Chapter 240: In troubled times, we should use heavy codes
This little episode happened, and Wang Zheng lost any elegance in lounging, and turned his head and walked back to the Marshal's Mansion.
Soon after Wang Zheng left, someone came to pull the body outside the city, either to bury it, or to cremate it, and there were special people to deal with it.
At this time, if the corpse is not properly disposed of, it is very likely to cause epidemics, which is not the most serious, if it is an negligence that gives birth to a plague, things can be a big deal, so Wang Zheng has always attached great importance to the health of the city, not to mention neat and clean, at least the most basic maintenance must be done.
The plague at this time is a "terminal disease" that makes the world's doctors tied up, and later Sun Chuanting went out of Tongguan to fight a decisive battle with Li Zicheng, not to mention other unfavorable factors, in advance the Ming army was epidemic plague, the pre-war attrition was serious, the soldiers lost their combat effectiveness nine times out of ten, not to mention, morale was even lower to the trough.
"Ryoko, why are you crying and losing your face, aren't you happy to go back to Penglai?"
Wang Zheng walked to the front of the house, he was almost ready at this time, and his mood eased up, but he saw Gao Liang standing in front, looking into the distance for a while, and sighing heavily for a while.
"Zhentai, you're back!"
Gao Liang seemed to be taken aback when he heard Wang Zheng's words, and immediately after coming back to his senses, he made a military salute with his right hand into a fist, but he still looked embarrassed afterwards.
"This..."Gao Liang stood up, scratched his head and sneered: "It's nothing, let's go!" ”
"There's no hurry." Wang Zheng waved his hand and said with a smile:
"It's the first time that you kid looks like this, but it's not like nothing, talk to the town about anything you encounter, maybe I can help you."
After Wang Zheng finished speaking, he waited with a smile, Gao Liang glanced at the south again, gritted his teeth and said:
"I, I have my crush on a woman."
"Oh? That's a good thing, the four of you should also get married, tell me who it is? ”
Gao Liang, Dong Youyin, Huang Yang, and Heizi are all his right-hand men, and they have never started a family.
Under Wang Zheng's constant questioning, Gao Liang still scratched his head and said quite embarrassedly:
"Zhentai, it's that, Ling Huiping from Jiaozhou."
Wang Zheng was stunned, no wonder Gao Liang always looked in the direction of Jiaozhou, it turned out to be like this, and he was about to say something, but he saw Gao Liang's expression a little gloomy and said:
"But she is the daughter of a big family, how can you look down on our poor martial artist..."
"If you like it, you have to go to propose marriage, look at your bird-like appearance, where is there still the appearance of the commander of the Dengzhou battalion, you don't dare to go, this town will go to propose to the old man of Lingshan for you!"
Gao Liang didn't expect Wang Zheng to be so concerned about his family affairs, but he was still a little hesitant, to put it bluntly, he still had some concerns in his heart, after all, he was just a smuggled salt seller before, and it was normal for him to be afraid that the daughter of a big family would not look down on him.
After a while, the three of Huang Yang came, and after Zhengse's military salute, they asked about it, and they were all surprised when they heard it, and they all shouted that they were going to propose marriage for Liangzi.
Dong Youyin had the loudest voice and shouted:
"Look at your frustration, isn't it just a kiss, let's go out of town, who dares not agree?"
Wang Zheng waved his hand and said with a smile:
"Youyin, you can't say that, wouldn't it become my town to bully people with power?" As soon as the conversation changed, Wang Zheng glanced at Gao Liang and said:
"But then again, since Liangzi has taken a fancy to it, it doesn't matter if he says it, and it doesn't matter if he Ling Shan says it, it depends on whether Liangzi can capture the heart of the Ling family's daughter."
Huang Yang had just finished dealing with those salt things, and he was also shocked when he heard it, and hurriedly sent a stern document to Fei Pengfei, thinking that he was already on the way.
He laughed and said:
"Liangzi, Zhentai and our brothers will create opportunities for you, whether you can succeed there or not depends on you kid!"
Deng Heizi patted Gao Liang's shoulder hard, laughed and said:
"Yes, when the time comes, show your strength to kill the Japanese and the Tartars, don't embarrass our brothers!"
Scratching his head embarrassedly, Gao Liang smirked:
"Hey, I listen to all my brothers!"
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Soon, the Marshal's Palace was emptied.
Wang Zheng asked the regular soldiers and 4,000 soldiers to return to the Dengzhou Mansion in batches, and practiced diligently to prepare for the next training, while he took the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers and a few servants and maids to the south.
Ling Shan is a person who understands, Wang Zheng's purpose in leaving Liu Xiong, a soldier general, is obvious, that is, to deter himself, and he has already passed the age of not being confused, and his courage is not as good as when he was young, so he naturally doesn't want to cause more trouble.
