Not to mention the indecent behavior Xue Lian made towards Xue Chenglin's child.
After people carried Xue Lian away, Wang Chengen returned to Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen seemed to be thinking about something. When he saw Wang Chengen coming in, he asked Wang Chengen: "Wang Banban, I received a memorial a few days ago. What about the memorial?"
The minister who submitted the memorial made a suggestion that the post stations in various places should be abolished. In this case, the court can save hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year. Wang Banban, what do you think of this matter?"
After hearing Emperor Chongzhen's question, Wang Chengen quickly laughed and said: "The emperor's question is enough to kill this old slave. How can this old slave know anything about national affairs?"
Emperor Chongzhen was quite satisfied with Wang Chengen's attitude. He also smiled and asked, "It's okay. Just tell me what you think."
Wang Chengen still smiled and replied: "The old servant is brave. I estimate that the court policies proposed by those loyal old masters in the court will not be wrong."
"This old slave only has the knowledge of a small family. In a small family, if a family wants to prosper, it cannot do without the words 'diligence' and 'thrift'. Seeing that since the emperor came to the throne, he has been busy with state affairs every day, even eating.
If you don't care, then the emperor will definitely become the king of Zhongxing and the king of Yao and Shun."
Wang Chengen's words obviously scratched the itch of Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen laughed and scolded: "You old man. If I want you to say something, you will flatter me."
Wang Chengen also smiled and said: "Actually, the old slave is also a little cautious. The old slave thinks that when the old slave becomes old, he will no longer be able to serve the emperor. Please allow the emperor to allow the old slave to return to his hometown. Let the old slave also be there.
Show your majesty in front of those mud-legged people in my hometown. Let them know that this old slave also served before the kings of Yao and Shun."
Wang Chengen's words made Emperor Chongzhen laugh happily. Wang Chengen, who was laughing beside him, thought to himself: "It's none of my business whether the post station is to be abolished or not. It is our eunuch's job to serve the emperor's happiness."
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After Emperor Chongzhen's laughter came to an end, Wang Chengen continued: "But Your Majesty, you must also take care of yourself. You have worked so hard these days, and it makes my heart ache to see you."
"Alas!" Emperor Chongzhen let out a long sigh, "Wang Banban, I know how much you care about me. But it's hard to worry about state affairs!"
"Only after I came to the throne did I realize that the Ming Dynasty had been riddled with holes by that bitch Wei Zhongxian. The Ministry of Household Affairs could hardly produce any silver. Only when I became the head of the family did I realize that firewood and rice are expensive. I have decided. That's it.
Let's approve the memorial to abolish the inn. However, we must first clear out Wei Zhongxian's party. Wang Banban, look, we..."
At the post station, Li Zicheng returned home happily after a busy day. When he was working as a postman today, he happened to get a reward of more than 60 yuan. Li Zicheng happily returned home with some food and wine. He did not know that Emperor Chongzhen had already
The post station is about to be abolished. His stable days as a postman will soon be over.
Wu Shigong, who is in Guide, has not been idle these days. However, the first thing he does these days is to accept a loser.
These days, Chang Meng, who followed Wu Shigong around, saw Wu Shigong's majesty, and the reward Wu Shigong gave to Chang Meng was also very generous. So one day, he knelt down in front of Wu Shigong and kowtowed, asking to be Wu Shigong's elder.
Wu Shigong thought to himself: He really needed someone who was familiar with the local situation to run errands for him. So, he accepted Chang Meng.
Then Wu Shigong made arrangements for Zheng Zhen. The construction of the Qianhusuo fortress could not rely solely on labor. Some carpenters and plasterers also needed to be hired locally.
There were so many carpenters and plasterers that it was impossible to find them all in the small town. So Wu Shigong asked Chang Meng to lead the way and asked Zheng Zhen to take some silver to the county town about ten miles away from the town to hire them, and also to buy some building materials back.
But at this time, Xiaojie fell ill. The little girl had traveled such a long way and was frightened on the way to Guide. So, she developed a high fever and fell ill as soon as she arrived in the town.
Chang Meng was eager to claim credit in front of his new master, so he immediately found a... magic man for Xiaojie!?
Chang Meng said to Wu Shigong: That magic man's magic is very good. He is a branch president of the famous Holy Spirit Society in several nearby counties. As long as you take the magic medicine that he has cast, you can basically cure it.
Disease cured.
Wu Shigong was a modern person, how could he believe in these things? After the magic man left, Wu Shigong threw away all the magic medicine. He also asked Chang Meng to go to the county to find a better doctor. Don't be afraid of spending money.
Fortunately, Xiaojie's illness was just an acute illness, and the doctor he invited had good medical skills. After drinking a few medicines, Xiaojie's high fever subsided. The next step was to rest. This made Zhao Ruya and
Wu Shigong breathed a huge sigh of relief.
After the incident passed, Wu Shigong became curious and asked Chang Meng about the news about the Holy Spirit Society.
Chang Meng told Wu Shigong: The Holy Spirit Society also worships Bodhisattvas. It is led by a few masters dressed as monks. Their teachings are to advocate helping the poor and the weak, and helping fellow believers to help each other. Therefore, they often provide relief to poor people, and they often
Send someone to send a doctor to ask for medicine.
