Wang Zezhi received 500 strong young men, and he kept his promise and returned the holy decree to Lu Si.

Lu Si got the holy decree and solemnly read it out under the witness of Li Ruolian, the Jinyi guard, and his mission was completed.

Wang Xi originally came to escort the disaster relief emperor's silver, but he didn't expect that he would be able to escort the seized money and grain when he returned to the capital.

That's 280,000 taels of silver, and 600,000 stone of rice.

Most of this money and grain were obtained from Shouyang's family, and a small part was looted by the displaced people in Yuxian County.

Geng Ruqi was puzzled at first why there was so little money and food in Yuxian County, but after thinking about it, there were so many displaced people, they all had to eat, and this daily food was a big consumption, and it must be because of this reason that there was not much food.

In fact, most of the money and grain had been transported to the earth cave by Wang Zezhi overnight and hidden.

Wang Xi thought that it would be a credit to escort this batch of money and grain back to Beijing, and he couldn't wait to gather all the people and horses to escort the money and grain back to Beijing.

Lu Si heard that he also followed Wang Xi back to Beijing, and in Lu Si's words, there are many people who are easy to take care of.

Wang Zezhi was worried that Lu Si would give him small shoes, and when Lu Si left, he gave him some gold and silver, which was called beautiful and entangled.

Lu Si understood, glanced at Wang Zeyi with satisfaction, and then turned around and left.

In the county government and backyard, there are only Wang Zezhi and Geng Ruqi, who Geng Ruqi specially invited Wang Zezhi.

"What General Wang said, this governor has already given the emperor, and it won't take a few days to think that the capital will come to the capital."

Geng Ruqi stroked his beard and looked at Wang Zezhi with satisfaction.

After listening to Geng Ruqi's words, Wang Zezhi pondered.

He only bothered Geng Ruqi with two things, the first was the garrison and the tuntian, and the second was the petition of the people, who wanted to cut the loach with a thousand knives and swallow its flesh alive.

These two things are tricky for Wang Zezhi, but they are not a problem for Geng Ruqi, so he left these two things to Geng Ruqi to deal with.

"Thank you, sir!"

Wang Zezhi bowed and saluted, Geng Ruqi hurriedly helped him up, pondered his rhetoric and continued: "General Wang has worked hard and made great achievements, and this governor knows it. ”

Wang Zezhi's eyes rolled, and he knew that Geng Ruqi had something to tell him.

"My lord, if you have anything, just say it."

"This military merit has already been played by the imperial court, but the tree is too big and easy to break."

Geng Ruqi's old face turned red, coughed unnaturally, and said: "You are too young, and too many military merits are at your disadvantage, so this governor has divided your military merits a little, and I hope you don't mind." ”

When Geng Ruqi said this, he called Wang Zezhi's name as an elder, just like a person who came over and was guiding his juniors.

It turned out that these people had already shared his military exploits in private.

Wang Zezhi frowned, and asked worriedly: "My lord, then the general's station and tuntian..."

"You can rest assured that the abandoned fields in Yuxian County, as well as the ownerless Liangtian Governor in the Dongwhirlpool area, can all be assigned to you."

Geng Ruqi took out the land fish scale atlas that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Wang Zezhi.

The reason why Geng Ruqi dared to do this was because most of these fields had been uncultivated and barren for many years, and second, most of these fields were occupied by the Wenju people, and the Wenju people conspired to rebel, and no one dared to say anything if their fields were moved.

Wang Zezhi looked at the fish scale pictures carefully, and he found that there was originally a river in Shouyang, this river is called Dongwryshui, which is a tributary of the Fen River, and the fertile fields in this area are treasures.

Wang Zezhi couldn't help but slander in his heart, this kind of high-quality fertile land is also willing to give away, it seems that these guys should share a lot of military merits.

After thinking about it, Wang Zezhi still decided to bow his head, and people had to bow their heads under the eaves.

"Thank you, sir! But it's up to the adults to decide. ”

Wang Zezhi bowed and retreated, and Geng Ruqi nodded with satisfaction.

After he left, he saw Yu Zhong first, and the reason why he was able to win Yuxian County was Yu Zhong was the first credit.

After he met with Yu Zhong, there was also an unexpected joy, Ma Fu was willing to lead 328 officers and soldiers to follow Wang Zezhi.

Wang Zezhi was overjoyed, and immediately added a new row, with Ma Fu as the head of the row.

However, because he has a lot to do now, he did not give him a formal appointment letter at the first time.

First of all, you have to change your station, Black Tiger Village can't stay, and if you stay any longer, you will definitely get an epidemic.

After careful consideration, Wang Zezhi decided not to be stationed in Yu County, but chose Fangshan in the middle of Yu County and Shouyang.

This is a large natural garden, and it is perfect as a station, and he must build it well.

So Wang Zezhi posted a notice, and he paid money and grain to invite the people of Shouyang and Yuxian to help him rebuild his station.

All of a sudden, people from Shouyang and Yuxian flocked to it.

Wang Zezhi looked at more and more people, and his mood was a little heavy.

These people came for the thick porridge and the salary of 30 wen a day.

What's more, dragging families with mouths, all old and young are here.

This also shows that there are still many people who do not have enough to eat.

Although it is said that there is a lot of strength in numbers, when the number of people is thousands, Wang Zezhi still stopped recruiting.

He eliminated the old and weak among these people, and after compressing them to more than 600 people, Wang Zezhi arranged for them to work.

As for the materials used to build the village, most of them were demolished from the Black Tiger Village, and a small part was taken from the local materials.

