Anhui affairs are very troublesome. To solve these affairs smoothly, the most important thing is to make Anhui officials obedient. However, since ancient times, there have been many things in the officialdom that "destroy superiors and do not hide their subordinates".

Therefore, "how to make Anhui officials obedient" became the most important thing Ma De needed to consider before entering Anhui.

Fortunately, his mind is pretty good, and the method has already taken shape before he arrived in Anqing.

From ancient times to the present, most officials have been considering how to get promoted and make money, rather than doing practical things; the same is true for those scholars, who study hard and "turn a blind eye to the sound outside the window", is just to gain fame! This fame is just a stepping stone for these scholars to enter the officialdom.

Made thought of this method.

Since everyone wants to be an official, okay!

An official, if you want to be promoted, you will first take out your political achievements, otherwise you will step down sooner or later. A scholar, supervising the political achievements of those officials is the stepping stone to achieve fame.

As for merchants, it is a fast and convenient information carrier. They can quickly provide Made with situations in various places. Even if these merchants are afraid of offending officials and dare not make it clear, just reporting on food prices in various places that are related to national economy and people's livelihood is enough to let Made know a lot.

However, Ma De also knew that no one had used his methods. There would inevitably be loopholes. What if these vulnerabilities were attacked?

In this regard, Ma De thinks... easy to deal with!

In this era, the characters represented by the two words "Masters and famous scholars" can often guide the direction of public opinion. Because in the eyes of many people, these people are representatives of morality and justice. Anhui is not short of such people. Tongcheng is simply the origin of such people. Therefore, Ma De believes that as long as the top figures here can identify with him, what he does in Anhui will be basically morally guaranteed after his own power guarantee.

So, he is going to Tongcheng!

Especially he wanted to have a good talk with Zhang Tingyu's younger brother, for nothing else, because Zhang Tinglu was very talented and also had an older brother who was the prime minister.

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Fengtian!

When Luo Xinshi set foot here again a few months later, he felt a little unaware of it.

Avenue!

It's exactly the same as Ningguta's.

First dig the foundation, then use gravel and sand to plaster. Then, add sand to the rough cement made of a tile kiln and spread it on it. The middle is slightly higher for drainage, and there are bricks and stones on both sides, and a special drainage outlet is provided.

On the roadside! There are already some yellow rice in the fields. When Luo Xin came last time, it was still winter here, and the snow was so thick that she couldn't see anything at all.

And trees!

Not only are there on both sides of the road, but in the fields, each acre of land is also separated by trees. Although these trees are still small, they still look very neat!

...

"Master, have we returned to Ningguta?" Seeing the scene in front of him, Amur rode a horse and followed Luo Xin and couldn't help asking.

"Haha, this is my 'uncle'' plan! Alas, I came last time in winter, so I couldn't take a closer look. I thought I hadn't looked here carefully for a year or two. Now it seems, it's not bad! It's a little worse than our Ninggu Tower!" Luo Xin smiled.

"That's! The old master's ability is also extraordinary!" Amur replied.

"Master, the old master seems to be not in Fengtian. I heard that he has been staying in Liaodong for the past few days!" Xu Rigan continued Amur's words.

"It's okay! Let's take a long way to see him!" Luo Xin replied.

...

Luo Xin has a lot of people, one or two hundred! In addition to her and Ma De’s Baoyin slaves and personal soldiers, they are some Ningguta natives who want to follow them, such as Orge! Everyone in the team rode one or two horses, and more than a dozen carriages were pulling some salutes.

Such teams are not common in Fengtian. Therefore, when she meets someone, she can always see the glances of those people.

However, in addition to envy and doubt, these eyes seemed to have a little contempt and hostility.

Especially when Luo Xin saw a young man working in the field spitting into the field with great disdain after seeing her team, she became even more sure of this.

"What's going on?"

She was puzzled. With the popularity of Old Man Fei in Fengtian and the popularity of people, the little fame that Princess Luo Xin left in Fengtian should not be so unpopular!

