Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

The reason why Li Lu and Jiang Gueran came to Wu Shigong was this.

After the reinforcements led by Na Jiang Guerrilla were overwhelmed by Master Mou's senior brothers, Na Jiang Guerrilla was indeed brave personally, leading his twenty or so soldiers to break out of the heavy encirclement.

However, Jiang Gueran didn't know the whereabouts of Eunuch Xiao, so he didn't dare to go to Guidefu City, nor did he dare to return to Kaifeng.For some reason, after wandering around for a few days, he transferred to the county seat of Qi County Magistrate.

When Jiang Guerrilla arrived, he told the door to enter the county town to rest.But when the County Magistrate of Qi and other county officials heard the news of the arrival of Jiang's guerrillas, they dared not open the city gates.why?Because the Ming Dynasty didn't have an ID card at this time, let alone the photo and IC magnetic strip on the ID card, who knows whether you, Jiang Guerrilla, are real or fake.

However, if Jiang Guerrilla was real, it would not be good to keep him outside the county seat and let him fend for himself.Therefore, the officials in the county first used hanging baskets to hang down some water and dry food to feed Jiang Guerrilla and the others.Then let Jiang Gueran prove his identity.

How to get him to prove his identity?It's very simple, just vote for a certificate.Let Jiang Guerrilla go and catch the leader of the Holy Spirit Society rioters.

I didn't expect that Jiang Guerrilla was really strong in martial arts, and his life was good. It happened that more than a dozen Holy Spirit Society rioters surrounded an elder of the Holy Spirit Society and escaped from the county seat of Qi County Magistrate.

Jiang Guerrilla rushed forward with his own soldiers, captured the elder, and only entered the county seat after he had a certificate of nomination.

In the county seat, the officials headed by County Magistrate Qi will of course interrogate the elder.But Li Lu, who was participating in the interrogation, was more careful.He asked the elder: Li Lu's own defense zone.

When Li Lu learned from the elder's confession: Because the route of the Holy Spirit's rebellion was towards Guide Mansion, these rioters never entered Li Lu's defense zone.

Then Li Lu immediately returned to his heart like an arrow.And he still regretted it, he also spent 1000 taels of silver to buy the heads of those rioters from Wu Shigong.

Unexpectedly, that Jiang guerrilla solved Li Lu's problem.When Jiang Guerrilla knew that Li Lu had more than [-] heads of the Holy Spirit Society rioters in his hands, Jiang Guerrilla asked Li Lu to buy the heads in order to use these heads to atone for his crimes.

And Li Lu was terrified by the rebellion of the Holy Spirit Society this time.He felt that staying there was simply too dangerous.Therefore, he thought that after going back this time, he would find a reason to propose resignation and return to his hometown, and return to the capital to sneak into his comfort zone.

So now Li Lu doesn't need so many heads at all.He only needs a few heads to explain why he left his defense zone.The reason is: Li Lu discovered that the Holy Spirit would rebel against the people, so he chased him all the way to the county magistrate Qi.

In this way, Li Lu and Jiang Guerrilla hit it off.They finally agreed that Jiang Guerrilla would use 2000 taels of silver to buy the fifty heads from Li Lu.

Then, they and Qi county magistrate began to confess.Magistrate Qi of course would not refuse to help them by the way.In the Ming Dynasty, among officials, as long as they were not life-and-death enemies and did not endanger their own interests, almost all officials would agree to help.

And the purpose of that Jiang guerrilla coming to the fortress of Qianhusuo to find Wu Shigong was also to testify against Wu Shigong.Of course Wu Shigong agreed to Jiang Guerrilla's request.

But Li Lu made a new request to Wu Shigong. He asked Wu Shigong to return the dozen or so horses he lent to Wu Shigong.Moreover, Li Lu was afraid that the way back would be unsafe, so he hoped that Wu Shigong would send fifty cavalry to escort Li Lu back to his defense zone.

Wu Shigong thought about it, then Li Lu still owed him 1000 taels of silver.I really need to send someone to the defense area where Li Lu is to get the silver.However, Wu Shigong, the horse of Li Lu and his personal soldiers, didn't want to go just like that.

Seeing that Wu Shigong seemed to be hesitating, Li Lu was also forthright, and gave Wu Shigong another 500 taels of silver.Now, both of them are happy.However, Li Lu was the happiest. He didn't expect that he would get 500 taels of silver just by changing hands.Of course, Jiang Guerrilla now only wrote an IOU to Li Lu, and asked Li Lu to find Jiang Guerrilla to ask for the debt in the future.

Seeing that this was settled, Wu Shigong also asked the two of them to go down to rest.

At this time, the person who went outside the fortress of Qianhusuo and announced Wu Shigong's decision to the rioters returned.He reported to Wu Shigong: "My lord, the vast majority of people are willing to be your house slaves. After a rough count, there are more than 600 people. However, only [-] to [-] of them are young and strong, and the rest are Some old and weak women and children."

Early the next morning, after Wu Shigong arranged fifty cavalry to send Li Lu off, he rushed to the county seat with a hundred cavalry, gathered the county magistrate Qi and his entourage, and rushed to Guidefu City together.

After walking for a while, County Magistrate Qi called Wu Shigong into the carriage he was sitting in.County magistrate Qi had dealt with Wu Shigong many times, so he didn't talk to Wu Shigong at all.

County Magistrate Qi opened the door and went into the mountains and said to Wu Shigong: County Magistrate Qi and the others have roughly estimated that the land of the rebellious people in this county who participated in the rebellion of the Holy Spirit Society this time is about [-] mu.Therefore, there are more than [-] mu of public land that can be handed over to Wu Shigong.

The county magistrate Qi gave Wu Shigong two choices: one is that Wu Shigong bought the grain in the official warehouse and the medicinal materials in the county government at the market price, that is, 3000 taels of silver.The magistrate of Qi County no longer interfered with the matter of the public land.

Another option is that if Wu Shigong gave Qi County Magistrate another 7000 taels of silver, Qi County Magistrate simply transferred these public lands to Wu Shigong's name and became Wu Shigong's private land.

Comparing with what we know in the previous article, the price of 15 taels to 20 taels per mu of land in the Ming Dynasty, the price offered by the county magistrate of Qi was almost a free gift to Wu Shigong for these fields.

However, such an approach to align with the county magistrate does not suffer.First of all, because Wu Shigong contributed a lot this time, these public lands of Wu Shigong cannot be relied upon at all.

As for the money from the sale of these public lands, although County Magistrate Qi can get some tribute, most of the money obtained from the sale must be handed over, and County Magistrate Qi himself cannot get it.

And if Wu Shigong is willing to spend the 7000 taels, the county magistrate Qi himself will not only earn less, but can increase it.Of course, of the 7000 taels of silver, the magistrate of Qi County will get at most about 3000 taels, and the rest of the silver will also be distributed to the upper, lower, left, and right.

Wu Shigong immediately chose County Magistrate Qi's second option, and he didn't even bargain with Magistrate Qi.Not to mention the price of these lands, they are almost free.Just now, Wu Shigong can arrange some domestic slaves to cultivate these lands and solve the employment problem of some domestic slaves.

There is another advantage: the land is all privately owned by Wu Shigong, and there will be no troubles after that.If not, those lands are public lands after all, and in name, the output of these public lands should be under the control of the county magistrate.In case the county magistrate came to be a moth, Wu Shigong wouldn't be dumbfounded.

As for the money spent in buying these lands, Wu Shigong thinks this way: Although he is living a tight life now, in order to get it done once and for all, Wu Shigong is still ready to meet the requirements of County Magistrate Qi.