As soon as Hu Dadao left, Feng Jian immediately recruited five captains of the sentry, informing everyone that he might have to go down the mountain for a few days, and told Zhao Shougang to be responsible for the matters in the sentry these days. If the guards were drawn from the village, each team would form the guards, and Huang Fuchun, who was the best martial arts among the five, led by Huang Fuchun, who was the best in martial arts, participated in the counterfeiting operation.

Feng Jian finally ordered: "In addition, the five guards will form teams to go to the mountains to collect herbs, mushrooms, and wild vegetables. The mountain delicacies collected every day can be kept for the remaining items for their own use and handed over to the outpost." Although Hu Dadao said that it is impossible to transport these local specialties from the mountains to the city for trafficking, they can be transported to markets in surrounding towns, where the government is not strict.

Zhang Dalai had some questions: "Mr. Feng is not here, I will hand over the things I picked to the one in the outpost!"

Feng Jian said: "We will set up a special mutual aid association. The medicinal herbs that only come back every day will be handed over to the mutual aid association. The mutual aid association will set up a special person to record the work points according to the amount of herbs collected by the mountain delicacies and herbs collected. If the medicinal materials are picked and the medicinal materials are expensive, the work points will be relatively high. The five captains will temporarily supervise and judge the work points for each person every day. The young scholar Su Su records each manual points. In the future, these work points can be used to exchange for money, grain and materials at the outpost. First, the trial operation will be conducted. When I come back from the bottom of the mountain, the mutual aid association will be established."

Several captains felt very novel about Feng Jian's way of doing things. How could this little flag official come up with a mutual aid? The collective cooperation farming method he proposed and established allowed most of the young and old to taste the sweetness. Every family had food to eat as long as they participated in labor. Because of collective farming, families without strong labor can still get a harvest. Therefore, the young and old at the young and old at the young and old at the young really respected Feng Jian as the leader of the one on the one on the one on the one on the one.

Seeing that several people were confused, Feng Jian said, "You should do what I said first, Zhao Shougang. When I was not here, I will leave the whistle to you. Zhang Dalai, you guys will help Zhao Shougang." The five team leaders nodded and agreed.

Zhao Shougang waited until Feng Jian finished speaking and said a little restrainedly: "Please rest assured, my subordinates will not disappoint you!"

After all, he didn't know much. After saying a word, he stopped talking and looked up at Feng Jian with awe.

Feng Jian was a little happy with the feeling of being looked up to by others. Seeing these farmers who gradually transformed into bandits respectfully obeying their instructions, they felt refreshed.

Feng Jian patted Zhao Shougang on the shoulder and said, "You can do your best. Our troops and horses will never be worse than other posts. When we exchange the mountain herbs for food, we will not be hungry if we send our old and young."

The strong-bodied Zhang Dalai shouted: "Master Feng, how should you use the herbs collected from you in the future? You can't keep it in the copycat and make it moldy."

Feng Jian said strangely: "Didn't you hear what I said just now? When the number of medicinal herbs is too high, of course, you have to transport them to the city to sell them to exchange for the food we need."

Zhang Dalai said: "But have you ever thought about how many peaks you have to pass from the mountain to the city, and how many thieves will be there along the way? If there is no large group of people to protect us, we may be robbed by the thieves along the way without going to the city. And our mountain delicacies are not worthy of the large group of people to protect us, so I think..."

Zhang Da looked at Feng Jian and left the rest of his words to his mouth. His opinion was exactly the same as Hu Dadao.

Feng Jian said: "I also know that transportation along the way is a big problem. Please wait and see. I am confident that I can train an elite guard team at my whistle to maintain the safety of our copycat local specialties."

The five captains looked dazed, and they didn't know where Feng Jian got his confidence.

Feng Jian didn't explain much, and looked at everyone and said, "Now everyone will do what I said, and go back and prepare."

After everyone left, Feng Jian began to sort out the equipment for going down the mountain this time. The dart was his own weapon. Feng Jian carefully and neatly put it in his arms. He fought with the bandits in the canyon and used more than ten pieces, but he was not found afterwards. The remaining darts should be used well and can save their lives at critical moments. In addition, there is a dagger hidden around his waist. The entire copycat weapon was extremely lacking. This dagger saved the lives of more than 300 people from his siege last time, and was rewarded by Xu Ma Gang.

After sorting out his own equipment, he returned to his home and told his mother that he would go down the mountain with Head Hu for a few days so that his mother would not have to worry about her.

