After Wu Shigong and Xu Yimu finished talking, they walked out and came to the school grounds. Wu Shigong was taken aback by the situation in front of him. A group of people dressed in the costumes of Xue Fu house slaves all gathered on one side of the school grounds. or holding a stick in his hand, or holding a stick on his shoulder, he is very proud and proud. Wu Shigong was of course very happy to see that so many people had been sent to support him in the Xue Mansion, and he thought about whether to shout: "Hello comrades!" came to boost everyone's morale, but suddenly found a strange place. Are they so happy?

These Xue Mansion house slaves are all vivid, as if they are possessed by Wu Erlang, who have just returned from fighting tigers in Jingyanggang. Wu Shigong muttered in his heart: Can you miners come out to fight in a group one day, and you are so happy! But you can't mumble and mutter, and you can't not boost morale and reward! So, Wu Shigong shouted to them enthusiastically: "When Xue Mansion comes to people today, one person counts as one, and each person will be rewarded with one tael of silver." Give it when you get home. Now that my uncle is fine, let's go home. The house slaves were thunderous with joy.

Are these house slaves so happy? Who are they? They have a glorious name called Houfu slave, and they have an even more glorious name called Haonu. This generation of Xue Mansion Hao slaves are bitter, there is only one eldest lady in Xue Mansion, there is no young master, they have no chance to follow the young master out to bully men and women! Whenever they saw the mansions next door, those high-ranking slaves roaring away with their masters, their hearts were always sour. What is particularly hateful is that in the Xue Mansion, the older generation of wealthy slaves with gray hair always show off to them, how they were with the old Hou Ye (Xue Lian's father, deceased), and how they were arrogant with the Hou Ye's younger brothers (Xue Lian didn't dare at that time, he was on an errand in the emperor's eldest son's mansion at that time, and he was afraid that Emperor Wanli and Zheng Guifei would find a reason to clean him up. According to the rules of the Hou Mansion, after becoming a family, the son, except for the Shizi family, will move out to live. Therefore, now Xue Lian's younger brothers do not live in the Yangwu Marquis Mansion). What's even more annoying is that when these old slaves talk about how they take the opportunity to eat other people's maid tofu, their toothless mouths will drool. And today, they have finally realized their dream of being a slave, how can this not make them excited? In particular, there was no real fight today, everyone just carried out an armed march, and my uncle was generous and gave a reward, how could they not be thunderous? There are a few Xue Fu house slaves who may have broken brains and thought in their hearts: If my uncle wants to rob someone else's little daughter-in-law in the future, he must come and call me! If Xue Lian and Mrs. Zhang knew what they were thinking, they would definitely drag them out and beat them to death with sticks, and then cut them into 10,000 pieces with a knife and throw them out to feed the dogs.

Wu Shigong looked at Xue Qiang and Xue Yong who were standing on the side, these two boys performed well this afternoon. I can't chill the hearts of my own people! Then he said to them, "You two will give you ten taels each, and then don't guard the gate any more." Xue Qiang and Xue Yong smiled when they heard the reward, but then when they heard the second half of the sentence, the smile on their faces froze suddenly.

The group of Xue Mansion slaves all turned around and just wanted to leave, when a group of people rushed in at the door of the yamen. It turned out that Xue Lian got the news from Mrs. Zhang. He asked Xue Yongli, the leader of his guards, to lead several of his bodyguards and a hundred officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion to support his son-in-law.

Xue Yongli arrived in front of Wu Shigong, saluted, and said, "The younger one is Xue Yongli, the head of the Hou Ye's guard, is my uncle okay?" ”

Constantly getting the care of Xue Fu made Wu Shigong feel very happy. He smiled and said to Xue Yongli, "It's okay now." Xiexie you, hard work. ”

"Uncle is polite." Xue Yongli also replied with a smile. Then he clenched his fists and retreated. He called Xue Qiang and Xue Yong to his side. Wu Shigong saw Xue Yongli retreat, and also looked to see if Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu had already assembled the soldiers. At this moment, there was a "crackling" sound of scolding around him.

It turned out that Xue Yongli called Xue Qiang and Xue Yong to ask what happened just now. But he didn't listen to two sentences, he was angry, he raised his hand to give Xue Qiang and Xue Yong a pair of slaps each, Xue Qiang and Xue Yong were so frightened that they hurriedly knelt down, Xue Yongli then kicked Xue Qiang and Xue Yong with his feet, and scolded angrily while kicking: "Two dog cubs, don't protect your uncle well, go to the yamen to count the copper plates to play, Lao Tzu kicks you to death." ”

"Forget it, forget it. The two of them did a good job today. Wu Shigong stopped Xue Yongli. Although this morning, Wu Shigong was not too satisfied with Xue Qiang and Xue Yong's attitude, but just now, Xue Qiang and Xue Yong dared to work hard to protect him, so Wu Shigong still felt that he should intercede for the two of them.

