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Chapter 33 Arrangements

Since Chongzhen's new policy was implemented in the military weapon supervision, craftsmen have burst out with great enthusiasm for production. All craftsmen have worked hard like life, and their original lazy and negative state has been wiped out.

Two full meals a day make the craftsmen full of energy. The implementation of piecework makes the craftsmen who usually work hard to even go to the toilet, for fear that they will delay making money if they are too long. The phenomenon of sneaking away numbers before they can be paid off completely.

Because there are people on duty in the military weapon supervisor day and night, some craftsmen are even unwilling to take the duty. The patrol officials and soldiers persuaded each other several times ineffectively, so they could only drag them out and then close the door. The craftsmen who were driven out cursed outside the door, thinking that they were delaying their own money, and the people inside the door could only smile bitterly, but they could not do anything.

The huge driving force is a sharp increase in output. With strict management measures, all military supplies have increased several times, and the quality is even more different from before.

Chongzhen was flipping through Bi Maokang's report materials in the side hall of Wuying Hall. The lines were filled with excitement, and he praised the various measures he had founded.

The most concerned muskets of Chongzhen had built more than a hundred poles, and they had all been handed over to the Yongwei Camp. Sun Yingyuan selected people with excellent firearms to form a team of 500 people. New and old muskets were used in mixed use. After the new muskets were produced, they were replaced with the old. After the Yongwei Camp accepted and tested the fire, the poles were all high-quality and there was no risk of bursting the chamber.

huǒ     yào     pèi    fāng Since Zhu Zhenqing discussed the improvement with them, the range power has increased greatly. The original huǒ    yào Because there are too many impurities, the musket can shoot cotton armor within fifty steps and iron armor within thirty steps. After the improvement, the mail can be shot in fifty steps and cotton armor within seventy steps. The range has been increased by twenty steps, which can give the muskets enough time to continue firing or evacuate safely.

The development of the thunder proposed by Chongzhen has also been successful. Clay was made, like a small wine jar, filled with iron filings, gravel, porcelain fragments and huǒ    yào, weighing about three kilograms. After the fuse was tested, evenly burned cotton paper was used, from ignition to throwing and landing, it took about ten breaths, with amazing power and obvious killing effect within one meter.

In fact, the Zhentian Thunder appeared in the Song Dynasty, but at that time, huǒ     yào was not very purity, so it was not very lethal, but it was loud, so it was famous for the Zhentian Thunder. Now it has only been improved huǒ     yào      pèi     fāng, making it more lethal.

Wang Chengen entered the hall with a red wooden box, came to Zhu Zhenqing, and presented the wooden box. When Chongzhen saw that the above seal was intact, he signaled Wang Chengen to open it. After Wang Chengen opened the wooden box, he took out the letter inside and presented it to his hands.

At this time, Sun Chuanting's secret memorial had been delivered in a hurry with 600 miles. The first half of the secret memorial was to report the victory and briefly described the matter of destroying the bandits and neatly kings. It mentioned the list of meritorious personnel in order to be rewarded by the court. The second half was to tell in detail what he did after taking office in Shaanxi, and was very angry at the hardships of the people and the greed of the officials and gentry. In the letter, he also expressed his idea of ​​designing to use the sword of the chief official of the garrison, saying that this move may lead to a great uproar in the world. After all, the garrison was also one of the officials and gentry. If this was done, he would probably be criticized by thousands of people and be unwilling to the court officials. He would probably not die well in the future. However, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, he would spare no effort to repay Chongzhen's kindness for his grace.

After reading Sun Chuanting's secret memorial, Chongzhen began to ponder.

Later generations had a high evaluation of Sun Chuanting, believing that if Chongzhen had no doubts about employing people and insisted on using Sun Chuanting, the Ming Dynasty would not have perished. However, Chongzhen lived in the deep palace for a long time and did not know much about the outside world. He was easily bewitched by the remarks of ministers around him. In addition, he was suspicious and fickle, so that Sun Chuanting was not valued. He was even framed by Yang Sichang for two years. Later, because there was no one available, he was released from prison to lead troops to suppress the thieves. However, it was too late. Later, he died in Weinan in war. Chongzhen believed that he was pretending to die and did not posthumously granted the title of Yin. What a tragedy. Later generations commented that "Chuanting died and Ming Dynasty died."

