"From tomorrow onwards, you do your best to restore trade between Datong Mansion and other places, there are still four major families in the city, you will follow whatever they do, but grain, grass and salt, give up to the four major families."

Fan Honghuo nodded, and Ling Jingyang said that he would resume trade as soon as possible, and Ling Jingyang, in order to enhance and establish his confidence, asked Fang Xiaoyan to transfer twenty firecracker soldiers from the firecracker camp to Fan Honghuo as a guard.

Fan Honghuo's daughter-in-law's farce of stealing people brought after-dinner jokes to the Shiying soldiers, but Fan Honghuo took this as an incentive to work hard to improve himself, and went to gather all the subordinates of the previous shop that night, and took everyone to pick up the old business, and fought against the four major families in the city, the four families did not have many people in the city, so they had to watch Fan Honghuo throw off the distance from them and ride away.

Not to be outdone, the four families went to the city to recruit competent people with the money they earned, and also bought a few houses in the city as a base for future development.

Ling Jingyang is happy to see the four major families compete with Fan Honghuo, but his focus has always been on the military aspect, and when he was resting in the city, he deliberately left Jiang Xuan dry for a few days, so that Jiang Xuan was confused, and Jiang Xuan also thought about it, eating and drinking in the city, and was idle.

His little life is dragged in the hands of others, he should eat and drink, I believe that Ling Jingyang will not let him be a mascot, and Ling Jingyang will not let him be screened out by the party after snubbing him for a few days.

Deliberately discussed with the main generals in the army and appointed Jiang Xuan as the right mighty general of Weiyuan Mansion, Ling Jingyang thought that Jiang Xuan would be given real power, and Jiang Xuan would work for him with high spirits, but the reality was that Jiang Xuan became more negative.

Ling Jingyang was a little puzzled, if he didn't appoint Jiang Xuan as the right mighty general, why did he not have fighting spirit all day long, as if this right mighty general was a false position, Wang Mu was well-informed, and Ling Jingyang's head Jiang Xuan Although he was a right mighty general, he had no soldiers and horses, even if it was a department general, he could not give Jiang Xuan face.

Wang Mu said this, Ling Jingyang Mao Sai suddenly opened, in the fierce battle in Datong Mansion, Jiang Xuan's headquarters soldiers and horses died, scattered, almost no descendants of soldiers and horses, Datong City's green battalion soldiers were basically divided after surrendering to the Dashun army.

He suggested that Ling Jingyang equip Jiang Xuan with a small number of soldiers and horses, at least to prop up a façade for Jiang Xuan, and Ling Jingyang also wanted to stimulate Jiang Xuan's enthusiasm for fighting, so he formed a standing army of 500 people for Jiang Xuan from various troops and horses, but in order to prevent Jiang Xuan from rebelling again, Dong Daqi was also appointed as the right mighty general of Weiyuan Mansion, and the two right mighty generals were horns of each other, so as not to dominate the family.

On this day, as usual, he drank the porridge boiled by Wen Yuanyang for him, and suddenly a cavalry hurriedly came back to report, saying that the middle battalion troops captured a group of soldiers and civilians from Taiyuan Mansion in Huairen City, and they kept saying that it was the soldiers and civilians of the rear camp, and they came to Datong Mansion to meet with Ling Jingyang, the general of the left mighty general of the rear camp.

The officers and men of the middle battalion of Huairen City did not dare to slack off, so they asked the soldiers to quickly contact the cavalry battalion in the left guard of Datong, and after the cavalry battalion got the news, they hurried to Weiyuan City and reported the matter to Ling Jingyangnei.

Ling Jingyang was shocked, and hurriedly led his direct troops to Huairen City, and when he arrived at Huaicheng City, it was already the afternoon of the next day, where he saw hundreds of ragged Dashun soldiers and civilians.

When I got closer, it turned out to be hundreds of stone battalion soldiers and civilians such as Wangbao, they were dirty, and they watched Ling Jingyang and other soldiers come in fresh clothes and angry horses.

"General, the last general has finally seen you."

Wang Bao went to the ground and knelt on the ground, Mi Shengguang, Jin Dashou, thin doorpost and others were also full of tears, and they staggered to Ling Jingyang and told him about the torture of Shiying in Taiyuan City.

Ling Jingyang from their intermittent mouth, finally knew that Qin Lie, Huang Daozhong's two soldiers and horses abandoned the banner of the stone camp and became the descendants of the rear battalion, the three-way battalion army he worked hard to build, two were annexed by the rear battalion, and were disabled all the way, Ling Jingyang looked at the people again, there were more than 600 people left, and the others were either killed or separated, Ling Jingyang and everyone said: "It's good to come back, our army has gained a firm foothold in Weiyuanwei, you and I will go to Weiyuan City to enjoy happiness." ”

He took the remnants of the stone camp back to Weiyuan City, and the soldiers of the stone camp in Weiyuan City gave them the most grand welcome, and Ling Jingyang also learned that they were not only hunted down by the Qing army, but also endured hunger and fatigue, and it was an extraordinary performance to be able to return to Datong City.

In order to praise Wangbao, Mi Shengguang and others were heroic and never abandoned, Ling Jingyang appointed Mi Shengguang as the Tongzhi of Weiyuan Mansion, and Lin Erle as Wang Mu's subordinates, Wangbao was the garrison of Weiyuan Mansion, and selected 100 soldiers from various departments to supplement the Wangbao troops, and restored the 500 Wangbao troops.

Jin Dashou is good at city planning, appointed him as the city repair envoy, it happened to be Jin Dashou to preside over the expansion of the main city of Weiyuan project, Ximen Zhu assisted Wang Mu to manage the household registration of the people of Weiyuan Mansion, and all the land in Weiyuan Mansion was collected into the stone camp and distributed to the people for cultivation.

At this time, Lin Erle also took his family back to Weiyuan City, and held a meeting with Wang Mu and other officials late at night to formulate the tax of Weiyuan Mansion, and finally Wang Mu decided to levy a tax of thirty taxes.

Ling Jingyang opened it and saw that it was densely packed with traditional characters, but fortunately, he could understand seven, seven, eight, and eight, and said to Wang Mu: "Isn't the thirty tax a little low?" ”

Wang Mu introduced to him the current livelihood of Weiyuan Mansion, there are 1,700 households in the three cities of Weiyuan Mansion, which is still the number of household registrations brought back by the people who rushed to Shaanxi before, each household has about three men and four female dependents, and each household has one person as a soldier, and the others can be used as labor to restore agriculture.

Ling Jingyang shook his head, thinking that these populations were too small, Wang Mu still expressed his opinion, Weiyuan Mansion has a small population, but the land is also small, most of it is loess sand, which is not suitable for farming.

"Governor Wang, where is the grain production area in Shanxi?"

Wang Mu thought for a while, and replied that the grain production areas in the west of Lingjingyang Mountain are concentrated in the border area with Henan, and these places are not within the scope of Shiying's rule, although some of the land is still in the hands of the Dashun army, but the grain in these places is only for the local people, and there is no surplus grain to maintain the daily food of a huge army.

"Where should I find food?"