"The thing I regret the most in the past few years is that when I was twenty-one years old, on the evening of the day I finished my conscription, I didn't stay with Ji Ying, Xiao Tao, and Dongmen Leopard to wait for the county lieutenant to ......."

In mid-August, in a farmland next to the township of Zhuanshui Township, Shi Wuyu was dressed in coarse linen brown clothes, stepping barefoot in the golden rice field, looking up at the wild geese flying south, his face full of remorse.

Back then, Heifu was the chief of their conscription, and they trained together, repaired walls together, and got money together, and they had some friendships.

However, on the evening of the end of his service, because Heifu was called by Yun Man, the right lieutenant of the county at the time, he was in a hurry to go home, so he took his cousin Mu to go first......

It wasn't until now, seeing that Ji Ying and Xiao Tao, who were the same Qianshou soldiers as them back then, had all been knighted, and were still serving as officials in the county, and Dongmen Leopard was commanding 500 people, majestic and majestic, that he realized what he had missed!

If he stayed back then, went to Huyang Pavilion with Heifu, and went to Wei and Chu together, now he can't order a township like Dongmen Leopard, at least he is a fighting eater, right?

As he spoke, he sighed again, looked at Mu who was quickly wielding a sickle in the field to cut rice, and said angrily: "Cousin, you don't regret it?" ”

The tall, but wooden-natured Mu raised his head blankly, wiped his sweat, and showed a sincere smile: "No regrets, now that I have been conscripted for military service, the county lieutenant saw me when he was patrolling the camp, and he actually remembered the events of the year, pulled me and chatted for a long time, and finally asked me to be his flag soldier, and the same treatment as the short soldier and personal guard, you can eat one more bowl per meal than the average soldier, and there are green onion leeks and fish soup to eat!" ”

"Eat, you know how to eat!"

As soon as Mu said this, he was even more angry, and now it seems that his cousin has finally taken the big ship of the county lieutenant, but he is short in stature, and he has not been drafted, and he is going to miss this opportunity to be promoted to a knight and make a fortune!

He threw away the sickle in frustration and sat on the ridge of the field sulking: "When you return, at least you will be a public servant...... No, it's made! I'm still a poor countryman! ”

The honest Mu didn't know what to say, so he could only continue to bury his head and speed up the rice harvesting. Originally, they had no chance to go home, thanks to the county lieutenant Ende, let them return to the township under the leadership of the tun chief and the chief, help the family harvest in the autumn, and at the same time say goodbye to it, now it is August 14, only four days have to go back to gather.

His arms are strong and powerful, he can carry the banner of the county lieutenant, and he is not sloppy in doing farm work, and he quickly finished cutting one acre of rice, and after carrying it to the ridge of the field, he said with some surprise: "This year's rice grows really well!" ”

"It's nature."

Yu, who had been sulking for a long time, finally replied: "Tian Zuo has preached the method of composting and manure as early as Ji Xia, and it is still used in the public field. But many people in the township are using the old method, dare not try, as soon as I heard that it is the county lieutenant's family to offer the method, I feel that it must be reliable, so let the family use this ten acres of rice field, this year's rice field, at least three buckets, five buckets of millet! ”

Mu went to Xiangting at the end of June to apply for training, so he didn't know much about it, and when he heard it, he told him about the "public toilet" he saw in the county.

"When I was raising the flag at the head of the city that day, I also heard the county lieutenant discuss with the county order, saying that when the autumn harvest is completed, in addition to the county seat, a public toilet will be built in the townships of the three townships to collect manure......

The three townships add up to five or six thousand people, and the manure available for public toilets is also considerable in a year, so the county commander Yonghe only has to wait for the county's approval to continue to implement the "public toilets to the countryside" campaign.

This sentence woke him up, and he slapped his thigh and immediately stood up.

