Chapter 952. Undercurrent.
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At the same time, Zhao Junchen is dealing with the resettlement of the victims in his office.
According to Zhao Junchen's plan, he will integrate his industries and fields in various places this time, and try to accommodate 80,000 disaster victims, most of whom will become Zhao Junchen's tenants and be resettled in various granges.
Even if Zhao Junchen has a lot of industries under his name, and during this period of time, he has secretly purchased a large number of military fields and wasteland in the name of "Jubao Commercial Bank", but it is also a very stressful thing to resettle these many people at the same time.
Therefore, after the official launch of this plan, Zhao Junchen was busy again, but he once again forgot his repeated promises to Zhang Decheng.
"During this period of time, I have successively purchased 2,500 hectares of abandoned land from the commanders of the major military towns, and more than 5,000 hectares of uncultivated wasteland from the governors of various places, plus 500 hectares of private land after the Wang family was confiscated...... In Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi, I have a total of more than 3,000 dumps of land and more than 5,000 dumps of wasteland!
The desertion phenomenon in the major military towns is extremely serious, all of them have a large amount of idle land, which is gradually abandoned because of the lack of manpower to cultivate, and the uncultivated wasteland in the provinces is also of low value......
However, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, the average grain yield per mu in the northwest provinces is only 320 catties, and taking into account the spring and autumn taxes of the imperial court, as well as various unexpected natural and man-made disasters...... To feed a common man, you need at least two acres of land, or five acres of wasteland......
In other words, these lands seem to be a lot of land, but they are only enough to feed 35,000 people, compared to the total number of victims in the northwest, but it is also a drop in the bucket, even if you add the land in Xuanfu Military Town, it is better than nothing...... Alas, this time I can only do my best, and I can save as many people as I can! ”
Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen's brows couldn't help frowning.
Although he has spent countless efforts, but in the face of successive natural disasters and boundless victims, he can only do his best and do what he can, and the rest of the things can only be helpless and laissez-faire.
Manpower will eventually be poor, and the way of heaven will eventually be determined - in the past two days, Zhao Junchen has not known how many times he has sighed like this.
And just when Zhao Junchen was secretly calculating, Xu Qingyan pushed the door in.
After entering the room, Xu Qingyan reported: "Young Master, I just received the news that Zhang Cheng has taken away more than 40,000 victims from the refugee camp near Xi'an Fucheng, and now he is guiding these people to rush to the direction of Xuanfu for resettlement. ”
After hearing Xu Qingyan's report, Zhao Junchen's expression relaxed slightly.
Xuanfu Military Town is located in the north of Zhili, the closest distance from the center of the capital, Zhao Junchen has the longest penetration time and the largest penetration of this military town, in order to control the economic lifeline of Xuanfu Military Town, Zhao Junchen has already completely hollowed out its family foundation!
Today, most of the land under the name of Xuanfu Military Town has fallen into the hands of the "Jubao Commercial Bank", adding up to 3,500 yuan, which is the largest land controlled by Zhao Junchen.
At the same time, the refugee camp near Xi'an City is also the largest refugee camp in Shaanxi and Gansu, and as long as the problem of resettlement of the victims in this refugee camp is solved, the relief pressure in the entire Shaanxi and Gansu will be greatly alleviated.
Therefore, Zhao Junchen wanted to resettle all the victims of this refugee camp near Xuanfu, and asked Zhang Cheng to personally handle this matter with a large number of people.
Now, hearing that this matter is progressing well, Zhao Junchen is naturally relieved.
After Zhao Junchen nodded, he instructed Xu Qingyan: "Send someone to urge, let Zhang Cheng must settle all the people before the end of this year's autumn planting, and organize the people to start farming as soon as possible, I have already arranged the cultivation tools and seeds, and the people's housing problem can be eased for a while, but we must not delay the autumn planting time this year, otherwise there will be no harvest in the whole year in the future, and we will not have the ability to support tens of thousands of people for so long." ”
Xu Qingyan is a miser, thinking of Zhao Junchen's losses after the people delayed the autumn planting, he couldn't help but have a big head, his expression was unprecedentedly serious, and he nodded: "I will send someone to urge Zhang Cheng, and I must let him understand that the time for this matter is urgent." ”
After speaking, Xu Qingyan was about to turn around and leave.
