Ma Cheng said with a smile after hearing Ma Gui say it: "Well, I think Brother Ma Shun is shrewd and capable, and the big shopkeeper of this sugar factory will let Brother Ma Shun be it!" In the future, the second master's money bag will count on you! ”

Ma Shun heard Ma Cheng say this, and quickly knelt down and thanked him: "The villain thanks the second master, please rest assured, the villain will definitely run the second master's sugar factory well!" ”

Ma Gui has followed Ma Shiying all his life, and naturally hopes that his sons will also lean on the big tree of the Ma family. Ma Gui's eldest son Ma Zhong is the eldest young master Ma Luan's eldest follower, and he will succeed Ma Gui as the housekeeper of the Ma family in the future, and the second son Ma Shun naturally hopes to make some money with Ma Cheng.

Ma Gui heard that Ma Cheng promised his son to be the chief treasurer of the sugar factory, and hurriedly bowed down and thanked: "Thank you, old slave, second master!" ”

Ma Cheng smiled and said: "Uncle don't say that, you are my father's cronies, of course I can trust you, the sugar factory is better managed by our own people!" ”

Ma Cheng gave Ma Shun such an important position as the head of the sugar factory with one mouth, which made Gu Changwei next to him angry. According to Gu Changwei's estimate, he should be the big shopkeeper of this sugar factory, but now he didn't expect to kill Cheng Cheng halfway and let Ma Shun pick peaches.

Ma Cheng looked at Gu Changwei and laughed in his heart, this Gu San's pattern is too low, is a sugar factory shopkeeper satisfied? Lao Tzu has a more important place for you!

Ma Cheng said to Gu Changwei: "Gu San, you go to the yamen to find Xu Dahu and the eleven of them, let's go outside the city together!" ”

Although Gu Changwei was unhappy in his heart, he still didn't dare to disobey Ma Cheng's order, so he had no choice but to take over the order and go out to find Xu Dahu and them.

Ma Guiren is always treacherous and cunning, so he naturally sees Gu Changwei's dissatisfaction in his eyes, but Ma Gui doesn't feel any threat. Although Gu Changwei is now related to the second young master Ma Cheng, but you are a domestic slave from a military family, where can you compare with Ma Shiying's close people? So Ma Gui really didn't see Gu Changwei in his eyes. Ma Gui forgot one sentence, that is, he would rather offend the gentleman than the villain, Ma Gui offended Gu Changwei, the villain of the villain, under Ma Cheng, to death today, and brought great disaster to his sons in the future.

Ma Cheng saw Gu Xiying wearing a mandarin duck robe inside, a cotton armor outside, an iron helmet with eight hats on his head, and a goose feather knife on his waist, which was really majestic, Ma Cheng smiled and said, "How is it?" Is my little sister ready? Let's go out when we're done! ”

Gu Xiying cleaned up the bits and pieces on her body, then clenched her fists and said, "The last general will take the order!" ”

Ma Cheng saw that Gu Xiying was doing the same thing, and laughed and led Gu Xiying and Ma Shun out of the door.

Coming to Fuqian Street at the entrance of the Governor's Yamen, Gu Changwei and Xu Dahu had been waiting here for a long time, Gu Changwei still borrowed a war horse from the signing room, and then waited for Ma Cheng to get on the horse, and the group went to the east gate along Fuqian Street.

Fengyang City is the central capital of the Ming Empire, so the city gate is similar to Nanjing, it is also nine city gates, the east gate is divided into three, Ma Cheng their destination is Changchun Gate, and the displaced people outside Fengyang City are outside Changchun Gate.

Fengyang City is backed by the Huai River, so a large number of displaced people from the north gather on the side of the Huai River, among which Changchun Gate is the most. Because of its proximity to the Huai River wharf, displaced people can do odd jobs and earn some food.

Because Fengyang City is the central capital, the displaced people are not allowed to enter the city in Fengyang City, and those poor people can only live in shacks along the Huai River.

Ma Cheng traveled to this era for the first time out of the city, originally he thought that the poor people in Fengyang City were poor enough, but when he thought of going out of Changchun Gate, he knew that there was a mountain and a mountain high, compared with the homeless people outside the city, the people in the city really lived in a honeypot.

Out of Changchun Gate two miles away to the camp camp, these people in order to get water convenience along the banks of the Huai River to build shacks, of course, this era did not have the later generations of plastic sheeting, cardboard, so the materials to build the shacks are all local materials, all kinds of everything, there are rags, straw, dilapidated fishing nets, etc., many things Ma Cheng has never seen.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were already primary welfare institutions, and when Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, they became nurseries, Anjifang, nursing homes, and leaky gardens in various prefecture-level units across the country, which were used to house widows, widows, and lonely people. However, the social productivity of the Ming Dynasty was too low, and the state did not have much money invested here, so most of the welfare institutions in various places were like goods, and the daily maintenance could only rely on donations from the rich.

In Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, these institutions are fine, after all, they belong to economically developed areas, and there are many wealthy households, so they can still be maintained. Fengyang has always been a place where poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and in addition, Li Chuang was harmed a few years ago, and welfare institutions such as nursing homes have long existed in name only, so the tens of thousands of displaced people outside Fengyang City belong to the situation of no one to manage.

Of course, it is not that there is no one to manage, Fengyang Mansion has set up an inspection department here in Changchun Gate, equipped with 200 officers and soldiers of the inspection department, responsible for managing these displaced people. It is said that it is a management that only collects the dead among the displaced people every day to avoid the plague in the camp.

