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Chapter 248 The caravan that came at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month

People die for money and birds die for food. Everyone knows that officials and servants in the yamen are greedy for money, but they do not expect that they have reached such a greed for money.

After all parties in the county learned about the offer from Jin Er, they became a little admirable. This behavior really sticks to their original intentions. Even if there are major risks between life and death, they still have to be deducted.

Those who have read books remember a song "Snatching the mouth of a mud swallow, cutting iron needles, scraping gold Buddha's face and searching carefully, and finding something out of nothing. Looking for peas in a quail's cube, cutting flesh on the legs of a egret, and fat on the mosquito's belly. It's a pity that the old man takes action!"

Many people couldn't sleep that night. Some tossed and turned on the kang, and some didn't even take off their clothes. From time to time, they walked into the yard and looked in a certain direction. That direction was where the Jin Er family's house was. Everyone guessed whether the fire would catch up at night.

After dawn, each family asked for information that no one in the county town caught fire at night, and no one was suddenly killed by thieves at night, which made everyone feel relieved.

Zhu Da still didn't return to the city. According to the news that came back, this young man was still practicing those refugees. If it weren't for the previous fire prevention and killing, looking at Zhu Da's normal state, everyone might really think that he had nothing to do with Zhang Xunzhang's killing.

Some smart people speculate that Zhu Da will definitely not return to the city. If he and Qin Juren are both in the city, there is a risk of being beaten up in one fell swoop, so the father and son will not be both in the city, or one in the city, or both outside the city.

Some people also told Chang Kai about this speculation to Chang Kai who returned to the city. Now Deputy Chang is a popular figure in the county. Everyone can't reach Qin Juren and dare not flatter Zhu Da. However, as a local servant in the hometown, Chang Kai has some face and is not open-minded. He told him that the speculation was not malicious, but he just wanted to get close to him. After hearing this, Chang Kai just sneered. When he thought, Zhu Da didn't care about this risk at all. How could this small Huairen County stop such a big boss?

In fact, Chang Kai heard that Zhang Xunzhang was killed later than the others in the county, but after hearing this, Chang Kai was more sure that Zhu Da killed him, because too many clues and speculations can prove this, and even the drastic changes in Widow Zhou's attitude were also proof of it. However, Chang Kai had no sympathy for Zhang Xunzhang. He was now standing aside with Zhu Da. If anyone offended Zhu Da, he would want that person to die.

Moreover, Zhang Xunshang's murder in the street made Chang Kai feel that he was rising, and the flattery and enthusiasm of all parties in the county were proof of it.

There was also news from the county yamen that County Magistrate Ai and his master were discussing this matter, and in the end he had no choice but to write official documents with a ugly face and report to the city. People who know the officialdom know that this matter is to investigate without any evidence. If they go into it in depth, it will endanger themselves. They can only pinch their noses and be punished by the upper part. No wonder County Magistrate Ai and his staff looked ugly. They were already seeking to transfer their posts, and once the matter of killing officials in the street rebellion occurs, they may have to stay.

In theory, there were major cases of killing officials and rebelling in the jurisdiction of the post. As the chief official, he had to take the primary responsibility and could be seized and imprisoned. However, the matters in the officialdom were always vague. Although the position of the magistrate was tempting, what could be done in Huairen County in trouble? After this file, it would mean that there was a risk. Who would do poor and risky chores, or make the county guilty.

This is a chain reaction. When everyone knows that Ai Zhixian would not be able to leave for a while, they realize that they should flatter Qin Juren and Zhu Da even more, because this shows that the situation in the county will not change at all. Qin Juren and Zhu Da are still the strongest side. If a new county magistrate comes, they may be unwilling to accept it. After a fight, Ai Zhixian has learned a lesson and knows that he is capable of being a good person, so he will naturally not have any thoughts.

Not only did there be a chain reaction in the county, but also a similar reaction in the farmland. When Zhu Da trained the refugees in a strong and strong manner, he found that he was the most obedient and respectful. He was actually the young policemen in the county. Their concentration and attentiveness even exceeded that of the servants, which made the servants unwilling to fall behind and tried to catch up. The two sides worked together to urge the refugees to train. Compared to the past, the training effect on this day was the best.

The reason is very simple. The young policemen who are rotating today have heard all kinds of rumors in the city. Zhang Yang and inspector Zhang are all great heroes who need to look up to them. Who would have thought of being cut down by Zhu Da in the street? He did not respect this young man and even many young policemen have the intention to surrender. Now some people envy Fu Yu and Meng Tian.

The refugees are also very motivated to train because they are eating more and more full, and even their family lives well. There are two reasons why they work wholeheartedly. One is the wool weaving activity. Seeing their woolen women constantly consume wool, although they all think that this young master is absurd and prodigal, it may be that he is so expensive. The other reason is that he is awe beyond confidence, or fear. People who are slightly more sensitive can feel that Mr. Zhu and Mr. Zhou have been particularly scary these two days.

