Zhu Hongyi didn't care about Tong Yangjia's ghost crying wolf, and stepped forward to pick up the whip and start pumping.

After watching the ten whips, Zhu Hongsan was in a much better mood. Wiping his tears, he said, "Hey, I was in a bad mood just now, but I was in a much better mood after pumping you." ”

Tong Yangjia scolded in his heart, you little thief, what are you doing with me sadly. Of course, this is just thinking about it in my heart, and the ten whips just now are enough to choke.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, and felt that it was better to keep the lives of these two people first. Tong Tuchang doesn't care, this Tong Yangjia is a talent, it's a pity to die in vain. He is currently short of manpower, and most of the things he does are shady, this Tong Yangjia is a criminal in the imperial court, and he is also a dead person if he reports himself.

Zhu Hongsan thought of this and said: "Lao Tong, I originally wanted to hand you over to the government, but I was very moved by what you said just now." I decided to spare your life, and you two will follow me in the future. ”

Tong Yangjia was stunned, he just heard Zhu Hongsan say that he was a lieutenant of Fengguo, this is the clan. What are you doing with yourself?

Tong Yangjia thought of this and couldn't help asking: "May I know that I am a criminal of the imperial court, and I am not afraid of breaking the law if I am kept?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Da Ming Law can't control me yet. But if someone reports me, I'll say I don't know that you are Tong Yangjia, and I was deceived by you, and I will cut you with a knife. ”

Tong Yangjia really had nothing to say about Zhu Hongsan's directness, and just now he whipped himself ten times for no reason so that Tong Yangjia could see that Zhu Hongsan was a moody person. If you don't want to suffer, it's better to talk less, and I'll talk about it later.

Zhu Hongsan knew what he was thinking when he saw Tong Yangjia's eyes rolling, and he didn't say anything.

At this moment, someone outside was talking, and it turned out to be Qian Lide coming.

Since Qian Lide took over the underworld in the county, he has become a popular figure in the city, and no matter who sees it, it is a compliment.

Qian Lide is now considered a high-level member of Zhu Hongsan's system, and he knows some of Zhu Hongsan's secret arrangements, but the more this happens, the more Qian Lide is afraid of Zhu Hongsan. What are you going to do when a clan secretly trains an army and builds firearms? King Ning's example was not so long ago. But he fell too deep, and Zhu Hongsan was unlucky, and he couldn't get good. Plus I really like this feeling of calling for wind and rain,。 So after a long time, it will be numb, what to do with love.

Qian Lide entered the door and saw Zhu Hongsan sitting in the middle and hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute: "I don't know what the eldest brother is looking for me?" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Qian Fatty, you lead someone to take this person to Fucheng to pull his family's family to the county seat." If you resist, kill on the spot. ”

Qian Lide asked, "Have you killed the whole family?" ”

"Yes, men and women, old and weak, chickens and dogs are not left."

Qian Lide shuddered, and led people to escort Tong Tuchang to Wuchang Mansion to pull people without mentioning it.

When Tong Yangjia heard this, he said angrily: "You are so ruthless, you use our family to blackmail me." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "No matter what, it's okay, it's okay, it depends on your forty this year." Can you still give up your son to wander the rivers and lakes? ”

Tong Yangjia thought of his son's heart, and he knew that Zhu Hongsan was right. I am forty-one years old this year, and I just had a son last year. I can't give up.

Tong Yangjia sighed and said, "My lord, say it." What will I do for you? ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled: "You'll know when you go back with me." ”

Arrange for Zhu Hongyi to escort Tong Yangjia downstairs first, Zhu Hongsan went back to the house to say goodbye to Ma Mingyuan, and then went downstairs to meet Zhu Hongyi and the three of them at Zhu's Farm.

Go back and arrange a room for Tong Yangjia to live in first. He and Zhu Hongyi went back to their respective homes.

After returning home, he was naturally interrogated by his two wives. This time Zhu Hongsan answered honestly, and Ma Xiaofang asked why he came back so early. Zhu Hongsan said: "I don't think other women are as beautiful as their two wives, and they really have no sexual interest. Then he said goodbye to his two brothers and went home to accompany his two wives. ”

Ma Xiaofang scolded with a smile: "It's really a clever mouth, I just don't know if I think so in my heart." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "It's really the truth, if you don't believe it, I'll show it to the two ladies now." After saying that, he stripped naked and pounced on the two ladies. Naturally, I didn't mention it all night.

The next morning, Qian Lide came over with the two families. Zhu Hongsan glanced at it, and the daughters-in-law of the two were ordinary people. Tong Yangjia is a son and a daughter, and Tong Tuchang is a son.

Zhu Hongsan nodded, and told them that the two of them had already worked for themselves, but they were very tired from work and couldn't go home often. Let the two of them move to live in Wuchang County. After speaking, each family gave two hundred taels of silver to settle down.

Two hundred taels was a huge amount of money for an ordinary person in the Ming Dynasty. The two ladies were grateful.

Then Zhu Hongsan asked people to arrange for them to meet. After seeing her husband, the two wives also instructed her husband to work for the main family with peace of mind, and the family did not have to worry about Yunyun.

Zhu Hongsan then asked Qian Lide to prepare two courtyards in Wuchang County for the two families to live in. Then he secretly told Qian Lide to arrange for someone to wait day and night, and if there was any sign of escape, he would be killed immediately.

