Why did Made attack bandits everywhere? The reason is very simple: First, to organize public security, and second, building a port naturally requires labor. Although migrant workers can be recruited, migrant workers not only need wages, but also regular farm leave. If the farming time is delayed by building a port, especially in Jiangsu, this kind of sin is not something Made can afford. Even if it does not delay the farming time, it will not be good to delay the construction speed of the port. Therefore, after several considerations, Made finally extended his "hard hands" to those in the jurisdiction who do business without a foundation.

You know, the Qing Dynasty was almost always in trouble. Even now, the "peaceful and prosperous era" under the rule of Kangxi was still the same. Moreover, these thieves were all very rampant. Even in a prosperous town like Suzhou, there were still many water bandits committed crimes around them. But it was very difficult for officers and soldiers to capture these people. Because, rivers and lakes in the south of the Yangtze River were everywhere, and if they committed crimes, they would run along the river, run into the Yangtze River, run to those big lakes, and even run into the sea. Who could catch them?

Especially in the Qing Dynasty, officials and bandits colluded with each other. The above said they wanted to catch thieves, but the below called the bandits brothers. If you wanted to catch people, the bandits had already run away before your officers and soldiers left.

Moreover, these bandits are not like the knights mentioned in later novels. Few people are chivalrous and righteous, but some are traitors! What's more, even if they are really knights, there is still a "knight-like ban"! They are fierce and do not take the national law seriously. In any era, these knights will only become thorns in the ruling people's eyes and can only be regarded as "bandits".

In addition to bandits, gangs are also a source of uneasiness.

For example, the Grain Gang. It has a rule called "Xu Chong, no dependents"! That is to say, you can pretend to be a child of the Grain Gang, but once you pretend, you are not allowed to deny it again. From then on, you will become a member of the Grain Gang. Otherwise, you will be beaten to deceive your teachers and destroy your ancestors! This rule has enabled the Grain Gang to develop rapidly from its establishment and become the largest gang within the entire Qing Dynasty. However, it is precisely because of this rule that the Grain Gangs are of varying quality. And more than half of the 128 Grain Gangs are

It is concentrated in the three provinces in Jiangnan under the jurisdiction of Ma De. Although these gangs use the signatures of the Grain Gang, their fights are still common. Especially many bandits with the path of cutting are also the Grain Gangs, and they have close ties with the Grain Gangs in various places. If something happens, they will be protected by the Grain Gangs. Because the Grain Gangs have the ability to transport grain, in order not to affect the grain transport, many local officials are not willing to risk offending the grain transport to fight the thief. As a result, many cases were left unresolved.

Therefore, while Ma De ordered the officers and soldiers from all over the country to catch thieves, he also attacked the grain aid. First, he ordered the grain aids in various places to strictly enforce the rules of the gangs, and the gang members were not allowed to commit crimes, violated the laws, and could not contain criminals, otherwise they would be treated as "breach". Of course, this order could not scare the old men in the world. However, Ma De wanted this result. "Severely cracked down" in various places. Many criminals and bandits would run under the big tree of the grain aid to avoid disaster, and as long as the grain aids were

The leaders will immediately "clear the old accounts" with the grain gang leaders. As the leader of the gang, the grain gang leaders do not have many serious good people, and some of them commit various cases. Since the canal transportation was changed to sea transportation, these grain gangs have caused trouble. Ma De took the opportunity to clean up the source of the trouble. Although there are many gangs in the grain gang and they may cause trouble out of the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, even more than two hundred years later, the Chinese still believe in the "people"

Don't fight with officials, let alone now? Moreover, those who really dare to make trouble in the Grain Gang are just those backbones! And these backbones are loyal and unfaithful. What Ma De needs to deal with are those backbones who are loyal and dare to make trouble. These people only occupy dozens or even a few hundred of the Grain Gang members, and tens of thousands of people. It is amazing that there are more than two thousand people. Moreover, these people are scattered all over the place! Among these people, there may be good people, but most of them are not considered

Good people. Therefore, Ma De did not have any psychological burden. He just ordered local officials to find out the facts and then escort them to Shanghai to repair the wharf! He also called it: labor reform! With the clues that grain helped these people "provided" these people, the old nests of bandits from all over the country were easily presented to the officers and soldiers... Of course, Ma De would not be stupid enough to use people from the local yamen to suppress the bandits. He still used the army. In order to prevent these troops from coming in a mess, he also installed his confidants in these troops.

