Chapter 255: Separate Preparations
The moon stars are scarce.
At about the second watch, some people in the Xuanwei army camp and the reserve army camp quietly slipped out of the barracks one after another, hiding in the dark, not knowing what to do.
It was dawn, and soon after, a ray of sunlight poured into the camp.
On a ship on the coast, there were two people practicing swords on the deck, and the early morning sun shone down, and the two of them collected their swords and rested.
"I haven't practiced swords for many days, and I'm very rusty."
"Siniang, isn't it good for us to be like this, you look at those people on the shore, I always feel that they look at me wrongly, I don't know what they will talk about in private."
"What's wrong, I think it's Brother Yang, you have a ghost in your heart. We are classmates in martial arts, so we can't live on the same ship? ”
"In public, we still keep a proper distance, just like before. Don't be too different from what you used to be, lest your identity be revealed. As he spoke, he looked at the front of Tang Xun's chest, which seemed to have not had time to be restrained, and looked like a hare hiding under his clothes, trembling as his feet moved.
Tang Xun followed his eyes, looked down at his chest, and the roots of his ears instantly turned red. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard a shout from under the boat: "My lord, good news! ”
As soon as the words fell, Jiang Kai climbed onto the bow of the boat, and Tang Xun suddenly panicked.
Yang Congyi turned around, took advantage of the situation to block in front of Tang Xun, and said in a low voice: "Clean up." Tang Xun heard the reminder, woke up from the panic, and quickly turned around and entered the cabin.
Then Chong Jiang Kai asked loudly, "Brother Jiang, what good news?" Full of applicants? ”
Jiang Kai walked over and looked at Tang Xun's back as he entered the cabin*: "Why is Lord Tang in such a hurry." ”
Yang Congyi picked up the sword in his hand and replied a little apologetically: "I just missed and cut his clothes." What's the good news? ”
Jiang Kai handed over a folded piece of paper in his hand and said with a smile: "My lord, I don't know if the quota is full." But the reserve army, with sixty-four people signing up, should solve the problem. ”
Yang Congyi took the list, and saw that there were indeed a lot of names recorded on the paper, and it was indeed enough to solve the problem of Tianzhu's victims, but only more than 60 people remained, or less, at least 100 people, otherwise there would be no more point in leaving these people.
The vast majority of the reserve army was recruited from the disaster victims, and they had no land, no family property, and they couldn't even eat, let alone marry wives, but now the fleet is giving wives for free, and of course they will sign up for such good things. But Xuanweijun is different, they were originally from a good background, most of them are children of good families, their families have a few acres of land, they have a legitimate livelihood, and their parents are in charge of marriage matters, let them marry Tianzhu women here, and stay in Tianzhu, I'm afraid there are not many willingness.
Sure enough, Jiang Kai arrived on the front foot, and Zhao An came later.
"General Zhao, how is the registration situation in the Xuanwei Army?" Yang Congyi put away the list of reserve troops.
"There aren't many, only twenty-one." As he spoke, Zhao An handed over the list.
Yang Congyi took the list and looked at it carefully, there was no one on the list that he was familiar with, and he didn't know who they were. So he asked: "General Zhao, among these more than 20 people, are there any guards and fire chiefs?" ”
Zhao An thought about it for a while, and replied uncertainly: "It seems that there is a fire chief." ”
"Can you help me find out?" Yang Congyi returned the list to him.
Zhao An took the list and scanned it up and down, but he was still not very sure: "It should be this Song Erbao." ”
Yang Congyi took back the list and said to the two: "Thank you General Zhao and Jiang for joining the army." There are some things that I need to help you with. ”
Jiang Kai said: "My lord, just give orders." ”
Subsequently, Yang Congyi made some arrangements, first let Jiang Kai preach and publicize in the reserve army, strive to come to fifteen more registrations, and gather a hundred people, and then let him go into the city to find those businessmen who have more contact, and ask them to help spread a news, the Great Song fleet is looking for a marriageable woman, and does not want the woman's dowry, but gives the woman a rich dowry, and after marriage, you can stay in Tianzhu together, or you can go to the Great Song Dynasty, if you are interested, take the woman to the Great Song Dynasty Huiyi camp before sunset today to choose a husband.
The people of the Great Song Dynasty are not familiar with the land in Tianzhu, if they want to settle down in Tianzhu, they must first have houses and land, and the land can be slowly reclaimed, but the houses must be there immediately, otherwise it will not be possible for newcomers to sleep in the wilderness? Zhao An presided over the construction of the Xuanwei Army camp in Changguo County, and asked him to mobilize thousands of Xuanwei troops to build a hundred houses, and it would not take a few days, and there was a team of craftsmen led by Shen Jin to help, there was a large area of wilderness here, and there were many trees, and the location was selected, dozens of people built a room, and it could be completed within two days.
But on other people's land, houses can't be built just by saying they can be built, so at this time, it is natural to ask Lord Huang to come out and negotiate with the city lord of Brie City.
Time was pressing, and everyone immediately split up.
Lord Huang brought a hundred pieces of silk, dozens of sets of porcelain and hundreds of catties of tea to the city to explain his intention to the city lord of Bri. The city lord immediately said that the houses were built casually, the land was reclaimed at will, and the Great Song people lived here for a long time, and they did not need to pay taxes, as long as the Great Song fleet came to Buri more in the future.
