I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 114 We die and they can live
Chapter 113

Although Xu Guangqi told Sun Yuanhua in the letter, let Sun Yuanhua find a way to put aside the past with Cheng Shijie, so that he could advance and retreat with the Western Fa Party.

Although he didn't mention the marriage at all, he was concerned about Cheng Shijie's singleness, which is very telling.

The Xifa Party now actually has two or three kittens, apart from the party leader Xu Guangqi, the second is Sun Yuanhua, the capable leader, and the third is Chen Zilong, the son of Chen Suowen, the head of the Ministry of Industry.

But the problem is, Chen Zilong is only 25 years old, ten years younger than Cheng Shijie. He has a daughter named Chen Xin, but she is only six years old. Even if Chen Zilong, 25, wants to be Cheng Shijie's father-in-law, he does not have such an old daughter.

As for Sun Yuanhua, he does have three sons, the eldest son He Ding, the second son He Dou, and the third son He Jing. The youngest son He Jing is unmarried, but the problem is that he has no daughter.

Xu Guangqi has sent Chen Zilong to Liaodong. This is because Xu Guangqi felt that the Ming Dynasty was affected by the cold weather of the Little Ice River. He wanted to breed new crops that can withstand drought and cold. To realize this wish, Liaonan is the best Experimentally.

First of all, southern Liaoning has a large amount of land. Even Dalian City in later generations still has 52 million mu of arable land, including about 50 mu of paddy fields.

Secondly, compared with Shanghai, the climate in southern Liaoning is colder and has less rainfall. The climate here is more similar to that in most parts of the north.

Finally, there are no civilian farms here, only military settlements.Because Mintian will consider its own interests, and will not accept fresh crops lightly, worrying that if the harvest fails, it will suffer heavy losses, and Cheng Shijie's military settlement is used as an experimental field. households will plant what crops.

This is also what Xu Guangqi likes most about southern Liaoning.

The influence of the Western Fa Party and Xu Guangqi himself in the north is very limited. The influence of the Western Fa Party is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangnan, while the south of the Yangtze River is less affected by the Little Ice River. Xu Guangqi, an agricultural expert, cannot find a test field in the north.

It's really a big joke in the world.

This time, Xu Guangqi asked Chen Zilong to take more than 100 agricultural experts from the West Fa Party to the north. Once Cheng Shijie turned his back on him, not only Chen Zilong would fall into the tiger's mouth, but the entire West Fa Party would suffer a devastating blow.

Therefore, in this case, Sun Yuanhua had to take risks.

"Dacheng, get ready, I will go to sea on the next day and go to Jinzhou!"

"Master Futai, the students think..."

"what?"

"Students think that Mr. Futai should write a letter to Marshal Cheng first, to find out what he has to say!"

Sun Yuanhua nodded: "That's very good!"

……

"In the fifth year of Chongzhen, 1632 A.D., on the sixth day of June, the Yellow River burst in Mengjin, killing and injuring countless soldiers, civilians and merchants. The people migrated, begging everywhere, and had nowhere to go, so they gathered and rebelled."

Although there were a few snowfalls in southern Liaoning in winter, the amount of snow was not too large, and the snow accumulation did not exceed [-] centimeters.

In Cheng Shijie's view, there might be a drought in southern Liaonan in Chongzhen's five years. This terrible little ice river climate can really drive the farmers who depend on the sky to live crazy.

The Mengjindu breach of the Yellow River, this disaster-stricken Henan, will be full of famine and sorrow again.Cheng Shijie saw the major events in the five years of Chongzhen, and now the history has been completely changed by him. The Kong Youde Rebellion that turned the whole Shandong upside down has disappeared.

Cheng Shijie doesn't know whether history will be played out in the same time and space as in the original time and space. At least he knows a little bit. Although he killed Kong Youde in advance, the encyclopedias and history books of later generations have not changed.

Cheng Shijie realized that the end of the Ming Dynasty he came to should not be the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, but a parallel time and space, that is to say, what he did as a butterfly in another world would not affect future generations.

He is relieved of this, he is really afraid that the space-time turbulence will be produced, and the history of later generations will be messed up.

After the new year, it is the Lantern Festival.

After the Lantern Festival, southern Liaoning has undergone intense preparations for spring plowing.

