At the beginning of the shower, Tang Yi and Hu Zongxian packed their bags and went south together, the road was full of muddy water, they didn't go fast, they didn't go far, they walked head-on, and they walked by a few carriages, which were full of goods.

The two sides happened to go to the opposite side, Tang Yi took the initiative to retreat to the side of the road, Hu Zongxian nodded secretly, from a small move, it can be seen that this young man is not arrogant, his tutor is excellent, and he has only learned people, it is definitely worth wooing.

The opposite convoy had just walked by, and suddenly grabbed the cattle, and the coachman jumped down and ran hundreds of paces, shouting as he ran.

"Master Hu, Lord Hu, is that you?"

Hu Zongxian reined in his horse and looked back.

The coachman had already arrived in front of Hu Zongxian, looked up at it, and suddenly knelt in the muddy water excitedly, kowtowed, and tears flowed out.

"Adult, the little one didn't expect to see you again, the little one is really happy!"

Hu Zongxian looked at it for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly jumped off the horse and asked, "Are you Zhou, Zhou ......?"

"Zhou Da Niu!"

The coachman grinned, and Hu Zongxian finally remembered that this guy was a thorn in the head he encountered when he was a county magistrate in Yidu.

Zhou Da Niu people are as their name suggests, born strong, since they were children, they have been fighting everywhere, and at the age of sixteen or seventeen, they gathered a group of idlers, guarded the avenue, and robbed merchants. According to him, Kao Xiu is no longer capable, so he will do something big, and wait for the court to recruit peace, won't he glorify his ancestors!

Zhou Daniu's dream of being a good man in Liangshan had just begun, and he met Hu Zongxian, who was arrested by the officials, not to mention, Hu Zongxian sent people to train strictly, and then drove the new army to deal with other bandits. On the one hand, he surrendered, and on the other hand, he encircled and suppressed, and after more than a year, the chronic disease of bandits who had endangered the place for many years was actually lifted by Hu Zongxian.

He organized the surrendered bandits into a 1,000 volunteer army, Zhou Daniu did not choose the rebel army, and Hu Zongxian did not give up on them. Instead, he encouraged the cultivation of wasteland, provided cattle, helped find a way, and found a livelihood, and he did more than others in Yidu. Now that there is a chance encounter on the road, Zhou Daniu's performance is not unexpected.

Hu Zongxian looked up and down, although Zhou Daniu was not dressed well, his face was full of redness. Looks like it's going to be a good day.

"You kid won't learn Song Jiang again, right?"

"How can you be small!" Zhou Daniu scratched his head and said with a smile: "Adults are kind to the small sky, and if you want to go the wrong way, you are sorry for the kindness of adults." ”

Hu Zongxian laughed and said: "You can talk better than before, what are you doing now?" ”

"To tell you the truth, the adults rewarded the small ten acres of land, but the small ones felt that they couldn't fill their stomachs because they were tired from farming, so they rented out the fields. With five taels of silver, he first sold hawthorn. Persimmons, peaches or something, after a few years, I have some capital, and I sell cloth and grain. I finally saved some money, and I married a daughter-in-law. ”

Zhou Daniu said, his eyes lit up, and he said proudly: "It's about the same age as me, and many of them can't marry a daughter-in-law." Even if I get married, I have a physical problem, I am different from them, my daughter-in-law is beautiful, and she gave birth to two dolls. I pondered, I want to earn more money, send dolls to read and write, if I can be admitted to the Jinshi or something in the future, let them learn from adults and become a Qing official! ”

"Hahaha, ambitious." Hu Zongxian was delighted, took a few books from the horse, and stuffed them into Zhou Daniu's arms.

"Nothing else, show it to the kids."

"Thank you, sir!" Zhou Daniu held the book, trembled with excitement, turned around and ran to the convoy, turned out a bag of persimmons, and delivered them to Hu Zongxian.

"My lord, there is nothing small about anything else, you can take this and try it!"

Hu Zongxian accepted the gift with a smile, and encouraged Zhou Daniu a few words, telling him to be careful on the road, and the two sides were saying goodbye.

……

"I didn't expect Lord Hu to be so popular, I really admire it, I don't know if Lord Hu has been governing the place for many years, do you have any experience?"

Hu Zongxian smiled, "If you can't meet physically, as long as the people can eat enough, they won't make trouble." Therefore, when Hu was an official, he tried his best to give the people land, but if the land was not enough, he encouraged business and work, and if he wanted to do business smoothly, he wanted local peace, exterminated bandits, rectified taxation, and was not allowed to exploit and squeeze merchants. ”

He said it casually, but Tang Yi listened to it in his ears and praised it greatly.

"Master Hu, if you do this, the people still remember your good after more than ten years, but have you thought about it, why can't you be promoted?"

These words touched Hu Zongxian's weakness, he frowned, shook his head for a while, and said, "Hu doesn't know." ”

"Then I'll try to talk about it, most of the local officials are going with the flow, and the Qing prefect has 100,000 snowflakes of silver in three years. Some promising officials are just cleaning up the unjust cases that have been deposited, avenging the grievances of the people, suppressing mergers, purging the administration of officials, and establishing education, these things are easy to do, and they are also in line with the appetite of Shilin. ”

Hu Zongxian's face was expressionless, but his clenched fists showed the excitement in his heart, where did he not know the atmosphere of the world, Qing officials only like to do superficial kung fu, and corrupt officials don't even bother to do superficial kung fu.

If you take a break from primary school and study diligently, you can stand up for money. If you look at the prime minister, you must use the rich.

