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

Chapter 264 Dad Needs You For An Experiment
Chapter 263

There are no permanent enemies, no permanent friends, only long-term interests.

In Cheng Shijie's view, it was the development of Liaodong that had aroused the vigilance of Emperor Chongzhen, so he tested Cheng Shijie by changing the Liao king's title and Zhang Yan accepting Cheng Jiayue as his adopted daughter.

"Cheng Shuai, what do you mean..."

Cheng Shijie said with a faint smile: "I'm tired. If His Majesty thinks he can manage the affairs of the Liao Mansion well, then I don't need to be the governor!"

Gao Qiqian wanted to see Cheng Shijie's anger, unwillingness, dissatisfaction and other emotions on Cheng Shijie's face, but the problem was that there was only a faint smile on Cheng Shijie's face, no hysteria, gnashing of teeth, and no anger.

This not only did not let Gao Qiqian breathe a sigh of relief, but made him feel anxious.As the supervisor of the Ning Navy, although Gao Qiqian is not usually in Liaodong, in fact, he has always been watching the development of Liaodong.

Now Liaodong has built two cement roads in the east and west. These hard cement roads can ignore the rainy weather and can carry a carriage weighing several thousand catties. He has also witnessed the miracles created by too many technologies in Liaodong. Four-wheeled carriages, precise bearings and gears, machine tools driven by water, pesticides that frighten many pests, screw pumps that can pump water to a height of several feet...these are all related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. Generations benefit?
There are also agriculture and engineering, as well as mathematics, geometry, and chemistry, and... which subject cultivates talents that are not the cornerstone of a strong country?Now he just hates that there are too few people who understand this, so that all this can only be spread in a small circle in Liaodong in a short period of time, and cannot be extended to the whole country.

The current situation in Liaodong is not due to Cheng Shijie alone, but more than 800 million Liaodong people work together to run the business from dawn to dusk. Seeing Liaodong's rapid prosperity, everyone feels a sense of accomplishment in their hearts.

Of course, in the process of developing Liaodong, Liaodong has also produced solid supporters. These supporters are headed by Ning Navy officers and soldiers. There are no privileges attached to the military meritorious title, but there are many fields rewarded.

Now there are at least tens of thousands of landlords in Liaodong. These landlords are different from the landlords in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. These landlords are not like the landlords in the two capitals and thirteen provinces.

Almost all the landowners in Liaodong are fierce soldiers of the Ning Navy, and they are also hardcore supporters of Cheng Shijie. If the imperial court wants to touch the cheese of Liaodong, they will definitely not agree.

The second group is businessmen, or bold people. They also made a lot of money in the development of Liaodong.The most important thing is the officials of the Liaodong Management Committee.

In the past two years, Liaodong's finances have had a lot of surplus, and they have been given bonuses during the Chinese New Year. These are all legitimate incomes. Although they are not as exaggerated as the three-year Qing Zhifu and one hundred thousand snowflakes, it is easy to maintain a decent life. They enjoy this kind of sense of accomplishment that the common people really support them while living a good life.

It's all right now, Liaodong has become rich, and some people are jealous, and they start to poke their knives and forks over.They will also object, and it is estimated that they will also use Liaodong thinking to solve problems.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't understand the thinking of Liaodong people, but Gao Qiqian knew that Liaodong is very tough now, and when he can do it, he will never make any noise.

Seeing Cheng Shijie's silence, he was unmoved at all, and Gao Qi vaguely understood something.As a human spirit who followed the emperor's side, Gao Qiqian had a clear understanding of human nature.

Once at the level of Cheng Shijie, loyalty is mutual, the emperor gives the minister enough face, and the minister gives the emperor enough face, if there is a problem between the two parties, the result will be fatal.

Cheng Shijie ignored Gao Qiqian and served tea to the guests.

Gao Qiqian was very helpless: "Cheng Shuai, please be safe and don't be impatient, our family will return to the capital immediately to find out what's going on!"

