In June of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, because the threat of the Dongyu Nuzhen was getting bigger and bigger, the imperial court's military budget on this was also increasing.

No one can say clearly what the actual effect of this training salary is, but this training salary has completely smashed the situation that has calmed down a little, and the additional training salary is a small disaster, but the local officials below take the opportunity of collecting the training salary to expropriate and extort money for their own personal interests, which is the real disaster.

In the year of the catastrophe, the already difficult life was added to a heavier burden, chaos gradually arose in various places, and a large number of people joined the ranks of Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Li Zicheng, which is the so-called official coercion and civil rebellion.

In July of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai set up an ambush on Luohu Mountain, and the general army of Zuo Liangyu and Luo Dai who would attack in the future was defeated, Luo Dai was captured on the spot, Zuo Liangyu's seal, and the banner were lost on the battlefield, and he fled back to the rear camp in a hurry.

After the news spread, the world was shaken, and among the subordinates of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, except for one battalion, all the other armies that had been recruited were all turned against again, and the so-called policy of peace and appeasement by Yang Sichang, a cabinet scholar and secretary of the military department, all failed.

On the Shandong side, it is armed salt to carry out sweeps in various prefectures and counties, and those so-called Jianghu people cannot walk alone in the wilderness, they also need to supplement food and equipment, sell stolen goods, and those who can do these things locally, dare to do these things, that is, those big clans and wealthy families.

And these people are inextricably linked to the armed salt ding, and unless the so-called people in the rivers and lakes completely stop doing it, or escape from the border of Shandong, there is only one way out of being arrested and killed.

Originally, in the capital of Dengzhou, there were more than 1,000 soldiers and horses of Shandong General Qiu Lei, led by a deputy general, these soldiers were not the descendants of Shandong General Qiu Lei before, they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and they did not dare to act rashly, Li Meng did not want to touch them, and intended to keep a few locations in Shandong that were not controlled by the Jiaozhou battalion, so that one or two window places could be retained, and intelligence and some scarce commodities could be obtained in this window.

However, as soon as the matter of finding out the news for the Tartars came out, coupled with the actions of these so-called heroes of the rivers and lakes before and after the Tartars entered Koushan Shandong, the whole Jiaozhou battalion felt that a major inventory operation was necessary, and all the key passes in Shandong must be controlled in the hands of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Therefore, the armed Yanding, the arrest and killing of the regular army everywhere, the capital of Dengzhou, and the key road checkpoints connecting Shandong and various provinces, are all set up to be stationed and investigated.

On that day, Li Meng took his cronies and others to the beach for an outing, and the last person who came in to ask for a meeting was unexpected, it was actually Li Meng's wife Yan Ruoran, and what he said was even more surprising, he actually asked Li Meng to take Mu Yunyao as a concubine, God knows what these women discussed together.

For Li Meng, this request really made him cry and laugh, but his heart was different from before, a little loose, being together as a brother and sister, being together as a husband and wife, after all, it was a completely different concept.

At the beginning of July, the imperial court had already put in place the documents and responsible officials for the additional training and salary training in Shandong, but Li Meng had a noncommittal attitude towards this matter and did not express his position clearly.

Because the target of the training is the common people, and according to the provisions of the Ming law, the meritorious and famous people, they do not have to pay such taxes, that is to say, Li Meng's Tuntian Grange and the vast majority of the landlords and gentry do not have to bear the new taxes.

Li Meng, Confucius, these two families already occupy more than half of the land in Shandong, and then some big landlords occupy more than a quarter, that is to say, the richest landlords and gentry do not have to pay, and this training and salary increase faction falls on those poor people.

These ordinary people are unable to sustain their lives because of the drought for many years, and they are about to be unable to support themselves, and they have been sent more, and the speed of bankruptcy has intensified.

It's ridiculous to say that the common people in Shandong are different from those in Henan and Shaanxi, if this is the case in Shaanxi, then you can only rebel, if this is the case in Henan, you can only wait to starve to death, while in Shandong, you can sell the land to Tuntian Grange for money and pay taxes, and then sell yourself to Tuntian Grange, so that you don't have to pay taxes and don't have to worry about starving to death. Because of the policy of levying and training salaries, the Jiaozhou battalion has become more and more powerful.

Among the big landlords in Shandong, up to the Confucian family of Yanshenggong and down to the powerful people in the prefectures and counties, although the common people went bankrupt one after another, and a large number of fields and people appeared on the market, they did not benefit much. This is because there is a strong Jiaozhou battalion, if you don't inform the Jiaozhou battalion in advance, it will be considered to harbor evil intentions and bring trouble to yourself, and only after the Jiaozhou battalion is selected, others can buy and sell.

