Chapter 265
Different from Cheng Jiayue's uneasiness, Cheng Jialong found himself traveling through an inexplicable time and space. His biggest feeling was excitement, especially when he saw the guards at the door respectfully treating him, which made Cheng Jialong feel a little drifting.
Of course, as a second-year junior high school student, Cheng Jialong had a basic understanding of history. From the hair of these guards, he discovered that he should have traveled through time and space above the Qing Dynasty. His eyes fell on the knife on the waist of the guards.
Cheng Jialong looked at the guard and said, "Show me your knife!"
"yes!"
The guard did not hesitate, and immediately took off his sword and handed it to Cheng Jialong along with the calfskin scabbard.
Cheng Jialong took the knife and felt it was very familiar. Cheng Shijie had placed a knife of this type at home. Cheng Jialong, who did not say he was incompetent at first, asked Cheng Shijie why he bought an Oriental knife. Cheng Shijie told him very solemnly. , this is Tang Hengdao.
Although the appearance looks like a Japanese sword, the difference between the Tang Hengdao and the Japanese sword is that the Tang Hengdao is a straight blade, while the Japanese sword is a curved sword. As for performance, the Tang Hengdao has a straight cutting edge and focuses on breaking. It has the ability to pierce armor, while the Japanese sword has an obvious blade curvature and has excellent cutting ability.
Looking at the Tang Heng Dao in his hand, Cheng Jialong was even more happy because Cheng Shijie had popularized historical knowledge for him. In ancient times, a young master was not just called a young master casually. It's wrong. At least before the Song Dynasty, the prince could not be called casually.
The Tang Hengdao is in hand, which most likely indicates that this is in the Tang Dynasty, and the guards call themselves the eldest son. Doesn't that mean that they have the identity of the son of the Tang Dynasty's Duke?
What Cheng Jialong is not sure about now is whether he has traveled through time as a soul or as a body. If he has time traveled as a soul, the guards will not be able to find out that he is an impostor, but his parents and sisters will definitely find out.
Cheng Jialong followed the principle of talking less and observing secretly, so he was about to return the knife to the guard. However, at this moment, he felt that he was dreaming?
Then Cheng Jialong took his finger and lightly scratched the blade.
"hiss!"
Cheng Jialong obviously felt the pain. Looking at the blood flowing from his fingers, he became even more excited: "I'm not dreaming!"
The guard was shocked when he saw Cheng Jialong's fingers bleeding.
"do not be afraid!"
Cheng Jialong then returned Tang Hengdao to the guard, and then said with a smile: "Is there anything to eat? I am hungry!"
"I will immediately notify the kitchen to prepare meals for the eldest son. I wonder if the eldest son has any special instructions!"
"No, I don't have taboos!"
Cheng Jialong turned around and returned to the study. He was ready to have a deeper understanding of this strange era. Now he was probably sure that he should have arrived in the Tang Dynasty. But I am not sure whether it is the early Tang Dynasty, the prosperous Tang Dynasty, or the late Tang Dynasty.
If it was the early Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin and Li Zhi were emperors, then he would have to be careful. He would pretend to be grandson, imitate Sima Yi, and kill them both. As long as Li Shimin and Li Zhi died, other Tang emperors would not have anything to worry about. .
If it were the late Tang Dynasty, would he be preparing to rebel?
But the key is what to do with your parents in this time and space? If they find out that their son has changed, will they kill them?
Otherwise, strike first to gain the upper hand, sacrifice your parents to heaven, and have unlimited power?
Cheng Jialong is also thinking about the problem. What should he do next? Is it like the protagonist in time travel, going against the will of heaven, or is he just eating and waiting to die?
It seems that waiting for death is not his style. In later generations, Cheng Jialong was actually very high-spirited. Over the years, he has been practicing Sanda in addition to studying. The purpose is that one day, he can get on the ring and win the game, just like the god of death. Become a sports star.
Just when Cheng Jialong was thinking about it, he found a sharp knife on the desk. This kind of knife was only about ten centimeters long, with a handle, less than twenty centimeters, and a blade as wide as a finger. Cheng Jialong hurriedly Put this knife away in case you need it.
