Chapter 185 Showing Our Value

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 185 Showing Our Value

Chapter 184 Showing Our Value

Cheng Shijie is certainly not the youngest general in the Ming Dynasty, but over the past two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it is not surprising that he has risen from a white man to the first-grade Zuo Governor. Mao Wenlong also did it with his surprise attack on Zhenjiang Fort.

at this point.

However, the official system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into three types: central, local, and military. For example, Sun Yuanhua was the censor of Youqiandu, which was equivalent to a senior official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The second highest ranking was the deputy censor of the left and right, and the deputy censor of the right and left.

The third level is equivalent to the fourth in command of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

This is a central official position. He is also the deputy envoy of the Shandong Prosecution Department. This is a local official position, which is equivalent to the deputy president of the provincial court, deputy prosecutor of the provincial procuratorate, and deputy director of the Department of Justice in the current provincial public prosecutors, prosecutors, and judicial agencies.

He is also the deputy director of the Public Security Department. The governor has already written before that this is a military and political official position.

Although Cheng Shijie still holds the Seal of the Conquering General, this only means that he has the power to launch war and can take the initiative to send troops to conquer one party without asking for instructions. Of course, Cheng Shijie still needs to complete the formalities in advance.

His real official position now is Prince Shaobao, which is an honor. Minister of the Ministry of War, this is the central official position. When Sun Chengzong passed through Liaodong, he also held this official position concurrently in order to avoid being held back by the imperial court. He himself was

An honorary minister of the Ministry of War has no real power.

Governor of the Liaodong military and political affairs, this was Cheng Shijie's actual duty. However, this actual duty had never happened before in the Ming Dynasty. The speed at which Cheng Shijie was promoted was really eye-opening.

Cheng Shijie then stared at the imperial envoy. This chamberlain looked familiar, but he was not Cao Huachun, Gao Qiqian, Wang Chengen, Wang Zhixin and other chamberlains that Cheng Shijie was familiar with.

In fact, he is wearing the official uniform of a fourth-rank chamberlain. It is obvious that he is a senior chamberlain. In the palace, in addition to the twelve eunuchs, four divisions and eight bureaus, the number of eunuchs on his head can be counted. Of course,

Most of the twelve supervisors, four departments and eight bureaus have high positions but little power. For example, among the six departments, the six ministers have the same level. No one can deny that the official minister is the head of the six departments.

The eunuch who delivered the order walked up to Cheng Shijie and lowered his voice: "Our family is Lu Jiucheng who lives with Eunuch Cao. Cheng Shaobao can call our family Lu Jiucheng!"

When Lu Jiuzheng said this, Cheng Shijie understood that this was someone else who wanted to benefit.

Cheng Shijie is not afraid of corruption by his internal servants. These internal servants are much better than civil servants. There are many civil servants who accept gifts without doing anything. But the internal servants are different. They want reputation and worry that if their reputation is damaged, no one will give them gifts.

At least he did a good job in high dive.

Cheng Shijie did not hide it, and said openly and honestly: "The things prepared for His Majesty have been placed at the dock of Jinzhou Port. There are thirty ships in total. Eunuch Lu can take inventory!"

"There's no need to count. Cheng Shaobao is a smart man and he probably wouldn't dare to joke with the emperor."

"That's it, that's it! By the way, I also prepared a copy for my father-in-law. It's not much, it's only worth about 20,000 taels. I hope my father-in-law will accept it!"

Lu Jiuzheng was a little shy: "How embarrassing is that?"

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We can't let my father-in-law go all the way in vain, right?"

Cheng Shijie's so-called value of 20,000 taels of silver is of course value, but it is actually a bunch of worthless handicrafts. These things were valuable in the Ming Dynasty.

Lu Jiucheng smiled and said: "Then our family will reluctantly accept it, and we won't do it again!"

"Never do it again" means "do it again", and everyone knows this.

Lu Jiuzheng was very satisfied with the harvest of this trip. He got 20,000 taels of silver in just one trip. Where could he find such a good deal? What made him even more satisfied was that even the little eunuch beside him got a lot of money from Cheng Shijie.

The benefits of less money range from dozens of taels to hundreds of taels depending on the status, which is not too much, but no one will think it is less.

Lu Jiuzheng didn't even eat or drink Jiefeng wine, and returned directly to the capital.

Emperor Chongzhen had no money and wanted to reward the army. He also needed wine, meat and food. However, prices in the capital were extremely high. Cheng Shijie prepared 50,000 shi of wheat, 100,000 shi of rice, and 150,000 kilograms of meat, potatoes and sweet potatoes for Emperor Chongzhen.

, loaded a total of thirty ships.

Watching Lu Jiuzheng leave Liaoyang, Sun Chengzong looked at Cheng Shijie and sighed for a long time: "You should stay less with them in the future..."

Having said this, Sun Chengzong felt that he had said too much.

"Teacher, do you know something?"

"What words?"

"It is better to offend a gentleman than a villain!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Lu Jiuzheng's back and said: "They are all villains. Maybe they can't accomplish anything, but they are capable of doing bad things. If they want to do it, they must be recognized by the palace. People like them,

If you can't offend, don't offend. If you do, beat them to death with a stick. You must not give them a chance to harm others!"

Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly and said, "I'm so pedantic!"

"Just like Zhou Dunyi's "The Theory of Love of Lotus", when you come out of the mud, you will not be stained, and when you wash the lotus, it will not be evil!"

