The so-called county supervisor is the former patrol according to the imperial history was fixed to the counties, one is to strengthen the supervision of the county, and the other is to avoid those who say that the official has nothing to do, so that those who talk about misleading the country can also make people quiet, in the past, a patrol according to the imperial history to inspect several places, the relationship is still directly under the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and now a county is required to have a county supervisor to keep an eye on people, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate has recruited a lot of qualified other people, such as idle and alternate officials,

County Supervisor Liu was sent from Suzhou Prefecture, and when he saw Ma Zhixian introduce himself, he stepped forward and bowed down and said, "The county supervisor of Wuzhong County has seen an adult,"

Qian Qianyi nodded and asked, "May I ask how many people voted in the election of Liu County Supervisor a while ago, and did you see it with your own eyes?"

Liu County Supervisor said: "The elected official is a special thing, according to the rules should be supervised by the lower officials, the lower officials do not dare to be lazy on the election process is indeed seen with their own eyes, but the elections in the east and west townships have not voted, because the people are almost illiterate, except for the number of men who come to the women and the number of people on the roster is about the same, in order to let as many people as possible come to the lower officials and Ma Zhixian also tried their best, decided that each person who came to manage a meal plus ten cents, but unfortunately there are still a few people who did not come, It may be that the message has not been notified or that the elderly and weak are immobile,"

Qian Qianyi heard that the people were illiterate and felt understandable, in the past, the court did not use a pen to write the name, put yellow and black beans or black chess into the bottle, how convenient and intuitive, how to come, but Liu County Supervisor said that Qian Qianyi was stunned except for women, why did he say that except for women, did women not come to participate in the election,

Seeing that the county supervisor Liu was silent on the side after speaking, Qian Qianyi asked: "What do you mean by saying that apart from women, didn't women come to participate in the election?"

Liu County Supervisor said: "Yes, it was said before that women who have reached the age of 16 also want to come to the election, but the women are not recognized by the world after all, and later some people said that the opinions of the women's election were brought by their families, and after listening to this kind of suggestion, Lord Yang from Beijing did not agree, thinking that everyone can only represent themselves and cannot represent others, at first some women did not come, and then they simply did not come,"

Qian Qianyi nodded slowly and asked: "It is said that the emperor demanded equality between men and women several years ago, and successively trained many palace maids in the palace, so that they could promote the emperor's virtue and politics after returning to the place, why are there still people who are unwilling to show their heads now?"

Liu County Supervisor said: "No matter how capable a woman is, she will marry after all, and if she marries, she will teach her husband and children at home, where can she still have the leisure to take care of such things, of course, it still depends on the personality of each person, and the female officials in this county still did a lot of things to increase women's rights and interests before getting married, otherwise half of the people would not be willing to participate in the beginning, and the reason why they were all unwilling to come in the end was because of the herd mentality and because no one continued to lead them,"

Qian Qianyi sighed helplessly, turned to Zhou Yanru beside him and said, "It seems that illiteracy and women's lack of participation are a big problem, what does Brother Zhou think?"

Zhou Yanru said: "I have heard of female officials in various places before, among which the deeds of female officials in Wuzhong County are also known as beautiful talks, I only say that Wuzhong County is different, who knows that there are still too few strange women who have the ability and responsibility,"

Ma County Ling saw that Liu County Supervisor did not shine in front of Shangguan, he was secretly happy in his heart but did not show it, no one likes to have a person around him who stares at him all day long, although he and Liu County Supervisor are still very harmonious on the surface, at this time, I heard Zhou Yanru say that there are no strange women in Wuzhong, and I immediately said in my heart: "The two adults are from other places, and they may not know that there are also strange women in Wuzhong, and there may not be many who are as capable and responsible as the female officials in the past, but there are also many who are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and songs. I don't know if the adults are interested in looking at each other,"

Zhou Yanru understood what was going on as soon as he heard it, and it was enough for him to find out two deficiencies now, but he couldn't find that the two of them didn't care, and he didn't look good on Yang Lian's face if he found too much, as if the two of them were staring at him wrongly, he thought about it and said to Qian Qianyi: "I think it's enough to find two deficiencies now, immediately write our findings to the province, let the governor and the governor play in the capital, the two of us continue to patrol slowly in Wuzhong, and we can also go to see people like Ma Zhixian said, I don't know what Brother Qian thinks,"

Zhou Yanru means that the two of us handed in our views, and the governor and governor of Nanzhili played on behalf of them, which not only calmed the hearts of local officials, but also showed that they worked hard and wholeheartedly for the imperial court.

Qian Qianyi was also quite moved when he heard it, he also knew that he couldn't find more shortcomings, just have one or two shortcomings, and after listening to Zhou Yanru's words, he said: "Then there is Lao Ma Zhi County to lead the way, what celebrities do we have in Wuzhong,"

Ma Zhixian was very happy when he heard this, and immediately said: "There are many celebrities in Wuzhong, not to mention anything else, let's just say that a celebrity at the beginning of this dynasty is called Shen Wansan, I don't know if the two adults know,"

Qian Qianyi shook his head and smiled: "I know the famous Shen Wansan, but Ma Zhixian may be wrong, Shen Wansan is a native of Wuxing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang, and Wuzhong in Nanzhi is not the same place, it is said that Shen Wansan and Taizu built Nanjing City together, but Shen Wansan's people have repaired the city wall of the three sides, and Taizu has not even repaired the city wall on this side, because of this, Taizu realized that the power of merchants is sometimes greater than the power of the government, in order to prevent merchants from holding the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu strictly restricted the status of merchants, Now I don't know if it should be or not."

