On the way back to the village.

Wu Zheng learned that the little man in front of him was the real Zhou Simin (Min).

Zhu Yujiao fraudulently used Xiaoman's name.

Zhou Simin is Zhu Yujiao's maternal cousin.

Uncle Zhu Yujiao, that is, the eldest brother of Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Sizong and Empress Zhou.

It is Zhou Simin's father.

Zhou Kui was stingy by nature, after the fall of the capital, Zhou Kui and his whole family were arrested by the Dashun Dynasty, his wife and daughter-in-law were forced to hang themselves, the eldest son was beaten to death, Zhou Kui and the second son, nephew were tortured and almost died, had to hand over three million silver and family property.

Fortunately, Zhou Simin was in Suzhou Fengmen (the ancestral home of the Zhou family) at this time, so he was spared a temporary difficulty.

Under the cover of the eunuch Zheng Gonggong and others, Zhu Yujiao escaped from the capital.

Heading south to Suzhou, it didn't take long for the Qing army to move south.

Emperor Hongguang's surrender extinguished the last trace of hope in Zhu Yujiao's heart.

In despair, Zhu Yujiao wanted to return to Beijing to die.

At this time, Zhou Simin proposed to go south to Hangzhou, and the Zhou family had relatives in Hangzhou and wanted to take refuge.

I didn't want to meet Wu Zheng on the road.

Wu Zheng personally experienced the rest of the matter, so he naturally knew it clearly.

Wu Zheng no longer complains, in this troubled world, strength is everything.

Therefore, he desperately wants to have strength, and the strength in his hands is the most representative strength!

Even if the whirlpool that came out was rotten first, Wu Zheng couldn't care about it at this time.

Doing what should be done and protecting the people who should be guarded is the goal I set when I woke up.

The three days he experienced when he returned to Shaoxing Mansion made Wu Zheng understand that many things would not help with enthusiasm.

Only by learning to be more filthy than a dirty person, and more treacherous than a treacherous person, can you achieve your goal in this world.

Realizing this, Wu Zheng's heart began to calm down.

Then let time prove your strength!

……。

returned to Wuzhuang and appeased Wu's father and sister.

Looking at Xiaoman, who was two years younger than himself, no, Zhou Simin, Wu Zheng still said: "Xiaoman, you can stay in Wuzhuang." ”

I don't want Wu Xiaomei and Zhou Simin to say in unison: "No! ”

Wu Xiaomei glared at Zhou Simin and said to Wu Zheng: "Brother, you can't leave her in Wuzhuang." ”

"Why?"

"I don't like her!"

Zhou Simin glared back at Wu Xiaomei and said, "I'm not rare, Wu Zheng, I'll go to the Lianghu Health Center with you." ”

Wu Zheng was annoyed, "You are a girl's house, what kind of guard do you go to?" ”

Zhou Simin's eyes turned red, "Wu Zheng, does His Highness want you to treat me well?" ”

Wu Zheng said angrily: "Then you look for your highness." ”

Zhou Simin cried loudly: "I knew that you were not a good person. ”

Father Wu couldn't stand it anymore, pointed at Wu Zheng and scolded: "Evil animal, you have the ability to play prestige at the Tartars, in Wuzhuang, it is not your turn to give orders." ”

Turning his head, he glared at Wu Xiaomei, "It's a good thing that Miss Zhou is a guest, is there any family discipline and upbringing?" ”

Then he said to Zhou Simin: "Miss Zhou, it is indeed not suitable for women to follow when you fight for a child to go to the health center." Besides, hundreds of people by the sea are about to be resettled in the village, and if you stay in Wuzhuang, you can also help take care of the affairs of the village, even if you do the old man a favor. I don't know what Miss Zhou wants? ”

Don't really say it, if there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, Father Wu's persuasion, Zhou Simin also restrained her crying, she reluctantly nodded and said, "It's okay, then listen to Master Wu." ”

But he was still angry in his heart, glared at Wu Xiaomei and said, "But I'm not with her." ”

Wu Xiaomei rolled her eyes and snorted: "Who is rare! ”

Daddy Wu thought for a while and said, "Okay, let's do it, Miss Zhou will live on Shining Street and take care of those shops, and my little sister is in Wuzhuang to help Dad take care of the village." ”

Now the second daughter no longer has an opinion.

