Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 73

"Tangning, Tang Zongbing?"

"How is it possible? How could it be him?"

The chunky old man seemed to be still immersed in his own world and couldn't extricate himself, as if he was nervous.

At this moment, a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar couldn't stand it anymore, he pointed at the short and fat old man and reprimanded him: "Look at your expensive clothes, but you are so ignorant, Mr. Tang's name is taboo, is it you?" Can you call it out like this?"

The words of the middle-aged scholar immediately aroused the unanimous approval of the surrounding crowd.

"That's right, Mr. Tang is not far away, he is so rebellious, he should be arrested and brought before the officials."

"You don't need to arrest him to see the officials, you arrest him and give it to the new army..."

"Yes, grab it..."

Seeing the sudden anger of the crowd, the short and fat old man seemed to have just woken up. Seeing that someone was about to make a move, he quickly shouted: "Everyone misunderstood, misunderstood. The name I just called was not Mr. Tang, but my uncle's surname." Tang, single name is a lemon."

"Another lemon, another lemon, please don't get me wrong, everyone, don't get me wrong. No matter how flattering I am, I dare not call Mr. Tang by his name in front of everyone."

Hearing this, a burly man relaxed his frown and said, "I'm telling you, I wouldn't dare to borrow your courage."

"Yes, yes, yes." The short and fat old man answered quickly, then pushed the servant beside him, blinking a pair of small eyes hastily.

The servant understood and hurriedly squeezed the crowd away.

"Little old man has urgent matters at home, let's take a step first, take a step first..." After finishing this sentence in a hurry, seeing that the scholar seemed to want to say something, he hurriedly ran after the servant.

He ran to Wu's Mansion almost in one breath, and then the whole courtyard jumped up and down.

In less than half an hour, the short and fat old man took a few noble ladies, and a few young ladies and gentlemen in luxurious carriages, surrounded by ten or twenty servants and maidservants, and fled from the west gate in a hurry. Out of Chaozhou Prefecture.

The same scene happened in the Li Mansion and the Zhang Mansion, and the master of the Zhang Mansion cursed angrily:
"That old bastard Zhuang Xin knew that Tang Ning from Huanggang was that boy from the Tang family. He sneaked away with the whole family and didn't even say hello. He was trying to kill someone with a knife."

Tang Ning didn't know that the moment she entered the city, several wealthy households in the prefecture were frightened and fled.

There is no way, thinking of how he robbed the property of the Tang family and forced that cowardly young master of the Tang family to leave the city.

Who can calm down?Who dares to risk his own life?

No matter how reluctant Chaozhou government is, it must be given up.

However, there are exceptions to everything. Cheng's mansion, which had also dealt with the Tang family's property at the beginning, did not appear to be too flustered. The Cheng family's property in the city was also operating normally.

At this moment, an old man with a somewhat thin figure hurried into the mansion and went straight to the study.

In the study room, a middle-aged man with a short beard was carefully flipping through a thick account book. When he heard the knock on the door, he said without raising his head, "Come in."

The thin old man pushed the door open and entered without any regard for etiquette. He said anxiously, "Master, run away, Tangning has already led troops into the city. According to the news just now, the Wu, Li and Zhang families have all fled. If you run away, you will lose your chance."

The middle-aged man with a short beard put down his account book, sighed and said, "Here is the property accumulated by several generations of my Cheng family. If I leave like this, how can I be worthy of my Cheng family's ancestors?"

"But my master, if you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. With your ability, my master, even if you leave Chaozhou Prefecture, you can make a comeback."

The middle-aged man with short beard sighed, "It's easy to say, but I'm not young anymore."

"If that Tangning really wanted to kill me, I'd die for my ancestor's foundation, and I'd be well deserved. Those few people who didn't live up to expectations have also settled down in Guangzhou Mansion, and the Cheng family can be regarded as having a successor."

"But the Cheng family has no owner, so why is it still called the Cheng family?"

The middle-aged man with a short beard waved his hand and said, "Boss Wang, don't try to persuade me anymore. I have made up my mind. You have been assisting my Cheng family since my father's generation. My Cheng family has the status it has today. You have worked hard and made great achievements." .”

"But it was my Cheng family who offended the Tang family back then, and it has nothing to do with you. You should avoid it as soon as possible before it's too late."

Manager Wang gave a wry smile, shook his head and said, "Boss, I'm an old man, what else can I do? I've been with the Cheng family for 30 years, and this is my second home. If Tangning If you want to destroy this place, step on my bones."

The middle-aged man with a short beard sighed, "Boss Wang, why are you doing this..."

……

Yang Qiu and Liu Yuan knew that Tang Ning was going to lead troops into the city, so they had already vacated the camp and built the barracks, so the process of the new army entering was smooth.

For a while, the center of gravity of Huanggang City was also slowly shifting to Fucheng, but it didn't mean that Tangning would give up Huanggang, it was just that Huanggang was too small and its development was too limited.

In Fucheng, Tangning also started his own planning. He did not interfere with Yang Qiu's government affairs, but personally asked about the situation of the nearly [-] troops stationed in Fucheng.

As far as he is the commander-in-chief, there is nothing wrong with this, but Liu Yuan, who is the highest military officer in Fucheng, is very uncomfortable.

Because Liu Yuan knew that in the entire Ming Dynasty, it might be very difficult to find an army without problems. No one would be able to escape just because of the lack of pay. It was just a matter of size.

Sure enough, Tangning found out the problem after just a little research. Nearly 5000 people were reported, but the actual number of people was less than 3000.

Tangning didn't punish Liu Yuan directly, but said calmly, "General Liu, this matter is over for now, don't do this in the future. Otherwise, Tang will have to deal with it by military law."

Liu Yuan was overjoyed at first, then surprised again, and hurriedly knelt down on one knee, and said in awe and fear: "My lord, don't worry, the last general will not dare, from now on it will be up to your lord to order..."

After a little beating, Tangning quickly took over the training and command of the garrison from Liu Yuan. Liu Yuan didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction.

Of course, he also took over the payment in arrears and improved the food of the garrison. These two points were unanimously cheered by all the soldiers in the garrison. Tangning's prestige also overshadowed Liu Yuan's status in their hearts.

As for the training, Tangning didn't worry much about it herself anymore. She asked the veterans of the two companies to supervise more than a thousand recruits, and then let these recruits lead the thousands of garrisons in Fucheng.

Another purpose of his training of the Fucheng garrison is to improve the troops and simplify the administration, because these garrisons seem to have nearly 3000 people, but the quality of the personnel is uneven, and there are many old and weak people mixed in.

With such a team, can you imagine how strong their combat effectiveness can be?

Fortunately, they encountered Jiang Shiying's rebels who were also mobs, and they were able to hold on by virtue of the strength of the fortified city.

If it were a slightly better team, Fucheng would have fallen long ago.

Yang Qiu naturally knew about Liu Yuan being ostracized.

Although Tang Ning's status as a military officer is not suitable for meddling in local government affairs, Yang Qiu still restrained himself a lot unconsciously.

I also tried to smooth out some unknown things that I did before, so as not to leave any clues when Tangning wanted to settle accounts in the future.

On this day, Tangning brought Song Yunwan, Huang Dabiao and a group of people to the door of a mansion with a very emotional expression.

And Xiaohuan couldn't help weeping, looking at the word "Zhang's Mansion" on the door, she kept saying: "Master, we are back, we are back, we are finally back."

(End of this chapter)