Chapter 523
After Chang Yu returned to the palace, his anger was not gone. The hornet's nest was a bit big. Although he had just made achievements, he smashed the flower building, gathered a group to fight, and even beat the military personnel. The nature of the people were too bad and had a very bad influence. If this was stir-fried by someone who was interested, Emperor Chongzhen would not be able to hold back his face and would be angrily denounced him. It was very likely that the military merits of those guys would be reduced.
Fortunately, there were not many onlookers late at night, and most people thought that the trouble was just the soldiers who drank too much, and they were eventually punished by the people from the East Factory. If they learned that these people were soldiers of the Fourth Battalion under the East Factory, some would have passed on it.
But others didn't know that Wang Jiayan clearly understood that he left quickly to give Chang Yu a face, but he could also hold the handle of the East Factory in his hands, which was also Chang Yu's most troublesome thing.
This matter is not suitable for external publicity. It turns out that the image of the East Factory has a very bad impact. Secondly, the emperor's face is not good-looking. Wang Jiayan and Chang Yu have no rift at this time, and he should not say it casually. In order to ensure that, Chang Yu instructed Chunxiang to come to the door and knock on him tomorrow morning.
"Where is the military commander?" Chunxiang asked.
Chang Yu shook his head: "It's better to have less than more than more of a military officer. And they are still being watched by the East Factory now, and they dare to cause trouble for themselves?"
The next morning, at a slight dawn, Chang Yu finished washing from the Neidong Factory Office and went straight to the grass railing field. The eunuchs in Sanbaigongzi Camp were fully armed and ready to go.
During the battle outside the pass, most eunuchs and soldiers were killed and injured. At this time, they returned to the palace and made up the full amount. Those who died in battle entered the martyrs' tomb, and those who were disabled had lifelong pensions. Those who wanted to stay in the palace would arrange some idle positions. Those who wanted to leave the palace would give certain silver subsidies. However, most eunuchs were unwilling to leave the palace because the people outside were too complicated and their eyes were too heartbroken.
Chang Yu didn't say much, he said concisely and went south to kill the thief to achieve success!
Not many Emperor Chongzhen came to Zhuangxing in person, and the morale of the Gongying camp was high. The military battles of the 24th yamen in the inner court were ordered to send some arms, which made Chang Yu sigh. He secretly trained the eunuch army, and even secretly purchased weapons from the Beijing camp fuel mice, and even hid them. Even his own weapons were sandwiched in firewood and brought them into the palace.
Now, the emperor personally grants arms, and is still a weapon specially made for Danai. Today is different from the past!
Gongziying left the imperial city from Dong'anmen. The other three battalions under Dongchang had been in line for a long time. Then the fourth battalion set out and headed straight to Zhengyangmen to leave the city.
Chang Yu looked back at the boy in the imperial city outside Dong'anmen Gate and bowed and smiled slightly.
The young man shouted: "I have watched the Tartars Beijing, but I haven't seen the thief yet."
Chang Yu laughed: "As you wish", bowed and said goodbye, rushed south, and followed him to the attendant.
More than a thousand iron cavalry in the four camps, and other servants escorted the baggage and the back, they went out of Zhengyang Gate and headed straight for Yongding Gate, attracting people to watch and discuss.
There are those who are wise and understand the following: This is the men of the eunuch of the East Factory who went south to govern the army.
The people were thunderous and ruthless eunuch of the East Factory. I heard that he was the great victory in Taiyuan and Taiyuan. Outside the pass, Ningyuan won a great victory. This time he went to Baoding, it should be a great victory...
Some people also said that the eunuch killed too much, Taiyuan killed tens of thousands of thieves outside the city, and Ningyuan brought back nearly 10,000 Tartar heads to Beijing in the battle...
Everyone talked a lot, and the little eunuch turned a deaf ear and went out of the city to go south.
At the same time, Li Yan's troops in the north of the city had already set up camp and went southeast of the city to chase Chang Yu. As for the messy Tartar heads all over the ground, they waited for the people from the Beijing camp to take over and send them to the Gubeikou Great Wall to build Jingguan.
