Wu Shigong is now embarking on a new journey. Now let’s take stock of his lineup.
Wu Shigong brought with him: Zhao Ruya and her daughter Xiaojie, as well as three maids, six servants, and a couple with two children. They also had luggage and Zhao Ruya's personal money.
.Because the powder shop can no longer be opened. Zhao Ruya still carries a lot of finished powder products and exquisite gift boxes.
In addition, there are Li Xin and her maid. They will break up with Wu Shigong in Jining. After the breakup, Wu Shigong will send someone else to send them back to their hometown in Changzhou so that Li Xin can go home and get married.
Wu Shigong has two maids and one servant. They are: Xiuzhu, who is known as a personal cotton-padded jacket, Zhuyun, who is Xue Yufei's little ace spy, and Shumo, who is Wu Shigong's forever mangy dog.
There was also Shopkeeper Zheng. He finally came with him. The day before he left, he found Wu Shigong. He told Wu Shigong: Wang Chengen will definitely send another confidant to take charge of the gambling house in the future, so he still wants to follow Wu Shigong.
Wu Shigong also understood Shopkeeper Zheng's mood, so he followed him and took him on the journey together. Moreover, Wu Shigong was a good person and worked hard to the end, helping Shopkeeper Zheng pay off all his debts. And the money used to pay off the debts was even given to Shopkeeper Zheng.
I'm borrowing Wu Shigong's for the time being.
Wu Shigong brought the following guards: 41 guards from Yangwuhou Mansion, including Xue Yongli, sent by his father-in-law Xue Lian, plus the original 12 guards of Xue Mansion led by Xue Yong and Xue Qiang, a total of fifty-three people.
They were all led by Xue Yongli.
Each of these guards of the Xue Mansion has a horse, a full set of weapons, a bow and a number of arrows. In addition, each person also has a set of cotton armor and a set of thick felt vests for each horse. In addition, Xue Lian also gave ten
An empty horse with a saddle.
Wu Shigong brought out all the 146 gambling house guards in the gambling house. However, one of them went on the road lying on his stomach.
Before departure, Wu Shigong gathered these gambling house guards and politely asked them to voluntarily sign up to accompany Wu Shigong to Guide, Henan Province. However, these gambling house guards were all born and raised in the capital, and basically had never left the capital. For those who left the capital to
There is an inexplicable fear in other places. Think about it: no one is willing to leave their hometown!
Besides, because these gambling house guards are now Wu Shigong's domestic slaves, according to the rules, Wu Shigong has to support them for a lifetime. Therefore, none of these people are willing to follow Wu Shigong to return to virtue. However, forced by Wu Shigong's lustful power,
They didn't dare to ask not to go. So, facing Wu Shigong's inquiry, they all remained silent.
But after a moment of silence, Na Hefei took advantage of his familiarity with Wu Shigong and asked Wu Shigong tactfully: Can he stay? Wu Shigong was very straightforward. When people caught Hefei, they whipped him hard.
A whip.
After the whipping, Wu Shigong told the gambling house guards that they, the gambling house guards, could stay, but they would have to go home in a wheelchair.
Maybe these casino guards didn't understand what a "wheelchair" was, but the phrase "go home in a wheelchair" was certainly not a good word. So, these casino guards immediately expressed their loyalty: they were all willing
Guarding his master, he went to Guide in Henan together.
This story fully tells us that it is absolutely a truth to shoot the first bird.
After dealing with these gambling house guards, Wu Shigong thought to himself: Who made them clamor to be domestic slaves at that time? If they dare to disobey now, they deserve to be beaten to death.
In addition, there were three people from Zhou Xun who came with them. They all brought a horse and their own handy weapons.
On the way, Wu Shigong asked the two people who followed Zhou Xun. One of them was named Zhang Biao and the other was named Li Sanhe. Both of them were originally from Lulin, because Zhou Xun's father Zhou Shikun was kind to them, so they
Later, he came to Zhou Shikun's house and helped Zhou Shikun. Zhou Shikun also became sworn brothers with the two of them.
Zhou Xun ran away from home this time. Seeing that their eldest brother Zhou Shikun was worried, Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe volunteered to accompany Zhou Xun to Guide, Henan.
The more pitiful person was Qian Qi. Apart from a belt knife he brought from the Military and Horse Division and a few changes of clothes he brought from home, he had nothing. Fortunately, he could ride a horse, so Wu Shigong agreed.
The horse lets him travel.
