Early in the morning, Wu Shigong came to the gate of Xue Mansion. All the people at the gate had already arranged their ranks and were waiting for him, including Wu Mian who led the thirty soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses. Wu Shigong looked at Xue Qiang and Xue Yong's two swollen faces like pigs' heads, and felt a little funny. It seems that Xue Yongli's attack yesterday was quite heavy. Yesterday, after Xue Lian called them to the study, the punishment for them was both grace and power, although because of the dereliction of duty of these two pig heads, they were deducted for two months, but Xue Yong was still the captain of Wu Shigong's personal guard, and Xue Qiang was the deputy of the team. Because after all, the two of them are Xue Lian's personal guards and Xue Lian's cronies.

The guards were all equipped with horses, and they were very thoughtful, and brought Shumo an empty horse as well. But that Shumo doesn't know how to ride a horse, and besides, the horses in Xue's mansion are all military horses, and they are all very tall, so Shumo is so anxious that he circles around this horse. Looking at the funny appearance of the book and ink, bursts of laughter came from all around. Wu Shigong shouted: "Shumo, don't look foreign, you can lead the horse to the yamen today." After arriving at the Yamen, I will practice horseback riding on the school field today, and don't lose my face in the future. ”

So, the group set off. They didn't walk fast, because except for a horse brought by Wu Mian himself, the other soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division were all on foot, not to mention the Shumo who was leading the horse with a sad face. Suddenly, a black shadow appeared in front of him, and he knelt down in front of the group's horses. Everyone pulled the reins and stopped their horses. But Wu Shigong was not proficient in horseback riding, and he almost fell under the horse in a panic. Under this circumstance, Wu Shigong was in a cold sweat behind his back, and he was faintly glad in his heart: fortunately, he didn't fall off the horse, and the Ming Dynasty did not have a strong traffic risk. But then, my heart was on fire, who didn't know whether he was dead or alive in front of the horse?

Wu Shigong sat firmly on the horse, looked fixedly, and there was a big black man kneeling in front of their horse, constantly kowtowing and shouting: "Master, master, the small one is He Fei, the little one is He Fei......

The fire in Wu Shigong's heart was even greater. After the edification of so many modern costume TV series, Wu Shigong naturally had to treat that black man as a stopper and complain. But the TV series tells us that the people who stopped the horse and sued were all pretty and delicate little widows, what are you doing with this black muscular man?

What's even more puzzling is that the black muscular man calls himself is simply too strange. After Wu Shigong traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he had never heard any slave call his master "master", if it weren't for Wu Shigong not realizing the back of the heads of the people around him, without that shiny braid, he would have thought that he had crossed into the Qing Dynasty again. This made Wu Shigong's heart even more angry.

"It must be a nervous disorder!" Wu Shigong immediately made a decision in his heart.

So, Wu Shigong immediately gave the order to drag the black muscular man aside. Unexpectedly, the black muscular man shouted loudly while struggling among the soldiers: "Master, you can't treat the little one like this." The little one and the master are a family! Ahh Little Marquis! ”

"Little Marquis!?" Wu Shigong felt that the guards of the Xue Mansion were secretly looking at him. Wu Shigong understands that the title of this little Hou Ye cannot be used indiscriminately, and it can generally be used by the son of the Hou Ye. Of course, if a certain Hou Ye's son (not the prince) is outside and is flattered by others to call it so, no one cares about that. But now that he is in the Xue Mansion, he is a wealthy person, so those Xue Mansion guards must be very sensitive to other people calling themselves Little Marquis.

Wu Shigong also pretended to be confused, ignoring the eyes of these guards, he was surprised by the sentence called "He Fei", "The little one and the master are one family!" ", became interested. Could it be that his father Wu Weizhong has some wild seeds outside?

"Drag him here." Wu Shigong ordered. When the soldiers dragged the black muscular man to Wu Shigong's horse, Wu Shigong bowed his head and asked, "Come on, why are you a family with this official?" Wu Shigong thought in his heart: If you kid can't say one, two, three, four, five, even if your name is Yue Fei, I will beat you so much that I can't even recognize your mother.

Unexpectedly, after Na Hefei introduced himself, although he and Wu Shigong were not related, they could barely be said to be a family.

Do you remember? At that time, Wu Shigong's ancestor, Wu Yuncheng, who took refuge in Ming Chengzu Zhu Di. Then Wu Yuncheng took his Mongolian tribe to the Ming Dynasty. The vast majority of the tribe remained on the frontier. After more than 200 years after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the shadows of these people do not know where to go. And a small number of them, as guards and servants of the Wu family, moved into the capital with the Wu family.

