Ji, Liao Governor Wu Aheng, and the general soldier Lu Zongwen were killed in battle, Zheng Xizhao, the eunuch of the supervising army, fled, and the Qing army drove straight in, and the troops were stationed in Niulan Mountain.

The capital was shaken, and the whole city was under martial law. The request for help from the Beijing division made the horse go out of Beijing quickly, and mobilized troops and horses from all over the country to enter the king of Qin. This is the fourth time that the Jurchens have entered the customs.

It also takes time for the fast horse to gallop on the road, and the Jiaozhou city where Li Meng is located is considered a remote boundary in Shandong, so it is even later to know the news, according to the practice of each year, the Jiaozhou army began to carry out winter rotation training and combat exercises, and the soldiers and horses stationed in various places began to rotate and move.

The private salt business in winter, whether it is Shandong or Fujian, is only to reserve the amount used here for the New Year, and then there is a large number of transactions that can only start after the fifteenth day of the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

Li Meng moved his mansion back to Jiaozhou City, and now the entire houses in Jiaozhou City are completely controlled by the Jiaozhou battalion, ensuring the minimum safety issues.

The inside of the Yanzheng inspection house is busier than usual, and the original roles such as the account master are not enough, and it is also necessary to mobilize manpower in the shops in Jining Prefecture.

The illegal salt and various businesses on the Jiaozhou camp add up to only one million taels of silver a year, and a large share is placed on military spending, and the government of Tuntian actually purchased millions of acres of land, and in the process of buying and selling, it is debatable whether the so-called "fair trade" is somewhat true.

In fact, most of the land proposed to be purchased by the Jiaozhou camp, and the landlords gave the land to the Jiaozhou camp for nothing after thinking about it.

In the successive disaster years, most of the land owned by the land was merged, and it was just waiting for the year to improve. But this year's famine, even these people feel that their families can't stand it, the Jiaozhou camp is big, it is better to offer it with both hands, it can be regarded as a bet, naturally, whether there is a sword threat. The situation of overwhelming people with power appears. Maybe there is such a situation, but no one wants to say it, and no one dares to say it.

In Jiaozhou City, it is not necessary to belong to a semi-military area like Fengmeng Town, and correspondingly, there are many more people who come to visit Li Meng from all over the place. This is also a necessary means of connecting with the local community.

"General Lee's Tuntian Administration. It's really for the benefit of the people of Qilu. When the Son of Heaven knows, there will be many commendations. It's not impossible to be honored and crowned! ”

In Li Meng's living room, Wu Wensong, the governor of Jiaozhou, who was sitting in Xiadi, flattered him very politely, and the government of Tuntian did save countless people and made the local area much more stable.

Of course, the children of poor families cannot afford to read, and the families who can study are all industrial. The children of the landlords and gentry were more qualified to study. It is conceivable who writes praise articles.

Although he knew that the other party was politely flattering, Li Meng was still very happy in his heart. After all, this policy has brought great benefits to the Jiaozhou camp, and the summary accounting in the separate yards has not yet been completed, but the general result can already be judged, in addition to deducting seeds, rations in the early stage, cattle and winter grain storage, the production of Tuntian Grange has been stored enough for the Jiaozhou camp to use more than a year and a half of rations.

This is still because there were not many displaced people in the early stage, and the displaced people gradually increased in the later period, and the productivity did not fully bear fruit, and presumably the situation will be better in the second year. Moreover, this Tuntian Grange is not only seen by outsiders as gathering the hungry and homeless, stabilizing the place, and being merciful and kind.

However, although natural disasters are terrible, as long as manpower is organized to save themselves in a targeted manner, such as opening ditches for drinking water and irrigation, the famine is not insurmountable, and at least it will be greatly alleviated. However, the herdsmen's government did not do it, but the local military leaders did, and the effect was very good.

The local powerful clans on the edge of the Tuntian Grange also noticed the way, and they cooperated with the Tuntian Grange one after another, and handed over their tenants to the Grange for unified deployment, and used each other's ditches for irrigation, of course, the harvest of the field should also be distributed to the corresponding share of the Grange in Jiaozhou, but what I didn't expect was that after giving these shares, the income was actually higher than before.

There is deterrence, strength, and benefits, and the local powerful factions naturally know how to choose.

But today, Wu Zhizhou came here obviously not to flatter Li Meng, seeing that Li Meng was in a good mood, then Wu Zhizhou continued to speak:

"Now this Shandong is really out of style, today this matter should have been brought over by Lord Denglai Daoliu, but it was pushed to my side layer by layer, General Li must not be surprised!"

When he said this, although Wu Zhizhou still had a smile on his face, he was a little stiff when he looked closely, obviously a little nervous and panicked, Li Meng picked up the tea bowl and signaled, and said with a smile:

"You and I are my own family, why bother to say such a trivial thing, since it is assigned by the above, it is official business, although Wu Zhizhou just talks about it, I naturally understand it."

