Now Li Jin and Li Hongji were finally relieved.
If you can't recruit the emperor's servants, you can still come back and continue to be a postman... Although there is no future as a postman, you can always have a peaceful life!
If they really have no food to eat, given their abilities, is there any other way to survive besides rebelling and becoming the emperor?
At that moment, the uncle and nephew thanked Zhao Papi, and then had another good meal - all the food and wine that Zhao Papi brought. The watery wine and the slightly smelly pig head meat made their mouths full of oil. After eating, Zhao Bapi personally took them on the post horse and went to Ningxia Acropolis to receive the reward.
However, the three of them probably did not expect at this time that Lu Jiude, the eunuch who was in charge of recruiting Li Zicheng from the postmen in the Acropolis of Ningxia, was almost dying of anxiety because of Li Zicheng's affairs!
This is really a mouthful at the top, but a broken leg at the bottom!
Eunuch Lu came out with a secret mission under Zhu Youjian's personal care - to find Li Zicheng at a designated location!
Of course, Zhu Youjian did not name anyone, but he gave quite detailed conditions, not only stipulating the "surname Li", "Ningxia Weiyizu", "20 to 30 years old", but also drew an image ! A big forehead, thick eyebrows, high cheekbones, deep eye sockets, a high nose, a big beard...you have to look like this, no, you have to recruit!
And you must recruit exactly the same one. If you can't recruit...haha, it won't end well!
Also, don’t even think about cheating, because Zhu Youjian has to check it himself!
But Lu Jiude has been looking for it in Ningxia Wei for a long time, but he just can't find it! In order to find a servant who met Zhu Youjian's requirements, he paid the bounty out of his own pocket, so he only had to go to sea to catch official documents and paste pictures and pictures... Was this to catch rebels or to recruit servants?
What made Lu Jiude even more unbearable was that Zhu Youjian sent a young eunuch to ask at every turn - have you found it? You have to hurry up! This emperor is so anxious!
Of course, I was anxious. If it were a little late, Li Zicheng might have rebelled!
In this way, Ming Dynasty will have one less loyal person and one more rebel!
Zhu Youjian forced Lu Jiude, and Lu Jiude had no choice but to force Du Hongyu, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia Town, and deputy general You Shilu, and asked them to find the "shadow drawing" every day.
Du Hongyu and You Shilu were confused by him, thinking that Lu Jiude had married a woman before becoming an eunuch... That bearded bandit leader (Li Zicheng) was his long-lost son!
Of course they had to help find Eunuch Lu’s long-lost son, so they sent their confidants to search at various inns below. As a result, before these confidants came back, Zhao Papi took Li Hongji, whom Eunuch Lu had longed for. , Li Jin's two uncles and nephews brought it.
Hearing that two servant candidates who met Emperor Zhu's requirements had arrived, Eunuch Lu was so happy that he almost ran out to greet them. When he got to the courtyard, he remembered that he was here to recruit servants for the emperor!
So I hurried back and sat down in the lobby.
In the capital of Ningxia Town, a sturdy man named Hu Dawei led Li Hongji and Li Jin, who were also very tough, to Eunuch Lu.
When Lu Jiude saw the looks of his uncles and nephews Li Hongji and Li Jin, he felt happy... It was them! Two of them came at once, Long Live Master should be satisfied, right?
"Father, these two are uncle and nephew. The younger one is my uncle, named Li Hongji. The older one is my nephew, named Li Jin. They are both from Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. They live in Mengchengyi Be a postman. You two, stop kneeling and stand up quickly to show Eunuch Lu a look."
The speaker was Hu Dawei. He was a Mongolian, and he was also a servant. Because of his skill in killing people, he was promoted to Dusi step by step.
Lu Jiude, who went to Ningxia to serve as an imperial officer, saw that he was tall and powerful and could do things well, so he seconded him to his side and planned to let him join the army as an official before joining the army.
"Dawei, have you passed the test of their archery and horse skills?" Lu Jiude asked in a fake tone.
It's just the appearance and height of Li Hongji and Li Jin, as well as their place of origin and occupation. The level of martial arts is no longer important... Even if it's just a little bit close, at worst, if you go back and find someone to teach you, you can always fool them.
