Chapter 299 Gathering the troops
Protect!

Confinement is more like it!

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

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

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

But at the same time, he was relieved. He was just imprisoned, so he was safe for the time being.

Zheng Xiao was in a state of confusion. He was surprised that Luo Fu was in collusion with the Dusi Yamen.

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

"I'm sorry, Lord Zheng. There are strong men committing crimes in the city. It would be safer for you to stay in the mansion!" Xu Huazhen said with a smile.

"I have official business to attend to!"

"Sir Zheng, please don't embarrass me!" Xu Huazhen suddenly stopped smiling.

"You are the one who is making things difficult for me!" Zheng Xiao stared at him coldly.

Xu Huazhen shook his head slightly. He looked around and suddenly pulled over a young servant. The long sword at his waist was suddenly unsheathed.

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

But Xu Huazhen ignored his attempt to stop him, and with the blade swung, a trace of blood spilled.

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

In the blink of an eye, he collapsed to the ground weakly.

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

"Sir Zheng, look, some strong men have sneaked into your residence." Xu Huazhen put on a warm smile again.

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

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

At this point he had already understood that the other party was determined to keep him under house arrest.

It's really bold and unscrupulous.

There was no point in saying more. He had no choice but to take it with him obediently.

Fortunately, fortunately, he sent out two people.

This is the only thing Zheng Xiao is thankful for.

……

Tenglongwei.

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

"Dad, this is the salt field's account book!"

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 at 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 weighed less than 10,000 jin, and Yang Zhengshan sold it to the Luo family at 22 wen per jin. After deducting the transportation and sales costs, the Luo family made a profit of about 5 wen.

The salt field earned more than two hundred taels of revenue from selling a batch of salt. This amount may not seem like much, but it is actually a huge profit.

Under normal circumstances, the profits from salt are divided among the salt fields, the Salt Transport Bureau, and the salt merchants. The salt fields take 20%, the Salt Transport Bureau takes about 30%, and the remaining 50% belongs to the big salt merchants.

As for the kitchen owners 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 Bureau, 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 Yamen will be greatly improved.

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

This was when the price of salt dropped to twelve or thirteen cents.

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

Moreover, it is only Jing'an Prefecture now. Yang Zhengshan will not be limited to this prefecture. As long as there is an opportunity in the future, he will definitely expand the scope of salt trading.

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

If the government office was not short-staffed, Yang Zhengshan would not have let Jiang He manage the salt field.

When the government office has enough staff in the future, Jiang He will definitely leave the salt field.

"Okay!" Jiang He had no objection to this. This has always been his character. 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 weapon forging in the yamen.

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

In order to train craftsmen, Yang Zhengshan specially asked the Luo family to open a blacksmith shop, a carpenter shop, an embroidery workshop, etc.

Most of the craftsmen in the Anyuan City Garrison Office came from the Luo family's blacksmith shop and carpentry shop. Now the Luo family's blacksmith shop and carpentry shop also need to train craftsmen for the Tenglong Guard.

In addition, the blacksmith shop and carpenter shop in the Acropolis have also been opened. Next, some young men will be selected from the Tenglong Guards to serve 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 Wei Si 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 was still very satisfied with this.

Nowadays, Tenglongwei has a lot of things to do, and everything is progressing slowly under the promotion of Yang Zhengshan. Improvements can be seen almost every day. Although each improvement is only a little bit, over time, there will be earth-shaking changes in the blink of an eye.

Today, the speed of forging armor has increased a little. Tomorrow, the output of the salt field will increase a little. In a few days, the repair of the Acropolis wall will be completed. And so on. All of these are going hand in hand. "There's not enough iron ore again!"

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

This document needs to 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 was putting his official seal on the door, his personal attendant walked in and said, "Sir, there are guards from the Zheng family outside who want to see you!"

"Zheng family!" Yang Zhengshan raised his head.

"Yes, I came from Liao'an Prefecture." said the attendant.

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

Soon he arrived at 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 rescue him!"

"Tell me about Mr. Zheng's situation!"

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

"What!" Yang Zhengshan's eyes widened.

The officers and soldiers rushed into the Censorate’s Mansion. Is this a rebellion?
Is Luo Fu so courageous?
"General, please save my master!" The two guards knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Yang Zhengshan quickly helped the two of them up and said, "You go and rest first. I will make the decision now!"

After saying that, he hurried back to the main hall.

Luo Fu ordered the soldiers to rush into Zheng Xiao's house. Has this reached the point where the real motive is revealed?
How far has the situation developed now?

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

Do you want to rescue Zheng Xiao?
The answer is yes.

Zheng Xiaogang helped Yang Zhengshan. In the future, Tenglongwei's salt fields and Luo's family will still need the care of Zheng Xiao, the Imperial Inspector of Salt.

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 someone die?
But how to save?
Lead the troops directly there?

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

In Chongshan Town, he was still able to mobilize his soldiers because it was the garrison's duty to patrol the border, and as long as they didn't run too far, it would be acceptable.

However, the garrisons in the heartland of the dynasty did not have the power to mobilize troops.

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

However, some garrison soldiers are responsible for the city's defense and will take turns to enter the city to garrison.

Therefore, there were Liaoan vanguard soldiers in Liaoan Prefecture.

However, the Tenglong Guards had no mission to garrison the city defense, and it was impossible for them to go to Liao'an Prefecture to garrison the city defense.

At the beginning, Jingyuan Marquis Su Gan angered Emperor Chengping by sending troops out of the capital without permission, and was dismissed from office.

If he only brought his personal followers with him, it wouldn't be a big problem. But Luo Fu had already mobilized the soldiers, so he might not be able to control the situation if he only brought 20 personal followers with him.

I must lead the troops there. Yang Zhengshan thought about it, took a deep breath, walked into the study, and wrote a memorial at his desk.

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

The general meaning is, Your Majesty, Lord Zheng is in an urgent situation and his life may be in danger. I can only lead my 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 men and prepare for battle immediately!"

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

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

The first person to rush over was Yang Mingzhi. The four commanders of the Wei Si Yamen were each responsible for the affairs of a guard. They were responsible for the construction of each thousand-household garrison, the training of soldiers, and other matters such as military farming. So they were very busy on weekdays.

Soon, Yang Minghao also ran over.

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

"Remember, keep going fast and don't stop!"

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

"Something happened to Zheng Xiao. The situation is unclear now. I'm going to Liao'an Prefecture next!" Yang Zhengshan explained briefly, and then said, "You guys leave now!"

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

The reason why Yang Zhengshan asked the two of them to deliver the memorial was, firstly, because he was afraid of being intercepted on the way, and secondly, because the two of them had pretty good cultivation.

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

It would take at least six or seven days for a memorial to be sent from Liaodong to Kyoto. If it was sent urgently via express route of 800 miles, it would take about three days.

But Yang Zhengshan had no right to use the 800-mile express, and it could not be used unless it was absolutely necessary. Zheng Xiao was obviously not qualified to use the 800-mile express.

Since it is impossible to use the 800-mile express delivery service of the post station, I will arrange someone to deliver the 800-mile express service myself.

The 800-mile express delivery is not so easy. The post station can constantly change horses and people to complete the 800-mile express delivery like a relay race. If you arrange people to do the 800-mile express delivery yourself, the horses can be changed at the post station, but the people cannot be changed.

This means that Yang Mingzhi and Yang Minghao have to travel long distances. Not to mention ordinary people, even warriors may not be able to hold on.

(End of this chapter)