(ps: I went to work today to see a selection of new historical books, which really makes Xiaosheng ashamed, this is the first time Xiaosheng has written a novel, turn over and see that what is written in front is really a landless appearance, with many typos, and the sentences are not smooth, which is really unsightly, but the front can't be changed, and the plot is messed up, so please bear with me!) )

Tong Tuchang's three-plate axe was very effective, and a month later, more than 30 large and small towns were built on the vast alluvial plain of Sihui County, ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 people each. There is a strict armor protection system in the town, and it is clear what each person is doing, where he goes, how many people are in each household, and how much land he has planted.

At the same time, more than a dozen bandits and bandits in Sihui County disappeared, and Sihui was not a place with poor mountains and bad waters, and there were no mountains and rivers at all, and these bandits came out to surrender in the face of powerful firearms. Tong Tuchang adhered to the high-pressure policy in Changhua, whether he surrendered or not, he immediately executed the bandits when he caught them, and his head was hanging at the entrance of a nearby town, this method looked bloody, but it was very effective, and some restless homeless people began to farm honestly.

The original Sihui county, which had only more than 10,000 people, was also rebuilt by Tong Tuchang, and now there are 100,000 people in the county, and there are not enough houses to set up a new urban area outside the city, and a large number of factories appear outside Sihui City, and the displaced people who have no jobs begin to enter the factories opened by wealthy families to start working.

If Wang Xian and Wang County Commander looked down on Tongzhi who had never read this book a month ago, now he is a five-body figure who admires this Lord Tong. In the past, officials governed a place based on the principle of not competing with the people for profit and a completely natural economy, which I saw Tong Tuchang. But Tong Tuchang's set is really good, a large number of displaced people have a way to live, and some families began to enshrine Tong Tuchang's immortal tablet. It stands to reason that such an official should be a clean official like Hai Rui, but Lord Tong's foundation is as muddy as the Pearl River, he dares to accept any bribe, dare to eat any meal, and dare to sleep with any woman. Selling land in the factory area outside the city, Lord Tong earned 20,000 taels of silver at once, that is, Wang Xian himself had the benefit of 10,000 taels. This is not a bribe, the money is sent by the rich people crying and shouting. The rich man's silk factory business expanded, he made more money, those homeless people also had a way to live, and his own officials also benefited. Wang Xianzhen couldn't understand that there was a win-win situation in this world, didn't the sages say that wealth is a pool of water, some people drink too much and some people drink less, but it is clear that several parties have benefited in front of him, and he is really puzzled.

Wang Xian couldn't figure it out, now he can be said to be Tong Tuchang's person, and if he has questions, he naturally has to ask, so he will come and ask Master Tong on this day.

Tong Tuchang smiled after listening to Wang Xian's question: "You don't understand? Don't talk about you, I don't understand either! ”

Tong Tuchang's answer was very surprised, and Wang Xian asked, "Master Tong, where did you learn these methods?" ”

"These are all given to me by the King of Chu, I followed the King of Chu in Huguang, I saw with my own eyes how the King of Chu went from nothing to a wealthy family, I learned these just scratching the surface. Lord Wang, if you have the opportunity, you should go to Dongguan to have a look, and where you go, you can understand how talented King Chitose Chu is! ”

Wang Xian is not blind, he knows that the world is in chaos now, and several clans in the south have been called emperors one after another, but he doesn't know if this King of Chu is the emperor.

Wang Xian lowered his head and thought for a long time, feeling that it would be better to ask.

"Lord Tong, now that the world is in chaos, do you think King Chu is really the lord of Zhongxing?"

"Of course, you can see how Guangdong is. And how about the battalion of new troops from Zhaoqing? ”

Of course, Wang Xian had seen the new army, and at the beginning, Zhaoqing only sent a battalion of less than 500 people, Wang Xian was still very worried, but he didn't expect that in less than half a month, all the bandits in the county with more than a dozen groups of nearly 10,000 people were eliminated.

