Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 363 Passing Gu's order, Gu wants to recruit soldiers on the spot!

Zhu Zhi was at the recruiting office, and he had already prepared several cauldrons, ready to entertain those who came to join the army at any time.

Even if he is unqualified, he will let people have enough food, and then send a few pennies for travel expenses back.

When the yellow dog arrived, it happened that a pot of rice had just been served.

The guard pointed to a stack of large black pottery bowls and the freshly served rice bowl.

"Eat a bowl by yourself, eat as much as you can, and there are pickles in the bowl next to it."

"Anything to eat?"

"Of course!"

When the guard said this, he looked at the yellow dog's thin body and whispered a reminder in his ear.

"I also come from a poor family. I would like to advise you, don't eat too much, just eat half full. If you eat too much, you will not be able to exert your strength!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Don't worry, brother, I know it well!"

After Huang Gou'er said this, he picked up the black pottery bowl, filled a bowl full of brown rice for himself, and then ate it with pickles.

However, a bowl of rice seemed like a lot, and he finished it in a few mouthfuls without even tasting it.

"I ate too fast just now, I'll try another bowl..."

Seeing what he said, the guard was also amused by the child.How can I taste bowl after bowl? Is this kid afraid that we will ask him for food money?
However, when he saw the yellow dog eating so fast, he also wanted to tease him.

"Not urgent!"

"Sit there and eat slowly, and I will serve you food."

After the guard finished speaking, he walked to the rice bowl, and really started serving rice and doing chores.

Seeing this, Huang Gou'er blushed with embarrassment, but when the rice in the bowl was eaten up, he still reached out to pick up a bowl of rice and put it in his own bowl.

The yellow dog ate eight bowls in a row before wiping his mouth shyly.

"Let's eat these first. After I play with the stone lock and become the emperor's grandson's soldier, I will have a good meal!"

The guard who was filling the rice was shocked when he heard this. What kind of belly is this guy? I haven't eaten enough from the eight bowls of rice?
Huang Gou'er finished his meal and drank some rice soup before returning to the conscription office, next to the nobleman who had just taunted him.

"I'm done eating, I'm sure I'll have the strength to play with the stone lock this time!"

Zhu Zhi was lying on the chair bored, and when he saw that little monkey just now again, he felt depressed for a while.

The conscription standard set by the eldest nephew is too high, and dozens of people have been recruited in the morning. According to this progress, how long will it be possible to recruit 2000 people!
As for the little skinny monkey in front of him, he didn't count on it at all, he just treated it as a half-grown child and sent him back when he was full.

"Then give it a try, but I would like to remind you, don't be brave if you can't handle it, and you won't be ashamed to go home honestly."

"Today, the king has sent back dozens of people. One more than you is not too many, and one less than you is quite a lot."

Huang Gou'er Quan pretended not to hear, stepped forward and grabbed the stone lock and lifted it vigorously, only to see that the stone lock weighing one hundred catties was really lifted slowly by him.

Seeing the stone lock leaving the ground, Zhu Zhi froze instantly, and then he saw an incredible scene.

The skinny young man suddenly lifted the right hand that was holding the stone lock, and then let it go, and changed to holding the stone lock left and right.

After playing like this for a few more times, the boy held the stone lock with both hands and shouted, and even lifted the stone lock up!

Seeing this scene, Zhu Zhi immediately sat upright, with fiery gazes bursting out from his eyes.

This man is alone!

"it is good!"

"As expected of the person Gu likes, Gu will accept you now!"

Huang Gou'er didn't have any information when he heard the words, and he was very keen to detect something was wrong.

"No, aren't you recruiting troops for the emperor's grandson?"

"Even if I pass, it's still the emperor's grandson's soldier!"

"Uh uh..."

Zhu Zhi was pissed off by Huang Gou'er like this, and he blushed on the spot.

It was so hard for him to fall in love with someone, but he was even rejected by them!
Jin Yiwei was very happy, and happily led the yellow dog to register.

The guard who just fed the yellow dog treated him like his own son, and enthusiastically explained the rules of the army to him.

All old people who have been in the army know that in the army, they only look at their ability and nothing else.

This kid has such strength at such a young age. After a few years of full food in the military camp, and a lot of practice, his future prospects are limitless!
Huang Gou'er soon received a set of clothes, plus ten taels of silver for settling down.

