Chapter 18                                                             �

In three days, news from all over the country was gradually spread to Zhou Mengchen.

This made Zhou Mengchen breathe a sigh of relief.

Then, Zhou Mengchen, according to the original plan, invited Wang Mingqian on the long street of Datong, and killed dozens of generals in one breath under the deputy general Guo Du.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen was not idle for these three days. He was collecting the charges of these people.

However, Zhou Mengchen also underestimated the arrogance of these people. Zhou Mengchen didn't need to check it at all. He just needed to summarize the accounts at their homes. Eat empty salary, smuggling, encroachment on military farms, etc. These charges are all shiny, and the conspicuous ones cannot be more conspicuous.

Since this is the case, Zhou Mengchen was still a little dazed when he killed dozens of generals in one breath.

Zhou Mengchen was confused that he was not killing dozens of people. After all, each of these dozen people deserved the crime. What we mentioned earlier was economic charges, let alone a lot of charges in war. Just because the Tatars crossed Datong Town and went directly to the city of Beijing, in Zhou Mengchen's opinion, all the generals in Datong Town should be cleaned up.

But Zhou Mengchen knew that in this storm, it was not just these dozens of people who died.

There are so many people who died in this storm. In the future, there will be more than a thousand people who will lose their lives due to Zhou Mengchen's actions.

Zhou Mengchen may not be invincible in his heart.

Zhou Mengchen is sure that now there must be some people who hate Zhou Mengchen in their hearts, and there are even people who want to kill themselves day and night. Only then do they truly understand why those who want to do things are not slandering and praise the world, because he is now walking on this road.

But Zhou Mengchen didn't even have much time to think about this kind of sorrow in his heart.

He immediately summarized the land, grain, gold, silver and so on that were seized by all parties.

Zhou Mengchen thought slightly and found that the silver he had in his hand exceeded 1.5 million taels. Half of it came from the contributions of King Raoyang, which was originally the industry of King Dai.

However, although there is a lot of silver, there is not much food.

This also made Zhou Mengchen even more worried.

This fully demonstrates Zhou Mengchen's previous judgment. That is, if agricultural production cannot be resumed this year, then there will be a great famine in Datong this winter and by next spring.

Many people may not know that in fact, many people rarely eat much food. In summer and autumn, there are wild vegetables and other things to satisfy their hunger. Although they are still hungry, there is still a way to survive. However, after winter, it is cold and there is no food at this time. It is really a word of death.

Now even these wealthy families do not have much grain reserves, which shows that the entire Datong has not much grain reserves, whether it is the people, the government, or even the officials.

However, Zhou Mengchen's biggest harvest was not food, not gold and silver, but land.

How many exactly are there?

Zhou Mengchen has not yet summarized the numbers.

But it can be said that Datong is a basin in terms of the entire terrain. All arable land is distributed along the Sanggan River and tributaries. Except for the prefectures and counties in the south of the Sanggan River, the entire north bank of the Sanggan River should be asked. Those lands are not on Zhou Mengchen's account book, and they should not be asked, and those lands are on Zhou Mengchen's account book.

Zhou Mengchen estimated that it was at least 400,000 hectares.

How much is specific, it needs to be investigated and counted.

Seeing this number, Zhou Mengchen only found it funny.

Because before Zhou Mengchen came, the Ministry of War saw a number of 28,000 hectares of military farming. You should know that in the northern part of Datong, almost all garrisons were military farming. What is the concept of 28,000 hectares of land? Anyway, the outer city of Beijing expanded by Zhou Mengchen, that is, within the third ring road of Beijing in later generations, was only about 8,000 hectares.

It can be said that the number of 28,000 hectares is not enough for Datong city in later generations.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Datong Town, or the Xingdusi of Shanxi, paid about 500,000 stones to the court a year, which was the number given to the court in addition to supporting the entire army. Today, Datong Town may not have the military quota at the beginning of the country, but it requires Beijing to supply 710,000 stones of grain every year.

How many problems are there when you go in and out?

You know without asking.