Cheng Shijie smiled: "I have a close relationship with Gao Qiqian, and I have a good relationship with Cao Huachun. If I bribe them, they can cover up rumors for me. Now, I'm afraid there are already a mountain of memorials to impeach me!"

As the Battle of Liaoyang came to an end, the family members of those fallen soldiers gradually arrived at Baliwan City in Haizhou. The family members of these fallen soldiers included men, women, old and young. It would be better if they were the family members of Ning Haijun. Ning Haijun would not be able to afford food if they did not exist.

The problems of food and clothes are different. But for the families of Dongjiang Army and Guan Ning Army, it is different.

It is simply a replica of the Thousand Households in Dengzhou Weizuo. The families of these soldiers are in ragged clothes, with yellow and thin faces, and their faces are dirty and dirty. Men, women, old and young are waiting outside the city with anxious expressions. There are thousands of people calling out.

The sound was accompanied by crying.

"Son, my son, where are you?"

"Dad, dad, where are you?"

"You are so heartless, but you are willing to come back!"

"Brother! Brother!"

"Uncle! Uncle!"

"Lao San, Lao San!"

…

Whether it was Ning Haijun, Guan Ning's army, or Dongjiang Army officers and soldiers, they all ran out in unison when they heard the shouts of their relatives, looking for their relatives in the crowd.

When they were found, they hugged each other and cried loudly. Those who couldn't find them were running around anxiously, calling their relatives' names loudly, while the family members were also trying hard to find their relatives. The scene was extremely chaotic.

From time to time there were sounds of mourning, and many family members learned in despair that the mainstay of their family could not come back, and all that came back was a corpse. You can imagine the despair and pain. I don’t know how many people were holding him.

The cold corpse cried so heartbroken that it was heartbreaking.

Due to the cold weather and natural refrigerator, these fallen soldiers were not cremated immediately. Instead, they returned to their roots and were brought back to their ancestral home for burial.

Cheng Shijie mobilized 200 engineering offices to quickly build coffins so that all fallen soldiers would have a home.

Cheng Shijie looked at those poor people who were in pain for a long time, and then sighed: "I...did I do something wrong? If I hadn't forced them to defend, maybe not so many people would have died. Their

My loved ones won’t have to suffer so much..."

Sun Chengzong sighed and said: "Crying all the way is worse than crying in one place, and crying with one surname is worse than crying with one family. You need to know that if you hadn't forced them to defend Haizhou, once the slaves broke through Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and Jinding

I’m afraid not a single one of the more than one million people will survive, and not just hundreds of thousands of people will suffer heartache, blood and tears.”

Although Cheng Shijie understands the truth, the problem is that it is very difficult to accept it.

Cheng Shijie looked at the Liao people who were shivering in the cold wind, sighed, and said: "Hurry up and give them a few sets of cotton-padded clothes, let them eat a few good meals, and let them regain some strength."

Nowadays, supplies in southern Liaoning are no longer scarce. Of course, the people who were assigned cotton-padded clothes kowtowed to Cheng Shijie to thank him.

Cheng Shijie looked at the faces with tears of gratitude and reluctance, and was filled with emotion. He loudly said to everyone: "Live well, the worst moment is over, everything will be fine!"

A Liao citizen with white hair and beard shouted tremblingly: "Cheng Shuai, I have wanted to come back for a long time...but!"

"Just what?"

"If the Jian slaves come to attack us again, will you come to save us?"

"Yes! Wherever the Jian slaves come from, I will fight them there! If they still dare to follow us and run wild in our territory, the tens of thousands of corpses lying outside Bali Bay and Liaozhongwei City are their examples!"

Zu Dabi, Zu Dalue, Zu Kefa, Wu Sangui and others bid farewell to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie looked at Zu Dabi and said, "Thank you, Commander Zu, for your support. Without Guan Ningjun's help, our battle would have been difficult!"

Zu Dabi smiled and said: "I won't thank you for you. We will leave for Beijing immediately. You can thank me in person!"

“As the saying goes, if you borrow something, you must repay it, and it’s not difficult to borrow again!”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "This time, the brothers of Guan Ningjun came to their aid. If I don't express my gratitude, it would be unreasonable, Second General Zu!"

"The end is here!"

"You have lost a lot. I will give you 3,000 powerful crossbows, 500,000 crossbow arrows, 3,500 pieces of iron armor, 3,000 saber handles, 30,000 shi of grain and beans, and 10,000 shi of horse materials!"

Zu Dabi looked surprised: "Isn't this too much!"

"Compared to the lives of our brothers, what do these things mean?"

Cheng Shijie then said to Wu Sangui: "Uncle Chang, I will give you a thousand crossbow machines, two hundred thousand crossbow arrows, and fifteen hundred pairs of armor..."

The loss of the Wu Jiajun is also an objective fact. Although I don't like Wu Sangui's character, the more generous Cheng Shijie is, the officers and soldiers of Guan Ning's army, especially the wounded soldiers, will not go back.

In addition to the soldiers who died in the battle, Wu Sangui's family members numbered six to seven thousand who migrated from Ningyuan. There will be more people who will come later. These people are all named Cheng.

Wu Sangui and Zu Dabi understood that Cheng Shijie gave them these equipment just to silence them. They suffered heavy casualties this time. The wounded soldiers were all precious, but the problem was that they themselves did not have the medical conditions. In Ning

On the contrary, the navy can get better treatment.

"Cheng Shuai, see you in the capital!"
To be continued...