The fireworks are 300 miles and the stove is full of stars, which describes the two Huai salt fields, and the Huainan coast of Jiangbei. Hundreds of miles along the coast, the salt farms are dense, and dozens of stove people make brine and frying salt in dozens of salt farms for a living.

Liuzhuang Salt Farm is the largest salt farm belonging to the Taizhou Branch, and it is also the largest salt field in the entire two Huai Salt Farms, compared with the scale of other salt farms with only one or two thousand people, the amount of Liuzhuang Salt Farm is as many as 10,000 people, and tens of thousands of salt stoves live in the salt farm, making its scale almost not inferior to the county seat, and even compared with some counties that have been repeatedly slaughtered, a Liuzhuang Farm has a person, even more than a county. But even so, in this salt field, there is not the slightest prosperity, and as far as the eye can see, it is all desolate.

The salt people are miserable, and there is nothing but salt and salt flats, and there is only the same stove household. The stove people live in only one thatched hut, no taller than the body, a family of five or six people sit around it, eat miscellaneous grains in good years, salt and artemisia in famine years, muddy nightmares, endure all kinds of exploitation by the government and wall merchants.

"How good is this, how good is this......"

Li Hongpin, who is the ambassador of the Salt Division of the Liuzhuang Salt Farm Division, looked at the official letter he had just received, and his face was full of panic, although he was only a petty official of the eighth grade, but the position of the ambassador of the Liuzhuang Salt Division was a fat difference, and he was a good person.

If it weren't for the changes of the past few days, he would probably still be enjoying wine and food in the city, instead of being sore by the sea breeze blowing on the salt farm. If you don't come to the salt farm, there is nothing, after all, the salt farm has been contracted to the wall merchants.

But now it is not as good as in the past, in the past few days, the pacification envoy is inspecting one salt field after another from north to south, but in just three days, he has already cut off the heads of six salt ambassadors and wall merchants, not only have they been beheaded, but they have also been raided.

I'm afraid that the thunder method can't be compared to the Qingyu...... It's not right, after all, if you kill someone to appease you, you will find a crime, and as for the Qing captive, you can kill if you want to.

Li Hongpin is not worried about the murder of the appeasement envoy, who can say anything about him in this salt field? Now, what worries him is nothing more than this official letter of recruitment.

"If this recruitment notice is posted, I am afraid that these two Huai salt farms will be destroyed, and there will be no more Huai salt in the world......

The master on the side listened to Li Hongpin's sigh and tried to ask.

"Master, is this notice posted or not?"

The master's question made Li Hongpin stunned for a moment, and then said angrily.

"What nonsense are you asking, this embassy notice can not be posted, if we swallow this notice, we will have a few heads that can't bear the thunderous anger of the appeasement envoy!"

After angrily reprimanding him, Li Hongpin spoke out again in annoyance.

"Sticker. Write a hundred copies of this notice, be sure to ensure that everyone can see it, and also, send out patrols, beat gongs and drums, so that all the stoves in Liuzhuang know about this, this, the official has to take a look, when the time comes, this stove Ding has gone to recruit and become soldiers, what should I do with this salt farm? When the people of the world have no salt to eat, what can he do to appease the envoys! ”

As soon as the reprimanded master heard the order, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly complimented.

"The big man is clever, the villain will do it!"

The master's sycophant made Li Hongpin's heart mess, and he thought to himself.

"Gao Ming, Gao Ming is a fart, Lao Tzu also wants to save his head, but when the court calls in the future, shouldn't he take care of this matter......"

Like other salt works, although it was half an hour, because everyone was busy frying salt, the road next to the shed seemed a little deserted, except for the wheelbarrow parked on the side of the road, only a few wild dogs were wandering there, and suddenly the wild dogs seemed to have found something, and suddenly they scurried into the hut on the side, and then looked vigilantly into the distance, only to see a group of people carrying large gongs from far and near.

Suddenly, the patrolman carrying the big gong struck the gong violently.

"Boom!"

A crisp gong sounded suddenly, and the sound of the gong instantly broke the silence in the salt field, and in the sound of the gong, the stove who fried the salt only thought that he was raising taxes again, and the face that was burned by the smoke was all helpless.

The patrolman who was walking in front of the line immediately shouted loudly.

"The big guy estimates and listens, this appeasement makes Dafa benevolent, thinking that I and other Yanding stove people have a difficult life, and Teen allows me and other Yanding stove people to join the army and leave the country......"

But just as he shouted such a sentence, the stove Ding, who was busy frying salt, was stunned for a moment, and then he thought that he would fry the salt, so he threw down the work in his hand and ran out of the grass shed, and asked urgently.

"What, what is a naturalized citizen?"

Their tones were eager, with some anticipation in their expressions. Some people were even so excited that their hands trembled slightly, and their eyes were full of anticipation.

