As a three-hundred-year-old literati elite of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Ji is still a loyal minister who worries about the imperial court, and has seen the strong and strict order of the thieves with his own eyes, and heard the various behaviors of the thieves in the Fuxian area, and also clearly saw the future of the thieves, which can't help but worry about the imperial court, worried that this unusual thief will become bigger, and in the end it will seriously threaten the foundation of the entire imperial court, not to mention, since the last battle of Suide, many signs were taken away by the thieves, and those signs also sneaked back to their own governance and took their families to the base of the thieves. For a time, the population of Suide decreased dramatically, and he was about to become a county honor, for the public and private, and after having money and food in his hands, he also wanted to contribute to the court and contribute to himself.

When he received a notice from the governor that Zhang Yuan would be appointed to revitalize the guard, and Li Yuanhao led the troops to join the guards of several counties to send troops to exterminate the thieves, Zhou Ji seized this rare opportunity and sent an official letter requesting the reorganization of the guardhouse and requesting to join the encirclement and suppression army.

This report immediately received the attention of Governor Yang He, and vigorously praised it, when everyone was in danger, and they were determined to beggar-thy-neighbor and sweep the snow in front of their doors, Zhou Ji stood up and set an example for everyone, which just improved the morale of the officialdom in northern Shaanxi.

When Zhang Yuan saw this report, he was reluctant in his heart, for no other reason, because looking at the boundary, Na Suide was 108,000 miles away from Fu County, and there were three counties in between, so he couldn't reach it at all. As a result, he was a little reluctant to give as much food and salary as he gave to Luochuan and Yichuan Qianhu.

Regarding Zhang Yuan's funding, Zhou Ji absolutely scoffed, at this point, the literati's contempt for businessmen in their bones is undoubtedly revealed, I am dignified, and it is within my duty to exterminate bandits, how can I rely on a ninth-rate pariah? This major military event has to rely on the efforts of the officials and gentry, which is a matter of the gentry and has nothing to do with the businessman, so Zhou Ji County resolutely and solemnly rejected Zhang Yuan's reluctant donation from the small businessman.

So, after receiving a commendation from the governor of the governor, he also received the fine swords, guns and equipment used by the two thousand troops, and a pair of Wenshan armor from the governor. And a pennant of "Pillars of the Country" written by himself encouraged him to supervise the great victory.

This is the greatest and most desired literati who is dedicated to the country.

In the Ming Dynasty, it is normal to supervise the division with civilian officials, so on the top, Zhou Ji also decided to do this, sharing and robbing military merits is secondary, and there is no such idea, the main supervisor has been frightened by the thieves Qianhu, at the same time, he still has a certain reputation in Suide, and he can also stabilize the morale of the army, improve morale, the most unfortunate, those who have received their own benefits will not carry knives and guns to the thieves in their face, after all, in the original people who kept running away, they can still deter.

Now, Zhou Ji County Zun has begun to doubt the loyalty of his subordinates, one person has four acres a year is only one hundred catties, and there is no other burden of good land, which has made him unable to do it, which definitely attracts landless people, which is actually something that he cannot give and achieve according to the law of the imperial court.

During this period, sometimes, Zhou Ji already felt a kind of sadness, how could he be alone against the habits formed over thousands of years and centuries? For this declining Daming, he only has the lament in his heart, what else is there besides lamentation? No, a lonely powerlessness is just that.

But as a loyal minister of the Ming court, he still has to do it, even if it is just a little effort, even if he does a little bit of strength for the emperor, Zhou Ji told himself that he must do something for this court.

With such a thought, as soon as the governor's edict arrived, Zhou Ji took a thousand households, and the county master and master immediately began to open up non-stop.

As the so-called army did not move the grain and grass first, there was still a lot of money and grain left from the original official sale, which was all Zhou Ji in accordance with the rules (Wei Zhongxian's rules at that time, now Zhou Ji has begun to miss the time when the eunuch party was in power, after all, the eunuch party is also mainly to protect the livelihood of the people, who let the party leader is a peasant, so the head is aimed at the gentry who knock the bones and suck the marrow in the Ming Dynasty and those Qingliu who are full of brains, of course, now Qingliu has completely destroyed such rules, and began to face the entire Ming Dynasty has been a small people.

At this point, Zhou Ji is sometimes confused, as a member of Qingliu, as the bottom, he feels the deepest, is it better to be a eunuch or a clear stream? When the eunuch party was rampant, he resolutely resisted and resisted those who claimed to be clear and unrestrained in slapping the eunuch party, and once the clear stream was in power but had no bottom line to liquidate the so-called eunuch party, and finally deleted all the policies that were originally beneficial to the peasants of the Ming Dynasty, what was left? What's left. Continue to seal it in the treasury, wait for the emergency, and take it out now, it's not impossible, but in terms of the consumption of passing through the state, it's still a drop in the bucket, Zhou Ji is a literati also knows one thing, the army marches thousands of miles, counting on the court law that has long been abolished, it's a joke at all, do your own thing, don't expect others. Because, the need to go on a journey of thousands of miles is very large, if according to the Ming system, the troops have to supply grain and grass to the states and counties along the route, maybe they will starve and disperse the army that Zhou Ji has worked so hard to build, and it is not possible to rely on others, and everything has to rely on himself.

