When Wang Zhi was looking at Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou was also looking at him.

Seeing that he actually picked up the chopsticks again and prepared to eat noodles, he was a little unhappy in his heart, after all, he was also a feudal official in charge of the military and politics of one party, even if the two sides were hostile, they should be treated with courtesy, but the other party did not treat the corporal with a trace of courtesy, and the original trace of refuge was extinguished again, this person has no appearance of a master at all, and he is definitely not a good master.

Wang Zhi didn't know that Hong Chengchou had labeled him as "no one's owner" at this time, and after picking some noodles and tasting saltiness, he added some seasonings to the pot, and then paid attention to Hong Chengchou.

"Are you here to surrender?"

"The old man is a second-class member of the imperial court, are you insulting the old man like this?" At present, the thirty-seven-year-old Hong Chengchou is very angry, he is a second-class member of the imperial court, a shepherd and a guard, and he is not a small role such as a magistrate, if you want to surrender, you have to be tactful!

In fact, he thought that Wang Zhizhi was stunned and asked him if he would surrender or not hurt his face, which Ming Ming should not show the appearance of a polite corporal when he surrendered to the enemy, and he had to give some steps down, otherwise it would be too disloyal and unrighteous to surrender as soon as he came.

It's a pity that Wang Zhi is not the traditional master, because he doesn't need the assistance of a traditional minister like Hong Chengchou, and his political points are less than five, so he can't understand the meaning of the words, and when he heard Hong Chengchou's answer, he directly raised his eyebrows: "You don't plan to surrender?" ”

"I am an official of the imperial court, how can I be in the same stream as you and other thieves." Hong Chengchou behaved very hard, and he didn't plan to surrender after determining that Wang Zhi was not the master, after all, the family was still in his hometown in Fujian, and if he surrendered to the master, he would soon sweep the world, otherwise as soon as the news of the thief spread, the family would be over.

"I don't have much patience with you useless people, I'll give you another chance. Surrender or not, kill you if you don't surrender. Wang Zhi said absentmindedly while stirring the noodles in the pot, Hong Chengchou is of little use to him, even if he really surrenders, he will only hang it up as a signboard. With his strength, it doesn't matter if he has a signboard or not.

"Bah, you and other rogues, disloyal and unfilial, bold, just waiting for the imperial army to ......"

"Pull it down, lock it up with the other captive officials, and kill it when you're done with the review." Wang Zhi has no problem psychologically, he doesn't like to listen to others scold him, and directly orders his subordinates to pull him down. As for why you don't kill him now, you are about to eat!

"It seems that these feudal bureaucrats can't be reformed, and even people like Hong Chengchou are unwilling to work for me, let alone those who are stupid to read."

Firmly enforcing the basic policy of killing feudal bureaucrats, Wang Zhi picked some noodles and ate them.

The state city of Suide is not as empty as Yanchuan and Qingjian, because it has not been harassed by thieves, the city is still relatively stable and has a large population. is that the price is relatively high, but Wang Zhi has no intention of stabilizing the price for the time being. After taking control of Suide City. The first thing Wang Zhi did was not to copy the big households, after all, the big households in the city are not as good as the landlords outside, if there are only half of the good people in the ten landlords, there should be one to one and a half good people in the ten big households in the city, since there are so few good people, you can't punish them indiscriminately.

After entering the city. The first thing Wang Zhi did was to check the granary, in a disaster year, food is the root of life, especially in Suide City, where a bunch of displaced people gathered inside and outside the city.

But when Wang Zhi saw this granary, which was so empty that there were no rats, his face darkened: "Immediately raid all the grain merchants in the city." Those who dare to resist will be killed. ”

In the severe drought in Shaanxi, Zhu Youzhen was not completely inactive, he had reduced Shaanxi's taxes and provided disaster relief. Although this disaster relief food will disappear a few percent before leaving the capital, and a few percent will disappear on the road, there will always be some that can be sent to the disaster area, Suide as a state city, the disaster relief food should be sent here, but it is gone, in short, in any case, the official granary in Suide City, which is the state city, should not be empty.

Now it's empty, there is only one explanation, the grain was moved by the rats, who are the rats? People who make a profit from grain - grain merchants.

In the feudal era, those who were able to do the grain merchants were generally the ones who had their hands and eyes to heaven, because the profit points of the grain merchants were not only in the grain, and the grain prices controlled by the grain merchants were often a way to exploit the peasants.

On this border, there is no simple one who can do the grain merchants, either the local clans, or the merchants everywhere, or the family members of at least the second-grade masters, no matter what kind of background, they are the existence that the local officials dare not provoke and cannot provoke, so they can make huge profits through grain in this year of famine.

But when they met Wang Zhi's Wang Jiajun, their background was useless, and even the reason for their death, in the face of absolute force, those grain merchants found that their former identity and background were useless, and one by one they were heavily armed Wang Jiajun rushed into the house, raided the house and arrested people, and there were also people who wanted to resist to the death with the 100th outlaw raised at home, and the result went without saying that the AK in the hands of the musket team was not a dry meal.

After severe torture and summarization, the total amount of grain seized from these grain merchants was placed on Wang Zhi's table that night.

"A whole 100,000 stone of grain, 12 million catties, enough for 100,000 people to eat for four months, all say that there is a great drought in northern Shaanxi, there is so much grain hidden, I originally thought that there could be a few tens of thousands of stones is enough."

Now Wang Zhi finally understands the saying that natural disasters are not terrible, but man-made disasters are terrible, so much food, how much of it is disaster relief food, but it was taken out and sold by these grain merchants in collusion with corrupt officials, and the rich people were rich, but the hungry people starved to death.

"Immediately go and transport all the grain in one place, and then raid all the big households in the city, and lock up the people first, the large army can't stay here for a long time, and these unstable factors should be pulled out first."

Suide, which can only be regarded as the first stop of the complete northward raid, Wang Zhi could not stay here for a long time with a large army, he only stayed here for five days, and arranged a series of things, mainly to resettle the inhabitants of the city and the homeless people - there is no difference between the two in essence, the difference is that the former has a place to stay, while the latter does not, and in this year of famine, they all belong to the kind of people who may starve to death.

Wang Zhi's policy of relocating them was to provide relief through work, and as long as they worked, they would be given a mouthful of porridge to eat, and there was always work to be done in the water conservancy in the fields near Suide and on the dirt road leading to the extension.

"This is a test of your ability, after I come back, the military, political and civil affairs, whoever does the best will be promoted to battalion commander." Wang Zhi said to the six company commanders who stayed in Suide that although the battalion had appeared under his command, so far, the highest position in the army was the company commander, and no one could become the battalion commander.

"Students will live up to the expectations of their teachers." The six company commanders who came from the Ninth World with Wang Zhi answered in unison.

Leaving behind two battalions of troops, 500 laborers, 100 craftsmen and 100 logistics, as well as some Ming prisoners and coolies who had surrendered, Wang Zhi continued his journey north with the rest of the army.

-- Wang Zhi persuaded the captured Ming army to stay here, and those who did not want to go home should stay here, and if they did not want to go home, they would follow their hometown on the marching route, and if they were not there, they would stay in Suide as coolies, Wang Zhi would not let them go home by themselves, and who knew if they would harm the people on the way. (To be continued.) )