Chapter 9                            

"Do you know your father?" Zhou Mengchen bent down and looked at Zhou Datong with bright eyes.

Zhou Datong looked at Zhou Mengchen with his eyes dripping. He seemed to think the person in front of him was very interesting. He stretched out a hand and touched Zhou Mengchen's face.

Zhou Mengchen hurriedly leaned over his face. However, Zhou Datong grabbed Zhou Mengchen's beard with his little hands, as if something interesting was very interesting. Zhou Mengchen could only lean his head forward and said, "Datong, you can't catch your father's beard."

In order to make himself mature, Zhou Mengchen had long been wearing a beard. However, it became a fatal key at this moment and was grabbed by Zhou Datong. To be honest, the child was not too tightly, but Zhou Mengchen did not dare to break Zhou Datong's fingers for fear of hurting the child. He could only say carefully: "As long as you are obedient, let go. Let go."

"Geeh----" Zhou Datong not only did not let go, but laughed. While laughing, he grabbed Zhou Mengchen's beard and pulled it hard, making Zhou Mengchen unable to help but suffer pain. He could only carefully pry Zhou Datong's hand away. Then he broke free, and then saw several beards falling. There were traces of pulling out the beard on his chin, and there was still some pain aftertaste.

Zhou Mengchen said, "You child, this is impossible to get rid of."

Zhou Datong looked at Zhou Mengchen blankly, then looked at his little hands, his mouth fainted slightly, and then he started crying loudly.

Zhou Mengchen was in a hurry. The general who made the Tartars lose his soul had no idea where he put his hands and feet in front of his son. He finally picked up Zhou Datong and said, "What's wrong with you, my little ancestor?"

It seemed that I could hear Zhou Datong's crying.

Li Yunzhen hurried in, took Zhou Datong from Zhou Mengchen's arms, and coaxed her for a while before the child took her magical powers. Li Yunzhen touched the child's diapers and said, "I've peeded." While asking the wet nurse to change the child's diapers, she said, "Brother Zhang is here. You go and meet him."

Zhou Mengchen's heart moved and said, "I don't know what Mr. Xu wants to give me. I'll go now."

Li Yunzhen said, "Wait a minute, you go and change your clothes before going."

Zhou Mengchen was confused and looked down, but saw a large bunch of water stains between his chest and abdomen. Without thinking, he knew that Zhou Datong had done a good thing. Zhou Mengchen could only smile bitterly, change his clothes in the inner room, and then go to see Zhang Juzheng.

I don’t know when Zhou Mengchen had already regarded Zhang Juzheng as an old friend, not the great reformer in history.

It’s not that Zhou Mengchen does not recognize Zhang Juzheng’s thoughts. Zhou Mengchen and Zhang Juzheng may have had some reasons at the beginning. However, over the years, Zhang Juzheng is the few people who can talk to him. In his heart, Zhang Juzheng also felt that the current situation in the Ming Dynasty is actually very dangerous and there will be some changes. He discussed with Zhou Mengchen how to change.

Zhou Mengchen and Zhang Juzheng exchanged a few greetings.

Without saying a word, Zhang Juzheng revealed Xu Jie's thoughts and said, "Is this what the teacher meant? According to the teacher's idea, he wants you to be the Governor of Xuanda. The premise is that you are repairing the walls in Datong and not allowing the Tartars to go south. For the rest, it is better to have less than more things. If you insist on doing something, maybe the teacher will change your mind. Brother Zhou, what do you think?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "If it were someone else, I would say it, and I will be the emperor's will. But, I will naturally tell the truth to you, uncle. That is ----" Zhou Mengchen paused slightly and said, "I will not leave Datong until Immortal Xinai."

This answer is not beyond Zhang Juzheng's expectations. The two of them have been good friends for many years. They know too much. Zhang Juzheng can see some of Zhou Mengchen's actions. But he doesn't understand why Zhou Mengchen did this. Zhang Juzheng asked: "Why? Now the troubles of the Ming Dynasty are inside but not outside. The outside is just a disease of scabies. We must first settle the internal situation when the court refreshes politics, prepares the troops, and goes out to the frontier. Even if it is not easy to take action, it is more suitable than you now. From Your Majesty, the Cabinet, the officials, and even the people, there is no intention of making big conquests. If you insist on doing it, you will do your own thing and achieve half the result with twice the effort."

