Li Lu, commander of the Nancheng Army and Horse Command Department, is currently on leave due to injury.
As soon as Li Lu received the news that Wu Shigong would visit him in the afternoon, he arranged for his family to carry him to the main hall on a soft couch early, waiting for Wu Shigong's arrival. Although the doctor had already confessed that he was seriously injured, both sides
A broken leg would inevitably cause some disability in the leg in the future, but Li Lu was unwilling to do so and did not want to lose his official position as commander of the Nancheng Military and Horse Command (Ming Dynasty regulations prohibited people with disabilities from serving as officials). What if the doctor misdiagnosed?
Can he still recover? Although he knew there was little hope, Li Lu still held out luck. Therefore, he did not want Wu Shigong to see him lying on the bed.
Beauty is such a curse! A few days ago, Li Lu hooked up with a good family. Although in normal days, Li Lu went to many romantic places, but at this time, how could the wild flowers be as fragrant as home?
That morning, after hearing that no one was in the Liangjia's home, Li Lu happily changed into plain clothes, took a few soldiers and went straight to the Liangjia's home. It just so happened that Wang Baihu of the soldiers arranged some work for Li Lu.
Went and escaped this disaster.
The Liang family lived outside Xuanwu Gate. When Li Lu was about to arrive, he happened to meet Deputy Commander Qian who was in charge of this area. Deputy Commander Qian met his immediate boss and quickly stepped forward to flatter him. After hearing Li Lu's boastful explanation of his purpose, Deputy Commander Qian
He volunteered to escort his immediate superior to pick flowers. Li Lu thought it would be nice to have more people to show off his power in front of the good family, so he agreed. Deputy Commander Qian took one of his hundreds of households and dozens of people
The soldiers followed him. They never thought that they would be sent to the gate of hell.
After arriving at Na Liang's house, Li Lu arranged for Deputy Qian and the others to wait at the teahouse opposite, and entered Na Liang's house alone. As soon as they entered the door, Li Lu and Na Liang met each other naked, as if they were on fire, and they were using their magic skills.
His hands and feet were thundering and raining, and suddenly, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered outside.
The teahouse across the door collapsed in front of the blast wave, and Deputy Qian who was sitting inside commanded them all to be wiped out. The Naliang family's house was blocked by the teahouse. Although it still collapsed, at least it had a buffer. At this time, the Bingma Division had
A few minions who were not qualified to sit in the teahouse and stood on the street survived. Together, they pulled out their commander naked from the rubble. Li Lu was lucky, but his legs were broken. Then
Let’s not even mention the misery of a good family.
This is the situation anyway. It is useless to think about regrets. It is better to think about how to face the reality. Li Lu knew in his heart that once he was injured, his position as commander of the Nancheng Military and Horse Command Department would not be preserved.
The reason why it was delayed until now was because Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, was waiting to give his position to his son-in-law. But in the end, he was still the commander, while Wu Shigong was acting as the commander with the title of deputy commander. The main reason for this situation was
The reason is that Wu Shigong has too little qualifications and needs to temporarily occupy this official position. When the time is right, Wu Shigong can take the position naturally.
Therefore, Li Lu was very conflicted. On the one hand, he needed to keep the status quo unchanged and let Wu Shigong act as the commander. At least he had to delay it until his injury was healed, and he did not want anyone else to rob him.
On the other hand, he didn't want Wu Shigong to do too well, because if this was the case, the conditions for Wu Shigong's official position to be regularized were ripe, and he should give up his position.
Li Lu was sitting on the soft couch, thinking wildly, when he suddenly heard the concierge report: "Commander Wu is here to visit." Li Lu quickly told the steward who was waiting at the side to invite Wu Shigong in on his behalf.
Wu Shigong handed over the gifts of two bottles of tiger bone wine and fifty taels of silver to the steward who came out to greet him. Then, he entered the main hall and had a heartfelt conversation with Commander Li Lu, who was sitting on the soft couch and was trying hard to get up.
Li Lu also expressed his gratitude to Wu Shigong with a smile and his admiration for Wu Shigong's young achievements. The hypocrisy and pretentiousness of the two people could make any onlooker feel sick.
After a while of greetings, Li Lu vaguely revealed some meanings in his words. It was just that he was in good health and had recovered well from his injuries; and how high his prestige was in the Nancheng Military and Horse Command Department, among his trusted followers.
How many. After hearing these words, Wu Shigong pretended not to understand, and continued to have a cordial and hypocritical conversation with Li Lu with a smile. Wu Shigong thought in his heart: Now that the official seal is with me, don't you?
How high can someone who wants to compete in the Paralympics jump?
After being bored by Li Lu again and again, the two finally ended this pleasant meeting. Before saying goodbye, Li Lu asked Wu Shigong for a favor. It turned out that deputy commander Qian died in the explosion?
Li Lu always had to give an explanation to his trusted family members, so he asked Wu Shigong to recruit the two adult sons of Deputy Commander Qian into the Army and Horse Division. With Li Lu's relationship, if he just asked those two young men to work in the Army and Horse Division,
There is no need for Xiaobing to go through Wu Shigong at all. The meaning of his words is to take care of them and give them a small official position. Of course Wu Shigong will give this face. Wu Shigong agreed to give one of the two brothers the position of Xiaoqi. The future path will depend on this
How are the two brothers doing? However, Wu Shigong promised that if there are other opportunities for promotion in the future, under the same conditions, the two brothers will always be given priority. This answer basically satisfied Li Lu, and he also gave Qian the deputy commander's job.
