At noon the next day, the merchants who had been waiting anxiously outside the city for a long time before they went to the nearby government to report the case. When the Fenzhou Yamen and the Fenzhou troops arrived, they found only a dead city.

Everyone knew that the new Datong general Chen Yongfu had left Pingyao County on the first day, and when the Fenzhou soldiers chased him to inform him, they found that the nine thousand Yu soldiers had already set off when they woke up in the morning. They walked out for more than ten miles. Even if someone suspected it, there was no evidence.

The officials and soldiers of Fenzhou were even more anxious than real bandits. Everyone knew that Goldman Sachs and wealth were comparable to the country. Although the city seemed to be in ruins, there must be a lot of valuable things.

The city was searched, and although the shops were destroyed, there were a lot of things inside. There were also some expensive things in the Gao family and Sheng family's private houses. The officers and soldiers in Fenzhou were not bandits, but were better than bandits, and they almost cleaned the city like sweeping the floor.

The bodies of some of the Gao family and Sheng family members were still there, with gold, silver and even more precious jewelry. These signs are enough to show that killing in Pingyao City is not simply a matter of making money, but the officers and soldiers of Fenzhou were very careful. None of these jewelry was spared and all of them were collected.

In Pingyao City, all the valuable things that can be found are swept away. Even some of the stupid goods in the city, even the doors, windows, and beams of collapsed houses, were cleaned by the villagers around. Even if this scene is not a robbery, no one would believe it.

There was not peace in Shanxi, and there were many Green Forest Bandits and Mongol horse thieves. However, if you have the conditions to commit crimes and can carry out such a large-scale burning and destruction, there were only the general Chen Yongfu, the general Chen Yongfu, who was surrounded by Pingyao County. However, even the guesses were all the people dead. The witnesses who could be found outside the city saw that the troops led by General Chen Yongfu of Datong were already set off at noon the day before.

There is no evidence that there is no evidence that more than 9,000 Yu soldiers have committed this major case. Having said that, the strongest troops in the entire Shanxi area are Chen Yongfu's more than 9,000 soldiers. If they are really found out, even if they want to take people, they can't take people. Send that soldier and horse. What if Chen Yongfu eats it? If you really want to start a ruthless force and make a big fuss in Shanxi, wouldn't that be a big disaster?

Whether it is the Fenzhou Prefectural Office or the Shanxi Provincial Administration Commission, they have ordered strict investigations, but after investigation, they are all thunder and rainfalls, and there is no depth at all.

On the third day of Pingyao, some large merchants in Taiyuan City were sent in a letter, with only a few simple words "Translation of foreigners" on it. When the letter was sent, what happened in Pingyao had not yet reached Taiyuan City. When the news spread, all merchants who colluded with Mongolia and Jurchen Tartars were trembling and extremely afraid.

Despite all kinds of terrifying rumors about Chen Yongfu, when the nine thousand Yu soldiers entered the territory of Taiyuan Prefecture, the merchants who came to give gifts and pleased him were betting more heavily because there was no idea where the rumors came from, saying that the merchants who gave gifts in Pingyang Prefecture were all safe and sound, but Fenzhou caused such a big mess. It was because Goldman Sachs and the group of old men who did not serve Henan well.

After this incident, the whole Shanxi suddenly realized that it was obvious that Mr. Chen was not here to guard the border, but to make a fortune, and he made such bloody wealth.

For a moment, the whole Shanxi was silent, and the prestige of the new Datong general was suddenly established. Chen Yongfu had the gold and silver he stolen from Pingyao, and his hands were much more abundant. Now his soldiers no longer arrears of food and wages. After leaving Henan, some of the military morale were floating, the Henan Township soldiers finally stabilized.

The merchants of this era have a surprising virtue, that is, they do not need paper contracts as a guarantee. As long as they have been verbally said, they can actually do it in the next business. This is indeed incredible, but this approach also has a disadvantage. That is, the connection between the general and the semicolon is not so close, and it depends entirely on the loyalty and self-discipline of those who are sent out.