In the past few months, Liu Xiong has complied with the orders issued by Wang Zheng, without the Ling family taking the lead, and although the rest of the local gentry and big families are resistant, no one dares to act against the Dengzhou battalion as this up-and-coming bird.
However, the Ling family has been busy lately.
Who would have thought that Dengzhou Ying would actually facilitate a deal with the Zheng family in Fujian, what kind of person is the Zheng family, the Ling family is at best the local leader of Laizhou Mansion, but the Zheng family is very important even if it is placed in the entire Jiangnan.
It has long been rumored that Zheng Ke and Wang are at odds, but now it seems that his son's opinion has not had any impact on Dengzhou, and the two parties continue to cooperate in business and sales.
A few years ago, Ling Shan also received news that the Dengzhou battalion secretly transported a batch of weapons and armor to Zuo Liangyu in exchange for a group of displaced people from all over the country.
The so-called three people become tigers, all kinds of rumors tell Ling Shan a piece of news, Wang Zheng not only has the support of the ceremonial supervisor in the court, but also has contacts with Zuo Liangyu and the Zheng family in other places, this is just an inquiry, I don't know how many of them.
In this way, it is not surprising that Wang Zheng is prosperous.
The original Lingshan salt in the Lingshan salt field has been replaced with Ninghai salt, and the rest of the large and small salt fields have also been successively taken over by the Jiaozhou Inspection Department to transport and boil Ninghai salt.
But Ling Shan, the head of the Ling family, is not happy about this "thriving", every day this Laizhou Mansion is changing, in general, this change is what all the people are happy to see, and it tends to be stable and rich.
However, it is a disaster for a big gentleman like the Ling family.
At this time, they realized that Wang Zheng was different from Liu Zeqing, Yuan Rongli, Tong Shizu and others, and when these people controlled the place, they were at most oppressive and prey on the people.
The original officers and soldiers had no foundation, and they did not dare to touch them, the local wealthy families, as long as they paid some money and food, they could generally continue to be powerful in the local area.
Officers and soldiers don't care about public security, and they oppress the people more than the children of the gentry, and it is not bad to take off their pants to participate in the kind of deeds that kill people on the street and rob people's daughters, let alone meddle in things.
But since the Dengzhou camp pacified the place and took over the counties of the state capital, it is obvious that everything has changed.
A series of regulations and decrees were almost all aimed at the gentry, and in the first month after the pacification, the Dengzhou camp was ruthless, and the entire family of several local famous scholars was exterminated in various places, and the gentry were even more panicked.
Not only to the children of big families, but also to those ruffians in Dengzhou, and even the new recruits under the jurisdiction of the Inspection Department were also ruthless, Wang Zheng even pulled out a knife on the street to kill a small leader of Yanding under his command because of the robbery of the people's daughters.
After the news came out, everyone who heard it broke out in a cold sweat, and no one dared to fake it anymore, and the local area became more and more peaceful.
However, under this fierce iron-fisted method, although everyone praised the people and displaced people from all over the country flocked to them, the local gentry and big families secretly gritted their teeth with hatred.
Among them, there are many people who reported the matter to Jingshi, and most of them returned in vain.
The fierce people in the Dengzhou camp are well known, and the people of the ceremonial supervisor protect Wang Zheng, even Liu Fu, the eunuch who guards the town of Nanzhili, does not want to move Wang Zheng anymore, and the officials of the Beijing division do not dare to provoke Wang Zheng, but they dare not anger the ceremonial eunuch because of this.
A big local family like you, if you put it in Beizhili, it is nothing at all, even if you find the Beijing Division, the officials in the Beijing Division are all slippery, where would they do such a stupid thing.
Even if there is that kind of fool who has not been born for decades and sacrifices his life to sue the emperor, I am afraid that what will be ushered in is Chongzhen's thunderous anger.
Emperor Chongzhen praised Wang Zheng, and even personally named him the three armies of the brave crown, and now he has made great contributions, and Wang Chengen's eunuchs who are the eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuchs have nothing to chew on the root of their tongues, and in the end they are nothing more than lifting stones and hitting their own feet.
Later, somehow, the news seemed to have leaked, and the soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion came to the mansions of these local scholars who had reported to the Beijing division one morning with a knife in their arms.
When they came in, it was a disaster for these people, and they took a document from the governor's yamen, and took everyone in the mansion to prison, regardless of whether it was indiscriminate.
In the end, the heads of the families and the men were beheaded in the market on the charge of "disorderly party", and the rest were given their lives and assigned to the salt works in various places to be "reformed through labor".
Everyone understands that Wang Zheng's actions are clear revenge and threats.