However, the problem is that the trees want to be quiet but the wind does not stop. Cheng Shijie wants to have a good spring plowing, but Jiannu is not willing.Although Huang Taiji had no intention of sending troops to retaliate against Ning Haijun, as the fifteenth elder brother among the three brothers of Dorgon, the famous general who built slaves, and the proud son of heaven, Duoduo, the owner of Zhengbai Banner. (Note that after the death of Huang Taiji, he changed the flag with his brother Dorgon and became the owner of the inlaid white flag)
News of Azig's defeat in southern Liaoning spread to Shenyang.Azige became the laughing stock of the Manchu Banners, which made Dodo ashamed, because as the youngest of the three Dorgon brothers, under the intentional connivance of Huang Taiji, in Dodo's heart, the fat old eighth is not As scary as Azige felt, in Duduo's heart, the fat old Bahuang Taiji was an amiable elder, as long as he could win the battle, there would be no problem with or without his orders.

Of course, this was the result of Huang Taiji's intentional favoritism, which gave Duoduo the illusion.Huang Taiji was too strict with Azig, harsh in his harshness.Just like in the first year of Chongzhen, Duoduo got married.As the eldest of one mother and three brothers, Azig held a wedding ceremony for his younger brother Doduo. What kind of mistake is this?
Huang Taiji used Azige to hold Duoduo's wedding without authorization, and expelled Azige from the title. The young and ignorant Duoduo thought that it was Huang Taiji who gave him face and valued him.

In fact, before Nurhachi died, there was a clear instruction: Azig is the owner of the inlaid yellow banner, and Duoduo is the owner of the Zhenghuang banner. To Dorgon.After Huang Taiji became King Khan, he exchanged the two yellow flags with the two white flags, and Duoduo became the banner owner of the Zhengbai Banner. At this time, Duoduo was still the stronger banner owner of the Eight Banners.

Duoduo is not only the owner of the Zhengbai Banner, but also inherited 45 cattle records from Nurhachi's pro-army. Duoduo, the owner of the Zhengbai Banner, has a total of 500 cattle records.In other banners, a Jiala Ezhen has five Niulu under his jurisdiction, that is, five times three hundred, a total of [-] people.

However, Jialaerzhen of Zhengbai Banner has nine Niulu under its jurisdiction, and the number of people is nine times three hundred, a total of 700 people, and a total of 500 people in the whole banner.Zhengbai Banner has nearly half more troops than Xiangbai Banner.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, the sixth year of Tiancong, and the eleventh day of the first month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, a high-level military meeting was held within Zhengbai Banner. The participants included five Jiala Ezhen and 45 Niulu Ezhen from Zhengbai Banner.

Jiannu didn't have so many rules at this time, and the first officer of the Zhengbai Banner, who was in charge of reconnaissance and intelligence, reported to Niulu Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen.

"...Last year around the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Ming Manzi's Dongjiang army arrived at Shicheng Castle, but they did not station in Shicheng Castle. Instead, they set up defenses along the mountain road with their backs against Shicheng Castle. The spies tried to approach their camp but failed. , the defense of the camp is much tighter than that of the Guanning Army, so it can be concluded that it is undoubtedly the army of the Dongjiang family. According to reports from informants lurking in the Dongjiang Army, it seems that the leader of the army is not Huanglong himself, but the adopted son of the former general of the Dongjiang Army Mao Wenlong Mao Chenglu, Mao Chenglu doesn't have that many soldiers, it's still unknown..."

"The strength of the Dongjiang army seems to be between 3 and 14. Most of them are infantry and there are not many horses. Even so, this Dongjiang army is well equipped and has a large number of strong crossbows. Susa led 14 People approached for reconnaissance, but were discovered by the other side, covered by crossbow arrows, Susa's troops had [-] people, only Susa was seriously injured, so he could not get close to observe, so the exact number is unknown, and can only be roughly estimated based on the size of the camp. Judging from the weapons and armor in the hands of the sentinels, the equipment is quite sophisticated, and its level is better than that of the defenders of the castles in Guanning."

"After the Dongjiang army arrived at the stone castle, they kept repairing the city gates and reorganizing their defenses day and night. They pushed along the line, built snow walls, dug trenches, and set up arrow towers. Advantage……"

Duoduo coughed and said, "Isn't the Dongjiang army just an army of beggars?"

"It should be supported by Cheng Shijie, the commander of the Ning Navy!"

