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

Chapter 254

Chapter 253

Wu Shangzhi's news was relatively delayed and not accurate enough. On the land of thousands of square kilometers around Ta'er Lake, the 104th, 105th, and 106th regiments that had been taken out seemed to come again. These Zheng's recruits discovered their Wealth code, behead one level, reward five taels of silver, or five acres of land.

The fighting power of the natives of Luzon is far inferior to that of Jianshou, nor the colonial army of Spain or the Netherlands, so their rewards are not so high. If each person is rewarded with another [-] acres of land, I am afraid that it will not be enough to reward Luzon. Sailor Ning's.

Of course, Ning Haijun's army is only considered as adult men or women, but not limited to children.It can be regarded as Cheng Shijie's kindness.

The settlement work for the natives of Luzon is directly equated with the welfare benefits of Ning Haijun. After killing all the natives, the land left behind will be distributed to them soldiers for free, and the seized materials and wealth will also become Their welfare, so the eyes of these recruits are already red.

In the eyes of the recruits, who are these natives? They are like walking money.They serve as soldiers to eat food, train hard for a month, and the salary they can get is only one tael or five taels of silver.
After these three regiments swept across, there were no more natives around Lake Taal.

When Cheng Shijie and Wu Shangzhi arrived at the bank of Taer Lake, they saw a village with about 800 people. The village had been turned into ruins, and there were still some wooden houses with a little green smoke. There was a strong smell of barbecue, and several charred bodies could be vaguely seen in the ruins.

"These Zheng's soldiers... are too crazy, too cruel!"

Wu Shangzhi is still complaining to Cheng Shijie about the atrocities committed by the soldiers of the Zheng Group.

Cheng Shijie pointed to Cheng Shi beside him and said, "Cheng Shi!"

"Father handsome!"

"These corpses, get rid of them quickly!"

Cheng Shijie said: "The corpse can't be parked for too long, check it out, which army did this job, it's too rough, in the name of this commander, I will issue an order!"

"Yes, handsome father!"

Cheng Shi went to investigate and got the result soon.

"Report to Father Commander. After investigation, this matter was done by the Silianyue Chaoqun Division of the 101st Regiment!"

"Order to criticize Yue Chaoqun, commander of the 101th Company of the [-]st Regiment, and notify the entire army. The cleaning of the battlefield is not thorough enough. If the corpses are not incinerated and buried deep, it is easy to cause plague. The entire army must prevent this kind of thing from happening again! "

"It's my father!"

Cheng Shijie turned to look at Wu Shangzhi and said: "Committee Wu, you have also seen that this place has become a no-man's land now, and it is very close to Ta'er Lake. If there are a few ditches, you don't have to worry about flooding. It's a good place!"

All the way along the road from Manila to Batangas, it didn't take long to see a large number of indigenous captives under the watchful eye of the supervisor, starting to build roads, log, or dredge ditches.

This made Cheng Shijie a little strange. A veteran of the Zheng family introduced Cheng Shijie with a Hakka accent: "There is no one in this area!"

"Wait, what do you mean nobody is there?"

"There is no one left, that is, there is no one left, and everything has been wiped out!"

The veteran thought that Cheng Shijie was an aristocrat who wanted to buy land, so he introduced to Cheng Shijie: "Those monkeys hide in the mountains and forests and keep attacking us. It's so annoying. We will destroy all their strongholds and kill all those who dare to resist." Qingguang, who dared not resist, was sold to Xiyi as slaves, so now there are basically no people in the northern mountainous area."

Speaking of these creepy things, the veteran took it for granted, without any sense of guilt.

"Marshal, they must be restrained, if this continues!"

"There is no one here, let's form a town!"

"The commander-in-chief means..."

Wu Shangzhi also lost his compassion: "These lands...can be sold?"

As the so-called butt determines the head, Wu Shangzhi is not actually sympathetic to the aborigines, but because these aborigines are also human, and the Luzon Management Committee can receive more taxes because they have people.More than [-] people from the six regiments of Zheng's group were released, and they were massacred. I believe these indigenous people should know that Luzon has changed masters.

