Because of its remote geographical location, Yazhou has been a place where the imperial court has issued prisoners since ancient times, and very few residents from the mainland will take the initiative to move to this place, so seven or eight out of ten residents near Yazhou are the descendants of prisoners or relatives of prisoners. Since the Tang Dynasty, there are more than ten important ministers at the level of deputy prime minister and above, and the dismount of an important minister often implicates a number of henchmen, which has accumulated over hundreds of years. Yazhou actually has the nickname of "Quiet Scholar". In later generations, the local government regarded Yacheng as a famous historical and cultural city to promote tourism, and it was not groundless to be known as "the hometown of poetry and rites, and an important cultural town".

However, it is precisely because of the large number of officials assigned here that a strange situation has been formed in which social resources are highly concentrated in one place. Most of these high-ranking prisoners would be restricted to live in the city so that the relevant departments of the imperial court could monitor them, so that almost all the cultural people of Yazhou were concentrated in Yazhou City, which not only had schools, bookstores, but also special places for literati to gather. And just a few dozen miles away from the city, there is not even a private school to teach children to read.

Out of envy of civilized life, some wealthy landlords in nearby towns will also take the initiative to move to Yazhou to live, which will gradually raise the price level of Yazhou City in the long run, leading to the rise of the cost of living in the city, and some people who have no money and no land can not live in the city, so they can only go to a place far away from Yazhou City to open up wasteland to make a living. These small villages of destitute residents could not even afford teachers and doctors, and the standard of living was as low as the team had seen before.

Because these newly opened fields are far from the cities, the value of the land is extremely low, and once the peasants need money for a major illness or a small disaster, they are likely to have to sell their houses and land to borrow money to survive, and over time, the land is slowly annexed to a very small number of large landowners. These wealthy landlords can use the means of production in their hands to constantly acquire and merge more land, leading more and more peasants to become proletarians.

"The poor get poorer, the rich get richer, polarization is strict, these are all the evil consequences of vicious land annexation!" Yan Chujie couldn't help but sigh a little after listening to Luo Shengdong's introduction. Before he crossed over, his understanding of the history of the late Ming Dynasty was limited to the textbook knowledge he learned in school, and it was only after Ning Qi joined the team that he often gave everyone popular science in his spare time, so he gradually gained more understanding of the social changes and historical events at that time. And now that I have seen these people's feelings with my own eyes, it also confirms the historical facts I know.

When Luo Shengdong learned that the next stop of the team was to go to Nanshan Town, he made it clear that he was against it. There is only one reason for Luo Shengdong's objection, that is, there is an inspection department in Nanshan Town.

The Inspection Department is a grass-roots administrative organ that integrates the military and the government, and is subordinate to the county level in terms of administrative level, and is mainly responsible for military and public security functions. Nanshan Town is located in the south of Yazhou, between the mountains, is the southeast of Yazhou land pass, and because the population here is relatively dense, so the establishment of the inspection department to manage the local area. There is even a fort built outside Nanshan Town, which is used as the station of the Inspection Department in peacetime and the pass of the garrison defense in wartime. If these people appeared in Nanshan Town, they would immediately attract the attention of the Inspection Division, and that might cause unnecessary trouble. Luo Shengdong didn't want to make any extraneous mistakes at the critical time when he had already arrived at the door of his home, and immediately made the stakes clear to the crossers.

Yan Chujie weighed the pros and cons, and finally agreed to Luo Shengdong's construction and temporarily canceled the inspection task of this station in Nanshan Town, which made Luo Shengdong secretly relieved in his heart. After some discussion on how to communicate with each other in the next few days, the two sides left West Tortoiseshell Island to continue their journey.

In the afternoon of the same day, after the two boats sailed one after the other through Nanshanjiao, Luo Shengdong's boat will sail straight into the Ningyuan River, and Yazhou Water Village is not far upstream of the Ningyuan River estuary. The "Feisu" docked at the location of Nanshan Port in the later generations, and used this place as a campsite for the next few days. This place is about three kilometers away from the mouth of the Ningyuan River, and if there is a special situation on the side of Yazhou Water Village, the "Feisu" can also come and go freely.

In the forty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Yazhou set up a former division of the water village. In the nineteenth year of Jiajing, according to the performance of Cai Jing, the imperial history of the two Guangdu, Yazhou Shuizhai set up a member of the staff as a military commander, which shows that the central government at that time still maintained enough attention to the military defense of this remote area. However, although Yazhou Shuizhai has set up a high-level establishment such as a staff general, the strength of the army is far from meeting the requirements of the establishment.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was not strange that there were tens of thousands of people under the generals, and after Jiajing, the generals could lead up to three or four thousand troops, and in the late Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen period, the generals generally brought one or two thousand soldiers. However, the scale of the strength of the Yazhou Shuizhai is much smaller than this, and the entire Shuizhai has less than 600 regular soldiers and sailors, and only maintains the staffing level of the former Shuizhai Division, so that the actual officer establishment cannot be arranged according to the usual plan of the military department. In the end, after all kinds of adjustments and compromises, the officer establishment of Yazhou Shuizhai became one member of the general, one member of the general, and two members of the sentry officer, that is, the hundred generals, and the positions of guerrilla and garrison between the general and the general were all abolished.

