The two battalions in Wang Tong City came out and beat up the poor people of Wandao by the river, and the beating could not be said to be measured, and a few people were already in the water and could not get out, so they stopped.

Most of the people who begged for a living on the river had a good water surname, but few of these poor people fell into the water, but few of them were willing to save them, and they all stood by and watched.

If Wang Tong hadn't come to order him in advance, don't make a fuss, and the soldiers of the Jinyi Guard wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to these scoundrels who were fluttering in the water, their fierce gods and evil spirits had already suppressed the people on the river, and the surname Suo was to order people to come out.

After the 50-odd people knelt on the shore in fear, the boats coming and going on the river did not know who started and cheered loudly, and everyone followed for a while.

The sound of applause on the canal sounded sky-high, but the flagpole that had just been pulled up was slowly erected again, and the cheers of the crowd gradually subsided.

A white flag hanging on the flagpole was slowly lowered, and more than a dozen big characters were written on it in thick pen, and the sailors and boatmen on the river could see it clearly.

"Take the initiative to pay 20% of the value of the pump, and conceal and do not report the value of the pump."

As word of mouth spread, the applause gradually subsided, everyone looked at each other, and the whole river was silent, only someone shouted loudly:

"Every ship has to look at it, regardless of the official ships and civilian ships, the goods that do not comply with the rules and have not paid taxes must pay taxes, and those who take the initiative to declare the sampling value are 20%, and those who do not take the initiative to find out will be fined 40%!"

"Those who have already paid the money to these people can now continue on their way!!"

After this shout, the boats on the canal moved again after a brief confusion.

Draw 20% and fine 40%, this is reasonable, it's better than the unscrupulous extortion and extortion of those people in Father-in-law, besides, seeing so many fierce and vicious men, who dares to say a word, isn't that asking for trouble?

The shopkeeper and the account room brought out of the city are all done, and they are directly pulled by a small boat to lean over, get on the boat for a general inspection, estimate the value of the goods, and collect money.

There are too many ships, and these people are not careful, and they often charge a little lower than the actual value of the goods, and they hide it secretly, so they don't pursue it.

Pay the money and leave, never extort, do not disturb the ladies on the ship, simply ask for it, and by the time it is almost dark, the navigation on the river has become smooth, and the money collected is also fully loaded.

The few boatloads of goods collected by Gonggong Wan's subordinates, and all the privately hidden property of each person belonged to the people sent by Wang Tong, and none of those dozens of subordinates were actually eating money, all of them were those ruffians who were born as scoundrels, and now even if they wanted to go back to the city, they were all escorted to the construction site by the Haihe River to work.

The canal is the most prosperous area of the Tianjin Acropolis, and there are many shops and warehouses of all kinds, and they are all silent this afternoon, and they dare not say a word.

In the past, Wang Tong rarely set foot here, but at this time, he suddenly sent someone over, majestic, and everyone was afraid when they saw this kind of strength.

When it was dark, more than 100 brocade guards came out of the city, and the leader was the 100 households Hang Bridge, which everyone looked down on in the past.

Each store politely asked if they wanted a safe brand, who dared not to do it, I don't know if I wanted to keep it safe, but I didn't want it to be safe immediately, everyone knew this.

In the past, Wang Tong couldn't come here, and everyone was lucky, but now that he has come here, the peace money is not the price of bloodletting and cutting off the head, so everyone will admit it.

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"Little brute!! Sooner or later, you will be struck by thunder and a thousand cuts!! ”

When Wandao Wangong was in Beijing, he didn't know how, and after coming to Tianjin, his status was different, and he also showed the appearance of a nobleman, and he didn't know what to do with his joy and anger.

Today, there were a few people on the shore who ran fast, ran back to the city to report, and listened to the words of his subordinates, Wan Dao was stunned for a while, grabbed the things at hand and smashed them down, while scolding without covering his mouth, the whole person looked like crazy.

The people kneeling down for help looked at each other, thinking that Gonggong Wan could send someone out of the city or find someone else, but he didn't expect that he would just smash and curse here.

looked crazy like this, but who didn't know that he was obviously afraid, and he didn't dare to go against Wang Tong outside the city, but he ran back, who cared about the life and death of those people outside, and they knelt there silently.

Finally, Wan Dao was tired of smashing and scolding, standing there panting, gritting his teeth and red eyes, and whispered:

"Good, good, good!! You are arrogant, see how long you can be arrogant!! ”

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No matter what Wang Tong does now, everyone has to pinch their noses and admit it, and Panda seems to be focusing all his energy on his own job and ignoring Wang Tong. Li Dameng, the general who guarded Tianjin, now doesn't even enter the city more often, and the Qing Military Department and the Transshipment Department don't even need to mention it.

Tianjin City, just as Wang Tong said, was already firmly in his hands.

