Seven days later, the new General Bu Kui arrived.

The new ginseng is an old acquaintance of many Bukui people, and he is also a person that Zhao Dahai and others could never have dreamed of.

It turned out to be the nephew of Ningguta General Han Tiankui, Zhong Ding, who was taken by Jia Min.

When Zhao Dahai, Feng Kui, and Xu Mingtao learned that it was Zhong Ding who took over Bu Kui, several people couldn't help but be stunned, and they had a sense of absurdity.

Of course they know who Zhong Ding is. However, this is the kind of person who has become a general, and he has also become their boss.

Ten days later, 3,000 soldiers and horses from Ningguta took over the defense of Bukui. He Jialin's Jingying left Bukui and returned to the imperial capital.

The original Bukui garrison under Zhao Dahai was subsumed under Zhong Ding.

After returning to the imperial capital, He Jialin will hand over his military post and wait for appointment.

Zhong Ding not only brought his own soldiers and horses from Ningguta, but also brought many officials from the imperial capital, and these officials were basically donors who had been backlogged in the Ministry for a long time.

Of course, some officials were also brought from Ningguta.

After Zhong Ding took office, he immediately took a lot of measures to prove his courage in taking office as a new official.

The first is to remove a large number of former officials. Either transferred, idle, or simply dismissed.

Among them, more than half of the officials of the Bukui Yamen were replaced.

After the establishment of the prefecture in South Windura, the personnel who were originally drawn from the prefectural corps were trained and sent there to serve as officials.

This time, they were all replaced. Excuses, of course, are ready-made.

These people are not from the imperial examination, they are not hereditary officials, and they are not donors, so they are not suitable to be officials again, and they will all be reduced to the people and dismissed.

The officials who were removed from the yamen and prefectures were basically all appointed during the Jia Min era. After being removed, the people who came from the original government corps basically left Bukui and went to Beihai to join Jia Min.

Zhong Ding's second measure was to set up checkpoints on the road from Bukui to Beihai to strictly check the merchants who came and went to Beihai.

For the first few days, almost no one was released.

However, three days later, people showed that although the checkpoint was set up, as long as they paid one or two pieces of silver, no matter who they were, they could still come and go freely.

This time people understood that the checkpoints were set up just to collect money.

In front of the checkpoint at the North City Gate, Zhao Dahai, Feng Kui, Xu Mingtao and several other officials were surrounding Zhong Ding.

Now, they are following the new Counselor out to make rounds.

"Look at it, as soon as this checkpoint is erected, won't someone pay the money obediently, you used to always say that there was no money in the yamen, so wouldn't this be the money? Lao Zhao, what do you think of my trick? ”

Watching several people and businessmen pay money to the checkpoint, Zhong Ding said triumphantly to Zhao Dahai.

In the past, he was Zhao Dahai's subordinate, but after a few years, he became Zhao Dahai's boss, and he was inevitably proud.

"General, although this trick can collect some money, the wool is from the sheep, and those merchants have paid the money here, and they will also earn it back here. When the time comes, raise the price of goods, and maybe make more money. ”

"We don't have to worry about this, whoever buys things pays for it, just collect our money."

"In this way, there will be fewer merchants going north in the future, and it is not a good thing for Bukui, there are fewer goods coming and going, Bukui's goods cannot be transported, and those from outside cannot come in, and in the long run, Bukui will be depressed."

"Lao Zhao, you have been with Jia Min for a long time, and you have been poisoned by him, and his set of things is all some unconventional things. Today's rules are about to change. ”

"Yes, it's up to the generals."

After staying at the north gate for a while, everyone followed Zhong Ding back to the city.

Zhong Ding went to the Red Mansion Nightclub to have a drink, and Zhao Dahai and the three of them went to Qingshan Restaurant.

Qingshan Restaurant was opened by Du Qingshan, the original director of Bukui Experimental Farm.

As a member of the Fu Corps, after the Fu Corps was abolished, Du Qingshan opened this restaurant in Bukui, and business had been good before.

When I entered the house, I saw Du Qingshan sitting listlessly at a table.

"Du Qingshan, give us a few dishes, it's still the old rule."

"Okay, wait a minute."

Du Qingshan agreed, and went to the back kitchen.

"Du Qingshan, come over for tea."

"Chiefs, drink it, I still have to cook for you."

"How do you serve the food? What about the cook? ”

"Business is not good, I resigned, Xiao Er also resigned, and now I'm alone."

After a while, Du Qingshan brought up the wine and food and sat down on the table.

"Even if I invite a few old elders today, in a few days, my restaurant will be closed."

"Why didn't you do it?"

"I wanted to, but I couldn't. Today, a yamen ordered that in the future, a tax of three taels of silver should be paid every month, plus a head tax of five or two people a year for cooks, and one or two head taxes for a year for the second child. I calculated it, if I continue to hand it over like this, at the end of the year, not only will I not make money, but I also have to put money into it, what else can I do? ”

"Alas, it's not just your family now, it's the same for other people."

