Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Hearing someone shouting outside the door, Wu Shigong kissed Xue Yufei's cheek again, and then reluctantly left the room.Xue Yufei also reluctantly watched Wu Shigong leave.It wasn't until before dinner that the punishment of Xue Yufei and the five little maids ended with the cheers of the six little girls.

When Xue Yufei rushed to the dining room where she had dinner with her parents, only Mrs. Zhang was waiting there, and Xue Lian and Wu Shigong were still discussing matters in the study.Taking advantage of this gap, Madam Zhang reprimanded Xue Yufei again with a cold face.It was not until Mrs. Zhang sent someone to the study twice to urge Xue Lian and Wu Shigong to leave the study and come to the dining room.Wu Shigong also lowered his head and said nothing. Xue Lian "hummed" at the two of them, and reprimanded: "They are already married people, and they are still so careless in doing things. Tonight, you two will give me a hand. Introspect carefully." Then he said to Madam Zhang, "Madam, Ben Hou is not at home for dinner, and now I have something important to go to Wei Gong's place." Then he nodded to Madam Zhang and went out.

In the afternoon, after hearing that his son-in-law was about to be beaten, Xue Lian hurriedly dispatched his guard leader Xue Yongli and a team of Beijing camp officers and soldiers.After Xue Yongli came back and reported the whole incident, Xue Lian was no longer interested in making a show at the scene of the disaster, and hurried home, waiting for Wu Shigong's return.

After Wu Shigong came back, the concierge whom Xue Lian had confessed to called Xue Qiang and Xue Yong to the study first.Of course, Xue Lian first reprimanded the two of them for not doing their job properly by collecting red envelopes in the concierge instead of guarding the uncle.But the key point is that Xue Lian wants to learn about his son-in-law's every move in detail from Xue Qiang and Xue Yong, so as to judge his son-in-law's character and ability to handle affairs.Master Zhang is also listening, and wants to discuss it with Xue Lian.

Xue Lian inquired about Wu Shigong's daily schedule in detail, and repeatedly asked Xue Qiang and Xue Yong about all the details of Wu Shigong's work.After that, let them both retreat.From Xue Qiang and Xue Yong's mouth, Xue Lian didn't get much information, because they didn't spend much time with Wu Shigong today.Xue Lian frowned and thought for a while, then decided to call Wu Shigong over and ask Wu Shigong himself.

Wu Shigong soon came to Xue Lian's study. Unexpectedly, the conversation between Weng and his son-in-law completely deviated from the original purpose. Later, Master Zhang also joined their conversation.Because Wu Shigong proposed a plan to clean up the ruins and rebuild the houses of the victims, which is also Xue Lian's current heart disease.Xue Lian and Master Zhang felt that the success of this plan was very likely after careful understanding, but Wu Shigong's plan also had some shortcomings, but these shortcomings were not irreparable. Xue Lian and Master Zhang gradually perfected the plan proposed by Wu Shigong.The three of them finally had a package to solve the problems of the victims.

The whole scheme is planned like this:

First of all, solve the problem of ruins at the disaster site.A ruin cleaning fee of one or two taels of silver for each house is collected from the owner of each house.The price is very cheap.Because if the homeowner hires manpower and vehicles to transport his own ruins, it will cost more than two taels per house.Xue Lian decided to formally start the cleaning of the ruins in ten days, and strive to complete the cleaning within 20 to [-] days.Of course, the homeowner can also arrange for manpower to clean up the ruins, so don't pay the ruins cleaning fee of one tael of silver.But they must ensure that the ruins are cleaned up within the specified time, otherwise they will be fined and forcibly cleaned up.

This made Wu Shigong a little unaccustomed to living in modern times. In modern times, relief for disaster victims is completely free of charge.Master Zhang answered Wu Shigong's question.It turns out that in the rescue work of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the victims did not starve to death and the epidemic did not occur, the disaster relief work was considered a success.The government of the Ming Dynasty didn't even care about the victims' selling their children and daughters, so how could they care about the victims' rebuilding their homes?Therefore, they have done a lot of good deeds by helping the victims to clean up the ruins at a loss.

