The situation in Tielong Township is very obvious. As the closest town to Anxin Town, it is obviously deeply influenced by the enthusiasm for construction of Anxinda. Every villager has a high positive attitude. Compared with other Ming people, villagers have more courage to break free from the constraints of land and can carry out full-time workshop production and breeding development.

This is also the impact of Anxin's commodity economy on Anxin and even the entire Baoding Prefecture tradition after the development of Anxin's commodity economy. Many proletarian disaster victims and refugees can support themselves by relying on Anxin's workshop. Compared with the hard work of the previous year, they can only avoid starving. Anxin gave them the right to receive education and hope to improve their quality of life.

Sometimes hope is the driving force for development, and hope is also an opportunity for solidifying society to usher in change.

However, in the Ming Dynasty society, the people were too dependent on land and could not escape from inventions and creations and trade, which made the entire society very slow, and cultural exchanges and technological exchanges fell into a semi-stagnant state. The development and popularization of technology could only be carried out by scholars who were separated from the bottom of life, becoming a deformed development mode.

Fortunately, the foundation of Anxin is to seek change, and the people of Anxin have adapted to the changing society. For them, from facing the loess all their lives to working in workshops every day, from being self-sufficiency to relying on market goods to improve their lives, and then participating in trade in the desire to obtain a better quality of life, Anxin's people have gradually gotten rid of the numb thinking brought by the solidified society and began to think positively, and participate in this huge wave of creating wealth and obtaining wealth.

However, Li Yi did not intend to stimulate the intelligence and talents of the people without restraint. Because the chaotic life of refugees has caused the moral quality to decline rapidly. In this society that relies on moral governance to govern the world, An Xin also needs to first change the people's mental outlook and then let them participate.

For those who have participated but have quickly become corrupt and deteriorated, Li Yi will remove them mercilessly.

So he did not go to the village in Zhaoxiang according to the old patriarch's plan, but went directly to Wangjia Village.

A team of people stopped not far from Wangjia Village. Zhu Qilong, who was visiting, returned and said, "Young Master, Wangjia Village is holding an election, and we will choose a new village chief."

Li Yi smiled coldly and said, "Is Wang Bao, the original village chief of Wangjia Village, here?"

The old patriarch next to him looked solemn. When he heard that Li Yi came here this time, he was really targeting Wang Bao. He couldn't help but speak: "Little benefactor, although Wang Bao is abominable, it involves Zhang Qianyi. Zhang Qianyi is one of the three elders of Anxin Township Old Courtyard. If he is implicated at this time, Anxin's balance will be broken and there will be endless troubles."

Of course Li Yi understood the old patriarch's sincere words.

However, he asked Xu Caihou to closely monitor An Xin's clean and honest situation in order to promptly eliminate the sinister elements in An Xin. If there were ordinary small matters and small cases, he would naturally hand them over to the hometown and would not be severely punished. However, Wang Bao was a great evil and had to punish him and use thunder and thunder to deter other officials.

Thinking of this, Li Yi sternly said: "Wang Bao oppressed the villagers, raped the villagers' women, embezzled money and grain, and manipulated village elections. This is a great evil. I will severely punish such people."

Li Yi said this with a decisive statement. After hearing this, he was frightened and secretly reflected on himself.

The old clan leader sighed and said, "No matter what, Anxin's laws are all in the hometown. Even if you punish Shitou severely, you must not use lynching. You must hand it over to the hometown for punishment."

As the director of the hometown, the old patriarch naturally needs to maintain the authority of the hometown, in order to prevent Li Yi from making mistakes when he was impulsive.

Li Yi certainly understood that he founded the hometown’s home in order to maintain the law, and of course he would not weaken the authority of the hometown’s home at this time.

Thinking of this, he said to the old patriarch and others: "You are here to wait. I just took the opportunity to see how the village selection is implemented."

After saying that, he took Zhu Qilong and walked into Wangjia Village.

The villagers of Wangjia Village gathered in the open space at the entrance of the village, facing the platform, talking loudly, making them noisy and chaotic.

Li Yi and Zhu Qilong were wearing casual clothes and mingled in them quietly, but no one noticed them for a moment.

There were three people standing in the high hall, namely the village chief Wang Bao, the governor Wang Changshou, and the clerk Ma Erlang.

Several villagers first carried tables and chairs on the high platform, and opened empty boxes and a large erected wooden board.

There were some words and lines vaguely written on the large wooden board, but unfortunately I couldn't see clearly when I stood far away.