If it wasn't for the military's regulations that forbid giving away clothes, he really wanted to ask someone to take the clothes home and ask his father to change some small clothes for his younger brothers and sisters to wear.

As for the ten taels of silver, he asked the head of the village to take it back so that his father could pay off the debt of Mr. Liu's family.

In this way, their family can keep the two acres of land, and the younger siblings don't have to sell it to others as servants.

What happened to Huang Gou'er was not an exception. Many country gentry began to rush to collect their bills when they learned of the existence of a "supply and marketing cooperative".

Because when they lent money back then, they didn't want to earn that little interest, but went to their family's fields and land.

Now that these farmers are about to untie their traps, they naturally have to tighten the rope quickly.

With the efforts of all the Ming gentry, Zhu Yunxi's conscription work went very smoothly.

Soon the conscription teams from all over the country returned one after another.

Zhu Zhi also reluctantly recruited more than 1000 people in Yiwu. Although it was far from the standard of 2000 people, he really couldn't pick out more people.

However, just when he left Yiwu with his recruits and planned to return to the capital.

The people of the two townships waved hoes, shovels, picks and other objects to stop his car.

Seeing this, the magistrate of Yiwu hurried forward to stop, Zhu Zhi was really confused.

When he went out this time, he completely followed the instructions of his eldest nephew. He neither put on a show, nor oppressed the people, and forced the local government to receive him. Why did he provoke such a big civil uprising?
"Eight bowls, Gu didn't do anything bad, did he?"

"Why do they treat Gu like this, woo woo woo..."

Since Huang Gouer ate eight bowls of rice that day, he was nicknamed "Eight Bowls".

Zhu Zhi also held him in high regard, and directly made him his long-term follower.Hearing Zhu Zhi's complaint at this time, Huang Gou'er hurriedly explained.

"Your Highness, don't panic, they are not here for you!"

"what?"

"Aren't they here to fight orphans?"

"no!"

"This is just a fight between two villages!"

"Our place has a lot of mountains and a lot of land, and the common people make a living by mining. But the ore vein sometimes crosses the line when digging, and neither side is willing to give in, so we can only fight in the end!"

"When I was young, I participated in this kind of fighting seven or eight times, and I even picked open a person's belly with my own hands!"

Huang Gou'er looked very calm when he said this, as if he was talking about a very ordinary thing.

However, the Jin Yiwei next to him took a step back in unison, trying to stay as far away from this little killer as possible.

Just to fight for a mine, can you pick out all the intestines?

Jin Yiwei couldn't understand it, and a nobleman like Zhu Zhi couldn't understand it.Only a group of teenagers who are also recruits from Yiwu can know the bitterness here.

When they saw their elders and relatives among the people fighting on both sides, there was a commotion in the team and they wanted to rush over to help.

Fortunately, people from Jin Yiwei suppressed them and warned them to leave the team without authorization to violate the military law, so they suppressed their anger and stayed in the team.

The county magistrate Wang Tiren didn't intend to persuade the two sides, but just talked to the township and village chiefs on both sides, asking them to get out of the way first, and let the prince of the court go over and fight again.

Both sides are also very face-saving. Although they have reached the point where swords are on the verge of breaking out, they still make way for Zhu Zhi.

Zhu Zhi sat in the carriage and passed through the dense crowd with an extremely anxious mood. It was only a short distance of more than 100 feet, which scared him into a cold sweat.

Compared with Zhu Zhi's nervousness, the recruits in the team are much calmer.The villagers who were about to fight on both sides even waved to the recruits in the team, and told them enviously that they would enter the capital and hang out with the emperor's grandson to make a good appearance.

What's more, they stuffed the rice balls and boiled chickens they brought into the recruits' hands.It doesn't matter if it's a baby from my own village or not, whoever catches it will give it to whoever.

"Children!"

"When you go out, you must look like yourself!"

"Don't come back if you don't look like a human being!"

"You look like a human being..."

The old man shouted here and wiped away his tears, and shouted to the recruits who were drifting away.

"Don't come back if you look like a human being, don't come back and suffer this crime..."

As soon as this sentence was uttered, there was a burst of suppressed crying in the recruit team, and every recruit's eyes were red, and they couldn't bear to look at the elders in their hometown.

When Zhu Zhi saw that he had really walked out from the siege of tens of thousands of people safely, he suddenly became much more courageous.

He was not in a hurry to hurry, but wanted to see what the rural fighting was like.

