With great reluctance, Xu Zhong, the commander of the Tianjin Weidu, boarded a small boat, which rowed towards Caiyun, the flagship of Zhang Chu's fleet. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

According to the rules of officialdom, the commanders have no dime relationship with the general soldiers, and they are not subordinate to each other, and Zhang Chu's rank is not much higher than Xu Zhong. There was no need for Xu Zhong to come to see Zhang Chu at all.

But now there are no rules to talk about, the security army drove directly into the port, boarded the dock, and forced the soldiers of the guard station with guns not to dare to go out. To this day, Xu Zhong has not seen the documents of the imperial court sending security troops to Tianjin.

came to use force with the security army, Xu Zhong didn't dare to say anything. The soldiers and combat effectiveness of the guard station are still clear to him.

After the defeat of the security army, Jin's reputation has spread outside, and Zhang Chu has the foundation of anti-thieves, if Zhang Chu is really provoked, the two sides will move, and the soldiers of the guard will definitely be defeated, and then the imperial court may have to treat Xu Zhong's crime in order to appease Zhang Chu, and this kind of loss-making business can not be done.

If Wu can't do it, he will write the text, don't let out this old face, go and beg Zhang Chu to let this master play elsewhere. It's not easy for everyone to be an official.

The boat approached the Caiyun, and Xu Zhong understood why Zhang Chu had so much confidence, not afraid of offending everyone, not afraid of offending the emperor. The tall hull of the Caiyun and the cannon muzzles sticking out of the gun windows are the reason, and there is more than one such reason.

Climbing to the deck of the Caiyun with difficulty, Xu Zhong's whole momentum weakened, and when he saw Zhang Chu sitting in the deck chair basking in the sun, he didn't have the courage to theorize.

"Zhang Dashuai is busy with official business, and I don't know why I got to the ground in Tianjin." A soldier introduced Zhang Chu to Xu Zhong, but Zhang Chu sat there and didn't even move. Xu Zhong's face was very ugly, but he always had to speak, otherwise the sin of this trip would be in vain.

"I'm not busy, I'm just walking around with the soldiers, and I've heard that there are often people in Tianjin Port who go to sea, fornicate with Houjin, provide information for Houjin people, and transport prohibited items, and there is evidence that these spies are connected with the soldiers of the guard." Zhang Chu enjoyed the morning sunshine, and said slowly without even raising his eyelids.

"Never, never." Xu Zhong hurriedly denied that this was really a thief biting into the flesh, and Zhang Chu's behavior of deducting the basin on his head when he saw him frightened Xu Zhong.

"I don't know if I've checked it. It's okay, Lord Xu, please go back. Zhang Chu was obviously not in the mood to talk, and closed his eyes after speaking.

"Lord Zhang doesn't know if there is any document for the court to transfer troops here, if you ask from above, I will have an explanation." Xu Zhong means that I can't afford to provoke you, but there is still a court up there, so you won't even listen to the dispatch of the court.

"The imperial court, the imperial court is in charge, I will lead people to fight the Tatars outside the customs, and the imperial court still owes us food and wages to this day, and I have to find my own way." Speaking of the imperial court, Zhang Chu had some spirits, opened his eyes, sat up straight, and put on a posture to scold.

Xu Zhong understood what Zhang Chu meant, and dared to feel that this master had no money, so he came to Tianjin to find a way. This thief was born, and there must be no good way to think of anything but robbing, but if he robbed in Tianjin, wouldn't the officials of Tianjin Wei be killed. And if you are owed food and wages, you will rob it, and the soldiers of the guard will already grab it to Beijing City, and it will be your turn to come.

But there is no way to go on like this, Zhang Chu's soldiers are robbing in Tianjin, Zhang Chu can shake his head and say that he doesn't know, the soldiers and officials stationed in Tianjin will be unlucky. Xu Zhong couldn't grit his teeth and said: "I know that the soldiers in front of me are hard, otherwise Lord Zhang will ask the soldiers to wait for a few days, and I will go to the squire ward here to see if I can raise some food for the adults." ”

"You went to the squires to ask for money, have you paid all the food and salary in your guard?" Zhang Chu looked at Xu Zhong in disbelief, there is still no shortage of money in the Ming Dynasty's guard, if he can get the money, Xu Zhong would not have asked for it too soon.

