Just when Zhu Hongsan was sad about his first son's death, good news came from Majiazhuang. On the sixth day of the seventh month, the good news was delivered to Majiazhuang. Ma Mingyuan, who went to Beijing, ranked 16th in the second grade in the high school.

Ma Guoxiang was very pleased to hear the news. There would be one more Jinshi pole at the door. There were four Jinshis in his father's generation. It was not common for the Ming Dynasty to be established for two hundred years. Ma Guoxiang's relatives and friends came to congratulate him one after another.

Feng Ziyong did not go to Majiazhuang, but came to Zhujia Farm and said that he had something to discuss with Zhu Hongsan.

The two of them sat down, and Feng Ziyong said, "Don't be sad about the death of a child. This is inevitable. You are still young and you will be reborn in the future."

Zhu Hongsan nodded, but he didn't want to say anything more about this matter. He asked, "Is it not just a comfort to me if my second cousin comes to me."

Feng Ziyong nodded and said, "There is another thing. A group of refugees ran to Liangzi Lake to become lake thieves. Originally, bandits in the world were everywhere, and no one cared about them, but a few months ago, they robbed two villages along the lake, and more than 500 villagers were killed. Then they were given the title of General of Tianxingdao. If this is not reported, it is the dereliction of duty of our local officials. In May, I reported the situation to the General of the General and the Dusi Yamen, hoping that they would send troops to suppress them. However, because Fengyang was burned last year, General Hong Chengchou ordered all the troops in Huguang and Sichuan to go to Henan to eliminate the bandits. Now the Wuchang Guard and Wuchang Left Guard are no longer available to be transferred. The Dusi Yamen has already carried out Wenwuchang County, so we can go to suppress them ourselves."

Zhu Hongsan said, "So you thought of me?"

Feng Ziyong nodded and said, "Yes, now you are the only one who is a good armed force in Wuchang County. There are less than 100 inspection departments in the county town, so it is okay to maintain public order, but it is not useful to fight wars."

Zhu Hongsan thought: "This is a good opportunity to quarrel." Then he frowned and said in a difficult situation: "Second brother is a local official and he is responsible for defending the territory. Brother-in-law, I should have done my best. But you see, I am in a mess. In addition, I have to defend the place, and I don't have enough staff, so I can't draw out troops."

Feng Ziyong cursed in his heart: "Zhu Zi is a shu Zi. He is ignorant and still has to work hard. Will he use idioms? Are you a shu? "But now, there are people who are asking for help, and Feng Ziyong knows Zhu Hongsan's turtle character and will not let go if he bites it. He will never do anything that is not good.

Feng Ziyong continued: "I naturally know the difficulties of my brother-in-law, so I have organized wealthy families in the county to donate 3,000 taels of silver to my brother-in-law's military expenses."

Zhu Hongsan curled his lips and said, "Second cousin, 3,000 taels? Send the beggar. The brothers below are not satisfied with it and will cause trouble. Then mutiny, don't blame your brother-in-law for not saying it in front."

Feng Ziyong held back his anger and said, "Then what else do you need?"

Zhu Hongsan said: "My second cousin can tell the wealthy family this way, I lack the need for use, they have more or less craftsmen in their hands, so I can give me dozens of them."

Feng Ziyong said angrily: "There are dozens, and at most ten."

"Thirty or not."

“Fifteen at most.”

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Fifteen are fine, but I want five gunpowder craftsmen."

Feng Ziyong said angrily: "I told you everything, gunpowder craftsmen are all in Nanzhili, I have this."

Zhu Hongsan scratched his head and said, "Second cousin, why not do that? You can get a reason to seal the firecracker shop in the middle of the city and get the old Duan Tou family to my job."

Feng Ziyong stood up and cursed: "Zhu Hongsan, how did your heart grow? Is it so that people can be destroyed for no reason?"

When Zhu Hongsan saw Feng Ziyong angry, he stood up and said, "My County Magistrate Feng Da, why is the Bodhisattva's heart now? Have you done something unethical before? Do you dare to swear that you have done something unethical? You have to swear that you have done something unethical and that son born to Xi Shi of Soy Sauce will have no fucks. I, a gunpowder craftsman, don't want it."

Feng Ziyong really didn't dare to make this vow. He had been the county magistrate for ten years, so of course he had done that kind of thing, and he had done a lot of it.

When Zhu Hongsan saw Feng Ziyong sitting down and not speaking, he smiled and said, "How is it, don't dare. I said second cousin, if you get the whole family of old Duan Tou, I will definitely not treat him badly."

Feng Ziyong really had no way to his brother-in-law and said, "It's not okay to get him. His gunpowder prescription is for civilian purposes and is different from military purposes. What do you want him to do?"

Zhu Hongsan said, "You don't have to worry about it, you can get it, I have a solution." Zhu Hongsan said intently, "You know that my gunpowder prescription is better than military ones."

Feng Ziyong nodded and said, "It's OK this time, what else is there."

Zhu Hongsan said: "The silver costs five thousand taels."

"Aren't you short of money?"

"Who can still complain about money biting your hands? You just get it. Give me all the gunpowder and raw materials in your warehouse."

Feng Ziyong said: "What do you want to do so much gunpowder?"

Zhu Hongsan dared to say that he had already started selling firearms to the north. He lied and said, "I want to do an experiment."

