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Chapter 151 How It Was Made

(PS: The second update today, the first update is sent to ask for a monthly ticket.)
Jiaozhou, located on the bank of Jiaozhou Bay, has Jimo and Gaomi counties under its jurisdiction. In the Ming Dynasty, it was a relatively desolate and poor place with many mountains and windy places. The people mainly lived on farming and fishing. The only specialty is Glue vegetables, fish and shrimp, and the land is barren, and food production is scarce, and it is often unsustainable in times of famine. There have been many famines in history, and there have even been several human tragedies in which children cannibalize each other.But it is precisely this harsh environment that has created the indomitable will, the sturdy and brave style, and the aggressive character of Jiaozhou people. greedy eyes......

On the tenth day of June, Master Zhang and his entourage rushed to Jiaozhou City. Fang Shihua, the magistrate of Jiaozhou, had already led the local officials and squires to greet him outside the city gate. Ask Zhang Shitou and his soldiers to take out a thick stack of notices, and say to Fang Shihua: "Master Fang, time is urgent, I will talk about it later, please ask the Yamen servants to post these notices immediately, all townships and towns in Jiaozhou must Post it here. In addition, I would like to ask the local security guards in various places in Jiaozhou to spread more publicity—as long as young men who volunteer to join the army, as long as the soldiers pass the examination, they will first be given five taels of silver to settle down, and they will take care of food, housing, and clothes, and three meals a day. There is oil and water, a salary of 12 taels of silver per year plus rewards, distributed on a monthly basis! Also, I have already obtained an imperial decree from the imperial court that all peasant households with children serving as soldiers will be exempted from tax!"

"What a generous condition!" Fang Shihua stuck out his tongue quietly, thinking that the people here are going crazy now, but it's okay, take all those local ruffians to the army, and my place will be much more peaceful up.Thinking of this, Fang Shihua hurriedly took the notice in person, handed it to the head of the yamen servants, and ordered the yamen servants to act according to the order, and then smiled at Young Master Zhang: "Tanhualang, our Shandong officials say that you are the pride of Shandong going out. , the work is really swift and resolute, these notices are written on the road, right? It will really save time."

"Master Fang is laughing. The Ministry of War only gave me one month. It's been ten days now, so I'm in a hurry. Please don't mind, Master Fang." Young Master Zhang apologized to Fang Shihua with an embarrassed smile.Fang Shihua, who has no backer in the court, of course didn't mind, he just pulled Master Zhang affectionately, and introduced everyone present to him one by one. After introducing the officials, Fang Shihua pointed at the middle-aged squire Said: "Tanhualang, you may know this lord, you are the pride of Shandong, and this Gao Hongtu Gao is the pride of our Jiaozhou. He was a Jinshi in the 38th year of Wanli, and served as a Shaanxi patrol officer and a Shaanxi Taoist censor. , I just returned to my hometown at the beginning of this year, and you may have met in the capital."

Gao Hongtu is about 40 years old, tall and thin, with a majestic Chinese face, but a very friendly attitude, and explained with a smile: "Master Fang misunderstood, when I returned to the capital from Shaanxi last year, Tan Hualang had already gone to Liaodong When I returned to my hometown, Tanhualang seemed to be still making great efforts in Shengjing, the puppet capital of the slaves, so I didn't have the chance to know Tanhualang's dignity." When Master Zhang was in the capital, he once heard Gao Hongtu mentioned by officials from Shandong, and he knew that He is a neutral faction who does not belong to the Eunuch Party or the Donglin Party—that is, he belongs to the kind of fellow townsman who is easily drawn into the Gou Shao Party by Young Master Zhang, so he dare not neglect, and hurried to Gao Hongtu as a junior Saluted and greeted, Gao Hongtu returned the salute, admiring Young Master Zhang's unassuming style.

