In the third year of Chongzhen, at the end of June, the situation of rectification in the army was reported.

"Recently, 1,497 sergeants of various battalions have surrendered, and 327 have been arrested for solving cases.

The generals of the Xuanfu were all corrupt, and after the East Window incident, half of the generals fled, and half of the generals gathered troops to make a rebellion.

But all those who make trouble will be ambushed, and those who flee are incompetent subordinates, please punish them. ”

After Yu Zhong finished his report, he knelt on one knee and asked Wang Zezhi to punish him.

Let these generals of Xuanfu escape under his nose, he feels that he has an unshirkable responsibility.

"Get up, this matter has nothing to do with you, they are too capable, you go down first."

"Yes."

Yu Zhong was ordered to retreat.

The border army system of the Ming Dynasty is to serve as the generals of each battalion with the officials of the guards, these generals, hereditary from generation to generation, from generation to generation, hundreds of years, deep-rooted in the local power, and foreign trade is one of their most important sources of wealth.

It can be said that in Xuanfu Town, the biggest sin is the border general.

Civil officials and eunuchs are okay, after all, they all have a term of office, and they generally have to be transferred after a few years, at most they will receive some money and other filial piety during their tenure, and with the transfer, they will slowly disappear.

And those generals, who have been passed down from generation to generation, are like snakes on the ground.

In addition to them, there were also local gentry, merchants and other powerful people.

Close to the border plugs, private trade is also one of their most important sources of wealth.

They are inextricably linked to the profiteers led by Pham Minh.

They not only have huge power in Shanxi and Xuanfu, but also have a huge network of relationships elsewhere in the Ming Dynasty.

Their hands stretched out in all directions, and in all parts of the Ming Dynasty, there were networks of interests, which could be said to be suffering on one side and supporting on all sides, and it was not surprising that these generals were able to escape from the Xuanfu Wang.

Too much power is not always a good thing, like this one.

After Wang Zezhi cleared the list of corrupt elements, there were rumors.

It is said that the profiteers are afraid that the matter will be exposed, and they begin to kill people.

The sergeants who had previously accepted their benefits, fearing that they would be silenced, voluntarily turned themselves in, handed over the stolen money, and explained their problems clearly.

This is true not only in the military, but also in various systems.

After all, in just a few days, thousands of people, large and small, have been exterminated in various systems of Datong Mansion, and it is impossible to say that they are not afraid.

There are people in the army, the chamber of commerce, and the garrison department who have surrendered, and these people add up to tens of thousands.

Wang Zezhi thought that someone would be bought, but he didn't expect that so many people would be bought.

After these people turned themselves in, Wang Zezhi ordered them to be taken into custody and carried out labor reform.

It just so happened that there were many cities and roads in Xuanfu that needed to be repaired, which saved a lot of trouble.

The surrender of these people was like opening a floodgate.

Originally, some small merchants and gentry from Shanxi and Xuanfu also went to the garrison department to surrender.

For no other reason, it is much safer to be guarded after surrendering than at home.

The garrison department didn't know how to deal with these people, so he could only ask Wang Zezhi.

When Wang Zezhi knew, he smiled helplessly.

He ordered that the cell was not something that could be entered if he wanted to.

All small merchants and gentry who surrendered themselves must hand over half of their illegal gains.

Only those who have surrendered their ill-gotten gains are protected by the Department of Security and live in a cell.

If the illegal gains are not handed over, the Security Department will not provide protection.

In other words, those who do not pay their illegal gains can only squat at home, trembling and waiting to be exterminated at any time.

This is not the end, Wang Zezhi also divided the cell into a standard room for eight people, a comfortable room for four people, a double room, a single room, and a single deluxe room with a window.

The level of cell in which the surrendered person lives is determined by the amount of ill-gotten gains they surrender.

Originally, the people in the Garrison Department felt that there was something wrong with Zhen Beibo's brain, otherwise how could he give such an outrageous order.

Soon, things turned out beyond everyone's expectations.

If Wang Zezhi had arrested these corrupt elements and exterminated them, these people would not have been so afraid.

Because, there are people behind them.

Now the situation is that those behind them are going to destroy them, and they are afraid.

Compared with Wang Zezhi, they are more afraid of the people who take refuge behind them.

No one is more powerful than them, and the people behind them have what kind of power they have.

They died at home, so to speak, at the hands of thieves, and if they died in prison, it would be different.

Whoever goes to the prison to kill them is challenging the imperial court.

As a result, the small and medium-sized merchants and gentry in Datong and Xuanfu took the initiative to hand over some silver money to save their lives.

All of a sudden, the cashiers of the two security divisions received a soft hand, and the prison cells in the two places were even more overcrowded.

The personnel of the Security Department did not know what to do for a while, so they could only ask Wang Zezhi again.

Wang Zezhi thought about it for a while and told them that they would be able to pay for the expansion of the cell, and those who paid for it could live in a new cell.

Wang Zezhi's order was like opening a magic box.

The frightened small and medium-sized businessmen could not wait, so they bought all the houses around the cell and wrote a petition.

It is requested that the house be dedicated to the Department of Security and placed within the scope of the cell.

For their unreasonable and lovely request, Wang Zezhi of course readily agreed.

However, in this way, the merchants and gentry who lived in the cells were not happy.

is also in prison, they are really in prison, but the people outside live in the house, and the accommodation conditions are one day and one place, which cannot be compared at all.

"Hey, Lao Zhang, have you heard of it, I heard that the old man Li who is in the silk business bought a house outside and lived in it.

is also in prison, and this treatment is not a little worse. ”

In the standard room of eight people in the cell, a small businessman surnamed Zhou said to an acquaintance across the fence.

"You know a fart, then Master Li is doing big business, how can we compare.

Not only did he hand over half of his estate, but as far as I know, he handed over ninety percent of his property, and even the house outside his prison was dedicated to the Garrison Division. ”

The small businessman surnamed Zhang on the opposite side pulled on the fence of the cell and said enviously.

"Hey, he's rich, it's not like us, tsk..."

The small businessman surnamed Zhou was also a little envious.

"Tsk fart, how fast they make money, don't you know?

The richest ticket number shopkeeper in Datong Mansion, the head of the silver treasury, the head of the granary, and the nine clans were wiped out.

There is also a young general guarding the pass, who was also wiped out, I heard that the young general who killed the tiger's mouth, except for the infant baby at home who survived, all the family died quietly in their own home.

Tsk tsk, that's a miserable one. ”

"Oh, it's really fake, it's so evil, it's like you've seen it."

"It's not that you don't know, I'm a merchant who carries a burden, going all the way, doing business all the way.

I happened to arrive at the Red Clay Fort that day, hey, there is another thing you don't know for sure, the head of the Red Clay Fort almost got into a fight with the head of the Penal Division.

Oh, that scene is interesting, the two sides are tense..."

"Hey, hey, it's far away, tell me why you came in?"

"I... I've passed information to them, and it's the kind that has been passed on outside the gates..."

"Yo, I can't see it, you still have the material to be finely made."

"Don't laugh at fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, how did you get in."

"I, I... I promised them to do the answer, and to open the gates to them at the right time.

It's not that you don't know the situation in my family, there is an eighty-year-old mother, a sick woman, and a wife and children waiting to be fed, hey, there is a lack of money..."

"Boom!

It's time to rest, turn off the lights, and don't talk. ”

The cell boss struck hard with his stick and motioned for the prisoners to shut up.

The two returned to their beds, and the guards blew out the lights, and the prison became dark.