Chapter 190: You can't be in a hurry

Zhang Ru burst into tears, only Chen Cao was standing at the door at the moment, she couldn't bear the excitement in her heart anymore, and ran up to hug Chen Cao.

Tears instantly wet Chen Cao's shoulders, and he reached out to wrap Zhang Ru tightly: "You have suffered..."

"Ahh I'm sorry... I couldn't hold our two children..."

Chen Cao understood that it was obvious that Zhang Ru was confined, and it was also related to the fact that the Zhang family found out that she was pregnant.

"I'm sorry for you..."Chen Cao gently patted Zhang Ru's back.

"I thought I'd never see each other again in my life..."

"I set up sentry spies in Yingtan Town and Guixi County, and they are helping me watch you, but I went to the Wa Kingdom last year, and I really wronged you..."

Zhang Ru told Chen Cao all about what happened to him in one go.

It turned out that more than a month after Chen Cao had a relationship with her, Zhang Ru found out that she was pregnant with his child, and she was stubborn and determined to give birth, but she was found by her family at the age of five months.

Zhang Ru has always been obsessed with Chen Cao coming back to her, and after waiting for a year, she finally came...

"Don't worry, in the future, I will protect Chen Cao, you will be my Chen Cao's woman, and I will never let you suffer again..." Chen Cao picked Zhang Ru up, Zhang Ru hooked Chen Cao's neck with both hands, although he cried, but after all, he was happy.

After Zhang Guoxiang learned that it was Chen Cao, the Marquis of Dingwu, he couldn't say anything more, plus Zhang Xianyong said what happened that day, Zhang Guoxiang agreed to marry Zhang Ru to Chen Cao.

After a few more days of delay, after all the handling of Zhang Ru's side, Chen Cao took Zhang Ru and a group of people back to Nanjing.

In March of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, spring begins, and all things grow...

Today is a good day for the Dingwu Marquis Mansion to marry a wife, and there are two of them, which makes the people in Jinling envious, but most of them are talking about the Marquis of Dingwu in private as a womanizer.

The identities of the two people who are married today are not simple, one is the daughter of the former Jingshi Hubu Shilang, and the other is the daughter of the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhu Mountain, just a pomp is enough.

More than a dozen tables were set up in the Dingwu Marquis' Mansion, and the guests were all nobles and high-ranking officials in the Jinling realm, and even Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, came to the side room, which could be regarded as giving Chen Cao enough face.

Three days later, Chen Cao, who was preparing for the affairs of Shanghai County, was still packing up the materials, Zhao Xin ran into the study in a panic, and was teased by Chen Cao for a while: "What? Your wife didn't agree to the matter of taking six concubines and was beaten? ”

"Hou Ye, don't make fun of it, his subordinates have serious reports," Zhao Xin said and took out two letters from his arms: "This one is from Shaanxi." ”

While Chen Cao read the letter, Zhao Xin whispered quickly: "According to Hou Ye's instructions, the Tianfang people sent them firearms, and these anti-thieves can be beaten, but the local regiment led by Liu Yingyu of Shaanxi Bingbei Dao was caught off guard by the local regiment training the month before yesterday, and this is not counting, the main thing is that the Tang report sent to Jingshi by the Fusi of Nanzhen the day before yesterday was intercepted by his subordinates, and he was informed that someone was transporting firearms to the anti-thieves. ”

Chen Cao was shocked, and then looked up at Zhao Xin: "What about the letter?" ”

"The second letter is..."

Chen Cao opened it and took a look, and sure enough, the letter was sent to Beijing by the Jinyi Wei of Xi'an under the situation of the Shaanxi Governor Yamen, how could he dare to intercept this kind of letter?

"Master Hou, not only that, it is reported that in order to share the benefits, the Qin Wangfu sent the guards of the Qin Wangfu to escort a batch of captured firearms to the Beijing Division, and the route was Datong, Shanxi... Master Hou, there is a clear way out for firearms all over the country, and if the imperial court traces it down, maybe it will be found in Nanjing. ”

Seeing Zhao Xin's panicked look, Chen Cao put down the letter: "The investigation of Nanjing's firearms has to be carried out by the Nanjing Military Department and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, how dare they go to investigate Xiaolingwei?"

Besides, there are not many firearms eliminated by the guards every year, how do you think the imperial court can check?

Zhao Xin, you can't be in a hurry, this is what you told me before. ”

Zhao Xin took a deep breath, and then said the second thing: "Master Hou, in addition, the Beisi side said that the origin of those dead soldiers could not be found, and his subordinates sent people to inquire along the way, and asked the guards near Zuo in the name of Nanzhen Fusi, and there were no missing soldiers." ”

"It's just too much..."

Chen Cao had put aside the assassination of himself, because it was really unclear who this kind of thing was, as if the last attack in Jinling was a truth.

If I am attacked and killed again, then I will not be a good child, and if I am forced to rebel, then I will rebel and show them;

By the way, clean up, gather a thousand households, and we will go to Shanghai County in two days..."

...

In later generations, the Shanghai administrative region was the entire Songjiang Prefecture and a large area of Jiading County, Baoshan and Chongming Island under Suzhou Prefecture, while the actual area of Shanghai County of Songjiang Prefecture was only between the estuary confluence of the Huangpu River and the Wusong River.

