Chapter 138 I have no daughter to marry but I have a sister

Chapter 137

Li Hui was very clear about Zu Dashou's intentions.

Although she was born in the Korean clan, this is the job of a clan girl. When she was sent to Zu Dashou's mansion, she was still an ignorant girl, no, she should be a girl.

Now more than six years have passed, and she has grown up. She is being sent around like goods. It is absolutely impossible to say that she is not disgusted.

However, she did not have the power or opportunity to choose.

This is the sadness and helplessness of small countries. Their countries must rely closely on the Ming Dynasty to survive. If there was no Ming Dynasty, their country would not exist.

As a clan girl, she must abandon all distracting thoughts.

“What should I do if my daughter goes to Golden State?”

Zu Dashou muttered: "You have the best appearance among all my daughters, the best dancing skills, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. I want you to go to Jinzhou. Your background... is not a good match for Marshal Cheng, but

It's not bad to be a concubine and a slave. With you by your side, Marshal Cheng's military career will not be too boring."

Li Hui smiled slightly: "My daughter accepts the order!"

Li Hui was destined not to be as carefree as other singers in her ancestral home. There were many things she needed to pay attention to. As early as six months ago, she heard the name Cheng Shijie.

At that time, Cheng Shijie fought against the Azige tribe of Jiannu at the foot of Jinshi Mountain, and successfully captured more than 8,000 ancestral army soldiers from Azige.

Later, these soldiers were redeemed by Zu Dashou with a large sum of money, and Cheng Shijie extorted more than one million taels of silver. It must be a lie to say that Zu Dashou had no complaints in his heart.

Zu Dashou and Zu Dabi would occasionally discuss Cheng Shijie when they were drinking. At that time, Zu Dashou definitely did not have anything good to say about Cheng Shijie. In his mouth, Cheng Shijie was greedy, vulgar, despicable, shameless, and obscene...

In short, almost all the curse words were used by Zu Dashou on Cheng Shijie. However, not long after that, I never heard Zu Dashou curse anyone again. Whenever we talk about Cheng Shijie, Zu Dashou’s expression will change.

Very serious and very pious.

Later, she learned that Marshal Cheng of Ning Haijun fought another great victory and killed more than 4,000 Jiannu. Li Hui was no stranger to the ferocity of Jiannu, and Cheng Shijie was taken note of by him.

She has learned a lot about Cheng Shijie's past, and the information in it is true and false.

"It is said that Cheng Shijie is the son of Cheng Yongxing of the Qianhu Station of the Fenghuang Mountain Guard in Fuzhou, Ming Dynasty..."

"It is said that Marshal Cheng is seven feet tall (equivalent to two meters two)"

"It is said that Marshal Cheng's arm strength is amazing and he can draw a three-stone bow (with a pulling force of 360 kilograms)."

"It is said that Marshal Cheng is so powerful that he can wear three layers of iron armor and swim across the sea without sinking!!"

"It is said that Marshal Cheng can run as fast as the wind and can catch up with a fast horse on foot!"

"It is said that Marshal Cheng is good at horse-drawing. His horse-drawing is like a dragon. If he touches it, he will die. If he touches it, he will die..."

Zu Dashou's adopted daughter Li Hui, and now Li Hui changed her name to Zu Hui, became the daughter of his younger brother Zu Dacheng. This time Zu Hui went south to Jinzhou, Zu Dashou's adopted son Zu Kefa accompanied him and escorted him, along with three hundred members of his family.

The elite cavalry of the army.

The equipment of this cavalry is quite luxurious. Each person drives three war horses. These horses are all tall and strong Liaodong horses. In addition to Zu Hui, there are also twelve young beauties with excellent looks, twelve sixteen

A seven-year-old boy.

More than 400 strong servants drove more than 200 carts, and the carts were loaded with tons of silks, gold and silver. These properties were nominally prepared for her niece Zu Hui.

As the head of the generals in western Liaoning, Zu Dashou keenly felt that Cheng Shijie's rise was irreversible, at least until Cheng Shijie's holy family did not decline.