If they are smart, they will definitely pay taxes to the Luzon Executive Committee. With the tax, the Luzon Executive Committee can develop better. According to Cheng Shijie’s planning, Luzon wants to build schools, and all Chinese school-age children need to go to school, and it is Schooling is free, and the Luzon Executive Committee is naturally responsible for the cost of running the school.

As a member of the Executive Committee, it is natural to stand on the position of the Executive Committee when considering issues.

"It's natural. Unowned land is Luzon's land, and it's also the commander's land. In addition to reserving enough land for Ning Haijun and Ning Haijun's family, other land can be sold!"

Cheng Shijie did not make detailed statistics on how much arable land there is in Luzon. According to the data of later generations, the area of ​​arable land in the Philippines is more than 6000 square kilometers, which is almost equivalent to that of China.Although China's arable land is nominally twice as large as that of the Philippines, more than two-thirds of it is dry arable land, and faces severe water scarcity.

However, more than 30.00% of the entire Philippine area is usable arable land, and 80.00% of the arable land is two or even three types of arable land a year.

But the actual utilization rate is even higher than that of China, how could this make Cheng Shijie not salivate.

Wu Shangzhi asked: "Marshal, how do you sell this land?"

"One tael of silver for a good farmland!"

Cheng Shijie did not immigrate freely like the natives of Ming Dynasty, because in the next clearing process, a large amount of military expenditure will be required, and with the Ning Navy occupying Luzon, the Chinese who cannot get along in Nanyang must first choose to settle in Luzon. These Chinese All are rich.

Let them buy tens of thousands of acres of land with tens of thousands of taels of silver, and they will not have much burden.

Wu Shangzhi moved very quickly. The Civil Affairs Bureau of the Luzon Executive Committee began to measure the land that afternoon. Only the northwest of Taal Lake, that is, the newly planned Yatai Town in Luzon was newly released.Yatai Town is different from other towns in Ming Dynasty. It is horizontal and vertical. It is bounded by the Batangas official road. It is 53 kilometers long from north to south and [-] kilometers wide from east to west. The total area of ​​Yatai Town is [-] square kilometers, excluding hills. , lakes and primeval forests, the actual arable land area is about [-] mu of land.

These lands were marked by the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Executive Committee in three days from No. [-] to No. [-], ranging in size and area.

Wu Shangzhi and the executive committee began to bid in Luzon City. He adopted a block-based bidding method. Each piece of land was divided into thousands of acres or tens of thousands of acres, and the bid could be suppressed.

The first piece of land, more than 800 mu, was successfully bid by Yang Rui, a local Chinese in Luzon. His bid price was 800 taels, and he won the bid with an advantage of [-] taels.

The second piece of land was more than 5000 mu, which was acquired by Qin Wanli, a Chinese immigrant from Batavia. He bid [-] taels of silver, almost double the price.

The third piece, the fourth piece, the fifth piece...

The land released for the first time totaled 100 yuan, and the largest piece of land was bought by Cheng Shijie's cheap uncle Zhang Shi'an, who bought 8000 mu of land for 7 taels of silver.

For 53 mu of land, a total of more than 120 taels of silver was obtained, and the average price per mu of land was as high as two taels of silver.

As Yatai Town was packaged and sold, Shanyang Town, which was adjacent to Yatai Town, was resettled as Ning Haijun Tuntian Town. About [-] Chinese who had no assets and could not afford to buy land were reorganized into [-] Tuntians Baihusuo.

With the planning of the land, these [-] farm households also started farming. The first ones to enter the field were naturally the natives who were captured by the Ning Navy. These prisoners of war worked hard under the whip of the supervisor and contributed to the construction of Shanyang Town... ... Please make up your own imagination for that scene.

There are too many prisoners of war, and they are worthless. Similarly, the Chinese will naturally not be polite to those prisoners of war. They cannot bear heavy physical labor, and they die of injuries and diseases. They are buried and used to fertilize the fields.

Due to the day and night labor of the prisoners of war, the development of Shanyang Town was faster than that of Yatai Town, which was established earlier. When several plantations were just formed in Yatai Town, Shanyang Town had already completed wooden pavilions, at least [-] The houses of the remaining Chinese have been built.This kind of construction is not completed in one step, but developed slowly.

First build easy-to-build wooden houses to solve the problem of temporary residence. The prisoners of war began to collect stones and began to get busy building Shanyang Town.

