After all, Liu Bei and his entourage still have a heavy responsibility on their shoulders, and they have to hurry to Yecheng and Jingshi.

Therefore, delaying half an afternoon at Zhen's house, drinking and taking a nap, and spending the night is already the limit.

The banquet started in the early afternoon, and when Liu Bei woke up again, it was about the end of Shen Shi, that is, more than four o'clock.

Li Su had already negotiated the behind-the-scenes deal with Zhen Yan, so Liu Bei didn't hear any dirty words.

"Big brother, you've finally woken up, and everything has been negotiated." Li Su whispered in his ear.

Liu Bei was stunned, and then sighed in admiration: "Is it really right? Eh, I was just pretending to be asleep, but I didn't expect to drink too much and pretend to be asleep. Boya is neat, I don't worry about you doing things. How much did the Zhen family promise to give? ”

While reporting, Li Su brought a cup of dogwood sour and hot sobering soup to Liu Bei's mouth: "Donate 10 million money to help the army!" Moreover, a batch of military supplies can also be disposed of to us at a low price. Zhen Yan didn't say it explicitly, but I guess Zhang Chun didn't have time to pick up the goods after making a deposit, so it was cheaper for us. ”

Liu Bei was completely shocked: "So many? How to convince? Boya, you're really ...... Yi, Qin's tongue! ”

Nonsense, the top students of the Foreign Affairs Academy are not the tongues of Yi Qin. When it comes to bargaining, Li Su is professional.

Li Su smiled slightly: "Not only is there a lot of money, but it also pays quickly, the eldest brother was drunk and didn't sleep just now, and the second brother and the third brother are already outside the city, looking for a Zhuangzi borrowed by the Zhen family, erecting a flag, and recruiting troops."

I calculated it, with the money of the Zhen family, plus our descendants in Anxi County before, and the county soldiers who were able to collect the army in the past few days, a total of 2,000 troops were raised. ”

Liu Bei had 500 villagers when the Yellow Turban raised his army, and three years later, the casualties were scattered, and there were still two or three hundred people.

With the Zhen family's money, the normal price can probably expand the army by 1,000 people. But because there were military supplies that Zhang Chun didn't have time to take away at a discounted price, he could at least recruit a few hundred more people.

At the same time, after Zhang Chunzuo fled in chaos, some of the county soldiers who were coerced in Zhongshan County were recaptured after being defeated by Zhang He, and returned to the imperial court anyway. There is also a lot of room for maneuver, and yesterday Liu Bei's dozens of personal soldiers captured hundreds of prisoners. In the past few days, Zhang Chun's residual poison has been cleared in the county, and at least a few hundred more prisoners of the county soldiers who have been coerced can be captured.

Isn't it all up to 2,000 people?

Moreover, the historical experience of later generations has long been verified that when the reserve force is expanded into a regular army, if it wants to quickly form combat effectiveness with the old and the new, it can only be expanded according to the three-three system at most.

For example, in peacetime, the quality of a regular army with one battalion can be guaranteed only when it is replenished with two battalions of reserve recruits who are mobilized and expanded into a regiment.

Liu Bei only has so many veterans and captured county soldiers, so he can only recruit twice as many Xinding Xiangyong, and if there are more, the quality of the troops will collapse.

Wait for these two thousand people to be in the battle against Zhang Chun, after the tempering and baptism of bloody battles, and then consider the next step.

The steps are too big, and it is easy to pull the eggs.

……

Hearing that he might pull up 2,000 people, a third of whom were veterans, Liu Bei immediately felt very satisfied.

However, when he thought that his senior brother Gongsun Zhan had now received three thousand Wuhuan Turquoise Cavalry and a hundred elite soldiers from Taiwei Zhang Wen, the illusion of being rich and safe in Liu Bei's mind quickly subsided.

"We're finally going to rise, but we can't be complacent. The veterans I have on hand are only 20% of Brother Bogui at best, and the quality is far inferior to Brother Bogui's all the horses. Liu Bei hinted at himself.

After some psychological construction, the sobering dogwood fish soup was also drunk, Liu Bei got up and dusted off his clothes: "Let's go, Boya, go with me to see how Yun Changyide is doing." ”

The two rode their horses away from Zhen's mansion, and went out of Wuji City Gate, and walked a short distance to the west, and they arrived at a suburban Zhuangzi.

