Chapter 112: I Want to Become a Cheap Citizen (Part I)
The first county to enter Shanxi is Datong County, which is seventy miles away from Datong Prefecture, and it is not far away, but it is not close, and there are only 500 township soldiers.
As soon as Lord Shen, the county commander of Datong County, saw that the emperor's army was coming, he obediently came out to greet him, and Chongzhen was not ambiguous, and immediately asked Tianziwei to take over the defense of Datong County, and then let the county commander do what he should do.
This Datong County is not like a modern county seat, it is equivalent to a modern town, with only a few thousand people and less than a thousand households. In such a county, there are no rich people, and Chongzhen does not have the luxury of hoping that there will be a few big families who can give the army a lot of money, tens of thousands of silver, let the county order itself look at it.
After taking over Datong County, Liu Ru is Chen Yuanyuan and others hung up a sign in Datong County in accordance with Chongzhen's previous will and began to recruit female soldiers.
Chongzhen had nothing to do, so he changed into civilian clothes, and took Xie Shanshan, Xie Tingting, two little girls and dozens of guards out to go around, Chongzhen said that he checked the people's feelings, in fact, he just wanted to see the beauties of Shanxi!
This Datong County is really too small, and after walking for a while, I went to Chen Yuanyuan's recruitment point, where there was a group of men and a few middle-aged aunts, and not a single girl could be seen. I'm going to recruit girls, you guys, what are you doing here?
So Chongzhen went up to see what was going on, and saw Chen Yuanyuan on stage to introduce the recruitment matters to everyone:
"Hello folks in Datong County, I am Chen Yuanyuan, the head of the art troupe, by the emperor's order, I hereby recruit soldiers, and those who meet the following conditions can come to sign up: 1. Unmarried women between the ages of 14 and 20; Second, there is no physical disease; Three ......"
Before Chen Yuanyuan finished the "three", there was a sensation in the crowd, and a big man said: "I said little lady, are you recruiting soldiers or giving the emperor a beauty pageant, I have never seen the truth that recruiting soldiers only recruits female dolls!" ”
Hearing these people's coaxing, Chen Yuanyuan was not angry, but sneered: "The emperor said that the 50,000 soldiers and horses of Datong Mansion surrendered in the face of Li Zicheng, a thief who was greedy for life and feared death, and it was not as good as the twenty female soldiers of Lord Zhou of the Shanxi General Army, and the twenty female soldiers of Lord Zhou died on the battlefield. This Datong male soldier is too sloppy, and if he recruits it, it will be raised for nothing, so the emperor will simply recruit female soldiers, so let me come here to recruit female soldiers! ”
After Chen Yuanyuan finished speaking, those middle-aged aunts were happy, Shanxi is close to Mongolia, and women are stronger than Jiangnan. These women are usually looked down upon by these men, but today the emperor actually said in public that women are more powerful than men, so he belittled those onlookers: "No wonder Datong is either a Tartar disaster or a thief disaster, it turns out that you big men are all wasted!" ”
"I don't dare to fight a battle, I will only surrender, what kind of man is it!"
In front of the public, they were ridiculed by these aunts, and their faces were red and white, so they were not embarrassed, and they were also very excited, and someone said: "Little lady, you look down on us Shanxi men!" ”
But excitement is excitement, the stage is full of armored Tianziwei, and they don't dare to do anything.
Another big man retorted: "You only recruit female soldiers, what is the man on that stage?" ”
Chen Yuanyuan saw that the crowd was a little excited, and he didn't panic, and said: "These Tianziwei on the stage, those who have participated in the defense of the capital, they are also from your Shanxi, but they are different from you, they beat Li Zicheng with 100,000 people and 500,000 ass urine, which is like your Datong Mansion chief soldier Jiang Xuan, who saw other people's ass urine!" ”
Listening to Chen Yuanyuan say this, Chongzhen felt that this woman was really good at talking, but she only humiliated these people a little, so as not to cause public anger, and then immediately returned these people to the bottom of the stairs, if you want to blame, you will blame Jiang Xuan, the general soldier of Datong!
These big men saw that Chen Yuanyuan did not humiliate them again, but when it came to the general soldiers of Datong, they were not as excited as before, but they were still not convinced, they had also heard of the art troupe, the art troupe is not singing, singing is not Lehu, Lehu is not cheap, so they said: "Little lady, I just heard you say that you are from the art troupe, isn't this art troupe Lehu?" Don't be the emperor's lowly family, don't have enough money, come and fool the people into cheapness! ”
"That's right, isn't Lehu a cheap member? Come and deceive us, the people of good origin! ”
"Little lady, I heard that you are also singing, when will you sing in our Datong to listen to you!"
"Hahahaha!"
All sorts of taunts and ridicule from the crowd!
Wang Dahu saw that these people actually laughed at the art troupe, and the emperor said that the sister of this art troupe was their future wife, so he scolded loudly: "Bold, how can you slander the title of the art troupe given by the emperor!" ”
When these big men saw that Wang Dahu had a tiger on his back and a pair of armor, they all laughed at him just now, and immediately fell silent.
This Ming Dynasty was divided into lowly and good castes, similar to the caste system in India. The so-called lowly nationality refers to those who do not belong to the four peoples of scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants. For example, the musicians who sing operas, the households who fish, the tenants who help people farm, etc., the descendants of the lowly family will always be the lowly, and the lowly can only marry the daughter-in-law who is also the lowly.
Chen Yuanyuan was born as a singer, that is, Lehu is cheap, but she is not angry, she is a person who has slept with the emperor, and she is treated with a five-grade official rank, what are you so-called good people!
For these self-righteous people, Chen Yuanyuan, who was born as a singer, knew how to humiliate these people, only to see Chen Yuanyuan say: "If you want to listen to the art troupe singing, it's not difficult, it's full of female soldiers, and our art troupe will sing for the villagers here." Let me talk about this female soldier again, the recruited female soldiers, mainly to defend the emperor, require to be able to sing and dance, this "wu", is the dance of the dance is also the martial arts of martial arts, is the music household is also the military household, anyone who can be conscripted into the army, one hundred taels a year, enlisted in the army for four years, after the discharge of the army, the emperor can marry the wife of the son of heaven, after the son of heaven is discharged, he will return to the county on an errand! There are only ten places in Datong County, first come, first served, until the recruitment is full! ”
One hundred taels, the wife of the Son of Heaven, the emperor pointed out the marriage...... These big men just stopped breathing!
They worked hard for a year, and a family of five could only earn sixty or seventy stone of grain on fifty acres of land, which was equivalent to less than thirty taels of silver. Even if it is the county order, it is only fifty taels of silver a year. This female soldier is directly one hundred taels, which is more than the county order! Not to mention the emperor's marriage and the wife of the Son of Heaven!
The treatment of this female soldier is also too good!
These big men seemed to think of something, and they all ran away, Chen Yuanyuan smiled, and said to them: "Hey, hey, you guys ran away from everything?" ”
Wang Dahu also asked Chen Yuanyuan in confusion: "Lord Chen, they ran away from everything!" ”
Chen Yuanyuan smiled and said, "They all ran back to call their daughters and sisters to sign up!" ”
(End of chapter)