Just when Cheng Jialong had just put away the knife, a gust of fragrant wind hit him, the rings jingled, the skirts fluttered, and more than a dozen beautiful maids came meandering over, carrying exquisite dishes in their hands, including abalone fished from the sea. , sea cucumbers, shark's fins, pheasants, wild deer, goats, lambs, fat cattle hunted from the black forest, and big fish caught in the river were made into delicacies and served at a running price. Not one of the ten dishes is the same.
Of course, considering that Cheng Jialong is young and does not eat much, the portions of these dishes are not large. For example, there are only two abalones per plate, there are only three pieces of sea cucumber, and there are only four pieces of pheasant and beef. This is very similar to those big hotels in later generations that killed people without paying for their lives. A person may not be full after eating more than a dozen dishes.
"What a fool! It's so rotten. The wine and meat of the wealthy family smells bad, and the roads are freezing to death, but I like it!"
Cheng Jialong picked up his chopsticks and started to devour it. However, after just two bites, Cheng Jialong realized that something was wrong. He was considered a wealthy son of the Tang Dynasty. How could he have no etiquette?
Cheng Jialong has received etiquette training from the school. In fact, he does not need to study deliberately. Tiancheng School is originally an elite school, and the tuition fee for one semester is more than 20,000. Anyway, it is impossible for working-class children to go to Tiancheng because Forty to fifty thousand yuan a year is really unaffordable for ordinary families.
When they were in school, their teacher would teach them two etiquette classes every week. Cheng Jialong knew a little bit about the so-called aristocratic etiquette, which is to say everyone is a gentleman and every sentence is a lady, smile before speaking, and bow at every turn.
Cheng Jialong became serious, tried to put on a smile, and said to the maids around him: "Thank you!"
This made the maids feel flattered. In fact, most of the maids in the Cheng Mansion are the maids who were married to Zhu Weiti. Although they are older, these maids have received royal training, and their every move has an elegant temperament.
"Madam is here!"
There was a shout outside the door, and Cheng Jialong hurriedly stood up.
When Zhu Weiti walked in with Gu Ziyi, Cheng Jialong kept staring at Zhu Weiti. Zhu Weiti, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, looked to Cheng Jialong like a fairy walking out of a painting. She was really beautiful. You have to conquer the country, but is this too young?
Cheng Jialong looked at Zhu Weiti blankly, feeling a little at a loss.
Zhu Weiti stared at Cheng Jialong and asked calmly: "Are you Cheng Jialong?"
"It's a child meeting his mother!"
Cheng Jialong didn't know what to think, but he felt that as the eldest son, he should greet his wife as a child.
Hearing Cheng Jialong call Zhu Weiti's mother, Zhu Weiti immediately lost his composure.
You know, she was very kind to Cheng Jiayue, but Cheng Jiayue only wanted to call her aunt and never mother. Instead, Cheng Jialong called her mother when they first met.
"Good boy!"
Zhu Weiti stepped forward and casually took off the jade pendant on his body.
This is a jade pendant shaped like a chime, with dragon patterns carved on it.
Cheng Jialong reached out and took the jade pendant. Because Cheng Shijie opened Longyue Antique Shop in later generations, Cheng Jialong would also go to the store and learn the basic knowledge of identifying jade from the chief appraiser in the store.
Cheng Jialong could tell that this was a jade pendant made of Hetian jade and mutton-fat jade, and that it was treasure-level jade. This piece would be worth a sixth grade in future generations.
"Thank you mother for the reward!"
Zhu Weiti looked at the Cheng family's dancing eyebrows and smiled: "Purple clothes!"
"The slave is here!"
Zhu Weiti smiled and said: "Go and ask the tailor to come over and make some clothes for the eldest son!"
At this time, Cheng Jialong was wearing a denim suit, which was also called a beggar's outfit in later generations. In Zhu Weiti's opinion, Cheng Jialong must have suffered a lot. His hands were much rougher than Cheng Jiayue's, and his skin was slightly darker, and his fingers were There are also calluses on the joints, probably from constant work.
Of course, Zhu Weiti's judgment was wrong. This was due to Cheng Jialong's boxing practice.
After all, Cheng Jialong is thirteen years old, and he is well-nourished for future generations. Although Cheng Jialong is only thirteen years old, he is already 1.72 meters tall. It is estimated that he will be as tall as Cheng Shijie in one year at most.
