A few days later, Wu Shigong went to the fat powder shop again. It turned out that Li Xin was not used to other maids serving her, so she asked to buy the maids who used to serve her. Wu Shigong was a good person to the end, and he went to entrust Li Pengfei again, and bought Li Xin's maid from the Teaching Department.

When I sent the maid to the fat powder shop, I didn't expect Li Xin to cry to death. She had just heard that her father had died in prison. This little girl is quite pitiful, too. So, after Wu Shigong instructed Zhao Ruya to take good care of Li Xin, he sighed and left.

The storm in the court is getting bigger and bigger, and Wei Zhongxian's party has an overall advantage, but in the Wei party, differences of opinion have also appeared. Xue Lian and a few others expressed a willingness to control the scope. The overwhelming majority of the Wei party wanted to expand the scope of the crackdown on Donglin party officials, which led to a fierce dispute within the Wei party. Zuihou, Wei Zhongxian accepted the opinion of the majority. He hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to completely sweep away the Donglin Party officials in the court. At most, in order to take care of Xue Lian's face, several officials who asked Xue Lian to be dismissed from office.

And Li Chengzuo, the Marquis of Fengcheng, stood opposite Xue Lian in this dispute within the Wei Party. In addition, in the Beijing camp, the two had disagreements several times, which made Xue Lian's mood very unhappy during these days. Unexpectedly, Xue Lian heard that his younger brother and Li Chengzuo were walking very diligently, so these days, Xue Lian was like eating gunpowder, and he was angry again and again.

But in Xue's mansion, Xue Lian and Mrs. Zhang have a deep relationship with each other, and Xue Yufei is Xue Lian's pearl. Therefore, the glorious post of punching bag fell to Wu Shigong. As a result, Wu Shigong often attended some banquets in person in the evening. Try not to let yourself appear in front of your father-in-law Xue Lian.

On that day, President Lin of the carriage and horse shop gave Wu Shigong a banquet and handed Wu Shigong the first amount of silver to clean up the ruins of the house. At the banquet, President Lin brought a guest, and the guest's name was Zhang Chunyu.

That Zhang Chunyu is a native of Tongzhou, and he also has some industries in Tongzhou. And he is a local snake in Tongzhou. Whether it is the guild of the Grand Canal shipping or the carriage and horse transportation of the road, I am very familiar with it. Zhang Chunyu is also a lively character, with him, the atmosphere of the banquet is also very warm.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhang Chunyu told Wu Shigong his intentions. It turned out that Zhang Chunyu passed President Lin and knew that Wu Shigong was the commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses, and the soldiers guarding the Nancheng Gate were also Wu Shigong's subordinates. And this time, the Nancheng Terracotta Division requisitioned the carriages of the carriage and horse dealership. When these carriages went out of the city, they pulled all the ruins, and when they entered the city, some of them were the materials for building houses, and some of them were empty.

Zhang Chunyu knew many merchants who transported goods to the capital through the Grand Canal. Among these merchants, some of them had no background and had to pay a very heavy entry tax at the Chongwenmen tax gate when they entered the capital. Therefore, Zhang Chunyu asked Wu Shigong today to inquire about the situation, whether he could use these vacant carriages into the city to transport these goods into the capital? Also, it is advisable to waive a part of the entrance tax.

Wu Shigong understood that what Zhang Chunyu wanted to do was smuggle. Wu Shigong was also a little funny in his heart, did the circulation of goods inside and outside a city in the Ming Dynasty have to be smuggled?

Wu Shigong thought about it carefully, and there was absolutely no problem with using an empty carriage. But how to enter the city to evade taxes still has to find out the situation. So, Wu Shigong didn't agree immediately. Wu Shigong told Zhang Chunyu that if there was any situation, he would ask Chairman Lin to inform Zhang Chunyu.

When he arrived at the Yamen of the Soldiers and Horses Division the next day, Wu Shigong called Zhang Kequan and asked him to advise him, what should he do?

