The new Baishui * county magistrate, surnamed Cao, named Baoxiang, and the word Yong'an, is a Jinshi with no background, no background, and a poor family. He has been poor since he was a child, studied hard for decades, and finally took the Jinshi exam, but this Jinshi is also very low, and he belongs to the kind of Jinshi who is thrown into the bottom dozens of the list and can't be found in the crowd.

He thought that if he was admitted to the Jinshi, he would be able to become an official, return to his hometown in fine clothes, and change the poor living situation, but unfortunately, it is not that you can become an official if you are admitted to the Jinshi. As mentioned above, there are many Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, but there are only so many official positions, and many new Jinshi have to wait for the official positions to vacate and take up their positions.

Whenever an official position is vacated, there are countless Jinshila relationships, going through the back door, handing out money, and wanting to occupy that position. Gu Huaxiu, the previous county commander of Baishui*, was such a position.

A poor scholar like Cao Baoxiang, who can't even get the money for gifts and relationships at home, how can he make up for the real shortage? Every time an official seat is vacated, it is not his turn, and it is always occupied by the rich and powerful Jinshi in the family.

In fact, this phenomenon is not so bizarre to say, it will also exist in later generations, you go to take the civil service examination, the same exam, the same results, people are assigned to the municipal party committee as an official in the city, but you are assigned to the village as a village official, and there are people with better grades than both of you, but they are not worthy of being an official, why is this? To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter! For 5,000 years in China, this vice has always existed, and it has not been changed!

Cao Baoxiang, a poor bear child, because of relationship problems, did not become an official for three years after being admitted to the Jinshi, and has been waiting bitterly. Last autumn, he was suddenly called by the ministry and said to him: "Well, now there is an official position vacant, Qipin, county order, do you want to do it?" ”

Isn't this nonsense? Of course you do!

Cao Bao was so moved that he cried: "Do it, of course do it!" Thank you, oh, no, thank you for Shangguan's favor! ”

In this way, he was brought to Baishui and became the new * county lord of Baishui. When he arrived at the place, he found that something was wrong, this little white water had changed several heads in just a few years, and his predecessor, Gu Huaxiu, was killed by the rogue. Not only that, but Chengcheng next to him also changed his head once, and the previous leader was called Zhang Douyao, who was also killed by Liukou.

What a sinister place is this? No wonder no one pulled the relationship to come here through the back door, and the people in the official department ordered me, a poor jinshi with no background and no background, to send me to death!

Cao Baoxiang was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, but the appointment of the officials has been issued, this official is appropriate, and it is not appropriate, he took office hard, and as soon as he came, he faced the problem of making up for the autumn payment, how could he dare to accept it? For fear of forcing out another Wang Er or Zhu Ba, he simply came up with a procrastination decision and reported to the above: "This official has just arrived, and everything is not going well, so I ask the household department to suspend the tax issue...... It will be solved in the coming year". So he owed the court an autumn endowment.

At the beginning of this year, he was faced with the problem of spring endowment, he still didn't dare to accept it, so he had to send a notice saying that he wanted to collect the spring endowment, and then there was no follow-up, and he refused to sit in the court to compare food.

Cao Baoxiang lived like walking on thin ice, but even if he was so cautious, for fear of offending people, what should have come came after all, early in the morning, he received the news that Baishui Zhu Ba had come back. The Lu family was robbed, the brave army of Xu Renjie Township was broken, and the poor people from ten miles and eight townships followed him, and there were 600 people when he came, but now there are more than 1,500, and the number is still increasing.

Listening to these terrifying news, Cao Baoxiang's careful liver almost jumped out of his throat. He wanted to abandon the city and run away, but he didn't dare, the * county order of the Ming Dynasty was the responsibility of guarding the land, if the Liukou came and he abandoned the city and ran away, although he would not die for a while, but the autumn queen asked to cut that level still can't pass.

He bitterly took dozens of officials in the city, and called the soldiers from the nearby military guard station, and finally held back 200 people, guarding the city gate, praying, King Zhuba, don't come to our small place!

Poor bear child, fate has never favored him......

Zhu Ba's army, in the afterglow of the remnant sun, came to the foot of Baishui City.

Cao Baoxiang climbed the city wall, stretched out half of his head, and shouted to the outside of the city in a pitiful voice: "Come...... ...... Can...... But Bai Shui Zhu Ba? You...... Why did you come to my city? "This guy was so frightened that he couldn't speak.

Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to stop outside the city, he raised his head, looked at this poor * county order, and couldn't help but shake his head: "I am Baishui Zhu Ba, you are the new * county lord?" ”

"Don't dare to call me an adult...... Cao Baoxiang Khan said: "Contemptible people are Yong'an, you can call me Brother Yong'an." ”

As soon as he said this, there was a sweat in the city, oh my God, the county order was really stupid by the rogue, right? This is a brother and sister to the head of the rogue in public, and it is a crime of gangsters when it is spread out. However, after the squires sweated, they also felt helpless, and changed their position in Cao Baoxiang, what can you say? It's not the same as having to call Zhu Ba a brother and brother, otherwise the disrespectful tone will anger the Liukou, and there will really be no place to die.

