What's worse is that Zeng Qisheng also likes to contradict his superiors, such a person naturally can't get along in officialdom, so he quickly fell into bad luck! Zeng Qisheng's top boss Changsha County Magistrate is a narrow-minded person, and he has long been very displeased with him by Zeng Qisheng's repeated confrontations, if it weren't for Zeng Qisheng's ability to do things, he also needs people who can do things, he would have been dismissed from Zeng Qisheng's official position a long time ago, but Zeng Qisheng especially didn't know that after discovering that the magistrate had embezzled money and grain from embezzled households, he actually overstepped the level to report Changsha Magistrate to the prefect's yamen!

Reporting the boss is a taboo in officialdom, at this time, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has long been corrupt, up and down, colluding, Zeng Qisheng's report letter turned around and then went to the hands of the county, the county was angry when he saw it, isn't this looking for death? found a mistake and beat Zeng Qisheng with twenty sticks in the court, almost losing half of his life, if it weren't for the fact that Zeng Qisheng was famous, and Zeng Qisheng had just reported him, if he really killed Zeng Qisheng, he would inevitably be suspected of personal revenge, so he spared Zeng Qisheng's life.

However, Zeng Qisheng's official position must not be kept, Zeng Qisheng himself saw the darkness of officialdom through this incident, and he was a little disheartened, and became a private school teacher again. But in the bottom of his heart, Zeng Qisheng is still a little unwilling, he is still in the prime of life at this time, and his ambition has not been rewarded, how can he be willing?

If you hadn't met Zhang Cheng, Zeng Qisheng's life might have been like this, in the long river of history, like Zeng Qisheng, who is ambitious and talented but depressed, there are too many people who can only regret aging.

Although Zhang Cheng didn't know why Guo Zhiyuan attached so much importance to the province of Hunan, but since Guo Zhiyuan attached great importance to him, he had to be extra attentive, so he handed over the recruitment of immigrants from other provinces to his subordinates, and went to Hunan in person, but when he arrived in Hunan, he knew that this errand was not generally difficult, first of all, the language was not understood, and he couldn't understand the dialect spoken by the Hunan people.

Zeng Qisheng met Zhang Cheng at this time, he heard a few students say that there was a foreign trafficker at the Xiangjiang Wharf, and he wanted to recruit people to go to a desert island called Dongfan to open up wasteland, Zeng Qisheng heard that his heart moved, he knew that Zhang Cheng was by no means a human trafficker, how could a trafficker dare to openly recruit people, in this era of strict household registration management, no one would dare to recruit people on such a large scale without the permission of the imperial court.

Although Zeng Qisheng has been disheartened about the official career, but he is still more concerned about current affairs, often looking for the official newspaper to see, vaguely remember that not long ago I saw a newspaper mentioned that the imperial court is preparing to set up a new Dongfan Mansion on the lonely overseas Dongfan Island, Zeng Qisheng read the whole book, naturally knows Dongfan, with his keen insight, but also vaguely feels that the geographical location of Dongfan is very important, and the imperial court in Dongfan to open a mansion is definitely an unprecedented initiative!

Zeng Qisheng's already disheartened heart was a little budding, since it was an unprecedented initiative, it meant that there were a lot of opportunities to make meritorious contributions, and the new creation of Dongfan Mansion inevitably needed grassroots officials who knew how to operate the official office, and most of the mainland officials with meritorious names and official positions were not willing to go to a desert island like Dongfan to be officials, so he would have a chance to meet someone who had a meritorious name and no official position!

Heartbeat to heartbeat, Zeng Qisheng did not immediately decide to go to Dongfan, no matter how good the opportunity is, he must meet a good boss who values talents, if he is like the previous Changsha magistrate, he might as well continue to be his private school teacher, so he decided to go and see the situation first.

When Zeng Qisheng came to the Xiangjiang wharf, Zhang Chengzheng was sitting dejectedly in front of the recruiting factory shed scratching his head, Zeng Qisheng first observed Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng was wearing a flying fish suit, and the waist was embroidered with a spring knife (note: Guo Zhiyuan also included Zhang Cheng in the list of meritorious personnel for the counterinsurgency, and helped him get the name of a hundred households in brocade clothes), it could never be a human trafficker, so he stepped forward and saluted: "I heard that the adults want to recruit immigrants?" ……”

Zhang Cheng has been sitting here for three days, at first there were still people who were curious to come and inquire, now no one even asked, heard someone take the initiative to ask and immediately looked up in surprise, but was stunned at a glance, Zeng Qisheng was dressed in a long robe, with a good temperament, at first glance he was an extraordinary scholar, he couldn't even recruit ordinary immigrants now, let alone hope to recruit literate and hyphenated readers, he also thought that Zeng Qisheng was a scribe sent by the government, so he waved his hand with some disappointment: "Didn't I show you the official documents of the imperial court?" The recruitment of immigrants this time was personally approved by the Holy Lord, and if you Changsha prefect Yamen do not cooperate, you dare to obstruct it?! ……”

Zeng Qisheng shook his head and said with a smile: "My lord misunderstood, although the contemptible person once served as the history of the Yahu Fang in Changsha County, but now he has been dismissed from his post, and now he is white, and he has nothing to do with the government, and the contemptible person wants to learn more about the specific regulations for adults to recruit immigrants......"

As soon as Zhang Cheng heard it, he knew that the opportunity had come, he had served as the history of the house, and now he was white, isn't this the special talent that Guo Zhiyuan told him to look for before he came, and quickly stood up excitedly and said, "Sir, your surname?" Sir, please be seated! ……”

Zeng Qisheng looked at Zhang Cheng's excited and dancing appearance and was secretly funny, but he was more and more moved, he had seen the brocade guards sent by the imperial court to run errands, which one is not nostrils to the sky, arrogant, Zhang Cheng behaved so thirsty for talent, then the person behind him must also attach great importance to talents.

He was not polite, Shi Shiran sat down, smiled and asked: "The surname is Zeng, and the contempt people also saw in the newspaper that the imperial court is preparing to open a government office on Dongfan Island, but this Dongfan Island is lonely overseas, except for the original Fanyi natives on the island, and no one lives, if you want to immigrate, I'm afraid there are a lot of them, right?!" ……”

Zhang Chenghao patted his thigh angrily and said, "That's!" My family said that they want to emigrate 300,000 to Dongfan! ”

"Three hundred thousand?!" Zeng Qisheng was taken aback, and asked in disbelief: "This is not easy, so many immigrants are difficult on the road, not to mention, the money and food consumed are by no means idle, I read that the newspaper said that the imperial court is now even in arrears of military salaries, how can such a huge amount of money and food be used for immigration?!" ……”

Zhang Cheng laughed and said: "My lord said that all the money and food needed are raised by him, and there is no need to spend a penny or grain in the imperial court, not only that, but my lord will also build three giant cities in Dongfan, and he will also raise the money and grain he needs, and he will also contribute 100,000 taels of tax silver to the imperial court every year, otherwise how can the imperial court be willing to let him build a government in Dongfan?" ……”

At this time, Zeng Qisheng was completely stunned, stunned for a while, suddenly stood up and left, Zhang Cheng hurriedly grabbed him, and said inexplicably: "Mr. Zeng, why is this?!" ”