"There are 50,000 people in the hands of the king of Chu in a new army like this, and there are countless large ships of two or three thousand materials on the sea, and the side of the big ship is as high as the city wall, and there are a hundred artillery pieces on board, do you say that such an army can't be prosperous in the Ming Dynasty?"

"Lord Tong, I heard that the Manchu Qing in the north is very powerful, and there is a saying that the Eight Banners are invincible!"

"That was the former Ming army, and more than 50,000 people were wiped out by the new army in the invincible Eight Banners in Nanzhili."

Wang Xian didn't know about this news, so he hurriedly asked, "Really?" “

"How can I lie to you, our prefect, Lord Chen, used to be a senator under the governor of Nanzhili, Lord Li Zhili, and he was sent to Zhaoqing as a prefect because of his meritorious service, you can ask him when you are free!"

While the two were chatting, the imperial court's mansion newspaper was sent down and sent to the Sihui County Ya.

Wang Xian picked it up and looked at it, was dumbfounded, and said, "Master Ma of the Ministry of Industry has been demoted!" ”

Tong Tuchang took the newspaper and took a serious look, it turned out that at the end of February, Ma Jiyuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, was demoted to Dangzhi County, Luzon, Nanyang, by the king of Chu of the prison country because of the unfavorable resettlement of displaced people.

I didn't expect my uncle to start so quickly, Tong Tuchang has been in Changhua for more than a year, and it's not bad there, at least there is a Changhua County on the side, so Tong Tuchang lives like a year. Not to mention Luzon, which is thousands of miles farther than Changhua, I heard that there are cannibals there, and I don't know if Ma Jiyuan can hold out for a year.

After reading the Di Bao, Tong Tuchang also felt that his trip to the Four Meetings should come to an end, and it was time to go to the next stop, Guangning, where there were still more than 500,000 displaced people to be resettled.

"Lord Wang, I'm going to Guangning tomorrow, and I'll have a date later!"

"Lord Tong is leaving? The situation in Quang Ninh is similar to that of Sihui! ”

"I know this, but I don't dare to disobey the order of the King of Chu, Guangning has to go and see it. In addition, this time the resettlement of homeless people has more than a dozen officials in your county government, I want to take them with me when I go to Guangning this time, I wonder if Lord Wang can agree? ”

"Of course this is no problem, if there is anything you need, Lord Tong just say. Since the adults are leaving, tomorrow at noon, the officials will prepare a send-off banquet in the restaurant, please enjoy the face of Lord Tong! ”

"Lord Wang is polite, this official naturally wants to attend!"

After Wang Xian left, Tong Tuchang began to pack his bags, the dozen or so officials were all handy, they must be brought, and the battalion of new troops, Guangning also needed them.

When Tong Tuchang was packing up, Tong Yangjia's letter arrived, and Tong Tuchang only knew what happened in Dongguan after reading the letter.

Wang Xian and Tong Tuchang's letter was delivered to Tong Yangjia ten days after leaving Sihui, and Tong Yangjia was overjoyed when he saw it, this was a good time to bring down Ma Jiyuan. But after Tong Yangjia thought about it again, this matter could make the Ma family uncomfortable once, but it was far from enough to bring down Ma Mingyuan. The king of Chu trusted Ma Mingyuan very much, and the power of the things in his hands was still not enough.

Just when Tong Yangjia was worried, Gong Dacheng came and brought good news.

It turned out that Gong Dacheng heard a news in Guangzhou Fuzhong, "I want to be an official and find the Ma family". At first, Gong Dacheng thought it was just a rumor in the market, but after careful investigation, he found that all the clues pointed to the Ma family, and it turned out that the Ma family actually sold test questions in the township test in February.

Fraud in the imperial examination is a big case in which dynasty has lost its head, and even in later generations, the leakage of college entrance examination questions is also a batch of black gauze hats.