Li Yi and Zhu Qilong were mixed among the villagers. Because of their tall figure and extraordinary temperament, the villagers around them frequently turned around and looked at them.

A villager with two beards looked up and down at Li Yi and muttered, "Why do you look so familiar?"

Li Yi laughed in his heart and bowed, "Good uncle, okay."

Seeing Li Yi so polite, the villagers smiled and replied, "Yeah, yeah, look, you are not from the village, how did you come here?"

Li Yi smiled and said, "I am from Anxin Town. I happened to pass by today. I saw the village electing the village chief. I was curious and took my friends to come and take a look."

The election of the village chief is a fair and open matter, and the villagers didn't care. They smiled and said, "Anxin is different from other places. The village chief is elected, and only the documents and governors are dispatched by the town. Originally, the village election should have started after the busy farming season in the autumn. This time, we elected the village chief because Wang Bao, the former old village chief, stepped down, so it was advanced."

Li Yi heard this and said, "So that's it. I was just curious about why Wangjia Village is different from other places. It's just that the Anxin election is the case, so naturally the head of the township will come to take charge, so why didn't I see it?"

The villagers looked around and whispered: "Wang Bao, the current village chief of Wangjia Village, is an old confidant of Zhang Qian and Zhang in the town. The township knew about this relationship, so they just said hello and did not send anyone to come."

"It's natural that it's so unruly. Hasn't Anxin Township Agreement become a decoration?" Li Yi's tone was a little low.

The villagers glanced at Wang Bao on it and said with a strange voice: "There will be a lot of fun in this election, so just watch it carefully."

Li Yi didn't understand what the villagers meant. He was about to ask a question when he saw a thin and sloppy middle-aged man walking over.

The villagers looked a little unnatural when they saw this, so they turned around and were about to leave.

But the middle-aged man was originally coming for him, so how could he let him leave easily? He hurriedly walked up to grab the villagers.

The villagers stopped unnaturally and said in a cold tone: "Wang Shan, what are you doing?"

Wang Shan smiled and said, "Wang Qing, you are the head of the Donghu. I will help me add two votes to me this time. It is also a kindness and will definitely repay you in the future."

Wang Qing sneered, "Give you a vote? Wang Shan, you are lazy and lazy on weekdays. Follow your brother to do whatever he wants in the village. If I want me to call everyone to choose you, there is no way."

Wang Shan was not angry, but still grabbed Wang Qing tightly and said, "What are you saying? We brothers are taking care of you a lot on weekdays. At this time, don't ignore your affection."

"That's a big deal." Wang Qing pushed Wang Shan away and said angrily: "The widow in the village has never been bullied by your brothers. You can do such dirty things. After all, I took care of you and did not report to the hometown and the elderly, otherwise your brothers would not die well."

Wang Shan was not afraid and sneered: "Why, do you want to report to the hometown and the elderly? If you dare to report, be careful of your son's legs."

When Wang Qing heard this, he glared at Wang Shan with anger on his face, but he didn't dare to say anything else.

Seeing that Wang Qing did not dare to refute, Wang Shan grabbed Wang Qing with a passionate face and said, "Today, get rid of Brother Wang Qing and persuade the people of the same household. Otherwise, if your son's legs are broken, he will become a cripple in the future."

Wang Qing's face changed and he said, "Langlang Tiankong, my little benefactor has been cracking down on him. Do you still dare to do this?"

Wang Shan smiled and said, "My little benefactor is doing big things. What are these small things? Let me tell you the truth. My elder brother has convinced many villagers that I will definitely choose me in this election, otherwise you will have good fruits."

After Wang Shan said that, he turned around and left.

The villagers around him surrounded him and persuaded Wang Qing, so that he would not suffer any loss before him and adapted to Wang Shan first.

When Li Yi saw Wang Shan's behavior, his eyes were cold and fierce. He never expected that such a thing would happen among the villagers.

At this time, the election began. Wang Bao walked up to the high platform and shouted: "I resigned as the village chief of Wangjia Village today. There are three new candidates, including my younger brother Wang Shan. I understand that I have done a lot of wrong things over the years, but I have also done a lot of good things. I am in charge of the affairs of the village. I always ask for money and grain allocated by the town, and I can ask for more than 10% or 20% of other villages. Why is this because I have a huge backer in the town. This time I resigned from my position, and you may not be able to bear these benefits. The workshop construction mentioned last time will not be placed in Wangjia Village. Tell me, what should I do now?"

