Chapter 50: Silly and crude, but actually not stupid
In fact, the sanitation environment of streets in various parts of the Ming Dynasty was still very clean in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Corresponding requirements were also formulated at that time, and the archers of the Yamen and Inspection Department were responsible for it.
As of now, all this has long been empty talk.
You must know that everything in this world is inseparable from the word "money and food". You can do things, but you have to come up with money. But today, the Ming Dynasty is already in financial poverty, and even raising an army has become a problem.
How can I have spare time to work on municipal chores?
Just talking about human and animal excrement, it was originally collected by dedicated people for generations, and then transported to the city and sold to military households farming in the surrounding areas. However, how many fields around the town were still owned by military households at this time?
Those military camps that originally belonged to the country have now been almost completely eaten away by the hereditary military families, and the military households have been reduced to their domestic slaves. They can't even eat enough to eat, so how can they pay for excrement to fertilize the fields?
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Even if there are still some dung households left, it is because those military generals who owned many farms defaulted on their dung payments and had no choice but to turn to other businesses to make a living. There was no one to collect and transport the dung in the town, which is why it became what it is today.
Therefore, as soon as Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng's order was issued, the officials, gentry, army, merchants, and merchants in the city were all watching, but only a few took action. But later, when they saw that the governor's office and several major business houses in the city responded positively, they also took action.
stand up.
Now, although Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng has allocated all the expenses required for cleaning the town to the major government offices, military offices and wealthy gentry, he will continue to ensure the cleanliness of the town in the future.
Therefore, he issued another notice, stating that the Department of Cleaning and Transportation will be established to be responsible for cleaning up and transporting garbage in the town. This newly established department will not only be responsible for future cleaning and transportation, but also be responsible for punishing those who litter and litter.
Punishment has certain enforcement powers.
Therefore, this newly formed "Cleaning and Transportation Department" will also be directly under the Zhenshuo Prefecture, and all cleaning, transporting personnel, and law enforcement personnel will receive monthly salaries, depending on their job responsibilities, or how many they have.
How glorious is it to have a job with a fixed salary in a borderland in these troubled times?
Even some of the registered soldiers were moved by it. If they were not afraid of being investigated by the superior officials for deserting the army and running away, they would all go to the Qing Dynasty Department to earn a stable monthly salary.
Ordinarily, the military salary of the camp soldiers must be much higher than the monthly salary of the Qing Dynasty Department, but they are seriously in arrears. Sometimes they even cannot receive their salary for several months in a row. As a last resort, some people even take away their armor and weapons.
Go pawn and get some scraps of silver to make ends meet.
Therefore, as soon as the notice to establish the Clearing and Transportation Department was issued, it caused a sensation in the city. The Office of the Clearing and Transportation Department located in Taixin Gate was almost overwhelmed by the crowd, and the threshold in front of the door was almost trampled down.
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Non-stop cleaning for two consecutive days,
The town seemed to become brighter in the blink of an eye.
People who were originally forced to clean up the garbage in the streets seemed to have felt these changes now, and their enthusiasm was obviously more positive than yesterday.
Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng just stepped down from the plow building and was shocked by the sight in front of him.
I saw a large cart approaching from the direction of the fourth archway to the north. However, the cart that originally required two horses to be pulled was now being pulled by a tall and muscular man, relying on human power.
Not only Zhang Cheng was surprised, but Zhang Chengfang, Liu Chengzu and others around him were also surprised.
Yongningbo Zhang Cheng pointed to Changping Street in the north and asked: "Is that a person pulling the cart?"
Zhang Chengfang, who originally saw that it was a person pulling the cart, became suspicious after hearing Zhang Cheng's question, and replied: "That should be it, it looks like a person."
"That's a cart drawn by two horses..."
Zhang Cheng stared at Changping Street to the north and continued: "How can one person pull it up?"
"This... I'm afraid it weighs four to five hundred kilograms... How can one person pull it..." Liu Chengzu was also stunned by the power of the strong man pulling the cart.
After Zhang Chengfang looked at it carefully, he said: "Five hundred kilograms is not necessarily possible. However, I am afraid that four hundred kilograms is possible."
He then added: "Look at that man's body, I'm afraid he's much stronger than Li Erdan."
Hearing the envy in his tone, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but feel moved, and ordered: "Cheng Fang, go and have a look, and call the man over for questioning."
"Here!"
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Zhang Cheng waited for a long time before the strong man pulled the cart slowly in front of him, parked the cart by the city gate on Changping Street, and then ran this way behind Zhang Chengfang.
From a distance, the strong man was nearly two heads taller than the grown-up Zhang Chengfang. Zhang Cheng estimated that he was a head taller than himself.
Moreover, not only was he astonishingly tall, he was also extremely muscular. His arms were as thick as an average person's thighs, his waist was as big as a bucket, and his big ass swayed from side to side when he walked.
With such a height and body, at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, he was enough to be called a giant!
When the strong man came about five steps in front of Zhang Cheng, he stopped according to Zhang Chengfang's instructions, but he had no intention of bowing down. He just stood there stupidly, staring at him with a pair of leopard eyes.