The reason why Ma De changed this was not afraid of someone causing trouble for him. In addition to Luo Xin's personal recruitment, there was another reason why Kangxi's southern tour!

Kangxi's southern tour was the best excuse for "remediation of public security". As long as everything was carried out under the eight big words "welcome the emperor and rectify public security", he was not afraid of anyone. No matter what, when the emperor was coming, the bandits could not defeat the emperor's interest, right? Moreover, Ma De also believed that at this time, no matter who the officials in Jiangnan were, they would not dare to impeach Kangxi for his actions. Even if they dared to report, they would not be those officials with enough weight. The reason was no different, and the same crime! - Jiangnan

As a high-ranking official, wouldn't he be responsible? Could it be that those bandits were still picked up by Ma De? Dare to complain? OK! The emperor is so wise, you sue! Who is unlucky? I, Lao Ma, have just arrived not long ago, and I did this to welcome the Southern Tour of the Saint. How could I find that there are so many bandits in Jiangnan? The responsibility in this seems to be not to be held on my head, right? ... As long as these senior officials in Jiangnan do not move, some other little flirting will be no longer the weather.

In this way, when the world of Jiangnan provinces was changing, Ma De also successfully began the first two steps he had to do after becoming the governor of Jiangnan... Open a port repair and rectify public security!

As for the third step, it is to welcome Kangxi!

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"Long live my emperor!"

After a while on the road, Kangxi's saint finally arrived in Jiangning, Ma De and Wei Dongting, the two largest provincial officials in the country, and all the officials in Jiangsu Province went out of the city to welcome the car. The scene was extremely grand. Behind these officials, besides the guards, there were endless crowds! Yes, it was endless! The entire Nanjing City was almost intriguing to welcome Kangxi. From the gate of the city to the city, it was all the way to the gate of Wei Dongting's house. The density of the heads could be stabbed to three or five needles.

"Let's just flat!"

Kangxi walked down from the dragon boat, with Li Dequan standing beside him, followed by two princes No. 4 and No. 13, as well as Gao Shiqi, Zhang Tingyu, Ma Qi, Feiyanggu, Yu Zhong, Lan Li and others. As for Yu Chenglong and Chen Huang who had arrived before, they had already gone back to work.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Ma De stood up with Kangxi's order, looked at Kangxi first, turned his head and saw Yu Zhong again, and Yu Zhong blinked at him.

"Your Majesty, I have prepared the palace. I'm here to invite you to move!"

At this time, Ma De was not qualified to penetrate Kangxi. Wei Dongting was the first to bow and walk to Kangxi and said to his master.

"Yes." Kangxi glanced at Wei Dongting, then looked at the others, and then waved his hand, "Set the palace!"

"The emperor has an order, let's go to the palace!" Li Dequan repeated Kangxi's will with his slightly sharp voice, then immediately bowed and raised his arms, held Kangxi's hand with his wrist, and walked forward with Wei Dongting who was leading the way next to him. The Jiangsu officials who were originally lined up in a horizontal line immediately flashed out a way to make way for Kangxi. Then, the two princes following Kangxi, Gao Shiqi and others also started to follow. Yu Zhong deliberately slowed down and landed at the end, so Ma De naturally leaned forward quickly.

...

"Be careful, this old man seems to be planning to hammer you. Don't say the wrong thing!"

After walking a few steps, Kangxi got on the prepared car, and all the ministers rode on horseback and followed behind. Then, the entire team was like a float parade at the Brazilian Carnival, enjoying the cheers that the people on both sides of the road seemed to be able to rush to the sky. And while taking advantage of this, Yu Zhong also reminded Ma De.