This grange is the property of the Zhen family, but because Zhen Yan gave Liu Bei 10 million money to help the army, this grange was also borrowed for the time being.

When Liu Bei arrived, Zhuangzi was already in full swing, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were recruiting Xiangyong familiarly.

They also brought dozens of veterans to help pass on the skills and screen and assess the quality of the recruits.

As soon as he saw Liu Bei, Zhang Fei happily came over to show off: "Big brother, my appeal is not bad, right?" There were so many people who came to apply. I'm going to recruit here for a day, Wuji and Zhending are both small places, and it's good to recruit three or four hundred strong people. Then after a little rectification, he went to Zhuo County, and then pulled people all the way, and there were almost 2,000 people in Zhuo County's hometown. ”

Li Su was a little worried when he heard this, afraid that he would miss Zhao Yun, and reminded: "One day is not enough, right?" Zhending may not have gotten any news of the recruitment. ”

Zhang Fei was unconvinced and retorted: "Military affairs, fourth brother, don't worry about it, that's not your white-faced scholar." Just now, we have recruited two groups of villagers who came from Zhending to cross the river, and we have picked some strong ones.

Not to mention that Brother Zhen is quite interesting, you just told him at the wine table that you wanted to recruit Zhending villagers, so he sent a messenger from the Zhen family to ride a fast horse to spread the news in the countryside of Zhending.

Not to mention, the black mountain thieves we suppressed in Zhaojia Village last time really gave us a reputation in Zhending, and many of them are willing to follow the eldest brother. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he nodded with satisfaction, it seems that Li Su persuaded him to "Shiyi" last time, and he finally saw the curative effect.

He ordered with relief: "Then we are not in a hurry tonight, let's spend the night in this village, and don't go back to Zhen's mansion." Our brothers are about to separate, before leaving, we will do something together at the end. ”

The brothers and their gang personally devoted themselves to the recruitment of soldiers.

Li Su didn't understand military life, so he was bored and found a tiled house and sat under the porch to rest.

Seeing that the recruitment was in full swing over there, it was getting late, and some cauldrons were set up on the Zhuangzi, and Liu Bei instructed all those who came to recruit, whether they were selected or not, to have a full meal.

Because it has to feed hundreds of people, of course, the quality is not good, and it is good to have relatively thick millet porridge and pickled vegetables to eat, and there is no meat and no oil.

There are only a dozen fish that have just been caught from the Hutuo River, which are hastily slaughtered and then added to a full number of hundreds of catties of river water, and then sprinkled with a little salt, and boiled into a bland fish soup.

However, this is such a fish soup that is thinner than the free soup in the canteen of later generations, and it was still rushed to drink by the conscripted villagers, and occasionally when the soup is divided, there is a little bit of boiled minced fish in the soup, and I can be happy for a while.

In order to boost morale and show that "the diet for the generals is the same as that of the soldiers", Liu Bei and Li Su also ate this cheap and shoddy dinner.

Fortunately, Li Su had already used wine and meat at Zhen's house in the afternoon, so it didn't matter if he ate something light in the evening.

While there is a meal, there is a steady stream of newcomers applying over there.

It seems that because the good news that "you can eat a meal if you can't be recruited" spread, and as the evening approached, the number of people who came did not decrease, but increased.

Liu Bei had to carry a torch and continue to recruit people overnight.

The rice was not enough to eat, so he also instructed the Zhuang guests of the Zhen family to take a few more sacks of grain and cook them all.

……

Li Su had dinner, saw that it was dark, and felt bored, so he chatted with Liu Bei under the porch, and after chatting for a while, he squinted.

When I was in a daze, I was woken up by a sound of fighting.

"What's going on?" Liu Bei and Li Su were a little unresponsive.

"Zhang Junhou's people and two groups of recruits have a quarrel! It's like a conflict from the meal. ”

In the midst of the noise and chaos, Liu Bei and Li Su hurriedly squeezed over and ordered their soldiers to maintain order and push the people next to them farther away.

