Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 204 Dealing with Shanxi Merchants
Cao Huachun looked at Zhao Wen with a smile, and opened the boxes brought up by his attendants one by one.

"It's all the emperor's reward for you!" Cao Huachun pointed to the opened box with a smile on his face.

Zhao Wen pointed at these boxes and said in a deep voice, "Didn't you say that ten thousand gold will be rewarded? Where is this ten thousand gold? Why didn't I see it?"

Cao Huachun looked at Zhao Wen, and smiled awkwardly, "Hey, how many times has this Wanjin been rewarded by Zhenger Eight Classics from ancient times to the present? It's just a name, although there is no Wanjin, but there is this name, It is enough to see the emperor's love for you."

"Wan Jin is famous? Then there must be something real, right?" Zhao Wen looked at the embarrassed Cao Huachun and asked in a deep voice.

Cao Huachun looked at Zhao Wen's look of breaking the casserole to ask the end, and opened a box in desperation, "This is Wanjin!"

Looking at the opened box, Zhao Wen took a deep breath, and saw that the box was full of copper coins.

Zhao Wen pointed at the box and said with disbelief, "Don't tell me that the ten thousand gold is these copper coins?"

"Ahem, I won't talk about what the imperial court is like. Although Jiannu has retreated now, there is no guarantee that he will make a comeback again. Hong Chengchou was conscripted to Beijing, and the bandits from the land of the Three Qin Dynasty came back again, and they also It is getting worse and worse. Now that the court is in a difficult situation and the treasury is empty, you have to be considerate of the court."

Cao Huachun looked at Zhao Wen who was dissatisfied, and said earnestly.

"Hey, that's not right. There is something in your words? Isn't it?" Zhao Wen suddenly had a bad thought in his heart.

The last time he was promoted to the defense of Longmen Castle, Chongzhen only threw down a set of official uniforms for himself, and then boasted a few words in a symbolic sense, not even a penny of military pay.Looking at Cao Huachun's posture now, I'm afraid Chongzhen will do this to himself again.

"Could it be that His Majesty didn't give me military pay? This Xuan Town is no bigger than Longmen Fort. Xuan Town is bigger and needs more troops. I can still support a thousand or two thousand troops, but the whole Xuan Town Zhen, I'm afraid that if I lose all my family property, it may not be enough."

Zhao Wen grabbed two handfuls of copper coins from the box and dangled them in front of Cao Huachun, "How can I raise soldiers with these things?"

Cao Huachun looked at Zhao Wen, pulled his sleeve, put it close to his ear, and said in a low voice: "My lord commander, please keep your voice down. If outsiders hear this, the miscellaneous family will not be left behind." .Besides, why are you in a hurry? I haven't finished talking yet."

Zhao Wen glanced at Cao Huachun lightly, and asked: "If you don't give me military pay, let me keep my voice down? Is there any business like this in the world? The stingy landlord is still short of a job for a long-term worker. Even if I feel so emotional Is it not as good as a long-term worker? What is this? If there is no military salary, I will not do it."

"Oh, my Lord Commander, Your Majesty didn't say that you won't pay your military salary, but the method of paying your military salary may be a bit unusual and tortuous." Cao Huachun hurriedly grabbed Zhao Wen's sleeve and said anxiously.

Zhao Wen raised his eyebrows at Cao Huachun, and said, "What? The military salary is still tortuous? What do you mean by that?"

Zhao Wen couldn't figure out the meaning of Cao Huachun's words for a while, how can the military salary be twisted?What kind of twists and turns?

"General Zhao, let me tell you this. The Zajia came this time not only to announce the decree for you. The Zajia is also responsible for the emperor's order. Let me tell you this. The emperor is going to attack Shanxi merchants. Your military salary, It was scraped from these Shanxi merchants."

Cao Huachun narrowed his eyes, with an extremely weird smile on his face.

Zhao Wen squeezed his chin, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty is really going to attack Shanxi merchants? What is Your Majesty going to do? Do you want to destroy them one by one or catch them all? If you destroy them one by one, it will probably take a lot of time, right?"

To be honest, Zhao Wen hoped that Chongzhen could wipe out all the Shanxi merchants, so that the cancer of Shanxi merchants could be directly destroyed.

Not only can it be destroyed, but also a lot of benefits can be obtained from it.