However, as soon as he walked to the door of the room, Xu Qingyan seemed to have thought of something temporarily, and reported to Zhao Junchen again: "By the way, I just received a piece of news, saying that Liang Fuchen's messenger has finally arrived at Huamachi Camp, and now he is reporting the news to Liang Fuchen, and he should have known the reward and arrangements of the imperial court." ”
Zhao Junchen couldn't help but smile and said: "I have invested so much in Tongji Temple, and now it is also fruitful, and this matter can be regarded as another contribution to them...... Now that the overall situation has been decided, Liang Fuchen has delayed the best time, even if he receives these news, it will be fine. ”
In fact, the reason why Liang Fuchen's messenger had an accident on the way and was delayed for several days was also because of Zhao Junchen's prior arrangement.
Tongji Temple is an intelligence agency in the hands of Zhao Junchen, and it also uses missionary means to infiltrate the major forces of the temple, and Liang Fuchen, as a cabinet elder and an important minister of the "Imperial Party", is naturally the key target of Tongji Temple.
However, Liang Fuchen has a strong personality charm, his henchmen and cronies are all dead and loyal, and it is impossible for them to betray Liang Fuchen in a short time, if the bribery method is too hasty, maybe it will also expose the relationship between Tongji Temple and Zhao Junchen.
But after Fang Ru took over the affairs of Tongji Temple, Tongji Temple's ability to do things has also increased greatly, and it can be said that it is pervasive, even if it is impossible to buy those cronies and henchmen who control Liang Fuchen in a short period of time, but it is easy to buy some of the servants of Liang Mansion.
This time, it was a Liangfu groom bought by Tongji Temple who played a role.
Long before leaving Beijing, Zhao Junchen speculated that once the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu changed, the imperial court would definitely let Liang Fuchen rush to Huamachi Camp to take over all matters.
Therefore, Zhao Junchen told Fang Ru in advance, saying that once the situation in the imperial court has changed greatly, the Liang Mansion will definitely send a reliable messenger to the Huamachi camp to report the news to Liang Fuchen, at this time, only the Liang Fu horseman needs to move a little bit to arrange a mount with physical problems for Liang Fuchen's messenger, and considering the road conditions between the Huamachi camp and the center of the capital, this messenger will have an accident on the way nine times out of ten, and Liang Fuchen will not be able to receive the news in time. It also allowed Zhao Junchen to get a time difference that could be operated.
A few days ago, after Zhao Junchen received the news from Fang Ru, he didn't see Liang Fuchen's messenger rushing to Huamachi Camp for a long time, so he knew that his arrangement must have worked.
At this time, after hearing Zhao Junchen's statement, Xu Qingyan also smiled a little, and said: "This messenger is also unlucky, I originally thought that he would delay for a day or two at most, but I didn't expect him to delay for three or four days in one go, no wonder Liang Fuchen will realize it later." ”
After speaking, Xu Qingyan's expression returned to seriousness again, and he hurriedly turned around and left.
For Xu Qingyan, there is nothing more important than urging the people to plant in autumn as soon as possible.
If the people delay this year's autumn planting, Zhao Junchen will have to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to feed them for a whole year, this kind of thing is simply a nightmare for Xu Qingyan.
Seeing Xu Qingyan's performance, Zhao Junchen shook his head lightly, and then buried himself in dealing with the resettlement of the victims again.
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Just when Liang Fuchen was anxiously waiting for Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong to find out the truth, the two of them did not disappoint Liang Fuchen.
On the evening of that day, Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong finally found a crucial piece of evidence.
According to the informant, Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong rushed to Yanchuan County in eastern Shaanxi and found a businessman named Wang Mao.
On the surface, this Wang Mao is an ordinary businessman in Yanchuan County, but in fact he is inextricably linked with the "Black Tiger Army" that kidnapped Liang Fuchen at the beginning, he himself is the leader of the Black Tiger Army, Wang Laohu is a distant relative, and he is also responsible for the sale of the stolen goods from all kinds of looting by the "Black Tiger Army".
Wang Mao is not a backbone person, when he was caught by Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong, he was immediately frightened, and before he could be tortured, he confessed all the information.
In the Xingtang of the Yamen of Yanchuan County, Wang Mao was tied to a pillar, and various torture instruments were placed in front of him.
Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong listened to Wang Mao's confession expressionlessly.
