"Sir, wake up, Suzhou City has arrived."
As soon as I closed my eyes and opened them again, Suzhou City arrived.
It's still the familiar dock, still the same prosperous scene, and the air in my hometown seems to be much sweeter than elsewhere.
Gold silver nest nest as their own kennel?
Yes, yes, yes, this is Song Che's golden nest. He is the richest man in Suzhou, and the most beautiful woman in the city is his wife.
There is no need to explain the magnificent life.
"Hey, big guy."
Song Che had just gotten off the passenger ship and before he had taken two steps, he was stopped by two soldiers in uniform.
Although Song Che is not short, he is not worthy of the word "big man", right?
He looked around and saw that there seemed to be no one taller than him nearby, so he asked the two soldiers: "Are you calling me?"
"Who else besides you? It's you." The two uniformed soldiers walked over and walked around Song Che before hearing one of them ask:
"Are you a local from Suzhou City? Can you bring me the ultimatum?"
Song Che thought to himself that it was probably He Qiu who had introduced some new policy.
It is indeed necessary to be more rigorous. The dock is a place where dragons and snakes are mixed. If there are Japanese pirates mixed in like Yangzhou City, it will be troublesome.
Checking your ID card is reasonable.
Then cooperate. But when Song Che touched all over his body, he discovered that Lu Yin's ultimatum had been put in the bag and he had forgotten to take it out when he handed it to Liao Heng.
"I'm sorry, I lost my guide on the road. Do you think it would be like this-"
"There is no way to lead, so are you a refugee? Very good, come back to the military camp with us."
The two soldiers said nothing, and one of them carried Song Che and walked towards the west of the city.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing? I'm not a refugee, I'm a native of Suzhou, and I just came back from doing business in other places!"
"Stop making excuses. How can a businessman who travels all over the country have no guide? Come on, I'm not arresting you and going to jail. I'm taking you to join the army to defend your country and fight against Japanese pirates. You will be paid according to the rules."
Isn’t this motherfucker trying to catch a young man?
Seeing how familiar they are with the process, I guess they don't squat at the dock once or twice.
Song Che was proud of how powerful he was in Suzhou just now, but now he was taken to the military camp as a young man. Wasn't the slap in the face too quick?
"You two, you two, listen to me. I am really from Suzhou. I am Song Che, the son-in-law of the Shen family. Don't you know Mr. Song?" Song Che had no choice but to reveal his identity.
"Uncle Song?" The two soldiers looked at each other and suddenly laughed:
"Do you think we are stupid? Mr. Song is the richest person in Suzhou City. He lives in a house made of gold and jade. He has eight wives and a beautiful country. He always travels in eight sedans. He is accompanied by thirteen eunuchs. The carriage must have at least four wheels...Look at you again, you are dressed in cloth, with pockets so full that you can't even take out Zhang Luyin. If you are Mr. Song, then I am still the official prince of Suzhou Mansion."
"..."
Song Che was speechless for a moment. It must be a random fabrication by those bookmakers in the market. I actually want to marry eight wives!
These two new recruits must have been to Qili Mountain to suppress bandits.
If you want to go to the military camp, go to the military camp. You have to go to the city gate anyway. Just to make him wonder, when did the Suzhou Army become so "hungry"? You actually want to go to the dock to catch young men?
After a while, the military camp arrived.
"Captain Liu, look, we have caught another refugee!" the soldier shouted excitedly, as if he was going to reward him with ten thousand taels of gold.
After hearing the news, the captain came out of his tent, but when he saw Song Che, his eyes started to spin rapidly, as if he was searching for something in his mind.
"Captain Liu, how about you arresting only the old, weak, sick and disabled before? Isn't this tall and strong enough?" The two soldiers were very proud.
Song Che asked the soldier commander: "How is it? You haven't figured out where you have seen me yet? Let me give you some advice, Tiger Leaping Cliff? Qili Mountain? Feiyun Gang?"
Chief Liu was immediately awakened, "You...you are...ah, right, right! That's right!"
"Captain Liu, do you know this man?" the soldier was still asking.
"You two idiots!"
Commander Liu slapped the soldier's face with two ear-scratches with his backhand, pointed at Song Che and said: "This is the famous Uncle Song in Suzhou City! It was he who led us to fly over the Tiger Leaping Cliff and wipe out the Feiyun Gang!" Captain Zheng all treats him respectfully!"
"ah?"
The two soldiers quickly left, "He...is he really Aunt Song? But...that's not right. Why does Aunt Song look so down and out?"
"Shut up! You stupid thing! Why don't you apologize to me!" Liu Zuchang scolded.
Song Che quickly waved his hand to smooth things over, "Hey, it's none of these two brothers' business. It was me who lost the road guide first, and that led to this farce."
He smiled at the two soldiers again: "Uncle Song is actually an ordinary person. The house he lives in is just bigger. He doesn't have eight wives at home. Instead, he has a tigress."
The two soldiers scratched their heads and laughed.
"My uncle, please invite the military tent for tea, and I will inform Captain Zheng."
"No, I have something important to do later, so don't bother me," Song Che politely refused the captain, but asked:
"I've been doing business in other places for the past few months and I don't know what happened in Suzhou. Why did the city defense army suddenly start recruiting troops on the dock?"
Liu Zuchang said: "In Xiuzhou, our 'brother-in-law' next door to Suzhou, several salt fields along the coast of Shanghai were looted by Japanese pirates. Xiuzhou was short of troops and asked Suzhou to borrow troops, so the state government transferred nearly half of them. troops;
Unexpectedly, after more than a month of work, the Japanese invasion was still not completely resolved. Suzhou’s city defense was still lacking for a long time, so we started to recruit soldiers. Alas..."
The soldier commander sighed: "We Suzhou people are busy making money and don't like to be soldiers, but the city defense is indispensable. It is precisely in order to quickly replenish troops that we are not allowed to send soldiers to the docks and outside the city to arrest people. The refugees who have no way to lead, take... take them to make up the numbers."
In the end, he was probably embarrassed and lowered his head.
That's not true. For an ordinary female celebrity in Yunshuifang, if she works hard enough in a month, it is no problem to earn twenty or thirty guan.
Suzhou city defense soldiers belong to the Xiang army, and their military salary is only 500 yuan a month, which is not as high as the female red who can weave a few more pieces of cloth. It's only a few hundred coins a month, and the Japanese pirates haven't come to Suzhou, so who is willing to risk their lives?
Although Suzhou is not a coastal city, there are several ports in the northeast that are located in the bay. The geographical location is closely connected with Xiuzhou, so we should pay attention to it.
"Is the Japanese invasion of Xiuzhou serious?" Song Che asked,
The soldier commander said: "According to the news from the front line, they are just rogues robbing homes and houses. No large number of Japanese pirates have been found yet."
Song Che wanted to curse, but he couldn't say it, so he could only hold it in his heart:
The troops of two big states were used to attack some wandering rogues, but there was no result for more than a month? It's not a good fight, just go home and raise pigs, those who pick up shit are better than these old soldiers!
But then I thought about it, and it was actually true. How could a strong man who was captured in a trap have any fighting ability?
"Oh... ok."
The government can't do anything, so the handsome guy can only sigh.
Song Che didn't stay any longer. The two soldiers from earlier, in order to express their apology, specially set up a carriage and sent him away from the military camp.
