News of Li Zhi's triumphal return soon spread throughout the city. Officials and gentry got the news and gathered at the gate of the county government office. After a while, the county magistrate also got the news and hurriedly took these officials and gentry outside to wait for them.
When I rushed to the city gate, I saw the vanguard selection group and officer Li Zhi surrounded by the common people.
Seeing Li Zhi returning in triumph on a tall horse, the county magistrate's beard twitched and he was somewhat speechless.
More and more people came to watch. At this time, even the city walls were full of people. Everyone was crowded there to look at the heads of bandits and the heroes who defeated them. But when the people saw the county magistrate coming,
However, he took the initiative to make way for officials and gentry to walk to Li Zhi.
The magistrate came closer and saw that no one in Li Zhi's troops was injured. There was even more surprise on his face. His eyes seemed to see a group of magic soldiers and generals.
The county magistrate glanced at Li Zhi and asked loudly: "Master Baihu, have you arrested all the bandits who inserted themselves into the Yunfeng bandits' nest?"
Li Zhi patted his Wusun BMW and said loudly: "Not a single blessing from Lord Tuo County has been missed!"
"No one in your department was injured?"
"No one was hurt!"
The county magistrate took a breath of cold air and thought to himself, this is really a heavenly soldier descending from the earth. Even the Qi family army that wiped out the Japanese pirates could not win with a small number and escape unscathed.
Li Zhi was so brave and brave, and the county magistrate was very embarrassed. He looked at the officials and gentry on the left and right, and saw that they all looked ashamed. Apparently they were too arrogant when they received Li Zhi the day before yesterday. Now that Li Zhi has returned from victory,
None of these people can get down the stairs.
Li Zhi was unwilling to let the county magistrate go like this. He looked at the county magistrate wearing a seventh-grade official robe and smiled while riding on his horse.
"Your Excellency, this was the case that day, how is it today?"
The county magistrate turned red with embarrassment at Li Zhi's words. He closed his eyes in shame and refused to open them for a long time.
After a long while, the old county magistrate suddenly let out a "chirp", opened his eyes, gritted his teeth, flicked the long sleeves of his official uniform, pushed the golden mountain, tilted the jade pillar to Li Zhichang, bowed to the ground, and said loudly: "Thank you, sir, I don't care.
The former suspect bravely ventured into dangerous places to eliminate violence and bring peace to our small county, and to eradicate bandits!"
victory, the people thought they had made a mistake.
However, since the county magistrate took the lead, a group of officials and gentry also quickly followed. The county magistrate, the chief registrar, and several officials in the county bowed to the ground one by one and shouted: "Thank you so much, Mr. Baihu, for bravely venturing into dangerous places regardless of previous grudges."
, eliminate violence and bring peace to our small county, and destroy bandits!"
Not only the officials and gentry paid great tributes to Li Zhi, but also the famous scholars and students in the crowd, seeing their parents taking the lead in saluting, bowed to the ground one by one and bowed down to Li Zhi who was riding the horse.
When the common people saw the gentry and gentlemen saluting like this, they knew that the scene was solemn and they did not dare to speak. However, the East City Gate, which was surrounded by thousands of people, fell silent.
In the center of thousands of people, Li Zhi rode on his horse and looked at the officials and gentry who were prostrating themselves on the ground. He bowed his hands in vain and said lightly: "It's a small effort, so why bother?"
When the county magistrate, who was lying on the ground, heard these soft words, his face turned redder, he took a step forward and almost fell 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 thirty donkeys and horses. The triumphal journey of the first company of the second battalion of the Selection Regiment was easy and happy.
When Li Zhi returned to the Acropolis and handed over the heads of the bandits and the old and weak bandits to the governor, He Shishou looked at Li Zhi with a different look:
First of all, He Shishou knew that Li Zhi's servant team had only been established for two months. It was really a great thing to defeat the old thieves in Yunfeng with two months of recruits. Li Zhi took the initiative to become a military attache, and it seemed that he still had the chance.
With two brushes, He Shishou felt more and more that Li Zhi was a talent that could be developed.
Secondly, thunderous means were used to eliminate old thieves in the territory. This was also a political achievement for the governor and would also be helpful to He Shishou's future career. Naturally, He Shishou looked to Li Zhi who helped him accomplish this achievement. He did it that day.
