Late Tang

On April [-]th of the first year of Zhenlong, Sophora japonica flowers all over the Hebei Plain began to bloom one after another. Strings of pure white Sophora japonica flowers covered the branches, and the air was filled with a light and elegant fragrance, which was refreshing. Sophora japonica is beautiful, and the pistil of Sophora japonica is called Sophora japonica rice by the common people, it is a delicacy that can be used for cooking or as a meal.The slightly bitter taste is an indelible taste in the memory of the vast majority of northern people, especially for many elderly and middle-aged people, Huai Mi is even a life-saving food every year when it is green and yellow. The feelings of the people for Huai Mi are It is difficult for many teenagers and children in Qin Fan who have never been hungry to understand.

In the Qin feudal system, the Chengxiang area where the prefecture and county are located is called a city; a village with a population of more than 5 is called a town; a village with a population of less than 5 is called a township.Townships belong to counties.Baima Town, Yixian County, Yizhou, Hebei Province used to be a township, but after returning to the Qin Dynasty, the population increased a lot. Many people poured into Yiding from Chengde Town in the south.Below Qinfan County, there are also township and township offices at the township level, and the head of the township or town mayor is a regular ninth-rank official, a real sesame official.

This year's weather is good, when the pure white Sophora japonica flowers begin to bloom, the wheat on the plain outside the emerging Baima Town also begins to turn golden, so golden that it makes people laugh from ear to ear.On the Zhenbao Street of Baima Town, the first mayor of Baima Town after the township was withdrawn, Nie Jiji, was wearing a light green round-neck official robe and a black gauze hat with folded wings on his head. The diameter of the official robe was one inch. The small flower embroidered patterns and the light green official gown all showed that the mayor of Nijinji was different from ordinary mayors.

The dark green official robe and the one-inch-diameter small flower embroidered patterns are not worn by ninth-rank officials, but are the unique marks of sixth-rank officials.Among Qin Fan, especially after the reform of the official system in recent years, the hierarchy is very strict.The size and color of official uniforms are strictly regulated.The third rank and above are purple; the fourth rank, deep crimson; the fifth rank, light crimson; the sixth rank, dark green; the seventh rank, light green; the eighth rank, deep blue; the ninth rank, light blue.Floral decorations for clothing: Embroidery patterns for rank three or above: rank one, single flowers five inches in diameter; rank two, single flowers two inches in diameter; rank three, scattered flowers without branches and leaves.The embroidered patterns of the fourth to seventh ranks are all small flowers with a diameter of one inch; the eighth to ninth ranks have no embroidery patterns.

Nijinji is indeed a mayor of the seventh rank, and he is also a mayor of the seventh rank, a mayor with a higher rank than some small county magistrates.This is because Baima Town is an important town, from Tianjin to Yizhou, and then through Puyin and Feihu Erxing through Taihang, connecting Wei and Dai, and going directly to the important Jinyan National Road of Qin Fan in Yanmen, passing through Baima Town .As an important fulcrum on the Jinyan main road, especially the east exit of Taihang Mountain Flying Fox and Puyin Erxing, Baima Town is becoming more and more important.

This emerging town with a population of nearly 500 was already a town with a military fortress.There is a battalion of the city defense army stationed in the town. Although the mayor of Baima does not hold the post of garrison, Baima Town has a militia battalion of [-] people. This militia battalion has a special commander, but the militia reserve The nature of the surname makes the mayor not directly manage the militia battalion, but is the highest command of the militia battalion.

The old-fashioned chicken returned home when the army was disarmed at the beginning of the year. Although the old-fashioned chicken has fought very hard and fought bravely after returning to the battlefield in recent years.However, he was originally handicapped, and in the past few years he had suffered several serious injuries on the battlefield, and he was also a little lame in one leg.In addition, he is from Shatuo, and a large number of foreign soldiers were dismissed from the army. There was an order to retain only [-]% of the foreign soldiers.

Fortunately, he has performed well on the battlefield in the past few years, and he has won several tough battles with Yang Weili. In addition, Yang Weili is a dazzling new star that is highly valued by the higher-ups, so his subordinate has also gained a lot of glory. There is no shortage of promotions.When he changed jobs, Nei Jiji had already returned to his hometown with his military uniform without epaulets and collar flowers, but was studded with military medals. officer.Moreover, he also won a Medal of Courage and a Medal of Eagle, and was awarded the title of Knight before he changed his career.

