Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Li Lu, commander of the Nancheng Bingma Command Department, is currently on leave due to injury.

As soon as Li Lu received the news that Wu Shigong would visit him in the afternoon, he arranged for his family to carry him to the main hall on a soft couch, waiting for Wu Shigong's arrival.Although the doctor had confessed that he was seriously injured, his legs were broken, and he would inevitably have some disabilities in his legs in the future, but Li Lu was very unwilling to lose his position as the commander of the Nancheng Army and Horse Command (the Ming Dynasty stipulated that people with disabilities should not can be an official).What if the doctor misdiagnosed it?What if I can still recover?Although he knew that there was little hope for this, Li Lu still took chances.Therefore, he also didn't want Wu Shigong to see him lying on the bed.

What a beauty!In the past few days, Li Lu hooked up with a good family.Although in the usual days, Li Lu's Fengyue has traveled a lot, but at this time, how can wild flowers have the fragrance of home flowers?

That morning, hearing that there was no one in the Liang family's house, Li Lu excitedly changed into plain clothes, and went straight to the Liang family's house with a few soldiers.It was also a coincidence that Wang Baihu, who was in the personal army, arranged for Li Lu to run some errands and escaped the catastrophe.

That Liang's family lived outside Xuanwumen, and when Li Lu was about to arrive, he happened to meet Deputy Commander Qian who was in charge of the area.Deputy Commander Qian met his immediate superior and hurried forward to flatter him.Hearing that Li Lu ostentatiously stated his intentions, Deputy Commander Qian volunteered to escort his immediate superior to pick family flowers.Li Lu thought that it would be better if there were more people to show his prestige in front of that good family, so he agreed.Deputy Commander Qian followed with a hundred households and dozens of soldiers under him.It never occurred to me that I was sent to the gate of hell.

After arriving at the house of the Liang family, Li Lu arranged Deputy Commander Qian and the others to wait in the teahouse opposite, and entered the house of the Liang family by himself.As soon as they entered the door, Li Lu and the Liang family met each other bare-chested, and the two of them were exercising their hands and feet.

The teahouse at the opposite door collapsed in front of the explosion shock wave, and Deputy Qian who sat inside commanded them all to be wiped out.The house of the Liang family was blocked by the teahouse. Although it still collapsed, at least there was a buffer.At this time, there were a few Bing Ma Si who were not qualified to sit in the teahouse, and the young men standing on the street survived. Together, they tried their best to pick their commanding adults naked from the ruins.Li Lu was lucky, but his legs were broken.Not to mention the misery of the good family.

Anyway, this is the situation. It is useless to think about regrets. It is better to think about how to face reality.Li Lu knew in his heart that once he was injured, his position as the commander of the Nancheng army and horses could not be kept. The reason why he was able to delay until now was nothing more than Yangwu Hou Xue Lian was waiting to give his position to his son-in-law.And in the end, I was still the commander, but Wu Shigong acted as the commander with the rank of deputy commander. The main reason for this situation was that Wu Shigong's qualifications were too low, and he needed to occupy this position temporarily. .

Therefore, Li Lu was very conflicted. On the one hand, he needed to keep the status quo unchanged and let Wu Shigong act as the conductor.At least it should be delayed until after my injury is healed, so that no one else can take my official position.On the other hand, he didn't want Wu Shigong to do a good job, because it meant that the conditions for Wu Shigong to become a full-time official were ripe, and he should step aside.

Li Lu was sitting on the soft couch, thinking wildly, when he suddenly heard the porter report: "Commander Wu is here to visit." Li Lu quickly told the housekeeper who was serving at the side to invite Wu Shigong in for him.

Wu Shigong handed over the gifts of two bottles of tiger bone wine and 50 taels of silver to the housekeeper who came out to greet him, then entered the main hall, and had a heartfelt conversation with Commander Li Luli who was sitting on the soft couch and pretending to be a spirit god. regards and care.Li Lu also expressed his gratitude to Wu Shigong and his appreciation for Wu Shigong's young talent with a smile.The duo's hypocrisy and affectation could make any bystander sick.

After a while of pleasantries, Li Lu's words revealed some vague meanings. It was nothing more than that he was in good health and his injuries were recovering well; How many.After hearing these words, Wu Shigong pretended not to understand, and continued to have a friendly and hypocritical conversation with Li Lu with a smile on his face.Wu Shigong thought in his heart: Now that the official seal is with me, how high can you, who is going to participate in the Paralympic Games, jump?

After Li Lu got bored repeatedly, the two finally ended their pleasant meeting.Before saying goodbye, Li Lu asked Wu Shigong for a favor.It turns out that Deputy Commander Qian died in the explosion, didn't he?Li Lu always had to give an explanation to his trusted family members, so he asked Wu Shigong to recruit the two grown-up sons of Deputy Commander Qian into the Military Division.With Li Lu's relationship, if the two young men were just sent to the Bingma Division as soldiers, there would be no need to go through Wu Shigong at all. What he meant was to take care of them as a small official.Of course Wu Shigong wanted to give this face, Wu Shigong agreed to give the position of Xiaoqi to one of the two brothers, the future path will depend on how well the two brothers get along.However, Wu Shigong promised that if there are other opportunities for promotion in the future, under the same conditions, the two brothers will always be given priority.Li Lu was basically satisfied with this answer, and also gave Deputy Commander Qian's family an explanation.But he didn't notice that the meaning expressed in Wu Shigong's words was: among the two brothers, whoever I think is pleasing to the eye will be given the position of Xiaoqi.But Li Lu took it for granted in accordance with the conventions at the time: it was always the eldest son of Deputy Commander Qian who got the position of Xiaoqi.

