Nanjing's Mochou Lake has a beautiful scenery and has always been the favorite place for literati and artists, and there are also many Qinglou Chu Museums in Nanjing.

It is just the opposite of the Jiangdongmen Qianhu Office to the west of Mochou Lake, which has always been a famous slum in Nanjing, because the Jiangdongmen Qianhusuo is located here, because the Qianhusuo is too poor, the locals have a saying: they would rather escape the famine than marry Jiangdongmen.

From this sentence, it can be seen how unpopular the Jiangdongmen Thousand Households are, the Jiangdong Gate Thousand Households are too poor, and the laws of the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulate that after entering the military register, generations will be military households, so there is a saying that the people would rather marry their daughters to chickens and dogs than marry military households.

But this is already the old yellow calendar, since last year, the changes in the Jiangdong Gate Thousand Households have been getting better and better day by day, and those guys who were ridiculed by the people as poor military households in the past have begun to turn over. They began to cultivate a large area of land to grow a crop called potatoes, and also began to open many workshops, and even took in tens of thousands of displaced people.

Such a change not only stunned the people of Nanjing, but also silenced the officials. Since ancient times, it has always been the responsibility of the government to collect and resettle displaced people, and the responsibility of the guard office is only to maintain the peace of the place, but now the guard office has robbed the government of its work, which cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.

It stands to reason that if someone had the courage to rob the government of the government, those civil officials would have attacked it in groups, but what is surprising is that the government has a tacit attitude towards this matter, and no matter how the Jiangdongmen Thousand Households collect the displaced people, they just pretend to be deaf and dumb and can't see it.

In fact, the reason for this result is also expected, the resettlement of displaced people has always been a thankless task, not only requires a lot of money, food and energy, but also accidentally triggers a civil uprising, a bad will also lose the official resignation, so the government has always been able to push this kind of thing, and now there are unjust big people who come out to do the work for them, how can they not be happy, hurry up and make a fortune.

In the past year, the Jiangdongmen Thousand Households and the Jiangningwei to which it belongs have changed significantly, and with the increasing planting area of potatoes, the problem of food and clothing that has plagued Jiangningwei for many years has finally been solved. Moreover, Yang Feng even distributed food and salary to military households, which was an unprecedented initiative since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Today's Jiang Ningwei is no longer a poor military household that is so poor in the eyes of the people, and the military household that Jiang Ningwei has come out of has become the object of envy of many people. It is said that these days, some people have asked the matchmaker to ask if they can marry a military household.

Today, Geng Bingyi, a new member of the Jiangdong Gate Thousand Households, sat in the hall of the Thousand Households, looked at the more than ten hundred households, the general banner and other officers sitting on both sides, and said with a smile: "Everyone, I believe that the big guys who have just sent the battle report have read it, and our Jiangning army has won a great victory in Liaodong. Killed the fifth son of the thief chief Nurhachi, Mang Gurtai, and even Nurhachi himself does not know whether he is alive or dead, and now Lord Yang is ordered to return to the court, and it is estimated that it will not be long before he returns, and we can't drop the chain for the adults here. ”

Baihu Xu Li patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, my lord, everything is normal here, whether it is a farm, a workshop or a military training in the past few months, everything has gone smoothly, Lord Yang will definitely be happy when he comes back." ”

"I hope so."

Geng Bingyi turned his head to look at a middle-aged man in his thirties in a green shirt sitting next to him and said, "Dian Chen, have we solved the dispute with that official a few days ago?" ”

This man is Jiang Ningwei's chief bookkeeper Li Ge's recommendation to Jiang Ningwei's friend Chen Tian, Yang Feng still trusts Chen Tian very much, and at the beginning he was responsible for getting jade from Yunnan Yunnan and Burma, and made a great contribution to Yang Feng's rapid accumulation of funds in modern time and space, and later found that this Chen Tian was indeed capable, and Yang Feng appointed him as the warden of the Jiangdong Gate Thousand Households, and it can be said that he was in charge of the logistics of the Jiangdong Gate Thousand Households.

Seeing Geng Bingyi's question, Chen Tian's brows furrowed and he shook his head, "Lord Bai insists that the wasteland is theirs, let us return the wasteland to him, otherwise he will let the Shuntian Mansion seal it up." ”

"Nonsense!"

