Since Na Tao Xin worshipped Wu Shigong as his master, he trained with the soldiers every morning and went to the inner house to study in the afternoon.

Of course, when Tao Xin was training with the soldiers, the training intensity would definitely not be as great as the soldiers. However, this little boy is quite ambitious, and always tries to do his best. Therefore, his progress in military training is also quite large.

Wu Shigong saw that Tao Xin's performance was very good, and really praised the little boy several times. Every time he was complimented, the little boy blushed with excitement. His relationship with Wu Shigong is also much closer.

On the contrary, in the afternoon reading, Tao Xin's performance has always been inferior to Xiao Jie, who reads with him. Every time Tao Xin misreads a word, Xiao Jie always teaches Tao Xin a lesson in an old-fashioned manner. But Na Tao Xin also listened to Xiao Jie's accusation stupidly. Therefore, in the inner house, the matter of this seven-year-old girl teaching a ten-year-old boy is regarded as an interesting matter.

When building the city wall of the fortress of Qianhusuo, Wu Shigong only asked these laborers to build an earthen city wall with earth before the Chinese New Year. After the beginning of the year, stones are laid on the outside of the earthen city wall.

After Shumo came back, he saw this situation, so he suggested to Wu Shigong: Simply dig a trench outside the city wall, and the soil dug out of the trench can just build the city wall?

A word wakes up the dreamer. Shumo's suggestion not only greatly saved labor, but also added an additional line of defense to the fortress of Qianhusuo. What a brilliant idea! Wu Shigong immediately rewarded Shumo's suggestion, and gave Li Xin's maid to Shumo. After Shumo got this reward, he smiled, and habitually slapped a lot of sycophants at Wu Shigong.

A few days after Li Xin came back, Wu Shigong had another guest here. He is Mr. Zhang Kehua, a staff member of his father-in-law Xue Lian. After Wu Shigong saw Zhang Kehua, he was overjoyed.

After Xue Lian lost his errand, that Zhang Kehua had no effect. So, he resigned to Xue Lian and went back to his hometown in Shaoxing to retire. So, Xue Lian asked Zhang Kehua to take a bend on the way back to his hometown to see his son-in-law Wu Shigong, and by the way, he brought some items and people to Wu Shigong.

Although when he was in the capital, Wu Shigong and Zhang Kehua did not have much contact. However, now being able to see an acquaintance in the capital made Wu Shigong very happy. Therefore, after meeting each other, Wu Shigong gave Zhang Kehua a bear hug, and almost didn't break Zhang Kehua's old bones.

Zhang Kehua did not come alone, he was accompanied by more than 40 Xue Mansion guards on horseback sent by his father-in-law Xue Lian. In the current Xue Mansion, only the most basic guard, Liliang, is left by his father-in-law Xue Lian's side.

Zhang Kehua also brought two letters to Wu Shigong. One was written by his father-in-law, Xue Lian; The other was written by Wu Shigong's youngest wife, Xue Yufei. In addition, Zhang Kehua also brought a thousand taels of gold from his father-in-law Xue Lian to Wu Shigong.

Zhang Kehua told Wu Shigong: This gold has almost hollowed out the foundation of Xuefu. Because, in the current capital, the storm of impeachment of Wei Zhongxian and his party is wave after wave. Although Xue Lian was gently let go by Emperor Chongzhen, in order to save his life, Xue Lian still gave a lot of heavy gifts to powerful ministers and eunuchs.

Although Emperor Chongzhen has not moved Wei Zhongxian, he has already begun to liquidate Wei Zhongxian's henchmen. Even the Fengcheng Marquis Li Chengzuo was exiled from the capital.

Wu Shigong grabbed Zhang Kehua and drank together at night, letting Xue Yongli accompany him. When talking about the past of the capital, the three of them all sighed for a long time.

Zhang Kehua told Wu Shigong that Wu Shigong's decision to leave the capital was still correct. Now the leaders of the factory guards in Nancheng have been replaced. And not only Nancheng, but also the officials in other key positions in the capital have been replaced by Emperor Chongzhen's people.

Zhang Kehua then asked Wu Shigong: What are your plans now?

