Wu Shigong didn't expect that he hadn't arrived in Guide yet, and there were already two groups of people who were worried about cleaning him up.

After such a delay on the road, when Wu Shigong and his party arrived at Guide, the gate of Guide Mansion City had been closed. In desperation, Wu Shigong had no choice but to find a carriage and horse shop outside Guide City and settle down the group.

Wu Shigong didn't want to trouble anymore, early tomorrow morning, after the city gate was opened, Wu Shigong took Xue Yongli and a few other guards into Guide City to visit the Wei commander of Guide Guard. Because, Wu Shigong's official seal of a thousand households is still in the hands of the command of Deweiwei for the time being. As soon as Wu Shigong got the official seal, he immediately went out of the city and rushed to the Qianhu Office.

The next day, after Wu Shigong entered the city and arrived at the Yamen of the Wei Commander, he sent in one hundred taels of silver, two silk cloths and two boxes of fat powder hardcover gift boxes along with his own prayers. The fat powder that Zhao Ruya brought out from the fat powder shop may have the biggest effect in the future for Wu Shigong.

After receiving Wu Shigong's greetings, the commander of the guard quickly met with Wu Shigong. The commander of the guard was named Zhao Ming, an old man in his fifties, chubby and looking very rich. Always with a kind smile on his face.

After Wu Shigong saluted Commander Zhao, Commander Zhao chatted with Wu Shigong. After saying a few words, Wu Shigong mentioned the matter of the official seal. However, Commander Zhao immediately diverted the topic, and Wang Gu talked about him left and right.

Wu Shigong is anxious, but he can't use the official seal to be strong. can only patiently chat with the old man Zhao Ming, without a word. The old man Zhao Ming told Wu Shigong: Let him live in Guide City for a few days with peace of mind. Anyway, Wu Shigong's thousand households are located in the southwesternmost corner of Guide Mansion, and it will take a day to rush from Guide Mansion City.

Wu Shigong hurriedly excused himself, it took too long along the way. Wu Shigong wanted to rush to his Qianhu House as soon as possible.

Seeing Wu Shigong's attitude, he was very resolute. Then the old man Zhao Ming smiled and nodded at Wu Shigong: "This commander is very busy now." I'm going to take a concubine in three days. ”

Wu Shigong immediately realized. It turns out that my Grand Commander Zhao is thinking about this problem. Wu Shigong hurriedly went outside and asked Xue Yongli for a hundred taels of silver as a congratulatory gift for Commander Zhao's concubine. Congratulations to him on his immortality. and apologized to Commander Zhao: I was in a hurry to take office, so I could only be absent from Commander Zhao's wedding.

After accepting the silver, the old man Zhao Ming looked more kind. He immediately gave the official seal to Wu Shigong, and praised Wu Shigong's diligent behavior. Zhao Ming's heart thought: As long as you have silver, you can't come to the wedding.

When Wu Shigong proposed to ask Commander Zhao to arrange someone who was familiar with the road to lead the way, Old Man Zhao Ming agreed. He immediately arranged for an old soldier beside him to lead Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong took the old soldier to the carriage and horse shop outside the city. The people in the carriage and horse shop were already ready to go, waiting for Wu Shigong. As soon as Wu Shigong arrived, he immediately ordered everyone to catch up with Zuihou on this long journey.

Before leaving, Wu Shigong gave the old soldier twenty taels of silver. Wu Shigong wanted this old soldier who was familiar with the local situation to introduce more about the situation of his thousands of households.

After the old soldier received Wu Shigong's silver, he immediately opened the conversation with a smile. Unexpectedly, this old soldier is still a talker, and he talks endlessly along the way. When you encounter a small hill, you can tell Wu Shigong a story. It makes people feel that if he goes to modern times, it would be very good to be a tour guide.

But the words of the old soldier were that he couldn't spare Wu Shigong's thousand households. Under Wu Shigong's repeated questioning, the old soldier finally reluctantly said that he had gone to the Thousand Households.

As soon as the words began, the old soldier spit out one word: "Difficult!" ”

Then, Wu Shigong finally extracted the content he needed from the complicated words of the old soldiers. I learned about the basic information of my own thousand households.

It turned out that his predecessor Qianhu, the Qianhu, died in an accident and vacated the position of this Qianhu. To be exact, that Senhe committed suicide.

