This time he went there with the intention of dying together, and naturally he didn't want Qiao Siniang to die as well.

As the saying goes, Qin Hui also had three good friends, and Kong Youde was really kind to his own people. He could confide in him, trust him without reservation, and give his back to the other person.

This is his personal charm.

In history, during the Dengzhou Rebellion, even when Kong Youde was at the end of his rope, more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians were still willing to follow him and cross the sea to surrender to Huang Taiji. In that case, as long as he had no personal charm, he could be firmly controlled

The army and rebel soldiers could have kidnapped Kong Youde, or they could have killed him and surrendered to the Ming army.

Such examples are not uncommon, such as Gao Yingxiang, the first king of Chuang in the late Ming Dynasty. After he was defeated by Sun Chuanting, he abandoned the corpses of tens of thousands of soldiers and fled. The seriously injured Gao Yingxiang hid in a cave. Although he was miserable at the time,

Much better than Li Zicheng when he was at his worst. Gao Yingxiang had hundreds of confidants. Li Zicheng only had eighteen riders around him when he was at his worst.

However, Zhang Luzi, who was beside Gao Yingxiang, betrayed him. When the army was preparing to withdraw, he found the army and led the army to capture Gao Yingxiang alive and sent him to the capital where he was detained. Zhang Jiao was also betrayed and had to start a hasty uprising.

…

Qiao Siniang took out a dagger and put it in front of her throat. She didn't say a word, but her attitude was extremely determined.

Kong Youde distributed the captured silver and money to his direct troops, then killed the captured cattle and sheep, made grain into dry food, and led more than 1,800 cavalry and more than 1,000 infantry, totaling more than 3,000 troops.

He rushed towards Cheng Shijie's Ning Haijun.

…

As the main force of the rebels moved westward, Cheng Shijie successfully regained Zhaoyuan County, which had been captured by the rebels, with almost no effort. Although he launched an attack on wealthy families, many ordinary people were affected.

When General Ning entered the city, the whole county was filled with cries, and the streets were covered with mottled blood stains. After being frozen, they turned into a purple color under the sunlight.

I don’t know how Jia Yong, the magistrate of Zhaoyuan County, survived the pursuit of Kong Youde’s rebels. Moreover, he was not alone. He was followed by dozens of well-dressed, fat-headed gentry who prepared a heavy gift.

, welcome Ning Haijun and Cheng Shijie.

Magistrate Jia did not despise or be arrogant towards Cheng Shijie just because he was a military attache, because he also knew that Cheng Shijie was originally Zuo Qianhu of Dengzhou Guard more than three months ago, and then Qianhu became a Qianhu for less than a month.

Zuo Qianhu was promoted to guard the naval garrison. Ning served as the naval garrison for only more than two months and wiped out dozens of groups of bandits one after another. It can be said that he has made great achievements in battle.

Now, Cheng Shijie has been promoted to deputy general, commander of the Denglai New Army and Dengzhou Navy. This position makes him the number one general under Sun Yuanhua and his confidant.

Such a military attache must not be offended. Otherwise, if someone else tries it, even if the rebels have just left and may come back at any time, Jia Yong will not look kindly on him.

The world is so cold. When Qi Jiguang became Zhang Juzheng's main disciple, and Zhang Juzheng was in the background, who dared to block Qi Jiguang's food and grass? Who dared to give him eye drops?

However, Zhang Juzheng lost power and Qi Jiguang was impeached. A small sixth-rank official took Qi Jiguang to the south of the Yangtze River to fish. Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao, the famous generals of the generation and the current tiger minister, died in depression.

Cheng Shijie didn't know what Jia Yong was thinking. Even if he knew, he wouldn't explain it. Wouldn't this be causing trouble for himself?

Jia Yong saluted Cheng Shijie: "Cheng Shuai personally led the troops to relieve the siege of Zhaoyuan and save the people of Zhaoyuan County from fire and water. Such high justice is rarely seen in the world. I will thank Cheng Shuai for his great kindness on behalf of the people of the county!"

Cheng Shijie has not yet received the official canonization decree from the imperial court, nor has he been appointed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but Sun Yuanhua has announced the order of the governor's Yamen, and promoted Cheng Shijie within the scope of his authority. Cheng Shijie is now the commander, and no longer

It's the general.

