Hearing someone shouting outside the door, Wu Shigong kissed Xue Yufei on the face again before reluctantly leaving the house. Xue Yufei also reluctantly watched Wu Shigong's departure. It wasn't until just before dinner that the punishment of Xue Yufei and the five little maids ended with the cheers of the six little girls.

When Xue Yufei arrived at the dining room where he was eating with his parents, only Mrs. Zhang was waiting there, and Xue Lian and Wu Shigong were still discussing things in the study. Mrs. Zhang took advantage of this gap and reprimanded Xue Yufei again with a cold face. It wasn't until Mrs. Zhang sent someone to the study twice to urge him that Xue Lian and Wu Shigong left the study and came to the dining room. Wu Shigong also lowered his head and didn't say a word, Xue Lian "snorted" at the two of them, and said: "They are already married people, and they are still so indiscriminate in doing things." Tonight, the two of you will give Ben Hou a good haode for introspection. Then he said to Mrs. Zhang, "Madam, Ben Hou is no longer eating at home, and now he has something important to go to Duke Wei." Then he nodded to Mrs. Zhang and went out.

In the afternoon, after hearing that his son-in-law was going to be beaten, Xue Lian hurriedly sent his own guard leader Xue Yongli and a team of officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion. After Xue Yongli came back and reported the whole incident, Xue Lian was no longer interested in putting on a show at the scene of the disaster, and hurried back home, waiting for Wu Shigong's return.

After Wu Shigong came back, the porter who had been confessed by Xue Lian first called Xue Qiang and Xue Yong to the study. Of course, Xue Lian first reprimanded the two of them for not going to protect their uncle, but to accept red envelopes in the concierge. But the key thing is that Xue Lian wants to understand his son-in-law's every move in detail from Xue Qiang and Xue Yong, so as to judge his son-in-law's character and ability to do things. Master Zhang was also listening on the sidelines, and wanted to consult with Xue Lian.

Xue Lian inquired in detail about Wu Shigong's schedule for a day, and repeatedly asked Xue Qiang and Xue Yong about the details of everything Wu Shigong did. After that, they both stepped down. In the mouths of Xue Qiang and Xue Yong, Xue Lian didn't get much information, because the two of them actually didn't spend much time by Wu Shigong's side today. Xue Lian frowned and thought for a while, and decided to call Wu Shigong over to ask Wu Shigong in person.

Wu Shigong soon came to Xue Lian's study, but unexpectedly, the conversation between Weng and his son-in-law completely deviated from the original purpose, and later, Master Zhang also joined their conversation. Because Wu Shigong proposed a jihua to clean up the ruins and rebuild the houses of the victims, this is also a problem for Xue Lian now. After careful understanding, Xue Lian and Master Zhang felt that the success of this jihua was very likely, but Wu Shigong's Jihua also had some shortcomings, but these shortcomings were not irreparable, so Xue Lian and Master Zhang, who were familiar with the rules and decrees of the Ming Dynasty's yamen, gradually improved the jihua proposed by Wu Shigong. The three of them eventually came up with a package solution to the problems of the victims.

The whole scheme looks like this:

First of all, we will solve the problem of disposal of the debris at the disaster site. A fee of one tael of silver per house is charged from the owner of each house. The price is very cheap. Because if the homeowner hires his own manpower and vehicles to transport his own ruins, it will cost more than two taels per house. Xue Lian decided to officially start cleaning up the ruins in 10 days, and strive to complete the cleanup in 15 to 20 days. Of course, the homeowner can also arrange for someone to clean up the ruins by himself, so he doesn't have to pay the ruins cleaning fee of one or two silver. But they must ensure that the rubble is cleared within the stipulated time, otherwise they will be fined and forcibly cleaned up.

This made Wu Shigong, who had stayed in modern times, a little unaccustomed to it, and in modern times, the relief of disaster victims was completely free and unpaid. Master Zhang answered Wu Shigong's question. It turned out that in the rescue work of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the victims did not starve to death and did not spread the epidemic, the disaster relief work was already very successful. The government of the Ming Dynasty didn't even care about the sale of children and daughters of the victims, so how could it still care about the reconstruction of the homes of the victims? Therefore, they have made great merit in helping the victims to clean up the rubble at a loss.

