After the end of the fortress military meeting, Wu Shigong immediately arranged the recruitment of 400 recruits. The recruits recruited this time mainly came from the military households of the thousand households, and of course, there were also some local young and strong people.

Wu Shigong didn't dare to recruit the rebels who were captured by him. These rebels are young and strong, and they were still rebelling yesterday, should they be used today?

In addition, Wu Shigong didn't know if any of those people had family members who were killed by Wu Shigong in the process of Wu Shigong's suppression of the rebellion of the rebellious people, so he was not at ease with these rebellious people. Let's let them work and reform first.

As for Zhizhi and Deng Qifan, who were forcibly left behind, Wu Shigong would not let them be idle. Wu Shigong thought about letting Zhizhi teach his soldiers some martial arts of Shaolin Temple, as long as it was seventy-two stunts.

Unexpectedly, Zhizhi scoffed at Wu Shigong's proposal, Zhizhi stayed here to preach, and he didn't come to open a martial arts hall at all. Wisdom still runs around every day spreading Buddhism. Wu Shigong could only be helpless against this little monk.

And Deng Qifan's arrangement is a little difficult. Fortunately, at this time, the guards from the capital wanted to send some letters back to the capital, but they were basically illiterate and illiterate, let alone write letters. Wu Shigong simply asked Deng Qifan to help write letters home for these guards.

This arrangement made Deng Qifan a little unhappy. Deng Qifan also thinks that he is full of wealth, but now he has to do those things that are poor and only set up a stall on the street to write letters, which makes him feel very embarrassed. Wu Shigong had no choice but to comfort him: after writing these letters, he would arrange for Deng Qifan to run an errand.

At this time, a scholar named Zhang Xuebin came to find Wu Shigong. He is a staff member that Zhang Kehua found for Wu Shigong in the clan after returning to his hometown in Shaoxing.

Zhang Xuebin is close to forty years old. He is in Shaoxing, an area where the "college entrance examination" is fiercely competitive, and the imperial examination is basically impossible. Therefore, this time he came to Wu Shigong to carry out his master's internship.

Weishenme says so? Because of his family heritage, Zhang Xuebin has a solid grasp of his master's theoretical knowledge. However, he has never served in any yamen, so his practical ability is somewhat lacking.

And Zhang Kehua thought of Wu Shigong here, there is basically no complicated work here, and the relationship between the Xue Mansion and the Zhang family is relatively close, Wu Shigong will always take care of Zhang Xuebin. So I asked Zhang Xuebin to come to Wu Shigong for an internship.

Seeing Zhang Xuebin's arrival, Wu Shigong was very happy, and after greetings, Wu Shigong gave Zhang Xuebin a detailed introduction to the basic situation of his thousand households and his own plans.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Xuebin heard that Wu Shigong wanted his fifth brother Wu Shiwen to be the county magistrate of this county, he said to Wu Shigong: "Boss, your idea is very wrong. ”

“weishenme？” Wu Shigong was very puzzled.

Zhang Xuebin said: "There are rules in the imperial court, and you will not let your brother come to a county to serve." ”

Listening to Zhang Xuebin's words, Wu Shigong was completely blinded as if he was hit by a thunderbolt on a sunny day. Because Zhang Xuebin's statement is not reasonable, but quite reasonable.

As long as you think about it, you can understand that no boss would arrange a pair of brothers to be officials in a county town. If that's arranged, wouldn't that county town become an independent kingdom? Even in modern times, it is still stipulated that several leaders of a unit cannot be held by relatives.

Wu Shigong is not unaware of this truth, and in modern times, he basically follows this principle to arrange his subordinates. However, Wu Shigong has never been an official in his two lifetimes, so he always lacks some sensitivity to the basic principles of arranging officials, so he made such a mistake.

Now Wu Shigong has a headache. The official position of the county order of Qi County is basically hopeless. At this time, Wu Shigong recalled that day, Master Ling, who was next to the governor of Henan, returned some of his strange actions of gold ingots.

That Master Ling must also understand the rule that a brother can't be an official in a region. But he deceived Wu Shigong's ignorance, and still agreed to Wu Shigong's request. and accepted Wu Shigong's filial piety.

And now Wu Shigong can't say what he is suffering about. Go to Master Ling to judge. But that Master Ling did complete all the formalities for the governor of Henan. He can't be blamed for not doing things.

Besides, these rules are something that you Wu Shigong don't understand, why does Master Ling want to remind you? And when he arrived in Zuihou, Master Ling also gave Wu Shigong some gold ingots, which should be said to be quite authentic.

