After arranging everything in Yanchang County, Zhang Chu took Yue Yue back to Zhongyang, and on the way, his heart blossomed, "My spring is finally here."

After a short stop when passing through Daning, Li Deliang's family and female workers were left in Daning to open a textile factory, and then returned to Zhongyang.

Yang Liu, who was in charge of procurement and external investigation, found Zhang Chu to report a situation. Some of the scholars who came to Zhongyang had a lot of contact with other parts of the county, and although it is possible that they wrote letters to their families and friends in order to attract more people, they often met secretly in Zhongyang, which could cause harm to the security forces.

As the area of control of the security forces expanded, all forces began to pay attention to the security forces. This kind of thing can be big or small, it may just be a few fellow villagers for entertainment together, or it may be saboteurs sent to Zhongyang by other forces.

"Who's the leader?" Zhang Chu decided to figure things out first before dealing with it.

"The leader is a Xiucai from Yanchang County, named Guo Xiyuan, and most of the people with him are Yanchang people, I have sent people to infiltrate their gatherings to understand their purpose, and now they are not very strict with outsiders, if someone introduces outsiders to participate in their gatherings, I have not yet found that they have directly opposed the security forces." Yang Liu replied.

Zhang Chu became interested in this matter, and now it is unlikely that these people will cause harm, Zhang Chu still wants to take a look in person. With the construction of Zhongyang, talents from all over the country were attracted to Zhongyang, changing the social structure of Zhongyang, Zhang Chu thought it was necessary to understand the current situation in Zhongyang, and now the development of the security army seems to be smooth sailing, but Zhang Chu knows that the survival of an organization will be threatened by all sides at any time, and a gust of evil wind may also capsize when the wind is smooth.

A few days later in the evening, in a small courtyard in Zhongyang County, the main room was brightly lit, and many people gathered inside, this kind of gathering should not be the first time, there were tables and chairs in the room, so that the people present had a place to sit, the tables and chairs were also arranged, and the personnel naturally oriented in a direction after sitting. There was a table there, and there were four people sitting at the table, and the first one sitting was Guo Xiyuan, a Xiucai from Yanchang County.

More and more people from all over the world come to Zhongyang, and a prominent problem has also appeared, most of these people come to Zhongyang alone to risk gold panning, working during the day and working at night, but there is nothing to do, not everyone is willing to fall to the place of pleasure, and the economic pressure is also very great. So I can only get together to drink tea and chat, Guo Xiucai came to Zhongyang earlier, although he failed to earn 30,000 taels of silver, but a few hundred taels are available, he himself bought a house in Zhongyang, his family has not yet taken over, because he is easy-going, insightful about things, chatting people gradually gathered to his home. Faintly like a small group.

Zhang Chu entered the room under the guidance of Yang Liu's hand, sat down in a corner seat, drank tea with everyone, chatted, and saw that most of these people should be scholars, and the people gathered at each table were discussing together, and then someone asked Guo Xiyuan who was sitting at the top of the house, which attracted everyone's attention, and they all stopped talking and listened to Guo Xiyuan's answer.

The man asked Guo Xiyuan, "How long is Mr. Guo going to stay in Zhongyang?" ”

"I will live in Zhongyang for a long time, why do I ask this question, you see I bought a house in Zhongyang, and I will take my family over in a few days, how can I leave." Guo Xiyuan replied.

"You should know what I mean, too." The man looked at the other people in the room and said: "Zhongyang is now the territory of the security army, the security army is definitely not the emperor's secret force, we understood when we came here, the security army and the official army really fought a battle a few days ago, I don't know when the official army called, saying that we are not their group, no one will believe it, we have a mouth and can't say clearly, we are now really working for the security army, if I didn't want to make more money, I would have left a long time ago." ”

"It was because of the battle between the security army and the official army that I made up my mind not to leave. You also know the outcome of that battle, 3,000 officers and soldiers were beaten away by more than 1,000 security troops, why do we need to leave? ”

Guo Xiyuan's answer did not satisfy everyone, and someone immediately asked, "That's just an official army in Shanxi, if the court mobilizes troops from other places, isn't it very dangerous for us?" ”

"Now that there are riots in various places, and the officials and troops are tired of coping, they still have the ability to organize a large army to encircle and suppress the security forces. To put it in layman's terms, does the government still have money? Everyone has walked hundreds of miles, most of them in their hometowns are not satisfactory before they come here, their own experience and what they have seen and heard on the road, don't you still understand that the current disaster is completely caused by natural disasters? ”

As soon as Guo Xiyuan finished speaking, someone immediately chimed in and said: "It is definitely not a natural disaster, a large part of it is the exploitation of officials, all kinds of corruption, and the excesses and miscellaneous taxes set up in the name of cleverness, which really want to force the poor to death." ”

"But now this place in Zhongyang is very different, most of us are helping the security army, and you have also seen that even the officials in the original county government who were retained did not dare to make the same mistakes as before, and their hands and feet were not clean. Why, because the rules of the security army are different from those of the government. Isn't this exactly what we and other scholars want to pursue? What do we read for? Shouldn't it be that after gaining fame and fame, he is like those corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Guo Xiyuan's words were agreed by most people, and they all nodded yes.

"Then how will the security army treat us scholars in the future, and the wages we are given are the same as those of craftsmen." Some people are worried about their future.

"Here you will find that there are many differences here, the status of scholars and craftsmen is inevitable, to put it disrespectfully, the sage book can not be eaten, but the craftsmanship of the craftsmen can really make things for the people to use, now there is no real thing that will really kill people in the famine, you can look at the current Zhongyang, the establishment of a large number of factories, so that more people have jobs, get wages and rice food, the family will not starve to death, the security army has to fight, relying on the mouth of the scholar can't work, It also depends on the weapons produced by craftsmen, so the status of craftsmen will be high, and readers should also learn more practical knowledge in the future, I think the textbooks that Zhongyang has learned for children are very good, and there are many useful knowledge but we don't know. The world is changing, just like the font we use in our office now, although it looks deviant, but it is indeed convenient and practical. All this can only be thought of by people with great wisdom, and it is useless to conformist and read dead books in Zhongyang. ”

"Will the Ming Dynasty die?" Zhang Chu, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly asked.