Located on the edge of Bohai Bay, Tonji Island has a warm temperate marine monsoon climate, with cold winters and hot summers, and short springs and autumns. Among them, the rainy season is shorter, the wind is more and the rain is less, the summer sunshine is sufficient, and the evaporation is vigorous, which is conducive to the innate advantage of seawater evaporation.

After seeing off Yang Lin and his entourage at the harbor, Zou Run rode around the island for two days to carefully inspect the coastline.

Finally, we finally found a flat muddy beach on each side of the island, and it just so happened that these two beaches were also facing the monsoon winds of summer and winter, which can be described as excellent salt drying grounds.

The site survey was completed, and the construction of the salt drying plant was immediately put on the agenda. Zou Run personally commanded and supervised the work, and set up the Dangji Island Labor Camp, which included all the more than 50 prisoners who had been sentenced to hard labor. In accordance with the construction sequence of first the salt field, then the house, then the port, and finally the construction of the island wall, a vigorous infrastructure development was carried out.

At the same time, Zou Run ordered that Zou Yuan continue to stay in Dengyun Mountain and do a good job in the daily training of the team. Deng Fei was responsible for leading the fleet, transporting personnel and materials between the mainland and Tonji Island every three to five days, familiarizing himself with the route and training the navy.

On the days when he didn't board the ship, Deng Fei's burden was not light. When Zou Run inspected the island, he found that the north side of the island was rich in water and grass, and compared with the steep terrain of Dengyun Mountain, it was undoubtedly an excellent place to raise horses and train cavalry, so Zou Run specially ordered most of the horses and cavalry of the cottage to be concentrated on the island and handed them over to Deng Fei for training.

This can make Deng Fei tired enough, and his eyes were already red, but now they are even more thorough. In addition, Deng Fei has a short temper, sometimes he speaks and does things in a vicious voice, and in the end, I don't know who on the island has a lot of mouths, and he said that this fiery Deng Fei eats human flesh, so his eyes are red. This was originally nonsense, but in the end, the more he talked about it, the more evil it became, which made everyone afraid of Deng Fei and made him cry and laugh.

Just when the development of Dengyun Mountain and Dangji Island was in full swing, the news of Ma Shun's death spread, and the comments on the rivers and lakes were biased to both sides. Most of the men in the rivers and lakes have to praise the strength of Zou Runduan, the king of Xiaoqin, who is jealous and hateful, and before he only cleared out the big rich people who oppressed the people and had a notorious evil record, this time even the scum who killed the people on the green forest road was also cleaned up.

But a small number of people in the rivers and lakes are critical of Zou Run, insisting on picking bones in eggs, accusing him of stretching his hands long and managing widely, and killing his colleagues in the same vein of the green forest. These news were reported by the hotel system, and after Yang Lin summarized them, they were sent to the island, and Zou Run, who was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, smiled after seeing it and did not take it to heart.

There are only two things he is concerned about now, one is how the salt drying plant can be put into production quickly, and the other is where Lin Chong is now.

Ma Shun's death also affected the Dengzhou officialdom, and the commander of the Ping Navy was overjoyed when they got the news, and they slaughtered a small group of smuggler salt dealers, and found a death row prisoner from the prison who looked a little similar to Ma Shun, and after the death, he took the head. After obtaining his approval, he quickly fabricated a war report, and quickly submitted it to the Jingdong East Road Pacification Division, the Transfer Division, the Prison Division, and the Changping Division.

This is really a lot of credit to share the profits.

The command of the Ping Navy made a report to exterminate the bandits and the leader of the smuggling salt, Haili Loach Mashun and his gang, which was a contribution to pacifying the place for the pacification division, and a contribution to curbing the overflow of illegal salt for the transfer department and the promotion of the Changping Division.

The war report was submitted to the provincial court, Cai Taishi was also very happy, now the imperial court spent too much, and the salt tax was one of his main means to make money for Song Huizong.

For Cai Aiqing, who can find ways to get money to spend for herself, Zhao Ji has always been as good as a stream, and even the procedures handed over to the ministry are exempted.

is really worthy of a pair of "model monarchs and ministers" who have left their names in the annals of history.