Cao Huachun sneered and said: "Hehe, the emperor's natural choice is to cut through the mess quickly and catch everything in one go. After today, the Zajia will rush to Datong to collect evidence of Shanxi merchants as soon as possible. Of course, with these people in the hands of the Zajia, the Zajia will It is estimated that they may not be the opponents of Shanxi merchants, so the miscellaneous family hopes to borrow some troops from General Zhao, which is also agreed by the emperor.

It is estimated that you have almost done the things in your hands, and when you moved to Xuanzhen Town, the evidence of the miscellaneous family was almost collected.At that time, directly mobilize your troops and horses, and search the houses of these Shanxi merchants one by one.

This time, the emperor does not want to pass the cabinet and the Ministry of punishment.The emperor wants us to complete this matter directly.How much wealth do the eight Shanxi merchants have, I believe General Zhao will not know it?At that time, even if the big head is handed over to the emperor, the leftover soup will be enough for the two of us.How many soldiers you want to raise is probably not a problem. "

Cao Huachun waved his hand, his eyes lit up, and he said quite boldly.

Zhao Wen looked at Cao Huachun with a different kind of light in his eyes, "You are going to Datong to collect evidence of Shanxi merchants betraying the country. I have someone here who may be very useful to you."

As he said that, Zhao Wen asked his personal guards to bring Fan Zheng's son, Fan Yutian, here.

Cao Huachun looked at Fan Yutian with doubts on his face.

Pointing at Fan Yutian, he asked in a deep voice, "Who is this person?"

Zhao Wen smiled slightly and said, "This man's background is extraordinary!"

Zhao Wen pointed to Fan Yutian, and then slowly revealed Fan Yutian's life experience.

Listening to Zhao Wen's explanation, Cao Huachun clapped his hands together, and said excitedly: "Haha, General Zhao is really a timely help to the Zajia. Once it comes, it will save a lot of time.”

"Haha, aren't we all doing things for His Majesty? It's convenient for you, so it's convenient for me. Don't you think so?" Zhao Wen looked at Cao Huachun and laughed.

……

At this time, Huang Taiji led the troops back to Liaodong.

But when he just stepped into the territory of Liaodong, he was dumbfounded.

In Liaodong today, there are broken castles everywhere, and fires are burning everywhere.

Corpses with their heads cut off can be seen on the road at any time, and their entire bodies are solidly frozen on the ground.

Some of the corpses were even stripped to nothing, leaving nothing behind.

When a group of wild wolves gnawing at the corpses saw them, they whimpered and stared at Huang Taiji and the others vigilantly.

These corpses are the people of Jiannu, but now they have been killed by soldiers of Dongjiang Town.

Not only that, even Liaoyang City, the throat of Shengjing City, was burned to the ground.

Moreover, Shengjing City is not much better than Liaoyang City.

When Huang Taiji led the troops back to Shengjing City, he almost died of anger.

The walls of Shengjing City are full of big holes, and a large piece of blue bricks wrapped in the rammed earth layer was blown away, leaving the rammed earth layer exposed everywhere.

Just when Huang Taiji was angry and wanted to kill someone, Dai Shan led the defenders in the city and rushed out.

Dai Shan looked at Huang Taiji and knelt directly in front of Huang Taiji.

"Khan, the slave is guilty." Dai Shan knelt in front of Huang Taiji and kept kowtowing, his face full of panic.

Huang Taiji jumped off his horse and stood in front of Daishan, his face was full of anger, "What's going on? What happened to the whole Liaodong? Give me an explanation!"

"Khan, since you left, the dog thieves in Dongjiang Town got a batch of weird artillery from nowhere, and captured Liaoyang City overnight. Burned to ashes by these dogs.

The servant originally wanted to lead the army to attack these thieves, but the servant was afraid that if the servant left, he would be attacked by the Ming dogs and seize the opportunity to capture Shengjing City, so the servant could only stick to Shengjing City. "

Dai Shan kowtowed to Huang Taiji non-stop, and said in tears.

"Hehe, you are really worried about Shengjing City, you incompetent thing, you are afraid of being tricked by Ming Gou, and you just sit back and watch Ming Gou wreak havoc in Liaodong? Are you really a competent Baylor?"

As soon as Huang Taiji raised his hand, he waved the whip in his hand and whipped it fiercely towards Daishan.

Daishan kept rolling on the ground, yelling words like forgiveness.

But Huang Taiji didn't let him go because of this reason, and kept pulling the whip in his hand towards Daishan.

When Huang Taiji put down the whip in his hand, Dai Shan had already been whipped badly by Huang Taiji.

