The next day, before dawn, Zhu Yuanzhang got up. When he was practicing in the morning, there were nearly a hundred corpses in the yard, but there were still places where he settled. He punched a small open space and stretched his body.

The four servants also got up and looked at him with awe.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished his fist, he ordered the servants: "You guys go out and buy a few coffins to use for Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang and his wife. For other people... you don't need coffins, get a few cow carts, and take them out of the city to bury them. By the way, we don't have enough staff, remember that the coffin shop is to hire more coolies who are not afraid of burying dead people."

"Okay!" said a servant: "Manager Zhu... even if you buy coffins and hire workers... we don't have them."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and brought his servants to the backyard. He also called seventeen maids to dig out the property buried yesterday. After the Zhang family was robbed, there were not many property left behind. Most of them were robbed of useless things, such as land deeds, house deeds, family deeds, and household registration. This thing is impossible for the rioters to take away their own use. Only a few gold and silver jewelry were not taken away.

Zhu Yuanzhang checked and found that there were about four or five gold hairpins, more than a dozen silver chains, and a few ingots of gold and silver. All the other ones were gone. He picked up all the gold, silver and wealth, and handed them to the kindest maid and said, "Just use these things to buy coffins and hire workers. You twenty-one of them who have not been used up. Leave the house deeds, land deeds, and body deeds to the second young lady."

"This... is it okay to do this?" The maid was startled. Although there was very little left, it would not take much gold and silver to buy a few coffins. It would be cheaper to hire a brave man to help dig a grave and bury the body. Twenty-one of them would definitely get a large sum of silver. Isn't this the property of the private thief of his master?

She quickly said, "This is the master's property, so it's not good for us to deal with it privately."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly: "I said I would deal with it like this, and then I will deal with it like this. When the second young master asked, I will naturally make sense to tell her, you just need to take it out of the flowers."

The servants could not be able to get along with the money. Since Zhu Yuanzhang said this, they didn't think much about it and nodded and agreed.

Seeing that they were holding gold and silver, Zhu Yuanzhang held a faint smile on his lips. He encouraged the group of people to divide the last bit of Zhang's family's wealth, which was equivalent to having a handle in his hands. This group of people would be easy to use in the future. As for their specific use, Zhu Yuanzhang has not considered it yet. Anyway, the more people he can use, the better. As an emperor, he was used to controlling everyone around him.

Half a day later, the servants hired a large group of people, including old and young, men and women, and they were invited by the owner of the coffin shop. In this era, coffin shops generally had to undertake one-stop service for funerals, so a large group of related "practice personnel" could be found at any time, including old wives responsible for washing corpses, porters responsible for entering, closing coffin, and carrying coffin, young men and women who played filial sons and daughters, and gongs and drums...

After working for a day or two, the bodies of nearly a hundred people in the Zhang family were restrained and buried outside the city and buried them.

In the past few days, Zhu Yuanzhang has been wandering around the yamen, caring about the current situation in Chengcheng.

The administration of Chengcheng City was severely stagnant. Since most civil servants in the city were killed by Zheng Yanfu and his gang in the yamen, no one handled many administrative work, so they had to invite a retired and retired gentry to work for Zhang Douyao temporarily. This gentry used to be a county magistrate, and it was familiar with handling affairs of a county, but he was already 72 years old this year and was old. Without the assistance of other civil servants, all the political affairs of a county were pressed on this old man, which made him so tired that he was miserable.

Three hundred household officials led their troops to "guard" the county town. Twenty soldiers were arranged at each of the four city gates. It seemed that the county town was relatively safe, so they wrote the incident here into a memorial and rushed to Xi'an Prefecture with a quick horse.

During this period, there were spies and folk legends. Zheng Yanfu and his gang did not run away and gathered again on Hutou Mountain. After hearing this news, the three officials from the Hundred Houses should have led their troops to clear them out immediately, but the three Hundred Houses almost said in unison that the news had not been confirmed yet and they could not go in hasty... As a result, the bandits reunited on Hutou Mountain soon dispersed again...

This was naturally as Zhu Yuanzhang expected. In the late Ming Dynasty, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were so useless. He couldn't get angry even if he wanted to.

After arranging the funeral of the Zhang family, he basically grasped the current situation in Chengcheng. Zhu Yuanzhang left two servants to temporarily see the house and took two other servants and seventeen maids to return to Baishui.

It would take more than seventy miles to take such a strange team and pass through the mountainous areas at the junction of the two dangerous counties. It would be impossible not to prepare. Zhu Yuanzhang asked the two servants to dress up in tatters and covered with mud, and then the seventeen maids were disheveled and their hair was very ugly, and their clothes were also filled with mud. Only after dressing up like this would you dare to go far.

He thought so thoughtful that the servants and maids who were not allowed to leave the door were even more admired and trusted his ability even more.

