Judge Guo Weiqi of Qinzhou is originally from Jiangxi, and Chongzhen has been in office for five years until now, and it has been some years. He is not from the imperial examination, and his ability to pick up money and bribe is not outstanding, so his time in office is almost over, and he still has no idea which other corner he will be sent to next.

Since he was a state judge, of course he had to be in charge of the investigation, and when Xu Lin came here to investigate, he sent a hundred taels of silver to his mansion - for him, a poor state judge, this was a large amount of silver. It is precisely because of this that he is extremely curious about the "Yu Gongzi" that Xu Lin entrusted him to take care of, this Mr. Xu is already a big man, where is the "Yu Gongzi" who can support him to do something?

Therefore, when the soldiers of Changmendun and Qingjiudun reported the abnormal situation to the state capital, Guo Weiqi got the news and knew that the land bought by "Yu Gongzi" began to be built on a large scale.

From Xinxiang to Zhoucheng, but one or twenty miles away, there is a waterway to pass, Guo Weiqi has wondered if he is going to see if he is going to see what is going on in the report of the dun soldiers, "get up one night, build a village in two nights, and after three nights, the walls and villages are ready".

"The three walls are all completed...... Poof, how can there be such a thing in this world, unless that Yu Gongzi spent a lot of money and gathered thousands of people to build a wall. Qinzhou is now sparsely populated, where is he going to gather a thousand people! ”

Just thinking about this, suddenly an errand came to report: "My lord, someone has sent a famous assassin to worship." ”

"Show me." Guo Weiqi took over the famous thorn, there are not many people in Qinzhou who come to visit him, there are officials in Zhizhou, although he is an official from the seventh grade, but most of the time it is just a decoration in the middle.

"Xiang'an...... Yu Guozhen bowed. ”

Looking at the simple seven words on the name tattoo, Guo Weiqi felt ridiculous.

Didn't this guy think that he was an old man in the court, and he only wrote down his place of origin and name, so that others would know him? And this Xiang'an. It's not a big place, at least Guo Weiqi thought about it for a while, and he didn't think about where Xiang'an was.

He looked at the officer, "Where are the people?" ”

"I'm waiting to see you outside the house."

"Invite him in." Guo Weiqi said lazily: "Let him wait in front for a while." ”

At this time, it was hot, and Guo Zhou had no official duties, so he was huddled in the backyard to enjoy the coolness, and his clothes were naturally untidy. Wait for him to tidy up. I took another short rest, and when I came out to meet again, it was already half an hour later.

Then he saw Yu Guozhen's smiling face.

"You are...... What what vibrating? Seeing that he didn't hurry up and salute, Guo Weiqi was unhappy, so he asked in a deep voice: "Why did you see this official...... Don't bow down? ”

"Xiang'an Yu Guozhen." Yu Guozhen pointed at himself. Then he got up and bowed his hand slightly: "I came down here, I was entrusted by someone to give a gift to Lord Guo...... Naturally, there is no need to bow down. ”

"If you are entrusted by someone, you don't have to bow down if you give me a gift?" Guo Weiqi thought it was extremely funny: "Who asked you to give a gift?" ”

"A father-in-law under the rule of the Nanjing garrison eunuch...... Mr. Guo, please read the letter. ”

This letter is true, and Yu Guozhen acted for convenience. Specifically asked Fan Xian for it. At that time, the reason was that the Danshui river pearl market was saturated, and he wanted to go to the area of Qinlian and Hepu to see if he could grow sea pearls.

This is a huge business, and it has always been a tribute to the royal family, but in the past 100 years, because of excessive fishing, the production of Hepu pearls has been declining year by year. There was a son of heaven in front of him, who spent 40,000 taels of silver. Only then did he get less than a pound of Hepu Zhu!

Therefore, Fan Xian certainly understood the value of this matter. However, because Yu Guozhen said that he was only going to mōsuo, and there was no ticket to succeed, he did not dare to report this to Chongzhen, let alone directly issue an official document to the local government to co-organize.

