The Wuhu county magistrate turned around and returned to the county office, and Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai also boarded the boat again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Wang Zhizheng sneered: "Do you know this county?"

Zhang Cai smiled and said: "This county magistrate's name is Tong Yingqiu, and I are both Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, and I have communication when I take the exam, but I don't know that he is actually a county magistrate here." ”

Wang Zhizheng smiled: "I see that he is either colluding with the bandits, or deliberately raising bandits!"

Zhang Cai smiled bitterly: "Just now this benevolent brother poured a lot of bitter water with me, he said that the bandits were not only the dozens of people we slaughtered, but also more than 300, and his officers and soldiers only had more than 100 people in total, because of the threat of the bandits, he led his troops to intercept the ship." ”

Wang Zhizheng patted the shore of the table and said: "So, he connived at the bandits because he couldn't suppress the thieves?!"

Zhang Cai nodded: "I also asked him why he didn't come to the prefect to suppress him, and he said that the prefect's finances were short and there was no financial resources to raise troops, so raising thieves was also a last resort." ”

Wang Zhizheng stood up with a frown, and said with his hands behind his back: "Such a rich Jiangnan, can't even get the money to kill the thieves?"

Zhang Cai nodded: "I can't take it out!" I am a magistrate in Linchuan, and I also understand the situation, Jiangnan is rich, but although there are many rich businessmen and tycoons, the finances are indeed insufficient, because there are many bandits, so the people do not live and work in peace and contentment, and tax arrears are also common, plus corruption, how can there be any money!"

Wang Zhizheng thought to himself: If he can extract some cents of gold from the rich businessmen, how can he be so short of money. But in front of Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, these words are not appropriate in front of these Wu Zhonghaoqiang.

So he said: "That can't raise thieves, in this way, if you let him hand over these more than 100 officers and soldiers to me to command, I will definitely break this nest of thieves!,"

Zhang Cai waved his hand and said: "This nest of thieves will immediately gather in the mountains and forests when they encounter the government, and they will break into pieces, and when you leave Wuhu County, they will come in again, and they may even intensify it, and this county order is also worried about this problem." ”

Wang Zhizheng squinted his eyes and thought carefully, without saying a word.

Xu Liu, the boss of the boat, did not dare to drive the boat.

Wang Zhizheng thought about it, if he didn't get rid of this nest of thieves, it would echo with the thieves in northern Shaanxi at that time, and it would become the climate, and it would be even more difficult to suppress it.

So he slammed his fist on the shore of the table and said: "Brother Zhang Cai, go ashore, let him hand over the people to me, it's not that there is no way to crack it, you ask him to write a letter to the Taiping Mansion, just say that I am in Wuhu, let the Taiping Mansion send 500 people, plus the more than 100 people in Wuhu, I have a chance to win and encircle and suppress them all,!"

Zhang Cai looked at Zhang Pu with some hesitation, Zhang Pu stood up at this time and persuaded: "Master Hou, if you want me to see more than one thing, it is better to have less, if you have to take care of everything, we will not be able to keep up with the Restoration Society Conference when we arrive in Jinling, and now it is early summer, and it is estimated that we can't afford to delay the trip again!"

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand and said: "I won't go to a county official or a county, but I have to take care of what I see, you and Brother Zhang Cai can go to Jinling to preside over the affairs of the restoration society first, and I will be the official in this matter, otherwise the bandits in this place will become the climate, and the bandits in northern Shaanxi will be in the same city, then it will not be extinguished!"

Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai saw that Wang Zhizheng had made up his mind, so they nodded and said, "Okay, the matter of the resumption of the society can be postponed, then we will go ashore." ”

Wang Zhizheng smiled and said: "Two gentlemen, don't be afraid, exterminate this nest of bandits, I don't think it will take five days, wait until the people of Taiping Mansion drive over, I can exterminate this nest of bandits in less than three days!"

The two of them saw that Wang Zhizheng was confident, so they simply didn't say anything, so they nodded and agreed to Wang Zhizheng.

Wang Zhizheng felt a little indebted to everyone, so he said to everyone: "I could have gone to Jinling, but I can't ignore such a thing, and I will destroy this gang of bandits, I will not delay any longer, and take everyone into Jinling immediately!"

The three brothers of Huang Zongxi are the first to look forward to Wang Zhizheng, and there are no complaints, Chen Zilong and Xia Yunyi are also Zhang Pu's younger brothers, of course, they didn't say anything, Ruan Dacheng was actively defecting to the Fushe, of course, he had to behave well, so people with different identities didn't have any differences together.

Xu Liu asked Wang Zhizheng: "Master Hou, Xiaofu and I will stay to watch the ship, right?"

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "What kind of boat, when you get to exterminate the bandits, let Wuhu Mansion supply a big boat!"

Huang Zongxi and Zhou Cheng called a carriage on a nearby village road, and everyone quickly arrived at the county office in the carriage.

Entering the county office, Tong Yingqiu quickly greeted and came out to give Wang Zhizheng a salute, Wang Zhizheng smiled, helped Tong Yingqiu up and said: "Master Tong, Zhang Cai told me about your difficulties, I don't think I can ignore this matter, but I am now a cloth cloth and not an official person, so you should first inform the Taiping Mansion of the matter in accordance with the procedure, and the official document of the government will be approved, and the people and horses will be dispatched, and I will definitely exterminate this nest of bandits." ”

Tong Yingqiu said with some hesitation: "However, if the soldiers sent by the government are tight, the finances are tight......

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand: "Let others fight this battle, it must be financially tight, let me fight, it's just three days of hard work, it won't cost you much money, go and report it!"

Tong Yingqiu supported his master to arrange accommodation for Wang Zhizheng and others, and hurriedly took the documents to the study to report to the prefect of Taiping Mansion.

After Tong Yingqiu's performance, he immediately arranged a banquet for Wang Zhizheng to catch the wind.

At the banquet, Tong Yingqiu slapped the horse and did everything, and Wang Zhizheng listened very comfortably.

I haven't drunk good wine for several days, but today Tong Yingqiu prepared good wine and a sumptuous banquet.

Tong Yingqiu raised his glass and said: "It's really a blessing to meet Hou Ye in this small county, if I hadn't met Hou Ye, maybe I, Tong Yingqiu, would have been tossed by this group of bandits sooner or later, and now that Hou Ye is here, I know it in my heart." ”

Wang Zhizheng said with a smile: "I really don't know the situation on one side as an official in the capital, I always thought that Jiangnan was rich, but I didn't expect that thieves were rampant, and the treasury was empty." ”

Tong Yingqiu's biggest wish is to be an official in Beijing, even if he is an editor of the Hanlin Academy, he is not willing to be a prefect in this small county.

Of course, he greeted Wang Zhizheng vigorously.

Wang Zhizheng also understands that whether it is Mao Yilu or Tong Yingqiu, Shen Shaoxian, Yang Huan and others, they all have the same mind, that is, to climb up the big tree of their own.

Tong Yingqiu sighed and said: "This gang of bandits has not caused me trouble for a short time since I was in charge of Wuhu, so I don't care about that Jianglou Inn but I can't manage it, if I manage it, I have to fight and suppress it, but the prefect can't send troops, my people and horses are not as many as bandits, and I won't fight. ”

Wang Zhizheng smiled: "It's okay, wait for the approval and people from the prefect's side, don't talk about it today, I have to rest well, I didn't sleep all night last night, and I spent a whole night with the bandits, tomorrow you ask the county lieutenant to report to me about the situation of the thieves, and feel the truth!"