Cheng Shijie and the Liaodong Generals will rise again. Maybe Cheng Shijie will replace Li Chengliang and become the head of the Liaodong Generals.

In this case, it is more correct to have a good relationship with Cheng Shijie than to suppress him.

Zu Dashou also lamented Cheng Shijie's opportunities. Just like when he met Sun Chengzong, in a short period of time, with Sun Chengzong's support, he skyrocketed.

Now Cheng Shijie meets Xu Guangqi, Chongzhen's most trusted deputy minister of the cabinet, who is trusted by teachers and students. A deputy minister of the cabinet and a governor of Denglai. Even the new governor of Liaodong can only hide in Ningyuan and act like an ostrich.

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Gao Qiqian was filled with joy when he met his godson Wang Muzhi, because Wang Muzhi brought him two treasures from southern Liaoning. These two treasures were self-ringing bells from the "Western".

In fact, these are two antique clocks received from Cheng Shijie's scrap collection station. They should be ancient art pieces from the 1980s and 1990s, and the outer casings are made of brass.

Cheng Shijie actually brought this kind of thing to Gao Qiqian, and he was a little worried. In fact, after checking the information, he found that this kind of Western-style clock was as early as the tenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1582). The Jesuit Luo Mingjian made a clock with wheels.

The Grand Zither was dedicated to the then Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Chen Rui, who "suddenly lit up his eyes" and made an exception to allow Luo Mingjian to carry out missionary activities there.

Matteo Ricci came to Beijing and presented two self-ringing bells to Emperor Wanli. One of them was a tower-type bell that was higher than the roof of the inner hall. Emperor Wanli was so excited that he ordered a bell tower to be built in the Imperial Garden.

A thousand taels of money were spent on luxurious decoration just to house this clock. The other chiming clock was a tabletop one, and Emperor Wanli also treasured it. He kept it in his bedroom and listened to it telling the time in the morning and evening, just like listening to a music box. The Queen Mother borrowed it and had to hide it.

stand up.

After finding out this news, Cheng Shijie felt relieved, so he dismantled the brass casings and kept only the internal mechanical parts. In this way, these two sitting clocks, which were stripped of their casings and weighed more than 50 kilograms, were

Cheng Shijie was divided into two parts and moved to the Ming Dynasty.

Then, in order to increase the value of these two clocks, Cheng Shijie asked Ming craftsmen to use more than 600 kilograms of brass to make the bases of two clocks. One was shaped into the shape of a welcoming pine. On the stem of the pine tree

Clocks and clocks were installed, and the other one was used as a peacock with its tail open.

More than 600 kilograms of brass, plus the craftsman's fees, amount to more than 500 taels of silver. This is the most valuable thing Cheng Shijie has ever given to Gao Qiqian.

But the two desk clocks, in Gao Qiqian's eyes, were definitely priceless treasures. They were much more expensive than giving him tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

You know, this is the best treasure that a high potential can have access to.

After Cheng Shijie received these salt quotations, he got benefits. These salt quotations created a wealth of 3.6 million taels for Cheng Shijie. In addition to giving gifts, Cheng Shijie also wrote back a letter to Gao Qiqian. The letter was very

Thanks to Gao Qiqian for his support, Cheng Shijie wrote three to four thousand words in one breath about the free flattery.

This is what Cheng Shijie is best at. Without excellent eloquence and extremely high emotional intelligence, it would be impossible for him to secure that position.

If Hansteel Group is compared to a small country, his position is equivalent to the magistrate of Jingzhao County, one of the most difficult positions to hold, high but not high, low but not low.

In Cheng Shijie's letter to Gao Qiqian, he told Gao Qiqian that if it weren't for these salt guides, he would be so anxious that he would jump into the sea. He had less than 30,000 shi of military rations left. According to the calculation of hundreds of thousands of people in southern Liaoning, but

There won't be much time to eat. If there is no food, Ning Haijun's officers will curse their mothers.

Now that these salts have been brought over, it can be regarded as solving Ning Haijun's urgent need.

