Early the next morning, Wu Shigong returned to the county seat of Qi County with Qi County. When he was resting and eating halfway, he saw that Shumo was still depressed, and Wu Shigong began to enlighten him.

Wu Shigong said to Shumo: "Young master, I think you look like you have drilled the tip of a bull's horns. If you think about it carefully, outside, it will only cost about twenty taels of silver to buy a maid, and the old bustard will have to offer two hundred and fifty taels. ”

"If it's really Miss Qinglou, forget it. But after a long time, she was still a maid in a green building. As long as you think about it, you can understand that the quality of this girl is not much higher. In my eyes, young master, that maid is worth at most forty or fifty taels of silver. ”

"Besides, young master, I have always thought that there should be no silver between this man and woman. This man and woman are together, in fact, both parties are happy, and both parties are also at risk, and there is no need for the man to come up with any money to compensate the woman. ”

Wu Shigong's words gradually attracted Shumo's attention, and he raised his head and looked at Wu Shigong. And the guards around gradually moved closer and listened to Wu Shigong's speech. Wu Shigong saw that the audience was gathering more and more, and he spoke more energetically.

"If you think about it carefully, are this man and woman happy with each other in bed?"

"How can it be risky?" One of the guards who was watching interjected curiously. The guards around also looked at Wu Shigong curiously.

"Everyone understands the risks of that woman, and if a woman wants to get pregnant and give birth to a child, she will always have to suffer some risks."

"And what about the man's risk?" Shumo's attention was also completely attracted by Wu Shigong's words.

"The risk for men is not small. Think about it, when you do that, it's the man's stuff that sticks into the woman's belly. That's terrible. What if a woman has teeth in her stomach and bites that thing out of yours? Isn't that a big risk? Wu Shigong began to talk nonsense.

"Isn't it possible to become nine thousand years old if you bite it?" One of the guards next to him interjected and joked again.

The guard's words made everyone laugh.

As soon as such a hee haha came, Shumo's disappointment was also much better. Wu Shigong was also quite satisfied, and it seemed that his ideological education work had been carried out quite successfully.

After Wu Shigong finished talking nonsense, the guards around him gradually dispersed. Suddenly, Na He Fei came to Wu Shigong's side and said, "Master, we have arrested a lot of women this time." Can the master be able to give a favor to the younger one? The small ones are not picky, and the small ones are willing to give ten...... Twenty taels of silver. ”

Na Hefei has been a bachelor for more than 30 years, and he has long been itching.

Wu Shigong was stunned by He Fei's words, and he immediately thought of a problem that he had ignored before: those guards that Wu Shigong brought from the capital, whether they were married or not, but now there were no women around to serve them, so they had to take advantage of the training vacation to go to the Qinglou in the town to solve their physical problems.

However, such a practice may not be noticeable in a short period of time, but after a long time, it will always make some of these guards unstable.

And now in the hands of Wu Shigong, among the more than 4,000 people who have become domestic slaves this time, women account for more than half. These women are not very capable of heavy physical work, and they must also need men to take care of them.

If the two can be combined, Wu Shigong can also relieve a little burden. Because with the support of those married women, it must be borne by their own guards.

There is also a great benefit. Don't look at Wu Shigong's seizure of the money and materials of the Holy Spirit Society this time, the amount is relatively huge, but his financial embarrassment has intensified a little.

Not to mention other expenses. Just the money and materials seized by Wu Shigong, Zheng Zhen has already roughly counted and told Wu Shigong, and it will be worth more than 30,000 taels of silver. However, Wu Shigong was about to distribute a dividend of thirty percent of the booty, that is, nearly 10,000 taels of silver to his guards and soldiers.

And those guards who participated in the farewell charge got the lion's head. Even the smallest soldier can get more than thirty taels of silver. If Wu Shigong gave these women as part of the dividends to those guards, it could greatly relieve the pressure on Wu Shigong's cash expenditure.

As soon as he thought about it, Wu Shigong immediately agreed to He Fei's request. And after returning to the fortress of Qianhusuo and discussing this policy with Xue Yongli, Zheng Zhen and other leaders, it began to be officially implemented.

I didn't expect this policy to be very popular. Wu Shigong priced a woman at ten taels of silver. Those guards calculated, although it seems that the one-time expenditure is relatively large, but in the long run, the guards will spend a lot less in this regard, after all, they can save a few times to go to the Qinglou. Moreover, there is one more person in the family who knows warmth and cold.

