Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Lihua was about to go to Longdecheng to meet Zhao Zhihai, but suddenly received a military order from Longdecheng, asking him to go to Dayuan County to recruit troops.

After raising soldiers, he went straight to Wushi County to join the general's army.

Zhu Lihua understood that Zhao Zhihai wanted to recruit soldiers on his own, so that he could lead the military more conveniently in the future.

Most of Zhao Zhihai's soldiers are from Qinlan County, if you let Lihua control them, it will be more inconvenient to talk in both life habits and dialects, and Lihua is too qualified, and leading some two or five hundred masters will still cause some unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, Zhao Zhihai felt that it would be more advantageous to let Yu Lihua recruit some soldiers from the local area.

This good intention, Zhu Lihua was very clear, so he gladly accepted the order and set off to Ohara County with four hundred soldiers.

The six counties of Yuanzhou, except for Xiaoguan, which is located in the far northwest, are the two counties of Wushi and Longde from north to south and west by the Sumeru Mountains.

Chaona, Dayuan, and Jingyang are located in the west of Wushi and Longde from north to south.

The reason why Zhao Zhihai asked Lihua to go to Dayuan to recruit troops was that he considered that since the beginning of the war, the local people in Wushi and Longde counties had not run much, and the several conscriptions and soldiers in the past few months have left the two counties without soldiers to recruit.

Compared with the two, the situation of the three counties of Dayuan is slightly better, and Dayuan is located in the middle of Chaona and Jingyang, and the soldiers available in the three counties can be recruited there, and after recruiting good soldiers, they can arrive at Wushi County as soon as possible and join the army.

Three days later, Lihua and others arrived at Dayuan City, and Lihua sent Gao Yunce and Liang Qingshu to Chaona County and Jingyang County to recruit troops respectively.

Although 400 of the 800 soldiers brought from Yuxiao Pass were assigned to Ma Yuan as his personal soldiers, Gao Yunce, Wei Yuanqi, Liang Qingshu, Liu He, Li Ji, Tang Yuan, and An Moran all followed him.

After contacting the Ohara County Order, he showed the general's military order to the county order, and the county order did not dare to slack off, and immediately arranged for the recruitment of troops.

But Lu Lihua had his own plans, and after the county order recruitment announcement was issued, he personally took Wei Yuanqi and An Moran to recruit troops in the north of the city and wait for those who signed up to join the army.

At the end of the day, more than 400 people came to sign up, and this speed made Lihua quite satisfied.

Zhu Lihua knew that most of the young and middle-aged people in the Qin State had to serve in the shift, although there were quite a few people of school age in the counties of Dayuan who had gone to serve in the past six months, there were still quite a few young men who were not included in the shift.

Besides, the Qin people are so brave, once the battle starts, there are still quite a lot of soldiers, but after all, they are going to fight and die, and it is still beyond his expectations to recruit more than 400 people in one day.

Zhu Lihua didn't know that in the past few years, the local aristocracy had caused many ordinary people to lose their land by forcibly buying and selling, and oppressing the good, and attached to the families of the aristocratic and wealthy families to work for their cultivation and labor to obtain the necessities of survival.

There are also some landless peasants who want to solve their living needs through service, after all, they can eat enough to eat.

However, there is a limit on the amount of service in each county, and in the past two years, the situation of empty salaries in each county has also been quite serious, which has caused a rare opportunity for ordinary people to solve the problem of food and clothing through service.

This time, when I encountered the recruitment of soldiers in Lihua, some young and middle-aged people who were stronger and stronger rushed to sign up for the army.

When he was in the General Mansion, although he also knew more or less about this situation, after all, he was also a nobleman who had no worries about food and clothing, and most of the cloth officials in the Zuo Council Hall were also from wealthy families, so they knew little about it.

Therefore, Zhu Lihua only said that the Qin people were warlike and had the courage to join the army.

At dinner, Lu Lihua said to Wei Yuanqi on the side: "Today's recruitment progress is quite fast, I think I will be able to recruit full soldiers tomorrow, after a while, I will ask Brother Wei to check those soldiers who have signed up, but all the only sons, newlyweds within three years, and those who have been serving in the service among the brothers will be asked to return." ”

Wei Yuanqi naturally understood the meaning of Lihua, and after saying "yes", he took a few mouthfuls of food and left the tent to go to the recruits.

This is the first time that Lihua has recruited soldiers, and he is very happy to be able to achieve such good results.

Originally, he was still worried about recruiting a shortage of soldiers, but now he found that what he needed to worry about was that the camp tents for the newly recruited soldiers to rest tonight were seriously insufficient.

After Wei Yuanqi left, Lu Lihua turned around and left the camp to go to the city again, and asked for some materials and utensils for camping in Dayuan County.

As soon as he left the camp, he saw nearly 100 people squatting at the gate of the camp, silently looking at the lively recruitment scene in the camp, and couldn't help but feel strange, so he got off his horse and walked towards those people.

Li Hua walked and observed carefully, but saw that these people did not look like the people in the camp who signed up to join the army, because most of those people were thin and weak, although many of them had also served in the army, but they had not been in the army for a long time, and they always had some trembling and panicked appearance when they entered the barracks.

And although these people are all in rags, most of them are burly, and they are obviously not what they should look like after starving for a long time.

