When I got home, it was almost the first time of the year. The family set up a table and set up lanterns in the backyard, waiting for Shen Hao to come back to celebrate the festival.
The Blue Moon Festival in the past two years has been too deserted in Shen's mansion. This year, no matter what, we have to wait for Shen Hao to come back and join in the fun. For this reason, Chu Linxiang and Yu Qiao arranged songs and dances more than half a month in advance. Yu Qiao played the piano, Chu Linxiang sang, and three fox girls danced with them. Although Shen Hao was the only one in the audience, there was constant laughter and laughter, and the family kept making fun of the festival until late at night before going to bed.
The next day, there were supposed to be two days of rest, but Shen Hao chose to go to work and continued to deal with various official affairs that had been accumulated in the past two years in the public house, as well as conduct real-time updates on the progress of the Black Flag Camps in various places. control.
If the current difficult situation in the country can be reversed within a year, Shen Hao can earn a lot of qualifications, which will be of great benefit to him when he takes over as the commander of the Xuanqing Guard.
And just as Shen Hao was busy day by day, the voice of the Black Flag Camp within the country gradually became louder and louder. .
By the end of April, Black Flag Camp had acquired nearly 200 low-level and unpopular sects from Wanjuan Shushan and Mingshan Sect, covering almost 80% of the low-level and unpopular small sects in the sect circle. The number of monks who have signed employment agreements with the Black Flag Camp has also increased from more than 1,300 at the beginning to about 3,500, of which the majority are from the late Qi Refining Realm to the early God Gathering Realm.
Moreover, as so many low-level sects have reached employment with the Black Flag Camp, the attention of some casual cultivators with mediocre cultivation and talents have been drawn back from the sects, and finally flowed into the Black Flag Camp, and this number is not There are less than a thousand, and they are even slowly increasing.
From the beginning of Black Flag Camp's establishment until now, when has there ever been a time when there were so many monks in the battle formation? In the past, more than 70% of a small flag camp were ordinary soldiers, but now half of them are monks and soldiers. This improvement in the overall combat effectiveness of the Black Flag Battalion can be said to be visible to the naked eye.
But even though the Black Flag Battalion is currently steadily regaining the defense lines that were released before, relying on the big city, and starting to squeeze the activity space of the evil monks, the evil monks did not let it go, but launched a fierce counterattack. The tug of war on both sides was quite fierce. .
However, today's Black Flag Battalion does not need to take care of the vast defense line as it did at the beginning of this chaos, resulting in holes being dug through one after another. Most of the defense lines now are still patrolled by the four major front armies. In addition, the Black Flag Battalion's current combat strength Soaring, facing the counterattack of the evil monks, he didn't panic at all.
Although there were not a few soldiers who died in battle, the number of evil spirits and evil monks who were also killed was equally eye-catching. Every two days, a new batch of evil monks' heads would be hung on the gates of major cities for public display, and the old ones would be thrown away and picked up before they even had time to stink.
And the soldiers who died in battle were not as quiet as before. They just posted a list inside the Black Flag Battalion and then received some compensation. Instead, under Shen Hao's instructions, the names, place of origin, and military exploits of the fallen soldiers were listed on a list and posted on the edge of the city gate to contrast with the heads hanging on the city gate.
In the past, I always heard how many thieves were killed, and how many officers, soldiers and Xuanqing guards were sacrificed. They were all the same number. It was not enough to look at the heads hanging on the door and curse a few times when they passed through the city gate.
But now every time I look up, I see the heads of the thieves on the city gate, and then I look at the list of fallen soldiers posted on the side. Each and every vivid name seems to be like my neighbor, but now they are gone.
Who did it?
Aren’t they just those evil monks who are like rats and bugs! Pooh!
A feeling of hatred seemed to grow stronger in the hearts of every citizen who saw or listened to others' explanations.
Human hearts are made of flesh, and no one is born with a heart of stone. This is especially true for the people at the bottom. They don't ask for much, just a stable environment and a livelihood to support their families. So whoever wants to destroy their simple idea is their enemy, and whoever wants to protect their idea is their benefactor. The reason is simple and easy to understand.
There were many people who stopped to look at the list. But not many people are actually literate. And not everyone has time to stand by and read every name on it.
An old farmer carrying a basket frowned and stood in front of the list for a long time, and finally pulled a young man in a long gown who seemed to be literate.
"The old man is illiterate and his eyesight is bad. You, a young boy, will you help the old man count how many soldiers died in total on this notice?"
"Old man, what are you counting for?"
"Go back and find a carpenter to carve a plaque. If there are too many names to be engraved, you can carve as many heroes and spirits as you want. The old man will put it in the hall."
"Well, wait a minute while I count... There are two hundred and seventy-seven strong men on this list."
"Okay."
"..."
The soldier guarding the city gate on the side had a straight face and interrupted: "What are you doing with the number of people? Only if you really want to build the Zhonglie Hall outside the city next month to help out. Not only can these brothers on the list be admitted, but in the past, Brothers who died in battle can enter, they are all heroes who died in the battle around our Fengri City. Maybe your family is still good because they risked their lives in exchange for it."
Not only those from the Black Flag Battalion died in the battle, but also members of the army and many people from the garrison. Although I envy the people of Black Flag Camp who can post a list and gain some honors after death, it is not just the people of Black Flag Camp who build the Hall of Loyalty and Martyrs. Naturally, the soldiers guarding the city will publicize this kind of thing. What is at stake is the birth names of all those who eat this bowl of rice!
"We want to build a loyal hall?!"
"Yeah! It will start next month. It's on the flat land beyond the five-flower tree. If you look at it now, the place should be traced out. Why are you lying to me?"
With a few words from the guard, the people passing by were immediately excited. They all say they don't have the skills to kill thieves in battle, but they can still help build the Zhonglie Hall. Who doesn't have the strength? Is it okay to help pick up a few shoulder poles of earth and rocks? As for wages? No one thought about it.
money? I help a group of heroes build an ancestral temple, and you ask me for money? Do you look down on me?
The people of Fengri City are not the only ones who have such simple thoughts. This situation has been staged at the gates of big cities in various places during the Jingjiu Dynasty.
The idea was not from Shen Hao but from Pang Ban, but it was the emperor who made the final decision. After all, for such a great honor as the establishment of the Zhonglie Hall, one can only do favors, and it can only be the emperor. Pang Ban is not qualified.
Originally, Shen Hao was not sure whether this matter would be blocked by Qingchi on the emperor's body after hearing about it, but now it seems that it was not. The emperor settled all the affairs of Zhonglietang in various places in one breath, and allocated a large sum of money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs specifically for this purpose. Specific affairs will be the responsibility of each local government.
However, when Pang Ban mentioned this matter to the emperor, he really just said in passing, "It's better to have someone keep an eye on this matter, so as to avoid the following." So the Black Flag Camp became the "supervisor" .
PS: There is another chapter to be published in the afternoon, and I have to go to physical therapy in the morning. Please forgive me.
