Wang Shouren lingered with Tang Bohu for three days, the two used to be old acquaintances, and when they met again this time, each other's identities, knowledge, and even personalities have changed dramatically, but this does not prevent the two from interacting, and even Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu feel that the current other party is their real friend.

Three days later, according to his previous plan, Wang Shouren planned to go to the last stop of his trip, which was the old port in the southeast corner of Jinzhou. Originally, Tang Bohu advocated the recovery of the old port, wanting to incorporate the old port into the jurisdiction of Malacca, but after Shen Ying and Qu Lie occupied the old port, they found that whether it was the Danmu Kingdom or the Banten Kingdom, they were like chickens and dogs in front of the Ming army, so they took advantage of the situation to destroy the Banten Kingdom, and then occupied the eastern part of Jinzhou, and connected with the Jinzhou area occupied by the original Malacca Kingdom, so that the area under the jurisdiction of the Old Port became too large. As a result, Zhou Zhong simply divided the Jinzhou area, which was dominated by the old port, into a separate government, and firmly controlled the Strait of Malacca with Malacca, one south and one north.

When Wang Shouren left the port of Malacca, Tang Bohu once again set up a banquet to see him off, but this time he was accompanied by officials at all levels in the port of Malacca, which was also the first time that Wang Shouren appeared in front of the local officials publicly, but when those officials knew that the middle-aged man in front of them was actually the newly appointed envoy, they were all frightened into a cold sweat, after all, the envoy was originally the chief official in charge of the administration of officials, so to a certain extent, they must offend the governor, but they are not willing to offend the envoy.

After the send-off banquet, Wang Shouren left Malacca with more than a dozen of his subordinates and went directly to the old port by boat. And before he left. Tang Bohu asked him to bring a letter. This letter was sent to Zhu Zhishan, one of Tang Bohu's close friends and one of the four talents of Wuzhong.

Speaking of Zhu Zhishan's career is also very bumpy, he was raised in the examination at the age of thirty-three, and then participated in the examination several times, but all of them were in vain, until now he is in his fifties, but he still failed to pass the examination. Later, Tang Bohu regained his fame and relied on his own efforts. and under the care of Zhou, he actually became the prefect in one fell swoop, which made Zhu Zhishan happy for his old friend at the same time, but also sad for his bumpy career.

As Zhu Zhishan's bosom friend, Tang Bohu naturally knew that the other party also wanted to become an official, at least to benefit the people, so after thinking about it again, Tang Bohu finally wrote a letter to Zhu Zhishan, who failed the imperial examination again, persuading him that instead of wasting all his energy on the hopeless imperial examination, it was better to become an official as a person now. After all, with the current identity of Tang Bohu, it is still very easy to arrange an official position for Zhu Zhishan.

Zhu Zhishan had just experienced his fifth failed exam at this time. From his middle point to now, it has been twenty years, which makes Zhu Zhishan extremely discouraged, so after receiving a letter from his friend Tang Bohu, he finally made up his mind after thinking about it for a few days, that is, to give up the examination and go directly as a lifter, although this will affect his future promotion, but for a man who is already in his fifties, he has little time left, so he needs an opportunity to show his ambitions now, instead of thinking about the gains and losses in the officialdom in the future.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Zhishan quickly wrote a reply to Tang Bohu, in which he agreed with Tang Bohu's suggestion and hoped that he would arrange an official position for himself, which did not need to be too big, as long as he could do something practical for the people. This was not a difficult task for Tang Bohu, and he quickly arranged a position as the chief secretary of a subordinate county in Malacca, and then sent it to the Governor's Office to report according to the process in the officialdom.

It is very coincidental that Zhou Zhong inadvertently saw the official documents arranged by Tang Bohu for Zhu Zhishan, and then asked Tang Bohu the reason, but it made him cry and laugh, because if he remembered correctly, Zhu Zhishan would be promoted in the sixth time, that is, the next examination, and get an official position of a county magistrate, but he didn't expect that at this most critical moment, Zhu Zhishan actually gave up the imperial examination under Tang Bohu's persuasion, it was like God was playing a joke on Zhu Zhishan.

Since it was because of the influence of his own crossing, Zhu Zhishan finally gave up the opportunity to become a jinshi, so Zhou Zhong decided to compensate Zhu Zhishan, so he made an exception to appoint Zhu Zhishan as the magistrate of the county under the rule of the old port government, although the situation in the old port is a little worse than Malacca, but it is a newly attached territory, and Zhou Zhong is also constantly moving people over there, it can be said that it is the time for officials to show their skills, but I don't know if Zhu Zhishan has this ability?

