Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Early the next morning, Wu Shigong and Qi County Magistrate returned to the county seat of Qi County Magistrate.When he was resting and eating on the way, he saw that Shumo was still downcast, so Wu Shigong began to enlighten him.

Wu Shigong said to Shumo: "Young master, I think you are on the edge of a dead end. Think about it carefully, outside, buying a maid is only about 20 taels of silver, but the old bustard wants to ask for 250 taels of silver."

"It's fine if she's really a young lady in a brothel. But after a long time, she's still a maid in a brothel. Just think about it and you'll understand that the quality of this maid is not much higher. In my eyes, the young master, that maid is just It's worth four or fifty taels of silver at most."

"Besides, young master, I have always believed that this man and woman should not talk about money. This man and woman are together, in fact, both parties are happy, and both parties are also at risk. There is no need for a man to come up with it. What kind of money is there to compensate the woman."

Wu Shigong's words gradually attracted Shumo's attention, he raised his head and looked at Wu Shigong.And the surrounding guards gradually moved closer, listening to Wu Shigong's speech.Seeing that the audience gathered more and more, Wu Shigong spoke more vigorously.

"Think carefully, are the man and woman happy with each other in bed?"

"That's risky anyway?" A guard who was watching interjected curiously.The surrounding guards also looked at Wu Shigong curiously.

"Everyone understands the risks of that woman. If a woman wants to conceive and have a baby, she must bear some risks."

"What about the man's risk?" Shumo's attention was also completely attracted by Wu Shigong's words.

"The risk for men is not small. Think about it, when you do that, it's the man's stuff that goes into the woman's stomach. How terrible that is. What if a woman's stomach grows Teeth, what if I bite off that thing of yours? Isn’t that a big risk?” Wu Shigong began to talk nonsense.

"If you bite it off, you can become a nine-thousand-year-old?" A guard next to him interrupted again as a joke.

The guard's words made everyone laugh.

With such laughter, Shumo's disappointment also improved a lot.Wu Shigong is also quite satisfied, it seems that his ideological education work has been carried out quite successfully.

After Wu Shigong finished talking nonsense, the guards around him also gradually dispersed.Suddenly, Na He Fei came to Wu Shigong's side and said: "Master, we have captured quite a few girls this time. Could the master be kind enough to give that girl to the younger one? The younger one is not picky, The small ones are willing to pay ten...20 taels of silver."

Na Hefei has been a bachelor for more than [-] years, and he has long since felt itchy.

Wu Shigong was taken aback by He Fei's words, and he immediately thought of a problem that he had ignored before: the guards Wu Shigong brought from the capital, no matter whether they were married or not, now there were no women to serve them at all, and they had no choice but to take advantage of the training During the vacation, go to the brothel in the small town to solve physical problems.

However, such an approach may not show anything in a short period of time, but after a long period of time, it will always make these guards a little unstable.

Now in the hands of Wu Shigong, women accounted for more than half of the more than 4000 people who became domestic slaves this time.These women's physical labor ability is not high, and they definitely need men to take care of them.

If the two can be combined, Wu Shigong can also relieve a little burden.Because of the support of those married women, it must be borne by their own guards.

There is another great benefit.Don't look at the money and supplies that Wu Shigong seized from the rioters of the Holy Spirit Society this time. The amount is relatively huge, but his financial distress has intensified.

Not to mention other expenses.The money and materials seized by Wu Shigong alone, which Zheng Zhen had roughly counted and reported to Wu Shigong, would be worth more than 3 taels of silver.However, Wu Shigong was about to distribute 1% of the spoils as a dividend, that is, nearly [-] taels of silver to his guards and soldiers.

And those guards who participated in the farewell charge got even more heads.Even the smallest soldier can get more than 30 taels of silver.If Wu Shigong distributed these women as part of the dividends to those guards, it would greatly relieve Wu Shigong's pressure on cash expenditure.

As soon as he figured it out, Wu Shigong immediately agreed to He Fei's request.And after returning to the fortress of Qianhusuo, after discussing this policy with Xue Yongli, Zheng Zhen and other leaders, it began to be officially implemented.

Unexpectedly, this policy is very popular.Wu Shigong priced a woman at ten taels of silver.The guards did some calculations. Although it seems that the one-time expenditure is relatively large, in the long run, the guards' expenditure on this aspect is actually much less. After all, they can save a few brothels.Moreover, there is such a person who knows the warmth and the cold in the family.