Zhu Yuanzhang also smiled, quite a cute guy!

In fact, when he came to the city this time, he had no intention of killing the * county commander. You must know that there are so many substitute officials in Da Meng Country, you can kill and kill, can you kill them? Kill one today, come another tomorrow, as long as the scholars are not dead, the officials will not die! When Gu Huaxiu was killed during the uprising, it was just to create momentum, raise the anti-flag, and set an example, but now that the anti-flag has been erected, there is no need to carry out fearless killing.

"Brother Yong'an!" Zhu Yuanzhang hit the snake on the pole and casually called: "I came to the city for one thing...... You agreed, let's talk well, you take your Yangguan Road, I cross my single-plank bridge, you don't agree...... Cough...... Whitewater may be appointing a new * county magistrate again. ”

When Cao Baoxiang heard this, his head shrank in fright: "What's the matter?" ”

"Open the city gates, and let the small merchants, small merchants, and big merchants come out to trade with me!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a very serious tone that made everyone feel unbelievable: "I won't rob you, this time I brought some tax money that I just collected, and I plan to buy some things for use...... As you know, I don't have anything in my cottage, and I can't buy anything if I want to...... Alas, it's not easy to be a mountain king, for my sake, how about selling me something? ”

Puff ...... Cao Baoxiang sat down behind the city wall as soon as he squatted...... Is this king of the mountain entertaining me? He was about to ask the people around him for some advice, when he suddenly heard a group of small merchants and vendors next to him shouting: "Look...... Isn't that the same person who asked us to ship goods to trade yesterday? It turned out that he was Bai Shui Zhu Ba...... Oh my God......"

It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang made an appointment with a hawker yesterday to transport goods to trade today, and the hawker happily shared the news, invited a group of brothers, and then took all his goods and came to the city early in the morning to wait. Waiting and waiting, I didn't wait for the master of the transaction, but waited for a large group of rogues to besiege the city, frightening the hawkers to be born one Buddha and two Buddhas to ascend to heaven.

At this time, they heard Liukou talk about trading, and they took a closer look before they recognized Zhu Ba.

"Lord Prefectural...... This one...... Zhu Ba seems to really want to buy something, yesterday he disguised himself as an ordinary villager, so he made an appointment with us to trade here today......" A hawker said boldly to Cao Baoxiang.

"Trade, trade with you with a knife?" Another peddler hurriedly said: "He must be talking about playing, he won't trade with you, he will only rob you." ”

The hawkers became agitated, and a bold hawker also climbed the city wall and said loudly to Zhu Yuanzhang outside: "Brother Zhu, you are the king of the mountain, why bother to follow our hawkers, all of our net worth is such a burden, if you want to rob it, we won't be able to live." ”

"I don't rob, I buy it!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously.

"Who believes...... "The daring peddler roared indignantly.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't bother to pay attention to him, but turned his head to Cao Baoxiang and said, "Brother Yong'an, this peddler doesn't believe it...... If you refuse to trade with me, it looks like I'm going to have to take the city. ”

"Don't ...... Don't attack the city, I'll persuade him! Cao Bao jumped up suddenly, facing Zhu Ba he was as scared as a quail, but in the face of a hawker, he was bold, waved his hand to the officials next to him and commanded a few words, a group of officials rushed forward, grabbed the vendor, and threw it out of the city wall with a sweep.

The city wall of Baishui is not high, only a little more than two meters and less than three meters, this height can not be thrown down, and even the injury will not be suffered, but it is just a butt squat, and then the hawker's load of goods was also thrown out by the officials, and the contents of the load were spilled on the ground. I saw that his goods were quite miscellaneous, including needles, wires, small drums, cloth heads, broken skins, and scissors...... Most of them are common necessities.

The peddler was quite bold in the city wall just now, and as soon as he was thrown out, he was also a little dumbfounded, and he was so frightened that he wanted to run.

Ma Xiaotian brought a few brothers over, caught him as soon as he could, and dragged him in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"I said I was going to buy your stuff, what did you run?" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Left and right, go and count how much silver his goods are worth, let's buy them all." ”

Several soldiers walked over, turned over the load, picked up all the things that fell on the ground, took a bag and put it on, all the goods in the load were poured into the cloth bag, and after carefully counting for a while, Ma Xiaotian reported: "It's worth one or two or five dollars of silver." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around, took out a handful of broken silver from the silver snatched from Xu Renjie's house, and actually found a small scale to weigh it, weighed one or two five coins, and put it in the hands of the vendor: "I won't give you more, and I won't give you a lot." If you give less money, you will rob, and if you give you more money, you will give charity, but I am doing business with you, and if you don't rob or give alms, one or two or five dollars is one or two five dollars, and one more or less money will not work. ”

The soldiers carried the empty load and handed it to the vendor, and then someone tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Not leaving?" ”

The peddler woke up like a dream, and Khan said, "Really give me money and let me go?" ”

"Is this still fake?" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.

"This ...... Is this still a bandit? The peddler screamed, turned around and ran.