What he could do was to go to the Nanjing Ministry of Officials to look through the files, and find out the No. 2 person in Qinzhou Mansion - Zhizhou, he didn't dare to report it, for fear that Zhizhou would not be able to think about it for a while, and wanted to show the noble strength of the scholar doctor, not only did not help, but scolded "castration" and then stumbled.

The Qinzhou Mansion did not have the same knowledge, so the state sentenced Guo Weiqi to be the No. 2 person, and this person was not a person, but he did not play a trick of deceiving the world and inviting fame.

"Nanjing Garrison Eunuch ......"

Guo Weiqi was thrown into this poor and remote country, and he didn't react to this name at first glance, but then he sat up straight, his face pale: "Factory ...... Factory guard? ”

Yu Guozhen smiled and said nothing, neither admitting nor denying it. Guo Weiqi felt that the weather was extraordinarily hot this summer, even if he sat in the yamen, it was almost the same as being exposed to the sun under the head. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and opened the letter.

The content of the letter is very simple, that is, Fan Xian, the inner palace supervisor under the Nanjing garrison eunuch, sent Yu Guozhen to Qinzhou to do something because of the sī matter, and asked Guo Weiqi, the governor of Qinzhou, to take care of it. At the end of the letter, a sentence was added, saying that Guo Zhou's term of office had expired, and that he would be in Nanjing for a while, and he should ask for advice.

Guo Weiqi's hand holding the letter trembled, and he swore by his concubine that it was not because of jī movement, but because the weather was too hot!

He was able to be an official, but he did not take the scientific route, and he was assigned to Qinzhou, obviously because there was no backstage in the DPRK. But he felt that his luck had come at this moment, he looked at it again, and confirmed that on Fan Xian's name, in addition to the mark of "Inner Palace Eunuch", there was also the mark of the Nanjing garrison eunuch, and the joy in his heart was even greater.

The Nanjing garrison eunuch, but the external appointment of the celebrant eunuch, only those who have won the trust of the Son of Heaven can take on this position. And this Gonggong Fan of the inner palace eunuch can also stamp the seal of the garrison eunuch on this sī letter, and his ability can be imagined!

With the support of such a big man, he Guo Weiqi is finally going to come out!

As soon as he thought of this, he hurriedly stood up and respectfully saluted Yu Guozhen: "I don't know if the noble person has arrived, and the lower official has missed the distance, and I ask the noble person to forgive the sin." ”

"Why should Lord Guo be polite?" Yu Guozhen did not shy away from it, and helped him up after waiting for the other party to take a long look: "In addition to this letter, Gonggong Fan also prepared some gifts for Master Guo. ”

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Guo Weiqi, Guo Weiqi understood, reprimanded the errand officer, and after a while, Qi Niu outside the hall walked in with a gift box. Yu Guozhen placed the gift box on the table, and then opened the lid of the box, revealing a row of glittering gold.

"This ...... This ......"

Guo Weiqi was taken aback, since the Dingding of the National Dynasty, he has only heard of giving gifts to eunuchs, how many have he ever heard of eunuchs giving gifts to others? And he made a visual inspection. Here is at least dozens of taels of gold, which is really a generous gift for him, a poor state judge!

"I heard that Qinzhou is poor, and Lord Guo has suffered here." Yu Guozhen said with a smile: "A few gifts are not enough to worry about." ”

Guo Weiqi was reluctant and didn't dare to refuse, and he didn't even say much about the politeness on his face. After receiving the gift box, he looked at Yu Guozhen's expression again, and he became more cordial: "Yu Gongzi came from Nanzhili, and the previous Mr. Xu had already confessed, and the lower official still thought that he would go to Yu Gongzi's place to visit him in two days." I never thought that Childe would go to the contempt first...... What does Yu Gongzi command? ”

He was also eager to pat the sycophants of this noble man from Nanjing, and even ignored the taboos of officialdom when he spoke, and asked bluntly.