At the beginning, when Zhou Zhong asked about Zhu Zhishan, Tang Bohu was still a little worried, but when Zhou Zhong changed Zhu Zhishan's official position from the main book to the magistrate, this made him also ecstatic, and immediately reported the good news to Zhu Zhishan, and Zhu Zhishan was also equally happy to dance, after all, even if he was a jinshi, he was probably only a magistrate, but now the governor of Zhou let him serve as a magistrate, which is simply an exceptional promotion.

It is precisely because of this that after receiving the news, Zhu Zhishan immediately rushed to the Sihai Governor's Mansion to report, and expressed his gratitude to Zhou Chong, and then hurried to the old port to take office, now the county he governs is called Gangnan County, as the name suggests, this county is located in the south of the old port, next to the old port, the natives in the county are dozens of times more than the Han people, but the number of Han people in the county is continuing to increase, I believe that it will not be long before Gangnan County will become a county with Han people as the main body.

Wang Shouren had also visited Zhu Zhishan in Yangzhou before, and even asked the other party for calligraphy, so when he heard that Zhu Zhishan actually served in the old port, he was also very surprised, and immediately took Tang Bohu's letter to Zhu Zhishan and put it in his arms, and then waved goodbye to officials at all levels in Malacca.

At the same time that Wang Shouren's ship left Malacca, in the county office of Gangnan County, on the south side of the old port southeast of Malacca, Zhu Zhishan was looking at a piece of information in his hand with a headache, which showed that some natives in Gangnan County were dissatisfied with their land being distributed by the government to the Han people who had moved in, so these natives were preparing to launch a riot in an attempt to drive the Han people out of their land by force, but those stupid natives did not know what to do. Their every move was sold to the Ming government by the traitors among the natives.

Speaking of the natives of Gangnan County, Zhu Zhishan is also angry and hateful to them, originally with the old port to the Ming Dynasty, and after Shen Ying and Qu Lie garrisoned around the old port, the territories around the old port also belong to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, such as Gangnan County, because it is very close to the old port, and the land here is also very rich, so it was the first batch of subordinate counties of the old port.

Originally, there were very few Han people in Gangnan County, and most of them were natives, but these natives were lazy and stupid, and they usually slept under the trees all day long, and when they woke up, they went to the trees to pick a few fruits to eat.

However, with the Gangnan County was assigned to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, this situation was quickly changed, some immigrants from the Ming Dynasty began to migrate here, and the number of people increased, and when Zhu Zhishan took office, the number of Han people in Gangnan County has reached more than 10,000 people, although it is still much less than the native people, but after all, it has formed a certain scale, and will continue to increase in the future.

The previous officials of Gangnan County saw that the Turen were so lazy, so they rushed to the north side of Gangnan County, and then distributed the land on the south side to the Han people who had migrated from there. Anyway, there are not many natives here, and the land in the north of the county alone is enough to feed them, so this matter did not encounter much resistance from the natives at first.

It's just that for the industrious Han people, the fertile land here is simply given to them by God, they cut down the woods on the south side of the county to sell the wood, got the first money, and then reclaimed the land and began to grow rice and other crops, which made the south side of Gangnan County soon become a rich land, in contrast, the north side of the county where the natives live is very poor.

What people are most afraid of is comparison, even those stupid natives, when they see that the land where the Han people live in the south of the city is so rich, full of rice and other kinds of domestic crops, and the Han people there can afford to wear clothes, live in tall houses, and drink fine wine, while they, the natives in the north of the city, can only use a small piece of cloth to block their lower bodies, both men and women are shirtless, living in low sheds, as for those fine wines, except for a few native nobles, others can only taste in dreams.

It is also in this contrast that the natives of Gangnan County have a kind of psychological decline, and then begin to have some psychological imbalance, after all, in their opinion, they are the masters of this land, those Han people just moved from outside, and the land in the south of the city was originally theirs, but now it is all occupied by the Han people, for them, those Han people are simply robbers, it is the arrival of these Han robbers that makes them lose their best land.

It can be said that these natives have all selectively forgotten one thing, the south of the city and the north of the city were originally the same land, and the number of Han people was much smaller than them, only because of the diligence of the Han people, so the south of the city became more rich and beautiful. However, for the natives, these truths are simply strong words, and even everything is just an excuse made by the Han people, so they began to unite and prepare to retake the land that should have belonged to them by force, by the way, kill all those Han people, take the clothes from their corpses, occupy their houses, and then taste the wine of the Han people in the tall houses. (To be continued......)