Chapter 240: The Hope of a Harvest

Rongyang City is the seat of Yanzhou Mansion, and naturally all kinds of materials will not be lacking, not to mention the Chen Deaf rebellion this time, many wealthy families from all over the country have brought their own gold and silver treasures, and even loaded carts with grain into the city. In the last few days, everyone has been desperate.

A lot of people were there saying:

"I knew what I was doing with so much money today!"

No one thought that today's situation suddenly changed suddenly, within two or three hours, an officer and soldier suddenly came outside the city, and this officer and soldier was very different from those straw bales in the past. Now it's time to add some military funding. These things are naturally scrambling for everyone, that is, even the big car and the driver don't need Jiang Feng to go out, so naturally someone has to buy them all.

This news was immediately transmitted to the Beijing division by the command of the Yanzhou Mansion and the Shandong Prefecture and the Yamen of the Ministry of Command, which was good, I originally thought it was Liu Liu and Liu Qi's bandits and rebels who were wandering all over the world, but no one thought that it would be wiped out so quickly, and everyone was relieved.

When Jiang Feng went straight to Yanzhou to fight with Chen Deaf's main force in Yanzhou's capital, the various troops deployed around Yanzhou also began to act, although these officers and soldiers could not keep up with their training and military salaries, but they were still much stronger than these soldiers in Yanzhou.

What's more, these rebellious grass bandits really don't have any tactics or strategies, I heard that there is money and food in Rongyang City, and they are all besieged in the past, until they are swallowed up by Chen Deaf.

Those villages and county towns that were finally occupied, there was no defense at all, and the best ones only left some old and weak, which was cheaper than these officers and soldiers who slowly surrounded them later, and the victory all the way was extremely smooth. Of course, those people who had already suffered in the rebellion suffered again.

The military merits of these soldiers need to be at the first level, and they need to be "temporarily borrowed" from the heads of civilians. The lack of military funds also needs to be supplemented on the spot, and the supplement is actually a synonym for robbery.

Of course, the saying that thieves are like combs and soldiers are like gowners has been broken, and it is widely said among the people that the crossing of officers and soldiers is like a scraper, and there is nothing left on the ground when they are scraped along the way.

In just ten days, although the entire territory of Yanzhou was devastated, the bandits were cleared. The bandit leader Chen Deaf was ambushed and beheaded by Jiang Feng, and the second leader Wen Dao led the remnants to flee into the mountains. Jiang Feng cut off Chen's deaf head that day, and after replenishing military resources.

didn't delay much outside the city of Rongyang, just went directly to pursue the "remnant bandits", and even ignored the two or three thousand heads under the city, and when he left, he just followed the thousands of officers in Rongyang City and said, I have two and eight of these heads. The officers in Rongyang City naturally didn't know that Jiang Feng was afraid that his edge would be too exposed.

If you make any more bastard things that are transferred to Jizhen to fight against Mongolia, anyway, this time I also cut off the head of the bandit leader, and there are two percent of the head, which is enough.

And the credit is given to the local soldiers and horses, which is also the so-called common rule, if you swallow the big head, the local soldiers and civil officials will definitely say that you nuisance the place, harm the good people and other rules.

The "remnants of the sword" are all cavalry, and they are more than one person and more than one horse, and under the desperate escape, the situation of most of the infantry in the Dengzhou battalion must not be able to keep up with this speed, but Jiang Feng has already insisted on putting the safety of the Yanzhou army and people first and pursued it. Chased to Teng County in Lunan and stopped.

Teng County is one of the places that was stolen by the White Lotus Sect, of course, the so-called White Lotus Sect has long been killed by thieves and officers and soldiers back and forth, after the Dengzhou battalion came, in order to maintain the law and order of Teng County, specially left to garrison. Teng County has suffered repeated military disasters, the people are not happy, and many wealthy families have no time to run because of the distance from Rongyang, and they have suffered as a result.

The officers and men of the Dengzhou battalion were sympathetic to the local suffering, and especially took out silver taels to help the victims and maintain the people's livelihood. Incidentally, Teng County has been producing coal since ancient times, and there are some small iron mines nearby.

And Laiwu in Jinan Prefecture because it is a government-run iron factory there, it needs fuel, so the transportation with Teng County is also quite convenient, Teng County's five large coal mines, Jiang Feng spent silver to buy three, and the rest also have about fifty percent of the shares in it, but no one in the people said that he is not, because although it is a coal mine and a small iron mine, it is still the original person who is running, and it is also a living person.

No one in the official face said that he was nothing, others killed so many thieves, don't you tell the other party to get some benefits? Jiang Feng looked at various contracts and documents at his station in Tengzhou, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, finally his own weapons workshop, the source of coal and iron was controlled in his own hands.