Zhu Weiti and Cheng Jialong are not related by blood, so they naturally need to avoid taboos.
After Cheng Jialong hurriedly finished his meal, Gu Ziyi took the tailor to measure Cheng Jialong's body and prepare to sew clothes.
"elder sister!"
When Cheng Jialong's body was being measured, Cheng Jialong tried to ask: "What did my father do?"
"so rude!"
Gu Ziyi deliberately said with a straight face: "I am aunt."
"Auntie!"
Cheng Jialong seemed to understand that this Gu Ziyi was his father's concubine. In ancient times, the ladies who had intercourse with each other were usually concubines. Seeing that Zhu Weiti was already too young, and looking at Gu Ziyi, she was only sixteen or seventeen years old. Not a few years older than himself, Cheng Jialong murmured in his heart that his father was also an old cow eating young grass.
The size of Cheng Jialong's clothes had just been measured, and the tailor sent some adult clothes for Cheng Jialong to try on. There was no other way. He was taller than most adult men in the Ming Dynasty, so he could wear adult clothes just fine, not too big. Small.
Just as Cheng Jialong got dressed.
"elder brother!"
Cheng Jialong was startled. He thought he was hallucinating. Although Cheng Jiayue's death was not told to him immediately, he still knew that Cheng Jiayue's little sister was gone.
Could it be that, like him, she also traveled to the Tang Dynasty because of her death?
Until now, Cheng Jialong thought he was traveling through the Tang Dynasty.
Cheng Jiayue came to Cheng Jialong, and Cheng Jialong confirmed again and again that Cheng Jiayue was not dead, but a living person with a shadow on his body and warmth on his face.
"Jia Yue, you miss me so much!"
Cheng Jialong was about to ask Cheng Jiayue about this time and space, but Cheng Jiayue pulled Cheng Jialong to the panda house.
"Brother, what do you think this is?"
"panda!"
"This is my giant panda. If you want a giant panda, just ask Aunt Zhu for it. She can find the giant panda!"
Cheng Jiayue began to show off her goodies to Cheng Jialong, such as the beautiful and lovely Shih Tzu dog, the noble and elegant Persian cat, and the peacock.
The most important thing is that Cheng Jiayue also has his own carriage.
"Brother, let's go out and play!"
"good!"
Cheng Jialong happened to want to ask Cheng Jiayue about the Tang Dynasty. He and Cheng Jiayue got on the carriage and came out of the Ning Haijun General Military Mansion and watched the people coming and going on the street.
Cheng Jialong noticed the ground: "It's actually a cement road!"
“What’s so curious about the cement road!”
Cheng Jiayue pointed at the guards following him: "Do they still have guns?"
"What time is it now?"
Cheng Jialong saw a newsstand on the side of the street that had disappeared in later generations, a small square house filled with various newspapers and magazines.
"parking!"
The coachman quickly stopped the car. Before he could put down the bench of the carriage, Cheng Jialong jumped out of the carriage and took two steps at a time. When he came to the newsstand, he saw "Liaodong Times", "Liaodong Business Daily" and various newspapers. Cheng Jialong casually picked up a copy of Liaodong Times and saw the headline on the front page: "Sun Chuyanggong, the former governor of Denglai, was promoted to governor of water transportation and governor of Lu, Feng, Huai, and Yang!"
The detailed report in the newspaper was that Li Zicheng attacked Guide Prefecture, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, led his Denglai new army westward to support Guide Prefecture, and defeated Li Zicheng's army. Because he was promoted to the governor of water transportation, he also served as governor of Lu, Feng, and Huai. , Yang Sifu, Denglai's new army of 6,000 people, and the horse army of 2,500 people followed them and stationed in Fengyang.
"Li Zicheng, isn't this the end of the Ming Dynasty?"
Cheng Jialong found the date of the newspaper, and the time published on it was indeed February 26, the eighth year of Chongzhen reign in the Weiming Dynasty.
Only then did Cheng Jialong realize that he had traveled to the Ming Dynasty.
"It's over. If you want to be a dandy, you have no chance!"
Cheng Jiayue has not studied history yet and is not very familiar with the general trend of history, but Cheng Jialong has studied it. He knows that this is the last year of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is hard to recover from. Drought, locusts, waterlogging, hail, pestilence, and endless natural and man-made disasters have forced farmers to Their families were destroyed and their families were destroyed. In the end, in order to survive, they rose up in arms. In Shaanxi, West Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, and Sichuan, wars raged all over the place, and blood flowed like rivers. In such troubled times, human life is worth less than ants.