Gao Qiqian didn't want to lose Cheng Shijie, his political ally, because Cheng Shijie had given him too much. It was absolutely impossible for another person to give Gao Qiqian so much, especially with the people around Gao Qiqian, they could If you invest or set up factories in Liaodong, as long as you abide by the regulations of Liaodong and pay taxes on time, you can also make a lot of money.

"understood"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly.

Gao Qiqian said angrily: "Cheng Shuai, there is a villain in the court! Cheng Shuai has worked so hard to govern Liaodong well, and our family has seen it. How can they open their eyes and talk nonsense! No, our family will not let us go!" Once you enter the capital, you must tell the Holy Master the truth about Liaodong, and you will be innocent!"

Cheng Shijie sneered and said: "It's useless, Eunuch Gao, it's useless even if you run ten times! So what if the Holy Majesty knows the truth? So many people are fascinated by Liaodong's oil and water. so easy!"

Gao Qiqian said unwillingly: "Then what should we do? Just watch them destroy our hard work!"

"When the ass determines the head, they can do even the most absurd things."

Cheng Shijie clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Okay, don't make a sad face, be happy! The big thing is not as important as my handsome being with my daughter. It's going to rain, mother is going to get married, let him go!"

Although Cheng Shijie didn't want to tear himself apart with the imperial court, he wanted to build slaves cheaply.Once he broke with the imperial court, those people in the imperial court would definitely win over Jiannu in order to deal with Cheng Shijie. In this way, Cheng Shijie had to deploy heavy troops along the Taizi River, and even gave up the area north of the Taizi River.

This is what Cheng Shijie doesn't want to see. It's not easy for him to go on an expedition to build slaves. There is no doubt that Jiannu can't beat Ning Haijun. Once installed, you can run towards Horqin and Mobei Grassland.

Ning Haijun's mobility is simply difficult to catch up with Jiannu.Just like when Huang Taiji dealt with Lin Danhan, Lin Danhan had [-] old, weak, sick and disabled under his command. Huang Taiji led the elite of the Eight Banners. After ten months of pursuit, Lin Danhan ran to Qinghai, and Huang Taiji only captured more than [-] troops.

For Lin Danhan, the loss is still acceptable. The problem now is the same. As long as Cheng Shijie shows the posture of wanting to go north to attack Shenyang, if Huang Taiji doesn't run away, Cheng Shijie dares to pull his eyes out.

Although he couldn't break his face with Daming, a king of Liao would never want to shit on Cheng Shijie's head. At least if Cheng Shijie didn't want to, the king of Liao would never set foot in the land of Liaodong.

Zhu Yuanzhang could make King Xiao Ming fall into the water and die, and Cheng Shijie also has enough strength to make King Liao fall into the water and disappear.

The sea is now the world of Ning Haijun's navy.

Cheng Shijie is actually very sad. At the Xingyang Conference, at this conference, Li Zicheng of Gao Yingxiang's department, with his outstanding military skills, proposed the strategic policy of joint operations and dividing troops to meet the enemy, which was to divide the peasant uprising army into east, west, south, and south. On the North Fourth Route, attack and fight the enemy, and place the main force of the rebel army on the east where the enemy's strength is weak.

Li Zicheng's foresight and sagacity were affirmed and agreed by everyone, and it was unanimously decided to use this strategic policy to guide operations.Afterwards, the main force of the rebel army marched eastward to fight against the enemy, and they were victorious all the way, invincible.

Although Zhang Xianzhong hadn't really captured Fengyang yet, he was very close to Fengyang. It can be said that the fire was imminent. Those guys didn't want to think about how to put out the fire, but instead tried their best to squeeze some oil from Liaodong.

Cheng Shijie didn't know what to say. He could only explain that the dynasty was really a dynasty with a spirit of death.

If you don't die, you won't die. If you die, I will definitely kill you. If you want to play, I will play big with you!

In fact, what Cheng Shijie didn't know was that the Emperor Chongzhen was not in charge of this matter, but that the people below were blinded by their interests and were ready to pull out their teeth and take chestnuts out of the fire.

In fact, this was the spontaneous behavior of Liao King Zhu Shuya. To be precise, it should be because of one person.