"I'll try as much as I can." Xu Zhong's face couldn't help but blush, he knew that he wouldn't be able to get any money if he said anything, and this time he was going to tell those squires who didn't pull out a dime that Zhang Chu would rob him if he didn't give him money. See if they are scared or not.

"As a soldier, it is my duty to protect my family and defend the country, and it is not good to harass the township. I have a way to earn that money, and I can also give a part of it to Lord Xu, I wonder if Lord Xu is interested? At this time, Zhang Chu began to worry about the country and the people again.

"What's the solution?" Xu Zhong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked.

"I want to set up a sentry in the port of Tianjin to strictly investigate the personnel who have fornicated with Houjin, and at the same time I want to set aside a place as a material transfer station for the security army, and transport the materials transferred from other places to Liaodong, because the soldiers of the Tianjin Guard Station work hard to protect the safety of the port, I will give the guard a part of the silver taels every month as a condolence, how about this money being completely at the disposal of Lord Xu?" Speaking of Qian, Zhang Chu came to the spirit again, sat up straight, and his eyes lit up.

When Xu Zhong heard this, he thought to himself that this Zhang Chu was really bold, isn't setting up a guard post at the port just to pluck the goose, and building a material transfer station is not to smuggle overseas. Who would dare to stop the military supplies transported to the northeast, if these things were known to the ministers of the court, Zhang Chu would not be sprayed to death with saliva. For a while, he was a little hesitant, he agreed that if the incident happened, he would be implicated in some way, and he wanted to disagree, but he was worried about what Zhang Chu said to give him a part of the silver taels.

Zhang Chu saw that he was silent there, and understood what he was thinking. So he said: "You don't have to worry about what the officials of the DPRK and China think, everything is on me." Go first to my quartermaster and receive five thousand taels of silver, and go back to improve the lives of the brethren in the guard. As long as you don't come and interfere with us in the future, this money will be available every month. ”

"Good, good! I will take care of the soldiers in the guard so that they don't run around in the camp. Xu Zhong changed his attitude when he heard that he could get the silver immediately. If this can be taken for a few months in a row, it will be worth it to be dismissed from office, and let Zhang Chu bear the rest.

Xu Zhong took Zhang Chu's silver and happily returned to the guard.

All the soldiers in the guard post were recalled to the camp, saying that they wanted to rectify military discipline, ordered all soldiers not to leave the camp, and paid the soldiers half a month's salary. The soldiers of the guard were jubilant, and finally had money to buy food, and as for why they were hiding in the camp, no one wanted to care.

The Tianjin Military Transfer Station of the Security Army was set up to occupy the entire wharf, and all the personnel of the wharf were conscripted as staff members and promised higher salaries. Everyone felt that the boss had changed, and the new boss was more generous. Therefore, no one complained, and a sentry was set up at the gate of the military transfer station to check the passing personnel, saying that it was to prevent the spies of the money after fornication. However, those soldiers were quite polite, and did not take advantage of pedestrians, and everyone got used to it in a few days.

To the dismay of the merchants who had to transport goods to sea, the security forces put up notices in large letters, announcing a tax on goods entering and leaving the country. The merchants calculated that in addition to buying off the soldiers in the port, there would be more blood at this time, but some goods still had to be transported, so they had to reluctantly pay taxes.

After paying the tax and getting the tax stamps of the security army, they soon discovered the benefits, and they took the tax stamps all the way through the port, and no one came to make it difficult and extort, so that the cost was lower than the original bribe officials. Only then did the merchants relax.

A few days later, there was gossip that there were more lucrative ways in the military transfer station, and the businessmen became interested. (To be continued.) )