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, rebuilt the new Denglai army.
This purely Western-style army totaled more than 8,000 troops, of which more than 2,000 cavalry were in charge of General Geng Zhongming, and the infantry was in charge of Liu Zeqing, who had defected to Sun Yuanhua.
After three days and three nights of fighting between the Denglai New Army and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the Denglai New Army won the battle relatively easily.
"Sell? How much money is Sun Futai going to ask for?"
"Eight hundred thousand taels of silver!"
To be fair, for more than 56,000 people to ask for 800,000 taels of silver, it is simply outrageous.
Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "Eight hundred thousand taels of silver is too much. I remember the relationship I had with Sun Futai in the past, so I will give him 200,000 taels of silver. If you are willing to sell it, you can sell it. If you are not willing to sell it, you will be defeated!"
"I understand!"
Song Xiance said: "There is another thing, and that is the talent problem. As the population in Liaodong increases, we have established twenty-five counties successively, and there is a huge talent problem!"
"How did you think about it!"
"Grace comes from above!"
Song Xiance said: "My disciples think that my lord can set up a recruitment hall to recruit talents from all over the world for my lord's use!"
"It's not that simple!"
Cheng Shijie said calmly: "Let's do this. The Liaodong Shuan Selection Office will be established to be responsible for the appointment and selection of officials, as well as promotion matters!"
This is actually the official department without the name official department.
"Save it for me!"
"Any thing else?"
"Commander, we are spending more and more money now. We cast it into silver ingots. After we spend it, the people will crush the silver ingots and turn them into broken silver. When we collect them again, they need to be recast once they are stored in the warehouse. The door saw It seems like a good idea to cast the compensation silver sent by the Dutch into silver coins of uniform weight!"
Cheng Shijie also believed that casting silver coins was a good way and it was necessary to cast silver coins. The Ming Dynasty has always had no silver coins, only copper coins, but the copper coins issued by the government cut corners very seriously. Generally speaking, copper coins should be seven points copper and three points lead, but they did the opposite, three points copper and seven points lead. , people infiltrated lead into copper, they infiltrated copper into lead, and the copper coins they made broke into pieces.
There was nothing that could be done about it. After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he immediately dealt with Wei Zhongxian, abolished the post system, and abolished the mine supervisors. The power of mining in the country was no longer in his hands, and the copper materials he could control were pitiful. To put it simply, Emperor Chongzhen, the emperor, was no longer qualified to issue currency.
Those who mint private money have far more copper mines than the imperial court, and the copper coins they mint are far better than those of the imperial court. What qualifications does the imperial court have to issue copper coins?
With the proliferation of private money, the value of copper coins was difficult to guarantee, and silver became hard currency. However, as more and more silver became available, especially foreign trade, a large deficit was earned. At first, six to seven hundred copper coins could be exchanged for one tael of silver, and eight taels of silver could be exchanged for one tael of gold. However, now, 1,200 to 1,500 penny can be exchanged for one tael of silver, and only 12 to 15 taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold.
Although silver is convenient, its purchasing power is very good. Even now, one tael of silver can buy almost 800 kilograms of rice. If you calculate it this way, one tael of silver is equivalent to more than 300 yuan in future generations.
But running around the world with a silver ingot and cutting it off every time you buy something is too inconvenient, and it also gives some bastards an opportunity to take advantage of it. This is how fire consumption comes about. Isn’t it necessary to melt these bits and pieces of silver into silver ingots? Pay 20% or even 30% more tax!
But once silver coins with stable currency value and full credit are minted, these problems will be solved easily. I handed over the entire silver dollar and there is no need to recast it. Why do you want to waste money with me? Spend your uncle!
Song Xiance had stored a large number of gold and silver coins brought by European businessmen. He was amazed by the quality and exquisite patterns of those gold and silver coins. He believed that casting silver coins was a move that benefited the country and the people. If he had enough silver, he must cast it himself. silver.
"Then mint silver coins!"
Cheng Shijie pondered: "We not only want to mint silver coins, but also mint copper coins!"
There are no technical problems in casting silver coins in Liaodong today. In fact, if strict requirements are met, craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can cast silver coins with an error of one millimeter.
