Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

When Wu Shigong went to Yangzhou this time, he brought all the [-] guards around him with him.Yuan Xingshan will also go with five associates from the Universal Commercial Company.These days, Yuan Xingshan is purchasing some goods, and he wants to make up a caravan with Wu Shigong and the others to Yangzhou.

Yang Rusong, the leader of the personal army, also returned to the army after his vacation.But what surprised Wu Shigong was that Yang Rusong's right eye was beaten like a panda's eye.This made Wu Shigong very strange, why did the blind date come out of the martial arts?

But no matter how he asked Yang Rusong about the reason for his injury, Yang Rusong always hesitated to say anything.But Yang Rusong refused to say that because the brats in the guards were all neighbors with Yang Goudan's family, they all knew the reason.

After Bao inquired about Shumo, Shumo happily explained the reason to Wu Shigong.It turned out that Yang Rusong's blind date went very smoothly, but after Wu Shigong promised to give Yang Goudan an official status that day, Yang Goudan actually regarded himself as an official.

After Yang Goudan returned home, he told his wife: You must be decent when you become an official, and you have to marry several concubines to qualify as an official.Everyone can imagine the reaction of Yang Goudan's wife after that,

But when Yang Goudan's wife was chasing and beating Yang Goudan with her special weapon, the rolling pin, Yang Rusong just returned home from vacation.Seeing his mother beating his father again, Yang Rusong must persuade him.In this way, Yang Rusong was accidentally injured.

It's this kind of nonsense again, Wu Shigong is already immune to the matter of Yang Goudan and his wife.He called Yang Rusong, who was a little embarrassed, and said, "Go and tell your father, and tell me that the official said that if your father wants to marry a concubine, your mother must nod. You go and persuade him." Your mother, it is always unavoidable to be with each other at home, but don't dance around with knives and sticks, and give your father a face."

Yang Rusong immediately agreed happily.Because Wu Shigong's orders were obviously in favor of his mother.

Because Wu Shigong didn't want to leave the Runing Mansion for too long, so this time Wu Shigong went to Yangzhou to go back quickly.Wu Shigong's arrangement was as follows: he rode to Yangzhou by land, spent a day or two negotiating with the Lu family, then returned to Jining by boat, and then returned to Runing Mansion by land.

Therefore, the goods Yuan Xingshan purchased should not be too heavy.But Wu Shigong is the garrison of Runing Mansion, and he cannot leave Runing Mansion without the order of the court. In order to conceal Wu Shigong's identity, and because there are more than 200 caravans, the goods purchased by Yuan Xingshan cannot be too cheap, so However, Yuan Xingshan mainly purchased light and valuable goods like Song embroidery.

Knowing that Wu Shigong was going to Yangzhou, Xue Zhinong from the Shanchuan Division also brought ten members of the action team for Wu Shigong, and asked them to set off with Wu Shigong to protect Wu Shigong.Wu Shigong also wanted to see the abilities of the action team members, so he agreed to Xue Zhinong.

When Xue Zhinong sent the members of the action team over, Wu Shigong inquired again about the situation of the Shanchuan Division in detail. At the end, Wu Shigong ordered: "Zhinong, there is one more thing you need to pay attention to for my uncle. Then go to King Qin On the way, find out the whereabouts of the escaped soldiers. If possible, your action team will kill them and their entire family. If it is difficult, you can also report to Uncle Yongli and ask him to send some troops. Cooperate with you."

"Also, you still need to recruit more people in the agency. If there are some people in the agency that you think are good, you can also recruit them into our company. How to do it is up to you. My lord, I want to send escorts The affairs of the team will also be handled by your team. With this serious business as a cover, the goal of your team will not be so obvious."

"Since you have the word "mountain and river" in the Department of Mountains and Rivers, you must hurry up to draw maps of various places. Topographic maps should be drawn outside the city, and detailed maps should be drawn for those inside the city. It is best to clearly mark the location of each house. "

"The training of the action team should not be like training soldiers. After all, they are not scouts. They usually operate in the city. So how to train them, you have to come up with some methods."

