Zhou Zhenghao was one of the few large landowners in Huai'an City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He was the one in the first year of the Apocalypse. After winning the promotion, Zhou Zhenghao also participated in the examination four times, but he never won the jinshi, and gradually gave up the idea of becoming an official. But even this identity has made Zhou Zhenghao a well-known figure in Huai'an.

On weekdays, the scholars of Huai'an Mansion gather to chant poems, and Zhou Zhenghao is indispensable to be present to help the fun. Sometimes there were no bureaucrats present, and Zhou Zhenghao, who was a person, would preside over the meeting. Zhou Zhenghao can speak well, although the poems are not flattering, but he is very good at watching people cook, so he is quite famous in Huai'an Mansion.

When it comes to literati in Huai'an Mansion, Zhou Zhenghao is the first few. Even if the prefect of Huai'an Mansion saw Zhou Zhenghao, he had to treat him with three points of courtesy and call Zhou Gong.

Being at home in Shilin is not only a beautiful thing, but also has practical benefits. The prefect glanced at Zhou Zhenghao, and Zhou Zhenghao was relied on. Huai'an Mansion is governed in Shanyang County, and those officials in the county government of Shanyang County, and the officials in the household are all better than monkeys.

Those officials not only did not levy Zhou Zhenghao's field endowment, but also did not hesitate to favor Zhou Zhenghao when Zhou Zhenghao and others got into a lawsuit.

Zhou Zhenghao is a very good person, and every time he is taken care of by officials, he inevitably has to deal with it. After coming and going, Zhou Zhenghao became a "good man of Zhou" who everyone was willing to befriend.

This situation made Zhou Zhenghao's family move up like a "turtle rocket" in Beijing.

Not to mention the fields and shops that were snatched through various lawsuits, just say that the donation of land allowed Zhou Zhenghao to have more than 6,000 acres of fertile land. These fields not only had Shengdou small people who tried to evade taxes take the initiative to donate, but also rogue people in the market who donated controversial land to Zhou Zhenghao, and they simply turned other people's fields into Zhou Zhenghao's.

The latter kind of dedication, known as "trickery offering", is an important source for Zhou Zhenghao to obtain land property.

Since the first year of the Apocalypse, Zhou Zhenghao's field has doubled every year. Because Zhou Zhenghao knew the people in the government and was powerful, those scoundrels in the market were like flies who saw carrion, and rushed to the Zhou family to "deceive" the land. These green skins inexplicably made some things and controversies with those small people, and then took the land to the Zhou family.

The land passed down from generation to generation by the small people suddenly became Zhou Zhenghao's, and he had no choice but to fight a lawsuit with Zhou Zhenghao, but it was always Zhou Zhenghao who won in the end. The small farmers who were forced by Zhou Zhenghao to sell their sons and daughters had 50 households if not 100 households.

Zhou Zhenghao had a wife and six concubines, and these wives and concubines bore him five sons and seven daughters. Zhou Zhenghao, who is middle-aged, can be described as proud.

However, Zhou Zhenghao's happy life came to an end because of Li Zhi's southern expedition in the spring of Chongzhen's nineteenth year.

Zhou Zhenghao had previously participated in the "Gentry Self-Help" initiated by Qian Qianyi, and donated 1,000 taels of silver to Qian Qianyi's Jiangbei Second Town. The silver was handed over through the prefect of Huai'an Prefecture, and Zhou Zhenghao did not announce it loudly. But Zhou Zhenghao knew that once the prefect of Huai'an was caught by Li Zhi, his sponsorship of the second town of Jiangbei would definitely be publicized.

Huai'an is very close to Shandong, almost bordering. Li Zhi's various things in Shandong, Huai'an people can often learn from the mouths of visitors from Shandong. All the news from Shandong proves that Li Zhi is a ruthless character who kills people without blinking. Zhou Zhenghao was a little frightened when he donated 1,000 taels of silver.

When Li Zhi attacked the Qing Dynasty, the second town of Jiangbei stabbed Li Zhi from behind, and with Li Zhi's character of revenge, since he withstood the north-south attack of the Qing State and the Jiangbei Army, it was impossible not to go south to punish the scholars in the south.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that this retribution would come so quickly.

