Zhu Ying suddenly wanted to go out of the city with Zhang Shou, Zhu Tingfang quarreled fiercely with Zhu Ying on the surface, and his sister was so angry that he slammed the door and left, but in fact, he just used anger as a cover, hoping that the two would stay away from Cangzhou for a few days and not see some bloody scenes. Because after he disposed of those wealthy people, he immediately slashed his knife at those idle men in the market.

In his opinion, these idle and fierce guys are the most unstable factors everywhere. So, without the eldest prince, who needed the sharp cavalry battalion to protect or place under residential surveillance, he directly ordered Du Heng to personally lead the sharp cavalry battalion to arrest a string of the heads of the small gangs in the city who bullied and dominated the market, and cut two convictions in the market that day.

And these two people are also the organizers of Changlu County's order Xu Cheng who had bought him with a lot of money and planned to attack the palace in the first wave - but when he was rushed by Lao Xianyu's sentence that we are the righteous army, the rabble they brought with them were scattered by Xian Yunhe and others who were killed.

Until the two people were blood-spattered on the execution ground, they didn't know the reason why they lost their lives, whether they had been Xu Cheng's lackeys, or because they had extorted and injured people.

These were the first two people Zhu Tingfang killed after arriving in Cangzhou. Compared with the crackling board on the platform in front of the county government hall before, compared with the several beheadings he sentenced and a lot of exile sentences, and compared with the "chaotic people" Xian Yunhe and others who were locked up in the palace and waiting for the court to fall, the scene of two heads falling to the ground undoubtedly has a more powerful deterrent effect.

At least, the group of idlers who accompanied the kidnapping to watch the execution directly scared seven or eight of them into peeing their pants, and the rest fainted, and some were pale and shaky. As for those heroes who were not tied up to the court to watch the execution, but spontaneously hid in the crowd or hid in nearby wine shops and teahouses, their feelings were even more complicated.

The rebels were imprisoned and the wealthy families were disposed of, but the court regarded it as the most restless factor, and those who needed to kill a hundred people, or kill chickens and monkeys, were those idlers who had martial arts but no proper occupations, which was undoubtedly a very dangerous sign!

And when Cao Wu hurried back to Cangzhou City in the evening of the next day, he got the news from the apprentice who was waiting for him at the city gate that Zhu Tingfang had beheaded the two the day before. The previous batch was going to be beheaded and remanded on death row, but this group of two people was suddenly put on the court, and he felt nervous when he heard it, until the apprentice lowered his voice and called the master twice, and he came back to his senses.

"What else?"

"The chief dart heads of the other three dart bureaus have all come to our house, saying that they can't sit still at home, so they can only come and wait for your news...... Now that you're back, should we hurry back? ”

Cao Wu's face suddenly turned dark: "I'm not here, you treat them well to take a sip of tea, send the people back and it's over, what are you doing with them?" I've already killed two people yesterday, and they don't know how to be a man with their tails between their legs, and they are still going around in tandem? I still have something to do, you go back and tell them that I see the people I want to see, and if you want to be safe, they will hurry home and wait for me! ”

Seeing that the little apprentice was slightly stunned, he immediately pulled out his legs and ran, Cao Wu shook the reins, and finally went straight to Changlu County. When he dismounted at the gate of the county office, several riders on the other side came galloping.

The first two were young men of handsome appearance but very ordinary clothes, and when they jumped off their horses, they did not look at him, but entered the gate one after the other, followed by several guards. Seeing this, he was not in a hurry, and dismounted and walked straight to a gate at the gate.

If it was normal times, if he stood like this, then the disciples who would definitely recognize him would have called out Cao Ye with great enthusiasm. But at this moment, the man stood up straight, didn't say a word, only Nunu gestured that the group was there, he didn't dare to speak, and motioned for Cao Wu to speak first.

Faced with such a scene, Cao Wu didn't have to hold the shelf, and said with a smile on his face at the moment: "If you are troublesome, you will say that Cao Wu of the Shunhe Dart Bureau wants to see General Mingwei......"