The predecessor General Manager had been transferred to Qiongzhou Mansion City last month, so Luo Shengdong was extremely eager to get the general seat was still vacant. And his rival Wei Sanzhu and Wei Bai are five or six years older than Luo Shengdong, and they usually don't have any outstanding ability, but they are very good at speculative drilling, at least Luo Shengdong himself thinks so.

There is a small general position vacant in the Xinjiang garrison here, and the bigwigs of the military department will naturally not have this idle time to ask, and the general process is to recommend candidates by the local government, and then the military department approves and issues the appointment document. As long as the recommended candidates do not have a black history of strict nature, they can basically be steadily promoted. In peacetime, there is no war to fight, and if you want to be promoted in the army, you can only win over your superiors. Although Luo Shengdong also has some eyes, he is still a big step behind his opponent, he knows that he can't play tricks with Wei Baizong, so he will take the initiative to ask for his life and lead his troops out to patrol, hoping to exterminate a group of pirates, and go back to ask for credit with a real head. This is the tradition of the old Luo family, Luo Shengdong's father was transferred from the Tun army to the border army by cutting off the pirate's head, and then promoted from the big head soldier to the hundred general.

Although after more twists and turns, but in the end Luo Shengdong still achieved the purpose of this trip, got more than 20 pirate heads and a ship, don't look at this number seems to be small, but this merit is not a joke, you must know that the last time the Yazhou garrison killed more than 20 pirates, it was still a matter of 14 years in Zhengde, and it has been more than 100 years since now. At that time, Chen Yaoen, the governor of Yazhou, commanded Gu Zhengchun, and captured twenty-four pirates from Bo Ni in the battle. Since then, the defense area of the Yazhou garrison has become smaller and smaller, several garrison points near Yulin have simply been abandoned, and the Luhuitou Peninsula has become a top place for pirates in the South China Sea to go north to South Island.

As soon as Luo Shengdong's boat entered the mouth of the Ningyuan River, it was already spotted by a sentinel ship patrolling the river. When the outpost leaned over to check, Luo Shengdong appeared on the side of the ship: "Cripple horse, don't look at it, Lao Tzu didn't reward you for this boat!"

The nickname of the head soldier on the sentry ship was Ma Cripple, and when he heard this voice, he looked up and couldn't help but be stunned: "Mr. Luo Bai, why did you come back on this boat?"

Luo Shengdong's face was full of spirit: "Your Luo Ye has made a great contribution this time! Don't talk nonsense, lead the way ahead, I'll go back to the village first! Call the brothers at night, Luo Ye is drunk and immortal live today!"

The lame man answered, and hurriedly shouted to the sailors on the sentry boat to turn the boat around and guide Luo Shengdong, the Guangzhou ship, to the direction of Shuizhai.

After the Guangzhou ship sailed into the dock of Shuizhai Wharf, Luo Shengdong took a few of his subordinates, carried the three boxes containing the first rank, and first went to the military Chinese book to report, indicating that he had returned from patrol, and then went to the general to ask for merit. However, Luo Shengdong found that the expression of this document after seeing him today seemed a little strange, and his heart moved, so he quietly stuffed a piece of silver into Zhang Shushu's hand, which was still a personal item returned to him along with the military uniform and weapons before leaving.

The document also knew something, looked left and right at no one, and lowered his voice and said: "Mr. Luo Bai, the Yesterday Heavenly Inspection Department found two deserters outside Nanshan Town, and they confessed that they were the people on your boat, and they had been sent to Shuizhai yesterday to recognize people, and it was indeed the ...... in the group of people you brought out."

"Hiss" Luo Shengdong couldn't help but gasp. After the defeat and capture, Haihan's side did count the number of prisoners of war once, and there were two fewer prisoners of war, and finally they were recorded in the missing list, but I didn't expect these two deserters to hide in Tibet for more than half a month, and finally they were caught. In this way, won't his defeat in Yulin be completely exposed? Won't his return this trip become a fraud?

Luo Shengdong even had the idea of turning around and running away at this moment, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the sergeant in the village, he grabbed a boat with a few cronies and rushed out, and he should be sure to be able to get out. As long as you can run to the territory of the Haihan people, you will definitely be free to save your life. But this idea was just emerging, and he was forced to suppress it by himself: "Lao Tzu has endured so much hardship, and it is not easy to get such an opportunity to get ahead, how can I give it up!"

Luo Shengdong's face showed a hint of hideousness: "Lao Tzu has been looking for these two deserters for a long time!