Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Hongsan asked Ma Jiyuan to watch his home. He led Zhu Hongyi and a few guards to the county seat.

Dongguan was built on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary and is a very ordinary small county town. The city wall is ten miles in circumference, and it seems that there can be more than 20,000 people. Outside the city are rice paddies.

Guangdong rice is now double-cropped in one year, and there is no metamorphosis rice with three seasons and four seasons in later generations. It's August, and the second crop of rice has just sprouted.

The two old soldiers guarding the gate of the city sat half-dead, drinking tea and chatting.

Zhu Hongsan and his party of ten people came to the city gate, Zhu Hongsan saw the lazy appearance of these two old soldiers, and scolded: "Damn, I don't know what to do?" I didn't let you guard the city gate to be a master. ”

The two veterans were scolded in confusion. I didn't dare to collect the city's money.

Watching Zhu Hongsan and his party enter the city on horseback, one old soldier asked the other and said, "This is the old man?" Look at the face. ”

Another said: "What do you do so much, maybe it's a relative of Nanhai Wei Qianhu." ”

After Zhu Hongsan entered the city, he found that the infrastructure construction of Dongguan County was much worse than that of Huguang. The stone pavement on the ground is often damaged. The roadside gutters have been blocked with garbage, and the domestic water flows along the stone street, and there is a stench.

The shops on the side are also half-dead, and there are not many people eating in the restaurants. The guys inside are talking about the mountains together.

Zhu Hongsan frowned, thinking that this place would be the place where he started in the future, and it seemed that he would have to govern it well.

When he came to the county yamen, Zhu Hongsan saw that he was not as good as the Wuchang county yamen. Wuchang County is dilapidated, but the function is still there. Half of the gate of the county government in Dongguan collapsed, and the plaque on the door was placed aside. The stone lion at the door is gone, I don't know if it was not there in the first place or if it was stolen.

There is only a foundation left for the land temple on the side, and the bricks and tiles of the main building are gone.

Zhu Hongsan was just about to go to the county office to find someone, when someone on the side shouted: "Sir, are you here?" ”

Zhu Hongsan looked back and saw that it was one of the fifty guards he had sent to Ma Mingyuan, platoon commander Han Shirong.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "When did you come?" What about sir? ”

Han Shirong said: "Sir, it has been a month since we arrived in Dongguan on July 16. Mr. Ma is now staying in an inn in the city, and every day I am asked to wait at the gate of the county yamen to wait for the arrival of the governor. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Let's go, let's go to the inn." ”

The group came to the inn and saw Ma Mingyuan. Zhu Hongsan asked how the journey was.

Ma Mingyuan said: "We arrived in Nanzhili in June. Because Jiangxi was also occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, there was no choice but to go to Fujian and reach Nanzhili through Zhejiang.

When I arrived in Nanjing, I visited a few friends. Tuohou Fangyu introduced and visited Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanzhili Military Department, and the matter was very simple, the Dongguan County Order was in hand. ”

Zhu Hongsan thought about it, and the fuck is Hou Fangyu, this guy can see him anywhere.

Ma Mingyuan continued: "Then we came to Dongguan on July 16. I saw that before the lord arrived, he went to visit Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang, who was the same year as my uncle, and the two of them were getting along well. Shen Zhengtai also said that there was no problem. I only came back two days ago, but I didn't expect my lord to arrive. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "We were delayed in Chenzhou for a month, and my father-in-law passed away. ”

Ma Mingyuan cried bitterly when he heard this, and Zhu Hongsan hurriedly comforted him.

Ma Mingyuan cried and said: "I didn't expect that I didn't send my father to the end, it's really unfilial." ”

Zhu Hongsan comforted: "Sir, don't be sad, no one can do anything in extraordinary times." After saying that, let the guards go outside the city and inform everyone to enter the city.

After a while, everyone rushed to the inn, and after seeing Ma Mingyuan, they sat down and waited for Zhu Hongsan to arrange work.

Zhu Hongsan looked at his team, and the specifications were very high. There were three officials at the prefect level. There is one more prefectural order. Looks like I can make a difference.

After the narcissism was completed, Zhu Hongsan said: "We traveled 2,000 miles from Huguang and finally came to Guangdong. Everyone has seen this place too, and the farming is very good. This place is also the base for all of us for the next ten years. I asked my second cousin to be the Dongguan county magistrate for the time being. Please ask Lord Xu to assist the second cousin.

The eldest brother led three battalions to find a place to build a house in about five miles of the county seat, after all, there were nearly 10,000 people who came with us. It's almost winter, and it's up to the eldest brother whether he can enter the new house before winter.

Mr. Tong and Mr. Gong arranged industrial production and first resumed production of various factories. And Mr. Tong is also responsible for all the logistics work, which is very tiring, and Mr. Tong has worked hard. ”

After listening to Zhu Hongsan's arrangement, everyone expressed their promise to complete the work.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said: "Now our territory is not big, and when the territory is big in the future, everyone will be the governor and governor." Let's go get busy, let's not gather at the county government for a meeting in three days, and everyone will solve the difficulties together. ”

The strategists nodded, stood up and took their leave.

At present, the most important thing is money, Zhu Hongsan turned all the silver into materials when he set off from Huguang, after all, it is indeed a bit stupid to rush with more than 100,000 taels of silver.