After thinking for a long time, Chongzhen wrote a reply letter to Sun Chuanting, which fully affirmed and praised him for sending generals to beheaded for more than a month after he was in office. He deeply agreed with Sun Chuanting's approach of compassion with the people, and expressed his full support for his actions in Shaanxi, and once again expressed his full trust in him.

As for his pessimistic view of his future, Chongzhen criticized without hesitation, saying that as long as he was still the emperor, the Ming Dynasty or the Zhu family, no one's slander would damage the royal family's trust in Sun Chuanting. At the end of the letter, he said that he had understood Sun Chuanting's plan and would arrange for people to help, and hoped that Sun Chuanting would not be able to deem himself to be aware of his identity in Shaanxi and boldly activate talents.

After writing the reply, Wang Chengen took it to seal it with a seal. Chongzhen issued an order: Luo Shifang of Jin was a guerrilla general, and rewarded fifty taels of silver; Xun Wenli, the magistrate of Shanyang County, was a meritorious in suppressing the bandits, and was a sixth rank. He was still the magistrate of Shanyang County. He was given priority when he had time to take office. Dian Shimu Dayong fought bravely to kill the enemy and died. He was posthumously awarded seventh rank, and given 100 taels of silver and 20 acres of land for eternal life. The other meritorious generals were promoted one level, rewarded twenty taels of silver and five taels of silver and five taels of silver for the soldiers. After the cabinet drafted the imperial edict, he sent his secret letter with Zhu Zhenqing to Xi'an in a hurry for 600 miles.

Wang Chengen took the order to go to the cabinet. Chongzhen ordered Luo Yangxing to meet him. Half a quarter of an hour later, Luo Yangxing came hurriedly.

After Luo Yangxing gave a gift, Chongzhen smiled and said, "Luo Yangxing, how has the Jinyiwei rectified? I have come to you for some reason. I want to see if the Jinyiwei is said by the outside world, and has become a tiger without minions."

Luo Yangxing bowed and replied: "Your Majesty, over the past few months, I have followed Your Majesty's orders, vigorously rectify the affairs of the health care, eliminated the elderly and weak, added young and strong elite lieutenants, and expanded the number of secret agents to master more affairs and make decisions for Your Majesty's decisions. The Five Hundred Ti Cavalry is also a daily exercise. The instructors selected by Your Majesty from the Beijing Camp are very elite. Now the combat power of the Ti Cavalry has been greatly improved. The collection of information from several wealthy businessmen in Zhangjiakou as ordered by Your Majesty has basically been completed. How to act in the future is only for Your Majesty's order. Your Majesty allocates silver from the treasury to pay the Jinyiwei, and everyone in the guard is extremely excited, and his loyalty to Your Majesty is not to be said. According to this situation, the Jinyiwei's revitalization is expected!"

Chongzhen said, "I have heard a little about what you have done recently. You have indeed spent a lot of effort in the past few months. The appearance of the Jinyiwei has improved greatly. I will remember to remember not to be proud and complacent, and to maintain a good atmosphere. The Jinyiwei is my eyes and ears, and is also one of my reliances. The military affairs must not be slackened. Only I and you, and the people involved in this matter, and they must not tell others about it. It is not time to take action yet!"

