Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wu Shigong started to go out with the guards around him.Tao Xin, who was returning home for the New Year, found out that Wu Shigong and the others were out of cao, so he also came to Qianhusuo Fortress to go out with Wu Shigong and the others.

Now everyone in Qianhusuo Fortress actually likes this little boy very much.And Tao Xin also likes to be with everyone laughing and joking.Only when he is taught by Xiaojie, will he appear honest.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the soldiers returning home for the New Year and the recruits from the military households all gathered at the fortress of Qianhusuo.Because it was the first year of Chinese New Year, Wu Shigong sent all these people home to celebrate Chinese New Year before Chinese New Year.

However, Wu Shigong also made it clear to them: from now on, these soldiers will live a collective life in the barracks.If it is a peaceful period, after approval by the leading officer, each person has three days of rest per month, and they can leave the barracks at their own discretion.Each person has half a month of family leave every year.But in times of war, all rest and holidays will be cancelled.

Wu Shigong asked Zhou Xun and Qian Qi to still train the recruits in the military households, training them in formation and shooting with firecrackers.And those recruits who had been training for a while began to conduct some simple confrontation training with the cavalry.

Wu Shigong asked these soldiers to line up, holding firecrackers, which were only filled with gunpowder and had no bullets.A wooden railing was erected in front of them.The cavalry rushed towards the soldiers at high speed, and the soldiers waited until the cavalry rushed within the range of the firecrackers, and then fired their guns together under the order of the leading officer.The horse team rushed to the wooden railing and spread out to both sides.

However, just such a training with almost no confrontation led to a lot of fools.During the first such training, more than half of the soldiers were too frightened to fire their cannons.They were all terrified by the way the horse team rushed over.Some of them simply forgot the procedure of loading gunpowder, and some were so frightened that they dropped the gunpowder on the ground.

This appearance made Wu Shigong very angry.Now, the charge of hundreds of horses, with the obstacles of wooden railings in the middle, frightened them into this state.In the future, on the battlefield, when thousands of troops charge, why don't they all pee their pants?

However, the performance of the Colts is not much better.In the cavalry, no matter whether it was the guards of the Xue residence or the guards of the casino, in fact, none of them had been on the battlefield at all.

When they saw the black muzzle of the firecracker aimed at them, and then spewed out a stream of flames, some people couldn't help but subconsciously made evasive movements.After causing the movement to deform, he was thrown off the horse.

Fortunately, only one person unfortunately broke a bone, and his injury was not serious.After I found a bone trauma doctor to correct it, I will recover after resting for more than a month.

Seeing the situation of the training, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli unanimously decided: to strengthen this kind of confrontational training.Even if there are some casualties during the training, it is not hesitant.

In February, Foreman Jiang led the craftsmen and those military households who had not become new soldiers to labor, and started the construction of the Qianhusuo Fortress again.In order to increase the number of manpower, Wu Shigong specially paid out money, so that Foreman Jiang and Zheng Zhen went to the county town to hire [-] small workers to build together.

At this time, Wu Shigong explained in detail with Foreman Jiang and Zheng Zhen his final plan for building the Qianhusuo fortress:

First of all, Wu Shigong requested that the outer city wall be raised to a height of four feet, and that the inside should be entirely made of concrete, and the outside should be built with stones.On the city wall, a tower was built every twenty feet, so that the city wall could be effectively divided.

Secondly, the inner wall will also build an inner city wall with a height of three and a half feet.Other requirements are the same as the outer city wall.

Finally, in the innermost corner of the Qianhusuo fortress, there are cliffs outside the two walls, and there are rivers below, and it is very convenient to get water.Wu Shigong took this place as the last fortress of Qianhusuo Fortress.

Wu Shigong wanted to build a group of bunkers here similar to the bunkers built by the Japanese devils during the Anti-Japanese War.

In addition, of course, some barracks and other buildings must be built in the Qianhusuo Fortress.

Wu Shigong's idea is: when the enemy attacked the fortress of Qianhusuo, even if the enemy tried every means to break through the outer city wall, they still had to face the inner city wall.After going through untold hardships and breaking through the inner city wall, we still have to face the group of bunkers.The enemy at this time, it is estimated that their nerves have basically collapsed.

After listening to Wu Shigong's request, Foreman Jiang and Zheng Zhen calculated carefully.Foreman Jiang said to Wu Shigong: "The project requested by your lord will take 7000 workers for a year to complete. Moreover, the cost of materials alone will cost about 8000 taels of silver. If labor is added, Calculated based on the price we hired small laborers, it would cost more than [-] taels of silver."

Wu Shigong resolutely decided: "Just do it like this."

