Chapter 299: Gathering troops

Protection!

Confinement is more like that!

What kind of strong man dares to commit crimes in the city?

Even if there are strong men, it should be the government office that should deal with it. The Dusi Yamen is not responsible for arresting thieves.

When Zheng Xiao heard him say this, he already knew that Luo Fu wanted to confine him.

But at the same time, he was relieved. It was just confinement, so he was safe for the time being.

Zheng Xiao thought about it in his mind. Luo Fu had colluded with the Dusi Yamen, which was beyond his expectation.

"Get out of the way, I want to go out!" Zheng Xiao wanted to test the extent of the other party.

"Sorry, Lord Zheng, there are strong men committing crimes in the city. It is safer for Lord Zheng to stay in the mansion!" Xu Huazhen still said with a smile.

"I have official business to be busy!"

"Lord Zheng, don't embarrass me!" Xu Huazhen suddenly put away his smile.

"You are embarrassing me!" Zheng Xiao stared at him coldly.

Xu Huazhen shook his head slightly, looked around, and suddenly pulled over a young servant, and drew out the long sword from his waist.

Zheng Xiao's pupils shrank suddenly, "Stop!"

But Xu Huazhen ignored his stop, and the blade swung horizontally, and a trace of blood fell.

The servant's frightened face froze instantly, his lips trembled slightly, and his eyes looked at Zheng Xiao pleadingly.

In a breath, he collapsed to the ground weakly.

Jiang Yuan's face changed drastically, and he drew out his long sword to block Zheng Xiao.

"Master Zheng, look, a strong man has sneaked into your mansion." Xu Huazhen put on a warm smile on his face again.

Zheng Xiao stared at him with gritted teeth, his eyes like spitting fire.

But he didn't say anything in the end, just flicked his sleeves and walked into the study.

At this time, he already understood that the other party was determined to put him under house arrest.

It was really bold and unscrupulous.

There was no point in saying more, he had no choice but to take him with him honestly.

Fortunately, fortunately, he sent two people out.

This is the only thing Zheng Xiao is thankful for.

…

Tenglongwei.

The first batch of salt produced by the salt field had just been transported away, and Jiang He came to Yang Zhengshan's study with the account book.

"Dad, this is the account book of the salt field!"

Yang Zhengshan took the account book and glanced at it casually.

It cost more than 800 taels of silver to build the salt field, and the workers of the salt field have not yet received their monthly wages, so the current expenditure of the salt field is only more than 800 taels.

The first batch of salt was less than 10,000 catties, and Yang Zhengshan sold it to the Luo family at a price of 22 wen per catty. After deducting the transportation and sales costs, the Luo family made a profit of about 5 wen.

The salt field sold a batch of salt and had an income of more than 200 taels. This amount does not seem to be much, but it is definitely a huge profit.

Under normal circumstances, the profit of salt is divided by the salt field, the salt transport department, and the salt merchants. The salt field accounts for 20%, the salt transport department accounts for about 30%, and the remaining 50% belongs to the big salt merchants.

As for the cooks and other people involved in the salt trade, they are just a group of workers who only earn hard-earned money.

At present, Tenglongwei plays the dual role of the salt field and the salt transport department, accounting for almost 70% of the profits, and the Luo family accounts for less than 30%.

Once the output of the salt field is increased, the income of the Tenglongwei government office will be greatly improved.

According to Yang Zhengshan's estimate, if Tenglongwei only occupies the salt trade in Jing'an Prefecture, it can earn about 10,000 taels of silver every year.

This is when the price of salt drops to twelve or thirteen wen.

Ten thousand taels of silver may not seem much, but it is a stable and continuous income.

And now it is only the territory of Jing'an Prefecture. Yang Zhengshan will not be limited to the territory of one prefecture. As long as there is a chance in the future, he will definitely expand the scope of salt trade.

"Not bad, you continue to keep an eye on the follow-up plan. By the way, let Wenhua arrange someone to help you. After all, this salt field belongs to the government office, and it will be managed by the people of the government office in the future!" Yang Zhengshan said.

If the government office is not short of staff now, Yang Zhengshan will not let Jiang He manage the salt field.

When the yamen has enough manpower in the future, Jiang He will definitely leave the salt field.

"Okay!" Jiang He had no objection to this. His character has always been like this. He doesn't fight or compete. He does whatever Yang Zhengshan asks him to do.

After Jiang He left, Yang Zhengshan looked down at the recent situation of forging weapons and armor in the yamen.

In recent days, Anyuan City has sent another batch of craftsmen. These craftsmen are not from the garrison yamen, but from the blacksmith shop and carpenter shop of the Luo family.

In order to train craftsmen, Yang Zhengshan specially asked the Luo family to open blacksmith shops, carpenter shops, embroidery workshops, etc.

Most of the craftsmen in the Anyuan City Garrison Yamen came from the blacksmith shops and carpenter shops of the Luo family. Now the blacksmith shops and carpenter shops of the Luo family will also train craftsmen for the Tenglong Guard.

In addition, the blacksmith shops and carpenter shops in the city have also been opened. Next, some young people will be selected from the Tenglong Guard as apprentices, and a group will also be selected from the engineering team.

With the addition of new craftsmen, the production speed of the forging workshop of the Weisi Yamen has increased a lot, especially the forging speed of iron armor, which can produce fifteen sets of iron armor every month.

This is already a big improvement.

Yang Zhengshan is still very satisfied with this.

Nowadays, Tenglongwei has many things to do, and everything is slowly moving forward under the promotion of Yang Zhengshan. Almost every day, we can see the improvement. Although each improvement is a little bit, but over time, it will be a huge change in the blink of an eye.

Today, the speed of forging iron armor has increased a little, tomorrow the output of the salt field will increase a little, and in a few days, the repair of the city wall will be completed, and so on, and so on, all go hand in hand.