"I've been ready. I've already figured out the temper of this emperor. The more he scolded me and hit me, the more he wouldn't touch me now." Ma De replied.

"Hmph, don't be arrogant, if your temper is so easy to see through, he will not be Mr. Kangxi! If you feel good later... Where is Xinxin? I want to see my godson!" Yu Zhong glared at Ma De and said again.

"Look at your godson? Damn it! It's not that fast! It's less than three months! Besides, how can you be sure that you are your godson, not your godson?" Ma De shouted in a low voice.

"It's all the same. Have you brought your wife?" Yu Zhong asked indifferently.

"I'm still in Anqing!" Ma De replied.

"I'm still in Anqing? Are you looking for death? I know I'm anxious..." Yu Zhong said with a glaring eyes again.

"There is no choice, brothers don't care. Sister Jing has orders, do you dare not obey?" Ma De glanced at Yu Zhong with a proud look and said.

"Mo Jing? She has arrived?" Yu Zhong asked.

"No, Sister Jing sent someone to pass the order when she first entered Anhui. She probably will take several days to arrive!" Ma De replied.

"Excessive!" Yu Zhong murmured in a low voice.

"Who are you talking about?" Ma De asked with a glaring look.

"My godson!"

“…?”

...

As expected, after arriving at Wei Mansion, Kangxi sent all the officials who were welcomed by the long journey, but left Ma De alone. Although this practice is normal, many Jiangsu officials still jealous of Ma De's "holy family". Of course, Ma De, who was in it, did not have that kind of thought.

"Made, you really can cause trouble for me!"

The Wei Mansion was originally a palace built specifically for Kangxi's southern tour. Although the buildings inside were not as good as the Forbidden City and were not as good as Changchun Garden, the palace was the palace, and the place where Kangxi met Ma De was not much worse than that in Beijing. Kangxi himself lived in the center, surrounded by two sons, and further down were Gao Shiqi, Wei Dongting and others. In the middle, Feiyanggu and Lan Li and other officials had also been led elsewhere to rest.

"I am afraid, please give me advice!" You say that you will cause trouble? You cannot admit this crime! Ma De secretly curled his lips and knelt down to say to Kangxi.

"Hmph! Are you afraid?...Master Ma, Governor Ma! Is your fear too fake? What is my southern tour? It is to declare peace! All the officials in various provinces along the way know the saint's intentions. You are not stupid, why do you dare to slander me repeatedly?" Kangxi snorted coldly and asked.

"Please forgive me for your sins! I have no such thoughts..." Ma De said in panic.

"Don't have such thoughts? Hum..." Kangxi walked back and forth, looking very angry. "In the case of Li Yuchang, you forced me to slow down on the road. That's all, after all, someone complained, you can't keep going. But what are you doing now? I went to the south to show peace, but now the whole Jiangnan is almost in trouble."

"There are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom! A governor cannot suppress all the officials." Ma De glanced at the fourth prince and replied. Although he had never seen Yinzhen before, Kangxi brought two sons in his southern tour, one big and one small, so it is naturally not difficult to distinguish which one was, let alone Yinxiang he knew. However, Ma De didn't know how frightened Yinzhen was when he saw this look. Yinzhen had only encountered him twice in his life. The last time was on the way to come, he met Yu Zhong on a dragon boat. That time it made Yinzhen feel very uncomfortable. This time he actually met another one, and it was two brothers. Yinzhen unconsciously kept a secret fear of Zhong and Ma De in his heart.

"It's really a scattered thing, and I feel like 'the world is for the public'. Ma De, if you do this, aren't you afraid that those officials will do the right thing to you? I thought that you were an official in the local area, with clear and clear administration, and doing your best to do your best. But the people do not praise you, but are mostly afraid of you. Do you know?" Kangxi asked suddenly.

"I know!" Ma De kowtowed and replied.

"I know? Since you know, why do you still oppress officials everywhere? Do you know that your reputation for dominance comes from this! Don't you know that as an official, what you need is harmony among people. Without harmony, even if the place can be peaceful for a while, it is not the right way?" Kangxi asked sternly again.
Chapter completed!