The family gave an explanation. But he didn't notice that the meaning of Wu Shigong's words was: Among the two brothers, whoever I like, I will give him the position of Xiaoqi. But Li Lu took it for granted and followed the convention at the time that: it is always money.
The deputy commander's eldest son won the position of Xiaoqi.
Finally, Wu Shigong told Li Lu that in order to allow him to recuperate with peace of mind and have money to supplement nutrition, every month from now on, 10% of the regular money paid to the commander by every 100 households would be sent to Commander Li. Every month
, the total of 550 taels of regular silver turned over by the eleven hundred households under the management of the deputy commander, plus the two hundred households under the direct jurisdiction of the command to guard the city gate (excluding the private soldiers and the water dragon team)
A total of more than two hundred taels, a total of 750 taels. One achievement is seventy-five taels. And now, since Wu Shigong, the deputy commander, is also directly under the jurisdiction of the three hundred households at Xuanwumen, those three must be handed over to
Wu Shigong earns seven or eighty taels per month. Even if calculated based on seventy taels, Wu Shigong will only suffer a loss of fifteen taels of silver at most, which can be ignored. But this behavior gave Wu Shigong a reason. Li Lu had reminded him just now, so,
Wu Shigong took preventive measures almost out of instinct. Now, if any of Li Lu's cronies jump out to oppose him, he can completely ignore Li Lu's face and deal with those who jump out. Because Wu Shigong has already given
The backstage of those people - Li Lu's face.
In fact, this reaction was somewhat wrong. Wu Shigong didn't know that his father-in-law Xue Lian had put Li Lu in the position of a puppet and was ready to let Wu Shigong take over Li Lu's command at any time. If Wu Shigong knew this, he could have put Li Lu in the position of a puppet.
Seventy-five taels of silver were saved. This was also the result of Wu Shigong taking office in a hurry and not fully communicating with his father-in-law Xue Lian.
After coming out of Li Lu's house, Wu Shigong finally ended his tiring day and went home with satisfaction to enjoy the warmth of his family. He asked all the men from the Bingma Division to return to the Bingma Division, leaving only the dozen guards around him.
They went home together with Shu Mo, who had come to join them. However, Wu Baihu of the Water Dragon Team resolutely took thirty of his men and asked to escort Wu Shigong back home. Wu Shigong agreed with a smile, thinking in his mind:
This kid has a future.
Wu Baihu's name is Wu Mian, who is forty-one years old. He is famous for his hard work in the Military and Horse Division. He indeed relied on his hard work to get from a small soldier to the position of Baihu. Of course, he also seized
I got some opportunities. The Hundred Households of Shuilong Brigade is the most unpopular among all the hundred households in Bingma Division. This hundred households has the largest number of people among all the hundred households, with a total of 350 people. Of course, this hundred households have
The number of soldiers is the same as that of other Baihu Stations, but there are also more than 250 assistants (now the coordinators). Because Nancheng is so big, more than 100 people are needed to put out the fire.
It's definitely not possible.
Frankly speaking, the water dragon team is not without extra income. Its main source of extra income is the red envelopes given to them by the shop manager and the li director when they go to put out the fire after the fire. Especially when there are people trapped in the fire in the house.
When a fire breaks out, people have to stuff red envelopes in red envelopes. In addition, if the fire is too fierce, the neighbors of the house on fire are afraid that the fire will spread to them, so in order to prevent their own losses, they will also stuff red envelopes. Therefore, and now
The fire brigade is different. The water dragon brigade is looking forward to a fire somewhere every day. But with more people, the money will be less. And because there are no fire trucks like now, they can rush to the scene of the fire as soon as the siren is turned on.
Often after a fire breaks out, when the water dragon team arrives, the smaller fires are extinguished by neighbors who help. Therefore, the total revenue is not very large.
According to the rules of the Military and Horse Division, the Hundred Households of the Water Dragon Team must take turns every three years, and everyone must take turns to get rich. But because of Wu Mian's reputation for hard work, the most important thing is that the other Hundred Households have it, and at least they have deputy commanders.
As a backer, Wu Mian is still rooted in the position of Hundred Households of the Water Dragon Team after more than eight years.
It would be fine if there was just less money. The problem is that the work of the Water Dragon Team is still very hard, and Wu Mian is also old (unlike modern times, when people in the Ming Dynasty were only in their forties, they were already very old)
, and the body couldn’t bear it. In the capital, during the day the streets of the capital were managed by the Military and Horse Division, but at night there was a curfew and the management was transferred to the patrol battalion. In modern plain language, it is managed by the police during the day and by the armed police at night.
Management. But as a professional fire-fighting team, the Water Dragon Team must also be on duty at night. Because water and fire are ruthless, it does not matter whether the fire occurs during the day or night. Therefore, the two general flags of Wu Mian and the Water Dragon Team must take turns at night.
Being on duty is particularly hard.
And today, when Wu Shigong showed some kindness to Wu Mian, Wu Mian quickly joined him. Wu Mian is relatively practical, but it's not like he doesn't know how to work, or he won't do it without any background.
He was promoted to the position of Hundred Households. Wu Mian's approach also greatly favored Wu Shigong. Now, when he first arrived at the Bingma Division, a Hundred Households came to seek refuge with him, regardless of whether that Wu Mian was that
The most deserted is the Hundred Households of the Water Dragon Team, but after all, it is still a Hundred Households, so Wu Shigong absolutely welcomes this behavior.
So, while Wu Shigong returned home, he talked cordially with Wu Mian.