He concluded that the clothes of these people must have been stolen. But why these people came to their tents, Zhu Lihua couldn't figure out the situation for a while.

When he walked to the door, he walked over to a middle-aged man with a rather generous appearance in the group.

These people sitting outside the camp also saw a thin black coat and a thin figure, and when they saw that he was not dressed gorgeously, but it was quite delicate, they knew that he must be a person of status in the camp. What's more, there are more than a dozen sturdy soldiers guarding him.

The middle-aged man got up and saluted Zhu Lihua who walked in front of him, and said: "This gentleman, we are out-of-town refugees, and when we heard that the Mu Qi Army was recruiting soldiers, we also wanted to join the army to serve the country, but we didn't have any official guidance, so the recruiting generals drove us out." This gentleman has a way to make it possible for the brothers to eat. ”

With that, he took out a burden from his sleeve and made a fortress for Lihua.

"The rebels are in charge."

This was Lihua's first reaction when he heard this, but then Lihua denied the answer.

Long before Zhao Zhize was appointed as the governor of Yuanzhou, Lu Lihua could hear the voice of a person reprimanding the officials of the general government with the accent of his hometown every day, that person's name was Fang Xie, the current Situ of the household department, a native of Quwo County, Hexi County, and the dialect he spoke was exactly the same as this middle-aged man.

How can the people on the border of Qi be the internal response of the Rong people.

He smiled and reached out to take the burden handed by the middle-aged man.

When he took the burden, he deliberately stretched out in the wrong direction, and quickly stretched his hand in the direction of the middle-aged man's heart.

Swish.

Zhu Lihua only felt a flower in front of him, and when he saw the middle-aged man dodge quickly, he dodged his arm, and at the same time grabbed Zhu Lihua's hand tightly in his palm.

Seeing that the middle-aged man was about to have a seizure, he smiled and said, "It's really good, good skills, it's a pity not to be a soldier, you people are waiting here, and you will hear my good news later." ”

With that, he took the burden handed to him by the middleman and turned around and walked into the line.

Lu Lihua sent An Moran to the county seat to ask for supplies, and he entered the Chinese army account to open the burden. Sure enough, as I expected, it was full of money.

He summoned Wei Yuanqi and told him what had just happened. Wei Yuanqi's first reaction was the same as that of Lihua, thinking that the rebels wanted to blend into his camp, but after listening to Lihua's explanation, he suddenly realized that the straight way was like this.

When the middle-aged man saw the black-clothed young man enter the camp, he sat on the ground again with a blushing face, and a person next to him hurriedly came up and said to him: "General Wei, can this be done, I'm afraid that the meat bun will hit the dog and there will be no return." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he turned his head and glared at him and said angrily: "How many times have I told you, don't call me a general again, otherwise after you and I fall to the ground, which one will still be a general."

If the brothers don't find a way out, they will be taken by the government one day and give their lives in vain, and I won't say anything that he will be in the same camp with this kind of Laoshizi, and he will be patient after receiving our money. ”

With that, the middle-aged man closed his eyes.

After a long time, seeing that the sun was about to set, the nearly 100 people couldn't sit still anymore, and they got up and asked the middle-aged man what to do. The man also had a sad face and a bitter face.

At this moment, he was also muttering in his heart, afraid that the man just now accepted the money and didn't do anything for himself, and he was already black.

He seemed to be dumb and ate coptis, and he had a hard time speaking. I had to say a few words to come back tomorrow, soothe everyone's emotions, and then turned around and wanted to leave.

At this moment, a young man walked out of the line, and when he saw that they were leaving, he hurriedly shouted, "Stop." ”

The middle-aged man was startled when he heard the voice, and hurriedly turned his head to look at the young man, and when he saw that there were only four or five people beside him, he relieved his heart, stepped forward and bowed, and said, "What advice does this lord call me for?" ”

The young man was Wei Yuanqi, who had discussed countermeasures with Yu Lihua, and I saw that he had made a good posture and said with a domineering look: "Aren't you going to join the army, but there are still homeless people like you, who will be recruited when they go back, and they will come to report early tomorrow morning." ”

The middle-aged man was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly waved at the young man, and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency's words can be counted, we still have more than 300 brothers here, all of whom are good people, but some of them are a little injured, but they will be raised for a few days."

Do you want all of them? ”

Wei Yuanqi frowned, and shouted: "What words don't count, my lord said that how many of you are there and how many of you will accept tomorrow, it's just that." ”

Speaking of this, Wei Yuanqi looked at the middle-aged man's sleeve, and deliberately patted his sleeve, and then stopped speaking.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then understood what Wei Yuanqi meant, and hurriedly said: "It's easy to say, as long as you can join the army and have a way to live, tomorrow we will give all the belongings on our bodies to the adults." ”

"You man, what is the use of waiting for me to serve the country in the army to ask for this yellow and white thing, this is called the army knows, the army." Wei Yuanqi scolded the middle-aged man with wide eyes.

The middle-aged man hurriedly nodded yes.

Wei Yuanqi waved his hand and said to the middle-aged man: "The military marquis of my family said that you can't take your money for nothing, there is nothing else in the army, these medicines are given to you, and it can be regarded as your reward for the army." ”

With that, a sergeant behind him threw a few burdens to the few people behind the middle-aged man, and then turned around and walked towards Xingyuan, ignoring the stunned middle-aged man and the others.