After returning to his hometown, he was demoted to use like other military officers. After he was transferred from the sixth-rank Zhenwu captain to the Wen rank, he was changed to the seventh-rank Chaoqinglang. Originally, he had to wear light green robe, wearing a beam crown, and holding a bamboo and wooden wat.However, the officer changed jobs and was given the treatment of retaining the dark green official robe.

The new official position assigned by the above is the eighth-rank mayor of Baima Town, but it is a low-level assignment to the seventh-rank Chaoqinglang Sanjie.The official rank of Zhengqipin, as the official position of Zhengobingpin.However, Baima Town is a large town with a scale of 10 people. There is even a regiment of garrison troops and a regiment of militiamen stationed in the town, guarding the Jinyan National Road and Taihang Erxing Mountain Pass, with an important status.

Although he took off his straight and close-fitting military uniform, steel helmet, and armor, and put on a soft green official robe and black gauze official cap, he felt a little regretful, but he could become a town of more than 14 households, [-] The mayor of the big town of the rest, Ni Jinji is still very happy.The first thing the mayor of Nie did when he took office was to write a letter requesting that his name be changed to the name of the Han family.There are now a large number of tribes in the Qin Dynasty. According to regulations, all Hu people have to shave their hair and change their Chinese names.The old man had always wanted to change his surname to Li, but such a "national surname" did not dare to change it privately.In the end, he still asked to change his name to Nie Lieji, and the higher-ups didn't make any trouble with his small request, and agreed directly.

After changing his name, Nie Lieji felt that he was a bit taller.With years of experience in the military and cultural studies, this Shatuo man has managed Baima Town in an orderly manner. In the state assessment in the first quarter of this year, he got excellent praise.

Seeing that the summer harvest was about to come, Nie Lieji rode back to his home in the countryside on the war horse that had been with him for several years.He was wearing a soft and sweat-absorbing cotton official robe, with a silver belt around his waist, shaking the reins in his hand, and he looked like a horseshoe that was triumphant all the way.

The summer harvest is just around the corner, and the militiamen in the town are also returning home to prepare for the summer harvest.There are many militiamen in Baima Town, far more than a battalion of 500 people.In fact, out of the nearly 15 people in Baima Town, [-]% of the young adults are registered militiamen.However, the militias are also different. The [-] militias in Baima Town are standing militias, and their training time is at least three months a year, while the other militias are reserve militias, and their combined training time is only half a month.

However, the summer harvest season is approaching. Even the standing militia, as long as it is not a wartime, must be disbanded and return to the hometown to help harvest food.This cannot be delayed. Although Nie Lieji is the mayor now, he still has land in the countryside.It was allocated to him by the officials at the beginning. When he changed his job, the officials allocated another piece of land to him to serve as the county magistrate, another piece of land, and a piece of honor land, plus Yongye land. Now Nie Lieji He can be regarded as a local tyrant and a small landlord.Including the land he bought, the family’s land totaled 2000 hectares, or [-] mu of land. Although the staff land and dew field had to be returned after resignation and death, the rest would never There are still more than [-] mu of industrial land.

Even with Qin Fan's current system, the land tax is divided into acres, and in addition to the stipulated limit of acres per person, if you buy land, you have to pay a very high transaction tax, but Nie Lieji, who is already completely the same as the Han people, is I am very concerned about these lands, even if I pay heavy taxes, I have set aside [-] mu of land.This is a land of family heirlooms. Many demobilized officers took rewards and transfer fees to set up factories, open mines, buy ships, buy shops, and even buy bonds and deposit interest, but Nie Lieqi finally chose to buy land.Although many people gave up their plans to buy land because of the expansion of borders outside the customs and the high land transaction tax, but this could not stop Nie Lieji.

Riding on the wide two-way, six-lane Jinyan Avenue, Nie Lieji became more and more in love with this land.

He was followed by eight young and strong men, which made Nie Lieji look more like a front and back hug. Although King Qin didn't like officials' ostentation, the old system of many officials' ostentation had been changed. In order to reduce it, a small town mayor like him dare not stand up to it.But Nie Lieji still has eight subordinates, not because he likes to confront his superiors.Rather, these people are actually his servants, to be precise, his contract workers.