Seeing that the disciple was hesitant, he immediately added: "I saw Miss Zhu in Maliu Mountain, and she asked me to come." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, there was a cry of surprise from inside. But a young man who had just entered the door turned back. People looked him up and down for a while, and then they smiled and said: "This is really the sun coming out in the west, Yingying has always only looked at people who look good in the other way, look at your appearance and demeanor, to win her to look at it differently, the ability is not small!" ”

When Cao Wu just saw that group of people, he recognized that this young man at this time was Zhu Ying's second brother, the second son of Zhao Guogong's mansion. However, at this moment, he deliberately pretended not to recognize the person, and said with a smile: "The villain was a guide for the eldest lady for a while by chance today, and thanks to the guidance of the eldest lady, he came to ask to see General Mingwei." ”

"Oh?" Zhu Er looked at Cao Wu with some pickiness, thinking of the two words that just happened to be in his ears, his heart moved, so he raised his chin slightly and said, "Okay, hand over all the weapons and hidden weapons on your body, and then follow me in!" ”

Cao Wu didn't plan to be able to bring those bits and pieces to see Zhu Tingfang, so he immediately did so. When he and Zhu Er entered, they had to quietly look at the other young man who was waiting for them impatiently. He didn't know who this person was, only that he seemed to have been going in and out with Zhu Ergongzi all the time for the past two days.

But soon, he knew, because Zhu Er didn't have the consciousness to keep it secret in front of him, an outsider!

"Who is this guy? It's not an exaggeration to say that your boss Zhu is now a good opportunity, you cats and dogs are all brought in front of him, aren't you afraid that if he gets angry with you, he will come up and beat you directly? ”

"My eldest brother doesn't only know how to use his fists all the time, his brain is better than anyone else's, don't try to sow discord! As for this guy, he just said that Yingying introduced him there, whether he left it to my eldest brother for screening, what kind of hollow are you doing with the prince of Qin? I'm almost done with the sample statistics for my first street, can you do three streets by yourself? ”

Zhu Er said and dragged a long tone cheaply: "If you can't do it, I can help you share another street ......"

"I don't need to!" Zhang Chen snorted in annoyance, and then said stiffly, "Don't forget that Mr. Xiao said that this time it is mainly me, and you are the one who helps!" ”

Seeing that Zhang Chen brushed his sleeves away after speaking, Zhu Er was suddenly stupid: "Fight? Without me, you won't be able to finish even if you're tired! What can I do, if my brother-in-law is here, he must say that everything can be done by others, that is called ability, only know that a person is tired and tired, that is stupid......"

Cao Wu saw Zhu Er muttering there, and finally sent him to the second hall obediently, but only handed him over to a personal soldier standing in front of the door, and then flashed without saying a word. He thought he was going to be subjected to some strict interrogation, but who knew that the guard only looked at him for a moment, and then reported it inside.

After a while, he saw the door open in front of him, and immediately after, a young man who looked like a follower came out, and went straight out of the door after just one glance, but the guard just now shouted at him: "What are you doing in a daze?" The doors are open, why don't you hurry in? ”

Cao Wu didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly walked in. Fortunately, a martial arts student like him is extremely stable on his feet, so he will not stumble over the threshold because of nervousness.

However, when he saw the young man sitting in the center, with a scar on his face that was still difficult to hide his handsomeness, and his momentum was completely different from Zhu Er and Zhang Chen, he was glared at by that sharp gaze, and he forgot most of the words that he had already made in his heart.

And when he heard Zhu Tingfang's question, he was even more caught off guard. Because the general Mingwei spoke without any turns, and threw the question bluntly.

"I didn't ask how the chief dart head of the Shunhe Dart Bureau would leave everything behind, but deliberately ran two hundred miles away and went to Maliu Mountain to be Yingying's guide. What you and she said, you can repeat it to me now, or I'll go back and ask her the same. Don't shy away from the important, I have limited time. ”

Cao Wu only hesitated for a moment, so he simply turned his heart sideways, and told him how he met Zhu Ying and the subsequent conversation, and even Zhu Ying almost kicked the son of the prefect of Hejian down the mountain.

Sure enough, when he finished speaking, he saw Zhu Tingfang playing with a short dagger in his hand, his face full of coldness.

"A sour scholar who can't do it but doesn't say anything, just beat him, don't worry about him! As for the worries of you Cangzhou warriors...... Hehe, every family has bad children, this is understandable, even if it is the Jiang family, the Qi family and other families with evil deeds, I don't have a connection, let alone you? ”

However, before Cao Wu could feel at ease, Zhu Tingfang said coldly: "But for the sake of money, as long as you are willing to offer money to apprentice, whether you are virtuous or not, you will teach some superficial martial arts, and naturally you will get used to a group of people who think that their martial arts are good, do not produce, and have nothing to do all day long." This time the Cangzhou incident is so big, you can't escape the blame. ”

Cao Wu is now admitting punishment and only hoping that Zhu Tingfang will not cut the butcher knife to the head of the martial arts.