"Pass down the order to revoke the name of Daishan Dabeile and restrain him. People in Dabeile's mansion are not allowed to come and go at will without Ben Khan's order!"

Huang Taiji looked at Daishan, threw the whip in his hand on the ground fiercely, stepped over Daishan, and headed towards the city.

Dai Shan looked at Huang Taiji who was going away, and said in a weak voice: "I thank you, my servant!"

……

After seeing off Cao Huachun, Zhao Wen sat in the hall and looked at the opened box in front of him.

Liu Wenzhong stood beside Zhao Wen, shaking the goose feather fan in his hand without feeling cold.

"My lord, congratulations to my lord for being promoted to the chief soldier of Xuanfu Town." Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen with a smile on his face.

Zhao Wen sneered, waved his hands, and said calmly, "The commander-in-chief of Xuanfu Town seems to have a lot of glory, but ah, the burden on his shoulders is heavy again."

"Haha, my lord, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. It is because of the great ability that the lord has great responsibility." Liu Wenzhong shook the goose feather fan and said with a smile on his face.

"Haha, let's not talk about this, you move all these things to my study and seal them up. The most urgent task now is to clean up this Longmen Fort first, and then send people to Xuanfu Town to explore the road first." Zhao Wen rubbed his swollen brows, took a long breath, and said slowly.

Although Zhao Wen has now become the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu Town, it is impossible for him to directly lead the troops towards Xuanzhen Town.

After all, Zhao Wen was different from the others. When the others went, they were just leading their own people to change places where they were officials.

There are various factories and workers in Longmen Castle.Zhao Wen planned to move all these things to Xuanzhen town.

There are so many things, don't even think about finishing them in a month or two.

"How are the people I brought back settled?"

Zhao Wen looked at Liu Wenzhong and asked slowly.

"My lord, it is still being registered and compiled, and it is estimated that it will be completely completed in five or six days." Liu Wenzhong said.

It is not an easy task to register 10,000+ people in a short period of time. After all, there is no such thing as a computer in this era.

Zhao Wen frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Those who haven't registered don't need to register, just move to Xuanzhen town directly, and save some trouble."

"As ordered!"

The next day was not yet bright, just as the gate of Longmen Fort was opened, a large crowd of people gathered at the gate.

When the city guards saw this posture, they thought it was an enemy, and hurriedly closed the city gate again, as if they were facing an enemy.

"We are not enemies, we are servants of the various generals in Xuan Town, and today we came here specially to meet the Chief Soldier."

A middle-aged man came out from the crowd and shouted at the Longmen army on the top of the wall with a smile on his face.

"What proof do you have?" a soldier shouted at him.

The middle-aged man took out a seal from his pocket and shouted loudly: "This is the seal from my lord, put down a basket and pull it up to have a look."

The soldiers of the Longmen Army guarding the top of the city heard the words, put a basket down, and pulled up the seal.

After the soldiers guarding the city checked it was correct, they put the seal down again.

"Wait, I'll open the door right now!"

With the roar of the defenders, the city gate was slowly opened.

When Zhao Wen got up from the bed, the hall of the Garrison Mansion was filled with various things.

There is silver, there is silk, there are antiques, in short, there are countless various things.

Zhao Wen walked to the hall, looked at the crowded things in the hall, looked at Qi Qingtian who was counting the gifts with a puzzled face, and asked, "Who sent these?"

Qi Qingtian put down the brush in his hand, saluted Zhao Wen, and said respectfully, "This is a gift from all the generals, guerrillas, guards, and commanders in Xuanzhen. It is used to congratulate you on being promoted to the general of Xuanzhen."

"Hey, Cao Huachun just left yesterday, and these guys have already delivered the things today? This speed is really not slow."

Zhao Wen looked at a one-foot-high coral visited in the hall, and said in amazement.

"Our Daming is like this, human relationship!" Qi Qingtian laughed.

In fact, these people already knew that Zhao Wen was going to be promoted to the chief soldier of Xuanzhen, but they gave the gift on the second day after Cao Huachun announced the decree.

"My lord, the people who gave the gifts are all their servants. These generals are still in the capital, and they didn't come here in person." Qi Qingtian explained.

Zhao Wen waved his hand and said indifferently: "As long as the gift arrives, it doesn't matter whether the person comes or not.

By the way, after counting these gifts, send the list to the study, I want to see what these people have sent. "

"As ordered!"

Qi Qingtian cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, then picked up the brush again, led several book offices, and carefully counted them.

(End of this chapter)