In the words of later generations, Pudong and Puxi, the east and west banks are separated by two rivers that merge into a river, and the seat of Shanghai County is in Pudong.

The walls were made of a fence mixed with earth and cobblestone, and only one person was less than high, and the circumference was no more than four miles, and in some places there were no walls at all.

"This earthen wall was still built during the Jiajing period, when Songjiang Mansion was the key state capital of the Japanese invaders, and the Jinshanwei side was beyond the reach of the whip, so the fishermen on both sides spontaneously built an earthen wall to defend against the Japanese invaders."

Zhao Xin said and pointed to the fishing villages in front of him: "When I came down, I checked the household register of Shanghai County, as of the second year of the Apocalypse, there were 1,300 households in Shanghai County, with a total population of 4,600 people. ”

The confluence of the Wusong River and the Huangpu River forms a natural harbor between Pudong and Puxi, and it is no wonder that this is the world's financial center in later generations, and Chen Cao's arrival today is to create a city with the highest wealth value for the Ming Dynasty.

"Master Hou, Shanghai County Cheng is here."

Shanghai County is so poor, it is populated by fishermen and peasants, and although the magistrates turn a blind eye to the sea ban, less than 5,000 people living here have to rely on the sea for food and drink.

Chen Cao got off the warship and walked to the land surrounded by hundreds of Jinyi guards and Dingwu troops, and Yu Shimin, who hurried to Shanghai County, hurriedly came to greet the new governor of Songjiang.

"Xiaguan Yu Shimin, Shanghai County, meet with the Governor of Songjiang, Lord Dingwu..."

Shanghai County is small, even if it is a county magistrate, it is only from the seventh grade, and he is only from the eighth grade, and Yu Shimin is not a local, he is a native of Huating County, and he spent a lot of money to buy such a Shanghai County Cheng from the Songjiang Prefect's Yamen, but now, his income in Shanghai County has not been as much as he spent.

"Lord Yu is exempt, you lead the way."

"Dingwu Hou, please..."

"Hou Ye...", a school lieutenant came over: "Qi Hou Ye, Huang Shijing, the prefect of Songjiang, arrived at the Shili Receiving Pavilion to receive the official." ”

"I'm the governor of Songjiang, and I can't wait for him."

After Chen Cao finished speaking, Zhao Xin also came up: "Master Hou, it stands to reason that Governor Su Song is still your boss..."

Chen Cao squinted his eyes and looked over: "That's right, Lao asked Commander Zhao to invest 100,000 taels of silver tickets to comfort this Governor Su Song." ”

Zhao Xin: "..."

.

"Let Hou Ye laugh, the financial resources in this county are meager, and I really can't afford to repair the county government..."

This county government is second to none than all the county offices that Chen Cao has ever seen, and the signboard is a fight with all the thousands of households in Chiba that year, and the left wall even collapsed.

After Chen Cao sat in the lobby, he asked Yu Shimin for the household register, but the result was that he couldn't check it, and there were not 1,300 households in the entire Shanghai County, only 700 households were registered, which was different from the household registration in Nanjing.

Yu Shimin's forehead was sweating, and he was the one who topped the pot without knowing the county, so he couldn't help but be nervous now.

"Yu Xiancheng, if you answer Ben Hou's question well, Ben Hou will definitely not blame the past, if you are messing around or want to hide it," said Chen Cao and pointed at Zhao Xin: "This is the commander of the Fu Division of Jinyi Weinan Town, they have a way to let you tell the truth, Ben Hou asked you, why is the number of households in Shanghai County different from that registered in Nanjing?" ”

Yu Shimin, a person who wants to make money, has so much scheming, and immediately knelt down towards Chen Cao: "Hou Ye Mingjian, this number of heads is really not something that the lower officials can decide, when the last magistrate was here, the population was only two thousand;

Master Hou doesn't know, the people in Shanghai are fishermen, this... This..."

There were some things that could not be said that Chen Cao knew, so he waved his hand to interrupt Yu Shimin's words: "Ben Hou asked you, how much money have you been greedy in Shanghai County in the past few years?" ”

Yu Shimin looked embarrassed, and opened his mouth to testify that he didn't take a penny, until Zhao Xin stood in front of him with a knife, Yu Shimin trembled and said: "Back to the Hou Ye, Shanghai County is too poor, the lower officials have been here for four years, and they really haven't squeezed any oil and water, the most is salted fish, but even so, the lower official at the head of the prefect's yamen has to send a large cart of salted fish over..."

Even salted fish have to be robbed?

The prefect of Songjiang is also poor and crazy...

The corners of Chen Cao's face twitched, and when he heard this, he said with a dark face: "How much money did you spend to buy an official, Ben Hou heard that you are just a person from Huating County." ”

"I didn't dare to deceive Lord Hou, the lower official sent three hundred taels of silver to the prefect, and then I changed to a county magistrate in Shanghai County, but I really can't make money here..."

"You're an honest man..."Chen Cao snorted: "Where do you come from?" Is there a way? ”

Yu Shimin raised his head in embarrassment: "Master Hou, if the lower officials had a way, they would not have come to such a poor country." ”