Wu Song said that Wild Boar Ridge is still more than 40 miles away from Tongbai County, and 80 or 90 miles away from Anpeng, and there is only Xianxi County tonight.

Shi Bao said: Let's go. A huge caravan of 1,000 men and nearly 300 mules and horses finally set out. The soldiers rode on horseback, leaving the carriage vacated for the old and weak and the women among the captives to sit.

After traveling for more than ten minutes, Shi Bao wanted Wu Song to take a few people to the county seat to contact a few more hotels, and wait for a large number of people to rest. But I am afraid that the county will pour into these many people at once, causing panic among the residents and disturbing the place, which is not beautiful. So he rode a horse to Zhao Chongyang's carriage and discussed a foolproof plan with Zhao Chongyang.

Zhao Chongyang said: "It's okay, wait for me to go with Second Brother Wu, visit the county first with a worship sticker, and send one or two pieces of water jade and jade, as well as soap, soap, perfume and other valuable and rare items, and claim that the caravan of Zhao Xie Yuan's family in Nanjing Mansion passed through the Wild Boar Ridge, eliminated the three major bandits, killed hundreds of extremely vicious people, and rescued six or seven hundred people who were coerced." Because these people were forcibly plundered up the mountain, their families were ruined, if they were left alone, it was inevitable that they would have difficulty surviving, and they would continue to become bandits, so they wanted to do business in Nanyang Mansion while opening up villages in the sparsely populated places around Anpeng in Tongbai County, and organizing them to open up wasteland and farm land to reduce the burden on the imperial court. Once these villages are built and the residents have a stable income, they must pay taxes according to the rules and regulations, and they will never dare to pay less than a penny in the county. ”

Shi Bao said: "That's fine, your Zhao Gongzi's identity as Xie Yuan is a talisman, once you go to high school in two years, you will be colleagues with Zhixian and others, plus the priceless water jade, the officials of Tongbai County should not be embarrassed by you." ”

So, Zhao Chongyang confessed to the four little beauties, rode a horse with Wu Song, and took fifty horsemen first. Before five o'clock, Wu Song and the others arrived in Tongbai County. At this time, there were only two gates in Tongbai County, Zhao Chongyang, they got off the horse at the east gate first, led the horse into the city, first found the largest hotel, chartered all the vacant rooms, paid the deposit, and left a few people to pick up the people behind. I also booked empty rooms in other large inns in the county, and a total of five were chartered to avoid forced accommodation. After booking the room, leaving a few people at the east gate to wait for the arrival of the team, Zhao Chongyang wrote a post, asked where the county government was, and Wu Song took two entourages and walked to the county government with gifts.

When he arrived at the gate of the county office, Zhao Chongyang took out two pieces of silver and handed them to the two messengers guarding the door: "Two errand officials, please inform the county master, just say that Zhao Jieyuan, a talented son of Jiangnan, passed by Tongbai County on a study tour and came to visit the county lord." ”

The two officers benefited, and one of them immediately went into the back hall to report.

At this time, Hu Xianling and his cousin Master Hu were busy with their official work and sat in the back hall of the county government drinking tea. Suddenly, I heard a report from the servant Wang Er: "Zhao Jieyuanyou, a genius in Jiangnan, learned this, and came to visit the adult, I don't know if the adult will see it." This is his guide, Xie Yuan's identity certificate and gift list. ”

Hu Xian Ling first picked up the gift sheet and looked at it: two pieces of fine water jade and jade, and what other gods are drunk, soap, soap, and perfume. Sky! This water jade is a treasure that can be met but not sought, it is priceless, one gift is two, is this gift too heavy? Let's look at the ID card again: less than eleven years old, Xie Yuan in the exam, isn't this a prodigy? With his talent, if he is in high school two years later, with such a generous gift, he buys off the Taishi, and in a few years, he may be his boss.

I think I Hu Faquan, although I am a genuine two-list jinshi, but because I have no money to honor the Taishi Cai Jing, I have been working in the position of Tongbai County for more than ten years, and I have not been promoted. Now why don't you get closer to a rich and talented young talent like Zhao Gongzi, and in the future, everyone will take advantage of the situation in the officialdom, wouldn't it seem that the power is lonely. Thinking of this, he instructed the messenger: "Please, please, please." ”

The errand officer trotted out all the way and shouted: "The county lord invites Zhao Gongzi Zhao Xie Yuan to meet in the back hall." ”

So, Zhao Gongzi and Wu Song walked to the back hall under the guidance of the messenger, and the two entourages followed behind with wine.

Zhao Chongyang entered the back hall and saw that in the middle of the upper part of the hall, there was a man in his forties, and an old man dressed as a scribe in his fifties was sitting on the side. Zhao Chongyang walked over, bowed to the superior, and said loudly in his mouth with a slightly tender childlike voice: "After the end of the Nanjing Mansion, Zhao Chongyang visited Lord Hu County. He turned to Master Hu and said, "I've seen Master Hu, Mr. Hu." Then with a wave of his hand, the two attendants put the liquor they were holding on the table.

Master Hu said: "Zhao Gongzi doesn't need to be polite, please sit down." ”

Zhao Chongyang bowed his hand to Hu Xianling again: "When we met for the first time, I brought two jars of high-grade spirits brewed by our Wantong Chamber of Commerce to the adults, please taste them slowly." This wine is strong, luscious and fragrant, and it is indeed the best in the wine. In addition, when our chamber of commerce traded with the Persian Hu merchants in Hangzhou, it spent millions of dollars to buy a batch of excellent water jade from the Hu merchants, and now I have brought two pieces to the adults and give them to the Guibao family for use. In addition, perfume and soap are also good things that women like, soap is used for laundry and clean, and the decontamination ability is more than ten times that of natural washing materials such as soap horn, please also accept it. Zhao Congyang took two delicate jewelry boxes from Wu Song's hands and put them in front of Hu Xianling, opened the lids, and two lifelike glass jade pei were presented in front of Hu Xianling. Hu Xianling's eyes were instantly attracted, and as for the other things that the entourage took out from the package, they were directly ignored by him.

