A bunch of old guys cheating on each other’s teammates

Chapter 105

Song Xiance did not ask Mrs. Cheng Shijie where the Xiang family was or where the eldest son was. In his mind, since Cheng Shijie did not tell him, it meant that Cheng Shijie's trust in him was limited, at least the secret was not told to him.

It may also be that Cheng Shijie cares too much about his wife and children and does not want others to catch his weak spots, so he hides his wife, son and daughter tightly.

"Lord, there is one more question!"

"what is the problem?"

"It's time for the lady to show up!"

"Show up?"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "Now is not the best time!"

"My lord, what I mean is..."

"The world is dark and dark. Without military power, anyone can kill you with one knife. We have too few people and too little strength now, so there are too few things we can do. We can only watch many unfair things and try to take care of them.

Well... But we are powerless, not only us, but even Mr. Sun Futai and Mr. Sun are actually just trying to save face!"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "As the governor of Denglai, he seems to have a high position and power, but in the eyes of the court, what does it mean? Governor Sun is like this, let alone little people like us? So we must hold on to the soldiers in our hands.

This is strength, and it is also what we rely on to protect ourselves. With soldiers in our hands, no one can do anything to us. Therefore, we must not only secure the military power, but also gradually make these soldiers stronger and stronger, and lead them more and more."

Song Xiance knew that Cheng Shijie had misunderstood what he meant, so he explained again: "My lord, what I want to say is that although it is inconvenient for the madam and the eldest son to show up, in the eyes of outsiders, the lord is a single widower. Why don't the lord find someone to temporarily pretend to be the madam and the eldest son?"

Where is the young master?"

"Fake, yes, just find a charlatan, someone who is good at disguise, and disguise yourself according to Madam's portrait!"

Song Xiance said slowly: "This has three advantages. It can not only make those who try to control the lord's marriage retreat, but also fish out those who try to do harm to the wife... In the future, when the lord is strong, he will no longer have any scruples.

, Madam can also soothe people’s hearts!”

It has to be said that Song Xiance's suggestion touched Cheng Shijie's heart.

Cheng Shijie even immediately thought of a candidate, Yang Yunniang.

When Song Xiance told Yang Yunniang this plan, Yang Yuniang refused without thinking: "No!"

"Why?"

"As an unmarried woman, I pretend to be a wife who has given birth to a son and a daughter. How can I hide this from the eyes of interested people?"

"this……"

There is a clear difference between women who have not given birth to children and women who have given birth to children. In this era, there are too many professionals who are proficient in this field, such as the madams in brothels, the brokers in the people's market, and the people from wealthy families.

A female gentleman, a nanny who is an expert in tutoring children's growth.

They don't need to observe closely, they can judge whether the woman is perfect just by looking at her appearance.

Even though Yang Yuniang was born in the Jianghu Yan Clan, in fact, she is mainly responsible for accounting. The so-called "record" is either her hearsay, or her senior sister's real record. If she is really good at fraud, or she

Cheng Shijie may not be able to escape if his senior sister takes action. Yang Yunniang's senior sister has a kind of incense that can interfere with a person's mind. Once caught, the person will be at the mercy of others within three hours.

As the saying goes, there are mountains across the world. Although Song Xiance was also a charlatan, he really didn't know much about the secrets of the Yan Clan: "Do you have anyone familiar with you?"

"This matter is not easy to handle!"

Yang Yunniang sighed and said: "The only way is to ask my master to take action!"

"Your master?"

"The age difference between my master and my wife is not big, but they are a little thinner and lower in stature. This can be easily solved. But my master has already prayed to the Buddha, regardless of political affairs. I wonder if she is willing to help!"

Yang Yunniang actually had selfish motives. Her master Feng Sanniang met Zhou Shichen, a scumbag. Not only was she defrauded of all the money she had accumulated over the years, but the key point was that Feng Sanniang was devastated and lost her fighting spirit. Now Feng Sanniang is using a green lantern, eating fast and chanting Buddha's name.

If possible, she hoped that Master could live a good life.

While pretending to be Mrs. Cheng Shijie, Feng Sanniang finally found a place to eat. From a basic point of view, her master was not a bad person. They defrauded people who were greedy for wealth, and the money defrauded by the master was

, except for the part taken away by Zhou Shichen, most of it was used to adopt disabled children.