In the end, Wu Shigong told Li Lu that in order to let him recuperate with peace of mind and have money to supplement his nutrition, every month in the future, 550% of the routine silver paid to the commander by every 200 households will be sent to the commander Li.Every month, the eleven hundred households managed by the deputy commander handed in a total of 750 taels of silver, plus the two hundred households under the direct control of the command (excluding the guards and water dragons) ) a total of more than 75 taels, a total of 80 taels.One achievement is 70 taels.But now, since Wu Shigong, the deputy commander, is still directly in charge of the three hundred households at Xuanwumen, those three have to be handed over to Wu Shigong at 15 or [-] taels per month. , can be ignored.But this behavior gave Wu Shigong a reason.Li Lu had reminded him just now, so Wu Shigong almost instinctively took preventive measures.Now, if any of Li Lu's cronies jumped out to oppose him, he could completely disregard Li Lu's face and deal with those who jumped out.Because Wu Shigong had already given face to those people's backer - Li Lu.

In fact, this reaction is somewhat wrong.Because Wu Shigong didn't know that his father-in-law Xue Lian had put Li Lu in the position of a puppet, and was ready to let Wu Shigong take over Li Lu's command position at any time.If Wu Shigong knew this, he could have saved 75 taels of silver.This is also the result of Wu Shigong's hastily taking office and not fully communicating with his father-in-law Xue Lian.

After leaving Li Lu's home, Wu Shigong finally finished his tiring day and went home contentedly to enjoy the warmth of his family.He asked Bingmasi's subordinates to return to Bingmasi, and only let the dozen or so guards around him and Shumo who had rushed to meet them go home together.However, Wu Baihu of the water dragon team resolutely took thirty people under him and demanded to escort Wu Shigong back to his residence.Wu Shigong smiled and agreed, thinking in his heart: This kid has a future.

Wu Baihu's name is Wu Mian, he is 41 years old.He is famous for his hard work in the Bingma Division.He really relied on his hard work, from a small soldier to the position of Baihu.Of course, he also seized some opportunities.The hundred households of the water dragon team are the most unpopular among all the hundred households in Bingmasi.This hundred households is the largest among all the hundred households, with 350 people.Of course, the number of soldiers in this Baihusuo is the same as that of other Baihusuos, but there are more than 250 assistants (the current coordinators).Because Nancheng is so big, it is definitely impossible to put out the fire with more than 100 people.

In good conscience, the water dragon team is not without extra money. Its source of extra money is mainly from the red envelopes given to them by the store chief and the chief of the village when they went to fight the fire after a fire broke out.In particular, when there are still people trapped by the fire in the house on fire, red envelopes will be added in case of fire.What's more, if the fire is too fierce, the neighbors near the burning house are afraid that the fire will spread to them, so in order to prevent their own losses, they will also stuff red envelopes.Therefore, unlike the current fire brigade, the water dragon brigade is looking forward to a fire every day.But if there are more staff, the money will be less.And because, unlike the fire trucks now, you can rush to the scene of the fire with just a pull of the siren.Often after a fire breaks out, when the water dragon team arrives, those relatively small fires are extinguished by the neighbors who helped.Therefore, the total income is not very much.

According to the rules of the Bingma Division, the hundred households of the water dragon team have to be rotated every three years, and everyone has to take turns to make a fortune.But because of Wu Mian's reputation for hard work, the most important thing is that other hundred households have it, at least they also have a deputy commander as a backer, so, after more than eight years, Wu Mian is still rooted in the position of the water dragon team's hundred households.

If it’s just a little less money, that’s fine. The problem is that the work of the water dragon team is still very hard, and Wu Mian is also old (unlike modern times, people in the Ming Dynasty were already very old as long as they were in their forties) , The body can't bear it.In the capital, the streets of the capital are managed by soldiers and horses during the day, but a curfew is required at night, and they are transferred to the patrol battalion for management.In modern plain language, it is police management during the day and military police management at night.But as a professional firefighting team, the water dragon team will also be on duty that night.Because water and fire are ruthless, fire does not matter whether it is day or night.Therefore, Wu Mian and the two general flags of the Water Dragon Team have to take turns to be on duty at night.Very hard.

But today, when Wu Shigong showed some kindness to Wu Mian, Wu Mian didn't hesitate to post it.Wu Mian is more practical, but it's not like he doesn't know how to make money, or he wouldn't have been promoted to the position of Baihu without any background.Wu Mian's approach also quite favored Wu Shigong.Now, when he first arrived at the Bingma Division, a hundred households came to join him. No matter whether Wu Mian was a hundred households of the most deserted water dragon team, after all, he was also a hundred households, so this behavior , Wu Shigong is absolutely welcome.

So, while returning home, Wu Shigong started talking with Wu Mian cordially.