Chapter 197: The cause of Zheng Zhilong's death

Li Benshen escorted Shi Tingzhu and came to Nanjing City, but found that Nanjing City was extremely busy.

Zhang Xuan has entered the palace, but the entire city of Nanjing is in turmoil.

The Qing army distributed Nanjing's property to the people from other places, but their distribution was not recognized in the Xia Dynasty, so these people were very possessive. Xia Jun had to recruit the original owners to take over these properties, of course, the people in Nanjing at that time were almost dead.

In accordance with the practice of incorporating ownerless industries into government property.

After Zhang Xuan conquered Nanjing City, he became the largest landlord in Nanjing City.

For the people who have already settled, it is impossible to kill them all, just let them pay a tax. If you have money, you can buy it again from the government, and the house will be transferred to your name.

However, most of the people who were relocated by the Qing army were just destitute households and even homeless beggars a few months ago, and during these months, where could they save the money to sell their houses and transfer their houses, most of them paid rent to the Great Xia court.

Li Benshen saw this scene, the army was cleaning up the battlefield and cleaning up the places where the fire broke out that day, one by one, and many officials were urging the people below to make decisions.

When Li Benshen came to the outside of the palace, he saw Gao Yuanjue at first sight.

Gao Yuanjue had already gotten the news, and when he saw Li Benshen, he hurriedly walked over and said, "Big brother." ”

Li Benshen saw Gao Yuanjue, and he was very excited for a while, grabbed Gao Yuanjue's hand, and said, "It's okay if you're okay, it's good if you don't." ”

They are reunited after this earth-shaking change. Naturally, there are countless things to say. The talk was endless for a while, and Zhang Xuan didn't have the heart to meet Li Benshen at this time.

Zhang Xuan was busy putting things to the end.

For Zhang Xuan, the busiest time for war is never the time of war, but before and after war. Zhang Xuan had to look at all the previous preparations and arrangements, and he had to make sure that everything was in place, and after the war, arrange rewards, and even mediate conflicts between generals.

And when fighting, Zhang Xuan only needs to be brave and decisive.

Instead, you don't have to be busy.

And at this moment, Zhang Xuan is busy with the household registration in Nanjing.

A huge city with a permanent population of more than one million, under the ravages of the Qing army, Zhang Xuan now estimated that there are only more than 300,000 people in the city, and most of them are displaced from Jiangbei. There is really a large population, and it can't support the city of Nanjing.

Nanjing, as the capital of Great Xia, Zhang Xuan must manage it well. Naturally, the city of Nanjing cannot be left half-dead.

Although Zhang Xuan now holds almost all the houses in Nanjing, Zhang Xuan, as an emperor, masters

These things, of course, are good, but they don't matter. Zhang Xuan made a decision after consulting with the generals at all levels and the Hanlin attendants around him.

First of all, the houses in the city were divided into three, six, nine and so on, which were used to reward meritorious officials. And give benefits to the army, so that the sergeants can buy real estate in Nanjing at the market price.

This is simply a great benefit to the whole army.

The housing prices in modern Beijing are high, in fact, the housing prices in the capitals of all dynasties are not low, and even Bai Juyi has an allusion to the difficulty of living in Beijing. Now that the war has just subsided, all the houses are cabbage prices, a few taels or dozens of taels. It's to be able to get a courtyard.

Not to mention the future, just last year, when Luo Yulong was still there, no matter how remote the courtyard in Nanjing City was, it did not fall by hundreds of taels.

It can even be said that if there is a knowledgeable soldier who spends hundreds of taels to buy a dozen or so courtyards, when he is old in the future, he only needs to collect rent, which is enough for him to live for a long time.

It's just that this benefit is more for officers.

There is no other reason, the soldiers below can't keep money many times, when they fight, they may go when they go, and they can't use it if they save some money, many soldiers have money, drink wine, eat meat and play with women, where there is money on their bodies, only officers at all levels have plenty of money.

After Zhang Xuan read the paperwork, he breathed a sigh of relief. Let Zheng Lian go down and give the order. He rubbed his temples and said secretly in his heart: "In this way, you can collect a large amount of money from below." It can also solve the urgent need. ”

Nanjing must be, Zhang Xuan knows that this battle is over. After recovering Gangnam, for a long time. The strategic situation of the Qing army in the north and the Xia army in the south will not change much.

