Chapter Ninety-Five: Steady Development
Early in the morning of the second day, Wang Zezhi rewarded the abductor and others in public and sent them shoulders.
At the same time, it was announced that the small boss and others gathered to mutiny.
The kidnapper and the others had military merits, and they all became second-class soldiers, and they were issued with a new second-class wooden household registration, as well as a reward for silver and fields.
These people were rewarded, and one by one they held their heads high and showed off everywhere.
When the sergeants in the battalion saw this, they all looked at them eagerly, wondering when they too would be able to obtain these military merits.
All of a sudden, the morale of the sergeants in the battalion was even higher.
People's hearts are unpredictable, and there are some people with two hearts, when they see the fate of the rebel sergeants, and the kidnappers and others are rewarded for doing undercover agents, they all dispel this idea one by one.
Because, they dare not guarantee that when they rebel, there will be no traitors by their side.
After clearing the unstable factors in the camp, Wang Zezhi's mood was much better.
The guerrilla battalion was still under construction, and during this period there were constant outcasts coming in from all directions.
The addition of these vital forces has caused the number of young and strong people in the guerrilla battalion to continue to increase, and even though more than 1,000 rebel soldiers were killed last night, the number of young and strong people in the battalion has not decreased, and there has even been a trend of increase.
For the refuge of these displaced people, Wang Zezhi is a mixed blessing.
He was glad that there were more and more young men in the camp, and that he was cultivating more and more fields, but he was worried that the consumption of money and grain in his treasury was increasing day by day, and he was worried that there were too many people who joined, and that he would not be able to hand out money or food when the time came.
Due to the previous ravages of Chongguangdao and the others, the price of grain in this vicinity could not be lowered for a while, and he didn't want to be the culprit, so he needed to wait for a while, and then buy a large amount when the price of grain was lower.
Among the displaced people who came to defect, there were not only young and strong, but also many old and weak women and children.
Every day he had to take out a lot of food to cook porridge to feed them.
He would not raise them in vain, and when some of these people were sturdy women and middle-aged people, when they had regained some strength, he would arrange for them to be dragged to build water conservancy and reclaim wasteland.
As for the children inside, after careful consideration, he built a school for these people to come to school, and for Wang Zezhi, these children are a new force in the future and worthy of his training.
However, there is a small episode in the middle, that is, these homeless people thought that Wang Zezhi wanted to take their children, and they shook their heads and refused.
Wang Zezhi had no choice but to tell them that the children who went to school were in charge of the food and could bring food home every day.
These people had also eaten the delicious food in the camp, and when they heard this, they agreed without hesitation.
With this prerequisite, these children began to study in Wang Zezhi's school.
First of all, what they have to learn is the "Good Words of Rules" adapted by Shan Tongshan.
Secondly, it is arithmetic, calligraphy, literary talent, and political theory.
Finally, it is to experience life, and every seven days they will be arranged to cultivate the land and travel all over the world to check the people's suffering.
Of course, the place where these displaced people lived was not in the guerrilla camp, but on the official road twenty miles south of the guerrilla camp.
The conditions in which they live are not very good, and most of them are nests.
Those who had the strength to do so cut down trees and built some simple thatched huts.
These people lived here, and whenever they had time, they ran to the hills near the guerrilla camp and looked out over the camp under construction.
They were all looking forward to the day when they would be able to live in a guerrilla camp.
Wang Zezhi roughly calculated, with the current number, the food in his hand is enough to eat for several years.
The silver could last for a few years, but as the number of people in the camp grew, he didn't dare to guarantee that the money and food would really last that long.
Due to the continuous replenishment of the young and strong in the camp, Wang Zezhi boldly divided a thousand people to suppress bandits everywhere.
They don't have to work, they just need to find out the information of the bandits around them every day, and then attack and attack.
What Wang Zezhi didn't expect was that after these days of development, there have been many new thieves in Pingdingzhou, Yuxian, and Shouyang.
These people are either ordinary people or deserters everywhere, and there are bandits who have fled from Beizhili or Shaanxi.
