Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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The county magistrate looked back at the gentry, then turned his head again, and sighed, "General, you don't know something. Our Jiyuan City is poor, very poor."

"Your land belongs to the land of the Central Plains, and the Central Plains is extremely flat, with countless fertile fields. When I was outside the city, I saw many continuous fertile fields. With so many fertile fields, how can you be poor?" Zhao Wen asked.

In ancient times, as long as there was land, one would not be poor.

The land of the Central Plains has always been an important food producing area, and it is the key control area of ​​the imperial court no matter what time it is.

"General, I'm ashamed to say it. Those good fields outside the city don't belong to Jiyuan City at all, let alone these gentry. These fields belong to those princes.

We in Henan don't have many other things, but there are many princes.There are eight princes alone, and there are countless county kings. I estimate that there are hundreds of county kings alone.As for those generals who guard the country and generals who assist the country, almost every village has them.

Although we have a lot of land in Henan, most of it belongs to these princes and princes.It has nothing to do with us, although the land outside the city is outside Jiyuan City, it belongs to King Zheng.

Sixty-seven out of ten of the land in Huaiqing Mansion belonged to King Zheng, and these lands were the most fertile land.

The remaining barren land is local, and there are still many people who have no land at all, so they can only become tenants of those princes and farm land for others. "The county magistrate's face was full of depression, and he explained in detail for Zhao Wen.

Listening to the county magistrate's explanation, Zhao Wen frowned tightly.

A large part of the reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to perish was because there were too many clans in the Ming Dynasty.

There are so many people who just eat and don’t do anything every year, and it’s extremely difficult for these people to have children. Coupled with the accumulation over the years, no matter how big the country is, it will be empty.

"Okay, you go down." Zhao Wen waved at the county magistrate, and then led the guards to the depths of the garrison.

"Grandma, this old Zhu's family is really capable of giving birth, this old Zhu is really powerful, he created a nation by himself, grandma, we must solve them all in the future."

Zhao Wen kept sighing as he walked on the road.

The night gradually fell, and the fragrance wafted from the resident.

Because Zhao Daniu has not come back yet, the people who eat in the resident are those 500 people.

Almost all the gold, silver and treasures outside the city have been transported to the resident. As for the grain, there is still a large amount that has not been transported in.

As for the rags on the battlefield, Zhao Wen didn't take care of them and let the guards take them away.

After all, the current Zhao Wen doesn't care about those rags at all.

It may take another day to deliver all the food.

After Zhao Wen had dinner, he went to bed early.

The next day, prisoners were sent back one after another.

Although the old camp personnel used by King Gao Yingxiang were basically killed, but there were many ordinary thieves and refugees.

The soldiers who sent the captives were basically a dozen or so people escorting a large group of people, and there were even more than 50 soldiers escorting nearly [-] prisoners.

Gao Yingxiang, Wang Ziyong and others did not have many people in the old camp, but there were quite a few people under their control.

This is 10,000+ nearly 20 people. It is not easy to get all these people back.

In the next seven or eight days, Zhao Wen's main purpose was to gather these common people.

On the third day, the people sent by Liu Wenzhong to deliver the imperial decree also rushed to Jiyuan City.

Along the way, the people who delivered the imperial decree were chasing after him, fearing that they would not be able to catch up with Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen sat in the room of the resident, holding the imperial decree sent, and chuckled, "I never thought that Chongzhen would let me encircle and suppress the thieves. Since you gave me this imperial decree, I'm sorry if I don't handle it well." Your decree."

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Chapter 278 Capture Wang Ziyong and Luo Rucai Alive

With the eradication of the thieves, the entire Jiyuan City has returned to calm.

The gold and silver treasures left by Wang Ziyong and other people, as well as food Zizhong, were all counted by Zhao Wen and stored in the resident.

Qianhu of Jiyuan City and his subordinates also made a small fortune while cleaning the battlefield.

Of course, this amount of money is nothing compared to what Zhao Wen seized.

A few days later, Zhao Daniu led his troops and captives back.

This time Zhao Daniu captured Wang Ziyong, Luo Rucai, Ma Shouying and He Yilong from the Fifth Gezuo Battalion.

Because the people from the Fifth Gezuo Battalion fled earlier and more scatteredly, and because they all had war horses and were dragged down by Wang Ziyong and others, Zhao Daniu only captured the two leaders of the Fifth Gezuo Battalion. Others let them get away with it.

The remaining three battalions of Ge Zuo's fifth battalion fled to Xiuwu and Huaiqing.

However, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others were attacking these two cities. When they saw the retreating men and horses of Gezuo Fifth Battalion and the news brought by Gezuo Fifth Battalion, they directly gave up the idea of ​​attacking the cities and led their troops He hurriedly fled towards the south, all the way to the land of Hubei.

Zhao Daniu loaded Wang Ziyong, Luo Rucai, He Yilong, and Ma Shouying into a huge prison cart and pulled them to Zhao Wen's residence in Jiyuan City.

"My lord, apart from these few bandit chiefs, I also arrested all their backbones, but we don't have enough manpower, and these backbone bandits kept making noises all the way, so I killed them all." gone."

Zhao Daniu escorted the prison car into the middle of the station, looking excitedly at Zhao Wen who was standing at the gate of the station.

Zhao Wen looked at the few people in the prison car, and nodded with a smile on his face, "Yes, yes, take them down for me to take care of them, remember, don't let them die."

Zhao Daniu patted his chest and said, "Your Excellency, don't worry, I will definitely take these people into custody."

"In this case, then you should lead the soldiers back to rest." Zhao Wen waved at Zhao Daniu, and then led a few guards to the outside.

Zhao Wen was wearing a gray T-shirt with a jade pendant hanging from his waist, holding a folding fan in his hand, and the hair on his head was carefully wrapped with a net scarf.

It looks like a handsome book reader.

Several personal guards behind him were wearing bunts, with two thick arms exposed, and a murderous look flashed between their eyebrows and eyes.

Zhao Wen gently shook his folding fan, wandering on the streets of Jiyuan City like the second generation ancestor.

Jiyuan City is not big, and there are only a few streets in the city.

Now that the thieves in Jiyuan City have been wiped out by Zhao Wen, there are quite a few pedestrians on the street.

Zhao Wen looked at the vendors setting up stalls on the street and the shops on both sides of the street, wandering aimlessly on the street.

"Xuanzhen cement?"

Zhao Wen stopped in front of a shop. He looked at the sign above the shop and couldn't help laughing.

"I didn't expect that there are shops selling Xuanzhen cement in Jiyuan City. It's really interesting."

Zhao Wen chuckled twice, then walked in, shaking his folding fan.

"This master please come inside!"

As soon as Zhao Wen walked in, a servant came up to meet him.

The servant looked at Zhao Wen who was dressed in extraordinary clothes, his face was full of flattery.

Zhao Wen wandered around the lobby of the store. He pointed to the wooden barrels filled with cement on both sides of the hall, and asked curiously, "Are these wooden barrels filled with cement?"

The boy walked to the side of the wooden barrel, opened the lid of the wooden barrel, pointed to the cement inside, and said with a smile on his face: "My lord, there is cement inside.

Judging by the appearance of this man, it seems that he has never used this cement before, right?Let me tell you, this cement is really good..."

As he said that, the boy introduced the advantages of cement to Zhao Wen.

The cement on both sides of the hall is only for display, so the lids on these wooden barrels have already been opened, but they are just lightly buckled on them.

Otherwise, it is not an ordinary difficulty to open the cement bucket without tools.

Zhao Wen walked to the wooden barrel, pointed to the cement in the barrel, and said to the boy, "How is your cement selling?"

"How is it selling? Hey, let me tell you, this cement is very popular. Building a house with cement is not only cheap, but also atmospheric and strong.

Now Jiyuan City and even the whole Jiyuan County, as long as people want to build a house, they come to my small shop to buy cement.

Master, let me tell you, if you buy it, it will be early.We didn't have time to buy the goods when the thieves attacked the city before, but now the inventory is running out. If you really want to buy, then you have to start early. "

The boy spat and chattered endlessly.

Zhao Wen wandered around the cement shop for a few times, and then walked out of the shop bored.

When he was leaving, the boy in the store shouted at Zhao Wen: "My lord, our cement was transported from Xuan Town, and it is the authentic Xuan Town cement, and there is no other place. If you want it in the future, you can come to our store to buy it, it is absolutely affordable."

Zhao Wen chuckled, shook his head, and walked away shaking his folding fan.

After walking a few steps, Zhao Wen suddenly heard a commotion.

Immediately afterwards, there was a furious scolding.

"Damn you, you dare to touch me, do you know who I am? I'm blind, hit me, beat me hard, kill me." The voice almost roared. of.

Hearing this voice, Zhao Wen immediately became curious.

"Come on, let's go see what happened."

Zhao Wen turned around, said something to the guard behind him, and then led the guard away in search of the sound.

Just a few steps away, Zhao Wen saw a large group of people gathered at the end of the street, watching the excitement, pointing and talking from time to time.