Now this important task falls on Yang Yunniang. She follows Cheng Shijie and gets food, accommodation, clothing and clothing every month. She also has ten taels of silver. According to her life, she should be living a good life, but in fact, Yang Yuniang is now

As a pauper, any money she earns will be sent to Shandong by someone else.

Song Xiance said: "You, the commander-in-chief can be trusted, your master, if he leaks this secret, it will ruin the commander-in-chief's important affairs!"

Yang Yunniang shook her head and said: "I tricked my master into coming here. As long as she comes to Liaonan, will she still be able to go to heaven?"

"Your master is a veteran, how could you lie to her? Don't make it self-defeating."

"No, my master's biggest concern is Zhou Shichen. As long as I tell her that Zhou Shichen is suspected of appearing in Liaonan, she will definitely come and kill him immediately!"

"So good!"

…

On Xiaonan Island, under the leadership of Peng, the internal agent, the Ning Haijun navy found Meng Xianhan's bank account and tested Ning Haijun; the moment for the naval officers and soldiers' hearts has arrived.

As the water in the pond in the backyard was drained, a smooth gentle slope was revealed. A road was dug out of the gentle slope, leading directly to the cave. As the torches were lit after entering the cave, Li Zhixiang, Li Fang, Chen Youyou, Shen Shikui

The admiral of the Dingning Navy was dumbfounded.

Boxes upon boxes of gold and silver. A stone room is filled with gorgeous, exquisite, gleaming gold wineware, silver winter melons weighing hundreds of kilograms each, copper pillars made of thousands of kilograms of brass, boxes after boxes of gold and silver.

Jewelry…

It took Li Zhixiang a long time to recover from his dizzy state. He stroked a giant silver winter melon and sighed with emotion: "It's unimaginable that so many treasures were plundered just by pirates!"

Peng shook her head and said: "This is not the treasure that Meng Xianhan got when he was a pirate. Most of it was accumulated by Xu Hongru for several generations, and all of it was taken advantage of by Meng Xianhan..."

At this point, Peng felt he had made a mistake, because now all these treasures fell into the hands of Ning Haijun.

"Very good!"

Li Zhixiang smiled and said: "Our commander-in-chief has always wanted to eliminate our 400-fuel gunboats, but building new large warships requires a lot of money. With this money, we can build dozens of types of 3,400-fuel guns!"

"

A large ship with four thousand materials, excluding artillery, costs about seven thousand seven hundred taels. This is free construction by craftsmen, only the cost of wood and matching canvas, ropes, tung oil and other materials. If according to Cheng Shijie

Calculating the wages offered to craftsmen, a large ship with four thousand materials would cost at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

If according to the standards of the Europa battleship, a large ship with more than 4,000 materials is equipped with forty-eight or fifty-six cannons, and its firepower reaches the standard of the Europa third-level battleship, then although the manufacturing cost of a third-level battleship is 50,000 to 60,000 taels of silver

about.

In fact, although the Ming Dynasty's finances were tight and prosperous every year, it was not short of money. Over the past two to three hundred years, the Ming Dynasty earned immeasurable wealth from maritime trade, with as much as 400 million taels of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty.

In just one city of Beijing, Li Zicheng copied tens of millions of taels of silver. Who said that the imperial court was poor?

The financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was because the rich did not have to pay taxes. All taxes fell on the common people. Even this little tax source was robbed by many people from the court, such as vassals, officials, and gentry. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

, Scholars with meritorious status are tax-free, so whenever a scholar reaches high school, many people will come to donate their land and property, and if they donate the fields in their name, they will naturally not have to pay taxes.

The vassal princes and officials also did not pay taxes. Both of them were justified. Who dared to collect taxes from them? As a result, the tax sources of the imperial court were sharply reduced, and they could only increase taxes on less and less fields. Nothing could happen.

It’s all difficult.

In particular, there was no industry in the Ming Dynasty, let alone financial products such as securities and stocks. Coupled with the old tradition of Chinese people being willing to save since ancient times, the money they earned could not be spent all, and they were afraid of thieves, so they naturally hid it in the cellar.