The gentry in Zhaoyuan saluted one after another: "Thank you very much, Cheng Shuai, for personally leading the troops to help. We will never forget the grace of survival!"

Zhang Yu, who was standing half-shoulder away from Cheng Shijie, had a gift note in his hand, which said that he would be rewarded with military pay of twenty thousand taels of silver, five thousand shi of grain, and some cloth.

Cheng Shijie was a little surprised when he saw this scene. How did Kong Youde change his gender?

How could he actually leave so much property to the wealthy gentry in Zhaoyuan?

In fact, it was not that Kong Youde was benevolent, nor was he soft-handed. In ancient times, there were no banks. Putting money in a bank not only did not earn interest, but also required handling fees.

Therefore, in this case, many large households have two or even three bank vaults, open and hidden. Eggs are not put in one basket. This is the way of life for Chinese people.

In fact, even though Chen Guodong searched the Laiyang Zhang family to the ground in Laiyang County, he still did not raid the Zhang family completely. The money was only part of the Zhang family. After losing the money, the Zhang family would get another 300,000 taels.

It is still possible for money to come out.

Not to mention the servants and their main members don't know about this secret money. Only the successive heads of the family are qualified to know this secret.

Do you know why those ancestors were very prominent during the Republic of China? After all the catastrophes, those big families still rose rapidly in just a few decades? On the one hand, their descendants have real abilities. The most important thing is that they have family background.

Have original start-up capital.

(As an aside, Lao Cheng’s hometown has an ancestor who was a big landowner. He is still the richest man in the town, with assets worth hundreds of millions. The history of his fortune has always been a mystery.)

Cheng Shijie forced a smile and said: "Master Jia, gentlemen, you don't have to be so polite. As a military attache, Cheng has the responsibility to keep the peace in Denglai. The rebels are raging, besieging the county, and extricating the people from the overthrow of the county.

I am obliged to do so. In fact, I just followed him. The person who really contributed the most was the commander of the Right Capital Division of Ning Haijun, Mr. Zhang Yuzhang. If he had not led the army to march hundreds of miles a day to lead the troops to come to the rescue, the consequences would have been terrible.

It’s unimaginable!”

However, Jia Yong just handed over to Zhang Yugong and his attitude was quite arrogant: "Thank you so much, Commander Zhang, for leading the army to help, thank you very much!"

Jia Yong's attitude was so perfunctory that even a blind man felt it was fake.

When Jia Yong looked at Cheng Shijie, a sincere smile appeared on his face: "Cheng Shuai worked hard on the expedition, and it was very hard. I have prepared a small amount of wine in the city to reward Cheng Shuai, and please give Cheng Shuai a face!"

Cheng Shijie actually lost his appetite. He didn't want to agree at first, but suddenly he remembered something very important. He was going to Liaonan. Liaonan was now a deserted place. Not to mention talented people, there were very few people. In Liaoning,

If South Korea wants to develop, it definitely needs literate people.

Although most of the literate people nowadays are gentry and wealthy, and their character varies from good to bad, as a pragmatic government cadre, Cheng Shijie has always believed in the development strategy and route of Hansteel Group. He should first solve the problems of having and not having, and then solve the problem of quality.

problem, and finally try every means to improve efficiency, and finally catch up with the first-class problem.

First, they deceived a few scholars from Zhaoyuan. When they arrived in Liaonan, they were able to coil up like a dragon and lie down like a tiger. They were able to turn the world upside down in Liaonan.

Cheng Shijie looked at Jia Yong and said: "Um... Mr. Jia, I have something very important, and I need Mr. Jia's help."

Jia Yong asked: "I wonder what Cheng Shuai means..."

"I heard that there are outstanding people in Zhaoyuan. I am still short of a few talented people to accompany the army and serve as military counselors. I wonder if Mr. Jia can recommend one or two?"

Sure enough, upon hearing this, the gentry present were all intrigued by Cheng Shijie's carrots.

