Chapter 29 The Whole Army
In the afternoon, Gu Haotian invited Du Qian and Song Wan to talk to each other, and suddenly changed them from the position of leading troops to doing logistics, he was afraid that the two would have a knot.
"The two brothers have been to the Gu family for the longest time among all people, the Du Qian brothers have been by my side since the beginning of the construction of the guard, but the Gu family has some achievements, and the two brothers have made great efforts."
"It's all the kindness of the petty officials, who took in the two of us, otherwise I don't know where to wander now?" The two of them were busy thanking each other.
"I invite the two brothers here today, but there is a matter to discuss. Liangshan's family business is gradually getting bigger, and many things have to be taken care of, among which there is a very important thing, which must be done by a competent brother. Gu Haotian paused.
When the two saw Gu Haotian inviting them to speak alone, they were already puzzled, so they glanced at each other at the moment and said together: "The little official just commands." ”
"Grain and grass materials, now there are thousands of people on the mountain who rely on these to live, in the past, it was not important that there were few people, and then there was a need for someone to take care of these things, I am going to set up a place to manage things - it is called the logistics office, which is specially designed to manage the food and money on the mountain, including the new wine produced in the future, in a word, all the expenses on the mountain in the future will be spent from the logistics office, and the two brothers are willing to do this for me." In fact, he originally wanted to call the logistics department a baggage battalion, but considering that the mountain is not an army now, he really can't think of a suitable word for the others, so he simply uses the name of the later generations.
The two of them didn't want the petty official to let him do this, although they felt a little regretful that they couldn't bring the escort, but it was reasonable to think about it, of course they knew their own skills, under Gu Haotian's hands, they were indeed the lowest in terms of skills, and the two people who went up the mountain today called Sun An and Su Sheng knew that they were capable people at a glance. Now that the petty officials have handed over such important things as grain, grass and materials to them, they really value them, and the two of them are very transparent after thinking about it, so they got up together and thanked them and agreed.
Gu Haotian was overjoyed, so he ordered the two to choose some loyal men, and asked Song Wan to focus on guarding the wine workshop, and replaced Lei Heng for Ma Qiang as an assistant to train recruits. Then he summoned Wen Huanzhang and took Du Qian to the residence of the displaced people to publicize the selection of guards.
All the displaced people were temporarily placed in the barracks on the side of the mountain, and it was evening, and the people who worked everywhere were going home, and there were many pedestrians on the road, and the smoke curling from the houses was a vivid picture of life.
Gu Haotian casually walked into a courtyard.
"Mother, someone is here." A boy playing shouted.
And there came out of the house a woman of about thirty years of age.
"Dare to be a petty official." The woman looked at it in disbelief, and then looked at it for sure.
"Benefactor!" She hurriedly pulled her son to kneel in front of Gu Haotian.
Gu Haotian stepped forward to help her up, but he felt a little kind when he looked at it. The woman babbled about the life of the soup soup that day, Gu Hao Tianfang remembered that on the first day of soup porridge, the mother and son kneeling in front of him didn't want to be nourished for more than ten days, and the black and thin woman became like this. So he asked about life on the mountain, and as he was talking, a voice came from outside the door.
"Aunt Ying, you can make a meal." As the voice came in, a young man.
"It's my man." The woman named Yinggu whispered, as if she was still a little shy.
"In Xia Geng Gong, a few days ago, fortunately the little officials rescued him, Fang survived, and when he went to this mountain, he saw that Aunt Ying's mother and son were pitiful, so he received the paperwork from Mr. Wen and made a family." The man also recognized Gu Haotian at this time, and hurriedly came over to salute.
So that's the case, Gu Haotian just understood, so he turned around and instructed Du Qian to send some congratulatory gifts over later, and the two of them saluted and thanked each other.
The news that the Gu minor officials came to visit everyone quickly spread, and the surrounding homeless people and others gathered around, and the courtyard was crowded with people for a while, and all kinds of words of thanks were also crowded in the courtyard.
Wen Huanzhang and others took the opportunity to publicize the recruitment of escorts, the escort team is a tall group in the scope of Liangshan, with high wages, good treatment, and more importantly, uniform uniforms, consistent action, majestic appearance, envy of many young men. Now that he heard that the escort team was going to recruit people, the young man heard the news and surrounded Wen Huanzhang and others, and asked all kinds of questions.
Early in the morning of the second day, the registration office was crowded with people, fathers and brothers, all of whom were young men in their twenties. In addition to the displaced people, many of the children of migrant workers who went up the mountain in the early stage also signed up. Ma Qiang, Lei Heng and others led people to do physical fitness tests such as running and weightlifting, and most of them passed the assessment, which also confirmed Zhou Tong's statement that the people of Hebei are fierce.
Nearly 300 people were recruited in only half a day, and everyone was waiting to close the stall, but they saw that there was still a person standing at the door, Gu Haotian waited to see that it was the man named Geng Gong who met last night.
"Brother Geng Gong, is there something wrong?"
"The little official, the villain has been in the army since he was a child, and he also has a lot of strength, and he has seen it for a long time today, but he only recruits the half of the child, and he knows that the age is not suitable but he is unwilling, so he only asks the little official to take him in." The man named Geng Gong begged.