Although he did not know the details, Zhang Dahui's delivery frequency was becoming more and more frequent, which meant that the private workshop he set up should have been established. Now the training of young refugees is no longer empty-handed. When everyone was running in line, they held wooden poles of the same length in their hands. Only the poles used by the servants were rotated. Only the servants in charge of the warehouse knew that the length of the short wooden poles was the same as the length of the axe gun.

At the beginning of training, the children in the farm were willing to go over and watch, and the boys and girls were happy to watch, but until now, most girls in the farm were afraid to watch. I heard that some people were scared to cry when watching, but only the boys were happy to watch, and even half-aged and adults were willing to watch.

There was also news from the refugee woman to the wife of Chang Kai, and from the wife of Chang Kai, who came to the wife of Zhu Da, saying that she was her husband, her son, and her younger brother, who were becoming more and more like men.

The days that followed were ordinary, and as the twelfth lunar month was about to enter, the plan to collect the unowned wasteland was still underway, but the officials who handled and handled the matter would go to the Qin Juren's mansion to report every other day. Although Qin Juren was just listening, no one dared to be negligent.

The Datong Prefecture also dealt with the case of Zhang's murder. He strictly reprimanded the magistrate of Huairen County and fined him one year's salary, and ordered him to investigate and deal with it strictly. However, there was no time limit for solving the case, and no one mentioned who would succeed him. This made Huairen County understand the attitude above. Killing officials and rebelling is indeed a major case, but a ninth-rank inspection in a broken place really makes people too lazy to pay attention to, and no one is even interested in this vacant ninth-rank inspection position. Then there is no need to worry about the follow-up. As for the annual salary that County Magistrate Ai was fined, there is naturally a way to make up for it, and it will even be several times or more.

The result of this incident made people even more admire Qin Juren and Zhu Da. They thought they had made up their minds and then acted. It was because Qin Juren considered the consequences and the situation before he asked Zhu Da to take action. He increasingly determined that Qin Juren was the leader and Zhu Da was the minion. No one could have thought that Zhu Da’s actions were to make decisions by himself.

On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow fell in Huairen County, and auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. This snow made the county government excited, because it foreshadowed that the newly assigned homeless wasteland would have a good harvest in the coming year. The snowflakes looked like grains of grains of grains and copper coins. At the same time as the snow, the Li family caravan from Daizhou also arrived.

More than a month has passed since I last met the Li family caravan. Around the twelfth lunar month, there were fewer and fewer caravans in Shanxi and Datong, because everyone was in a hurry to go home for the New Year. Zhu Da thought that seeing the Li family caravan again should be in the new year, and he might not even see him again. Unexpectedly, during the twelfth lunar month, the caravan came to Huairen County.

The leader is Li Zhuang, who is now the new leader of the Li family caravan.

But anyone could see that Li Zhuang could not convince the public. The caravans who came to the farm were full of vigilance and even pushed the orders of the caravan leaders, which made Li Zhuang very embarrassed.

“…Why don’t you stay in the city? What are you doing in this ghost place…”

"......The groceries we bring can be sold at high prices when we go to the garage center. Can we sell them in this poor place?..."

"... I guess you have to go to a few more places to sell it. This little boss is really confused. This time, it may be even more troublesome to sell goods and receive goods. In the first lunar month of the twelfth lunar month, those who should be sold out have already been sold out..."

"...... Stay away from the big car, the things on the car are very valuable. Can you afford to pay if you break it up..."

The caravan's workmen spoke coldly, and did not even deliberately lower their voices. They also had a bad attitude towards the whole country. If it weren't for Zhu Da's subordinates' trouble, they would have been quarrels and beatings.

Such behavior did not give the master some face. Li Zhuang, who was standing in front of Zhu Da, looked red and full of shame.

In fact, the young caravan leader did not have much confidence. The grocery caravans around the twelfth lunar month faced mainly for New Year's goods. Merchants who were traveling in Datong knew that the most affordable customers were border generals and garrisons, and soldiers and military households were miserable, but military officers and military generals had money, and the local poor were very poor and could not sell too much. Moreover, merchants like the Li family caravans had profits in addition to selling goods, but as the twelfth lunar month approached, they had already sold all the goods on the grassland or local specialties.

The manager and the clerk in the caravan all followed Li Zhuang's uncle for many years and had a rich experience in doing business. Everyone could see that Li Zhuang had made many mistakes that he shouldn't have made. In their opinion, this was a mischief and a corruption of the family business. Everyone was holding his nose and following the orders, but it was inevitable to complain and speak coldly.

Li Zhuang understood the emotions of the people below, and he knew that he had made many mistakes, but Li Zhuang still wanted to gamble. Li Zhuang wanted to get Zhu Da together, so he took the caravan with a full load of goods to Huairen County at this time. But when he saw the neat but very shabby farm, the farm was still outside the county town, and Li Zhuang couldn't help but feel a little shaken.
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