First, it is approaching the end of the year, and now a few months have passed, and the policy of gathering farms has achieved good results in the six prefectures of Shandong, and the Dengzhou camp has not been idle.

During the three months from August to November, Huang Yang, Shao Yong, Xing Yidao, Quan Zhuo and other town defenders in Dengzhou camps were constantly reporting and exterminating the bandits, bandits, or homeless people who gathered to make trouble, and they were annihilated one by one.

The largest of them belongs to the Haoqiang of Wengzhou Mansion Shijiazhuang, which has gradually grown bigger in recent years with the connivance of the Caozhou General Army, and heard that the Dengzhou battalion took over Wengzhou Mansion, so he united the Haoqiang of the nearby Luqiao Town and the bandit horse gang of Bald Mountain, in a vain attempt to cause trouble.

After learning of this, the guerrilla general of the Dengzhou battalion stationed in Wengzhou Mansion immediately led 1,000 regular soldiers and 1,800 salt Ding to quell the chaos.

The Dengzhou battalion was unfamiliar with the terrain conditions, and the casualties of the soldiers were considered by the punishment with a knife, so they did not dare to attack for a while.

In the middle of October, Xing Yidao, who had been besieged for half a month, was considering whether to attack, when he suddenly obtained a new type of Fran machine gun from the firearms battalion of Jinan Prefecture.

He was surprised and delighted by the knife, and immediately ordered the soldiers to set up artillery bombardment of the village, the gravel flew sideways, and Haoqiang suffered heavy casualties, and surrendered to the village in a few days.

As a result, with very few casualties, Xing Yidao took down the powerful thieves in Shijiazhuang, Luqiao Town, and Balshan area, and made a great contribution.

In the next half month, Xing Yidao led the soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion to quickly sweep away the heroes who disobeyed Wang Zheng in Wengzhou Mansion, and the bandits and bandits who obstructed the Grange's policy for the people.

At the same time, he strictly implemented any military orders issued by Wang Zheng, so that the bandits in Wengzhou Prefecture were cleared, and the development of the Grange policy in Shandong was greatly promoted.

Shao Yong stationed in Dongchang Mansion for the Dengzhou Battalion guerrilla, Dongchang Mansion thieves are not many, not long ago many people witnessed the battle between the Dengzhou Battalion soldiers and the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution, all like frightened birds.

Compared with the many obstacles that Xing Yidao and others have received in various places, Shao Yong is extremely relaxed in Dongchang Mansion.

There are no thieves worth exterminating in Dongchang Mansion, and almost all of them fled into Henan after hearing that the Dengzhou battalion took over, but the Jiama battalion in Beiwu City still had stubborn resistance from the Ming army.

After verification, these recalcitrant Ming troops were all foot soldiers under the command of Qiu Lei, the former commander of the capital division, Shao Yong obtained the permission of Wang Zheng and Futai Yan Jizu of the general town, and personally led a total of more than 1,000 regular soldiers and salt Ding to be completely wiped out, and there were no more thieves in Dongchang Mansion.

At the beginning of November, more than 3,000 rogues from Yanshan invaded Jinan Prefecture, and Yu Yuanwu, a general of the Dengzhou battalion stationed in Wuding Prefecture, led more than 1,000 recruits from the Dengzhou battalion stationed in Wuding Prefecture to go out of the city to intercept them, defeated the rogues and beheaded 200 people, and made a small contribution.

A lot of things have happened in the past few months, and the local generals are busy with their feet not touching the ground, but the civil and military generals in the center of Jinan Mansion are the same, and Wang Zheng has been rotating for several days and nights.

It was already December, and it was about to end the year, and except for the generals who were guarding the town outside the Dengzhou battalion, the rest of the generals of the six prefectures had already come to the mansion of the main town.

Their main task was to check and verify the cost of the harvest in the various granges this year, together with the clerks and bookkeepers of the Military Council.

This check and inspection took more than ten days, and the final result was calculated by Qingtian, the right military council of the Military Division, and the Dengzhou battalion lost a total of more than 100,000 taels of silver in the Grange policy.

Thinking about it, these newly built farms in various places now, from the small cost of raw materials to the fields and seeds in the homes of ordinary people, are almost all prepared by Wang Zheng from scratch.

This is equivalent to spending money to buy a stable, without this money to settle, the people are still homeless, and now such a gathering and harmonious cultivation will definitely not happen, and the thieves everywhere will not be clean at all.

Wang Zheng had already been mentally prepared that at least within two years, there would be no surplus in the Grange.

