Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Okay, I'm very pleased that you can talk like this." Zhao Wen looked at the soldiers under the platform, squinted his eyes and smiled.

Zhao Wen chatted with them a few more words, then jumped off the stone platform and headed towards the Garrison Mansion.

Now is the time to allocate soldiers, Zhao Wen standing here is useless, so he simply returned to the defense mansion.

Not long after Zhao Wen sat in the hall, Liu Wenzhong walked in.

"My lord!" Liu Wenzhong saluted Fan Zheng in a polite manner.

Fan Zheng took a sip of tea and said, "Okay, okay, at the beginning you looked like a hooligan, but now you suddenly pretend to be elegant?"

When Liu Wenzhong heard this, he laughed, and then he was not polite, and sat directly next to Zhao Wen.

"What's wrong? What do you want from me?" Zhao Wen narrowed his eyes and looked at Liu Wenzhong.

Liu Wenzhong put away his smile and said in a deep voice, "Do you know how much food we have left?"

Zhao Wen's heart tightened, and a bad premonition suddenly came to his mind.

During these times, because so many refugees are taken in, and these refugees and soldiers work hard every day, the consumption of food will be great.

The grain snatched from Jian Nu, together with the grain that Zhao Wenzuan had collected before, was not much left.

Zhao Wen frowned, looked at Liu Wenzhong, and said in a low voice, "How much?"

"Four thousand stones!" Liu Wenzhong said.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Wen stood up from his chair.

Although Zhao Wen had already thought that there was not much food left, he did not expect that there was only so little left.

"Why is there only so little left?" Zhao Wen looked at Liu Wenzhong in disbelief.

Liu Wenzhong continued: "My lord, apart from building iron smelting furnaces and textile factories, these refugees are cultivating fertile land."

"Reclamation of grain fields? How many acres have been cultivated?" Zhao Wen asked.

"Nearly a thousand acres of grain fields." Liu Wenzhong said. "Winter wheat has been planted on this thousand acres of fertile land, but the weather is getting drier. I don't think the harvest will be good next year."

Zhao Wen couldn't understand the meaning of Liu Wenzhong's words, it was telling him to make plans early.

Zhao Wen sat on the chair, looked at the ceiling, and sighed: "Food, food, where does this food come from? This food is in the hands of Shanxi merchants."

"Nowadays, there are still refugees coming in. If we don't make plans early, we won't be able to eat the food for a long time."

Liu Wenzhong spoke again.

"These Shanxi merchants are all in the eyes of money. If we go to buy grain from them now, we will probably raise the price on the ground." Zhao Wen kept talking, feeling a little bored in his heart.

Shanxi merchants will definitely do such a thing.

Zhao Wen doesn't want to buy food from Shanxi merchants now, and the glass mirror business has just started, which is a good time to make money.

If they lowered the price of the mirror or raised the price of grain because of the grain, then a lot of money would be lost all of a sudden.

Today's Longmenbao family has a big business, and it is the time for massive construction, and there are places where money is spent everywhere.

For Zhao Wen now, food is important, and money is equally important.

Although you can't have both, Zhao Wen wants both.

Zhao Wen stood up from his chair and walked around the hall, thinking about the issue of food.

At this time, Li Xiaoying walked in from the door.

"Brother Zhao!" The voice came before the person walked in from the door.

Li Xiaoying walked quickly to Zhao Wen.

"Xiaoying, why are you here?" Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaoying, and his mood improved a lot in an instant.

"Brother Zhao, I have to tell you something." Li Xiaoying frowned.

"What is it?"

"I went outside this morning and found a lot of refugees coming," Li Xiaoying said.

"Refugees? This is normal. Refugees come here almost every day. What's so strange about it?" Zhao Wen asked with some doubts.

Nowadays, refugees come to Longmen Fort every day, what's so strange about these refugees?Did you come here to tell yourself?

Li Xiaoying said: "Brother Zhao, these refugees are not ordinary. These refugees came from the Xuanfu. I was curious and asked. Guess what? It turned out that the north of Xuanfu Town is located in the north of the Great Wall. The outer fort was breached.

However, the frontier army in Xuanfu Town did nothing, and the people living near the fort suffered disaster.In desperation, they came to us.I thought, since these Tartars can attack Xuanfu, they are likely to attack us. I came here to tell Brother Zhao to make preparations early. "

Although Liu Wenzhong has been busy with refugee affairs, recently he was busy with food and housing matters, so he didn't notice it.

"Tartars? Hehe, I'm still worrying that they won't come. Even if they don't come, I'm still going to find them." Zhao Wen slapped the table and sneered twice.