Wu Zheng gave a thumbs up to Daddy Wu, in exchange for Daddy Wu's glare.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wu Zheng led more than 300 people to the Lianghu Guard Station to take up his post.

On the way, Wu Zheng told Chen Sheng about Zhu Yihai's confession to verify the vacancy of the soldiers in the Lianghu Guard.

I didn't want Chen Sheng to hear it, so he laughed.

"Why are you laughing?"

"My lord, the Daming Guard, it's common to have empty soldiers, do you still need to check this?"

"Huh?"

"Your Excellency is also the one who leads the troops, don't you even know about this?" Chen Sheng looked at Wu Zheng strangely, as if he was looking at an anomaly.

Wu Zheng recalled desperately, shook his head for a while, and said, "There has never been a vacancy of soldiers under my uncle's command. Of the ninety-six people under my command, except for those who died in the battle in Jiading Mansion, there has never been one less. ”

Chen Sheng looked at Wu Zheng in a daze for a long time, and then sighed: "Uncle Ling, Renjie also." Adults are also heroes. If there were generals like your uncle and nephew in the Ming Dynasty, how could they be occupied by the Tartars. ”

"According to what you say, there must be a vacancy in the Lianghu Guard?"

Chen Sheng replied: "There is no doubt about it. Do you know that when you are in Jinshan Qianhu, how many people are paid in the guard? ”

Wu Zheng shook his head.

"Exactly half."

Wu Zheng was shocked, "But I saw that you led the army to defeat at that time...... Ahem, there were not many soldiers under your command at that time? ”

Chen Sheng didn't care, and said with a smile, "According to the system, there are 112 people under the command of 100 households, and 100 households below 1,000 households, and generally 8 or 900 households are considered to be full." And the vacancies are not generated per 100 households. ”

Wu Zheng frowned and asked, "Do you mean that under the thousand households, there may only be four or five hundred households that are full, and the other hundred households are all empty shelves?" ”

"Exactly. In the 1,000 households, there are more than six people in the 100 households that are full, and there are four people at the least. Even three-person people are not uncommon. ”

"But according to Jianguo, I have sent people to the Lianghu Guard Station to inspect the previous times, and there is no abnormality?"

Chen Sheng laughed, "Adults may not know, but there is a trick in this. Whenever the above comes to inspect, thousands of households will line up the full number of hundreds of households for their proofreading. ”

Wu Zheng was puzzled: "Isn't that revealing?" ”

Chen Sheng shook his head and said, "If you change adults to go to the inspection, can you remember every face after seeing each other?" Can you distinguish between the soldiers who have been reviewed after three or four hundred households have already been proofread? ”

Wu Zheng suddenly realized, "You mean, how many hundreds of households take turns to be proofread?" ”

"Exactly, it's just that the officers at the front of the line, such as the hundred households and the general flag, are permanent, and the soldiers behind them are the ones who have been reviewed before, and this method is commonplace."

Wu Zheng was puzzled again, "Even you know that the officials sent by the prison state to Lianghu for inspection were only deceived once or twice, why can't they find out the abnormality several times?" ”

Chen Sheng sneered: "My lord is upright, so naturally I don't know what is wrong with this." How could the officials sent by the prison to Lianghu Guard Station for inspection not eat fishy cats? ”

Wu Zheng had a kind of enlightenment.

How can the branches of a tree that has rotted its roots be good?

Concealing it from the top and bottom, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were unanimously surprised, and this was the nightmare of being destroyed.