As soon as the news of the sale of the goose and duck down factory came out, it was like a bombshell dropped into a calm pond, and the red-eyed gentry and wealthy merchants of Gushan Town suddenly crossed the sea to show their magical powers, and joined the ranks of the contenders one after another.

Li Mao perfunctorily and whirling, beating the 32-style Chen's Taijiquan that he learned in his early years like flowing water.

In the end, this golden goose was carried home by Su Gui, the leader of the gentry of Su Xiaodu, who suffered the most losses in the rebellion, but with Su Gui's current strength, it was also a little difficult to monopolize this golden goose.

Su Gui was raided by the city defense battalion in the rebellion, and after the chaos, although some were returned, the losses were still heavy, and his son Su Cheng shouted to fight Li Mao to the death, and was slapped out by him twice. The goose and duck down factory can fall into his hands, Li Mao is attentive, this Su Gui remembers in his heart, and the resentment of the past will be written off from then on.

The golden goose was in his arms, causing a lot of resentful eyes, Su Gui knew that he would inevitably be hated by others if he monopolized the benefits, and his strength was indeed poor after the catastrophe, and it was inevitable that he would hurt his muscles and bones if he barely supported it, so he accepted Li Mao's suggestion to eat meat by himself, but allowed others to drink some soup and gnaw bones. Su Gui's compromise was very popular, and some wealthy businessmen who had benefited from it clamored for Su Gui to be the leader of the Chamber of Commerce in Gushan Town.

In order to break up the alliance of interests of the wealthy businessmen in Gushan Town and offset the popularity that Su Guiye has formed, Li Mao instructed the city bureau to release the rumors, announcing that in the next two years, the industries under the name of the city bureau, such as wharves and cattle, sheep, fish, and vegetables, will also be sold to the outside world. The harmony of the business community in Gushan Town was soon replaced by gunsmoke.

Seeing them in a mess, Li Mao was deeply gratified, businessmen value profit over righteousness, as long as there are resources in their hands, they can always coax them to turn around, but the gentry do not eat this set, the scholar has the same name, the name of this thing Li Mao also has in his hands, he instructed the city bureau to make Xia Chun create public opinion, ready to select eight prestigious gentry leaders among the gentry in Gushan Town to consult the city bureau, in the future, all major administrative matters in the city bureau will be consulted with the gentry in advance, and the gentry also have the right to feedback the wishes of the people to the city bureau for reference in decision-making.

Li Maoke has no interest in creating a representative body in Gushan Town, choosing the gentry to be the city bureau advisor is just a means to win people's hearts, the gentry have the same name, the title of a counselor, in their eyes is a "golden goose", in order to take away this golden goose, Tianming will also have a dragon and tiger fight like a businessman, and break the blood.

The business world and the gentry world have been successfully divided into a plate of scattered sand, and the disunity of the elite class is naturally what Li Mao, the actual ruler of Gushan Town, is willing to see, and the wealthy and wealthy businessmen gather in Gushan Town, and those who spend money like dirt abound, and it is not uncommon for people to freeze to death on the streets without clothing and food, and the huge gap in wealth has long cut off the possibility of these two classes joining forces, and now that the elite class has been leveled, it is necessary to appease the civilians in Gushan Town who are not well fed and clothed.

Under the instruction of Li Mao, the city bureau issued an announcement announcing the establishment of the Gushan Town Public Welfare Cleaning Corps, recruiting 1,000 old, weak, orphaned and disabled people to engage in the maintenance of public facilities and street cleaning in the city. The newly established cleaning corps is supported by the city bureau, and the merchants in the city and the gentry who open the doors on the street pay a certain fee on a monthly basis, and at the same time accept donations.

Some people questioned that the small Gushan Town did not need a thousand people to walk the streets and alleys all day long with brooms, nor did it need so many people to prune flowers and trees and dredge waterways, Li Mao did not make any response to this question, and Xia Chun, the envoy of the city bureau, did not give any explanation, he just published the list of merchants and gentry who did not pay the cleaning fees on time according to Li Mao's instructions, and publicized it widely, so as to make the old men have no place to stay.

Gushan Town is a military town, and unlike Chengwu County, there is no civil management right when leaving the city, and the propaganda war to eliminate the adverse effects of Gushan Town is in full swing and urgently needs local support. For this reason, Li Mao dragged Li Yingtan, the Marquis of Yu, to Chengwu County to meet the county commander Zhu Yong and ask for Zhu Yong's help. Zhu Yong has been promoted to the governor of Yun because of his meritorious service in quelling the chaos, and he will take office soon.

