Seeing that Master Ling agreed, Wu Shigong saluted and said goodbye to Master Ling after a few words of greeting.

When Wu Shigong stood up and just wanted to leave, Master Ling seemed to remember something, and called Wu Shigong out loud. Wu Shigong looked at Master Ling with some surprise, and thought to himself, "Could it be that things have changed just now?" ”

However, Master Ling hesitated for a moment, but opened the baggage, stopped a small half of the gold ingots with his hand, and pushed it to Wu Shigong and said, "These are for you." When you are outside, don't talk about the gold outside. ”

Wu Shigong suddenly realized, it turned out that this Master Ling wanted to help the governor swallow the gold, and he wanted to give me some as hush money.

Wu Shigong hurriedly refused, Wu Shigong's original idea was to give these gold to the governor and Master Ling. However, Master Ling didn't know how to do it, and resolutely didn't want to push those gold ingots to Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong was a little puzzled in his heart: Is the construction of a clean government in the Ming Dynasty so good?

Seeing that Master Ling's attitude was very resolute, Wu Shigong had no choice but to find a piece of cloth, and after wrapping these gold ingots, he said goodbye to Master Ling again.

After Wu Shigong walked to the door, Master Ling said to Wu Shigong again: "Wu Qianhu, we have absolutely no problem here, but if anything happens to the officials in the capital, we don't care about it here!" ”

"Of course." Wu Shigong hurriedly replied. The purpose of meeting Master Ling today is, of course, to ask the governor to help here, and the affairs of the capital depend on Daddy Wu Weizhong, and it is impossible to ask the governor here to be responsible.

However, because Zuihou received Master Ling's reassurance, Wu Shigong was still very happy when he left. He also didn't notice the meaning of Master Ling's strange move of pushing him the gold ingot.

And seeing this, we may have two questions in our minds:

The first question is: Didn't Wu Shigong not want to show his face in front of Emperor Chongzhen? But what else did he have to do at that time?

This is because Wu Shigong's remaining credits are too little. can only allow Wu Shigong to occupy the bottom corner of the merit book. And how could Emperor Chongzhen, who was in a hurry, notice a small name in the bottom corner? It's like when we watch movies now, we don't notice the names of the cosplayers of "Bandit Armor" flashing on the screen.

And now, because Wu Shigong gave his credit to his fifth brother Wu Shiwen, his name will not appear in front of Emperor Chongzhen at all.

Of course, although Wu Shigong gave his credit to his fifth brother Wu Shiwen, just by virtue of the fact that Wu Shiwen led his "younger brother" in the performance of his credit, these two words could at least allow Wu Shigong to pass the lawsuit with Yu Zilian smoothly. As the saying goes: Any word that appears in front of the emperor has a thousand weights.

The second question is: Then why did the governor of Henan accept the gold ingots worth one or two thousand taels of silver, and dare to help Wu Shigong move flowers and trees? You must know that if this kind of behavior is exposed, it will be a big crime to deceive the court and the emperor in strict terms. For the governor of Henan, the benefits and risks seem to be disproportionate?

In fact, this is what our modern thinking is doing. In modern times, any subordinate, no matter what reason he has, as long as he cheats on his superior, once the boss finds out, the boss will definitely be very angry with the subordinate. And this subordinate will be dealt with seriously. This is precisely derived from the modern style of seeking truth from facts.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty also followed this principle. However, there is one exception. In the Ming Dynasty, on top of the national law and imperial power, there was a code of conduct that all ruling classes followed, that is, Confucianism.

And Wu Shigong let himself give credit to his fifth brother Wu Shiwen's behavior, and the governor of Henan was not afraid of it being exposed at all. Because, even if other officials knew about such an act, they would not report it to Emperor Chongzhen. Unless it was the official who wanted Emperor Chongzhen to reward the governor of Henan and Wu Shigong.

