Yu Liang returned home and told him about joining the army, but his mother and wife were crying, and he was almost beaten by his father. Later, it was easy to say that he was going to be an official and just a military attaché, and he was slightly understood.

Then he began to encourage the villagers to join the army, and tirelessly talked about the benefits of becoming a sergeant of the township. Because if you don't find some people, you can't be a ten-general...... He is an apprentice, if he is a pawn, he will not be able to make a difference at home.

The situation is not bad. The Kaifeng Mansion branch is not easy to recruit people because the villagers don't know what is going on! The people in the township were illiterate, and they rarely went to the city, but the officials in the county did not carry out the imperial decrees well.

…… In the village of Zhangzhuang, the old Zhang family originally had five sons, but now there are three left, and the eldest is in his early thirties, all of whom are singles!

A family of five was having dinner in the courtyard while discussing what the Yu family said.

Although it was a courtyard, it had only a tattered earthen wall, and there was not even a door. It was already dark, and several people were in the courtyard with thick bowls, and there was still a little light, but the house was dark, and there was no lamp oil.

The second and fourth children are dead, Xiu Huanghe is dead, and now there are three men in addition to Zhang Laohan.

Zhang Laohan took a sip of vegetable leaf soup and said, "Exempt from forced labor......"

The old woman with gray hair and unkempt hair hurriedly said: "Those who want to go into battle and work hard, the sword and gun are not long-sighted." ”

Lao San said: "It's better than repairing the Yellow River every year, and you don't need to bring rations." ”

The boss said weakly: "There is still a lot of money to burn when ...... dead."

The family said a word, and then they were silent again.

Zhang Da was dressed in tattered clothes, his hair was tied to the top of his head with a hemp rope, he was very thin, but because of his thick bones, he looked very big and burly.

He drank a bowl of vegetable soup, leaving a thin layer of rice grains in the bowl, then stood up and walked to the old five, who was squatting on the threshold and holding the bowl silently, and the fifth was only twelve years old. Zhang Da poured the rice grains in the bowl into Lao Wu's bowl.

Lao Wu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said busily: "Big brother, you eat, you eat." ”

Zhang Da turned around and went into the house to put the dishes.

After a while, the third child also poured the remaining rice into his younger brother's bowl, and said with a smile: "Half a child, just when you can eat it." The fifth brother is better, and he will ask for a daughter-in-law in the future, and I will pass on the incense to the old Zhang family. ”

Lao Wu wiped his eyes and said, "If I can please my daughter-in-law, let her also serve the eldest brother and the third brother." ”

When the old woman heard this, she spat and scolded, "Stupid words! ”

Zhang Da walked out of the house and snorted: "I'll go find Yu Shusheng, I'll go to join the army." ”

Zhang Sandao: "Big brother, it's better for me to go, you are a good hand at farming." ”

Zhang Dadao: "The third child is still young, maybe he can still please his daughter-in-law." If I die, the money given by the government will take the money given by the government to marry my daughter-in-law, and give me a straw mat to wrap and bury it. ”

At this moment, the two younger brothers suddenly burst into tears.

"Cry fart!" Zhang Da scolded, "Isn't the second and fourth child buried like this, they are all dead, why do you spend money?" ”

Zhang Da said a word to his father and mother, and then went out to Yu's house, and the third child followed without saying anything.

When he went to Yu Liang's house, he entered the tile house, and there were two men talking to Yu Liang there. Zhang Da and the third child were silent, standing against the wall at the door, and the two brothers made a move, their hands in their tattered sleeves, and they stood there with their necks locked.

Yu Liang turned his gaze over and asked casually, "What are you two doing?" ”

Zhang Dadao: "Just do that job, Yu Shusheng said in the village." ”

Yu Liangdao: "Join the army? ”

"Hmph." Zhang Da snorted from his nose.

Yu Liang said: "You old Zhang's family go to the two brothers? ”

Zhang Dadao: "I'll go, he'll come and see." ”

The third said: "***." ”

Yu Liang's tone was a little polite, and he asked again, "Have you eaten?" ”

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Yu Laohan next to him coughed dryly twice. Zhang Da turned his head and glanced at it, and said, "The general has eaten." ”

Yu Liang picked up his pen and wrote for a while, then looked up and said, "Then go back and prepare to prepare, and leave with me in three days." ”

"Hit?" Zhang Da asked in wonder.

Yu Liang said: "Hit!" As soon as I report it, your Zhang family is a military household, and as long as someone is in the military, the whole family does not need to be conscripted. ”

The two of them joined the army in a few words, and when they went back, they made the old lady cry again. But the family said that they had already joined the army, and they did not dare to repent, for fear of being arrested by the government and questioned for their crimes.

Three days later, Yu Liang had already gathered more than a dozen men and walked to the county with them. A green-robed official received them and took them to the courtyard of the government for dinner.

It turned out to be white rice!

A group of people with bright eyes, sat down at the table and picked up chopsticks to eat, no one said a word, only the sound of chopsticks and bowls colliding and the sound of chewing on the table.

There are fast eats, and after a while, they are holding the bowl and licking the bottom of the bowl.

At this moment, a burst of crying was suddenly heard, and when everyone turned their heads to look, the third child of the Zhang family was crying in the room. Zhang Da was annoyed: "Why are you crying? Shame is not shame! ”

Zhang San choked up and said, "I eat white rice, and my father and mother are drinking vegetable leaf soup......"