What's even more infuriating is that Master Ling's approach has indeed grafted Wu Shigong's credit. Although the fifth brother Wu Shiwen will definitely not get the official position of the county magistrate of Qi County, he will definitely get other official positions with these merits.

But in this case, Wu Shigong will be in some trouble. I have almost not received any reward for my own achievements in officialdom. Even the official position of the garrison of the Guide Mansion, which was originally ironclad, flew away. Wu Shigong's move is completely stealing chickens and rice. Nothing, so to speak.

If that's all there is to it. Wu Shigong has recruited another 400 recruits now? This doesn't make Wu Shigong have such an extra expense out of thin air. And it is absolutely impossible to dismiss these soldiers as soon as they are recruited.

I don't have to think about it anymore anyway. Let's get through the hard days. Wu Shigong calculated it, if he added the materials he seized this time, he could still last for about two years. Let's see what ways to make money when the time comes.

Wu Shigong is also the one who can pick it up and put it down. He was completely dead-hearted, and completely forgot about that official position.

And when the governor of Henan and the relevant yamen at all levels in Henan submitted the recital on the rebellion of the people and the meritorious people of the Holy Spirit Society to the imperial court and Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen was quite happy.

Compared with the rebellion that could not be quelled for many years, and compared with the scattered rebellions in northern Shaanxi, the rebellion in Henan was quickly quelled in less than a month. Therefore, it can be seen that the officials in Henan are very capable and combative.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen quickly announced rewards of various sizes according to the list of meritorious personnel in the concert. After the holy decree of the reward was conveyed to Henan, the officialdom of Henan was full of jubilation, except for the unlucky acting Qianhu who made the first contribution in the fortress of Qianhu.

Wu Shigong's fifth brother Wu Shiwen, under Wu Weizhong's activities, restored his official position as a county official as he wished. And according to his "merits", he was arranged to be a county magistrate in a county seat in Shandong.

And Li Lu won the honorary title of the imperial court and a certain material reward because of his meritorious pursuit of the rebels. and raised the number of soldiers under the jurisdiction of Li Lu's garrison to 1,200. The reason why the reward is so small is that Li Lu has turned in too few heads.

When Li Lu learned about it, he couldn't cry or laugh. Knowing this, Li Lu also sold those heads to Jiang Guerrilla. Now Li Lu doesn't want to do any garrison in Henan at all, and make any contributions. He just wanted to go back to the capital to enjoy his happiness.

Because of the cover-up of the great victory and because the guerrilla activities of Jiang were in place, the guerrilla Jiang did not receive any punishment. However, Jiang's family property must have been much less.

And Qi County Ling was successfully promoted because of the bonus of this merit. As long as he goes to the ministry to elect officials, he can go to office. Later, the Qi County Commander went to Beizhili and became a state official.

Of course, Wu Shigong, who was hiding in the corner of the fortress of the Thousand Households, must not know all this. Wu Shigong does not have this kind of consciousness now, and will take the initiative to inquire about the affairs of the court and the changes of officials. He doesn't have that channel at all.

The Qi county order was left a few months later, after the arrival of the new county order and the handover of the office. When the Qi county magistrate left, the local gentry outside Yao Yuanwai set up a banquet and invited the new and old county magistrates and the main officials of the county to a banquet. It is a send-off for the Qi county order, and it is also a welcome banquet to welcome the new county order.

Originally, in this kind of banquet, thousands of households like Wu Shigong could be invited or not. However, after all, everyone had a hard time, so Yao Yuanwai still invited Wu Shigong.

But when Wu Shigong and the new county commander met each other, both of them shouted in surprise in unison: "It's you?" ”

The new county order was Yu Zilian who was thrown into the Grand Canal by Wu Shigong. After Yu Zilian was admitted to the Jinshi in Enke, he was arranged by the Ministry of Officials to be a county magistrate in this county.

Wu Shigong's reaction was very fast, he immediately showed a charming smile, waved his hand at Yu Zilian, who was as wonderful as his face was, and greeted: "Hi-!" ”

After the banquet, Wu Shigong and Yu Zilian both returned to their residences, got into their rooms, and scolded in unison: "This thief, this is playing with me!" ”

God certainly wasn't playing with the two of them. The arrangement of Yu Zilian here as a county magistrate was deliberately arranged by the officials. Although Wu Shigong beat Yu Zilian, Zuihou was settled, but who in the subordinates didn't know the contradiction between Yu Zilian and Wu Shigong?

Another major rule in the arrangement of official posts is that the greater the contradiction between the principal officials at the local level, the better. Otherwise, how could the imperial court control the local situation?