Rather than Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren worshipping the local people who burned to death inside outside the valley, it is better to say that they are worshipping their conscience as a person, after all, watching hundreds of thousands of their own kind die in front of them, as long as they are a person with a conscience, they will feel uneasy in their hearts, especially people like Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren, who have been influenced by Confucianism, and feel that their conscience has been condemned by God.

After worshipping, Zhu Zhishan pulled Wang Shouren back to Gangnan County, and then ordered the cook he brought to make a banquet, all of which were local flavors in his hometown Yangzhou, and it seemed that he was also not suitable for the Nanyang diet, but this was Wang Shouren and others were appetizing, plus Zhu Zhishan and Xu Shenzhong frequently toasted, which made Wang Shouren and others also eat with a smile.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhu Zhishan opened his mouth to ask Wang Shouren and his party about the intention, in fact, in the previous conversation, he had already seen that these people brought by Wang Shouren were all officials, and they were probably officials of the Governor's Palace, but he didn't know what Wang Shouren was doing in Gangnan County with these officials in plain clothes?

For a loyal elder like Zhu Zhishan, Wang Shouren naturally would not hide his identity, and he had also seen the officials of Gangnan County, and there was no problem at all, so he took out his own seal letter in front of Zhu Zhishan, indicating his identity and the reason for coming to the old port, and at the same time told him about seeing Tang Bohu before, and finally took out the letters he brought

As a result, Zhu Zhishan heard that Wang Shouren was already the envoy of the Governor's Mansion, and immediately congratulated the other party, and at the same time he was a little embarrassed, Wang Shouren, the envoy, was nearly ten levels higher than him. Tang Bohu, as a prefect, is also bigger than his official position. But among the three. is counted as his oldest, thinking of this, Zhu Zhishan can't help but feel a little lost.

However, Zhu Zhishan's personality is cheerful and open-minded, so he quickly put aside the loss in his heart, and today is a private banquet, so he did not report any official duties to Wang Shouren, but asked him about the interesting stories along the way, after all, it took Wang Shouren half a year to go to Nanyang. And he has traveled all over the land under the rule of the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, which makes Zhu Zhishan also very envious, but unfortunately he is now on official business, except for staying in Gangnan, it is impossible to go out at other times.

Wang Shouren's interest was also raised by the wine and food on the table, and he picked out what he had seen and heard along the way, and there were also some problems that arose in the process of administration of some officials in various places, although these problems did not appear in Gangnan County, but now that they are said, they can also make Zhu Zhishan gain some experience in government affairs. Avoid the same problem.

After the banquet, Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren were both drunk. In the next few days, Wang Shouren lived in the county office, while asking Zhu Zhishan for calligraphy, while inspecting the way of life of the people in Gangnan County, after all, the old port is his last stop, before he has not completed the investigation in the old port, because of the local riots came to Gangnan County, and then he has to go back to the old port to continue the investigation, and now it is just through Gangnan County to understand the life and customs of the Han people in the old port.

A few days later, Wang Shouren said goodbye to Zhu Zhishan, and the group left Gangnan County and returned to the old port again. The old port is the largest city of the Ming Dynasty in Jinzhou, and it is also the most important stronghold of Zhou Chong's invasion of Jinzhou, so for the old port, Zhou Zhong can be said to attach great importance to it, and now the prefect of the old port is named Li Yi, and Tang Bohu, like Tang Bohu, are the old people who came out of the city division back then, and they are very shrewd, and they are more experienced than Tang Bohu, so Zhou Chong transferred him to the old port.

However, Wang Shouren doesn't like this Li Yi, because this person is too shrewd, and does things by unscrupulous means, as long as he can achieve his goal, Li Yi can use any means, such as this Gangnan County native riot, although Wang Shouren has no exact evidence, but he always feels that Li Yi is behind him, because the reaction speed of the old Hong Kong army at the time of the riot is too fast, and Wang Shouren believes that if this matter is really Li Yi making trouble, then there must be a careful instruction behind it, After all, with his understanding of Li Yi, the other party did not have the courage to deliberately provoke a rebellion among the natives.

As for why Li Yi wanted to instigate the rebellion of the natives, Wang Shouren was still a little puzzled at the beginning of this question, but when he saw more and more Han people in the old port, as well as those natives who would rather lie in the shade of the trees and sleep than go to the Han people's farms to work and make money, Wang Shouren suddenly understood Zhou Chong's approach, after all, there are a group of lazy natives living in such a fertile and rich land as Nanyang, and these natives are not willing to do even the simplest work, which is simply a waste of Nanyang's resources. Therefore, Zhou Zhong has now begun to systematically eliminate the number of natives to make room for later immigration.