Wu Shigong replied: Let's take one step at a time. Now let's run this thousand households first.

After listening to Wu Shigong's words, Zhang Kehua nodded in agreement and said: In this situation, let Wu Shigong avoid the limelight in the local area.

After drinking and returning to the room, Wu Shigong took out the two letters and chewed them slowly over and over again.

Father-in-law Xue Lian wrote that letter, still squirting Wu Shigong's scolding blood. However, Wu Shigong felt quite warm when he looked at these words that scolded him.

And in Xue Yufei's letter, there is no need to say the tender and sweet words. What made Wu Shigong most pleased was that on the letter paper, there was an ink-dyed footprint of his son Xue Chenglin.

Wu Shigong never gets tired of looking at his son's footprints. Is there anything more painful in this world than the separation of flesh and blood?

Just when Wu Shigong and Zhang Kehua were drinking and sighing for a long time, in the You Hotel in Nanguan, Fucheng, Wei Zhongxian was also drinking a meal of Zuihou in his life with his cronie Li Chaoqin.

After suffering a violent impeachment, Wei Zhongxian was finally ordered by Emperor Chongzhen to be exiled to Fengyang. However, as soon as Wei Zhongxian left the capital, he knew that he would definitely not be able to reach the destination of Fengyang. Like him, once a powerful eunuch was exiled, none of them could go to their destination. This is just like when Wei Zhongxian exiled Wang An.

However, Wei Zhongxian still had some luck in his heart, he hoped that Emperor Chongzhen would spare his life for the sake of his many years of hard work, and for the sake of serving their father and son at this time in Emperor Chongzhen's father Mingguangzong.

But hopes were soon dashed. Wei Zhongxian had received a report from his cronies that Emperor Chongzhen had sent Jinyi Wei to arrest him and take him back to Beijing for trial. And those brocade guards will catch up with Wei Zhongxian and his party tomorrow morning.

After getting the news, Wei Zhongxian knew that he would not escape death, so why did he go back to Beijing and be humiliated during the interrogation? So, Wei Zhongxian drank bitterly with Li Chaoqin in the hotel until the fourth watch. After that, he went back to the house and hanged himself.

Wei Zhongxian's death is a landmark event in the entire history of China. Because his death marked the end of the political life of the eunuch group. From then on, there were no eunuchs who had any political influence.

And what does Wei Zhongxian's death mean for the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Chongzhen? Emperor Chongzhen got nothing but the title of "Holy Monarch" from the mouth of the civil official, which satisfied his vanity.

On the contrary, because of Emperor Chongzhen's move, the entire eunuch group was frightened silent. Since then, no eunuch has dared to make any suggestions on state and government affairs in front of Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen cut off one of his most important arms.

That Zhang Kehua was like an arrow, and he stayed here with Wu Shigong for one night and then said goodbye and returned to his hometown. When they were about to break up, Wu Shigong not only gave Zhang Kehua a generous gift, but also asked Zhang Kehua to bring Zhang Kequan a gift. Wu Shigong also asked Zhang Kehua to find a staff member for himself after returning to his hometown.

When Wu Shigong was in the Division of Soldiers and Horses, he was quite satisfied with Zhang Kequan's staff. Zhang Kequan not only helped Wu Shigong deal with a lot of official business, but also helped Wu Shigong to give advice and solve many problems for Wu Shigong.

And Wu Shigong is now in the Thousand Households, although in military affairs, there is Xue Yongli to help, and in business and financial management, Yuan Xingshan and Zheng Zhen help. However, he still felt that he needed a role that could give him advice in the officialdom.

After Zhang Kehua knew Wu Shigong's thoughts, he told Wu Shigong: Zhang Kehua and Zhang Kequan, two brothers, because they are too old, basically will not come out again after returning to their hometown this time. However, after Zhang Kehua returns to his hometown, he will look for a capable person among his children, and when the time comes, he will let him come directly to Wu Shigong.

Zhang Kehua's visit this time did not tell Wu Shigong, and Yu Zilian sued Wu Shigong. Because when Zhang Kehua left Beijing, Yu Zilian had just arrived in the capital, and he had not yet reported Wu Shigong.