Li Yuchang's case lasted three years and was concluded in less than half a month in Ma De's hands.

Wang Shenhan, the prefect of Huai'an, plotted to kill the emperor, bribed officials, and attempted to kill the plaintiff, and was sentenced to be executed! Wang Yan, the prefect of Suzhou, was bold and reckless, embezzled and accepted bribes, shielded criminals, and oppressed the people, forced to buy and sell, and was sentenced to hanging! Jiang Ning knew Lin Yongsheng, who bribed and shielded criminals, bribed and accommodated, was sentenced to dismissal, and sent Uriya Sutai; Xu Zuyin, the envoy of Jiangsu, embezzled and accepted bribes, shielded criminals, and intended to misbehave, exhumed graves and exchanged corpses, sentenced to dismissal, exiled his family, and sent Hokkaido; Jiangning General Sunu, harboring criminals, doing nothing, embezzling and accepting bribes, conniving at his subordinates to disturb the security of Jiangning Mansion, sentenced to dismissal, and returned to Beijing to hand over to the ministry! In addition, there are nine Jinshi who went to Shanyang County with Li Yuchang to investigate and refine, and now some are appointed as editors of the Hanlin Academy, and some are appointed as magistrates of various counties, all of whom are dismissed from their posts and investigated; In addition, the rest of the accomplices and miscellaneous workers were sentenced to exile or cane reproaches. Jiangsu Governor Song Rou, dereliction of duty did not observe, although there was a reason, he also recorded a major demerit, and the word "inferior" was recorded on the official examination book! …… Li Lin's avenging of her husband's grievances, after hardships, asked the local officials to erect a monument to the martyrs, sued the family wealth consumed, and asked the governor of Jiangnan, Ma De, to make up for it from the official assets of the criminals.

Because of this case, Ma De finally shocked the officialdom of Jiangsu and was able to settle in smoothly as he did when he shocked Anhui.

And Kangxi's holy decree is not the only one.

In addition to issuing an order to deal with those criminals, Kangxi soon issued another holy decree.

Order the cabinet secretary, Shandong Jining Dao Zhang Boxing took over as Jiangsu according to the envoy, and made the Hanlin Academy of the head of the bachelor Han Hua as Jiangsu Xuezheng, presided over this year's Jiangnan examination, in addition, the holy car stationed in Jiangsu, Jiangsu people to welcome the car cost a lot of money, its heart is commendable, special exemption of Jiangsu province half a year of money and food!

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As soon as the holy decree arrived, the whole body of Jiangsu immediately forgot about the Li Yuchang case!

What are the scholars most concerned about? Imperial examination! The forty-second year of Kangxi happened to be the year of Dabi. When it comes to their future career, who cares whether others are wronged or not?

What do the people care about most? Life! Originally, Kangxi toured the south, and many local people in Jiangsu were pressed to take more money and food, and Kangxi's holy decree immediately diverted their attention and turned to chanting Kangxi's benevolence.

As for the officials, first, there is a three-eyed "Ma Wangye" on his head, and second, there are two new officials in Jiangsu, and they naturally dare not mess around until they figure out the situation. However, even if they find out the situation, I am afraid that they will not dare to take action.

