Jiang Yueguang was very sorry that he didn't see that kind of strange stone, and then asked: "Brother, is this your own land or rented?" ”

"Hehe, this is to thank Emperor Shenwu of Guangzhou, originally Xiao Lao'er was a tenant of Master Huang, at the beginning of this year, Master Huang didn't know why he committed a lawsuit, and the whole family was sent to Luzon, his family's fields were all filled as officials, and Xiao Lao'er is actually planting official fields now. However, Emperor Shenwu has a holy decree, as long as Xiao Lao'er has been planted for five years, these 20 acres of land will be mine! ”

Thinking that these lands would be his own in the future, the old man chattered and talked about Zhu Hongsan's policy and Jiang Yueguang.

Jiang Yueguang sat on the ground and listened to the old man, exclaiming in his heart, he didn't expect that Emperor Shenwu would use a good means to give these landlords a trumped-up charge and distribute them, so that the land would be concentrated for the landless peasants to plant, and the land would be owned by individuals after five years, so that these peasants would definitely support him for the sake of the land.

Jiang Yueguang thought about it and didn't understand, you must know that the landlords and gentry were the ruling foundation of the Ming Dynasty, how to ensure stability if they were all offended?

Jiang Yueguang is also a long-time eunuch, and he knows the stubborn disease of the Ming Dynasty very clearly, a large number of gentry rely on their status not to pay food and taxes, and the land is more and more concentrated in their hands, which completely forms a vicious circle, not to mention Jiang Yueguang, even Zhang Juzheng in the first seventy years has no way.

The eloquent Zhang Juzheng couldn't solve it, and he had to beat the gentry class piecemeal. Before these gentry could be touched, after Zhang Juzheng's death, he was exhumed and exhumed, and his son and his family were also locked up in the house and starved to death. Zhang Juzheng couldn't solve it, and Jiang Yueguang really didn't think that Zhu Hongsan could solve it.

Listening to this old man's chatter, thinking about the good of Emperor Shenwu, Jiang Yueguang knew that these fools couldn't say why, it was better to hurry up to Guangzhou, Qian Qianyi was in a high position, and he should be able to know some inside stories.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yueguang stood up and said, "Brother, it's not early, we still have to hurry, the old man is leaving!" ”

"Ahh The little old man talks a lot, which makes the old man annoyed! ”

"There, it's fun to chat with you, brother!"

After speaking, Jiang Yueguang got into the carriage and set off for Guangzhou.

The old man watched these people go, and after a while it occurred to him who these people were. I heard that Mr. Zhang, the inspector of the township, said that there were some Manchu Tartar spies in the north, and these people were asking questions about other Tartar spies?

The more this old man thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, Emperor Shenwu was not thin on his family, and he must not let the Tartars in. Thinking that the old man would stop working, he put on his shoes and went back to the township to find the inspection department.

Because of the Guangzhou incident in February, Zhu Hongsan had a major change of blood for grassroots law enforcement agencies such as the inspection department in Guangdong. First of all, the inspection departments in various localities are directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Police, and the magistrates only have the power to guide but have no jurisdiction, and then a large number of older officers and men of the inspection department are eliminated, and some of them over the age of 40 are all sent home, thus enriching a large number of capable forces; at the same time, some of the new army soldiers who were disabled in the battle have been arranged to serve as inspectors in the inspection department, which can be regarded as finding a way out for these veterans.

Baochang County is attached to Nanxiong Prefecture, so there are four inspection divisions in the county. The inspection of Huangtian Township is the disabled soldier in Zhu Hongsan's new army, this guy's surname is Zhang, his name is Zhang Ergou, and he is a native of Changsha, Huguang. After coming to Guangdong, he joined Zhu Hongsan's new army, but this guy was unlucky, he was shot in the calf by an arrow in the battle with the Vietnamese in Annam, which was actually not a wound, but he didn't expect to be infected, and in the end there was no way to have his leg sawed off.

Originally, Zhang Ergou thought that this would be the case in his life, could he still live without a leg in troubled times? Unexpectedly, the chief gave himself a pension of 100 taels of silver, and the chief also asked whether he wanted to stay in Annan or go back to Guangdong. There are 300 acres of land in Annam, but when I return to Guangdong, there are not so much, only 50 acres. Zhang Ergou still decided to go back to Guangdong, after all, he is a Han Chinese, what is it to die in Nanyang in the future?

After Zhang Ergou returned to Guangdong, he just caught up with the big change of blood in the local inspection department, a veteran like him who has combat experience, has seen blood, and has also been brainwashed by the army, and is infinitely loyal to Zhu Hongsan, is naturally the first choice. So Zhang Ergou was sent to Huangtian Township to be a nine-product inspector.

Zhang Ergou heard that Old Man Huang came to report that there were suspicious people waiting for the crossing, and also asked questions, Zhang Ergou was overjoyed. He was happy that he could finally do something for His Majesty the Emperor, or it would be a shame for him to receive ten taels a month, and Zhang Ergou hated these Manchu Tartars, it was they who killed the queen in Guangzhou, captured the princess, and made the respected Emperor His Majesty sad.

After listening to Old Man Huang's report, Zhang Ergou hurriedly took more than 30 officers and soldiers of the inspection department and chased down the official road on horseback.

Jiang Yueguang didn't expect that the old man seemed to be loyal and treacherous in his heart. As soon as he left, he could go to report to the official, plus there were female dependents in the team, so he didn't leave quickly, and as soon as he walked out of Wuli Road, he was caught up by Zhang Ergou and them.

