In the Spring Festival of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the aftermath was very pleasant.

In the area of Lingshan, Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Laizhou, Yu Feng is already a veritable army leader, a big landlord, even if he is low-key, the civil affairs officials of these state capitals do not dare to ignore his existence easily.

During this year's famine, Yu Feng took the opportunity to buy a large amount of land, plus some farmers who could not survive, and small landlords who were almost bankrupt. Although the officials of these state capitals, big and small, complained about Yu Feng's actions, believing that this guerrilla guard was too greedy, it is undeniable that it is precisely because of the existence of these farms that these state capitals are much more stable than other places of great calamity.

These officials, even if they are not dissatisfied in their hearts, feel that they can't get a piece of the pie with such a big piece of fat, and this town guard guerrilla is inevitably a little too bad at being officials. However, Yu Feng's actions gave them a stable political situation, which was enough to block their mouths. What is the political achievement, this is the political achievement, everyone can expect that in such a year, there is no chaos under their rule, in the assessment at the end of the year, this year they are the worst is also a "middle and upper" evaluation, in their career, these are two points, that is, the guarantee of promotion, then, what else can they complain about.

Therefore, as the farms gradually spread everywhere, these people also complained about the greed of the town guard guerrillas, and began to mutter about the town guard guerrillas, where did they get so much family wealth, it is said that this guerrilla general, and also has the title of Lingshan salt transportation inspector, is the money on this salt goods so easy to make?

No one knew that Yu Feng was actually financially constrained to the extreme for the sake of these farms, and Wu Yanran had already approached him more than once and asked him to stop this extremely unwise practice immediately. In business, watching his hard-earned money be sprinkled out like salt by Yu Feng, a guy who doesn't know the cost of firewood and rice, Wu Yanran is not in a hurry, at this rate, the foundation laid in the past two years is not to mention, in the spring of the next year, there is still a big hole to be filled, all kinds of farm tools, seeds, cattle and horses, grain, this is not to be delayed, even if she can do twice as much, there is nothing she can do about this situation.

Is Yu Feng in a hurry? In a hurry, but he was not in a hurry to the point where Wu Yanran was like this, Wu Yanran was like this, that was because he had not told Wu Yanran about the discovery of copper mines in North Korea so far, let alone told her that he had hired a few craftsmen from the household department to cast money, and he was quietly sent to North Korea at the beginning of the lunar month.

The matter of privately minting copper coins has a lot to stake, except for the few military centers that are very close, there is no need to tell Wu Yanran, rather than making her frightened, it is better to make a fortune in a muffled voice. It's not that Yu Feng doesn't believe her, it's just that he feels that decentralization is a good thing for Wu Yanran and himself, and he is now more and more accustomed to thinking about problems with the thinking of a superior person.

With the newly minted copper coins, shipped to Japan, and then exchanged for gold from Japan, that is a big profit, now the copper coins of the Ming Dynasty are very popular in Japan, silver in Japan is not so valuable in the Ming Dynasty, plus the ratio of gold and silver in Japan and the gold and silver exchange ratio of the Ming Dynasty is one to eight, one to ten comparison, only one to four, this in and out, the money has been washed at the same time, but also increased in value more than doubled.

As soon as the copper mine starts, this economic constraint can be solved immediately, so although he is quite anxious, he is worried that the progress of the development of the copper mine in North Korea is too slow, which is naturally very different from Wu Yanran.

The Fengzi battalion is now almost nearly 6,000 people, no matter how much, Yu Feng can't afford to raise it, just these soldiers, Yu Feng will spend more than 10,000 taels of silver on them every month, if it weren't for the fact that the Zheng family in Fujian contributed tens of thousands of taels of silver to him in private salt this year ago, he really couldn't raise it. Not to mention, when the big camp was established in Dengzhou, but the big camp established according to the rule of 3,000 people is almost doubled now, and if it is expanded, even if he is quiet, I am afraid that the officials in Dengzhou City will not feel at ease.

Since Kong Youde made such a fuss in Shandong for a while, the officials of Shandong, for these generals who hold military power, they both love and hate, love is that next to their own governance, there is such a military station, that is, they sleep more peacefully at night, hate that these Qiu Ba, when they have no soldiers and no power, they are all very honest, once they have the strength in their hands, they are all domineering, this Ming Dynasty is always the world of our civil officials, and the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is always the officialdom of our civil officials. When will it be the turn of these vulgar warriors.

