Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

On June [-]th, Wu Shigong went to the Yamen to show his face, and after asking Xu Limu to take care of the Bingmasi Yamen for a while, he hurriedly led a few temporary teams of hundreds of households participating in military training to the Caishikou outside Xuanwumen. .Because Caishikou is the place where beheadings are performed, the place is relatively spacious in order to take care of the onlookers.Wu Shigong has already made an appointment with President Lin of the chariot and horse dealership to meet up with the requisitioned carriages at that place.

But before reaching Caishikou, the crowd was already crowded.Relying on the soldiers to clear the way, Wu Shigong finally arrived at Caishikou, and squeezed over when he saw Chairman Lin who was sweating profusely.Chairman Lin told Wu Shigong that the [-] horse-drawn carriages from the carriage and horse shop were ready, but there were too many people at Caishikou, and there was no way to drive over.

Why are there so many people at Caishikou?Wu Shigong felt a little strange.At this time, another military officer squeezed in from outside.The military officer was sent by Xue Lian, and he told Wu Shigong that those people were laborers recruited from the disaster victims.It turned out that Xue Lian recruited more than 6000 laborers among the victims, and sent them to Nancheng to take care of his son-in-law.With more than 6000 people crowded together, that's not a huge crowd.There was no other way, so Wu Shigong ordered all the laborers to start grouping, and to cooperate with the horse-drawn carriages of the chariots and horses to start cleaning up the ruins.

But not long after they were divided into groups, the problem came again. Those workers were still unarmed.It is not necessary to let them clean up the ruins by hand.So Wu Shigong sent a few more soldiers to escort Wang Baihu and Shumo to the shops where ropes, sacks, shovels and poles were kept to requisition them.Wu Shigong told them that all the requisitioned materials must be issued with white slips, the quantity and price of the requisitioned materials must be written on the white slips, and the official seal of the Army and Horse Division should be stamped on the white slips.In the future, let these shops go to Bingma Division to collect money with this white slip.

Because that day, Xue Lian had already told Wu Shigong the political significance of this disaster relief, so Wu Shigong would rather spend some money himself this time, and also help his father-in-law secure his seat.

It didn't take long after being so busy, and it was time for lunch.Xue Lian sent people to bring dry food and water to these laborers.It seems that Xue Lian has spared no expense to ensure the physical strength of these workers.Then, food was distributed, tools were distributed, and some temporary toilets were even built to solve the three urgent needs of these workers.Wu Shigong couldn't help shaking his head with great emotion, he was extremely busy just arranging such 6000 people, those great generals in ancient times, with an army of one hundred thousand or one million, weren't they so busy and dizzy?

The strength of a large number of people is great. By the afternoon, a small part of a shop had been cleaned up, and the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry who were waiting on the side had already prepared building materials.On the open space where the ruins had been cleared, according to the plan, the first house was built.

Unexpectedly, when the first brick was laid down, all the laborers and onlookers cheered loudly.These victims have been living in the poor environment and the huts where the sewage flowed for more than a month. Now they see the hope of living in new houses, and the joy is absolutely sincere.Seeing the joy of the disaster victims, Wu Shigong's heart was naturally filled with the pleasure of doing good deeds.Although his good deeds are just a by-product of his making money.At this time, an old man came to Wu Shigong and kowtowed, thanking Wu Shigong a thousand times.This moved Wu Shigong a little too.The common people in our country really don't have high demands, as long as the government does something for them.

At this time, Wu Shigong's head suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He saw that only Zhou Xun, a temporary hundred households, was left by his side, so he called Zhou Xun over and asked him to go to the Bingma Division and let Xu Li watch over him. Bring all the literate documents of Bingma Division.Moreover, he also selected all the literate soldiers around him.

When Xu Limu arrived with the documents, Wu Shigong arranged for them to say: "All of you take paper and pens, go to these victims, and record what they want to thank the emperor. Remember: what the victims say, you You must record everything without missing a single word. No changes are allowed. After that, write down the address and name of the victims who spoke these words on the paper. Finally, sign the name of your recorder for verification.”

All the personnel accepted Wu Shigong's order.They quickly recorded several such gratitude letters, and Wu Shigong quickly sent someone to deliver these gratitude letters to Xue Lian.Xue Lian saw the great effect of these gratitude letters immediately. On the one hand, he sent these gratitude letters to Wei Zhongxian. Record among the victims.