As early as a few years ago, King Qin issued an order to abolish all slaves in the territory and restore their physical status.Although there is a price for this physical recovery, it is necessary to join the army or go to open up wasteland outside the customs, but this still makes countless slaves feel grateful.According to King Qin's order, the existence of slavery is not allowed, only employment.

Nie Lieji has [-] mu of land, and is a seventh-rank mayor, so he can be regarded as an official and local tyrant.Although he couldn't buy slaves, he did hire a lot of servants.It is very difficult to hire Tang people now, as long as they are willing to leave their hometown, they can get a large piece of land outside the customs.Nie Lieji hired Kunlun slaves brought in from Nanyang by sea merchants in recent years.The imperial court turned a blind eye to this obvious human trafficking by maritime merchants. They just imposed heavy taxes, and then strictly managed the blacks entering the country, prohibiting the slave trade.

As long as black people enter the country, they are all citizens.They must first be handed over to the government, and the government will seek their opinions. As long as they are willing to reclaim wasteland outside the customs, they can immediately obtain the status of the Communist Party, and they can also be allocated land.And if they are unwilling to go outside the customs, they are also Chinese citizens, but they cannot obtain land and so on.Most of these Kunlun slaves who were unwilling to go outside the customs became hired workers in the end, working in the homes of aristocratic families, or in the mines, workshops and merchant ships of emerging merchants, or farming in the farms of landlords and local tyrants.

Nie Lieji's family has [-] mu of land, but the husband and wife no longer cultivate it by themselves.Nie Lieji employs about a hundred people, men, women, old and young. Apart from his house in the city and his manor in the countryside, he also has two small farms in the countryside.Most of the people he employs are families, the young and strong are farming and plowing the fields, and the old are looking after the home.The older women take care of the children, cook and grow vegetables, while the younger ones are the hall scouts, laundry and weaving.Young girls are maids, and teenagers are long-term book boys.With this arrangement, it seems that many people are employed, but in fact the employment cost is not high, and the servants are more at ease to work.

The eight helpers were all very strong, and they were driving two large carts, which were filled with coal bought from the town, and there were also quite a few department stores.Nie Lieji is a very active person, or a very calculating person.Although he has become the mayor of the town, he does not miss the opportunity to make money just like a local rich man.In the past few years, Yi County has prospered, and so has the countryside.Nie Lieji opened a grocery store and a briquette workshop in the countryside.Specially make briquettes ** for the people in the nearby villages.Although he was the mayor, he didn't care at all.He has been in Qin Fan for many years, and he is very smart not to do embezzlement and embezzlement, but he will not miss it if he makes money properly.Anyway, the red line that officials are not allowed to do business is that officials above the fifth rank are not allowed to participate in business, but he, the mayor of the seventh rank, does not have to worry about these things.In recent years, Qin Fan's commercial prosperity has also greatly improved the status of merchants. As the mayor of the town, he runs a small workshop and small shop, and no one looks at him differently.

Kunlun slaves with black skin were driving two large carts of coal with the same black paint on the warm windy avenue.

These Nanyang black men walked and chatted in proficient Tang Yun Mandarin, talking and laughing, and Nie Lieji also chatted and laughed with them from time to time, and the relationship between the master and the servant was very harmonious.Nie Lieji is a very open person. He has seen too many things in his travels. He knows very well that in today's Qin Fan, these people are his hired workers today. An army officer or a local official, or even a big businessman, there are too many such things.Wasn't he, Nie Lieji, a prisoner of war who came from the north a few years ago?But now, he has his own farm here, has a wife and children, and has become a civil affairs officer with more than 10,000 people, and is a low-level nobleman with a knighthood. Could such a thing be imagined in the past?

Nie Lieji is smart, Qin Fan has no slaves, these people are just hired workers.They are all Chinese citizens, not Chinese citizens anymore, and no one can tell what their future will be like.If you have a better relationship with the workers, be kind and generous, and the rewards will be very generous, he still has a clear account of this.

"Old Hei, when will our wheat harvest start?" Nie Lieji asked one of the old black men while riding on a horse.

