At the foot of Huangzhu Mountain, a group of hungry people were stunned in a simple wooden house separated from each other.

This humble wooden house was originally a newly built cattle shed in Huangzhu Mountain, but now it is a prisoner of war camp.

Two months ago, Prime Minister Liu Bagou proposed that the state should unify the cattle in Huangzhu Mountain, so as to keep the cattle in a better state, but many villagers think that the men of their family finally snatched a cow from outside the mountain and came back, and now you officials are going to take back the cattle, they will definitely not do it, the small people of the Tang Dynasty are widows, and naturally they can't stand the toss.

These newly built cowsheds were useless until the arrival of a large number of Ming prisoners three days ago.

More than 60 prisoners need to live in a place and also need to be kept in a centralized manner, and other places are not very suitable, only this cowshed is suitable.

So, after some transformation by the prisoners themselves, these barns became a prisoner camp with compartments.

On this day, Bai Yunqi had just finished the court meeting and received the 'holy decree' to officially take care of the prisoners, and he came to the prisoner camp in a hurry.

As soon as he arrived at the prisoner camp, he couldn't wait to take out the solicitation slip that he had discussed with Madame Bai before to announce it to the captives.

The recruitment conditions are very simple, as long as you are willing to join the Tang Dynasty and become a Datang soldier, then you can immediately get the same treatment as a Datang soldier.

What is this treatment?

One word: eat!

Two words: Eat full!

No matter what era it is, eating is always a top priority, especially in ancient times when food production was extremely low, the vast majority of ordinary people, they have been working hard all their lives to be fed, and this effort often does not work, and it is common to suffer from cold and starvation.

Now as soon as they hear that they can eat enough when they join Datang as a soldier, even if they know that Datang is a gang of thieves, but there are still many people who are moved.

Although these ordinary Ming army soldier captives and Zeng Ziyun, a thousand households, are hereditary, the former and the latter are not the same thing.

Hereditary officers, especially those like Qianhu, had lived a more chic life, and over the course of a hundred years, they were not only hereditary officers, but also gradually evolved into a large landowner, and those ordinary soldiers gradually became their tenants.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the contemporary guard house is actually a village, and the thousand households are the landlords in the village, and the ordinary soldiers are tenants.

Those ordinary military households were even worse than ordinary tenants, because if the landlords were too ruthless in collecting rent, the tenants could flee to other places to rent the land of other landlords, but if they couldn't, the military households would not let them escape.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary military households have actually become serfs of officers!

It may be difficult to intuitively understand how miserable the military households are, but how miserable the serfs are, just looking at the literal meaning is enough.

A group of serfs heard that as long as they joined the Tang Dynasty as anti-thieves, they would be able to live a well-fed life, and many people were tempted on the spot.

But no one came out and said yes directly, because they also had other worries, such as their families.

Bai Yunqi seemed to see their concerns, and immediately spoke: "Don't worry, even if you join our Tang Dynasty Division, the Ming army doesn't know, you don't have to worry about the safety of your respective families."

And when my Tang Dynasty King comes out of the mountain, your family will also become the people of the Tang Dynasty, and the Ming army will not be able to hurt them! ”

As soon as Bai Yunqi said this, many people felt that it was really like this, they were captured as prisoners, and even surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the court didn't know it.

At this time, although most of them still have various worries and are unwilling to agree, there are still a few people who make a decision immediately, anyway, who to be a soldier is not a soldier, as long as they can eat enough, what does it matter if they are a thief?

At this time, a young man who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old in the captive crowd stood up and said, "I am willing to submit!" ”

As soon as this young man stood up, more than a dozen other people immediately came out one after another to express their willingness to surrender and contribute to the anti-thief cause of the Tang Dynasty.

Although among the more than 60 people, only more than 10 people expressed their willingness to join the big family of the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible, Bai Yunqi still showed a satisfied expression.

Later, it was announced that these new defectors would become the soldiers of the Standing Army of the Tang Dynasty, and they would also be the leaders of the remaining prisoners in the follow-up supervision.

Bai Yunqi organized the remaining fifty captives who refused to surrender into more than ten groups, which were under the jurisdiction of those soldiers who were the first to surrender, and generously gave the title of 'Hundred Households' to the more than ten new soldiers.

These soldiers heard it right, it is the 'hundred households' often said in the Ming army!

Of course, there will be more than 100 people under the 100 households in the Ming army, and there will be dozens of people at least, but these new 100 households in front of them only have four or five people under their hands, and even only three at the least, in fact, they are just a military commander.

But even so, when Bai Yunqi announced this, the dozen or so Toucheng soldiers couldn't help but change color in unison, this surprise came too quickly, just Toucheng, and became a hundred?

Wouldn't it be a few days before they would be able to become thousands of households or even commanders?

Not to mention, their idea is really right, there are not many other things in the Tang Dynasty, that is, there are many official positions!

All civil officials are prime ministers, and military generals are all generals, which is a fine tradition of the Tang Dynasty since its founding more than a year ago.

As for the civil officials below the prime minister's level and the military attachés below the general level, it is simply not worth mentioning.

Therefore, the thousands of households that these surrendered soldiers hope for in their hearts, it is really not a matter to command or something, and Li Xuan can seal one by one person, and it is still an unlimited supply, as many as you want!

However, the Tang Dynasty is so wonderful, those ordinary soldiers don't know, in their fixed concepts, these hundred positions are six products, and the court officials are very majestic.

And now, they are a hundred households, the six-rank military attachés of the Tang Dynasty, at the beginning, they have not been able to adapt to their 'official' identity, but Bai Yunqi found out within a few days that these soldiers who surrendered to Cheng seemed to pay more attention to than the original large group of bandits in Huangzhushan, and even maintained the dignity and prestige of officials.

Especially when Bai Yunqi announced that he would select one thousand households from their more than ten 'hundred households' in the future, these more than ten hundred households who had just surrendered to Cheng worked even harder, and more quickly turned into an official, using various methods to force the captives under him to work.

Because the criteria for promotion are very simple, that is, whoever does the most work under his hands can be regarded as the first thousand households of the Tang Dynasty.

So what soon appeared in front of Bai Yunqi was not a group of bitter serf soldiers, but more than a dozen radiant 'hundred households'.

Watching them shouting and scolding their former comrades-in-arms and letting the prisoners under his command work hard, Bai Yunqi was very excited, and he admired his sister Madame Bai even more in his heart.

Mrs. Bai told him a few days ago that at the beginning, the number of people who were willing to surrender would definitely not be large, but Mrs. Bai also told him that it didn't matter.

When he asked why, Madame Bai said something like this: There is no harm without comparison!

At first, Bai Yunqi didn't know what this meant, but now he understood what it meant.