On that day, Qin Bai received a guest here. Or more accurately, this guest was invited on his own initiative. He is Guo Kedao, the deputy of the Fushan Institute.

By this time, the military household system established in the early Ming Dynasty had been completely corrupted. According to the imperial court system, each thousand households have one positive thousand households (Zheng Wupin), two deputy thousand households (from the fifth grade), the suppression (from the sixth grade) and a number of subordinate officials. But in fact, the imperial court has always had rewards, there are always battles to be fought, and military merits must be promoted. And the rewarded military position is hereditary, and it is impossible to demote and revoke it. So up to now, there are four or five households in every 1,000 households in the mainland, and seven or eight at most. And the deputy thousand households are ranging from a dozen to more than 20 people. It has far exceeded the original establishment.

As a result, the question will definitely arise - who will sit in this position?

And the wisdom of the people is infinite, so all kinds of local rules have been formed within the guard. Those with strong points have always been monopolized by a certain family, continuing the inheritance of father and son; There are rows of sitting, each family taking turns for several years; There are heirs who are sent to compete in the ring; There are those who have obtained military positions in the imperial court through martial arts; There are even those who vote collegally to implement "democracy"? Anyway, there are all kinds of systems, and it seems that all kinds of systems can be found here.

By the way, Qi Jiguang wanted to pass martial arts back then. However, after winning the martial arts, Qi Jiguang went to Beijing to take the Wujinshi exam. It happened that unfortunate enough to meet more than ten armies of Alta went south and surrounded the city of Beijing. The imperial court ordered the examination to be suspended, and all martial artists were given military positions on the battlefield. So began Qi Jiguang's legendary life.

Of course, these hereditary N ancestor military attachés are often insiders and outsiders, and they are completely unreliable in fighting wars. The imperial court also understood this. Therefore, for those key guard posts, sometimes the military department will arrange "airborne", appoint a commander or a thousand households or something, and come with an experienced military attaché, plus some pro-soldiers and family members, at least the military functions of the guard post can be restored, right?

However, such an airborne landing will also have sequelae. Those commanders and thousands of households are also hereditary, and after they take root, the personnel become more and more bloated. But bureaucracy! Headache and foot pain, as long as nothing happens in front of you. The imperial court just has to get by, and if there is trouble anyway, it will be a headache for future officials.

Therefore, like the thousands of households and deputy thousands of households here in Fushan, in fact, they have not left any appearance of military attachés, or they have become big landlords, allowing military households to cultivate the military tun of the guard, or simply doing business.

The location of Fushan is the area of modern Qingdao City, which belongs to the coastal area, and eats the sea by the sea. However, Huang Jun's salt gang is too powerful, and there is no other place to boil the salt. Of course, the Salt Gang will not exterminate them all, and will also buy a certain amount of those guards along the coast. Therefore, this Guo Kedao deputy Qianhu collected scattered salt from military households and transported it to Jingjiazhuang for sale. Then he purchased some daily necessities from Jingjiazhuang and sold them to the military households in his thousand households.

It should be said that if you don't look at Guo Kedao's official body as a military attache from the fifth grade, he actually belongs to that kind of inconspicuous small businessman. Therefore, being invited by Qin Bai today seemed to be sincerely afraid. Indeed, because of this, Guo Kedao didn't take his deputy Qianhu seriously at all, thinking that Qin Bai, the brave and victorious master, was much higher than his own status.

And today it was directly arranged in Mengxian Residence. Therefore, when Qin Bai warmly invited Guo Kedao to take a seat, he was already flattered: "Second Master Bai, please tell me if there is anything." As long as you can do it in the next, you can guarantee that there is no second word. ”

Qin Bai smiled: "Master Guo......"

"Don't dare, don't dare. How dare you call yourself an adult in person? ”

"Hehe, that's good, Guo Ye......"

"I really don't dare, Second Master Bai, you just call me Xiao Guo, right?"

"That'...... Brother Guo? Hehe, Brother Guo, I do have something here that I want you to help with. Whether this can be done or not, I have a thank you gift of two hundred taels here. Don't be too little, if it is done, there will be another generous gift. ”

The more Guo Kedao listened, the more cold sweat broke out, he was thinking in his heart, he wouldn't want me to do a shocking case together, right? But I will only collect rent and do small business, won't you, Bai Er, find the wrong person?

Frightened, Qin Bai continued to smile and said, "Brother Guo, I don't know if you know? At New Year's Day, my brother took in a lot of people here, and he always had to settle them well. So I wanted to buy a piece of land so that they could have a place to stay. Anyway, the seller will definitely not suffer in terms of price. I don't know if you have one in the floating mountain office? If not, then the other guards will do the same? ”

When Guo Kedao heard this, it turned out to be such a thing, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Second Master Bai ......"

"Hehe, Brother Guo, you're welcome, you and I are brothers."

"Oooh. White...... Brother, I really won't hide it from you, the military tuntian of our guard has already been divided, and the other guards are basically the same. It's not that you don't want to help, it's really not? ”

The military attachés in the guard house had already regarded those military tuntian as private property, and the military households as tenants, and they could eat rent every year. Moreover, the coastal guards are all thin fields, and the yield is not high, so those military attaches are particularly interested in the fields allocated by their own families and will never sell them.

"Brother Guo, you misunderstood what I meant. I don't want land that can be farmed, as long as there are houses to build and people to live in. But the place should be bigger, the bigger the better. ”

If it is said that Jiangnan's hometown is Qin Bai's personal retreat, now he just wants to find a retreat for Yongsheng. I wanted to slow down, but I didn't expect that there was an assassin incident, and it became imminent all of a sudden, so I found Guo Kedao.

However, this was also done out of desperation. Originally, Qin Bai thought that it was natural to pay money to buy land, but after inquiring around, he found that it was not easy. In this era, landlords had no investment channels at all, so they only went in and out of the land, and they didn't sell it at all, and they were not willing to pay more money.

Therefore, Qin Bai could only hit the idea of the military tuntian of the guard. Moreover, Denglai's guards are all located in coastal areas, and if there is something wrong, it is completely possible to escape to the sea.

As soon as he heard Qin Bai's request, Guo Kedao immediately came to his senses: "If this is the case, we have a place in Qianhu." It's a remote point, I wonder if the white brothers are interested? ”

Due to the alluvial coastal area, the coastline continues to extend into the sea, so there is a large area of tidal flats in Fushan every year. Today, Qingdao is located on a few small islands in the sea, and it is not connected to the mainland at all. Therefore, there is not much in Fushan, so there are many useless tidal flats!