Hearing Li Meng's assurance, Wu Zhizhou Andy breathed a sigh of relief, leaned forward and began to speak, his tone was as soft as possible, and said:

"Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei didn't know that the tendon was wrong, and he actually falsely accused the general of intercepting his food and salary on the side of Governor Yan, and threatened to fight the lawsuit to the Ministry of War and the Cabinet. General Li, you are guarding the four mansions of Denglai Qingyan, and the food and salary are all from Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion, so what is the interference with the adults. ”

Li Mengduan sat there, smiling silently, and Wu Zhizhou continued:

"Lord Yan always wants to ask, so he handed over this official document to Lord Denglai Daoliu, but this Lord Liu said that he was weak, and handed this to the prefect, and the prefect said that he was busy with affairs in the prefect's yamen and handed over this matter to the subordinates, there is really no way, and I hope that the adults will understand the difficulties below."

"It's okay, what he said is all official business, Li is dedicated to the court, and what he does is in line with the law of the country, and he will never do such a thing as looting and seizing the food and salary of friendly soldiers.

When Wu Wensong, the governor of Jiaozhou, heard Li Meng say this, the tension on his face disappeared, and he said in a loud voice:

"That's good, that's good."

Li Meng also laughed, and the atmosphere in the room became extremely harmonious for a while, but everyone knew who intercepted the grain, and some time ago, a large amount of grain and straw were transported through the waterway, and everyone was surprised that this time it was actually eighty percent.

Probably!? If this number spreads, everyone who knows it will laugh off their big teeth, and no one will believe it, according to the rules, the layers of deductions will be up to forty percent, and it would be good to get three or five on weekdays.

The Jiaozhou battalion started from a miscellaneous brand, although the local power is large, but the military department and the household department are not waiting to see it, and Yin Yinneng has already seen the face of those eunuchs, and he will give you eighty percent. How did you get this eighty percent, you will know after a careful analysis, some time ago, Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong in Jinan Mansion, jumped to his feet angrily, saying that someone ignored the law of the imperial court and plundered the military salary, and begged to be dealt with strictly, but the official who transported the military salary made it clear that it was the Shandong army to receive it, and the next thing you Shandong should handle by yourself.

Specifically, Li Meng knew it well, and the horse team led by Tang Er broke up the soldiers and horses garrisoned by Qiu Lei, grabbed all the military salaries in his hands, and then transported them back to Jiaozhou.

This kind of thing is done by others on the first day of junior high school, and Li Meng must do it back on the fifteenth, anyway, it is a big thing.

As for the governor's yamen who came to reprimand, it was nothing more than a few words, back then, Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, did such a thing, and the written lawsuit had no result, and his own side was more powerful than that Qiu Lei, could he do anything to fail, anyway, he was not afraid.

Sure enough, when the matter came to an end, the upper layers prevaricated, and in the end, Wu Zhizhou was asked to inquire to determine whether he did it or not, and the yamen at all levels in Shandong did this just to deal with it, and let the Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei see it, Li Meng also understood, and naturally did not admit what he had done.

The two sides were polite again, and when they saw that they were about to send off the guests, they heard someone outside shouting:

"The governor of the yamen urgently reported, and the general Li Meng"

In such a heavily fortified place, no one dared to shout so loudly, but immediately a personal soldier reported in a deep voice outside the door:

"General, the governor of the yamen sent an urgent report quickly, and the envoy said that the military situation was urgent, and he had to meet his lordship."

Li Meng glanced at Wu Zhizhou on the side, thinking that the envoy outside was not for the matter of military salary, but Wu Zhizhou was full of confusion, since the Jiaozhou battalion was formed, it was the first time that such an emergency report had been made, Li Meng stood up and ordered outside:

"Let him in!"

Not long after, a dusty colonel stumbled into the yard, saw Li Meng standing on the steps, heard Li Meng say, "This official is Li Meng", immediately knelt in the courtyard, kowtowed to Li Meng, raised his head and shouted with a crying voice:

"Your Excellency, the Eastern Tartars have entered the North Zhili from outside the Saiwai, the Beijing Division is under martial law, and the Governor Yan has ordered the General Li to lead the troops into Jinan Mansion, 100,000 urgently, and the order is expected to be carried out immediately!"

Ten days ago, on the fourth day of the first month of October, Emperor Chongzhen summoned Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the military department and the governor of Xuanda, in the Wuying Palace, to ask about the war and strategy, and Lu Xiangsheng replied: The minister is the main war!

Two days later, Xiangsheng wore sackcloth in sackcloth, straw shoes on his feet, and a white scarf on his head, and swore to be in the suburbs of Beijing.

In addition, the eunuch Gao Qi was the master of the submarine and supervised the army for Lu Xiangsheng's department...... Ticket^^