Wu Shigong asked these gambling house guards to drive the 124 horses he had obtained from Taipu Temple. Why were there four more horses? It turned out that seven or eight of them were ponies, which were the 124 horses.
Ten horses were born later. This time when Wu Shigong set out, there were still several pregnant mares left in the horse farm in Xue Mansion.
These gambling house guards carried the portable daggers and sabers that Wu Shigong equipped them with at that time. Each of them also had a long stick, which could be attached to the dagger at any time and used as a spear.
Xue Lian also went crazy in the end and got a hundred sets of saddles for Wu Shigong from the Beijing camp. In addition, each of the 146 people was also equipped with a set of cotton armor.
Not all of the thirty fire blunderbuss that Wu Shigong asked blacksmith Yang Goudan to make later were completed. So when he set out, Wu Shigong only brought a total of twenty-four fire blunderbuss and ten blunderbuss. In addition,
Xue Lian also gave Wu Shigong two squatting tiger guns, two Franco machine guns and the tools needed to use these guns.
In addition, he also gave his son-in-law Wu Shigong ten three-eye fire blunderbuss. In addition, he was also equipped with two thousand kilograms of gunpowder. In addition to the more than two hundred kilograms Wu Shigong had stored himself and the more than three hundred kilograms he collected crazily before leaving, there were a total of two thousand kilograms of gunpowder.
About five hundred and fifty pounds.
Finally, Xue Lian gave Wu Shigong 200 sheathed waist knives and 600 spear heads. There were also 20 sets of arm-arm iron armor and 50 sets of leather armor.
Therefore, Xue Lian, the father-in-law, was indeed very kind to Wu Shigong. The things he gave were more than enough to arm a thousand-household force. Although Xue Lian believed that his son-in-law Wu Shigong would basically not go to the battlefield, he still hoped to bring Wu Shigong to Wu Shigong.
He should be better armed so that he can completely guarantee the safety of his son-in-law Wu Shigong.
Wu Shigong also brought an arsenal with him. A few days before departure, Wu Shigong also sincerely invited blacksmith Yang Goudan to go to Germany with him. Of course, Yang Goudan refused. He was so anxious that he knelt down in front of Wu Shigong, with tears and runny nose.
It has to be a lot.
Seeing this situation, Wu Shigong stopped talking nonsense with him. Regardless of the crying of Yang Goudan's family, he led people to kidnap all six members of Yang Goudan's family, plus his three apprentices. He also took people to his blacksmith.
The workshop was cleaned up and all the tools that could be taken away were packed away except for the blacksmith stove.
When he took office this time, Wu Shigong took with him 45,000 taels of silver notes and more than 2,600 taels of silver. Most of them were earned by Wu Shigong in the past year, and a small part was given by his father-in-law Xue Lian when he left.
There are also some private money that the younger wife Xue Yufei forced on Wu Shigong.
In addition, out of anxiety about the repeated famines during the Chongzhen period, Wu Shigong also brought two stones of salt, one hundred stones of grain, hundreds of pieces of coarse cloth and a dozen pieces of silk cloth. He also ordered two hundred sets of cotton-padded jackets. Regarding Wu Shigong's paranoia,
They all acted stupidly, and everyone in the Xue family was a little confused. They didn't understand, why were they carrying those heavy things? As long as you have money around, you can buy these things in Guide, Henan.
However, at Wu Shigong's insistence, his father-in-law Xue Lian still gave him these things from his family's warehouse. Anyway, the Xue family has a great business, and these salt, grain and cloth will become moldy even if they are kept in the warehouse. Since his son-in-law wants it,
Just give it to him.
In order to carry these supplies and everyone's luggage, Wu Shigong prepared sixty-four large trucks, plus three large trucks prepared by Zhao Ruya and Li Xin to carry their own luggage, for a total of sixty-seven large trucks.
There are six carriages, one each for Zhao Ruya and Li Xin; one for Xiuzhu and Zhuyun, so that they can continue fighting in the carriage; one carriage for the shopkeeper Zheng; one for the blacksmith Yang Goudan's family; and one carriage for the blacksmith Yang Goudan's family;
There is a motor vehicle.
Therefore, there are a total of seventy-three vehicles. Except for the carriage and their cart that Zhao Ruya and Li Xin ride on, which are pulled by themselves with five horses, the horses that pull other vehicles all use Wu Shigong's
Among the one hundred and twenty-four horses, the strongest ones were selected to pull the horse.
Therefore, Wu Shigong now has a total of 230 people and 195 horses.