"Master Zhang, the prisoner heard that you came to Jiaozhou this time to recruit soldiers to guard Jimen and support Liaodong, and to name non-Jiaozhou soldiers." Gao Hongtu used a criminal's self-proclaimed name, and said calmly: "The criminal wants to In support of Tanhualang’s charitable deeds, the children of the clan have been mobilized, mobilized to sign up for the army, and more than 900 family children have been recruited for Tanhualang, all of whom are young men between the ages of 17 and 30. They are at the mercy of Tanhualang. Criminals are also willing to donate A batch of money and food to help explore Hualang's military power!"

"More than 900 people? So many? It can't be possible that they all have the surname Gao?" Young Master Zhang was taken aback. He almost thought that Gao Hongtu's family was the same as his own, with too many tenants to count.Fang Shihua rushed to explain: "Master Zhang, Mr. Gao's family is the largest family in Jiaozhou. Jiaozhou has the most complete Gao surname and a large population. It can be said that as long as it is a branch of the Gao surname, it can be found in Jiaozhou. I found it! It only took one day for Mr. Gao to recruit these 900 people. If Tanhualang is willing, Mr. Gao will definitely be able to recruit another group of young men for Tanhualang."

"Master Gao is not afraid of the dangers of the army, he took the initiative to mobilize his relatives to join the army, and donated money to help the army. He is loyal and passionate, and his ambition to serve the country is moving. The lower officials admire and are extremely grateful." The beautiful words on the mouth of Young Master Zhang It sounds better than a sentence, but it is very clear in his stomach - since Gao Hongtu is a self-proclaimed criminal, it proves that he must have committed some crimes and was forced to return to his hometown. He actively and enthusiastically cooperated with his recruitment operation, apart from his patriotic enthusiasm. , I'm afraid I still hope to find the door to get rid of the crime and come back from myself.But it doesn't matter, Young Master Zhang is still very happy to use his fellow villagers to win over a bunch of party members in the court.

"You don't have to be polite, Tan Hualang, these are what lower officials should do." Gao Hongtu was very modest, and had a pleasant conversation with Young Master Zhang.Next to him, Fang Shihua hurriedly introduced the rest of the Jiaozhou squires to Young Master Zhang, and said, "Tanhualang, please come to Kuaicheng. The officials will prepare a little wine and simple tea and light meals in the yamen. Please invite Tanhualang and everyone brought by Tanhualang." You must appreciate it, my lord."

"Master Fang, we'll talk about it later after the banquet." Young Master Zhang once again rejected Fang Shihua's kindness, pulled Fang Shihua's sleeve and said anxiously: "Master Fang, where is the school ground in Jiaozhou? Please take me to have a look first." Whether it is suitable, I will assess and screen recruits, and I need to borrow your school grounds."

"Assessment and selection of new recruits?" Jiaozhou officials and gentry all thought they heard it wrong. Generally speaking, recruiting soldiers these days, as long as they are not lame or disabled, they are under 35 and over 172.8 years old. I have never heard of any assessment that needs to be conducted.But after reading the recruiting requirements presented by Young Master Zhang, Jiaozhou officials and gentry were inevitably even more dumbfounded. If you want to serve Linqing Zhang Gou Shao as a soldier, the first age must be between [-] and [-] years old, and the second height must be between More than five feet and four inches (about [-] centimeters), and the third is that they must not have any criminal records—even if they stole a chicken from the neighbor.

"Tanhualang, aren't your conditions too harsh?" Fang Shihua said cautiously: "Especially the third one - Cao Xuequan, a famous minister of my court, once said that righteousness always starts from the slaughter of dogs. Tanhualang, you let the folks I don't want brave and ruthless chivalrous men, but only some honest villagers who have never committed any crimes, and I'm afraid it will be bad for the morale of the army."

"I didn't come up with this one, it was left by Marshal Qi Jiguang." Young Master Zhang pulled Zhang Dapao to him, pointed at Zhang Dapao and explained with a smile: "This old sergeant has been a soldier of the Qi family army for three generations, and The only seed left by the old Qi family army, he personally experienced this kind of strict assessment when he joined the Qi family army." Speaking of this, Young Master Zhang added, "By the way, Mr. Gao, I am really sorry, your clan children, It also has to be screened."

