If you want to gain a firm foothold in this wave of competition for the Central Plains and not be defeated by others, you must take precautions and be self-reliant.

Food is a necessity and must be planted, but cotton is also very important, it is not enough to hold the army and salt, but also to have sufficient logistical support, in the most popular words: food and clothing, in order to ensure the stability of people's hearts.

Wang Zheng knows better than anyone else that in this troubled era, for those people who are in danger, food and clothing are more important than anything else.

Hao Sicheng and Qian Jingui are both representatives of local merchants in Ninghai, and their net worth is also the richest in this realm.

Anyway, they also take what they need in this matter, the various factions in the state city are complicated, in order to seek stability, even Wang Zheng cannot be a monopoly, and it is necessary to support merchants to reduce the influence of the squire.

Merchants are taking this opportunity to increase their value and make a lot of money.

Except for the initial depression, after talking about the rest of the topics, everyone found that Wang Zheng was still a very good person, at least doing business with him steadily.

But relaxation was never the leitmotif of the times, and about an hour after the talks began, while everyone was laughing and talking, a soldier hurried into the lobby out of place.

He looked flustered, and when he came in, he knelt on the ground violently, clenched his fists and shouted.

"Oh no! General, no! There are Tartars landing on Yangma Island!! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the lobby of the General's Mansion was alarmed, and the merchants looked exaggerated, and Mu Mu was stunned for a while before he reacted.

The Tartars, those pigtailed soldiers from the other side, they have never seen but heard of them, they are all murderous demons.

Even the elite officers and troops on the nine sides of Beizhen did not dare to come out of the city that was beaten by the Tartars, and the Guanning army, known as the first in the Ming Dynasty, was defeated more than victorious.

When it comes to field warfare, the Tartars are even more unstoppable, and the saying that "the Jurchens are invincible" can be described as thunderous.

The expression between Wang Zheng's eyebrows is even more profound, and his face is also serious, how can there be a tartar in Shandong?

He glanced at the soldiers who came to report, and shouted:

"What's wrong with the Tartars, is it three heads and six arms? is so panicked, what do the people think when they see it, we are afraid of a few tartars——! ”

It was the first time that the soldier heard the news of the Tartar so panicked, and he didn't dare to look into Wang Zheng's eyes, and he confessed repeatedly:

"That's what the general said! Wen Dengbing is not afraid of Tartars! Humble self-leading army stick punishment!! ”

Wang Zheng nodded, stood steadily in front of the hall, and glanced around with sharp eyes, these merchants still looked panicked, so he asked lightly:

"Everyone here is your own person, just tell me if you have any news, don't let everyone think about it anymore."

Wang Zhengdu said so, and the soldier naturally reported and brought in a salt ding covered in blood.

The salt was wounded, but it was already bandaged, and he still had palpitations when he spoke, and when he saw Wang Zheng, he saw the backbone of the Lord, and talked about the Tartar as if he were saying something particularly terrible.

It turned out that just five days ago, a group of unknown numbers of Tartars quietly came to the northernmost side of Yangma Island and landed.

Yangma Island was in ruins, and there were ochre mines to be mined, and there was a serious shortage of manpower, and this Zhuangzi had just been built, and there were only three squads of Yanding stationed at that time, and hundreds of homeless refugees were taken in.

The leader of the garrison thought it was a pirate from somewhere else, but at first he didn't take it seriously, and when the Tartar first landed, he didn't show any trace, and it was still business as usual until one night four days ago.

A team of Yanding who patrolled as usual went out for a day and did not come back, as if they had disappeared outside the village out of thin air, and the leader of the Yanding in the village felt that something was wrong and decided to personally take a team of Yanding out to look for it.

But the leader and the group of teams that went out did not come back until dark, the dark night looked terrifying, and the people in the village did not know any news, and there was no leader in the village, and the people were immediately panicked.

The next day, suddenly, a group of Tartars carrying a rough ladder came to attack the city, and Zhuangzi, who was only guarded by a team of salt dings, could not carry it at all.

According to the Yan Ding who escaped back, the Tartars had to say that there were hundreds of people, all of them were like wolves and tigers, and once they climbed the wall, even the three salt Ding with knives could not parry.

Zhuangzi did not have a unified management, and it was broken in half an hour.

Speaking of this, Yan Ding clenched his fists hatefully and cried out:

"General, you must avenge your brothers! The whole Zhuangzi, hundreds of people, none of those Tartars were left, not even the children were spared!! ”

As soon as the Tartars landed on the shore, they slaughtered a village on Yangma Island, killing women and children, this kind of thing was heard a lot in later generations, when Wang Zheng always lamented the incompetence of the officers and soldiers and could not protect the people.

But now, this kind of thing is actually happening on his own head, and dozens of good families have been slaughtered by the Tartars.

How could Wang Zheng endure it any longer, and suddenly got up, his face was cold, but there was a raging fire inside.

"Come on, hit the tee drum!"

When Hao Sicheng heard this, his heart tightened, it seems that this Ninghai is about to change, I don't know how many Tartars have arrived in Shandong, and I don't know if the Wendeng camp can hold it.

Qian Jingui grabbed Hao Sicheng and signaled with his eyes that it was time for us to leave, and we couldn't listen to what we were going to discuss next.

Hao Sicheng came back from Fang Cai's shock, bowed down and said:

"General, I'll go back when I wait for this, and each of us will order my subordinates and merchants to do everything in their power to help the general repel the Tartars and give them full support."

Wang Zheng clasped his fists and looked around the hall, and said sincerely:

"In this case, I will thank you on behalf of all the soldiers!"

Soon after Hao Sicheng, Qian Jingui and the merchants left, the fierce three-way drum sounded in the General's Mansion, and the pedestrians stopped one after another.

The hall was full of tall generals with helmets and armor, and after hearing the news of the Tartars, the hall was in an uproar, and there were many discussions, Wang Zheng stood with his sword in front of the hall early, and the tiger's eyes were filled with fierce fire.

Li Yan and Guan Qingtian stood on the other side, and they were the only two literati in the hall.

"Now that Penglai and other places are under the control of the imperial court, there are countless guards along the coast, and these Tartars can quietly penetrate into Ninghai, and it must not be so simple inside!"

Li Yan also knew about this matter, and when he said this, his complexion suddenly changed, and he continued:

"General, you should immediately order martial law on the left side of Jinshan, the Tartars are in the dark and I am in the light, I am afraid that there are spies in the guards, and I deliberately conceal the movements of the Tartars, otherwise it is impossible to have no warning from the guards until now."

Wang Zheng nodded, agreed with Li Yan's suggestion, followed by a few steps, and glanced at the surrounding generals angrily and calmly.

"The Tartars came to Shandong to spread wilderness, and the women and children of the coastal villages were slaughtered, and the crimes they committed must also be repaid with their lives!"

Wang Zheng's words were calm and powerful, and he struck everyone's hearts fiercely, and then pulled out a shiny steel knife and walked out of the hall first.

Bellowed:

"Gather all the soldiers of the Wendeng battalion, and let these Tartars who don't know the height of the sky and the height of the earth take a look, is this Shandong a place where they can come and leave if they want to!"