Chapter 35 Going to the Big City
PS: In the early morning, the emperor sincerely asked for recommendation votes, collections and rewards!
Especially the reward, it is currently a shortcut to increase popularity. The emperor is not pretentious and shouts out loudly - brothers, shoot me with gold coins!
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On August 10, Li Kun, the third leader who had been in charge of inquiring about news and contacting spies for many years, came back from Changshan County. In addition to bringing back the new and old newspapers this month, there was no accurate letter to go to the county government to handle identity filing. The list that Master Lu worked hard to write was accepted by the official of the civil affairs department of the county government.
"Didn't you send money to the manager secretly?" Master Lu's voice was very unhappy. Wu Ming heard it as soon as he walked downstairs.
Li Kun explained helplessly: "I gave it to you! The three managers sent fifty oceans to each of them."
There was no sound upstairs. Wu Ming stepped into the door, glanced at him and smiled, "I guess the money I gave was not enough. If I don't give enough money these days, who will do your business? Fifty oceans are a large amount of money in the eyes of ordinary people, but they are nothing in the eyes of officials. Besides, in addition to ninety-six people, we also have 800 acres of land."
Lu Zhengde nodded slightly: "That should be the case. I didn't give enough money."
Master Lu recognized Wu Ming's speculation, and Li Kun smiled at Wu Ming embarrassedly.
Wu Ming looked around and sat down and asked, "Why do you always love to come to my house? Ashes are falling everywhere and spitting. Really, the big wooden building under the big camphor tree at the entrance of the village is in vain?"
The three of them already knew Wu Ming's good temper, so they didn't care about his complaints. They all sat indifferently with their butts crossed their legs.
Wu Ming shook his head and stopped caring: "Third brother, the caravan that just returned said that if you hire two ships to transport the cargo to the mouth of Fangcun Cha River in the south, the ship owner would not want to come up again?"
"No, I'm just talking, but the bosses of the ship are still afraid of the plague. They asked me why I was with a few She men. I had no choice but to come back and ask my brothers to drive the horses to carry them. The road was winding and difficult to walk. It was sixty miles back and forth, and the horses were half exhausted. So I might as well buy a boat early. It would be convenient for me to do anything with a boat, so that I would save myself from getting the bullets back and hiding them tightly." Li Kun replied angrily.
Master Lu gave him a blank look: "Do you think you are anxious? I haven't gotten the ID certificate and it's safe to go out."
Wu Ming stood up with the newspaper: "Look, everyone, there is a news from this newly issued Quzhou Business Daily that Kaihua's new acting county magistrate is a top law student who has returned from Japan. He is only 28 years old and a native Kaihua man. The newspaper praised him for his fair work and approachability. He has worked diligently since he took office and benefited the people. He has been praised by all walks of life in Kaihua."
Master Lu quickly snatched over and put down the newspaper after reading it: "Do you want to register with Kaihua?"
"No? You copy the list and change the number of land to 300 acres of mountainous land. Then change the application place to Shunshan Village on the west, and then send it to Kaihua County. It is estimated that Kaihua County is not so many twists and turns in Kaihua County. The sky is high and the emperor is far away and easy to fool. Besides, an acting county magistrate who has just returned from studying in Japan, no matter how knowledgeable he is, he will not be an old man in the officialdom. At least he is motivated and is eager to accomplish things. It is not impossible to give it a try." Wu Ming answered lazily.
Li Kun quickly stood up: "The things I handed over to Changshan County Government have been invalidated?"
Wu Ming waved his hand: "It won't be invalid. Just wait patiently. It's necessary to apply for more identity certificates... Or just apply for more than 30 brothers, all of which are used to use pseudonyms. Anyway, the identity certificates sent are true, and there are still multiple covers at critical moments."
Master Lu raised his eyebrows and said, "This is a solution! If you can't spend a lot of money, Shunshan is another big mountain nest that doesn't care about. I guess no one will take a look in ten years."
"Then do it, but you only need to do a few of us, right?" Lu Zhengde suggested.
After everyone discussed, they agreed with Lu Zhengde's opinion. The four people present, including Wu Ming's two apprentices, Lu Kuiyuan and Lei Peng, were 6, and added the nicknames of eight wives who never left the house. They formed five families far away from the world in the mountains as if they were decent. The third leader immediately volunteered to go to Kaihua tomorrow.
After the major event was settled, Master Lu frowned again: "Brother Wu, everyone has been busy for more than 40 days and finally found coal at the foot of Dongwu Mountain to the west. But now it seems that it is not okay to have no manpower to do this specifically!"
"Yes! Although the coal there is not deep, it is estimated that it will take a tunnel to dig after not being dug for a year, and there are not enough manpower!"
During this period, Li Kun has been going to Changshan and Quzhou to inquire about the coal market. He knows that most of the coal in Changshan and Quzhou is transported from Shangrao and Guangfeng areas in Jiangxi. As long as he mines it, he will make a lot of money.
Wu Ming really had no choice. The She brothers were used to leisurely leisure, and they were okay to hunt houses. They couldn't count on digging coal, roads and tunnels. They could only temporarily let more than a dozen brothers who had nothing to do dig dozens of loads every day and use them themselves. Although they had considered the surrounding limestone, clay, sand shale, and fluorite before, whether to build a small cement factory to produce cement? Now it seems that this idea is still too advanced. Within two years of development, there is no need to produce cement in this place. If you use it yourself, it will be enough to buy hundreds of tons to go back to Changshan. Maybe after the autumn harvest, everyone will settle down and leave this place and try their luck.
Master Lu saw that Wu Ming had not spoken for a long time, and couldn't help but urge him: "What should you do if you say something?"
