Chapter 343
"His merits exceed those of the Lord!"
Because of this reason, he died unjustly. The first thing that comes to everyone's mind is Yue Fei, the famous anti-Jin general of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course, Yue Fei was not the only minister who died unjustly. Four generals from the Warring States Period, except Wang Jian who retreated bravely, like Bai Qi, Li Mu and Lian Po, all died unjustly.
Zhou Yafu, who suppressed the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms with one fell swoop, and his outstanding achievements, and Han Xin, the God of War, are simply not worth mentioning. In order to protect himself, Wei Qing never raised scholars, did not have too much contact with the powerful people in the court, did not participate in political affairs, and lived in confusion all day long. This made him not a threat to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and also prevented Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty from grasping anything, so Wei Qing had a good ending and died a good death.
Xu Da, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, originally had achievements, prestige, and power that alarmed Zhu Yuanzhang. However, Xu Da was respectful and cautious in his work. He later lost to Wang Baobao on the battlefield, which weakened his prestige and made him Zhu Yuanzhang did not suspect him for the time being.
After hearing Zhou Ning's words, Sun Zhili suddenly became alert: "What do you want to do?"
"I don't want to die, I want to live!"
Zhou Ning is the chief of general staff within the Ning Haijun Group, and his father is the deputy commander of the Ning Haijun Group. Although he has never held military power, in fact, the Zhou family is second only to the Cheng family within the Ning Haijun Group. family.
If Cheng Shijie is liquidated in the future, Zhou Ning will not be able to escape, nor will his brother Zhou An, nor will his father Zhou Yandong. No one in the Zhou family can escape.
When Sun Zhiyi heard this, he fell silent.
In fact, although Sun Zhiman and Sun Chengzong are ancestors and grandchildren, the problem is that Sun Chengzong is Sun Chengzong, and Sun Zhiman is Sun Zhiman. When Commander-in-Chief Qi Jin died in the Battle of Hunhe, he looked at the surviving Qi family army generals and said : "The Qi family owes all the soldiers and Zhejiang elders money, but they are the only ones who never owe money to the imperial court!"
Sun Zhiwan can also pat his chest. The Sun family of Gaoyang also never owed anything to the court, but the court owed the Sun family of Gaoyang.
Sun Zhiman looked at Zhou Ning and said: "There is only one life. If there is a choice, who is willing to die? But, all the people in this world..."
"If we don't consider the common people in the world, do you think we need to swallow our anger?"
Zhou Ning said angrily: "Don't you know the nature of those civil servants in the court? They have no other abilities, but their ability to hold back their own people is unparalleled!"
"This matter needs long-term consideration!"
"This is natural. It affects the life and death of millions of people. You have to be cautious!"
Nowadays, Ning Haijun not only has more than 300,000 soldiers in the army, but also includes millions of military families and workers. Once the court raises the butcher knife against Ning Haijun, don't expect them to be merciful.
Just like the Dongjiang Army that year, after Mao Wenlong was innocent and executed, the court did not let the Dongjiang Army go. It wanted to eat the Dongjiang Army's flesh and drink their blood.
Ning Haijun has absorbed most of the Dongjiang Army officers and soldiers, so they are very sensitive to this matter.
Sun Zhiman said: "Now we must arrange a backup plan in Gyeonggi!"
"Chen Guodong has gone to the capital!"
In the Ning Haijun Army, Chen Guodong should be regarded as the one who killed the most people. So far, more than 3,000 people in Ning Haijun have been executed by military law. In fact, officers account for two-thirds, and some officers have made great contributions. They are the heroes, but if they make mistakes, they can also bear the corresponding price.
When Chen Guodong led more than two hundred sergeants overseeing the Military Road Administration and entered the capital in disguise, a strange atmosphere filled the city of Beijing. Even the dullest person could feel it.
In fact, when Jingan Fort fell, the capital was under martial law. At the beginning, everyone thought this was a matter of course. After all, the border battles resulted in mountains of blood and corpses, so it would be strange for the capital not to be under martial law.
However, as time went by, everyone found that they had cut off contact with the outside world. Jingying, who had always been too lazy to look good, patrolled the streets and alleys as energetically as if he had found chicken blood. Every now and then, officials died suddenly and inexplicably. The entire capital was shrouded in an atmosphere of terror, and the number of scholars and officials pouring into the capital did not decrease, but increased...
All these things are frightening. The most surprising thing is that those Qingliu slanderers who have always been loud and deceptive have now shut their mouths. When acquaintances ask them for news about the DPRK, they just smile mysteriously and refuse to say anything. Thinking about the fact that news outside the customs is cut off, Just thinking about it makes people shudder.
