Chapter 9: Preparations for the South

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With such an arrangement, the monthly income of thousands of taels of these family properties is enough to make a thriving Qin Mansion.

The remaining 50,000 taels, except for 10,000 taels that Zhu Cihong honored his mother, were all included in the military expenses prepared.

With such a huge amount of family property, Zhu Cihong naturally needs a trustworthy person like Si En to keep it and guard it. In addition, several houses around the Qin Mansion in the clarification workshop were also easily purchased by Zhu Cihong, and the mansions were expanded to settle more households.

For example, Zhu Cihong got a group of people from the Beijing camp.

Fortunately, except for a dozen or so old and frail craftsmen who were really not suitable for traveling far in the craftsman compound, most of the other craftsmen decided to follow Zhu Cihong to the south. Otherwise, this group of people from the Beijing camp would not be able to live.

It's just that because Zhu Cihong's old family members are really a bit rough and calculated, Zhu Cihong had to let Si Qi take the old family members in the clarification workshop to Tongzhou first, and wait for Zhu Cihong's follow-up team to converge after Si Qi has deployed the fleet in Tongzhou.

These craftsmen have no complaints about following Zhu Cihong. For them, Jingshi is just a place to escape from the famine.

It is obviously Master Zhu Cihong who can really get them out of famine and poverty, not Jingshi, a huge city that is so indifferent that people die on the road every day.

The craftsmen in the Qingfang house add up to hundreds of people before and after, including relatives.

But if you think that this is all the people who want to follow Zhu Cihong south, then I am afraid that Zhu Cihong is still a little underestimated.

Don't forget, there is also the right post of the five military camps in Beijing.

This Jingying forbidden army, which was the son of the rebel country, was indeed exempted from punishment as Zhu Cihong promised at the beginning. The offright crime was indeed forgiven.

But an army that has participated in the rebellion will not only be trusted by the court generals, but also the comrades in arms and even their wives and children will look at it differently.

At this time, Ma Shaoyu presided over the action of eliminating the Beijing Battalion, and naturally gave the quota of 6,000 people in the Beijing Battalion to the right post of the Fifth Army Battalion.

Suddenly, the upper and lower soldiers at the right post of the Fifth Army Camp lost their jobs one after another.

And at this time, when they knew that Zhu Cihong was recruiting family members here, they naturally ran into the old seventeen's house to ask.

It just so happened that there was an unwitting rumor around them about the appearance of the old seventeen.

The old seventeen and one family heads are married in January, eleven or two months.

A brand new housekeeping suit that is light and warm.

Ordinary people work hard and eat meat every day.

The armor and equipment are all fine.

On the day of the surrender, Zhu Cihong personally accompanied him for the night. After one incident after another was recalled, 471 of the 613 wounded soldiers who came back that year ran to ask about Zhu Cihong's family.

The remaining 2,000 people, and more than 1,600 people, were finally inspected by Zhu Cihong in batches, and after eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled, from the remaining 973 people, according to their reputations, appearances, and behaviors, they eliminated the treacherous, lazy, and unscrupulous people, and finally retained more than 300 people who were willing to work in the countryside of Gyeonggi to go to the farms, and retained more than 100 people to work in various shops.

In the end, under the personal auspices of Zhu Cihong. A hundred elite soldiers with capable and experienced skills were selected from among the wounded soldiers who came back, and the official family team was formed. He also selected the remaining 500 wounded soldiers and honest soldiers on the right sentry, and asked Fu Rugui to take them to the farms in the countryside of Gyeonggi for training, and it would not be long before a group of 100 people would follow Zhu Cihong's Linqing team.

After such an arrangement in Beijing, Zhu Cihong was so tired that his feet did not touch the ground for nearly half a month, and he was anxious.

However, after finishing his work, Zhu Cihong didn't have to rest. Because, another group of men and horses to be arranged to the south is waiting for him to arrange.

Naturally, it is this official team of 100 people. The team is the old seventeen. The old seventeen surname is Shi, the seventh in the family, there is no name and surname, and over time, he is called the old seventeen by the robe, so that even his real name is forgotten. Zhu Cihong gave the old seventeen a name called Shi Zhanbang on a whim, but the other family members still disliked the name and it was difficult to remember, and still shouted the old seventeen, at most when it was serious, he called the team upright.

With such a transfer of several hundred people to the south, Zhu Cihong naturally needs to make a little preparation.

Split into at least three teams, front and back. Then I have to arrange logistics and supplies, the diet and daily life of hundreds of people, there is no logistics team, and Zhu Cihong has to do everything himself.

After finishing the arrangement of the family team, when Zhu Cihong saw Chang Zhilang waiting for him with a smile at home, he secretly screamed in his heart that he almost forgot the arrangement of the Guozijian.

Chang Zhilang, who came, was naturally the first to call out the prisoner Chang Zhilang who followed Zhu Cihong in the rectification of the household department.

Chang Zhilang came to find it, naturally to follow Zhu Cihong to the south.

For someone to follow, Zhu Cihong is naturally a corporal of Lixian, and welcomes such a team from the bottom of his heart.

After a brief chat about the situation of the 22 prisoners in Beijing, I learned that this group of prisoners had both the big Sinong regarded as a foil for his cronies in the household department, and the officials of the Beijing faction deliberately avoided it.

Only when they knew that Zhu Cihong had taken the post of the Linqing Tax Division of the Ministry of Households, Chang Zhilang met with 22 prisoners, and after learning that there were also five people who were willing to follow Zhu Cihong south, they immediately ran to Qin Xia to ask if he was willing to accept it.

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong would hesitate, and naturally welcomed it gladly.

In this way, Zhu Cihong had to add six more people and arrange it himself, and then announced that he was ready to go and marched in batches.

Helpless, Zhu Cihong, a mere six-grade petty official, really didn't dare to swagger in the Beijing Division.

Under Zhu Cihong's deliberate concealment, all of Zhu Cihong's horses finally converged in Tongzhou safely, and they went south, and there was no need to avoid it.

With the rectification of the household department, a major corruption case in Beijing was brought out. I don't know how many eunuchs in Jingshi were in dilapidated homes for a while. Similarly, I don't know how many people have been promoted and embarked on new heights in life.

In such a context, it is not very noticeable that a prisoner named Qin Xia was suddenly dispatched to the Linqing Tax Branch of the Ministry of Household Affairs as the director.

Only Zhu Cihong's relatives and friends will clearly know what kind of position the Linqing Tax Division of the Household Department is, and Zhu Cihong ...... It is the person who stirred up the Jinghua storm before.

After Zhu Cihong and Si Qi and their families gathered in Tongzhou, they merged the cars and ships, and traveled southward along the way, with more than a dozen large ships and small boats stretching wide, and finally there was no need to hide their whereabouts.

When you get to the canal, no one can look inside when you get on the boat. Zhu Cihong and his entourage, totaling hundreds of people, can finally hide without fatigue.

When Zhu Cihong rushed to Tongzhou and set off, the time had already reached April 11 in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Zhu Cihong finally thought that he could relax for a while.

As a result, Si Qi and Lao Seventeen, who were waiting for Zhu Cihong, did not expect that since Zhu Cihong received an urgent private message from Si En in Beijing, his face sank like water, and he only took Si Qi and Lao Seventeen to ask for the fastest official ship alone, all the way to cross the bridge without customs, day and night, and the first to dare to Linqing.

Without him, the private messages were all information about the Henan war situation from Beijing.