Chapter 168: Ready to Rob the Eight Great Families
If you want to purify the administration of the northwest from bottom to top, you must strengthen the power below and make the superiors afraid. Therefore, when you left the capital, your plan was at that time.
With his hands behind his back, he paced to these truly patriotic men and said, "Since you have six thousand soldiers who can fight, we must play their role."
Chen Ce stopped Zhao Xing's optimistic thought: "After the battle between Liang and Zhu, we died in battle of two thousand brothers. Now, there are only less than four thousand, and the 1,000 stones of food you brought cannot support it for long. As long as the food is cut off, let alone the battle, even if you can stand up, it will be a big deal."
"Yes, to cultivate soldiers who can fight, you must have enough money, food, and military salaries to support your family. Otherwise, if you have the courage to kill people, you will not earn as much as killing pigs, then who will join the army?"
There was a slight laughter from below.
"You also need enough food, otherwise two meals of porridge can barely allow everyone to lie down and breathe. How can they train and kill the enemy?"
Zhao Zi said: "You also need excellent equipment, otherwise, when you go to the battlefield, how can you face the enemy's iron cavalry and steel sword with our flesh and blood?"
Zhao Xing nodded: "So, food, military pay and equipment are our top priorities now. But don't worry, I will solve this matter. The 1,000 stones of food I brought will allow everyone to eat and drink normally, restore their strength and stabilize their morale first. I took 90,000 bribes on the way, took them out, and distributed some military pay and purchased some equipment to the soldiers."
Facing Zhao Xing's frank words to help everyone with the money he received from bribes, everyone was also grateful while they were a little resistant.
"Before this batch of food is eaten up, I will get you no more than 10,000 stones of food."
When we mentioned this matter again, everyone asked in confusion: "How can you get ten thousand stones of food by sir? Can those corrupt officials really give it to us?"
Looking at everyone, including Zhao Zi's confused and worried eyes, Zhao Xing smiled confidently, "The emperor will not give it to us, and corrupt officials will not give it to us. In this world, don't expect the gods and emperors, everything depends on us. Therefore, I asked everyone to recover their physical strength well. Then there are five hundred Ti cavalry and three hundred General He Renlong's personal soldiers, and with you all, as long as everyone works together, we can solve all our problems." Then, without waiting for everyone to ask, Zhao Xing waved directly: "Zhao Zi, Chen Ce, Wang and Zhao are staying, and the others will now start to organize their subordinates and prepare for training."
Everyone who was not named stood up to say goodbye. In a blink of an eye, these few people were left in the room.
After everyone was exposed, Wang Jinzhong asked carefully: "Sir, how did you get the money, grain and equipment we need? Please make clear."
Zhao Xing smiled: "What are we? We are soldiers. Since we are soldiers, we must use soldiers to solve the problem. How to solve the problem is of course robbery."
When he heard Zhao Xing say robbing, Wang Jinzhong and Zhao He suddenly stood up. The face that was originally full of trust in Zhao Xing became cold immediately.
Wang Jinzhong and Zhao He coldly bowed to Zhao Xing: "Thank you for your kindness in saving your life, but I don't agree with the solution to our subsequent solutions. We have always been persistent, and we are still soldiers. The so-called mutiny is actually the characterization of the government. We are just using this method to seek justice. If we rely on robbery to solve our problems, I'm sorry, I would rather take my brothers across the Great Wall and go to the Mongolian grassland to be horse thieves than harm our Han people."
Zhao He also followed and said, "As for how the imperial envoy is a good sign, please let us do it." Then he followed Wang Jinzhong and walked outward.
Chen Ce stood up, grabbed his brother, and said with a smile: "Come on, take your time, please listen to what the imperial envoy said, "
"What else can I say? The different ways are not to do things. We still know this ancient saying. We would rather go outside and be a horse thief than forcefully plunder the people around us. At this gate, please ask the imperial envoy to send troops to garrison."
Chen Ce smiled and said, "The imperial envoy came out of Beijing. He did not force the people's supplies in accordance with the rules, but spent money to buy them along the way. In Guguan, not only did he not force the people to recruit, but he also killed the county magistrate who took the opportunity to make money and gave the people wages. The imperial envoy had such a behavior. How could we let the people rob the people for no reason? It would be better to sit down and listen to what the imperial envoy said with peace of mind, and then make a decision."
Wang Jinzhong and Zhao He looked at each other and felt that what Chen Ce said made sense, so they stopped.
Zhao Xing smiled and waved to the two: "It's still Mr. Chen's words that make sense, and he also understands the nature of my official. Come on, listen to me and finish the words. Wouldn't it be too late for you to make a decision?"
Zhao Zi also smiled and pulled the two of them to their original position and sat down: "Since my elders waited for the other idle people to be removed, there must be a confidential matter announced. Why don't you guys leave after listening?"
Wang Jinzhong thought for a while and said to Zhao Xing: "Then I'll wait and hear what the lord will do." Then he sat down with Zhao He, but his expression was full of vigilance. When the two of them sat down, Zhao Xing suddenly asked: "Don't you know if you know the most famous businessmen in Shanxi and the eight great masters of Shanxi?"
When Wang Jinzhong heard Zhao Xing ask about this, he frowned and his expression was full of disgust: "No one knows these eight people in the northwest, they are just a group of traitors. They smuggled the Outer Mongolians to the Jurchens, which was the flesh and blood of our Ming people, making them rich and rich as a country." Then he beat the table again: "It's a pity that they bribed the officials in the whole northwest to cover up their crimes, so that we have no way to deal with them."
Chen Ce also said angrily: "Although we have no way to deal with them, we will never be accused of tigers. Therefore, along this section of the Great Wall, no matter what kind of methods they use to threaten and induce, we will definitely not let them pass through us." Then he sighed sadly: "But it is precisely because of this that they joined forces with the dog officials to stop sending our military pay, money and food, and seize our land. The purpose is to prepare to force this group of bloody soldiers to leave here, so that their sinful business can freely travel back and forth."
Then he turned his head and looked at Zhao Xing, and suddenly stood up excitedly: "What do you mean by sir, is it to punish these traitors?"
Zhao Xing smiled bitterly: "Although sir, I have talked about my original intention and plan, after the Yansui case, I have really experienced the solidity of Shanxi officials. With my little imperial envoy, I finally saw the overestimation of my original idea."
Zhao Zi helped explain: "My adult originally wanted to open a breakthrough in the officialdom of Shanxi and Shaanxi in the Yansui case. Unfortunately, he could only be in a mess in the end. If we forcefully impose it, we will not only not be able to achieve our goals, but also be retaliated by them, so now we can only endure it."
Of course, these local people in Shanxi are obvious to all, but they also understood in Zhao Xing's tone just now. Zhao Xing wanted to deal with them. So he immediately became energetic. Wang Jinzhong asked excitedly: "Is this group of things that harm the country and the people free to the world?"
Zhao Xing smiled slightly: "I have experienced too many helplessness, and I can be said to be powerless. But it is precisely because of this that the repeated blows have made me begin to have my own principles and rules in doing things - that is, to protect myself and attack the enemy. Let me die with the enemy, and I don't think they deserve it."
Chen Ce and Zhao Zi were thinking.
"Of course, seeing such people who harm the country and the people, the responsibilities of my North Town Fu Office and my conscience make me never become a turtle. Since I have fought hard, I am still happy to do it by stuttering them behind my back. In this way, while constantly weakening them, I am looking for their true evidence, slowly deducting their slut, and finally taking a thunderous blow. I think this is the best way for our Jinyiwei."
Chapter completed!