It's off to a good start, and the rest is fast.

Ma De asked Shi Shilun to give full play to the advantages of his Yamen in Taiwan and allocate more manpower to investigate the people's livelihood in various places, so as to use this as the basis for judging the extra-part answers of the talents in the future.

Then, he agreed with Lu Longqi and Shi Shilun that he would temporarily take over the Taiping Mansion, Lu Longqi would lead the Huizhou Mansion, and Shi Shilun would take the Ning Mansion. And each has set a certain authority, so as not to be unable to deal with some things at that time. Although Wang Xinlan reminded them that such private authorization violates the "court system", in fact, Qing court officials overstepping their authority often happen, you take care of mine, I take care of yours, as long as it is not particularly excessive, under normal circumstances, no one will care too much, let alone mention that Ma De and Shi Lu belong to "sincere cooperation". So, this kind of reminder is not placed on the hearts of all people.

After discussing this matter, since the prefects and governors could not come up with too many governance plans for a while, Ma De ordered them to prepare the plan and send it to his governor's yamen within a month, and then put this matter on hold for the time being.

And after dealing with these things, the rest is Zhao Hengsheng, the chief soldier of Anqing, who has been doing nothing!

"Lord Futai, what is the matter with you wanting to stay?" Zhao Hengsheng has been listening to several civil officials, and his ears have long been calloused. I wanted to say goodbye, and I thought that there must be something wrong with Ma De leaving him together, so I had no choice but to stay there. Finally, when Ma De and his gang had almost finished discussing the matter, before he had time to start another topic, he couldn't wait any longer, so he hurriedly saw the stitches and opened his mouth to ask Ma De.

"Hehe, Mr. Zhao is in a hurry!" Ma De smiled, looked at the general soldier who looked quite powerful and had a good figure, but always made people feel that he lacked a real military general's temperament, and continued: "Actually, Ben Fu left the chief soldier, just to ask some information." ”

"Lord Futai, please ask, the last general will definitely know everything!" Zhao Hengsheng then said. His performance made it easy for everyone present to see through the nervousness in his heart.

"Hehe, Mr. Zhao doesn't have to be so solemn. Actually, it's just a few small problems......" Ma De smiled and continued to hang Zhao Hengsheng's appetite and heart.

"What can make even a governor want to know, this 'small problem' is probably limited!" Zhao Hengsheng also smiled, did not speak, but just put on a deaf look.

"Ben Fu passed by Henan when he came, and heard someone talk about the two groups of people, and he kept it in his heart. When I saw Lord Zhao after I arrived in Anqing, I thought that if you can be promoted to the general soldier, you must have been in the army for a long time, and you should be more clear about these two groups of people, so I asked Lord Zhao to stay, and I want to ask for advice! Mader replied.

"I don't dare to take the word 'consult' at the end. Please also ask Lord Futai! Zhao Hengsheng clenched his fists and said.

"Good! …… Lord Zhao, do you know who 'Kunxiu Abao' is? Mader asked.

"Kunxiu Po?" As soon as Ma De's question came out, not only Zhao Hengsheng, but also Shi Shilun, Wang Xinlan and Zhang Kai couldn't help but scream, and Li Scale's voice was especially loud.

"So everyone knows about this couple! Good! Please also give a good talk to this official. Mader didn't know what he was thinking, his eyes lit up.

"My lord, this Kunxiu Abao is a thief in Taihu Lake, who has been crisscrossing the Taihu Lake area for many years, becoming a water village by himself, and living by taking salt boats and robbing officials and gentry. It's just that it has been exterminated by Yu Jackie Chan a few years ago, what do you ask them to do? Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Zhao Hengsheng asked Ma De cautiously.

"I know all of that. Moreover, I also inquired about it on the way, and I also knew that Kunxiu was a man, surnamed Jin! After the water village was broken, it was captured. However, it didn't take long for him to be rescued by the Bao who led people to forcibly break the prison, I don't know if there was such a thing? Mader asked again.

"My lord, what you are asking about is actually just a rumor among the people. In fact, Na Kunxiu had already been killed, but his lady Ah Bao was even more powerful. Not only did he run away when the official army was encircled, but it is said that it didn't take long for him to lead people to the house of Zhang Yunyi, the governor of Jiangsu, although he didn't make any big trouble, but I heard that the admiral Zhang was shot in the thigh by an arrow. …… I just don't know if it's true, or if the people in the green forest are boasting about it. After all, it is really a loss of face for the court to be troubled by thieves to the Governor's Mansion, and the government did not ......make this matter public," Zhao Hengsheng replied.

"Oh? It seems that this Po is really powerful! …… Do you recognize this? Ma De suddenly took out something that was tightly wrapped in several layers of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Hengsheng.

"This is ......" Zhao Hengsheng peeled off the layers of paper, but what he saw was a dagger, the cold light was shining, and he knew at a glance that it was made of stainless steel. When he turned around and looked again, he saw the two words engraved on the knife, "Kunbao respectfully"!

"This was delivered to me by a little beggar when Ben Fu was on the road. Originally, I didn't know what this meant, but then I remembered the rumors I heard on the way about 'Kunxiu Abao', and I connected it. Hehe, Mr. Zhao, what do you think of this thing? Mader smirked.