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The local officials, guards, and land security in Jiaozhou are still working cooperatively. In just a day or two, Master Zhang’s recruitment notices have been posted all over the townships and towns of Jiaozhou. The town suddenly became a sensation.You know, if a farmer in the north of the Ming Dynasty wanted to earn 12 taels of silver a year, he had to have at least 12 acres of land and two acres of vegetable fields, and he had to work hard for a year to get this income. Expenditures on farm tools, cattle and fertilizers and taxes paid, and now that we are in the Little Ice Age and famines continue in the north, the already extremely poor peasants in Jiaozhou want to earn 12 taels of silver a year.And Young Master Zhang not only pays each soldier a salary of [-] taels of silver and a price of [-] taels of silver for settlement, but also takes care of food, housing, and clothes, and also has tax-free privileges. The rural children in Jiaozhou don’t stare red. Strange.

Then, naturally, the qualified father and son brothers bid farewell to the wives who have been pleading for thousands of times, the young children who are waiting to be fed, and the tearful white-haired old mother. People flock to Jiaozhou City from all directions, hoping to become one of the lucky ones.In just four or five days, more than [-] young and strong people from Jiaozhou gathered in the Jiaozhou school to accept the strict selection of Young Master Zhang.

On June 35th, the screening officially began. The first and second rounds are to check age and height. Those who are younger than 1.7 years old will go home to make seeds, and those who are over 1.7 years old will go home to continue farming and fishing. Those who are not qualified for height should also go back. , Shandong people are already tall, and it is easy to exceed [-] meters—Master Zhang does not want defective products that are less than [-] meters.And the third level is to check the receipts issued by the land security. Those who are found to have criminal deeds such as petty theft, robbery and fights will be eliminated. Out of the game - if these people go to the battlefield immediately, they will definitely be more useful than honest people, but they also have the potential to be a soldier, and after a few battles, they are basically hopeless.Young master Zhang would rather teach the honest and honest people slowly, than these clever and cunning soldiers.

After one morning, under the envious eyes of more than half of the knockouts, more than 8000 young people from Jiaozhou became the lucky ones to pass the first three tests, and received a certificate of passing the preliminary examination, with which they can go to the temporary thatched kitchen In exchange for four meat clips, there is also fragrant rice porridge to drink at will, unlimited.Holding those dripping and fragrant Roujiamo, most of the young and strong can't wait to shake off their cheeks and chew, and some young and strong only drink free rice porridge, and the Roujiamo is hidden in their arms, ready to take it back to honor their parents or To make the wives and children happy, and some people secretly gave it to the fathers and brothers among the eliminated people.But as long as these people are discovered, they will immediately attract the vicious whips and scolding from Young Master Zhang's soldiers, "Eat! Let me eat for myself! If you don't eat enough, you won't have strength. Don't blame me if you fail the assessment in the afternoon!"

In the afternoon, these young and strong people who did not eat the roujiamo finally understood that Master Zhang's personal soldiers were really doing it for their own good - the fourth level of the assessment was in two hours, each with an empty sack, Run to the beach ten miles away, pack eighty catties of sea sand, and run back with the sea sand on your back!There are rewards for the first ten young and strong runners back.And just after Young Master Zhang announced the assessment content of the fourth level, the young and strong middle school exploded, and hundreds of people shouted: "Carrying [-] catties of sea sand and running ten miles? There is a time limit? This is too difficult for a human being! "The result was very natural. All young and strong people who shouted were picked out and kicked out of the game. They were immediately eliminated, and nearly a thousand people were eliminated at once.However, most of the Jiaozhou green students still received the sacks honestly, and prepared to participate in the assessment after standing at the starting line.