"My father-in-law, the general has personally tested them," Hu Dawei said, "their martial arts are not bad, they are very good at bow and horse, and they are very strong. If they are well trained, they can become warriors in battle."
Can Li Zicheng and Li Guo be inferior in martial arts? The two of them are about to become emperors!
Moreover, because there are four major border towns in Shaanxi, there are many guard posts, and there are frequent conflicts with the Mongols, so the folk customs have always been tough. Many children from common households are also proficient in martial arts, and their fighting skills are no worse than that of Hu Dawei, a Mongolian Yiding. Didn't Li Zicheng beat Hu Dawei to death in history?
Lu Jiude nodded with satisfaction and looked at Li Hongji and Li Jin with a smile: I found you!
He smiled and said: "Okay, since you passed the exam, Dawei, let's leave tomorrow...Long live the Lord is still waiting!"
What? So anxious?
Li Hongji and Li Jin were both stunned. They both wanted to go back to Mizhi to explain things to their families!
"By the way," Lu Jiude also remembered, "You two have families, right? Have you both taken wives?"
When Li Hongji heard his wife, he grinned and asked: "Father, I heard Zhao Papi from Mengcheng Yi say that the emperor will also send maids to his eldest nephew as aunts, but is it true?"
"Really, really," Lu Jiude said with a smile, "but there are only a limited number of maids released from the palace. We have to go to Beijing quickly. After we go there, there will be no more."
When Li Hongji heard that the number of palace maids was limited, he became a little anxious and glanced at Li Jin: "Nephew, how about we follow my father-in-law to Beijing first?"
Li Jin frowned and said, "What about the family? E Niang, E Po, and Uncle E must settle down, right?"
"Take all the family members away!" Lu Jiude said, "Long Live the Lord will also give you servants 500 acres of land. Each of you, uncle and nephew, will have 1,000 acres of land. That's at least several hundred acres a year." Shi Zuzi... As long as you are still servants of the emperor, these official fields will be yours to use, and you will not receive royal grain or taxes!"
The 500 acres of land in the Gyeonggi area are worth a lot of money, and it is impossible to give them to servants. The ownership of these lands is still owned by the royal family, and they are only used as official fields for servants to use. All income generated from these lands during the servant's service belongs to the servant himself, and no taxes or assessments are required. Of course, the position is not free.
When a servant goes on an expedition, he needs to bring his own horses, armor, equipment, and auxiliary troops. All or part of these expenses must come from the 500 acres of farmland - Zhu Youjian will give a certain amount of money to the servant based on the length of time and losses of the expedition. subsidy.
Although there is no ownership, the income from 500 acres of Gyeonggi land is still very high!
Li Hongji and Li Jin, the two uncles and nephews, have really reached the sky in one step... Even the richest Aiju people in their village can't compare to them now.
With such huge interests out there, of course these two uncles and nephews had to rush to Beijing. So he didn't bother to go to Mizhi County to pick up his family again, but asked Zhao Bapi who was also here to help him go to Mizhi to pick up their mother and Li Hongji's little brother. They themselves followed Lu Jiude and Hu Dawei on their way to Beijing. The group finally arrived at Nanhaizi Camp in the south of Beijing on the second day of February in the first year of Chongzhen, and on the next day, the third day of February, they met Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.
"Er Li Hongji, eLi Jin, I sincerely wish you, Your Majesty, may you live long live, long live, long live..."
In the lobby of Nanhaizi Camp, Li Hongji and Li Jin were kowtowing to the Ming Emperor and shouting long live the mountain.
"Pingshen...Li Hongji, Li Jin, you, stand up!" The emperor who was sitting high on the throne spoke, his voice sounded very excited, even a little trembling.
The two uncles and nephews Li Hongji and Li Jin were also dizzy. Of course, they didn't notice that the emperor's tone was a bit wrong. When they heard someone asking them to get up, they hurriedly got up from the ground. Then they also forgot about the etiquette of Lu Jiude's care. He just looked up at the emperor stupidly.
Zhu Youjian also looked at Li Hongji intently, and gritted his teeth gently: Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng, you will turn into ashes, and I will recognize you!