Hu Xian picked up a water jade pei with trembling hands and looked at it carefully, with good light transmittance, no bubbles, no turbidity, it was really the best! It's just lovely. Although Hu Xianling liked it, he still sobered up and said cautiously: "Such a rare thing is worth a lot of money, how can the old man be worthy of such a heavy gift from Zhao Gongzi?" As the saying goes, if you give a generous gift, you must ask for it. I also asked Gongzi to make it clear that there is anything that needs the help of the official, if the official can do it, it is not too late to receive the heavy gift of the child, if it can't be done, I will never dare to accept the two water jade from the child. ”

Therefore, Zhao Chongyang explained the fact that their chamber of commerce was preparing to open up the commercial market in Nanyang and nearby prefectures and counties, and transported a large number of goods from thousands of miles away in the south of the Yangtze River. However, when the bodyguard team kept more than 100 carriages passing through the Wild Boar Ridge, the bandit leader Sanyin Xiushi Hao Gang led his men to nearly a thousand bandits, fighting with a large number of people, robbing the property of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Wantong Chamber of Commerce fought back, fighting Shi Bao, Wu Song and other leaders LinkedIn Heroes invincible, defeating this gang of bandits, the three major bandits were given the head, more than 300 vicious habitual bandits were killed on the spot, rescued more than 700 displaced people who were coerced, and at the same time, in order to completely eradicate the bandits, they also set fire to their old nests. However, there are as many as seven or eight hundred displaced people who have been forced to go to the mountains, and if they are not properly resettled and left to fend for themselves, when they cannot survive, they will surely become bandits again, threatening the safety of the people and undermining social stability. Therefore, in order to reduce the burden on the imperial court, we plan to build a village in the area of Anpeng to resettle these victimized displaced people. Please rest assured that all expenses will be borne by our Chamber of Commerce, and once the residents stabilize and have a regular income, we will pay taxes according to the regulations. It's just that there is a problem now, the people of our chamber of commerce plus seven or eight hundred homeless people, the personnel have been thousands, so many people poured into the county seat in the evening, afraid of disturbing the people, so they came to ask the county respect, and issued a notice to the people.

As soon as the county order was heard, it was a good thing to exterminate the bandits, and if they declared, there would be a reward for money. There are a lot of people, and they are afraid of causing panic among the people when they enter the county, it doesn't matter, Wang Er went to find Shi Jiyun's head, and he took the catcher to help settle the people and explain it to the people. As for the resettlement of displaced people, this is for the sake of the imperial court, you just have to do it. So, Hu Xianling agreed to Zhao Chongyang's requests one by one, and happily accepted the expensive gift from Zhao Chongyang. Zhao Chongyang took out 50 taels of silver from the package on his body and gave it to Master Hu: "A little small gift, I hope Master Hu will accept it with a smile." ”

Master Hu glanced at Hu Xianling embarrassedly, and Hu Xianling said: "Since it is a gift from Zhao Gongzicheng, the third brother might as well accept it." Now we will also do one more thing for Zhao Gongzi, so as not to cause trouble for them in the future. It is to immediately write a notice, let the copyists copy it, stamp it with the big seal of the main hall of Tongbai County, and post it outside, so that the military and civilians of the county know that the Wantong Chamber of Commerce is under the order of the county government to build a village in Anpeng, open up wasteland for farming, and resettle displaced people, and no one is allowed to interfere with it under any pretext. ”

Master Hu promised to do so immediately. Zhao Chongyang saw that the matter was done and was about to say goodbye, when Wang Er led the stone catcher and walked in.

Shi Zhutou said: "I don't know if the adults have any official business that we need to do, and now all the catchers are already waiting outside the yamen to set off."

Hu Xianling introduced Zhao Chongyang and Wu Song to Shi Zhutou and told them about their official business tonight.

Shi Zhutou arched his hand and replied, "Yes! "Turn around and go out to gather the catchers. Zhao Chongyang followed behind Shi Zhutou, took Shi Zhutou's hand, and took out twenty taels of silver from Wu Song's hand and put it in his hand: "I worked hard for Shi Zhutou today, and a little money is not a tribute, please accept it." After the event, another 50 yuan will be given to everyone to buy wine and drink.

Shi Zhutou pretended to be embarrassed and said, "How can you let Zhao Gongzi break the bank?" ”

Zhao Chongyang said: "We have just come to Guixian County to develop, and we are not familiar with the place, so there will be more time to trouble you in the future." The head catcher can say to the county lord tomorrow that in order to protect the territory and the people, the county magistrate organized the township brave, and under the leadership of the head catcher, he exterminated the strongman in the wild boar ridge, so that you and the county lord will be rewarded by the bosses, and you can also receive a bonus according to the custom. If the magistrate does a good job, the two of you can be promoted. ”

Shi Zhutou said: "How can this be done? But you have quelled the troubles, so are we not greedy for merit and reckless bonuses? ”

Zhao Chongyang said: "As long as we don't say it, God knows, you know and I know, and no one else knows." Besides, it is useless for us to take that credit, so it is better to give it to you. ”

"Zhao Gongzi is really a dragon and phoenix among people, and he can be a man like this at such an age. Good! I have received this favor from my old stone, but in the future, if I have a place to get my old stone, your chamber of commerce will say, I will definitely go all out. ”

Shi Zhutou happily took more than a dozen of his subordinates and went with Wu Song on official business......