Zhu Weiyan, the Han staff under Duduo's command, thought for a while and said, "This Ninghai Cheng Shijie launched the Dengzhou City mutiny in late October. He is the mastermind of this mutiny. Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Lai Lai, also adopted the method of providing relief with work. It is said that the people of Dengzhou prefecture praised him quite a lot. So, it was later renamed Ninghai City, the specific number of troops is unknown, the combat power is not good, and the equipment is not good..."

Hearing this, Dodo's face turned cold.

Damn, the military strength is unknown, the combat power is unknown, and the equipment is unknown. Doesn't it mean that nothing has been said?

Seeing Duoduo's face change, Chu Weiyan hurriedly explained: "Master, this Cheng Shijie was originally unknown, and he was just a mere thousand households. There are not eight hundred people like him, but there are one thousand, so... there is nothing about this person." information..."

Da Yinbu went on to say: "Ning's navy's army defending Tieshan Fort, like the Dongjiang Army in Shicheng Castle, did not defend the city, but camped along the outside of the North City. Judging by the camp, there should be tens of thousands of troops. .”

Nahamuru, who is as famous as Batulu of the Zhengbai Banner and Batulu of the Bordered Yellow Banner, said: "The Ming army divides its troops into two places to guard the pass, and it is time to send troops south to test the truth..."

Ye He and Hu'erha immediately objected: "That's not right, it's the season of mating and breeding of cattle and horses, and there are not many troops to be dispatched. If a large army is dispatched, the horses will lose a lot, and the number of soldiers is useless. It will be easy for them to take advantage of it. "

Duoduo immediately stood up and waved his hands and said: "Is there still a need to discuss this matter? The battle in southern Liaoning is inevitable. Brother Twelve lost face in southern Liaoning, and Ben Bayle held a heavy army, but pretended to be deaf and dumb. What do the other Six Flags think of our three brothers?"

In Duo Duo's eyes, he didn't care how much property he seized, how many Ming troops he killed, how many slaves he captured, and he fought this battle with only one purpose, to find his brother back.

In order to accumulate strength to fight this battle, Duoduo ignored the breeding of livestock in the Zhengbai Banner and disregarded everyone's opposition. He insisted on gathering five Jiala Ezhen and 45 cattle records in the Zhengbai Banner. A Niulu sent 150 troops, including [-] soldiers and [-] war slaves.

Zhengbai Banner Qiding dispatched 250 cavalry, 1 war slaves, and the cannon fodder Han army in Lishu Zhengbai Banner, a total of more than [-] troops, marching southward.

This news was immediately reported to Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji just nodded: "Understood..."

Then there is no more then.

Huang Taiji is a ceiling-level player in political struggle. The young Duoduo was provoked by him in twos and threes, and he started to get angry and carried himself away.

Although Huang Taiji is now suspected of killing people with a knife, the problem is that Duoduo has 6000 Niulu elites, all of whom are Nurhachi's guards. However, it cannot be used by him.

For an emperor, a hero, a person who cannot be used by him is disloyal, even if he comes from the Aixinjueluo family, he can still be killed.

……

At the same time, after the five-year Lantern Festival in Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie had nearly [-] more households in the fields, which made Cheng Shijie a little difficult.

What he really didn't expect was that now not only the people from Liaodong crossed the sea and arrived in southern Liaoning to join him, but even the people from Shandong, Tianjin, and Guide Mansion in Henan came to join him.

Speaking of this matter, it was still Song Xiance's fault.

In order to make Cheng Shijie famous, this guy took advantage of the contacts he formed when he was in the mixed society, and started to build momentum for Cheng Shijie before Cheng Shijie arrived in southern Liaoning.

At that time, the Ning Navy had only 63 garrison farms with hundreds of households, and the Ning Navy had less than 2 horses. If they wanted to gain a foothold in southern Liaoning, let alone building slaves, even the Dongjiang Army would have difficulty coping with any crooked thoughts.

Song Xiance successively recruited more than 100 quacks to trick a family into migrating to southern Liaonan at the price of one tael of silver, allowing these quacks to create momentum and spread rumors.

At first, the effect of the campaign was not good, but when Cheng Shijie fulfilled his promise, he distributed homesteads, fields for reclamation, and rules to the immigrants in Liaodong, and even provided seeds and farming tools. Adult men are paid one bucket of grain per day, women are paid seven or eight buckets of grain, and the tax is only three buckets per mu. This news made the surviving people in Liaodong, who were originally on the sidelines, even the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army The family members of Ning Haijun, as well as the people who did not want to go to Ning Haijun, mobilized to go to southern Liaoning.