Ever since he saw these torture instruments in front of him, Wang Mao's face had been pale, his expression was extremely panicked, and he stumbled and said, "...... At that time, the villain happened to rush to Tang Nanshan, the stronghold of the 'Black Tiger Army', to discuss with Wang Laohu about the sale of stolen goods, during which a minion reported to Wang Laohu, saying that it was a young man dressed as a noble son who asked to see Wang Laohu, and there was a big deal to cooperate with Wang Laohu, Wang Laohu and the villain only used each other's relationship, and they could not talk about trust between each other, and after getting the report, they separated the villain......
But when the villain left, the noble son happened to be led to see Wang Laohu, and the villain glanced at it from a distance and recorded the person's appearance...... The villain didn't pay attention to it originally, he just thought that it was the young master of the wealthy family who had an enmity with someone, so he wanted to buy Wang Laohu to avenge him, who would have thought that this matter had something to do with the old man of the court......"
Speaking of this, Wang Mao cried out: "So, two adults Mingjian, this matter really has nothing to do with the villain!" Even if the villain has the courage to do so, he doesn't dare to follow the 'Black Tiger Army' group of rogues to kidnap him as the elder of the court! ”
After hearing Wang Mao's confession, Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong's eyes lit up.
Then, Zhang Daozhen asked with a serious expression: "The young man you mentioned is about five feet tall, with a moderate figure, slightly thin lips, a slightly collapsed nose, a slightly larger left eye than the right eye, and a brown mole at the corner of the right eyebrow?"
Zhang Daozhen's description is all Xu Qingyan's physiognomy characteristics.
After hearing Zhang Daozhen's inquiry, Wang Mao nodded again and again: "That's exactly what it looks like!" That's exactly what it looks like! At that time, the villain was still a little strange, thinking that his appearance did not look like a person from Shaanxi and Gansu, but a little like a young master from Suzhou and Hangzhou. ”
Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong glanced at each other, and they both saw the excitement between each other's expressions!
If it can be proved that the "Black Tiger Army" had contact with Xu Qingyan before kidnapping Liang Fuchen, Zhao Junchen will no longer be able to get rid of his involvement!
After thinking for a while, Zhang Daozhen turned his head to look at Wang Mao again, his tone was a little softer, and he said slowly: "Wang Mao, you also go to Huamachi Camp with us!" Once there, we'll give you the opportunity to spy on someone and make sure it's the same young man you've seen! If this is done, it will be a great achievement, and we will spare your life! Otherwise...... With your relationship with the 'Black Tiger Army', you will inevitably die!" ”
Seeing that he still had a chance to live, Wang Mao's eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded again and again, and said: "The villain doesn't dare to slack off, he will definitely observe and identify carefully!" ”
Zhang Daozhen nodded with satisfaction, turned around and ordered everyone in a deep voice: "Send someone to prepare the carriage and horses, we must rush to the Huamachi camp as soon as possible, report this matter to the old Liang Ge, and arrange for Wang Mao to secretly identify Xu Qingyan!" ”
Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong are both Liang Fuchen's confidants, and they have always been vigorous and resolute when doing things.
With Zhang Daozhen's order, they left Yanchuan County overnight and rushed in the direction of Huamachi Camp.
After a hurried journey, they finally arrived at the Huamachi camp after two days.
On the day when Zhang Daozhen and Li Hong arrived at Huamachi Camp with Wang Mao, Zhao Junchen's plan against the Mongolian right-wing finally began the first step.
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On this day, at the junction of Ningxia Military Town and the Hetao Plain, a team of border soldiers transported 200,000 stone grain and grass here.
There, Sigmu had been waiting for a long time with more than 5,000 Ordos cavalry.
In the Ming Dynasty, one stone was equivalent to about 100 catties, 200,000 stone was equivalent to 20 million catties of grain and grass, thousands of carriages were needed to carry the required carriages, and there were more than 3,000 people escorting grain.
But so many Ming Dynasty troops appeared in the Hetao Plain, but the Ordos tribe did not have any intention of taking precautions, and everyone was smiling when they saw so much grain and grass transported in front of them.
"Leader Siegmu, according to the agreement between Lord Zhao and you, all the 200,000 stone grains and grass have been transported here, do you want to count them?"
When all the grain and grass were piled together, Wang Yingzema came to Sigmu's side and asked with a kind expression.
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