Chapter 42: Shopkeeper Zheng
After asking about the purpose of the Dongchang man's visit, Wu Shigong realized: It turned out that it was sent by Hu Ming, a hundred households in the Dongchang man in charge of the Nancheng.
Hu Ming certainly knew Wu Shigong's background. Wu Shigong's father-in-law can be said to be the most caring confidant of Dongchang Factory Mansion Wei Zhongxian. He even received a message from Dongchang Factory Mansion Wei Zhongxian in the morning, asking all the stalls and households of Dongchang Factory to fully support the disaster relief work of Xue Lian and Wu Shigong. Hu Ming himself did not know Wu Shigong's visit in the morning, but when Hu Ming went out for lunch, he heard the guard at the entrance of Dongchang, and told him like a joke: A deputy commander of the Nancheng Military and Masjid came to visit him, and then he was driven out by the guard. Hu Ming knew that the person who came must be Wu Shigong, and now he was anxious. He first slapped the guard of the Dongchang Factory several times, and gave him a lesson with punches and kicks. Then, he had to find a way to make up for the relationship between Wu Shigong.
But now if he went to find Wu Shigong directly, Hu Ming could not put down his airs. He was afraid that if the eldest young master Wu Shigong had a temper and showed him his face, Hu Ming would be even more embarrassed. So he went to his friend Li Pengfei, a thousand household of Jinyiwei, and the two of them jointly submitted an invitation to invite Wu Shigong to have a banquet tomorrow night to make up for the relationship between the two parties. It is best to establish any form of friendship.
Of course, Wu Shigong didn't know the little Jiujiu in Hu Ming's heart, but from the expression and tone of the Dongchang man who sent the invitation, he also knew that the Dongchang's household wanted to win over the relationship between the two parties. This situation was of course a big wish for Wu Shigong. Moreover, Wu Shigong was going to visit Li Qianhu of the Jinyiwei and met at the banquet, which was a killing two birds with one stone.
Moreover, the current blockade of the ruins and the future treatment of the ruins are inseparable from the joint cooperation between the two departments of the factory and the guards. Of course, the benefits of cleaning the ruins are also indispensable to the benefits of giving the factory and guards. Because there are still many property buried under the ruins. Although a lot of property must be picked up by the victims within a month after the explosion of the Wanggong Factory, and the items cleaned up when cleaning the ruins in the future must be returned to the victims, but there must be a lot of property without owners. So Sun Chengxiu still has more than 1,200 taels of silver buried under the ruins?
So Wu Shigong happily expressed his opinion to the Dongchang Actor who came to send the invitation that he would definitely attend the banquet. He asked someone to come and give him five taels of silver to the monk. Seeing that he had completed this mission successfully and had extra money, the monk was also very happy to go back to report the news.
After that time, Wu Shigong saw that the sky was almost at the end of the yamen, so he called Xu Limu over and asked him to release the people who had picked up their own belongings that he had captured in the morning. However, before these people left, they had to press a handprint on the guarantee letter to ensure that they would not commit crimes again in the future.
Unexpectedly, there was a small accident. Everyone else obediently pressed their handprints on the guarantee letter and left. However, a man in his forties refused to press it and shouted. This made Wu Shigong a little angry: He let them go gently, why are there anyone who is ungrateful?
Wu Shigong asked someone to take the man into the lobby. Although he knew that he was not qualified to investigate the case, he also wanted to taste the master today. After letting the man kneel down, Wu Shigong began to ask what happened, which made the man so unwilling to accept it.
It turned out that the man's surname was Zheng and opened a cloth shop on Xuanwu Gate. After the explosion, the cloth shop and several of the mates in the cloth shop were all destroyed. The shop manager Zheng was lucky and happened to go out to discuss business that day and escaped. But the shop manager Zheng was the lifelong effort of the shop manager Zheng, so the shop manager Zheng guarded the ruins of the cloth shop, trying to clean up some items and recover some losses.
But today, a few thugs came up on the ruins and searched for the items from the cloth store. Of course, the shopkeeper Zheng stepped forward to stop them, and the two sides started to make a noise. Xu Limu led the soldiers to inspect here, so he captured both sides into the Military and Ma Si Yamen. But unexpectedly, now the Military and Ma Si has released the few thugs again, so the shopkeeper Zheng is quite dissatisfied and started to make trouble in the Military and Ma Si Yamen.
