Zuihou's waiting time is always the hardest. In order to find something to do, Wu Shigong also attended Zug's wedding and personally acted as the officiant at the wedding.

The bride of Zug is not small, she is the eldest daughter of Yang Goudan and the younger sister of Yang Rusong.

This time, in order to build iron mines, saltpeter mines, and iron workshops, Wu Shigong simply set up a department to manage all the workshops, the Workshop Division. And the head of the workshop division is naturally served by Yang Goudan. For this reason, Wu Shigong also complied with Yang Goudan and gave Yang Goudan a general official position. Let Yang Goudan's officialdom dream finally come true.

And when Yang Rusong told his mother and asked Yang Goudan's wife to choose a lady for Zug, Yang Goudan's wife immediately did not flow into the fields of outsiders, and ceremoniously launched her daughter to Zug, a rising star in officialdom, as his wife.

Unexpectedly, this Yang Goudan had just become such a sesame mung bean official, but he immediately felt that his family was noble. He thought that Zug was just from a bandit, and his background was too low, and he was not worthy of his "noble" craftsman family, so Yang Goudan expressed his opposition to this family business.

But the quarrel between Yang Goudan and his wife, and the judging work was unsurprisingly transmitted to Wu Shigong. When Wu Shigong listened to what Yang Rusong said, he couldn't laugh or cry again, and he said to Yang Rusong angrily: "What kind of noble birth does your father have?" If you want to be noble, let's first remove the word 'dog' from his name. ”

With the support of Wu Shigong, the marriage was finally successfully held. However, for Wu Shigong's suggestion to change his name, Yang Goudan rarely insisted on his opinion. He believes that the name given to him by his parents, whether high or low, cannot be changed. For Yang Goudan's explanation of filial piety, Wu Shigong will certainly not object! Anyway, let him down.

Needless to say, the process of the wedding was lively and everything went smoothly. After the wedding, Wu Shigong accompanied all his family members to the small temple of Zhizhi to have an incense. Until now, Wu Shigong has not told his wives the news that he is going to go on the expedition.

Wu Shigong's wives are pregnant again, and Li Xin is about to give birth, Wu Shigong doesn't want them to worry too early, so he will take this opportunity to accompany his family well.

In the past few years, whenever Wu Shigong meets with Zhizhi, Zhizhi always persuades Wu Shigong. Everything Wu Shigong has done, and he has heard a lot about his intelligence, so when they meet, he always asks Wu Shigong to do less killing and accumulate more merits.

Wu Shigong also knew that the words of wisdom were right, but for Wu Shigong's considerations, he was forced to do those hot things. In the final analysis, Wu Shigong's heart is still a little arrogant, so he is unwilling to explain anything more to Zhizhi. In order to purify the ears, Wu Shigong has also been estranged from intelligence a lot over the years.

And after Wu Shigong and Zhizhi met this time, when the two of them were drinking tea alone in Zhizhi's meditation room, because the words were not speculative, this meeting was also a little cold.

Wu Shigong didn't have anything to say, he saw the salute in the smart meditation room, and asked casually: "Is the master going to travel far away?" ”

Zhizhi smiled and shook his head and said, "I heard that the adults are going north again, and the little monk is preparing early and traveling with the adults." ”

Wu Shigong was not very surprised by the news that Zhizhi knew that he was going to go on an expedition, because this little monk maintained good relationships with many of his subordinates. But Wu Shigong went to Liaodong this time, it can be said that he died in a lifetime, although his relationship with Zhizhi is a little cold now, but after all, he still treats Zhizhi as a friend.

So Wu Shigong immediately said eagerly: "This time the official went to Liaodong to fight, and his hands must be covered with blood, and the master is with me, aren't you afraid of mistaking the master's practice?" ”

"I'm not as good as hell, who goes to hell?" Wisdom came to a monk's standard answer.

Wu Shigong was anxious: "Why don't you bald donkey know what to do?" This time, the official is not sure whether he can protect himself, so how can he guarantee your safety? ”

"The little monk is not a helpless person, he also has the power of self-preservation, and adults don't have to worry about the little monk. Alas! The evil demons are intruding on my Daming, how can the little monk be outside? ”

Seeing that Zhizhi was very persistent, Wu Shigong had no choice but to fold his hands and salute Zhizhi to express his admiration.

The order to transfer troops was finally sent to the governor of Henan. To the surprise of Wu Shigong and Xue Zhinong, the Ming officialdom had no sense of secrecy about this kind of thing at all. In other words, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty basically had no sense of secrecy about any officialdom affairs. You must know that in the capital, Emperor Chongzhen's review of the folds can also spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital in the fastest time.

Moreover, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty also had a habit of officials like to talk about court affairs in the party, and they wanted to show their energy and status in front of the flower cards. Maybe it's the mentality that men like to show off in front of beautiful women. But in this way, the officialdom is like a sieve, full of holes, and there are no secrets to speak of.

Therefore, the people arranged by the Shanchuan Division in Kaifeng City basically learned about the arrival of Wu Shigong's order to transfer troops from Tang Mei and the street discussion at the same time.

Of course, Tang Mei learned the news in detail, after the Shanchuan Division arranged for someone to quickly send the news to Wu Shigong, Wu Shigong found that the number of Henan Ming troops mobilized this time was 3,000 people, so in addition to himself, other Ming troops would be mobilized.

In addition, the date of the transfer was very vague, and it only required the Ming army that received the order to leave immediately and arrive at Shanhaiguan before the end of February of the fifth year of Chongzhen.

And now that it has entered November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Wu Shigong calculated that it would only take two months for his army to reach Shanhaiguan at most, so he still had more than a month to delay.

After the governor of Henan received the official document from the Ministry of War, he immediately convened the relevant officials to discuss the list of troops. Of course, Wu Shigong's Runing battalion could not run away as an internal decision, and in addition, there will be 2,000 soldiers led by Jiang Guerrilla from Kaifeng to participate in this expedition.

That Jiang guerrilla is Zhao Zilong, a copycat who appeared when the Holy Spirit Society rebelled. However, his fate in the officialdom is great, and after his up and down points and all these years of sloppy shooting, he has been reinstated as an official now, and the salted fish has turned over.

However, the salted fish that turned over always had to have a role, so this unlucky errand fell on him, and he and Wu Shigong became difficult brothers.

After determining the list of expeditions, of course, the governor of Henan will not have anything to do with Wu Shigong's small garrison. According to the procedure, the order to transfer troops was in the hands of Li Bingbeidao, and in the future, Li Bingbeidao would urge Wu Shigong's Runing battalion to send troops.

However, when Li Bingbeidao had just received this order to transfer troops, he had not had time to send someone to Wu Shigong, but the "secret weapon" sent by Wu Shigong first played a role here in the Bingbeidao Yamen in Kaifeng City.