Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Wu Shigong concentrated his attention, and then said to Li Pengfei: "Okay, it's finally easy for us two brothers to get together, so let's not talk about these unpleasant things. By the way, brother Li must have something important to come to see younger brother."

Li Pengfei glanced at Wu Shigong and said, "To tell you the truth, brother, I'm here to be a lobbyist. Someone as smart as my brother should be able to guess what I want to tell you. I'll just try to persuade you, brother. In a word, brother, you have to give up what you should give up."

Wu Shigong pondered for a while, then said to Li Pengfei: "Brother Li is saying that you want my younger brother to give up the credit for exterminating the rioters?"

Li Pengfei nodded and said with a smile: "I knew that my brother is a smart man. To be honest, I'm working with Eunuch Xiao now. Eunuch Xiao also needs these credits to keep his position. Tell my elder brother. As long as it can be done, Eunuch Xiao has already guaranteed it, and he will never be short of money."

In fact, Wu Shigong didn't want these credits in his heart because he didn't want to attract the attention of Emperor Chongzhen.However, now that Wu Shigong already knew that these officials needed his own contributions to keep his position, he must exchange these contributions for some benefits.

Wu Shigong pretended to think about it for a while, then sighed pretendingly, and said to Li Pengfei: "Forget it, I can only say that my life is bad. However, I do have a few requirements here."

After hearing Wu Shigong's words, Li Pengfei showed a smile on his face, and he quickly asked, "Brother, what do you say?"

"The first request is, little brother, I got involved in a lawsuit in the capital. On the way from the capital to Guide, I had a fight with a Juren, and the Juren went to the capital and sued me. Now the Ministry of War has brought me to the capital. I am suspended from my job and I am asked to write a letter of self-defense. But brother Li knows the ink in my stomach, and he is absolutely no match for a juren. Do you want Mr. Xiao to be flexible and let this lawsuit That's all."

Li Pengfei frowned, feeling that this matter was not easy to handle, he wanted to understand the matter more clearly.He then asked: "Then why did my brother beat that Juren?"

"For a woman."

Li Pengfei turned his head and said, "Where is that woman now? Brother, I also have a few confidantes. If I do that woman, there will be no proof. At that time, it will be fine if I drag it on."

Wu Shigong was taken aback by Li Pengfei's words, he quickly said: "The woman is now my younger brother's concubine. There are children in her stomach."

After listening to Wu Shigong's words, Li Pengfei laughed out loud "hehe". He pointed at Wu Shigong with his finger: "Jealous! This matter will be easy to handle. Don't say that this time, there will be a little bit of your credit left." A promotion may not be enough, but atonement is more than enough."

"In case that juren makes trouble, let the two of you get jealous. At that time, it doesn't matter for us warriors to lose face, but the scholars are the most shameless. Let your Xue family go to that juren to make some money again. If not, it will be fine."

Wu Shigong was suddenly enlightened, this expert's action is different after all.Li Pengfei found a solution to the problem that had troubled him for so many days in a few words.

Seeing that the first condition was solved, Wu Shigong continued: "The second condition is that the thousand-household office that my younger brother is acting as an agent must pay money and food every year. The drought this year is very serious, and there may be no harvest. My younger brother has arrived at this thousand-household so Afterwards, I subsidized a lot of silver taels myself.”

"And Li Bing, who manages the younger brother, is more honest. Every year, the thousand households of the younger brother are required to pay all the money and food turned in. The younger brother is afraid that he will be short again this year."

Hearing this request, Li Pengfei's answer was straightforward: "There is absolutely no problem with this. There is a drought throughout Henan this year. When the emperor's decree on reducing money and food comes down, let Eunuch Xiao go to Li Bingbei Road to say hello and send your thousand Just transfer the households to the areas where money and food are exempted. This tax-free quota is not given to anyone."

Seeing that the second condition was satisfactorily resolved, Wu Shigong went on to say: "The last requirement is that I have paid a high price for letting the sons and daughters work hard this time. The seizures in the camp of the rioters this time will belong to my younger brother."

Li Pengfei immediately replied: "Of course there is absolutely no problem with that. But brother, I would like to remind you. Eunuch Xiao can restrain the soldiers in Guide Prefecture here, but when the reinforcements from all around come, it is impossible to stop them from making a fortune. Brother, you must act quickly." a little."