"Master, these people's eyes are a little wrong!" Xu Rigan also discovered it.

"I know! Go and find someone to come and ask! Really, what's going on?" Luo Xin was very unhappy.

...

Luo Xin's order was quickly executed, and Xu Rigan sent someone to the field to call an old man over.

"The old man has seen a noble man, you are lucky!" The old man was strong and had a taste of Shandong flavor! As soon as he came over, he clasped his fists and bowed to Luo Xin.

"Uncle, your surname is yours?" Luo Xin asked dismounted.

"The noble man is so proud of the old man, and he is a bad old man. Where can I get the noble surname? The young surname is Zhang, just call me Old Man Zhang!" the old man replied.

"So it's Uncle Zhang! Are you Guigeng this year?" Luo Xin hugged the old man and continued to ask. The questioning should be progressive step by step. She still knows a little about this kind of questioning skills.

"I dare not be a good person, but I dare not be a good person! The old man can't bear the title of noble man!... The old man is fifty-eight this year!" Old man Zhang replied with his fists again.

"Oh! That's almost sixty years old! Uncle Zhang's accent seems to be from Shandong, why did he come to Fengtian all the way?" A servant put out a stool, Luo Xin sat down by himself, and forced Old Man Zhang to sit down. Old Man Zhang took out a dry tobacco and started smoking.

"Oh! My family is poor and I can't survive. I heard that the emperor was going to open up wasteland in Fengtian, so the old man couldn't help but instigate the children, so he brought his family here. It's not bad. Although it was late, Lord Yang here is a good person. He not only gave seeds and grains, but also farm tools and livestock. The grain planted earlier this year grew well and was about to be harvested!" Old man Zhang replied with a tobacco pipe in his mouth.

"Mr. Yang? Oh, is Yang Zhongne?" Luo Xin asked.

"That's right, it's this Lord Yang. Do you know him?" Old Man Zhang asked again.

"I have met a few times!" Luo Xin replied casually. In fact, she had never seen the Zhizhong of Fengtian Prefecture.

"Then the relationship is good. Lord Yang is a good person! Whoever sees him will be blessed!" Old Man Zhang sighed.

"Haha, uncle, you are so interesting!" Luo Xin looked at the old man and asked again: "Uncle, I think the people here seem to feel a little uncomfortable with us coming over. Can you tell me what's going on?"

"I knew that you, the noble man, have put down your figure and talked to the old man for such a long time, and must have wanted to ask something!" Old Man Zhang smiled.

"Oh? Uncle, you can see it as soon as you come up?" Luo Xin asked with a smile.

"That's it! Although the old man has no knowledge, he has lived for almost a lifetime! I haven't seen anything before?" Old man Zhang raised his eyes and shook his cigarette puff proudly.

"Haha, Uncle Zhang, you are a good idea. Since you already know my purpose, can you tell me uncle?" Luo Xin asked with a smile again.

"You are a good person! This old man can tell. Otherwise, you wouldn't have the patience to talk so much with the old man. And the servant you sent to call me an old man here just now is quite polite. He has known that you are a good person since childhood. At least, you are not the kind of person who bullies others with power. He also called you my "uncle". Hehe, with this voice, the old man just doesn't want to say it, and I'm embarrassed not to say it!" Old Man Zhang also smiled.

"Then please give me some advice, uncle!" Luo Xin smiled and hugged Old Man Zhang and clasped his fists.

"You're welcome!... You don't know. The people in our area all came from the same village. In fact, they didn't like you, but who said you were the bannermen? Everyone couldn't stand the anger of those bannermen!" Old man Zhang sighed and put on a pipe in his mouth.

"Uncle, what's going on? The bannermen here bullied you?" Luo Xin asked.

"The bannermen in the 'here' did not bully us! We bullied the bannermen from the pass! It was those Beijing flags!" Old man Zhang spat out a few sips of cigarettes and said.