Since the third day of the first lunar month, the number of people arriving in southern Liaoning has exceeded a thousand, and it will increase every day. Although Cheng Shijie still has food, the problem is that the construction of the factory and the manpower to start work are temporarily saturated. God, if these people are allowed to eat idle food, those working people and immigrants will definitely not be happy, and they will have opinions.

Why can they eat and drink for free, we need to work?
Under such circumstances, Cheng Shijie temporarily adjusted the deployment, selected the young and strong among the refugees, and compiled them into the 23 households of the project. Until the [-]rd of the first lunar month, a total of [-] young and strong households were newly compiled. , each hundred households distributed twenty carts, fifty sledgehammers, fifty shovels, all the way north.

Cheng Shijie asked the Ning Navy and the Dongjiang Army to go north from Tieshanbao and Shicheng Castle respectively, and wait for the opportunity to occupy Fuzhou and Haizhou. These more than 200 projects and hundreds of households are advancing all the way, repairing the roads along the way, abandoning the castle, and bringing the future The place where the decisive battle with Jiannu may be moved northward.

Pushing the flames of war away from Gaizhou and Jinzhou can also avoid causing panic among the people in the village.

On January 29, the fifth year of Chongzhen, in Bingyugou, eighty miles north of Fuzhou City.

This is the territory of Zhuanghe City, Dalian City in later generations. According to legend, Xue Rengui once set up camp here during the Tang Dynasty's Eastern Expedition.Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty came here to appease the army. Seeing that this place is indeed a place where "one man guards the gate, ten thousand men cannot open it", he named it "Bingyu", which was later passed down to Bingyu.

Although the sound is the same, the meaning is completely different.

The military strategic position here is very important. Since this place is mountainous, there are only two roads from north to south. One passes through Xiuyan City in the east of Fuzhouwei and Phoenix City in the northeast of Fuzhouwei. These are the routes from Central Liao to South Liao The second of the four passages.

Phoenix City is Fuzhou Wei Fenghuang Mountain guarding thousands of households, and it is also Cheng Shijie's current hometown in name.

Cheng Shijie was very courageous. He took advantage of Huang Taiji's time when he had no time to take care of southern Liaoning, and occupied the territory step by step. If Xiuyan City and Phoenix City were blocked, even if Jiannu sent troops, he could only stop here.

If the defense line can be stabilized in Fuzhou, Cheng Shijie can start to develop Gaizhou.

Eighty projects and hundreds of households, with a total of nearly 8000 people, then arrived at Baxiuyan City and Phoenix City to carry out emergency repairs to these two abandoned castles, and at the same time dredge this section of nearly [-] miles of dilapidated official roads.

The Dongjiang Army entered Haizhou and occupied the central and southern part of the Liaohe Plain. Its purpose was the same as the strategic purpose of the Ning Navy, which was to push the place of future battles to the Liaohe Plain.

These Liaodong people who have just arrived in southern Liaoning need a group of dozens of people to drag huge stone rollers to compact and flatten the roads that have been in disrepair for a long time at the crossing of the road, and to restore the abandoned fortresses along the way , to re-dred the ditches that had become silted and rotted.

More than 200 projects and hundreds of households, all the way forward, all the way to construction, until February 24th in the fifth year of Chongzhen, along the Phoenix City, Xiuyan City, Shiqiao Fort, Songlin Fort, Xiama Fort, Shimen Fort, Xinghai City, Gangu There are a total of [-] castles connecting the city, the ancient castle, Wangtai Town, and Haizhou City.

These castles have basically undergone simple repairs and have a preliminary defensive function. As more and more territories are seized, the strength of Ning's navy is also more dispersed.

Cheng Shijie's current strategic layout in southern Liaoning is actually the same as Sun Chengzong's. He builds fortresses relying on dangerous terrain all the way, and advances slowly. The fortress has become an impenetrable fortress, and then continue to move forward.

To put it bluntly, Cheng Shijie bullied Jiannu for their poor ability to attack fortifications. Jiannu conquered Guangning, Tieling, and Shenyang cities by relying on spies.