Song Xiance immediately came up with the casting plan for the silver coin, which was one tael from the Ming Dynasty, that is, the weight was 37.125 grams. The designed mother coin had Ninghai Bank on the front, four small characters in Yangwen in official script, and a Cheng in seal script in the middle. characters, and on the back are one or two or seven characters of Liaodong Pingkuyin.
Cheng Shijie looked at this scene and breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that like Yuan Datou in later generations, his face would appear on silver coins. Although Yuan Shikai only served as emperor for eighty-three days, after his death, Yuan Datou It has been popular for more than thirty years, and even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it still has a certain purchasing power.
This is mainly because these silver coins are of high quality, exquisitely made, suitable for market circulation and transactions, and are highly recognized by the common people.
Cheng Shijie looked at another design. On the front, there was a yang carving of the Ninghai Navy Giant Shark-class twelve-masted battleship, and the words Ninghai Bank were also written. On the back, there was a tiger head and a Tang straight knife, which was the Ninghai Navy Army. standards.
Cheng Shijie didn't say he was satisfied or dissatisfied. He looked at Song Xiance and asked, "Is there anything more?"
"besides!"
Song Xiance came up with a total of seven design plans, including Chengzi, sailing ship, Huitong Tianxia, Chongzhen Yinbao, Liaodong Yinbao, Great Wall, and Yellow River coins.
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "According to these seven plans, I agree with them all. The Chengzi coin will be minted into a gold coin weighing ten taels, the sailing ship coin will be minted into one tael gold coin. The Great Wall coin will be minted into a silver coin weighing ten taels, and the Huitong Tianxia coin will be minted into one tael silver coin. The Chongzhen silver treasure was minted into five coins (that is, 18.5625 grams), the Liaodong silver treasure was minted into one coin (3.725 grams), the Great Wall coin was minted into a copper coin equivalent to a hundred, and the Yellow River coin was minted into ten coins."
"Isn't this too much!"
"It's not much at all. In addition to the two coins and Chongzhen Tongbao coins we originally minted, it should be enough to satisfy the market circulation!"
Cheng Shijie said: "The quality must be checked carefully. Silver coins should be made of nine silvers and one tin, and copper coins should be made of eight coppers, lead and one tin!"
What Cheng Shijie needs is to occupy the entire Ming Dynasty market with the currency issued by Liaodong Ninghai Bank. As for the fact that there is too little profit from copper coins, this is a long-term goal.
In fact, even though the Ming Dynasty is now in its sunset, the copper coins minted by the Ming Dynasty are in normal circulation in the early days, North Korea, and Vietnam. They can be regarded as regional currencies, similar to the current Eurozone.
Originally, Cheng Shijie did not have the ability to mint copper coins on a large scale, and the silver coin problem was not a big problem. However, after occupying Luzon, this problem was no longer a problem.
Luzon is very rich in resources, especially copper, gold and silver mines, which are quite abundant. Although it has not been discovered now, in the 1970s, the Dinkidi porphyry gold-copper deposit was discovered in northern Luzon Island, which contained 124 million tons of resources. In addition, it also included a high-grade core belt. It has 7.9 million tons of copper-gold alloy.
According to statistics from the Australia New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines, the Philippines’ metal mineral reserves are valued at US$1,387 trillion. Gold, nickel and copper account for 75% of the total valuation, and gold accounts for 26%. The copper mine reserves in the Philippines are about 5.3 billion tons. Not to mention coinage, brass will be used to make wires in the future, which is completely sufficient.
This is also the real reason why Cheng Shijie placed two-thirds of Ning Haijun's troops in Luzon, a mere island. Cheng Shijie will fight to the death with whoever competes with Cheng Shijie to seize Luzon Island.
Cheng Shijie originally wanted to meet Wang Zheng, but Meng En approached Cheng Shijie: "Commander, something is wrong!"
"What's the matter?"
"Something happened over there in Mongolia!"
"What happened?"
"Lin Dan Khan is dead!"
Cheng Shijie was not surprised by the death of Lin Dan Khan. In fact, Lin Danhan actually has some similarities with Emperor Chongzhen.