"Uncle Chunliang. I will intercede for the two of you and let you go for the time being. Listen to you two pups: In the future, as long as your uncle is frightened, you two puppies will have to fight with your lives. Did you hear that? Xue Qiang and Xue Yong nodded hurriedly. Xue Yongli then shouted, "Why don't you go to Aunt Xiexie?" Xue Qiang and Xue Yong then climbed in front of Wu Shigong and kowtowed again and again to thank him. Wu Shigong waved his hand and said, "Get up." ”

Wu Shigong was very satisfied with Xue Yongli's ability and the face he had gained for himself. He smiled and said to Xue Yongli: "The brothers who came have also worked hard. Xue Yong, bring one hundred taels of silver, fifty taels for Xue Leader and the guards, and fifty taels for the brothers in the Beijing camp to drink a cup of tea. The Beijing battalion officer brought by Xue Yongli hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him: "Thank you, aunt for rewarding." ”

Xue Yongli waved his hand and said, "Uncle, these are the duties of the little ones, and they are not worthy of reward." ”

"Then it's my uncle's gift to my brother guard."

Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Xue Yongli also smiled and took the silver from Xue Yong's hand. Then, he turned around, looked at those Xue Mansion house slaves, reported a series of names one after another, and said: "The registered ones are now transferred from the nursing home guards to the uncle's side guards, first take the seventy percent of the silver of the guards, and after a year, do a good job, take the full amount of silver." The house slaves whose names were called were all beaming with joy. Xue Yongli made the arrangements, so he took the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp and the slaves of the Xue Mansion to bid farewell to Wu Shigong.

Finally, Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu gathered the soldiers on the school field. Wu Shigong and Xu Yanmu took their guards and soldiers and horses, and more than 100 people were just about to set off, and Shumo finally came back with two bottles of wine. Seeing Wu Shigong, he hurriedly squeezed over and said, "Young master, the tiger bone wine that the little one bought is from the Rejuvenation Hall, and each bottle costs sixteen taels of silver, a total of ......."

Wu Shigong waved his hand to interrupt Shumo's nonsense, and then arranged: "Give the wine to Xue Yong, and then you go to Commander Li to tell you, young master, I will visit later?" ”

"The little ones will go right away."

"After the announcement, I caught up with the team and told me, young master, I will go to the explosion site of Wang Gong's factory first, don't look for a fork."

When the group arrived at the yamen, Xue Qiang and Xue Yong had already led their horses and waited. The Yamen of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division is located on the edge of Chongwen Gate, and Xu Yanmu introduced to Wu Shigong that the Chongwen Gate Tax Gate Yamen is next to their Yamen, in an alley. Wu Shigong deliberately approached Chongwen Gate to take a look, only to see that the merchants outside Chongwen Gate who wanted to enter the city lined up in a long line, waiting to pay taxes.

"Why are there so many people? Are there taxes on the other gates? Why don't the merchants go through the other gates? Wu Shigong asked a few questions in a row curiously.

"Lord Commander, the Chongwenmen Tax Gate is responsible for the collection of taxes from all the gates of the capital. But the merchants entered the most from Chongwenmen, and there were many on the Xuanwumen side. Mainly, the supply of the capital mainly depends on the merchants who travel from the south to the north through the Grand Canal. The northernmost point of the Grand Canal is in Tongzhou. After these merchants go ashore in Tongzhou, they have to pass through our southern city to be able to enter the capital, so the Chongwen Gate and Xuanwu Gate in the southern city outside are particularly lively. Xu Yimu explained to Wu Shigong.

It turned out that Nancheng, which he was under his jurisdiction, was a transportation hub. Wu Shigong nodded. "Isn't that the South City three gates?" Wu Shigong asked again.

"That Zhengyangmen is the emperor's walk. It is usually closed, and it is only opened on a limited number of days when the emperor goes to the Temple of Heaven to worship every year. ”

I see. The road was not far, and at this time, they could already see the tower of Zhengyangmen. Wu Shigong suddenly felt very familiar, and suddenly remembered that when he was a gangster, wasn't the big front door cigarette he bought when he had no money printed with the pattern of the Zhengyangmen City Tower?

After the Zhengyang Gate, a little further forward, there is something wrong, the houses on the side of the road are crooked, some are supported by some huge wooden pillars, barely falling, obviously some dilapidated houses. Wu Baihu interjected on the side: "Lord Commander, this is not the worst, the situation ahead is even worse. ”

Gradually, Wu Shigong walked into a ruined area. In the open space in the ruins, there were a lot of grass huts built with needles and needles, and the victims on the side of the road looked blank, some sat on the ground like walking corpses, as if they were filming ghost movies, and some kept rummaging through the ruins. The size of the ruins is far from visible. Wu Shigong saw that the Xuanwu Gate Tower was still there, so he ordered everyone to go to the Xuanwu Gate Tower to observe the disaster from a high level.