Ma Cheng's fresh clothes and angry horses, coupled with a group of pacesetters from the governor's yamen, just out of the inspection of the Changchun Gate inspection department saw this group of people, the inspection was very unexpected, Changchun Gate is full of displaced people, the air is full of stench, the rich people in the city have nothing to do and basically will not go out of the city from here.

Although the inspection was curious, he also hurried to meet it, after all, the duty of the inspection department is to maintain law and order.

When he approached this group of people, the patrol was startled, the noble son on horseback did not say, even these guards were not simple, the few people in front of them were wearing the governor's yamen pacesetter robes, one of them was five big and three thick, his face was full of meat, and he looked like an outlaw.

Although the Inspection Department is a local army, it belongs to the army series after all, and naturally it must be managed by the Governor of Fengyang. Although this inspection is a positive nine products, the pacesetters who dared to offend the governor's yamen hurriedly knelt down on the side of the road and shouted: "Changchun Gate Inspector Lu Zhong greets Shangguan!" ”

These people led by Ma Cheng don't talk about himself, even the grades of Gu Changwei, Xu Dahu and others are far above this Lu Zhong, so there is nothing wrong with him saying that he will meet Shangguan.

Ma Cheng looked at this guy, who was in his forties, with gray hair, wearing a mandarin duck robe with an indistinguishable color, and he couldn't see the small characters on the complement clearly, only the big guard character.

Ma Cheng frowned and asked, "Are you a guard?" ”

Lu Zhong heard Ma Cheng ask himself and quickly replied: "Back to my lord, the villain was originally the general banner of Fengyang Wei, because the inspection department lacked manpower, so the Fengyang prefect Zhang promoted the villain to Changchun Gate as an inspector!" ”

Gu Changwei heard Lu Zhong say this, and he couldn't hang out loud, what else did a nine-rank official say, do you think you are a first-class master?

Ma Cheng didn't want to say too much to this Lu Zhong, so he said directly: "The second master's name is Ma Cheng, and my father is Lord Ma, the governor of Fengyang!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, the frightened Lu Zhong hurriedly kowtowed.

Ma Cheng shook his hand and said, "Okay, don't kowtow, the second master came today to choose a few people, do you have good people in this homeless camp?" ”

Lu Zhong heard Ma Cheng say this, and quickly nodded and said: "Yes, naturally there is, please go to the villain's yamen to rest, and the villain will take people to find it for the yamen!" ”

Ma Cheng looked at the three dilapidated houses not far away, one of which was leaking and had no roof, that was the yamen that Lu Zhong said, that is, the station of the Changchun Gate Inspection Division. Ma Cheng saw that the house was about to fall, and he didn't go in and pressed it inside, so Ma Cheng said: "No need, I'll wait here for the second master, you go and come back quickly!" ”

Lu Zhong didn't dare to delay when he heard Ma Cheng say this, and hurriedly rushed into the camp camp with more than 50 soldiers, and brought more than 10 people out after a burst of chickens and dogs.

Before these people arrived in front of Ma Cheng, there was a foul smell, which was like something rotten, and it went straight to Ma Cheng's brain, and Ma Cheng covered his nose with a handkerchief and carefully looked at the dozen or so people in front of him.

These people can't see their faces clearly, all of them are covered with dust, not to mention that even men and women can't see their faces clearly. There were no clothes on his body at all, a few people were wearing pants, most of them had no pants, and they were standing naked in front of Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng had been mentally prepared before he came, but these people in front of him were beyond his imagination, Ma Cheng didn't expect people to be able to reach such a point.

Ma Cheng got off the horse and came to these people only to see that these people brought by Lu Zhong were all women, and they were all young women, probably because Lu Zhong thought he was going to choose women.

Ma Cheng waved his hand back to Lu Zhong, and Lu Zhong ran to Ma Cheng and asked, "Yanei, is there anything you are not satisfied with?" These are the youngest women in the camp! You must know that these people are all from Shandong, Henan and other places, and the old and weak have all died on the way, so it is good to have so many young women! ”

Lu Zhong is the inspection of Changchun Gate, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, there is no inspection of Lulu, and the income is naturally solved by himself. Lu Zhong managed the camp of the homeless people, so he naturally made up his mind about these poor homeless. In the past few years, Lu Zhong has sold hundreds of women one after another, and he has also made some money from them. Today, Ma Cheng came to pick people, and Lu Zhong naturally thought that this governor Yanei was also looking for women, so he picked out more than a dozen of the youngest women among the homeless people, and prepared to pat Ma Cheng's ass.

Ma Cheng heard Lu Zhong say this, and knew that this guy usually did this kind of thing, but Ma Cheng didn't come today to find a woman, but to choose a man, Ma Cheng scolded: "Your mother, do you think the second master is a drunkard?" It's all women, and the second master wants a man! ”

Lu Zhong was stunned by Ma Cheng's scolding, this Yanai doesn't like women? Do you like men? Lu Zhong looked at the young Yanai in front of him, and thought to himself, not necessarily, I heard that there are people in Nanjing who like to play with rabbits, and this Yanai probably also has this hobby.

Ma Cheng didn't know Lu Zhong's dirty thoughts, if he knew, he would definitely kick this guy to death. Ma Cheng couldn't say to Gu Changwei: "This waste can't do anything, let's go in and take a look ourselves, and try to pick some young and strong ones!" ”