Shanyang Town is absolutely insane when it comes to laboring prisoners of war. In just over half a month, more than 1000 people were forced to fertilize the land, plant rice for three seasons a year, vegetables for four seasons, and cut trees to dig mines. Those who did not want to work were all slaughtered. Fertile land, taking advantage of the hard work of these prisoners of war, Shanyang Town has developed rapidly, and within three years, this place will surely become Luzon's famous rice, sugar, and timber supply place!

When Liu Qingsong had six new regiments in his hands, the subsequent battle went more smoothly. In fact, it was no longer a battle, but turned into a one-sided massacre.

With mental arithmetic and unpreparedness, coupled with the advantage in equipment, Zheng's new recruits performed better and better in battle. As the new army's various departments became more and more proficient, Liu Qingsong decisively divided the troops, using each company as a unit , a total of 72 combat companies in six regiments, expanding rapidly like a big net.

"Damn, bad luck!"

Yue Chaoqun sighed a little, these aborigines' fighting power was too weak, although they captured a lot, but these aborigines were too poor, if they didn't like gold, what they seized would only be a pile of rags.

What made Yue Chaoqun even more troublesome was that he was criticized by the whole army, unless he made great contributions.Otherwise, there will be no chance of promotion within a year.

The fourth company has reduced its staff to 19 soldiers. Three soldiers died of infection after being accidentally bitten by leeches, five died of poisoning after being bitten by a poisonous snake, and nine soldiers died of being unable to control their waistbands. In fact, there were only two people who died in the battle under the law of the army.

"Pu Chi Pu Chi..."

Two recruits who couldn't control their belts were beheaded.

In front of the officers and men of the whole company, Yue Chaoqun pointed to the side of the road, and the group of ragged, disheveled native women said: "You are such an ugly and smelly woman, how can you talk about it, you are really worthless! "

Huang Liulang, who had been promoted to squad leader, asked cautiously: "Company commander, is this too harsh? It's not easy for brothers... I don't mind taking them as concubines!"

"You got kicked in the head by a donkey, killed someone's whole family, and still dare to sleep with them, how hearty are you?"

Yue Chaoqun pointed at these prisoners of war and said, "Selling them to the Dutch is not negotiable!"

"Yes!"

Huang Liulang asked: "Let's go next..."

"Keep going!"

Yue Chaoqun said: "We are going to cross the river. There are big snakes in the river. It is very dangerous. If you don't want to die, you must obey the discipline!"

Like poisonous snakes, boa constrictors are also a huge threat to the tropical rainforest. Venomous snakes use their venom to injure people. Boa constrictors eat them alive. Let alone humans, even larger wild animals cannot escape the hunting and killing of boa constrictors. Although this thing is huge , but there is no sound at all when moving in the rainforest, it is difficult to prevent.

Now Luzon poses the biggest threat to the Ning Navy is not the indigenous people, but these pythons or poisonous snakes.However, this situation soon changed.

"Judging from the equipment seized on the battlefield, these indigenous muskets have obviously increased!"

Liu Qingsong handed Cheng Shijie a Dutch-style musket.

Cheng Shijie is not interested in this kind of large-caliber smoothbore muzzle-loading flintlock. This is not the real development direction of muskets. In fact, the development of muskets and artillery is still in a vague state. Due to the high failure rate of bullets, The production cost is high, and in terms of economic benefits, solid shells are more economical.

And European countries began to develop the tactic of queuing and shooting with flintlock guns, which is the thin red line tactic used by the British Army to sweep the world. Cheng Shijie said: "Let Xie Jinglin give the Dutch a warning. If they don't stop this practice, they will face the consequences at their own risk. We Have the power to wait for revenge!"

The routine played by the Dutch is actually very simple, which is to use the sea route to transport weapons and equipment to Luzon Island, and arm the natives to fight against the Ning Navy.

But the problem is that the combat effectiveness of the natives is very low. Brain is a good thing, but the natives have almost no brains. Otherwise, they would not have been ruled by thousands of Spaniards for more than 300 years.

Cheng Shijie said: "Qingsong, let someone inform the Chinese from all over Nanyang to send their children to Luzon for training. Anyway, if a sheep is herded, so is a flock of sheep!"

