Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Wu Shigong never thought that before he arrived in Guide, there were already two groups of people thinking about punishing him.

After such a delay on the road, when Wu Shigong and his party arrived at Guide, the gate of Guide City had already been closed.In desperation, Wu Shigong had no choice but to find a carriage and horse shop outside Guide City, and settled the group down.

Wu Shigong didn't want to bother anymore. Early tomorrow morning, after the city gate opened, Wu Shigong took Xue Yongli and a few other guards into Guide City to visit Commander of Guide Guard.Because, the official seal of Wu Shigong's thousand households is still temporarily kept in the hands of Commander Guide Weiwei.As soon as Wu Shigong got the official seal, he immediately left the city and rushed to the Qianhu Office.

The next day, after Wu Shigong entered the city and arrived at the yamen of Commander Wei, he sent in 100 taels of silver, two bolts of silk cloth and two boxes of cosmetic gift boxes along with his greeting card.The cosmetic powder that Zhao Ruya brought out from the cosmetic powder shop may be used as a gift for Wu Shigong in the future.

After receiving Wu Shigong's invitation, the commander of the guard quickly received Wu Shigong.The commander of the guard was Zhao Ming, an old man in his fifties, chubby and very rich.There is always a kind smile on his face.

After Wu Shigong saluted Commander Zhao, then Commander Zhao chatted with Wu Shigong.After saying a few words, Wu Shigong mentioned the official seal.However, Commander Zhao immediately changed the topic, and Wang Gu talked about him.

Wu Shigong is impatient, but the matter of getting the official seal cannot be forced.I can only chat patiently with old man Zhao Ming without saying a word.The old man Zhao Ming told Wu Shigong: Let him live in Guide City for a few days with peace of mind.Anyway, Wu Shigong's Qianhu is located in the most southwest corner of Guide Mansion, and it will take a day to drive there from Guide Mansion.

Wu Shigong hastily declined, the journey took too long.Wu Shigong now wants to rush to his thousand households as soon as possible.

See Wu Shigong's attitude is very firm.The old man Zhao Ming smiled and nodded to Wu Shigong: "The commander is very busy now. He is preparing to take a concubine in three days."

Wu Shigong suddenly realized.It turns out that my Commander Zhao was thinking about this problem.Wu Shigong hurried outside and asked Xue Yongli for 100 taels of silver as a concubine gift for Commander Zhao.Congratulations to him for his longevity.And I told Commander Zhao very sorry: I was in a hurry to take office, so I could only miss Commander Zhao's wedding.

After accepting the money, the old man Zhao Ming became more amiable.He immediately gave the official seal to Wu Shigong, and greatly appreciated Wu Shigong's diligent behavior in official affairs.Zhao Ming thought in his heart: As long as you have money, you will never come to the wedding.

When Wu Shigong asked Commander Zhao to arrange someone familiar with the route to lead the way, the old man Zhao Ming agreed without hesitation.He immediately arranged for an old soldier beside him to lead the way for Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong took the old soldier to the chariot and horse shop outside the city.The people in the chariot and horse shop were already ready to go, just waiting for Wu Shigong.As soon as Wu Shigong arrived, he immediately ordered everyone to catch the last leg of this long journey.

Before setting off, Wu Shigong first gave the old soldier 20 taels of silver.Wu Shigong wanted this old soldier who was familiar with the local conditions to introduce more about the situation of his Thousand Households.

After the old soldier received Wu Shigong's money, he immediately started talking with a smile on his face.Unexpectedly, this old soldier was still a chatterbox, and he talked eloquently along the way.Whenever he came across a small hill, he could tell a story to Wu Shigong.It makes people feel that if he goes to modern times, it would be nice to be a tour guide.

But what the old soldier said, he just couldn't spare Wu Shigong that thousand households.Under Wu Shigong's repeated questioning, the old soldier finally said helplessly that he had arrived at the Qianhu Office.

As soon as the words started, the old soldier spit out a word: "Difficult!"

Then, Wu Shigong finally extracted the content he needed from the complicated words of the veteran soldiers.Understand the basic information of my thousand households.

It turned out that the former Qianhu of my Qianhu office died in an accident, so the position of Qianhu was vacated.To be precise, that Qianhu committed suicide.

This matter starts with Li Bingdao, the Bingbeidao who manages Guidewei.That Li Bingbei Dao is relatively young, and he is also vigorous and resolute in his work.Moreover, he is a new official who has just taken office and wants to make some political achievements.Therefore, Li Bing Beidao asked his subordinate guards and thousands of households to hand over the money and food that should be handed over every year.