Along the way, the situation on the official road was a little different from the deserted situation when I came here a few days ago. There were fast horses galloping between the post station and the post shop, and the knights on the horse were dusty and hurried, obviously sending important letters. You don’t need to guess that this was a letter being delivered between Chengcheng and Xi’an. The officials of Xi’an Prefecture had obviously been alarmed and began to learn about the situation from the garrison in Chengcheng.

Since the end of Wanli, although bandits often appear in Shaanxi, robbers and kill people, and do all kinds of evil, which has made the government have a certain resistance to the word "bandits", the Zheng Yanfu Rebellion in Chengcheng was the first time that bandits broke through the county town and killed officials at the county magistrate level, which shocked Xi'an Prefecture...

Zhu Yuanzhang could guess that the officials of Xi'an Prefecture are hesitating whether to report this matter to Beijing. Such a big thing seems unreasonable if it is not reported, but if it is reported, the officials of Xi'an Prefecture will not be sentenced to missed investigation. Chengcheng is a county town under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Chengxuan Government Department. If such a big thing happens, Shaanxi Chengxuan Government can't escape from the relationship, and Shaanxi commander can't escape from the relationship, and Shaanxi Governor can't escape from the relationship...

These officials must have their own connections in the court. They must now hold back the news as soon as possible, hide it from the emperor, and use their connections to first open up and down the court. After everything is arranged, the news will be no longer afraid of leaking into the emperor's ears. Among the fast horses that are back and forth on the post road, I don't know how many letters are about connecting and going through the back door.

The officialdom is an extremely huge network of relationships, complex and complex. It is extremely difficult or impossible to improve it from within it. Zhu Yuanzhang was even more determined to overturn this chessboard in the Ming Dynasty.

The group stayed overnight in the morning and took two days to walk from Chengcheng to the vicinity of Ma's house. Seventeen maids all had their legs and feet sore. Fortunately, the maids were all from poor families and had no feet tied around them, otherwise they would have fallen a few of them long ago.

When you could see the Ma family courtyard in the distance, several maids from the Zhang family couldn't help but feel a little scared and whispered: "Manager Zhu, is the young master of the Ma family fierce? Will he beat and scold us servants from the Zhang family?"

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Don't worry, the eldest young master has no time to take care of his servants' affairs, and the second young master is not in the mood to take care of him. In the Ma family, as long as you don't offend Ma Qianjiu, the chief manager of the front yard, you will not be embarrassed."

"Is Ma Qianjiu very fierce in charge of affairs? Which one is more powerful, Ma or you?" several little maids asked in a verbal manner.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Ma is not a bad person. He is the manager of the front yard and the family affairs. I am just the manager of the side yard and the family's farming and tenants."

The little maids said oh, and then they whispered boldly: "Manager Zhu is the most powerful manager I have ever met. Who is Ma Qianjiu? He is even older than Manager Zhu? I don't accept this."

"That's right, I don't accept this." Another little maid also whispered: "We're meeting the lady, oh... Now it's the second young master of the Ma family. Let's say more good things about Manager Zhu in front of her, and let the lady go to the second young master to talk to him, and change Manager Zhu to manage the front yard."

"that is!"

A group of little girls who know nothing, Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in his heart, "Don't say that your method is useless at all, even if it is useful, I don't want to continue to climb up the Ma family now. I now want to look at the peasant uprising a year later... I cultivate my reputation and prestige among the people, and sit up the tide of peasant uprisings.

Since the goal has been changed, there is no need to deliberately help the Ma family in the future. Help the poor farmers and villagers from all over the countryside. This is the most important thing.

The group arrived at the gate of the Ma Mansion. When they came from a distance, they had been seen by the servants guarding the gate. The two servants guarding the gate divided into one to report, but the other quickly came up and shouted to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu, you are finally back. Come in quickly! The eldest young master, the second young master, the third young lady, and the second young lady who had entered the gate are all waiting for you anxiously... Especially the new second young master, who has cried like tears these two days. Go in quickly, they have a lot to ask you."

He said this, paused and said, "Our servants of the Ma family are also very concerned about the safety of Brother Zhu. You came back several days later than Miss San, and everyone was worried about it."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and patted the servants' shoulders gently and said, "I'm sorry, brothers care! Thank you. Come and say hello to the brothers and sisters behind me. They are servants and maids of the Zhang family. We will be a family in the future."

"Huh? Brother Zhu, I feel like you are a little changed..." The kid was stunned. He felt that Zhu Ba was a little more amiable than before, but this feeling was very mysterious and I couldn't explain why.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed in his heart. In the past, he had been hesitating about which path he should take to save the Ming Dynasty. So on the one hand, he was pleased with the young master of the Ma family, hoping to improve his identity and get into the court. On the other hand, he also earned the reputation of the people and hoped to get the support of the people around him. But after returning from this trip, he had already determined the way he would take in the future. He didn't have to be as good as he could, but just faced one side, and his attitude was naturally different to those who might be absorbed into his team.

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