Chapter 274: Flaws and Weaknesses

"You are a friend of the Dengzhou camp, how can you let you live?" ”

Wang Zheng smiled, bent over to help Zhao Manrong, who was trembling all over, and said again:

"The Zhao family's acres of land, my Wang Zheng only needs sixty percent, and it is purchased according to the market price for silver!"

This bombshell was released, not only Zhao Manrong, who was helped up, looked at Wang Zheng in shock, his face was full of disbelief, and the pale big families around him were also talking.

Not long after, a middle-aged man in a purple silk robe and a little fat came out and said:

"Mr. Wang's words are true, buy them at the market price, and the Dengzhou camp will bleed heavily."

Hearing this, Wang Zheng nodded casually, and then said:

"Not only that, but if you don't want to resell the land that has been abandoned due to disasters in your hands, and you don't want to contribute money to restore the farmland, you can cooperate with the Dengzhou camp!"

"Just sit at home and wait for the money to arrive, everything will be done by the Dengzhou camp!"

As Wang Zheng's face turned pale, the atmosphere on the second floor became more and more relaxed, and the suffocating feeling disappeared, and the big families relaxed and gathered together to discuss.

There are still nearly two million acres of wasteland in Jinan Mansion, and there are nearly one million acres left except for those transferred to Wang Zheng's name by each household.

It is not that those of you here do not want to resume farming, but the investment in doing so is too large, and the little silver earned is not proportional to the investment.

From the lowest tenants, planting seeds, to buying cattle and sheep, digging wells for irrigation, and other work, they all have to spend money to prepare, and besides, it is easy for the field to go barren, but it is not so simple to restore the land.

Taking a step back, even if all the conditions are met and the wasteland is successfully restored, in this year of war and chaos, even if the Eastern Tartars will not be able to enter for a while, it will be a disaster for the rest of the officers and soldiers to pass through the same as the thieves.

These big families have no protection ability at all, and the servants in their hands can bully and oppress the poor people, but when they encounter the most vicious officers and soldiers, they will immediately become sheep, and when the time comes, they will be destroyed, and all the money invested will be wasted.

Since Chongzhen's accession to the throne, there have been major disasters every year, and this kind of disasters have become more frequent and long-lasting over time.

Under such disasters for many years, not to mention the ordinary people at the bottom, even some small and medium-sized landlord classes have been affected, and many have gone bankrupt.

Wang Zheng has a deep understanding of this, and now many of his children were originally children of large families, but after bankruptcy, they became homeless, and finally came to Denglai and the two mansions.

Wang Zheng leaned on the railing with a smile, this kind of kung fu of first giving a dismount, and then apportioning sweet dates, he had already been perfect, and he didn't say much when he saw the excitement of the big deals.

"According to what Mr. Wang just said, everyone's acres of land only need to be resold for sixty percent, and the remaining forty percent is still in our name, and all matters related to the resumption of cultivation and the establishment of the grange are managed by the Dengzhou battalion?"

"Mr. Wang, dare to ask the silver taels that buy and sell sixty acres of land, is the Dengzhou camp paid in real silver, or is it a receipt for silver bills?"

"Mr. Wang, can the Dengzhou camp really ensure that everyone's fields are not disturbed by foreign thieves?"

"Mr. Wang's ,......"

Now these big families have relaxed a little, and their attention is completely focused on the decree that Wang Zheng has just proposed, and they are scrambling to ask some questions of great concern.

After Wang Zheng heard this, he was not afraid, and answered carefully one by one.

After about two sticks of incense, Wang Zhengzui was a little dry, and those big families didn't want to ask anything to say, after Fang Cai's consideration, many people laughed with satisfaction, feeling that this was a sure deal.

The combat effectiveness of the Dengzhou battalion is obvious to all, and the 5,000 soldiers are already invincible in Shandong, plus the unknown number of regular soldiers, auxiliary soldiers and salt soldiers, where do the officers and thieves dare to touch the tiger's whiskers?

Even if the Eastern Tartars entered the Kou and looked at the officials and troops of various provinces, the Dengzhou battalion in Shandong was the only one that scored more than 3,000 in a battle.

This kind of solid record is also one of the reasons why the Dengzhou camp reassures everyone.

In such a year, it is already an unimaginable benefit to be able to keep some land in the name and produce grain to sell at a higher price.