"Just, will it..."

Liu Qingsong said: "Nanyang Chinese are not of one mind with us!"

Liu Qingsong didn't want to practice wedding dress magic.

"You have to trust our Ning Haijun's system!"

Cheng Shijie said with a faint smile: "We are doing business with the Chinese. Whether it is equipment, military uniforms, boots, or daily necessities, they are not used for free. What's more, we not only want to train their officers, but also to train them in the future. , also adopt the current mode!"

The so-called current model refers to the use of the newly formed army of the Zheng Group. At the regiment level, the officers of the Zheng Group are still retained. The squad level is to select soldiers from the army, and the company and battalion level are veterans of the Ning Navy. Assuming that even if Zheng Zhilong gave orders to these newly formed troops, he would not be able to influence these newly formed troops.

In the Luzon recruit training camp of the Ning Navy, the obedience training conducted is to require them to obey the instructor's instructions 100%, and the regimental-level officers of the Zheng Group do not have the ability to command troops. In the future, if these officers from the Zheng family If they don't wash off their bad habits and become real Ninghai officers, they will have no chance to support the army.

Even if the Chinese children learn from scratch, they may not learn to command the modern army right away. They can only accept the command of the instructors of Ning Haijun.

"Understood!"

"Instructors want to select our elite veterans, and political determination must be firm!"

Cheng Shijie believes that as long as the officers trained by the Ning Navy return to Nanyang, the Dutch will not be able to live in peace for another day.

With the smooth development of the training in Luzon and the clearing work, Cheng Shijie also returned from Luzon, accompanied by Zheng Fusong, the son of Zheng Zhilong, Shi Lang, the son of Shi Daxuan, Zheng Lian, the younger brother of Zheng Cai, Zheng Yi, the son of Zheng Zhihu, and Shi Tianfu, the son of Shi Daxuan. , including Cheng Shijie's eight cheap brothers-in-law.

Cheng Shijie went all the way northward smoothly, but when he arrived in Penghu, Cheng Shijie discovered that the Dutch still had five warships entrenched in Penghu.

Cheng Shijie directly gave Li Zhixiang an order to recover Penghu. In this battle, Li Zhixiang and Chen Dayong cooperated. Cheng Shijie went directly to the capital because the trip was too short.

After arriving in the capital, Cheng Shijie met with Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen invited Cheng Shijie, his brother-in-law, to a banquet. It was a private banquet with no outsiders, but Cheng Shijie was extremely depressed because Concubine Li Kang found out that Zhu Weiti was still intact, and Concubine Li Kang almost died of anger and cursed Chongzhen entrapped Zhu Weiti.

Emperor Chongzhen did not directly tell Cheng Shijie about the same or different rooms. However, Queen Zhou, the emperor's wife, and Zhang Yan, the emperor's wife, did not shy away from it, and directly bombarded Cheng Shijie indiscriminately.

However, Cheng Shijie could not refute it yet. After receiving Cheng Shijie's promise to give birth to a son as soon as possible, Cheng Shijie fled back to Liaodong.

When he arrived at the Ning Navy General Mansion, Cheng Shijie was immediately overwhelmed by the pile of papers. Fortunately, Cheng Shijie liked simplicity, and the emperor was easy to fool. A colorful article could fool him from east to west, but Cheng Shijie It's different, what he wants to look at is not beautiful words, but detailed data!
These data and materials were sorted out by Lin Xuzong, so they are clear at a glance.

At this time, the first item, as of February 800, the eighth year of Chongzhen, the total population of Liaodong exceeded 820 million, with a total of more than 14 people.Among them, there are more than [-] newborn babies. According to this number, Liaodong will usher in a new round of population explosion.

After more than four years of hard work, a total of more than 500 million mu of good land has been developed in Liaodong, of which the number of military farmland is more than [-] million mu, and the number of civilian farmland is as high as [-] million mu.

Last year, a total of 300 million mu of wheat was planted in Liaodong. Thanks to effective irrigation and sufficient fertilizer, the yield per mu reached a record 380 jin. But it was a bumper harvest, which even shocked the court.

