Tong Tuchang's first stop was Sihui, the place where the four rivers meet. Zhaoqing is less than 100 miles away from Sihui, but because there is a high gorge mountain in the middle, the road is very difficult to walk, so Tong Tuchang and his party have to detour to Sanshui and go north from here to Sihui.

Sihui county very early, after Qin Shi Huang pacified the Central Plains, sent a large army to the south to conquer Lingnan, in the first emperor 23 years, finally occupied Guangdong, Guangxi and the north of Vietnam, set up three counties here, that is, Guilin, Nanhai, Xiang County, at the same time set up Sihui, Panyu, Boluo, Longchuan four counties, of which Sihui is subordinate to Guilin County. After that, the imperial court of successive dynasties changed, and there were many changes in the four associations, until Zhu Yuanzhang drove north to Mongolia, and the four associations were determined to belong to the Guangdong province.

Now Sihui County is on the north bank of the Suijiang River, is a county with a population of more than 10,000 people, and Sihui is also an economically strong county among the thirteen counties in Zhaoqing. There are a total of 45,000 households and 128,000 people in the county, all of which are originally natural economies, and men plough and women weave, which is considered a peaceful place.

However, since the prison state in Guangzhou ordered the resettlement of more than one million displaced people from the north to Sihui, this land of fish and rice has almost become a den of robbers.

As long as the displaced people can make it to Guangdong alive, they are basically young and strong, and when they were in Guangzhou, because of the small proportion of the population, it was nothing, but it was a big trouble for more than one million people to reach Sihui.

There are less than 20 people arrested in Sihui County, and less than 50 people are counted in Kuaishou, and more than 1 million people can be managed there. When Xu Dali, the former prefect of Zhaoqing, was in office, he only appeased, as long as these displaced people did not make trouble, and all other matters were handled by the local government. Sihui County Commander Wang Xian has fallen into bad luck, in the past two years, he has pressed the gourd to raise the scoop, whether it is the local squire, or the gentry among the homeless people, they are not to see this county order.

A few days ago, the prefect's yamen came down to write, and the new Tongzhi was sent by the king of Chu to Sihui to deal with the problem of displaced people full-time.

After getting the accurate information that Lord Tongzhi was coming, Wang County Ling took the officials from the county government early and came to the pavilion five miles outside the county seat, waiting for Lord Tongzhi to arrive.

It was almost noon, and the team of Lord Tongzhi finally appeared in the distance, and the two people in front of them were playing signs, one of them were the same knowledge of the five products, and the other was written Fengzhi Tuntian. This is the welfare of officials in the Ming Dynasty, Tong Tuchang has no fame, if there is one, it is necessary to write which branch of the scholar or the person, and some officials even have to write the official position of three generations, for the sake of face. But Tong Tuchang can't be like this, he is not even a child, he just recognized a few words when he was in exile with his uncle, so he dared to be so public, so he only wrote two strong scenes.

Wang County Commander saw that Lord Tongzhi's carriage had arrived, and hurriedly walked to the middle of the road, arching his hand and shouting: "Xiaguan Sihui County Commander Wang Xian, welcome Lord Tongzhi Tong to Xia County!" ”

Tong Tuchang's frame stopped, Tong Tuchang got out of the carriage, helped Wang Xian, and said: "Lord Wang, please get up, please get up, Tong is delayed on the road, let you wait for a long time!" ”

"There! There! ”

Wang Xian looked at the thirty-year-old Tongzhi in front of him, and heard that this Lord Tong was a celebrity in front of the King of Chu, and he must not be slow.

"Lord Tong, Xiaguan has prepared a banquet in the city, please move to the city!"

Tong Tuchang nodded, got into the carriage and entered the city with Wang Xian.

After getting into the carriage, Tong Tuchang began to observe the situation along the road.

Now it is five miles away from the county seat, there are paddy fields on both sides of the road, and some farmers are planting seedlings.

However, when he arrived at the county seat, Tong Tuchang found some problems, and a large number of displaced people gathered at the gate of the city. Didn't the report say that the displaced people had been resettled? What's going on?

Tong Tuchang participated in the reception banquet with questions.

The banquet was all some gentry in the county, representatives of several big surnames, naturally Tong Tuchang couldn't ask anything at the banquet, and waited until the banquet was over, Tong Tuchang left Wang County's order, ready to ask in detail about the situation in Tuntian.

"Lord Wang, this official has come to Zhaoqing to take charge of Tuntian, Lord Wang, can you tell me what your Sihui County did?"

Wang Xian secretly complained, but he didn't expect this fellow acquaintance to ask him about the situation. There is no way for Wang Xian to organize the language and tell Tong Tuchang the truth.

It turned out that in the past three years, Sihui had accepted a total of more than 1.1 million displaced people, but in the first year, because of the small number, there were only more than 100,000 people, and the county could still organize people to arrange their production. However, since the second year, the number of displaced people has increased dramatically to 500,000, and the county is already short of manpower, and it is inevitable that there will be flaws in the resettlement of the displaced people. At the same time, the second year of displacement is different from the first year, the first year of displacement are all poor, it is easy to deal with them, demarcate areas for them, and then give them seeds and farm tools. However, in the second year, there were gentry among the displaced people, who not only needed wasteland, but also took people to rob a lot of local gentry's familiar land, so there was a conflict with the local gentry, and in the past two years, there were more than a dozen conflicts between locals and outsiders, and each time there were casualties, and now the locals and outsiders have been on the same footing. The more than 600,000 people in the past three years have exacerbated this antagonism, and in addition to the increase in the number of displaced people, the county government does not have enough manpower, and a large number of displaced people have not been resettled, and now more than 100,000 people have not been allocated land.

