The news of Li Zhi's triumph soon spread throughout the city, and the officials and gentry got the news and gathered at the gate of the county government. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After a while, the county magistrate also knew the news, and ran outside with these officials and gentry in a panic. When they arrived at the gate of the city, they saw the Xuanfeng Regiment and the officer Li Zhi who were surrounded by the people.

Seeing Li Zhi, who was riding on a tall horse, returning triumphantly, the county commander's beard was shocking, and he was a little speechless.

The crowd of onlookers grew more and more, and at this time, even the city wall was full of people, and everyone crowded there to see the head of the bandit and the hero who defeated the bandit. However, when the people saw that the county order was coming, they still took the initiative to avoid it and made way for the officials and gentry to come to Li Zhi.

The magistrate approached, and saw that none of Li Zhi's troops were injured, and the old man was even more surprised, as if he had seen a group of divine generals.

The county commander glanced at Li Zhi and asked loudly: "Lord Baihu, the thieves in the thief's nest in Cloud Plug Peak, have you already arrested all of them?" ”

Li Zhi patted his Wusun BMW and said loudly: "The blessing of the county lord, not a single one has been missed!" ”

"No one in your department was injured?"

"No one was hurt!"

The county commander gasped, and secretly said that this is really a heavenly soldier? Even the Qi family army that exterminated the Japanese invaders back then couldn't win more with less without being injured.

Li Zhi was so brave that the county commander's face was very embarrassed. He looked at the officials and gentry on the left and right, and saw that they all had shameful faces. Obviously, when he received Li Zhi the day before yesterday, he was too contemptuous, and now that Li Zhi has returned from a big victory, he can't go down the steps one by one.

Li Zhi was reluctant to let go of the county order like this, he looked at the county order wearing a seven-rank official robe, rode on the horse and smiled.

"Lord County, it was like that then, how is it today?"

The county order was so embarrassed by Li Zhi's words that his face was flushed, and he closed his eyes in shame, refusing to open his eyes for a long time.

After a while, the old county commander suddenly screamed, opened his eyes, gritted his teeth and shook the long sleeves of his official uniform, pushed Jinshan, and poured a jade pillar towards Li Zhichang, and said loudly: "Thank you to the hundred households for bravely brave the danger regardless of the previous suspicions, eliminate violence and peace for my small county, and destroy the bandits!" ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, civil officials had a very high status, and military attachés often had to kneel when they saw civil officials of the same level. A magistrate to a hundred households to the land, this situation has never been seen by everyone. If it weren't for the fact that the Lord of the Hundred Households had won such a big battle, the people would have thought that they were wrong.

However, since the county order took the lead, a group of officials and gentry also hurriedly followed, and several people in the county and the county secretary of the county raised their heads one by one, and shouted loudly: "Thank you to the hundred households for bravely brave the danger regardless of their previous suspicions, eliminate violence and peace for my small county, and exterminate the bandits!" ”

Not only did the officials and gentry salute Li Zhi, but also the talented and talented children in the crowd saw their parents taking the lead in saluting, so they also bowed to the ground one by one and bowed to Li Zhi who was riding on a horse.

When the people saw the gentlemen saluting like this, they knew that the scene was solemn at this time, and they did not dare to speak, but they quieted the east gate, which was surrounded by thousands of people.

In the center of thousands of people, Li Zhi rode on a horse and looked at the officials and gentry who were bowing to the ground, arched his hand in vain, and said lightly: "Why worry about it?" ”

The county magistrate who fell to the ground heard this fluttering words, his face turned even redder, and he took a step forward, almost falling to the ground.

When they went to suppress the bandits, only Li Zhi and Zhong Feng had horses, but on the way back, there were more than 30 donkeys and horses, and the triumphant road of the first company of the second battalion of the Xuanfeng Regiment was easy and happy.

When Li Zhi returned to the Acropolis and handed over the head of the bandit and the old and weak bandit to the governor, He Shishou looked at Li Zhi differently:

First of all, He Shishou knew that Li Zhi's family team had only been established for two months, and it was really a great thing to defeat the old thieves of Jiyun Peak with two months of recruits. Li Zhi took the initiative to ask to be a military attaché, and it seems that there are still two brushes, and He Shishou feels more and more that Li Zhi is a talent that can be created.

