Chapter 152 Leaving the capital quietly on a rainy night

Chapter 151

Gao Qiqian wanted to cause trouble because of Cheng Shijie.

In September of the fifth year after entering Chongzhen, the refugees from Henan had almost stopped migrating to southern Liaoning. The victims who were crossing the Yellow River in Mengjin and causing the embankment burst either died silently or were attracted to Damingfu by Lu Xiangsheng.

Although the current Lu Xiangsheng does not have the title of governor or governor, he is a smaller governor and has jurisdiction over Daming Prefecture, Guangping Prefecture, and Shunde Prefecture, two prefectures and 28 counties. In terms of actual jurisdiction, the area is almost equivalent to nine in North Zhili Province.

One-third of the government.

After Lu Xiangsheng took the post of Daming Prefecture Military Prefecture, just like when he was the prefect of Daming Prefecture, he led the Tianxiong Army soldiers to farm the fields and build cities and ditches, which attracted many refugees. In addition, with the Yellow River bursting in the fifth year of Chongzhen, like

Kaifeng Prefecture and Guide Prefecture in Henan Province were a blessing in disguise and had a bumper harvest.

In short, the number of refugees has been greatly reduced.

When Cheng Shijie arrived in Dengzhou City, he made a special trip to visit his former boss, the commander of the Dengzhou Guards Jin Yousheng. Cheng Shijie gave Jin Yousheng 10,000 taels of silver with a wave of his hand. Jin Yousheng didn't care what the relationship between Jin Qiaoer and Cheng Shijie was now.

He directly took Cheng Shijie's arm and said, "Brother Xian, what do you like about Dengzhou Guard? Just tell me!"

Cheng Shijie was not polite: "Cheng was working in the fields in southern Liaoning and needed people, but too few people from Shandong went there. Cheng couldn't bear it when he saw that his old brothers were still hungry and poor, and wanted to find a way for them to survive!

"

Jin Yousheng didn't believe a word of this, but for the sake of the money, he smiled broadly. To them, those ordinary soldiers were very cheap cannon fodder. As long as they had money, they could easily recruit tens of thousands of people.

As long as they keep those servants, their strength will not suffer any loss.

Idiot Cheng Shijie actually gave so much money in exchange for these cannon fodders. He is so hopelessly stupid!

Huang Zuxin even asked Cheng Shijie in a low voice: "Do you want more people? If so, I can give you another five thousand people. The price is negotiable!"

"The price remains unchanged, five thousand people, five thousand taels of silver. Don't fool the old, weak, sick and disabled brothers, otherwise, this business will not be done!"

In this way, Cheng Shijie used the price of one tael of silver per person to get another 15,000 people from the Dengzhou Guard. As for why there are 15,000 people in the Dengzhou Guard, the reason is actually very simple. The Dengzhou Guard has only one thousand people.

There are more than 14,000 people in each household, not to mention that there are still seven thousand households in Dengzhou Guard.

If it wasn't too miserable not to cheat Cheng Shijie and throw all the old, weak, sick and disabled to Cheng Shijie, Dengzhou Wei Balabala could draw out 30,000 to 40,000 people, and even maintain full strength even if 30,000 to 40,000 people were deployed.

In this way, Cheng Shijie sent people to contact the counties he passed by. Under the offensive of money, the states and counties immediately tried the case overnight, and the criminals who originally needed to be interrogated and executed by the Queen of Autumn, or the criminals who needed to be sent to the army and exiled

, packed it and gave it to Cheng Shijie.

Similarly, one person was given one tael of silver per person, but the result was good. In the counties along the way, there were hundreds or thousands of people. For petty thefts that originally only required a slap on the wrist or being shackles in public, they were all renamed and sent to Liaonan.

Cheng Shijie went all the way north, spreading money all the way. From Dengzhou to Tianjin, Cheng Shijie brought a total of more than 14,000 people to Liaonan, plus the 15,000 people from Dengzhou Guards, nearly 30,000 people.

Gao Qiqian saw all of this. He asked the Jin Yiwei around him to investigate the Tianjin Guards. The total strength of the three Tianjin Guards was 16,800 people. But in fact, the Tianjin Guards, plus the Tianjin Guards

Wei has more than 150,000 people.

Even if one third of the Tianjin guards were transferred to Cheng Shijie, that would still be 50,000 people, and that would be 50,000 taels of silver. Who would feel bad about his own money?

Cheng Shijie did not follow Gao Qiqian when he wanted to inspect Tianjin Guards and Tianjin Right Guards. This was Gao Qiqian's right. Eunuchs were originally the eyes of the emperor.

Cheng Shijie was invited by Tianjin Zuowei Commander Zhu Sheng and came to Tianjin Zuowei Commander's Yamen.

Zhu Sheng brought the Tianjin Zuowei commanding comrades, commanding officers, governors and other officials to greet Cheng Shijie.

"I received the general's order. Although I don't know what the intention is, I don't dare to neglect it! According to the general's wishes, we will clean up the hooligans in the army overnight!"

Although Cheng Shijie had a higher official position than Zhu Sheng, he did not have direct jurisdiction over Zhu Sheng, so Zhu Sheng did not need to respect Cheng Shijie so much.

However, Cheng Shijie has money in his hands, and Zhu Sheng actually respects Cheng Shijie's money. After all, no one can have trouble with money.

Zhu Sheng held up a roster and said: "There are a total of 5,443 gangsters from Tianjin Zuowei, and they have all been sent to Liaodong!"

The definition of gangster in ancient times is different from that in later generations.

In ancient times, "those without land were called liu", that is, people without land were all called "liu". Those without real estate were called "lumang", and those without land and real estate were collectively called gangsters.