This person is Gu Junen, Zhu Shuya's counselor. In history, he was Li Zicheng's counselor. At first, he was Chen Qiyu's counselor, just like Mao Yuanyi, an aide beside Sun Chengzong. Li Zicheng was almost trapped to death.

However, at the most critical moment, Chen Qiyu drifted away and did not follow Gu Junen's strategy, so the bandits revived, and Chen Qiyu was dispatched by the army.Gu Junen ran back to his hometown in Hubei.At this time, Liao King Zhu Shuya asked Emperor Chongzhen to use the wasteland in Shatou Town as his hunting ground.

This is an old trick of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty. Wherever these guys are looking for fertile land, if the owners of those properties are dignitaries or gentry with a background, that’s all. This piece of fertile land was said to be wasteland, and begged from the court, and the court who did not know the truth often did what they wanted, and gave them a large piece of fertile land as wasteland.

As for the original owner of that piece of fertile land... If you are sensible, get out, if you don't know the sensible, you will immediately know what it means to "sit at home behind closed doors, and the pot comes from the sky"!There are even some poor farmers who not only lost the fields that their ancestors depended on for generations, but also became the tenant farmers of the vassal king inexplicably.

The vassal king only needs to spend a small amount of money to bribe the local officials and change their household registration slightly.Shatou Town is actually not a fertile land, but it is an important waterway. After Cheng Shijie defeated Zheng Zhilong to control Wusongkou, the sea ban of the entire Ming Dynasty has existed in name only.

As long as the money is paid, the ship can be released to sea, and there is no need to worry about the navy's anti-smuggling.

With this change, the commercial development of Huguang and the area along the river has been advancing by leaps and bounds. When Gu Junen returned to his hometown, he found that his home was gone, and even hundreds of acres of Susukida had been forcibly seized by the King of Liao.Gu Junen hated Zhu Shuya, the king of Liao. He took the pseudonym Wu Zhongxian and took refuge in the king of Liao.

After showing his outstanding ability, Gu Junen and Wu Zhongxian became Zhu Shuya's confidant. At this time, he proposed to Zhu Shuya to change the fiefdom. Gu Junen's real purpose was to use Cheng Shijie's hand to kill Zhu Shuya. In Daming, the vassal kings had the gold medal for avoiding death. As long as they did not rebel, they could do whatever they wanted.

But if he offends a power faction like Cheng Shijie, even if Zhu Shuya does not rebel, it is impossible to get good fruit from Cheng Shijie's men.

In Gu Junen's statement to Zhu Shuya, Guangning, Liaodong has now become a land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, especially with its huge coastal area where salt can be dried.There are a lot of virgin forests. If these trees are placed in other places, they will be used for chopping firewood, but in Liaodong, these trees can make a lot of money.

You must know that there are four Liaodong Guang shipyards, three of which build warships and one builds merchant ships. The daily consumption of wood is a huge number. Once he has the fiefdom of Guangning, the king of Liao can count money in bed.

After Gu Junen's flickering, Liao King Zhu Shuya's heart was moved, so he tried to write a petition to Emperor Chongzhen, and recruited officials from Jingxiang to jointly create momentum for him.

Of course, Cheng Shijie doesn't care about all of this, he only cares about the result.

After Gao Qi sneaked away, Zhu Weiti came to Cheng Shijie's side: "My son-in-law, calm down!"

"I'm not angry!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Zhu Weiti and said, "You can help take care of Jiayue for a few days, I'll go out for a while!"

"Sir, you can't go to Beijing, I'm afraid in case..."

After all, Zhu Weiti is a princess. When Zhang Yan wanted to accept Cheng Jiayue as his daughter, she felt that something was wrong, especially now that she had also received a secret letter from Concubine Li Kang to Zhu Weiti. Half a month ago, Chongzhen had a private meeting with Zhang Yan.

You must know that Emperor Chongzhen always respected Empress Zhang. Although he often greeted Empress Zhang, he always brought Empress Zhou with him every time to avoid suspicion.But in the private meeting half a month ago, Queen Zhou was not present, and the two of them talked for half an hour.

