Chapter 272
Cheng Shijie found the information and knew that Sun Kewang was not a good person. In history, with the death of Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous descendants, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and Li Dingguo, inherited most of Zhang Xianzhong's inheritance.
The remaining troops of the Great Western Army marched into the Yunnan-Guizhou region as a base to resist the Qing Dynasty, conquered Zunyi and Guiyang along the way, and marched into Yunnan.
In 1647 AD (the first year of Yongli and the fourth year of Shunzhi), Sun Kewang, together with Li Dingguo and others, became the king. Sun Kewang became the king of the country, and his reign was named Xing Dynasty.
Later, the army of the Southern Ming Dynasty invaded Hunan on a large scale. After the Daxi Army united with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty, they succeeded in their first trial and recovered most of the prefectures and counties in Hunan. Later, Li Dingguo led his troops to kill the Qing army general Prince Jingjin Nikan in Hengzhou. Li Dingguo became king twice and regained dozens of states and counties one after another, which shocked the world. Sun Ke was very jealous when he saw Li Dingguo's great military exploits.
Due to the assassination of Sun Kewang, the good situation between Li Dingguo and Nanming was completely destroyed. Otherwise, Nanming might be like the Southern Song Dynasty and fight against the Qing Dynasty.
However, in this time and space, Sun Kewang deceived Li Dingguo and used black hands on Li Dingguo, fully demonstrating his selfish behavior.
Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Kewang and said, "Get up!"
"The sins of the sinners are so serious that they will never be redeemed by death, and they dare not be freed!"
"I want you to get up!"
"yes!"
Sun Kewang was very regretful that he did not become Cheng Shijie's adopted son. Even though Sun Kewang followed Zhang Xianzhong, he had already collected information about Cheng Shijie, because Cheng Shijie defeated the slaves in Liaodong several times and became famous all over the world. As the most powerful army in the Ming Dynasty, Ning The Navy will definitely confront them.
Later, Sun Kewang also learned about Cheng Shijie's two adopted sons, Cheng Hu and Cheng Shi. They were both young and independent, especially Cheng Shi, who directly became the uncrowned king of Luzon.
This made Sun Kewang very envious. If he could become Cheng Shijie's adopted son, his achievements would be much better than Cheng Shi's.
However, Sun Kewang was also very happy to become Cheng Shijie's personal guard commander. This meant that Cheng Shijie trusted him. Cheng Shijie actually did not trust Sun Kewang, but after Wu Sheng became the commander-in-chief of Wusongkou, he lacked the protection of experts around him.
Li Dingguo, a boy who was unexpected, made Cheng Shijie's personal guards very passive. Although Sun Kewang's character was terrible, he still had some abilities, especially his good skills.
It's good to act as a bodyguard, not to mention that Cheng Shijie is planning to use Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang will be the commander on the left, and Li Dingguo will be the commander on the right.
Besides, Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers were all Ning Haijun's most loyal soldiers to Cheng Shijie. No matter what Sun Kewang wanted to do, he couldn't do it.
Sun Kewang became Cheng Shijie's personal commander, and was immediately distributed two sets of brand-new black military uniforms, as well as two pairs of sheepskin boots, a washbasin, a lunch box, a bedding, a mosquito net, a backpack and other items.
Sun Kewang was most interested in weapons. The Hengdao he received was slightly different from the Hengdao used by ordinary soldiers. The Hengdao equipped by ordinary soldiers did not have any decorations on the handle, scabbard, or blade. It was simple and unpretentious, but it had a certain aura. The terrifying murderous aura that makes one's heart go cold.
As for the commander level, it is actually the company commander level. The scabbard is made of crocodile skin, the handle is made of ox horn, and the hand guard is decorated with tiger head brass. As the sword is pulled out, it can be seen , the same cold light, cutting iron like mud.
Sun Kewang lamented that Cheng Shijie really trusted him and equipped him with such a good magic weapon.
Regardless of the cold water in the river, Sun Kewang took a cold shower and put on his new military uniform, looking very energetic. It was only then that he felt Ning Haijun's generosity.
As the commander, he himself had a tent, about twenty square meters, with bedding and other equipment, which was mounted on the carriage like other soldiers.
