On average, there are only ten people on a boat. How small is this boat?

Giovanni shook his head and said: "We Venetians have more than two thousand merchant ships and employ a large number of foreigners to serve as our sailors, boatmen and helmsmen. We Venetians only need to be the commanders of the fleet!"

"I see!"

Cheng Shijie beckoned: "Come here!"

…

Ningyuan Guard, Xingshui Fort, and garrison mansion.

Wu Sangui received the news that more than a hundred of his subordinates had fled, and his face was livid with anger.

The new Minister of Rites, Fang Yizao, after Xu Guangqi entered the cabinet, his official position was the Second Assistant to the Cabinet, and the position of Minister of Rites became vacant. Fang Yizao replaced Xu Guangqi as the Minister of Rites, as a bachelor

, served as governor of Liaodong.

Fang Yizao, the new governor of Liaodong, planned the Battle of Youmashan for political achievements. The young general Wu Sangui was dismissed from office because his father Wu Xiang fled without fighting in the Battle of Daling River. Wu Sangui wanted to save the country.

When his father came out, he led the Wu family's soldiers in a frantic charge and successfully beheaded fifty-four Jiu slaves and captured more than a hundred Mongolians.

If this battle had been carried out under real circumstances, it would have definitely been a great victory that shocked the imperial court. However, the problem was that Wu Sangui was so unlucky that his victory documents were sent to the capital one after another by Gao Qiqian.

Sent to the capital.

Then, there is no more.

In the Battle of Youmashan, although the number of Guan Ning's troops participating in the battle was over a thousand, the total number of slaves was less than 300, which was too small. Wu Sangui's luck was actually not bad. In the original history, Fang Yizhao, the Minister of Rites

, served as the governor of Liaodong and was responsible for the military affairs of Liaodong.

But the problem is that at this time, Cheng Shijie became the manager of Liaodong, while Fang Yizao, a dignified scholar, minister of the Ministry of Rites and governor of Liaodong, became Cheng Shijie's subordinate.

He couldn't afford to lose this person, so Fang Yizao stayed in Ningyuan Acropolis and did not move at all, nor did he go to see Cheng Shijie, the superior official. But the problem was that Cheng Shijie didn't understand the scale of officialdom at all, and he didn't notice it.

He actually had a subordinate who was the governor of Liaodong.

In order to rescue his father, Wu Sangui became a disciple of Fang Yizao, and it was purely to disgust Cheng Shijie. The first thing Fang Yizao did when he took office was to recommend Wu Sangui to become the Ningyuan Guard and establish the garrison of the water fort. What's more coincidental is that,

He ordered Wu Sangui to organize the Xingshui Army, with no more than 2,500 troops.

According to the practice of Guan Ning's army, Wu Sangui, not to mention a fourth-grade garrison officer, even a third-grade general, actually only commanded more than a thousand people.

Wu Sangui was born in Jiangmen, and grew up in the big dye vat of Jiangmen in western Liaoning. He had seen a lot of intrigues and deceit, and he had seen a lot of mountains of corpses and seas of blood outside the customs. His ability to cultivate Qi was naturally extraordinary. It might be possible to say that Mount Tai collapsed in front of his eyes without changing his expression.

I can't do it, but it's absolutely fine if I can't show my emotions or anger.

However, now, he was furious and roared again and again. In his rage, his study room seemed to have been swept by a tornado. All kinds of books and documents were swept all over the floor, and several pieces of precious porcelain were violently thrown away by him.

He fell to pieces on the ground. Just as the servant was about to come in and clean up, he kicked him over and kicked the servant until he rolled all over the floor...

"It's too much to bully others...it's too much to bully others..."

In fact, Cheng Shijie's only contact with Guan Ning's army was to sell more than 8,000 ancestral army prisoners rescued from Azig to Zu Dashou.

He had no contact with Wu Sangui of the Guan Ning Army. However, due to the development of Liaonan, the Ning Navy in Liaonan had good treatment and good equipment. When the soldiers under Wu Sangui heard that Liaonan was recruiting troops, they ran away in groups.

Already.

This matter had nothing to do with Cheng Shijie, but Wu Sangui believed that Cheng Shijie was bullying him.

Wu Xiang walked in with a frown, without saying a word, and stared at his son with a sullen face. Wu Sangui immediately calmed down after his glare, let the servant go, and said calmly: "Dad..."

"Snapped!"

Although Wu Xiang was released from prison, he was not reinstated. Wu Xiang cheated Zu Dashou. If according to history, Zu Dashou was left alone, he would not have any strength to check Wu Xiang, nor would he have the strength to take revenge on Wu Xiang.

.

However, in this time and space, Zu Dashou had 8,000 direct descendants of the ancestral army in his hands. He successfully regained power in Jinzhou, controlled Jinzhou, and began to pay attention to his brother-in-law.

Wu Xiang begged Zu Dashou for forgiveness many times and put the blame on Song Wei, but Zu Dashou no longer believed in him. In this day and age, having soldiers is strength, and having no soldiers is nothing.

Wu Xiang slapped him across the face, and Wu Sangui suddenly had a blood-red palm print on his left cheek. Blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, but he remained silent.

Wu Xiang pointed at his nose and cursed angrily: "You are the eldest son of Wu, and all the hopes of the Wu family to become a great family fall on you! Look at what you look like now. I think you are simply

He’s just a mad dog! How can I safely hand over the Wu family to you!"

Wu Sangui raised his head and said, "Dad, the man named Cheng is bullying people!"