If this continues, if the practical problems are not solved, how much benefit will it be to the common people, and how can the world be calm! Hu Zongxian has passed the age of not being confused, his sideburns are white, he has pursued all his life, neither a clean official nor a corrupt official, he wants to make meritorious contributions, and he wants to make immortal meritorious deeds!

"The little brother is like watching the fire, but Hu thinks that as a man's husband, he should not be like a woman, he should only know his reputation, and he should not forget the root of being a human being, and he is insatiable. Hu went south this time, and he had already sworn that he would never give up if he did not break the Japanese bandits. I think the key to cracking the Japanese is to let the people have a way to live, I have done Yuyao Zhi County, seventy percent of the Japanese in the southeast are Han people, if there is a way to live, who is willing to shave their hair and pretend to be a Japanese Kou, even if they die, they can't be buried in the land of Sangzi! ”

Tang Yi couldn't help but stretch out his thumb after hearing this, and cast an approving look at Hu Zongxian, no wonder this person can become the nemesis of the Japanese Kou, it is indeed extraordinary.

Tang Yi found that Hu Zongxian had at least two major advantages, the first was that he was pragmatic, saw the causes of the Japanese invaders clearly, and would not be naïve to think that the problem of the Japanese could be solved by military alone, and knew how to use economic means, which was definitely the best among the Ming officials.

Second, Hu Zongxian has the ability to execute, and he has a strong enthusiasm for making contributions, regardless of his reputation, and moves forward bravely. At this point, even the teacher Tang Shunzhi is not as good as him.

"Lord Hu, the court has chosen the right person, and it seems that the people in the southeast have been saved." Tang Yi praised from the bottom of his heart.

Hu Zongxian chuckled and said: "Hu is just a seven-grade patrol, how much effect can it have?" But just because Hu's official position is not big, it happens to be the time when the little brother burns the cold stove, have you thought about it? ”

Is there such a shameless guy? Tang Yi suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, clasped his fists and said, "I can't ask for it!" ”

……

After they got together, they quickly went south from Shandong, and finally arrived in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in half a month.

Hu Zongxian first found the pavilion to stay, and prepared to go to see Wang Chen in the next day and officially take office. As for Tang Yi, he was not in a hurry to show up, he just hid behind Hu Zongxian, and saw through the whole of Zhejiang, and when his father took office, it would be easier.

As Hu Zongxian's master, Tang Yi did his best to help him take care of all kinds of trivial matters, and he was busy until it was dark, so he rested, and he didn't lie down for a while, when he suddenly heard people outside shouting and shouting.

Tang Yi sat up suddenly, hurriedly put on his clothes and came out, Hu Zongxian also walked out at this time, and the two of them looked outside, only to see countless torches, and many people rushed towards the governor's yamen.

"What's going on?" Hu Zongxian was puzzled.

Yi Cheng hurriedly ran over, and saw that Hu Zongxian and Tang Yi were both holding lanterns in their hands, and their legs were numb with fright.

"Ancestors, two ancestors, put out the lanterns, don't let them see them."

"They? Who are they, and who are the widows? Tang Yi asked lightly.

"Hey!" Yi Cheng was so anxious that he stomped his feet and said in a low voice: "It's more fierce than the Japanese Kou, they are wolf soldiers!" ”

Tang Yi's face changed, he had already heard Lu Bo say that the imperial court had transferred a lot of Tusi wolf soldiers from the southwest, and they were deeply trusted and reused by Wang Chen. Tang Yi felt bad at that time, even if there was a clash of civilizations in the later generations, the wolf soldiers in the southwest were incompatible with Jiangnan, and sooner or later there would be problems.

Looking at the appearance of Yicheng, it seems that the problem has exploded.

"Do they make such a fuss all the time?"

"Well, it's been even more evil recently, I heard that the imperial court is in arrears of food and wages, but the governor's palace said that it has been all the same, and it has been a month or two of trouble." Yi Cheng said with a bitter face: "Don't talk too much, hurry up and put out the lantern, go into the house to sleep, and bring them all over, we will be in trouble!" ”

Hu Zongxian raised his eyebrows, glanced at Tang Yi, and asked with a smile, "Is Mr. sleepy?" ”

"Sleepy, but you can't miss the excitement."

"Well said, come on, change clothes, this officer is going to meet the wolf soldiers for a while!"

While talking, someone took the official uniform, Hu Zongxian dressed neatly, and walked outside with the person. Yi Cheng was so frightened that his face turned green.

"My lord, my lord, don't come nonsense, set yourself on fire!"

Hu Zongxian flicked his sleeves disdainfully and sneered: "It's all the territory of the Ming Dynasty, I see who dares to be presumptuous!" ”

Tang Yi followed closely, one after the other, out of the pavilion, not far away, came to the governor's yamen, at this time the yamen was full of people, they were dressed differently from the Han people, holding short knives and long shields in their hands, surrounded the governor's yamen, shouting loudly, earth-shattering.

The leader was a tall and strong headman, in his early twenties, pointing to the gate and scolding: "The surname Wang, you get out of here for me, if you don't give us the food, you will enter the governor's palace and cut off your head!" ”

There was no movement at all inside the gatehouse, only a head poked out from the gatehouse, which was the career Yang Wenyu.

"Lord Peng, the Governor is not here, please wait for a few days......"

"You still want to lie to us, Lao Tzu is not fooled, rush in!"

The wolf soldiers raised their knives one after another, and they were about to kill them, and at the last moment, Hu Zongxian suddenly roared, "Don't move, this official is here!" (To be continued.) )