"What's going on? Please speak more clearly!" Wu Shigong asked.
"Master! That's it..." So He Fei said to Wu Shigong.
It turned out that Wei Changlin's widow wanted to remarry a minor clerk in the Runing Army after being a widow for seven or eight years. But He Fei and other Wei Changlin's old brothers were angry. They used their own power to first
They snatched away Wei Changlin's son and beat up the clerk, just to stop the marriage.
But Wei Changlin's widow was quite aggressive, and she insisted on asking He Fei and the others for an explanation. This good man would not fight with women, and besides, the clerk was from the Runing Army system, so He Fei and the others could not be cruel.
So the lawsuit was brought to Wu Shigong.
After hearing all this, Wu Shigong let out a long sigh and decided to let the matter rest: "Let's find another way to persuade the Changlin family. If she really wants to remarry, just let her go. The life of this orphan and widowed mother is not easy.
!As long as the document is treated well by the Chang Lin family, that’s all.”
"So many good brothers have left like this, and now they can only take care of the living. Don't embarrass the clerk anymore, and bring Chang Lin's son here. I will raise him myself. I can be considered worthy of Chang Lin.
.well--!"
"Yes! Master!" After hearing Wu Shigong's words, He Fei could only agree. However, she was still a little unconvinced and said with a bulging voice: "If I am like Chang Lin, my wife will never even dream of remarrying.
.Even if he dies, he will jump out of the coffin."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wu Shigong raised his eyebrows and yelled. But thinking about it carefully, Wu Shigong himself could never bear the thought of his wives remarrying.
Unexpectedly, Tao Xin from behind also intervened: "I can't stand it either!"
Wu Shigong immediately slapped him. At this time, the officers remembered that Tao Xin's bride-to-be was Wu Shigong's daughter. They immediately laughed and watched the excitement...
After this little episode, Wu Shigong was in a bad mood. So he was a little sensitive when having breakfast. When he saw that the ladies did not put him as the center, but surrounded Zhao Ruya and Karelli.
When Wu Shigong was discussing in a low voice, Wu Shigong's heart became upset. He shouted and asked: "What are you discussing?"
Li Xin quickly walked to Wu Shigong's side and said with a smile: "The two sisters are discussing how much money the inner house has earned."
Li Xin gave birth to another son for Wu Shigong, and everything went smoothly these days, so she looked particularly radiant at this time.
As soon as he heard that he had made money, Wu Shigong's face immediately turned gloomy. He asked with a smile: "How much money are you making? Tell me quickly!" Wu Shigong never paid attention to the accounts of the inner house, so he also paid no attention to what his wives did.
Little is known.
"Isn't it the futures exchange opened by my husband?" Zhao Ruya also walked over with a smile. "I found that there was a difference when changing hands there, so I gathered the sisters' private houses and made a few transactions."
"Hey!" Wu Shigong laughed out loud. He didn't expect that his wife also had a financial talent, "How much money did you make?"
"Not much! Just over four thousand taels!" Although Zhao Ruya said it very modestly, she could not hide her proud look.
"Hahaha——! I didn't expect that I picked up a rich woman!" Wu Shigong joked, "I opened this futures exchange and knew that there was speculation in it. But I never told you, I didn't expect Ya'er to still
What a genius to discover it!”
Zhao Ruya raised her nose proudly and said: "That goes without saying. But it is not my fault alone. Sister Ka also helped a lot."
Wu Shigong looked at Carelli, and Carelli also playfully spit out her sweet tongue at Wu Shigong.
Later, Wu Shigong learned about what Zhao Ruya and the others were doing. It turned out that Zhao Ruya had been concerned about this new matter since the establishment of the futures exchange. When she learned that there would be a severe drought this year, she immediately calculated that short selling grain would make a large difference.
So Zhao Ruya took out her private house and prepared to invest in it. Other ladies who believed in Zhao Ruya's vision also gave their private houses to Zhao Ruya for investment. Even Li Xin took out some spare money from the inner house.
In the subsequent specific operations, Zhao Ruya received assistance from Carlelli who had some knowledge of futures operating techniques in places like the Netherlands and the West, and everything went smoothly.
After understanding all this, Wu Shigong reminded: "Doing futures is risky after all, so you shouldn't invest all your money in it. If you lose all your money, there is no place to find money. You are all mine.
If you sell it to me, you won’t get a good price anymore.”
Wu Shigong's joke immediately caused a chorus of "spits" from the ladies.
Wu Shigong continued: "Also, let me know before you buy any stocks in the future. Don't hide it from me. After all, I am well-informed about some information."
For the sake of his wife's private property, Wu Shigong didn't mind doing some deeds for public benefit. However, Wu Shigong also thought of when the futures exchange first opened, in order to take care of its business, all the major farming villages all assigned farmers to collectively go to the futures exchange to cash out and preserve their value.
Although there is a severe drought this year, those farmers have been guaranteed basic income, so futures trading has evolved into a virtue policy of the Runing Army. This is really unintentional!
