Chapter 444: Unable to make ends meet
At the end of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, more than 2,000 imperial soldiers and horses in Hejian Prefecture in Beizhili put down their weapons, took off their clothes and armor, and returned to Jingzhou, Jiaohe and other places to settle down according to their households.
Soon after they left, Li Qingshan, the general of the Shandong Army, led more than 1,000 soldiers to take the lead in entering Hejian Fucheng and raised the banner of the Yellow Dragon of Wang Zheng.
Immediately afterwards, most of the soldiers and horses of the Shandong Army came to the prefectures and counties around the Fucheng, and with the strong support of Liu Ding, the commander of the Zhongtun Guard, and the prefect of Hejian, they successfully occupied Jingzhou, Jiaohe, Xianxian and other places, and set up four farms here.
At this point, the Shandong Army can be said to have completely controlled Hejian Province.
The more than 2,000 Ming troops who surrendered were scattered all over the country, and it was no longer possible to pose any threat to the Shandong army, and most of them entered the farms to become farmers.
As for Liu Ding, the commander of the Zhongtun Guard of the imperial court, Wang Zheng did not let him go too far, and chose a farm closer to the capital city, so that he could "enjoy his old age in peace" here.
In addition, Wang Zheng secretly gave the chief leader of the village protection team a task, asking him to report Liu Ding's every move every three days.
However, what is intriguing is not that Wang Zheng wants to spy on Liu Ding, but that this report is to be sent to Deng Mao, the deputy general of the soldiers and horses of the Hejian Mansion and the garrison of the Shandong Army in Cangzhou.
Wang Zheng didn't want it himself, and he didn't even have Li Qingshan, the lord of Hejian Mansion, but sent it to a court general, what was the purpose?
Mo said that Deng Mao himself was confused, and even others couldn't figure it out.
After all, the newly built farms in Hajian Province soon began to recruit displaced people and refugees from other places, and as long as they had families and homes, they would be given land and farm tools to cultivate after they were registered.
Because Wang Zheng had already communicated with the landlords and powerful people of Hejian Mansion in advance, and did not agree and did not come, now the family wealth has become a part of the Shandong army, and the remaining those who are afraid and afraid of Wang Zheng are in a mutually beneficial relationship with the Shandong army.
In order to prevent these people from rebounding back with the same qi, Wang Zheng naturally gave them a slap and a sweet date, giving them full benefits.
If each landlord wanted to survive, he had to hand over at least 60 percent of the fertile land in his name and 80 percent of the arable land, but what was left was more than enough for them to sustain themselves.
In addition, their children can go to the farm to join the village protection team, domestic servants can go to the farm to help, and when the salt control bureau builds additional branches in various places in the future, they can also select a few people to enter as appropriate.
This is to give them the opportunity to enter the Shandong military system, of course, for these people, if the Shandong army can succeed in the future, this is an opportunity for the rooster to become an eagle.
However, the olive branch Wang Zheng has been thrown out, but the internal assessment and evaluation of the Shandong army are very strict, and whether they can keep it depends on their own ability.
With the support of landlords and officials, the Shandong army began a drastic move in Hejian Province, constantly sending troops and horses to eliminate bandits and bandits that the Ming court had not eliminated.
However, as the process continued to speed up, everywhere was thriving, and a new problem soon came to the fore, that is, the Shandong army ran out of money.
In fact, at the end of the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Shandong Army had begun to increase troops in various places.
At the beginning of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Zheng took 12 battalions of soldiers to the north to aid Songjin, beheaded Azig and Kong Youde, and the two famous kings, followed by non-stop rush to Henan, and Li Zicheng fought in Guide Mansion.
In this battle, the Shandong army broke the thieves with a tired division, and then set up a great victory, killing the general Liu Zongmin, and since then, Li Zicheng's troops withdrew from Guide and Kaifeng.
Regardless of the turmoil in various places, the Shandong Army stood still in the area of the town, and thus shocked the world.
On the surface, this series of successes and victories are terrifying, but those things in the secret can only be known within Shandong.
Wang Zheng led his soldiers on every expedition, which affected the whole of Shandong, as well as those attached state capitals.
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the Shandong army needs to mobilize for war before going out on the expedition, and the military council officials rush to various places to preach and lobby, and they also have to go through several military discussions to determine the scope of increasing and reducing troops.
In need of additional troops, it is the junction areas of Shandong and other provinces, as well as the remaining state capitals that have just occupied the less stable, to deter Xiaoxiao.
However, there are so many regular soldiers, and the Yanding and the village guards are the top priority of local law enforcement, and for the sake of law and order, they can't move at all, and if they increase here, they will decrease there.
Therefore, it is necessary to demarcate some absolutely safe areas for troop deployment, which are often in the southwest of Dengzhou Prefecture, the western part of Laizhou Prefecture, and the large area of Qingzhou Prefecture, which have been stable for many years.
When the soldiers are mobilized, the regular soldiers are mobilized with them, and there must be sufficient logistical support to keep up, which requires a large number of auxiliaries to transport military supplies in the rear.
Every time the Shandong army occupied a place, in order to stabilize the local people's hearts, it often needed to establish the method of cultivating farms and dividing ploughing tools, and at the same time, it also had to reorganize and dismantle a large number of soldiers and horses of the former imperial court.
Most of these are useless, but there are also many families and rooms.
Not long ago, Shandong experienced a province-wide liquidation and expansion of recruitment, which can be regarded as a major event in recent years, and if a large number of new armor and weapons can be transported to the localities in a timely manner, it is necessary to send people in advance to find ore veins in various places for mining.
After mining, it has to be transported to the artisan to work overtime to build.
This kind of thing, which requires Wang Zheng to spend a lot of money, it can be said that the expenses are more and more, more and more frequent, but there are still so many items.
Although salt and commercial transportation are the largest part of this input, most of the other places in Jugeng Farms are in the initial stage, except for a slight income from Shandong Province, and only the input is not paid.
In this case, if it has been exhibited in Shandong safely, I can't see anything.
At the end of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Zheng mobilized troops, which attracted soldiers to go north on a large scale again, and after occupying the entire territory of Guide Province, he was about to start rebuilding Guide Province.
After all, the territory you get in your hands can't be lost anymore.
However, nearly 100,000 soldiers were mobilized before and after the soldiers, and the regular soldiers and civilians could not be calculated.
At this moment, in the Hou Ye's Mansion in Licheng, there are various documents on the right side of the military case, seeing these, Wang Zhengzhi deeply experienced the feeling that Emperor Chongzhen could not make ends meet, but he didn't expect that he would also have a day of worrying about money.
On the other side of the military case, there were newspapers from all over the Ming Dynasty, sighing, Wang Zheng didn't think about the troublesome things, and first opened the news of Henan.
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