Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

When Dong Yun walked out of the restaurant, his face was gloomy.Just now in the restaurant.The young Commander Wu of the Bing Ma Si was not so much looking for them to discuss, as he was directly giving orders to them, the big leaders of the Nancheng Gang.Commander Na Wu issued a series of regulations to all gangs.The core of these regulations can be summed up in two points: one is that all gangs keep their own territory and are not allowed to expand their territory at will, and the gangs are required to assist the factory guards and soldiers and horses to maintain stability on the street; The regular silver for the factory guards and soldiers and horses will increase by [-]%.

But gradually, Dong Yun's face softened.Thinking about it carefully, in fact, apart from a slight reduction in income, Wu Shigong's regulations have been greatly improved, making it difficult for a small gang to become a big gang.As for Dong Yun's gang, as the largest gang in Nancheng, his leadership position has been strengthened instead.Dong Yun is also in his fifties, and wants to spend his old age in peace and stability.

When Dong Yun returned home and saw his grandchildren playing in his yard, he thought to himself: It's really good to have such a stable life.also good!

To the surprise of everyone in the gang, in the days to come, due to the reduction of conflicts in the gang and the gang members assisting the factory guards and soldiers and horses to crack down on crimes on the street.The law and order situation in the entire southern city has greatly improved.As a result, the number of guests coming to play in Nancheng has increased significantly, and the income of each gang has also increased by more than [-]% on average.In this way, except for the extra money paid to the factory guards and soldiers and horses, in fact, the income of all gangs has increased.

Of course, Hu Ming and Li Pengfei were also very satisfied after the discussion.You know, Hu Ming is a member of a hundred households in Dongchang, with more than 100 people under his command; Li Pengfei is a member of a thousand households of Jinyiwei, and the people in charge are only a little over a thousand.The number of people is smaller than that of soldiers and horses.Although the benefits obtained by the three organizations were similar, personally speaking, Hu Ming obtained the most, followed by Li Pengfei, and Wu Shigong the least.However, this is also a concrete manifestation of the status of these three institutions.

When they broke up, both Hu Ming and Li Pengfei told Wu Shigong that the factory guards would not set up any obstacles on the issue of the soldiers and horses collecting firefighting expenses.Moreover, they also expressed their admiration to Wu Shigong in private.I admire Wu Shigong for being able to come up with a fire service fee, which is a legal and reasonable fee item from any point of view.They all believed that factory guards should learn from soldiers and horses and develop more new projects like this.

Back at the Bingmasi Yamen, Wu Shigong summoned the three deputy commanders, Zhou Shikun, Yu Lian, and Ruan Xiong, plus Xu Limu and Wu Mian for a meeting.Master Zhang Kequan was listening as Wu Shigong's staff.

At the meeting, Wu Shigong made major changes to the jurisdiction of each deputy commander.First of all, Wu Shigong officially announced that Wu Mian had become the deputy commander of the Nancheng Bingma Command Department.Then, he assigned the three hundred-household offices outside Xuanwu Gate that he had been in charge of when he was the deputy commander to Zhou Shikun, Yu Lian, and Ruan Xiong, three deputy commanders. A hundred households were assigned to Wu Mian's management.In addition, Wu Mian has to manage all the firefighting work in Nancheng.The Baihu of the Water Dragon Team accepted the dual leadership of Wu Shigong and Wu Mian.

Wu Shigong also showed Zhou Shikun, Yu Lian, and Ruan Xiong, the three deputy commanders, the instructions issued by the Ministry of War regarding Gu Yushi's impeachment memorial.Therefore, Wu Shigong asked the soldiers of the three deputy commanders to take turns to participate in military training.Hundreds of personal soldiers were withdrawn, and the military training team was used as a temporary personal soldier team for command.And Xu Limu will take full control of the internal affairs of Bingmasi Yamen, as well as the unspoken rules of business in the Yamen.

Every month, the routine silver handed over to Wu Shigong by each hundred households is raised to 60 taels.The routine silver handed in by the water dragon team and Xu Limu will be calculated separately.In addition, Wu Shigong also notified everyone of the agreement Wu Shigong reached with the factory guard and the regulations for those gangs.After the briefing was over, all the deputy commanders were very excited.Because their income will be greatly increased.

After the meeting, Wu Shigong and Zhang Kequan were alone together.Zhang Kequan took out an abacus, calculated skillfully, and said to Wu Shigong: Excluding all expenses, Wu Shigong will get a little over 1 taels of silver from Bingma Si every year.

After the meeting that day, Wu Shigong also formally hosted a banquet for Mr. Zhang Kequan, the master.As a late welcome party.At the banquet, Zhang Kequan introduced himself to Wu Shigong: Zhang Kequan and his brother Zhang Kehua are both from Shaoxing, and they both have the reputation of scholars.Because Shaoxing's imperial examination admission rate was too low, many scholars like them went to various officials to serve as aides.

