Chapter 45: The Problem of the Quota of Soldiers
In the next few days, what made Wu Shigong happiest was that his command was appointed. Now he is the rightful leader of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division. After the commander was appointed, finally, the belated meeting gift of Wu Shigong, a total of more than 300 taels of silver, was also handed over to Wu Shigong through Xu Zhimu. Among them, Zhou Shikun and Ruan Xiong also saw the general trend, so they had no choice but to hand it over.
But Wu Shigong hasn't covered the silver yet, but the silver has been spent. It turned out that Wu Shigong's quota for recruiting soldiers, wasn't it twenty taels of buried silver for each family member of the deceased soldier who had to give up the quota? Wu Shigong had forgotten about this a long time ago. Moreover, Wu Shigong has not received a tael of silver from the recruited soldiers until now. In the past few days, a few such family members have come to the Yamen of the Soldiers and Horses Division to make trouble.
After Wu Shigong understood these things, he immediately arranged for someone to burn these silver hairs. Moreover, Wu Shigong also took out another 100 taels of silver to buy some rice, noodles, meat and eggs, and sent them to the families of those dead soldiers as condolences. This behavior allowed Wu Shigong to gain a good reputation for sympathizing with his subordinates in the Division of Soldiers and Horses.
In the past few days, his little wife Xue Yufei also received Wu Shigong's relatives who were the first to visit after getting married. That is Wu Shigong's fourth sister. Wu Shigong's fourth sister is also a concubine, so she can only marry a noble concubine. This time, the fourth sister came to visit, and the main purpose was to hear that Wu Shigong was the commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division, and wanted to find an errand for her husband. After Wu Shigong came back, Xue Yufei told Wu Shigong about the fourth sister's request, and Wu Shigong of course agreed. Anyway, this time Wang Gongchang exploded, how many small flags and general flags were killed by the Terracotta Division, and it doesn't matter if you give one to your fourth brother-in-law. However, Xue Yufei also said to Wu Shigong that before leaving, the fourth sister asked Wu Shigong and his wife when they would return to the door.
It looks like he can't hide and go back to the door. So, Wu Shigong made up a free space and returned to Wu Mansion with Xue Yufei with gifts. Unexpectedly, when he returned to the door this time, almost all of Wu Shigong's brothers and sisters were present (except for the two brothers who left Beijing to be officials), and the Wu Mansion received them very warmly. Even Daddy Wu Weizhong is kind to Wu Shigong. This made Wu Shigong sigh that the world was really cold.
Then, the request to find Wu Shigong to solve the quota of the soldiers and horses was Luo Yi. Seeing that the signs were wrong, Wu Shigong could only stop urgently. But in just a few days, the number of soldiers in Wu Shigong's hands was snatched up. It was all the trust of relatives, and Wu Shigong had no choice but to receive nothing, but he posted so much buried silver upside down. Even his father-in-law Xue Lian asked for help, no, he ordered Wu Shigong to solve a quota. However, after the order was issued, his father-in-law Xue Lian then scolded Wu Shigong again, and the reason for scolding him was that Wu Shigong used his power for personal gain and engaged in unhealthy practices. Wu Shigong was indeed scolded so much that his chest was very tight. Of course, Xue Lian can't be blamed for this. Since his baby daughter married Wu Shigong, seeing that his daughter and her husband are so close, Xue Lian can't help but scold him as soon as he sees Wu Shigong.
Now Wu Shigong is a little difficult, there is no place in his hands, how to explain to He Fei and these Mongolian compatriots when the time comes? There is no haode solution, Wu Shigong can only take one step at a time.
When he returned to the door that day, Wu Shigong's seventh brother Wu Shili also had something else to find him. It turned out that the situation of Wu Shigong and Wu Shili's conversation at the entrance of the criminal department's yamen that day was seen by the officials of the criminal department, and after these officials knew the relationship between Wu Shili and Wu Shigong, they asked Wu Shili to be the liaison of the criminal department, and through the relationship between Wu Shili and Wu Shigong, they would work on a few more oily cases for the criminal department from the Nancheng Terracotta Division.
Wu Shigong thought to himself: Those civil officials want to have a high profile, and they refused to meet me that day. I want to benefit again, let Brother Qi come to me today. It is necessary to be a bitch and set up a torii. However, the seventh brother Wu Shili couldn't help but give face, so Wu Shigong agreed. Let Wu Shili go to the Yamen of the Terracotta Division to find Xu Zhimu to contact the business specifically.
There was more than one wave of relatives who came to find Wu Shigong. The deputy commander of the Xicheng Soldiers and Horses Division, who is the second uncle of Xue Yufei's cousin, also came to find Wu Shigong. He told Wu Shigong why he came. It turned out that the commander of the Xicheng Terracotta Division and the commander of the Zhongcheng Terracotta Division wanted to invite Wu Shigong to the banquet, and they hoped that through Wu Shigong's message, Wu Shigong's father-in-law Xue Lian would take back the order to block the ruins of the big explosion, and stop tossing the two Terracotta Divisions. Wu Shigong didn't answer the cousin's second uncle in person. After that, he directly told the two conductors at the banquet. After listening, the two commanders realized at this time that the ownerless property buried under the ruins was also their extra money. It turned out that Hou Ye's order to block the site of the ruins was not to toss them, but to make them rich. The two commanders cheered in their hearts: Xue Houye is really a good leader; Commander Wu is really a good brother! Looking at the joyful expressions of these two commanders, Wu Shigong felt a little contempt in his heart: The news of these two commanders is too closed, isn't it, this Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division has made an earth-shattering mess, and they don't even know it? Wu Shigong didn't know that in the Ming Dynasty, the spread of news was indeed very closed, and if he didn't take the initiative to inquire about a certain aspect of the news, he really couldn't know the details of the news.
