Wu Shigong received the letter of appointment for his new position from his father-in-law that night. Wu Shigong's new position is in the Guide Mansion of Henan, in the Guide Mansion, under a thousand households, as an acting agent for thousands of households for six years.

When his father-in-law, Xue Lian, handed over the letter of appointment to Wu Shigong, he told Wu Shigong that the other party where this position was located, Henan Guide, was located in a place in the Central Plains. That place is quite rich, surrounded by large armies, and there are many cities, so it is relatively safe, and Wu Shigong, a thousand households, basically does not fight.

Xue Lian also took care of Wu Shigong: let him stop making trouble after he arrives at the place. As long as Wu Shigong stays in the local area safely for a few years, he doesn't have to do it for six years, as long as the rumors in the capital pass, Xue Lian will find a way to transfer Wu Shigong back to the capital.

Wu Shigong reluctantly found that he was in the position of acting official. However, Wu Shigong was quite satisfied with his father-in-law Xue Lian's arrangement. The most satisfying thing is that there will be no war where you are. Moreover, the acting Qianhu, as soon as he heard the name, was in charge of a thousand troops, and in modern times, he was the official position of a regiment commander. Wu Shigong didn't know that it was impossible for his thousand households to have a thousand troops. And about this, his father-in-law Xue Lian did not tell Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong also considered: As for six years later, even if his father-in-law Xue Lian has a way, Wu Shigong will not return to the capital, and he will find a way to take the whole family of Xue Fu out of the capital. As for what method to use at that time, then let's talk about it then.

Then, Xue Lian said to Wei Zhongxian's official position arranged by Wei Zhongxian for his son-in-law, "Wonderful! "What?

First of all, of course, the location of this thousand households is relatively safe. Henan Guide is also relatively rich. Then Wu Shigong won't suffer too much when he gets there.

Secondly, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, although they were all military households, they also had to undertake some military tasks of suppressing bandits and maintaining local law and order. However, there is basically no need for these guards and thousands of households to fight. The war will be completed by the soldiers, that is, the recruits who are paid by the imperial court. At most, the military households of the guard and the thousand households did some auxiliary and logistical work in the war.

Of course, if the situation is critical, those military households will also have to go to the front line to fight. However, since they have not undergone any military training at all, their combat effectiveness is also conceivable.

So, what is the main job of these military households? It is to farm the land and pay grain to the imperial court.

In the period when the Ming Dynasty was just established, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a military household for the purpose of: on the one hand, he could use the soldiers of the military household when fighting a war; On the other hand, when there was no war, the military households planted the land and handed over a part of the harvest to the imperial court.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, we already knew that the financial crisis of the imperial court was very serious, so the taxes collected in the military households had accounted for two or three percent of the total financial income of the entire Ming Dynasty, so the imperial court kept a special eye on the taxes of the military households.

And Wu Shigong is the acting thousand households, we can look at it this way. Wu Shigong's thousand households are regarded as a large farm in the imperial court, and the military households are the tenant farmers in the farm, and Wu Shigong, the acting thousand households, is the big steward of this farm.

Therefore, in Xue Lian's opinion, Wu Shigong can easily complete his work as long as he guarantees to pay all the taxes to the imperial court every year. Xue Lian didn't think about his son-in-law Wu Shigong at all, what extra money he made in this position of acting thousand households. With Xue Lian's idea: Even if the taxes paid by thousands of households are not even, then Xue Mansion will subsidize a little, as long as Wu Shigong completes a good job.

Third, Wu Shigong did the position of acting a thousand households, which is a kind of demotion to the official. This is also an explanation to Emperor Chongzhen.

We can take a look at the situation of Li Lu, the former commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division. He was transferred from the capital to the local area to be a garrison. And Wu Shigong is a thousand households who do a thousand households. Although in terms of grade, they are all positive five grades, but Li Lu is a regular martial artist, and Wu Shigong's martial arts is quite large. This is like the difference between the commander of the regular army and the commander of the reserve in modern times. Therefore, Wu Shigong's transfer this time should be said to be a demotion to the official.

Therefore, if Emperor Chongzhen liquidated Wei Zhongxian's party in the future, he saw that Xue Lian had already known his son-in-law Wu Shigong very well and demoted him and drove him out of the capital. Wu Shigong is just such an insignificant official position of thousands of households, so Emperor Chongzhen will basically let Wu Shigong go.

Zuihou, Wu Shigong, the official position of a thousand households, has only been acting for six years. After six years, as long as the rumors have passed, there is a great possibility that Wu Shigong will be transferred back to the capital.

