At the junction of Runing Mansion and Nanyang Mansion, on a remote mountain, there is a temple. The abbot of the temple can also be said to be the head of the family named Mou. He is the great master of the Holy Spirit Society. Therefore, the believers of the Holy Spirit Society are all
Call him Master Mou.
The origin and origin of Master Mou are all myths and legends, but in the final analysis it is one point: Master Mou is the son of Buddha.
At this point we should understand. The Holy Spirit Society is a branch of the White Lotus Sect, and Master Mou is the leader of this branch.
The teachings of the various branches of the White Lotus Sect are actually the same. That is: there is a person who claims to be the son of Buddha. He first starts to give some small favors to the common people to gain prestige. Then he starts to cheat money and sex. Finally, he encourages believers to rebel.
.And he himself is going to be the son of Heaven. People sigh: After all, this Buddha is not as good as Heaven.
It is now the fourth day after Wu Shigong returned to Qianhusuo Fortress. And on this day, Master Mou also got the news that a branch of their Holy Spirit Society was washed away by the army at the junction of Guide and Jining. So.
, Master Mou immediately summoned all the elders and helmsmen of the Holy Spirit Society to discuss the situation.
After hearing the news, the elders and leaders of the Holy Spirit Church immediately divided into two groups.
One group of people's opinion is: This is just an accidental incident. It must be that the co-rudder was careless and offended the officers and soldiers, so he was washed away. At present, the Holy Spirit Society has not been exposed, otherwise, the officers and soldiers would have been killed long ago.
The Holy Spirit Church began to cleanse the Holy Spirit Church in various places. Therefore, the Holy Spirit Church will have to look at the situation before making any decisions.
The other faction's opinion is that the Holy Spirit Society has suffered two setbacks in Guidefu recently. In addition to the baptism of the branch, in the past few days, several key members of the Holy Spirit Society who encouraged the people were killed by the army.
Both of these incidents were committed by a Qianhu household under Guidewei. Therefore, there is no guarantee that the Qianhu household has discovered some clues about the Holy Spirit Society. Therefore, a rebellion should be launched immediately.
At the end of the argument, the words of a close confidant of Master Mou touched Master Mou's heart. He said: "Whether the officers and soldiers find out or not, the time is ripe for rebellion. Since the beginning of the new year, not a drop of rain has fallen.
Many places will have no harvest this year. And now we have reached the lean period, and many people's homes have already run out of food."
"Now, as long as the Archmage ascends to the throne and shouts, the people will not be allowed to follow suit. At that time, the Archmage will be the emperor, and we will all be the founding heroes of the country. We will eat well and drink spicy food together, and live a good life."
The confidant's words immediately touched Master Mou's heart. Master Mou had long wanted to take off his cassock and change into a dragon robe. Therefore, Master Mou immediately ordered: Let these elders and helmsmen as soon as possible
They returned to their own territory to prepare, and ten days later, they started a rebellion together.
Wu Shigong had no idea that due to his two mistakes, the Holy Spirit Society was about to rebel. Now, he was receiving an inexplicable debt collector.
On this day, Wu Shigong received a notice from Chang Meng that several people claiming to be from the Henan Governor's Yamen came to see Wu Shigong. Wu Shigong was confused by these visitors.
Although Wu Shigong, the acting Qianhu, is under the jurisdiction of the Henan governor, their official ranks are too far apart. It is like in modern times, a provincial governor suddenly sends someone to a county to find the county's armed minister.
Condition.
Wu Shigong invited them in confused. The leader introduced himself and said: His surname is Ling, and he is the master of the governor of Henan. He came to see Wu Shigong if he had important matters.
After letting everyone retreat, Master Ling gave Wu Shigong a letter and an IOU of five thousand taels.
It turns out that this matter has to start from the beginning again. Didn’t Wu Shigong become a son-in-law at that time, and his father-in-law Xue Lian later solved three official positions for the Wu family? In addition to the seventh brother Wu Shili who is now a scribe in the Ministry of Justice, there are also two elder brothers who have passed the exam.
Have you gone out to become an official? This letter was written by one of Wu Shigong's elder brothers, and the IOU was also owed by him.
Wu Shigong's elder brother was his fifth brother, named Wu Shiwen. When Wu Shiwen saw that his elder brother had chosen to be the county magistrate in Jiangnan, he thought in his mind: Although Jiangnan is rich, the county magistrate is the county magistrate after all.
The second-in-command does not have much authority in the local area.
So Wu Shiwen chose to be a county magistrate in Guizhou. Wu Shigong considered this: a county magistrate in a poor place does not necessarily earn less than a county magistrate in a wealthy place. Besides, after becoming a county magistrate, he will be in this county.
Here is the real local emperor.
In a word, Wu Shiwen wanted both material civilization and spiritual civilization, and he had to be tough on both.