On the top of Wansui Mountain in the Forbidden City, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the southern city and whispered, but no one heard of it. After a long time, he turned around and went down the mountain. But he met Princess Kunxing halfway up the mountain and said, "Yu'er, I'm not afraid of the wind and cold when I go up the mountain early in the morning."
Zhu Ma's face was flushed and she was a little panicked: "When I go back to my father, my child is wearing thick clothes, and the weather is pretty good today, not cold."
Emperor Chongzhen nodded: "Look at the scenery in this imperial city more. After a while, it will not be so convenient."
"Father" Zhu Mai raised her mouth, Emperor Chongzhen laughed a few times, and said, "You can play by yourself." Then he turned around and went down the mountain.
Zhu Mei sighed slowly and walked up the top of the mountain to look south. She felt upset for no reason and kicked the grass beside her, and the harem maids behind her were very nervous.
When the market opens at dawn, Jiangmi Lane, as the largest grain wholesale and retail market in Beijing, is always bustling. In addition to the recent hot news, the Octopus Chamber of Commerce is the one that shops chat on the streets usually talk.
Song Siyang, the owner of the Octopus Chamber of Commerce, was originally just a gangster in Nancheng, and the rice shop was only a bit large in Jiangmi Lane. But in the blink of an eye, the Song family rice shop was renovated and expanded to become the largest in Jiangmi Lane.
What was even more surprising was that Song Siyang's transactions were almost in and out. He bought one-third of the grain ships entering Jiangmi Lane every day, but few sold them. Especially Octopus sometimes had high bids to grab the grain source, which caused other grain merchants to join forces to fight a price war with him.
The wool came from the sheep, and the grain merchants robbed the grain source and raised the purchase price, but the people in the end were the people in the capital. The grain prices changed three times a day. When they saw that they became more and more messy, the government issued documents, and those who disrupted the price of goods were confiscated. For a while, the grain merchants in the capital were in danger, and the grain prices returned to normal overnight.
But only Song Siyang from the Octopus Chamber of Commerce did his own thing and continued to buy it every day, but only took out some for sale. It was obviously garrisoning grain. Isn’t this disrupting the market order?
Someone went to report it, but soon the entire Jiangmi Lane, or the grain merchants in the capital, heard a news that Octopus was an imperial merchant, and they were responsible for purchasing military rations for the court!
So that's it. For a time, the Octopus Chamber of Commerce became famous in the capital, and everyone was envious. How many people dare to ask about the world if they can use the imperial court to intervene in court projects!
Rumors from the outside world are flying everywhere, but Song Siyang is busy and has no time to take care of it. Octopus is now a royal merchant. As soon as it goes public, it takes a big project, collects supply and transports military rations for several armies to travel south. Each link is not a difficult task that ordinary people can imagine, especially in this chaotic era.
Hearing that Changyu was about to go south early in the morning, Song Siyang hurried to see him off at Yongding Gate but saw dust flying. The little eunuch had already left. He had a little regret and hurriedly came back in the carriage. There was something big to deal with today.
I went to the Ministry of Revenue yesterday. Because Chang Yu and Emperor Chongzhen both greeted him, the Minister of Revenue Ni Yuanlu personally received him, asked some questions, and also approved the money, asking him to go and take it today.
Does Octopus have money now?
Yes, the total wealth of the Twelve Taibao people is not a small amount, and there are also the guard generals who are close to Chang Yu, such as the guards of the twelve Taibao guards, Cheng Ming, and other personal guards who are close to Chang Yu, and Wu Mengming has put together a coffin book, not to mention that Chang Yu has invested so much money, and behind Octopus is a large consortium with a strong family.
Is Octopus short of money?
In shortage, military rations purchase requires a large amount of cash. In addition, the shops are now large, although they are not too short of a shortage, they are almost overwhelmed. Fortunately, Chang Yu has another silver deposit here when he comes back, which is urgently needed to be used for turnover.
As soon as he arrived in the store, a servant reported the news. The Dongchang commander of the Qianhu Chunxiang and the Jinyiwei Wu Mengming came to see him. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!