The most important thing is that Cheng Shijie is no longer short of money. Before Kong Youde died, he gave him a total of 1.24 million taels of silver from the large gentry houses he robbed, as well as those seized from Li Jiucheng and Li Yingyuan, as well as a

More than 2 million taels of silver were found on more than 10,000 prisoners. However, these pieces of silver, or silver chopped with axes, need to be re-melted, but according to speculation, it should be no less than 3 million taels of silver.

In other words, Cheng Shijie had more than 4 million taels of silver alone in his hands. Adding in the bribes paid by the gentry in Zhaoyuan County and the valuable property seized by Ning Haijun from Lou Jian's command, the total amount exceeded 5 million taels.

With the capture of the Zhang family in Shanglaiyang, Cheng Shijie now has nominally one year's treasury revenue of the Chongzhen Dynasty, or in other words, one year's Liao pay.

With more than one million stones of grain and more than six million taels of silver, there are too many things Cheng Shijie can do.

The current Ning Navy has also developed greatly because of this battlefield. First, more than 1,200 surviving cavalry from Kong Youde's department surrendered, plus Li Jiucheng and Li Yingyuan's cavalry, a total of more than 2,400 cavalry. Although

The quality of this cavalry was uneven, and the equipment was uneven. However, Ning Haijun, a pure infantry force, finally made up for the last shortcoming, and the cavalry force finally existed.

The current Ning Navy is composed of eight arms including navy, cavalry, infantry, chariot troops (baggage troops), crossbowmen, pikemen, artillery, and muskets. It can also be said that the current Ning Navy is on the Shanghai Maritime Sea.

You can engage in naval battles, and you can engage in cavalry battles on the grasslands, not to mention infantry.

However, with the increase in military types and strength, ideological education work has become urgent.

In Ninghai City, at this time, Chen Guodong had led more than a thousand troops from Ninghai's former commander-in-chief two days ago, escorting more than 600 members of the Laiyang Zhang family, plus his senior stewards and junior stewards, a total of more than 300 people.

Thousands of people escorted a large amount of seized property, food, and cloth to Ninghai City.

However, due to the employment of common people, a large amount of food was consumed. When the food was transported to Ninghai City, only more than 230,000 dan were left, which meant that nearly 60,000 dan of food had been consumed on the road.

It wasn't until Chen Guodong came to Ninghai City that he realized that Cheng Shijie had actually reached a reconciliation with Sun Yuanhua. Ning Haijun was not a rebel, nor was he a rebel. It was the Dengzhou Army that rebelled. Chen Guodong felt that his head was as big as a bucket.

But the problem is that now he has no one to discuss with him. Changyu went with Cheng Shijie to attack Youde, Shen Mingyu and Song Xiance went to attack Liaonan, but he was even more confused.

In desperation, Chen Guodong had no choice but to go to the backyard of Ning Haijun Guard Yamen and find Yang Yunniang to discuss countermeasures.

"Yun Niang, have I caused a big trouble for you?"

Yang Yunniang shook her head: "It's okay. Someone is taking the blame anyway, so what are you afraid of?"

"I'm not afraid of death or pain, I'm just afraid of causing trouble for adults!"

Chen Guodong smiled bitterly and said: "Since I was a child, except for my father, my mother, and my brother, no one else has been kind to me. It was Mr. Cheng who rescued me from the dead. My life is...

"

"Your life is yours, no one can take it away from you!"

Cheng Shijie came back and saw Chen Guodong in despair, so he interrupted: "I saved you, not to repay you. I heard that you angered the Dengzhou Army by rescuing the people of Liaodong and were sentenced to death.

This is your destiny, and it’s also because you did the right thing!”

"My lord, it was my fault. I misjudged my lord. I offended the Laiyang Zhang family. I am willing to apologize to them. As long as your lord is fine, I will die without regrets!"

"This is serious. The Zhang family in Laiyang are just pigs and dogs who ride on the heads of the people. Apart from relying on the power of their ancestors and exploiting the people to enrich themselves, these people can do nothing. They can only bribe.