At that time, those soldiers who defected escaped from Wu Shigong's control area. When Wu Shigong came back and wanted to deal with them, he couldn't find them all at once.Now Wu Shigong asked Xue Zhinong to find those defected soldiers, and he also knew that this matter would be difficult.However, after the hunting order was issued, it always showed Wu Shigong's attitude towards those defecting soldiers.

As for the arrangement of the fighting company, it was because there was no escort agency in the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the fighting company actually also assumed the work of the escort agency.After Wu Shigong asked his own gang to undertake the work of escorting the caravan, in the eyes of outsiders, this gang was no different from other gangs.Moreover, Wu Shigong's own soldiers can also be freed from the task of escorting the caravan.

Wu Shigong also inspected the training of the action team.Because Xue Zhinong had little experience in training the action team, the members of the action team were basically selected according to the standards of the scouts, and the training content was also trained according to the training content of the scouts.

But Wu Shigong doesn't need a group of scouts anymore, because we already know that the scouts at that time were all cavalry. If they rely on human feet to deliver the news after detecting the news, the news will often fail, so it is not very effective. .

Wu Shigong needs those action teams to carry out some things such as assassination and stalking in various cities.Therefore, Xue Zhinong's training method needs to be modified.

But having said that, in such a short period of time, Xue Zhinong has made Shanchuan Division look good, which makes Wu Shigong quite satisfied.As for how to do better, this also needs to continue to explore together in the future.

After Yuan Xingshan prepared the goods, and Zhang Xuebin got a few guides through the relationship of the Runing Mansion, Wu Shigong officially brought the group of people to Yangzhou.

Wu Shigong and the others did not carry long weapons with them.However, they were all wearing soft armor, and they brought out all the forty or so pistols in the army.There are still more than a dozen guns hidden on the cart loaded with goods.

On the way down to Yangzhou, because the caravan was large and powerful, and they were walking in the most hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, they arrived in Yangzhou City ten days later without any accidents.However, the rapid march along the way made everyone exhausted.

In Lu's house in Yangzhou, two brothers, Lu Jianyin and Lu Jianchen, were discussing.Lu Jianchen said: "Brother, is it appropriate to drag Wu Shoubei into this matter this time?"

Lu Jianyin gritted his teeth and replied: "Brother, I am really not reconciled. If our Lu family's salt products cannot be sold, the Qi family will follow the rules and accept our salt and pay it back. But the Qi family colluded with the salt The envoy snatched away the Yanyin from our Lu family alive, I can't bear it no matter what."

After hearing the words of elder brother Lu Jianyin, Lu Jianchen asked with some concern: "I heard that the Qi family accepted our Lu family's Yan Yin, and it was the salt transport envoy who was behind them to support their family? Brother, with them Is it worthwhile for the government to fight?"

Lu Jianyin waved his hand decisively and said: "There is nothing that can't be paid. Our Lu family has been confiscated by Yan Yin, and we can no longer be salt merchants. We will never deal with salt transport envoys. Then the Qi family will also bully us." The people are too much, they took our salt quotations, and even used some beggar money to buy our salt farms. I also inquired about it, and now the Qi family has basically collected all the descendants on our territory. That is, Wu Shoubei and their Qijia are not dealing with each other."

"I also know about the background of Wu Shoubei. He has the support of two Marquis Houses. If he comes forward, maybe the Salt Transport Envoy will look at the face of the two Marquis Houses and retain our qualification as a salt merchant in the Lu family. .Although there must be less Yanyin, but it’s better than not being able to be a salt merchant. If it still doesn’t work, the salt in our salt field can’t be sold because there is no Yanyin, so it’s no big deal to give it to Wu Shoubei. "

Hearing Lu Jianyin's reason, Lu Jianchen nodded, and at this moment, the housekeeper at the gate came in and said: "Master Wu from Henan has arrived at the gate of Yangzhou City, and the fifth son is already in the city. We picked them up at the door and are arranging them to stay at the inn."