But he smiled, and a bright light suddenly appeared in his eyes, "I know how to solve the food problem."

"Why didn't I think of this? We can take the soldiers out of the Great Wall and go to the grassland to plunder. If the Tartars can rob us, then we can rob them too." Zhao Wen jumped up excitedly on the ground, He hugged Li Xiaoying directly, and kissed Li Xiaoying on the face.

In fact, in the past, the Ming army often went out to the Great Wall to plunder the Tartars.

This method is called burning wasteland, but now that the Ming army has declined, this method has been stopped for many years.

"Haha, you are such a clever little ghost. If it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have thought of such a good solution. If Xiaoying didn't remind me, I'm still in a hurry."

Seeing this, Liu Wenzhong hurriedly turned his head and pretended not to see it.

Li Xiaoying was stunned by Zhao Wen's sudden action, she jumped to the ground, her face turned red up to her ears.She coquettishly said: "Brother Zhao, Uncle Liu is still here, how can you do this?"

Zhao Xiaoni was lying outside the door, blinking her big eyes, looking inside curiously.

Li Xiaoying gave Zhao Wen a blank look, and then ran out.

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Chapter 101 Yuan Chonghuan's Five-Year Ping-Liao

"Go and tell Song Hu and the others to come to the lobby. I have something important to see them." Zhao Wen said to Liu Wenzhong in a deep voice with his eyes wide open.

Liu Wenzhong cupped his hands at Zhao Wen, and then walked out.

A few minutes later, the hall was full of people.

Everyone sat in the hall in iron armor, looking curiously at Zhao Wen who was sitting in the main seat.

Zhao Wen looked around and said in a deep voice, "Do you know why I called you here?"

Zhao Daniu frowned, looked at Zhao Wen, and said in a low voice, "I don't know what the lord is looking for us for?"

Zhao Wen looked at the crowd and asked, "Do you know how much food is left?"

Everyone looked at Zhao Wen with doubts on their faces, and whispered: "I don't know!"

"There are only four or five thousand shi of grain left, and it won't be long before it will be gone," Zhao Wen said.

"My lord, there is only so much grain left, what should we do?" Zhao Daniu frowned, looked at Zhao Wen, and said anxiously: "Are we going to buy grain from those Shanxi merchants? These Shanxi merchants are not good things. I reckon they'll take advantage of it."

"Yes, yes, my lord, they will definitely take advantage of the fire." Song Hu also hurriedly answered.

Zhao Wen chuckled twice, and said with a smile: "Look for them? When did I say I want to look for them?"

Everyone looked at Zhao Wen with doubts on their faces, not knowing why.In the entire north, food is basically under the control of Shanxi merchants, who else can they look for?

"We can find Tartars!" Zhao Wen said with a stern face.

"My lord, do you mean to snatch the Tartars?" Song Hu's eyes lit up, and he instantly understood what Zhao Wen meant.

Zhao Wen stood up from his chair, walked around the hall twice, and said, "That's right, it's about robbing the Tartars. They can only be allowed to rob us, can't we rob them?"

A bloodthirsty light flashed on Zhao Daniu's face, his eyes were full of belligerence, "Hey, my lord, I support you, so I should rob them."

"That's right, grab a fortune." Wang Qi and Liu Wu also echoed.

Zhao Wen looked at the crowd, nodded in satisfaction, and then said, "This time I will only bring 300 people, who of you wants to go?"

"My lord, I have to go. The Guards are your guards. There is no reason not to go." Zhao Daniu stood up from his chair and looked at Zhao Wen eagerly.

Not to be outdone, Song Hu said to Zhao Wen in a deep voice, "My lord, the two hundred soldiers under my command are excellent in training, it's time for them to see blood."

"My lord, my lord, we are going too!" Liu Wu and Wang Qi also hurriedly said.

Zhao Wen watched the crowd scrambling for the first place, and said, "This time we are going to the grassland, and these 300 people must be able to ride horses. Even if they can't fight on horseback, they must be able to gallop on horseback.

This time is different from the past. We are going to the grassland to plunder, so we can't ride a horse. "

When everyone heard this, they instantly became dumbfounded.

Among these recruits, few could ride horses.These recruits used to be honest peasants. They had never seen a horse a few times, so how could they ride a horse?

"What's the matter? Could it be that your subordinates can't even find anyone who can ride a horse?" Zhao Wen frowned and looked at everyone.