Each hundred households also handed in the list of military training of their own hundred households. To Wu Shigong's surprise, Zhou Xun actually came to Wu Shigong in person with panda eyes and handed over the military training list of their 100 households, and on that list, Zhou Xun ranked himself first. Of course, Wu Shigong would not think that Zhou Xun's behavior was that after Zhou Xun was beaten by himself, he relented and came to take refuge in himself.
If someone is beaten and goes to the person who beat him, it is the brain-dead plot of those brain-dead books at the beginning. In real life, after someone is beaten, the only thing they will do is to hold a grudge. If you beat someone, who will come to take refuge, so in the previous life, Wu Shigong didn't beat all the beauties in Shijie?
Wu Shigong's expectation was right, the main purpose of Zhou Xun's participation in military training was that he was very unconvinced. He thought that Wu Shigong beat him violently that day, and there was a big element of sneak attack. Therefore, Zhou Xun hopes to find an opportunity to PK with Wu Shigong fairly in military training. However, Zhou Xun didn't want to think about it, would Wu Shigong have a PK with Zhou Xun when he was full? It's not a boxing championship, and if you win, you will get a bonus. However, Wu Shigong welcomed Zhou Xun's practice of participating in military training, no matter what the purpose of Zhou Xun was.
There was also a horse trade between the Taifu Temple and President Lin of the chariot and horse shop. Taifu Temple was also very satisfied with this transaction, and in order to thank Wu Shigong, they gave Wu Shigong another ten horses. Wu Shigong thus got one hundred and twenty horses. But where should so many horses be placed? Wu Shigong was a little difficult, and he couldn't take the horse back to Xuefu. The place of Xuefu is big enough, but it also needs to live in people. Xue Mansion is not a horse shed after all. After returning home, Wu Shigong told Xue Yufei about it, but he didn't expect Zhu Yun on the side to tell Wu Shigong lightly: Xue Mansion is outside the capital, there are Zhuangzi who specialize in raising horses, and let Wu Shigong send these horses to those Zhuangzi.
Why does Xue Mansion have everything? Wu Shigong was curious, and he then asked: What kind of industry does Xue Mansion have? Zhu Yun replied for a long time, including almost all walks of life. When he heard that Xue Fu had also opened a money bank with several nobles, Wu Shigong, who came from modern times and had the habit of keeping money in the bank, decided to wait for his silver to reach a certain amount and then deposit the silver in the bank. However, looking at Na Zhuyun talking eloquently, while Xue Yufei was indifferent to these things on the side, Wu Shigong wondered a little in his heart: Which of the two of them is the eldest lady of Xue Mansion?
In the past few days, another thing has happened. That day, Wu Shigong was patrolling the street, and happened to pass by the fat powder shop, and Yujian Zhao Ruya. That Zhao Ruya's hands and feet are very fast, she is arranging a small worker to divide the fat powder shop, and divide the fat powder shop into two rooms: men and women.
When Zhao Ruya saw Wu Shigong, she came forward to salute enthusiastically, and warmly invited Wu Shigong to sit in the inner room behind the shop, because Zhao Ruya still had a few business questions to ask Wu Shigong. On this day, Zhao Ruya did not wear a veil, Wu Shigong looked at this little widow, and she really looked good. In addition, when talking to Zhao Ruya, Wu Shigong happened to be standing downwind, this breeze was slow, and the charming body fragrance on Zhao Ruya's body went straight to Wu Shigong's nose.
Zhao Ruya does have business questions to ask Wu Shigong. Because, after all, she is not a researcher of cosmetics, and she doesn't know how to mix the fat powder for men, so she wants Wu Shigong to help come up with an idea. As soon as Wu Shigong heard Zhao Ruya's question, he immediately answered: This is too simple, just change the fat powder used by women to spices and then change the packaging. After all, whether it is a man or a woman, it is not all covered with human skin. Zhao Ruya immediately accepted this suggestion happily. From this incident, we also have a deep understanding of the meaning of the word "no business, no traitor".
After solving this problem, Wu Shigong continued to chat happily with this pretty little widow, hoping that this beautiful time would never pass. But suddenly, the cute little girl appeared. She saw that Wu Shigong was cheering, and immediately pestered Wu Shigong to tell the story. Wu Shigong should indeed be proud that he was able to piece together two stories to tell to Miss Xiaojie. After that, Wu Shigong didn't look back, and left the fat powder shop in a hurry. As long as there is that cute little girl, the little widow's attraction value to Wu Shigong will drop directly to zero.
After hurriedly finishing these few days, the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Command Division finally ushered in the first military training.