The general banner of Guan Xuanwumen heard that Wu Shigong was their new commander, and hurriedly led his soldiers to kowtow to Wu Shigong, got up and took out the key to open the lock of the passage door to the city tower, and let Wu Shigong and them go to the city tower.

When he went up to the city tower, Wu Shigong gasped. The whole scene was so miserable. Wu Shigong had just come from the Yamen from east to west, and Wang Gongchang was in the southwest corner of the inner city of the capital. They looked west from the castle tower, and in the core area of the explosion at the Wang Gong factory, all the buildings were gone. Even a section of the city wall nearly 100 meters west of Xuanwu Gate was blown up and collapsed. Along the gap in the collapsed city wall, it rushed out in a fan shape, and also formed ruins with a length of more than 200 meters.

Wu Shigong asked, "How many houses have collapsed?" ”

Xu replied, "There are nearly 11,000 rooms in total. More than 30% of our southern city has nearly 4,000 rooms. The others are from the Xicheng Terracotta Division. Less in Midtown. ”

Suddenly remembering that there was a shop outside the Xuanwu Gate in the dowry given to him by his father, Wu Shigong hurriedly took out the paper with the address of the shop from his purse, handed it to Xu Yanmu, and asked, "Look at it, where is this?" ”

Xu Yanmu looked down at the paper, and Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu's heads also fell on the paper. looked at the address on the paper, and then looked at the ruins outside the Xuanwu Gate, the other two were a little unsure, and their eyes looked at Wu Baihu, who was most familiar with the road.

Wu Baihu had nothing to do, and helplessly pointed to the center of the ruins outside the Xuanwu Gate, and said to Wu Shigong: "Lord Commander, maybe it's there." ”

Wu Shigong stared at the pile of ruins with wide eyes, crying and laughing. That's the dowry my dad gave me! Zhu Yun also said: This shop is the most valuable. It turned out to be a pile of ruins. No wonder he's so generous. It turns out that I am a victim of the disaster myself. But now Wu Shigong's attention was not on the shop, he put away the paper, and he looked at the ruins inside and outside the city in silence. Xu Yimu, Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu were also silent, they still thought that Wu Shigong was worried about the country and the people. I don't know that now Wu Shigong seems to be shaking ingots in front of him, and his heart keeps shouting loudly: "This is all money!" ”

In his previous life, Wu Shigong started from a gangster to a gangster and an important way to recycle waste items and demolition. The recycling of scrap items, especially scrap metal, coupled with the collection of stolen goods, is simply a huge profit. And demolition, as a subsidiary industry of real estate, as long as you are bold and black-hearted, you can make a lot of money.

In particular, these two industries do not need any capital investment, as long as they have a group of thugs and avoid the eyes of the police, they can make huge profits.

And now, this ruin in front of us is simply tailor-made for these two industries. Wu Shigong is now the number one person in charge of public security in Nancheng, and even better is that his father-in-law Xue Lian is in charge of the entire disaster relief work. Under these favorable conditions, how could Wu Shigong not be moved?

Now, Xue Lian is anxious about how to help the disaster, but if Wu Shigong presents himself with modern experience to his father-in-law, let alone disaster relief, they can make a fortune themselves. Wu Shigong is absolutely confident, even if his father-in-law does not support it, in the one-acre and three-point land in Nancheng, he can make a lot of money with his ability, but if his father-in-law supports it, he will make a lot of money. Now the key question is to convince one's father-in-law. I'll have to think carefully about how to convince my father-in-law tonight.

So, Wu Shigong ordered: "From now on, gather all the manpower, and no one is allowed to pick up anything on the ruins, and all violators will be arrested." ”

Xu Yan saw that he was somewhat familiar with Wu Shigong, and advised Wu Shigong: "Many people who pick up items are looking for their own things in their collapsed houses. The command of the lord was afraid of arousing their dissatisfaction. ”

"Tell them that the Terracotta Division is doing this to prevent others from picking up their belongings. We will arrange for people to clean up the rubble as soon as possible, and when the time comes, let them be on the side, and their belongings will be returned to them. It's also for them to suffer less. These should also be posted to the public, and some loud soldiers should be arranged to announce it along the streets, so that the victims of the disaster can understand this truth. ”

"Understood, Commander."

"That's all for today. Thank you very much. This official is now going to visit Commander Li, and he must report any situation to this officer in a timely manner. ”

"Yes! Commanding the Lord. ”