Xu Shizhen smiled.

?

Is this what the Koreans call the substitutes who work for their lives?

Well, that's right, after all, most of the people who will come to serve as substitutes are indeed fugitives.

"How much do they get for a year of service?" Xu Shizhen then asked.

"Oh, this subordinate doesn't know." Park Jung-in replied with a smile: "However, I think there are still two stone coarse grains every year." ”

Goryeo weights and measures are somewhat different from those of the Central Plains, they are ten liters and one bucket, and fifteen buckets and one stone.

According to Goryeo standards, a person consumes one liter of grain a day, and a person needs 36 buckets of grain per year to maintain a minimum of life, which is 2 stone and 6 buckets of Goryeo weights and measures, that is, veterans who serve others may not even be able to get barely subsistence rations.

The price of human life in this alternative service is really pitiful.

Hearing this answer, Xu Shizhen became more and more happy.

The cheaper the Koreans sold their warriors, the easier it was for outsiders like them to buy them.

With a satisfied smile on his face, he walked straight to the rebellious Dai Lijun, and several guards from the Blue Army hurriedly followed when they saw this - most of the instructors and officers who came to serve as instructors and officers in the Strange Soldier Brigade were from the Blue Army Brigade or in the camp, Xu Shizhen was not only their new officer, but also in the eyes of these soldiers who surrendered to the Tartars, they could even be regarded as "masters".

When he was on the Jurchen side, the master died and the minions below were defeated and fled, and the minions were all buried together, although the Qi army did not have this kind of rule, but after all, Xu Shizhen was also a member of the Xu family, and they were just slaves, and the soldiers from the Blue Army were naturally very concerned about his safety.

As Mr. Xu drew closer, the Koreans who were waiting in line to register stepped back to make room for the young Qi provincial official to express his awe.

Only those few Dai Lijun, because everyone knew that Xu Shizhen must be going for a few of them, and these people couldn't avoid them even if they wanted to.

Xu Shizhen stood in front of a middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader, and looked him up and down.

This guy was wearing a shabby leather armor, and his style did not look so much like the equipment of the Goryeo, but rather a bit like the second-rate equipment of the Jurchens.

He had a scabbard at his waist, a quiver full of long arrows (not fragmented arrows), a sword, a one-handed axe, and a ring knife.

Except for the ring sword, the other equipment is not the standard weapon of the Koreans.

This person has a scruffy beard on his face, he can't see his face clearly, and he is slightly thin overall, but he gives people a very vigorous feeling, and his eyes are very sharp when he looks back at Xu Shizhen, and he seems to have a little ......, well, a little unconvinced.

"What's your name?" Xu Shizhen asked him.

The Goryeo people have their own script, but they still speak Chinese mainly in their daily life (but most of them can't write), which is not much different from the Jurchen and Mughal Tatars, and Xu Shizhen does not have to worry about this person not understanding what he says.

Dai Lijun, who was asked, thought for a moment, and replied quietly: "Li Minde from Xiangdong Village." ”

"I'm asking for my real name, not this coward's name."

Xu Shizhen pointed to a small wooden sign hanging in front of Li Minde, on which the word Li Minde was written.

After he was trained to command the new army of Goryeo, he did some homework about Goryeo, and learned that the name on the wooden plaque was not the man's real name - it was the name of the man who had paid 2 koku of coarse grain to buy this man in lieu of service.

The Dai Lijun in front of him is just serving under the name of Li Minde.

"I don't have a real name, I'm Li Minde from Xiangdong Village." The man said calmly, "Until I die, or until I finish my service." ”

Xu Shizhen nodded abruptly, and then without warning, he took out his cavalry saber and cut it off at Li Minde's head!

Li Minde jumped back quickly to avoid this fatal blow, but several Dai Lijun companions behind him did not react so quickly, and as a result, Li Minde directly crashed into his arms, and the two Koreans rolled together in embarrassment.

Only then did the bystanders let out an exclamation, Xu Shizhen stepped on this cry and brandished his saber to continue the pursuit, Li Minde didn't have time to get up, kicked his companion aside on the ground, and rolled again, dodging Xu Shizhen's attack for the second time.

Xu Shizhen's guards didn't know why the patriarch suddenly broke out, but when he was in Liaodong before, it was not a strange thing for the master to suddenly want to kill people for fun, as a guard, as long as he stepped forward to help.

So they drew their knives together, pressed the tip of their knives against the remaining Goryeo substitutes, and waited for Xu Shizhen's fall.

On the other side, Xu Shizhen missed two blows, and he didn't plan to continue to solve the problem with a knife, he directly pulled out a flintlock pistol from his waist and pointed at Li Minde from a distance of two steps.

"Phew."

Xu Shizhen's mouth simulated the sound of a gunshot, and then said softly:

"Li Minde is dead, now tell me your name."

There was silence.

After a long time, the substitute who claimed to be Li Minde got up from the ground in embarrassment and slowly replied:

"I'm a fugitive slave, and the fugitive slave has no name, and they all call me Tuyu."

"Earth rain, huh? Good skills. ”

Xu Shizhen waved his hand, and the dazed soldiers of the Blue Army Brigade put away their weapons and let go of all the Koreans who were also dazed.

"Tuyu, where did your leather armor come from?" Xu Shizhen put away his knife and gun and asked casually.

"Three years ago in Hamgyong Province, I took it from a Hu man, and a set of iron armor, which was taken away by the governor at the time."

Three years ago? Probably because the Tartars suffered a loss in Qi Province and had to go to Goryeo to make up for it, right?

"You originally served in Hamgyong Province? Why did you come to Jeolla Road again? ”

"Substitution prices are high here."

A very short but powerful answer.

"How many people have you served?" Xu Shizhen asked curiously.

"I don't remember, I started doing this when I escaped as a teenager, and it's been about twenty years now."

Substitute service equipment to take care of himself, judging from this guy's equipment, he has fought Tartars, fought Japanese Kou, and most likely also participated in the Qinwang Army at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, and fought the Qi Army, but this time the defeat was too miserable, and he failed to capture something.

However, it is not a crime of war, and this is not to blame on him.

Xu Shizhen stretched out his hand and took off the wooden plaque with Li Minde's name written on it, and asked, "You serve this guy, how much money does he give you?" ”

"The fair price is 4 stone rice for two years."

Tuyu probably understood something, so he had to answer all questions.

"Give it back to him, let him find someone else." Xu Shizhen said bluntly: "You have a good hand, it is better to serve under your own name." ”

"The soldiers of the Strange Soldier Brigade are 5 weeks of fighting every month!"

Xu Shizhen shouted to everyone at the scene, including Tuyu:

"That's 6 stone of grain a year!"

The scene was in an uproar.

6 stone grains! In Goryeo, this is equivalent to a Chinese servant! For the poor who had to go to alternative service, this was definitely a dream way out!