He is nominally the co-leader of all Mongolian tribes and the master of the Chahar tribe. He is determined to unify all Mongolian tribes and restore the glory of the Genghis Khan era. However, this "Genghis Khan" was very unlucky. He encountered the rise of Jiannu early on, and inevitably broke out in war with Hou Jin. Then he was defeated and fled again and again. Like Chongzhen, he was completely Huang Taiji's sandbag. , punch twice when you are in a good mood, kick twice when you are in a bad mood.
When the slave establishment was strong, he adopted the strategy of uniting with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, which was wise. However, after repeated defeats, he unexpectedly sent troops to loot the nine border areas of the Ming Dynasty in an attempt to get some compensation from the Ming Dynasty. This kind of move He can only be described as "mentally retarded". Not only did he fail to save his tribe, but he also turned himself into a target for Jiannu and the Ming Dynasty.
After Lin Dan Khan was driven to Qinghai by Huang Taiji, Lin Dan Khan's tribe almost collapsed. Many people surrendered to Huang Taiji with their cattle, sheep, horses and Dingkou. Even several of his wives escaped. Lin Dan Khan The bachelor commander is marching towards the bachelor commander.
However, this guy is somewhat similar to a cockroach. It is easy to crush him, but it is quite difficult to kill him. After escaping to Qinghai in embarrassment, he quickly became involved with some chieftains in Qinghai and Tibet, trying to use this The forces of the alliance continued to oppose Houjin.
It's just a pity that just when Ning Haijun was re-establishing slaves and Lin Dan Khan was preparing to regain the glory of Mongolia by regaining what was lost, he died of smallpox last year, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, at the age of forty-three.
Just after Lin Dan Khan's death, Lin Dan Khan's son Ezhe and Lin Dan Khan's nine wives, a total of more than 40,000 tribesmen, surrendered to Dorgon.
It's just that Lin Dan Khan's son surrendered to Jian Nu. In the original time and space, Lin Dan Khan's son Ezhe surrendered to Jian Nu. You must know that in the Battle of Baliwan and the Battle of Liaoyang, Jiannu suffered heavy losses. Four of the Eight Banners were crippled. Except for the Zhenghuang Banner, all other banners were severely damaged.
If we follow the natural development of the slaves, it will take at least seven or eight years to recover. But the problem is that with the surrender of more than 40,000 Mongolian households to the slaves, the strength of the slaves will soon increase.
However, the delay in the news gave Cheng Shijie no chance to counterattack. However, the problem was not big and it was still within the control range, because Ning Haijun's strength was not something that Jiannu could overturn if he wanted.
As long as Catherine transports the Sharma to Liaodong, Ning Navy's artillery and baggage can launch an expedition against Jiannu.
Before Cheng Shijie breathed a sigh of relief, he received news that Cheng Jiayue was unwilling to eat.
Zhu Weiti had no choice but to find Cheng Shijie.
When Cheng Shijie came to the backyard, Cheng Jiayue silently hugged a panda, as if in a daze: "Little Huahua, do you miss your mother? Jiayue misses her mother!"
Cheng Shijie couldn't help but feel sad when he saw this scene.
Zhu Weiti said: "Ms. sir, can you bring my sister back?"
"I think so too, but the problem is..."
If Cheng Shijie had the ability to bring Xiang Hui to the Ming Dynasty, could Xiang Hui really kill Cheng Shijie with a knife like in his dream?
Even if Xiang Hui can chop, the guards around him are not vegetarians.
Cheng Shijie walked towards Cheng Jiayue: "Jiayue, why don't you eat?"
"I want mommy!"
"You are growing now, you can't do it without eating!"
"I want mommy!"
Cheng Shijie stretched out his hand to pick up Cheng Jiayue.
However, Cheng Jiayue stared at Cheng Shijie with disgust: "Dad, do you have a mistress?"
"I……"
Cheng Shijie really didn't know how to answer Cheng Jiayue's innocent question.
Cheng Jiayue said: "Are you cheating on me? Have you divorced your mother?"
"No, what are you thinking!"
"Then why don't you let me see my mother!"
Cheng Shijie was helpless now and decided to try again.
(End of chapter)