Originally, Wang Zezhi didn't want to give up the Black Tiger Village, but too many people had died there, and it was no longer suitable for stationing.

Secondly, he had collected more than 600 homeless people before, and he had to change them into military households, and then divide all the fields in his hands.

He ordered Ah Niu to take the fish scale atlas to go to the cave whirlpool water enclosure first, and according to the fish scale atlas, Geng Ruqi assigned him the field to encircle.

After the circle is encircled, each household is compiled and registered, and then the land is divided according to the head.

Wang Zezhi promised to exempt the field tax for three years, and collect the field tax as usual after three years.

He wants to give these homeless people time to recuperate.

In the end, he still had to sell the goods in the Black Tiger Village, after all, it was not a small amount to raise so many people.

There are too many of these goods, including those of the Wenju people and the loaches, and they are hot potatoes when they are held in their hands.

The first and second things can't be rushed, you can only wait slowly.

The only thing is that the third thing must be solved immediately, otherwise if it is known that he has so much wealth, he may be coveted.

In the Black Tiger Village, people are in full swing to demolish the buildings inside, and the only thing that has not been demolished is the Zhongyi Hall, because behind the Zhongyi Hall is Wang Zezhi's warehouse, which is full of goods.

Wang Zezhi personally guarded the Zhongyi Hall, and ordered Qi Qi, Yu Zhong and other henchmen to disguise the money and goods as building materials and transport them out in batches.

After transporting it out, he selected fifty people from the old barracks, that is, among the soldiers who survived the defense of the Black Tiger Village, and assigned them to Wang Shan, so that they could protect Wang Shan's goods and sell them in the south.

At the same time, he drew the appearance of sweet potatoes, corn, and Chaotian peppers, and told him to find these three plants in the Huguang area and learn the cultivation skills, which is the most important thing.

Wang Zezhi had high hopes for Wang Shan, and told him that these two plants must be found, and under Wang Shan's repeated assurances, Wang Zezhi saw him take the team south.

Of course, sweet potatoes at this time are not called sweet potatoes but sweet potatoes.

Why is it called sweet potato? There's a story.

In the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zhenlong, a native of Changle in Fujian Province who had been doing business in Luzon for many years, and his son Chen Jinglun saw that a kind of root crop called "sweet potato" was planted locally, which was as big as a fist, the skin color was vermilion, the heart was crisp and juicy, it was edible both raw and cooked, and the yield was high, and it was barren and widely planted.

Thinking of his hometown of Fujian, where there are many mountains and few fields, the land is barren, and the food is insufficient, Chen Zhenlong is determined to introduce sweet potatoes to China.

In 1593, Luzon was under Spanish colonial rule, and sweet potatoes were regarded as a strange commodity and were forbidden to be taken out of the country.

After careful planning, Chen Zhenlong took potato vines and twisted them into a rope to draw water, and smeared sludge on the surface of the rope, and in the early summer of 1593, he cleverly escaped the inspection of the colonizers and crossed the sea.

After sailing for seven days, he returned to Xiamen, Fujian Province in the late fifth month of the lunar calendar, and the sweet potato was called "sweet potato" by the Fujian people because it came from outside the territory.

This corn is not called corn, but passionate.

Because in the Ming Dynasty, corn was a tribute from foreigners to the Chinese emperor.

As for chili peppers, they were widely cultivated in the Huguang area by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

After seeing Wang Shan leave, Wang Zezhi instructed Wang to take gold and silver to Mongolia to find Tatars to buy horses.

The reason why food is not used is because ordinary herdsmen need food, although they also have sycophants in their hands, but they are not strong enough.

The really strong horses were in the hands of the Mongol aristocracy, who were less interested in grain and more interested in gold and silver.

Now Wang Zezhi's headquarters has more than 500 brave thieves and more than 300 officers and soldiers, and the number has exceeded 1,000.

If he wants to guarantee one man and two horses, he must have more than 2,000 good horses.

Such a large deal could only be done through the Mongol nobles, so the king had to go out of the Kill Tiger Pass and arrive at the city of Guihua, where he bought his horses.

This matter is not easier than Wang Shan, and it can even be said to be very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will lose both people and money.

Wang Xian repeatedly assured that he had his own way to deal with it, so that Wang Zezhi could rest assured.

Wang Zezhi drew another fifty people from the old barracks to escort him north.

At the same time, he called Li Hua and Wang Sanlang and asked them to pull out the brave thieves in the training camp and the officers and soldiers brought by Ma Fu to suppress the bandits.

He told the two that this was a new project, and the two happily went to train according to Wang Zezhi's instructions.

So in addition to being brainwashed by Li Hua every day, these people also have an extra sport, running everywhere to suppress bandits.

As for the source of information about these villages, it was Yu Zhonggan, who was responsible for the infiltration, and he was always interested in this kind of thing, and he never tired of it.

Of course, letting them suppress bandits is not only to suppress bandits, but also to record those villages that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If you can't attack it, you will transfer the red-clothed cannon out, and one cannon will go over, unless it is an iron wall, there is no thief village that will not fall.

Because they were well-equipped, had the archery skills taught by Wang Sanlang, and a red-clothed cannon, they swept through the bandit dens in Yuxian, Shouyang, Xinzhou, Dingxiang and other places in half a month.

Whenever a stockade that was easy to defend and difficult to attack was knocked down, Wang Zezhi would recruit new homeless young people to guard it.

These homeless people all heard the songs spread by Shan Tongshan, although they did not see the rumored mountain opening knife, but they saw a village in Fangshan.

This village is called a cottage.