Feng's mother didn't know the dangers of Feng Jian's trip, so she just told Feng Jian to listen to Leader Hu more after going down the mountain and not to do dangerous things.

Feng Jian felt warm in his heart as he listened to his mother's nagging.

After noon, Hu Dadao sent someone to inform Feng Jian. One hour later, he gathered at Wushou, said goodbye to his mother, and left for Wushou.

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It is said that a luxurious banquet in the back hall of the magistrate's office is being held. The back hall is where the magistrate receives superior officials and discusses political affairs and office work. Some cases involving confidential matters and flower cases that are inconvenient for public trial will also be tried here.

The scholars and officials in the Ming Dynasty all admired themselves, and praised the style of famous scholars and guests, and often expressed their feelings in poetry and wine, or enjoyed banquets, and could only stop drunk.

Banquets are not only tasting, but also a sustenance for life experience and a thickener for interpersonal communication. Therefore, in the eyes of literati, paying attention to eating and drinking is no longer a common thing, but also an elegant act.

This attitude towards life has prompted many literati and doctors to be fond of making friends through drinking, joining friends through food, and eating, and wine shops are all over the country.

In the middle of the hall, there was a long nanmu table table. Most of the exquisite porcelain cups on the table exuded the bitter aroma of wine. There were four bowls and eight plates of fine dishes in the middle of the table table. The four bowls were osmanthus silverfish, braised anchovies, stewed goose stews, and stewed hoof tendons; there were pickled crabs, spring never grow old, ham, dried meat, chopped chicken, sweet pickled melon eggplant, dried sausage, and dried bamboo shoots.

A tall and thin old man with a somewhat dull look sat cross-legged on the soft cushion behind the table, and there was a singing girl serving wine on one side of the table.

Under the cushion was a well with a hollow iron water manhole cover on it. The old man sat on it, and the cool air in the well was dissipated, and there was no feeling of the stuffiness of the weather.

The old man's case chair is one by one on the left side of the new magistrate of Pingdu. Chen Suwen, who has experienced Fang Zengwei and the six officials of the prefecture yamen. On the right side, there are several retired officials, scholars and famous merchants and rich gentry in Pingdu City.

There were four bowls and eight plates on the desk table in front of them, and there was also a beautiful singing prostitute serving wine beside each other. However, there was no well under the seat to enjoy the cool air. There were only more than ten basins of broken ice cubes around the hall, emitting a coolness, making people feel less stuffy.

A beautiful singing girl sat outside the hall singing a singing imaginative water tune, and in the middle of the hall was a group of singing girls dancing gracefully.

On the mat, various exquisite dishes are transported up like flowing water. A dish will be replaced by a new dish by a few chopsticks.

Such a luxurious banquet can't be encountered often even by these literati and doctors who are rich and well-fed. When they are drunk, some literati and scholars can't help but exclaim: "For those who have been fire meat for a long time, there is no oil, and there is the smell of pine and cypress; for those who have been windy fish for a long time, there is the smell of fire meat, and there is the smell of deer. Marinated crab meat is like white jade, shrimp pine is like dragon whiskers, and roasted chicken crispy pheasants are like cake bait, which makes people enjoy the appetite."

The whole banquet was extremely luxurious. Compared with Feng Jian and other merchants who could not even eat, it was even more like a paradise and a hell. I don’t know how much silver you will cost and how much blood and sweat of ordinary people will be plundered!

When people were drunk, they came to the old man Mu Na with a glass to toast. The old man Mu Na raised his glass but did not drink, and only looked at the pretty woman sitting on the side to serve the wine. That's it. Those who came forward to toast were also blushed with excitement. It was a great honor for them to be honored to give a glass of wine to the old man who retired to the court.

The person who was in the upper house was Zhou Daodeng, the former court master who could sit at this banquet was all well-known figures in Pingduzhou. However, compared with the former court master, they could only be regarded as toads in a small pond, jumping around and drinking with the former court master. It would definitely be a matter of glorifying the ancestors if they could tell the story. If they could climb up to the former court master, it would be that the ancestral tomb was smoke coming from the ancestral tomb.

The heat waves rolled outside the hall, the autumn cicadas on the branches were chirping weakly, but the hall was cool, and this luxurious banquet gradually came to an end.

The beautiful singing girl and dancing singing girl in the outermost part of the hall have already left the hall.