The man is not really old, he is only in his forties, but his dark appearance always looks a bit old.This old man is from Champa. He was trafficked to the Central Plains more than ten years ago. He used to be a farm slave of a Champa lord. He is best at growing Champa rice, which is an old-fashioned way.After staying in the Central Plains for more than ten years, he has now become an authentic northern farmer, and he is also very proficient in planting crops such as wheat, millet and beans.Nie Lieji's family's [-] mu of land is all planted with wheat, and Lao Hei is at the helm.

In Mayday, Lao Hei bares his upper body, revealing his shiny dark skin that can reflect light, showing his strong body.He was only wearing a pair of linen beach pants, and his big bare feet were stepping on the flat road.Like his master Nie Lieji, he also shaved his head. The difference is that Nie Lieji left a pot head that is the most common in the army, while Lao Hei has a shiny shaved one.He was striding along, closely following the carriage, holding a bong in his hand, taking a puff from time to time, puffing out the clouds, and shredded tobacco made of honeysuckle, mint, tea, etc. was burning in the pipe, It turns into a refreshing and refreshing taste, swirling in the throat, refreshing.

He took two puffs of cigarettes, then looked up at the sky, and slowly replied: "Well, I chose a day to worship the gods on the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, and then open the sickle to harvest wheat. This day is a good day." Zili, my boss thinks it’s okay.”

"The eighth day of the fifth lunar month, um, a good day. Just set this day, when the time comes, kill the two fat pigs in the pigsty, slaughter a few sheep, go to Yuyong to catch some fish, and buy some beef in the town , everyone works hard, and I will not treat you badly." Nie Lieji said with a wave of his hand.

This generous statement immediately won the cheers of the eight strong men, butchering pigs and sheep to catch fish and beef, this wheat harvest season will be happy.The boss is so generous, everyone will definitely work hard.Back home, his wife had already greeted him at the door with his son.

Looking at his son who was writing poems while holding a book while waiting for him, Nie Lieji couldn't help being very happy.Jumping off the horse, he stroked his son's head, "Study hard, and come back with a champion in the exam. If your father and I hadn't studied less, how could we change jobs and return to our hometown. Hey, if we don't change jobs and return to our hometown, we will be in a few years." , your father and I will definitely be able to hang a golden bean on our shoulders, and we have to earn a Baron Viscount or something."

The wife wore a double-breasted long-sleeved gown over her inner skirt, and smiled slightly at her husband, "Tang'er has worked hard, so don't put pressure on the child." In fact, Mrs. Shi is already very satisfied with her current life. , her husband was able to change jobs and return to work, she actually didn't know how happy she was.When fighting outside, she was always frightened, afraid that something might happen to her.Unlike now, although the husband is demoted and transferred to another job, he no longer has to worry about it.Taking care of her husband and children, caring for her husband and raising her children, and having such a good family business, this kind of life often wakes up with laughter in my dreams.

"Hey, my greatest wish is to hope that Tang'er will succeed. It's useless to blame my father, otherwise, Tang'er is so smart, if he can enter the Spartan training camp and be with the princes and sons of various families, he will have a better life in the future. It must be more promising." Nie Lieji sighed.Although his son is smart, after all, the Spartan training camp is a place where everyone wants to send their children. Although Nie Lieji has a smart son, his level is still too low.

Nie Lieji handed the horse over to Lao Hei's son, turned to Shi Shi and said, "Just now Lao Hei said that the eighth day of the next lunar month is a good day, choose that day to open the sickle."

"Well, we women are all ready too, and we will go to the field together someday." Wheat harvesting is a big event, men cut the wheat, and women have to go to the field to tie the wheat besides cooking and delivering food and water.Every year at this time, not to mention ordinary farmers and women, even landlords and landlady women, emperors and empresses will also go to the field together to cut wheat and glean ears.

Nie Lieji looked at his savage son, "When the time comes, let Tang'er go down to the ground too."

"You are not afraid of delaying his study."

"Each summer harvest and autumn harvest, even the King of Qin and Princess Qin have to go to the fields in person. This is a big day. Tang'er usually reads a lot, but she can't forget her duty."