The money is very simple, and a large amount of steel can earn silver after the factory starts, but the premise is to have a factory, and the factory is to be built with silver, so it enters a dead loop.

Zhu Hongsan comforted Ma Mingyuan and let him rest in the inn, Ma Mingyuan said: "Lord, I want to keep filial piety for my father for twenty-one days." ”

Zhu Hongsan can't help it, he must agree to this. Zhu Hongsan said: "Mr. will arrange it himself, and he must pay attention to his body. ”

After Ma Mingyuan nodded, Zhu Hongsan led Feng Ziyong to take the documents of the Nanzhili Ministry and the Governor of Liangguang to the county government to hand over the work.

After coming to the county office, the county Cheng came out from inside to greet the new county commander, and after sitting down in the second hall, Feng Ziyong asked this Zhang Xiancheng how his current situation was.

Zhang Xiancheng said: "The county order of this county has been vacant for three years, and it has always been the work of the lower officials. Please tell me if you have any questions. ”

Feng Ziyong said: "Zhang Xiancheng is tired, this county found that the county gate collapsed, why not repair it." ”

Zhang Xiancheng said: "It collapsed when the typhoon came last year, and because there was no money to repair it, it has been put until today." ”

Feng Ziyong nodded and said, "Zhang Xiancheng, I want to look at the account book." ”

Zhang Xiancheng's face changed, he thought for a while and said: "When the typhoon came, the losses were very large, and the account book was gone. ”

Feng Ziyong has been a local official for many years, and when he heard it, he didn't want to show himself this county. But I wasn't familiar with the situation when I first arrived, so I didn't say anything.

Feng Ziyong nodded and said, "I'll bring a team leader from Huguang, and Zhang Xiancheng will see if there are any vacant seats in the county and arrange it." ”

Zhang Xiancheng said: "My lord, there are people in the three teams in the county, and it's not good to let people lose their jobs for no reason." ”

Feng Ziyong frowned and said, "Okay, Zhang Xiancheng will go down and get busy." I'm going to line up tomorrow morning. ”

"Yes, sir. The lower official will arrange it. ”

After watching Zhang Xiancheng leave, Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Second cousin, you are not good at this county order, this guy is disobedient." ”

Feng Ziyong said: "This is natural, he has been a county magistrate for three years, and suddenly someone comes to ask him to hand over power, naturally he is dissatisfied, and I will deal with it in the future." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Second cousin, don't delay the progress of the eldest brother." ”

Feng Ziyong said: "Lord, please rest assured. ”

Zhu Hongsan got up and said goodbye.

Out of the county office, Zhu Hongsan called Qian Lide and said, "Qian Fatty, your job is here." Take someone to find out what Zhang Xiancheng is. Wherever he lives, what's going on. ”

The fat man nodded and went down to arrange not to mention it.

Zhu Hongsan led Zhu Hongyi out of the city and saw that the team had come to the city gate. The old soldier guarding the gate was so frightened that he closed the gate when he saw so many people coming.

Zhu Hongsan scolded: "You two old goods, who asked you to close the door, open the door." These are the relatives of the prefectural magistrates. They don't go into the city. ”

The old soldier muttered, "Who can have 10,000 relatives." "But looking at some women and children inside, they shouldn't be bandits. And the gates of the city were opened.

After Zhu Hongsan left the city, he would gather everyone and come to a flat land five miles outside the city. It's a nice place, there is a small river five meters wide on the side, and there is a lot of water. There is also a large amount of wasteland on the side, which can also be turned into farmland.

Zhu Hongsan decided to build a house here. After explaining to Ma Jiyuan, he led everyone to camp.

In the evening, the fat man came to Zhu Hongsan to report, "That Zhang Xiancheng's full name is Zhang Quanli." He used to be from Guangxi. The ancestor had a prefect, but he was only admitted to one person. There is no way to choose Dongguan to be the county leader. It's been ten years in this place.

The previous county order was to let him run out, and there was no way to ask someone to transfer him. His family is in a Zhuangzi ten miles outside the southern city, and I heard that he is very rich. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, just thinking that there was no money, so someone would send money. I'll take someone to see it tomorrow.

The next day, Zhu Hongsan got up and took ten guards and asked Qian Fatzi to lead the way to Zhangxian Chengjia Zhuangzi to step on the plate.

Before coming to Zhangjia Farm, I saw that there was a big village, covering an area of more than 100 acres, and there were several yards inside. There are many peasant households outside Zhuangzi, and there are probably more than 200 houses. It is surrounded by a large amount of farmland.

Zhu Hongsan saw that this place was much better than the place he picked yesterday, this Zhuangzi was built at the confluence of two small rivers. It's so good for development. Zhu Hongsan decided to ask for this land.

turned around and called Wang Jinbao (that is, Wang Xiaobao, Zhu Hongsan said that his name was too earthy, so he changed his name. ）

said: "Xiaobao, you take a few people tonight to find out how many people there are in this Zhuangzi." ”

Wang Jinbao nodded.

That night, Wang Jinbao came back to Zhu Hongsan to explain the situation. It turned out that this Zhuangzi was Zhang Quanli's tenant, and the surrounding more than 5,000 acres of paddy fields belonged to his family.

Zhu Hongsan said happily, this time it can be regarded as having start-up capital.