In addition to sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, only cash crops, such as vegetables, flax, cotton and other cash crops reached 960 million mu, which is close to one-tenth of the total cultivated land area. With spring plowing in [-], the area of ​​cultivated land in Liaodong will surely hit a new high.

On average, two hundred catties of flax fiber are produced per mu.Compared with modern agriculture, this achievement is too far behind, but this is in the Ming Dynasty where there are no pesticides and even chemical fertilizers are pitifully scarce. Cheng Shijie is already satisfied with such an achievement.

Cheng Shijie just checked Liaodong's report and immediately returned to the posterity.The real reason why Cheng Shijie hurriedly returned to the later generations was because the daughter Cheng Jiayue's condition relapsed and she was in urgent need of treatment.

Cheng Jiayue's condition had already improved, and the doctor's suggestion was that if surgery is possible, try not to do surgery, because as long as there is surgery, there will be accidents.

After applying for a medical visa to the beautiful country through an intermediary, Cheng Shijie's plan to travel abroad was put on hold without restriction, but this time an accident happened.

The Guangming Kindergarten where Cheng Jiayue works was after school. An electric car of a foreign brand that came to pick up the children lost control and crashed into the kindergarten before leaving. The car hit the pillar of the gate and exploded. The accident killed two A total of four people died, including the child and the parents of the two children, including the owner himself.

However, Cheng Jiayue was one of the witnesses at the time. The tragic scenes on the scene greatly stimulated Cheng Jiayue's heart. After receiving treatment in the hospital, instead of getting better, there were signs of deterioration. Take my daughter to the beautiful country.

This time, Cheng Shijie no longer had to worry about money. For the sake of money, the intermediary company not only arranged for a translator, but also a guide to take a direct flight to Los Angeles.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), located in California, USA, is a non-profit-oriented comprehensive professional health science center.Cedars-Sinai is internationally recognized for decades of excellence in medical innovation and research.From advanced diagnostic tests and research into new cancer treatments, to heart transplants, brain surgery and innovative clinical trials.

There is no doubt that Cedars-Sinai is the first in the United States, and the medical resources are much stronger than Xiehe. Of course, there are many rich people in the world, and it is very difficult to make an appointment at Cedars-Sinai .

At first, to save money, Xiang Hui didn't apply for a passport, but found that Cheng Jiayue couldn't leave Xiang Hui, so he could only expedite the process. With the money in place, Cheng Shijie, his family of three and Xiang Hui arrived at Los Angeles International Airport smoothly.

When Cheng Shijie took Cheng Jiayue and his guide Li Siwei, they took a car from the airport to the hotel they booked.After the car entered Santa Monica Boulevard, the time was past eight o'clock in the evening local time, which made Cheng Shijie feel that there were almost no people on the street, and there were no cars, as if it was after twelve o'clock late at night.

Just as Cheng Shijie, Xiang Hui, and Cheng Jiayue fell asleep in a daze, he felt the car stop.

"what happened?"

Li Siwei and the driver communicated in English.

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Cheng, there was a car accident ahead!"

"is it serious?"

"It seems serious!"

About one or two kilometers away, there was a faint fire, and the air was filled with the smell of burning rubber.Cars on the avenue had to stop on the side of the road. After all, the flames more than ten meters away were quite scary.

After an unknown amount of time, a motorcycle slowly approached from behind. A motorcycle driver with a helmet on his head and no visible skin color gestured towards the car to lower the window.

The driver obediently moved forward.

"My grass!"

Cheng Shijie immediately realized that this is a characteristic of the beautiful country, the robbery by the motorcycle gang.

He quickly pushed Xiang Hui under the seat, lowered his body, and covered Cheng Jiayue's ears with his hands at the same time: "Jiayue, don't be afraid, Dad will protect you!"

While talking, Li Siwei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, screamed loudly: "Sir, don't shoot, I'll give you the money...we'll give you the money!"

Li Siwei seemed to have prepared it long ago, picked up stacks of scattered US dollar bills, about more than 100 US dollars: "All of these are for you!"

The motorcyclist took the money and drove towards the next car.

However, at this moment, the driver of the BMW in front must have a bad temper, and even shot at the motorcycle driver with an automatic pistol. In just a few minutes, more than ten bullets shot into the motorcycle driver's body .

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