Mrs. Shi nodded, with a smile on her face: "This year's wheat has grown gratifyingly, and the ears of wheat are heavy. I heard from Lao Hei that the yield per mu can reach three stones. It's amazing. When I was in Daibei, At most, the family’s land yields one stone per mu.”

Three stones per mu, Nie Tuhao's family has three thousand mu of land, which is nine thousand mu of wheat.Even if the husks are removed and 6000% is deducted, more than [-] stone wheat can be obtained in the end.Thinking of so much food, the whole family couldn't help but beam with joy.

"This is all guided by the agricultural technicians sent from above. I never thought about it before. It turns out that there are so many specialties in farming. You see, they didn't do anything. They just dumped the mud from the fishing pond. In the covered field, the usual livestock dung was accumulated in the field, and the rotten grass and leaves were added to the ground, and plant ash was added, and this way, with some guidance from them, the production increased so much."

"It's good to have more. We need to accumulate more manure in the future. This cow dung, sheep manure and horse manure can't be wasted. Those who are pulled outside must be picked up and composted." Nie Lieji didn't look like an official at all, but like a rich man. Seriously speaking.

Old Hei at the side came over at this time and interjected: "Master, let me see if we pack up the excrement from the public toilets in the town? Although it costs a little money, there are many public toilets in the town. After packing and transporting it back, this land can have three stones per mu in the future, just more and no less."

Nie Lieji waved his hand, and said with great pride: "It's all wrapped, ask others what price they paid, we will pay a little more than them."

"There is also a post station on Najinyan Main Road, there is one every [-] miles, we can also take care of it."

"Well, it's packed."

"We have horse-drawn carriages in our village. I think we can send a few horse-drawn carriages to the city to collect night incense every day. Although it needs to be collected by each family, there are tens of thousands of households in the town. It is no less than public toilets, and it is completely collected. It doesn't cost money."

When Nie Lieji thought of the manure of 10,000+ people, he immediately became overwhelmed with pride, "Well, take it, take it all, and when you have nothing to do, the family's carriage will be pulled to the town to collect the manure. By the way, you can't harvest it for nothing, otherwise, They don’t necessarily give it to us. In this way, when we go to harvest for the first time, we bring some vegetables and fruits and put some in each house. They eat our fruits and vegetables, so they are ashamed not to give us the fat? Eat People are soft-spoken and soft-handed, and I will occasionally send them some melons and fruits in the future, and the fertilizer will definitely be ours." The more he talked, the more excited he became, and there was no chemical fertilizer for farming in this era, except for livestock manure, which mainly relied on Big shit.Although it sounds ugly, it is not three or five buckets of extra income per mu of land, but one or two stones, doubled!

"The grain station has already come to say hello. After the summer harvest, they will come to collect grain. They also said that this year they don't need to send it to the town, and the grain station will go directly to the countryside to collect it. This year's grain price has come out. Two hundred Wen."

This price is not high, compared to the current demand outside, this food price is even frighteningly low.You know, the price of food in Chang'an is now basically over [-] yuan per shi.In comparison, it is a hundred times that of Qin Fan.But although it hurt a little, Nie Lieji didn't say much.In the whole territory of the Qin Dynasty, the strength is the unified purchase and sale of grain. Even if it is a landlord's family, the grain has to be sold to the grain station at the government's price. The supply is higher, but not by much.But wanting to buy a large amount of food in private is a crime in Qin Fan.

However, although the government's purchase price is not high, the food of the Qin Fan has always been at par over the years.How much the purchase price, the sales price is also based on the purchase price.However, Nie Lieji also knew that although the government did this to prevent the landlords from making food money, it was better than the forced expropriation like other feudal towns. Although it couldn't make war money, it also guaranteed enough profits for the farmers.After all, as in the previous years, when there was a grain shortage, the market price of grain was tens of thousands, but that was the grain merchants' profit, and the price of grain sold by the farmers was actually not high.Once it is a good year, the grain merchants will severely suppress the price, resulting in the price of two or three dollars per bucket of rice, making farmers lose money the more abundant the year is.The key point is that the grain merchants hoarded grain for a strange reason, maliciously manipulated and manipulated the price of grain, and finally fattened up one grain merchant.

However, Qin Fan's grain purchase plan now maintains a stable balance for both the grain farmers and the people who buy grain.