Xue Lian and the others certainly won't lose money.Xue Lian will receive nearly 1 taels of rubble cleaning fees, and he will give 2000 taels to Shuntian Mansion and 2000 taels to Beijing Camp, asking them to contribute 5000 people each to participate in the ruins cleaning work in ten days.Wu Shigong remembered what the officials of Shuntian Mansion and the military officers of the Jingying said when he was attending the discussion that day, and worried that such a small amount of money might not be able to meet their demands.But Mr. Zhang patted his chest and assured that the money would be enough, and he would negotiate in person to ensure the completion of the task.After listening to Mr. Zhang's explanation, Wu Shigong finally understood that Shuntian Mansion sent corvees, and the Beijing camp officers sent soldiers from the bottom, and these people actually didn't need to spend money to use them.And the 2000 taels of silver are entirely for them personally.As long as they personally have money, who cares whether they are busy in summer or not, and whether the soldiers below eat or not.Wu Shigong could only shake his head helplessly, lamenting that Ming Dynasty was really black, even darker than his gang boss.

Xue Lian also distributed 2000 taels of silver to Wu Shigong, and will appoint Wu Shigong as the commander-in-chief of the ruins cleanup.Because now, being responsible for cleaning up the ruins is a hot potato, and no one will take over. Xue Lian let his son-in-law do this hard work, and he can also show his integrity in front of the emperor.Of course, when their plan is implemented, the hot potato will become a fragrant steamed bun.When the discussion came to this point, Xue Lian, who was in a good mood, joked with his son-in-law: Let him use his own money to pay the silver rewards given to the slaves of the Xue family and the soldiers of the Beijing camp today.So what about the last 4000 taels of silver?Of course it was for Xue Lian.If the geese pass without plucking their feathers, they will be struck by lightning.

There is a problem here, that is, the transportation of ruins and garbage.Xue Lian plans to requisition the carriages and horses of the chariots and horses, and call some of the carriages of the Beijing camp to solve the problem.Because most of the chariots and horses in the capital are concentrated in Nancheng, Xue Lian asked Wu Shigong, the commander of the army and horses in Nancheng, to negotiate with the owner of the chariots and horses.Wu Shigong confessed to Xue Lian that the rubbish in these ruins is actually very valuable.Although those houses became ruins in the explosion, there are always some wood, bricks and tiles that can be reused in these houses, and some scrap copper and rotten iron can be returned to the furnace. Therefore, the ruins of a house can be worth at least half a tael of silver.Requisitioning a part and using the money here to hire a part can completely solve the problem of chariots and horses.And I can still leave some silver.Wu Shigong's confession made Xue Lian and Master Zhang dumbfounded, and they lamented that the distance between each other is like a mountain.Xue Lian of Dayue stated on the spot that if some money could be left behind, all the money would belong to Wu Shigong.

There is a more important problem. From now on, other personnel will not be allowed to clean up the ruins.Wu Shigong reported to Xue Lian that he had issued this order in Nancheng.Xue Lian also said that tomorrow, he will also ask other soldiers and horses to carry out this order.Moreover, after today's discussion, he will immediately report to Wei Zhongxian and ask Dongchang and Jinyiwei to also carry out this order together.

The next step in the plan is how to rebuild the house.They decided that the construction cost of each house would be 25 taels of silver, and the Ministry of Industry would arrange craftsmen to build it.This price is slightly lower than the market price, but not by much.The Ministry of Industry will earn four or five taels of silver for each house.Because the official craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty also served in the service, the cost of using them was particularly low.At that time, the reason why the Ministry of Industry was unwilling to accept the reconstruction of the houses of the victims was mainly because they were afraid that they would not receive the construction fees.It is impossible for the Ministry of Industry to send so many people to thousands of disaster victims to collect housing construction fees one by one.But now, Xue Lian will assure them to pay and pay according to the construction progress of the Ministry of Industry.

But where did Xue Lian get his money from?It turned out that Xue Lian was about to issue another order to the victims.After the ruins are cleaned up, the house will be built within the stipulated time.What if you don't have the money to build?That's okay too.The government will help you build it for free, but you have to pay part of the land to the government. The government will build shops and houses on these lands and sell them to wealthy private households to solve the problem.On the surface, this order looks very fair and just, but in fact, there are more tricks in it.