Especially when eating, Sun Kewang just wanted to cry. As Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, when he followed Zhang Xianzhong, there was naturally no shortage of supplies. But the problem was that even if there was no shortage, he could barely eat enough. It was great to eat more. Salted meat, but the problem is that Ning Haijun's food is not only rich, but also delicious.
Canned fruits, a rare luxury item in Zhang Xianzhong's army, are standard items in Ning Haijun's army. In addition, he can drink unlimited cheese and milk tea. The most important thing is that he also has military pay.
You can get six taels of silver every month. Although six taels of silver is not much for Sun Kewang, the key is that the money is comfortable.
Cheng Shijie looked at the arrogant Sun Kewang and said: "Commander Sun, although you are the commander, our Ninghai Navy is a place where rules are enforced. Officers must also abide by the rules. Take what you should take, and don't reach out if you shouldn't. Otherwise, It won’t do you any good.”
Sun Kewang's heart was slightly shaken, he cupped his hands and said solemnly: "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for your teaching, I will keep my humble position in mind!"
"My former commander, the current commander-in-chief of Wusongkou, holds the commander's seal, and is the commander-in-chief of this town. I hope you will not disappoint my hope!"
Sun Kewang was overjoyed, this was to train him. In the past, he was a bandit who was despised by everyone. Now he not only has an organization, but more importantly, Ning Haijun has been developing through the development of Cheng Shijie. He is almost the same every day. Not only are there millions of people in Liaodong, but also Tens of thousands of troops, six to seven thousand factories, and millions of hectares of farmland. What a terrifying scale this is. If you can join their circle, the benefits you will get are definitely ten times and a hundred times greater than tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Of course, the information Sun Kewang obtained was not the real core secret of Ning Haijun. In fact, Ning Haijun in Liaodong ruled eight to nine million people. If you include Da Yuan and Lu Song, the number exceeds 10 million. If you include Ning Haijun, The total number of navy, navy and Ning navy exceeded 300,000 troops.
"The humble position will definitely live up to the commander-in-chief's respect!"
“So best!”
Gao Qiqian, as the supervisor of Ning Haijun, heard that Cheng Shijie led his army to pacify Zhang Xianzhong's troops, he hurriedly chased Cheng Shijie from Wusongkou all the way along the place where he walked.
But the problem is that when Gao Qi was lurking in Nanjing, he was dragged by Lu Jiuyi, the eunuch guarding Nanjing and his confidant, to drink and eat fish meat. This fish dumpling is sashimi. In later generations, this was one of the quintessences of Japanese cuisine.
In fact, fish dumplings originated in China, and there are clear records as early as the Zhou Dynasty, which can be traced back to "The Book of Songs Xiaoya June": "Jifu Yan is happy, and he has received many blessings. I come and return from the pickaxe, and my journey will last forever. Drinking Royal Dear friends, I am a turtle and a carp. Who is here? Zhang Zhongxiaoyou", among which "鄍鍍" means raw carp fillets. Later, "The Analects of Confucius" in the Spring and Autumn Period and "Mencius" in the Warring States Period all had records about "荍".
After the continuation of the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Yusheng officially became famous in the Tang Dynasty, and it was even mentioned in many poems. For example, Li Bai's "Twelve Poems on the Ancients" said: "Blow the flute and dance with the colorful phoenix, drink the sweet wine and gourd." "Sacred Fish"; in Du Fu's "Two Poems of the Night", "I temporarily recalled Jiangdong's turtles, while disembarking from the boat with snow in mind"; Bai Juyi's "Light Fatty" mentions "cutting the scales of Tianchi" and so on.
After I learned the yusheng dishes of the Tang Dynasty when I was young, I began to develop them into sashimi, eel, and sukiyaki. This sashimi, in particular, has become Japan’s most national and cultural dish.
Although the fish meat is delicious, there is no way to cure the parasites inside. After all, Gao Qiqian is nearly fifty years old. He is also a eunuch and has poor resistance. He has had diarrhea since he was in Nanjing and is not in good health. , and it is impossible to rush on the road desperately.
After finally arriving in Macheng, they found that there were no traces of the bandits in Macheng, leaving only a few large mounds where thousands of dead bandits were buried.
"What?? Zhang Xianzhong and hundreds of thousands of bandits were settled just like this?"
