Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 279 Rectifying Jin Wanlin

From the beginning to the end, Zhao Wen stood there quietly, motionless, watching Jin Wanlin and Jin Wanlin's thugs quietly.

Jin Wanlin looked at the thug who had fallen to the ground and lost his life, and suddenly panicked.

"You dare to kill, you dare to kill? Do you know who I am? My father is the steward of Prince Zheng's House. If you offend me, you have offended Prince Zheng's House." Jin Wanlin took two steps back, pointed at Zhao Wen, and shook his head. Shouting and cursing.

Seeing this scene, the surrounding people all screamed and ran away.

"Killed, murdered." The people yelled and ran towards the surroundings, fearing that they would be implicated.

After all, Jin Wanlin was not something ordinary people like them could provoke.

Zhao Wen put away the folding fan, looked at Jin Wanlin with contempt, and said in a deep voice, "Break his left leg and take it away.

Hehe, I was still thinking about how to deal with these princes, but I didn't expect that they would come to my door, which saved me a lot of trouble. "

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, the guards in front of him walked towards Jin Wanlin.

Jin Wanlin looked at the guards walking towards him, and hurriedly ran to the rear.

But how could a pampered person run past Zhao Wen's personal guards?

Jin Wanlin ran out a few steps before he was caught by the guards and pinned to the ground.

A personal guard took out a table from a nearby shop, and slammed it hard at Jin Wanlin's left leg, who was pinned to the ground.

"Bang!!!"

The table hit Jin Wanlin's left leg hard.

"what!!!"

Jin Wanlin roared loudly, his body kept struggling to get out of the guard's clutches.

However, all this is useless.

The table made of locust wood was extremely hard, and was smashed towards his left leg time and time again by the guards.

"Crack!"

After a few strokes, a crisp sound came from Jin Wanlin's calf.His left calf was bent at an odd angle.

Jin Wanlin howled, "Ah!!!"

The intense pain made him sweat profusely, and the expression on his face was extremely distorted.

Zhao Wen walked up to Jin Wanlin, leaned into Jin Wanlin's ear with a playful face, and said in a low voice, "I was thinking about how to deal with King Zheng, but I didn't expect you to come here yourself."

"You want to deal with King Zheng? Hehehe, you want to deal with King Zheng just because you are a bum? It's just a dream." Jin Wanlin endured the severe pain and cursed in a low voice.

Zhao Wen waved his hand and said indifferently: "Bring him back to the station, find a charlatan in the city, connect his broken leg, and notify the county magistrate to send someone over to clean up the place."

Zhao Wen stretched out his right hand, groped Jin Wanlin for a while, and took out a money bag containing silver.

Zhao Wen weighed the money bag, then squatted in front of the beaten man.

"These silvers are about eleven or two taels, and these silvers are your soup and medicine expenses.

Hurry up and take these money to see a doctor. Seeing that you are also a poor person like this, you can live well with these money. As for this Jin Wanlin, you don’t have to be afraid.

I can guarantee that this guy will never dare to bully you again. "Zhao Wen put the money bag in front of the man, touched the little girl's head, and said kindly.

The man struggled to stand up from the ground. He knelt in front of Zhao Wen and said excitedly, "I will never forget the great kindness and virtue of the great master. The little one kowtowed to the grandpa. My daughter, hurry up and kowtow to the grandpa."

The man said while pressing the little girl's forehead, then kowtowed to Zhao Wen a few times.

Zhao Wenzhan helped the man and the little girl up, and said in a slow voice: "Kowtow is fine, it's just a matter of convenience, let's live a good life with these money in the future.

If you really can't survive, or know someone who can't survive, go to Xuanzhen. Xuanzhen will definitely treat you well. As long as you go to Xuanzhen, your life will be better in the future. "

"Thank you, my savior, for pointing out the way to survive." The man was lifted up from the ground by Zhao Wen, he made a bow to Zhao Wen, thanked him a few times, and then limped away with the little girl.

Zhao Wen shook his folding fan, watching the man leave, he also took his bodyguard and Jin Wanlin who had a broken leg towards the station.

Jin Wanlin's left leg was broken, so he couldn't walk, and was dragged forward by the guards by his collar along the way.

And Jin Wanlin kept yelling all the way because of the pain.

Not long after Zhao Wen left, the county magistrate hurried over with a group of people.

He looked at the corpse on the ground, and his head grew dizzy instantly.