"That's right! My brother, the public toilet is under the care of the Tian Zuo officials, and it is cleaned by the prisoners, so they definitely need a little official to take care of them? This filthy errand is definitely not willing to be done by the nobles in the township, so why don't I go and apply? As long as it is initiated by the county lieutenant, it will never be bad! Maybe you can get the chance to make a meritorious service! ”

……

At the same time, in the Chaoyang of Huyang Pavilion, the public servant also finished harvesting the millet from the dry land of his family.

His wife, dressed in a cloth skirt, carried her one-and-a-half-year-old child in a basket and carried a clay pot to bring food to her husband and those who had come to help in the same mile......

When he went to pick up the clay pot to drink water, his wife said softly: "Fortunately, the county lieutenant is kind and let the beloved come back, otherwise I don't know what to do with this hundred acres of land...... alone."

"yes."

I sighed a lot: "The previous kindness has not been repaid, and now I owe the county lieutenant a ...... No, it's two favors! ”

The year before last, because he found out that the inner prison door and the thieves outside collaborated to rob the tomb, because I was afraid of reprisals, I threw the matter into the back basket of the postman Ji Ying through an anonymous letter. The case was finally solved, and the prison gate and the tomb robbers were all arrested, but according to the law, Qu Ji also committed the crime of surrendering and had to pay a fine of 4,000 yuan.

At that time, their family had just finished a funeral, and his wife was pregnant, so he couldn't come up with so much money, so he could only use hard labor instead, but Heifu directly "borrowed" 4,000 yuan to him and burned the bonds on the spot......

With the help of Heifu, Qu Ji was able to use the family's money to hire a doctor to treat the disease, and successfully waited for his wife to give birth and gave birth to a fat boy.

Looking at his wife and children, he was satisfied, but the only thing in his heart was that he had never had a chance to repay the kindness, although the black man was rising higher and higher, and he didn't care.

This time, it was his turn to serve in the army, and after arriving at the barracks with apprehension, the county lieutenant found him while patrolling the camp, and after talking to him, he saw that he had no martial arts, and he was very reluctant to open a bow......

"I remember that the handwriting on your submission back then was pretty good."

The county lieutenant said it easily, but it was like being amnesty, and he regarded this as the county lieutenant's care, which was the second grace.

In addition, this time the soldiers were sent home for the autumn harvest, which is the third grace.

"How can I pay it back......"

I am very distressed, and at the same time, I am worried that after I leave, I am afraid that it will be a year and a half later, and my wife and a child will live? Although as a public servant, Tian Dian will assign a servant to help take care of the fields, but the wife has to do the work of rice and other things.

While coaxing the child, his wife comforted him and said, "There is a stepping stone, it won't be too bitter." ”

"Besides, last month, after Tian Dian went to the township, he came back with a few craftsmen and set up a water mill house in Lilu, saying that the villagers could bring rice to the rice and pay one-fifth of the grain, which is also a utensil made by the county lieutenant's family, I really can't step on it, I can also go to the rice!"

……

The days are approaching day by day, the husband and wife are about to part, they are reluctant, and on the last day, when they wake up in a daze, the woman says the rooster crows, and the priest says the dan. But no matter what the hour, it will always be raised, and Wang Shi 靡盬 (gǔ), not to mention the place, as a small common man, once he is recruited, there is no choice.

When the public servant went to the pineapple tree of the family, his wife stuffed a pair of newly made shoes into his bulging bag, her eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth and said: "If the beloved does not follow the military law, then I will sit with my son and die!" ”

This is the customary instruction of Qin Guo to send his relatives to join the army, and he smiled helplessly, and stuffed a grass grasshopper that he had made yesterday into his son's pink little hand......

"When I get back!"

