Ningxia Town, Lingwu Thousand Households.

"One hundred and six, one hundred and eight, one hundred and nine..."

A general was repeating a series of numbers mechanically, not noticing that a person had been left behind.

At this time, a recruit who had just enlisted in the army, slightly shyly, raised his right hand and shouted:

"Mr. Zheng, you left me behind."

Hearing this, the man surnamed Zheng swept his gaze over, and Yu's recruits also began to whisper, and he said expressionlessly:

"What's your name?"

"The villain Li Hongji, a native of Mizhi County, Shaanxi."

Listening to him, Zheng Jiang was also checking the roster, and finally found the name when he turned to the tenth page.

Subconsciously, the general began to look at the recruit in front of him.

This guy has a dark complexion and a red complexion, and his figure is not burly, but he is not as good as most people, and such a person is the favorite young man of a general.

He closed the list with satisfaction and said:

"Why did you come to be a soldier?"

Li Hongji's eyes flashed with a touch of heat, then disappeared, and said quietly:

"If there is no surplus food at home, I will come to eat the soldiers' food."

The recruit replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, and the northern Shaanxi accent made Zheng Jiang always doubt him, and asked:

"Do you know whose soldiers are being drafted?"

"I know, it's Wang Rujin and Wang Dashuai." After Li Hongji finished speaking, he asked again:

"What the Beijing newspaper said, the soldiers of Jiubian Town, the newly recruited soldiers are three taels of Anjia silver, two taels of grain, and one tael of monthly rations, all of which are true?"

Zheng looked at him in surprise, nodded and said:

"What is written in the Beijing News is naturally true, and it is not the first time that the emperor has raised the military salary of the soldiers of the Nine Border Town."

"When will there be another big battle in the imperial court?"

looked at him and snorted coldly: "A rookie egg, actually looking forward to fighting..."

He didn't reply, just asked Li Hongji to return to the team and left.

Li Hongji resigned from Yinchuan and came to Ningxia Town to serve as a soldier, which was carefully considered.

When he saw the name on the second page of the Beijing Daily, he only felt a burst of fire in his heart, especially the top five people, who were the target of his pursuit.

A manly man wants to get ahead.

Besides, the salary and benefits that a soldier can get are much better than that of a mere post soldier, Li Hongji still thinks that when he gets this month's monthly money, he will save it and give it to Han Jin'er when he goes home...

Tell her to see, your man is also an officer and soldier now.

Wang Rujin is different from Mao Wenlong, Chen Ce and others, he relied on his ancestors to be blessed, and easily got the position that the latter two worked hard for.

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Wang Rujin served as the chief military officer of Ningxia Town, and served as the chief military officer of Ningxia Town, and has served for two years so far, with a mediocre record.

The only commendable thing is that in the 48th year of Wanli, the Mongolian Dongtao tribes jointly invaded Ningxia, and Wang Rujin, who had just taken office, fought hard at Zhenyuan Pass and beheaded more than 60 ranks.

Although he was defeated in the end and returned to the Acropolis, he did not lose any tough battles along the way, and won and lost with Mongolia.

Speaking of which, the current arrears of salaries in the Central Plains are serious, with millions of taels per year, but Ningxia is different.

The nine-sided town has always been the focus of attention of the imperial court.

After the fifteenth year of Wanli, although the imperial court's finances gradually went bankrupt, it still tried its best to pay the important towns of the nine sides, and in the first year of the Apocalypse, the king played in the Jin Dynasty, and the accumulated arrears of the nine sides were only more than 100,000.

After Zhu Youxiao repaid the money in a lump sum and increased the tariff, he also began to pay the nine-sided military salary as much as possible on a monthly basis.

In general, the finances of the Ming Dynasty are not yet at the point where Chongzhen was exhausted in the future, and Wei Zhongxian's ability to make money is really a must

"Dashuai, I found a very interesting person."

Zheng walked into the inner room and said with his fists clenched.