Jiang Kai also brought gifts into the city, found many familiar businessmen, and asked them to help convey the news of the marriage, which could be transmitted to the rural town. Spread the news, for these merchants is just a gesture, can establish a friendly relationship with the Great Song fleet, maybe they can do transit transactions between the Great Song and other merchants in the future, it is a lucrative business, so they are extremely hard, send people into the countryside to promote the many benefits of marrying the Great Song people.
After entering the city in the morning to communicate, Xuanwei Army immediately started to rest the foundation in the afternoon, according to the custom of the Great Song Dynasty, a hundred houses were built within a radius of five miles, forming a relatively closed village, from the air, you will find that the houses are arranged regularly, it is a not small defensive formation.
Tang Xun also has something to do, according to Yang Congyi's plan, after the Tianzhu woman chooses her husband in the evening, she will marry and enter the cave house that night, and make raw rice and mature rice, so that both parties can not regret it. The barracks are limited and cannot be used as a cave house for newcomers, but there are just more than 100 seagoing ships, and the small number of sailors left on the ships are transferred to the camp and cleaned up a little, and the seagoing ships can become new houses, and the newlyweds can stay for one night. Therefore, the errand of checking and sealing the goods and packing up the new house, Tang Xun couldn't shirk it, she took part of the reserve army and cleaned it up one ship after another.
Marriage is a big event, even if the time is urgent, you have to be prepared, to cut a simple Song Dynasty clothes for the bride is the sincerity of the Song Dynasty, this matter is led by Yang Congyi, by the Huang people brought by the brocade craftsman of the Brocade Institute to do it himself. You have to reason with them in advance.
In the afternoon, with Jiang Kai's personal mobilization, the list of 100 people was finally full.
Yang Congyi immediately gathered the hundred people who signed up to get married and prepared to give a lecture.
Looking at the excited and panicked crowd, Yang Congyi asked loudly, "Do you want a wife?" Tell me out loud! ”
"Yes." After a few moments of silence in the crowd, someone whispered.
Yang Congyi looked around and asked again: "Do you want a wife?" ”
"Yes!" The crowd responded noticeably faster and louder.
"Do you want a wife?"
"Yes!" The shout shook the sky, stirring the eardrums, it was a heartfelt roar.
Yang Congyi was very satisfied with this momentum, so he smiled and said: "You are very lucky, if you want a wife, I will give your wife when you return to the Yi fleet." There is no such thing as sending a wife and sending a wife, ancient and modern, but this time the Hui Yi fleet will not only send you a wife, but also a house and land, which is a blessing from several generations! Think about it, if you are in the Great Song Dynasty, is there a good thing to give a wife, a house, and land for free? No! You have no family background, no background, you have nothing, let alone a wife, you can't even touch a woman, maybe you will have to go hungry. But here, Tianzhu, everywhere is fertile land, everywhere is hard-working women, as long as you stay, hard work and hard work, it won't be long before you can create an industry, get ahead, when the time comes, you have what you want, and live a good life that you couldn't think of before.
But there is one thing to remind you in advance, you are the Great Song Xuanwei Army, and staying in Tianzhu is also the Great Song Xuanwei Army, and you must work together in a foreign land to tide over the difficulties together, and do not fight infighting. In the future, the Great Song fleet may come to Tianzhu every year, and after five years, if you want to go back, you can go back, but you have to think clearly, if you don't work hard here, after you go back, you still have nothing. So no matter where you are, you must be down-to-earth, do things well, get along well with Tianzhu people, don't cause trouble casually, if you can, you have more sons, and maybe build a big Song City here in the future. ”
Everyone listened to the excitement inexplicably, this is a great opportunity for them, who have no food to eat, to turn over and become landlords, listening to Yang Congyi say this, all of them are full of hope and beautiful imagination for the future.
After a pause, Yang Congyi continued: "Next, let's talk about sending your wife, your future wives are all young Tianzhu women, and they will come to the camp in the evening to choose their husbands personally. In addition, there are a hundred of you, and there may be more than a hundred Tianzhu women who come in the evening, maybe not enough, I can't pick you today, it's because you don't have this blessing, but it doesn't matter, before the fleet leaves, I will definitely give each of you a wife, and ensure that you all have women. You go back now, clean up yourself, gather in the open space in the middle of the Huiyi camp before sunset, it's too late, you can't get a wife, don't blame me. ”
Time is running out, everyone scatters, scrambles, scattered, for fear of being one step behind others, hurry back to pick up themselves, and show the best side in front of the future wife.
I don't know how many Tianzhu women are willing to marry Xuanwei Army and Reserve Army, Yang Congyi actually has no bottom in his heart.
But he knows that the Indian patriarchal thinking is very serious, that is, inherited from Tianzhu, in their eyes, giving birth to a daughter is to lose money, not only to eat and rations, but also to give a dowry when married, and if you can't get married, you have to keep raising, the longer you go, the more you lose, it's better to make up a dowry and marry out cost-effective. It is for this reason that he dares to do this with great fanfare.