Wang Zezhi returned to Datong Mansion and began to rest.

The first thing he did was to lay down the bodies of the fallen soldiers and distribute bereavement benefits.

The sergeants on the expedition were given a holiday and asked them to go home and see.

Wang Zezhi made a special trip to Yongshao to see if the herdsman's son survived.

Fortunately, when he went, he saw a scene of the family members.

Wang Zezhi felt a little better, returned to the General Military Department of Datong Prefecture, and collected information on the court while checking the situation in the mansion.

Everything is fine in Datong Mansion, and the businessmen and gentry who took over the project a few years ago have almost completed their business projects.

After they completed these projects, they did not take the pledged silver out of the ticket number.

Because the silver is stored in the ticket number and is taken with interest, they want to eat the interest more than hide it in the cellar.

Of course, there are also cases where some people think that it is better to hide the silver in their own cellar, and after the project is completed, they take the pledged silver away.

However, it did not take long for them to deposit the silver in the cellar.

After all, watching others take interest every month, his silver can only mold in the cellar, which is not pleasant.

Speaking of silver and interest, we have to mention the Jiangnan branch.

Wang Xian and Wang Shan do have a unique way in doing business.

These semicolons opened by Wang Shan alone have brought huge benefits to Wang Zezhi, although he dare not say that he can earn a million taels in a month, there is no problem with hundreds of thousands of taels.

In addition to these semicolons, the businessmen who joined the Chamber of Commerce also followed Wang Shan.

The business of the Chamber of Commerce is getting bigger and stronger.

For example, the shopkeeper Sun who came to buy thousand-year-old ginseng last time.

No one expected that he was one of the top rice merchants in Jiangnan.

When he brought the ginseng back and cured his mother's stubborn illness, he began to follow Wang Shan without reservation.

Now you can see the rice shop opened by the shopkeeper Sun everywhere in the entire Datong Mansion.

The most important point is that unlike some profiteers, Shopkeeper Sun did not raise the price of rice, but made a little money on the premise of ensuring that it did not hurt the cost.

It's rare to meet such a person in this day and age.

Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong's reinforcements were dispersed, and Wei Yunzhong was implicated in this matter, impeached by the courtiers, and dismissed.

Speaking of the collapse of reinforcements, we have to talk about Wang Zezhi's secret order to Li Hua.

He asked Li Hua to receive the soldiers and horses that had been dispersed by King Qinqin in Beijing, and now he had received more than 17,000 people just from the rout, and this was only the rout from Xuanfu to Beizhili, or through Shanxi.

If Li Hua had been a little more bold and went to Henan and Shaanxi to recruit defeated soldiers, it would be far more than that.

From this point in time, Li Zicheng should have started an incident.

In February of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Li Zicheng went to Ganzhou, Gansu (now Ganzhou District, Zhangye City) to join the army.

At that time, Yang Zhaoji served as the general soldier of Ganzhou, and Wang Guo served as a general.

Li Zicheng was soon promoted to the rank of general in the army by the kingdom.

In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the Houjin soldiers marched south, and the Beijing division was tight.

In order to keep Beijing, the imperial court urgently transferred troops from all sides to Beijing for defense.

The troops of Li Zicheng, a border soldier in Gansu, marched to Beijing with the general kingdom, passing through Jinxian (now Yuzhong, Gansu), and the soldiers asked for pay, but the general kingdom refused to pay it.

As a result, in Yuzhong (present-day Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu), the general Wang Kingdom and the local county commander were killed, and the reinforcements launched a mutiny.

After the uprising, Li Zicheng moved to Hanzhong and joined Wang Zuohang's rebels.

Shaanxi has its own Hong Chengchou to deal with it, but there is no need for Wang Zezhi to worry about it.

Now that the post of governor of Xuanda is empty, various factions want to arrange their own people to the Xuanfu, and the courtiers begin to compete for the next official to take office.

To be honest, Wang Zezhi also wanted to bring Xuanfu under his rule.