Sun Chengzong pinpointed the pulse of Jiannu, and adopted this method of building a stronghold to fight a dull battle, using the fortress group to squeeze the living space of Jiannu little by little, forcing Jiannu to take the initiative to attack the strong fortress.

With Jianu's poor performance in previous battles, even if he can be defeated, a lot of people will have to die. How many people are Jiannu?Where can withstand such consumption?
This is also a no-brainer, although Ning Haijun is not like other Ming armies. The other Ming armies have been defeated by Jiannu, and have long lost the courage to fight against Jiannu. useless.

It's okay to let them defend the city, and go out to fight in the field?Believe it or not they tied you up first?Sun Chengzong had no choice but to use this stupid method.

Cheng Shijie actually didn't want to learn from Sun Chengzong. If he had tens of thousands of cavalry, he would definitely fight Jiannu to the end, and he would never die. Invincible, two-on-one, can't beat Jiannu, this has been tested in practice.

In this case, Cheng Shijie had no other choice.

Although the infantry of the Ning Navy already possessed the strength of the cavalry, the problem is that the infantry will always be at a disadvantage when facing the cavalry.

As long as Jiannu sees the intensive firepower of Ning Haijun's thunderbolts, will they still charge up?
The answer is yes, unless Jiannu's brain is caught by a door, or kicked by a donkey, they will charge against the hail of bullets.

Since the cavalry of the Ning Navy did not form an oppressive advantage over Jiannu, Cheng Shijie could only adopt this method, using the fortress tactics to advance step by step, and take the initiative back from Jiannu's hands. It is best to force Jiannu to come Fight a tough fight that they are least good at.

In this way, a new problem has been brought about. The strength of the Ning Navy is seriously insufficient.

"Army expansion!"

Shen Mingyu pointed to the standard 260 newly renovated castles along the Haizhouwei and Fuzhouwei lines on the map and said: "The 120 castles along this line must be stationed with troops. Even if each castle has [-] troops stationed in one division, it will take ten Two divisions, [-] people."

The entire army of the Ning Navy has more than 2 horses, and all of them are soldiers, but the problem is that the navy troops account for more than one-third of the quota, and there are more than 1 cavalry, and Cheng Shijie's six guards. The company has [-] troops.

In fact, the number of infantry soldiers in the Ning Navy is only two capitals on the left and right, more than 1 people.If another 120 people were deployed, the field strength of the entire army would be only 8000 troops.

Although 8000 troops is a lot, the problem is that Jiannu has eight banners, and any one of them has more than 500 troops. Once there is a fight, Ning Haijun's chances of winning are not high.

What's more, the base camp of Jinzhou City, as well as Gaizhou City, Haizhou City, and Fuzhou City must also stay behind. In the case of further division of troops, the strength of the Ning Navy is really not enough.

Until now, Cheng Shijie also realized that something was wrong with Ning Haijun.

Of course, this problem is not big.

Ning Haijun is a field army that focuses on combat. In the past, Ning Haijun did not need to defend the base camp of Ninghai City, because there was no bandit who would not open his eyes, learn from Qin Wu, and take the initiative to attack Ning Haijun.

But Jiannu is different. Jiannu is not afraid of Ning Haijun. He goes straight to the palace and hits Huanglong. This is also Jiannu's habitual method of using troops.

Not to mention the heartlands like Jinzhou and Gaizhou, as long as Jianshou was given a chance, they would dare to fight even the city of Beijing.

"Expand the army, must expand the army!"

Zhang Yu also wanted to expand the army. After all, Cheng Shijie's bodyguard bureau had 200 people drawn from the right capital, and the right capital was originally smaller than the left capital, and now it is even smaller.

Zhou Yandong sneered and said: "It's easy for you to say, do you know how much money we spent in December last year? It was more than 8 taels of silver. Our Ning Haijun's foundation is weak, and the Tuntian Army has no income. Expenses, land reclamation and water conservancy, the cost of the state capital is getting tighter and tighter!"

After arguing for a while, Admiral Zhongning realized a serious problem, and they looked at Cheng Shijie in unison: "I don't know what the commander-in-chief wants?"

"Military expansion is imperative. As for military spending..."

Cheng Shijie said solemnly: "Our Ning Haijun's rules, when you have no money, go grab a ticket!"

"But Jian slaves are also poor now..."