These bandits are disasters for others, and money and food for Wang Zezhi. Line
Although the defenders everywhere have their own territory, Wang Zezhi is a guerrilla general, and guerrilla guerrilla warfare means that he can fight guerrilla everywhere.
It can be said that he has no fear.
Therefore, the sergeants under his command often crossed the border to suppress bandits, and the local defenders could not do anything with them.
Under the instruction of Wang Zezhi, these people went north and once attacked near the mouth of the tiger.
The southward attack once reached Fenglingdu.
Because of Wang Zezhi's reckless behavior, all of a sudden, officials from all over Taiyuan Mansion and Pingyang Mansion played to Governor Geng Ruqi.
They all said that Wang Zezhi's stable had crossed, but Geng Ruqi scolded this group of people for being shameless, and the bandits in their own territory were rampant and did not want to exterminate them, and Wang Zezhi helped them exterminate them, and they had to sue.
These people were scolded by Geng Ruqi and bloody, and they all died down, and they could only watch Wang Zezhi's people suppress bandits everywhere, and they guarded the city gate and could not do anything.
In fact, Wang Zezhi's suppression of bandits was not only for money and food, but also for military training.
He believes that a soldier who has not seen blood on the battlefield is not a qualified soldier.
In late May, Xiong Jiachang's injuries were almost healed, and Wang Zezhi was overjoyed.
He ordered Xiong Jiachang, Qi Qi, Li San, and Ma Fu to take turns to lead the troops to suppress the bandits.
All of a sudden, Shouyang, Yuxian, and Pingding Prefecture presented a lively and extraordinary scene.
Without him, there were no bandits in these places, and more and more people came to do business from Beizhili through Niangzi Pass.
At this time, Wang Zezhi discovered that Shouyang, Yuxian, and Pingding Prefecture not only had limestone, coal, and iron smelting, but also felt hats, porcelain, spinning and dyeing and other industries.
What surprised Wang Zezhi the most was that Yuci turned out to be a large grain export county.
In Yuci City, there is a merchant surnamed Yang, whose people are kind and charitable, the rice and grain at home are piled up like a mountain, and people give the title, "God of Five Grains".
After Wang Zezhi found out, he went to him to buy grain with 500,200 silver.
When this person knew that Wang Zezhi was using these rice grains to help the homeless people, he bowed down to him and sold Wang Zezhi 400,000 stone rice grains at a price of one stone, one tael or three yuan.
500,000 taels of silver himself can't buy 400,000 stone rice grain, this person generously said that more rice grain should be used by him to help the homeless people, and hope that the king will not be too little.
The king was overjoyed, bowed to him, and left a letter stating that if he asked for something in the future, he could come to him with it.
This letter was stamped with his private seal of introduction, with which he could seek refuge from Wang Zezhi.
Wang Zezhi returned to the camp and rewarded the sergeants who had made meritorious service in suppressing bandits, and recorded those who did not have enough merit, and then promoted the reward when it was enough.
At the end of May, the first batch of Lumi guns was finally built.
Wang Zeyi took a test and the result surprised him.
Except for a slight difference in firing distance, there was not a single explode.
Wang Zezhi kept his promise and rewarded each craftsman.
These craftsmen got the money, and they were more motivated, and patted their chests to assure them that they would never create a defective product in the future when they had experience.
In fact, the craftsmen in the late Ming Dynasty were already very skilled, and if they were not deducted from their salaries, they would not have slackened their work to make defective products.
Putting aside the affairs of the craftsmen, Wang Zezhi was worried about the Tatar southward movement, and gathered all the sergeants back.
On the tenth day of the fifth month, he ordered Bai Yu to send the printed tabloids to the capital by all means.
The tabloid not only reported on the drought in Shaanxi, but also speculated about Tatar's southward journey.
But after so long, not only did his reward for the thief not come down, but the court did not react in the slightest about these two things.
The most absurd thing is that so far in the two cities of Shouyang and Yuxian, the imperial court has not appointed officials to take up their posts.
Wang Zezhi thought about it again and again and decided to wait for two more days, if the court did not reflect within two days, he planned to do something.
After all, he knew that Lin Dan Khan went south to slaughter tens of thousands of Datong soldiers and civilians, and since he knew about it, he couldn't remain indifferent.