Wu Shigong got the appointment letter for his new position from his father-in-law that night. Wu Shigong's new position was in Guidewei, Guide Prefecture, Henan Province, and was an agent of Qianhou Office for six years.

When his father-in-law Xue Lian handed over the appointment letter to Wu Shigong, he told Wu Shigong: The other party in this position, Guide, Henan, is located in the Central Plains. That place is still rich, surrounded by large troops and cities, so it is safer. Wu Shigong, a thousand-household office, basically does not fight.

Xue Lian also cared for Wu Shigong: After he arrived at the local area, he would not cause trouble anymore. As long as Wu Shigong stayed in the local area safely for a few years, he would not have to be in his six years. As long as the news in the capital passed, Xue Lian would find a way to transfer Wu Shigong back to the capital.

Wu Shigong was helpless to find that he was an acting position. However, Wu Shigong was quite satisfied with his father-in-law Xue Lian's arrangement. The most satisfying thing was that he could not fight in the place where he was. Moreover, the name of the Thousand Households was in charge of the force of one thousand people. In modern times, it was the position of the regiment commander. Wu Shigong didn't know that his thousand houses had no possibility of a thousand people in the force of one thousand people. Regarding this, his father-in-law Xue Lian did not tell Wu Shigong about this.

Wu Shigong also considered: As for six years, even if his father-in-law Xue Lian had a solution, Wu Shigong would not return to the capital, and he would also find a way to take the whole Xue family out of the capital. As for what method to use then, let's talk about it later.

So, why did Xue Lian say "Wonderful!" to the official position assigned by Wei Zhongxian for his son-in-law?

First of all, of course, the location of this Qianhu House is relatively safe. Henan Guide is also relatively rich. Then Wu Shigong would not suffer too much when he got there.

Secondly, in the late Ming Dynasty, the garrisons and Qianhu Districts, especially in the mainland, although they were all military households, they had to undertake some military tasks of suppressing bandits and maintaining local public security. However, these garrisons and Qianhu Districts basically did not need to fight. The war will be completed by war soldiers, that is, recruiting soldiers who paid military salaries by the court. The military households of the garrisons and Qianhu Districts will do some auxiliary and logistics work at most in the war.

Of course, if the situation is in crisis, those military households will also go to the front line to fight. However, since they have not undergone any military training at all, their combat effectiveness is imaginable.

So, what is the main job of these military households? They are farming and paying food to the court.

During the early establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's purpose of establishing military households was: on the one hand, he could use military officers during wars; on the other hand, when there was no war, those military households would farm and hand over part of the harvest from the fields to the court.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, we already knew that the financial crisis of the court was very serious. Therefore, the tax collected in the military households accounted for 20 to 30% of the total fiscal revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the court was particularly concerned about the tax revenue of the military households.

We can see the Qianhu who was appointed by Wu Shigong. This is how we regard the Qianhu who was appointed by Wu Shigong as a large farm in the court, and the military household was the tenant farmers in the farm. Wu Shigong, the Qianhu who was appointed by Wu Shigong, was the steward of the farm.

Therefore, in Xue Lian's opinion, Wu Shigong could easily complete his work as long as he guaranteed to pay all the taxes to the court every year. Xue Lian did not consider what extra money his son-in-law Wu Shigong was in charge of the position of thousands of households. Using Xue Lian's idea: Even if the thousand households cannot pay all the taxes, the Xue family will subsidize them a little, as long as Wu Shigong completes the work well.

Third, Wu Shigong became the position of acting as a thousand households, which was a kind of demotion. This also gave Emperor Chongzhen an explanation.

We can take a look at the situation of Li Lu, the commander in front of the Nancheng Military Command Office. He was transferred from the capital to the place to serve as a garrison. Wu Shigong was a thousand households in a thousand households. Although they were all in the fifth grade, Li Lu was a regular military position, and Wu Shigong's military position was quite rich. This is just like the difference between the commander of a regular army and the commander of a reserve service in modern times. Therefore, Wu Shigong's transfer this time should be said to be a demotion.

Therefore, if Emperor Chongzhen settled Wei Zhongxian's party in the future, he saw that Xue Lian was already very aware of his son-in-law Wu Shigong demoted his son-in-law Wu Shigong and drove him out of the capital. Wu Shigong was just such an insignificant official position in thousands of households, so Emperor Chongzhen would basically release Wu Shigong.