This is a man from Prince Zheng's Mansion. This Zhao Wen really dared to kill him, and I don't know where he got the confidence.

"I won't stop you from dealing with King Zheng, but don't involve me. If you involve me, I will lose my skin even if I don't die. If you gods fight, don't involve me. "

The county magistrate looked at the corpse on the ground and kept moaning.

"Hurry up and pack up all these things for me, and clean up all the blood on the ground. As for these corpses, quickly get them out of the city and burn them." The county magistrate ordered his servants to clean up these corpses.

The county magistrate looked at the busy yamen servants with a gloomy look on his face.

After Zhao Wen brought Jin Wanlin back to the station, he had Jin Wanlin locked up alone. At the same time, he also found a quack doctor for him to heal Jin Wanlin's left leg indiscriminately.

The medical skills of the quack doctor that Zhao Wen sought were not casual. When he saw Jin Wanlin's left leg twisted at a strange angle, he found a few branches at random, and fixed the broken part and the branches with a rope. .

Of course, it's not the doctor's business whether it can be aligned or not.Anyway, just keep him from dying.

After finishing these things, Zhao Wen began to write the victory report.

For Li Zicheng and others who fled to the Huguang area, Zhao Wen did not directly send troops to encircle and suppress them.

After all, Chongzhen only asked him to encircle and suppress the rogues in the Central Plains, and another thing is that Zhao Wen has limited troops now. Even if Zhao Wen wanted to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng and others, he still didn't have enough troops.

There is another more important reason, that is, the land of Huguang and the south is where the gentry's power is most deeply rooted. In addition, the military equipment in these places is loose, and Wen Tianwu plays, so it is good to let these thieves harm the gentry in Huguang. of.

But while harming the gentry, it will inevitably harm the people of Huguang. It is impossible for Zhao Wen to let Li Zicheng and others harm the people of Huguang in this way and remain indifferent. After finishing, start sending soldiers to the land of Huguang.

The main purpose of these soldiers was to gather the people there. Because the commerce in the south was developed, and the sea ban in the year of Chongzhen was like waste paper, most of the merchants in the south would go to sea to sell things like silk.

And things like silk need a lot of silkworms, and silkworms need a lot of mulberry leaves, so a lot of land in Huguang and the southern lands were turned into places for planting mulberry leaves by these businessmen.

In this way, coupled with land annexation, a large number of people lost their land and became landless people.

And these people have to live, so they can only go to the city to work in those silk workshops.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, commerce in the southern coastal areas was prosperous, and silk was sold overseas, which brought a lot of benefits, so there were countless silk workshops in the south.

However, there are still too few people who can enter silk workshops compared to those who lost their land.

Most of the people still couldn't eat enough and became refugees, wandering in the south, or became tenants of local gentry merchants.

These people may be a burden to the court and local officials, but to Zhao Wen, they are a kind of wealth.

Zhao Wen was sitting in the office room in the middle of the station, with a piece of rice paper spread on the table, writing earnestly.

After coming to Daming for such a long time, Zhao Wen's calligraphy can be said to have improved by leaps and bounds.

Although it may not be as good as those of civil servants, it is still much better.

Half an hour later, Zhao Wen put down the brush in his hand, and gently blew on the ink on the rice paper.

When the ink was dry, Zhao Wen neatly folded the rice paper into a square, and finally rolled it into a cylinder, put it into a bamboo tube, and sealed it with wax paint.

Zhao Wen took the prepared memorial and walked outside.

"Bring me Zhao Daniu." Zhao Wen looked at the guard standing at the door and said.

The guard cupped his hands at Zhao Wengong, and then went to Zhao Daniu.

After a while, Zhao Daniu stood beside Zhao Wen, "My lord!"

Zhao Wen handed the bamboo tube to him, and said at the same time: "You arrange some people to go to the capital with this bamboo tube to report victory, and at the same time, select another 100 people to capture our prisoners Gao Yingxiang, Wang Ziyong, Luo Rucai and others Escorted to the capital.

These people are not very useful on our side, it is better to throw them to Chongzhen in exchange for some benefits.

By the way, we only need to send these leaders to the capital, and none of the refugees we got can be sent.

When the affairs here are done, these people will be taken to Xuanzhen.

By the way, the work of identifying vagrants and ordinary rogues should be faster. The rogues identified must be strictly monitored, and then let them go to mine. "

Zhao Daniu took the bamboo tube, bowed his hands to Zhao Wen, and then went outside.