Zhang Boxing, 53 years old, known as "Yu Jackie Chan second", a native of Yifeng, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province (now east of Lankao County), has a wealthy family. In the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi, he entered Beijing for the examination, won the top 30 in the palace examination, and was awarded the Jinshi background. After assessment, he was awarded the secretary of the cabinet, and then changed to the middle secretary of the Chinese book. The duties of the Chinese Calligraphy Division are to write books and edicts. This is one of the organs that directly handled documents and proclamations for the emperor. In June of the 38th year of Kangxi, there was a continuous torrential rain, and the rapid flood broke through the embankment of Beiguan in Yifeng City, roared out, and hit the city. At that time, Zhang Boxing was at home for his father's funeral, at this critical moment, he stepped forward, recruited the local people, personally supervised, and found cloth bags of sand to fill the breach, thus avoiding an imminent tragedy. Emperor Kangxi issued an edict ordering him to go to the river engineer with his original title to supervise the repair of more than 200 miles of embankments on the south bank of the Yellow River and water conservancy projects in Majiaxiang, Dongba and Gaojiayan. He devoted himself to river affairs, worked hard for three years, and achieved remarkable results, and was awarded the Shandong Jining Road at the beginning of this year. When he took office in Jining Province, Shandong, it was at a time when there was a famine in Shandong. He was anxious about the needs of the victims, and without waiting for the imperial court to take measures, he generously donated money, grain, and cotton clothes from his family in Henan, packed them into several boats, transported them to the disaster area, and distributed them to the canal pacesetters and victims. At this time, the imperial court issued a decree and instructed local officials to open a warehouse for relief. Zhang Boxing was ordered to give relief to Wenshang, Yanggu and other counties, and successively used more than 22,600 stones of canggu. Afterwards, the political envoy accused him of being a monopoly and impeached him. Zhang Boxing was not afraid to be convinced, and pleaded on the basis of reason: "Giving relief to the order, not distributing barn grain, sitting back and watching the people of various states and counties to die without helping, there is surplus millet in the warehouse, and there is starvation in the wilderness, the crime of this way, can it be punished?" He also wrote: "This way is to be involved in the barn without permission, and it should be accepted." The first fear is that in the future, all the officials in Shandong will take this way as a warning, regard the canggu as the most important, and the people's lives as light. Zhang Boxing's refutation was reasonable, and the court did not pursue it, so the matter was dismissed. However, who would have thought that after only a few months, Kangxi would suddenly promote this person to the position of Jiangsu inspector? Although it is not impossible to upgrade from the fourth grade to the third grade, Zhang Boxing has only been doing Jining Dao for a few months.

However, since Kangxi's decision has been issued, naturally no one can object.

Compared with Zhang Boxing, the arrival of Han Hua, the head of the Hanlin Academy, is even more confusing. This Han Hua, with few characters, alias Mulu, is from Suzhou. Kangxi 12 ugly department will be the yuan, the champion. Over the years, he talked about the living note, the right praise good, the waiter, the waiter, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, quite by Kangxi, praised his article "the article is elegant, ancient and rare", and personally gave the plaque of "Zhizhi Sutra Learning, polishing Hongye". However, although he is a native of Jiangsu, the students in Jiangsu feel close to him, but Han Hua is Xu Qianxue's protégé, don't forget, Xu Yuanwen, the former Jiangsu Xuezheng (Xu Wenyuan in front is wrong) is Xu Qianxue's younger brother, and he was impeached by Ma De.

However, although many people are confused, more Jiangsu students are happy. Because since he is the chief examiner from Jiangsu, then, out of the complex of his fellow villagers, it is more likely that Jiangsu students will be selected in this examination.

And all this is also in line with the thoughts of Kangxi and Ma De.

Li Yuchang's case was originally easy to smear Kangxi's face in the eyes of many people, even if Ma De had just taken office, Kangxi would definitely be blamed for it. However, just two holy decrees actually solved all this. This has comforted many people, but also made many people unwilling. However, at this time, when he came out to make trouble, he really kicked Kangxi's nose in the face, I don't know who can have the courage.

After this case, Ma De handed over the responsibility of welcoming the car to Song Rou and continued to do his own things. Kangxi's royal car also continued to travel south, welcoming and bidding off all the way.

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A group of people, three old men, more than a dozen strong men, a carriage, with a few horses, leisurely walked on the official road from Jiangsu to Anhui, the avenue was smooth and smooth, and it was not difficult to walk. The old man who rode in the head was about his early fifties, thin, with a little mustache, and his eyes were attentive, and he was touching around as he went, and he did not forget to talk to the two old men who were with him. As for the others, under the command of a man in his thirties, he looked around vigilantly from time to time.