Wu Ming thought for a while: "Let's do this, I'll go to Changshan City tomorrow, take Kuiyuan and Lei Peng out to open my horizons, and go to the Civil Affairs Department of the County Government to see if I can do it quickly."
Several people looked at each other, but they never expected that Wu Ming would suddenly have this idea. But thinking about it, we can't let the young Wu Ming squat in this remote place all his life, right? Another thing is that although the wanted order of the three provinces has not been long, Changshan is not Shangrao. Few people have seen Wu Ming, so there will be no danger. Take a step back and say that even if there is danger, with the ability of Wu Ming and Lu Kuiyuan, it is more than enough to escape.
Before the three of them could think clearly, Wu Ming turned to Li Kun and asked, "Third brother, have you been to Changshan County Government to do business? Have they received the receipt for you?"
Li Kun asked in confusion: "Receipt? What receipt? No!"
"If there is no, there is no. I'll go there and report the names of Mao Liangwu and Village Chief Lu Da, probably it's enough. But I have to bring me some money. In addition to doing business, I also want to buy some things." Wu Ming turned to look at the master.
"How much do you want? Is a thousand oceans enough?" The master was very happy this time.
Wu Ming waved his hand: "It's not enough, five hundred oceans are enough."
Lu Zhengde quickly advised: "Please bring more. Didn't you say you want to buy a watch? You bought the watch by the way."
Wu Ming stood up and laughed: "No need, don't look at who I am? He is famous all over the country and has been to the "Central Daily" bandit leader "Lone Wolf"! I really have no money and I will rob it. I'll see who the goddamn dares not give it to me, haha!"
Wu Ming laughed and went out, leaving three bosses to look at me and I look at you. Even though he knew that this was anger, the three of them still couldn't hide their worries.
The next day, before dawn, Lei Peng, who was so excited that he had not been asleep all night, got up early and guarded the door of Wu Ming's bedroom. He looked at the green and oily waves that began to grow heading to the east. From time to time, he looked at the hazy sky, and then looked at whether the morning glow appeared on the dark mountain tops in the east. He felt that his life had never been so slow.
Not only him was anxious, but Lu Kuiyuan, the eldest son of the leader Lu, was even more anxious than him. He got up early and put on the best-looking clothes. After he finished, he went in and out to see the sky. His mother was tossed by the little sister who had just been born for two and a half months last night. She was exhausted and just fell asleep. She was awakened by the hurried footsteps of her eldest son. She was so angry that she sat in the mosquito net and cursed: "Little beast, are you going to learn how to be a horse or something? Go in and out again, I will break your legs!"
Lu Kuiyuan was so scared that he grabbed the door and quickly turned over several turns and rushed to Wu Ming's wooden building. Seeing Lei Peng leaning against the railing, he couldn't help laughing, but he woke Wu Ming up again.
Wu Ming put on his training suit and went out to see the sky, and immediately started to teach him a lesson: "It's at most five:30 now. You two guys, okay! Don't pretend to be pitiful, follow me down and run a lap. After that, go to the half slope to practice boxing. Grandma's, it's not right."
The two apprentices did not dare to disobey the order. At the same time, they took off their new clothes and hung them on the railings. They followed Wu Ming barely and ran around the village without any effort. Then they climbed up the wide flat ground that was sorted out on the slope and practiced boxing. Wu Ming ignored them and stood alone under the big tree and practiced stance to the east.
It was dawn, and the old and young people in the village went out in a row. Wu Ming finished his morning exercise and went down the mountain to the river beside the south. He took off his clothes and pants and plunged into the water. He went back and forth two times upstream of the river more than 60 meters wide before he went ashore to dry his body and put on his clothes and went home. He found that Lu Kuiyuan and Lei Peng had already brought porridge and two pickled vegetables from his master's house.
The master and apprentice sat together for breakfast. Lu Zhengde, Master, Li Kun and others arrived soon. Wu Ming finished half a bowl of porridge, put down the bowl and put into the house and put on his youth suit and cloth shoes. He took the cloth bag containing a hundred oceans and ten taels of gold bars from the nagging master, and threw it to Lu Kuiyuan behind him. Nodded and walked forward a few steps, took the reins from a brother, and walked out of the village entrance with Youzai. The two little ones followed suit, each holding a horse and following behind, regardless of the worrying eyes of a group of elders.
Two hours later, the master and apprentice and the three brothers followed rushed to the Chahekou Wharf of Fangcun. The passenger ship that departed at a fixed time every day had not left yet. The people on the dock looked very surprised when they saw Wu Ming standing out in a flock of cranes and two young men behind them boarding the ship together. They gathered together in groups of three and two whispered to each other and quietly asked which young man the gentle and handsome young man who had just boarded the ship? Several young wives stared at Wu Ming directly, as if his soul had been taken away.
"One silver hair with two corners!"
The shaking passenger ship left the shore amid the shouts of the boss. Wu Ming suddenly found the two brothers sitting at the stern of the boat, and had to shake their heads and stop talking.
The sharp-eyed Lei Peng had already noticed it. Seeing Wu Ming's helpless smile on his face, he quietly leaned forward and whispered: "Uncle Ming, I knew they were coming soon."
"Oh? How did you know?" Wu Ming asked with a smile.
Lei Peng replied quietly: "When I came out, I heard the second uncle quietly instruct them to keep staring at us. If something happened, I would deal with them after I went back."
Wu Ming heard it interestingly: "Not bad, very clever! Keep it going in the future."
Lu Kuiyuan also came over and said, "Brother, go to Changshan City to finish the business. Should you go to Quzhou City? I heard that Quzhou City is a hundred times more lively than Changshan."
Chapter completed!