I thought it was the kind of chaos of Liu Liu and Liu Qi, the shock of the government and the opposition, and even the nine-border armies of Hebei and Shanxi were already prepared, you must know that the disaster of the Mongolian steppe, it is almost certain that in the autumn of this year, when the horses are fat, the Mongolian Tartars will have a big invasion.

However, the people of the celebrant eunuch, the military department and the governor's mansion still made this kind of plan, the last time the white-clothed divine soldiers Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi passed through the capital, who knows what the result of this chaos will be, just when the imperial court is very nervous, it was originally the Jiajing Emperor who was going to train a few inexperienced eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuch.

The emperor and the ministers felt fortunate at the same time, but also felt that there was a little fuss this time, and a clean thief was killed so quickly, presumably it was negligence to start to make a big deal.

The people in the center of these empires also know how rotten the local armament is, but in the eyes of the emperor and ministers, the center of armament is still in the place where the Mongols are guarded against in the Nine Frontiers, and other places do not need to be taken too seriously.

What's more, Yanzhou's merit report document says that the soldiers and horses in Rongyang City have always been forbearing, and they have been waiting for the thief army outside the city to relax. At this time, the soldiers and horses of the Dengzhou battalion led by Jiang Feng came to help, and when the thieves were in a panic, the soldiers and horses in the city carried the fighting spirit and prestige accumulated for many days, and bravely killed them.

This kind of routine, everyone understands it, and after reading such a document, it seems that the first merit this time should belong to Jiang Feng, the capital of Dengzhou, and the rest of the so-called beheadings are several, and it is estimated that there is only water left for the retribution of defeating the anti-thieves.

In their own words, when the ceremonial supervisor Luo Jing and Zhang Zhinian transferred Jiang Feng out of Shandong to Jizhen, according to the usual practice, there should be a reward, and the orders of such local soldiers to go to the border to fight must be rewarded to the officers.

The representative of this official rank is that if Jiang Feng raises 8,000 officers and soldiers, the imperial court will allocate salaries and grain and grass to these 6,000 officers and soldiers, which are different from the guards and soldiers, these are the so-called soldiers. In the past, the strength in Jiang Feng's hands was the 2,000 officers and soldiers under the Dengzhou battalion, but now it has expanded nearly four times.

Moreover, the official position of guerrilla in Shandong is already the most powerful officer in Shandong, and you must know that the establishment of the post of general army in Shandong was a matter of the last years of Wanli, and before that, there was not even the rank of a staff general who was divided into guards.

Now the place where Jiangfeng is guarding can be said to be very interesting, Dengzhou, Jinan, Yanzhou, the eastern and southern Shandong troops are under his jurisdiction, or in other words, except for the coastline around Laizhou, now all the seasides in Shandong are under his jurisdiction.

But this does not mean that the officials in the court gave them much benefit, the essence of Shandong during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty was Jining in Yanzhou and Dongchang Laizhou, because this is the place where Caoyun passed, and because it was inland, so there was basically no harassment by the Japanese invaders.

Commerce and agriculture are very developed, and it is also the most tax-rich place in Shandong. Such a good place is guarded by three garrisons who are quite close to the DPRK and China.

After getting this order, whether it was Lu Bing in the capital or Liu Shunhua in Zhejiang, they all had the intention of fighting for Jiang Feng, but Jiang Feng, who was originally a strong competitor, had no intention of being unfair, and all parties died down on this.

The really embarrassing thing is Cui Chenxing, the prefect of Yanzhou, in addition to such a big mess under his rule, Cui Chenxing doesn't want to do anything like promotion at all, he just wants to be able to complete his term of office safely. However, he was politely rejected from the city gate some time ago.

However, for a period of time, he came back with soldiers and horses, and he had the title of Shandong guerrilla, and he was rightfully located in Yanzhou Rongyang City.

The Dengzhou battalion's weapons workshop at the foot of Yantai Mountain began to gradually move to the vicinity of Tengxian County, the transportation distance of coal and iron was greatly shortened, and the cost was reduced.

Shandong's salt farms are all sea salt, and inadvertently all the sources of official salt and private salt in Shandong are indeed under Jiang Feng's control. Therefore, after Jiang Feng's appointment document came down, the salt merchants and salt lords in Shandong, who were originally invested in Huangping, hurried to Jiang Feng's door to express their goodwill--expressed in silver taels.

In May of the ninth year of Jiajing, in the mansion of Dengzhou Mansion, the newly appointed Shandong guerrilla Jiang Feng feasted relatives and friends, and the opening speech was:

"This year is a bumper year."