“Second rank…”

After listening to Wang Wen's decision, Zhang Junwu, as the Minister of War, couldn't help but take a breath of breath for his big moves. Because, as the Minister of War, he was the second-rank in terms of grade.

If Wei Zheng was also a second-rank official, then Wei Zheng was already comparable to them in terms of rank. The only difference is that Wei Zheng was a local official and he was a Beijing official. In terms of power, he might be more powerful than Wei Zheng.

However, despite the shock, Zhang Junwu still said very readily: "It's the second-rank. I don't believe that a second-rank rank capable general who holds tens of thousands of elite soldiers has always led his troops and can still not be suspicious of the emperor..."

Just as the various forces in the court began a new conspiracy against Wei Zheng, the wasteland redemption plan in Datong Prefecture was already in full swing.

The king of kings was not wrong at the beginning. Under the temptation of several times of the interests, the officials, gentry and landlords who were already disappointed with God almost did not expect the drought in front of him. Without any hesitation, they took the land deed and went to the General's Mansion to exchange for silver.

As more and more land deeds in Datong Prefecture fell into the General's Mansion, a lot of silver quickly flowed out of the General's Mansion like flowing water.

As he watched the 200,000 taels of silver he had drawn from the Tiger and Leopard Army was about to be used up, Zhou Shuyuan, as the butler, began to be anxious.

I directly found Wei Zheng and wanted to ask why the so-called "wool comes from sheep" plan has not yet been unfolded.

After learning about Zhou Shuyuan's purpose, Wei Zheng was not as anxious as he imagined. Instead, he took out a list and handed it to Zhou Shuyuan, who was confused.

Looking at the list of dozens of names and addresses written in his hand, Zhou Shuyuan's face showed a puzzled expression.

With a puzzled look on his face, he asked, "Sir, you are..."

Wei Zheng did not hesitate and explained directly: "These are some of the top officials, gentry and landlords in Datong Prefecture. Not only that, these people have not yet traded with our General Mansion, and did not give us General Mansion face, and held those wastelands that had no effect tightly in their own hands like treasures."

"In addition, I also learned that among these people, almost half of the families deliberately held the fields in their hands to prevent us from farming, and did not sell them to our General's Mansion..."

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng's body emitted a trace of murderous aura directly outward.

Seeing this, Zhou Shuyuan seemed to understand something. He asked to Wei Zheng thoughtfully: "Sir, you are planning to use these people to make money and wasteland from them..."

"But these people just don't sell the land to us, and it's not illegal. How can we get the silver and land from them? Is the general planning to dispatch troops to rob them directly..."

Wei Zheng shook his head and denied it: "Of course I won't rob. We are an official army, not a bandit. Now we have finally got a piece of our own territory and we are starting to develop. I don't want to be noticed by the court because of these trivial matters and force the court to transfer our Tiger and Leopard Army from the Datong Mansion that we have worked hard to get."

Zhou Shuyuan's expression of confusion became even stronger, and he continued to ask with confusion, "What does the general mean?"

After a strange smile flashed across Wei Zheng's face, he replied to Zhou Shuyuan: "Military, have you forgotten the predecessor of our Tiger and Leopard Army, which is the old master's ability?"

"There are now surrounding Datong Prefecture with rebels eyeing covetously. It is very normal for one or two rebels to touch our Datong Prefecture and then burn and kill and loot our Datong Prefecture. Since these officials, gentry and landlords do not support us, then our General Office has no reason to protect them. Since they do not protect them, it is normal for them to be robbed by the rebels. No matter who it is, it is impossible to say that our General Office of Datong Prefecture does not do anything..."

At this time, if Zhou Shuyuan still didn't understand Wei Zheng's thoughts, then he would be in vain as a military advisor.

So, a trace of the same strange smile appeared on Zhou Shuyuan's face and asked Wei Zheng: "Sir, I don't know who you plan to do this..."

"Wang Feng... Wang Feng is flexible, decisive in his work, and does not drag his feet... Let him do this. He will never leave any tails behind... You immediately take this list and find Wang Feng and let him draw a battalion from the Tiger and Leopard Army to perform the mission."

"As for the goal of the mission, we will first select five of the five most famous people from this list. Tell Wang Feng that we must not drag the water when taking action. If we should kill people, kill people, and burn houses. We must not be polite. As for the food and silver we snatched, we must transport all the food and silver we snatched back. If there is not enough manpower, we will draw a pack horse from the baggage camp to help everyone transport..."

Zhoujia Fort, less than 30 miles west of Datong City, covers an area of ​​more than ten acres and is made of large stones and is two feet tall. It is very eye-catchingly built in the village, forming a very sharp contrast with other thatched huts in the village.