"Wu Na man, you are willing to compare with me." On the side, Sun An saw that the man said that he had all his strength, and he was happy to hunt.
"Why not."
At that moment, the two of them went out to compete, only to see you coming and going back and forth for twenty or thirty, Gu Haotian saw that Geng Gong was gradually becoming overwhelmed, so he stopped it with a voice.
"Brother is so young, and his martial arts are strong, I might as well be more." That Geng Gong is also bold.
"Brothers also have a stake, and I have never taken advantage of them." Sun An is also open-minded.
At that moment, the two reported their respective origins, and they didn't want to flee from Hebei together, and they hated to see each other late.
Gu Haotian looked at the two people who sympathized with each other, and suddenly remembered that when Sun An was under Tianhu in Hebei, there was also a colleague who seemed to be called Geng Gong, who was originally the Lingchuan guard, when Lu Junyi led the army to attack, Geng Gong suggested going to Gaizhou for help and attacking the Song army with reinforcements inside and outside, but was rejected by the main general Dong Cheng, and then the army was defeated and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
After the selection of new team members was completed, the number of new and old guards on Liangshan reached more than 600, and Gu Haotian immediately reorganized the team on the mountain in accordance with the plan originally agreed with Wen Huanzhang. In the afternoon of the same day, he convened the leaders of the mountain to discuss the meeting, and announced that Wen Huanzhang was the chief steward of the manor, and he was not in charge of all the affairs of the manor. The rest of the people performed their own duties according to the original plan, the naval army was expanded to 200 people, and Ruan Xiaoqi led another 30 people to form an independent team to be responsible for communication and contact between various places. Du Qian and Song Wan selected 80 people from the original team to form a logistics team, Ma Qiang and Lei Heng's escort team already had 60 or 70 people, and the two selected more than 20 people from the veterans to form a teaching team. The rest are all recruits, Gu Haotian asked all recruits, including Su Sheng, Sun An, Geng Gong, etc., to also receive training in the teaching team, only after the completion of two months of recruit training, they will be assigned to each team, and stipulate that after that, whether it is a recruit or a leader going up the mountain, as long as it is a soldier, there is no special reason to be trained in the teaching team before they can arrange their duties.
"Senior brother, it's so unreasonable, everyone has arranged affairs, why did you leave me alone." Everyone looked at it when they heard it, but it was Zhou Yunqing.
Gu Haotian didn't want Zhou Yunqing to put forward such opinions, he had always only treated this senior brother as a guest, not because he didn't want to pull him into his team, but because he felt that what he was doing was unorthodox after all, and the senior brother's affairs had to be nodded by his master Zhou Tong.
"It's not that the junior brother is negligent, it's just that the senior brother's affairs must be approved by the master."
"My father was there a long time ago, and he has no objection."
"It's serious!"
"Naturally, Mr. Wen was also present that day and can testify."
Gu Haotian turned his head to look at Wen Huanzhang, and when he saw him bowing slightly, he already believed it. I was overjoyed for a while, thinking that the master had unreserved support for him, and thinking that his own sons had come to help him, so Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, Shi Wengong and even a large number of strong brothers such as Yue Fei in the future, their hearts were suddenly hot.
"That is the case, junior brother, you are proficient in horse kung fu, and most of the new members of this group are Hebei people, and there are many people who are good at riding, you first choose some people to set up a cavalry, but there are only five war horses at the moment, and the first general will use them, and I will try to add them."
Zhou Yunqing was overjoyed, turned around and pulled Ma Qiang to the recruit camp to pick people. Everyone also dispersed, but Gu Haotian stopped Du Qian.
"Brother Du Qian has recently been busy with the matter at hand, you have to help me go to Hebei, one is to visit the Chai Jin official in Cangzhou, it is rumored that this person is very righteous, there are often good men on the rivers and lakes to take refuge in him, you only say to him that there is a place to settle in this Liang Mountain, but there are good men just recommend it. The second is to find out where the horses are, which is also very important. ”
Du Qian is no stranger to Chai Jin, before coming to Gujiazhuang, he was originally going to Cangzhou to take refuge in him, so he immediately received an errand and set off on a certain day.
Chai Jin's Gu Haotian also just heard about it recently, originally thought that without the Chen Qiao Mutiny of the Zhao family, Chai Daguanren should be gone, and he didn't want this name to reach his ears. He asked Master Wen to know that this Chai Jin is the descendant of Chai Liying of Zhou Yingzong, Yingzong died early, his son was young, and after his younger brother Chai Liyi took the throne, this vein also received a Danshu iron coupon, and lived a rich life in Cangzhou. Thinking about it, it was also Chai Jin's misfortune, even if he escaped the catastrophe of the Zhao family, he couldn't escape the difficulty of his own brother, so Gu Hao had the idea of letting Du Qian get in touch.
Everyone dispersed, and there were only two masters and apprentices left in the lobby. After sitting for an afternoon, Gu Haotian wanted to invite Master Wen to go out for a walk together, but Wen Huanzhang did not get up, but said something that immediately aroused his vigilance, and also prompted a famous military discipline in later generations to come out a thousand years earlier.