The timid ones with some connections are trying their best to escape from this suffocating prison, while those with no connections have no choice but to stay in the capital. Fortunately, although the capital is now under martial law, for some reason, prices have become lower, and the people can still survive.
This is the credit of Ning Haijun. Although Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun's soldiers to fight at the border with rivers of blood and bones like mountains, but in the capital, on this battlefield where gunpowder smoke could not be seen, Ning Haijun also showed their fangs.
As Song Xiansheng's Dashun Army began to block the canal, the price of food in the capital began to skyrocket. However, Ning Haijun transported food to the capital before the ice. This number reached as high as more than 220,000 dan per day. However, , when these grains arrived in Gyeonggi, they had no time to enter the capital, and were bought by mysterious people with cash.
They bought Ning Haijun's grain and gave them money very happily, and the price of grain was getting higher and higher. When the price of grain was at its highest, rice sold for thirteen taels and four taels of silver per stone, which was more than twenty times more expensive than usual. However, , the more they bought, the faster Ning Haijun shipped goods. Finally, on December 24, the eighth year of Chongzhen, the price of food in Gyeonggi Province began to fall.
And it is an abnormal fall, a cliff-like decline. Every stone of grain is ten taels, seven taels, four taels. Now it is seven taels of silver per stone, and it is good rice. If it is wheat and beans, it is 7 taels of silver per stone. Five denarii and six denarii per stone.
Even in a good harvest year, the price of food in Gyeonggi has never been so cheap in recent years. In fact, Ning Haijun transported the grain to Gyeonggi and sold it for seven coins, which was definitely a loss. Even potato starch, which has the highest yield, costs eight coins. Only silver can protect capital, and you have to sell it for at least nine coins to make money.
But the problem is that the potato starch currently sold in major grain stores in the capital only costs six silver coins per stone, which means that Ning Haijun will lose two silver coins for every stone of starch he sells. But the question is, why did Ning Haijun sell it at a loss?
That's because there are many kind-hearted grain merchants who spend five taels or even ten taels of silver to buy Ning Haijun's starch when the price is at its highest. As a result, Ning Haijun's grain is generally profitable.
During the Chinese New Year, more than a hundred grain merchants in Gyeonggi Province committed suicide because they had hoarded grain and went bankrupt. Whether they sold it or not sold it, the result was the same. Ning Haijun took the grain and sold it at crazy price cuts. If they didn't sell it, they would They will smash the grain into their hands. If there is a severe drought in the ninth year of Chongzhen and there is no harvest, they will still have a chance to stand up.
It's just a pity that it snowed heavily in mid-December. The ninth year of Chongzhen was not a good harvest year, nor was it too bad. Their hope of turning around was completely dashed.
But the problem is that Ning Haijun took IOUs and took over their shops everywhere. Now they have lost most of their food sales channels. If the price of food rises or falls in the future, it no longer belongs to them.
In this food war, Ning Haijun invested more than 6 million shi in food, including more than 3.2 million shi in fine rice, 1.6 million shi in starch, and 800,000 shi each in wheat and beans. Who knew that these grain merchants couldn't bear it anymore. Less than two-thirds of the more than 6 million dan of grain had just been released, which was just over 4 million dan. These Gyeonggi grain merchants couldn't bear it anymore.
They suffered heavy losses, but Ning Haijun made a huge profit. The highest price of the more than 4 million shi of grain sold was ten taels of silver, and the lowest price was only two to two or three taels of silver. Even if averaged, it was as high as four taels and seven taels of silver. After excluding the costs, the net profit was more than 14 million taels of silver.
If Emperor Chongzhen knew that just one Shuntian Prefecture's grain could produce more than 16 million taels of silver, how would he feel?
Fortunately, Cheng Shijie's heart was not dark enough. He knew that the people were suffering too much, so he asked Xie Jinglin to control grain prices and sell grains at far lower prices.
Ning Haijun not only dumped grain into the capital, but also salt, cloth, woolen cloth, salted fish, dried meat, and canned meat, etc., which greatly reduced the living costs of the people in the capital.
This kind of abnormal behavior has also made countless people feel panic, and some brave people are actively looking for a way out. They smell a great crisis, but they also smell a great opportunity. How can wealth and wealth be obtained in danger? Can you give it a try?
Maybe this is an opportunity?
When Chen Guodong arrived in the capital, he spent a lot of effort to sneak into the city. What he saw was this scene. The former prosperity of the capital had withered away. There were few pedestrians and the doors were closed. Occasionally, he met some Passers-by were also in a hurry and seemed unwilling to stay on the road for a moment.