"There are still lessons from the past."

Zhou Mengchen said, "The world is one and two sides. Internal affairs can be cured externally, and external affairs can be cured internally. It is good that the disaster of trapped captives is a disease of scabies, but the lack of military system is a problem of confiscating. Now the troubles of the Ming Dynasty are wealth and military. This is another problem of two and one and one. What I do in Datong is cheap. I am still good, but it is not necessarily that the people will die. At most, within ten years, my efforts today will be wasted. Unless the contribution of the country, my cheap strategy will become the new policy of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is not the new policy, it is also the new rule of the Yunda Governor's Office."

Zhang Juzheng smiled slightly and said, "Governor Yun Zhong, Datong. This place has not been built, and you have already named it."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Uncle, will you help me?"

Zhang Juzheng pondered for a moment and said, "In theory, you have to say that your friendship is worth this, so I will definitely help you. I need to ask in advance. The food, grass, and military pay for Datong Prefecture were converted together. There were one million taels, and the military pay for the Beijing camp was 500,000 taels. In addition, the taxes of Datong Prefecture were intercepted, and you added new military farm income. The military spending in Datong Prefecture is about three million taels per year, and others see that you, Zhou Mengchen, is a wealthy man. In my Uncle Zhang's opinion, you, Zhou Mengchen, is a financial management master. Only with this foundation can you win three battles and three victories. However, the Ministry of Revenue has been urging you, and even wants to cut down all the 150 taels that the court assigned to Datong. In this case, can you still guarantee what you can do?"

Zhou Mengchen took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Yan Song is so cruel."

He thought that even if Yan Song cut off some silver, it would not be too much. Hundreds of thousands of taels would be enough. But he never expected that all the tax military pay that was transferred to Datong Town was cut off. Good guy, on the day Datong Town was established, there was no self-sufficient thing. However, the predecessor of Datong Town, or it could not be said to be the predecessor. After all, there is still this institution now, but it has become idle. That is the Datong Command Department. The jurisdiction of Datong Town is now Datong Town, including Dongshengwei, and all the way to Qingcheng.

However, that happened a long time ago.

Zhou Mengchen is self-aware.

Zhou Mengchen's military command ability has never been too strong. The reason why he defeated the Tartars was not angry. Although there were innovations in firearms and other reforms played a role. However, these functions were all the icing on the cake. The most fundamental role was that Zhou Mengchen had enough troops and enough food. In fact, he used every tael of silver to the tip of the knife and actually raised an army of more than 100,000. Without these tens of thousands of troops, he would still be as absolute numerical advantage as before facing the Tartars, even if he had a thousand tricks.

Only when the troops are relatively equal can Zhou Mengchen have great victories again and again.

All of this builds wealth on financial resources.

After all, if you don’t have money, you can’t do anything.

What Yan Song is doing now is to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot.

After all, Zhou Mengchen is not the King of Datong. The Accounts Department may not know much about the specific details of Datong. However, the big account is very clear.

Zhou Mengchen said: "What does Mr. Xu mean?"

Zhang Juzheng said: "If you are not in Datong, the teacher must take this matter. But if you are in Datong, the teacher may acquiesce to this matter. After all, the situation in Datong is generally abnormal."

Zhou Mengchen understood that Zhou Mengchen could ensure that land or financial use in Datong, even if it was not absolutely honest, large-scale corruption could not occur. Moreover, agricultural production is a difficult thing to say. Don’t look at the past two years of Datong as a common year. I think it will be a common year in the future, and Datong is the front line of fighting against the Tartars after all.

It's better to be more affordable.

But Zhou Mengchen is different in Datong. Some people can use the same money to burn different effects. In Xu Jie's opinion, Zhou Mengchen is such a person.
Chapter completed!