Chongzhen picked up the tea and took a sip, put down the teacup and continued, "You can select fifty people from the guards. I sent the imperial guard Cheng Qianli to lead a team to Sun Chuanting, Shaanxi. How to act there and obey his arrangements. These fifty people must be good at close combat and ambushing people. I will inform the military weapon surveillance. These people can go to the military weapon surveillance to select some handy weapons before leaving Beijing. With these people help, Sun Chuanting will be more comfortable. You can handle this matter immediately after you return to the guards. In addition,

That is, I think the power of the Jinyiwei in the Jiangnan area is out of your control? After you go back, you discuss with other officials in the hall. The Jinyiwei has to replace thousands of households in Nanjing. Select loyal and capable people from the Beijing garrison to take office in Nanjing. I need to have some understanding of the movements of officials and gentry in the Jiangnan area. Jiangnan is a wealthy place in the Ming Dynasty. It has tended to be out of control in recent years. It must be reversed. Collecting various emotions is an important part. You must pay attention to it. Okay, go back and execute it!"

Luo Yangxing withdrew after giving gifts. Chongzhen ordered Xiaohuangmen to go to the imperial village to pass the order to Liu Chao, and drew several well-driving teams from the imperial village, leading a few well-driving teams to the Shaanxi Governor's office to listen to it. One thousand military cotton coats produced in the past few months were sent to the emperor, and the government would be escorted by the government.

Since he took over more than 100,000 acres of land from Chengyibo to the royal family, Liu Chao's work pressure has suddenly increased. He used to manage thousands of people with several village heads, but it was already very difficult. Now, the population has increased several times. Liu Chao was so busy that he didn't even have time to eat and sleep.

All day long, the two farms were running back and forth, and they worked hard without saying, but in such a busy state, Liu Chao felt unprecedented fulfillment.

He also transplanted the measures implemented in the original imperial village to a village. Under various measures, the farmers in the two villages felt a drastic feeling and their enthusiasm for production was greatly improved.

Farmers, regardless of men, women, young and old, participated in various production activities. After a few months, farmers who were often not full of food, looked very happy. The eggs and duck eggs raised at home were purchased at the market, eliminating the hard work of going to Beijing to sell. They also slowly accumulated some money. Not only can they eat enough, but they can also see meat and fish on the dinner table in one month.

Some women also have cheap headdresses on their heads. More importantly, people's spirit has changed greatly. Everyone's faces are filled with a happy and satisfied expression, and their walking posture is not as weak as before and with a sad look. Liu Chao felt a huge sense of accomplishment in his heart when he saw this. All the farmers who saw him would salute respectfully and call him Eunuch Liu. Liu Chao felt that this was all from the heart of the farmers, not because they were afraid of his power, but because they were grateful for the huge benefits he brought to the farmers.

Chongzhen naturally knew that there were too many new fields, and Liu Chao was too busy with the production of military rations, etc., and the current system should also change. So he sent dozens of eunuchs who had studied from the palace to the imperial village to assist Liu Chao in management.

The Huangzhuang Administration Bureau was established, and Liu Chao was the ambassador, with one fifth rank and one deputy envoy at the left and right. From the fifth rank, Liu Chao's status was as good as the middle eunuch in the palace. He was extremely proud and even more grateful for Zhu Zhenqing's emphasis and worked harder on weekdays.

After Chongzhen sent the small yellow gate of the imperial village to convey the order, Liu Chao immediately began to arrange it. He assigned two Zhuangtou Wang Er and Zhao Wu, who were the first to follow him, to Shaanxi, to take two well-driving teams. These two were already very skilled in the affairs of the village. Liu Chao knew that the emperor had transferred people to Shaanxi this time, which was a chance to make meritorious contributions, so he naturally had to give him the people to use. More than 3,000 cotton coats had been produced, so he picked out one thousand to prepare them. After the court sent someone to escort them, he went to Shaanxi together.

In the study of Liu Fuguo, the left guard of Xi'an, Zhang Runda and Sun Zuowang were invited to have a secret conversation with Liu Fuguo. All personnel were forbidden to approach the study for dozens of steps.

In the study room, Liu Fuguo, who was sitting in the main seat, looked at the two of them with a gloomy face and said, "The one month has passed, what are you planning?"

After the two sitting in the guest seat looked at each other, Sun Zuowang said, "To be honest, Sun is unwilling to accept it. But he has no solution after thinking hard for several days. This time he came here, he also wanted to hear Brother Liu's thoughts. If Brother Liu has a good solution, we will follow it. In this matter, our three guards must advance and retreat together, otherwise the property we have accumulated over several generations will suffer a huge loss!"

