Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After Wu Shigong and Xu Limu 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 as slaves of the Xue family gathered on one side of the school grounds.Or holding sticks in their hands, or holding sticks on their shoulders, they all look very proud.Wu Shigong was of course very happy to see so many people from Xue's mansion to support him, thinking about whether to shout: "Hello, comrades!" to boost everyone's morale, but suddenly found a strange place.Why are they so happy?

These servants of Xue's family were full of vigor, as if they were possessed by Wu Erlang, and they had just returned from fighting a tiger in Jingyanggang.Wu Shigong murmured in his heart: Could it be that you are so happy that the miners come out to fight in groups every day!You can mutter and mutter, but you can't help boosting morale and rewards!So, Wu Shigong shouted to them enthusiastically: "Today, people who come to Xue's house will be counted one by one, and each person will be rewarded with one tael of silver. Give it after returning to the house. Now that my uncle is fine, everyone will go back to the house." The house slaves roared with joy.

Why are these house slaves so happy?Who are they?They have a glorious name called Marquis Family Slaves, and they have an even more glorious name called Hao Nu.This generation of slaves in Xue's mansion is miserable. There is only one eldest lady in Xue's mansion, and there is no young master. They have no chance to go out with the young master to bully men and women!Whenever they saw the noble slaves surrounded by their masters swaggering away in the neighboring mansions, their hearts were always sour.What is even more hateful is that in Xue's mansion, those gray-haired older slaves always showed off to them how they were with the old Hou Ye (Xue Lian's father, deceased) at that time, How did they become arrogant with the younger brothers of Lord Hou (Xue Lian didn't dare at the time, he was working in the eldest son's mansion at that time, and he was afraid that Emperor Wanli and Concubine Zheng would find reasons to deal with him. , except for the eldest son’s family, who have to move out. So Xue Lian’s younger brothers don’t live in Yangwuhou Mansion now).What's even more exasperating is that when these old slaves talked about how they took the opportunity to eat tofu from other people's maids, their toothless mouths actually drool.And today, they have finally realized their dream of slaves, how can this make them unhappy?In particular, there was no real fight today, everyone just carried out an armed march, and my uncle was generous and rewarded, how could they not cheer?A few servants of the Xue family who might have lost their minds still thought in their hearts: If the uncle wants to rob other people's 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 be dragged out and beaten to death with sticks, then cut into 1 yuan with a knife, and thrown out to feed the dogs.

Wu Shigong looked at Xue Qiang and Xue Yong who were standing aside. These two boys performed well this afternoon.You can't chill your own heart!So he said to them: "You two are rewarded with ten taels each, and then, don't guard the gate anymore." Xue Qiang and Xue Yong smiled when they heard the reward, but when they heard the second half of the sentence, the smiles on their faces suddenly solidified.

The slaves of the Xue family all turned around and were about to leave when another group rushed in at the gate of the yamen.It turned out that Xue Lian had received a report from Mrs. Zhang.He asked his guard leader Xue Yongli to lead his personal guards and a hundred officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp to support his son-in-law.

Xue Yongli came in front of Wu Shigong, saluted, and said: "The young one is Xue Yongli, the leader of the Houye's guard, is my aunt safe?"

Wu Shigong was very happy to receive continuous care from the Xue family.He smiled and said to Xue Yongli: "It's all right now. Thank you for your hard work."

"Young Master, you are being polite." Xue Yongli also replied with a smile.Then clasped his fists and retreated.He called Xue Qiang and Xue Yong to his side.Seeing Xue Yongli retreating, Wu Shigong also waited to see whether Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu had assembled their soldiers.At this moment, there was a "crackling" sound of beating and scolding.

It turned out that Xue Yongli called Xue Qiang and Xue Yong to ask what happened just now.He raised his hand and slapped Xue Qiang and Xue Yong in the face. Xue Qiang and Xue Yong knelt down in fright, and Xue Yongli then slapped Xue Qiang hard with his feet. He kicked Xue Yong, and while kicking, he cursed angrily: "You two bastards, if you don't protect my uncle well, go to the gate of the yamen to play counting coins, I will kick you to death."