Zhang Kequan also introduced: Masters are also divided into two types.One is Master Xing Ming; the other is Master Qian Liang.Although Zhang Kequan is capable of both, he is best at the position of Master Qian Liang.Wu Shigong thought to himself: No wonder that Zhang Kequan played well.

That Zhang Kequan also said to Wu Shigong: Zhang Kequan used to be a staff member in many yamen, so he has very rich experience.This time, because Zhang Kequan's eldest grandson was born, Zhang Kequan also wanted to go home for the elderly.But he couldn't bear the affection of Lord Hou Xue Lian and his clan brother Zhang Kehua, so Zhang Kequan came to the capital on the way back to his hometown, so he came a bit late.However, Zhang Kequan told Wu Shigong that no matter what, Zhang Kequan would work here for at most three years, and he would definitely return to his hometown after that.

Wu Shigong expressed his gratitude to Zhang Kequan for his assistance. Zhang Kequan is indeed very capable. These days, he has taken a lot of burdens for Wu Shigong, which made Wu Shigong a lot easier.Wu Shigong then told Zhang Kequan that after the cleaning up of the ruins came to an end, Zhang Kequan would need to help with the affairs of the yamen.In particular, Wu Shigong told Zhang Kequan that he was not very familiar with the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. If there was anything wrong with him, please correct and criticize Zhang Kequan in time.For this reason, Wu Shigong also solemnly performed a master ceremony to Zhang Kequan.

After returning to Xue's mansion, Wu Shigong relaxed on the reclining chair.He thought in his heart: The matter of Bing Ma Si has finally been basically sorted out.

But straightening out the work of soldiers and horses is not without sequelae.One day, a certain pretty little widow pretended to meet Wu Shigong on the street and stopped her. She complained to Wu Shigong that her makeup shop had to pay an extra [-] cents a month.Wu Shigong looked at Zhao Ruya's expression, no matter how you looked at it, he looked like a dick.Coupled with the breeze blowing, the charming body fragrance came again.Wu Shigong then vaguely agreed to Zhao Ruya again, and Wu Shigong will cover all the regular silver for the cosmetics shop from now on.When Zhao Ruya, who was full of smiles, invited Wu Shigong to the powder shop again, fortunately, another breeze blew away the body fragrance and made Wu Shigong sober.Wu Shigong declined with a smile.

Watching from the sidelines, Xue Yong, Wu Shigong's guard captain, was very conflicted.As the captain of the guard who followed Wu Shigong in and out every day, Xue Yong certainly knew that nothing happened between Wu Shigong and the little widow.It can be seen that the little widow is giving the uncle a big look, and the uncle has such a piggy look.Then should I report this matter, which seems to be just speculation, to Master Hou?Xue Yong was very troubled, he could only lament in his heart: There are so many gossips in front of the widow's house!

The next day, Wu Mian took out all the cash at home, even some of his wife's dowry, collected 150 taels of gold and sent it to Wu Shigong as a thank you.But as soon as Wu Shigong changed hands, Wu Shigong spent the money again, and he used it in the hands of those who came to the yamen with white slips to ask for debts.Wu Shigong sighed inwardly: Although it looked like he had earned a lot of money on the surface, he didn't have the life to keep the money.

Seeing the situation, Zhang Kequan asked Wu Shigong, "Why didn't you send these IOUs to Xue Lian?"

Wu Shigong explained his difficulties to Zhang Kequan: what he did was mainly to relieve his father-in-law's worries, and he didn't want his father-in-law to pay for it.

Zhang Kequan said to Wu Shigong: The purpose of sending IOUs is not to ask for money.The main purpose is to let Xue Lian know that his son-in-law put his own money in to clean up the ruins.It would be best if Xue Lian could show these IOUs to Wei Zhongxian.The greater the benefits obtained.

Wu Shigong was suddenly enlightened when he heard this, and sighed: After all, Jiang is still old and spicy!

The days passed quickly, and it was July in a blink of an eye.And the work of cleaning up the ruins is also on the right track.As Wu Mian was promoted to deputy commander, the middle and lower level officials of the Bingma Division also made some adjustments.Wang Baihu was transferred from a hundred households of the personal army to a hundred households of the water dragon team.Wang Baihu is quite satisfied with sitting in the Water Dragon Team Baihu, which used to be the most unpopular but now the most popular position.But there is also some regret in the satisfaction. If I had not hesitated to join Wu Shigong when Wu Shigong first arrived, Wang Baihu would not have no chance of being the deputy commander.

And because Zhou Xun performed best in military training and dealing with the ruins later, Wu Shigong transferred him to the hundred households of the personal army.And Wu Shigong handed over the vacant position of a hundred households to the three deputy commanders for arrangement.In exchange for benefits, Wu Shigong's fourth brother-in-law got a position as the general banner.In addition, among the newly recruited soldiers, there is one who performed very well, that is Qian Qi, the second son of the late Deputy Commander Qian.Wu Shigong kept his promise and arranged Qian Qi as a small flag.This displeased Deputy Commander Qian's wife and eldest brother.Because, Qian Qi is also a bastard, raised by his concubine.