After sending the two families away, Zhu Hongsan met with Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang's uncle and nephew.

Now the two of them have nothing to say at all, their families are in the hands of others, and it is not okay to be disobedient.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Mr. Tong can work with peace of mind in my place, and I have already arranged for someone to resign from your nephew's Qianhu Office." Don't think about anything else. ”

Tong Yangjia sighed and said, "I don't know what the adults let us do, the two of us have no fame, and we are still fugitives, what is the use of the adults?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Don't talk about anything else, this kind of experience is rare for you to hide in Tibet for nine years. Mr. Tong first worked as a bookstore for me, and Mr. Tong and my caravan went out to do business for me. After speaking, let people call Ma Jingyuan and Qian Wanli in.

After a while, Ma Jingyuan and Qian Wanli came in, and Zhu Hongsan said to Qian Wanli: "Wanli, this Dong Chang is the secretary I invited, and he will help you in your caravan for the time being." Then he said to Ma Jingyuan: "Third brother, Mr. Dong Yuan is the secretary I invited, go and help you first." "After speaking, let Er Tong go down first.

Zhu Hongsan said: "You have to let them go, don't run away, and you can rest assured that you can leave them to them." ”

Ma Qian and the two took the order to go down, and led the two Tong to familiarize themselves with the work without mentioning it.

After Tong Yangjia served as the secretary of the militia group, he found out that what kind of hospital guard team this was, it was basically the army, and when he talked to his nephew, he knew that his master had a big plan, and any gunpowder and steel weapons could be produced. In this way, Tong Yangjia, who had already died of revenge, began to move again, and talked with Zhu Hongsan a few times later. Tong Yangjia tested Zhu Hongsan and saw that his answer was ambiguous, which made Tong Yangjia ecstatic. He has been thinking about revenge on Chongzhen all his life, that is, he killed his whole family. Otherwise, he couldn't go to those homeless people to persuade them to vote for Li Chuang, there was already no hope, but he didn't expect to meet a clan that wanted to rebel, how could this not make Tong Yangjia happy? After having a new goal in life, Tong Yangjia devoted himself to what he believed was Zhu Hongsan's rebellion.

In October of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Feng Ziyong's order finally came down, and it was Hengyang Tongzhi. He was replaced by a county official who was transferred from Linxian County. Feng Ziyong said goodbye to the Ma family and happily took office. Zhu Hongsan was very depressed and went to meet the new county order with Ma Mingyuan. only to find that the new county order was not as difficult to contact as he imagined.

When he went home, Ma Mingyuan told himself that he knew that the new county order was selected by the Ministry of Lifting People, not to mention that the Ma family, a family with four jinshi, even if there was one jinshi in the family, he could not afford to offend.

Zhu Hongsan heard Ma Mingyuan say this, and found that he still underestimated the influence of scholars in this era. Thinking of the nod of the new county order to Ma Mingyuan just now, Zhu Hongsan felt that he must seize the ruling class of scholars in the future, and he must not break away from them. They are terrible. Thinking that in the future, the Manchu Dolgon would have to rely on the scholar and landlord class, and he couldn't be ingenious. Isn't there a saying that is a madman who is one step ahead of the times, and a great man who is half a step ahead, it is better to be a great man yourself, and you should not be a madman.

After returning home, Zhu Hongsan had nothing to do, and devoted himself to the task of recruit training. Ma Jingyuan did a very good job, the recruits were all fifteen or sixteen young men, and it was time to use them after two years of training. Now there are a total of 2,000 people, and Zhu Hongsan is divided into four battalions, each battalion has 500 people, each battalion has five companies, and each company has three platoons. The commander of the fourth newly formed battalion is a domestic slave of the Ma family, named Ma Bao. was originally a company commander, but he performed well in suppressing bandits this time and was promoted to battalion commander by Zhu Hongsan.

The reform of the new military system has been completed, and the battalion commanders have been rated captains, the company commanders are lieutenants, and the platoon commanders are second lieutenants. In the early stage, those who participated in the suppression of bandits were privates, the first battalion that did not go was first-class soldiers, and the recruits had no rank.

Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied with this assessment of the military system. Ma Jingyuan wanted to rate himself as a captain, but Zhu Hongsan denied it and did not give Ma Jingyuan any military rank. The reason given to him was that literati could not be the same as Qiu Ba. In a word, Ma Jingyuan's heart was full of joy and went away satisfied. In fact, Zhu Hongsan didn't want the Ma family to participate too deeply in the army.

Another thing is that Zhu Hongyi is really not a material for secret work. In the past two months, he trained those political workers and soldiers like killers, which made Zhu Hongsan very helpless. In the end, I thought of Qian Lide, the leader of the underworld in Wuchang County, and asked him to come over to manage this group of political workers, which is a bit of a thing. Qian Lide is not a genius who does secret work, and many jobs are self-taught. In less than half a month, a monitoring network of more than 50 people was developed, and Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied with this. In the end, he asked him to hand over the work of the county gang to others and supervise the work of his own full-time cadre team.

After getting Tong Yangjia's allegiance, Zhu Hongsan asked Tong Yangjia to take over the logistics and assigned him two manpower. The more than 2,000 people in the army eat, drink, and maintain their equipment and equipment all arranged by Tong Yangjia. As the first governor of Liangguang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, can this little work be difficult for him? Naturally arranged in good order. Zhu Hongsan is really glad to have found such a talent.