The reason why Li Lu and Jiang guerrilla came to Wu Shigong was this.

After the reinforcements led by the Najiang guerrilla were crushed by Master Mou's senior brothers, the Najiang guerrilla was indeed brave and brave, and he took his more than 20 personal soldiers to rush out of the encirclement.

However, Jiang Guerrilla did not know the whereabouts of Gonggong Xiao, that is, he did not dare to go to Defu City, and he did not dare to return to Kaifeng. Somehow, after a few days of walking around, I transferred to the county seat of Qi County.

When the guerrillas arrived at the river, they called for the door to enter the county seat to rest and recuperate. But when the officials of these counties heard the news of the arrival of the guerrilla attack in Qi County, they did not dare to open the city gates. What about weishenme? Because the Ming Dynasty did not have an ID card at this time, let alone the photo and IC magnetic stripe on the ID card, who knows if your Jiang guerrilla is real or fake.

However, in case Jiang's guerrilla attack is real, it is not good to lock him up outside the county and let him fend for himself. Therefore, the officials of the county town first used hanging baskets to hang some water and dry food, so that the Jiang guerrillas could feed them. Let Jiang Guerrilla prove his identity again.

How do you get him to prove his identity? It's very simple, it's a vote. Let Jiang Guerrilla go and arrest the leader of the Holy Spirit Society.

Unexpectedly, that Jiang guerrilla was indeed strong in martial arts, and his life was good, and there happened to be more than a dozen Holy Spirit Society rebels surrounding an elder of the Holy Spirit Society, and escaped from the county seat of Qi County.

Jiang Guerrilla led his own soldiers to rush and kill, captured this elder, and only after he had a certificate of surrender did he enter the county seat.

In the county seat, the officials headed by the Qi County Commander naturally had to interrogate this elder. But Li Lu, who participated in the interrogation on the side, had an extra heart. He asked the elder about the situation in Li Lu's own defense area.

When Li Lu learned from the confession of this elder: Because the route of the Holy Spirit to rebel against the people was in the direction of Guidefu, these rebels did not enter Li Lu's defense area at all.

Then Li Lu immediately returned to his heart like an arrow. And he regretted it even more, he also spent a thousand taels of silver to buy the heads of those chaotic people from Wu Shigong.

Unexpectedly, that Jiang guerrilla solved this problem for Li Lu. When Jiang Guerrilla knew that Li Lu had more than 50 heads of the Holy Spirit Society in his hands, in order to use these heads to atone for his sins, Jiang Guerrilla asked Li Lu to buy the heads.

And Li Lu was frightened by the rebellion of the Holy Spirit Society. He felt that it would be too dangerous to stay in the place. Therefore, he thought that after going back this time, he would find a reason to return to his hometown and return to the capital to enter his comfort zone.

Therefore, the current Li Lu does not need so many heads at all. He only needs to have a few heads to explain why he left his zone. The reason is: Li Lu discovered that the Holy Spirit would rebel against the people, so he chased all the way to the county seat of Qi County.

In this way, Li Lu and Jiang guerrilla hit it off. They agreed that Jiang Guerrilla would buy fifty heads in Li Lu's hands for two thousand taels of silver.

Then, they and Qi County Commander began to confess. Qi County's order will certainly not refuse to help them by the way. In the Ming Dynasty, among officials, as long as they were not enemies of life and death, and did not endanger their own interests, almost all officials would agree.

And the purpose of that Jiang guerrilla to come to the fortress of Qianhusuo to find Wu Shigong was also to confess to Wu Shigong. Of course, Wu Shigong also agreed to Jiang's guerrilla request.

But Li Lu made a new request to Wu Shigong, and he asked Wu Shigong to return the dozen or so horses he had lent to Wu Shigong. And Li Lu was afraid that it would not be safe on the way back, and hoped that Wu Shigong would send fifty cavalry to escort Li Lu back to his defense area.

Wu Shigong thought about it, then Li Lu still owed him a thousand taels of silver. I really need to send someone to Li Lu's defense area to get the silver. However, Li Lu and his personal soldiers' horses, Wu Shigong didn't want to go like this.

Seeing that Wu Shigong seemed to be hesitating, Li Lu was also refreshed, and added an extra five hundred taels of silver to Wu Shigong. At this moment, both of them were very happy. However, Li Lu was the happiest, he didn't expect that as soon as he changed hands like this, he would have five hundred taels of silver. Of course, now the Jiang guerrilla only wrote an IOU to Li Lu, asking Li Lu to find Jiang Guerrilla to ask for debts in the future.

Seeing that these things were negotiated, Wu Shigong also asked the two of them to go down to rest.

At this time, the person who went to the outside of the fortress of Qianhusuo and announced Wu Shigong's decision to these rebels returned. He reported to Wu Shigong: "My lord, the vast majority of people are willing to become your domestic slaves. According to a rough count, there are more than 4,600 people in total. However, only eight or nine hundred of them were young and strong, and the rest were old and weak women and children. ”

Early the next morning, after Wu Shigong arranged for 50 cavalry to send Li Lu, he rushed to the county seat with 100 cavalry, gathered Qi County Commander and his entourage, and rushed to Guide Mansion City together.

After walking for a while, Qi County Ling called Wu Shigong into the carriage he was sitting in. Qi Xianling had already dealt with Wu Shigong many times, so he didn't say anything empty to Wu Shigong at all.

Qi County Commander opened the door into the mountain and Wu Shigong said: Qi County Commander They have already roughly estimated that the land of the rebels in this county who participated in the rebellion of the Holy Spirit Society this time is about 15,000 mu. Therefore, the public land that can be handed over to Wu Shigong also has more than 7,000 acres.

The Qi County Order gave Wu Shigong two choices: one was that Wu Shigong used the market price, that is, 3,000 taels of silver, to buy the grain in the official warehouse and the medicinal materials in the county office. The Qi County Order is no longer a hindrance in the matter of public land.

Another option is that if Wu Shigong gives another 7,000 taels of silver to Qi County, Qi County will simply transfer these public fields to Wu Shigong's name and become Wu Shigong's private land.

Compared with the price of 15 taels to 20 taels of silver per mu of land in the Ming Dynasty, the price of Qi County was almost given to Wu Shigong for free.

However, such an approach is not a disadvantage to align with the county order. First of all, because Wu Shigong has made a lot of contributions this time, he can't rely on Wu Shigong's public land at all.

As for the sale of the silver of these public fields, although the Qi County Order can get some filial piety, the vast majority of the silver obtained from the sale must be handed over, and the Qi County Order himself cannot get it.

And if Wu Shigong is willing to turn these seven thousand taels, Qi County's income will not be less, but it can be increased. Of course, among the seven thousand taels of silver, the Qi County Order will get about three thousand taels at most, and the rest of the silver will also be distributed to the upper and lower ones.

Wu Shigong immediately chose the second choice of Qi County Order, and he didn't even do anything to bargain with Qi County Order. Not to mention the price of these lands, almost for nothing. For now, Wu Shigong can arrange for some domestic slaves to cultivate these lands and solve the employment problem of some domestic slaves.

There is another benefit: the land is owned by Wu Shigong personally, and there will be no trouble after that. If not, after all, those lands are public land, and nominally, the output of these public fields should be at the disposal of the county order. In case the county order comes to a demon moth, then Wu Shigong is not dumbfounded.

As for the silver that was used to buy these lands, Wu Shigong thought like this: Although he is living a little tight now, in order to settle it once and for all, Wu Shigong is still ready to meet the requirements of the Qi County Order.