Xue Lian: Of course, they won't lose money. Xue Lian will receive nearly 10,000 taels for cleaning up the ruins, and he will give 2,000 taels to Shuntianfu and 2,000 taels to Jingying, so that they can each send 5,000 people to participate in the cleaning of the ruins in ten days. Wu Shigong remembered what the officials of Shuntianfu and the officers of Jingying had said when he was sitting in on the deliberations that day, and he was worried that such a small amount of silver might not be able to meet their demands. But Master Zhang patted his chest and assured that the silver was completely sufficient, and he would personally negotiate to ensure that the task was completed. After listening to Master Zhang's explanation, Wu Shigong realized that the Shuntian Mansion sent a conscription, and the Beijing Battalion officers sent a soldier below, and the use of these people actually did not cost money. And the two thousand taels of silver were entirely for their own personals. As long as they have personal silver, who cares if they are busy in summer or not, and the soldiers below will not eat. Wu Shigong could only shake his head helplessly, sighing that the Ming Dynasty was really black, even darker than his gang boss.

Xue Lian also gave Wu Shigong 2,000 taels of silver, and will appoint Wu Shigong as the commander-in-chief of the ruins cleanup. Because now, being responsible for cleaning up the ruins is a hot potato, and no one will take over, Xue Lian let his son-in-law do this hard work, and he can also show his high demeanor in front of the emperor. Of course, when their plan is implemented, the hot potato will turn into a fragrant bun. When discussing this, Xue Lian, who was in a big mood, also joked with his son-in-law: Let him use his own money to pay the reward for the slaves of the Xue Mansion and the soldiers of the Beijing camp today. So what about the more than 4,000 taels of silver in this zuihou? Of course, it was left to Xue Lian for himself. The geese do not pluck their feathers, they will thunder and split the sky.

There is a problem here, and that is the transportation of rubbish from the ruins. Xue Lian was going to requisition the carriages and horses of the carriage and horse dealership, plus call some of the carriages in the Beijing camp to solve the problem. Because most of the carriage and horse shops in the capital were concentrated in the southern city, Xue Lian asked Wu Shigong, the commander of the soldiers and horses in the southern city, to negotiate with the boss of the carriage and horse shop. Wu Shigong confessed to Xue Lian that in fact, the garbage from these ruins is also very valuable. Although those houses were in ruins in the explosion, there are always some wood, bricks and tiles that can be reused, and some scrap copper and rotten iron can be recycled, so the ruins of a house can be worth at least half a tael of silver. Requisitioning a part, employing a part with the silver here, is completely able to solve the problem of chariots and horses. And he was able to leave some silver for himself. Wu Shigong's confession made Xue Lian and Master Zhang stunned, and sighed that the interlacing was like a mountain in the end. Dayue's Xue Lian said on the spot that if he could leave some silver, the silver would all belong to Wu Shigong.

There is a more important issue, from now on, no other people will be allowed to clean up the ruins. Wu Shigong reported to Xue Lian that he had issued this order in Nancheng. Xue Lian also said that tomorrow, he will also ask other soldiers and horses to carry out this order. Moreover, after today's discussion, he will immediately go to Wei Zhongxian to report and ask Dongchang and Jinyiwei to also carry out this order.

The next step is how to rebuild the house. They decided that the construction cost of each house was twenty-five taels of silver, and the Ministry of Industry arranged craftsmen to build it. This price is a little lower than the market price, but not much. The Ministry of Works will earn four or five taels of silver on each house. Because the officials and craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty also had to serve, the cost of using them was particularly low. At that time, the Ministry of Industry was reluctant to accept the reconstruction of the houses of the victims, mainly because they were afraid that they would not be able to collect the cost of construction. It is impossible for the Ministry of Industry to send so many people to thousands of families to collect the cost of building houses one by one. But now, Xue Lian will promise them to pay, and pay according to the construction process of the Ministry of Industry.

But where did Xue Lian's money come from? It turned out that Xue Lian was going to issue another order to the victims. After the ruins are cleared, the house will be built by itself within the specified time. What if you don't have the money to build? That's okay too. The government will help you build it for free, but you have to pay a part of the land to the government, and the government will build shops and houses on these lands and sell them to the wealthy people, so as to solve the problem at this cost. On the surface, this order seems to be very fair and just, but in fact, it is even more frustrating.