At the same time, in the first month of 1630 (the third year of Ming Chongzhen and the fourth year of Later Jin Tiancong), Huang Taiji personally commanded the Houjin soldiers to capture Yongping, Qian'an surrendered without a fight, and Luanzhou also surrendered.

After capturing the city, Huang Taiji transferred Amin Bel, who was stationed in Shengjing City, out.

He was ordered to garrison the pass with 5,000 elite cavalry to guard the four cities of Yongping, Luanzhou, Qian'an, and Zunhua.

Huang Taiji means that he wants to turn the four cities of Yongping as the frontier of the confrontation between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty.

The strategic location of the four cities of Yongping was extremely important, but Huang Taiji only left an army of 5,000 people for Amin.

The Ming Dynasty also realized the importance of the four cities of Yongping at this time, and summoned the troops who came to King Qin to recapture the four cities.

Datong Mansion, inside the General Military Administration.

After reading the information, Wang Zezhi opened the map and looked at the geographical location of the four cities.

It was more than 700 miles from Datong Mansion to this place, and the road was difficult to travel just after the snow, so if they rode forward on horseback, they could almost reach it in five days.

Wang Zezhi had a bold idea.

"Bear Armor, Qiqi."

"The subordinates are here." The two knelt on one knee in unison, waiting for Wang Zezhi to give orders.

"With your two battalions of soldiers and horses, each person brings seven days of dry food, one person and two horses, and goes in and out of Jingqin Wang, and Li San is stationed in Datong Mansion with Ah Niu."

"Order."

"Yu Zhong."

"The subordinates are here."

"With your troops and horses gathered in Tianchengwei, ready to standby."

"Yes."

"Li Hua."

"The subordinates are here."

"With your troops and horses cooperating with Wang Xian's sappers to escort grain and grass to Jizhou, passing along the way, shouting to enter the king of Jingqin, recapture the four cities, and drive out the Tartars."

"Order."

"The flying eagle sent an order, ordering Tuomu to garrison Ulzhou with 10,000 horsemen, ready to standby."

"Yes."

After doing this, Wang Zezhi waved his fist excitedly, and the wedge laid by Sheng Jingcheng in the first battle was finally able to be used.

"My lord, Rock Lee has been here."

Wang Shan came to the General Military Administration to report.

"Oh? What happened to the cannon he sent? ”

"Your Excellency is wise, we didn't suffer a loss and earned two cannons for nothing."

Wang Shan rubbed his hands, squeezed his eyebrows at Wang Zezhi and said.

There is a clause in the contract signed by Wang Zezhi and him that the goods will be inspected before payment.

If there is a quality problem with the goods, Li Luo will have to pay three times the compensation.

At that time, Rock Lee did not look closely.

In October, Rock Lee brought the cannon from Macao.

Wang Shan did not receive it directly, but conducted a test launch in accordance with the content of the contract.

This shot was terrible, and three of the ten guns were blown up.

With a defective rate of 30 percent, this probability is scary.

Wang Shan immediately said that all cannons would be returned, and at the same time, Li Luo would be asked to pay three times the compensation.

Where has Li Luo suffered such a loss, he is immediately unwilling.

Wang Shan is not a vegetarian either, and he greeted Ah Niu in advance about this matter.

When Li Luo was unwilling to compensate the people and the cannon and wanted to leave, Wang Shan waved his hand and the sergeants directly surrounded them.

Li Luo was a foreigner after all, and he was afraid that this group of unreasonable barbarians would really kill him in a fit of anger.

He was scared, and as soon as he was afraid, he relented.

After some bargaining, Li Luo left two cannons and 400 flowering shells, and went to Beijing in a gloomy manner.

Li Luo wanted to bring the remaining cannon to Beijing and sell it.

It is said that as soon as he arrived in Beijing, he was invited to the city, and the cannon he brought with him was bought with a lot of money and placed on the city gate.

Because when Li Luo went, it happened to be when Huang Taiji waved his troops south.

So, he and his cannon, as well as the gunners he brought with him, were all requisitioned.