Entering September, Liaodong began the autumn harvest, Dengzhou's economic war also came to an end, the entire Beizhili and the canal area were looted, there were businessmen to make money, there were also businessmen who lost a lot, Dengzhou invested a total of 2.4 million taels of silver to speculate on the price of grain, the average purchase price was more than two taels, and the final selling price was about four taels on average, and the last remaining 100,000 stone grain was probably sold at a price lower than the purchase price, but the overall has earned nearly two million taels of silver.

Ningyuan's grain price was suddenly suppressed to two taels, Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou lost five or six hundred thousand taels of silver, but they also made a fortune when there was a grain shortage in front of them, and in the end, the worst losses were the soldiers and families in the Guanning area, and their hard-earned military salaries were divided among the families again.

In addition, the biggest losses were the merchants who went to Guanning to do grain business, including many middle-level Beijing officials, who had a large amount of grain in their hands, and did not make much money as Wu Xiang and others at the beginning, and their overall strength was far inferior to that of the ancestral army, and they suffered a fatal blow.

After the rebellion in Qingzhou and Jinan, many of the imperial historians of Jingshi regarded Chen Xin as a warlord like Zu Dashou. Although they can't see Chen Xin's big chess game, they can see that the magnates of Beijing can participate in raising the price of grain in Beijing.

So after the end of this economic war, the imperial history set off another impeachment of Chen Xin**, of course, including Zu Dashou and others, together with the impeachment of the Beijing magnates who participated in the grain frying, and the bullet snowflakes generally flew into the palace, but most of these impeachments were left by the emperor.

The military turmoil in Dengzhou caused by Dongchang's hearing slowly subsided, and Wang Ting tried to impeach Jiang Yuegui, the head of Dongchang, for bullying the generals and causing a military rebellion, Chongzhen issued an order to reprimand Jiang Yuegui's behavior, and took down Jiang Yuegui's hereditary brocade clothes and hundreds of households, which was regarded as serving Dengzhou's softness. Subsequently, a holy decree was issued to appease the rebels, and those who participated in the rebellion were not investigated. It's just that Geng Zhongming, Fan Shouye, Dai Zhenggang and others who led the troops were punished.

After the holy decree of pacification came down, Chen Xin accepted it when he saw it, and the two battalions of soldiers soon returned to the station, Geng Zhongming also returned from Jinan Mansion, and Denglai regained his apparent calm.

Chen Xin did not continue to pursue Lu Chuanzong's matter, and on the side of the imperial court, he let this matter be unclear. What was conveyed to Dengzhou Town was that Lu Chuanzong tried to take refuge in Jiannu, and the reason was that Jiang Yuegui of Dongchang was disrespectful to his family. Lu Chuanzong was desperate and prepared to go to Liaodong to build slaves, although there was a reason for the incident, but the crime was unforgivable, and the tone of the whole thing was caused by the fault of the imperial court. But defection is equally punishable. The truth was known only to the top level of Dengzhou, and the more senior officers also knew about it to some extent, and it also had the effect of warning the whole army.

The political zhì is a mixed bag, this time Dengzhou Town cleared Liu Zeqing, the nail inside Denglai, and forced Jinan Mansion, to the imperial court to really show the military might, so that the emperor and the court can only make concessions. In the future, they will not make small moves to stimulate Dengzhou.

The disadvantage was that the emperor was wary of Dengzhou, and according to the news in the palace, the emperor smashed some porcelain again, although he approved the punishment of Jiang Yuegui in front of the minister. But in my heart, I still think that Chen Xin is behind the instructions, and it will be difficult to ask for those official policies in the future. However, Chen Xin also believed that Chongzhen did not dare to cut off his salary.

There are also additional benefits, Chen Xin removed Liu Zeqing, Wang Tingqian's henchman, and the strange battalion was also disarmed. Only the three battalion heads of the governor pacesetters in Dengzhou Town were not under the control of Dengzhou Town. Chen Xin took advantage of this to stabilize the Denglai form, and the power of the imperial court was completely expelled from the Denglai countryside. Only Dengzhou City still has the forces of Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the action team cleared a lot of gentry in Qingzhou Mansion, and the Tiger also came out a few times, sweeping away several places that were originally difficult to handle, and the clan forces in the countryside of Qingzhou who dared to oppose Dengzhou died down, and the Tunbao in Dengzhou was expanding at an accelerated pace.

The total cultivated land area occupied by Tunbao in Dengzhou Town reached 2.4 million mu, which was already comparable to the paper fiefdoms of those vassal kings. It is completely dominant in the countryside of Dengzhou and Laizhou. Among them, Pingdu Prefecture covers an area of 1.5 million mu, accounting for 60% of Pingdu's cultivated area, and covers an area of 400,000 mu in Qingzhou Prefecture, setting up more than 80 tunpu, and accelerating the pace after the mutiny. Southern Liaoning, which was semi-independent, developed 70,000 acres of cultivated land, and because it was located on the front line, the density of tunbao was even greater, reaching 20, so as to form a defensive depth relying on tunpu.