After Zhang Kequan heard this, he analyzed with Wu Shigong: If Wu Shigong just wants to put some goods in bits and pieces, it will not be a big problem. Even if other people knew, they would open their eyes and close their eyes. But if Wu Shigong put too many of them. Even if the people of the Terracotta Division do it strictly, but so many goods that have not paid the entry tax have entered the capital, the people of the Chongwenmen tax customs and the people of the factory guards are not vegetarians. When the time comes, Wu Shigong must take out a large part of the benefits to gag their mouths. But in case something happens, Wu Shigong has to bear this responsibility alone. Judging from the gains and losses, it doesn't make much sense to do this.

However, Zhang Kequan had another idea to Wu Shigong. He asked Wu Shigong to tell Xue Lian about the matter, and asked Xue Lian to ask Wei Zhongxian's consent. Because, Wu Shigong didn't buy tools to clean up the ruins, didn't he spend Wu Shigong's own silver? Wei Zhongxian must have known about this because of those white stripes.

If Wei Zhongxian agrees, this can be regarded as compensation for Wu Shigong. Then Wu Shigong will not have any risk in doing this. If Wei Zhongxian disagreed, Wu Shigong had nothing to lose.

Sure enough, it's a good idea. Wu Shigong felt that with Zhang Kequan's assistance, it was different in the end. In Wu Shigong's modern memory, the master seems to be a person who shakes a paper fan behind the official's back and comes up with bad ideas. can see Zhang Kequan's performance, he really understands that in the Ming Dynasty, the master is indeed an indispensable right-hand man for any official.

So, Wu Shigong told Xue Lian about it. Although Xue Lian often scolded this son-in-law for no reason, in his heart, he also felt very sorry for Wu Shigong. In order not to let his son-in-law suffer, Xue Lian made a request to Wei Zhongxian.

After Wei Zhongxian listened to the request, on the one hand, it was to compensate for not accepting the opinion of Xue Lian, the old brother; On the other hand, Wei Zhongxian also remembered Wu Shigong's merits in this political battle, and he had not rewarded him yet. Therefore, Wei Zhongxian decided: all the items in the carriage that allowed Wu Shigong to enter the city were not subject to the city tax. However, this will only end at the end of the year.

Of course, the explanation to the outside world is that in order to reduce the burden on the victims, the emperor exempted the materials used to build the houses of the victims from paying the entrance tax. How to operate the specific situation is up to Wu Shigong to master.

After Wu Shigong received Wei Zhongxian's decision, he was overjoyed. I'm going to make a windfall again. But this cannot be done with a loud voice. Wu Shigong's other cronies now have work in their hands. And these days, Wu Shigong, who is following Zhou Xun, is very tight. Then give this lad a chance.

So, Wu Shigong brought Zhou Xun over and asked him to be responsible for this matter. Then, Wu Shigong brought Zhang Chunyu and President Lin to discuss the goods entering the city according to the sixty percent standard of the entry tax and handed them over to the Soldiers and Horses. Zhang Chunyu hurried back to Tongzhou to contact the source of customers, ready to open.

During the gap when Zhang Chunyu returned to Tongzhou, Wu Shigong took the time to take a look at the training of gambling guards. Unexpectedly, the veteran military leaders of the Beijing camp who were in charge of training did not follow Wu Shigong's requirements at all. They trained the guards of the gambling house very strictly, but they didn't do queue training at all.

When Wu Shigong pointed out this, the military leaders retorted vigorously: The army of the Ming Dynasty did not have a training queue like my uncle.

Although Wu Shigong didn't know what the role of the training queue was, Wu Shigong at this time insisted on his own opinions just for the sake of face. He announced to these old army leaders: Give each old army leader an extra twenty taels of silver every month for their hard work. But the cohort training must be done according to the requirements. Wu Shigong will often come to check in the future.

At this moment, these old military leaders were silent. Who is at odds with silver?

In the blink of an eye, it was August, and Xue Lian was in a bad mood, and he was ecstatic all of a sudden. Because, his daughter Xue Yufei is pregnant.