Guangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, Siming Mansion, Yong'an Prefecture.

It can be said that it is the smallest state capital of the Ming Dynasty, its area is not even half of Hui'an County, and its territory is mountainous, from the state capital near the coast to the west less than ten miles is one hundred thousand mountains.

That's really a hundred thousand mountains, dense, full of mountains, the top of the mountain is estimated to be no less than 100,000, because there are too many mountains, and the land is uneven, so there is very little farmland in Yong'an Prefecture, except for a basin less than ten miles wide near the coast, it is almost impossible to grow grain in other places.

With such a scarcity of land, coupled with the strict prohibition on the sea, and the inability to build large boats to go out to sea to fish, the life of the common people here is difficult to imagine.

On this day, Ma Jiude, the governor of Yong'an, suddenly issued a notice like crazy, ordering all the laborers of the entire state capital to gather at a small fishing port near the state capital.

Well, all the laborers in the entire state capital sound a little scary, but the total population of Yong'an Prefecture is only forty or fifty thousand, and the laborers that can be summoned according to the standard of a family of five or six people for labor are actually less than 10,000, and this labor is rarely recruited together, and many people have already served labor this year, so there are only three or four thousand laborers who finally come to the small fishing port.

However, three or four thousand people is already scary enough for a big fishing port, and the entire fishing port can't even squeeze so many people, and many people can only stand on the beach next to the fishing port, stupidly waiting.

What is this Lord Zhizhou going to do?

Ma Jiude is indeed a little crazy at this time, but his madness is not because of the problem with his braincase and his nerves are abnormal, but because he is going crazy with joy.

Because the governor of the five southwestern provinces, the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Yang Cong, the secretary of the military department, are coming to Yong'an Prefecture!

Anyway, what does the governor of the people have to do with him coming to Yong'an Prefecture, Yang Cong is in charge of the five southwestern provinces, and he is just a sesame official in Yang Cong's eyes, does he still want to take advantage of this opportunity to soar into the sky?

He really thinks so, because he is in the same department as Yang Cong, the champion of the Yuanlang, and he is also a Jinshi in the fourteenth year of Jiajing!

There is a saying about the friendship of the same department in these years, and it is even comparable to the same door in serious terms, of course, it also depends on the ideas of both parties, if you want to take care of the same subject, just say a few words of greetings and it will pass.

Of course, Ma Jiude didn't want to just say a few words to Yang Cong, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him, as long as he could get acquainted with Yang Cong, he would be developed.

So, as if he had gone mad, he summoned all the labor force of the whole state to this small fishing port next to the state capital.

So, what exactly is he going to do?

At noon, when everyone's mouth was dry, Ma Jiude, the master of Zhizhou, finally appeared.

His appearance was very special, and he even knew that the officials and officials of the state yamen followed behind him with tables and chairs, as if he was going to set up a banquet at the fishing port wharf.

What does this Zhizhou Lord mean?

You said that if you want to hold a banquet, you have to prepare at least four stools, a stool and a table to hold a banquet, and this stool and table do not need to be carried by the officials and officials in the Zhizhou Yamen, the prefect Yamen is already small, and there are few officials at all, everyone knows this, why bother the state judge and even the Tongzhi to help you carry the table, as long as you give an order, everyone is not allowed to bring you a hundred and ten sets of tables and chairs!

Ma Jiude didn't care about the curious eyes of the laborers around him, he was a little happy at this time, and he couldn't tell the difference between the east and the west, and in the greetings of the people, he finally came to the only wharf in the port.

At this time, the role of the table and stool was finally manifested, and he ordered someone to swing the table and stool to the dock, and then stepped on the stool with one foot, kicked the ground, and stood on the table with a swish.

"Ahh , The people around couldn't help but exclaim, and they didn't know if they were admiring this Zhizhou adult's agility, or if they felt that this guy's brain was in the water.

Ma Jiude stood on the table, glanced around excitedly, and then shouted excitedly: "Folks, let me tell you a good news, the governor of the five provinces, the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the secretary of the military department, Yang Congyang, is coming to our Yong'an Prefecture!" ”

Is this good news?

The people around don't seem to be selling, these days, the bigger the official, the more greedy, Ma Jiude is good, at least he is not greedy, and he has not levied harsh taxes on the people, if he wants a governor and a corrupt official, he must scrape off a layer of land in the entire Yong'an Prefecture!

Ma Jiude looked at the anxious and slightly fearful expressions of the people around him, and couldn't help but have black lines on his face.

These guys, I'm afraid they will be corrupted by corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

The corrupt officials in these years are really terrible, and when he came to Yong'an Prefecture, the children on the street didn't even have clothes to wear!

There is no way, his predecessor collected too many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, this Yong'an Prefecture is originally a poor place, eating is a problem, where is the money to pay taxes, the people can only take out the money to buy cloth to make clothes and pay taxes, so the children here generally have no clothes, and it is good for adults to have a few rags to cover their bodies.

He is also a rare Qing official, after three years of governance, the people here can basically eat half full, and every household has also added some clothes, unlike the adults who used to wear the same as beggars, so, I heard that he was going to be transferred, and the people here were crying and grabbing the ground, desperately trying to keep it, just like that, he magically stayed and was re-elected.

In fact, this is not the result of the people's desperate efforts to keep him, the reason why he can stay in office is because this place is too poor, there is no oil and water at all, and ordinary officials are unwilling to come here to take office.

He doesn't care, because he is a third-class jinshi, and it has nothing to do with it, he can become a governor because he tries his best to do things for the people in the local area, his performance is particularly outstanding, and his official reputation is quite good.

As for going up, he hadn't thought about it at all before, anyway, it's the same wherever he is in Zhizhou, stay in Yong'an Prefecture, stay in Yong'an Prefecture.

Unexpectedly, a mistake made him wait for such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Of course, he knew what the people below were afraid of, and they were afraid that the Governor was a corrupt official.

Yang Cong is not a corrupt official, he hurriedly explained loudly: "Rest assured, the Governor is a Qing official, a famous Qing official, every time he goes to a place, not only is he not greedy, but he also pays for the welfare of the people." ”

Really?

A stunned young man in the crowd couldn't help but ask: "Lord Zhizhou, you said that the Governor is not greedy, then what are you recruiting us for, it won't be to build a courtyard for that Governor, right?" ”

What is this, what kind of courtyard to build!

Ma Jiude hurriedly explained: "No, no, it's because the governor is going to lead a large army to land here, so this official recruited everyone to expand the port." ”

At this time, Yong'an Port is indeed not suitable for the landing of the army, because the whole port is a small wharf, and even the centipede ship is one section higher than the wharf, and the Cangshan ship is required to come up, I am afraid that the height of the suspension ladder is not enough, so Yang Cong ordered the Zhizhou here to expand the wharf in advance and build a few wharves for the centipede ship and the Cangshan ship to dock.

However, Yang Congke didn't know that the Zhizhou here was in the same department as him, and there were more than 300 Jinshi in the first department at this time, and he couldn't even remember the dozens of people in the second grade, let alone the top three.

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