What's going on? Didn't he tell Xu Limu to send those people to other yamen for crimes of theft and robbery? He didn't say much in front of Manager Zheng, so Wu Shigong still asked Manager Zheng to kneel down and asked Xu Limu to come to the inner hall with him to ask what was going on.
When they arrived at the inner hall, Xu Limu and Wu Shigong revealed the reason. It turned out that Xu Limu was not familiar with the business on the street. Those ruffians were members of a gang in Nancheng. The gang was not big, but the big leaders of the gang were more fierce and had a strong desire to revenge, so most people were unwilling to provoke them. After Xu Limu captured the ruffians into the yamen, some people recognized them and detained them when they were left in the yamen to calm down.
After hearing the reason for Xu Limu's handling, Wu Shigong thought that Xu Limu was understandable to do so. But he could not let the gang do anything wrong. So Wu Shigong wanted to send someone to the leader of the gang to warn him. After looking at Xu Limu's vulgar appearance, he thought about Wang Baihu who was busy planning a plan for military training these two days. Therefore, Wu Shigong asked Xu Limu to inform Wu Mian and asked Wu Mian to bring a few soldiers to the leader of the gang tomorrow to warn him.
Wu Shigong returned to the lobby and politely asked Manager Zheng not to kneel down and stood up to speak. He bluntly explained the reason to Manager Zheng and asked Manager Zheng for his understanding. Of course, it would be okay for Manager Zheng to not understand. If Manager Zheng wanted to touch the stone, he would go to the gang to ask for an explanation. Finally, Wu Shigong politely asked Manager Zheng to send a few soldiers to escort him home. At least this practice also gave the gang a hint that he could temporarily protect Manager Zheng's safety.
After hearing Wu Shigong's confession, the shopkeeper Zheng looked helpless, but he knew that it was Wu Shigong's kindness, so he bowed to thank him. After calling two soldiers, the shopkeeper Zheng reported the address of the cloth store where he was. Until now, the shopkeeper Zheng still built a straw shed next to the ruins of the cloth store. But after hearing the address of the cloth store, Wu Shigong felt that the more he thought about it, he suddenly thought about the address recorded on the note in the wallet. He opened the wallet and took out the note and saw that the shopkeeper Zheng was the shopkeeper who opened the cloth store who borrowed his own shop.
This is different. After knowing his identity, Wu Shigong invited Manager Zheng to the inner hall and the two started chatting. It turned out that Manager Zheng was a businessman. He saved some money through many journeys and accumulated some connections when he was a businessman. He went to Beijing a few years ago to rent a shop and opened a cloth shop. The cloth shop business was also good, but Manager Zheng was old. He wanted to work in a few years before he could go back to his hometown to retire, so he didn't support a shop and kept renting it like this.
But this time, the shopkeeper Zheng must have lost all his money when the Wang Gong Factory exploded. Moreover, he borrowed a batch of cloth through credit and had to pay back the debts. In desperation, the shopkeeper Zheng wanted to rescue a batch of cloth from the ruins, then sell the land in his hometown to pay back the debt. This shopkeeper Zheng was also considered unlucky. He worked hard all his life, but in the end he was empty-handed.
After hearing this, Wu Shigong promised Manager Zheng that he would let the soldiers guard the ruins of the Bushang. He also gave him ten taels of silver to Manager Zheng, which was considered an emergency. I wonder which leader Wu is now a man? Moreover, Wu Shigong also needs a person with management talents. Wu Shigong suggested to Manager Zheng: he wanted to open a gambling shop on the ruins of the Bushang. If Manager Zheng was interested, the construction and management of the gambling shop could be allowed to be made by Manager Zheng. After a few years of doing this, Manager Zheng’s debts would be paid off. If Manager Zheng wanted to go home to retire, at least he would have the land in his hometown.
Manager Zheng felt that Wu Shigong, the boss, was really good, and was kind-hearted (if Wu Shigong knew what Manager Zheng said about him, he would definitely vomit blood and die of death). In addition, he was really desperate, so after thinking for a while, he agreed.
The busy day finally passed. After falling into the yamen, Wu Shigong returned to Xue Mansion. As soon as he arrived at the gate, he heard the doorman say to him: "Son-in-law, the marquis asks you to go to his study as soon as you return to the mansion."
Chapter completed!