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

"Guye Chunliang. I'm pleading for the two of you, and I'll let you go for now. Listen, you two bastards: from now on, as long as my uncle is frightened, you two bastards will fight with your lives. Did you hear that?" Xue Qiang He and Xue Yong nodded quickly.Xue Yongli then shouted: "Don't you hurry up and thank my aunt?" Xue Qiang and Xue Yong then climbed up to Wu Shigong and kowtowed to express their gratitude.Wu Shigong waved his hands and said, "Get up."

Wu Shigong was very satisfied with Xue Yongli's elite skills and the way he saved himself.He smiled and said to Xue Yongli: "The brothers who came have also worked hard. Xue Yong, bring 100 taels of silver, 50 taels for the leader Xue and the guards, and 50 taels for the brothers in the Beijing camp to have a cup of tea." Xue Yongli brought The Beijing camp officer who came quickly kowtowed to express his gratitude: "Thank you, uncle."

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

"That's my uncle's gift to the guard brothers."

Seeing that he could not refuse, Xue Yongli also smiled and took the money from Xue Yong.Then, he turned around, looked at the servants of the Xue family, and reported a series of names one after another, saying: "The ones who registered are now transferred from the guards of the courtyard to the guards of the uncle, first take the seven Cheng Liyin, if you do well in one year, you will get the full amount of Liyin." 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 family to bid farewell to Wu Shigong.

Finally, Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu assembled the soldiers on the school field.Wu Shigong and Xu Limu brought their own guards and soldiers, and the more than 100 people were just about to set off when Shumo finally returned with two bottles of wine.Seeing Wu Shigong, he rushed over and told him: "Young master, the tiger bone wine I bought is for Chun Tang, and each bottle costs 16 taels of silver, total..."

Wu Shigong interrupted Shumo's nonsense with a wave of his hand, and then arranged to say: "Give the wine to Xue Yong, and you can go to Commander Li to report, young master, I will visit later?"

"The little one will go right away."

"Catch up with the team after reporting and tell me, young master, I will go to the explosion site of Wang Gong Factory first, so don't make trouble."

When the group arrived at the gate of the yamen, Xue Qiang and Xue Yong had already tied up their horses and waited.The Si Yamen of the Nancheng Bingma Commander is located next to Chongwenmen. Xu Limu introduced to Wu Shigong that the tax office of Chongwenmen is next to their Yamen, in an alley.Wu Shigong deliberately approached Chongwenmen to have a look, and saw a long queue of merchants outside Chongwenmen who wanted to enter the city, waiting to pay taxes.

"Why are there so many people? Do other city gates also collect taxes? Why don't merchants go through other city gates?" Wu Shigong asked several questions in succession curiously.

"Commander, the Chongwenmen tax office is responsible for collecting taxes from all the city gates in the capital. However, merchants come in most from Chongwenmen, and there are also quite a few from Xuanwumen. The supply of the capital mainly depends on the passage from south to north. The merchants of the Grand Canal. The northernmost end of the Grand Canal is in Tongzhou. After these merchants land in Tongzhou, they have to pass through our southern city before they can enter the capital, so the Chongwenmen and Xuanwumen in the outer southern city are particularly lively." Xu Li looked Wu Shigong explained.

It turns out that Nancheng under his jurisdiction is a transportation hub.Wu Shigong nodded. "Isn't that the south city has three gates?" Wu Shigong asked again.

"The Zhengyang Gate is opened by the emperor. It is usually closed and cannot be opened. Every year, it is only opened during the limited days when the emperor goes to the Temple of Heaven to offer sacrifices."

I see.The road was not far away. At this moment, they could already see the tower of Zhengyang Gate.Wu Shigong suddenly felt very familiar, and suddenly remembered that when he was a gangster, didn't the big Qianmen cigarettes he bought when he had no money had the pattern of the Zhengyangmen tower printed on it?

After passing the Zhengyang Gate and walking for a while, something is wrong. The houses on the side of the road are crumbling, and some of them are supported by huge wooden pillars so that they can barely fall down. Obviously, they are all dilapidated houses.Wu Baihu interjected from the side: "Commander, this is not the worst place, the situation ahead is even worse."

Gradually, Wu Shigong walked into a ruined area.In the open space among the ruins, a lot of straw huts were built in perfect fits. The victims by the roadside looked dumb, some of them sat on the ground like walking dead, as if they were filming a ghost film, and some kept walking in the ruins. rummage for something.The size of the ruins cannot be seen at a glance.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 its height.