Zhao Wen led his personal guards and squeezed in.

After squeezing in, Zhao Wen saw a gorgeously dressed young man with white jade hanging from his waist directing a group of subordinates to beat a 30-year-old man in ragged clothes.

The man was squatting on the ground, looking like he was dying.

He held a little girl about six or seven years old tightly in his arms.

Looking at the scene in front of her, the little girl kept crying and shouting for her father.

However, the people around were all angry and dare not speak out, watching these people beating.

"What's going on here?" Zhao Wen poked a middle-aged man next to him with his finger and asked in a low voice.

The middle-aged man turned his head and took a look at Zhao Wen. "You look tense. You're not from Jiyuan, are you? Your accent doesn't sound like that either."

"I'm not from Jiyuan. I'm here to do business. I heard the shouting and scolding just now, so I ran over to see what happened. I said, what's going on here?" Zhao Wen pointed at the On the ground, the beaten man asked again.

The middle-aged man let out a long sigh. Seeing that the son hadn't noticed this, he explained in detail for Zhao Wen, "Oh, I don't know how to tell you about this matter. Let me tell you this, the young master in front of me is not Ordinary people, he is from Prince Zheng's mansion, named Jin Wanlin.

The man's father was named Jin Yinfu, and he was the steward in charge of the fields and shops in the Prince Zheng's residence, and he also held a certain status in the Prince Zheng's residence.

As the saying goes, the third-rank official in front of the prime minister's gate, Zheng Wang's mansion is the largest in the territory of our Huaiqing mansion, and Jin Wanlin's father, Jin Yinfu, is the steward of Zheng Wang's mansion, so this Jin Wanlin is usually very arrogant and domineering.

Over the years, I don't know how many people have been beaten to death by him.

Didn’t there be thieves coming a few days ago, and the land outside Jiyuan City basically belongs to Prince Zheng’s Mansion, so after the thieves were wiped out, Prince Zheng’s Mansion sent Jin Wanlin here to check the situation of the fields.

Just now, this man led his daughter and accidentally touched him when they passed by him, which resulted in a severe beating. "

"Accidentally touched it and caused such a severe beating?" Zhao Wen asked in surprise.

I have seen arrogant, never seen such arrogant.

"What can we do? Who made Jin Wanlin's father one of King Zheng's most trusted stewards?

The current King Zheng is considered to be from the generation of the current emperor's grandfather, and his seniority is very high.Even the governor and the high officials of the Chief Secretary would respectfully kowtow to salute King Zheng, let alone ordinary people.

Ordinary people can only consider themselves unlucky when encountering such a thing.Even if the little girl is pitiful, she is only so old, and she is probably going to be murdered. "The middle-aged man looked at the man in front of him who was constantly being beaten, and shook his head helplessly.

Hearing this, Zhao Wen became more and more angry.

It's just unbelievable that the son of a small man in charge of the palace should be so arrogant.

"Hehe, it's just a dog. A dog dares to be so presumptuous, beating people in the street, it's extremely arrogant." Zhao Wen spit fire in his eyes, cursed angrily, and walked forward.

The middle-aged man looked at Zhao Wen who was walking out, and hurriedly shouted: "Young man, come back quickly, he is not something you can provoke, otherwise your life will be gone."

Zhao Wen turned his head, smiled at the middle-aged man and said, "The person who wants to kill me hasn't been born yet."

"Hehe, there is someone who is not afraid of death." Jin Wanlin looked at Zhao Wen and said playfully.

At this time, the subordinates who were beating the man also stopped and looked at Zhao Wen with an unfriendly expression.

Zhao Wen sneered and walked up slowly, shaking his folding fan.

The onlookers looked at Zhao Wen who was walking up, and kept sighing, "It's not good to provoke anyone, I have to provoke him. He is a well-known overlord in the Huaiqing Mansion, it's not good to provoke him." Eat the fruit."

"Outsider, quickly admit his mistake, maybe he can escape his life, or it will be too late." The middle-aged man shouted at Zhao Wen.

"Yes, yes, it is not a big deal for a person to bow his head and admit his mistake in his whole life."

The surrounding people also persuaded him one after another.

Hearing these voices, Jin Wanlin opened his mouth and cursed: "Shut up, if anyone dares to speak again, I will kill his whole family."

Jin Wanlin deserved to be a well-known bully in Huaiqing Mansion, when he heard this, the people around him all shut their mouths.

At this moment, Zhao Wen's personal guards also squeezed out from the crowd and stood behind Zhao Wen.