The land that the government requires these homeowners to turn over must be the land facing the street.Modern people know that the prices of commercial real estate and residential real estate are completely different.Moreover, when Xue Lian sells these real estates facing the street, he can definitely set a relatively low official position, and those real estates will definitely be sold to powerful eunuchs, nobles and officials. After sharing the benefits, it is completely possible to form a huge Interest groups, Xue Lian himself can also gain both fame and fortune.In addition, there are always unowned real estate where the whole family dies, which is simply a no-cost business. It depends on how Xue Lian's disaster relief account is accounted for.

Wu Shigong also got something. The horse and horse transport of the chariot and horse company is two-way. What is transported out is garbage, and what can be transported in can be building materials.Wu Shigong can definitely earn a small amount of transportation costs.

This plan is simply perfect, and the victims can get the government to build their houses at a low price, or even free of charge.And the officials of the various government offices participating in the disaster relief can get more or less their own share of the benefits.Xue Lian was completely relieved to see that he had solved the big stone that had weighed on his heart for so many days.

Wu Shigong took the opportunity to make two requests to Xue Lian.One is to hope that Xue Lian will help to say hello, and let the Ministry of Industry build a building for free at his shop in Xuanwumen, which has become a ruin.Xue Lian agreed to this trivial matter.Another request made by Wu Shigong was that he wanted to promote a deputy commander in the Nancheng Bingma Division to take charge of the firefighting work in an all-round way.Xue Lian thought about it, and confessed to Wu Shigong: Xue Lian can basically guarantee that as long as he proposes to Wei Zhongxian, after the disaster relief work is completed, the word "acting agent" in Wu Shigong's acting command title will definitely be removed.At that time, Wu Shigong's request to be promoted to a deputy commander will definitely be met.Wu Shigong thought in his heart: It seems that the relationship between his father-in-law Xue Lian and Wei Zhongxian seems to be far closer than imagined.

After completing all the discussions, Wu Shigong felt a little proud.After traveling to the Ming Dynasty, the first big business he did had such a good start, and some income even exceeded his expectations, which made him feel complacent.Wu Shigong was a little carried away, he thought he had just completed an important business cooperation negotiation with a partner, he forgot that he was negotiating with his father-in-law now.His whole body relaxed, and he almost raised his legs.He didn't notice that his father-in-law Xue Lian gave Master Zhang a wink, let alone that Master Zhang had left quietly.Suddenly, the old man's angry shout sounded in his ears.

The father-in-law looked excited and yelled at Wu Shigong repeatedly, the scolding was so intense and the decibels were so high that it was unbearable.Wu Shigong was scolded by his father-in-law so that he stood up from his chair, then he was scolded face to face and retreated again and again, and finally he was scolded by his father-in-law so that he retreated to the corner of the wall.The old man's anger seemed to be endless, Wu Shigong's face was full of spittle.Although being scolded was always uncomfortable, Wu Shigong was not angry or wronged at all.He knew that it was his father-in-law's kindness to him, and today's father-in-law's scolding towards him was full of his concern and worry for himself.Although a large part of it is because of his daughter, the old man really regards himself as a relative.

It wasn't until Mrs. Zhang sent someone to invite the two of them to dinner twice that the old man stopped teaching Wu Shigong a lesson.

After Xue Lian left home, Mrs. Zhang and the young couple had dinner quietly.Seeing the pitiful appearance of the young couple eating with their heads bowed in silence, Mrs. Zhang was angry and funny.She lovingly put a chopstick of food in each of their bowls.After a while, Wu Shigong raised his head and said to Mrs. Zhang: "My lord mother-in-law, this time we all know we were wrong."

Mrs. Zhang looked at the two of them with a smile, and nodded happily.

The pitiful look of the young couple lasted until after dinner.After saying goodbye to Mrs. Zhang, the two of them walked out of the dining room.At the door, the two of them looked at each other, looked at each other, couldn't help it more and more, and finally laughed cheerfully at the same time.Seeing the cheerful backs of the young couple holding hands and leaving, Mrs. Zhang smiled and shook her head helplessly.