Wu Shigong immediately instructed Yuan Xingshan and Zheng Zhen to stop taking salt from the Qi family. Wu Shigong has been in the salt industry for some time, and knows that the salt merchants in Henan Province have a price ranging from one tael of silver per stone to one tael of silver per stone. As for Lu Yunhuan, because of his previous relationship with the Lu family, the price he took was one or two taels of silver per stone.

And now the Qi family has given Wu Shigong a price of two taels of silver per stone, which is completely bullying, and it can be said that Wu Shigong is not taken seriously at all.

The total amount of salt that Wu Shigong wants now is not too big. Wu Shigong didn't believe it, even if he smashed it with silver in Jining, a trade hub, he would always be able to get salt goods at a price of one or two or five cents per stone. It's just that in the future, it will be transported by boat, or by cart by land, which will be a little more troublesome. I don't need to look at the eyes of the prajor at all.

In addition, Wu Shigong also explained to Yuan Xingshan and asked him to go to the Lu family in Yangzhou to ask what the reason was that the supply of salt goods would change from the Lu family to the Qi family. Even if the Lu family will no longer be able to provide Wu Shigong with salt goods in the future, they also hope that the Lu family will introduce a kinder salt merchant and give Wu Shigong a fair price for salt goods.

After that, on the return journey back to the fortress of Sennotosho, the army still stayed in the castle of Guide for a day. Knowing that Wu Shigongqin's army had made military achievements, the Fuzun of Guide Mansion led the civil officials and gentry and celebrities of Guide Mansion, as well as the military attache of Guide Mansion led by Zhao Ming, and carried out a grand welcoming ceremony as usual.

At this welcoming ceremony, those civil officials and literati performed a grand "literati report performance" as usual. After the performance, Wu Shigong's Qinwang army was given a lot of spiritual rewards and few material rewards.

After a day of playing tricks in the performance, Wu Shigong put Yu Ji and these military households back. Let them rest at home for a while before waiting for the notification to gather and train.

Later, Wu Shigong made a special trip to visit Hou Sui's Hou Mansion and kowtowed to the old lady Hou who was still in the Hou Mansion to say goodbye. In addition to bringing some gifts to the Hou Mansion, Wu Shigong also specially gave the old lady Hou a set of armor and waist knife for the Niu Lu Ezhen that Wu Shigong killed.

At the same time, Wu Shigong said to Mrs. Hou: "The younger generation fought to kill the Tartar this time, and it took a lot of suffering to kill the leader of the Tartar. The younger generation remembered the love of the elder and the Hou for the younger generation when they left the De Mansion, and the younger generation felt that this most noble gift should belong to the old man and the Hou lord, so as to repay the old man and the Hou for their kindness to the younger generation. ”

It should be said that it is not too appropriate to give a literati a set of armor and waist knives, but after Wu Shigong's words, it shows Wu Shigong's sincerity. Therefore, Mrs. Hou was very happy after hearing this.

But Mrs. Hou is also a person who has been a high-ranking official in Jiuqing, and this set of buying people's hearts is also very skillful. He only accepted the armor, gave the waist knife to Wu Shigong and said, "Shigong's heart is ashamed of the old man." But the sword is given to the hero. Take this knife and cut off a few more Tartar heads for the old man to repay the emperor's kindness. ”

Then, Mrs. Hou cordially inquired about Wu Shigong's situation and personally accompanied Wu Shigong to have a family banquet before Wu Shigong said goodbye and left.

It is good to make friends with the Hou Mansion, which is the most influential in Guide Mansion and has many connections in the imperial court, and it is Wu Shigong who has set the established goal of Haode after his return. Not to mention the long-term harvest, just because Wu Shigong wants to exterminate the bandits in Guide Mansion before the Chinese New Year, and Wu Shigong wants to expand his Shili in Guide Mansion, they are all inseparable from the support of Hou Fu. Because Wu Shigong is now the garrison of Runing Mansion after all.

After that, Wu Shigong returned to the county seat where his thousand households were located, and the county ordered Yu Zilian to perform the same show again. Although he has personal grudges with Wu Shigong, everyone still has to cooperate with the scene work in the officialdom.

Zuihou has finally returned to the fortress of Sennohe. As soon as Wu Shigong entered the inner house, all the ladies greeted him with smiles on their faces. But it didn't take long for them to grab Wu Shigong's clothes and cry around Wu Shigong.

This time Wu Shigong went on the expedition, and those rumors also faintly spread to the ears of these four ladies, and they were very worried about Wu Shigong's safety. The sad expressions of the ladies made Wu Shigong feel very sad, but he was a little embarrassed and difficult to speak. Because Wu Shigong is going to take the army to suppress the bandits immediately.