Zhang Da's expression was gloomy for a while, and he said: "Hurry up and eat, what you eat is not the family's rations, and it will be saved for them." ”

Everyone was silent.

The county government has been distributing wheat cakes for a few days, and they are packed in cloth bags! Then Yu Liang and another leading man went all the way to Kaifeng Mansion with people. The crowd was very dull for the first two days, but it didn't take long for everyone to feel tired because they had eaten a full meal, and the atmosphere became more and more lively.

When it came to the camp outside Tokyo, wheelbarrows pushed grain into the camp on the main road, and the sacks still had the word "Taicang" on them. When everyone saw so much food, their hearts became more and more steady.

The commander personally received Yu Liang and his dozen people, and when he saw that they were all young and strong men, he was very happy, and immediately appointed Yu Liang as the tenth general of the third team of the first command of the right regiment and the right capital, and arranged for more than a dozen people to fill him with a team.

Then, a large cart of clothes was transported, and there was a flag on the car, which read: Shen Chen Li Weaving.

The escorted robed man hugged his fists and said: "This batch of uniforms is Mrs. Shen's intention, and please accept it with a smile." ”

The commander's face was full of laughter: "Shen Chen Li Commercial Bank is righteous and light on money, and it can be a righteous businessman!" ”

"Where, where." The robed man said politely.

The commander waved his hand: "Go to the river to fetch water and boil the bath water, wash it and put it on!" After that, his eyes stayed on Zhang Da's tattered clothes, and he frowned, "Clothes like this, quickly change them and throw them away!" We're not begging for food! ”

In addition to clothes, one person has a pair of helmets; There is no armor, and there are no weapons.

When everyone took a shower and changed into military uniforms, the camp was even more noisy, and from time to time there was a "haha" laughter, and everyone was very happy. Because this costume is beautiful!

The shoulders are leather! Looks like a shoulder armor; The wrists are also leather. Gray linen, strong and smooth, very well made, dense and neat stitches. A large placket on the chest is styled like a cuirass, with a cyan head and a leather belt on the waist; The linen pants on the lower body are slightly lighter in color, and the color of the whole set is very layered. Mille-feuille boots are also comfortable to wear.

The commander also smiled: "I heard that Shen Chen Li weaves and makes the clothes of high-ranking officials and nobles, and the things he makes are really good!" Down! ”

Zhang Da's eyes widened, looked at his third brother, turned back and forth twice, and said in two voices: "Mother|, no wonder it is said that people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, how can the third brother not be able to please his daughter-in-law?!" ”

The waists of the two of them also straightened up, and they were full of food and spirits, and they talked endlessly.

The third said: "You must know that it is so good to be in the army, you should have come a long time ago." ”

…… After more than ten days, the people commanded by Kaifeng Mansion were recruited. The commander did not train the troops, but only asked everyone to stand in line a little and told them that they were going to the Jiangnan camp.

Tokyo is the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but you have to go to Jiangnan, and you don't know why, but most of them are honest farmers, very obedient, and they have food every day, and they go wherever they are called.

Soon, good things came! Not only take care of the food, but also send money!

A person has always been a copper coin and a piece of cloth as a "settling-in allowance". The commander said that he couldn't go home for a while, and he went straight to battle after training; Give everyone a few days to go home and send a "settling-in allowance", and then drive south.

The commander said several times in a row that he must come back. Everyone has already been registered, and if they do not obey the military order within three years, the deserter will be beaten with a rod for fifty years and exiled for three thousand miles!

If you take the delicious food of the imperial court, it is a felony to want to run!

The third child below muttered: "Who wants to run miles, eat dry food every time, and don't leave ...... in a hurry"

A few days later, Zhang Da and the other two brothers returned to Zhangzhuang with the money, as if they had a dream! After not seeing each other for more than half a month, they changed and "returned home".

Every household in the village came out to watch, Zhang Da held his head high, and was asked by acquaintances, but he couldn't answer, and said from time to time: "The emperor sent it." "It's the emperor's grain, Yu Shusheng said, the word Taicang is written on the grain bag, and the emperor took it out of his own granary......"

When the people heard the emperor's words, they all looked at them in awe. The Zhang brothers became the emperor's guards for a while.

The dilapidated yard of their house was even more crowded with people. The third child gave him the settling-in fee he had gotten into the house, but Zhang Da glanced at the fifth brother quietly, and deliberately shook the copper coins in the money bag in front of everyone, and opened the cloth bucket to see. He deliberately said loudly: "The Son of Heaven has issued a holy decree, and we have made meritorious contributions, and what we have sent is not cloth, but silk gold and silver!" ”

The crowd was in an uproar.

As for the risk of exaggeration, Zhang Da is not that conscious, besides, in this village, who knows about the Son of Heaven?

Zhang Daxue looked like the generals in the barracks, clasped his fists at his side, and said: "The officials treat the soldiers well, do we dare to die if we don't serve them?" ”

The tattered and skinny old man Zhang, when he talked to his neighbors, his tone had changed unconsciously, just like a respected villager. Everyone spoke very politely, one by one.

Zhang Da noticed that the little lady and daughter-in-law who were watching in the crowd were all red when they looked at him. Less than half a month later, he felt as if he had been reincarnated.

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(I'm sorry everyone, I've been delayed in going out for the past two days, and I've been feeling guilty in my heart, alas.) ）