I have written a document on the meritorious service for Li Zhi and submitted it to the Ministry of War. In less than a month, Li Zhi's reward will be issued.
Furthermore, Li Zhi has always been generous! This time when he saw the governor asking for credit for himself, Li Zhi did not hesitate. He took out one thousand taels of stolen silver seized from Gua Yunfeng and gave it to He Shishou as a filial piety, which made He Shishou very satisfied.
With such subordinates, what more could I ask for? He Shishou was already thinking about where else he could promote Li Zhi.
After Li Zhi finished the work of clearing out the bandits, he returned to Fanjiazhuang and began to expand the production capacity of the soap workshop.
It took Li Zhi a month to go to Yanshan to suppress the bandits. It was already mid-December, and Fanjiazhuang was full of businesses waiting to be prospered: three-quarters of the new Fanjiazhuang's rammed earth city wall had been repaired, and the work of wrapping bricks was completed.
Half of the time. In mid-September, the second batch of masons and carpenters began to repair villas in Fanjiazhuang. So far, 600 small villas have been repaired.
A soap workshop capable of accommodating the expansion of production capacity has also been built to the south of Xinfanjiazhuang.
Li Zhi was determined to move all the factories and workers in Tianjin Acropolis to Fanjiazhuang. Of course, the newly built soap workshop would not recruit workers in Acropolis. This time, Li Zhi directly held a "job fair" to recruit workers in Fanjiazhuang, and requested
All the new employees who were hired moved into Fanjiazhuang and rented in newly built small villas.
A small villa with four bedrooms costs two cents and seven cents a month. If the worker is a single man, it only costs seven cents to rent a house. Even for a couple with children, it only costs one cent and four cents to rent two houses.
, less than one-tenth of a worker’s monthly salary, and all workers can afford it.
The job fair went very smoothly. It only took Li Zhi half a day to recruit 70 new employees who were honest and willing to move into Fanjiazhuang.
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The cold wind in December howled, making people feel cold all over. Shi Er put his frozen hands to his mouth and let out a breath, put down his luggage and packages, and stood nervously in front of the Fanjiazhuang Hundred Household Hall.
Shi Er is a farmer from the nearby Shijia Village. Three days ago, someone who had read in the village heard that Fanjiazhuang was recruiting workers. Shi Er rushed to Fanjiazhuang for an interview and was lucky enough to pass. The 100-year-old man who interviewed him at that time gave him a
The card with the seal tells me to bring my belongings and luggage to report to Fanjiazhuang today.
When I came to Fanjiazhuang this time, my parents saw me off with tears.
The peasants have never been out and have never seen the world, but they also know that it is very difficult to get money by helping the officials. Fanjiazhuang is very close to Shijiacun. People in Shijiazhuang have seen the poor military households in Fanjiazhuang before.
We are really poor. Soldiers may not even get the five cents a month as monthly salary, but it is all eaten up by officials. On weekdays, they have to help officials farm. Shi Er wants to work in a place like this, Dad.
Mom knows that she will not have a good life in the future.
However, Shi Er had no other way out but to come to Fanjiazhuang and give it a try.
His family only has 27 acres of dry land and three mud houses. After paying the land tax, the grain he grows each year is just enough to feed the family. However, although the family is poor, his father grits his teeth and saves money to provide for Shi Er's eldest brother.
Marry a wife. Over the years, the four members of the family have been frugal and saved ten taels of silver. Last month, his 23-year-old brother finally found a wife and got married.
The eldest brother got married and the Shi family could continue the family line. Although his parents were happy, once the sister-in-law came over, the family's financial problems were put on the table. Twenty-seven acres of dry land could not support two men and start a family. Shi Er had to find him.
Other ways out. So even though he didn't believe that Baihu would give him monthly money, Shi Er came to Fanjiazhuang. At least he could earn a living by working here, which would free up food for the family and allow his eldest brother and sister-in-law to have a baby.
son.
When Shi Er moved to Fanjiazhuang, it was regarded as a family separation. During this separation, all the family property was left to his married eldest brother. Shi Er was not assigned an acre of land or a house, and only took his own cotton-padded clothes with him.
The quilt is out.
In order to continue the family lineage, Shi Er had no choice but to do this.