A Jinyi guard reported to Gao Qiqianhui: "Father, in fact, there was not much fighting at all. Cheng Shuai just let him shoot a few rounds of fire dragons out of the water, and hit a few rounds with a thunderbolt. Then, Zhang Xianzhong escaped, and all the rogue bandits Surrender immediately!"
Gao Qiqian found it unbelievable: "Is it that simple?"
"It's that simple!"
"More than a hundred thousand bandits were wiped out so easily?"
"It is said that Zhang Xianzhong is surrounded by more than a thousand people at this time!"
This is of course an exaggeration. Zhang Xianzhong escaped too fast and was blocked by hundreds of thousands of bandits. He was actually followed by 20,000 to 30,000 troops. It can be said that Zhang Xianzhong still has at least 30,000 people.
This was actually the hole Cheng Shijie had to dig from the beginning. He had already guessed that someone would definitely snatch the fruits of his battle, and he didn't know which unlucky person would be unlucky.
Gao Qiqian was stunned for a long time, then slapped his forehead and sighed: "This is incredible! More than 6,000 cavalry, using less to fight more, annihilated hundreds of thousands of bandits in one meal, without any casualties. This How do we write a good news for our family? Alas!"
Judging from Gao Qiqian's expression, he seems to be really distressed now!
Several Jinyiwei curled their lips in unison. They didn't know that there was a word called Versailles in later generations, and the current high-rise and dive is very Versailles.
However, in the eyes of these Jin Yiwei, Gao Qiqian is very pretentious now. Who doesn't know that you are already happy in your heart? Think about Yang He and Chen Qiyu, those two unlucky guys. They have been struggling for several years, and the bandits have been struggling more and more. Compared with Yang He and Chen Qiyu, Gao Qiqian, the supervisor, is so happy!
In fact, Gao Qiqian was not really the happiest. The happiest person was Zhang Fengyi, the current Minister of War. After Chen Qiyu's defeat, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty began to make habitual changes.
During the incident, Liu Chang impeached Chen Zhuangyou, the commander-in-chief of Fengyitui, and accepted a heavy bribe from him. In order to prove his innocence, Zhang Fengyi wrote a letter in person, served as the supervisor, and went out to put down the rebellion.
In March of the eighth year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Fengyi had just taken over as the commander of the suppression of bandits, Cheng Shijie's troops defeated Zhang Xianzhong.
Here Zhang Fengyi has not even left the capital, and a great contribution has fallen on him. After all, Zhang Fengyi is now Cheng Shijie's boss.
Gao Qiqian continued to pursue Cheng Shijie's army. As Cheng Shijie went to Huangzhou Prefecture, Ning Haijun's logistics force finally transported food to Huangzhou. Meng En and Yuan Shiliang led Ning Haijun's main infantry and artillery forces to join forces with Cheng Shijie in Huanggang County.
Since the food was shipped, Cheng Shijie was not stingy.
Whenever meals are ready, meals are distributed to the refugees. Of course, the principle remains the same, giving priority to the elderly, weak, women and children, and the young and strong at the back. Because these refugees are in poor health, we are afraid that they will overeat and have bad stomachs and poor appetite. It still needs to be controlled. First of all, children, the elderly, women and the sick are given a bowl of rice, a spoonful of broth, and a bowl of dried sweet potato porridge. The young adults are given a bowl of rice, noodles, dried meat, potatoes and cabbage.
Although there is enough food and there will be no shortage of food, the problem is that these bandits are already hungry and scared. They are not afraid of burning it after receiving it. He was reluctant to spit it out, but stretched his neck to swallow it hard.
Sun Kewang followed Cheng Shijie and was a little confused as to why Cheng Shijie wanted to be nice to these bandits. Perhaps because he saw the commander's doubts, a veteran soldier taught Sun Kewang his experience.
Only then did Sun Kewang know that Cheng Shijie was very experienced in making money. Ning Haijun made his fortune by fighting bandits. Ning Haijun was very experienced in how to resettle bandits and refugees.
Ning Haijun’s model is actually similar to the communes established before the 1980s. The commune system was once criticized, but in fact it was not that bad. Especially in the first two decades, the effect was very significant. It solved the problem of food for the Chinese people at once. Although the population has been expanding, food security has always been there. It is guaranteed that, except for the three difficult years, no one will starve to death again.