The total number of tunpu in Dengzhou is 493, with a population of 1.05 million, in addition to these tun households, there are also a large number of displaced people who take the tunhu household registration into various factories in Denglai, and some communities have also been formed in the periphery of each tunpu, these people live by temporary labor such as transportation, and there are also people engaged in service industries around Tunpu, and the prosperous business and sufficient population in Dengzhou have created many jobs for them.

The total population of Dengzhou Town has reached more than 1.4 million, and there is still a steady stream of displaced people arriving every day, and Dengzhou still needs more land to resettle the population.

As an adjunct to the economic war, the cotton war is also over, the price of cotton was pressed to the lowest in late August, the cotton merchants suffered heavy losses, the cotton farmers who harvested the cotton relatively late smashed in their hands, Liu Minyou in order not to affect the planting area of the second year, and began to increase the number of receipts in September, so as not to bankrupt the cotton farmers and make a large reduction in the cotton output of Shandong in the coming year, so that Dengzhou Town will have no raw material supply.

The price of cotton cloth is slowly rising, cotton farmers have been able to breathe a sigh of relief, but not every area is rising, the south of Qingzhou Mansion is also planting a large number of cotton, here is far away from the canal, separated by the Gunzhou Mansion, but close to Lingshanwei, Laizhou Prefecture, in previous years, there were Jiangnan businessmen to purchase, there are also canal cotton businessmen to come, last year there were more Lingshanwei Dengzhou cotton factory purchases, is not worried about sales.

But this year's market is different, the fluctuation of the price of cotton cloth in the canal has affected the merchants of Jiangnan and the canal, these businessmen are cautious and wait-and-see, Qingzhou Mansion to the canal is far away, the cost is originally a cut higher, cotton merchants are not willing to take too much risk, and Dengzhou cotton mills do not come to purchase, Liu Min has deliberately reduced the purchase price of cotton in Qingzhou Mansion, so that some self-cultivated cotton farmers went bankrupt, and had to become displaced people to invest in Dengzhou Tunbao, on the other hand, they want to reduce the cotton planting area of Qingzhou Mansion, such as today's disaster is becoming stricter year by year. Liu Min needs to expand the area of grain cultivation in the three provinces of Denglai Qing, and rely on the purchase of cash crops.

Winter wheat planting began in September in various parts of Denglai, and it was busy again. Liu Minyou's civil department was busy with this most important matter, and Song Wenxian's foreign affairs department sent officials to visit local officials in various parts of Shandong to dispel the doubts about Dengzhou Town in various places after the rebellion, and there were also special personnel to go to the islands of Dongjiang Town.

Chen Xin was busy mending relations with Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi, and then constantly inspected the army system, including the reserve troops, the training base, and the four combat battalions stationed in Denglai, and after the training of the new 3,000 recruits was completed, the two battalions that were originally missing were all full, and the last 1,000 headquarters that had been in Tianjin for three months also arrived in Dengzhou. All of them returned to the station. These soldiers are stationed in scattered locations in peacetime, and logistics are supplied by various cantonment forts, which can reduce transportation losses and reduce logistical difficulties, and will only be assembled on a large scale when joint training and combat are carried out.

Count the fifth battalion of Zhu Daichun. There are already 36,000 regular troops in Dengzhou, including less than 5,000 recruits, the whole army is well-trained, and nearly 30,000 have combat experience. After all the troops in Dengzhou Town returned to their garrisons, Denglai was as stable as Mount Tai. Chen Xin also breathed a sigh of relief, the messy half a year was finally over.

Liaonan did not stop, and the autumn harvest offensive in Dengzhou town began at the end of August, and the cavalry and dragoons stationed in Fuzhou in Dengzhou attacked in a big way. Fight with Jiannu near Gaizhou. There were more than ten original forts and post stations between Fuzhou and Gaizhou, but the Jin soldiers gave up most of them and retreated to Yulin to lay out defenses and shorten their logistics supply lines. After the town of Dengzhou occupied these abandoned forts. It was slightly remodeled and became a temporary base for the cavalry. It doubles as a beacon.

With these temporary strongholds, the Dengzhou cavalry gained a simple support, and the combat method was more flexible, and the sentinel cavalry continued to cross Gaizhou to attack the area south of Yaozhou Fort, which had threatened the grain production area of Houjin Liaozhong, and Yaozhou was also the supply place of Jiannu's salt, once it was lost here, Jiannu even had to rely on smuggling of salt.

In addition to Gaizhou, Zhu Guobin dispatched a thousand infantry headquarters, cooperated with Dongjiang Town, and set out from Xiuyan to the north along the Caohe River valley, and attacked until near Lianshan Pass. Dongjiang Town reoccupied Tieshan, reoccupied Kuandian and other places abandoned by Jiannu, and continued to send troops to the north to attack the Hetuara line.