In the crowd, I saw a strong man arguing there: "County Lieutenant Liu fought bravely against the Black Mountain Thieves before, how good is his reputation in our real determination, you are so untrustworthy, wouldn't it ruin the reputation of County Lieutenant Liu?"

I heard from the elders of the neighboring villages that when the county lieutenant Liu distributed the thieves to the villagers, he was generous and benevolent, and gave no less than 100,000 yuan to benefit the people. Even if there are thousands of people here to eat today, each person is no more than millet rice and pickles, how much can they eat you? Why do you need to show your strength to eat? Is it easy for people to walk more than ten miles? ”

Li Su secretly observed, expectantly thinking: Isn't this strong man Zhao Yun? But it's not quite like it, and it's too ...... Majestic and wild.

Well, there is a young man next to the strong man, who is there to persuade him, he looks more delicate and handsome, and he seems to be able to do martial arts, is he Zhao Yun?

Before Li Su could identify the conclusion, he saw Zhang Fei holding a whip and scolding the other party angrily, disturbing his train of thought.

Liu Bei was on the side, and hurriedly glanced around, and saw that his personal soldier Liu Dun was next to him, and hurriedly asked the Wuhuan Commando Cavalry Leader: "Why did you quarrel?" ”

Liu Dun explained: "Zhang Junhou is not a don't eat, but I heard that there are more and more people who eat for nothing, and many of them are old, weak and young children who obviously can't be soldiers.

Zhuang Ke didn't have time to cook, Zhang Junhou was anxious, so he casually pointed to the stone pier next to him for sitting and eating, saying that only those who can lift this pier are qualified to eat a meal for nothing, and those who can't lift it will be hung aside first. ”

Li Su looked in the direction of the other party's finger, and the stone pier in the field was about one foot square, and it weighed about forty catties according to the density of the stone.

Adult men can indeed do it when they pick it up, and it is bigger than the large barrels of water in later generations. And even if you lift it once, you won't burn many calories, so you won't be hungry after lifting.

It's just that many people in the Han Dynasty were malnourished, and those teenagers and the elderly over fifty years old may not be able to lift up their health poorly.

Li Su was just curious: "Look at that strong man, he is also more than eight feet tall, he can't even lift this, right?" ”

Liu Dun: "Mr. Haojiao learned that the strong man was not unable to lift himself, he had already passed the selection before, and this was for the injustice of the people who mixed up later." ”

Liu Bei nodded when he heard this, and immediately lined up everyone to the center of the venue, and arched his hand very politely: "This strong man, what you said is very true, Bei is not a stingy person, and his brother is not a stingy person." I had already asked, but the number of people was unexpected, and I didn't have time to cook, so I had to wait in line for a first-come, first-served basis. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Bei raised his voice and shouted at the more than 1,000 people present: "Don't worry, everyone! I, Liu Bei, do what I say, and everyone has food to eat today! It's just going to be a little later. Everyone has also seen that these pots have never stopped, and we will cook as late as you can. ”

Hearing Liu Bei's statement, all the people who watched the excitement were completely relieved. There are very few who are not very bad at the cost of this meal, and they are too lazy to wait and leave. Most of the things that must be left are really unveiled at home.

Liu Bei walked over at this time, and Corporal Lixian greeted the troublesome strong man: "Dare to ask the name of the strong man, what do you think of it?" ”

"In Xia Zhaoyun, people from neighboring counties, hearing the name of Liu County's Wei Renyi, recruited villagers here, and brought people to come to defect. It's not a trouble, but I just feel that a good name is not easy to come by, and it shouldn't be a big loss because of a small one. ”

Li Su was secretly observing from the side, although he was mentally prepared, he was still a little surprised, and even a little ...... Slightly disappointed.

You're at least Hu Jun's version of Zhao Yun, right? Why do you grow so strong and wild? That beard, that rough skin, say that you are Xiao Feng, some people believe it!

I thought Zhao Yun was a little white face, which was a bit ruined.

And who is that skinny little white face next to him?

Li Su couldn't help but ask when he thought of it: "Zhao ...... Hero, don't you want to introduce this companion next to you? ”

The little white face hurriedly arched his hand: "In Xia Xiahou Lan, I am the same villager as Brother Zhao." ”

Cut, it turned out to be an N card, not even SR.

Sure enough, no one should be disguised.