Zhu Weiti said: "Master, although you say that your wife is not allowed to be involved in politics, but I still have to say that you'd better be prepared, if the court wants to punish you with unwarranted crimes, you must not learn from Yue Fei!"

"Then who do I learn from! Do I learn from Cao Cao?"

"You can be Huo Guang!"

Zhu Weiti said: "The current crown prince is young, so my husband can..."

"Don't worry about this, I know how to do it!"

Cheng Shijie also thought that what Zhu Weiti said made sense.

Cheng Shijie asked Song Xiance and Lin Xuzong to be called over.

Not long after, Song Xiance and Lin Xuzong came to Cheng Shijie's study.At this time, Cheng Shijie was scribbling on paper, not knowing what he was doing.

"Meet the lord!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Sit down!"

"Lord!"

Lin Xuzong smiled all over his face and said, "You can just stand there!"

Song Xiance just wanted to sit down, but immediately got up, and he suddenly realized that he had been a little drifting lately.

"I don't know what the lord has ordered!"

Cheng Shijie put down his pen, stood up straight, looked at these two, and was silent for a while: "You have been with me for four years, right?"

Song Xiance said: "It's been four years since I returned to my lord!"

Cheng Shijie said helplessly: "I'm not very good at employing people. There are so many unreasonable arrangements for you. I have wronged you."

Although it is said that Song Xiance and Lin Xuzong are the directors of the management committee, in fact, the power of the director of the management committee is very limited, and the members below are responsible for a whole bunch of affairs, and they can't get involved.Even if it is an order, each of them performs his duties.

They are like the elders of the cabinet of Ming Dynasty, but the difference is that the elders also have departments in charge. For example, Xu Guangqi is the minister of the Ministry of Rites, Wu Zongda is the minister of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of the Zhongji Palace, and the prince Shaofu.

However, Song Xiance and Lin Xuzong did not have part-time jobs. Even if they wanted to propose any policy, they needed a show of hands from the management committee members.

"My lord, don't say that. If it wasn't for my lord's support, I don't know if Kang Nian would have survived till now!"

"Being able to become the deputy director of the Liaodong Management Committee is due to the virtues of the ancestors..."

Song Xiance asked in horror: "Master, why do you say that? Are you trying to drive us away?"

"What are you thinking! Although I am not very good at employing people, I can see that you are all resourceful and resourceful. How could I drive you away!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "But people always go to higher places!"

"A certain will swear allegiance to the lord to the death!"

Cheng Shijie casually told the two about King Liao's request to the court for a change of title.

The two of them felt the seriousness of the problem after hearing the words.

"My lord, what do you want to do?"

Cheng Shijie said: "I want you to select some right-hand men to leave Ning Haijun, go to Nanyang to gather refugees, form an army, and take the Jingxiang area for me!"

Lin Xuzong looked shocked: "My lord, you are planning to rebel!"

"almost!"

Cheng Shijie said indifferently: "It's almost like treason, but I took this large area not to overthrow this country, but to save this country! You also know that many people in Liaodong are jealous when they become rich, and they will do whatever they can. Take Liaodong from us, and with our strength, we can't compete with them at all! If we lose the more than 800 million yuan that Liaodong has worked so hard to settle in Liaodong, we will have no way to survive!"

Lin Xuzong looked troubled.

Song Xiance's face showed a strange brilliance: "My lord, I need equipment!"

"I'll give you as much as I want!"

Cheng Shijie let Song Xiance out for two purposes. First, Song Xiance had served as the Liaodong Management Committee for a long time, and he could not hold this position for a long time.

Secondly, Song Xiance was born rebellious and hated the gentry class. If he came out, he would be like a herbicide and cleanse the gentry on a large scale. a good thing.

Even if Cheng Shijie didn't arrange it this way, once the Liao king arrived in southern Liaonan, he would definitely win over Song Xiance to ask Lin Xuzong first.

After Song Xiance, Cheng Shijie, and Lin Xuzong discussed in the study for several hours, Song Xiance and Lin Xuzong left the Ninghai Navy General Mansion.