Zhang Cheng.
When the young general Zhang Chengfang saw that he dared to be so rude in front of his father, he couldn't help shouting angrily: "How dare you, Uncle Yongning is here, why don't you kneel down and salute quickly!"
But the strong man ignored his shouting at all, and just asked in a rough voice: "Meat? You said that if I follow you, I will give it to the meat eaters."
"You idiot, the general is here, and you don't even kneel down to worship, so you only think about eating meat!"
Zhang Chengfang couldn't help but get angry when she saw how rude he was in front of Zhang Cheng. Just when she was about to continue scolding him, she saw Uncle Yong Ning lightly lifting his riding crop and waving it in the air, and immediately fell silent.
Only then did Zhang Cheng take a closer look at the rough man in front of him. He stood on the ground like a black iron tower. Judging from his height and build, he was much taller than the stupid big guy Li Erdan recruited in Dushi Castle.
"No wonder he can pull a cart weighing hundreds of kilograms by himself."
Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng murmured to himself, and then asked him: "Man, what is your name? Are you a military household in the town?"
The rude man did not reply to Zhang Cheng's question. He stared straight at Zhang Chengfang beside him and asked in a rough voice: "Meat. When will you give me meat?"
Zhang Cheng felt confused and looked back at Zhang Chengfang, only to see him smiling and replying: "When we saw that he refused to come, we told him that if he came, he would have meat to eat."
Uncle Yongning couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and said to Zhang Chengfang with a serious face: "Why bother lying to such a fool? You go to the butcher shop in front and cut a pound of sauced meat."
Zhang Chengfang immediately turned around and was about to go, but heard the rude man yell again: "You can't eat enough for a pound!"
Seeing the anxious look on the man's face, Zhang Cheng immediately stopped Zhang Chengfang and asked the man again: "Is three kilograms enough to eat?"
"hey-hey……"
The reckless man said with joy on his face: "Three kilograms is enough, I can eat him half full."
"Three pounds... still... still half full?"
Zhang Chengfang looked at him with disbelief and started questioning him. He was about to say more, but when he saw Zhang Cheng glance at him, he immediately stopped talking.
"Man, are you drinking?"
"Hehe...drink...drink..."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Cheng immediately ordered Zhang Chengfang: "Go, five kilograms of soy sauce meat and two kilograms of soju."
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When Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng saw the rude man turning around, his leopard eyes were as big as copper bells, staring straight at Zhang Chengfang's retreating back, as if he was afraid that he would run away.
"Man, my people won't run away when they go to buy meat and wine for you, so you don't need to keep an eye on them like this."
Zhang Cheng then said: "Come, sit down here, let's chat and wait, okay?"
The rude man turned his head when he heard the sound and said to Zhang Cheng: "You are a high official and a good person."
As he spoke, he took a few steps forward and sat down on the ground in front of Zhang Cheng, raising a cloud of smoke and dust.
At this time, the guards also brought a chair and placed it behind Zhang Cheng. After he sat firmly on the chair, he asked again: "Man, you haven't told me whose name it is yet?"
The rude man's eyes were still staring at the direction Zhang Chengfang was leaving, and he replied casually: "My surname is Wu, I don't have a name. I was born in Shenjingbao in the south of the city when I was a child. It's just that my family was poor, and my father had an illness that couldn't be cured. Early on,
That’s gone, and my mother also changed her marriage.
I couldn’t get enough to eat in the village, so I came here to make a living. People I know well in this town call me ‘Wu Da Han’, and some people who don’t have any eyesight call me ‘Silly Da Han Ruo’.”
At this time, he turned to look at Zhang Cheng and said: "You are a good official. You buy me wine and meat, why do you call me a success? I am not angry with you!"
Zhang Cheng saw that although his words were impolite, he found him cute and honest, so he was not angry. He asked him again: "Since you don't have enough to eat in the city, why don't you join the army?"
"What?"
When Wu Dahan heard this, he showed a look of disdain on his face, and said in a naive voice: "You don't have to pay for being a soldier, and you still have to do hard labor for the superior, so why don't you starve to death?"
As he spoke, he waved his big hand like a cattail leaf fan and said: "It's better for me to rely on my strength to get there. Although I can't eat enough, I hope I won't starve to death."
"Ha ha……"
Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng stopped laughing and asked: "Wu Dahan, would you like to join my army and go into battle to kill the enemy?"
Wu Dahan replied casually with a look of disdain: "If I don't go, I won't have enough to eat as a soldier..."
After he said that, he stood up suddenly. Zhang Cheng felt as if a huge mountain suddenly appeared in front of him, actually covering his rather majestic body in the shadows.
It turned out that it was Zhang Chengfang's figure that appeared on Changping Street, and Wu Dahan suddenly stood up in excitement. From this point of view, he was still having sex with a human being!
Zhang Chengfang brought back five kilograms of mutton in sauce and two kilograms of soju. Fearing that the man would not be full, he also bought two extra large steamed buns.