Zhao Daniu had a bitter face, and said in a sad voice: "My lord, I really can't find them. These people used to be peasants, and they didn't even see horses a few times. How could they know how to ride horses? The training time is also short. , haven't had time to learn yet!"

"Your ones are the same?" Zhao Wen looked at the others.

"Except for those veterans who can ride horses, there are not many others." Everyone hurriedly said.

Zhao Wen frowned tightly as he listened to everyone's words.

Now Zhao Wen has about 600 horses under his command, more than 500 of which were captured by Wu Keshan.

Now there are war horses, but few who can ride horses can be found.

Zhao Wen looked at the lowered heads of the crowd, and said immediately, "I'll give you three days to make them know how to ride horses. It doesn't matter if they can fight on horseback or not, at least they must be able to sit on horseback and run on horseback. "

"Yes!"

Everyone clasped their fists at Zhao Wen and hurried outside.

Many of the more than 100 veterans under Zhao Wen could ride horses, but there are only more than 100 of them.It's far away from more than 300 people.

Besides, Zhao Wen's move also meant to temper the recruits, so it is impossible to bring all the more than 100 veterans, at most, only about twenty or thirty.

The rest will stay in Longmen Fort and be responsible for the guard work of Longmen Fort.

At the same time, Chongzhen was sitting in the imperial study concentrating on reviewing the memorial.

He looked at the memorial in his hand, put down the brush in his hand, and looked out of the window, his eyes flashed with murderous intent, "Ningyuan's mutiny, what did the governor Bi Zisu and the general Zhu Mei do? They are simply incompetent."

In the first year of Chongzhen, the Shu and Chu soldiers of the Thirteenth Battalion of Ningyuan, headed by Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, made an alliance with blood. They wanted to get back the four months' salary they owed. , Asking for money from the two.

Bi Zisu expressed that he was unable to support him. In fact, before that, Bi Zisu had declared the arrears of payment to the court nine times, but the court ignored it.In fact, Bi Zisu's brother, Bi Ziyan, is the secretary of the household department and in charge of finance. Because finances are tight, he can only ignore him.

In fact, this mutiny had little to do with Bi Zisu and Zhu Mei.

The court couldn't send any money, and the two of them had nothing to do.

But these soldiers didn't care that much. At the moment of the mutiny, Bi Zisu and Zhu Mei were tied up by the enraged soldiers and hung on the city wall.

Chongzhen slammed the memorial in his hand to the ground, and kicked it twice again, still angry.

"Incompetent, simply extremely incompetent, they are all a bunch of stupid pigs, stupid pigs!"

From the beginning to the end, Chongzhen didn't think that the Ningyuan mutiny was related to him. From the beginning to the end, he thought that these officials were incompetent and useless.

Seeing the furious Chongzhen, the eunuch in the imperial study hurriedly knelt on the ground, trembling.

"My lord, my lord, don't get angry because of such a trivial matter, don't get angry." Wang Chengen knelt on the ground and said anxiously.

Chongzhen kicked the imperial case over and kicked it over, "Is this a bad thing? Huh, this is an earth-shattering thing. If one is not careful, it will lead to a catastrophe, a catastrophe."

Chongzhen kept walking in the imperial study room, his face was full of anger.

At this moment, a little eunuch knelt at the door and said in a low voice: "My lord, Yuan Chonghuan is here and is waiting at the gate of the palace."

"What? Yuan Chonghuan is here? Come on, please!" A smile gradually appeared on Chongzhen's anxious face.

Yuan Chonghuan's visit to Beijing was actually called by Chongzhen.

Yuan Chonghuan, a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli (1619), later worked at the border through self-recommendation, and was valued by Sun Chengzong to guard Ningyuan.In the war against the establishment of slaves, he successively achieved the great victories of Ningyuan and Ningjin, but Wei Zhongxian resigned and returned to his hometown because he was not happy.It is said that Yuan Chonghuan bombarded Nurhachi to death with cannons.

Chongzhen also heard about this.In Chongzhen's view, Yuan Chonghuan's ability to kill the slave chieftain Nurhachi proved that Yuan Chonghuan was a man of great ability.

Now Chongzhen felt that the situation in Liaodong was difficult, so he thought of him and asked him to come to Beijing from his hometown to meet this powerful figure.

But before Yuan Chonghuan came to Beijing, there was a mutiny in Ningyuan.Now that Yuan Chonghuan is here, Chongzhen's irritable heart is much calmer.

Chongzhen sat on the chair, Wang Chengen hurriedly straightened the overturned imperial case, and neatly stacked the memorials.

"Grassman Yuan Chonghuan, pay homage to my emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"