The magistrate Chen Suwen has just arrived for more than a month. Although he is disgusted with the former senior who is in the first place, he still has to show respect on his face.

He looked at the expression of the dull old man Zhou Daodeng and carefully served the former chief of the dynasty. Although he was the former chief of the dynasty, there were still many disciples and former officials in the court. If he offended the former chief of the dynasty, he would give him countless obstacles to his career.

Seeing the singing girl outside leaving the hall, Chen Suwen said respectfully: "Ge Lao, the weather is hot, and the officials have prepared a special sacred product for cooling off. Please try it." As he said, he pointed to the upside down porcelain bowl on the mat and said: "This is watermelon paste. Take May peach blossom juice, sprinkle it all, and fry it over low heat until seven or eight minutes before stirring the sugar and refining it carefully. Peach paste is like red amber. Melon paste can be compared with golden silk sugar. Drink it to clear the heart and eyes, relieve heat and quench thirst. Please try it." A beautiful woman who was serving the wine on one side lifted the porcelain bowl, and suddenly, a bowl of red watermelon paste with a slight cold air was presented to everyone. There is no need to eat it. Just seeing such exquisite food, it makes people salivate and the heat will disappear!

Although Zhou Daodeng had eaten all the food in the world, it was the first time he saw such exquisite food. When he looked at the food carefully, he couldn't help but exclaim: "The color of the eyes, the sound of the ears, the freshness of the body, the tale of the mouth, today's banquet, I was very satisfied with Shenzhi (the name Chen Xuwen) and everyone here bothered."

Chen Suwen twitched violently on the side of the mouth. The expenses of a banquet were exhausted, and he couldn't do it. The cost was huge. In the end, he was just in exchange for such a sentence!

Chen Suwen quickly stood up and bowed to Zhou Daodeng and said, "This vulgar place has many bad hospitality, so don't dislike Master Zhou Ge."

In the first day, Zhou Daodeng, Zhou Ge Lao slid, paused for a while and said: "I have retired and no longer been the current minister of the court. I am not worthy of such preferential treatment as the emperor and all of you."

Chen's heart was shocked when he heard this. This old master Zhou was so famous that he was hard to serve. He was fine just now, but why did his tone change in a blink of an eye?

He hurriedly left the table and bowed deeply to the dull old man, and said in panic: "The Master of Pavilion has arrived in my Pingduzhou City. He is a junior and other juniors who have been blessed with the blessings of his generation. I don't know where to be careful. Please ask Master of Pavilion to correct me."

Mr. Zhou Ge's face thrust for a few times, thinking that my husband Baba arrived at this despicable place just to have a meal. The gentry here thought that giving me a few thousand taels of silver would satisfy me! Humph, it was such a frog in the well, and I had to beat it up.

Thinking of this, he slowly said: "The Lord of Chen is worried too much. I have deeply felt the kindness of the adults and gentry present in Pingdu Prefecture in the past few days. I have recorded it."

Mr. Zhou's few words did not dispel the doubts of Chen Suwen and everyone here. The merchants and gentry here were all skilled, and they heard that Zhou Daodeng seemed to be asking for bribes. They were all secretly planning to offer a big red envelope after going back to win the favor of Mr. Zhou.

The prefect Chen Suwen and the main officials of the prefecture city could not figure out what Mr. Zhou meant this time. Several people looked at each other quietly, waiting for Mr. Zhou to say something different with different thoughts.

Master Zhou Ge's thoughts were not very fluent, and his tone was very slow: "Although I have embarked on the way to return to my hometown, the holy grace is in my heart, and I cannot forget it. All worries in my heart are to share the worries and efforts for the country. However, it is not with me, so I can only regret it for the time being. The court is unstable, and foreign slaves have repeatedly attacked the border. Now the saint is stubborn and harsh and lacks patience, which has led to the turmoil of our Ming Dynasty and the people have no food and clothing. This is really the pain in my heart! However, my colleagues are indulging in the whole day to make a decision, which makes me even more heartbroken!

Everyone here carefully considered the meaning of the former cabinet's words. This person was expressing his concern for the country and the people on the surface, and seemed to have some complaints about Emperor Chongzhen.

However, the last sentence was to blame everyone for eating and drinking all day long and not doing serious business. From Chen Suhe, everyone in the city cursed in their hearts: "This old scoundrel, eating and drinking grandsons do not raise grandsons. Chen Suhe and other officials in the city understood that this old boy was asking for benefits!