Yunzhou is the capital of Ziqing Road, the post of Assassin is concurrently held by the Jiedu envoy according to the rules, in addition to the history of the Assassin, the state generally also has a separate driver, Sima, and Changshi as the upper Zuo, and the other driver is generally used to place members of the royal family, not permanent, Sima is generally used to place the degraded Beijing officials, and most of the assistants who can really become the assassin are long history. Zhu Yong, the governor of Yun, was nominally the political assistant of Li Shigu, but in fact, because Li Shigu was also the envoy of Ziqing's jiedu, observation, branch, camp, and feudal domain, he was in charge of the military, government affairs, finance, and camps of the twelve prefectures of Ziqing, and handled the tributary relations with Japan and Silla on behalf of the imperial court, so it was impossible to devote too much energy to deal with the local government affairs of Yunzhou, and the position of the governor of Yunzhou became quite important.

Zhu Yong is thirty-three years old this Chinese New Year's Eve, just in his prime, and his future development prospects are very promising.

Knowing Li Mao's intention, Zhu Yong readily agreed to his request, and immediately summoned several officials and senior officials in the county, explained to them in front of Li Mao, and left Li Mao and Li Yingtan to have a banquet in the house afterwards.

Zhu Yong is honest and self-disciplined in the officialdom, does not accept bribes, does not bribe, ushers in and is only in the public house, never to the private house, leaving Li Mao in the house to drink and feast is the first time he has served as the commander of Chengwu County, judging by the current situation, it is very likely and the last time.

After the banquet, Zhu Yong sent Li Mao to the door, held his hand and said the conversation, and personally helped Li Mao to help the horse, after Li Mao and his party got on the horse, he did not leave, and waited for Li Mao to cross the archway in the middle of the street before turning back. For Zhu Yong's courtesy, Li Yingtan is mixed in his heart, and he is puzzled, he has dealt with Zhu Yong during his stay in Chengwu County, and he admires Zhu Yong's character and ability very much, only a little disgusted, Zhu Yong, who is a little arrogant, does not look down on people, especially those who look down on him, really don't give any face, he is so respectful to Li Mao, it is really unexpected by Li Yingtan.

When he was still in the Caozhou Prefecture Army, Li Yingtan had heard Li Mao's name, and he was very unconvinced by this junior who was three years younger than him but had risen sharply.

This time, before Li Shigu transferred him to Gushan Town to be the Marquis of Duyu, Yang Yuanyin, the envoy of the soldiers and horses, personally summoned him and encouraged him to enforce the law impartially, never show favoritism, and report to him at any time when he encountered difficulties. Although Yang Yuanyin said some scenes, Li Yingtan heard the sound outside the strings, he went to Gushan Town to be the Marquis of Duyu with a special mission, and his whole mission was to supervise the new town envoy Li Mao.

Li Yingtan is the general, his grandfather was a general in Youzhou, refused to rebel during the Anshi Rebellion, was killed by An Lushan, his father was a tooth general in Yiwu, murder and lawlessness, outlaw Jianghu, Li Shigu's father Li Na accepted as a tooth general, Li Yingtan became an adult for the tooth army to carry the flag, three years ago was ordered to come to the Caozhou state army, with a mission to lurk so far.

thought that after solving Yu Hualong and dismembering the Qing Navy, he would be able to return to Yunzhou to reunite with his family, but unexpectedly, he was promoted to the Marquis of Duyu, the garrison of Gushan Town, of the Qing Navy, as the deputy general of the Caozhou Prefecture Army. is still enduring humiliation and burden, doing shady things.

After knowing his mission, Li Yingtan deliberately kept a distance from Li Mao after he arrived in Gushan Town, this time Li Mao came to see Zhu Yong, and he had to bring him on the grounds that he was familiar with Zhu Yong and could talk, Li Yingtan was unhappy in his heart, but Li Mao was reasonable, and he had nothing to do.

He originally wanted to see how Zhu Yong humiliated this proud and somewhat carried away little brother, but he didn't expect that Zhu Xianling, who had always been above the top, would be so polite to Li Mao.

When Li Yingtan realized that he was jealous of Li Mao, he unconsciously scolded himself a few bastards, he Li Yingtan is an iron-clad hero, and there is no need to hate others if he can't compete with others, so wouldn't he become a jealous woman and a villain?

After a period of self-pity, Li Yingtan had to readjust his positioning of Li Mao, originally in his heart, Li Mao was just a puppet in the hands of Li Shigu, and he was sent to Gushan Town to monitor Yu Hualong, overhead Yu Hualong, and bring down Yu Hualong, Yu Hualong chose to sacrifice himself to protect the whole army under pressure, which is undoubtedly wise, and this great wisdom and courage are also admired. Why is he not convinced, but what waves will he be able to set off with one construction? Sure enough, Li Mao, who had no soldiers, just moved his mouth and said that he and Zhou Yang, Zhou Hong, father and son did not move, and completely defeated Shang Helai, what kind of ability is this, it is just a little luck.

Li Shigu reused Li Mao as the choke envoy of Gushan Town, the intention was nothing more than to let him clean up the mess left by the mutiny of Shang Helai and the withdrawal of the Qing Navy, and he couldn't talk about reuse at all, and even Li Yingtan dared to assert that Li Mao's choke was just a transition, and he didn't stay in Gushan Town for a long time.