This is why Chengzu was able to fight north for thousands of miles, but now the imperial court can't even go out on a large scale. I dare not say that Chengzu used the grain from border towns every time he fought in the northern expedition. At least the first two times, the grain from the south was enough. However, the grain eaten in Datong is transported from Beijing, and Beijing is not a place to produce grain. It was transported from Jiangnan.

With such a long grain road, it is a huge burden to take a step forward at the border.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "With this number of land, I will definitely be able to pass the test."

Zhou Mengchen knew very well what kind of person Jiajing was. Even if Jiajing had such a big battle with Zhou Mengchen, he would have taken action first and reported it, and he would have done it without power. He would definitely not be satisfied, but he would still tolerate this achievement.

However, Zhou Mengchen knew even more that this was not an end.

But a start.

Zhou Mengchen created such a big case just to do things.

He immediately wrote to the court, two memorials, one of which was a public memorial. The case of rebellion between King Raoyang and Deputy General Guo, while the other memorial was secretly exposed and directly wrote to Jiajing. Among them, Zhou Mengchen told Datong all the difficulties, and even did not hide the inappropriate parts of the case of King Raoyang and Deputy General Guo. He also pointed out that this was the only way. If this was not done, next year, the Datong famine would be restored, and the strength of Datong Town would probably decline further. At that time, Datong Town would not have a slight obstruction and stagnation effect on the Tatars' going south. In this way, the Tatars attacked Nei San Pass and was much more convenient to go to Yanmen Pass in Shanxi.

Shanxi Town and the capital became the front line.

Although it is a little alarmist, Zhou Mengchen is telling the truth.

For this reason, Jiajing would not touch him.

As long as Jiajing is stabilized, Zhou Mengchen doesn't think there will be any problems.

After these two memorials, Zhou Mengchen wrote many private messages one by one and immediately put the matter behind his mind.

He immediately sent someone to post a notice that no matter who the people of Datong were, no matter who they had committed, they would not ask any questions at this moment. They could re-enter their land in Datong Prefecture, and divide the land and borrow cattle breeds. They just wanted to serve as soldiers for the court to kill the Tartars.

In fact, the officials of Zhou Mengchen's fourteen garrisons were wiped out, but the airs remained. These people who were willing to teach the fields would be reorganized into these fourteen garrisons.

There is nothing else, and Zhou Mengchen only now knows how many soldiers and horses there are in Datong.

There were 10,000 people in Ma Fang's army and 3,000 people in Li Ru's army. There were only hundreds of people participating in the generals from all walks of life, and as many as more than a thousand. As for the garrison, it was simply an empty affair. Zhou Mengchen selected elites and calculated the soldiers who met Zhou Mengchen's standards, that is, those who could fight against the Tartars, were only about 30,000.

As for all kinds of military soldiers or older veterans, they can still be competent in defending the city, but they can't do more.

Therefore, filling the military quota is also something that Zhou Mengchen must do. Zhou Mengchen was preparing to fill all fourteen garrisons, and there were more than 70,000 people. Plus the original 50,000 troops, which was as much as 120,000. If there were so many troops, Zhou Mengchen would not have to do other towns, and he would go out to the frontier to compete with the Tartars.

But military membership is so famous in the north.

It made no one dare to become a military citizen because once he became a military citizen, it was not his own business, but his own affairs.

Zhou Mengchen played a small flower gun on this issue.

It’s not that Zhou Mengchen wanted to lie to them, but that he could not carry out too much reforms to the garrison system at this moment. After all, he had just made such a big event, and Beijing didn’t know what to think of him. It’s time to keep a low profile.

It’s not too late to win a few battles in the future.

Just when Zhou Mengchen compiled households and gave land, re-counted the soldiers of various departments, and began to promote spring plowing at all costs. After all, it is the end of March. It is probably too late to not have spring plowing again.

Zhou Mengchen's memorials and news from all parties in Datong were continuously summarized to the capital.

Zhou Mengchen's boldness and arrogance also appeared before the big bosses in the capital. They all didn't know what attitude they should face Zhou Mengchen.
Chapter completed!