Xu Li was so angry that he stood up and said loudly: "That wasteland was originally an ownerless thing, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the ownerless wasteland belongs to whoever cultivates it, since this wasteland is the wasteland that we opened up first, it is ours, why does he say it is his?" ”

Chen Tian said with some distress: "But Bai Tianchen said that the land is the land handed down by their ancestors, but it has not been cultivated for many years, and now it is going to be taken back and replanted, which makes us very embarrassed." ”

Geng Bingyi was silent for a while before he said: "Since he said that his family's, let them take the title deed to see, if he can't move his mouth, let's give them the land that has just been cultivated." ”

"Right...... Let them come and have a look at the title deeds. The officers also shouted, "This land was originally just a wasteland, and no one has been clearing it for so many years. ”

"Lord Qianhu, they want to take advantage of us when they see that the commander is not there!"

"We must not get used to their stinky problem, if we hand over the land today, tomorrow they will dare to stretch out their hands to our thousands of households!"

Seeing the crowd of passionate people, Geng Bingyi pondered for a while: "You are right, the commander will hand over the guard to us before leaving, if it is robbed by those people in our hands, we can't explain to his old man when the commander comes back." I guess the reason why that daylight morning dared to stretch out his hand to our newly opened wasteland was largely because he didn't know that the commander was coming back, so he became a thief. In this way, Xu Li, you will first mobilize 500 sergeants to the farm in the north to camp for a few days, and if you dare to mess around that day, then beat them back! ”

"Yes!"

Xu Li happily agreed,

In the signing room of the yamen of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials sat on a chair in the morning, with several official documents, pen, ink, paper, inkstones, and other things in front of him, and a cup of tea on his right hand.

The right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, converted to later generations, is the deputy minister of the Central Organization Department, such a status is naturally very high, but it is a pity that because Nanjing is the capital, he is just an empty title.

After Yongle, the officials in Nanjing are generally in the pension, this year is fifty-nine years old, he has no pursuit of his career, now his only hope is to be able to get enough money before returning to his hometown next year to go home with peace of mind, in view of this, he was instigated by someone to the Jiangdong Gate thousands of households in the wasteland.

It stands to reason that with Yang Feng's prestige, Bai Chen didn't dare to swatt flies on the tiger's head, but he couldn't stand someone often nagging in his ear, saying that Yang Feng would not be able to come back if he went to the prairie, if Yang Feng didn't come back, then Jiang Ningwei would become a piece of fat, and when the time came, there would definitely be more people who wanted to pounce over and eat meat, like a carp crossing the river.

Bai Tianchen has been floating in the sea for decades, and he would not be so easily bewitched, at least he would not be able to start until the news of Yang Feng's burp came, but he couldn't afford to wait for half a year to return to his hometown.

Stimulated by the silver of the white flowers, his IQ declined, and as soon as he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, he sent his henchmen and cronies to the Jiangdong Gate Qianhu Office with the officials of the Ministry of Officials, and told Geng Bingyi that the newly opened thousands of acres of wasteland in the Jiangdong Gate Qianhu was a piece of land handed down by his Bai family ancestors, and now they wanted to take it back, hoping that Jiang Ningwei would return the land to him as soon as possible, if not, then the Yamen would see the clouds.

According to Bai Tianchen's judgment, Jiang Ningwei is still very afraid of him, the right servant of the ministry, if his estimate is good, the people of Jiangdong Gate Qianhu should choose to compromise, after all, although he is only a waiter who accompanies the capital, he still has some strength in the territory of Nanjing, and it is not good for them to really fall out.

It's just that Bai Tianchen was happy too early, just this morning, there was an amazing news from the capital, that Yang Feng not only did not die on the prairie, but made a great contribution, and now he is returning to the court at the emperor's behest, and after this news came, Bai Tianchen has maintained this posture for almost an hour.

"How so...... How did it come to this? Didn't they clearly guarantee that the guy had died in the grassland, why did he come back? ”

Bai Tianchen only felt that his brain was about to explode, and others didn't know how powerful Yang Feng was, could he not know. When this guy was just a commander, he dared to pick up a knife and fight to death with Xu Hongji and Zhang Weixian, and he was at best just a powerless and powerless servant of the right servant, and he actually wanted to wrestle with Yang Feng.