Ma Zhixian said: "The adult has a really good memory Shen Wansan is indeed not from Wuzhong, but he has a concubine who has lived in Shengze in Wuzhong, it is said that his concubine is also a talented woman who is good at calligraphy and painting, because it is Shen Wansan's ninth concubine, so it is called Jiuniang, folk rumors that this Jiuniang has a discerning eye, from the Shen family's too rich behavior to guess that it will eventually cause trouble, to Shengze is to avoid disasters belongs to the self-suicide of taking precautions, if the adult is interested in the next official, I want to invite the adult to Shengze to take a look, there is a beautiful scenery not to say, The people there can't get enough of it."

As soon as Ma Zhixian said this, other people felt a little strange, including Cao Tongju and others were thinking about what the hell this Ma Zhixian was doing, even if you guessed that Lord Qian liked talented women, you don't need to introduce the concubine who was someone else more than two hundred years ago, can you still dig out the people more than two hundred years ago and dedicate them to Lord Qian, not to mention that Shengze is at most a town, how can you let Lord Qian and others go there, Liu County Supervisor is even more suspicious that this Ma Zhixian has bad intentions, does he want to pull the adults from above to the bottom to see the people's feelings, By the way, pouring dirty water on himself for the affairs of the elected officials, there are too many things that dirt each other between colleagues, and it is no wonder that the Liu County Supervisory Committee thinks so,

Zhou Yanru said at this time: "Ma Zhi County has a heart, Shengze this place I have also heard, it is said that in ancient times this place was called Helu for the junction of Wu and Yue, and later changed its name to Shengze because there was a person named Sheng Bin in Wu when the Three Kingdoms was called Shengzhai, Shengze's Ze should be the false sound of the village, Shen Wansan can become a huge rich because he does business big, it is said that not only in the inland but also exported to Heng, Shengze grain rice and silk can be said to be Shen Wansan's source of wealth, Jiuniang to avoid disaster is afraid to be unreliable, Most of the time this Jiuniang is witty and clever in Shengze to take care of Shen Wansan's business,"

Qian Qianyi thought to himself that Lao Tzu is a hesitant not far from here, and Wuzhong belongs to the east of Taihu Lake, I am not very clear about these men and women, how can you be a Yixing person west of Taihu Lake so clear, and later thought that Zhou Yanru's characteristics are well-read and strong, and he was relieved, he thought about it and said: "In the matter of the elected officials, I heard that Lord Yang Lianyang not only carried out a pilot in Wuzhong, but also carried out a pilot in Huzhou, Zhejiang, after all, we have to go to Huzhou to take a trip to Shengze to take a look, Brother Zhou is so interested in Shengze, Why don't we go and see if Shen Wansan's house in Shengze is still there tomorrow?"

Zhou Yanru said: "Brother Qian wants to go to the younger brother to agree, not that the younger brother is interested in Shengze, just because in the third year of the Apocalypse, a cultivator accidentally dug up a stele of the Song Dynasty, and the text on it introduced the origin of Shengze's place name, and the younger brother happened to know,"

Seeing that Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru agreed to go to Shengze, Mazhi County immediately notified people to prepare, and after dinner that night, Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru wrote a letter to Governor Liu and the governor of Nanzhili, saying that they found that many people were illiterate, and women did not participate in the election, so they asked them to transfer these things to the imperial court. Immediately signed an opinion and asked someone to send it to Beijing, and asked someone to inform Qian Qianyi and let them let them observe the people's feelings for a period of time.

Saying that the next day Ma Zhixian took Qian Qianyi and Cao Tongju to Shengze, Zhou Yanru himself took people to Huzhou, the two asked Suzhou Zhizhou to send to accompany the Tongzhi back to Suzhou, said that at the end of the year, the affairs were busy and would not be disturbed, and after returning to the state, he greeted the Lord Zhizhou, Qian Qianyi knew that Zhou Yanru went to Huzhou to go back to his hometown Yixing by the way, so he discussed the New Year's meeting in Nanjing, and he also wanted to go to Shengze after the New Year.

After arriving in Shengze, Ma Zhixian and Cao Tongju took Qian Qianyi to take a turn in Shengze, looked at the buildings such as Nanshengfang and Beishengfang, and unconsciously came to a courtyard door, only to hear a pleasant sound of silk and bamboo inside, and some prodigal literati who were shaking fans and pretending to be tweezers on cold days went in and out, because everyone was wearing Confucian clothes Qian Qianyi was not afraid of people talking, pointing to the three words "Homecoming" in front of the courtyard and asked: "May I ask Mr. Ma what is the place to go here?"

Ma Zhixian replied: "Mr. Qian is a coincidence today, there is a Xu family here who has all kinds of poetry, calligraphy and painting, and he is also very good at playing the piano and chess, he can be described as a talented woman among talented women, Mr. is interested in seeing it,"