"You bullied the bannermen?" Luo Xinqi said.

"That's right!" Old Man Zhang gestured with a pipe, "Those guys, I don't know how to open the land, so I want to rob ours. At the beginning, we gave in to them! But they are getting worse. They obviously can't plant the land they gave them, and they still come to rob ours. Isn't this an obvious bullying? If you can give in this time or twice, if you give in the third time, wouldn't that be a coward?"

"Hasn't the Jingqi all brought to Liaodong to open a salt farm? As far as I know, the ones who stayed in Fengtian should be the elderly, weak, women and children!" Luo Xin asked again.

"You are talking about the first batch of Beijing flags that have returned to the tunnel! Those people, I heard that they were being punished by our Fengtian Prefecture Chief Fei, and no one dared to cause trouble! But these are different now. They are in the second and third batches, and no one has ever taught them a lesson! Lord Yang is a Han Chinese and cannot deal with them. So, they are very arrogant!" Old man Zhang smacked his cigarette mouth and sighed.

"So that's the case! Didn't that Lord Yang Zhongne tell Fengtian Prefecture's Prefecture that Mr. Fei?" Luo Xin asked again.

"So what if I tell you? They are all bannermen. In the end, we will suffer losses. Although the Fengtian bannermen don't mess with us much, they won't help us either? So, it's only a day to make trouble! At worst, go north, I will take my whole family to Ningguta with my whole family!" Old man shouted.

"Ninggu Tower?"

"That's right! I heard that Ningguta is also a good place. Although it's a little far away, since I left the house, how is the same?" Old Man Zhang replied.

"Haha, uncle, you are so open-minded. By the way, what did you say just now? Are you bullying the people of Jingqi? What's going on?" Luo Xin continued to ask.

"Hmph! Lord Yang said that we planted Manchuria land, so according to the established rules, every five acres of land was opened, one acre was handed over for those bannermen to plant!..." Old man Zhang lit his tobacco pipe again and continued, "This is nothing! To be honest, you may not know that Fengtian Mansion collects less taxes! There is not even a fire consumption, let alone anything else. What's the point of splitting 20% ​​of the land? When he first came, the government also gave grain seeds and other objects, and these things were not adulterated at all! The plowshare pulled by a horse was so fast that it was plowing the ground.

Three or four cows on the top of the foot. What can we do with such a good thing? But those Beijing flags are lazy! We have opened the land and distributed 20% of them, but they have left it there to not grow it!... If we don't plant it, don't plant it. We thought that it was the business of those people, so we didn't care. But who would have thought that the crops were planted and now they are almost harvested, and they rushed over and said that they didn't like the land they had distributed to them before. Now, they have liked the land we are planting now and asked us to share 20% of them!... You said, isn't this ready-made bullying?"

"Damn it! How can this bully be a bully? It's just a robbery!" Luo Xin clenched her fists and said.

"You are right! This is a robbery! But who told us that we are not a bannerman? So, I gave up and gave them 10% of the harvest!" Old man Zhang kowtowed to the stone next to him with a pipe and said.

"Uncle lets go, some things cannot be let go. This let go means boosting the arrogance of those people." Luo Xin said.

"Oh, you are right. But he is a bannerman, the master of this land! So, when they come again, we gave up 10%!" Old Man Zhang sighed again.

"Has they come for the third time?" Luo Xin continued to ask.

"You are right, nobleman," put the cigarette pipe on your belt, and Old Man Zhang nodded, "They should have no reason to come again this time, so we didn't give in. As a result, they started fighting."

"Hit?" Luo Xin asked.

"Yes, I've beaten! When the bannermen saw that we didn't give in, they wanted to take action. But they were all with small arms and calves, and they were not the opponents of us? So, a group of people were beaten back by a group of kids here." Old Man Zhang sighed.

"I'm afraid they won't give up like this, right?" Luo Xin asked.
Chapter completed!