Compared with Li Zicheng's sweeping momentum in Henan and Huguang, with the growth of strength, although Wang Zheng's attitude towards others has gradually hardened, in general, it is still slowly expanding under the banner of orthodoxy in the imperial court.

In this kind of chaos in the world, Wang Zheng is still so subtle that it is easy to ignore.

At the beginning of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng established the so-called Xinshun regime in Xiangyang, calling himself the "King of Xinshun", and the camp system took on a new look.

Of course, Shandong is also not idle, there is no money, almost everything else has to be stopped, and the top priority is naturally to solve this matter in a long-term way, but it can't be the same as Li Zicheng, go to other places to grab it.

There are two main places near Shandong, one is Xuzhou, and the other is Huai'an Mansion, a few years ago Wang Zheng took the opportunity to fight pirates and pirates and pirates to enter Haizhou, Huai'an Prefecture, and this time he never came out again.

By now, the Shandong army has finally stabilized in Haizhou, and the policy of gathering farms has also been recognized by the local people, and it has been able to expand outward based on this.

Henan's Guide Mansion and Nanzhili's Huai'an Mansion, if these two places want to be connected outside Shandong, Xuzhou is the urgent need to solve at the moment.

Compared with Huai'an Mansion, which covers a wide and soft area, the small Xuzhou is not so important in Nanzhili, Xuzhou County is too small, and there is a wealthy family with no reputation in Nanjing from Nanjing.

Speaking of which, Li Zicheng felt that if he occupied a place, as long as he first sent troops to attack it, and then set up officials to defend it, he would be accomplished.

But Wang Zheng had different ideas from him, and sending troops to a certain place was only the beginning.

Because there were many classes in every place, if the Shandong army wanted to stay there for a long time, it had to get the support of at least one or more of them, first of all, it would first subdue and fear the landlords and tyrants who had resisted the most fiercely, and then use the farms to win the hearts of the people.

In this way, the time will increase, and it will generally take several years before the occupied place can be stabilized from the inside out, and once it is really settled, it is equivalent to firmly controlling it.

Even if it is captured by someone else, it can only be regarded as being stolen, and it is easy to get it back.

Even if the Shandong Army no longer garrisons heavy troops in this place, and only has a branch office of the Security Department to maintain law and order, there will basically be no chaos.

The advantage of Wang Zheng is that even if you are not authentic to these powerful and landlords, take them by force, and use your power to force them to sign "unequal treaties", in the final analysis, it is also the general of the Ming court, which is always different from those thieves who eat people and do not spit out bones.

Although the Shandong army occupies a place, although it will suppress the landlord class, in order to prevent them from rebounding from the same spirit, it will often give enough benefits in another aspect, which can be regarded as a means of calming anger.

Li Zicheng is different, as long as the Shun army goes to one place, the first thing is to arrest all those big families and wealthy families indiscriminately, and confiscate their family wealth, which is not enough, and then they have to use that extremely cruel punishment to torture and torture.

Up to now, although the Shun army seems to be powerful, it does not have any support from the landlord class.

You must know that in this era, although these people can be suppressed, if they are used, their power cannot be underestimated.

At present, all the prefectures in Shandong and the occupied places such as Guide and Kaifeng have successively built branch offices of the Security Division, and for Wang Zheng, it is enough for the local government to rely on the salt and village guards of these Security Divisions to pacify the localities.

Yan Ding is ruthless, and he was originally a "salt dog" by word of mouth, but after so long, this impression has long been changed.

Speaking of which, these salts were originally hindered by the Shandong army's clear order not to bully the people for no reason, so they naturally did not dare to disobey, so they put this ruthlessness on local security.

Up to now, the original group of people have been filled into the army to train honestly, either died on the battlefield, or became loyal generals in the Shandong army.

Whenever they see any mess, no matter what kind of children of big families or small thieves from other places, the salters often take chicken feathers as arrows, and in the eyes of the children of big families, they seem quite rude and arrogant.

However, in the eyes of the people, these are the same treatment of the Shandong army, if you see Yanding outside, it is like seeing a real official errand, and everything has to go to the branch office of the Security Department to seek a solution.

Yan Ding is idle every day now, but whenever he receives any report information, he will immediately dispatch people to investigate thoroughly, and if he doesn't catch someone and solve this matter perfectly, he will never stop.

The village guards who built farms in various places were originally regarded as well water without river water with salt ding, one was in charge of the security outside, and the other was to maintain the stability of the village as usual.

Since being under the control of the Security Department, it is now harmonious and harmonious, after all, the source of the Shandong military lineage is taken from these two grassroots Dingkou.

In fact, with Wang Zheng's idea, if it comes to a critical juncture, it will be easy to pull out the team composed of these salt dings and the village guards to deal with most of the thieves and officers and soldiers.

However, the guards and Yanding are both private soldiers who are not recognized by the imperial court, and it is not easy for Wang Zheng to bring them to the table for the time being.

The registered soldiers of the Shandong Army in the two prefectures of Denglai, roughly calculated, have a total of more than 50,000 people, although the Qingzhou Mansion occupies a large area, but it is very stable, and there are more than 18,000 registered soldiers.

Although Dongchang Mansion is the smallest of the six prefectures in Shandong, it is an important place to control Beizhili and Henan, with more than 20,000 regular soldiers stationed.

Jinan Mansion and Wengzhou Mansion are important places, and the area is too large, so a total of nearly 60,000 regular soldiers are distributed.

Looking at it this way, there are more than 100,000 descendants under Wang Zheng's hands, not to mention the actual number of 90,000 soldiers in the five major battalions.

In addition, every time Wang Zheng expands a place, he has to raise the foreign soldiers and horses adapted there, from clothing and armor, weapons to military salaries, almost everything needs to be paid by himself, although he has accumulated a lot of savings in the past, but with the use of troops and construction for many years, he has now experienced the feeling of making ends meet.

Every time at this time, Wang Zheng will think, Li Zicheng is said to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, how did he raise it, although the method of breaking the city and looting can alleviate the moment, but after it is spread, how can anyone really die for him?

The army of hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers sounds intimidating, but most of these are soldiers and horses stationed in various places throughout the year.

In wartime, in order to prevent chaos in the locality, it is always necessary to have some scale of regular soldiers to defend it, but in the final analysis, there are not many people who can really be deployed.