The new magistrate of Baishui* County, whose surname is Cao, whose name is Baoxiang, and whose courtesy name is Yong'an, is a Jinshi who has no background, no background, and is poor at home. He has been poor since childhood, studied hard for decades, and finally got a Jinshi. However, the ranking of this Jinshi is also very low, and he belongs to the Jinshi who is among the last dozens of people at the end of the list and cannot be found.

He thought that if you pass the Jinshi exam, you can become an official, return home in glory, and change your poor life, but unfortunately, you don’t have to become an official if you pass the Jinshi exam. As mentioned in the previous article, there were many Jinshi students in the Ming Dynasty, but there were only so many official positions. Many new Jinshi had to wait for their official positions to be vacant and take up a place to replace them.

Whenever an official position is released, countless Jinshi will be connected, go through the back door, hand over money, and want to occupy that position. This is how the previous Baishui County Magistrate Gu Huaxiu was promoted.

A poor Jinshi like Cao Baoxiang, who can't even get the money for giving gifts and getting relationships at home, how can he make up for the actual lack? Every time an official position is vacant, it is not his turn, and he is always occupied by the rich and powerful Jinshi at home.

In fact, this phenomenon is not very bizarre to say. It will still happen in later generations. If you go to the civil service exam, the same exam, the same scores are assigned to the municipal party committee as an official in the city, but you are assigned to the village official in the countryside. Some people have better grades than both of you, but they are not able to be officials. Why is this? To put it bluntly, it doesn’t matter! China has been around for five thousand years, and this bad habit has never changed!

Cao Baoxiang, a poor naughty child, had not been a senior official for three years after passing the Jinshi exam due to relationship problems, and he had been waiting in pain. Last fall, he was suddenly called by the Ministry of Personnel and said to him: "Well, now there is an official position that is vacant, the seventh rank, county magistrate, will you do it?"

Isn’t this nonsense? Of course it!

Cao Bao was so moved that he cried: "Do, of course! Thank God, oh, no, thank Shangguan Chuiqing!"

In just a moment, he was brought to Baishui and became the new Master of * County. When he arrived at the place, he found something was wrong. This little Baishui had changed several bosses in just a few years, and his ex-boy Gu Huaxiu was made by the bandits. Not only that, Chengcheng next to him also changed the boss once. The previous boss named Zhang Douyao was also made by the bandits.

What a sinister place this is? No wonder no one brings connections to the back door to come here, and the people from the Ministry of Personnel called me, a poor Jinshi who has no background and no background, to die!

Cao Baoxiang was so scared that he almost urinated his pants, but the appointment of the Ministry of Personnel had been given up. This official should be properly appointed, and he should not be properly appointed. He took office with a tough bullet and faced the problem of replenishing the autumn tax. How dare he accept it? For fear of forcing Wang Er or Zhu Ba again, he simply took a decisive decision and reported to the above: "I am a new official and everything goes wrong. I ask the Ministry of Revenue to suspend the tax issue... and wait for the next year to solve it." So he owed the court a autumn tax.

At the beginning of this year, he faced the problem of spring tuition again, so he still didn't dare to collect it, so he had to send a notice saying that he would collect spring tuition, and then there was no further information. He refused to sit in the hall to compete for food. At worst, he owed the court another spring tuition. This assessment cannot be taken, but at least his life is guaranteed.

Cao Baoxiang lived like walking on thin ice, but even though he was so cautious, for fear of offending someone, what should come came eventually. Early in the morning, he received news that Zhu Basha of Baishui was back. The Lu family was robbed, the brave army in Xu Renjie Township was destroyed, and the poor people from all over the country were following him. When he came, he was 600 people, but now it is more than 1,500, and the number is still increasing.

Listening to these terrifying news, Cao Baoxiang's carefulness almost jumped out of his throat. He wanted to abandon the city and run away, but he did not dare. The * County Magistrate of the Ming Dynasty was responsible for defending the territory. If the bandits came, he would be unable to die for a while, but Qiu Hou asked him to cut the city and run away.

He brought dozens of yamen runners in the city and called the soldiers from the nearby military guard station. He finally found two hundred people, guarding the city gate, and praying, King Zhu Ba, don’t come to our small place!

Poor naughty child, fate has never favored him...

Zhu Ba's army came to Baishui City in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Cao Baoxiang gritted his teeth and climbed up the city wall, stretched out half of his head, and shouted to the outside of the city in a pitiful voice: "Come... come... but... but Baishui Zhu Ba? You... what's the price for you to come to my city?" This guy was so scared that he couldn't speak smoothly.

Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to stop outside the city. He raised his head and looked at the poor county magistrate. He couldn't help but shake his head: "I am Zhu Ba Baishui, are you the new county magistrate of * County?"

"I dare not call myself an adult..." Cao Baoxiang said, "I am a good person, Yong'an, you can call me brother Yong'an."