After all, just a general Mingwei, just a Zhao State Mansion, they retreated, but they may not be afraid, but this time the face of the court was really trampled on the ground, God knows what kind of thunderous anger the emperor will have?

At that moment, he put on a very low posture: "What the general said is very true, it is because we did not carefully screen talents in the past, so that some black sheep ......"

Before Cao Wu finished speaking, Zhu Tingfang said in a deep voice: "Since Yingying gave you guidance, then I can open the net." First, clean up yourselves, and get out of the wicked. Second, you have been able to maintain law and order on the streets in recent days. As for the third, I can recommend a martial artist who has both civil and military skills and is innocent. ”

Since they all agreed to that Xu Weng and asked Zhang Shou to recommend a few outstanding scholars to study in the country, it is not a big deal for him to recommend a few martial arts disciples here to try martial arts. While wielding a stick and a butcher's knife, of course, you have to be appeased!

Cao Wu didn't expect that the eldest prince Zhu, who everyone said was iron-faced and ruthless, would be so magnanimous, and he was overjoyed. However, he had seen the world in the end, and knew that the two conditions in front were far inferior to the price offered by Zhu Tingfang in the back, so he hurriedly bowed down and thanked him: "The general is magnanimous, the villain is grateful, and he must clean up the portal when he goes back." As for this ...... of peace"

"Before, I was arrested by the errand officer I took down with Xu Cheng of Changlu County, but there were also twenty or thirty people, so now there is a lot of shortage of third-class errand officers in the county government. If you want to help maintain law and order in Cangzhou City, you really can't do without a name. In this way, each of you recommends some elite soldiers and strong generals to make up for the third class. ”

And such a good thing? You must know that many of those who were taken down this time were regular servants, not those who were not on the roster of the yamen, that is, assistants and deputy servants who could be fired at any time. The regular service of the economic system is often an errand that is inherited by the father and the son, and it is impossible for outsiders to get involved! A total of vacancies, supposedly more than twenty places!

When Cao Wuzheng was inexplicably excited, Zhu Tingfang's next words made him feel cold all over his body all of a sudden, and he secretly complained bitterly.

"I have checked the brochure of the Changlu County Officials' Office, the fast class, the strong class, and the soap class, and the total number of registered regular servants in these three classes is a total of thirty people per class, a total of ninety people, but the assistant and deputy servants are added together, but there are more than three hundred. With more than 300 people eating the people's fat and ointment, plus those idle people in the market, it is no wonder that the people of Cangzhou are uneasy. ”

"You recommend these people to be added to the third class, and first screen the deputy and assistant for me. But if there is any bad deed, not one will be left! This is an order, not a consultation with you! ”

Knowing that there was no way to shirk this, Cao Wu could only stubbornly say: "The general is jealous and hateful, and the villain naturally understands." But in this way, the black sheep of several of our families, plus these people who were laid off by the third shift, there are hundreds to say the least. I'm afraid it's not a good thing for hundreds of idle people to be thrown into Cangzhou City at once......"

"It's none of your business." Zhu Tingfang raised his eyebrows coldly, and said word by word, "You just do it yourself." ”

When Cao Wu agreed to retire and quietly withdrew from the house, Zhu Tingfang remembered the investigation that Zhang Shou had done to Zhang Chen and Zhu Er when he left - Zhang Shou was in front of him, calling it the statistics of population employment - he thought of Cangzhou to other states and counties, and from other states and counties to the world, and his mood was heavy.

There are too many people who are landless and unemployed...... A great tribulation indeed! Why don't those so-called famous and wealthy families know to be a little more restrained?

Think about the chaos in the world in the past, saying that it is a famine, but why is it not because of arable land and workmanship that there are too many people who cannot support themselves, their wives and children? He blamed Zhang Shou's new textile machine for causing such trouble, but now from the situation in Cangzhou, the trouble has long been slowly accumulating, but he has not been aware of it before.

Just as Zhu Tingfang was pondering, a voice suddenly came from outside: "Eldest Prince, someone from the eldest lady's side sent a letter back, saying that the tunnels of Maliu Mountain are not completely preserved by the Qi State, and may have been excavated in recent years, and it has been discovered...... A strange stele was found. ”