So Wu Shigong didn't immediately tell his wives that he was going to suppress the bandits, so he settled down at home for a few days and spent more time with the four ladies. Taking advantage of this time, Wu Shigong also asked Xue Yongli to rest the army, and asked craftsmen to convert some large cars into partial vans, and also make some siege tools.

And when he went home this time, Wu Shigong was pleased to find that he had two more sons, and Xiuzhu was very competitive and gave birth to a pair of twins to Wu Shigong. Therefore, after Xiuzhu saw Wu Shigong, his little head always looked up high.

Wu Shigong was also very happy to tease his children. The three older children had learned to speak. Wu Shigong sighed very much that time flies, but what made him a little sad was that because he had not been by his children's side for a long time, these children were a little afraid of life after seeing Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong prepared to lead his army to set off to suppress the bandits before the Mid-Autumn Festival. He wanted to take advantage of the slackness of the bandits' spirit during the Mid-Autumn Festival to catch those bandits off guard. Wu Shigong was ready to exterminate the bandits in Guide Mansion first, because before the end of the year, Wu Shigong was going to Runing Mansion to take office, so after the beginning of the year, Wu Shigong would be unknown to exterminate those bandits.

And after the beginning of the year, Wu Shigong will have a good time playing with Li Harrier in Runing Mansion. However, Wu Shigong found a problem, he basically didn't have eyes and ears in Guide Mansion and Runing Mansion. Wu Shigong also did not know much about the details of those bandits.

Wu Shigong immediately realized that he needed an intelligence agency now, which was also very necessary for his own military operations in the future.

However, Wu Shigong was troubled to find that there were no intelligence talents around him. And the person in charge of intelligence work must be Wu Shigong's henchman, and he can't go outside and find someone casually.

But in this way, the scope of Wu Shigong's selection is relatively narrow, and Wu Shigong can only find suitable roles among the guards he brought out from the capital. Wu Shigong decided, it is not realistic to immediately choose a suitable person in charge of intelligence, so let's choose one first and cultivate it slowly. At most, if you find that it is not suitable later, you will replace it later.

So these days, Wu Shigong has been observing in his own army. That day, Wu Shigong saw some of his soldiers and was joking around a person. Wu Shigong looked at the person in the crowd, and his eyes lit up.

Xue Zhinong, nicknamed Turtle. As his name suggests, he is stout and looks and moves like a simple peasant. Xue Zhinong was born as a guard of the Xue Mansion, and he was very proficient in any military jishu. He is especially proficient in going out as a scout. Therefore, now Xue Zhinong is a squad leader of the cavalry reconnaissance squadron.

But don't be fooled by Xue Zhinong's appearance and nickname, although his appearance will not be revealed at all if he is lost in the pile, but his brain is very flexible, and he is proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling. Therefore, people who don't know his details are often confused by him. It can be said that if he is sold, he will also help him count the money.

Xue Zhinong is also very happy in the past few days, because he knows that the cavalry is going to expand the army, he has been appointed as the deputy captain of the reconnaissance team of 100 people, and he has the title of general flag, so he is about to step into the ranks of officers. And when he was noticed by Wu Shigong, Xue Zhinong was being jokingly asked for a treat by a group of colleagues.

Wu Shigong shouted: "Turtle, come here." ”

Xue Zhinong saw that his uncle was calling him, so he hurriedly agreed and ran over.

Wu Shigong led Xue Zhinong into his study. After Wu Shigong sat down, he also asked Xue Zhinong to sit down. After Xue Zhinong thanked him, he only put his butt next to the stool, sat on the corner of the stool, straightened his body and paid attention to Wu Shigong's question.

Wu Shigong instructed: "Turtle, this time my uncle has something to explain to you, you take two people, change into civilian clothes, and go to inquire about the situation of the bandits in Guide Mansion." ”

Xue Zhinong immediately nodded in agreement, but he felt a little strange in his heart: this was originally the work done by their spies, and there was no need for his uncle to personally order it, just let Captain Zhang and Deputy Li arrange it.

Sure enough, Wu Shigong still had the following: "Turtle, this time my uncle I want to withdraw you from the reconnaissance squadron, and you don't want to go back in the future, just put your name in the pro-soldier team." In the future, you will have to select some more people and put them outside to find out the news for my uncle and me. ”

Xue Zhinong said with some doubts: "Does my uncle want to establish a department similar to Tiqi?" ”

Wu Shigong is very appreciative of Xue Zhinong's level of comprehension. He nodded and said, "That's it, but be careful, you can't make it public." This department is called ......" Wu Shigong thought for a while, and thought that this department also had to do some mapping work, so he continued, "Let's call it Shanchuan Division." You are in charge of this mountain and river division for the time being. After this crackdown on bandits, I will discuss with you in detail what Yamakawa should do. ”

In this way, under Wu Shigong's patting on the head, Wu Shigong's intelligence agency and intelligence leader were thus determined.