This frightened the county magistrate Wang Tiren, and hurriedly persuaded him to leave this place.

"Your Highness, you'd better leave quickly, this is really a fight that will kill you!"

"You are still the county magistrate here, and you just watched them kill each other?"

Wang Tiren was depressed when he heard the words.

"What can I do, sir?"

"There is not much good land for farming in Yiwu, a poor place. The common people's livelihood depends on mining. When they compete for mines, don't they just..."

As soon as Wang Tiren said this, he saw people from the two villages fighting.He hurriedly urged Zhu Zhi to run quickly, but instead of leaving in a hurry, Zhu Zhi jumped into the carriage and watched the excitement.

There is no rhetoric, only the indomitable killing and decisiveness.

People who live in this land know that if they want more food for their own family, they can only take it from others.

Therefore, there is no so-called justice or injustice, and what everyone is fighting for is just the bowl of rice.

Once the two sides start fighting, men, women and children will join the battle.The tall and strong stand at the front, and the women and children, the old and the weak, hold the line at the back.When you see someone injured on your side, lift it down, and then block the gap.

Mr. Zhu has never seen what it's like to fight at such a young age. When he saw a commoner wielding a pickaxe and slicing a person's head open, revealing the white brains, he suddenly felt sick and lay down on the carriage. He vomited heavily.

How could this be so?
They are all citizens of Ming Dynasty, how could they be beaten like this!

Zhu Zhi vomited on the carriage for a while, seeing that the two sides had not yet decided the winner, and were still fighting selflessly, and finally wanted to understand one thing in his heart.

Did the emperor's grandson send him here to recruit soldiers because he liked the strong folk customs here?

A rural weapon fight can be fought like this, wouldn't it be even more risky if it went to the battlefield?
Zhu Zhi thought of this, and when he looked at the battlefield again, he had some new experiences in his heart.

He found that the two sides were not purely melee, but had certain rules.

There is one person on each side to command, and then there are people who are constantly shuttling between the front and the rear, constantly conveying the command's orders.

And the two sides are not blindly fighting to the death, they are fighting while waiting for an opportunity to break through.Standing on the carriage, he saw the group on the left, and secretly dispatched a mobile force to copy the rear of the group on the right.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhi felt admiration for his eldest nephew spontaneously.

No wonder the eldest nephew can be the grandson of the emperor!
Also living in the palace, Zhu Yunxie knew that there were good soldiers here, and he, the uncle of the king, obviously couldn't recruit 2000 people when he went to the land.

Aren't these people in front of you ready-made soldiers?

Just change them into the military uniforms of Ming soldiers and train them a little bit so that they know the golden drum order, they are the elite of Ming Dynasty!

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhi felt his heart was full of excitement.

"Hurry up and pass on Gu's order, and order people on both sides to stop fighting!"

Wang Tiren looked at Zhu Zhi like a fool, and thought to himself, let alone your prince's order at this time, even if your father, Emperor Zhu, came, he would never want a truce between the two sides.

In their territory of Yiwu, once a country fight breaks out, one side must completely convince the other side to stop.

Otherwise, a small battle in three days and a big battle in five days will be a waste of time.

"Your Highness King Liao, it's hard to convey your orders. Now that you're so angry, you can't suppress it even if you send troops to suppress it!"

Zhu Zhi seemed to have never heard of it, and was still immersed in his fantasy.

"Chuan Gu's order, Gu wants to recruit troops on the spot!"

"How much?"

"As much as you want, as long as the age reaches the standard, Gu will take it all!"

When Wang Tiren heard this, he hurried over happily to deliver the king's order.He didn't ask his elder brother to convey it himself, but he found two policemen and asked them to notify the commanders on both sides. When the commanders on both sides heard that the prince wanted to recruit troops on the spot, they immediately ordered someone to ring the gong.

The people who were fighting with weapons immediately retreated when they heard the sound of the gong.

The official road, which was still chaotic just now, suddenly returned to calm.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Zhi felt even more joyful. This saves even training time, as long as he is drawn to the battlefield, he will be an elite veteran.

A group of people from Jin Yiwei were also dumbfounded. They never expected that an ordinary village weapon fight would even use the Golden Drum Order.

What surprised them even more was the attitude of the people involved in the fighting towards the Golden Drum Order.

They Jinyiwei have all been on the battlefield and know what it is like to be on the battlefield.