In the Gongshun Hou Wu family, the first sons were selected from among the people of these tribes and their descendants. But with the reproduction of several generations, the number of these Mongolian descendants is also increasing, because there is no old lady wearing a red armband here in the Ming Dynasty to take care of Jihua's fertility. But the total number of guards and servants needed by the Wu Mansion was so much. In addition, through the marriage between the nobles, the daughters-in-law who married into the Wu family always brought some slaves, and these people also became the sons of the Wu family. And the children of this part of the family have surpassed the children of these Mongolian descendants in terms of their ability to do things and their appearance. Isn't the Wu Mansion transforming into a scholarly family? Therefore, they prefer to use the former type of domestic children as the guards and servants of the Wu government (including embroidered bamboo and calligraphy and ink), which leads to the increasingly narrow employment of the children of Mongolian descendants. Although the Wu government still gave some relief to these Mongolian descendants out of their own considerations, on the whole, the lives of these Mongolian descendants are becoming more and more embarrassing. A small number of people among them broke away from the Wu family, started their own businesses, and completely integrated into the common people of the Ming Dynasty. But the vast majority of people are still struggling, looking forward to some opportunities in the Wu Mansion so that they can enter the mansion as domestic slaves. This is also the case with Hefei.

Na Hefei, don't look at him as muscular, but he is doing odd jobs outside, and he doesn't have any money around him. He is almost thirty years old, and he has not yet found a daughter-in-law. But this time, he inquired that the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division was going to recruit soldiers, and the price offered outside was seventy taels of silver per person. He Fei really wanted to be that soldier, but the family had no money, even if he took the valuable things at home to the pawnshop, he could only make up more than 20 taels of silver at most. But this black muscular man's brain is not slow. Yesterday, he just inquired that the new commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division was the fourteenth young master of the Wu family, who had joined the Xue family. Didn't that come from your master's house? So, He Fei waited for Wu Shigong at the gate of Xue's Mansion this morning, wanting to make friends and try his luck.

I see. No wonder Na Hefei called himself "Master", which turned out to be the name of the Mongols. Wu Shigong only now realizes that his ethnic composition is still a minority. Now I have met someone of the same nationality as myself, and I am still from the same tribe as myself, although that tribe doesn't know where to go, but I can help if I can. Anyway, yesterday, Xu Zhimu told him that there were dozens of places to recruit soldiers. I don't know where to recruit these soldiers.

So, Wu Shigong asked Na Hefei, how much silver can he take out around him? He Fei said hesitantly: He has fifteen to twenty taels of silver by his side. Wu Shigong simply decided to recruit He Fei into the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division. He asked He Fei to bring fifteen taels of silver tomorrow, or to meet him at the gate of Xue's mansion, and the remaining thirty-five taels of silver were lent to him by Wu Shigong, and it was not any interest, so that He Fei would slowly repay him when he had money in the future. When He Fei heard the good news, he happily hurriedly kowtowed to thank him. Wu Shigong didn't care about him and continued on the road.

Wu Shigong decided to collect money from He Fei, the main purpose was not to break the market of recruiting soldiers from the Soldiers and Horses Division, otherwise, it would be easy to cause any conflicts with other leaders who collected money. Besides, He Fei didn't have any friendship with himself, so why should he lose the fifty taels of silver? Being able to lend him thirty-five taels, not counting interest, is already very face-saving.

However, Wu Shigong had a curiosity in his heart, how much silver can the soldiers of the Terracotta Division earn in a year? So much so that outsiders could be willing to pay seventy taels of silver for this position. He called Wu Mian to his side and asked him the question in his heart. Wu Mian replied to him: In the capital, although the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division are also soldiers, they can only get fifty percent of their military salary every year. In the Ming Dynasty, a soldier's monthly salary was: one tael and five silver, one stone and a half meter, so the total should be about twenty-five taels of silver per year, but the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division had at most ten taels per person. Moreover, the military salary issued by the Ming Dynasty was also relatively picky, which included the cost of weapons and equipment and military uniforms. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, it was common to see soldiers wearing tattered mandarin duck battle jackets and holding tattered weapons. What's even more exaggerated is that as long as it is not in the time of war, in peacetime duty, the soldiers' meals have to be solved at their own expense. Therefore, in fact, the soldiers of the Terracotta Division could not even get ten taels of silver in a year.

But there is a lot of extra speed in the Terracotta Division. With the addition of extra money, on average, each soldier can get less than forty taels of silver a year. Of course, some mixed haode soldiers may just get a dead military salary, while mixed haode soldiers can get a lot more. But the soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division have two advantages: one is that as long as they don't make any mistakes, this work can basically be done for a lifetime, and the Ming Dynasty has not retired. The second is that when you are old, you can leave the position of soldier to your son to inherit.

Wu Shigong understood, isn't this a modern civil servant? And more than a civil servant, this position can also be replaced. Then the seventy taels of silver are indeed not much. Think about it: the annual salary of a modern civil servant is 100,000 yuan a year. If it is sold openly, there is no need for the civil service examination, then it is sold for 200,000 yuan, which is simply a low price. The robber didn't break his head yet. Not to mention that it can be replaced.

Talking with Wu Mian, he also felt that time passed quickly, and before he knew it, Wu Shigong and his party came to the yamen of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division.