In this earthen castle, the largest landlord in the surrounding area is tens of miles, the Zhou family...

Because someone from the Zhou family's ancestors had been an official, and the current head of the Zhou family was a very greedy and cruel person. Taking advantage of the three consecutive years of drought, tens of thousands of acres of land in the center of Zhou family, the head of Zhou family took all the land in his hands through various means, and became the real local emperor of Zhou family.

In order to avoid the large amount of grain stored in the hands being depreciated after the military farming plan of the General Office began, the head of the Zhou family made a decision to refuse to trade with the General Office after receiving the notice issued by the prefect.

Not only that, after the so-called imperial officials of Wang Yuanwaiba moved out and promised many benefits to the Zhou family, the Zhou family's idea and decision to refuse to trade with the General Office became more determined.

As night began to cover this Datong Mansion, the head of the Zhou family, who had spent dinner, fantasized that he was valued by the court officials and allowed the Zhou family to carry forward it in his own hands.

A series of explosions like thunder suddenly reached the ears of the head of the Zhou family.

Before he could react from his shock, the closed door of the room was pushed open from outside.

Seeing the head of the family who was still naked on the bed, the official who rushed into the room didn't care about the superiority and shouted directly to the head of the family: "Master, something happened... Bandits, bandits have entered our Zhou family..."

The head of the Zhou family suddenly sat up from the bed and asked in a shocked look: "Bandits, how could it be... This is Datong Mansion, and the General Mansion has just wiped out 10,000 elite rebels, how could there be bandits..."

Perhaps in order to prove his suspicion, as soon as he finished speaking, the deafening cry of killing came to his ears under the night...

"Kill.... Kill the Zhou family, grab money, grab food, grab women..."

"Ah... it's really a bandit..." Hearing this, a scream quickly came from the mouth of the head of the family. Not only that, the facial expression, which was full of doubt just now, turned pale like the changing weather.

Looking at the same frightened official family in front of me, I listened to the shouts of killing outside the door getting closer and closer to me.

After just a moment of silence, the head of the family reacted from fear. Then, he shouted to the official family in front of him: "Where are the servants and the guards, let them kill the bandits out of Zhoujiabao immediately and protect Zhoujiabao..."

The official shook his head and replied: "Master, it's too late... The rebels have entered Zhoujiabao. The hundreds of guards we trained are no match for them at all... It's better to ask the guards and guards to protect the master and leave Zhoujiabao immediately. It's important to save your life."

"How come it was so fast that there was a circle of two meters high city walls around Zhoujiabao. How did the bandits come in..." The head of the family asked loudly after another shocked expression on his face.

The official shook his head and replied: "Master, I don't know... After hearing a few explosions, I saw a few gaps in the city wall as high as two meters. Hundreds of bandits, like wolves, rushed into our Zhoujiabao along the gap and killed everyone they saw..."

"Oh no, it must be because we were too careless during this period, which made the bandits take advantage of the loopholes... Then why are you still standing there? Immediately summon the servants, bring me softness and protect me to retreat from the back door... Hurry..." At this time, the head of the family also began to worry. After a trace of regret appeared on his face, he roared at the butler in order to save his life.

It turned out that before the general of the Datong Mansion of Weizheng merchants, in order to prevent the rebels from entering Datong Mansion, the entire Datong Mansion, all the officials, gentry and landlords who had the strength would build their homes into forts and train their servants to protect the hospital. Beware of bandits that might appear at any time and protect themselves.

However, after the great news of Datong General's Office winning a great victory in Datong Prefecture and the good news of annihilation of tens of thousands of rebels quickly spread in Datong Prefecture, most officials, gentry and landlords believed that as long as the Tiger and Leopard Army was in Datong Prefecture for one day, the rebels would not dare to attack Datong Prefecture at will.

Since Datong Mansion is safe, then you are safe.

So, in order to save money, these officials, gentry and landlords began to relax their training in protecting the hospital. The Zhou family in front of them was one of them.

Wang Feng, the commander of the secret operation "The wool comes from the sheep", saw this loophole and decided to launch a night sneak attack on the target of the operation, that is, the Zhou family in front of him.

Using the Zhou family's slack defense, under the cover of night, the ** bag was secretly buried at the foot of the Zhou family's wall.

Detonate the ** and blow up the city wall. Then, without any preparations in the Zhou family, they rushed into the Zhou family.

Wang Feng was confident that with the 300 soldiers who had been through the battlefield for a long time, as long as he could rush into Zhoujiabao, there would be no suspense in the next battle.
Chapter completed!