The harassment of the two defense lines in southern Liaoning and the east forced Jiannu to mobilize, and the Zhenghuang Banner, Zhengbai Banner, Red Banner and Zhenglan Banner dispatched 5,000 armor soldiers to the most important Gaizhou defense, and the other four banners defended the long defense line in the east, with a total of more than 10,000 troops dispatched and more than 15,000 coats.

The two sides repeatedly tug-of-war in the no-man's land between Gaizhou and Fuzhou, with casualties on each other, and after Jiannu increased its troops to 5,000, the two sides were temporarily in a state of standoff. The attitude of the Guanning army in western Liaoning was ambiguous, and Zu Dashou sent Zu Dale to take a thousand cavalry to the vicinity of the original Daling River, and then went back, no one knew what they were going to do.

On 19 September, Chen Xin returned to Dengzhou from inspecting the winter defense deployment in southern Liaoning, and as soon as he arrived at the General Military Headquarters, the adjutant sent a letter.

Dai Zhenggang was in Dengzhou, and after disposing of Lu Chuanzong and other Yanggu systems this time, the attendant room and the Military Affairs Department took over the second battalion, and Dai Zhenggang was still the battalion officer, but he was only temporarily transferred back to Dengzhou. Chen Xin hung him for a while, and waited for this resignation letter.

Dai Zhenggang soon arrived at Chen Xin's official room, and as soon as Chen Xin met, he said: "Zhenggang, your resignation is not allowed to be read by the official." ”

Dai Zhenggang hurriedly stood up, Chen Xin waved his hand to sit down, "This official knows what you are worried about, Lu Chuanzong's matter was made by Dongchang, and now the person is dead, and Jiang Yuegui is also dead." What is behind them, the official doesn't want to ask again. Lu Chuanzong is Lu Chuanzong, you Dai Zhenggang is Dai Zhenggang, you don't want to label yourself as a Yanggu, Xu Yuanhua is also from Yanggu, and the relationship with Lu Chuanzong is closer, the official still wants to use him, let's not engage in cleaning. ”

Dai Zhenggang was silent for a moment and said: "My lord, this matter is indeed related to Dongchang, but in the final analysis, it is Lu Donkey himself who has not stood firm. Lu Chuanzong was brought out by his subordinates, and his temper has always been arrogant, and he can't stand a little grievance. No matter what the cause of death is, it is all caused by his private connection with Dongchang Fanzi, and his subordinates are duty-bound, please remove your subordinates from their military positions, and your subordinates are willing to go to the Civil Department, or let your subordinates be instructors. ”

Chen Xin waved his hand and said: "Lu Chuanzong is Lu Chuanzong, you Dai Zhenggang is Dai Zhenggang, you don't want to label yourself as a Yanggu, Xu Yuanhua is also from Yanggu, and his relationship with Lu Chuanzong is closer, but he knows that he is lost, and he has the ability to manage the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so the official still wants to use him, let's not clean it." ”

Dai Zhenggang lowered his head, and he didn't know if he heard it. Chen Xin also knew that he would have some concerns in his heart, but Dai Zhenggang was different from Lu Chuanzong, the intelligence bureau's analysis of his character was quite calm, and he was very family-oriented, and now he had a family and a room in Dengzhou, with four children, and he deliberately distanced himself from Lu Chuanzong and others a long time ago.

Chen Xin walked up to Dai Zhenggang and patted him on the shoulder and said: "You and Chuanzong were the first to talk to the official, it was so difficult in Weihai, don't you come over, the official is not a person who doesn't remember the old love, you should understand the meaning." Lu Chuanzong is that he has not stood firm, and it has nothing to do with you. This official can trust you, but this official also knows your concerns, if you really don't want to lead troops, go to Wuxue to exchange with Shi Pingli, you have fought a lot of battles, and Wushu happens to lack officers like you. ”

Dai Zhenggang saluted gratefully: "Thank you for your understanding, my subordinates will go to Wendeng tomorrow." The subordinates have always remembered that when they went to Weihai with the adults, although the days were hard, but they were also full of joy, the subordinates had been thinking about the good of the adults, if it weren't for the fact that the adults were still reckless, they saved the villain once by the Tianjin River, if it weren't for the adults to take them in, I might have already died somewhere. This resignation is not because I am worried that the adults will implicate my subordinates, but that Lu Chuanzong and the villain have known each other since childhood, this is something that everyone knows, and there will always be some sayings in the army, if the subordinates continue to manage the second battalion, the colleagues in the army will be on guard, and it will be boring to be careful, and they will miss the big things of the adults, or it is better to learn martial arts. Please rest assured, your subordinates will definitely help your adults manage martial arts. ”

Chen Xin nodded slightly and said, "Help this official manage the martial arts a little better." In the future, I figured it out in my heart, and it was not impossible to come to this official again, and then lead the troops. ”

After Dai Zhenggang saluted again, he strode out of the door, Chen Xin looked at the closed door and sighed: "That's fine, I hope we can start and finish well." ”