At the same time, the door of Shiwu Mu's house in Zhuanshui Township was also opened, and the tall flag soldier walked out of the house, and his parents and wife, after he walked away, were still shouting at him: "Don't be a knight, don't return!" ”

In hundreds of villages in Anlu County, countless families are repeating these two sentences, parents, brothers, wives and children, all standing by the door, watching their children with winter clothes, summer clothes, thin quilts on their backs, chewing dry food and leaving the warm home, meeting with their chief and Wu Chang at the inner door, after counting the number of people, it is like a stream, gathering towards the pavilion......

……

On August 17, the eve of the assembly, Heifu was in his new home on the outskirts of Anlu County, and after the family had eaten a "reunion dinner" and waited for his mother to rest, after doing his last bit of filial piety this year, Heifu found that his younger brother did not fall asleep, but walked around the courtyard with some anxiety.

"Brother Zhong."

Surprised, he said: "Tomorrow is the day of assembly, if someone really doesn't come......"

He had studied the law and was worried that if too many people escaped, the middle brother would not be able to deal with it, and he would even be punished by the county lieutenant because of the lack of conscription.

"You're worried about this!"

Heifu smiled helplessly, beckoned him to sit down by the pond, and said, "Do you know why I have to give priority to the propertied in this conscription?" ”

He was shocked and said: "Brother Zhong told me that those who have constant birth have perseverance, and those who do not have constant birth have perseverance!" ”

"Yes, those who have perseverance without permanent birth are only able to do so! In the Qin army, he has always liked to use good families with constant production, and he does not like light chivalrous and evil young men and people who have no permanent birth. One is that the good family can prepare enough clothes for the battle, while the Lu Zuo disciples can't even afford winter and summer clothes......"

In the original history, Heifu and Jing, who participated in this war, were also considered good families, and their families could at least send them clothes and money.

"Second, the son of a good family is easy to obey military orders, and he may not be as good as an evil boy when he fights alone, but once he fights in formation, he is countless times stronger than the light heroes who fight separately, which is one of the reasons why Qi's skills are not as good as Wei's martial arts, and Wei's martial arts are not as good as Qin's sharp soldiers."

"Third, even if these good families are afraid of the war, they will not run away rashly, because it will affect their families, and they can only go to the battlefield hard!"

This is called running away monks, and they can't run away from the temple.

Furthermore, Wei Yuzi said that there are five requirements for an elite soldier: "In order to forget one's home, forget one's relatives, and forget one's body when pointing to the enemy, one must die or live, and the next one is to win in a hurry." "In this way, only then can a hundred people be stabbed and trapped; Thousands of people were slashed, and the enemy was captured and killed; 10,000 people were slashed and rampant all over the world!

However, it is not easy to forget about family and parents when you go abroad to fight.

People are not animals, and it is difficult to completely abandon the family. Sometimes, the more you don't let the soldiers go home, the more worried they are, on the contrary, let them go back for the autumn harvest, seeing that the granary at home is sufficient, and their father also encourages them to "don't be knighted, don't return", they can be more relaxed and fight wholeheartedly to get the knight.

This is similar to the last war, when Heifu proposed to Li You that the Nanjun soldiers who had been away from home for too long write a letter back home, so that their morale would be greatly boosted.

After hearing this, he was convinced, and said to Heifu: "Brother Zhong, my brother thinks that your method of training and controlling soldiers already has the demeanor of a famous general!" ”

"What kind of celebrity am I?"

Hefu laughed when he heard this, he had his own self-knowledge: "In the military competition, I am only a fledgling with eggshells on my body, and I have just opened my eyes, and there are still many things to learn!" ”

He looked at the far north and said expectantly: "This time, the old general Wang Jian who will lead an army of 600,000 people, that is a famous general!" ”

Qi Mu Po Qian, the four famous generals of the Warring States in later generations, Wu Anjun killed Du Ting, Lian Po died of old age, Li Muzhong died inadvertently, only Wang Jian remained!

Hefu is now looking forward to meeting this general who is as steady as an old dog!

"Being able to witness the duel between him and Xiang Yan is also a blessing for me, a junior!"