Tong Tuchang listened to Wang County's explanation, and thought in his heart, it seems that Zhaoqing's problem is very serious. His uncle Tong Yangjia told him when he came back that Tuntian was in charge of the household, and his own family couldn't intervene, so he must catch the pigtails of the Ma family when he came.

After listening to Wang County's report, Tong Tuchang asked, "Are there still dead people?" Why didn't I hear this in Guangzhou, but only heard some smooth news from Tuntian! ”

Wang Xiansi Ai Ai said: "This subordinate doesn't know, every time something happens, the subordinate will report it." ”

"Lord Wang, do you know what the background of your predecessor, Lord Xu, was?"

"This... I don't know! ”

"He is the father-in-law of the current cabinet Feng Ge Lao, and the former governor of Liangguang, Feng Ruoshu Feng, is a family member, now that you have such a big incident, what can you do if it is passed on to the king of Chu?"

Wang Xian was stunned, what could he do? Needless to say, I have no power or power, of course, I have to carry the black cauldron myself.

"Lord Tong, what should the lower officials do? You're going to save me! ”

"Hey, hey! Lord Wang, Feng Ge Lao, you can't afford to provoke you, will you move the black cauldron to the Ministry of Industry? ”

"What do you mean, Lord Tong?"

"Lord Wang, you have to know that I am here to help you again. The king of Chu has always been merciful, and during the Chinese New Year this year, he also announced to his ancestors that he did not freeze and starve to death this year, but you have more than a dozen deaths here, you say that the king of Chu can spare you? ”

Frightened by Tong Tuchang, Wang Xian quickly knelt down and shouted, "My lord, please tell me what to do?" ”

"It's very simple, you write a letter and report it to the King of Chu, saying that the seeds, tools, and ploughing cattle allocated to you by the Ministry of Industry this year are not enough, isn't that okay?"

As soon as Wang Xian heard that this was also a bad idea, Feng Ge couldn't offend the Ministry of Industry if he couldn't offend him? I am a seven-grade sesame official, and I will die when I meet that big guy!

"Lord Tong, but this official position is soft-spoken, I'm afraid it's not okay to go to the book!"

"Don't worry, Lord Wang, the official's uncle is Tong Ge Lao, you know this, you just have to go to the book, everything is arranged by my uncle!"

Hearing Tong Tuchang say this, Wang Xian felt that he was on the thief ship, and it turned out that he was involved in the party dispute. But if you don't agree with Tong Tuchang's words, both sides are offended, and you can't die well, no matter what, it's better for you to die than for me to die!

Wang Xian made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Master Tong, I'll go to the book!" Please hand it over to Mr. Tong Ge! ”

Tong Tuchang was very happy to see Wang Xian's promise, and when he left Guangzhou, Tong Yangjia told him that he must find the loopholes of the Ma family, and he didn't believe that such a big thing in Tuntian could be leaked by his Ma family?

Wang Xian quickly finished writing the recital and handed it to Tong Tuchang. Tong Tuchang was very happy after reading it, Wang Xian said in it that the Ministry of Industry originally allocated 1.5 million taels to the resettlement of displaced people every year, but by the fourth meeting, it would become 1 million taels, and the people in the Ministry of Industry repeatedly asked for kickbacks. Just this one can bring down Ma Jiyuan.

Tong Yangjia decided to bring down Ma Jiyuan first, because Ma Mingyuan was very newly appointed by the King of Chu, and there was no way to kill Ma Mingyuan due to such small problems as being homeless, so Tong Tuchang guided Wang Xian to attack Ma Jiyuan specifically.

After writing the book, Tong Tuchang sent his family to his uncle in Dongguan as soon as possible, and he began to work to resettle the displaced people.

Tong Tuchang doesn't have knowledge, but he still has ability. In addition, he manages more than 100,000 miners in Changhua, and he still has a certain foundation on how to deal with mass incidents.

First of all, Tong Tuchang made an appointment to meet with several patriarchs with big surnames among the displaced people, after all, Tong Tuchang himself has been in Huguang for more than ten years, and he has some common language with these outsiders, so several patriarchs also give Tong Tuchang a lot of face. promised not to make trouble again in the future.

The second step is to ask Chen Zilong, the prefect of Xingwen, to ask a new army stationed in Zhaoqing to help suppress the bandits. It is said that it is bandits, but in fact, there are some rogues among the homeless, and these guys have started their old business again when they get to Sihui, in addition to robbing the locals, they can also do the same blackout to outsiders. There are more than a dozen bandits of this kind in Sihui County, and Tong Tuchang wants to eliminate them.

Next is the armor protection system that Tong Tuchang is good at, this system was first invented by Wang Anshi, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who carried it forward, stipulating that the household is the unit, and the ten households are organized into a first, and the first is set up; The top 10 are numbered as a guarantee, and the chief of the guarantee is established. However, Zhu Hongsan changed this system, a bit like the household registration system of the police station in later generations, every 100 households were organized into a village, every 100 villages were organized into a town, and a police station was set up in each town, and each person was given an independent household registration card, and the police station had to open a road ten miles away from the village. Each town has a militia of 100 people, which fights in wartime and is responsible for the security of each town in peacetime. Tong Tuchang did this in Changhua, and it was very convenient for 100,000 people to be compiled like an arm, so he also had to experiment here in Sihui.