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly: "This is actually not a problem. Our Ning Haijun can reclaim at least 300 million mu of land this year. Even if one mu of land receives three buckets of tax and grain, there will be 30 shi. If we buy some from the people, we can be self-sufficient in terms of food. Self-sufficiency requires only one premise. We must block Jiannu in the front line of Phoenix City, Xiuyan City, Shiqiao Fort, and Songlin Castle. There is also a problem, it will take at least a few months for the new army to form a fighting force, Jiannu probably won't give us time..."

"What does the handsome mean..."

"This commander plans to set up the Commander Division of the Ning Navy's garrison capital, which is the third capital of our Ning Navy's infantry force. You guys look down on Jiannu too much. Put one division in each town. You are looking down on Jiannu! "

Cheng Shijie pondered over his words while thinking: "My commander's plan is that the Ning Navy will be divided into two systems, field combat and garrison. There are a total of 750 people directly under the army, and there is only one garrison commander. The new garrison capital has [-] bureaus under its jurisdiction!"

The generals burst into joy.

Since then, the Ning Navy has expanded its army by 1000 to [-] people.

Cheng Shijie went on to say: "The other is the Youdu Division. The Youdu Division is not satisfied with the staff. Now we will run it together. We will recruit another 500 people, so that the left and right divisions will have the same staffing, and all the Dusi will have 800 people!"

Having said that, Cheng Shijie looked at Song Xiance next to him.

As Cheng Shijie's eyes fell on him, Song Xiance quickly understood what Cheng Shijie meant.

There are more than [-] Dongjiang Army in southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie is ready to pluck the wool.

He has been raising the Dongjiang Army for more than two months. Although Cheng Shijie has the power to control the Dongjiang Army, he does not give these Dongjiang Army a name. .

Now it's Song Xiance's turn to go out and talk to the generals of the Dongjiang Army in private. As long as they are not stupid, these soldiers of the Dongjiang Army will choose their own way.

In later generations, there is another saying called "free referendum".

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Wangtai Town is located in the transition zone between the foothills and the plains of Haizhou, with a broad-leaf-shaped terrain.The terrain is high in the east and low in the west.The terrain includes low mountains, hills, and plains.

In Wangtai Town at this time, more than [-] soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were building fortifications along the valley.

They heated the stones one by one, and then poured cold water on them. The stones would expand under the principle of thermal expansion and contraction, and then crack to form a piece of stone. Materials, mixed into triadic soil, rammed into a city wall.

Shang Keyi, the general of the Dongjiang Army who was in charge of guarding Watchtower Town.

"Woooo..."

When the horn sounded for dinner, these soldiers of the Dongjiang Army hurriedly put away their tools and began to line up. They first went to wash their hands in front of the wooden basin prepared by the cooking soldiers. Of course, there was hot water in it, and each team was assigned to a basin.

Soldiers of the Dongjiang Army who had washed their hands quickly assembled, lined up, and then went forward one by one with lunch boxes to receive the meals.

The Dongjiang Army’s food is the same as that of Ning Haijun’s. There are no miscellaneous grains or old grains. They are all white flour steamed buns or steamed buns, as well as rice. Natural without additives or added bleach, healthier.

Every soldier has different tastes, but meat is everyone's favorite. Almost more than [-]% of the soldiers like to eat steamed buns stuffed with mutton. These mutton are harvested from Xie Jinglin.

He brought a caravan, salt, tea, iron pot, briquette stove and other supplies to the vicinity of Dandong, and traded with the slaves there. This winter, many sheep, cattle, and horses froze to death in Jiannu. At a low price, these frozen mutton were bought at a price slightly more expensive than sheepskin.

Sheepskin can be made into leather clothing, leather boots, mutton and beef become the meat in the mouths of Dongjiang Army or Ning Navy soldiers. Of course, it is cold now, so there is no need to worry about these meats going bad. There are pure natural refrigerators in Liaodong.

Those who love steamed buns get steamed buns, those who love steamed buns get steamed buns, and those who love rice get rice.They spread large sheets of mulberry oil paper on the ground, and twelve people sat together in a group, with radishes, salted fish, and mutton stewed with cabbage in the middle, and when everyone arrived, they began to gobble it up.

"Hey, brother, have you heard? Marshal Cheng is going to recruit troops!"

"Recruiting?"

"Well, Ning Haijun's treatment is better than our Dongjiang Army's!"

