Among the last five families in Donghai County to participate in the competition for the head of Hucao, three were the big clans of Weiyang County, the Guan, Huangfu and Huang families, while the other two were the Ma family in Huating County and the Chen family in Pinghu County, both of which were also local clans and were recommended by the county magistrate of their county.

The strongest of these five are the Guan family and the Huangfu family, the Huangfu family is because Weiming is the first place in the tribute scholars, and they have strong strength, but if they only talk about the strength of the family, the Guan family is unbeatable.

The Guan family is recommended by Shi Xu Yuan, the governor of Donghai County, and the call for winning the championship has been the highest, the Guan family has strong financial resources and has an official eunuch background, Guan Lian, the son of the Guan family, is the court's Ministry of Rites, the official eunuch family, and the Guan family's eldest grandson Guan Xianju himself is also very strong, and he is the second place in the township examination three years ago, although he was not admitted to the tribute in the state examination, but no one dared to despise him.

And the Huangfu clan was originally the weakest one, everyone knew that the dumb brother Huangfu Zhuoyu even bought Xiucai, although they spent a lot of money on the Huangfu County Gong, but since Su Hanzhen took office, the rules that were originally negotiated by several high-ranking officials have been changed, and the exam has become the most important, so the Huangfu Zhuoyu is definitely out of play.

Unexpectedly, the internal situation of the Huangfu family changed rapidly, and the Huangfu Weiming ran for election, he was the first in the township test, the first in the state test, and the call for winning the championship was high, but he was the concubine of the Huangfu family, and his background was slightly lost, which was a disadvantageous condition in the Daning Dynasty, which valued the bloodline of the gate valve, so everyone ranked him second, second only to Guan Xianju.

Huang Jun and Ma Jixiang are tied for third place in the call for the election of the head of Hu Cao, both of them are lifters, and their family backgrounds also have their own advantages, the Ma family is a big landlord in Huating County, and the family has thousands of hectares of fertile land, according to the social status of the Daning Dynasty scholars, farmers, soldiers, and businessmen, the big landlord must have a higher social status than the gambling house, but the Huang family is richer than the Ma family, and the backstage is the Huangfu County Gong, but although the Huangfu Canal has a high status, it has no real power, and the Ma family has also received the full support of the Huating County Order, so it is difficult to say which of the two of them will win in the first round.

As for the fifth Pinghu Chen family, almost everyone is not optimistic, Chen Shaojia, the son of the Chen family, is just a showman, he can't even take the exam, and there is no backstage at home, so he is just a foil, and he will be brushed off in the first round, which cannot be questioned.

The reason why the head of Donghai County is important is that Donghai County is the first county of wealth in the entire Daning Dynasty, and there are ten riches in the world, and Weiyang has three points, plus Pingjiang County, a major silk town, Donghai County's financial and tax status can be imagined, so there is another sentence in the officialdom of Chuzhou, 'I would rather have a Cao in Donghai than a county lieutenant Chenglang.'" ’

It is precisely because of the importance of the main affairs of Hu Cao, so the candidacy of the five major families has become a major event that has attracted the attention of Donghai County, in the past two days, the streets and alleys of Weiyang County are discussing this matter, and even some good people have opened a gambling game, the five major families, who can win the championship?

The so-called layman looks at the lively, the insider looks at the doorway, the people of Donghai County are all talking about it, who has the most financial resources in the five major families, which son is talented, or which son is the most dashing, the best appearance and so on.

And people with real vision know that this is actually a power struggle at the top of Donghai County, and the head of Hu Cao is directly related to the financial power of Donghai County, which is extremely important for whether the newly appointed Su Tingshi can grasp the financial power, whether the powerful Xu Changshi can keep the financial power, and whether the Huangfu County Gong, Zhang County Ling and others can get a piece of the pie.

Even more senior people revealed that this was actually an extension of the power struggle in the imperial court, and it was a contest between the prince and the Chu royal family in Donghai County.

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Generally speaking, the head of Hu Cao is directly appointed by the assassin history, and will not compete for the election like this, but because the new assassin has not yet arrived, and although the long history can also temporarily appoint the head of Hu Cao, the assassin also has the right to change, so everyone put forward a plan for the election, Su Hanzhen's new official took office, and it was not easy to confront the county and county officials, so they also agreed to the plan of the major families to participate in the election.

Participation in the election is the examination, divided into policy and strategy, simply put, it is an oral examination and a written test, the primary election is a strategy, five choose three, the second election is a strategy, three are determined, and the final winner is the new head of Hu Cao.

The primary election was scheduled for April 25, and it began at one o'clock in the afternoon, and the main reason why it was not chosen to start in the morning was that the families from other counties needed time to come to Weiyang County.

As soon as the morning dawned, Ma Jixiang took a carriage to leave Huating County, from Huating County to Weiyang County is very close, only twenty miles apart, at most an hour can be reached, Ma Jixiang is not in a hurry, after arriving in Weiyang County, he still has an hour to prepare.

Ma Jixiang is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, is the son of the Ma family, and will inherit the huge land of the Ma family in the future, of course, if he can be elected as the head of the household, he will take another road, the road to becoming an official, which is also a major event that the three generations of the Ma family are looking forward to.