Corrupt officials are trying to show off their power in front of the people, so what do they mean?"

"Don't say you didn't kill them. Even if you did, just kill them. What's the point?"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "It's good to copy the Zhang family in Laiyang. Don't say you copied it. Even if you didn't copy it, I still want to copy it. Now go outside and take a look. Almost every day, people freeze to death and starve to death.

But those gentry and powerful people, I have long wanted to kill them."

This time Kong Youde rebelled, and what he did was even more shocking. A foreigner in Shandong, without any foundation, just raised his arms and shouted, and there were thousands of followers.

This shows that the people of Shandong have been suffering from the powerful gentry above them for a long time. The people were on the verge of an explosion. Even if there was no Kong Youde, there might be Li Youde, Chen Youde, or Cheng Youde.

"Okay, let's talk about this later. Now, call everyone together, including the hundred households in the field, officers above Ning's naval sentry commander, and the cavalry sentry commander.

Cheng Shijie temporarily concentrated all the prisoners in Ninghai City. There were more than 13,000 prisoners. Including their own family members they had recovered, there were more than 40,000 prisoners.

Cheng Shijie temporarily organized these prisoners into 130 100-household stations, adding to the original 69 100-household stations of the Ning Navy, for a total of 196 100-household stations, totaling more than 68,000 people.

These one hundred and ninety-six rural settlements are numbered from 001 to 196. Numbers 01 to 69 are those who joined the former Ninghai navy military households or refugees, and numbers 070 to 157

Between them, there were a total of eighty-eight hundred households, all of whom had participated in the rebels of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng. However, after screening, it was found that these people did not kill anyone, neither the gentry nor the common people, and their knives were not stained with blood.

Starting from No. 158 to No. 196, all of them had killed people. Depending on their crimes, some were reformed through labor for three years, while others were given fifteen years. Starting from No. 183 to No. 196,

Those are all bastards who can be beheaded directly, because they only killed the gentry and powerful people and could avoid death. As for the rebel prisoners who massacred the common people, they are not included in this list. They have already become Ning Haijun's decapitation merit.

Ning Haijun's division of labor had already begun when Cheng Shijie served as Zuo Qianhu's guard in Dengzhou. When Cheng Shijie walked to Zuo Qianhu's post, he looked at the ragged and skinny guards. They were worse than beggars.

, when they touch swords and guns, they haven’t touched a hoe as much. It’s really a joke to let them go to war.

Therefore, Cheng Shijie recruited young men as house soldiers and existed as war soldiers, while ordinary military households existed as field soldiers. The field soldiers were called soldiers, but they were actually just farmers farming. The two sides did not interfere with each other and lived in peace. Generally speaking,

It is said that the military meeting of Ning Haijun will not be called to the military households in the field.

The highest establishment of the army in the field is 100 households. Each 100 households are organized into 100 households, not 100 people, but 100 households. If they are singles, they will form a separate household. Women, if they are widowed and have no children, will also form a matchmaker.

, talk to them as matchmakers, and let them choose a son-in-law and get married according to the traditional method.

However, the current life of the military households in the farming villages has not changed much. After all, the hundreds of households in the farming villages rely on their part-time work to earn food rations, which can barely guarantee that they will not starve to death.

"Meet the Marshal!"

"sit down!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the densely packed army of officers or hundreds of households in the fields in front of him. He coughed. If it weren't for the four large speakers, the people below would not be able to hear him clearly.

"Let me tell you, everyone may have heard that I am going to Liaonan soon. This is not a rumor, this is a fact. I will leave in three days at most. It is possible that I will not come back within three to five years.

.So, everything between Ninghaicheng and Ninghaijun will be given up. It is fate for everyone to meet each other. Going to Liaonan is based on the principle of voluntariness. If you want to go, you can go. If you don’t want to go, then don’t force it. After all, Liaonan

There are many dangers. If everyone is afraid, if you are willing, I will ask you to count how many people are willing to go and how many people are willing to stay. Are you hundreds of households ready?"

"Report!"