In addition, if Emperor Chongzhen knew about this, he would not punish anyone, and would even reward the governor of Henan and Wu Shigong.

What about that weishenme? Because of Wu Shigong's behavior, isn't it just a live-action version of "Kong Rong Rang Pear" in the Ming Dynasty? Now we get the idea. Master Weishenme Ling would agree so readily, the reason for Wu Shigong's request. Of course, this is also the reason why Wu Shigong's behavior is harmless and will not affect the interests of the government and other officials.

However, Wu Shigong didn't know about these twists and turns at all, and he made this kind of behavior completely by mistake. But in all fairness, it can be said that it is extremely rare for him to give his credit to his fifth brother Wu Shiwen because of so many coincidences.

Again, it is important to emphasize that the entire ruling class of the Ming Dynasty regarded Confucianism as the highest code of conduct. Because later, this characteristic attracted an important person. And this figure will greatly affect the pattern of the entire imperial court at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Who is that character? Forgive the author for selling a pass here, which will be introduced in detail later.

After Wu Shigong came out and stayed for a while, the governor sent someone out to spread the word: let some low-level civil officials participate in the banquet to welcome the governor in the evening. In the list of participants, there is no name of Wu Shigong, a low-level military attaché.

The county commander of Qi immediately came to Wu Shigong's side and explained to Wu Shigong: "Wu Qianhu will stay in Fucheng for a day tonight, and tomorrow morning, you will return to the county seat with this official." ”

Wu Shigong nodded and agreed, "Okay." ”

When Wu Shigong left, there was always something wrong in his heart. When those civilian officials can use their own military attachés, they are still pleasant, but once they can't use them, they don't take their military attaches seriously at all.

Although Wu Shigong didn't want to go to tonight's banquet in his heart, because he didn't want to be forced to do "advanced mathematics" again, but now this feeling of not being taken seriously is always uncomfortable. But this is the general climate of the Ming Dynasty now, and Wu Shigong had no choice but to leave.

Now Wu Shigong can move freely. Wu Shigong asked people to find an inn and arranged for his guards to stay. In the evening, he took these guards to find a big restaurant and have a good meal.

But during the dinner, Shumo, who was sitting next to Wu Shigong, was always frowning and sighing. Of course, Wu Shigong knew why Shumo was like this, so he ignored Shumo.

But when it came to Zuihou, Shumo couldn't hold back anymore. He opened his mouth and begged: "Young master, the little one really wants to redeem her. I beg your pardon. The little ones don't want your silver. This time, the small one came out, and he had already made up enough two hundred and fifty taels of silver. ”

In fact, Shumo is no longer just a matter of his lust at this time. Now he wants to redeem that maid, and the main reason is the problem of men's self-esteem.

Shumo has already boasted in front of that maid, and he will go to redeem himself for this maid. If Shumo can't do it, Shumo thinks that he will lose face. That's why he keeps doing it again and again. Again and again, he made requests to Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong looked at Shumo's pitiful appearance, staying together for such a long time, Wu Shigong and Shumo always had some feelings. Besides, Wu Shigong himself has five wives. He himself is not right, and there is no reason to talk to Shumo about this beam. Therefore, when he arrived at Zuihou, Wu Shigong still nodded and agreed to Shumo's request.

After eating, Shumo, accompanied by several guards, rushed to the Qinglou where the maid was located to redeem herself.

However, not long after Wu Shigong returned to the inn, Shumo also came back listlessly. Because, now is the time for the Guide Mansion to welcome the governor's banquet, and the maid and the old bustard of the Qinglou, of course, also went to the banquet venue, and they didn't stay in the Qinglou at all. The book and ink are in the air.

Providence is like this, because early tomorrow morning, Wu Shigong and they will escort Qi County Ling back to the county seat, and there is no time for Shumo to go to Qinglou to redeem that maid. Therefore, Wu Shigong had no choice but to comfort Shumo for a few words, and went to bed early.