"Zhong Ding, this bastard, he has only been here for a few days, and he has been looting people's wealth like this. Not only me, but also the merchants, craftsmen, and farmers who come and go have to pay taxes. Now there is simply a boiling of public resentment below. The good situation created by Chief Min at the beginning is now ruined. ”

"This is called difficult to build a family, and it is easy to lose a family. At the beginning, Chief Min worked hard and made great efforts to create a good situation for Bu Kui, and He Shen followed Xiao Gui Cao and followed suit, although there was no pioneering move, but also maintained the prosperity of Bu Kui. Now that Zhong Ding is in power, he will carry out the order, and in less than a month, Bu Kui has changed the sky. ”

Feng Kui said, taking a drink to himself.

"Head Zhao, have you seen that these days, more and more people are starting to leave Bukui? In the past, almost every day people came, but now Bu Kui only sees people going out, and rarely goes inside. Even if someone came from outside, they just stopped here and went to Beihai. Today's Bu Kui can't keep people anymore. In a few days, I closed the shop and was leaving. ”

"Where to go?"

"Where else can I go, naturally I want to go to Beihai, Chief Min is there, I naturally want to go to him."

"If you go, maybe a few of us will go in the future."

"Head Zhao, I heard that the affairs of the rogue are going to change back to the way they used to be?"

As soon as Du Qingshan said this, Zhao Dahai and the others immediately stopped talking.

According to Zhong Ding's plan, Jia Min's reform measures for the affairs of the displaced people in Bu Kuipei will be abolished, and everything will be restored to the way Jia Min was before.

"In the past few years, the outcasts in the Bukui Matching Institute have the lowest escape rate and death and injury rate, and the homeless economy has also made a lot of money. If it is changed back to the old way before, the homeless people will not have enough to eat, they will not be warm, they will live cold, and they will not be able to live, and when the time comes, they will have to make chaos again. ”

"Forget it, we can't take care of this matter, let him toss. When are you leaving, tell me, and when the time comes, bring your sister-in-law with you and go to Beihai together. I'll have to find a way back. What about the two of you? ”

Zhao Dahai said, looking at Feng Kui and Xu Mingtao.

"You're all like that, what else do we have to say. In fact, the two of us have long had this intention, but it is difficult to leave our homeland, so we are hesitant, and now it seems that we can't do it without making up our minds. This Bukui is finished. ”

"Commander Zhao, I also heard that Zhong Ding wants to ask the Tatars of Northern Wendura for seventy years of tribute, otherwise he will use troops against them, I don't know if it's true or not?"

This matter was brought up by Zhong Ding when he first arrived in Bukui.

At that time, Zhao Dahai once told him that when Wang Ziteng was here as a messenger, the court had promised not to pay tribute.

If you ask for it now, I am afraid that it will provoke a revolt from the Tatars.

Although the Hidewa people in South Wendura had withdrawn, the other two major tribes of the Tatars had basically not suffered any major losses in strength.

Now, if you use troops against the Tatars, let alone the 3,000 people in Zhong Ding, even if there are 30,000 people, they may not be the opponents of the Tatars.

"This matter has not yet been decided, if Zhong Ding is not stupid, he should not do such a stupid thing."

"Hmph, just because he still wants to fight the Tatars? Think he's our government corps? They just bullied the ability of the common people. ”

Several people grumbled while drinking, and drank for more than two hours before leaving.

Zhao Dahai was depressed, and he didn't even go to the barracks, so he went home directly.

Yizhihua was playing with the child, and when she saw Zhao Dahai coming back, she complained.

"Why are you eating out again, eating so much?"

"It's no one else, with Feng Kui and Xu Mingtao eating wine at Du Qingshan's place, these two days, you pack up your things, Du Qingshan is going to Beihai to join Chief Min, you take the child and follow him. Feng Kui and Xu Mingtao's family also went over together. ”

"Figured it out this time? As soon as that bell came, I saw that the signs were wrong, and you still didn't believe it. Miss Ping'er and Miss Shen are gone, if they stay here, can they still go? ”

"After all, we are different from them, we are not Bukui people, we were born and raised here, and we are willing to leave wherever we are."

"You're a native, but isn't that Zhongding? Besides, Yang Lin is such a shrewd person, he has gone to Chief Min, and you still can't think about it. ”

"Where is it that we can't think of it? Isn't this an official position? ”

"Don't tell me anything about official positions and non-official positions. Do you know that the four tribes of Southern Vendura are going to rebel again? ”

"Where is it so easy to reverse?"

"Now Zhong Ding is taxing there, do you know?"

"Isn't it also taxed?"

"That's different, now taxes have quadrupled. These donors went, and like those donors back then, as soon as they arrived there, they began to repair the yamen, requisition the people's husbands, send down conscripts, and loot the people's wealth. ”

"Where is it like the officers of our government corps who are there, they bring their own yurts, their own horses, their own cooking, do not compete with the people for profit, and do good deeds. A good person like Chief Min is unwilling, and a bad person like Zhong Ding is getting more and more prosperous. Now this court, I think it's getting more and more finished. ”

"Alright, it's useless to talk about that, I've had enough of it here. This house will remain, and the new house built last year will be sold. ”

"Who else to sell to? Now that the people of Bukui are going out, and the people outside are not coming, who will buy it? Can't sell out. Don't you see that a lot of shops in Xincheng are closed? This Bukui is also coming to an end. ”