Wu Dahan, a rude man, was like a starving ghost reincarnated. He hurriedly took the wine, meat and steamed buns from Zhang Chengfang's hand, and just sat on the floor and started eating and drinking as if no one else was watching.
Not to mention how Yongning Bo, Zhang Cheng and others reacted. This rather strange scene also attracted many soldiers and civilians who were transporting garbage outside the city. However, they knew Zhang Cheng's identity, and none of them dared to come forward. They just stayed away from the city.
People watching from a distance were just pointing and talking.
Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng couldn't help but feel surprised when he saw that the man was very engrossed in eating, as if there was no one else around. He called his adopted son Zhang Chengfang to him with a look and whispered: "Chengfang, go and visit over there. Let's see."
Let’s see what this man’s background is. Then arrange for someone to go to Xinghe Institute and Sanwei to check whether this man has ever been in the military and what his details are.”
Zhang Chengfang nodded slightly after understanding, and walked towards the crowd of people watching in the distance.
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After a while, Zhang Chengfang came back from the crowd of onlookers. Wu Dahan, a tough man, had also eaten all the five kilograms of soy sauce meat, drank two kilograms of soju, leaving a little soju and a steamed bun.
The steamed bun was put into his arms in a few clicks and put away.
Zhang Cheng saw that he had finished the food and wine, so he waved his hand to Zhang Chengfang who was about to report. He saw Wu Dahan standing straight in front of Zhang Cheng, staring at Zhang Cheng with a pair of big copper bell eyes.
Suddenly, there was a "pop" sound, like a hill collapsing, causing the surrounding streets and alleys to tremble, and the black iron tower-like Wu Dahan fell to the ground.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
He kowtowed five times in a row before bowing his head and saying: "Young man Wu Dahan, I would like to follow Uncle Yongning and die in front of him. I don't want any salary, as long as I have enough to eat twice a day, my life will be that of uncle Yongning from now on."
It belongs to the general."
"Ha ha……"
Zhang Cheng was not surprised at all by his surrender. However, listening to the meaning behind his words, he actually knew that he was Uncle Yong Ning, but he was pretending to be dumb here, which was quite surprising.
"You want to join Ben Bo's army?"
Facing Zhang Cheng's inquiry, Wu Dahan shook his huge head like a rattle and replied hastily: "Yes. I am willing to give this life to Uncle Yongning, just so that I can eat enough every day."
It’s done.”
He added: "I have a big appetite. In the past, several bosses thought I was too good at eating, so they didn't want me..."
Looking at Wu Dahan with a puzzled expression in front of him, Zhang Cheng smiled and said to him: "Don't be afraid if you can eat it. Not to mention that you can't defeat me by yourself. Even if ten, a hundred, or a thousand come over, I won't be afraid."
I can afford it.”
Seeing the joy on Wu Dahan's face, Zhang Cheng asked with a serious face: "But I don't keep idle people under my command. Although you are tall and powerful, you don't know whether you are worthy of use. If you really go to the battlefield, you will be a coward."
, what’s the use of it?”
When Wu Dahan heard this, his face darkened. After he glanced at the dozen or so guards around Zhang Cheng, he said suddenly: "Ordinary people can't even get in if there are more than a dozen or twenty of them. Just the soldiers around the general can go up together."
He may not be my opponent."
When the guards heard this, they seemed to feel insulted. They were all indignant and eager to try. As soon as Zhang Cheng agreed, they swarmed up and captured him. This not only released a bad breath in their chests, but also made him realize how powerful he was.
Yongning Bo Zhang Cheng did not take this seriously. He smiled and looked at Zhang Chengfang who had just come back and had not reported yet. Seeing that Zhang Chengfang was also secretly nodding to him, he guessed that what Wu Dahan said was not false.
At that moment, he said to Wu Dahan with a serious face: "Well. If you follow me, you will naturally not be hungry. However, if you join my brave army, you cannot desert, otherwise you will be killed and your body will be missing."
"I know, but as long as I have enough to eat, my life belongs to Uncle Yongning. Regardless of the swords, mountains and fire, I will never frown."
Zhang Cheng nodded and said: "Okay, you can follow me and listen to me first."
As he spoke, he pointed at Zhang Chengfang and said to Wu Dahan: "His name is Zhang Chengfang. From now on, you will obey his military orders."
"No……"
When Wu Dahan heard this, he shook his head like a rattle, read a book and said: "I will just stay with the uncle. Only by following the uncle can I have meat to eat."
"ha……"
Zhang Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed dumbly: "You idiot is not stupid at all.
At this time, I heard that stupid and rude man put forward another condition: "Uncle, I have one more thing..."
He pointed to the big car parked near the city gate and said to Zhang Cheng: "I have to transport this car of garbage out of the city. I have promised others something, but I dare not fail to do it."
Uncle Yongning was very satisfied with his ability to be loyal to others. He nodded and said, "Okay, a man should be loyal first and never lose a single word of 'faithfulness'."
As he spoke, he ordered Zhang Chengfang beside him: "Send two people to follow him. After delivering the garbage, wait for him to come to my place."