This morning, 20,000 people greeted Li Zhi's siege. Zhou Zhenghao donated 2,000 taels for this Minzhuang a few days ago, he thought that these Minzhuang could hold for half a month, and then the Jiangbei Army might fight a decisive battle with Li Zhi in Huai'an. However, Zhou Zhenghao's idea turned out to be a fantasy after all. It only took more than an hour for the city of Huai'an to be broken by Li Zhi, and Li Zhi's tiger army, armed to the teeth, entered the city of Huai'an and captured the prefect alive in the prefect's yamen.

Zhou Zhenghao knew that Li Zhi had already mastered the list of donors, and he would definitely kill people according to the list. The only way left for Zhou Zhenghao to survive was to escape before Li Zhi could raise the butcher's knife.

Zhou Zhenghao waited for everyone to fall asleep in the middle of the night, and sneaked to the city wall with his five sons and six grandchildren. After observing for an hour, Zhou Zhenghao finally escaped from Huai'an City from the collapsed section of the city wall.

Zhou Zhenghao has heard that Li Zhi has never killed women. So as long as the men of the Zhou family escape, the Zhou family will be safe.

After Zhou Zhenghao escaped from Huai'an City, he fled all the way south, trying to escape to Yangzhou City, where the Jiangbei Army was stationed. However, the children of the Zhou family were all loaded with goldfish, and the packages were very heavy, and they ran very slowly. After running for an hour by moonlight, the Zhou family was so tired that they were out of breath, and they were all out of breath.

After running for another quarter of an hour, I saw a small village surrounded by an earthen wall. A half-person-high wooden gate at the entrance of the village was closed, and Zhou Zhenghao walked to the front of the wooden door to take a look and found that there was a well in the middle of the village.

Zhou Zhenghao's little grandson ran very thirsty, and when he saw someone, he shouted: "Grandpa, I'm thirsty." ”

Zhou Zhenghao has always loved this little grandson, and as soon as he heard this, he handed his package to his eldest son and said, "Don't be afraid, grandpa will scoop water for you!" ”

Zhou Zhenghao looked at the wooden door, stepped on the door panel and wanted to turn over, but accidentally knocked out some sound.

The Zhou family was like a great enemy, and they all stopped all their movements one by one, and observed the movements in the village with trepidation.

But fortunately, Zhou Zhenghao's actions did not wake up the villagers. Zhou Zhenghao licked his lips, jumped over the wooden door with the soles of his feet, and walked cautiously towards the well in the middle of the village. Zhou Zhenghao walked to the well and observed it, and then carefully put the wooden barrel down. When the wooden barrel was put down, there was no sound at all, Zhou Zhenghao was overjoyed and began to pull up the bucket filled with water.

However, just when Zhou Zhenghao was stealing water, the door of a thatched hut next to Zhou Zhenghao was suddenly pushed open, and a man in his twenties suddenly walked out, picked up his torn clothes and was about to pee in the corner of the house.

He suddenly saw Zhou Zhenghao stealing water.

As soon as Zhou Zhenghao saw this man, he secretly said that it was over. This is clearly Boss Xu, who has fought a real estate lawsuit with himself.

At the beginning, Xu Laoda was also a rich peasant, and he had fifty acres of dry land in the mountain col. Zhou Zhenghao coveted the field of fertilizer, insisted that the mountain col was the ancestral cemetery of his Zhou family, and fought a lawsuit to take over 50 acres of dry land.

Not only did he take away 50 acres of fertile land from Boss Xu, but Zhou Zhenghao also swallowed up the 60 acres of thin fields of four villagers in Xujia Village that time.

I didn't expect that the road was narrow, I couldn't imagine that this small village was actually Xujia Village, and I couldn't imagine that Zhou Zhenghao actually met Boss Xu here.

Huai'an borders Shandong, and news from Shandong comes from time to time. Anyone with a little insight in Huai'an knows that after the Duke of Jin Guo was killed this time, all the gentry and lords in Huai'an will be unlucky. During the day, Boss Xu heard that the Duke of Jin Guogong had attacked Huai'an City, and Zhou Zhenghao, who was stealing his enemies, was going to be finished this time.

At this time, Boss Xu saw clearly Zhou Zhenghao who was fleeing, where he was willing to let go of this water dog. Boss Xu's eyes widened, and he was about to shout to wake up the other villagers.

Zhou Zhenghao was so frightened that he was sweating. He quickly pulled out five barefoot gold bars from his sleeve and fell to his knees with a thud.

"Boss Xu, you spare me! This gold bar is yours! ”