Sun Yuanhua, the current governor of Denglai, did not pass the Jinshi examination, so he served as military counselor with Sun Chengzong, and later as military counselor with Yuan Chonghuan. Due to his military merit, he was promoted to the third rank, deputy envoy of the Shandong Administrative Envoy Department, and then to the second rank, Denglai governor.

This is a shortcut.

You know, this imperial examination is really not easy. There are two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty. It would be good if more than a dozen people from the whole province can pass it every three years.

In later generations, even Henan, Tsinghua and Peking University, which are big provinces in the college entrance examination, still recruited more than 400 people.

Jia Yong's eyes lit up. This Cheng Shuai was not a simple man. He was simply giving him an opportunity to make money without any hesitation. Although this military counselor was not a formal official position, he could take the opportunity to become an official and follow Sun Chengzong with his family background.

Mao Yuanyi, who was also born in Juren, became the deputy general of the Funing Navy (now Qinhuangdao) and received a second-grade military rank.

The eyes of the gentlemen present met in the air, and their eyes became eager.

After a sumptuous and extravagant dinner, Cheng Shijie recruited eleven staff from Zhaoyuan County, Dengzhou Prefecture, four of whom were Juren, including Qin Chengbo from the Qin family in Linglong Town, Sun Benju from the Sun family in Shahe, Huixian

Lu Conglong of the town, and Ma Shilin, the brother-in-law of the county magistrate Jia Yong.

With these eleven new staff members in green robes and elegant demeanor, Cheng Shijie also accepted gifts from the families of these eleven staff members. They must have agreed. Those with the reputation of being a scholar donated three thousand taels of silver, and those with the reputation of being a scholar.

That's five thousand taels of silver.

A total of forty-one thousand taels of silver were collected, which was an unexpected windfall.

Cheng Shijie secretly laughed, this is the tragedy of a small place, if they gentry can follow Sun Yuanhua's path, spend less money than this, and become greater officials than Cheng Shijie can give them.

Arriving at the temporary base of Ning Haijun Barracks, Cheng Shijie quickly assigned tasks to them. The oldest, Sun Benju, was forty-five years old. He had failed the exam five times in a row and had given up on taking the Jinshi exam.

Cheng Shijie arranged for Sun Benju to take three scholars to manage the army's food and grass. Cheng Shijie was not afraid of him working together, because Ning Haijun's distribution of supplies and military pay were transparent. He did not operate in secret. How much money did each soldier get?

The soldiers knew it, and so did everyone else.

There are certain limits on how much grain they can eat every day and how many side dishes (i.e. dishes) they can eat. They didn't have it at the beginning, but they have figured it out now.

As for Qin Chengbo, he led three scholars to be responsible for the statistics and entry of military achievements.

Lu Conglong was responsible for the management of ordnance and gave face to Magistrate Jia. His brother-in-law Ma Shilin and two scholars followed Cheng Shijie and were responsible for recording official documents and orders.

Every order Cheng Shijie issues will be recorded in order to facilitate inquiries when problems arise.

The king has no jokes, and the army has no jokes.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, no trace of the rebels has been found within fifty miles around Zhaoyuan County!"

"These rebels may have heard of the commander's reputation and were so frightened that they retreated..."

Cheng Shijie's new military counselor, Ma Shilin, immediately made a plan to flatter him.

"That's not the case! This just means that the rebels are gathering their troops and preparing for a decisive battle with our army!"

"decisive battle?"

"Yes, we are ready for a decisive battle!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "Kong Youde's army has 10,000 or 20,000 troops, and they have won consecutive battles. Their morale is high. There is absolutely no reason to be afraid of the more than 3,000 Ning navy under my command!"

At this point, Cheng Shijie said: "Order, Liu Qingsong's troops are on the right wing, Zhou Ning's troops are on the right wing, Zhang Yu, you guard the back, and we go to meet Kong Youde."

"Commander..." Ma Shilin said urgently: "Are we leaving Zhaoyuan County?"

"certainly!"

"But, leaving the city..."

"Are we in great danger without the protection of the city?"

Cheng Shijie smiled disapprovingly and said: "Kong Youde is not a fool. If he sees me refusing to defend the city, he will definitely continue to raid the surrounding wealthy families and powerful people. By then, I don't know how many gentry will have their families destroyed!"
To be continued...