Secondly, the thunderous means to eliminate the old thieves in the collar are also a political achievement for the governor, and it is also helpful for He Shishou's future career, and He Shishou naturally looks at Li Zhi, who helped him complete this political achievement. On the same day, he wrote a document for Li Zhi to report to the military department for his light meritorious service, or in less than a month, Li Zhi's reward would come down.

Moreover, Li Zhi has always been generous! This time, seeing that the governor asked for credit for himself, Li Zhi did not slack off, he took out 1,000 taels of stolen silver from the stolen silver seized by Jiyun Peak and gave it to He Shishou, which made He Shishou very satisfied.

With such subordinates, what more can a husband ask for? He Shishou was already thinking about where there was a reason to promote Li Zhi.

After Li Zhi finished the work of cleaning up the bandits, he returned to Fanjiazhuang and began to expand the production capacity of the soap factory.

It took Li Zhi a month to go to Yanshan to suppress the bandits, and it was already mid-December, and Fanjiazhuang was waiting to be developed: three-quarters of the rammed earth city wall of the new Fanjiazhuang had been repaired, and half of the brick-wrapping work had been completed. Since mid-September, the second group of masons and carpenters have started to repair villas in Fanjiazhuang, and 600 villas have been repaired so far.

A soap workshop to accommodate the expansion of production capacity has also been built, south of Xinfanjiazhuang.

Li Zhi had the intention of moving all the factories and workers in the Tianjin Acropolis to Fanjiazhuang, and of course the newly built soap workshop would not recruit people in the Acropolis. This time, Li Zhi directly held a "job fair" in Fanjiazhuang to recruit people, and asked all the hired new employees to move into Fanjiazhuang and rent in a newly built villa.

The cottage has four bedrooms, and the rent is two dollars and seven cents of silver a month. If the worker is a bachelor, it costs only seven cents to sublet a house. Even for couples with children, renting two houses separately costs only one and a half cents, less than one-tenth of a worker's monthly salary, and the workers can afford it.

The job fair went smoothly, and it only took half a day for Li Zhi to recruit 80 new employees who were honest and willing to move into Fanjiazhuang.

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The cold wind of December howled and blew people cold. Shi Er put his frozen hand to his mouth and sighed, put down his luggage package, and stood a little nervously in front of the official hall of the hundred households in Fanjiazhuang.

Shi Er is a farmer in the nearby Shijia Village, and three days ago he heard in the village that people who had read books said that Fanjiazhuang was recruiting workers, and Shi Er hurried to Fanjiazhuang to participate in the interview and was lucky to pass. At that time, the 100 households who interviewed him gave him a card with a seal on it, and asked him to bring his belongings and luggage to report to Fanjiazhuang today.

This trip to Fanjiazhuang, the parents at home sent themselves out with tears.

The peasant family has never been out and has never seen the world, but they also know that it is very difficult to work for the official family and get money. Fanjiazhuang and Shijia Village are very close, in the past, those poor military households in Fanjiazhuang Shijia Village have seen it, that is really poor, the soldier's monthly salary of five yuan a month may not be obtained, they are all swallowed by the officials, and they have to help the officials farm on weekdays. Shi Er wants to go to such a place to do things, and his parents know that they will not have a good life in the future.

However, Shi Er had no other way out, so he had to come to Fanjiazhuang to give it a try.

His family only has 27 acres of dry land and three earthen houses, and the grain grown every year is just enough for the family to eat. However, although the family is poor, the father gritted his teeth and saved money to marry a daughter-in-law for Shi Er's eldest brother. Over the years, the family of four has saved ten taels of silver, and last month his twenty-three-year-old brother finally found a daughter-in-law and got married.

The eldest brother got married, and the Shi family could pass on the lineage, although the parents were happy, but as soon as the sister-in-law passed the door, the family's economic problems were on the table. Twenty-seven acres of dry land can't support two men to start a family, and Shi Er must find another way out. So although he didn't believe that Baihu would give him monthly money, Shi Er still came to Fanjiazhuang, at least he could earn a bite to eat by working here, so that he could make room for the family to eat, so that the eldest brother and sister-in-law could have a son.

Shi Er's move to Fanjiazhuang is considered a family split. This time the family was separated, and all the property of the family was left to the eldest brother who became a relative, and Shi Er did not get an acre of land or a house, but only went out with his own cotton clothes and quilts.

For the sake of the family's inheritance, Shi Er can only do this.

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