Finally, Wu Shigong, the official position of a thousand households, was only in charge for six years. Six years later, as long as the news passed, it was very likely that Wu Shigong would be transferred back to the capital.

Therefore, it can be seen that Wei Zhongxian is really good to Xue Lian and found such an appropriate official position for Xue Lian's son-in-law. Xue Lian couldn't help but exclaim loudly.

However, Wei Zhongxian and Xue Lian did not expect that in a few years, Henan would be in constant famine. Farmers' rebellions began one after another. Finally, the entire Henan region became the main battlefield for the peasant rebellion army and the imperial court to encircle and suppress the army. After years of war, the entire Henan was thousands of miles away. In real history, the two largest cities in Henan - Kaifeng and Luoyang. Kaifeng City was dug through the embankment of the Yellow River by Li Zicheng's rebel army, which dredged the Yellow River water backwards. Only a few hundred people survived hundreds of thousands of troops in Kaifeng.

After Luoyang City was captured by Li Zicheng, the Fu King (the uncle of Emperor Chongzhen) in Luoyang City was cut by Li Zicheng and made into hot meat slices. They made Fulu Soup with venison and shared them with it.

If we knew all this, would Wei Zhongxian and Xue Lian still feel it wonderful? Of course, Wu Shigong now has no idea about all this.

However, the position of Qianhu, which had been in charge for six years, was a bit strange. Because in the Ming Dynasty, the positions of Qianhu were basically inherited by father and son. The position of Qianhu was the age of ten after the death of the fraudster, and his son was only ten years old and less than sixteen years old to inherit the position, so others needed to temporarily act. When the son of Qianhu became an adult at the age of sixteen, he would return the position of Qianhu to him.

However, under normal circumstances, the relatives of this fraudulent household or other people in the garrison are always temporarily appointed. But why do you need to report to the Ministry of War? No one knows the reason. The Ministry of War will not care about such trivial matters. For the Ministry of War, as long as the taxes paid by the thousand households are not short of, even if there are no thousand households, it doesn't matter. But now Wu Shigong is just in need, so he will go with the flow and give them to Wu Shigong.

The next day, as soon as Wu Shigong arrived at the yamen, he received a letter from Eunuch Qin who sent someone to send him: Emperor Chongzhen would send someone to take over the Nancheng Military Command Office in the afternoon.

Wu Shigong immediately sent people to gather all the deputy commanders and hundreds of households to inform them of the news that the Nancheng Military Command Office would change the command. Moreover, he asked Xu Limu to prepare the accounts of the Military Command Office and prepare for the transfer at any time.

In the afternoon, Emperor Chongzhen indeed sent his three guards to take office with documents in hand. They simply handed over the accounts of the military personnel without checking the accounts of the military personnel. Their main purpose was to let Wu Shigong hand over the official seal commanded by the military personnel to them as soon as possible.

After the handover was completed, Wu Shigong walked out of the Military and Ma Si Yamen. He looked back at the yamen, and felt a little disappointed and relaxed.

Wu Shigong was about to leave with Shumo and Xue's guards, but suddenly, someone next to him called him: "Sir."

When Wu Shigong saw that he knew the man, the second son of the late Deputy Commander Qian, who arranged him to the position of the small flag.

Wu Shigong stopped and asked Qian Qi what was wrong?

Qian Qi told Wu Shigong: The wife of Deputy Commander Qian was already very unhappy that Qian Qi had obtained the position of the small flag, not Qian Qi's elder brother. However, because Wu Shigong was still the commander of the Military and Horses, he did not dare to do anything. However, now the news of Wu Shigong's resignation has spread, and the wife of Deputy Commander Qian has also started to move and has driven Qian Qi out of the house. Qian Qi now wants to defect to Wu Shigong and follow Wu Shigong to work.

After hearing Qian Qi's words, Wu Shigong laughed, and felt a little sad. Wu Shigong thought: I have done so many things in the Bingma Si, and the income of all the Bingma Si people has increased greatly. But until now, there is only Qian Qi, who is almost unable to stand any other person to defect to him.

Wu Shigong signaled to Qian Qiyi and said, "Then let's go together."

On the way back to Xue Mansion, Wu Shigong asked Shumo to send a message to the powder shop, so that Zhao Ruya would not have to clean up the end of the powder shop. Wu Shigong asked Zhao Ruya to prepare and he would leave the capital soon. At that time, he would take Zhao Ruya and his daughter with him.
Chapter completed!