After breakfast, Wu Shigong went to the study to handle official business, and today was the time for Zheng Ling to report the "Intelligence Summary". From the beginning, Wu Shigong learned about the latest battle situation.
In July and August of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Lao Huihui Ma Shouying seized the opportunity left by the Tang Dynasty incident and the Ming army quickly made a sprint. He led an army of more than 50,000 people and went straight to Kaifeng City.
Seeing the situation, Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, quickly retreated with the main force of the Ming army in Henan. Before Ma Shouying arrived at Kaifeng City, he reluctantly returned to defend Kaifeng. However, Kaifeng, which had no time to prepare for city defense, was still violently attacked by Ma Shouying. Ma Shouying's troops burned Xiguan,
The Ming court was deeply shocked.
Later, when he saw that Zuo Liangyu's troops were about to arrive, Ma Shouying immediately gave up the attack on Kaifeng and turned to the Yanling and Fugou areas of Henan Province. Of course, Zuo Liangyu and his troops were in hot pursuit, but Ma Shouying calmly responded to the challenge and lured the enemy deeper.
The tactics were shifted to the direction of Zhengzhou, and they took refuge in the mountains and sent out troops to lure the enemy.
When the infuriated Zuo Liangyu led his army into Jiashan, he was immediately surrounded by Ma Shouying's peasant army. Soon they ran out of food and aid, and Zuo Liangyu attempted suicide in despair.
At this moment, Yu Zilian's Ruzhou Army also arrived quickly. Ma Shouying revealed a flaw, allowing Zuo Liangyu to lead the remaining troops to break out and flee in embarrassment toward Guide. Ma Shouying pretended to pursue, causing Yu Zilian to rush east to meet Zuo.
The Liangyu Department once again opened up the Ming army's gap.
This battle to outsmart the enemy reduced Zuo Liangyu's troops to seven thousand, and completely boosted the morale of the peasant army, which had been low due to the murder of Gao Yingxiang, and became high again.
At this time, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and Liu Guoneng's peasant army took advantage of the Ming army's return to support Kaifeng to reenter Henan and reunited with Lao Hui Ma Shouying's troops.
Ma Shouying's troops suffered few casualties in this charge, but in the high-speed movement, more than 10,000 peasant troops were scattered. But now the nearly 40,000 peasant troops remaining in his department are all strong and strong, and can be said to be more powerful.
During the Ming army's encirclement and suppression campaign, Luo Rucai gave full play to the characteristics of his troops' good mobility and basically avoided the main force of the Ming army during the year-long battle. Therefore, his 20,000 soldiers and horses also had strong
of combat effectiveness.
As for Chuang Taotian Liu Guoneng, he now has more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and he is also a strong force among the peasant army.
As soon as these three peasant armies merged, they immediately began a reverse sprint under the command of Ma Shouying, aiming directly at Zhang Xianzhong's troops stationed west of Xiangyang.
In addition, peasant armies from various battalions such as Scorpion Block, Ge Liyan He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, Reincarnation King Liu Xiyao, and Troubled Times Wang Lin Chengcheng also began to move towards Xiangyang, seeing that the next war was about to begin in Xiangyang.
However, Wu Shigong was a bystander when he saw this information, but the defenders of Xiangyang and Miao Xutu, the governor of Huguang, were obsessed with the authorities. They still believed that Zhang Xianzhong's troops would surrender, and they had no idea that a catastrophe would be imminent.
"I thought I could have a stable life at home, but I didn't expect that Zuo Liangyu was as stupid as a pig and dragged down Yu Suanding's Ruzhou Army. These two troops cannot be relied on. It seems that our Runing Army still has to
Move it!" Wu Shigong said with a smile.
Because the departure of Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Zu Kuan's Liao Army gave the peasant armies in Huguang and Henan the upper hand, so in order to maintain a balance, Wu Shigong decided to deal a certain blow to the peasant armies.
"Uncle! Do we want to keep Xiangyang?" Xue Yongli, who didn't know Wu Shigong's true thoughts, must have considered it from a military perspective.
Wu Shigong shook his head: "It depends on the situation! This time it is not just a military war, but also requires the cooperation of other departments. Uncle Yongli! Give your military commander one day to formulate a battle plan for Xiangyang. Let's support agriculture.
The Shanchuan Division and the Military Intelligence Bureau have also joined in. What is the specific purpose to be achieved? I will explain it myself."
Xue Yongli nodded and then asked: "Then how many troops will we use this time?"
"Let's go to Huhou Town! Uncle Yongli, you can take command. I'm thanking guests behind closed doors, and it's not good to show up in public. But I will be stationed in Xinyang with the personal troops and the Runing Army, and I will be ready to support you at any time. This time
In this battle, we must secure the wharf in Wuchang. The large ships built for us by Zheng Youji have already sailed into the Yangtze Estuary, so this matter must be resolved no matter what."
"What? Tang Liu hasn't settled the dock in Wuchang yet?" Xue Yongli asked strangely.
Wu Shigong nodded: "He's in trouble there. The money was spent but he couldn't get it to the dock. He suffered a big loss! Without support, it's inconvenient to do things!" (To be continued...)