Goldman Sachs and some very loyal shopkeepers arranged outside. They supported Goldman Sachs and their wealth to expand the market for Goldman Sachs and other Shanxi, but after all the bosses and senior shopkeepers were killed, even if they wanted to be loyal, they could not find a loyal partner.

The Zhending Liu family, which has always been suppressed, began to fight back in the business world by "coincidentally", and for a time, the branch secrets opened in eastern Shanxi and in northern Zhili disappeared under the attack of the Liu family either by legal or illegal means.

The business scale of the Liu Family Land in Zhending has almost doubled between August and September. The entire Shanxi business is now guarding against the new Datong General Chen Yongfu. He is very low-key and has no precautions against the Liu family from Northern Zhili. Some people even wait for the Liu family to be unlucky.

Who would have thought that as soon as the Liu family entered Shanxi, the first big business it undertakes was to be responsible for the military supplies of more than 9,000 Henan soldiers in Datong. As of now, it seems that all kinds of shocking things happening in Shanxi have been exposed, and it seems that the mastermind and executors have appeared.

People all lament that Liu Qingyang, the head of the Liu family in Jinzhou, Zhending Prefecture, is really a talented person, but heir of a wealthy family. He can actually do such a decisive decision. Such talents cannot be an official in the court, and this is really a burial of talents. If such talents are trained for a few years, will there be people who restrict Li Meng, Duke of Qi?

As a result, in September, the court really wanted to promote Liu Qingyang, but when he heard that Liu Qingyang was just a juren, there was no further information immediately. All the big men in the court were great talents of Jinshi. It was said that a juren had talent and had to be promoted to become an official. Isn’t this the face of all the adults in the court? Don’t mention it anymore.

After more than 9,000 Henan soldiers entered Datong Prefecture, they realized how difficult the situation here was. There was a reason why the whole country in Shanxi pretended to be confused about such a big thing in Pingyao County.

Not to mention that the Jurchen soldiers and horses once entered the Ming Dynasty from Shanxi. When the refugees fled in Shaanxi and Henan, there were several times when the Tartars entered Northern Zhili. The Shanxi soldiers and Datong border soldiers were all drawn in large numbers. Recently, this time, the general Hou Xu Xun and general Xu Dingguo transferred most of Shanxi's power to the army to suppress the thieves.

According to normal configuration, Datong must have at least 70,000 border soldiers to guard the army. After Chen Yongfu arrived at Datong Prefecture, he ordered the soldiers and horses and found that the number of soldiers on the military list was only 3,000. This requires factors such as the vacancy, and at most, it is less than 2,000 soldiers.

Shanxi is connected with the grassland. There are Mongolian troops to the west and the Qing Jurchens to the east. If they really came from these few holes in Shanxi, they would not be able to withstand them. Of course, these soldiers already included more than 9,000 soldiers brought by General Chen Yongfu.

It turned out that Shanxi was really looking forward to Chen Yongfu's army going to Datong, otherwise he would not feel at ease in Shanxi no matter who it was against a completely empty northern defense line.

Regardless of whether this army from Henan is barbaric or greedy for money or not, it is easy to block the empty defense line of Datong first.

Although he was helpless, since he came, he had to stabilize here. Li Meng sent Oman Garris to lead half of the infantry regiments of firearms to follow him, not just to kill Goldman Sachs and this traitor. Fortunately, Chen Yongfu has a lot of gold and silver in his hands.

With the money and the help of the Liu family in Zhending Prefecture, we recruited civilians, built fortresses at several important passes, and then the army was on guard and stationed.

However, Western Mongolia is currently mainly active in the Western Regions, while Eastern Mongolia and the women are really resting and licking their wounds. Strictly following the policy of Huang Taiji recovering himself first and not attacking rashly, the outside world is extremely quiet, which allows Chen Yongfu, his troops can build defensive fortifications relatively calmly.

