As soon as they heard that there was a Scout badge available, these rustic Qianhu and Baihu in Jiningwei became excited! The Scout quota is a good thing. Families with thousands or hundreds of families like them also have children and nephews who have no future.
Moreover, the thousands and hundreds of households in the Anbei Army are not hereditary. The political privileges that these thousands and hundreds of households can fight for for their descendants is nothing more than serving as personal soldiers for the "lord". Based on the performance of these thousands and hundreds of households and the performance of the young soldiers themselves, Zhu Hebao will recommend the young soldiers to go to the Jiangwu Hall for gilding - the Jiangwu Hall has a special "gilding class" that is just for them. Relatively simple, but still practical.
The martial arts hall has been plated with gold, and you can become an official when you return to this town. Usually he is a probationer or a low-level officer, and then moves up one level at a time... Speaking of which, the feudal lord can control the situation because of his "gilded power" - more than ten or twenty years of gilding. As a result, groups in various vassals and towns also formed the martial arts hall, and began to rank based on seniority. It was impossible for those who were not brothers from the martial arts hall to get promoted and make a fortune among the "pro-vassal" people like Anbei.
However, the amount of gold plating is always limited, and the thousands or hundreds of households below often have more children and more blessings. Those who can't take the gilding class have to squeeze their heads into the scout team.
However, the recruitment of Scouts is not under the jurisdiction of the feudal town itself. It is under the jurisdiction of the Scout Admiral of the Yingtian Mansion. You must pass the assessment of the Scout Admiral of the Guards before you can become a Scout. The assessment for the Admiral Division of the Guards Scouts is very strict. It does not depend on family background, but only on physical fitness and ability.
Therefore, every thousand or hundreds of families in each vassal can only work hard to train their own young men and let them compete for the Scout spot based on their abilities. But there are always more wolves than meat in the Scout quota, and there is not enough to grab! Moreover, the age of the Scouts is only about ten years old, and there is not much time to train children for thousands and hundreds of households... so the competition is quite fierce. Now each hundred households can get one or two more quotas, how can Don't you want to get everyone excited?
However, although the quota of Scouts is good, the cowboys in Xinzhou Continent are really unpopular. It is impossible to recruit people without resorting to some means...
"You two princes, with the quota of the Scouts, we must try our best to handle it. But going to Xinzhou Continent to work as a cattle herder... I'm afraid it won't work!"
"Yes, if you go to recruit soldiers, the people below may still have some energy. But who would be happy to be a military household and nomadic?"
"Isn't that right? When you become a military household, your children and grandchildren will be handed over to you. Can you still return to Jining in the future?"
"That's right, I can't go back to Jining anymore... my descendants will have to go to Huaizhou and Dezhou in the United States of New Continent to herd cattle!"
The two states of Huai and De were the fiefdoms of the two kings Zhu Hekun and Zhu Hezhen in the New World. It's roughly on the Great Plains of North New Zealand. It's hard to say where exactly it is. Now we only know that Huaizhou is in the north and Texas is in the south.
When Zhu Hekun heard that his children and grandchildren were asked to graze cattle in Huai and Dezhou, Zhu Hekun almost shed tears of sadness. But there is nothing they can do. Their cheating father tells them to go, so how dare they not go?
Zhu Hebao on the side also sounded very sad. He also knew that no one wanted to go to the New World to herd cattle... There was no future in this matter! It’s just digging for gold and hunting for mink skins. You can earn some money at least. Who would be willing to go that far to herd cattle and sheep? Beef and mutton are not worth much in Xinzhou.
"King Huai," Zhu Hebao turned to look at Zhu Hekun and said in a low voice, "I think you have to lie about this!"
"Liar?" Zhu Hekun frowned, "How to lie?"
"You can't tell the people below that you're going to Xinzhou to herd cattle. If you say you're going to herd cattle, even a fool won't go!"
Even fools don't go...what the hell! Zhu Hekunxin said: Shouldn’t Lao Wu and I just go? Are we both fools? We are filial sons!
"What do you mean?" Zhu Hekun, the filial son of Zhu, asked with a bitter face.
"Just say..." Zhu Hebao thought for a while, "Just say to be a personal soldier for the King of United States, King Huai, and King De! It is not good to be a personal soldier for the palace. Although I want to go to the United States of Xinzhou, But there are still people who are willing to do it. When they arrive in Xinzhou, it will be up to them whether they herd sheep or cattle."