The dull old man Zhou Daodeng glanced at everyone again and continued to say dryly: "I hope everyone here will do their best to serve the emperor and give good water and soil. In this way, I will have no regrets!" After saying that, the dull and dull face twitched with a slightly worried expression.

When people who don’t know the truth hear these words, they will definitely be moved by their words. Chen Suwen and other official people know some of the people who are a man of Zhou Ge, and they are familiar with some anecdotes about him.

The full name of this Zhou Pavilion Master Zhou Daodeng. In the first year of Chongzhen, the emperor drew lots and selected cabinet ministers. He was lucky to enter the cabinet. He was ignorant of his studies and was contemptuous, and was said to be a laughing stock.

Once Chongzhen asked him, "What should the prime minister do to use scholars?" The old master Zhou couldn't answer for a while, and he stayed for a while before saying, "My minister waited for the cabinet to find out the reply." Chongzhen was quite unhappy and asked with a smile: "Recently, there are many words "love" in the ministers' report. What is love?" As a result, the old master pondered for a long time and replied, "Friendly is the face of love."

This kind of answer actually came from the mouth of the ministers of the great cabinet, which really made Emperor Chongzhen laugh and cry. Even the eunuch standing next to him couldn't help laughing.

In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the censor Tian Shizhen and several other censors successively impeached this "face-to-face" cabinet master, impeaching him ignorant and unskilled in dealing with him. Such a shallow person was difficult to use in the world. In addition, he was greedy, excluded righteous people and protected personal friends. He was dismissed early, and he was only a cabinet minister for six months from his inauguration to his removal.

Zhou Daodeng was born with a strong nature, and had many wives and concubines in his family, but he still looked for flowers and willows everywhere on the grounds that he had no heirs.

It is said that Liu Rushi, the leader of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai, was born as a young prostitute. At the age of fourteen, he was raped by Zhou Daoden and accepted as a concubine. Liu Rushi was smart and knowledgeable, and won Zhou Daoden's favor, which aroused the jealousy of the concubines. So Zhou Daoden planned to slander her affair with the Qin Child in the study. So Zhou Daoden was furious and bought Liu Rushi as a prostitute again.

The above remarks are really unbearable for Zhou Daoden to be a human being. Those who are as smart and knowledgeable as Liu Rushi were actually ruined by this cow dung and were eventually abandoned by cow dung. It is really regrettable!

The banquet was about to end, and Zhou Daoden left the table first.

Since the first month of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Zhou Daodeng has been stranded in the capital, seeking an opportunity to recover. However, Chongzhen had a very bad impression of him and refused to recover again. It was delayed to the next year that he embarked on the road to return home.

Zhou Dao came from Wujiang, Suzhou. He chose to return home by boat from Tianjin by water. The group walked along the canal to Linqingzhou. Linqingzhou was affiliated with the Shandong Provincial Administration Officer Dongchang Prefecture, located in the north of Shandong, facing the Guard Canal across Hebei.

Linqing rose rapidly with the canal transportation and became one of the five major commercial ports in Jiangbei. It has been prosperous for 500 years and has the reputation of "prosperity overwhelming the two capitals" and "rich Jiaqi County". During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Linqing's cash tariffs were ranked first among the eight major cash gates in the canal.

Zhou Daodeng was bored all the way. In order to relieve his annoyance, the concubines who accompanied him persuaded him to travel along the way to relax. Zhou Daodeng died in history after only five years of dismissal. He probably was not good at communicating and died of depression.

So Zhou Daodeng had the idea of ​​traveling and relaxing. When he arrived in Linqing, he followed everyone's wishes and began his journey of traveling and relaxing along the way.

Whenever he went to the local officials, he was treated diligently. Although Zhou Daodeng was an expelled cabinet master, no one could tell when he would be restored. Besides, he was a former senior official of the cabinet master. There were many disciples and old officials in the court. Such people could not help others, but harming others was just a matter of one word. Therefore, whenever he went to the local officials, the local officials were treated with great spirit and did not dare to slack off at all.

The rich and powerful gentry and businessmen from all over the country presented the meeting gifts. When they heard that the elders liked the young girls, they offered them to win the favor of the elders.

Along the way, Zhou Daodeng made money every day and sang every night, and even his servants and followers made a fortune.

Of course, when we arrived in Pingdu Prefecture, local officials and gentry gave us filial piety as usual. Unexpectedly, this former cabinet master had a very big appetite!
Chapter completed!