And for these guards, there is also a lot of leeway to choose women this time, because the number of these women in general is particularly huge. It can suit all tastes of the guards. What controls, what the royal sister controls, what control can be found.

Of course, because these women are peasant women, this appearance can also be imagined. However, quantity can replace quality. Wu Shigong didn't stipulate that they could only buy one, as long as they took out the silver, how many you bought, Wu Shigong wouldn't care about you.

In addition, when Wu Shigong's policy was implemented, those military households who became soldiers also came to Wu Shigong. In the Ming Dynasty, the status of military households was very low, and it was difficult for them to find a marriage partner locally. Now that they have such a chance, of course they also want to choose a wife.

Wu Shigong is the one who comes. Even if those soldiers couldn't take out ten taels of silver at once, Wu Shigong allowed them to pay in installments. Anyway, Wu Shigong will still pay those military households and soldiers military salaries in the future, as long as they are deducted in installments in the future military salaries.

Of course, like Xue Yongli, Zheng Zhen and other leaders, Wu Shigong still selected some good-looking women and gave them to them. They all basically laughed it off.

In the whole process, Wu Shigong only mastered one principle, that is, the selected woman must be voluntary. But this principle basically did not become an obstacle to this marriage. Because for these women, now that they have a man who can take care of them and let them live a life of food and clothing, it is actually very satisfying.

In this marriage, Wu Shigong married more than 500 women in total, and collected more than 4,000 taels of silver (more than 1,000 taels will be collected in installments in the future).

What made Wu Shigong even happier was that some of these women were widows, and they took dozens of oil bottles with them. This made Wu Shigong simply laugh off his back molars. Now I have lost the burden of dozens of children.

Wu Shigong couldn't help but think with some evil taste in his heart: "I didn't expect the taste of these guards of mine to be so heavy!" But he didn't realize it at all, didn't he still find Zhao Ruya, a widow, as his little wife? Isn't his own taste heavy?

In addition, this marriage also brought about the following effects: through this group marriage, the local military families and local residents from the capital quickly merged together and became a group.

Moreover, the families of these married women have also been taken care of by their husbands' families to a greater or lesser extent. This also made Wu Shigong's burden much less in disguise. The advantages of these aspects will also be gradually reflected in the future.

Therefore, although on the surface, Wu Shigong's marriage seems to be trafficking women, which is somewhat immoral. However, this marriage match has achieved the effect of everyone happy. Therefore, after Wu Shigong announced this policy, the people here in the fortress of Qianhu formed a period of national carnival that lasted for several months.

However, there is still a small sequelae of this marriage. Not all of the married widows had husbands who died, but some of them were separated from them in the process of escaping. But Wu Shigong didn't pay attention to such a trivial matter at all. Do the husbands of those women dare to come back to their wives? Isn't he afraid of being beheaded by Wu Shigong as a rebel?

Wu Shigong returned to the fortress of Qianhusuo, of course, he did not just do such a thing. He first asked ten guards to escort Zheng Zhen, and hurried to the capital to deliver a letter to his father Wu Weizhong. Let Daddy Wu Weizhong be active for the fifth brother Wu Shiwen in a timely manner, and don't lose this good opportunity.

Don't say it, the luckiest person now is Wu Shigong's fifth brother Wu Shiwen. He is still on his way back to the capital from Guizhou, he must not have thought that his good luck would fall from the sky like this.

Zheng Zhen went to the capital, and brought with him three thousand taels of silver and an IOU of five thousand taels of silver written by his fifth brother Wu Shiwen. Wu Shigong wanted Zheng Zhen to find his father Wu Weizhong and eldest brother Wu Shixun, and use the silver to buy some military supplies and war horses.

Although Wu Shigong's horses were enough for each cavalryman this time, because the saddle was not enough, there were still more than a dozen cavalrymen who could not be dispatched. You must know that on Yuan Xingshan's ship, there are fifty guards who can be used as cavalry. Wu Shigong didn't want this kind of thing to happen again, which led to the decline of his combat effectiveness due to the lack of supplies.

In addition, after bidding farewell to this charge, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli still found that four or five horses had injured their legs and hooves, and they could not be used as combat horses in the future.

Wu Shigong sighed very much in his heart: just such a charge with almost no intensity injured four or five horses. In the event of a fierce battle, the loss of the horses would have been enormous. This time, let's go to the eldest brother Wu Shixun and ask him to help buy another batch of horses.

After doing these two most urgent things, Wu Shigong is now going to solve the matter of Zhizhi and Deng Qifan who were arrested by him.