After hearing Ma Gui's words, Ma Cheng laughed and said, "Okay, I see that Brother Ma Shun is smart and capable, so this big shopkeeper of the sugar factory will be the Ma Shun brother! From now on, the Second Master will count on you for his money bag!"

Ma Shun was so happy that he knelt down and thanked him: "Thank you, my little man, please don't worry, my little man, I will definitely run my second master's sugar factory!"

Ma Gui followed Ma Shiying for the rest of his life, so he naturally hoped that his sons would also rely on the big tree of the Ma family. Ma Gui's eldest son Ma Zhong was the eldest son of the eldest son Ma Luan. He would replace Ma Gui as the housekeeper of the Ma family in the future. His second son Ma Shun naturally hoped to make some money with Ma Cheng.

When Ma Gui heard Ma Cheng agreeing to his son as the chief shopkeeper of the sugar factory, he quickly bowed and thanked: "Thank you, I am thankful to the second master!"

Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Uncle Gui, don't say that. You are my father's confidant. Of course I can trust you. It's better to use our own people to manage the sugar factory!"

Ma Cheng opened his mouth and gave Ma Shun such an important position as the shopkeeper of the sugar factory. This made Gu Changwei next to him so angry. According to Gu Changwei's estimate, he should have done this shopkeeper of the sugar factory. Now he didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin came out halfway and asked Ma Shun to pick peaches.

Ma Cheng looked at Gu Changwei and was amused. Gu San's pattern was too low. Is a sugar factory manager satisfied? I have a more important position for you!

Ma Cheng said to Gu Changwei: "Gu San, go to the yamen general Xu Dahu and the others to come to find him. Let's go outside the city together!"

Although Gu Changwei was unhappy, he still did not dare to disobey Ma Cheng's orders. He had no choice but to take over his life and go out to find Xu Dahu and the others.

Ma Guiren is a traitor and cunning person, so he naturally sees Gu Changwei's dissatisfaction, but Ma Gui doesn't feel any threat. Although Gu Changwei is now a relative with the second young master Ma Cheng, you, a slave from a military family, can you compare with Ma Shiying's close friends? So Ma Gui really didn't see Gu Changwei in his eyes. Ma Gui forgot a sentence, that is, he would rather offend a gentleman than offend a villain. Ma Gui offended Gu Changwei, the villain under Ma Cheng, to death, today, and bring great disaster to his sons in the future.

Ma Cheng saw Gu Xiying wearing a mandarin duck battle robe, cotton armor on the outside, an iron helmet with eight-beat hat and a goose feather knife on the waist, and a majestic smile. Ma Cheng smiled and said, "How is it? Are you ready? Let's go out after the matter!"

Gu Xiying cleaned up the fragments on her body, then clasped her fists and said, "The last general will take the order!"

When Ma Cheng saw that Gu Xiying was doing the same thing, he laughed and led Gu Xiying and Ma Shun out.

When they arrived at Fuqian Street at the gate of the Governor's Office, Gu Changwei and Xu Dahu had been waiting here for a long time. Gu Changwei still borrowed a war horse from the signing room, and then served Ma Cheng to get on the horse. The group followed Fuqian Street to the east gate.

Fengyang City is the Zhongdu of the Ming Empire, so the city gate is similar to Nanjing, and it is also nine city gates. The east gate is divided into three. Ma Cheng and his team's destination is Changchun Gate. Refugees outside Fengyang City are outside Changchun Gate.

Fengyang City is backed by the Huai River, so a large number of refugees fleeing from the north gathered on the Huai River, among which Changchunmen is the most. Because it is close to the Huai River Wharf, refugees can do odd jobs and earn some food.

Because Fengyang City is Zhongdu, refugees are not allowed to enter the city in Fengyang City. Those poor people can only live in shacks along the Huai River.

This was the first time Ma Cheng left the city since he traveled to this era. He originally thought that the poor in Fengyang City were already poor enough, but when he thought of leaving Changchun Gate, he realized that there was still a mountain high. Compared with the refugees outside the city, the people in the city really lived in honeypots.

Two miles from Changchunmen, we will arrive at the private camp. In order to facilitate water withdrawal, these refugees built shacks along the banks of the Huai River. Of course, there were no plastic cloth or cardboard from later generations in this era, so the materials used to build shacks are all made of local materials, including rags, straw, shabby fishing nets, etc., and Ma Cheng has never seen many things.

In the Ming Dynasty, primary welfare institutions were already available. When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, it became a nursery hall, Anjifang, Yangjiyuan, and other institutions in various prefecture-level units across the country, which were used to resettle people such as widows, widows, orphans and so on. However, the social productivity in the Ming Dynasty was too low, and the country did not invest much money here at all, so most of these welfare institutions in various places were good goods, and daily maintenance could only rely on donations from wealthy households.

In Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou and other places, these institutions are not bad. After all, they are economically developed areas and have many wealthy households, so they can still be maintained. Fengyang has always been a place where poor mountains and rivers come from troubled people. In addition, they were harmed by Li Chuang a few years ago, and welfare institutions such as the Yangjiyuan have already been in name only, so the tens of thousands of refugees outside Fengyang City are unmanaged.