"Great, sir...... It's not going to be a big deal! Zhao Hengsheng handed the dagger to Shi Shilun, and his face was very ugly.

"Hmph, what a bold thief. Dare to threaten a province to Futai! My lord, the lower officials must solve this case as soon as possible and arrest this Ah Bao! Shi Shilun, as the prosecutor in charge of public security in a province, did not know whether the hand holding the dagger was because of the anger of being provoked or the excitement of facing a big case, and he kept shaking lightly.

"Don't worry!' Kun Bao respectfully' These four words don't necessarily mean that they are Kunxiu and Bao, but it is not easy for these people to get my whereabouts so correctly. …… By the way, Mr. Zhao, do you know another person named 'Shen Qingyu'? Mader asked again.

"Shen Qingyu? Lord Futai, it seems that you have put a lot of effort into these big bandits in Jiangnan. Before Zhao Hengsheng could speak, Shi Shilun continued, "Although this Shen Qingyu is not as good as Kunxiu Abao is a thief, he is also a big thief in the south of the Yangtze River, specializing in selling illicit salt, and his footprints are all over the Yangtze River. It is said that he has a relationship with many salt merchants and gentry, and even the people in the government also have a lot of eyeliner about him. Therefore, every time the government wants to send troops to exterminate him, he can avoid it in time. Moreover, I heard that there are hundreds of outlaws under him, who can fight better than officers and soldiers, and he has always been eruditive, and he is still at large. ”

"Hmmm! It seems that the territory of this Jiangnan is indeed 'outstanding people'. Now that Benfu is in charge of Anhui, he can no longer let Anhui be like before. Mr. Zhao, forget the matter of Kunxiu Abao, and leave it to Lord Shi to deal with. However, this Shen Qingyu dared to support troops to oppose the government, and Ben Fu didn't want to hear the news of his chaos in my Anhui Province again! Ma De stared at Zhao Hengsheng's eyes and said.

"Yes...... Yes, yes! Please rest assured, the general will do his best! Zhao Hengsheng secretly complained in his heart, but he could only agree.

"That's good!" You are a general soldier who was actually pulled by someone to be a gunman, and Lao Tzu didn't find some errands for you, and he really left you idle. Ma De nodded, but secretly he was thinking differently.

……

Then, after a few more discussions, Mader let them all out. However, just after Ma De sent everyone out of the yamen, Hai Liu immediately came over to report to him: "Wang Wenjing, the magistrate of Xuancheng County, has something important, please see him!" ”

"Wang Wenjing? What's the matter with him? ”

"He's coming from the back door, and he only said eight words!" Hai Liu glanced up at Ma De, and then continued: "The stakes are very high, 100,000 urgent!" ”

"Oh?" Mader thought for a moment and walked towards the back.

……

No one knew what Wang Wenjing said to Ma De, but the next day, Xu Yue, the prefect of Taiping, Chang Hongzu, the prefect of Huizhou, and Li Wenmin, the prefect of Ningguo, suddenly disappeared from Anqing Mansion, and they couldn't be found. Those who had a heart found their yamen again, but they did not find anyone. Even their families in the provinces have left their homes one after another.

……

Seven or eight days later, the capital!

There is a duty room not far from the upper study. In this slightly cramped room, Tong Guowei and Zhang Tingyu, who were on duty, were doing their own business.

"Hmph, Hengchen, you see, this Ma De is really getting more and more excessive. As soon as he arrived, regardless of the reason, just a few rumors, he dismissed the three prefects of the family! It's just arrogant! Waving a recital in his hand, Tong Guowei shouted at Zhang Tingyu. It was Ma De who sent Pegasus to present it to Beijing.

"Mader? No way? He doesn't look like that kind of person! Zhang Tingyu raised his head and rubbed his eyes, and said casually.

"Humph! Of course, he is not that kind of person in the capital, but as soon as he leaves Beijing, he changes. Aren't all these officials the same? Tong Guowei snorted twice disdainfully, and said: "This piece of music will definitely not be accurate, and you have to send a letter of approval to reprimand him fiercely." Hmph, others at least know that peace is precious, and he Made actually confronted the local officials as soon as he arrived at the place. …… Such a culture must not be fostered! ”

"Tong Xiang, I'm afraid it's not good to do this, right?" Zhang Tingyu persuaded him: "Ma De is the governor of a province after all, and his performance is not as good as other officials, so it is better to have a look at it through the emperor......

"Hmm!" Tong Guowei nodded sullenly and did not insist. In general, the minister of the study can approve it instead of the emperor, that is to share the emperor's hardship, otherwise, no matter how capable the emperor is, he will not be able to stand the affairs of the whole country. However, some people's twists and turns can only be seen and cannot be moved, such as Ma De, a feudal official. Although Tong Guowei is powerful, he also knows a lot about what he can and can't do.

So, he put Ma De's recital aside first, and then gave it to Kangxi when he met the saint later.

But......

After a while, he couldn't help but scream.

"What the hell is going on? Ma De said that he wanted to dismiss the three prefects, why did the three prefects resign on their own? What did they do? ”