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Chapter 293 This Wang Zhaozheng is really a wonderful person!

In an independent courtyard in the backyard of the chariot shop outside Fuchengmen.

Zhang Cheng said to Niu Sheng: "Niu Sheng, I think you should stay here. Didn't the restaurant in the city find a manager? Make arrangements in the next few days and I will meet him."

After a pause, Zhang Cheng said again: "You stay in Beijing to be in charge, and you can choose some suitable people to be the shopkeepers in terms of business operations. When I return to Dushi this time, I will send you two teams of sergeants.
In the future, not only the capital side, but also Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, and even Hejian Mansion and Shunde Mansion in the south will have some footholds. In addition to chariot and horse shops, grain stores and restaurants will also be opened. "

"General, we will never frown when we go to battle to kill thieves, but we are really scratching our heads here. We are all generals in this life, and we dare not be vague about what we are told, but we are afraid that we will miss the general. It's a big deal." Niu Sheng used Jiu Jin to reveal his innermost feelings.

Chen Zhong continued his words from the side, saying: "Niu Sheng, you are a man, and the general left you here in the capital. ah."

Niu Sheng was embarrassed by what he said and smiled, but Wei Zhice next to him reminded: "Niuzi, please introduce the situation of Wang Zhaozheng to the general, so that the general can understand first."

After he reminded, Niu Sheng just remembered, and hurriedly said: "General, although this Wang Zhaozheng is also a scholar, he doesn't care much about fame and fortune, but he is very proficient in eating, drinking and having fun, and he is also quite tactful in human relationships. It’s just extravagant, not a master’s material.”

"Oh, you actually found such a character?"

Zhang Cheng seemed very interested, and he continued: "This kind of person is very suitable for activities in the capital. Although he has a status of a scholar, although it is a bit low, it is more convenient than me to communicate with this official."

Wei Zhice then said: "General, this Wang Zhaozheng is the wife and nephew of Yu Yushi's family. I found him two years ago. The original intention of the family is to let him study in Beijing, so that he can take the imperial examination next year.
But he has been lingering here since then, unwilling to return home, that Yu Yushi has been worrying about this all the time, when I returned to the capital last time, Yu Yushi talked to me about this matter, so I called Wang Zhaozheng, A stubborn master indeed,
He has only been in Beijing for more than two years, and he is indeed omnipotent in listening to opera and singing music, playing cards, drinking, walking birds and weaving. I saw that he was very smart, so I asked him to take care of our Tongchun Tower first. Our Tongchun Tower is indeed well-known among ordinary officials in Beijing. "

Niu Sheng next to him also added: "General, this Wang Xiucai is really powerful. We didn't expect a great scholar to be able to crack abacus beads. We are afraid that his ancestors were in business."

"This Wang Zhaozheng is indeed a wonderful person!" Zhang Cheng said, taking a sip of the rice wine and narrowing his eyes.

"Hahaha……"

While talking and joking, everyone in the room laughed in unison. Even Li Changsheng, who doesn't talk much on weekdays, teased Niu Sheng and said: "I said that Master Niu is also rich now. I'm afraid you can't afford a few taels of silver for this outfit?"

Niu Sheng was a little embarrassed by what he said, Zhang Cheng took over the topic in a timely manner and asked: "Niu Sheng, you will stay here in Beijing to preside over the overall situation. Don't worry too.

As for the miscellaneous affairs of buying and selling in the city, communicating with various officials, after I have met Wang Zhaozheng, if there is no serious problem, you can hand them over to him to run them, and you just pass the news.

Another thing, if there are suitable people here, you can also recruit them under your command. I can add another team of elite soldiers to you after I go back, but I can't send more for the time being, so you are allowed to expand the team yourself.
In the future, Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, and even Hejian Mansion and Shunde Mansion will have to make arrangements. They will all be grain stores and restaurants in the city, and a large cart and horse store will be opened outside the city as a cover.
If you go further, the key points of Zijing, Daoma, Longquan, and Jingxing must also be arranged. You will be allowed to do things here cheaply, and you just need to report the money and food you need. "

After hearing Zhang Cheng's words, Niu Sheng's eyes widened. He didn't expect the general to have such a big plan in the capital.

Wei Zhice was no less shocked than Niu Sheng. He couldn't imagine why Zhang Cheng made such a big layout in the capital, what was his intention, and what was his ultimate goal?
Could it be that Zhang Cheng actually wanted to gradually control the capital and failed!

Wei Zhice didn't dare to think about it, he knew that Zhang Cheng would never spend so much energy, money and food in the capital for no reason, and make such arrangements, there must be a deep meaning and purpose in this move.

Shaking his head to drive away the lingering questions in his mind, Wei Zhice took another sip of rice wine, while Chen Zhong, Li Changsheng, Lei Zhancheng and others beside him didn't have so many thoughts.

They are the simplest: we will do what the general says, and if we don’t want to why, we just execute it.

Everyone ate and drank and chatted for a while, Wei Zhice got up and said: "General, I think the city gate is about to be closed, I will go into the city right now, you can rest here, and I will meet you at the gate of the city at midnight tomorrow. "

"It's easy to say, so there is brother Lao Zhice!"

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Daming, on the first day of June in the 12th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Cheng once again came to Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

As the capital of Ming Dynasty, Beijing deserves to be the No. 45 city in the world. It can even be said to be the No. [-] city in the world at this time. The Forbidden City is on Saturday, the imperial city is on eighteen miles, and an inner city with a circumference of [-] miles is wrapped around it. .

In the Jiajing year, due to the expansion of the population of Beijing, another heavy city was built in the south of the capital, and its circumference reached 28 miles wide.

The total area is nearly 50 square kilometers, and the population is as high as one million. In the West at the same time, even cities such as London and Paris in the early eighteenth century had a population of less than [-].

The Imperial Capital of the Ming Dynasty was indeed the most prosperous place in the world. I don't know how many people yearned for it. However, after a period of prosperity, the Imperial Capital at this time has shown the decline of the last days.

Outside the gate of Fucheng, you can see the overwhelming number of victims of disasters and starvation. They are covered with quail clothes and naked in the sun. They are all sallow and emaciated, just waiting for the relief from the government.

There were also those children crying from hunger and exhaustion, or their voices were mournful, or they were weak.

Zhang Cheng saw officials and soldiers outside the city gate releasing relief there, but there were too many people and not enough food, and he was afraid that the relief would not be enough. These were all the people in Gyeonggi who had been displaced by the invasion of the Tartars.

Although the captive cavalry had retreated, the local officials did not gather the refugees in time and organized production to save themselves, which caused the refugees to wander around and became completely dependent on the government to support the hungry.

Although there are many houses and shops outside Fucheng Gate, they are not as orderly as inside the city, a little messy and scattered, but when the Eastern captives invaded, the damage here was not serious, so it looks better.

(End of this chapter)