Of course, it is not unmanaged. Fengyang Prefecture set up a inspection department at Changchun Gate, equipped with 200 inspection department officers and soldiers to manage these refugees. It is said that management is just to collect dead people among the refugees every day to avoid plague in the camp.

Ma Cheng was furious and angry, and with a group of model soldiers from the Governor's yamen, he saw this group of people as soon as he left the inspection department of Changchun Gate. The inspector was very surprised. Changchun Gate was full of refugees, and the air was full of stench. The rich people in the city basically would not leave the city from here without anything.

Although the inspector was curious, he quickly came forward. After all, the responsibility of the inspection department was to maintain public order.

When the inspector approached the group of people, the inspector was shocked. Not only did the noble man riding a horse, even these guards were not simple. The people in front were wearing model soldiers in the governor's yamen. One of them was big and thick, with a fat face, and he looked like a desperate person.

Although the Inspection Office is a local army, it belongs to the military series after all, so it will naturally be managed by the Governor Fengyang. Although this inspection is a ninth rank, the model soldiers who dare to offend the Governor's Office there quickly knelt down on both knees on the side of the road and shouted loudly: "Changchun Gate Inspection Lu Zhong greets Shangguan!"

The people Ma Cheng brought were not about himself, but even Gu Changwei, Xu Dahu and others were of far higher than Lu Zhong, so there was nothing wrong with him saying that he would pay homage to Shangguan.

Ma Cheng looked at this guy, who was in his forties, with gray hair, and wearing a mandarin duck battle robe that could not be seen clearly. He could not see the small characters on the patch, and could only see the big character Wei.

Ma Cheng frowned and asked, "Are you a military soldier in the garrison?"

When Lu Zhong heard Ma Cheng ask him, he quickly replied: "Sir, the villain was originally the chief banner of Fengyang Guard. Because the inspection department lacked personnel, the Fengyang Prefect Zhang took the villain to Changchun Gate as the inspector!"

Gu Changwei was so happy when he heard Lu Zhong say this. Why did a ninth-rank official say Jian Ba? Do you think you are a first-rank official?

Ma Cheng didn't want to say too much to Lu Zhong, so he said directly: "The second master is Ma Cheng, and my father is Governor Ma of Fengyang!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, Lu Zhong was so scared that he quickly kowtowed.

Ma Cheng shook his hand and said, "Okay, don't kowtow. The second master is here today to select a few people. Are there any good people in your private camp?"

When Lu Zhong heard Ma Cheng say this, he nodded and said, "Yes, of course, there are. Please ask the yamen to rest at the villain's yamen. The villain will take people to search for the yamen!"

Ma Cheng looked at three broken houses not far away, and one of them had no roof. That was the yamen mentioned by Lu Zhong, which was the station of the Changchun Gate Inspection Department. Ma Cheng saw that the house was about to collapse, so he should not go in and press it inside, so Ma Cheng said, "No need, Second Master, I'll wait here, go and go back!"

When Lu Zhong heard Ma Cheng say this, he dared not delay it. He quickly led more than 50 soldiers into the refugee camp. After a storm, he brought more than a dozen people out.

Before these people could reach Ma Cheng, a stench came. The smell was like something rotting. It rushed straight into Ma Cheng's forehead. Ma Cheng covered his nose with a handkerchief and looked at the dozen people in front of him carefully.

These people couldn't see their faces clearly, and they were all covered in dust. Not to mention that their faces were even male and female. There were no clothes on them. Several people were wearing pants, most of them had no pants, and they stood naked in front of Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng was mentally prepared before coming, but the people in front of him were beyond his imagination. Ma Cheng did not expect that people could reach this level.

Ma Cheng got off the horse and came to these people before he saw clearly that the people Lu Zhong got were all women, and they were all young women. Perhaps Lu Zhong thought he wanted to choose a woman.

Ma Cheng returned to Lu Zhong and waved his hand. Lu Zhong ran to Ma Cheng and asked, "Yanei, are there anything you dissatisfied with? These are the youngest women in the camp! You must know that these people are from Shandong, Henan and other places, and the old and weak are dead halfway. It would be great to have such young women!"

Lu Zhong is an inspector of Changchun Gate. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, there is no salary. The income is naturally solved by himself. Lu Zhong manages the private camp and naturally has ideas about these poor refugees. In recent years, Lu Zhong has sold hundreds of women one after another, and he has also made some money from it. Today Ma Cheng is picking people, and Lu Zhong naturally thinks that the governor of the yamen is also looking for women, so he picked out the dozen youngest women among the refugees and is preparing to flatter Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng knew that this guy often did such things when he heard Lu Zhong say this, but Ma Cheng came here not to look for women today, but to choose men. Ma Cheng scolded: "Damn, do you think the second master is a drunkard? All the women he chooses, the second master wants a man!"

Lu Zhong was stunned by Ma Cheng's scolding. This Yanei doesn't like women? Do you like men? Lu Zhong looked at the young Yanei in front of him, thinking that it might not be necessary. I heard that there are people in Nanjing who like to play with rabbits, and this Yanei probably also has this hobby.
Chapter completed!