The current situation is much worse than when the People's Republic of China was founded. Land annexation is extremely serious, soil fertility is exhausted, seeds are degraded, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides are even more unthinkable. Under such circumstances, it would be suicide to carry out any distribution of farmland to households. .
Cheng Shijie spent so much effort, but in the end he still wanted to turn all the more than 100,000 bandits into military households or workers. These were all laborers, so it would be a pity to kill them.
After figuring out Cheng Shijie's intentions, Sun Kewang went to Cheng Shijie and said, "Commander..."
When Sun Kewang looked up, he realized that it was Li Dingguo standing next to Cheng Shijie. At this time, Li Dingguo looked at Sun Kewang, and his eyes could almost spit fire.
"Hopefully, you came at the right time. I particularly appreciate Li Dingguo's skills and have decided to appoint him as my right-hand commander. You must cooperate wholeheartedly in the future!"
"yes!"
Sun Kewang naturally understood Cheng Shijie's true intention. Although he and Li Dingguo were both Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons, the problem was that he had swayed with Li Dingguo, and now Li Dingguo had no possibility of easing up with him. This meant that Cheng Shijie could balance their relationship. contradiction.
Sun Kewang didn't care about these things. If he cared or was dissatisfied, it wouldn't change anything. Cheng Shijie certainly couldn't care about his dissatisfaction.
Sun Kewang did not forget his original intention: "Commander, do you want someone?"
"Of course, people are precious resources, so the more, the better!"
Sun Kewang said: "I have a way to get more people for the commander-in-chief!"
"oh!"
"What can you do?"
"I have talked with my old brothers from the past. Although they are now sentenced to labor reform, they don't have to worry about food, clothing, and they don't have to worry about encirclement and suppression by the army. For them, this kind of life is not reform through labor. It's simply It’s just a blessing. At least it’s more comfortable than being a bandit!”
Sun Kewang continued: "Although Zhang Xianzhong has been newly defeated, there are still many scattered bandits around. I thought I could let some people out and let them persuade the scattered bandits to abandon the secret and join the light!"
Cheng Shijie was no longer worried about Sun Kewang's request. The original reason for rejecting Han's proposal was due to a serious shortage of food. Now that Cheng Shijie has food, in fact, even if Sun Kewang doesn't mention this, Cheng Shijie is still preparing to launch a steamed bun offensive.
They were planning to let some of the kidnapped local bandits from the Huang Mansion hold the steamed buns. As long as they walked around casually, they could deceive a large number of refugees.
"I agree, I will leave this matter to you!"
Sun Kewang was not thinking about deceiving a few bandits. This was not his real goal. His real goal was Zhang Xianzhong. As long as he caught Zhang Xianzhong, it would be a great achievement and he could step on Li Dingguo's head.
In this way, after some preparations, Sun Kewang took off the Ning Haijun uniform that he had just worn for a few days, folded it neatly, locked it in a box, and told his orderly: "Let me take care of it. This time I am going to make a great contribution, and in the future, even if I am not promoted to three levels, I will be promoted to two levels!"
As he joined Ning Haijun, Sun Kewang discovered that there were many benefits to joining Ning Haijun. Not only would they be allocated land for free, but they would also be allocated houses. Officers of his level could be allocated three acres. A large house on land can be divided into ten acres of land or fifty acres of land.
With Sun Kewang's skills, he could gain the greatest military exploits in the shortest time. As long as he captured Zhang Xianzhong and the people around Zhang Xianzhong, he would immediately become a big landowner and live a comfortable life every day.
In this way, Sun Kewang selected more than 200 former subordinates who had been dispersed from the prisoners. Sun Kewang did not tell them the truth, but contacted them. As a result, these old subordinates did not care about his superior at all, and turned around and tied up Sun Kewang. .
Seeing Sun Kewang being tied into a rice dumpling and thrown in front of Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie was confused: "Kewang, what are you..."
"Commander, this bitch Sun Kewang wanted to betray you, so we caught him and begged the commander to punish him!"
In fact, these bandits have become accustomed to living in Huangzhou Prefecture. Now they don't have to work every day, they just train. In units of a hundred households, they go to the boat on the riverside to train for a day in the morning. They can eat every meal until their bellies are full. In the evening, time is their own to control.