And the location of Wu Shigong's Thousand Households Office is very good, it is at the confluence of two rivers.The land is also very fertile.However, just because the land is fertile, it is a crime to conceive a jade.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, no one dared to occupy the land of the Weisuo.However, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the situation of local encroachment on the land of the guards has intensified.The same is true of Wu Shigong's Thousand Households Office.

It's not that Wu Shigong's Thousand Households Office and Gui Dewei have not complained to the higher-level yamen.However, those gentry who invaded the land of the guard all had backgrounds in the government.Some are officials themselves.Therefore, every complaint is lost in endless wrangling.

After more than 100 years of occupation, almost half of the land of Wu Shigong's Qianhusuo has been occupied.And so long has passed.Which is the land of the place?Which piece is the land of Qianhusuo?It has long been a mess.And the number of households in Wu Shigong's one thousand households has long since disappeared, and at most it is just over seven hundred households.

But in the past, those soldiers and Taoists who knew about these situations always reduced or exempted some money and food from Wu Shigong's Thousand Households.Therefore, the days of the thousand households can still pass.

When Li Bingbeidao's order was issued, the former thousand households fought hard according to reason, but Li Bingbeidao was not accommodating.But the Qianhusuo really couldn't hand over so much money and food, it could only hand over part of it.

Therefore, that Li Bingbeidao adopted a management model higher than human-oriented management-animalized management.He took that former thousand household to Bingbei Dao Yamen, and beat that former thousand household hard.After that, the top thousand households were still ordered to hand over the missing money and food within a time limit.

That former Qianhu had a very staunch temperament, without saying a word, he found an inn and hanged himself after leaving the Yamen of Bingbei Road.

Moreover, the family of Qianqianhu was a staunch family. After receiving the news of her husband's suicide, the wife of Qianqianhu carried her husband's body to the Bingbeidao yamen, and wanted to die with Li Bingbeidao.That Li Bingbei was so frightened that he was hiding in Xizang.

After getting the news of the former Qianhu's death, all the military officers owned by Gui Dewei also made a fuss.In the Ming Dynasty, the military officers of the local guards were all hereditary.They lived in one place for a long time and married each other, so the former Qianhu and the military officer owned by Gui Dewei could all be related.

In other words, the death of Qian Qianhu is equivalent to the death of relatives of these military officers.How can this keep these military officers from making trouble?

Faced with the crying complaints of the family members of the former thousand households, and the common hatred of the military officers of the guard, Li Bingbeidao was in a panic.As a result, yamen at all levels came forward, and they began to work with each other.In the end, an agreement was reached that basically satisfied all parties:

First of all, Li Bingbei personally handed out a large sum of money to the family members of the former thousand households to express condolences and deep condolences;

Secondly, in order to maintain Li Bingbei’s decency and the authority of the government, Li Bingbei’s order requiring all guards and thousands of households to hand over all money and food remains unchanged;

Third, considering the actual situation of the Qianhu Office of the former Qianhu, we will apply to the imperial court to send a Qianhu to act as an agent for six years.Because, Li Bingbeidao served at most two terms in this position, that is, six years.The former Qianhu's son will also come of age in six years.Anyway, we will talk about what will happen six years later;

In the end, civil officials at all levels, including Li Bingbeidao, and all the military officers of Gui Dewei unanimously pledged that after six years, the agent Qianhu would be driven away, and the son of the former Qianhu would inherit the position of Qianhu.

And when that, the application for requesting the imperial court to send an agent of Qianhu for six years, happened to be discovered by Wei Zhongxian after he arrived at the Ministry of War.For the reasons mentioned above, this official position was assigned to Wu Shigong.

After hearing all this, Wu Shigong cursed secretly in his heart: "This is so complicated!" Don't think too much, first go to the Qianhu Office to take up the post, and the boat will be straight when it arrives at the bridge.

When it was dark at night, the old soldier led Wu Shigong and his party to a small town under Qianhu.Wu Shigong had too many people, so he could only find a few inns in the small town and live in them separately.

The old soldier led Wu Shigong, pointed in one direction, and said to Wu Shigong, "Master Qianhu, your Qianhu Office is right there."

Wu Shigong looked in that direction, but now it was the end of the month, and it was a cloudy day, with no moon or stars in the sky.Wu Shigong didn't see anything.