"I said Tingyu, you don't need to be so cautious, do you? It makes everyone nervous! ”

An old man on the left with a little cunning between his eyebrows and eyes said, it was Gao Shiqi. It turned out that since Kangxi received Ma De's recital, issued a holy decree to solve Li Yuchang's case, and arranged for Jiangsu to be inspected and educated, he felt that Lao Wo was also a little panicked on the dragon boat, and suddenly moved his mind to come to Anhui to take a look. So, regardless of the opposition of Ma Qi and Zhang Tingyu, he handed over the royal driver and his entourage to the management of the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, and instructed him not to leak secrets, so he secretly got off the ship with a few cronies and a team of imperial guards, and headed west along the official roads of Jiangsu and Anhui. It's just that along the way, Zhang Tingyu always didn't forget to tell those guards to be careful, and Gao Shiqi felt that he was a little too careful, so he couldn't help but mention it.

"High tent room, the lord comes out for a trip, how can I be lazy as a courtier! What's more, this is the junction of the two provinces, and it is the most frequent place for thieves. Zhang Tingyu heard Gao Shiqi's words and replied unhurriedly.

"I know. But you can't be so cautious, can you? Although there are thieves in this world, they have not yet reached such a rampant point. Besides, if you look at the official road under your feet, the cultivation is not much worse than that of Fengtian. Ma Deken put so much effort into building roads, it must be because there are a lot of people coming and going, so ah, I think you have been able to prevent thieves. Gao Shiqi said.

"Foolproof, it's better to be careful all the time!" Zhang Tingyu replied.

"Gotcha! Master, do you think that the Mr. Xixi we 'invited' here is about to become a nurse? Gao Shiqi spread his hands towards Kangxi, who was riding a horse in front, and said helplessly. The roles assigned when they came were that Kangxi was the master, Ma Qi was the housekeeper, Gao Shiqi was shrewd and was the account room, as for Zhang Tingyu, no matter how you look at it, he couldn't become another role, so he was arranged by Gao Shiqi to be the invited teacher.

"Haha, you can let him go. Anyway, Tingyu was originally like this! Kangxi smiled in front of him and didn't care. Gao Shiqi saw Kangxi say this, so he didn't care anymore, and continued to chat with Kangxi while hurrying forward.

The group hurried unhurriedly, and when it was about noon, they arrived at a small village. Kangxi felt a little hungry, on the horse hand pergola, saw that there is a small village shop at the entrance of the village in front, the back of the store is facing the river, the front of the store is by the road, the store door is planted on both sides of a willow, a bay of river water flows eastward, next to the old locust tree in front of the store, there is a guise on the long bamboo pole, and two lines of big characters are written on the dragon flying and phoenix dancing:

Taibai smelled the fragrance and dismounted, and Liu Ling stopped the car knowing the taste.

"Interesting, this small country shop actually knows Liu Ling's taste! Interesting and interesting ......" (the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" in the Wei and Jin dynasties, among which is known as Liu Ling, the wine boss of the drunken immortals) Kangxi rode on a horse, and while walking, he asked Gao Shiqi with a smile: "Old Gao, it seems that this Anhui is not less than Jiangsu." There are also many literate people in this folk, right? ”

"Hehe, the master asked the wrong person. You have to ask Tingyu about this! He is a native of Anhui! Gao Shiqi smiled.

"Yes, yes, I should ask Tingyu! Hahaha......" Kangxi smiled heartily.

"The small country shop is so charming, it's better to be careful!" Marzi interjected lukewarmly. He has always opposed Kangxi's departure from the imperial car, and compared to Zhang Tingyu's carefulness, he is actually more than that.

"Be careful! Know, know! But...... This man is iron, his rice is steel, and he is hungry and panicked if he doesn't eat a meal. Steward Ma, you can't let us all go hungry, can you? It doesn't matter if we're hungry, but when we're hungry, how can you take care of it? Gao Shiqi asked with a smile at Ma Qi.

"Okay, stop arguing, let's have a meal! What else could happen? Kangxi looked at Ma Qi and wanted to refute it, so he hurriedly stopped him. For the disagreement between his subordinates, he had a big headache along the way, and he knew that he wouldn't bring this guy Ma Qi here.

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"There's a guest here - hey, old guest! Please sit inside, clean and bright, make a sharp point and hurry away......" Seeing Kangxi and his party of more than a dozen people, the guys in the store immediately greeted him with a smile, and shouted loudly to the store as he walked.