After planning with the county master, he found that he had a lot of official vacancies, so what are you waiting for? Sell.

This time is not like last time, the county lord has to personally ride a donkey around to sell, this time, a government official noticed, immediately Suide County Ya Bang City, business is booming.

This time, Zhou Ji has the experience of doing this business last time, and he will not suffer a loss in pricing, the price code is doubling up, and the hardship fee intermediary fee is of course rising, and at the same time, he no longer asks the embarrassing question of when the other party will take office.

Those gentry and landlords were even more starry, not smashed by the price of Zhou Ji and the county master, but by the excitement of being able to produce some officials in their family again, and there were more monks and less porridge to be anxious.

The goods are already in short supply, and I don't know how to leak the news, and the gentry from other places are strong and strong with a large amount of silver money thousands of miles away, and they are rushing to trade, and the shot is not comparable to these land-sitting households in Suide, which aggravates the shortage of goods, so how can it be good?

In normal times, if you want to get an official body, you have to go up and down the franchise, make a point, and I don't know how many people have to go through, not to mention the countless money spent, and wait for a year or two, it is more likely that it will be easier to do things, and the last one is left.

A local landlord was outside the yamen, queuing up all night, his nose was red from the cold, and he didn't flinch, and he kept jumping there and scolded the guys and slaves around him: "You damn things, didn't you say that you should bring more money?" Why did you bring these? Do you mean to harm me? ”

The butler who followed closely shrunk his neck, snorted his snot, and handed the owner a hand stove with new carbon, and shouted while stomping his feet that were numb from the cold: "The owner, I thought we had bought it for the eldest son and the second son last time, and this time there was only one younger son left, so I didn't bring those, besides, I didn't expect prices to soar to such an extent——"

The proprietor went up with a big foot and kicked the butler into a gourd that rolled on the ground. "You eat dry food for nothing, don't you know, this opportunity is rare? Don't you know that in addition to the three sons, there is another me? Don't you know that I want to be the master again? ”

The housekeeper was blinded at the time, how old are you? People who are buried in their necks, they don't know a single big character, and they still want to be masters?

Looking at the cowering butler, and then looking at an old guest from out of town in front of him, dressed in a noble fox fur, holding a bronze hand stove in his hand, sitting under his buttocks with five large boxes, and a few sturdy families around him, constantly putting pieces of good charcoal into a big stove, in this cold day, doing this in this square, it is definitely a bag, but looking at his eyes at the local rich man, full of contempt and contempt.

Compared with others, Zhou Ji is indeed very cold, and the old customers from other places, especially Shanxi, are really rich, but what's wrong with being rich, especially at this time, you must not let your mother compare with herself, this is the face of your hometown.

Suddenly, I saw a local tyrant holding a confession, laughing wildly and running out of the hall, shouting like crazy: "I'm an official, I'm a master, hahahaha-" That look, can definitely be used as a crazy metaphor, looking at the family members who were happy all the way shouting that the master was surrounded by the old man, the owner scolded the housekeeper who was pretending to be dead on the ground: "What are you still dying there?" Don't go home and get your money yet? Watching the housekeeper running back, he suddenly shouted, "Come back." ”

The steward hurried back and waited for the proprietor's orders.

"By the way, bring me my big brazier." The proprietor stared at the outsider and gritted his teeth.

Sample, I'm spending it with you.

Business is booming, but there is a shortage of goods, what should I do? Then go somewhere else to adjust.

The official body of the county government is sold out, then the guard is sold, anyway, the last war, the guard was almost wiped out, at that time, I found a thousand households who had long been red-eyed, and asked, now there are empty officers in the thousand households, two deputy thousand households, from the fifth grade, and two people from the sixth grade. Peng is a member of the official. There are a number of 100 total flags.

When Zhou Ji heard this, he shouted: "Then what are you waiting for?" Don't take it out and sell it yet? ”

So, after Zhou Ji and Qianhu discussed the price, they opened their doors again, although the official position of this military household is not very popular, but as long as you don't take the official body, you can also show off in the township, and everyone doesn't care too much. So although the price is low, it also has a lot of income.

The official body was sold out, and he even said that after the next time, it would be time to contribute to the emperor.

Now that the money and food are available, the next step is to start recruiting military Han Ding.

This time the county said that there are rewards for signing Ding tax exemption, and military men are not naturalized, or Zhou Ji is reputable, as soon as this statement came out, immediately gathered from the people, Suide recruited more than 1,000 Ding Junhan in a short period of time, as for whether it is for a bite of food, or for Jingzhong to serve the country, or have other thoughts, that is a matter of the future.