Tong Yangjia was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he didn't worry about the Ma family brothers' heads falling to the ground?

Tong Yangjia hurriedly put on his official uniform and asked to see Zhu Hongsan, the king of Chu.

Zhu Hongsan was also very shocked after listening to Tong Yangjia's statement, he knew that Ma Mingyuan stretched out his hand to try it in the township, and originally thought that he was just getting a few fame for his subordinates, which was nothing. But I didn't expect Ma Mingyuan to sell test questions.

Zhu Hong was furious and shouted: "Cao Fang! ”

"Master, the slave is here!"

"You led Dongchang Fanzi to copy Ma Mingyuan's house and find evidence of selling test questions!"

Cao Fang immediately came to Ma Mingyuan's house with forty or fifty wolf-like Dongchang fans, and the Ma family was not far from the temporary Chu Wangfu in Guangzhou. When he arrived at the door, Cao Fang asked his men to slam the door.

After a while, the door opened, and the housekeeper who guarded the door was frightened when he saw these wolf-like Dongchang fans at the door.

"Children, let me go in and search, and don't let go of anyone with words!" After speaking, Cao Fang led people to rush into the Ma Mansion.

Ma Mingyuan was sitting in the house now, and when he heard a group of Dongchang people coming in outside the door, he was so angry that he was going to die. He is an orthodox scholar, and he really doesn't have a good impression of these eunuchs, plus the king of Chu suppressed the eunuchs very much, even Cao Fang nodded when he saw him.

When Ma Mingyuan saw Cao Fang walking into the house, he couldn't help but ask angrily: "Father-in-law Cao, what are you bringing people from Dongchang to my house for?" ”

Cao Fang arched his hand and said with a smile: "Greetings to the elder of Ma Ge, the slave maid has received an edict from the prison country, and came to the old man's house to find clues about the leaked exam questions in the township test!" ”

Hearing Cao Fang say this, Ma Mingyuan was shocked, he really did the township test. But it wasn't for money, the Ma family was attached to the King of Chu, and they got tens of thousands of acres of land, dozens of shops, and the ordinary ten thousand taels of silver, and Ma Mingyuan didn't pay attention to it. Reaching out to the township test was to win over the local gentry, Ma Mingyuan also felt Tong Yangjia's pressure on him in the court, for fear that he would not have enough manpower, so he wanted to win over the squires in Guangdong. A total of 23 people have been recorded in this township examination, and the list is still in the study!

Cao Fang is accustomed to observing words and colors, and when she saw Ma Mingyuan's faceless, she knew that this matter was true.

"Master Ma, please let go, the slave wants to search your study!"

"Cao Fang, you dare, you wait, I'll go and ask to see the King of Chu!"

Seeing Ma Mingyuan go out angrily, a thousand households in Dongchang on the side asked: "Old ancestor, Ma Ge said that he went to ask to see the King of Chu, do we still check?" ”

"Why don't you check? Is there an edict from the king of Chu now? Why don't you run an errand! ”

The thousand households did not dare to speak, so they led people into the study and began to look for evidence.

Ma Mingyuan came to the Chu Wangfu in a hurry, and when he entered the house, he saw that Tong Yangjia was here. Ma Mingyuan gritted his teeth angrily, it was this Tong Yangjia again.

"Chitose of the prison country, the minister is wronged!"

"What have you wronged?"

"The minister didn't leak the exam questions!"

"What's going on, wait until Cao Fang comes back!"

Cao Fang's side was very fast, and in less than a quarter of an hour, he found evidence, and Cao Fang came to see Zhu Hongsan with a stack of letters.

Zhu Hongsan flipped through the letter casually, which was exactly how Ma Mingyuan communicated with the local squire, and agreed on the sentence and left a mark on the volume in order to make his own people lift.

Zhu Hong was so angry that he threw the letter to the ground: "Ma Mingyuan, see for yourself!" Say it yourself how it is! ”