After Wei Zhongxian received these thank you letters, he was simply overwhelmed.Think about it: if you put such two things in front of the emperor.One is to scold Wei Zhongxian and Xue Lian, and there are some impeachment memorials that reflect the unknown employment of the emperor; the other is like "My old man has lived for so many years, and I have never seen an emperor who cares about our people so much..." This kind of thank you letter.Moreover, on these thanksgiving letters, there are also the information of the person who said this and the name of the recorder, so the emperor will not be afraid to review it.There is not just one thank you letter like this, but thousands.What do you think the emperor would think?Wei Zhongxian immediately decided to make good use of this weapon, and at the right time, deal the most painful blow to the civil servants of the Donglin Party.

Xue Lian saw that Wu Shigong's arrangements were quite orderly, so he put the burden on Wu Shigong.After Wei Zhongxian agreed, Xue Lian officially appointed Wu Shigong as the person in charge of the ruins.On the first day of clearing the ruins, Wu Shigong was extremely busy.When I returned to Xue's mansion, I was exhausted. After dinner, I fell asleep.Seeing Xue Yufei felt a little distressed, but also a little happy.This is probably what every woman would do when she sees her husband busy doing business.

The person who gave charcoal in the snow finally came, arranged by Xue Lian, Zhang Kequan, the younger brother of Master Zhang Kehua next to Xue Lian, finally appeared as Wu Shigong's master.That Zhang Kequan's handling ability is quite high, after two or three days of working with Wu Shigong to clean up the ruins, he quickly got started.This made Wu Shigong very happy.Moreover, Wu Shigong himself has greatly exercised and improved his ability to organize large-scale activities through this organization work.

After handing everything over to Master Zhang Kequan, Wu Shigong could finally relax and come to inspect the site of cleaning up the ruins.Of course, he first inspected his shop that had become ruins.I also saw shopkeeper Zheng waiting by the ruins.But there were not many cloths rescued by the cloth shop.Wu Shigong took care of those soldiers and returned all these cloths to the shopkeeper Zheng, which was more or less his own wish.

Wu Shigong remembered that Sun Chengxiu was also a victim of the disaster, so he rushed there again.Sure enough, I saw Sun Chengxiu.But what surprised Wu Shigong was that there was a seventeen or eight-year-old girl beside Sun Chengxiu.It turned out that in just a few days, Sun Chengxiu married a daughter-in-law from a family of disaster victims.Old cows eat tender grass!Wu Shigong was secretly amused in his heart.After Sun Chengxiu introduced to both parties, the little girl saluted Wu Shigong with a blessing: "Uncle is well." This made Wu Shigong a little strange, since he was about the same age as that little girl, why did he call himself an uncle?Then I came to my senses, it turned out that the little girl referred to "little uncle" as "uncle".

Wu Shigong blamed Sun Chengxiu and said: Why didn't he come to call himself a good friend for such a big event like marriage.Sun Chengxiu argued: He had already called, but the concierge of Xue's house told him that Wu Shigong was busy cleaning up the ruins these days, so he was not free.In order not to disturb Wu Shigong's business, Sun Chengxiu decided to hire Wu Shigong later.

Sun Chengxiu was really unlucky, and finally did not find the buried 200 taels of silver from the ruins.Wu Shigong was also busy visiting other places, and the two of them made an appointment, and after Wu Shigong visited Sun Chengxiu when he was free, the two also said goodbye.

In the following inspections, those soldiers who were making a fortune saw the arrival of their beloved Commander Wu, and presented gifts in their hands one after another.Wu Shigong also accepted the kindness of these soldiers with a smile all the time.It was the gift that He Fei presented, which made Wu Shigong a little dumbfounded.At that time, He Fei and the others happened to find some unbroken porcelain in a porcelain shop.Na Hefei snatched a teapot with the most beautiful design and the largest size and dedicated it to his master.The teapot was really big, and the spout of the teapot could fit into a baby's arm.Wu Shigong took a closer look, isn't this a chamber pot! ?

After a few days of busy work like this, Wu Shigong saw that everything was on the right track, so he sent someone to meet Hu Ming from the Hundred Households of Dongchang and Li Pengfei from the Thousand Households of Jinyiwei, and then notified all the big bosses of the gangs in Nancheng to gather together .Wu Shigong decided that it was time to give lessons to the big bosses of these gangs.