On the contrary, the number of patrolling soldiers increased exponentially. When they saw people they found suspicious, they would arrest them and throw them into prison without saying a word. Some brave guys even began to use the excuse of harboring Tatar spies to steal some people who had considerable wealth but no backers. Chen Guodong took all the property from the rich families' homes and divided up their women's families. The sound of wailing and wild laughter could not be heard. The entire city of Beijing felt like a big prison to Chen Guodong, and all the millions of residents were prisoners!
On the other hand, every restaurant and restaurant, with fireworks and willow alleys, is still very lively and full of guests. Countless scholars and civil servants, wearing their crowns and crowns, are drinking and drinking. Dancers, singers and prostitutes are fluttering their dance ribbons and singing loudly. It seems that people can see the Three Thousand People who belong to the prosperous age. bustling.
Who knows where so many romantic scribes have appeared, from Northern Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangnan... all of them are in the same room with accents from the south and the north, and they are all as energetic as chicken blood.
Seeing them, Chen Guodong became angry and wanted to bring someone in and kill them all! But he didn't act impulsively, because he knew that this was their last act of madness.
Chen Guodong led people to an inconspicuous courtyard, and the guards around Chen Guodong stepped forward and knocked on the door.
The concierge poked his head out: "The earthquake in Gaogang, the stream of water has been beautiful for eternity!"
"The door faces the sea, and the Sanhe River flows for thousands of years."
The concierge signed his handprint: "Your Excellency is"
Chen Guodong replied: "Marshal!"
"Brother please!"
Chen Guodong is one of the people who has followed Cheng Shijie for the longest time. He and Shen Mingyu followed Cheng Shijie one after another. Since Yang Yuniang was from Qianmen, the Supervisory Military Road Office established an intelligence organization very early. Of course, it only said that it was based on the Eight Generals of Qianmen. The wind group, fire group, elimination group and ballad group were established.
It can also be said that Ning Haijun's foreign intelligence department has a very small establishment. This organization has no actual name, and the four generals are responsible to Chen Guodong.
Using the Tiandihui's code of communication can be regarded as Cheng Shijie's bad taste.
The current person in charge of the capital is called Ma Xing. He is from Daxing County and can be regarded as a local gangster in the capital. He is a gangster. Because of his eye-piercing, he offended Liu Qiao, the governor of Jinyiwei Town, and was taken to the Jinyiwei prison to taste it. After eighteen kinds of torture, Cheng Shijie did business with Jin Yiwei and sold prisoners.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, Ma Xing was sold to Liaodong, and then he was favored by Chen Guodong. Although Ma Xing had no education, he only attended a private school for six years when his father Ma Hongchao was still alive, and he was proficient in writing.
He came into Chen Guodong's field of vision because of his literacy, but he never thought that he was actually a master at gathering information. He later became the first leader of the wind team, and now he has been in the capital for a long time.
Xie Jinglin was able to catch the Gyeonggi grain merchants off guard, but most of the credit was due to Ma Xing.
"My lord, pay your respects to the marshal!"
"Ninghai Kingdom has only one marshal, and that is Marshal Cheng. From now on, please call me General!"
Chen Guodong is a second-rank Dingguo general, so it's not wrong to call him general.
Chen Guodong asked straight to the point: "Are you ready? The commander is coming soon!"
"The six households on the left and right of Duke Haiguo's Mansion in Dongzhimen have all been bought by humble officials. The left, right, and front have been connected!"
Ma Xing took out a drawing from the secret room and said: "The construction craftsmen, a total of 653 people, were all sent to Luzon by my subordinates. No one knows this secret except my subordinates!"
"Very good!"
"Under the sect, four hundred and twenty Fire Dragon Izukui Three Types will be transported to the capital city and hidden in thirteen houses. These thirteen houses can all be attacked within the Forbidden City!"
"how did you do that?"
"It was really not easy to do in the past. Now Jingying only accepts money. Once the money is in place, they don't check it at all and just let it go!"
"It's just that the artillery is not easy to transport in!"
Chen Guodong asked again: "What big thing happened in Beijing recently?"
"Wu Zongda died unexpectedly!"
Ma Xing continued: "My subordinate bribed the autopsy co-author, Huang Wu, who testified that Wu Zongda was first knocked unconscious with poison, and then hung from the beam, pretending to commit suicide!"
Chen Guodong sneered: "They think they can turn their hands into clouds and turn their hands into rain!"
"However, their goal was almost achieved!"
"Yes, they completely destroyed the painstakingly constructed border defense lines. They colluded with foreign enemies such as Mongolia and Junggar, and spared no effort to destroy the Ming Dynasty!"
Chen Guodong said: "It's a pity, the commander-in-chief, if he doesn't allow it, they will never succeed!"
(End of chapter)