Facing these two exquisite clocks, Gao Qiqian found that he did not dare to keep them to himself. After much thought, he gave one of them to Emperor Chongzhen and placed the other in his house near Zhimen in the west of the city.

Emperor Chongzhen had actually been worried about Cheng Shijie. Although Cheng Shijie raised military expenditures by himself, he started from scratch and used Sun Yuanhua's limited help to establish the Ning Navy. This army with extremely strong combat effectiveness developed without the support of the court.

Getting better and better.

For the emperor, this was not a good thing.

Until Gao Qiqian went to Chongzhen to ask for salt citations, what did the salt citations mean to Emperor Chongzhen? With a wave of his hand, 800,000 salt citations were given to Ning Haijun.

"What did you say?"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the beautifully packaged salt in front of him and said in disbelief: "This salt can still cure diseases?"

"How dare I deceive the emperor? Even if the emperor lends me ten courages, I will not dare to deceive your majesty!"

Gao Qiqian pointed to the salt in front of him and said: "General Cheng Shijie sold this salt to Huizhou merchants... If this salt had not been transported to southern Liaoning, General Cheng's command would have been out of food."

"No food?"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately became anxious. At that time, Guan Ning's army was known as the camp bombing army and often mutinied every now and then. If Ning Haijun also ran out of food, Cheng Shijie, no matter how capable he was, might not be able to turn the tide.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. With these salts, General Cheng can buy grain from Huizhou merchants. With hundreds of thousands of grains, General Cheng's army can still hold on!"

Emperor Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

Ning Haijun can be controlled by Yan Yin, which is good. Ning Haijun must not lose control.

But the problem is that salt alone is not safe. The safest thing is to strengthen the connection with Cheng Shijie.

But what if we contact you?

If Emperor Chongzhen had a daughter, then he would marry a daughter and let Cheng Shijie become Princess Consort and become the Prince Consort. But the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen was born in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli. He is fifteen years younger than Cheng Shijie, and his eldest daughter

Princess Kunxing is only four years old, which is too young. If Princess Kunxing is fourteen, she can get engaged first.

Just when Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about it, an idea flashed in his head. I don't have a daughter of the right age to marry, but I do have a sister...

His father, Emperor Taichang Zhu Changluo, who had been emperor for a month, was also a poor man. He gave birth to seven sons, five of whom died in infancy. Except for the eldest Zhu Youxiao and the fifth himself, the other brothers lived to be eight years old at most.

Among them, Zhu Changluo also had ten daughters. The eldest, Princess Huaishu, lived to be eight years old. The second, third, and fourth children all died in infancy. The fifth, Princess Ningde, married Liu Youfu, and the sixth sister, Princess Suiping, Zhu Weijing, married in the seventh year of Tianqi.

Qi Zanyuan, the seventh daughter of the emperor Zhu Weiwan, the ninth daughter of the emperor Zhu Weiqi, and the tenth daughter of the emperor Zhu Weijian also died in infancy.

Now there is only one unmarried sister, and that is the eighth daughter of the emperor, Zhu Weiti. But the problem is that her mother, Concubine Li Kang, Chongzhen dislikes very much...

This is a famous shrew throughout the ages. As a concubine of Kang, she dared to commit a crime and beat Queen Wang to death, who was the biological mother of his eldest brother Zhu Youxiao.

Concubine Li Kang was the heroine of the palace transfer case, one of the three major cases in the late Ming Dynasty. Although Concubine Li Kang was kind to Emperor Chongzhen in caring for and raising him, the problem was that this woman did not give Chongzhen any good fruits to eat.

Otherwise, the eighth daughter Zhu Weiti, who was only one year younger than Emperor Chongzhen, should have married early, but Emperor Chongzhen pretended to be deaf and dumb and dragged his sister into an old girl...

But the problem is, now this girl has become the most popular...

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Cheng Shijie did not expect that Zu Dashou, who was far away in Jinzhou, gave him a niece, but Emperor Chongzhen found him a sister.

Cheng Shijie's biggest headache is that he doesn't have enough manpower.
To be continued...