This matter should start with the management of the military preparation of the guard, Li Bingbei Dao. That Li Bingbeidao is relatively young, and he is also resolute in his work. Moreover, he is a new official, and he wants to make some political achievements. Therefore, Li Bingbeidao demanded that the subordinate guards and thousands of households should hand over the money and grain that should be handed over every year in a down-to-earth manner.

And Wu Shigong's Qianhu is in a very good location, at the confluence of two rivers. The land is also fertile. However, because the land is fertile, it is a sin.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, no one dared to occupy the land of the Weisho at all. However, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the local encroachment on the land of the guard has intensified. The same is true of Wu Shigong's Thousand Households.

Wu Shigong's thousand-household office, as well as Gui Dewei, have not complained to the Xiangshang-level yamen. However, the gentry who encroached on the land of the guard had a background in the government. Some of them are themselves people in the government. Therefore, every appeal is endlessly ripped off.

After more than 100 years of encroachment, Wu Shigong's land of 1,000 households has been encroached upon almost half. And so much time has passed. Which piece of land is the land? Which is the land of a thousand households? It has long been a muddled account. And the number of Wu Shigong's 1,000 households has long been gone, and at most it is more than 700 households.

However, in the past, those soldiers who knew about these situations always exempted Wu Shigong from some money and grain. Therefore, the life of that thousand households can still be passed.

When Li Bingbeidao's order was issued, the former thousand households fought on the basis of reason, but Li Bingbeidao was not accommodating. However, it is true that the Thousand Households cannot hand over so much money and grain, and can only hand over a part of it.

As a result, that Li Bingbeidao adopted a management model that was a higher level than humanized management -- bestial management. He caught the former thousand households and took them to the Yamen of the Military Preparation Road, and beat the former thousand households with a board. After that, he still ordered the first 1,000 households to hand over the missing money and grain within a time limit.

The former Qianhu had a very strong temperament, and without saying a word, he went out to prepare for the yamen, and found an inn to hang himself.

Moreover, the former Qianhu family was a strong family, and after receiving the news of her husband's suicide, the wife of the former Qianhu carried her husband's body to the Yamen of Bingbei Dao, and wanted to die with Li Bingbeidao. Frightened, that Li Bingbei was hiding in Tibet.

After getting the news of the death of the former Qianhu, all the military attaches belonging to the Dewei also made a fuss. In the Ming Dynasty, the military attachés of the local Shangwei were hereditary. They lived in the same place for a long time and married each other, so that the former Qianhu and the military attache owned by the German Guard were all related.

In other words, the death of the first thousand households is equivalent to the death of the relatives of these military attachés. How can this keep these military attaches from making trouble?

Faced with the cries of the former thousands of family members, the common hatred and hatred of the military attachés of the guard, Li Bingbei was embarrassed. So, the yamen at all levels came forward, and they began to work with the mud. zuihou, reached an agreement that basically satisfied all parties:

First of all, Li Bingbeidao personally took out a large sum of silver to the families of the first 1,000 households to express condolences and deep condolences;

Secondly, in order to maintain the dignity of Li Bingbeidao and the authority of the government, Li Bingbeidao's order to demand that all guards and thousands of households hand over all money and grain remained unchanged;

Third, considering the actual situation of the former thousand households, they will apply to the imperial court to send a thousand households who have been acting for six years. Because, Li Bingbeidao has served two terms in this position at most, that is, six years. And the son of the former Senhu will also reach adulthood in six years. Anyway, six years later, let's talk about it then;

Zuihou, civil officials at all levels, including Li Bingbeidao, and all the military attaches to the Dewei unanimously promised that after six years, they would definitely drive out the acting Qianhu and let the son of the former Qianhu inherit the position of Qianhe.

And when that application for the imperial court to send an acting thousand households for six years arrived at the Ministry of War, it happened to be discovered by Wei Zhongxian. For the reasons mentioned above, this official position was assigned to Wu Shigong.

After hearing all this, Wu Shigong scolded in his heart: "This is really complicated!" "Don't think about anything, let's go to the Qianhu Office first, and then talk about it, and the ship will go straight to the bridge.

When it was dark at night, the old soldier led Wu Shigong and his party to a small town under the Thousand Households. Wu Shigong had too many people, so he could only find a few inns in the town and live separately.

The old soldier took Wu Shigong, pointed in one direction, and said to Wu Shigong: "Lord Qianhu, your Qianhu is there." ”

Wu Shigong looked in that direction, but it was already the end of the month, and it was a cloudy day, and there was no moon or stars in the sky. Wu Shigong didn't see anything.