"Iron ore is not enough again!"

Yang Zhengshan looked at the document handed over by Zhou Ren, shook his head helplessly, and then signed and stamped the document.

This document must be sent to the Central Military Governor's Office, and then the Central Military Governor's Office will allocate iron ore to Tenglongwei.

The previous iron ore was transported from Chongshan Town, and it should be transported from other places next.

Just as Yang Zhengshan stamped his official seal, the personal attendant outside the door walked in, "Sir, there are guards from the Zheng family outside the door asking to see you!"

"Zheng family!" Yang Zhengshan raised his head.

"Yes, they came from Liao'an Prefecture." The personal attendant said.

Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes slightly, and immediately stood up and walked out the door.

Soon he came to the gatehouse of the Weisi Yamen and met two guards.

"Greetings, General Yang!"

"Well, why are you here? But something happened to Lord Zheng!" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"My master asked the general to save him!"

"Tell me about the situation of Master Zheng!"

The two guards looked at each other and said, "When we left, we found that soldiers rushed into the mansion!"

"What!" Yang Zhengshan's eyes widened.

The soldiers rushed into the censor's mansion. Is this a rebellion?

Does Luo Fu have such courage?

"Please save my master!" The two guards knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Yang Zhengshan hurriedly helped the two up and said, "You go and rest first, I will make a decision now!"

After that, he hurried back to the main hall.

Luo Fu asked the soldiers to rush into Zheng Xiao's mansion. Has this reached the point where the truth is revealed?

How far has the situation developed now?

After returning to the main hall, Yang Zhengshan paced back and forth in the hall.

Should we save Zheng Xiao?

The answer is yes.

Zheng Xiaogang helped Yang Zhengshan. In the future, Tenglongwei's salt field and Luo's family will need Zheng Xiao, the salt inspector, to take care of them.

Moreover, Zheng Xiao is Liu Yuanfu's student, and Liu Yuanfu still values ​​Zheng Xiao very much.

How could Yang Zhengshan just stand by and watch him die?

But how to save him?

Directly lead the troops there?

As a commander, he did not have the power to mobilize troops.

In Chongshan Town, he could still mobilize his soldiers, because it was the duty of the garrison yamen to patrol the border, and as long as they did not run too far, it was acceptable.

But in the garrisons in the heart of the dynasty, each garrison did not have the power to mobilize troops.

Even the Dusi yamen could not mobilize the garrison soldiers at will.

However, some garrison soldiers were responsible for the city defense mission, and would take turns to enter the prefecture city to garrison.

So there were Liaoan vanguard soldiers in Liaoan Prefecture.

But Tenglongwei had no mission to garrison the city defense, and it was impossible for it to go to Liaoan Prefecture to garrison the city defense.

At the beginning, Jingyuan Marquis Su Qian angered Emperor Chengping because he sent troops out of the capital without permission, and ended up being dismissed from office.

If he only took his personal followers with him, it would not be a big problem. But Luo Fu had already mobilized the officers and soldiers, so he was afraid that he would not be able to control the situation with only 20 personal followers.

He had to bring troops with him. Yang Zhengshan thought about it, then took a deep breath, stepped into the study, and wrote a memorial at the desk.

The content of the memorial was very simple, just telling the truth.

The general meaning was that Your Majesty, Mr. Zheng was in an emergency and might be in danger of his life. I can only lead the troops to help him. If Your Majesty blames me, I am willing to plead guilty and accept the punishment!

"Come here, tell Song Dashan to gather his troops immediately and prepare for battle!"

"Order Yang Mingzhi and Yang Minghao to come to see me immediately!"

Following Yang Zhengshan's order, several personal followers outside the door responded and went to pass the order.

The first person to come over was Yang Mingzhi. The four commanders of the Weisi Yamen were responsible for the affairs of one guard, the construction of each thousand households and each garrison, the training of soldiers, and the affairs of garrison farming. They were all responsible for all of them, so they were also very busy on weekdays.

Soon, Yang Minghao also ran over.

The two brothers came, and Yang Zhengshan immediately handed them the two memorials in his hand and said, "Now you two immediately send these two memorials to Kyoto!"

"Remember, ride fast all the way and don't stop!"

The two brothers were slightly startled, and Yang Minghao asked, "Dad, what happened?"

"Zheng Xiao is in trouble, and the situation is unclear now. Next, I will go to Liao'an Prefecture!" Yang Zhengshan explained briefly, and then said, "You set off now!"

"Yes!" Although the two brothers still had many questions in their hearts, seeing Yang Zhengshan so anxious, they did not dare to ask more. The two responded and walked quickly towards the stable!

The reason why Yang Zhengshan asked them to deliver the memorial was, firstly, because he was afraid of being intercepted on the road, and secondly, their cultivation was not bad.

According to the normal procedure, the memorial should be delivered by the post station, but the post station was not fast in delivering the memorial.

It would take at least six or seven days for the memorial to be delivered from Liaodong to Kyoto. If it was delivered by express delivery of 800 miles, it would take about three days.

But Yang Zhengshan had no right to use the express delivery of 800 miles, and he could not use it unless it was absolutely necessary. Zheng Xiao was obviously not qualified to use the express delivery of 800 miles.

Since the express delivery of 800 miles could not be used by the post station, he would arrange someone to deliver it by himself.

The express delivery of 800 miles was not so easy to deliver. The post station could constantly change horses and people, just like a relay race to complete the express delivery of 800 miles. If he arranged someone to deliver the express delivery of 800 miles by himself, the horse could be changed at the post station, but the person could not be changed.

This also meant that Yang Mingzhi and Yang Minghao had to travel a long distance. Not to mention ordinary people, even warriors might not be able to hold on.