.Smelt the silver into a silver winter melon that weighs hundreds of kilograms. Even a few big men can't move it. Naturally, no one can steal it.

This silver disappeared from the market and ceased to exist. Until a crisis comes and the whole country falls into panic, this silver will flow out of the cellar and flood into the market to desperately purchase food, cloth and other daily necessities, causing prices to skyrocket.

Ultimately accelerating the collapse of the entire country... There is no way. A country's money will always be several times more than its supplies. If all this money flows into the market to purchase goods, out-of-control prices will become inevitable.

Cheng Shijie used the seized money to buy grains in Dengzhou, which caused a crazy increase in grain prices. Now he no longer dares to buy grains in Dengzhou. Instead, he puts the work of buying grains in Jiangnan. The grains in Jiangnan are far better than those in Dengzhou.

It is cheap in Dengzhou, and the best rice only costs four coins per stone, which is almost half of the price of grain in Dengzhou.

After a day and night of counting, the final results of the seizures in Xiaonan Island were calculated. There were a total of 2.5 million taels of silver, 6,300 taels of gold, 190,000 jins of brass, and more than 1,600 pearls.

In addition, there are countless valuable things such as silk, jade, porcelain, and mahogany furniture.

As for the weapons seized, they are not too many, but more. Sun Yuanhua alone spent a lot of money to make more than 200 muskets, and more than 100 large and small artillery pieces...

As for food, Meng Xianhan was also a talented person. A mere two thousand pirates actually stored more than fifty-eight thousand stones of food. The entire South Island, including the old, weak, women and children, was enough to feed these people for more than two years.

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Li Zhixiang said: "Prepare to transport these things to Jinzhou Guard..."

Before Li Zhixiang could finish speaking, Chen Youyou stepped forward and said, "General Li, don't be too busy with your luck. Have you forgotten the most important thing?"

"What?"

"Divide the dirt!"

Li Zhixiang and Li Fang were startled: "Divide the dirt? Have you forgotten the military regulations of our Ning Navy?"

"Everything seized should be returned to the public, but rules are dead and people are alive!"

Shen Shikui looked at the soldiers around him and said with a smile: "Brothers, since we surrendered to Marshal Cheng, our life following Marshal Cheng has indeed been much better than before. But the problem is, the brothers have been busy for more than a month, and we can't let us seven Eight thousand brothers are working in vain, right? Even if Shen agrees, the brothers will not agree!"

Chen sometimes echoed hurriedly: "That's right, Vice General Shen's words are reasonable, and brothers will not agree!"

The dozens of Ning Haijun soldiers around, including Chen Shiyou, Shen Shikui, Li Zhixiang and others' confidants, including Li Fang's subordinates, also had gleaming eyes.

Li Zhixiang was startled: "What do you want to do?"

"The old rule is that Marshal Cheng will take the big share. After all, the brothers still need to eat with Marshal Cheng. We will only take a part, a very small part!"

Shen Shikui said confidently: "This is what Shen thinks. We don't want jade, porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and painting, pearls, gold and silver jewelry, furniture and other miscellaneous things. We will leave them all to Marshal Cheng. The silver ingots are divided into two categories, five. Ten taels and ten taels, these silvers total more than 537,000 taels. Our four families will share them equally. General Li will get 200,000 taels, Shen and Brother Chen will get 150,000 taels, and the remaining 37,000 taels The remaining two taels of silver go to Brother Li Fang..."

Shen Shikui talks eloquently, and one can tell at a glance that he has experience in dividing stolen goods. Could it be that he often does this kind of thing?

Chen You was overjoyed when he heard this. He had less than 2,000 men and 150,000 taels of silver under his command. He could get 100,000 taels for himself, and then the 50,000 taels of silver could be divided equally among the generals below. Each of them could also get twenty or thirty. Two taels of silver is equivalent to their military pay for two years. Navy officers and soldiers' pay is slightly higher than that of infantrymen. Ordinary soldiers receive one, two, and five taels of silver per month.

Li Zhixiang's little heart was beating wildly, like a deer bumping inside. He looked at the mountains of gold and silver jewelry, his mouth was dry, and he swallowed hard: "Vice General Shen, do this. Isn’t it appropriate?”
To be continued...