Xu He asked Zhu'er to recruit troops, thinking that recruiting a hundred people would be good enough.
Unexpectedly, this boy was so happy that he took advantage of the situation and was summoned to Yansi's stall, where he brought over two hundred people.
Xu He took Qin Lie and Zhou Bi to Xu Dai's village near Tuancha. They were all dumbfounded when they saw the two hundred people.
"Zhu'er, Master asked you to recruit dozens of people, up to a hundred people. How can I tell the ambassador to you if you recruit so many people?" Ding Ze complained.
Zhu'er said nonchalantly: "Master, you still have to explain to the ambassador? Then he is too..."
"Zhu'er, don't be rude to the young master!" Ding Ze glared at him.
Zhu'er was still very afraid of this second brother Ding. When he heard this, he muttered: "I don't want to either. As soon as I heard that you don't need to boil salt, all the young people came running and started shouting! I've been shouting since I was a child. We grew up together, who do you think it would be better for me to take with me, and who would I not take with me?"
"You, let me tell you, you have so many reasons..."
Seeing that Ding Ze was about to get annoyed, Zhuer said with a playful smile: "Young Master, third brother, you judge!"
Qin Lie wanted to laugh, but when he thought of what he had seen recently about Wu Beizhi and the military training methods he discussed with Zhou Bi, he immediately suppressed his laughter and remained silent with a cold face.
Xu He didn't care what Zhu'er said.
This kid is used to being wild. It is impossible for him to change his gender all of a sudden. If we don’t talk about him now, he will suffer a lot when he enters the regiment camp!
But to be honest, the idea of selecting soldiers from Zao Ding was a genius.
Looking at the two hundred men with well-proportioned muscles and clear eyes in front of him, Xu He knew that these were the best sources of soldiers.
In this era, there is no better source of soldiers than miners and cooks in the Nanzhi area.
These people have been hard-working, taciturn, and very united. They dare to fight if something happens. When Qi Jiguang first founded the Qijia Army, weren't the Yiwu soldiers under him Beilei Babaoshan miners?
At this time, Zhou Bi came to Xu He and whispered: "Master, with so many people, the tea must be reported to the court, otherwise..."
How could Xu He refuse such a high-quality soldier for nothing?
He waved his hand and said: "The ambassador of Huancha will be called Wu Decao..."
Halfway through, he remembered that Wu Decao, who had always done errands for him, was still in prison in Nanjing working as a foreign laborer.
"Call Wu Decao back, ask him to go make tea, and give some gifts to the ambassador. Tell him that our Xu family was ordered by Haiphong Dao Zhang to organize a team training. In order not to delay the busy farm work, we borrowed some people from him from the tea!"
Zhou Bi laughed as soon as he heard this. He gave the gift to shut up the ambassador. He specifically emphasized Zhang Jingxian. It was to tell the ambassador that I am either recruiting troops or completing the tasks assigned by above. You give it to me and I will give it to you. Convenient things.
It’s business to business, don’t be too serious.
Zhou Bixin said, Young Master really has a clear understanding of people's hearts.
Three hundred and fifty people, two hundred were eliminated at once.
The rest were picked from the village of the Shen family. It happened that Xu He asked Xu Dai to pick about 200 people from the village of the Xu family and were waiting aside.
Xu He nodded towards Qin Lie.
Qin Lie understood, turned around and shouted to the farmers' soldiers who were sitting or standing by the drying area: "Come and stand here!"
Unexpectedly, after shouting twice, the village soldiers were still lazy. Some of them were even pointing and laughing, not paying any attention to Qin Lie, who was about the same age as them.
Qin Lie turned to look at Xu He.
Unexpectedly, Xu He didn't look at him at all. Instead, he told Ding Ze on the side about sending a letter to Wu Decao.
Qin Lie turned his head, knowing in his heart that this was Xu He's first test for him, and it was also the key to whether he could gain a firm foothold among this group of people.
Thinking of this, he took his spear from Shisan's hand and walked towards those people menacingly.
When the farmers saw Qin Lie walking towards them with a sullen expression on his face, the timid ones quickly stopped talking and joking and tried to sneak into the team, but the bold ones still didn't care and remained motionless.
Qin Lie came to those people, and first rounded up the villagers who were sneaking into the team with the barrel of his spear.
This spear was made of a pewter rod. It was both solid and flexible. It was whipped out and the first banker was whipped to the point where he cried for his father and mother, and blood oozed from his back in the blink of an eye.
This scene suddenly frightened the gang of villagers. They no longer dared to joke and all hid in the queue.
However, Qin Lie's Dao Zi, Shi San and others had already discussed with Qin Lie and Zhou Bi. When they saw this scene, they all came out and attacked the villagers with their scabbards.
The bankers were hit so hard that some even burst into tears.
Some of them, who were usually domineering in the village, actually lost their temper and shouted at Qin Lie: "You have eight generations of ancestors in your family. I come to practice during the off-season. If you beat me, I will eat it." I’ll live in your house!”
This sound immediately made Qin Lie stop his tactics.
He looked at the middle of the field coldly and said: "Who just wanted to make fun of my ancestors?"
Silence...
"I'll say it again, who was the one who just wanted to make fun of my ancestors? If you have the guts, come forward!"
Suddenly, a big man with a beard jumped out from the crowd: "The labor and management said, you are not from the official family, nor from the Xu family, why should you beat me!"
Qin Lie sneered: "Why? Because I am the camp officer of you guys, and because of the gun in my hand!"
The bearded man sneered: "What the hell are you talking about as a battalion officer? Did the imperial court grant you a title? Besides, giving labor and management a manure spoon can make you kneel down and call me grandpa!"
Qin Lie smiled: "I won't bully you. You can use a manure spoon or any weapon. As long as you can beat me, I will let each of you take a stick!"
The big man was probably used to being arrogant in the countryside. He thought he was a bit brave. He picked up a pitchfork from the haystack on the side and said, "I'll stick a few holes in you, but don't report to the official!"
"Come on, life or death is your fate!"
The attention of hundreds of people in this scene was immediately attracted.
They were all curious as to why Qin Lie was so confident when he didn't look as strong as the strong man.
When the competition began, the big man rushed towards Qin Lie with a "ouch" sound.
The fork in his hand was covered with iron, and it gleamed with cold light, and he stabbed Qin Lie in the chest in the blink of an eye.
Some timid ones were so scared that they closed their eyes when they saw this scene.
Just when the fork was about to reach Qin Lie's chest, suddenly, for some reason, the big man suddenly stopped.
When everyone looked again, they found that the big man's face was covered with sweat and his face was as pale as paper. At some point, the head of a sharp gun had been pressed against his throat, making him afraid to move any more.
Everyone who saw this scene took a breath of cold air, this... is this Qin Lie a ghost?
Why is it so fast?
The fork in the big man's hand fell to the hard drying ground with a bang.
He knelt in front of Qin Lie and said: "I lost, I will definitely serve as a soldier well in the future!"
At this moment, Xu He, who was about to leave, passed by the two of them and said, "Give this man twenty sticks and send him back to Zhuangzi. I won't accept him here!"
The strong man was stunned, and all the kitchen workers and farmers standing on the drying ground were also dumbfounded.
Don’t you want such a brave person? Haven't you already admitted your mistake?
Everyone's hearts were trembling, and they finally knew that this was not just a team training show, this Mr. Xu was serious about it!