Both of them were very happy to see the matter resolved satisfactorily.Li Pengfei was in a hurry to go back and return to his command.I saw Wu Shigong yawned several times in succession.So after drinking a few more glasses of wine, he offered to leave.

But although Li Pengfei offered to leave, he refused to move.Wu Shigong immediately understood.Just now, Master Mou's body was at the old man Zhao Ming and the pusher.But the imperial seal and dragon robe of the "Great Song Kingdom" in Wu Shigong's hands, as well as those golden Buddha statues and gold ingots, have not been turned in yet.

Wu Shigong asked Li Pengfei to wait, and he went back to the room where those things were stored, opened the big bag containing these things, thought for a while, took another piece of cloth from the room, and put the gold ingots in the cloth After putting away and wrapping up the burden, he walked out of the house and handed the burden to Li Pengfei.

Li Pengfei took the burden, opened it and checked it, and found that everything was complete.Then I packed my bags and took my farewell.

Before leaving, Li Pengfei said to Wu Shigong: "In all fairness, my brother's requirements are really not high. If I go to Mr. Xiao to fight for it, I will always let my brother show up in the credit book. My brother's thankless army Don’t be a Huqianhu. Give my younger brother a formal military position (that is, a garrison like Li Lu). Raise some soldiers, and at least you can drink some soldiers’ blood.”

Wu Shigong's eyes lit up after hearing Li Pengfei's words.Wu Shigong now has Han Xin ordering soldiers, the more the better.If Wu Shigong can still use the military salary of the imperial court to support some soldiers, and if Wu Shigong can control the soldiers of this thousand households through his apprentice Tao Xin, then Wu Shigong's strength will be greatly strengthened.Who wouldn't like such a good thing.

Wu Shigong quickly replied: "Brother Li will have to worry about that. However, my younger brother has been operating in Guide for a long time, so it's best not to leave Guide Mansion."

"This shouldn't be a problem. But I don't dare to guarantee it, brother. But there is no soldier in Guide Mansion, and this time there is a rebellion. It should be no problem to set up some soldiers now. In this way, brother will go to Xiao Father-in-law is here to mention it, and it is estimated that the possibility of agreeing to it is greater than [-]%."

Li Pengfei's proposal was actually not aimless.After all, Li Pengfei is a master at observing words and emotions. He followed Eunuch Xiao these days, and from Eunuch Xiao's words and deeds, he could see that Eunuch Xiao was very dissatisfied with Jiang Guerrilla's silver gun candle head.

And Eunuch Xiao, as the supervising army in Henan, always has some generals who are like little tigers under his command, and Eunuch Xiao appreciates Wu Shigong's brave performance today.In the words and deeds of Eunuch Xiao just now, it also revealed the intention of soliciting Wu Shigong.so.Li Pengfei simply sells one to Wu Shigong first, and also prepares Wu Shigong mentally.

When he reached the door, Li Pengfei turned around, patted Wu Shigong on the shoulder, and said to Wu Shigong, "I can't even say sissy words, brother. Take care, brother!"

"Take care!" Wu Shigong replied with open arms.

Seeing Wu Shigong's appearance, Li Pengfei smiled.He dropped the burden in his hands, and embraced Wu Shigong with open arms.Both of them patted each other heavily on the back several times...

After saying goodbye to Li Pengfei, Wu Shigong went back to the table and ate a round belly.Then I went to the bedroom in the back room to take a nap.

Throughout the afternoon, Wu Shigong took a nap in An's bedroom.He slept very heavily during this afternoon nap, and in his sleep, Wu Shigong kept having all kinds of strange dreams.It wasn't until near dinner that Wu Shigong was awakened from his sleep by a guard.

Seeing that Wu Shigong had woken up, the guard said softly to Wu Shigong: "Uncle, there are people sent by Lord Hou and Lord Fuzun to look for you outside, asking you to attend the banquet tonight."

Wu Shigong got up immediately, put on his clothes, ordered a basin of water to be brought, and wiped his face.Then he took his own guards and followed the messenger to the place of the banquet.