"This..." Zhu Hekun thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, let's do it like this! No matter what, we have to trick people into going to the United States of Xinzhou! If you go, you can't come back. Got it!"
I went to Xinzhou, picked up the "green paper head", and still want to go back to Jining to eat sand? Not to mention there are no doors or windows, just be a Xinzhou native for the rest of your life! From now on, our children and grandchildren will have to farm and graze along the Mississippi River!
Zhu Hebao nodded and said to the thousands of households in Jiningwei: "King Huai told you to deceive... You must do it well, and you can't let the people below see through it." . If you see through, no one will go to the United States of New Zealand. If you fail to meet your goals, it will be difficult for me to deal with Long Live Lord. I will beat up hundreds of thousands of your households later!"
After inducement came coercion. As soon as Zhu Hebao finished speaking, the thousands of households below immediately responded.
Isn't it just deceiving the poor people below who have no future to go to the United States of New Zealand to become cowboys? Isn't this easy? Anyway, those people don’t have good food to eat when they stay in Jining. After all, they can have milk to drink when they go to Xinzhou, right?
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There is a Bawang River outside Jining Guard City. Its name is very domineering. I wonder what it has to do with Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Chu? Anyway, King Chu Ba must have never been to Jining. And this river with a very domineering name is located in the south. It is an inconspicuous stream with not much water, and it often stops flowing during the dry season.
But just such a small river irrigates tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland on both sides of the river. It can be called the "river of life" in Jiningwei. Niu Laoliu, who has lived in Bawang Hexi Fort for more than ten years, eats at the Jining River in his family. His father Niu Dawei was a hunter in the Luliang Mountains. He was a good archer and was good at climbing mountains and ridges. After the Shen rebellion, he joined the army of King Dai. I wanted to climb up the ladder based on my own ability, but I didn't expect that being an official would be difficult. Although there were several opportunities, they all failed because he messed up the errand... In the end, only one Zhuangzi in Jining was passed down. Because this is a military service village, it cannot be divided among the four sons, so the whole village belongs to Niu Laoliu's eldest brother. Niu Laoliu and the others will do the work for the eldest brother. However, their eldest brother was still very kind to his brothers. He saved money in every possible way and took out loan sharks, but all of them got wives for their brothers. Niu Laoliu was the youngest in the family, and he finally got a wife. By then, Boss Niu had already After clearing out his wealth, he had no choice but to marry him a widow and bring in a slutty daughter. Later he and the widow had three more cubs, two boys and two girls. So now he has five children to raise, plus his second-hand wife, what a big family it is!
Because there are many people eating and no land of his own, Niu Laoliu's life is the same as Wang Xiaoer's, every year is getting worse!
Moreover, he is also "old", already 26 years old, and has not read many books. Not to mention Scouts, veterans cannot be considered as such. In this life, I will farm and herd sheep, and save money to help my brother pay off the loan sharks. If I still have a lot, I will save betrothal gifts and dowries for my children.
Today, when Niu Laoliu was driving dozens of horses (not his horses, he was herding them for Li Baihu's family) back to the gate of Bawang Hexi Fort, he saw his "old lady" Yang Erniang (actually not old, She is only 27, but her life has been too hard, and she looks like she is 40.) She is holding a bunch of children at the gate, craning their necks to look around!
The sixth child got angry when he saw this mother-in-law and a litter of children... all of which could be eaten but not cooked. It was only the afternoon, and she was craning her neck to wait for the meal? When will this day end!
"Master! You are back..." Yang Erniang saw her husband from a distance and shouted loudly, "Prince Huai's retainers have come to the castle to recruit soldiers. Many people have gone, so you guys should go too. !”
Be a soldier?
Niu Laoliu didn't know what to say. What time is it now? It's not like that time when the world was in chaos. Who would recruit a 26-year-old soldier now? And he's still a 40-year-old soldier who looks old? Or a soldier of the palace... Which palace is so dilapidated?
Just as Niu Laoliu was about to curse, a man in a long robe suddenly came out of the fort. It was Li Baihu from Overlord Hexi Fort. He also shouted with Yang Erniang: "Lao Liu, hurry up! The prince is recruiting soldiers..." .Give me 100 taels of housing allowance, even if you are 25 years old. Go quickly, and you can pay off the outstanding debt with the money!"