That night, a dozen or so people rode fast horses and headed towards the capital with bamboo tubes.

As for Gao Yingxiang's generation, they set off for the capital on the second day.

A few days later, Zhao Wen's success report was placed on Chongzhen's desk.

Chongzhen looked at the victory report on the imperial case, and kept laughing, "Haha, this Zhao Wen is really a loyal general to the country, how long has it been since he handed over all the thieves, and even captured Gao Yingxiang alive?" Waiting for all the bandit leaders, they are really brave and resourceful."

Chongzhen picked up the good news on the table again and looked at it excitedly.

How long has it been since these thieves rebelled, Chongzhen's thoughts have been on it, and he has hardly slept for a few days, and now Zhao Wen has finally cleared it up, and the stone in Chongzhen's heart has finally landed.

Although there are still some fleeing to Huguang, the main force of the thieves has been wiped out.

From Chongzhen's point of view, these rogues who fled to Huguang couldn't make any big waves.

Moreover, after Zhao Wen handed over all the thieves, he did not let the imperial court take over the captive refugees, and handled them all by himself, which saved the imperial court a lot of money.

Chongzhen took the good news, stood up, and walked back and forth in the imperial study with an expression of excitement.

"Big Companion, tell me how I should reward Zhao Wen?" Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun who was standing aside.

Cao Huachun originally went to Shanxi to investigate the matter with Chongzhen's order, but when he learned that Zhao Wen was in charge of Shanxi's affairs, he stayed in Shanxi for two or three days before returning to the capital.

Although Cao Huachun didn't know what Zhao Wen wanted to do, Cao Huachun still covered it up for Zhao Wen.

When Cao Huachun saw Chongzhen's posture, he instantly understood what Chongzhen was thinking.

It's obvious that he doesn't want to honor what he said at the beginning. At that time, he also said that he would be named Marquis Zhao Wen, but now it seems that he is unwilling.

Alas, the emperor of the old Zhu family, why do you like doing this kind of thing so much?Really stingy.

Cao Huachun looked at Chongzhen, slandering him endlessly.

Zhao Wen's credit for clearing out the rogues and the credit for breaking the siege of the capital before, no matter what, he can be rewarded as a Marquis. Even if he can't be a hereditary Marquis, a Marquis is also possible.

But looking at Chongzhen's meaning now, it is obvious that he does not want to reward Marquis Zhao Wen.

Cao Huachun bowed his body and tentatively said: "My lord, didn't you say you wanted to award Zhao Wen a marquis? I think Zhao Wen has made such great achievements now, so he should be given a marquis."

When Chongzhen heard this, he frowned, pretending not to know, and said: "Marquis? Why didn't I know that I said this?"

Cao Huachun let out a long sigh in his heart, and slandered: "Sure enough, I don't want to give it to you. Your old Zhu family is simply too skilled in this kind of thing."

"Maybe I misremembered it. The emperor has the final say on how to award the reward. The emperor can award the reward as he wants." Cao Huachun said.

"Let's leave this matter to the people in the cabinet. Take this memorial to the cabinet and ask them to come up with a reward charter.

By the way, you must tell them, let them have a good discussion, and must reward Zhao Wen, so as not to chill the hearts of the heroes. "Chongzhen handed the report to Cao Huachun, and said loudly.

"In a few days, the people who came to present the prisoners will arrive. You should make good arrangements when the time comes."

Cao Huachun received the good news, and bowed respectfully to Chongzhen, "Follow the emperor's will."

Chongzhen watched the back of Cao Huachun leaving, and sat in front of the imperial case, reviewing the memorial excitedly.

At the same time, Zhao Wen stood in the large prison set up in the resident. He looked at Jin Wanlin in the cell and said coldly: "Write me all the bad things you have done for so many years. If you write something wrong, your other leg will Just don't want to."

Jin Wanlin lay in the cell, looked at Zhao Wen who was standing outside the cell, and hurriedly shouted: "I can't read, I want to write, but I can't read.

And I haven't had a full meal for such a long time, how do you want me to write? "

Zhao Wen turned around and said to Zhao Daniu who was behind him: "Give him a full meal, and at the same time find someone who can write and count, and let him dictate.

I don't care what you do, I want to see something before dawn tomorrow. "

Zhao Daniu glanced at Jin Wanlin, with a strange gleam in his eyes, he cupped his fists at Zhao Wen and said, "My lord, don't worry. I will definitely handle this matter beautifully for you."

(End of this chapter)