In the next two minutes, after confirming that all the green papers had received an empty sack, Young Master Zhang personally rang the gong to announce the start of the test. About [-] young people from Jiaozhou ran wildly with sacks, along the road designated by Young Master Zhang. The course rushes to the beach.But soon, many local snakes in Jiaozhou found that there was a shortcut to copy the tortuous route designated by Young Master Zhang, and they ran into the small road without saying a word. As a result, as soon as they ran halfway through the small road, Zhao Shuelun, Young Master Zhang's running dog, laughed grinningly. Appearing in front of them, he said with a smile: "Congratulations, you have been eliminated."

There are plenty of smart people, and some young and strong people found woods beside the road, so they sneaked into the woods to hide, and prepared to carry [-] catties of sand and sand to go back to work.But after they entered the woods, they discovered that Wu Sangui, the entourage of Young Master Zhang, had already led a group of Jiaozhou soldiers to greet him inside. Wu Sangui smiled and said, "Congratulations, you have also been eliminated."

On the way to the beach empty-handed, many careful young adults found that there were some grass ropes, hemp ropes, and even some tattered dustpans scattered in the grass on both sides of the road. With the help of tools, he quietly picked up the hemp rope, straw rope and dustpan, and took them to the beach to fill them with sand—fortunately, this time, Master Zhang's vicious soldiers did not show up, announcing that they were eliminated.Naturally, these tools played a big role when brought to the beach. The speed of filling the sack with a dustpan is much faster than that of a hand planer. The straw rope can tie the bag mouth, and the hemp rope can tie the sack on the body. It can save a lot of effort.But in this way, some young and strong people who were eager to win and careless were not happy, and started to snatch tools from their companions. Then, more naturally, Wu Liuqi led a group of soldiers to appear out of nowhere to maintain order, He beat up the young man who was fighting among himself and snatching his partner's tools, and kicked him out of the screening on the spot.

As time passed by, Young Master Zhang tapped on Erlang's legs and sipped the tea, admiring the beauties among the crowd with thieves' eyes, one after another, the young and strong ran away with heavy sandbags on their backs, sweating profusely against the scorching sun When I came back, I handed the sandbags to the government officials to check the weight, because there were no large scales on the beach to know the weight. Most of the young and old people just stuffed the sacks to the brim, and they all weighed more than [-] catties.However, there were also many people who were underweight. As a result, these people either yelled and protested, claiming that they did not have enough sea sand because they did not have a large scale. People were separated again, yelling and protesting and crying bitterly hoping to do it all over again.There were even some people who filled brown soil instead of white sea sand in their sacks. As a result, these people were whipped a few times and kicked out of the screening.

An hour passed, and less than half of the people came back. Young Master Zhang asked the people to publicize on the road, saying that the time had come and the test was over.After hearing these words, most of the young and strong who were not strong enough threw down their sandbags, or quit the screening voluntarily in dejection, or left the school field wiping their tears; Gritting his teeth, he continued to rush to the school grounds with a sandbag on his back, and handed it over to the government officials to check the weight and authenticity. Young Master Zhang didn't stop them, but let them line up alone.

"No more! The last one, there is no one behind." At the second moment of Shenshi, accompanied by the shouts of the supervision and assessment soldiers, the last young man who had just turned 17 ran away wiping away tears while resisting a heavy sandbag weighing at least 100 kilograms. When he entered the school grounds, he fell to the ground as soon as he entered the school grounds. He cried and asked, "My lord, general, am I qualified? Has an hour passed?"

"You exceeded the time the most, a full half an hour." Young Master Zhang left his seat, walked up to the last Qing Zhuang who came back, patted him on the shoulder and said: "But it doesn't matter, although you exceeded the time, You didn’t find a rope to tie the mouth of the bag, and you foolishly ran back holding the mouth of the bag with your hands. But, you passed the test of perseverance! So, you passed!”

"And you!" Young Master Zhang pointed at those young and strong people who came back overtime, and said loudly: "You didn't believe the words of the people along the way, and you didn't hear my words to let you be eliminated, so you continued to move forward, insisted on completing the assessment, and you also passed the determination. Passed all the tests!"