After a brutal fight, Li Zicheng finally broke into Beijing and sent the Ming Empire, which had lasted for nearly three hundred years, to its grave. Then, the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Li Zicheng was defeated, barbarism once again defeated civilization, Jiading Three Massacres, Yangzhou Ten Days, Huguang filled Sichuan... half of the flowers and trees in the country were stained with blood.
Classmate Cheng Jialong, welcome to the end of Ming Dynasty.
"Fuck, it's the end of Ming Dynasty!"
Cheng Jialong became frightened, and he yelled at the sky: "God, you are playing with me, right? Are you trying to play with me to death?" God, you heard, strike me with thunder! Strike me with thunder, kill me. Send me back to modern times, I don’t want to stay in this troubled world..."
Just when the Cheng family was in a daze, Cheng Shijie came. In fact, he originally came with Cheng Jiayue. However, like history, Zhang Xianzhong destroyed Gushi in Henan and Huoqiu in Anhui and other prefectures and counties, and went straight to the Central Government of the Ming Dynasty. All in Fengyang.
Zhang Xianzhong's troops surrounded Fengyang City in the foggy morning. In less than half a day, they completely wiped out the 20,000 officers and soldiers guarding Fengyang, killed guard Zhu Guozheng and others, captured Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, and sentenced him to death after listing his crimes in front of the people. Zhang Xianzhong distributed the victory prizes and the grain in the treasury to the local poor farmers, and called on the farmers and people from all over the country to cut down hundreds of thousands of pines and cypresses in the imperial mausoleum, and also demolished the surrounding buildings and the Longxing Hall where Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk. Temple (also known as Huangjue Temple), and then dug up the emperor's ancestral graves, and at the same time killed all the wealthy families in Fengyang.
After Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he immediately put on mourning clothes and ran to the Ancestral Temple to cry loudly. He also ordered the court officials to go about their official duties in plain clothes and vegetarian food to express his condolences. Emperor Chongzhen dismissed the minister of the Ministry of War, beheaded the governor of Fengyang and the censor, and also took out the governors of the five provinces who had been dismissed from their posts and were living idle and sentenced them to death. Despite this harshness, the officers and soldiers still could not stop the attack of Zhang Xianzhong's troops.
After Zhang Xianzhong captured Fengyang, he sent his troops southward and successively captured Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), Anqing, Hezhou, and Chuzhou. Historically, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice, but in this time and space, Emperor Chongzhen still had Cheng Shijie at his disposal, so , he quickly rejected the Liao King's petition to change the fiefdom, and gave Cheng Shijie an order to lead the Ning Navy south to quell the rebellion.
Because Cheng Shijie was delayed in receiving the imperial edict, he never thought that Cheng Jialong would actually yell on the street, embarrassing Cheng Shijie.
"go home!"
Cheng Jialong looked at Cheng Shijie's unkind expression and said anxiously: "Dad, my dear father, don't you know what time it is now?"
"Do you think I won't know?"
"Since you know this, why don't you rebel?"
"I'm against you, you big-headed devil!"
Cheng Shijie spent half an hour telling Cheng Jialong and Cheng Jiayue what had happened in the past few years since he came to the Ming Dynasty.
Only then did Cheng Jialong realize that he was now the young marshal of the navy of the Ming Dynasty and the son of the Sea Kingdom. He also knew that his father, Cheng Shijie, was now the largest warlord in the Ming Dynasty.
After getting these things, Cheng Jialong breathed a sigh of relief.
With my father's two to three hundred thousand troops, my life can be saved.
Now that Cheng Jialong has arrived in the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Shijie naturally brought Cheng Jialong to meet with the generals of the Ning Navy and all the committee-level officials of the Liaodong Management Committee.
Cheng Jialong, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, was very excited. Only then did he realize how much money Cheng Shijie had made.
"Meet the eldest son, meet the young marshal!"
