Sun Qian thought for a while and said, "I heard that the Guan family has a lot of teenagers who accompany Guan Ping to play every day. It's not as good as this. Lord, you recruit enough five hundred teenagers in Xinye to Guan Ping, Zhao Tong, and Zhang Bao, so that they can practice martial arts and lead troops to train. I will also teach them the Art of War, so that they may become talents. ”

"That's very good." Liu Bei was completely moved when he heard this, stroked his palm and smiled.

This matter was handed over to Sun Gan to be responsible, and with Liu Bei's prestige in Xinye, it was not difficult to recruit five hundred teenagers. Even with Liu Bei's order, it was not difficult to recruit 2,000 people.

Because Liu Bei's soldiers and horses are basically ready-made soldiers and horses brought back by Runan, since he came to Xinye, he has only been generous to the people, and has never transferred Xinye men, the civilian soldiers are sufficient, Liu Bei's prestige is high, and naturally there are many young people who are willing to join the army.

After Sun Gan got the order, he first went to the county order office to ask the county order to issue a public notice.

However, at this moment, in the cold winter of December, the people in Xinye City rarely travel. Sun Gan was afraid that the effect would not be obvious, so he asked the county commander to dispatch the officials and officials to beat gongs and drums in the city, proclaiming loudly, and ordered people to go down to the villages outside the city, still beating gongs and drums.

In one day, Xinye County, I knew that General Zuo, Yuzhou Assassin Liu Gong, recruited teenagers to join the army, and for a time his life was at the pinnacle, and the servants were like clouds.

In the Han system, 100 households are one mile, ten miles are a pavilion, and ten pavilions are a township. It's just that in this world, the people are not fixed, and they will multiply.

Therefore, the number of townships in Shinye has changed at different times.

In its heyday, Xinye had a population of more than 200,000 and four townships under its jurisdiction. At present, the establishment of these four townships is still preserved, but it exists in name only.

They are Shanze Township in the north, Gushi Township in the south, Haisheng Township in the east, and Mali Township in the west. Each township has about two or three thousand people, and there is a pavilion chief under its jurisdiction, four or five li.

It's really in name only, and it's miserable.

The clan power of the Han Dynasty was very strong, and these who still existed after the war were all clans with the same surname, or a large family with a small number of foreign surnames.

And the same surname is not married, so most of the women in the middle of the village marry outside, and there are few around, so basically every township is related to the family, forming a very strong local force.

The county orders of the Han Dynasty were of course capable of responding to all calls, and orders without ability could not leave the county seat.

There is a li in Mali Township in the West, called the Li family, as the name suggests, this Li family is all children surnamed Li.

Liu Bei, the general of Zuo, is famous all over the world, and he is very benevolent in governing Xinye. Although the war era is pitiful and pathetic, there are also many boys who are romantic, chasing famous generals such as Gu Weiqing and Huo Quzhi.

There are many teenagers in the Li family who have not yet married, and they do not work in the fields, bending bows and hunting all day long, practicing fencing, and idle. If it is in the heyday, it is a ranger, an evil boy and the like.

In the troubled times, they are allowed to come around, and if the war breaks out, these evil boys will become the main force to defend the township.

Among the more than a dozen teenagers in the Li family, Li Zheng is the most famous, and he is nicknamed Li Da, who is not only the young king of the Li family, but also the recognized eldest brother in Mali Township.

Li Zheng's family is quite wealthy, can read and write, and has great ambitions.

"Chen Sheng, Wu Guang said, the prince will have a kind of call. Emperor Gaozu took the world, Xiao He, Zhang Liang and others were cloth, and Fan Hao was just a butcher who slaughtered pigs and dogs, but he was a marquis and worshiped the prime minister. In today's troubled times, my generation of men should carry a sword and ride a horse to earn a princely business, how can they plant seedlings and plow the fields and be a farmer. ”

This is what Li Zheng often said to the teenagers when he gathered the middle and middle school teenagers.

Li Zheng can not only read and write, but also has a bold nature, a wealthy family, and often helps poor and weak young people, and is born dark and strong, strong and powerful, and naturally became the king of teenagers.

The young people in the village were willing to listen to him.

There is a big frost today, and it is a big cloudy day. Li Zheng asked his family to kill a black pig, took a jar of 50 catties of wine, and beckoned more than a dozen teenagers with the same surname to come to his house to eat wine.

Li Zheng's father died early, there is only one old mother in the family, and there are several younger siblings below, the old mother can't control Li Zheng, Li Zheng is at home with a lot of words, so he says that if he kills a pig, he will kill a pig.

He also renovated a side room in his house, and built an earthen stove with stones in the middle of the floor around it, and a large cauldron hung from the stove.

At this moment, the firewood in the earthen stove is burning very strongly, and the pork in the cauldron is cooked sweetly, and Li Zheng is leading more than ten teenagers around to drink wine and eat meat.

Some of these dozen teenagers have good family backgrounds and are strong in thick clothes, while some teenagers are thin and have no winter clothes, and they are very poor.

But Li Zheng can treat everyone equally.

The teenagers all called Li Zheng brother, and Li Zheng also treated them like younger brothers.

"Li Jiang, you are too thin, eat more fatty meat, drink less alcohol, and grow stronger, so you can go to the army with me." Li Zheng glanced at the teenagers, and saw that a teenager was wearing tattered clothes, and the fire was burning very strongly, but he was still shivering, so he couldn't help but take a piece of fat from the pot and hand it to the teenager.

"Thank you, brother." Li Jiang said very gratefully.

"Brother, do you finally want to join the army?" A teenager's eyes lit up and he asked.

Li Zheng is quite ambitious, and often says that the prince and the general Xiangning have a kind of call, and he wants to make the marquis worship the general, and it is the first time to mention joining the army.

The rest of the teenagers also pricked up their ears to listen, the half-grown teenagers were bold, and the teenagers had been mixing with Li Zheng since they were children, and they were not afraid of killing people in the army, but were eager to try.

"Year after year, when I grow up, I am afraid that I will be forced to marry by my family, if I have a family, I will have concerns, but it is difficult to join the army again."

Li Zheng drank the wine in the bowl, swallowed another piece of lean meat, and said with a hearty smile.

"Let us walk with our brother."

"Go together, go together."

The teenagers said excitedly. But there are also young people who are quite calm and say: "General Zuo is a hero in the world, and we will have a future if we go to him." But at present, there are few small people in Xinye City, and I heard that Liu Biao and his wife deducted General Zuo's money and grain, resulting in a lack of food in General Zuo's army. I'm afraid there won't be any new recruits at the moment. ”

Li Zheng also showed helplessness on his face, and put the bowl on the ground heavily, and the bowl almost broke. said angrily: "Liu Biao is a member of the Han family, and he hid in Jingzhou and became a turtle with a shrunken head. But he still has to stop General Zuo from fighting, which is really shameless. ”

"That's right, now that the world is in turmoil, Liu Biao, as a member of the Han family, sits in Jingzhou, but he doesn't send a single soldier, which is really weak."

"That's hateful."

The teenagers said one after another.

After scolding Liu Biao for a while, the teenagers were very embarrassed. I want to join the army, but General Zuo is short of food, so he shouldn't expand the army.

went south to defect to Liu Biao, but he was really unwilling.

Do you want to go north to join Cao Cao, the thief? Again, I don't want to.

This dilemma made the teenagers scratch their ears and cheeks.

At this moment, the sound of gongs and drums sounded in my ears. Li Zheng was surprised, so he sent Li Jiang and said, "Li Jiang, go and see what happened." ”

"No." Li Jiang promised, opened the door and walked out.