Because having a house and land is the standard for judging a man's ability, and a man without a house or land will not only be questioned, but his neighbors will also belittle him, which creates a sarcastic meaning.

There are actually as many as 5,443 landless military households in Tianjin Zuowei. This number is already quite large.

"General Cheng, these gangsters are difficult to manage. Why not put a brand on their faces? This way, they will not be afraid of running away. Even if they run away, they can be easily caught!"

"Need not!"

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "If you are branded, I will not let you go."

"Why is this?"

"I want these gangsters to farm for me and reclaim the wasteland. You Tianjin Zuowei have no military land to cultivate the wasteland. I have a lot of land in southern Liaoning!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "If there are such gangsters again in the future, they can be sent to Liaonan. As long as they are sent to Liaonan, each person will receive two taels of silver!"

"Thank you, General Cheng!"

After resting for a day at Tianjin Zuowei, Cheng Shijie sat in a carriage and began to drive towards the city of Beijing. In addition to the various health centers, there were also counties along the way. Cheng Shijie was like a boy who scattered money, moving all the way, giving money to counties all the way.

He ordered the magistrate to send money and asked them to send the prisoners in the prison to southern Liaoning.

When arriving in the capital, Cheng Shijie used the military households in each guard station to reorganize 762 new military households. Among them, Tianjin Wei and Tianjin Youwei contributed more than 40,000 people to Cheng Shijie. These more than 40,000 taels of silver

, naturally goes into Gao Qi Di’s pocket.

When Cheng Shijie led more than 750 soldiers to the capital, more than a thousand elite troops from the Beijing camp came to greet him.

Later, Cheng Shijie's personal troops were placed in a military camp outside Andingmen. During the period of entering the military camp, more than a thousand soldiers from the capital showed off their power against Cheng Shijie's personal troops.

These soldiers from the Beijing camp, with their shiny armor and divine war horses, look impressive. When Emperor Chengzu made Beijing his capital, these soldiers from the Beijing camp were still famous elites in the world, but now this elite force has transformed into a fish belly.

force.

Wu Sheng said with some dissatisfaction: "Just pretend, we can finish them off with a single charge!"

Cheng Shijie enjoyed the performance of the Beijing camp with a smile. He seemed to be very interested in this army. To be precise, he was very interested in the horses of this army. Although he now has more than 10,000 horses, especially Hu Erqi.

I just grabbed more than 8,600 war horses for him, which can be regarded as a big fortune. However, no one would think they have too many horses, right?

As Cheng Shijie's soldiers moved into the camp, a Beijing camp general said arrogantly: "This is your station. After you are stationed, you will stay in the military camp honestly. You are not allowed to leave the military camp without permission, let alone

Enter the inner city, otherwise you will be killed without mercy!"

Wu Sheng stepped forward and explained: "We brothers have never been to the capital. Can we enter the capital without wearing military uniforms and weapons?"

"Your fucking ears are stuffed with donkey hair? If it doesn't work, it won't work!!"

Cheng Shijie heard the quarrel outside and came out and asked, "What's going on?"

Wu Sheng said: "Commander Qi, they won't let us enter the city!"

"Why?"

Cheng Shijie looked at the Beijing general and said, "Who made the rule?"

"Where is all this bullshit!"

The general in the Beijing camp stared at Cheng Shijie and said with a sneer: "Do you think the capital is a restaurant run by your family, where you can come in when you want and leave when you want? I tell you, you guys can't even enter the outer city.

It’s already a blessing from my previous life, and I still want to enter the inner city..."

The Beijing camp general looked at Cheng Shijie with great contempt, even a little disdain.

Cheng Shijie was a little uncomfortable being stared at by the generals of the Beijing camp. He coughed, and saw one of Cheng Shijie's soldiers rush out and rush towards the general of the Beijing camp like lightning. Before the general of the Beijing camp could react, he grabbed

The general of the Beijing camp got off his horse, and regardless of whether he was hurt by the fall or not, he knocked the guy to the ground very lightly.

Even though the guy was pushed to the ground, his attitude was still not arrogant: "You are finished, you are all finished, do you know who my father is?"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Who is your father? You don't need to ask me about this. You need to ask your mother!"

There was a burst of laughter from all around.

The soldiers from the Beijing camp hurriedly wanted to come over and rob someone, but a eunuch hurriedly shouted: "Stop!"

The surrounding soldiers from the Beijing camp did not dare to move.

Cheng Shijie turned around and walked towards the camp.

Navy officer Ning brought the Beijing camp general to the camp and hung him up.

At this time, the general from the Beijing camp stopped being arrogant and softened his attitude: "Misunderstanding, General Cheng, misunderstanding, I am Zhang Jin, the training valor general of the Shenshu camp..."

The handsome eunuch wanted to open his mouth, but was frightened and shut up when Ning Haijun pointed his gun at him.

Just after Cheng Shijie entered the big tent, Wu Sheng came in and lowered his voice: "Commander, I'm afraid there will be trouble this time!"

"What trouble could there be?"

Cheng Shijie sneered: "Are you trying to say that Zhang Jin has an extraordinary background and a tough background?"

"It's very hard, and not ordinary hard. His father is Tai Kangbo!"

"Zhang Guoji?"

Cheng Shijie did not expect this. Although Zhang Guoji's family was average, his daughter Zhang Yan was the queen of Tianqi and became the emperor's sister-in-law. Because Emperor Tianqi died early, his eldest sister-in-law was like his mother. After Zhang Yan married Emperor Tianqi,

, took great care of Emperor Chongzhen.

Even though Queen Zhou is now the mother of a country, with power over the Six Palaces, she still has to pay her respects to Zhang Yan, a has-been queen, every day. When Zhang Guoji's son came up, he provoked Cheng Shijie. Even if he said it was just a coincidence, no fool would believe it.
To be continued...