Zhang Runda nodded in agreement, and Liu Fuguo sighed and said, "Don't you want to have a perfect solution! It's a pity that we are garrisons, and almost no one looks at us by civil and military officials. Needless to say, the local civil servants who have some personal relationships with us are helpless in this matter. Who else in Shaanxi has his Sun Langzi's official position?"

Sun Zuowang also looked full of annoyance and said, "Those dog officials usually eat me and are full of spring breeze when they are filial. Once they encounter major events, they will stay closed, as if they never know me. I have visited several civil servants in the province a few days ago, but none of them met, and even the gifts were thrown out. It is really anger and chilling!"

Zhang Runda said, "I have some connection with the General of Xuanfu. A few days ago, I sent a close friend to Xuanfu with a lot of money. I originally hoped that a general with a heavy army could write a letter to Sun Langzi to see if he could ease his cheeks. Who knew that when he heard about this, he confiscated his rituals and sent me. He also asked him to send me a message saying that Sun Chuanting had long been famous among court officials. This time he was reused by the Emperor to Shaanxi. If this first fire cannot be burned, where would the emperor's face be placed? This time, don't resist him. After a few years, he will slowly try to get the returned fields back. Alas, I don't know that this is the safest, but I just can't swallow this. Isn't this obvious that I'm picking soft ones to eat persimmons? Isn't it obvious that our ward has no soldiers or swords, like a fat pig, without any resistance."

Liu Fuguo said calmly: "What is your generals? Not only us, but others are not easy to live!"

Sun Zuowang said, "It's still necessary to ask. Who is willing to spit out the meat that has been eaten in his mouth? The brothers are so angry that they are itchy, but they just can't figure out a way to deal with it!"

Zhang Runda also expressed the same meaning, and Liu Fuguo gritted his teeth and said, "This is guān    bī    mín     fǎn!"

Sun Zuowang also said, "This dog official really wants to force everyone to zào     fǎn!"

When Zhang Runda heard the word "zào" and fǎn", he was shocked, and did not express his feelings casually, and kept silent.

Liu Fuguo looked at the expressions of the two, and naturally knew it in his heart. He said calmly: "Let's just say that if you really want to zào     fǎn, it's a serious crime to kill the clan. However, we can't let the dog officials take away our property easily, and we have to cause some trouble for him no matter what!"

Sun Zuowang hurriedly said, "Brother Liu, what's the best way?"

Zhang Runda also looked at him with anticipation. Liu Fuguo pondered for a while and said, "I think of one, but I don't know if you two are willing to participate!"

Sun Zuowang said anxiously: "It's time, you can tell me quickly if you have a solution! As long as you can mess up the matter, no matter what you do, I, Sun, will never be vague!"

After Zhang Runda thought for a moment, he also said, "As long as it is not zào    fǎn, I am willing to obey Brother Liu!"

Liu Fuguo wanted to tell the plan, but seeing Zhang Runda's attitude, he did not dare to express his plan completely. After thinking for a while, he said, "Brother, I think so: When the one month period is approaching, we will gather together those who are unwilling to accept this matter, the more people, the better. After so many years of being an official, who has not had many people who can trust? Together with the three guards, I guess there are thousands of people, or even more. At that time, everyone gathers together to report to the governor, and they say that because of the field, there are people who are dissatisfied with each other and gather to make trouble. I am about to mutiny. Governor, please come and suppress the formation and suppress it. After he comes, hum!"

Zhang Runda was shocked and said, "Brother Liu, do you want us to kill the officials? That is the death penalty for killing the nine clans. We are all Ming officials, so we cannot be rebels no matter what!"

Sun Zuowang looked at him contemptuously and said, "Zào     fǎn, those mud legs are nothing, but they are all zào     fǎn, and now it has become a climate. Even if we have food and money, it is not easy to recruit soldiers and horses? The court has bullied us. If we responded this time, there might be some tricks to continue to harm us in the future!"