Of course, if it is those Tuntian cooperative households that cooperate with the Jiaozhou camp, there is no such problem, even if they buy the land and population, they will also hand it over to the Tuntian Grange of the Jiaozhou camp to operate, but this is unacceptable to the Confucian government and other big landowners, because they already have such a large scale, but they have to hand over the tuntian grange of the Jiaozhou camp, which is equivalent to completely giving up the foundation that they have worked hard to lay down in the past.

In fact, whether it is the collection of training salaries, or the people in the rivers and lakes are purged and hunted down, the most important thing for the Jiaozhou battalion at present is to obtain the underwriting power of the production of Laiwu iron ore, and the large army must have a stable and continuous weapon supply channels and bases, for example, most of the weapons of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, rely on the purchase of extremely unwise and unreliable, after the commercial houses in Shanxi collected weapons to supply the Qing army outside the Guanwai, the army immediately because the supply of weapons could not keep up, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

But this Laiwu iron smelting institute is an official camp, and there are mine supervisors sent by the imperial court to guard, it is not realistic to forcibly seize it, the iron ore itself is a strategic resource, if the Jiaozhou battalion here is a big fanfare, it will directly alarm the Beijing Imperial Court, and then consider why the general army of a province will be interested in this iron mine, Yang Sichang, the cabinet bachelor of the center of the Beijing Division, and Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, already have a grudge against Li Meng, and when the time comes, it will be a disaster.

To tell the truth, at present, a large number of purchases through the channels of Xu Xiaochu, the chief eunuch of the Nanjing Arsenal, plus the current production capacity in the Fengmeng Town Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, can also meet the expansion of the Jiaozhou army, but this is not a long-term solution.

And what makes Li Meng salivate is not only the iron ore in Laiwu, but also the experienced craftsmen in the Laiwu Iron Smelting Institute, these people are priceless wealth for the weapons manufacturing of the Jiaozhou battalion, Li Meng has already seen how much enthusiasm for labor and creativity those semi-slave-like craftsmen will glow after becoming similar to wage workers.

Li Meng's consideration of the Jiaozhou camp is also reasonable, if Ding Xu, the mine supervisor, treats Laiwu's iron smelting as an official property, everything will be easy to do.

The high bribes, the high proportion of kickbacks, and the face of the Shandong general army are all reasons to make concessions on price, but the crux of the matter is that Ding Xu, the mine supervisor, regards Laiwu's iron ore and iron smelting as his own private property, and he is unwilling to sell it for a penny.

In fact, the negotiations between the two sides on this have been carried out intermittently in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, but they have been arguing on this price.

Although the mine supervisor Ding Xu looks down on the local civil and military officials, it does not mean that he does not know anything, Li Meng was promoted from a general to the general army, and those ruthless things back then, the mine supervisor Ding Xu knows very clearly, there are many people in this world, Li Meng started from a dilapidated military household in the Lingshan Guard, and he is the most despicable trafficking of illicit salt, and it has reached such a point in a few years in a blink of an eye, and naturally many people come to study.

From the beginning to the present, whenever Li Meng has any obstacles, the people who hinder often end in violent death, and no one will believe that there is nothing strange in this.

Therefore, the mine supervisor Ding Xu was also cautious, not only spending money to envelop the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers stationed in Laiwu in his own hands, these officers and soldiers were the soldiers and horses of the former chief soldier Qiu Lei, and when Qiu Lei was still in power, he did not listen to Qiu Lei's orders at all, but obeyed the mine supervisor Ding Xu with all his heart.

In addition to encircling these soldiers and horses, the mine supervisor Ding Xu also vigorously recruited outlaw bandits, and the rivers and lakes were reckless on the Jiaozhou camp, and they had to be constrained by military law to fight on the battlefield, so there were really a lot of people who came to Laiwu to vote for this eunuch.

So Zhang Chengye also suggested that Zhou Baxi go to Laiwu to join the mine supervisor Ding Xu, these reckless people came to Laiwu, which can be regarded as adding some help to this eunuch, but the local civilians in Laiwu, even the landlords and gentry were killed very badly, these outlaws and bandits did not know what the king's law was, and acted recklessly and harmed the place, as a result, although Laiwu had an iron smelting institute and related industries, and there was a good income in the disaster year, but the people still fled.

To make this eunuch give in, for Li Meng, he can't use knives, guns and firearms for the time being, and see if he can solve it by other means.

However, after early July, Ding Xu, the mine supervisor, received a report from the ambassador of the Iron Smelting Institute, saying that the coal merchants in Yanzhou said that there were many bandits on the road and the transportation was not smooth, and the supply of coal could not be restored until at least October......

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