Kangxi and several people got off the horse, ordered his guards to tie the horses to the trees on the side of the road, parked the carriage, and followed the leading man into the shop. After Gao Shiqi sat down, he stretched out his hand and wiped it on the table, looked at his hand again, nodded and said, "It's really good, elegant and clean!" It's a great place! ”

"Look at what the old gentleman said. Although our store is small, it has been open for more than 30 years. There are more guests sent every day, who doesn't know the guest officers who often take this road? It's all about good wine and good scenery! If it's not good, how can you keep guests? …… You're afraid you don't know yet, do you? The wine guise outside our door was written by the great genius of Tongcheng Academy. The guy went to get fodder to feed the horses, and a middle-aged woman came out of the shop, brought a copper for boiling wine and put it on the fire aside, and when she heard Gao Shiqi say this, she immediately followed.

"Oh? No wonder I always feel that something is not right when I look at the words on your wine banner just now. It turned out to be written by someone from Tongcheng Academy! It's just that I'm afraid that your wine may not be worthy of such a high price! Gao Shiqi smiled.

"Look at what you say. What does it mean that something is wrong? If we can't use this wine, can the talented man of "100 Wine Fighting Poems" write this wine guise for us? The woman was busy with the dishes, and when she heard Gao Shiqi's words, she was not angry, but only slightly annoyed, and then laughed.

"Hahaha, what a 'hundred poems about fighting wine', just with this sentence, we have to taste your wine!" Kangxi smiled. Although it is just an ordinary line of poetry, it can burst out of the mouth of a folk woman, which makes people listen to it.

"You're the hostess, aren't you?" Marzi suddenly asked the woman again.

"The old gentleman has a good eye. Are you old and old? The woman looked at Kangxi and his entourage, although it was not luxurious, but there was naturally a grace in her temperament, and she knew that there was a person, and asked with a smile while holding the copper kettle for boiling wine in her hand and sifting it.

"It's nothing, I just want to ask, go down your official road, where is the next place?" Marzi asked.

"Sir, you don't often follow our path, do you?" The proprietress listened to Ma Qi's question, did not answer, but asked with a smile.

"That's right. It's true that we don't often go down this path. In the past, they were all from the waterway, along the canal to Jiangning, and then turned to the Yangtze River waterway! Recently, I heard that the governor of Jiangnan, Lord Ma, has rebuilt the official road, so I plan to stop by and have a look! Zhang Tingyu said.

"Hehe, I'll just say that a few gentlemen are a little blind! But then again, the gentlemen are in the right place. There are more than a dozen of you, and there are not many people, if you take the waterway, it will really delay your efforts, and there must be a lot of flowers. It's better to follow the official road and walk twice as much a day. The proprietress laughed.

"Hostess, you're right. Where is this ahead? Marzi asked again.

"Hehe, old man, the front is the county seat of Si County! Actually, you don't even have to ask me! Whenever there is a new official road, there is a signboard at every fork in the road or every ten miles, don't you pay attention? The proprietress asked with a smile.

"Oh? And such things? Ma Qi thought for a moment, but did not remember where he had encountered the sign, so he asked again.

"There are no signs, it must be because they haven't been finished yet. Speaking of which, this official road is difficult to cultivate. You have also seen a few guest officials, our official road in Anhui is twice as wide as other places, and below it, it is all gravel and sand, and it is paved with what kind of cement is it, not afraid of pressure, nor afraid of water...... We don't understand that, and we don't know why it's mud and water so we're not afraid of water. If this thing is good, it will naturally cost more money, and it will be troublesome to repair. Besides, such a long road must occupy an area, and naturally some people are not happy with this land. It's good to say on the ground in Anhui, but it's difficult to get out of Anhui! The proprietress saw that the wine was almost sifted, so she poured a small pot for Kangxi and the others and sent it over.

"Oh? This land is the lifeblood of the people, and no one should give it up. How can it be easy to occupy in Anhui? Kangxi asked.

"I'm afraid! Our Ma Futai, people say that it is the reincarnation of Zhao Gongming, holding the golden steel gong given by the emperor Lao Tzu in his hand, his old man wants to build roads, how many of us in Anhui are not afraid of death, dare to give him eye medicine? The proprietress replied casually.

"Huh? Could it be that the governor of Anhui is so domineering? Kangxi asked.