Qin Zhao walked up and delivered a silver note of 100 taels to Xu Songtao.

Xu Songtao was about forties, with two small beards on his lips and a small slim beard on his chin. He was quite fat and tall. At this time, he had a bright smile on his face, and he looked cute.

When he received Qin Zhao's silver notes, he immediately smiled and said, "Qin Qianhu, what gust of wind has blown you?"

Qin Zhao bowed and said, "Subordinate has taken office and has come to see the Lord Caoshou. The Lord Caoshou welcomes his subordinates so kindly, and the subordinates are very grateful!"

Xu Songtao was even more happy when he saw that Qin Zhao was not arrogant.

"The young hero of Qin Qianhu really made me fall in love with it at first sight. I heard that Qin Qianhu killed a tiger in Xiangshan County, and I saw the real person today!" He came up and grabbed Qin Zhao's left hand with his right hand, pulled Qin Zhao and said, "Come on! Today I will welcome the defensive officer! No one is allowed to stop me from drinking too much!"

When Qin Zhao heard this stingy and almost said that the official titles given by the Nanjing Imperial Imperial is different. However, Qin Zhao also needed to establish good relations with his superiors, so he went with the flow and became enthusiastic.

He laughed and said, "The ethics are so noble, and the officials will not return until they are drunk!"

Xu Songtao said loudly: "It's right!"

Two Qianhu came to Qin Ning behind Qin Zhao and bowed and said, "I think this person is Qin Qianhu's confidant, Brother Qin Ning, right?"

These thousand households knew that Qin Zhao was coming these days, so they had long studied Qin Zhao's every move in the past few months. The junction of Xiangshan County and Nanhai County, and the thousand households did not know what methods they used to find out the news, but they even found out Qin Ning's name.

Qin Ning bowed and said, "The two thousand-human masters have golden eyes, and the little people are Qin Ning."

Two thousand households, one on the left and one on the right, held Qin Ning and said, "If Brother Qin Ning doesn't drink it today, he will never leave the Zhengguan Office."

Qin Ning laughed and followed Qin Zhao's steps into the ethical official hall.

Xu Songtao pulled Qin Zhao and shouted loudly: "Come on the old Jinhua wine I have hid for half a year! Open five jars first!"

Wine and chat all night long.

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Jinghai Fort is located to the north of Xiangshan County, close to Nanhai County.

The wilderness of the Southern Ming Dynasty was very low. Except for some paddy fields beside the streams and rivers, most of the land was barren woods. You should know that the population of China in the Ming Dynasty was only 100 million, and the population of China reached 400 million in the late Qing Dynasty, which also had no chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It is conceivable how low the land reclamation and utilization rate was in the late Ming Dynasty.

Especially in Lingnan, large tracts of land that can be used are wasteland.

Qin Zhao and Qin Ning drank all night in Dingnan Fort and slept for another night.

Qin Zhao often went to and feasts when he was working in later generations. He had a good alcohol tolerance and could hold on to the soju of wine from the late Ming Dynasty, so he drank Xu Songtao. Qin Ning's drinking capacity was even better. Although he was a young man and had a thin figure, yesterday, he insisted on drinking at the time of two thousand households. Xu Songtao drank it.

Neither of them was fucked down, and they got up early this morning and said goodbye to Caoshou.

After walking south from Dingnan Fort for an hour, a group of six people walked to Jinghai Fort where Qin Zhao took office.

Jinghai Fort is truly a small castle. However, the castle is a bit shabby. The exterior wall of the fortress is not even covered with bricks, but it is a rammed earth wall. A circle of trenches are dug outside the castle as a moat, but there is no water in the trenches, which is a dry ditch. The gate of the castle is open to the south, and a suspension bridge is hanging.

The circumference of the castle is about 600 steps.

In the Ming Dynasty, a man made a step forward at one step. That is to say, the distance between two steps mentioned in later generations was called one step in the Ming Dynasty.

Six hundred steps are about 900 meters long in later generations.

There is a plaque hanging on the fort gate in front of the suspension bridge, with a few big words written on it, making Qin Zhao understand that he did not go wrong.

Qin Zhao rode on the fortress's suspension bridge and entered the fortress.

As soon as he entered Jinghai Fort, Qin Zhao smelled a foul smell, coming through all directions of the fortress.

Qin Zhao took a casual look and saw that the sewers silted in the fortress were full of domestic waste. The domestic waste had already rotted and was rotten on both sides of the roads entering and leaving the fort gate, emitting a stinking stench. From time to time, a few black and thick mice jumped out of the sewers, swaggeringly watching the fortress road for a while before choosing a direction to rush over.

Some corners and alleys are even piled with feces, which smells evil in the hot July weather. Obviously, the feces here have been cleaned once for a long time.

Qin Ning and others seemed to be accustomed to such an environment, and still walked towards the defensive house in front.

Qin Zhao frowned deeply.

Since Qin Zhao took charge of Qinjia Village, Qin Zhao told his family members that they would forbiddenly discard garbage at will. Under Qin Zhao's order, all domestic garbage was thrown into the big pit behind the village. As for human and animal feces, it is not allowed to accumulate on the roadside in Qinjia Village, and it is strictly required to be poured into the feces tank.

In fact, it is difficult to accumulate human feces in the village because feces are good fertilizers. When they are poured on the roadside, they will be picked up by other farmers and thrown into their own septic tanks. Then they are used to feed the fields.

However, the management of this Jinghai Fort is very chaotic. There seems to be no one picking up manure in some places. They have to wait until a lot of manure is piled up before they can be cleaned up. Maybe some of them are defensive officials and are Qiu Ba who is not engaged in production.

Qin Zhao rode a horse to the defensive official hall in the middle of the fortress and jumped off the horse.

The gatekeeper at the door was wearing a beggar in a broken Guangzhou city and was still in a state of desolation. When he saw Qin Zhao's official robe, he hurriedly came up to kowtow and salute. Then he got up and tied Qin Zhao's horse to the horse pole, and led Qin Zhao into the official hall.

The official hall was burning spices from Nanyang, suppressing the disgusting smell outside the official hall.

The former defensive officer Xiao Heng was flipping through the account book of Jinghai Fort on the chair of the second hall. When he saw Qin Zhao coming, he looked up and down at Qin Zhao, then stood up and bowed to Qin Zhao.

"Xiao Heng, a defender, met with the defensive officer."

Compared with the majestic Jinghai Fort defensive official position, Nanhai Wei Ti Xing Qianhu was a little lonely.

This Qianhu served as a defensive officer in Jinghai Fort for four years. A few days ago, he was suddenly ordered by the Nanhai Guard to transfer him to the Nanhai Guard to serve as a decree for Qianhu.

As the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. If you are a garrison under the garrison, how can you be a top leader in Jinghai Fortress be more important? He went to the garrison palace to ask once, and then he found out that someone had robbed his official position with the emperor's imperial edict.

The emperor's imperial edict is something that Xiao Heng could not imagine. Just like the captain of a county armed police squadron in later generations, would he think that one day his position was ordered by ****? **** directly ordered to force himself away?

Generally, the emperor's imperial edict will not interfere with officials of this level of Xiao Heng.

But for Qin Zhao's official position, the emperor directly issued an imperial edict to mobilize Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng was really curious about who this defensive officer who took office by relying on the appreciation of the emperor.
Chapter completed!