Therefore, the Holy Spirit Society is developing very rapidly. It is relatively better in Guide. As for Runing Prefecture and Nanyang Prefecture, there are more people who believe in it. Almost every county has a branch.
Many wealthy families have donated money to the Holy Spirit Society.
Wu Shigong understood immediately. The Holy Spirit Society was a reactionary Taoist association that cheated money and sex. However, the Holy Spirit Society had little relationship with Wu Shigong, so Wu Shigong didn't have the time to take care of those things.
But these days, Yang Goudan's life is easy and comfortable. Although he was unwilling to leave the capital at that time, Yang Goudan seemed to be very nervous. After arriving in Guide, he
Once you have arrived, you will be at peace.
Although Wu Shigong tied Yang Goudan to Guide, he did not treat him badly in terms of treatment. Moreover, he also gave Yang Goudan a monthly salary of forty taels of silver. Of course, the monthly salary of Yang Goudan's apprentices was also
It must be paid from these forty taels of silver.
But even so, Yang Goudan can be regarded as entering the ranks of a wealthy family. Moreover, now that he does not need to work, Yang Goudan drinks wine every day and lives a happy life. If it were not for his wife
He was so tight that he almost wanted to marry another concubine.
Wu Shigong looked at Yang Goudan's careless look and felt that this was not possible. However, he did not have a blacksmith workshop now, and he could not arrange Yang Goudan to work.
Knowing Wu Shigong's problem, the role of Chang Meng's dog-legger came into play. He gave Wu Shigong an idea and said: There is also a blacksmith workshop in that small town, and the ancestor of the blacksmith workshop, Li Tiejiang, is Qianhu.
A blacksmith, he later moved to a small town and became a private household, and he has been working as a blacksmith in the town.
However, in a strict sense, Blacksmith Li can also be said to be the military household of Qianhusuo, and the blacksmith workshop can also be said to be the blacksmith workshop of Qianhusuo.
Is there such a good thing? After Wu Shigong heard this, without saying a word, he ordered fifty guards and rushed to the blacksmith workshop.
He laid out two paths in front of Tiejiang Li: one was that Tiejiang Li would be beheaded immediately as a deserter from Qianhusuo; the other was that Tiejiang Li's blacksmith workshop would be bought by Wu Shigong for the price. Tiejiang Li and
His two apprentices will also follow Wu Shigong.
Does Li Tiejiang still have any choice? However, the price given by Wu Shigong is also very fair, and he also gives Li Tiejiang a large amount of monthly quota. This is Wu Shigong's modern thought of attaching importance to technical experts.
kick in.
After getting the blacksmith's workshop, Wu Shigong visited it and was very satisfied with the blacksmith's workshop. The blacksmith's workshop was relatively large. Moreover, it was close to the river, so it was very convenient to expand the workshop and obtain water for blacksmithing.
Therefore, Wu Shigong arranged with Yang Goudan and Li Tiejiang: let them focus on two tasks at present. One is to still make the original fire blunderbuss. The other is to make a new style of fire blunderbuss.
Here comes the gun.
The firecracker Wu Shigong asked Yang Goudan to make in the capital was modeled after a modern smoothbore shotgun. However, according to the Ming Dynasty's craftsmanship, the effective range of a firecracker of this size was only fifty steps. Therefore,
Wu Shigong wanted to create a fire gun with a range of one hundred steps while maintaining its power.
After hearing Wu Shigong's technical requirements for the new model of firecrackers, Yang Goudan reminded Wu Shigong: There is no problem in building the new firecrackers. But the new firecrackers will be very big. One person can hold them up and fire several shots.
You will no longer have the energy to use it.
Wu Shigong told Yang Goudan not to worry about this problem. Now, Wu Shigong mainly wants to solve the defense problem of Qianhusuo Fortress. Then the fire cannon, no matter how heavy it is, can be mounted on the city wall to shoot, wouldn't it be enough?
After Wu Shigong and Yang Goudan finished talking and Wu Shigong sent Yang Goudan back to the inn where he was staying, Yang Rusong, Yang Goudan's eldest son, suddenly rushed to Wu Shigong and knelt down in front of Wu Shigong. He asked Wu Shigong: "Sir, little one
I also want to be a soldier. My lord, just accept the younger one."
Hearing Yang Rusong's sudden offer, Wu Shigong was very happy. He thought: "The consciousness of the working class is still high!"
It turned out that Yang Rusong was seventeen or eight years old, the age when he loved to dream of "heroic dreams." On the way to Guide, he saw Wu Shigong and the others were so majestic when they attacked Zhuangzi.
It's so itchy.
But Yang Rusong's actions surprised Yang Goudan. Yang Goudan trained his eldest son Yang Rusong as his successor. Besides, Yang Goudan had been a blacksmith in Jingying for such a long time. For those who were in the Ming Dynasty,
Don’t you still know what it’s like to be a soldier?
So, Yang Goudan quickly went to Wu Shigong to plead for mercy, asking Wu Shigong to ignore the nonsense of that bastard. And not only Yang Goudan, but also Yang Goudan's wife also went out after hearing that her eldest son wanted to become a soldier.
The house begged Wu Shigong for mercy.
Wu Shigong simply ignored the pleading couple. It was not easy for such a person to be willing to follow Wu Shigong to serve as a soldier. Wu Shigong was too late to welcome him. How could he let this mascot who had a good start escape?