The general banner in charge of Xuanwu Gate heard from the introduction 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 unlock the passage door leading to the gate tower, and let Wu Shigong and the others go up the gate tower .

After going up to the tower, Wu Shigong gasped.The whole scene was horrible.Wu Shigong just came from the Yamen from east to west, and Wang Gong's factory is located in the southwest corner of the inner city of the capital.They looked west from the city tower, and in the core area of ​​the Wanggong factory explosion, all the buildings disappeared.Even a section of the city wall nearly 200 meters west of Xuanwumen was bombed and collapsed.Along the gap in the collapsed city wall, they rushed out in a fan shape, forming ruins with a length of more than [-] meters.

Wu Shigong asked: "How many houses collapsed in total?"

Xu Limu replied: "There are nearly [-] rooms in total. The ones in our southern city account for more than [-]%, and there are nearly [-] rooms. The rest belong to the Bingma Division in the western city. There are fewer in the central city."

Suddenly remembering that his father gave him a shop outside Xuanwu Gate in his dowry, Wu Shigong hurriedly took out the paper with the address of the shop from his purse, handed it to Xu Limu, and asked, "Look, where is the shop?" where is it?"

Xu Li looked down at the paper, and the heads of Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu also leaned on the paper.After looking at the address on the paper, and at the ruins outside Xuanwu Gate, the other two were a little uncertain, and looked at Wu Baihu who was most familiar with the road.

Wu Baihu had nothing to evade, pointing helplessly at the central yang of the ruins outside the Xuanwu Gate, he said to Wu Shigong, "Maybe it's there, Commander."

Wu Shigong stared at the pile of ruins with wide eyes, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.That is the dowry my father gave me!Zhu Yun also said: This shop is the most valuable.It turned out to be a pile of ruins.No wonder he is so generous.It turns out that I am a disaster victim myself.But now Wu Shigong's attention was not on the shop, he put away the papers, looked at the ruins inside and outside the city and remained silent.Xu Limu, Wang Baihu and Wu Baihu were also silent, they thought Wu Shigong was concerned about the country and the people.I don't know that now Wu Shigong seems to be shaking ingots one after another, and he keeps shouting loudly in his heart: "This is all money!"

In the previous life, during Wu Shigong's journey from a small gangster to a gang boss, an important path was the recycling of waste items and the demolition and relocation of these two industries.The recycling of waste items, especially the recycling of scrap metal, coupled with the collection of stolen goods, is simply huge profits.As for demolition and relocation, as a subsidiary industry of real estate, as long as it is daring and black-hearted, it can make a lot of money.

In particular, these two industries do not require any capital investment. As long as they keep a gang of thugs and avoid the sight of the police, they can make huge profits.

But now, the ruins in front of him were tailor-made for these two industries.Wu Shigong is now the top leader in charge of security in Nancheng, and what's 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 struggling with disaster relief, but if Wu Shigong presents his modern experience to his father-in-law, let alone disaster relief, they can make a fortune themselves.Wu Shigong is absolutely confident that even if his father-in-law doesn't support him, he can make a lot of money in the one-acre land in Nancheng with his ability, but if his father-in-law supports it, he can make a lot of money.The key issue now is to convince his father-in-law.I have to think carefully about how to persuade my father-in-law tonight.

Therefore, Wu Shigong issued an order: "From now on, gather all the hands, and no one is allowed to pick up any items from the ruins, and all offenders will be arrested."

Relying on his familiarity with Wu Shigong, Xu Limu advised Wu Shigong: "Many people who pick up things are looking for their own things in their own collapsed houses. Commander's order is afraid of arousing their dissatisfaction. "

"Tell them that Bingmasi did this to prevent others from picking up their belongings. We will arrange for people to clean up the ruins as soon as possible. When the time comes, let them stand aside, and their belongings will be returned to them. This is also for They will suffer less losses. These should also be posted and announced to the public, and some loud soldiers will be arranged to announce along the street, so that the victims of the disaster can understand this truth."

"Understood, Commander."

"That's all for today. Thank you for your hard work. I'm going to visit Commander Li now. If you have any situation, you should report to me in time."

"Yes! Command Your Excellency."