Even if the general Li Dameng had any unpredictable intentions, the thousands of soldiers in Wang Tong's hands could defeat him alone before the army rushed to clear him, at least he could get a draw, not to mention that there were still thousands of young and strong laborers in the firearms workshop who could be armed, and as for the goods, he could control them.

The soldier Dao Panda and the prison grain and ten thousand rice have not had the slightest impact on Wang Tong, and with the money allocated by the Beijing Division, Wang Tong can supply his subordinates sufficiently without military salaries.

The nights of late August are getting cooler, and the smashing of rice by the canal is the only exciting thing to do during this time, and everything else is uneventful.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Tong got the official title of ambassador of the firearms workshop, although this official position was low, but it had clear management rights and responsibilities, and the firearm workshop officially became Wang Tong's subordinate organization.

The government-run firearms workshop, the silver taels and materials allocated by the imperial court every year are a large sum, there are nearly 1,000 craftsmen, nearly 4,000 young and strong laborers, and 300 guarded soldiers, which is also a large yamen.

In the past, it has been slack and wasted, and it was handed over to Wang Tong, if there is no improvement, it is unreasonable, this Wang Tong is not ambiguous.

It is nothing more than to strictly grasp the quality and improve efficiency, whether it is the three foreigners or Qiao Da, they have all been trained in Wang Tong's own workshop, and what they have to do now is to promote this.

Ren Yuan, the director of the Ministry of Works, arrived two days later than the Holy Decree, Ren Yuan is an official who rarely understands craftsmanship, and he is a down-to-earth person, and it is also Wang Tong's intentional operation that made Ren Yuan transferred here.

But this down-to-earth work is also a bit bad, originally the old people met, Wang Tong also wanted to set up a wine banquet, everyone met to catch up, but I didn't expect this director to push this wine banquet, went directly to the blacksmith workshop, said to discuss with the three foreigners, to see what is worth learning.

The top boss, who is an old acquaintance, set up a banquet to invite each other, but pushed it away so directly, he really doesn't understand the world, no wonder he was sent to Tianjin by his boss and colleagues.

Wang Tong couldn't laugh at this, but he was also a little gratified, such people are similar to the technicians of the production department in that life, their skills are in actual production, not used in the right to meet the horse, what they need is this kind of person who does practical things.

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Regarding Yang Sichen's various investigations, Jingshi sent a letter to Wang Tong the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, in which he assured Yang Sichen's reliable surname.

Zhang Shiqiang came to visit with money and rice and various gifts, and did not say anything other than the evacuation of the guards to express condolences.

Although the guards in the bright space were withdrawn, the people who were secretly watching were still there, and it was until August 20, when Yang Sichen and his wife and concubine lived in a simple place, that is, when they were buying food, they came out for a walk, but there was a melodious sound of the piano.

On August 21, Zhang Shiqiang came to the door and invited Yang Sichen to Wang Tong's house.

It's hard to imagine that this state of exhaustion will appear in a teenager, Yang Sichen was still stunned after seeing Wang Tong, who was thinking hard.

"Mr. Yang, please take a seat, I don't know what Mr. Yang knows, what will he do?"

Wang Tong said straight to the point, Yang Sichen was stunned, he could see that he took a breath, and replied loudly:

"I have been studying for nearly 20 years, and I have traveled for five years, and I have some shallow knowledge, and I have read more books on strategy in the past few years, hoping to help adults plan affairs and come up with some ideas."

Wang Tong patted his forehead and asked helplessly:

"Do you know how to do arithmetic?" "Do you know how to co-ordinate?" "Have you ever been a master?" "Have you ever learned the art of punishment?" "Do you know how to agronomy?" and "Do you know how to make a craft?" ”

A series of questions were asked, except for the answer "The art of criminal names is involved", the rest are shaking their heads and not knowing, even with Yang Sichen's calm and calm, his face was red by these questions, there are two reasons for the redness, one is that he thinks he is full of learning, but he finds so many things that he can't do, and the other is what Wang Tong asked, it is impossible for scholars to know, who will ponder these "small skills" if they study seriously, if they do, they are a ridiculous prodigal who does not do their jobs.

Wang Tong sighed, this sigh made Yang Sichen even more embarrassed, Wang Tong said straight to the point:

"The strategy is vertical and horizontal, the official can't use it, the official thinks, no matter what happens in this world, as long as your strength is greater than others and you have an advantage, then you don't have to play any tricks, just crush the past, if the strength is not as good, then work hard to develop, surpass the other party, and everything else is not mentioned."

Yang Sichen's face was mixed with embarrassment, shame and anger, life was so depressed, being squeezed by such a young man, and being speechless to refute, I really didn't know what to do at this time.

Wang Tong stood up and said:

"It's good to say it first, it's not that you don't need it, but you're not familiar with this official's side or Tianjin, now you don't have to say anything, find someone to lead, look around, ask if you don't understand, I think there's nothing to see, come see me again at that time!!"

(To be continued)