"In the southwest of the city, a new Zhuangzi was built, and between the Changmen pier and the green dove pier, there were several things. I want to ask Mr. Guo. Yu Guozhen also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this is Qinzhou, not Xiang'an, he still has no foundation, the emperor is far away, if Guo Weiqi doesn't buy Fan Xian's account, he has no good way for a while. Therefore, he wants to come to Guo Weiqi after the village is first completed, so that Guo Weiqi has any bad intentions. He also has temporary self-preservation.

"Yu Gongzi just commands."

"First, I am willing to spend money to continue to acquire the wasteland near Qingjiudun. I also asked Mr. Guo to come forward, after it was done. The benefits of Lord Guo are indispensable. ”

Now he had nearly 100 acres of land, but it was still not enough for his plans, and he was sure that as Xinxiang developed, the surrounding land would become more and more scarce, so he had to prepare in advance.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Qingjiudun is close to the left, most of it is wasteland, Emperor Shenzong once issued an edict, Liangguang wasteland, let the wasteland be opened, the lower officials and the newly appointed Confucius Ni Yuankun greeted him, and made a book, it didn't cost Yu Gongzi much money." Guo Weiqi agreed to come down.

"Second, a lot of labor is needed in the next place, and notices will be posted in the state capital and Zuojin Township to recruit good workers, and I will also ask Lord Guo to make it convenient."

"Little things, small things, I'll send a messenger to post it with you, and Yu Gongzi only needs to give the messenger some shoe money." Guo Weiqi also agreed, but then he was stunned: "Yu Gongzi wants to recruit good workers near Qinzhou?" ”

"Exactly."

"This ...... Yu Gongzi is afraid that he doesn't know the customs of Qinzhou, and the local men and women here are so stupid and stubborn that they don't know how diligent they are......"

Guo Weiqi gushed endlessly, he stayed in Qinzhou for three years, well aware of the disadvantages of this place, although the residents of Qinzhou are similar to the festival rites of the Middle Earth, but the diligence of the people is too different, here people rely on planting rice and raising cattle for a living, although the rice is two crops a year, but the local people do not intensively cultivate, so the yield is very low; Cattle and buffalo are used for ploughing the fields, cattle are used for sacrifices, and when there is a disease, they do not seek medical advice, but kill the cow and pray to the ghosts and gods, as long as the disease is not good, the cattle will continue to kill, and there are those who kill 27 cattle in a row to bankrupt the family but the illness is still not healed.

In the end, Guo Weiqi sighed: "In the city of Qinzhou, I still have some people, and in the countryside on all sides, except for a few who have been deeply educated, I can't even tell the difference between promotion and fighting, and it is impossible to come out to work." ”

Yu Guozhen has already discovered this problem, he entrusted Huang Shun to hire people, but ten days have passed, and it is still the original less than 100 people, he originally thought that those who left halfway would come back after seeing the treatment of these 100 people, but until now no one has turned back. Lack of labor is a big problem, Yu Guozhen frowned slightly: "I asked Fan Gonggong to recruit displaced people from the Central Plains to come here, but far from quenching his thirst." ”

"Near thirst...... Xiaguan has a plan, Qinzhou belongs to Lingshan, the customs are the same as the Central Plains, men and women weave, are extremely diligent, Lingshan County registered population, but also better than Qinzhou, if Yu Gongzi is willing, the next official can be Wenling Mountain, hire people for Yu Gongzi. ”

"Okay, good, I'll tell you the truth, and the wages and meals provided in Xia will be guaranteed to satisfy the people who come to help, so that it won't be difficult for Master Guo." Yu Guozhen said overjoyed.

"Is there anything else going on with Mr. Yu?"

"Finally, I heard that there are many egg farmers in Qinzhou, and I want to ask these egg farmers to fish for me...... I would like to ask for your help. ”

"Eggman? There are not many egg households in Qinzhou, only ......"

(To be continued)