After leaving the Huang family, Li Xuan soon took the Tang Dynasty monarchs and dozens of soldiers to visit several other well-known local wealthy families in Liushazhuang.

Every time he goes to a house, Li Xuan will do the same thing as in the Huang family, in addition to emphasizing that his Datang New Army will not disturb the people and not loot, he will also use the name of cherishing talents to recruit their descendants, especially those like the eldest son.

As for whether the descendants of these rich families are really talented and learned, it doesn't matter, what matters is their identity!

Li Xuan made such a play, and took away the descendants of other people's descendants semi-forcefully, the purpose was quite obvious, and even Qian Mengjiu and they could see that these children of rich families who were taken away and were all awarded the official hats of the Tang Dynasty are protons in the words of the tall.

Well, this proton is not the proton in the electron neutron proton, the ancient people were not so awesome that they had discovered the secret of the atomic nucleus, but the prince of the country who voluntarily or was forced to go to a neighboring country or even an enemy country as a hostage, referred to as: proton.

Let's not talk about it for too long, let's talk about what everyone knows: Jiang II, the son of Jiang Guangtou, he was a hostage in the Soviet Union for 12 years, and he was sadly urged by his father!

Now Li Xuan has semi-forcibly gathered the children of these rich families, also in order to allow the rich and powerful families in these places to have some scruples, after all, the eldest son, the eldest grandson of your family, and the heirs of the family are all under my hands, if you dare to resist the rule of the Tang Dynasty, then the heirs of your family will not be able to save their lives.

In addition, this arrangement has another very interesting effect, that is, these hostages are not only hostages, Li Xuan also gave them official titles.

All of them are Datang officials such as Lang Zhong and the director, although they can't get a penny like other Datang officials, and even they themselves don't want to recognize this official position, but does it matter?

It doesn't matter, anyway, whether you want to or not, you are an official of the Tang Dynasty, and your name is registered in the register, if you go back to Zhengtai County and destroy the Tang Dynasty, do you still want to live as a middle and senior official of the Tang Dynasty?

Is it possible?

Those soldiers of the Ming army who are eager for merit will not hesitate to cut off your head, and then pick up the reward and get promoted!

At this moment, for many people, the official position of the Tang Dynasty is not glory and wealth, but a guillotine knife, once you become an official of the Tang Dynasty, there will be a knife called 'Ming Army' hanging on the top of your head, and you can't tell when it will be cut down.

Li Xuan knew very early that the thief ships of the Tang Dynasty could not get off if they came up, no matter whether you were willing or unwilling at the beginning, as long as you came up and wanted to go down, it was basically impossible.

Zeng Ziwen is like this, Yang Xiucai is also like this, Yang Xiucai was not the same reluctant when he was forcibly recruited by him some time ago, and now, although he does not have much initiative, he has done the same thing.

Now as long as these talents can be used, Li Xuan doesn't care if he is sincere!

It's just that now Li Xuan's scale is a bit large, they have passed through four medium and large villages along the way, and they have taken more than ten hostages from large households, which makes Qian Mengjiu a little worried that such a large-scale hostage capture may cause resistance.

However, Li Xuan didn't care, if these big families would resist, they would have rebelled a long time ago, most of them were still afraid of death, and Li Xuan only took away their heirs, not their family heads!

And Li Xuan didn't take all their descendants away, the eldest son of the descendants died, and it was okay to change the second son to inherit the family business!

Li Xuan left them such an obvious loophole, just to reduce their resolute resistance to the heart, of course, no matter what, there will always be people who resist, and for these rebellious families, Li Xuan will not hesitate to deduct a crime of harboring false and conspiracy, and send them back to Huangzhusha as coolies, by the way, they can also confiscate a lot of property and food as military funds, and there are also fields to distribute to those soldiers who have newly joined the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to expand the army, Li Xuan recruited troops on a large scale outside the mountains for the first time, and unlike the previous few small fights and only recruited a few dozens, this time he planned to recruit a total of more than 500 soldiers, plus the existing troops, and strive to make the strength exceed 1,000 people.

Even if Zeng Ziwen said that it is not advisable to attack Zhengtai County, it is what Li Xuan wants to do to seize and even control the countryside of Zhengtai County, and to control the land of a county, it is definitely not possible to rely on the existing three or five hundred people, they need more troops.

And more importantly, to resist the attack of the Ming army in the future!

In order to recruit soldiers on a large scale, and to recruit soldiers who have passed the quality test, and at the same time are willing to take the initiative to join, rather than being forcibly pulled to strengthen the soldiers, Li Xuan is rare and generous.

Fifty catties of grain were immediately distributed to those who applied and passed the recruitment, and at the same time promised two full meals a day, and the land was immediately distributed.

Don't think that fifty catties of food is very little, converted into silver is only a few dollars, but for those families who can't eat at home, it is an extremely valuable amount of life-saving food that can allow the family to survive and not starve to death.

At the same time, the Datang New Army promised that as long as he joined the army, he could eat two full meals a day, which was also extremely important.

If the above two points are only the initial attraction of poor children to join the army, then the most important land division system is used to completely stimulate their centripetal force on the Tang Dynasty.

As long as you join the army, you can get a share of the land, but if you want to keep these lands, you must ensure that the Tang Dynasty does not perish.

Because the Ming Dynasty did not recognize the legitimacy of the land that the Tang Dynasty gave to these soldiers, once the Tang Dynasty was finished, the fields they obtained would be instantly wiped out.

And for themselves, in order for their families to have a piece of land that can be passed on to future generations, these soldiers have to fight desperately.

Because at that time, they were no longer fighting for the Tang Dynasty, but for themselves!

The three recruitment conditions designed by Li Xuan can be said to have instantly stimulated the enthusiasm of many poor children to join the army.

The enthusiastic recruitment situation even exceeded Li Xuan's expectations, in the previous villages, there would be at least a lot of people in each village, and this was still in the case of not very good publicity, and more and more people came in the next few times.

And when it came to the official recruitment of soldiers in Liushazhuang, there were more than 200 people, and many of them came from the surrounding villages to become soldiers, which shows how attractive the three recruitment conditions proposed by Li Xuan are to the poor.

Li Xuan watched so many people come to recruit, and a smile finally appeared on his face, with so many people coming to recruit, he can select dozens or even hundreds of qualified soldiers, so it won't take long for his thousand-man army expansion plan to be completed.