As soon as he thought of this, Bai Tianchen couldn't wait to give a few punches or two, he opened his eyes angrily and whispered word by word: "Liao Yongquan, you bastard, dare to pit me!" ”

"Squeak!"

The door was pushed open, and a middle-aged official wearing a seven-grade green official walked in, only to see him bow to Bai Tianchen and say, "Lord Bai, there are people outside who want to see you." ”

"Someone wants to see me?"

Bai Tianchen was stunned, he came up with the official's statement, and the difference between someone asking to see and someone wanting to see is big. The former can be said to have a lower status than himself, but the latter is the opposite.

"Who is it?"

"Hahaha...... Brother Hong Ming, I didn't expect you to still work here! As the voice fell, a man walked in.

"Liao Yongquan?"

As soon as he saw the arrival, Bai Tianchen felt a surge of anger surging into his head, it was this person who instigated himself to find trouble with Jiang Ningwei, if it wasn't for himself, how could he offend Yang Feng, now he still has the face to find himself, his cheeks are too thick, right?

Looking at Liao Yongquan, Bai Tianchen glared at him hatefully and said, "You still dare to come to see me?" Do you know that you've done me a miserable blow? ”

Seeing Bai Tianchen's hateful gaze, Liao Yongquan smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Hong Ming, you are wrong to blame the little brother, the little brother didn't know that Yang Feng was so fateful that he could come back alive from the grassland, otherwise the little brother would definitely not tell you." Otherwise, you think, what good can the little brother do if he hurts you? ”

"Alright, don't pretend to be innocent."

Although Bai Tianchen was coaxed by Liao Yongquan once before, of course, the person who can be in his position is not stupid, and he can be said to have mistrusted others when he was deceived before, and if he continues to be deceived now, it can only be said that his IQ has failed.

"Lord Liao is not here this time to see the joke of Xia Guan, if so, you have already seen it, if it is okay, please go back. The lower officials still have official business, so they won't greet Lord Liao. After speaking, Bai Baichen picked up the cup of tea that had been cold on the table and sipped it to his lips, making a posture of serving tea to the guests.

Seeing Bai Tianchen put on a posture of rejecting people thousands of miles away, Liao Yongquan's eyes flashed a trace of gloom, and then he said with a smile: "Okay, since Brother Hong Ming has a deep misunderstanding of the younger brother, the younger brother can't say anything more, so he can only wait for Brother Hong Ming's anger to disappear before he comes to make amends, but before leaving, the younger brother still has something to tell Brother Hong Ming that the capital just sent the news this morning, that Yang Feng is less than fifty miles away from the capital, and he should arrive in the capital tomorrow."

And the younger brother is not afraid to tell you, that Yang Feng is famous for his retribution, in the past he dared to lead troops against the Duke of Wei and the British Duke, and killed thousands of battalion soldiers in Nanjing, he waited until Yang Feng returned to Nanjing, knowing that someone had tried to rob his land, what do you say he would do? ”

"Lord Liao, are you threatening your subordinates?" Bai Chen stood up and glared at Liao Yongquan, although Liao Yongquan is the secretary of the military department, he is just a right attendant, but the two are not the same yamen, and Liao Yongquan can't control his head, not to mention that he is going to be a minister in a few months, he doesn't have to give Liao Yongquan any face at all, "Lord Liao doesn't have to worry about the lower officials, it's a big deal that the lower officials will personally go to Jiang Ningwei to ask Lord Yang for their guilt, although Lord Yang is domineering, he will never kill the lower officials, right?" But Lord Liao, your days in Nanjing are still long, I'm afraid you're the one to worry about, right? ”

"You ......" Liao Yongquan frowned, according to his understanding of Bai Tianchen, this old man would really pull down his face and bow to Yang Feng to apologize, if this is the case, it will not be easy to do.

With a move in his heart, Liao Yongquan hurriedly said: "Brother Hong Ming, don't be like this, my little brother is here today to make amends, but to send you an invitation." ”

"Invitations?"

"Exactly."

Liao Yongquan took out a red invitation card from his sleeve and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "Tonight, Mr. Yuncong is going to invite friends to a banquet on the Qinhuai River to discuss the plan, and specially invite Brother Hong Ming to enjoy the light." ”

"Mr. Yuncong?" Bai Chen let out an exclamation.