So, Wu Shigong, Foreman Jiang, and Zheng Zhen discussed, and first built the outer city wall to a height of four feet with sanhe soil.Because, for this project, Foreman Jiang and the others have to work for more than a month.At that time, these military households will have to go back to participate in the spring broadcast.

While these labors and small workers built the outer city walls, craftsmen like Foreman Jiang built barracks and other buildings at the same time.As for what to do in the future, that will be discussed at that time.In this way, Wu Shigong can also spend less money at the beginning of the project.

Before the Chinese New Year, Wu Shigong asked Mr. Zhang Kehua to find himself an aide after he returned to his hometown, as his assistant in the officialdom.But at this time, before the staff arrived, Wu Shigong's shortcoming of lacking official assistants was revealed.

First of all, under the command of Gui Dewei, the old man Zhao Ming sent another invitation card to Wu Shigong, inviting Wu Shigong to participate in his newborn daughter's full moon wine.

Wu Shigong was very surprised, the old man Zhao Ming just took a concubine, and it has not been five months, so why did he give birth to a daughter?And that daughter is still full moon.Could it be that this old man Zhao Ming not only likes old cows eating young grass, but also likes to play unmarried cohabitation?

After hearing the explanation from the sender of the invitation, Wu Shigong finally understood that this daughter of the old man Zhao Ming was born to a concubine he took in the year before last.Wu Shigong was completely speechless.

Of course he didn't have the time to eat this full moon wine.So, he wrapped a red envelope of 50 taels of silver.He also gave the person who sent the invitation a few taels of silver as his errand fee.Ask the person who sent the invitation to bring his red envelope to old man Zhao Ming.

Unexpectedly, sending red envelopes to the old man Zhao Ming was just an appetizer.A few days later, an official came to Wu Shigong with a dozen soldiers to look for him.

After seeing Wu Shigong, the official took out an official document with the official seal of the military preparation officer.The content of the official document is: After Wu Shigong receives the official document, he will immediately hand over the [-] shi of grain owed by Qianhu last year to the Yamen of Bingbei Road.

There is no such reason?Why should Wu Shigong, the current agent of Qianhu, repay the debts owed by the former Qianhu?So Wu Shigong started arguing with the official.

Unexpectedly, the official's tone was very tough.He asked Wu Shigong to pay the money and food owed first.If Wu Shigong has any grievances, he can go to the chief minister's office, the governor's office, or even go to the capital to appeal.

Of course, the official made many puns in the process of speaking.However, Wu Shigong didn't hear it at all, even if he did, he wouldn't understand it.

Wu Shigong thought it over and over again, and finally decided to pay back the owed food by himself first.He converted the grain into silver, and added the hard work to the official, and calculated it into 700 taels of silver in total, and gave it to the official.

Wu Shigong's consideration, although there is also the reason why Li Bingbei, a senior Taoist official, crushed people to death.The main reason is: Wu Shigong attaches great importance to his official position of acting for thousands of households, because everything he does now is based on his official position.He didn't want some inexplicable things to ruin his official position.So, still spend money to eliminate disasters.

Wu Shigong didn't know that the old man Zhao Ming and Li Bingbeidao sent people to find him for the same purpose.That's because Wu Shigong didn't give New Year's gifts to the old man Zhao Ming and Li Bingbeidao at all during the Chinese New Year.

This fully proves a famous saying in officialdom novels: Does the boss give gifts to which subordinates?He probably won't remember.However, he will definitely remember which subordinate does not come to give gifts, and he will be deeply impressed.

The old man Zhao Ming even used a passable reason to ask for his annual gift from Wu Shigong in a disguised form.Wu Shigong didn't notice anything wrong here either.

However, when Li Bing prepared his way there, he used the excuse of begging for the grain owed by thousands of households to let Wu Shigong get acquainted.If Wu Shigong is acquainted, take out two or three hundred taels of silver as an annual gift for Li Bingbeidao.Li Bingbeidao was going to pretend to be confused about the food owed by the former thousand households.

But when the official went back to complain, Li Bingbeidao immediately hated Wu Shigong: This Wu Shigong would rather give 700 taels of silver to pay back the court's debt, and he would not give 300 or [-] taels of silver to Li Bingbeidao private.Then does he still have his own boss in his eyes?

If Wu Shigong knew that he had spent too much money and suffered from the hatred of his boss, would he be so angry that he would vomit blood?

When he was at the Bingma Division in the capital, Master Zhang Kequan helped Wu Shigong handle all these interpersonal matters properly.Wu Shigong didn't need Cao's heart at all.Therefore, Wu Shigong didn't know the twists and turns.

But in this way, Wu Shigong didn't have much cash around him.Wu Shigong still doesn't want to use the 1000 taels of gold sent by his father-in-law Xue Lian.These golds are the final reserves prepared by Wu Shigong.