Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

A few days later, Wu Shigong went to the powder shop again.It turned out that Li Xin was not used to other maids serving her, so she asked to buy the maid who used to serve her.Wu Shigong was a good man to the end, so he asked Li Pengfei again, and bought Li Xin's maid from the Jiaofang Division.

When sending the maid to the powder shop, Li Xin was crying to death.She had just heard that her father had died in prison.This little girl is also very poor.So, after Wu Shigong told Zhao Ruya to take good care of Li Xin, he left with a sigh.

The storm in the court was getting bigger and bigger, Wei Zhongxian's party had an overall advantage, but in the Wei party, differences of opinion also appeared.A few people such as Xue Lian expressed their willingness to control the scope.The vast majority of the Wei party wanted to expand the scope of attacking Donglin party officials, which caused fierce disputes within the Wei party.In the end, Wei Zhongxian accepted the opinions of the majority.He hoped to take this opportunity to completely wipe out the Donglin party officials from the court.At most, in order to take care of Xue Lian's face, several officials who entrusted Xue Lian just dismissed them.

And Li Chengzuo, Marquis of Fengcheng, stood opposite Xue Lian again in this dispute within the Wei Party.In addition, in the Beijing camp, the two had disagreements several times, which made Xue Lian very unhappy during this period.Unexpectedly, Xue Lian heard that his younger brother and Li Chengzuo walked around very diligently, so Xue Lian became angry again and again as if he had eaten gunpowder these days.

But in Xue's mansion, Xue Lian and Mrs. Zhang are deeply in love with each other, and Xue Yufei is Xue Lian's favorite.Therefore, the glorious post of punching bag fell on Wu Shigong.Therefore, Wu Shigong often attended some banquets in the evening in person.Try not to let yourself appear in front of his father-in-law Xue Lian.

That day, Chairman Lin of the chariot and horse company hosted a banquet for Wu Shigong, and handed over the first sum of money for cleaning up the ruins of the house to Wu Shigong.At the banquet, President Lin brought a guest named Zhang Yu from Tongzhou who also had some business in Tongzhou.Moreover, Jiao Yu, who was a local snake in Tongzhou, was also a lively Jiao Yu, and told Wu Shigong his intentions.It turned out that Zhang Chunyu passed Chairman Lin and knew that Wu Shigong was the commander of the Nancheng Army and Horse Division, and the soldiers guarding the Nancheng gate were also Wu Shigong's subordinates.But this time, the Nancheng Bingma Division requisitioned the carriages of the Chariot and Horse Company.When these carriages left the city, they pulled ruins. When they entered the city, some of them were pulling materials for building houses, and some of them were empty. <Yu knew a lot of merchants who shipped goods to the capital through the Grand Canal.Among these merchants, when some of them entered the capital without any background, they had to pay a heavy city entry tax at the Chongwenmen Customs.Therefore, Zhang Chunyu asked Wu Shigong about the situation today, whether it is possible to use these vacant carriages to transport these goods into the capital?Moreover, it is best to exempt part of the city entrance tax. <All Woo wants to do is smuggle.Wu Shigong was also a little amused. Is the circulation of goods inside and outside a city in the Ming Dynasty going to be smuggled?

Wu Shigong thought about it carefully, and there was absolutely no problem in using an empty carriage.But how to go to the city to evade taxes depends on the situation.Therefore, Wu Shigong didn't agree immediately.Wu Shigong told Zhang Yu.

The next day when he arrived at the Bingmasi Yamen, Wu Shigong called Zhang Kequan and asked him to advise him. What should he do?

After Zhang Kequan heard it, he analyzed it with Wu Shigong and said: If Wu Shigong just wanted to put some goods in here and there, then it would not be a big problem.Even if other people know it, they will open their eyes and close their eyes.But if Wu Shigong releases too many.No matter how strict the Bingmasi people are, but so many goods that have not paid the city tax have entered the capital, the people at the Chongwenmen tax customs and the factory guards are not vegetarians.At that time, Wu Shigong must spend a large part of his profits to silence them.But in case something happened, Wu Shigong had to bear the responsibility alone.From the perspective of gain and loss, it doesn't make much sense to do this.

However, Zhang Kequan suggested another idea to Wu Shigong.He asked Wu Shigong to simply tell Xue Lian about this, and asked Xue Lian to seek Wei Zhongxian's consent.Because, didn't Wu Shigong just spend Wu Shigong's own money to buy tools to clean up the ruins?Because of those IOUs, Wei Zhongxian must know about it.

If Wei Zhongxian agrees, it will be regarded as compensation to Wu Shigong.Then there is no risk for Wu Shigong to do this.If Wei Zhongxian disagreed, Wu Shigong didn't lose anything.

It really is a good idea.Wu Shigong felt that it was different after all with Zhang Kequan's assistance.In Wu Shigong's modern memory, masters seem to be the ones who wave paper fans behind officials and come up with bad ideas.But after seeing Zhang Kequan's performance, he really understood that in the Ming Dynasty, the master was indeed an indispensable right-hand man for any official.

So Wu Shigong told Xue Lian about it.Although Xue Lian often scolded this son-in-law for no reason, in his heart, he also felt sorry for Wu Shigong.In order not to let his son-in-law suffer, Xue Lian made a request to Wei Zhongxian.

After Wei Zhongxian heard the request, on the one hand, it was to compensate for not accepting the opinions of Xue Lian, an old brother; on the other hand, Wei Zhongxian also remembered Wu Shigong's contribution in this political battle, and he had not rewarded him yet.Therefore, Wei Zhongxian decided to allow Wu Shigong to enter the city without paying the city tax for all items loaded in the carriage.However, this provision only ends at the end of the year.

Of course, the external explanation is: In order to reduce the burden on the victims of the disaster, the emperor exempted the city tax on the materials used to build the houses of the victims.Let Wu Shigong master how to operate the specific situation.

After Wu Shigong received Wei Zhongxian's decision, he was overjoyed.I'm about to make another windfall.But this can't be done in a big way.Wu Shigong's other confidantes now have jobs in their hands.And these days, Wu Shigong, who Zhou Xun followed, was very tight.Then give this guy a chance. <Chairman Yu Helin approached and negotiated that the goods entering the city should be handed over to Bing Masi according to the standard of [-]% of the city entry tax.During Zhang Yu's break back to Tongzhou, Wu Shigong took the time to watch the training of the gambling guards.Unexpectedly, those veteran leaders of the Beijing camp who were in charge of training did not follow Wu Shigong's request at all.They trained these gambling house guards to be very strict, but there was no queue training at all.

When Wu Shigong pointed out this point, those military leaders retorted plausibly: the army of the Ming Dynasty did not train queues like my uncle.

Although Wu Shigong didn't know what the training queue was for, but at this time, Wu Shigong insisted on sticking to his opinion just for the sake of face.He announced to these veteran military leaders that he would give each veteran military leader an extra 20 taels of silver for hard work every month.But the queue training must be done according to the requirements.Wu Shigong will come to check frequently in the future.

Now, these old military leaders have no voice.Who would have trouble with silver?

It was August in a blink of an eye, and Xue Lian, who had been in a bad mood, suddenly became ecstatic.Because, his daughter Xue Yufei was pregnant.