The land that the government is asking these homeowners to hand over must be those that face the street. Modern people know that the price of commercial real estate and residential real estate are completely different. Moreover, when Xue Lian sells these real estate on the street, he can completely set a relatively low official family, and those real estate will definitely be sold to powerful eunuchs, nobles and eunuchs, so that after the interests are shared, a huge interest group can be formed, and Xue Lian himself can also gain fame and fortune. Also, there is always an ownerless property where the whole family is dead, which is simply a transaction without capital, and it depends on how Xue Lian's disaster relief account book is accounted for.

Wu Shigong also got something, the carriage and horse transportation is two-way, what is transported out is garbage, and what can be brought in can be building materials. Wu Shigong can make a small profit on transportation costs.

The plan was perfect, and the victims could get a low price from the government to build their houses, or even free of charge. And the various yamen officials of the government involved in the disaster relief can get more or less their own benefits. Seeing that he had solved a big stone that had been pressing on his heart for so many days, Xue Lian was completely relaxed.

Wu Shigong took the opportunity to make two requests to Xue Lian. One is to hope that Xue Lian will help greet him and let the Ministry of Industry build a building for free in the shop in his Xuanwumen, which has become a ruin. For this trivial matter, Xue Lian agreed. Another request made by Wu Shigong was that he wanted to promote a deputy commander in the Nancheng Terracotta Division to comprehensively grasp the firefighting work. Xue Lian thought about it for a while, and explained to Wu Shigong: Xue Lian can basically guarantee that as long as he proposes to Wei Zhongxian, after the disaster relief work is completed, he will definitely remove the two words acting director from Wu Shigong's acting command title. At that time, Wu Shigong's request for promotion to a deputy commander will definitely be satisfied. Wu Shigong thought to himself: It seems that the relationship between his father-in-law Xue Lian and Wei Zhongxian seems to be far closer than imagined.

When all the deliberations were completed, Wu Shigong was a little proud. After traveling to the Ming Dynasty, the first big business he did had such a beginning, and even some of his gains were able to exceed his expectations, which made him can't help but feel a little complacent. Wu Shigong was a little carried away, he thought that he had just completed an important business cooperation negotiation with a partner, and he forgot that he was now discussing with his father-in-law. His whole body relaxed, and he almost lifted Erlang's legs. He didn't notice that his father-in-law Xue Lian gave Master Zhang a look, let alone that Master Zhang had quietly left. Suddenly, the old man's angry shouts rang in his ears.

The old man looked excited and scolded Wu Shigong repeatedly, the scolding was so fierce and the decibel level was so high that it was unbearable. Wu Shigong was scolded by his father-in-law from the chair and stood up, and then he was scolded by his father-in-law face to face and retreated again and again, and Zuihou was scolded by his father-in-law and retreated to the corner. The anger value of the old man seems to be endless, and Wu Shigong, who is spitting on the stars, is all over his face. Although he was always a little uncomfortable when he was scolded, Wu Shigong was not angry or aggrieved at all. He knew that this was his father-in-law's kindness to him, and his father-in-law's angry scolding of him today was full of his concern and worry about himself. Although a large part of it is because of his daughter, the old man does treat himself as a relative.

It wasn't until Mrs. Zhang sent someone to call the two of them for dinner twice that the old man stopped teaching Wu Shigong a lesson.

After Xue Lian left home, Mrs. Zhang and the young couple ate dinner quietly. Seeing the young couple bowing their heads to eat, and the pitiful appearance of not saying a word, Mrs. Zhang was angry and funny. She lovingly put chopsticks in each of their bowls. After a while, Wu Shigong looked up and said to Mrs. Zhang, "Mother-in-law, we all know that we are wrong this time. ”

Mrs. Zhang looked at the two of them with a smile and nodded happily.

The pitiful appearance of the young couple remained until after dinner. After saying goodbye to Mrs. Zhang, the two of them walked out of the dining room. At the door, the two of them glanced at each other, watching, and more and more reluctantly, Zuihou invariably let out a cheerful laugh. Looking at the cheerful back of the young couple when they left holding hands, Mrs. Zhang smiled and shook her head helplessly.