Wang Rujin was squatting and sharpening his knife, and when he heard the words, he asked without raising his head, "Who is it?" ”

"This kid's name is Li Hongji, and he used to be a post guard of Yinchuan Station. You see, it's him. As he spoke, he pointed his finger at the playground.

Wang Rujin put down the knife, got up and came to the door, leaning and looking.

At this time, Li Hongji was wearing the red cloth armor of the Ming Border Army, wearing a mandarin duck robe and a spear in his hand.

Li Hongji held the spear tightly, stabbed it into the straw man's chest, and roared:

"Kill!"

Even with a worldly military general like Wang Rujin, he could see the difference of this person at a glance, his eyes narrowed slightly, he thought for a while, and said:

"Transfer him to my personal team next month."

"Don't you arrange to be a captain?" I always wonder a little, such a good seedling, it is rare to see one in ten years.

Hearing this, Wang Rujin thought about it, and still said categorically:

"That's it, transfer him to my family team next month, and as for other things, I'll talk about it later, and see what he is capable of."

With the sudden intrusion of Zhu Youxiao, a traverser, Li Hongji, the old enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the trajectory of fate quietly changed.

In the second year of the apocalypse, his battlefield career began.

......

In winter, the sky and the earth are hazy and dark, and even the magnificent Forbidden City cannot be shrouded in dark clouds.

A group of palace maids with beautiful faces walked between the Qionglou Yuyu at their feet, each carrying a basket, and rushed to the same place with a smile.

Originally, tonight, the emperor held a night banquet in the Maoqin Palace, which was limited to three days, and opened the inner market that had been abolished earlier.

The inner market has always been a place for palace people to trade and trade, and there are also vendors who are allowed to enter the palace to set up stalls, which is one of the few entertainment places in each palace.

Mao Qin Palace, the British Minister Zhang Weixian, the first assistant of the cabinet Jiang Dejing, and the civil and military ministers of various ministries and institutes all toasted each other at the table.

Zhu Youxiao sat in the first place, Wei Zhongxian put his hands in front of him, and stood quietly beside the emperor, with a smirk on his face.

In the hall, there are dancing girls dancing with the sound of silk bamboo and string music, the lanterns on the beam are like day, and the Shaoguang Yao Pond is like spring.

"Zhang Weixian, I want to have a good drink today, you have to hide from the wine, otherwise..."

Zhang Weixian borrowed the strength of the wine and asked with a smile:

"Otherwise——?"

Zhu Youxiao narrowed his eyes and pretended to threaten: "Otherwise, I will ask you to pretend to be a dancing girl and dance for everyone in this Maoqin Palace." ”

Zhang Weixian looked shocked, and waved his hand again and again:

"The emperor spared the ministers, the ministers were afraid to jump up and vomit all the people who ate and drank tonight."

"Hahaha."

Hearing this, everyone burst into laughter.

In the staggered room, the first one in the middle dance girl lined up, half-covered her face with wide sleeves, smiled like a silver bell, and gracefully climbed the jade cup, attached it to Zhu Youxiao's eyes, and breathed lightly:

"Concubine, a cup to the emperor."

Zhu Youxiao raised his head and drank a big white drink, then raised his glass to the moon again, and said:

"I am a Ming dynasty, capturing the wife and daughter of the slave chieftain alive, this is auspicious from heaven. I have sent an edict to Jianzhou to return to the Celestial Empire, and these two men still have a way to live. ”

"Otherwise, I'm going to have a bad hand..."

"The emperor's words are wrong, Jiannu woman, killing is killing, this is not called painful hands, this is called-this is called, uh..."

Zhang Weixian said, as if suddenly the thesaurus was not enough, and he didn't follow up for a long time.

Seeing this, Jiang Dejing hurriedly added:

"What the British Duke means is that the Jiannu women are vulgar, and His Majesty killed them, not to hurt them, but to eliminate harm for the people."

Zhang Weixian slapped his thigh and said:

"Yes, yes, yes, the elder of the pavilion is right, that's what the minister meant!"