Not to mention a group of recruits, even veterans who have fought more than a dozen battles, once they get angry, they don't take the Golden Drum Order seriously.

Even if the generals in the rear smashed the gong, they were still unwilling to retreat, always thinking that if they worked harder, they would be able to knock down the enemy.

However, the fighting in the countryside of Yiwu made them feel as quiet as a virgin and as moving as a rabbit, how could they not be surprised.

The township chiefs in charge of both sides brought a dozen or so people to visit Zhu Zhi after they called for a golden truce.

Seeing dozens of polite people, Zhu Zhi was stunned.

If it weren't for the blood stains on their bodies, he even thought that they were just ordinary farmers who came to work in the army.

"Caomin wait to meet the noble master!"

"May I ask that the noble master just said that the on-site conscription is true?"

"How many soldiers does the noble master plan to recruit?"

"I'm not boasting. The dozen or so children I brought are heroes from the village. When they go to the battlefield in the future, they will definitely contribute to the noble master!"

Zhu Zhi sat on the carriage and looked at the crowd below who paid homage.

"Didn't Gu just say that as long as the age is quite lonely!"

"Even if you are a little thinner now, if you bring it to the barracks in the future, so that you can feed yourself for a few years, you can still become a warrior!"

When the township chiefs on both sides heard this, joy appeared on their faces.

Although all the young people in the village have been recruited away, their fights will not be lively in the future.

But the way of playing with many people and many people is the way of playing with few people and few people.

The most important thing is the future of the young people in the village. As long as they have a good future, it doesn't matter if they dig a few less mines.

The township chiefs on both sides got Zhu Zhi's accurate words and hurriedly ordered people to go back to publicize. After a while, all the teenagers were called over.

Zhu Zhi only recruited people between the ages of 16 and 20 this time, and some of them were obviously older, so he pretended not to notice.

It's just that some youngsters, all of them with childish faces, said in a daze that he was already eighteen, but he was pissed off.

"Go, go, don't do it if you are too young!"

"Why don't you want me, I'm eighteen this year!"

When Zhu Zhi heard this, he just asked with a smile.

"Then I will ask you a question. If you can answer it correctly, I will accept you."

"go ahead!"

"Boy, how old were you last year?"

"I was fourteen last year!"

After the boy shouted this sentence, not only Zhu Zhi laughed, but even the guards behind him also laughed.

"I was really fourteen last year, I really didn't lie to you!"

Seeing that the boy didn't understand what was going on, the mayor slapped him in the face angrily and cursed.

"Tamp the goods!"

"Last fourteen, this year should be more than ten?"

"Eighteen!"

"Isn't this what you taught me just now, that no matter who asks, this year will be eighteen!"

Zhu Zhi laughed even louder when he heard this, but after laughing, he still took the boy away.

There is no other reason, just because he likes the simplicity of this young man.

What's more, he will be resigned in two years, so he must have a few confidantes by his side.

These teenagers have no foundation, they happened to be trained since childhood, and they will be his personal bodyguards in the future.

With this thought in mind, Zhu Zhi became much more presumptuous when recruiting soldiers. The original quota of 5000 people, he was stunned to get back more than [-] people.

When Zhu Zhi rushed back to the capital with [-] recruits, in the Zhang family's old house outside Suzhou, the nine families in the south of the Yangtze River were sitting together with sad faces, discussing how to do things in the future.

Since Lu Shiyuan handed over all the family business to his daughter, and he took refuge in the court and the emperor's grandson, the position of leader of the nine families in the south of the Yangtze River was transferred from the Lu family to the Zhang family.

Zhang Tianyou looked at the sea merchants, full of thoughts and authenticity.

"Everyone, the Emperor Taisun is now stepping up his naval training. When the Emperor Taisun completes the navy and seals off the Daming sea area, we will no longer be able to do smuggling business!"

The others also had a headache when they heard the words, and their eyes all fell on Lu Hongfu, the head of the Lu family.

Although Lu Hongfu was wearing men's clothing, everyone present did not know that Lu Shiyuan had no son at all and only an only daughter in his family.

But they didn't want to poke it in the past.

In business and business, these businessmen are the least ceremonial, as long as it can bring them benefits, it doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman.

Seeing everyone looking at Lu Hongfu, Zhang Tianyou suddenly thought of something.

"Brother Lu Jiaxian, what do you think we should do in the future?"

(End of this chapter)