"Naturalization in the army, that is to say, but all the people of Yanding Stove can be recruited into the army, once they are recruited as soldiers, they will be paid five dollars per month, and one stone of rice and grain, and after three years in the army, the whole family can get rid of the stove forever and become a good citizen!"

In front of the ambassador's yamen, thousands of cooks who had heard the news crowded in front of the notice, listening to the explanation of the steward, most of them were illiterate, but it did not prevent them from looking at the notice with anticipation and hope.

"Big, Mr. Big, you, you mean, only, as long as you can get into the army, not only will you have military salaries, but after three years, the whole family can get out of the stove forever after three years, and you will be a good citizen......"

Yao Wuguo's eyes widened, and he looked at the steward next to the notice in disbelief, his voice was a little astringent, and even his breathing became short, more than ten years ago, in order to no longer be a stove farmer for generations, his father and his family took advantage of the change of dynasty, escaped from the salt farm, found a piece of ripe wilderness and planted it, originally thought that they could farm for a lifetime, but later the court issued a decree, ordering the stove people to return, and those who did not return within half a year were killed, and they were punished to hide in their neighbors, and they were forced to go back to the salt farm.

Now, there is such a good thing, as long as you are in the army, you can get rid of the stove with the whole family? Although he was very excited, he seemed very cautious, and did not respond immediately, but wanted to take another look.

"That's right! Three years! In just three years, the whole family can leave the stove forever! ”

"Mr. Big, this march is fighting, the sword and gun have no eyes, if so, what if it can't survive three years?"

Yao Wuguo's questions made Yao Wuguo stunned, isn't it, what if he can't last three years and dies?

When the steward of the notice heard this, he pointed to the notice and answered him who asked it.

"It is written in black and white that if the deceased is killed, the deceased will be admitted to the Martyrs' Shrine, and the family can get five years of military salary as a pension, and the naturalization is a good citizen......"

Before the steward finished speaking, he heard a nest next to him as if it had exploded, and everyone shouted and asked.

"Mr. Big, where is this?"

"Order?"

The man in charge looked at Yao Wuguo in front of him, squinted his eyes and said.

"Do you think this soldier's salary is delicious? If you want to be able to lift 300 pounds, can you? ”

The steward's words immediately caused a burst of laughter on the sidelines.

"Look at what your big gentleman said, don't we just rely on strength to eat on weekdays. Not to mention 300 pounds, even 500 pounds can be lifted. ”

Not to name a few!

Instead, the 300-pound stone barbell is lifted 20 times in a row! This is the first level of recruitment, and only in this way can it be regarded as passing the first level before you can register your name.

After lifting the barbell 20 times in a row, and running for 4 miles with a 100-pound sandbag, Yao Wuguo was considered to have passed the test, and after reporting his name in the steward's place, he received the number plate.

“1123！”

Looking at the serial number on the number plate, he was no stranger to these words, because he had also gone to a private school and opened a Meng, if it weren't for the fact that he was a stove household, maybe he would have been able to take the test.

Crowded in the crowd, he looked at the people around him, most of them looked like strong people, and there were few thin people, no wonder, there were a few strong men who could be selected under such a school, and there were a few strong men who were not strong.

What's next?

Everyone was staring ahead. Knowing what to do next, does this mean that they have already eaten the rations?

"Isn't it just recruitment? Why are you still so picky? ”

Some people around Yao Wuguo complained that although they were all eager to be able to "get out of the country with military merits", they didn't expect that it was not easy to become a soldier, and not everyone could eat it!

"Wu Guo, do you think we can become soldiers?"

Although he was holding the number plate made of bamboo chips in his hand, Wang Qiang was still a little unsure.

"Who knows, anyway, no matter what, I am becoming a soldier, this life is like this, I can't let my son live like me anymore......"

This is the common belief of almost all of them, and they are willing to serve in the army because they see a hope, and that hope is that they can become good citizens again.

They hope to change the fate of their families through their own efforts, and sometimes, people always need to have some dreams.

For these cooks, their dream is to leave here and leave here with their families.

At this moment, there was a sudden piercing scream, but I saw a senior officer wearing a guerrilla general's uniform holding something in his mouth, and the piercing scream seemed to be coming from that thing.

"Everyone, listen up, this official is here to recruit soldiers for my loyal army, and I think everyone knows the rules. As long as the big guy becomes a soldier of the Loyal and Righteous Army, after three years, his family can be released as a citizen, but don't think that my Loyal and Righteous Army food is so delicious! Our loyal and righteous army was the first to break through Nanjing, and the bloody battle of Tongji Gate was thousands against tens of thousands, from the military gate to the soldiers, no one said a word to retreat......"

The indoctrination of honor is inadvertent, and for these recruited veterans, Tongjimen is their place of honor, and it is not recommended to show all this in front of these recruits, of course, it is also a kind of education.

It was the first education that Yao Wuguo's recruits received before entering the camp - "fighting to the death and not retreating"!