Ma Jixiang is full of energy, high spirits, full of confidence, in the past two months, his family spent a lot of money to invite the most famous Confucian Wei Yangsheng in Chuzhou to come to the home for tutoring, Wei Daru finally asserted that with his current talent, he can be admitted to the Gongju Shi.

Ma Jixiang is full of contempt for his opponent Huang Jun today from the bottom of his heart, he and Huang Jun are the same imperial examination, the lifting of people is the township test, also called the county test, by the five counties of Donghai County Xiucai reference, three years of the examination, according to the imperial court small county five people, ten people in the middle county, fifteen people in the upper county, twenty people in the Xiong County standard, Donghai County can record fifty people each time, he is the seventh last year, and Huang Jun is the forty-ninth, the difference is huge, if nothing else, he will definitely be able to eliminate Huang Jun.

The Ma family also took into account the possibility of accidents, in order to protect the safety of Ma Jixiang, Master Ma specially spent money from the Huating Dart Bureau to invite ten dart masters to protect his son, although the martial arts of these ten dart masters are actually commonplace, but the dart master can bring a knife, ride a horse with a knife, look majestic, it invisibly gives people a sense of security, and scare the kind of thief who steals chickens and dogs, it should be enough.

The carriage walks on the official road, the official road is lined with green rice fields, blue sky and white clouds, and the wind is blowing, so that the horse auspicious heart is relaxed, after the rice field is a forest, stretching for about two miles, starting from the forest into the territory of Weiyang County.

Maybe it was because he had left his own land, Ma Jixiang was a little nervous, and kept looking around, and Lao Li, the dart master next to the carriage, saw his nervousness, so he smiled and comforted him, "Ma Gongzi, please rest assured, we are also going south and north, the world has seen a lot, and Weiyang County also has friends on the road, so there will be no problems." ”

As soon as he said this, the carriage stopped, and the coachman shouted: "There are two big trees blocking the road in front, and the carriage cannot pass!" ”

Fifty steps ahead, there were really two stout big locust trees blocking the way, Li Dart Master hurriedly beckoned three companions to move the tree, but the tree was too heavy, and the three people couldn't move it at all, and finally the ten dart masters all dismounted, and slowly moved the big tree away together.

At this moment, more than 30 black-clothed people suddenly rushed out of the woods, each holding a long sword and iron rod, rushing towards the carriage at a very fast speed, and the ten dart masters were shocked, and they drew their swords and rushed back to the carriage, but they were entangled by more than 30 black-clothed people.

And another burly masked man in black went straight to the carriage with two entourages, it can be seen that he is the leader of this group of black-clothed people, he holds an iron rod in his hand, extremely domineering, and knocks the coachman off the horse with a stick, he smiles, and pulls Ma Jixiang out of the carriage, Ma Jixiang's urine is about to be scared out, and he trembles all over, "Uncle.... Spare my life! ”

He suddenly saw the diamond-shaped scar on the forehead of the man in black, and he felt a little familiar, but he was so frightened at this time that he was terrified, where could he remember where he had seen it?

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Boss, there are government officials here!" ”

I saw dozens of officials on horseback on the official road in the distance, as if they knew that something was going to happen here, the horses' hooves were rolling and the dust was flying.

The leader of the masked man in black was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but curse in his heart, "Damn, how can you be so coincidental!" ”

He picked up the iron rod and smashed it at Ma Jixiang's right wrist, only to hear Ma Jixiang's scream, his right wrist wrist bone was broken, the pain penetrated the bone marrow, and he almost fainted.

"Retreat!" The black-clothed leader shouted, everyone ran towards the woods, and the black-clothed leader also wanted to escape, but at this moment, I saw two dark lights in the woods shoot out one after the other, as fast as lightning, and the black-clothed leader suddenly had a sharp pain in his legs and knees, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up, he was horrified in his heart, and shouted desperately, "Come and save me!" ”

Ten dart masters are blaming themselves for not protecting the owner, this dart they have to lose, but when they see the thief leader suddenly fall down, the dart masters are suddenly overjoyed, one by one like a tiger down the mountain, extremely brave, the black-clothed leader is pressed to the ground, "Little thief, let you know how powerful our Huating dart game is!" ”

The victim Ma Jixiang was in discouragement, his hand bones were broken, how could he participate in the discussion, he was done, and the dream of the Ma family's Hu Cao was over, who was it? Who made the poisonous hand, Ma Jixiang gritted his teeth for a while, he remembered the diamond-shaped scar, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he shouted: "I know who you are, you are a wasp!" ”

Li Dart Shi ripped off the face covering of the black-clothed leader, and sure enough, it was Huang Feng, the second son of the Huang family.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and dozens of officials galloped in front of him like the wind, this is the fifty officials of Weiyang County, but the leader is Sima Zhao Jiehao of Donghai County, he got the news that the son of the Ma family will have an accident halfway, so he led the officials of the county government to come, and happened to witness the murder of the man in black.

Huang Feng's legs have regained a little sense, but he has no chance, Huang Feng was tied up strongly, his face was pale, his eyes were full of despair, he had a problem with being showy, and he was the first to rush up when he beat people, but he didn't expect that today, this impulsive problem killed him, and his eldest brother Huang Jun repeatedly told him not to come out, but in the end he couldn't help it.

Zhao Jiehao knew him, and couldn't help but smile coldly, "The Huang family really likes to surprise soldiers!" ”

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