And for these guards, there is also a lot of room for choosing women this time, because the overall number of these women is particularly huge.There is something for every taste of guards.You can find anything that is controlled by mature women or controlled by sister Yu.

Of course, because these women are peasant women, this appearance can also be imagined.However, quantity can replace quality.Wu Shigong didn't stipulate them, they can only buy one, as long as they can afford the money, Wu Shigong won't care about how many you buy.

In addition, when Wu Shigong's policy was implemented, those military households who became soldiers also came to Wu Shigong one after another.In the Ming Dynasty, the status of military households was very low, and it was difficult for them to find a marriage partner in the local area.Now that they have such a good opportunity, of course they also want to choose a wife.

Wu Shigong never refuses anyone who comes.Even if those military households and soldiers couldn't afford ten taels of silver at once, Wu Shigong allowed them to pay in installments.Anyway, Wu Shigong will pay those military households and soldiers the military salary in the future, as long as they deduct it in installments from the future military salary.

Of course, for leaders like Xue Yongli, Zheng Zhen, etc., Wu Shigong still selected some good-looking women and gave them to them.They also basically accepted it with a smile.

During the whole process, Wu Shigong only grasped one principle, that is, the selected woman must be voluntary.But this principle basically did not become an obstacle to this marriage.Because for these women, it is actually very satisfying to have a man who can take care of them and let them live a life of food and clothing.

In this marriage, Wu Shigong married more than 500 women, and collected more than 4000 taels of silver (more than 1000 taels will be collected in installments in the future).

What made Wu Shigong even more happy was that some of these women were widows, and they took away dozens of oil bottles.This made Wu Shigong almost laugh his back molars out.Now I have lost the burden of dozens of children.

Wu Shigong couldn't help but thought with some evil in his heart: "I didn't expect these guards of mine to have such strong tastes!" But he didn't realize at all, didn't he still find Zhao Ruya, a widow, as his concubine?Isn't his own taste heavy?

In addition, this marriage also brought the following effects: Through this collective marriage, the guards from the capital, the local military households and the local residents quickly merged together and became a group.

Moreover, the families of these married women are more or less taken care of by their husband's family.This also made Wu Shigong's burden much less in disguise.These advantages will also be gradually reflected in the future.

Therefore, although on the surface, Wu Shigong's marriage this time seems to be trafficking in women, which is somewhat immoral.However, this marriage has achieved a happy result.Therefore, after Wu Shigong announced this policy, the people here in Qianhusuo Fortress formed a period of carnival that lasted for several months.

However, this marriage still has a small sequelae.For those married widows, their husbands are not all dead, some just got separated from these women during their escape.But Wu Shigong simply ignored such a trivial matter.Do the husbands of those women dare to come back to find their wives?Isn't he afraid of being beheaded by Wu Shigong as a rioter?

When Wu Shigong returned to the Qianhusuo Fortress, of course he did more than just this one thing.He first sent ten guards to escort Zheng Zhen, and hurried to the capital to deliver a letter to his father Wu Weizhong.Let father Wu Weizhong get active for the fifth brother Wu Shiwen in time, don't lose this good opportunity.

Don't tell me, the luckiest person now is Wu Shigong's fifth brother Wu Shiwen.He is still on his way back to the capital from Guizhou. He must have never thought that his good luck would fall from the sky like this.

Zheng Zhen went to the capital with 3000 taels of silver and the 5000 taels of IOU written by Wu Shiwen, the fifth brother.Wu Shigong wanted Zheng Zhen to find his father Wu Weizhong and elder brother Wu Shixun, and use the money to buy some military supplies and war horses.

Although Wu Shigong's horses were enough for each of the cavalrymen this time, there were still more than a dozen cavalrymen unable to dispatch because of insufficient saddles.You must know that on Yuan Xingshan's boat, there are fifty guards who can serve as cavalry.Wu Shigong didn't want this kind of thing that caused his combat effectiveness to drop due to lack of supplies to happen again.

In addition, after this farewell charge, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli still found that four or five horses had injured their legs and hooves, and they could not be used as war horses in the future.

Wu Shigong sighed very much in his heart: In just such a charge with almost no intensity, four or five horses were injured.After that, if the battle is fierce, the loss of horses must be huge.This time I went to my eldest brother Wu Shixun and asked him to help buy another batch of horses.

After completing the two most urgent matters, Wu Shigong is now going to solve the matter of Zhi Zhi and Deng Qifan who were captured by him.