Of course, they are still doing hard labor and cannot go out freely. If they want to go out, they must apply and be accompanied by someone, and then they can go out. Besides, although their training is hard, will it be hard to become a bandit no matter how hard it is?
As old men from Shaanxi, each of them is a prisoner of labor reform. In their eyes, serving the labor camp is simply enjoying happiness.
In desperation, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to tell them the truth. As soon as these bandits heard that they were carrying out their mission, their eyes widened.
Such a good thing?
"As long as you capture an old thief, your sentence can be reduced by one year?"
"Yes, I know. Your name is Fang Daqiang. After fifteen years of labor reform, as long as you capture fifteen people, you can immediately become a hundred households in the farm. When you are allocated land in the future, you only need to pay 30% of the rent. After three years, you The land you sow will be yours!”
"Thank you, Marshal!"
As Sun Kewang left the temporary camp in Huangzhou with more than 200 bandits, within a few days, people started to bring the bandits back.
These "rogue bandits" were actually locals from Huangzhou Prefecture, tens of thousands of them, and most of them were old, weak, women and children. However, Cheng Shijie did not dislike it. The old people could no longer do heavy work, so he let them go to Luzon to herd cattle. Chickens, even those with weak health can be arranged to clean the streets.
He kicked the little kid who was younger than eight years old into the school. He was still wearing crotchless pants and didn't go to school honestly. How unbecoming was he to run around the mountain with his bare buttocks! As for those women, just help with washing and cooking. It’s not tiring for men and women to work together. There’s plenty of work to do anyway!
Cheng Shijie also specifically ordered that bandits who wanted to start a family could apply, and single soldiers from Ning Haijun could also apply to find someone to marry among the refugees without a bride price.
Now Cheng Shijie is also very wealthy. Whenever Ning Haijun gets married, he will give the newlyweds a congratulatory gift of ten taels of silver in the name of Ning Haijun.
This move made the refugees and Ning Haijun soldiers very grateful to Cheng Shijie, and they naturally worked harder in both training and work.
Since Huangzhou Prefecture is an area along the river, many of the refugees themselves are water-based and do not get seasick. As the first batch of immigrants, they began to climb the boats and embark on the journey to Luzon Island.
On this day, another group of about a thousand refugees embarked on the journey. Cheng Shijie looked at the immigrants in the four hundred-household settlements. Each of them distributed sufficient dry food, canned food, clothing, medicines, including, Knives, guns, armor and various equipment.
Most of the equipment seized this time were junk goods, which Cheng Shijie did not like, so they were distributed to these farming households. When they arrived in Luzon, these farming households also had a certain ability to protect themselves.
In fact, using rogue bandits to farm in Luzon kills two birds with one stone. These rogue bandits have seen blood and killed people, and they are not good birds. Although the natives of Luzon are barbaric, these bandits have slept in the Palace of Hell and on the Corpse Mountain. The two gangsters who had been bathed in blood really collided together. These gangsters could easily take down the natives of Luzon without the help of Ning Haijun.
In the Dabie Mountains, Sun Kewang and more than 200 celebrity bandits were moving forward with difficulty. Unlike the north, the rainfall in the Dabie Mountains is low and it rains often.
In fact, it will be wet even if it doesn’t rain. Dabie Mountain is really not a good place. The humidity here is so heavy that clothes cannot be dried at all. This kind of horrible weather in the mountains is naturally not much better. After a few days of progress, Sun Kewang lost a lot of weight.
However, Sun Kewang did not back down, he had already touched the tail of the bandit.
:What should I do if a mouse gets into the powder magazine with fire in its mouth? The answer is to let the cat chase the mouse with water in its mouth.
Now Sun Kewang is like a cat with water in his mouth. He is chasing Zhang Xianzhong, a mouse.
After finally climbing over a mountain, a rugged path appeared in front of them, extending intermittently deep into the forest.
The thinnest bandit wiped his sweat, pointed to the path and said: "Commander Sun, we have finally caught up with them. The tread marks along this path will not take more than four hours at most. We can catch up with them." !”
"Monkey, your judgment is not wrong, right?"
Sun Kewang looked ahead with a telescope. It was so white that he couldn't see anything clearly.
"You can't be wrong. If you are wrong, you can pluck off the little one's eyes and step on them like bubbles!"
"Boost!"
(End of chapter)