But at that time, why was there a vacancy for county magistrates in Guizhou? On the one hand, of course, this was an area where young, old, bordering and poor people were living, and Jinshi were reluctant to come here to serve as officials. On the other hand, the She'an Rebellion had just occurred here, and the situation was quite chaotic.
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However, Wu Shiwen is not worried about unrest, because in his mind, the She'an rebellion has been quelled. For a period of time, it should be said that Guizhou is quite safe.
However, Wu Shiwen did not expect that the She'an Rebellion had not subsided at all, but had only temporarily come to an end. When Wu Shiwen first took office, the situation in Guizhou was relatively stable. However, after more than a year of stability, the She'an Rebellion broke out again.
A few months ago, the She'an rebels attacked Wu Shiwen's county town. Wu Shiwen had no determination to live or die with the city. He immediately abandoned the city and fled. At this time, he could not care about material civilization or spiritual civilization.
Let's save our lives first. So Wu Shiwen ran to his hometown in one breath.
Fortunately, the Fucheng city was strong and there were many defenders, and the She'an rebels were finally blocked. Once the situation was clear, the Fucheng would have to settle accounts with Wu Shiwen.
Although it is no longer the early Ming Dynasty, all officials who abandoned the city and fled were beheaded and held accountable. However, this crime is solid. It can be strictly enforced and Wu Shiwen beheaded, or Wu Shiwen can only be dismissed from office. This is
It depends on Wu Shiwen's conduct as a person.
In the final analysis, it was just to see how much silver Wu Shiwen gave to the palace minister. Of course Wu Shiwen was very knowledgeable and immediately negotiated the price with the palace minister. However, Wu Shiwen ran away in a hurry and did not have so much silver around him. The palace minister was also happy,
Just ask Wu Shigong to write an IOU of five thousand taels.
The Prince of the Palace is not afraid of Wu Shiwen's failure to do so. Wu Shiwen can escape, but the Gongshun Palace cannot escape.
However, the prince did not want to go to the capital to collect debts. On the one hand, there were no relatives or friends of the prince in the capital. On the other hand, the people in the capital were so mischievous that the prince did not want to let this matter go too far.
Someone knew about it. So, he asked Wu Shiwen: did he have any relatives or friends who were officials in Henan? Because the elder brother of the governor was the governor of Henan.
At this time, in order to save his life, Wu Shiwen could fish out of straw. He remembered that when he was reading the Di newspaper, he seemed to have seen his 14th brother Wu Shigong who had gone to Henan to work as an agent for thousands of households, so he named Wu Shigong.
Reported it.
The next step was of course: the governor asked Wu Shiwen to write a letter to Wu Shigong, and sent the letter and the IOU to his brother, the governor of Henan. The governor of Henan sent Master Ling to Wu Shigong to collect the debt.
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After understanding the whole process, Wu Shigong was stunned. He didn't expect that something bad would come to his door while he was sitting at home.
As for the fifth brother Wu Shiwen's matter, now that it has come to Wu Shigong, Wu Shigong cannot ignore it. Not to mention that the Henan governor is his boss, his boss... boss. Even if the fifth brother Wu Shiwen treats him badly in the Wu Mansion, Wu Shigong will not care about him.
He was able to refuse to save his fifth brother Wu Shiwen. After all, they are brothers, and blood is thicker than water.
He might as well hold his nose and admit it. Wu Shigong took out five thousand taels of silver and handed it to Master Ling. But as a result, the cash around Wu Shigong, except for the one thousand taels of gold, was completely gone.
As for the goods obtained from the robbers, Wu Shigong also wanted to ask Yuan Xingshan to transport them to Jining and sell them at a good price.
But just when Wu Shigong was in such a bad mood, the Qi County Magistrate sent someone to ask Wu Shigong to go to the county government office to discuss matters.
The Qi County Magistrate was not a person who did not do anything. Seeing how serious the drought was, he thought of asking the big households in the county to donate some food and set up a few porridge farms to relieve the victims.
After Wu Shigong arrived at the county government office, he became angry when he heard about this incident. These officials really thought they were Tang Monk meat, and everyone wanted to take a bite. Besides, Wu Shigong had already donated five dollars to the charity warehouse.
Hundreds of kilo of food was enough. Therefore, Wu Shigong rejected Qi County Magistrate.
The county magistrate of Qi was actually in a bad mood at this time. He was about to be transferred, and he did not expect to encounter such an unfortunate event as a drought. And now, Wu Shigong, a household with 25,000 households, did not give himself the county magistrate.
face.
As a result, the two sides, who were very angry, started to quarrel on the spot in the county government office. Anyway, it was Wu Shigong as the wild player and Qi County Magistrate as the elegant player. The two fought evenly. In the end, they ended up unhappy.