Therefore, it can be seen that Wei Zhongxian is really good to Xue Lian, and he found such a suitable official position for Xue Lian's son-in-law. This couldn't help but Xue Lian praised loudly.

However, Wei Zhongxian and Xue Lian never thought that within a few years, Henan would be plagued by famines. Peasant rebellions also broke out one after another. Zuihou, the entire territory of Henan, became the main battlefield of the peasant rebellion army and the imperial court encirclement and suppression army. After years of war, the whole of Henan is thousands of miles away. In real history, the two largest cities in Henan - Kaifeng and Luoyang. Kaifeng City was dug by Li Zicheng's rebel army to dig the embankment of the Yellow River, divert the water of the Yellow River to irrigate, and only a few hundred people survived hundreds of thousands of military horses in Kaifeng.

After Luoyang City was captured by Li Zicheng, King Fu (that is, the uncle of Emperor Chongzhen) in Luoyang City was chopped alive by Li Zicheng and made into hot meat slices, and made Fulu soup with venison to drink.

If they knew all this, would Wei Zhongxian and Xue Lian still feel wonderful? Of course, the current Wu Shigong is completely unaware of all this.

However, the position of 1,000 households that has been acting for six years is also a little strange. Because in the Ming Dynasty, the positions of thousands of military households were basically inherited from father to son. And the position of this thousand households is that after the death of the old thousand households, his son is only ten years old, and he is not yet sixteen years old to inherit the position, so he needs to be temporarily acted by others, and when the son of the thousand households reaches the age of sixteen, the official position of the thousand households will be returned to him at that time.

However, under normal circumstances, it is always the relatives of the old family, or other people in the health center, who are temporarily in charge. But Weishenme wants to report to the military department? The reason is unknown to anyone. The military department will not care about such a trivial matter. As far as the military department is concerned, as long as there is no shortage of taxes paid by the thousand households, even if there are no thousand households, it doesn't matter. But now Wu Shigong just needs it, so it was given to Wu Shigong along the way.

The next day, as soon as Wu Shigong arrived at Yamen, he received a message from Gonggong Qin: Emperor Chongzhen would send someone to take over the command of soldiers and horses in Nancheng in the afternoon.

Wu Shigong immediately sent people to gather all the deputy commanders and hundreds of households, and informed them of the news that the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division would change the command. Moreover, he asked Xu Zhimu to prepare the accounts of the Soldiers and Horses Division, ready to be handed over at any time.

In the afternoon, Emperor Chongzhen really sent his three guards to take up his post with paperwork in hand. They simply handed it over, and they didn't check the accounts of those Terracotta Divisions at all, and their main purpose was to let Wu Shigong hand over the official seal commanded by the Terracotta Division to them as soon as possible.

When the handover was completed, Wu Shigong walked out of the Yamen of the Soldiers and Horses, and he glanced back at the Yamen, feeling a little lost and a little relaxed in his heart.

Wu Shigong just wanted to leave with Shumo and the Xue Mansion guards, when suddenly, someone next to him called him: "My lord." ”

Wu Shigong saw that the person he knew, it was the second son of the late Deputy Commander Qian, and he arranged him to the position of Xiaoqi Qian Qi.

Wu Shigong stopped and asked what happened to that Qian Qi?

That Qian Qi told Wu Shigong: Deputy Commander Qian's wife, who was already very unhappy that Qian Qi got the position of Xiaoqi instead of Qian Qi's eldest brother. But because Wu Shigong was still the commander of the Terracotta Division, he didn't dare to make any moves. However, now that the news of Wu Shigong's resignation has spread, the wife of Deputy Commander Qian has also become active, and Qian Qi has been driven out of the house. Qian Qi now wants to take refuge in Wu Shigong and follow Wu Shigong to do it.

Listening to Qian Qi's words, Wu Shigong smiled, and smiled a little sadly. Wu Shigong thought: I have done so many things in the Terracotta Division, and the income of all the people in the Terracotta Division has greatly improved. But up to now, there is only one person like Qian Qi, who is almost not close to him.

Wu Shigong gestured to Qian Qiyi and said, "Then let's go together." ”

On the way back to Xuefu, Wu Shigong asked Shumo to send a message to the fat powder shop. So that Zhao Ruya doesn't have to clean up the mess of the fat powder shop. Wu Shigong asked Zhao Ruya to get ready, and he would leave the capital soon. When the time comes, he will leave with Zhao Ruya's mother and daughter.