The villagers below were talking a lot. They chose Wang Bao in order to build the workshop in Wangjia Village, so that the villagers could work as workers. Now they are gone, what should they do?

Seeing that they were very excited, Wang Bao smiled and said, "I have stepped back, but my younger brother Wang Shan can be the village chief. In this way, he can also maintain my relationship and benefit the village. Do you think so?"

The villagers nodded after hearing this. Compared to the benefits of making money by working, Wang Bao didn't care about embezzlement. Anyway, greed was also money from the town. As for the oppressed villagers, they were all even more smiling and had no intention of holding revenge.

Just as Wang Bao was actively promoting his brother, a woman with a white scarf broke in and cursed: "Wang Bao, you bastard, you two brothers don't have a good thing. Even if I die, I can't let your conspiracy succeed..."

When Wang Bao saw the woman breaking in, he was not afraid and gave a wink at the villagers who depended on him.

The villagers all stepped forward to stop the woman, covered her mouth and dragged her outwards. The woman struggled randomly and bit the hands of the villagers covering her mouth. The villagers screamed and let go.

Widow Wang shouted: "Famous people, Wang Bao bullies me, widow. You are all great men. Do you just sit back and watch?"

They are all from the same village. Everyone understands that Widow Wang was bullied by Wang Bao, but Wang Bao is the village chief and has a backer in the town, so they dare to deal with him.

The villagers were talking in a low voice, buzzing and the scene suddenly became riots.

Wang Bao jumped off the platform and punched Wang Widow's belly. A shrill scream exploded in the crowd. Everyone's eyes were bulging. Seeing that Wang Widow's face turned red, then suddenly pale without a trace of blood.

The villagers pulled the widow Wang's hair and limbs like a dead pig, and took her away. As for where she went, no one asked.

Wang Bao smiled and climbed up the platform to look at the villagers below.

The villagers shrank and avoided his eyes, fearing that they would be seen.

"That's great. No one can mess with this election. People who don't know how to drown in the river tomorrow will be common. No one can say anything. Everyone is right?"

No objection, no one responded.

The villagers seemed to obey as if they were cowardly, but they were showing their opposition with silence.

Wang Bao smiled coldly. What else is there to be afraid of a group of villagers who dare not let go of farts? Even if the village chief of Wangjia Village is replaced by the village chief, the only one who can speak is himself. The emperor is far away. I am the local emperor here.

At the beginning of the election, everyone was disturbed by the scene just now, and no one spoke, and they wrote the votes without saying a word.

Wang Bao took a few confidants to see, grabbed a sneaky villager and scolded: "You turtle man with your head shrank, show me, otherwise you will be careful of your own life and death."

The villagers had no choice but to take out the votes and hand them to Wang Bao.

Seeing that there was only one word Wang written on it, Wang Bao looked up and slapped the villager in the face, and said with a smile: "You old boy are smart, you only wrote one word Wang. If you don't fill it out for me now, don't let me urge me."

The villagers had no choice but to compare the names on the ballots and wrote a crooked word "Shan", which was Wang Shan, which was Wang Bao's younger brother.

When Wang Bao saw this, he nodded with satisfaction, let go of the villager and looked at the next person.

A group of Wang Bao's lackeys helped supervise the villagers. How dare the villagers not write Wang Shan's name? They could only write it on and throw it into the box.

Just by checking the votes, Wang Shan was far away from home.

Wang Bao nodded with satisfaction when he saw this and said, "This is a good thing. Since everyone admires it so much, let my brother Wang Shan be the village chief."

After saying that, he took a look at the documents and governors behind him.

Although the two were sent by the town, they had been bribed by Wang Bao long ago. In addition, they knew that he was Zhang Qianyi's confidant, how dare they object, they immediately agreed.

Wang Bao's face was even more proud, and he laughed and said, "Do you have no objection?"

The villagers were silent.

"I have objections."

Just when Wang Bao thought that this time the matter was foolproof, someone suddenly said loudly.

The villagers looked at Li Yi in shock, with a trace of confusion flashing in their eyes.

Wang Bao was also stunned for a moment and shouted: "Who are you? How dare you make trouble at the village election meeting? Don't you get out of here."

Li Yi walked up, looked at Wang Bao, and sneered: "Why, I won't recognize me so soon?"

Wang Bao looked carefully and felt familiar. However, the governor and clerk behind him suddenly stood up, ran out in panic, and knelt in panic and said in panic: "Little benefactor atones for his sins, he deserves to die."
To be continued...