Two hundred Wen for Shimai, the price is neither high nor low, Nie Lieji did the math, and after deducting various costs, he actually made a lot of money.Three thousand mu of wheat can harvest nine thousand shi of wheat, and even if the husks are removed, there can be six or seven thousand shi of wheat.If you count the two seasons of the year, fishing ponds, forests, mulberry and hemp fields, as well as the output of the family's textiles, as well as the grocery store, coal field and carpentry workshop, etc., Nie Lieji is still very satisfied , even if it is not making money every day, it is basically making a lot of money every day.

The only thing that makes him feel regretful is that he was transferred from another job. If it weren't for the slight physical injury and disability, how could he be discharged from the army.Think about that young boss Yang Weili, who is young, but now he has just been promoted to lieutenant colonel, with two bars and three stars.There is no doubt that within ten years, you may be able to hang up Jindoudou.Now that he has changed jobs and returned to work, he has given up his official career, and what he thinks in his heart is that his son can be more promising than him, and that's enough.

Back in the house, Nie Lieji still went to the martial arts hall first, where there was a weapon rack with eighteen kinds of weapons stuck on it.Especially at the top, there are three wooden men wearing three sets of armor.On the left is a set of phoenix-winged Doujin Shanwen battle armor, on the right is a set of horn helmet cowhide armor with a layer of chain armor on the outside, and in the middle is a set of navy blue tiger-style wolf helmet full-body battle armor.

In front of the three sets of armor, there was also a sword, on which lay a shiny, gold-inlaid and jade-encrusted samurai sword.

On both sides of the Xun Dao, there is a Zhangsan horse spear on the left, an eight-foot cavalry spear on the right, and a saber and a Mo Dao next to it.In addition to these, there is also one each for riding a lunge bow.The shield has three sides, iron bones, a steel whip, a copper mace, a double-edged battle ax and a single-handed axe.

This is simply a small arsenal, and it is also Nie Lieji's entire collection, most of which are weapons he has used.Most of them are issued standard ordnance, and some are captured on the battlefield.The liberalization of the Qin Army's ban on martial arts, coupled with his being a decorated officer, was able to take in these old guys.Every time he goes home, he always wipes them carefully. These will be their family heirlooms.

Carefully wiping every strip on the Shanwen armor, the room was extremely quiet, and the tiger-headed Shi Jingtang also sat beside Nie Lieji with a piece of cloth and wiped it. The father and son were indescribably peaceful.

At this time, there was a sudden neighing sound from outside, accompanied by the sound of rumbling horseshoes, resounding outside the house.

Nie Lieji, who was cleaning his armor, bounced up like a spring like a conditioned reflex. Shi Jingtang looked at his father in surprise. At this time, his father was a stranger. A kind of awe, sharp and straight up.

"Son, don't rub it. It was the galloping and neighing of the war horse just now. Come out with me to see what happened."

Nie Lieji put down the armor in his hand, took his son and ran to the gate. As soon as he arrived at the gate, he saw a horse riding from the village gate. The cavalry was wearing a fiery red leather armor. There is also a red flag.

At this time, the big bell on the stone pagoda at the entrance of the village finally rang, and people in the village ran out of their houses one after another, towards the big drying yard in front of Nie Lieji's house.

Shi Jingtang was standing at the door holding hands by his father. He raised his head and said, "Aye, plant a flag and ride a horse, ring the bell and whistle, are you going to gather the militia again?"

Nie Lieji looked solemn, he nodded and said: "Son, that's right, this is an order to assemble. This is already the fifth militia assembly order this year, but I don't know that this time it is the same bluff and scare as the previous four times. In the south, the fight is really about to start."

At this time, there was another sound of horseshoes, and a strong man in leather armor rushed over with two burly men in leather armor.Seeing Nie Lieji, the leader of the men jumped off his horse and rushed forward in three steps at a time. He clapped his heels together and raised his hands in salute: "The commander of the Baima Town militia battalion, Zhao Tai, has met the mayor!"

Nie Lieji skillfully returned the salute, "Are you going to assemble?"

Zhao Tai is also a veteran who has retired from the army. He once served as a battalion commander in the soldiers. slightly lower.After changing jobs, he was transferred to the Standing Militia Battalion as the Battalion Commander, and his rank seems to have remained the same, but he was downgraded from the War Soldier Battalion to the Militia Battalion.