Moreover, Kong Youde has learned from the past, for such a martial artist whose strength is gradually expanding, if he does not control it, it will definitely cause chaos. I don't know which officials' sensitive nerves have been touched by the Fengzi Battalion, but there are officials who have written a letter asking for a prison to be sent to the Fengzi Battalion, and the reason for this is high-sounding, needless to say.

This document was reported to Shandong to command the envoys, and the commanders naturally laughed at it, two or three thousand soldiers, what kind of supervisors should be sent, is it really so worthless to be the supervisor of the imperial court? At the moment, a copy of this document was copied and transferred to the Shandong General Soldier, who said that the Shandong General Soldier didn't even look at it, so he put the document in the waste paper pile, and scolded a few words fiercely: "A bunch of rabbit cubs know that we warriors are uncomfortable, and they are full of food and support!" ”

This document was sent to the Ministry of War, and it sank into the sea like a stone, and there was no response at all. I don't know if the official who wrote the book still hasn't given up, but Yu Feng knew the news, and his heart suddenly became vigilant.

He has always thought that he is low-key, but he didn't expect this, he was still looked at by others, and he made a move, he didn't want to attract the attention of the court at all, at least, when he was not fully in control of the situation, he didn't want to attract too much attention.

From the beginning of his trafficking in illicit salt, to the inspection of this Lingshan Mountain, to the thousands of households, to the garrison, to the guerrillas, the starting point or the most fundamental reason for all this is to survive for himself and the people close to him, not to want to dominate the world or something.

Before he crossed over, he was an ordinary worker, even if he was full of royal spirit, he would not have such thoughts, when was here, the late Ming Dynasty, it was the era of fierce people, just these skills of their own, this bit of strength, just go to fight against those fierce people, you really think this is playing an online game, and you can be resurrected in situ!

If he is dead, he is dead, like all people, he is just a mound of dry bones, a bowl of loess, he will not make any difference, and he will not think that he is valued by the god of crossing, and he plans to recruit himself as a son-in-law. If you really hang up, where can you reason?

He knew that Zhang Xianzhong's massacre of Sichuan, knew Li Zicheng's corpse for hundreds of miles, and even knew that after the Qing army entered the customs, Yangzhou was ten days old, and Jiading was slaughtered, all of this he did was not to hope that himself, his family and friends, and those close subordinates behind him would become one of those corpses that would not be seen, his biggest purpose was that when these people raised the butcher's knife, he could have the ability to resist, rather than being slaughtered.

Therefore, he didn't expect anyone, including the Ming court, he was not a person of this era, and what loyalty and patriotism were far less real than a piece of broken silver with white flowers for him. However, he also doesn't want to see that this little strength that he has worked so hard to build is mixed with sand, pulled and divided, and even loses control in the end, in his opinion, Daming is Daming, he is himself, although he is now attached to the name of Daming, a big company, but everything he has is his own, and no one can make up his mind.

He doesn't want to rebel, this great cause, it's better to leave it to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to do it, the fierce people of the Ming Dynasty, it may be a little difficult to deal with these guys, but if you deal with yourself, it will be easy, at this point, he doesn't even have the interest to try.

Therefore, since he has caused others to be uneasy, he must be more restrained, at least, openly, he must be more restrained.

During the month of Layue, the Fengzi Battalion unilaterally announced that in view of this year's catastrophe, the place was deserted, and the Fengzi Battalion had difficulties in military needs, even with the support of the local elders, it could not support the maintenance of so many soldiers.

As soon as the news came out, the heads of the various armies in Shandong suddenly despised Yu Feng, he had seen a stupid person, he had never seen such a stupid person, and the generals also weakened their own strength, and cut off the soldiers on their own, this is not the same as cutting off one of his arms, such an idea, he can think of it, I really don't know how this fool can get to this position.

The civil officials on the Denglai side are also relieved, at least, this town guard general is still a good acquaintance, although only 2,000 soldiers have been dismantled, it is estimated that there are still a lot of officers and soldiers in this Fengzi battalion, but it does not exceed the establishment, and it is not considered to be overstepping, as for whether this Yu Feng is eating empty salary, everyone is scoffing, and Yu Feng still needs to eat empty salary? He has so many fields, and the more soldiers he recruits, the more people who will farm the fields. Compared with the income from raising a soldier and farming this soldier, is it still necessary to calculate which is more or less? The generals in the world may have free time, but our town guards and guerrillas in Dengzhou will definitely not eat empty salaries. Isn't that a problem with your own money bag?

But no one knows that some of the dismissed soldiers sailed overseas, and some of them took off their uniforms and scattered into the farms where they would become instructors, captains, and the like, training the sturdy peasants in each farm who depended on the farms to survive into semi-military armed "village guards"