"The convoy in front of you stops, we are Baochang County Inspection!"

Hearing someone shouting from behind, Jiang Yueguang asked people to stop, got out of the car, and waited for the inspection to come.

After a while, the horse team behind them caught up, and thirty people, all armed with bright knives and guns, surrounded the convoy strongly.

Zhang Ergou rode on a Dian horse and looked at the old man standing in front of the convoy, dressed in a literati costume and wearing a gauze hat. You must know that it is May in Guangdong, and it is the hot season, and there must be ghosts wearing hats in this weather.

"Where are you from? From there? ”

Jiang Yueguang didn't pay attention to these Qiu Ba at all, closed his eyes and didn't answer.

The servant of the Qian Mansion on the side hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Where are you inspecting, and my master's friends dare to stop you?" ”

"Your mother, didn't I tell you, grandpa is the inspector of Baochang County, and grandpa is the inspector Zhang Ergou, take out your clearance certificate!"

The servant of the Qian Mansion held back his anger, took out the red card from his arms, and handed it to Zhang Ergou.

"Oh? It's still red! It turned out that he was still a reader! ”

Zhang Ergou looked down, except for a few numbers that he didn't recognize, he also didn't recognize it, too, in the army, he had to study hard to become a platoon commander, and some of the brothers who joined the army with him were already battalion commanders.

Zhang Ergou asked a literate person on the side in a low voice, "What is written on it?" ”

"My lord, what is written above is issued at the Ganzhou Pass, the forty-seventh year of Wanli Jinshi, Jiang Yueguang's family of fifteen, and the guarantee of Lord Qian of the Military Aircraft Department below, it should not be fake!"

This person's voice was not loud, but he was heard by the servants of the Qian family, and he was already angry, when did he suffer this anger in Guangzhou.

"You Qiu Ba, look carefully, this is my master's friend, don't let me go!"

Zhang Ergou sneered, in his eyes, he didn't care except for Emperor Zhu Hongsan.

"I don't know you stinky old nine, Lao Tzu only knows how to carry out the military orders of His Majesty the Emperor. What are you doing in Huangtian Township? I suspect that you are a spy of the Tartars, so go with me to the county government to see the officials! ”

"What are you to dare to take us?"

"What am I that you don't have to care about, can I go? If you don't leave, grandpa is going to do it! After speaking, the officers and soldiers of the inspection department of thirty people stepped forward one after another, ready to arrest people.

Jiang Yueguang frowned, his family members were all in the car, these military men were rude, what if they scared their family members?

Thinking of this, Jiang Yueguang stopped the servants of the Qian Mansion: "We are entering the customs in a bright light, what are you afraid of when we go to see the officials!" This inspector, please lead the way! ”

When the servant of the Qian family saw Jiang Yueguang say this, he couldn't help it, so he gritted his teeth and said to Zhang Ergou: "This inspector, you are so rude, aren't you afraid of my master's revenge?" ”

Zhang Ergou said with a smile: "Grandpa is waiting for you, the kid remembers, grandpa doesn't change his name or surname, Huangtian Township inspects Zhang Ergou!" ”

Zhang Ergou is really not afraid of their retaliation, half a year ago in Guangzhou, a distant relative of the Ma family, riding a horse in trouble, injured a patrol to stop. Ma Mingyuan was finally forced by the emperor to break the legs of his relatives with his own hands, and went to the door to apologize for the inspection, with the support of His Majesty the Emperor, what else did he dare not do.

Originally, Jiang Yueguang and the others had left Nanxiong Mansion for twenty miles, but they didn't expect to come back again. The inspection department only had the right to arrest but not the right to interrogate, and came to the county government of Baochang County to hand them over to the county's history, and then returned to Huangtian Township.

Nanxiong Mansion was not the prefecture and county that Li Chengdong passed through at that time, so the local judicial officials such as the canonical historian were still retained, but they heard a lot about the fate of their colleagues in the surrounding prefectures and counties, and the work efficiency of these guys who were scared improved a lot.

Dian Shi took the red certificate and saw that he was a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and his status was 108,000 miles higher than his own, so he didn't dare to decide on his own, so he hurriedly reported this matter to the magistrate.

The magistrate of Baochang County is the unlucky Chen Zisheng, that is, Chen Zizhuang's younger brother.

In the past, he used the light of his brother and niece to make a Panyu county order, although the official position was small, but under the emperor's nose, it was easy to make achievements, and he was promoted quickly. However, what he didn't expect was to encounter Li Chengdong's night attack on Guangzhou, and Li Chengdong's entry into the city was at the north gate under his jurisdiction, plus he did not organize people to rescue the palace in time, but let Nanhai County order Li Fugui to take the lead. Afterwards, Li Fugui was rewarded for his merits, and he became a fellow intellectual, and Chen Zisheng almost lost his head. If it weren't for the fact that his niece had said a lot of good things in front of His Majesty the Emperor, maybe Chen Zisheng would have been mining in Luzon by now.

However, there is still a punishment, Zhu Hongsan asked Chen Zisheng to be promoted to Baochang County, Nanxiong Mansion as a county magistrate, although it is a flat adjustment, but how can the emperor's side be compared with Baochang County, which is far away from the emperor. And now the prefect of Nanxiong Mansion is still Zhang Jiayu, who is only thirty years old, and Chen Zisheng is in his forties, so it is really embarrassing for him to work under one of his juniors.