Moreover, the original wasteland occupies a huge area, even if it is left in the name of the big households, they are not capable of managing it, so it is better to resell it to the name of Wang Zheng, the general soldier of Shandong, to earn two foreign dollars, why not do it.

With the current capacity of the Dengzhou battalion, it is quite simple to establish a Zhuangtian system in Jinan Prefecture.

Soon after, all the sub-offices under the Military Council Department, the sub-offices under the Inspection Department, and the regular military barracks of the Dengzhou Battalion will be built in the large and small cities of Jinan Prefecture first.

Yanding patrols the streets to guard the township, the regular troops are stationed in various cities, and a series of actions in which the Dengzhou battalion will send troops to various towns will be carried out in Jinan Prefecture, which is already the trend of the times.

The current Jingping of the two prefectures of Denglai confirms the effectiveness of the Dengzhou battalion's decree, in fact, many people are looking forward to the Dengzhou battalion starting a big move as soon as possible.

The Dengzhou battalion is not only a variety of soldiers, but also contains a variety of personnel inside.

The influx of refugees from all over the country, as well as the children of bankrupt families and frustrated people, will find their place within the Dengzhou camp system, and there will be huge and cheap labor at their disposal.

From this point of view alone, the management of Zhuangtian in the Dengzhou camp is a hundred times stronger than these single-handedly gentry and big families.

These big dealers thought that they would benefit from this kind of grange decree, and that it was a sure deal, and it didn't take long for them to go through the resale procedures with smiles on their faces.

At a banquet, Wang Zhengbing got nearly one million acres of wasteland without bloodshed, which made the fields that were a little tense in the Dengzhou camp suddenly relaxed.

After the news spread, many people were impressed by the methods of the new Shandong commander-in-chief, and this was the first time that an army had been supported by the common people and the landlord class.

Having said that, the civil and military generals of the entire Ming Dynasty are all from these big families and the sons of Xun Qi, and the so-called poor background is only available in the era of Yongle prosperity and Wanli Zhongxing.

Dengzhou camp slaughtered chickens to show the monkeys, in fact, just so that the follow-up policy can be implemented, as long as it is implemented, time will tell these relatives and big families the answer.

During the current Chongzhen period, almost all the ways for civil officials to enter the government were controlled by the Donglin Party, and it is no exaggeration to describe this kind of poor officials as not one in a hundred.

If you are not a Donglin Party scholar, you can almost never want to get ahead, on the other hand, if you are a Donglin scholar, you can rise to prominence under the protection of officials and officials.

These Wang Zheng also understood that only the children of this wealthier class had the energy to learn some other things, and those poor children even had problems with eating, where could they still have the heart to learn all kinds of knowledge.

In fact, to tell the truth, since the establishment of the Dengzhou camp, there has been a flaw that has been exposed, and this problem has not been solved until now - that is, "talent shortage".

Even if Wang Zheng continued to bring in down-and-out literati to serve him through the Military Division, it was still far from enough.

In the current Dengzhou battalion system, almost all of the top ranks are military men from rough backgrounds, and in this chaotic year, these people quickly rose from grassroots civilians under the policy of focusing on military merits in the Dengzhou battalion, and became military generals who held real power and commanded the army.

They are also the main contributors to the Dengzhou battalion's ability to win successive battles and reach the current point.

But in Wang Zheng's view, most of these people are training soldiers and horses, and they have more than enough to fight in battle, and there are not many people who can really be alone in the town except for Huang Yang, Deng Heizi, Gao Liang, and Dong Youyin.

Wang Zheng often picks and chooses left and right with the booklet, and even then it is difficult to find a truly reassuring military general to guard the place alone.

This is the talent dilemma faced by the Dengzhou battalion, and Wang Zheng discovered this situation as early as when he was the deputy chief soldier in Dengzhou Mansion, and the reason why the "Military Discussion Division" was established was to introduce down-and-out literati to complement the generals.

At first, after the establishment of the Military Council, this problem was temporarily alleviated, and Wang Zheng did not take it seriously.

However, by the end of June of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Military Division was still the scale originally established in Dengzhou Mansion, with only three branches and hundreds of officials.

This is far from enough for the whole of Shandong Province, and comprehensive change is imminent.