Zhu Hongsan knew what virtues these scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty had, and when he saw the emperor, he couldn't wait to go up and scold him, and he would give face if he didn't beat himself as a vassal king.

In order to have a good relationship with the bureaucrats and doctors, Zhu Hongsan was not angry for the first time, but explained with a smile on his face: "This king and his guards are here to practice, and they did not fire live ammunition. What is the attack? ”

Li Zhi said: "What happened to the destruction of a house in the city and the death of three people? ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Maybe he did something immoral, and he was killed by thunder from the sky." ”

Li Zhizhi Zhu Hongsan's rude rhetoric was to death, and then asked: "Since the rebellion of King Zhengdening, the imperial court has ordered that the vassal king is strictly forbidden to have a guard, and the previous three guards have been revoked, what is the matter with the guard of the King of Chu?" ”

Seeing Li Zhi being aggressive, Zhu Hongsan was also a little unhappy, and his tone was a little cold. said: "This king's guard was personally allowed by His Majesty in Nanjing. The north is erosive, what do you help these stinky old nine toss the country into? Therefore, His Majesty is ready to follow the example of Taizu and give this king a complete set of three guards and 30,000 people. ”

Zhu Hongsan's stinky old nine completely offended Li Zhi, and even Ma Shaoguang on the side was a little unhappy, he also had a reputation.

Li Zhi was furious and scolded: "King Dusk, you wait, I will write to Your Majesty." and for the sin of thou shalt be twenty miles from the city. ”

Zhu Hong was furious and scolded: "You neck-hanging-necked talent, where is Lao Tzu going to care about your." Come on, get these two guys out of here. ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he didn't care about Li Zhi, who was scolding, and asked Wang Jinbao to lead people to drive them out.

Zhu Hongsan then continued to watch the drill until the afternoon, when Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied and ordered the troops to rest. Zhu Hongsan saw that there was nothing to do anyway, and led Zhu Hongyi and a few guards to prepare to enter the city to have a look. After all, this is the Shenzhen of the future, so it's a loss if you don't come to see it.

Zhu Hongsan led the people into Xin'an County with a swagger. The county seat is not big, there are only two gates in the north and south, and there are probably more than 10,000 people in the city.

Zhu Hongsan walked around and found that this county order was quite a capable official, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but think about Aicai, he had too few subordinates who could use it now. Zhu Hongsan was going to go to the county government to see this Peng Ershu.

When he came to the gate of the county ya, Peng Xianling had already received the news and took the officials of the county to go out to greet the king of Chu.

Zhu Hongsan saw that this Peng County Order was different from that Li Zhi, and he was very familiar with current affairs, and he was also very happy in his heart.

Peng County ordered Zhu Hongsan to welcome him to the second hall, asked Zhu Hongsan to sit on the main seat, and took the county to stand again.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Peng Xian Ling is very different from that powder keg Li Zhi." ”

Peng Ershu smiled and said, "Master Li is this upright temper, he is actually very capable. In Nantou Water Village, he has done a lot of things in the past few years, clearing out the surrounding pirates and patrolling coastal defense. If it weren't for his temper, he would have risen a long time ago. ”

I didn't expect this Li Zhi to be a character, so I had time to take a look.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Where is Peng Xianling from?" ”

Peng County Ling said: "Xia Guan is a native of Dengzhou, Henan, and Chongzhen has been a jinshi for ten years. (Peng Ershu is Chongzhen's thirteenth year Jinshi, the story is needed, three years in advance)"

Zhu Hongsan said happily: "Oh, then you and Ma Mingyuan should be the same year." ”

Peng Xianling smiled wryly: "There, Zhong Ming is the first in the second grade, and I am the second hundred and tenth in the third grade, which is too far behind." ”

Zhu Hongsan scolded in his heart: "It turned out that he was born as a fellow jinshi, isn't this washing the feet of the concubine?" But he said: "Don't be sad, Master Peng, you must know that there are only 300 Jinshi every three years, and Master Peng can be regarded as a dragon and phoenix among people." ”

Zhu Hongsan continued: "I don't know if Master Peng and Ma Mingyuan have a connection? ”

Peng County Ling said: "Zhong Ming resigned at that time, I heard that he was back in Huguang's hometown, I don't know what is going on now." ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Haha, Master Peng, do you know what my relationship with Ma Mingyuan is?" He is the second brother of my princess, and now he is the chief historian of the king of Chu in my house. ”

Peng County's order is really not worth it for Ma Mingyuan, you must know that Ma Mingyuan is the fourth in the country, if he stays in Beijing, he will definitely enter the Hanlin Academy, and he will hope to enter the cabinet in the future. I didn't expect to go home and become a relative of the clan.

