Zhou Zheng looked north and said, "There is a man named Li Dingguo, you can find me."
Yang Shengwu didn't remember this person at all. After all, hundreds of people were arrested at that time and said, "Yes, I will order someone to find him when I get down."
Zhou Zheng came this time mainly for this person, looking at the north, feeling the bitter meaning, and said: "What's happening in Mongolia?"
Yang Shengwu said: "My lord, Jianlu has been wooing and suppressing all Mongolian ministries in recent years. Chahar's tribe has disappeared. Jianlu is very close to Mobei and Moxi Mongolia, but there is no Koubian..."
Under the severe natural disasters, the Ming Dynasty was hit hard, and the grassland peoples were not much better, but they were sparsely populated and relatively easy to bear, but it also made them lose their previous prestige, gradually unable to shrink, and silently resist the disaster.
Zhou Zheng stared at the north and said: "The MI Department is mainly responsible for collecting and spying on the military information. Now I am a little stable, but I can't be careless. You need to support the affairs of the MI Department more."
Send out some scouts, scouts, or instigate some people. Every commander will do it. Yang Shengwu is not surprised. He raised his hand and said, "Don't worry, your subordinates must be cautiously staring at the north to defend Gyeonggi."
In the second year of Chongzhen, Jianlu entered the cock from Xifengkou, and the first to be killed was Governor Jizhen.
Zhou Zheng smiled and nodded, and said, "Go, go and see elsewhere."
Yang Shengwu quickly responded and walked around with Zhou Zheng.
In the evening, Zhou Zheng and Yang Shengwu met officials from all walks of life in Ji Town. They calmed down for a while, and took advantage of the moonlight to walk slowly and talk about things.
Zhou Zheng looked at the soldiers patrolling back and forth, and said: "As for the military salary, you should know that the court can't pay much. Most of them have to be farmed or we have to find a way to raise the land. My requirements are not high. You can pay 10% in Jizhen. Cheng, others, make up from Liaodong and Tianjin Wei, what do you think?"
Yang Shengwu didn't dare to have an idea, so he just knelt down, and said quickly: "The officer has no idea, Jizhen Yicheng can still come out."
Zhou Zheng humbled, strolled, and said: "Keeping money and reducing expenditure are both at the same time. The corruption situation in your Ji Town is also very serious. If you don't get it, this official will send someone to it."
This is probably something that all the upper-level people don't want to do. Anti-corruption is a hard work that is thankless and easily affects oneself and is dangerous.
Yang Shengwu knew that Liaodong had been doing this, secretly gritted his teeth and said: "Don't worry, your subordinates must make up their minds to scrape the bones and treat the poison, and never embarrass the adults!"
Zhou Zheng looked flat and said: "That's good. Jizhen, Liaodong's army will soon be rotated, and I will also conduct the necessary verification. You must be prepared. The armor and weapons will be replaced in a unified manner. The matter is more complicated. When the time comes, you will go to Ningyuan, and we will hold a meeting together to set specific rules and measures to avoid trouble."
Yang Shengwu gradually heard the smell, this superintendent is about to severely rectify the army under his jurisdiction.
Yang Shengwu was silent for a while, and said, "The officials obey orders."
Zhou Zheng glanced at him. He wanted to talk about the reorganization of the army, but Yang Shengwu might not be able to accept it. He had to slowly say, “Don’t be pressured. Corruption in the army is not a day or two. I can’t ask for a day to clean it up."
Yang Shengwu quickly said: "Yes."
He put away the previous relaxation, and dare not care.
The two were walking and talking. Soon, a group of soldiers escorted a young man in their twenties and appeared in front of Zhou Zheng.
After the leading banner saluted, he said: "My lord, Li Dingguo is here!"
Although Li Dingguo was wearing a prison uniform, his hair was scattered, and his face was dusty, he still looked very handsome, and he was half a head taller than Zhou Zheng.
He looked a little sad, looking at Zhou Zheng, his eyes were all indifferent.
Yang Shengwu snorted coldly and said, "Seeing Master Supervisor, don't kneel down yet!"
Li Dingguo glanced at Yang Shengwu, and said in a bad tone: "The eagle dog of the court, why should I kneel? If you want to kill, you have to pluck it, just listen and respect it."
Yang Shengwu was furious. Just about to speak, Zhou Zheng raised his hand to stop him, saying, "It's not easy to kill you? The reason why Zhang Xianzhong has survived until now is that the court wants to lure down other bandits. Now the northwest is almost settled. , The time to die is almost here."
Li Dingguo is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, and Zhang Xianzhong trusts him extremely, so Li Dingguo regards Zhang Xianzhong as his father.
Listening to Zhou Zheng’s words, Li Dingguo’s face suddenly changed, staring at Zhou Zheng and said coldly, “What about killing my foster father? It should be dead tomorrow. Do you think you have settled the Northwest? It’s ridiculous! Do you know how many people in the Northwest can’t eat? How many corrupt officials are oppressing the people? Tell you, as long as the Ming Dynasty survives, the northwest will never be suppressed!"
Yang Shengwu showed an angry face, this gangster is really brazen!
Zhou Zheng looked at Li Dingguo, thought about it, and said, "I have seen your information, the potential is good. Come with me to Liaodong, and give you a future."
Li Dingguo opened his mouth to curse and refuse, but watching Zhou Zheng's eyes flashed sharply, he swallowed again.
The life and death of his adoptive father Zhang Xianzhong is in Zhou Zheng's hands.
Li Dingguo was expressionless, facing indifferently.
Zhou Zheng was not in a hurry, he had some time for sex, let people take it away, and continued talking with Yang Shengwu.
In May, the situation in the Northwest improved further. Although the governors, governors, etc. are fighting for power and gain, they are also regarded as first-class credits to the bandits. In addition, the bandits have been eliminated. They acted very easily. The various small bandits in the northwest have been further eliminated. Five years since the emergence of the apocalypse , The most stable and peaceful situation.
Naturally, these credits will not be attributed to Zhou Zheng or Yang Sichang. All of them are attributed to the chief assistant Zhou Yanru. The prestige of this chief assistant suddenly increased, and the ruling and opposition parties trusted him, and Chongzhen relied on it even more.
Along with the Northwest Fuding, another major problem has arisen, that is, the'disaster relief' in the five northwestern provinces. Excluding the army's salary, it still needs countless money and food, and under natural disasters, it is not a year or two.
The embarrassment of the national treasury caused the court and Chongzhen to be extremely troubled.
The Ministry of Household already owed Zhou's ticket number more than two million taels. Li Shiwen didn't want to borrow any more, so the problem was pushed to the top.
In the end, Chongzhen made an apportionment, a total of 2.7 million taels, which was distributed to each county in the thirteen provinces, and demanded to be handed in within a limited time.
Zhou is going back and forth between Liaodong, Tianjinwei, and Shandong. He has too many things to do.
After handling matters in Shandong and rushing to Shanhaiguan, Ding Qi, who was hanging on the assistant lift of the salt class, sat on the carriage and said: "Second brother, I have talked with Li Shangshu, and I want to use our ticket number in a small area of the court. The silver bills issued to the officials paid salaries, but were rejected. Li Shangshu, recently seemed to be very alert to the ticket numbers, and was raising money to return the money we owed."
Zhou Zheng sat on the carriage, after a little thought, he understood, and said: "This Li Shangshu is kind, thinking about repaying the money. If other people, I am afraid that not only will they not pay it back, but they will also want to embezzle us." (End of this chapter) )