Cheng Shijie took Cheng Jialong to attend the military meeting of Ning Haijun. In addition to Li Weiluan who was far away in Batavia, Liu Qingsong who was far away in Luzon, and Chen Dayong who was far away in the senior officials, people who participated in this military meeting, such as Chang Yu, Shen Mingyu, Chen Guodong, Zhou Yandong, Zhou An, Meng En, Zhao Wencai, Qiao Siniang, including Li Zhixiang, Yuan Shiliang and other generals all participated.
At this meeting, Cheng Shijie said straight to the point: "Your Majesty's imperial edict has been issued, and the fire ticket from the Ministry of War has been sent to the General Staff. Do you all know what to do?"
All the generals shouted in unison: "It's clear!"
Cheng Shijie said: "This time I sent troops to quell the rebellion. I never doubted that our Ning Navy could tear those damn rebels into pieces with an overwhelming advantage. What troubles me the most is that these rebels held hundreds of thousands of people hostage. , these common people are the human resources we need most!"
The settlement work in Luzon is continuing. Both Dajuan and Luzon, including Medan, need population. People are not afraid of immigrating to Liaodong. After all, Liaodong is now famous and wealthy, but Luzon and Dajuan need to survive. The environment is not good and people are unwilling to go.
If you want to immigrate, you can only use coercive means, and counterinsurgency like this, directly capturing rebels and their families, is the most economical immigration work.
Zhou An stood up and said: "Commander, we can now mobilize at least three large ships with more than 3,000 pieces of material, plus the main fleet of the Ning Navy. It is better to directly deliver the troops to Wusongkou, transfer to sand ships, and go upstream. , controlling the Yangtze River and blocking Zhang Xianzhong’s troops in the north of the Yangtze River!"
In the view of the Ning Navy General Staff, this is actually just an armed march. The most critical and troublesome task is to transport a large amount of food and capture the rebel population.
Water transportation is the easiest thing to do from the Yangtze River to the north. Once you reach the north of the Yangtze River, it will not be a big problem. You can capture the people and let them transport the military rations up by human transportation.
In this battle goal, Cheng Shijie planned to pack up the people of Jiangbei together with the good people, and planned to immigrate more than one million people at a time.
Since ancient times, water transportation has been the most convenient and cost-effective mode of transportation. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, emperors of all dynasties have dug great canals, connecting the Yellow River, Yangtze River, Huaihe River and other water systems. These great canals are the blood vessels of ancient China, and they continue to flow continuously. The blood was delivered to the center of the empire, which contributed to the prosperity of the north for thousands of years. ,
However, as the Yellow River overflowed, the river sand silted up, and the canals were ineffectively dredged. Since the Song Dynasty, these ancient canals have been silted up one after another, losing their water transport capacity. The Ming Dynasty established its capital in Beijing, and water transport moved eastward. The canals in the Central Plains and Guanzhong completely lost their strategic significance. The Ming Dynasty never made great efforts to improve these inland canals.
How convenient it would be if the inland canals were still open. It's a pity that these canals are now full of congestion.
The plan was quickly formulated. Cheng Shijie personally led a total of more than 18,000 troops from the Guards Division, Cavalry Division, and Artillery Division to the expedition. Zhou Yandong, Chen Guodong, and Sun Zhiman stayed behind in Liaodong.
At the same time, those who stayed in Liaodong also included Cheng Shijie's eldest son, the eldest son of the Cheng family, Long Cheng.
Cheng Jialong's return has greatly increased the confidence of Liaodong Ninghai Group. Cheng Jialong is now thirteen years old and is about to become an adult. The Ming Dynasty stipulates that all men who are sixteen years old (virtual age) and women who are fourteen years old or above are eligible for marriage." That is, if a man and a woman want to get married, the man must be sixteen years old and the woman must be fourteen years old.
Cheng Jialong is already fourteen years old and can get married in two years at most.
When Cheng Shijie left for the expedition, Zhu Weiti, Cheng Jialong and Cheng Jiayue came to see him off.
"Jia Long, be obedient at home!"
"Dad, don't worry, I will definitely obey you!"
Cheng Jialong said with a sincere face.
Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng Jialong and said, "You are my son. As soon as you stick your ass out, I will know what shit you will make. Yongyan!"
"Commander!"
"I will give you this handsome whip. If Cheng Jialong disobeys me, I will whip him to death!"
Cheng Shijie gave Sun Zhiwan the riding whip in his hand.
(End of chapter)