"Oh!" All the dejected overtime young men cheered.Those who were shaken by the people's words and eliminated young adults over time were not convinced. They shouted outside the circle: "It's not fair! It's not fair! Sir, you said that you must come back within an hour. We only quit when we knew the time had passed."

"I said you must come back within an hour, that's right." Young Master Zhang laughed and asked, "But have I ever said that those who don't come back within an hour will be eliminated?" Peeping, it was only then that I remembered that Young Master Zhang seemed to have said that he would be eliminated if the time expired.

"And you." Young Master Zhang stood in front of those young and strong teams who were slightly underweight and did not protest, and said loudly: "The amount of sea sand you brought back is not enough, and you should have been eliminated, but you didn't make any noise. There are objective reasons such as large scales, but I hope to do it again. This proves that you are sincere and did not make mistakes on purpose, so I will give you a chance to pass. But I have something to say first, and the chance is only given to you this time. If you make a mistake next time, the military law is ruthless!" As he spoke, Young Master Zhang pointed at those young men who were not enough and shouted and protested, and said loudly: "As for you, you don't look for your own reasons, you just want to shirk responsibility, so all of you disuse."

Amid the dejected sighs of the eliminated and the dancing cheers of the passers, Song Xiance, Lu Xiangsheng and others quickly counted the number of qualified young adults, and the result surprised Young Master Zhang. A total of 210 people passed the test and became Master Zhang's A member of the new army.Overjoyed, Young Master Zhang immediately rewarded the top ten passers with five taels of silver, and promoted them to be the commander-in-chief of the new army banner, and then handed over the new army to Lu Xiangsheng, Wu Liuqi, Wu Sangui, and Zhao Lilun in units of thousands of people. The four generals led the team to reorganize, counted their lives and distributed them to An Jiayin and military uniform flags, ready to take them back to Jimen for strict training.

"Boss, I think your new army should have a resounding name like Qi's army." Song Xiance suggested to Young Master Zhang: "Boss, what do you think of being called Zhang Chuangjun? The word Chuang represents bravery and the courage to charge into battle. "

"Not good! Think of another one!" Young Master Zhang categorically refused, secretly despising Song Xiance's lack of new ideas.Zhang Shitou suggested, "Master, why not just follow Qi's example and call him Zhang Jiajun."

"Master Zhang, how about fighting the tiger army?" Wu Liuqi, who had killed two tigers before, suggested.

"Jimen cavalry!" Zhao Shuelun suggested.

"Whirlwind wolf rider!" Wu Sangui suggested.

"Tianxiong Army!" Lu Xiangsheng also suggested.

But no matter how majestic these names are, Young Master Zhang shook his head, thinking it was inappropriate, and finally Song Xiance questioned again: "Boss, you don't want so many good names—to be offensive, you can't be called Gou Shaojun, right? " Young Master Zhang, who was thinking of a good name for his army, glared at Song Xiance and said angrily, "Then why not call it the Urban Management Team!"

"What is an urban management team?" Song Xiance and others asked in surprise.Young Master Zhang grinned, and replied: "The urban management team, that is the number one army in the world! Haven't you heard such a passage - lend me three thousand urban management, and restore my mighty China! The sword points to the west of Tianshan, and the horse steps to the north of the black sea!" Opening bows on Lake Baikal, enjoying snow on Sakhalin Island! Visiting ancient times in the Indochina Peninsula, worshiping ancestors in the ruins of Shengjing! Huaxia urban management is invincible. Seeing gods and killing gods, encountering Buddhas and killing Buddhas! If Jiannu cavalry is dust, the urban management team is a sandstorm!"

"See gods and kill gods, meet Buddhas and kill Buddhas! If Jiannu iron cavalry is dust, the city management team is a sandstorm!" Wu Liuqi, Song Xiance and others all gasped, and said in unison: "Well, let's call the city management team Or call it the Urban Management Army!" Someone added in a low voice, "Or the Urban Management Team."

(End of this chapter)