That night, there was a rumor in Liaodong. It was said that Song Xiance felt sick to his stomach when he was on duty, so he asked for leave to go home.

As a result, Lin Xuzong and Song Xiance's wife, Wang Shi, were caught in the middle, and Lin Xuzong had a drink and chat with Lin Xuzong. Although the two did not have sex on the bed, it may be because they were too hasty and there was no time.

Song Xiance was furious at the time and drew his sword to fight Lin Xuzong, but the problem was that Lin Xuzong was tall and burly, while Song Xiance was not tall enough, so instead of beating Lin Xuzong, he was humiliated by Lin Xuzong.

Song Xiance couldn't get angry, so he and his nephew Jiang Wubing gathered more than 60 servants, armed with weapons, fierce fire and oil, and attacked Lin Xuzong's mansion aggressively.

Lin Xuzong's mansion was suddenly in flames, and almost half of Jinzhou City could smell the stench of barbecue. When Cheng Shijie heard the news, he hurriedly ordered Ning Haijun to arrest Song Xiance.In the vicious fight, Song Xiance's nephew Jiang Wubing killed Cheng Shijie's adopted son Cheng Hu.

Before Ning Haijun had time to react, Song Xiance fled outside the city of Jinzhou. Song Xiance left the time lag, and went out to sea on the warship Xi'an in Jinzhou West Port Area openly and aboveboard.

This news caused a huge shock in Liaodong. Cheng Shijie even fell ill at one point and was bedridden. executor of this plan.

Cheng Shijie had no choice but to order Sun Zhichen to act as the director of the Liaodong Management Committee, and Yang Yunniang to be the deputy director and president of the bank.

After arranging the affairs of Liaodong, Cheng Shijie took the opportunity of pretending to be sick, left the Ming Dynasty, and returned to the later generations.

Cheng Shijie returned to the old house on the third floor, and found that the house had been restored to its original state, as if Cheng Shijie hadn't moved, including Cheng Jiayue's clothes and toys were moved back to the old house by Xiang Hui.

Cheng Shijie wanted to ask Xiang Hui what was going on, so he drove to Longyue Company.

"Mr. Cheng!"

The old doorman of Longyue Company is Duan Mingyu's father and also a related household.Although Cheng Shijie didn't worry about Longyue Group's affairs, Xiang Hui still gave Cheng Shijie the position of general manager of Longyue Group.

Longyue Group is a husband-and-wife shop. The husband and wife jointly hold shares. Cheng Shijie only has 5.00%, Xiang Hui has 95%. As for Wuduo Jinhua, the shares are held by the following branches.

It still looks like that.

Before Cheng Shijie entered the door, the old Duan said: "Boss Cheng asked you to make a trip for nothing, and now Boss Xiang is not in the company!"

"Not in the company, do you know where she went?"

"I don't know the details, I have already gone to the city government for a meeting!"

Cheng Shijie thought that it was okay anyway, why not go to Cheng Jialong and use Cheng Jialong to do an experiment. When he came back from the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Shijie could bring some Mongolian sweat medicine. The main ingredient of this Mongolian sweat medicine is actually ether. He just wanted to find out whether it could Bring Cheng Jialong to the Ming Dynasty.

Because Xiang Hui needed to take care of Cheng Jiayue, Cheng Jialong was older and went to the boarding Tiancheng Bilingual School.Cheng Shijie called Cheng Jialong's teacher: "Mr. Zhang, I am Cheng Jialong's father. I have something to do at home. I want to take Cheng Jialong home! Yes, yes, yes, just wait for me at the school gate, and I will be there in half an hour." !"

When Cheng Jialong appeared at the school gate, Cheng Jialong said: "Dad, why do you have time to pick me up today?"

As soon as Cheng Jialong got into the car, Cheng Shijie stunned Cheng Jialong with ether.

Looking at the sleepy Cheng Jialong, Cheng Shijie murmured: "Son, I'm sorry, Dad needs to use you as an experiment!"

(End of this chapter)