But when he dared to say this in front of Zhu Hongsan, Peng Xianling smiled and said, "Okay, I have time to visit Brother Zhongming in the palace." ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said: "This king walked around the city just now, but I didn't expect Lord Peng to be a capable official, and the small Xin'an County is well governed by Lord Peng." ”

Peng Ershu smiled bitterly: "What's the use of good governance, the lower official is only a top three, or the back, that's it, it's difficult to make an inch." ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said, "Master Peng, don't be discouraged, what if this king helps you?" ”

Peng Ershu was stunned, he knew that the vassal king was strictly forbidden to participate in local affairs, what did this Chu king mean when he said that he wanted to help himself?

Zhu Hongsan looked at the stunned Peng Ershu and said: "I don't dare to say it in other places, will you go to the prefect of Lianzhou?" ”

Although Lianzhou is a remote mountainous area in Guangdong, you must know that it is also a prefect and a four-grade official in the remote. Peng Ershu is now only a seventh-grade lower county magistrate, and there are still six levels away from the fourth-grade prefect.

Peng Ershu took a long time to react and said, "Why did the prince help me so much? ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "I like people like Master Peng, who know that there must be something to give." I have a business in northern Vietnam, but Vietnam is too far away from Dongguan, and some whips are out of reach, so I hope that Master Peng will go to Lianzhou Mansion to take care of one or two. ”

Peng Ershu lowered his head and struggled in his heart for a long time, then raised his head and said: "Lord Wang, you know that I am deeply favored by the emperor, and I will not do anything that violates the law and discipline, may I ask what kind of business does King Chu have in Vietnam?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "Don't worry, Lord Peng, it's all legal business." Mr. Peng knew that the price of coal in Guangzhou had tripled, and I had heard that there was a lot of coal in a place called Hung Kai in northern Vietnam. I want to send one of my guards to grab it, and I won't make a lot of money when the time comes. ”

Hearing Zhu Hongsan say this, Peng Ershu was relieved, he knew that Guangzhou's coal had risen sharply in the past six months. I didn't expect the King of Chu to want to make such a fortune. The other Peng Ershu didn't think much about it, because in the Ming Dynasty, the clan and vassal kings all took it by force, and there were basically no people like Zhu Hongsan who wanted to do business and make money.

In addition, Zhu Hongsan went to rob the coal mines of the Vietnamese, and in the hearts of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, he believed that "those who are not of my race must have different hearts", and people who are not Han are not considered people, and no one cares how much they die.

Peng Ershu said: "Since this is the case, the lower officials have to ask the king of Chu to bother." "This kind of good thing can be promoted to six levels in a row without taking out one or two pieces of silver yourself, and going to Lianzhou is just a convenience for Zhu Hong's three lines, so why not do it." If Peng Ershu knew that Zhu Hongsan would do something in Vietnam in the future, he would not have gone to Lianzhou if he was killed.

Seeing another intellectual, Zhu Hongsan was very happy and said: "Okay, Master Peng is waiting for good news here in Xin'an, and there will be news in a month at most." ”

The goal has been achieved, Zhu Hongsan did not sit for a long time, got up and said goodbye.

Peng Ershu sent Zhu Hongsan out of the county government, in fact, he didn't have much hope for Zhu Hongsan's promise, after all, it was too difficult for a vassal king to meddle in local affairs. The promise to Zhu Hongsan just now was also perfunctory to him, if it was done better, if it was not done, he would have nothing to lose.

Zhu Hongsan came out of the county office, thought about it and said, "Let's go, let's go to Nantou Water Village to have a look." ”

The group went out of the south gate of Xin'an County and rushed to Nantou Water Village.

The water village is five miles south of the county seat, and this place is called Nantou. Nantou is the combined name of Nanshan and Shatou, this place has been an important place for coastal defense since the Song Dynasty, and has always been the focus of coastal defense in Guangdong, and Guangdong's sea patrol road is also built in Nantou Water Village.

Standing on Nanshan, Zhu Hongsan looked at the Nantou Water Village below, which was well organized, there were more than 20 large boats and countless small boats on the dock, it seemed that this Li Zhi still had two brushes.

Zhu Hongsan looked around, and outside the Nantou Peninsula was Lingdingyang. That is, Wen Tianxiang wrote the famous sentence "Who did not die in the ancient times of life, and left the eternal sweat and green".

Starting from Nantou, passing through Tuen Mun, and then to Victoria Bay on Hong Kong Island, there are countless deep-water harbors on the coastline of these hundreds of miles, and even this Nantou Water Village is not worse than Victoria Harbour. Zhu Hongsan looked at it and decided that his naval base would be located here.