As soon as he said this, there was a lot of sweat on the city. Oh my God, the county magistrate was really scared by the bandits, right? He was called brothers and brothers in public, and it was reported that he was a crime of tying bandits. However, after the gentry sweated, they felt helpless. If they were in Cao Baoxiang’s position, what could they say? It was just that they had to be called brothers and brothers with Zhu Ba, otherwise their disrespectful tone would anger the bandits, and they would be burial without a place to die.

Zhu Yuanzhang also smiled, it’s a pretty cute guy!

In fact, when he came to the city this time, he did not intend to kill County Magistrate *. You should know that there are so many substitute officials in Dameng Country. Can you kill them all? Kill one today and another tomorrow. As long as the scholars are not dead, the officials will not die! When the uprising was killed in order to create momentum, raise the anti-flag flag and set an example. Now the anti-flag flag has been erected, and there is no need to kill fearlessly again.

"Brother Yong'an!" Zhu Yuanzhang beat the snake and followed the pole and shouted casually: "I came to the city for one thing... you agree, let's talk well, you walk on your Yangguan Road, I cross my single-plank bridge, you don't agree... Cough... Baishui may have a new county magistrate."

When Cao Baoxiang heard this, he was so scared that his head shrank: "What's the matter?"

"Open the city gate and let the small vendors and big vendors come out to trade with me!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a very serious tone, saying something that made everyone incredible: "I won't rob you. This time I brought some tax and silver I just collected and planned to buy some things for use... You also know that I have nothing in the village and I have no place to buy things... Alas, it's not easy to be a mountain king. For the sake of my journey, how about selling something for me?"

Thumb... Cao Baoxiang squatted and sat behind the city wall... Is this mountain king enjoying me? He was about to ask some opinions from the people around him, but suddenly he heard a group of small vendors beside him shouting: "Look... Isn't that person the person who asked us to transport goods to trade yesterday? It turned out that he was Baishui Zhu Ba... Oh my God..."

It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had made an appointment with a hawker yesterday to transport goods for trading today. The hawker shared the news happily, invited a group of brothers, and then came to the city early in the morning with all his goods. After waiting for a while, the owner of the traders who did not waited for the dealers, but waited for a large group of bandits to siege the city, which scared the hawkers, one Buddha was born and the two Buddhas ascended to heaven.

At this time, when the bandits said they wanted to trade, they took a closer look and recognized Zhu Ba.

"Mr. County Master... This... Zhu Ba really wants to buy things. Yesterday he disguised himself as an ordinary villager and made an appointment with us to trade here today..." A hawker said to Cao Baoxiang with courage.

"Trade a lot, do you trade with you with a knife?" Another vendor said quickly: "He must be talking about it. He won't trade with you, he will only steal yours."

The vendors became pissed up, and a brave vendor also climbed up the city wall and shouted to Zhu Yuanzhang outside: "Brother Zhu Ba, you are the king of the mountain. Why can't you follow our vendors? We all have only one burden. If you want to snatch it, we can't live."

"I won't rob it, I'll buy it!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously.

"Who believes it..." The bold vendor roared angrily.

Zhu Yuanzhang was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he turned to Cao Baoxiang and said, "Brother Yong'an, this hawker doesn't believe it... he refuses to do business with me. It seems that I have to attack the city."

"Don't...Don't attack the city, I'll persuade him!" Cao Bao jumped up in a flash. He was as scared as a quail when facing Zhu Ba, but when facing a hawker, he was so brave that he waved his hand and gave a few instructions to the yamen runner next to him. A group of yamen runners rushed forward, grabbed the hawker, and threw it out of the city wall.

Baishui's city wall is not high, only about two meters or less than three meters. If you throw it at this height, you won't die, and you won't even suffer injuries. You just fell down and squatted. Then the vendor's cargo was thrown out by the yamen runners, and the things in the cargo were spilled all over the floor. His goods were quite mixed, including needles, wires, small drums, cloth heads, broken leather, scissors... They were all daily necessities.

The vendor was very brave inside the city wall just now, and when he was thrown out, he was a little stunned and was so scared that he wanted to run away.

Ma Xiaotian brought a few brothers over, caught him and dragged him to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"I said I wanted to buy your stuff, why are you running away?" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "On the left and right, let's buy all his goods."

Several soldiers walked over, flipped over the cargo load, picked up all the things that fell to the ground, took a bag and put them on it. All the goods in the cargo load were poured into the cloth bag. After careful calculation, Ma Xiaotian reported: "It's worth one or five cents of silver."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and took out a handful of broken silver from the silver stolen by Xu Renjie's house. He even found a small scale to weigh it, weighed one or five cents, and put it in the hands of the vendor: "I won't give you more, and I will give you a lot. If you give you less money, I will grab it, and if you give you more money, I will give you charity. But I am doing business with you, and I will not rob you or give you charity. One or five cents is one or five cents, and one or less is not enough."

The soldiers carried the empty cargo bonnets over and handed them to the vendors. Then someone patted him on his shoulder and said, "Why don't you leave?"

The vendor woke up like a dream and said, "I really give me money and let me go?"

"Is there any fake?" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.

"This...is this still a bandit?" The vendor screamed, turned around and ran away.
Chapter completed!