At this time, the 36-year-old Zhao Tai looked excited and said excitedly: "It's an assembly, a big move, this time it's a real big move. The order just passed, Zhou Shuai has ordered troops to Chengde Town, and this time we have standing militias in all states in Hebei They must also go out with the army."

"Are we going to fight too?" Nie Lieji was surprised.

The Qin army is now strong and strong, and it has abolished a million troops just now. Why do they still want militiamen to go to the battlefield now?

At this time, the village chief had already followed the messenger, and he also rode a horse. The village chief was also a veteran in his early fifties. Although he was only the leader of the team before he retired, he had been in the army for many years , even in front of the mayor, Nie Lieji, he still has some qualifications and prestige.At this time, the village chief shouted all the way on the horse: "Under the order of the king of Qin, Chengde will be marched south in May, and the third commander of Zhou Guo will lead the army to march south. The Hebei militia will follow the army to rob Chengde, and Wei Boer will rebel against the town's wheat..."

The village chief was excitedly announcing the order. The task of the militiamen was to follow the army but grab the wheat in the second town of Hebei. Moreover, the King of Qin said that if they went out with the army, each person would be compensated by the government for one hundred yuan a day. At the same time, everyone would grab the wheat they cut At that time, the army bought it on the spot at the purchase price of Qin Fan at two hundred wen per stone.If the militiamen bring their own horses and donkeys, the government will subsidize the foot money every day according to the market, and bring their own carts and horses, and also subsidize the carts and horses...

The place where the old village chief walked was boiling, and the militiamen in the village shouted excitedly, "Go south, go south!"

"The militiamen who voluntarily go with them can bring their own armor, bows and arrows, and come to the village office to sign up!" The village chief still shouted there.

Many militiamen were soldiers who had served in the military, some of them served in the combat army, and some served in the township soldiers and united soldiers.Now retired at home, when they heard that they were going to the front line, not only did no one panic, but they were all excited.

Nie Lieji stood at the gate, holding his son's hand, his face was gradually flushing, his heart was beating violently, a long-lost blood rushed to his forehead, and the blood all over his body boiled.

"Go to the battlefield, go to the battlefield, and finally be able to go to the battlefield again!" He chanted in a low voice, extremely excited.

He suddenly lowered his head and glanced at his son, "Son, if you go to Zhengnan, I will earn you a spot in the Spartan training camp!"

Zhao Tai also stood there, smiling silly.

Qin Fan has made great military achievements, and it has always been Zhao Tai's greatest regret not to be able to win a lord. Now, his heart is finally excited again.

There are also many militiamen who have the same idea as Nie Lieji and Zhao Tai. Although it is very good to snatch the food from the second town of Dweibo, this is not the reason why they are most excited.What excited them most was that they had an unexpected opportunity to go to the battlefield with their armored horses and swordsmen.

Wealth can only be obtained from books, fame and fame can only be obtained on horseback, on the battlefield on horseback, you can find a prince from thousands of miles away!

After returning home, Nie Lieji rushed directly to the martial arts hall. As soon as he entered, he found that his wife Shi Shi was already standing in the hall, taking off from the wooden stand the navy blue tiger-style wolf helmet full body armor he wore when he was awarded the Lord of the Warriors .

"My lady!" Nie Lieji called out unexpectedly.

Shi Shi stared at Nie Lieji and forced a smile, "Husband, let this concubine wear the armor as my husband. In the future, I will still be here to undress my husband!"

"Miss, do you agree with me going?"

Shi Shi smiled, what's the use of disagreeing.He had already seen the regret in her husband's heart after he changed jobs. This time he went out with the army, since it was an official order, he could not disobey it.At the same time, is it not a wish that is too far away, no matter what, although a wife does not want her husband to fight on the battlefield, she worries day and night.But at this time, besides supporting him wholeheartedly and letting him go out without any worries, what else can she do.

"The concubine is at home waiting for my husband's triumphant return!"

"En!" Nie Lieji nodded.

"Go early and come back early, safe and sound!"

"En." Nie Lieji nodded again, feeling warm in his heart. (To be continued.)