As a result, the current commanders of the Dengzhou Zhizhou Peace Navy were immediately promoted to the top of the ranks, and the vacancies they left behind were quickly filled by Wang Shizhong and Hu Yanqing in Bianjing Houque (Note 1).

If it is said that Ma Shun's death is celebrated in Dengzhou officialdom, in fact, it is not necessarily true, at least there are still two people in Dengzhou City who are a little indignant about Ma Shun's death.

These two are not the others, they are the aforementioned King Kong Mu of Dengzhou, and his father-in-law Mao Taigong.

It is said that most of the cities in the world are rich in the east, expensive in the west, poor in the north, cheap in the south, and Dengzhou is no different. As the Confucius of a state, although Wang Zheng's rank is low, but he has real power in his hands, although it is not good to live directly in the west of the city because of his grade, but Wang Zheng has placed a large mansion near the east and west corners of the city. Build a gate house outside the house, build a courtyard inside, the house is wide and wide, at the turn of autumn and winter, the courtyard is planted with strange flowers and plants bought at a high price, in the bleak autumn wind, but these flowers and plants are red and green, and they are extremely beautiful.

Wang Zheng's banquet for his father-in-law was placed among these flowers and plants.

It is not difficult to see that Mrs. Mao's status in his son-in-law's heart is not low. It's a pity that Taigong Mao, who is a sitting tiger, is an unelegant person, he has something in his heart, and before the dishes are ready, he roars and complains.

"Virtuous son-in-law, you can sit still! Na Ma Shun...... cough, the surname Ma died, but my principal and salt goods were also broken together, and even the past business was broken, which is a big fortune! Inside and out, I can't say that I have lost tens of thousands of yuan, but I am really distressed! ”

Wang Zheng knew that this was his father-in-law complaining that he did not say that Dongzhizhou sent troops to exterminate Dengyun Mountain. But it's really no wonder that Wang Zheng did this thing, he used a lot of strength some time ago, and he also gave out a lot of gold and silver everywhere, but he didn't expect that the previous Zhizhou and the commander would run it, and directly treat it as a red thing, and fabricate a work to suppress bandits.

This is good, they happily patted their butts and left, but they gave away a lot of gold and silver but there was no whereabouts, Wang Zheng also had nowhere to say in his heart, but he boasted that he had been in the officialdom for a long time, and he had always liked to imitate the city government of those civil officials who were born in Jinshi, so he was not pretentious at the moment, got up and poured a glass of wine for Mao Taigong, and said:

"Taishan is strange, it's not that the son-in-law refuses to exert his strength, but this Dengyun Mountain bandit has become the climate, and the previous governor of the state is unwilling to touch this hot potato, I just said the flowers in my mouth, and the guy didn't hear it for his own black gauze hat. What can I do? ”

Although Taigong Mao is his father-in-law, he is a commoner after all, and he still has a little fear of Wang Zheng, who is the Confucius of the government, and even though he is dissatisfied, he doesn't dare to say anything more, but he just soaks the wine in one gulp, slams the fine celadon wine glass on the table, and says hatefully in his mouth:

"Zou Yuan, as if he has a grudge against me, opposes me everywhere, first Huang Zeli, and then Ma Shun and his gang, cutting off my financial route. I can only hate these literati for being officials and not daring, letting the thieves in the territory not go to expropriate and suppress, like this, they deserve to wear green robes for the rest of their lives and be the eighth king! ”

During the Huizong period, the color of the official uniform was revised, and the four or more grades were purple, and the six grades were scarlet, and those who wore scarlet and purple must wear fish bags, which were called chapter uniforms. Above the ninth grade, Mao Taigong's words mean that he curses local officials who cannot be promoted for the rest of their lives.

Wang Zheng's face darkened when he heard this, although he was not an official, but he had always prided himself on being a literati, and he was wearing a green robe right now, Mao Taigong's words in his opinion were tantamount to scolding Huai, and he immediately made a color, he was displeased, and he didn't care about the city's temperament, picked up a pair of chopsticks, and knocked the dishes on the table with a clang.