There is a section between Hejian Prefecture and Yongping Prefecture, which is under the jurisdiction of Shuntian Prefecture, but there are no prefectures, counties and towns here, only one thousand households - Liangcheng Prefecture.

Shuntian Prefecture is a bachelor, and I know that the Shandong soldiers and horses must pass through the coastal area of ​​Shuntian Prefecture. I simply retreated hundreds of military households in the Qianhu House of Liangcheng to the vicinity of Baodi County. I will ignore the three here and let you enter and exit the Shandong soldiers.

At this time, the coastal areas of Beizhili, except for Dagu in Tianjin and Beitang in Shuntian Prefecture, the rest of the other areas near Haiti were difficult to move.

As a result, when people from Hejian Mansion go to Yongping Mansion, the main transportation force is large trucks. Such a way of action can't get through too many people at once. It's very troublesome.

Moreover, at the end of July, the first military farm was built between Tianjin Sanwei and Jinghai County. Moreover, this farm was just a pioneering and many things were not complete.

What made Hebei General Zhang Jiang and Deputy General Wang Tao a little angry was that in early July, many rumors suddenly came from somewhere, saying that due to insufficient troops in Yongping Prefecture, the defense was not strict at several passes near Halashen, and many Tartar horse bandits and robbers were put in. These horse bandits and robbers were killed and robbed. The main goal was to merchants walking on the road, and the road was not peaceful and extremely dangerous.

When the news came back, it scared many small vendors who wanted to go to Yongping Mansion to do business, but Zhang Jiang and Wang Tao felt a little amused.

The so-called Mongolian horse bandits, who are targeted by robbers, are the rumors of murder and robberies, and Jiaozhou Camp can certainly understand. In the past, there were indeed Mongolian bandits rampant in Yongping Prefecture, but even when the officers and soldiers in Jizhen were at the weakest, there were no so-called Mongolian soldiers coming from the passes north of Yongping Prefecture.

There is a legend that these horse bandits were all military generals in Ji Town coveting the wealth of merchants who came and went to the inner and outer gates of the pass. They wanted to loot but were afraid of violating national laws, so they simply put the horse bandits in and colluded with each other and let these horse bandits rob.

Since the rise of the Jurchen Tartars, most of the forces in Eastern Mongolia have been integrated. Young and strong herders were all divided according to the organization of the Eight Banners. If they entered the pass, it would be a formal military operation of the Tartar army. Such sporadic land horse bandits have been rare in the past thirty or forty years.

The reason why the rumors about the horse bandits such a coincidence is probably related to the establishment of the Tuntian Village in Shandong. Although the Tuntian Village between the Three Guards and Jinghai in Tianjin was initially established, a large number of poor people were integrated into one place, and they were strictly managed and integrated, and they soon became a force.

There were no officers and soldiers in Hejian Prefecture, so this military farm was established. However, if such farms were established in Yongping Prefecture, a force would be established. The advantages that were originally barely possessed by the local tyrants will be gone immediately.

This military farmland is beneficial to the poor, but for those military generals, the landlords have no benefits. Especially when building farmlands in Hejian Prefecture is different from Shandong, many places rely on their strength to occupy land, and many landlords are enclosed and go bankrupt.

Seeing this scene, both the generals of Jizhen and the gentry in Yongping Prefecture were afraid of Jiaozhou Camp, fearing that after Shandong troops entered, they would end up like those landlords in Hejian Prefecture.

Shandong has the strength and there are orders from the court. All they can do is to delay as much as possible and wait for the change of the timing and situation.

This rumor that the horse bandits are rampant is probably one of the tricks to delay, but how could Shandong soldiers be frightened by this? Hebei General Zhang Jiang sent the first team in early August, with an advance team of about 500 people, and his name is also high-sounding. These people were preparing for the army stationed in Yongping Prefecture, choosing the location of camp and military supplies for preparations, etc.

Five hundred people and more than forty carts led by a regiment deputy garrison, named Zhang Kun, and was the distant cousin of the Hebei General Zhang Jiang.