Some soldiers of the Dongjiang Army pointed to the food in front of them and said, "It's better than this, how could it be better? Landlord Lao Cai is no more than this kind of food, right?"

"We eat the same as Ning Haijun, that is..."

"It's just what..."

"It's just that they have military pay. Ordinary soldiers have one or two taels of silver per month, captains one or two or three dollars, sentry chiefs one or two or five dollars, and hundreds of dollars are more..."

"we……"

"The military salary is only a small head, and the big head is their reward, it's too high!"

"How high..."

"Beheading Jiannu, one head, 50 taels of silver!"

Many soldiers of the Dongjiang Army disagreed.Because they knew that Jiannu's head was not easy to cut off, and it was not their credit for cutting off the head.

"Ning Haijun is different. They can reward 50 taels of silver, or [-] acres of land for cutting off the head of a slave!"

"what!"

"Fifty acres of land?"

These Dongjiang troops couldn't sit still.

"Also, Ning Haijun is injured and treated, and there are three taels, five taels, and ten taels of silver for soup and medicine!"

"Even if you are unlucky, if you die on the battlefield, you will be paid 20 taels of funeral expenses, and the family can share a hundred acres of land. This is the biggest difference!"

"Besides, Marshal Cheng is different from other generals. He spits out a nail and rewards him as he says, without any adulteration. Let me tell you, a cousin of mine, when he was lucky in Shandong, he was like After joining Marshal Cheng as a soldier, guess what's going on now?"

"How about it?"

"He now has more than 1000 acres of land under his name!"

"Bragging, even if one head of Jiannu is 50 taels of silver, how many heads can reward more than 1000 mu of land? It takes more than 20. Is your cousin Lu Bu? Or Zhao Zilong?"

"My cousin is an artilleryman of the Ninghai Navy. His cannons were accurate, and he killed more than 20 people with one shot..."

Shang Keyi is different from ordinary soldiers. He has an independent tent and does not have to do the work himself. Although it is also meat buns, the meat buns eaten by ordinary soldiers are luckily able to see a little bit of shredded meat, while Shang Keyi's meat buns , that is the real meat bun, one bite down, it is all lamb, not even cabbage, only some chopped green onion.

After drinking a large pot of mutton soup and killing four big meat buns, Shang Keyi felt something was wrong. Every time the soldiers outside ate, the scene was like thousands of pigs eating crazily. Why are they so quiet now? ?
As a veteran of the Dongjiang Army, Shang Keyi immediately realized that something was wrong. The soldiers mutinied?

He hurriedly picked up the waist saber that was placed beside him. It was a hundred-refined steel saber that Cheng Shijie had given to the Dongjiang Army.

His armor is not ordinary, it is the heavy armor of Jiannu white armor, basically it can ignore knives and arrows, unless it is attacked by blunt objects such as hammers and axes, otherwise, the defensive ability of this heavy armor Pretty wow.

Shang Keyi came out of the tent with the Mo Dao, and saw countless Dongjiang army soldiers kneeling outside the tent, and these soldiers just knelt silently.

Shang Keyi asked puzzledly: "What are you doing?"

"General Shang, please do me a favor and lead the brothers to a way out!"

"That's right, General Shang, you can take us to Marshal Cheng!"

"General Shang, Marshal Cheng is from Liaodong. If you don't follow Marshal Cheng, let's follow Marshal Huang. Isn't your arm turned away?"

"General Shang..."

Facing this situation, Shang Keyi was not in a hurry. After all, he had experienced multiple mutinies by soldiers of the Dongjiang Army. He searched the crowd, and as long as he found the leading officer and killed him, the matter would calm down.

Shang Keyi looked at the general manager beside him: "Du Hui, you picked the head?"

Du Hui got up: "It's me..."

"Shang thinks he's not mean to you..."

"The general saved my life three times!"

Du Hui said with tears: "General Shang, we are neighbors. As you know, there are 47 members of our Du family, and now I am the only one left, a younger brother who was beaten into a fool, and a lame old lady. My life It's not a pity to die, but who will take care of my mother, my son is only five years old, as long as we vote for Marshal Cheng, in the future when my brother dies, Marshal Cheng will help him to support his mother and son, they can still live, and our old Du's family will not lose their incense , Brothers don't ask much, please General Shang..."

PS: I originally planned to update this chapter last night, but I fell asleep before finishing it. I have been struggling recently, so I had to update [-] words, and there is another chapter below.

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