Thinking of this, Wang Shouren also sighed, intellectually speaking, he supported Zhou Chong's plan, after all, they are all Ming people, in order to solve the contradictions in their own country, it is understandable to kill some natives. But emotionally speaking, Wang Shouren is a little repulsed by this approach, after all, those natives are also people, although they are lazy and cruel, they are still people, not animals.

Logically speaking, Wang Shouren's sympathy for the Nanyang natives is understandable, after all, the natives of this era have not done too much to be sorry for the Han people, but if he knows about the several anti-Chinese incidents that occurred in the Nanyang countries in later generations, he will definitely raise his hands to support Zhou Chong's decision, after all, the natives who can do that kind of brutal thing are no different from animals.

Although Wang Shouren guessed that the driving force behind the instigation of the local riots was Zhou Chong, and Li Yi, the prefect of the old Hong Kong, was just an executor, but this still made it difficult for Wang Shouren to have a good impression of Li Yi, after all, Li Yi is an old fritter in the officialdom, he is very shrewd and smooth, but he can also be ruthless when he should be ruthless, such a person is indeed a cadre, but he is definitely not a good person.

In addition to his dissatisfaction with Zhou Zhong and Li Yi's provocation of the local rebellion, Wang Shouren also discovered another major problem in the old port, which was unique to the old port and he had not encountered in any other place, that is, the problem of religion.

Originally, the old port was the mission center of Nanyang Islam, and almost all the Han people here were Muslims, and the people who did not believe in the past were either forcibly assimilated or driven out of the country, resulting in a single religious city, the city was full of spires of Muslim temples, and it was this religious belief that made the old port in a special position among the countries of the Nanyang, and finally survived until now.

When the old port surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the Han Muslims in the whole city had reached 100,000, which can be said to be the largest settlement of the Han people in Nanyang, but later with Zhou Chong, this place was divided into the old port government, and the jurisdiction area included the vast area in the east of Jinzhou, and the area was even larger than that of Taiwan.

In order to rule this vast area, Zhou Zhong began to tilt the focus of immigration here, giving more preferential immigration policies, as a result, the old port government of Han immigrants more and more, such as Zhuzhishan side of Gangnan County, from the beginning of the number of Han less than 100, until now to nearly 20,000 Han people, as for the old port side, the number of Han people is explosive, to now more than 300,000, of course, these 300,000 people not only include the citizens of the old port city, but also include the agricultural immigrants who cultivate the periphery.

However, with the inflow of immigrants, the old port is no longer a pure Muslim city, some of the customs that should have been observed in their opinion, have also been affected by foreign immigrants, others do not say, just a diet habits have caused a lot of trouble, Muslims do not eat pork, nor alcohol, but those immigrants do not care about these, they kill pigs and eat meat in the city, and at the same time opened a lot of taverns and restaurants, although the old port has added a lot of vitality, but also caused a lot of dissatisfaction of many Muslims, When this dissatisfaction accumulates to a certain level, conflict naturally occurs.

In fact, for this kind of religious conflict in the old port, both sides of the conflict are very innocent, for example, a new immigrant who invited someone to dinner, saw that the ordinary restaurant was full, so he came to the restaurant opened by Muslims, patronized and chatted with friends, and forgot that wine and pork are not sold here, and when he ordered food, he actually asked for pig's head meat and good wine, and the Muslim who opened the shop thought that the other party was here to insult him, and scolded a few words in a hurry, but he didn't expect the other party to be a temper tantrum, and he fought when he scolded and scolded, and the more he made more and more trouble, The accumulated contradictions between the two sides also erupted at once through this small incident, and finally led to a group fight between immigrants and Muslims.

For such a group fight, Wang Shouren came to the old port shortly after, he personally experienced one, the conflict is still a trivial matter, the most Lu on the street, dozens of hundreds of Han and Muslims fought, the most Lu or the government officials rushed to stop the brawl between the two sides, and then all brought to the government office, the most Lu government is a big fifty board is a matter, after all, there is no way to judge whether this kind of thing is right or wrong, and as long as no one dies, it is not a big deal.

However, Wang Shouren had already seen the danger brewing behind this religious conflict, when he was assigned to Longchang as an official, he had witnessed the conflict between the Miao people and the Han people, and this conflict had lasted for hundreds of years, and the contradictions between ethnic groups had accumulated so deeply that it was not so easy to resolve them.

Although the conflict between the Muslims and the new immigrants in the old port has not yet reached the point where it cannot be resolved, there are already some signs of bad problems, and if this situation is allowed to develop, I am afraid that the religious conflict alone will give the Governor's Office a headache at the very least, so we must find a way to solve it! (To be continued......)