Wu Xiang asked sharply: "Why did he bully you?"

Wu Sangui frowned and said: "The man named Cheng seduced my soldiers away! The elite soldiers I trained with great difficulty were seduced by him, including his men, and more than a hundred horses!"

"You really disappoint me!"

Wu Xiang said angrily: "You have lived like a dog all these years? If Cheng Shijie bullies you, who are you, worthy of him bullying you? Don't say you are building a water castle, even if you are in front of Cheng Shijie, he will not even look at you.

You have no interest at all. Are you qualified?"

Wu Xiang is very right. Before the rise of Ning Haijun, Guan Ningjun was the heart and soul of the imperial court.

Now Guan Ningjun has become Mrs. Niu.

How often will Cheng Shijie come? He doesn’t need military pay from the imperial court, nor money or food. He raises his own food and grass, recruits his own soldiers, and builds his own armor and weapons.

The imperial court didn't spend a penny and got such a capable army for nothing, so why not?

Although it is said that Liao's salary has fattened a large group of moths in the imperial court, the problem is that the imperial court really has no money at the moment. The Battle of Daling River wiped out the last bit of wealth of the Ming imperial court.

Wu Xiang continued: "As for those soldiers you mentioned, if they run away, they will run away!~"

Facing Wu Sangui, Wu Xiang was both sad and worried.

The current Wu Sangui cannot be said to be a good or bad person. He is ambitious, full of energy, skilled in bow and horse, and has superb martial arts. He is a rare hero among the younger generation of generals in Guan Ning Army. Both he and Zu Dashou are very optimistic about him.

However, Wu Sangui had never suffered any setbacks. He had his sights set high and finally led an army alone. He was ambitious and wanted to do something great. As a result, more than a hundred soldiers were lost just after they had gained some proficiency in training.

He immediately lost his mind!

This is actually like some employees in the workplace complaining that their boss deliberately wears small shoes for them.

In fact, the boss may not even know him. The real reason is that he has not done his job well.

Wu Sangui's mood slowly calmed down. Of course, the calm was only on the surface. His fists clenched loudly, and he was obviously still very angry. He didn't listen to Wu Xiang's words at all.

Wu Xiang said earnestly: "I know you are arrogant and don't want others to be better than you, and you don't want others to stand out and be proud, but... I must tell you, Cheng Shijie is the sharpest sword, and no one can cover it.

With his sharp edge, it is definitely not a good idea to be an enemy of him!"

…

Jinzhou City, Pingliao General's Mansion.

Zu Dashou then received the report. The spy had caused Wu Sangui to lose control. Wu Xiang angrily rebuked Wu Sangui and reported everything to him.

Zu Dashou was very angry that Wu Xiang, his brother-in-law, was eager to step on him and get the upper hand.

As the saying goes, if you take a hard time, you will gain wisdom.

Now Zu Dashou will not believe Wu Xiang's words, and there is no need to reuse Wu Xiang. In the army, he has consciously purged Wu Xiang's people, and all the generals who were close to Wu Xiang were sent away by Zu Dashou.

.

Although they have not really broken up with Wu Xiang, the real reason is that the Wu family is originally a powerful family in western Liaoning. Although Wu Xiang is not good at fighting, he is good at running the family power. The Wu family was originally a powerful family in western Liaoning. After Wu Xiang entered the officialdom

He even expanded his strength with great fanfare and embezzled military villages. At that time, it had become a well-known fact that the generals of the Liaodong Ming Army had invaded military villages.

Although Wu Xiang also embezzled military villages, Wu Xiang used all the money to train his own private soldiers. Wu Xiang himself wore coarse brown clothes, but his private soldiers wore wanluo and qi, and Wu Xiang ate simple food and simple food.

But the private soldiers under his command were fed fat sheep with fine wine.

Even though the court sometimes owed pay, his private soldiers could still live comfortably. Wu Xiang also distributed the land that had been stolen from military households to his private soldiers. Each servant had hundreds of acres of farmland. Such a force was very important to Wu.

The family's absolutely loyal private soldier was what made Zu Dashou very afraid of Wu Xiang.

The Wu family's retainers already numbered 3,000, composed of Wu Xiang's children, their brothers, relatives, etc. Wu Xiang knew that in order to keep the family's power from declining, it was necessary for the family to continuously produce talents.

For talented people with foreign surnames, such as Wu Xiang's fierce generals Li Chunhua, Liu Jiwu, and Wang Gui, their wives were all Wu Xiang's adopted daughters.

Zu Dashou thought about it and decided to learn from Wu Xiang.

Of course, he had never thought about getting married to Cheng Shijie and directly sending a daughter or granddaughter to Cheng Shijie to be his wife. Cheng Shijie was not a fool, so how could he agree to this.

Zu Dashou said: "Here comes someone!"

"master!"

"Go and call Huier over!"

"yes!"

Hui'er's real name is Li Hui.

But she is not a Han, but a Korean. She comes from a royal family. This is the beauty that the King of Joseon gave to his ancestor in order to celebrate his birthday.

However, Li Hui was only twelve years old when he was sent to Zu Dashou's mansion in Jinzhou. Now Li Hui has been raised by Zu Dashou for six years.

At first, Li Hui could barely speak Chinese. Zu Dashou found more than a dozen teachers to teach Li Hui chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and poetry. After more than six years of study, Li Hui can now be said to be proficient in chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and poetry.

So proficient.

Not long after, Li Hui, dressed in a rich dress, moved lightly with lotus steps and came over with a gust of fragrant wind.
To be continued...