The city gate is tightly guarded, and it is not allowed to enter or exit, as a national marquis, Ma Du is naturally unrestrained, and the last time the whole city was in a big rope, except for the ordinary soldiers and Han Cheng's subordinates, there were no soldiers on duty here this time.

This time it was a complete coincidence, if it weren't for Lao Zhu's whim, there would be no red sleeve tricks at all, Lao Zhu believed in Han Cheng's loyalty, otherwise Han Cheng would have died at this moment.

But the suspicion in his bones made him have to be on guard, so he wanted to hand over the affairs of Tengzhou to Ma Du, and he was very glad that Lao Zhu still trusted himself and the person recommended by Ma Du.

When I arrived in Fangshan, I didn't go home but went to the academy, and the students were all working part-time or working in the yamen, there was no one, and a few sporadic students could be seen occasionally.

Ma Du walked through the empty school and plunged into the laboratory, even after an hour, the dense tadpoles under the microscope were still very active, and it was obvious that Zhu Biao's body was not in the slightest.

If it's not a physical reason, it's a psychological reason, and if the mental pressure is too great, it's not easy to conceive. After cleaning up the equipment, Ma Du left the laboratory, and happened to meet a few old men coming out of the office with sad faces.

Ma Du smiled: "I said that a few gentlemen are not at home on a hot day to drink tea and cool off, and what are you doing in the academy, what's wrong with this sad face?" ”

Zhu Sheng sighed and said: "The emperor's request for the opening of the autumn semester is to recruit 1,800 students, and the number has risen by sixty percent all of a sudden. ”

Oh, it's really gratifying that a few old men have found out in their consciences.

In contrast, Lao Zhu has no conscience, he is very clear about the expenses of the academy, as the biggest beneficiary of the academy, he can build a house for the academy and send it away, and all the other expenses are transferred to Ma Du.

"Don't worry, gentlemen, why worry about money if you have juniors!"

Tao An frowned and asked: "I heard that the price of glass is falling three times a day now, do you still have to earn?" ”

"Who said that you must sell colored glass to support the academy, the younger generation has its own way. But Mr. Tao, even if our three-year appointment is completed after the start of school, what are you still worried about the academy for? ”

"Why do you still want to drive the old man away? The old man has decided to eat you, what can you do to me? Haha......"

Tao An is now considered to be famous, and a few years of academy life have worn out his self-motivated heart, especially in the court, a generation of new people replacing old people, how could he, Lao Zhu's former favorite minister, go to Hu Weiyong, who was unknown in the past, how can he be at ease in Fangshan to laugh and watch the wind and clouds.

Huang Youcai is a rich man with thousands of dollars in his pocket, his family has thousands of acres of fertile land, and there are hundreds of silk shops in various places, he dare not say that he is the richest man in Hangzhou, and there are always top ten.

But now, a rich man like him lives in an old adobe house, and every morning he gets up with a thin layer of floating dirt on his blanket, and his mouth is also very toothy.

Burst! Huang Youcai spat at the mouth fiercely and shouted, "Get me a bowl of water to rinse my mouth!" ”

The delicate celadon tea bowl that his wife had prepared had already been handed over, and after only taking a sip, he spit it out, and even the water had dirt, and there was a heavy musty smell wafting in the house, which was really disgusting.

While dressing him, his wife asked tentatively: "If the master really can't do it, let's buy the land here, and build a house here, it's stuffy, hot, dirty and smelly, the sisters really have enough to live in, if you can't shelter from the wind and rain in winter, what should we do?" ”

Huang Youcai said angrily: "You have lived enough, my lord and I have lived enough, and I have never suffered this crime from the front foot runner." Living in such a remote area, there are dilapidated houses that cannot be seen at a glance, if others know that I live in such a place, who would dare to do business for me. ”

The yard was quite large, but it was full of tents, and his second, third, fourth, and fifth wives lived respectively, as well as his son, daughter-in-law, and maid, and the servants simply did not even have a place to live and slept on the ground directly on straw mats.

As soon as he got out of the house, his wife and son came up to complain, nothing more than that he didn't sleep all night in the heat last night, or he was bitten by mosquitoes, which annoyed him.

He scolded and blasted everyone away, walked to the edge of the well and asked the servant to fetch him a basin of water and began to wash it.

"Master, where are you going, it's time to eat!"

"Where else can I go, go out and find a house while it's cool!"

Sitting on the sliding rod, the four strong servants lifted it, and staggered out the door.

What was once an empty slum-like place is now full of people, and not a single one of them is poor. If you throw a brick out and say no, it will hit the richest man in that state and county.

As for why these people don't honestly live in a big house in their hometown, but go to Yingtian to live in a dilapidated house, of course, it is because of Lao Zhu.

Since last year, Lao Zhu has successively migrated wealthy families from all over the south of the Yangtze River to fill Yingtian, and this trick should have been learned from his idol gangster emperor Liu Bang.

Liu Bang moved his hometown Fengyi to Chang'an to make a new Fengfeng in order for his father to live in Chang'an, and moved to various places to enrich Guanzhong's "prepare for war when there is nothing to do, and go out when there is something".

Liu Bang's move is one filial piety and the other is military, which is really understandable, but Lao Zhu, a wealthy household, moved into Yingtian to make his capital look less shabby, a real face project.

This group is only a few thousand, which doesn't sound like much, but you must know that these people are all rich. It's not like in later generations that there are only two or three people in a family, as little as more than ten people, and more than dozens or hundreds of people, for example, there are nearly 30 people in Huang Youcai's family, which is more than 100,000 people.

If more than 100,000 people are thrown to Beijing and Shanghai in the future, they may not even be able to fill a bubble, but the current Yingtian does not have such a large carrying capacity.

Lao Zhu didn't dare the rich at all, so he didn't care how the rich people lived, and if they came early, they might be able to buy someone's empty house at a reasonable price, and as for coming late, they couldn't even find an inn, and the whole family could only squeeze into the dilapidated slums.

It's not that they don't have the money to buy land and build a house, but there is no good location to meet their status, the place where the powerful live can't be squeezed in, and the place where the ordinary people live is unwilling and inconvenient to do business, which is really difficult to do.

Huang Youcai shook his head and sighed and came out of the tooth shop, this trip was in vain, there was no house in his picture at all, just sat on the sliding rod and heard a little scholar in a green shirt shouting on the road ahead, "Popsicle!" Buy popsicles! ”