But when Wang Zheng heard this, he was still very surprised by this loss figure, but after thinking about it carefully, he also knew that the money was really worth spent, although the Dengzhou battalion had a lot of losses in some aspects such as granges, weapons, military salaries, and silver rewards, but it made huge profits in the trading of salt goods.

At present, the six prefectures of Shandong are really controlled by the Dengzhou camp, in other words, the salt goods and various trading transactions in the entire Shandong have been pinched in the hands of Wang Zheng, at this time, the knife holder is on the neck, and it is already fish and meat on the board, even if the gentry want to resist, it is too late.

In the first year of taking charge of Shandong, it was really a hundred wastes to be revived, and every time the Dengzhou battalion went to a place, those original guards generally just took out a few thorns to kill chickens to show the monkeys, and the rest did not dare to speak.

Wang Zheng received snowflakes of documents and newspapers from all over the country, and was deeply disappointed by the corruption of the Ming court.

The general city and pier guards are in disrepair, plus the repair of beacon fires, female walls, watchtowers and even private houses in the city, all aspects need money, which requires Wang Zheng to pay out of his own pocket.

Since Wang Zheng has taken control of this place, he naturally can't let it be the same as before, often a big city worth repairing, and the final investment in silver taels is thousands of taels.

Moreover, the Dengzhou battalion expanded twice in a row this year, and although it won several battles and its reputation spread rapidly, the silver accumulated over the years quickly bottomed out.

Wang Zheng only now knows what it means to not be able to afford war, why does war cost people and money?

Not to mention the pre-war mobilization of every battle, even if the battle is won, the rewards for those surviving soldiers and the bereavement of the families of the soldiers who died in the war are sky-high, and the things issued by the imperial court are a drop in the bucket, and it is natural that there is a deficit.

Fortunately, the rich place in the south of the Yangtze River lives up to its name.

Wang Zheng handed over the sales rights of Ninghai salt in Fujian, Qinhuai and other places to Zheng Hongkui, with the ability of the Zheng family, only in the second half of the year, the cooperation with the two parties has been able to fill the deficit of the farm, etc., plus the transaction of Ninghai salt in Shandong, but it can accumulate a little.

It's almost the New Year, Wang Zheng's old mother Wang Liu and his wife Yu'er are also very busy, and those generals who come from all over the country to account often have to go to the back house of the town mansion to visit solemnly.

This kind of etiquette, everyone is mostly a little rest after the tense accounting of the former government, but there is one thing worth mentioning, a few days ago, Ning Hu of Ning's Pharmacy came to the miracle doctor, saying that Mrs. Wang Zheng's Yu'er fetal gas has a slight move, and there will be a big joy in the near future.

Hearing this, Wang Zheng was stunned all of a sudden, even if he was with wood, he could understand that Yu'er was going to give birth and he was going to be a father!

Some time ago, he was so busy that he almost forgot that Yu'er was pregnant, and after asking Ning Hu a few words, Wang Zheng immediately gave him a lot of money to regulate Yu'er's body.

Ning Hulai did not accept the resignation, there is a way that Wang Zongzhen is a hero in the world, and he should do his best to do a good deed, and it can be regarded as a modest effort to kill the Tartar thieves.

Wang Zheng was excited but did not force it, and after sending Ning Hulai away, he instructed the soldiers to send a small wooden box of silver taels to Ning's medicine shop.

The news soon spread throughout the entire Fucheng, first Futai Yan Jizu came to congratulate the civil officials, and then Liu Yunzhong, the supervisor of Shandong, gave over his yin and yang weirdness.

Although it is a little incomprehensible to Liu Yunzhong's tone and gestures of speaking and doing, everyone has long been familiar with it, and the eunuch is not like this when he speaks.

Dong Youyin and Gao Liang talked about this matter in private, and they couldn't help laughing, saying that the surname Liu might not have that work underneath it.

Back then, when the Dengzhou battalion was still in Dengzhou Mansion, the difference between the upper and lower identities was not big, and the total number of people was not much, and there was no difference between the high and low statuses.

At that time, everyone was living a precarious life, and they never thought that they would have the status they have today.

Wang Zheng got rid of Liu Zeqing, and since he succeeded as the chief soldier of Shandong, his style of action has always been steady and ruthless, and he never hesitated for half a minute when it was time to make a move.

Every day, farms rise up from all over the country, from the soldiers and registered soldiers, down to the Yanding stationed in various places by the Inspection Division, as well as the caretakers of each farm, and the number of people under the jurisdiction of the Dengzhou battalion cannot be counted.

Even the four of Huang Yang faintly noticed that there had been some changes from the past.

The whole of Shandong is no longer a plate of loose sand, but quickly condensed into a firmly grasped whole, and the core of this whole is undoubtedly the group of generals headed by Wang Zheng.