Currently, the only one who can barely be called a general in Shandong is Zhang Jiang and his gang of relatives, Zhang Lin, an old military clerk in Lingshan Vail, and his nephews, who serve a lot in Jiaozhou Camp because they have a military foundation and have a relatively good family background, which is particularly suitable for the Jiaozhou Camp system.

The most prominent of the Hebei General Zhang Jiang, the tribe, was the most prominent, and most of the rest were shaking the position of the deputy garrison of the General Regiment, with almost a dozen people. They also had a small nickname for this in the Jiaozhou Camp, called "Zhang Family General". However, the Zhang family was very taboo about this name. They were not in the same army as much as possible to avoid suspicion. However, this was not intentional.

In this era, they were all big families, and males were prosperous. They were born in a military family like Zhang Lin, so it was normal to have such a situation. Now, the most noble general in Shandong, Ma Gang, the general general of Lianghuai, originally had a family background similar to Zhangjiang, but the population was relatively small. So far, there was only one brother from a distant place in the Dengzhou army, which was not as large as the Zhang family.

Although Li Meng did not express his opinion on this phenomenon, but Sun Chuanting and Yuan Wenhong were very strict with this. If there were two Zhangjiang tribe members in the same regiment as officers, they would definitely be transferred. If the same subordinates had any matters of promoting military merit, they would generally have to be reviewed and strictly evaluated.

Mr. Gongsun and Mr. Yuan advised the general several times, saying that it was the army of Shandong, but the army of the general alone, and they should not be controlled by people from other families. The general responded with a smile. The land of Shandong is only talented, and the talented one should not avoid relatives. If their family members have the ability, what can all generals be in the army?

The details of this matter are unknown, or even true or false, but this rumor that has reached the ears of Hebei General Zhang Jiang.

For Zhang Jiang, who is in a high position, this news can reach him, which means something. What Zhang Jiang can do is to require more strictly. Every general of the same clan promoted by himself is completely reliable and is an excellent person.

Zhang Kun, who led the team this time, is the most powerful military general in Zhangjiang, except for Zhang Jiang. He naturally performed quite well and was qualified to be promoted to this position.

Zhang Kun is 28 years old this year. He turned out to be a general in the Yanzhou Army. He has participated in all the battles between Shandong soldiers and horses in Henan. He has made contributions and promoted them all the way. When he was in the Yanzhou Army, he had already achieved the General Secretary of the Battle of the Qianlong Army. This time, he needed a group of backbones to be enriched. He was also selected to go north.

Officers at all levels in Shandong, even the head coach Li Meng, were tanned during training and exercises, but Zhang Kun looked innocent and nicknamed "Zhang Xiucai".

Although he had a nickname for scholars, Zhang Kun had very limited ink in his belly. He knew a few words, but they all learned after entering Jiaozhou Camp.

This person's usual style is completely standard Qiu Ba Lao, and he is extremely desperate when fighting. The tactical system of Jiaozhou Camp requires strict battlefield discipline and tactical execution. However, Zhang Kun, as the general of the battalion, fought in several battles and was often out of touch with the troops he led. In theory, such people should be severely punished, but the battles Zhang Kun participated in are often victorious, and the reason for this victory is related to his fierce rush. According to Ma Gang, if Zhang Kun could abide by the rules, he should be a general now.

But every time this mistake is offset by military merit, there is always no reward or promotion, so in the adaptation of the VAT reform regiment, he only got the position of deputy garrison in the regiment reform regiment.

But because of his style, he brought out a army that dared to rush and fight. The commander chose to attack and charge, and often chose "Zhang Xiucai".

Yongping Prefecture prepared for survey in advance. Since there were rumors of horse bandits, there were tens of thousands of troops from Ji Town stationed there, and there were hostile local tyrants, which could be said to be a place full of murderous intent and danger. The southeastern part of Shuntian Prefecture was located in it, and reinforcements would not arrive in a short time.
Chapter completed!