"Originally, twenty-three households in our 100-household office were unwilling to go, but I told you that their qualifications for reclamation in the Ninghai Navy have been revoked by the governor, and they will follow the commander to Liaonan again!"

"Report!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the position of the hundred households, relatively far back, and said: "You are different from them. They are rebelling. You are forced to perform labor reform, and you must atone for your sins with your hands!"

"Report!"

"speak!"

"Commander, can we finish the New Year? It would be great to go to Liaonan after the New Year!"

"That's right. Now that we have passed, the weather is cold, we have no food, and no shelter. How will we survive this winter!"

Cheng Shijie pointed at the map and said: "That's right. When spring comes next year and the weather is warm, we can open up wasteland in the past. It will be so comfortable. But are Jiannu a fool? Will they sit back and watch us open up wasteland? Impossible, Jiannu will never sit back and watch.

They will definitely not sit idly by and ignore it, but will do whatever it takes to destroy our spring plowing and make it impossible for us to gain a foothold in southern Liaoning."

Everyone suddenly realized.

Now Cheng Shijie wanted to compete with Jiannu for time, lead the migrating people there, and build fortifications while gaining a firm foothold. There were three reasons that forced him to make arrangements in advance.

First of all, the first point is that the military households in these military camps are in poor physical condition and need to be fed. Ninghai City is too far from the sea, so transporting food by land will consume part of it.

Secondly, the navy's transportation capacity is limited. There are more than 300 large and small warships, which sounds like a lot, but the problem is that warships are different from transport ships. In order to pursue speed and improve defense capabilities, warships have to carry more people and

Supplies are limited. With the transportation capacity of the Dengzhou Navy, it can barely transport more than 10,000 people, but it can only transport 5,000 to 8,000 civilians.

Some people may wonder why there are more transport troops than civilians?

This is mainly because this is a migration, not a simple journey. If it is a simple journey, it is not a problem to pack 15,000 people into the cabin like sardine cans. However, as the saying goes,

A broken home is worth thousands of dollars.

When people move with their families, they will take all the valuable and worthless things at home, including pots and jars, water jars, and even jars for pickling vegetables, because if they don't bring them, they will

It's useless. In this way, the number of people transported will be too small.

With the current number of people in the field army, there are also a considerable number of cattle, seeds, various farming implements, factory equipment, equipment, and various tools. With the capabilities of the Ning Navy, continuous transportation is required. Finally, this

The sailing ships of that era were not like the ships of later generations that could continuously operate at full capacity.

Although wooden sailboats do not need to burn oil, they need to be repaired after each voyage, repairing leaking parts, and replacing damaged wood, which is complicated.

Even under the best of circumstances, the relocation of existing military units and factories will take more than two consecutive months.

"Report!"

"speak!"

"Commander, when we arrive in southern Liaoning, it's freezing cold. Where should we stay?"

In such cold weather, it is difficult to live in a tent. Even if a stove is lit, the temperature in the tent cannot be maintained.

Cheng Shijie took a piece of chalk and drew a simple graphic on the blackboard behind him: "All our people, when we arrive in southern Liaoning, will still live in such dens for the time being!"

Diwozi is a very pragmatic invention. At that time, the Construction Corps had no barracks, but no time to build houses. The climate in XJ is even weirder than that in Liaodong. Snowing in September in the Gregorian calendar is normal, Hu Tianba

The moon is snowing, which is not an exaggeration.

Cheng Shijie continued: "When we arrived in southern Liaoning, the people living in the fields dug a small hole like this on a household basis. It was only eight long, three wide, and two high, so that the whole family could live there. If you move quickly, it would take most of a day.

You can dig it in as little time as you need!”

"But the ground is frozen solid, making it difficult to dig!"

"You can light a fire first to soften the frozen soil, and then dig!"

Cheng Shijie first explained the food and accommodation for the soldiers and civilians who moved to southern Liaoning, as well as how to build fortifications and prepare for spring plowing. After that, Ning Haijun's officers captured Jinzhou Guard and Jinzhou Acropolis. They should rule to surpass Ning Haijun's Thousand Household Guard.
To be continued...