However, although the war is over, the big hole left by the war will not be filled by itself. Therefore, Zhang Xuan was worried about the war before, and now Zhang Xuan is worried about money.

"What's down there?" Zhang Xuan asked.

Zheng Lian flipped through the booklet in front of him and said, "General Li Benshen captured Shi Tingzhu. Just outside the palace waiting for the reception. ”

"Li Benshen?" Zhang Xuan sneered slightly. In this laugh, it can be said that the aftertaste is endless.

Without seeing Li Benshen, Zhang Xuan guessed Li Benshen's thoughts about staying in Jiangbei. For such a person, Zhang Xuan naturally has a little contempt.

"Your Majesty, if you don't want to see it, you can not see it." Zheng Lian has been by Zhang Xuan's side for a long time, and he can figure out Zhang Xuan's thoughts a little, and said cautiously.

"See, how can you not see?" Zhang Xuan said, "Please come over." ”

If you want to achieve great things, you must not have political cleanliness. As long as he can use it for himself, it doesn't matter who he was before. This kind of inflammation will only add to the icing on the cake, and Li Benshen will not be the first, nor will he be the last.

If you don't give a good face, maybe you will do this

Some were pushed to the Qing court.

Politics is to make more of your own people and less enemies, even if Zhang Xuan is a little uncomfortable in his heart, he must appease Li Benshen and do it to those wall grass.

After a while, Li Benshen came in, and as soon as he came in, he knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "I can see the court today, and even if the minister is dead, he can go to see the first emperor." ”

Zhang Xuan took a few steps forward, helped Li Benshen up, and said: "The general has died for the imperial court for the rest of his life, and he has newly captured the thief general, and if the first emperor is here, he will be very pleased." ”

The two of them got along for a while, and finally Zhang Xuan said: "General Li has been out of exile for a long time, so he will guard by my side first, and then send the general into battle when he has the opportunity." ”

Li Benshen said: "Thank you, Your Majesty. ”

Zhang Xuan was finally settled. After the battle of Anqing, the vitality of the Xia army has not fully recovered, and it is precisely this kind of experienced officer that is needed, but Li Benshen has just come after all, and he has been missing for a while in the middle, and Zhang Xuan can't listen to Li Benshen's words.

Zhang Xuan can send people to the north, but the Qing army may not be able to send people to the south.

Although Zhang Xuan didn't think that the Qing army could afford to play such a high-level thing as Infernal Affairs, Zhang Xuan also had to check it out and then entrust him with a heavy task. Zhang Xuan sent Li Benshen away and asked casually, "How is Shi Tingzhu doing over there?" ”

Zheng Lian said: "The minister sent someone over to ask, this General Shi sought death several times, and after being used, he was honest, and he answered whatever he asked, but he still had some key questions about the Qing army, but he didn't dare to avoid general affairs." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, he didn't care too much about Shi Tingzhu. Shi Tingzhu was kept in case the generals of the Xia army fell into the hands of the Qing army in the future, and the soldiers were in danger and urgent, and anything could happen. Zhang Xuan also had to prepare a hand, and as for the rest, Zhang Xuan didn't expect to ask for any top-secret information.

As I said before, no matter how well the intelligence work in this era is done, the intelligence that is obtained is more outdated, and those that are outdated can be inquired about. There is no need to coerce confessions with words and deeds.

However, beating the child on a rainy day, since Shi Tingzhu fell into the hands of Xia Jun, it was not good to toss, and Zhang Xuan felt uncomfortable. Regarding Shi Tingzhu's interrogation, Zhang Xuan was naturally indispensable, he didn't want to get anything, he just asked casually.

Of course, Shi Tingzhu himself must have felt that he didn't ask casually. He only felt that he was in dire straits at the moment, and there were naturally torture masters under Zhang Xuan's command, many of whom were from the Criminal Department or Jinyiwei, so they would naturally greet him well.

Zhang Xuan asked, "Is there any valuable news?" ”

Zheng Lian said: "The minister just got a piece of news, which is about the death of the king of Xianmin. ”

Zhang Xuan raised his head abruptly and said, "Zheng Zhilong? ”

Zheng Lian said: "Exactly. ”