Feng Ziyong thought he wanted to do an experiment so that he could get a military formula. He ignored him, but when he saw that Zhu Hongsan had no request, he stood up and said goodbye.

Zhu Hongsan is now making Xiaowei Zhentian Thunder and selling it to the bandits in Henan. Zhentian Thunder costs 200 taels of silver, which is still in short supply. Arms are really profitable.

Ten days later, the old Duan Tou family who had agreed to the promise and the need came. Seeing the old Duan Tou family of seven, three men and four women with disheveled hair and torture instruments, the one who was escorted was Dian Shi Li Fugui.

Li Fugui came forward to meet Zhu Hongsan and said, "San Master, I will take the family of Duan Chang from the prisoner Duan Chang to accept it."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and asked, "What method did County Magistrate Feng use?"

Li Fugui said: "Simply, he illegally developed military gunpowder and his whole family was exiled for 500 miles."

Zhu Hongsan cursed in his heart when he heard this: "What a county magistrate who destroyed his family and a prefect who destroyed his family." He completely forgot that the unintentional disaster of the old Duantou family was caused by him.

Zhu Hongsan asked Li Fugui to remove the shackles and ordered Ma Youfu to arrange his residence, cultivate his body, and strive to devote himself to his work. Of course, Lao Duan Tou was still angry. His whole family lived on craftsmanship in the county and lived a good life. It was Zhu Hongsan who made him like this. But when he went to the gunpowder factory, he heard the craftsmen who came in advance explaining the production of the power gunpowder. Lao Duan Tou and his two sons became completely resentful. After all, this kind of power gunpowder formula was not something they could learn. Instead, the three of them meant to be a little grateful to Zhu Hongsan.

The gunpowder factory included the three old Duan Tou and the two they got in the early stage, which basically met Zhu Hongsan's current consumption. In order to ensure the military's training, there were no export-type thunders in a month. This time, the export-type thunders can reach a yield of twenty per month, which is 4,000 taels of silver. Zhu Hongsan was very satisfied with this. As for how many official troops the bandits used to kill, and how many city passes Zhu Hongsan broke through Zhu Hongsan's nothing.

After Zhu Hongsan finished the arrangement, he saw that Li Fugui had not left yet and asked, "Old Li, do you have something to do?"

Li Fugui smiled and said, "That great man has arranged for me to lead the way for you to suppress the bandits."

Zhu Hongsan thoughtfully, "Damn, I don't believe me, I'll send a spy. If I can kill him halfway, I'll be considered dead." Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan said, "Haha, Lao Li, you are so brave, you dare to be a military supervisor? Are you afraid that the Third Master will kill you and then report him to death?"

Li Fugui found that he could not keep up with Zhu Hongsan's thinking at all. There were some people talking and laughing in front of him, and the next sentence was about to kill him. He was so scared that he knelt down and said, "Third Master, how dare I do it. I came to pull the horse and kick it for the Third Master. I would never dare to say anything else."

Seeing that Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything, Li Fugui continued, "Why don't you do this? Let's go out and find a village to slaughter it and count it as a bandit. We will use the head of the people to reward you. We can get an extra money for both the credit."

When Zhu Hongsanyi heard that Li Fugui was really a talented person and could give such creative suggestions. It seemed that he had a future for development.

Zhu Hongsan pulled Li Fugui up and said, "It's great, I'll make more creative suggestions in the future."

Li Fugui didn't know what creativity meant, but he proved that he was not angry when he saw Zhu Hongsan not angry. He really had to add ten thousand cautions to this master.

Zhu Hongsan said to Li Fugui: "It's too late today, you can live there. Let's set off tomorrow morning. Now tell me about the places where bandits are going to do it."

Li Fugui said: "The bandits looted a few months ago, 70 miles away from the county town, near Zhaojiaji and Niuxindingzi Towns in Liangzi Lake. Because they are surrounded by densely populated areas and there are no big mountains. So the great man probably thought the bandits were hiding in Liangzi Lake. In the slash sent last month, he came back and reported that the old man was in Biandanzhou in Liangzi Lake. Biandanzhou is a small island in the lake, with a radius of ten miles, and there were originally several fishing households on it. Now it seems that they should have been killed by bandits."

Zhu Hongsan asked: "How many people are in those two towns?"

Li Fugui said: "The Zhao family gathered more than 200 households and more than 600 people, while Niu Xindingzi had nearly 300 households and nearly 1,000 people."

Zhu Hongsan frowned and said, "A thousand people were killed? How many bandits are there?"

"There are about two thousand people."

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and found that two thousand people were okay, not too many. Just take 600 people with him.

Thinking of this, he didn't say anything, so he asked Li Fugui to rest and not mention it.

After dark, Zhu Hongsan asked the three battalion commanders to tell them the situation and ask them who wanted to go. The three of them had a big argument and almost started to fight. They all rushed to fight.

Zhu Hongsanyi saw that he had a strong will to fight, which was very good. In the end, Zhu Hongsan decided to give the opportunity to Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong (that is Zhao Goudan, who is the same as Zhu Hongyi). He kept Ma Jingyuan to guard his family.

After all, Ma Jingyuan is his eldest brother-in-law. He was afraid that others would say he was unfair, so he had to suffer some losses. He chose the person and asked the two battalion commanders to mobilize and start breakfast tomorrow.
Chapter completed!