Zhang Runda looked pale and lowered her head without saying a word.

Liu Fuguo glanced at him and said, "We don't know how to do it, but killing an official may not be zào    fǎn! If the governor is harmed by an angry military household, what does it have to do with us? We have no soldiers and no swords, and it is not our fault that the governor cannot be protected. Are you right?"

Sun Zuowang was stunned for a moment and understood, and said happily: "Brother Liu's plan is a great idea! The governor died at the hands of the rioters. After that, we will kill the rioters and avenge the governor. Not only will we be fine, but we will also make contributions! Hahaha! There is no evidence to die at that time. Even if the court doubts, it can only believe what we say!"

Zhang Runda looked up at the two of them and said, "Didn't you forget the governor's Biao battalion? That's an elite army that even bandits like the King of Qi killed! The governor came to the garrison, how could he not bring the Biao battalion guards?"

When Sun Zuowang heard this, his face suddenly looked ugly. When the governor's yamen was discussing affairs, the dozen or so guards of the Biao battalion went straight into the lobby and drew their swords to intimidate. The momentum was obvious that they were strong soldiers who had been on the battle formation and had seen blood. The governor must have Biao battalion accompanied him when he went out. Not to mention the rioters at that time, even regular officials may not be opponents.

When Liu Fuguo saw that things had come to this point, he could only tell his plan, otherwise the two of them would be shaken. So he said, "I have thought of this. At that time, the people we gathered will gather in front of my office. When Sun Langzi arrived, he would definitely disperse the guards at wài     wéi, so that once there was a mess, he could press them down. We agreed in advance and give a way for him to come to the gate of the house.

At that time, there must be not many guards around him. When he arrived at the gate of the official office, he immediately surrounded them. The field was going to be in chaos. Even if he asked his subordinates to suppress him, his guards were all wài    wéi. At this time, we persuaded him into the official office in the name of protecting the governor, and then closed the door. In the office, there were trusted servants who had been ambushing a long time ago and rushed forward to kill him. This is called asking you to get into the trap. What do you think?"

After thinking carefully, Sun Zuowang slapped his thigh, raised his thumbs at Liu Fuguo, and shouted loudly: "Brother Liu is a talented person! This plan is really brilliant. Brother Liu is really a talent if he doesn't want to be a general! Sun admires it! He follows Brother Liu's plan!"

After a while, Zhang Runda spoke, "Since the two have decided, there is nothing to say. The three guards are actually one, and they will never stay out of the matter. They must follow the two horses!"

Liu Fuguo slapped the handrail and whispered: "Okay! It's refreshing! As long as we successfully get rid of Sun Langzi this time, our family business can be preserved, and future generations can continue to enjoy wealth and glory!"

Sun Zuowang was extremely excited, as if he saw the scene of Sun Chuanting's head falling to the ground, and Zhang Runda also forced himself to laugh.

Liu Fuguo wanted to arrange a banquet for the two, but Zhang Runda said goodbye on the grounds that he was going back to the garrison to arrange it quickly, and Sun Zuowang stayed.

After seeing Zhang Runda back, Sun Zuowang frowned and said, "Brother Liu, I always feel that Zhang Runda has a strange intention and cannot trust him. What if he reports the first time, what should I do?"

Liu Fuguo sneered, "I can see that the person surnamed Zhang is not in the same way as us. But don't worry, he has always been timid and fearful. He is said to be kind, but actually cowardly. He will never dare to take the lead in such a major matter that concerns the survival of our three guards, otherwise not only us, but even his subordinates will not agree! He always offends no one on weekdays, and he will definitely not dare to offend everyone at once. I think he will definitely not participate in the name of physical discomfort. As for whether his subordinates are involved in this matter, he will definitely not care about it. In case of precautions, he will arrange for his trusted servants to keep an eye on him. As long as we brothers work together and follow the plan, we will definitely chop Sun Langzi's head!"
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