Ling Xia followed the man to a mansion next to the governor's yamen, this is the mansion of the generals of the five cities of Zhongmiao Province, at this moment Ling Xia and the rest of the candidates who participated in the provincial examination were gathered here, and after a while, a big man who looked like a general walked in.

After inspecting everyone, this person told everyone that this year's imperial examination road is over, except for Nangong Yan, all the martial artists' imperial examination trips are over, and everyone now has two ways to go, one is to wait for the next imperial examination to open, and the other is to join the army.

The results of this imperial examination have been reported to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials, the first place in the county examination of each county was awarded to Wu Xiucai, the first place in the provincial examination of each province was awarded to the Wuju people, and the first place in the provincial examination of each province was awarded to Wu Gongshi, and the rest did not have any meritorious fame.

If you don't feel that you have played well this time, you can go back to study and practice hard, wait for the next imperial examination to start, and then go out again to prepare for the exam. If you don't want to wait for the next imperial examination, you can join the army on the spot and choose to enter the military camp to hone.

The imperial court attaches great importance to the pension and treatment of soldiers, an ordinary soldier can receive a military salary of ten copper coins per month, and if he obtains a position from the army, he can not only enjoy the treatment of an officer, but also the military salary and subsidies will become more.

There are standards for the army to recruit soldiers, and the minimum limit must be a martial artist who has passed the county examination, and every recruit who enlists in the army can serve in the army for five years, and after five years, he can choose to leave the army or continue to stay.

According to the imperial court system, there is a battle guard army in each of the 108 territories, and the total number of troops in the territory is about 300,000 people.

Each province has a large battalion of the war guards, each of which has a strength of about 30,000 people, and is under the unified jurisdiction of the generals of the war guards, whose duties are to guard the territory, be loyal to the imperial court, defend against foreign invasions, and protect the peace and tranquility of the people.

After talking about these rules, the general asked everyone to make a choice, everyone thought about it, some people set off home, some people went back to the division to re-cultivate, only a small number of people chose to stay in the barracks to enlist, and Ling Xia was in that small group of people.

After determining the personnel who stayed to participate, the staff general sent someone to lead them to the recruit camp to register, followed by the soldiers sent by the staff general, Ling Xia and those people rode towards the outside of the city, and when they came to the foot of a mountain peak, they saw a closed space in the distance.

"Kill!"

"Whew!"

"Assemble!"

"Archer prepare!"

"Chariot phalanx ready!"

This is a boundary divided into forbidden areas, surrounded by a circle of broken horse fences, after a section of wood has been sharpened, side by side to form a wooden pile wall, the wooden pile wall is about two meters high, stretching for thousands of meters long, magnificent and solemn.

The outside of the stake wall is covered with various traps, there is a torch tower every 100 meters, and in the direction of the main path is a four-meter-high gate with a horizontal ladder on which many soldiers patrol each other.

Through the gate is a vast inspection training ground, the left side of the training ground is the camp, the right side is the grain and grass supply area, and the back side is a mountain peak, on the top of the mountain there are more than a dozen arrow towers, and the soldiers on the arrow towers are responsible for patrolling the surroundings and warning defense.

It seems that in addition to the thousands of acres of inspection yards in front of you, the mountain peak behind is also a forbidden place in the military region. At this moment, there are three branches of the military conducting intensive training on the inspection ground, and I saw a burst of dust, war horses whistling, horns roaring, shouting to the sky, and seeing people's blood swell.

This is the camp of the Battle Guards in Zhongmiao Province, the entire camp has a full stockpile of 30,000 soldiers, and there is a small mansion a few hundred meters away from the camp, where is the battle guard combat command camp, and the commanders and other generals of the War Guards are working here.

After entering the barracks with the tokens of the fifty percent soldiers and horses, the man led Ling Xia and them to a camp tent, and there were two soldiers standing guard in front of the camp tent, and after verifying the tokens, the two put Ling Xia and them into the camp tent.

After entering the camp tent, I saw a middle-aged man wearing light armor and a delicate white face sitting inside, the eyes of the person were flat and narrow, the hook and nose were bent, and the lips were thin.

After introducing Ren Xianzhong's identity to everyone, the person who led the way reported to Ren Xianzhong with a respectful face: "General Ren, the last general has brought the fresh candidates for this imperial examination, and General Du said that these people are all recruits, and they are placed and trained by adults. ”

"Leave these people's backgrounds and files, and you can go." Eyelids raised, Ren Xianzhong let the man leave, ignoring the other party at all, and after the man left, Ren Xianzhong called the soldiers standing guard at the door in: "You two check the identities of these people with the bottom file, and after checking that they are correct, establish a military registration for them." ”

"Yes, General." Answered, the two soldiers immediately checked the identity information of Ling Xia and others, and after the check, the two helped them build a military registration, and after Ling Xia and others signed and drew from their military registration, the two handed the military registration to Ren Xianzhong and asked him to affix the military seal.

After stamping the military seal, Ren Xianzhong glanced at everyone impatiently, said a few tepid officialdom words, and then picked up a notebook from several cases, opened the notebook, checked the vacancy on it, Ren Xianzhong read in a cold tone: "Zhao Shimeng, Wu Xiaozeng, you two go to the grain and grass warehouse to report."

Liu Sizhi, Zhang Quanan, He Xiuping, the three of you go to the gate of the barracks to report, Sun Jialong, Bai Jianfeng, Chen Yiqiu, the three of you go to report to the manger, Liu Piaoyi, Shangguan Hui, Qu Qinshi, since the three of you are all women, go to the cooking canteen to report, Ling Xia, Qiu Baopeng, the two of you go to the pigsty to report, Gao Xinyou ......"

"Where to go? Pigsty? me, let me go raise pigs? Ling Xia looked at Ren Xianzhong in disbelief, wanting to ask him if he had made a mistake? I'm also the second place in the provincial exam, even if I don't give an official, I can't let myself raise pigs.

Just when Ling Xia was about to ask, Qiu Baopeng, another person who was sent to raise pigs, was unhappy, he looked at Ren Xianzhong, and said with an arrogant face: "My father is Qiu Haoran, the governor of Jiongzhou Prefecture, and I won the ninth place in this provincial examination, how can I raise pigs with such an identity?" Whoever loves to go, I don't go. ”

"Are you sure you want to disobey?" Ren Xianzhong's eyelids picked slightly as he spoke.

"Don't button my big hat, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I'll tell you plainly, this young master won't go to -------------- poof------"

Qiu Baopeng's words were not finished, suddenly, he saw a phantom flashing, and before he could see it clearly, he was choked by an iron pincer-like palm, and the other party strangled his neck, so that he couldn't breathe, and tried to resist the other party, but he stimulated the strength of his whole body, but he couldn't move the other party at all, at this time, he felt fear.

Not only Qiu Baopeng was frightened, but even Ling Xia, including a group of candidates, were also taken aback by the changes in front of them, it turned out that Ren Xianzhong, who was still in a few cases just now, actually appeared in front of Qiu Baoming in a flash of light, this kind of unbelievable body style, everyone has never heard of.

With just one move, Ren Xianzhong choked Qiu Baopeng's neck, although Ren Xianzhong's body bones looked very thin, but he didn't expect his skills to be extremely profound, he actually grabbed Qiu Baopeng's neck with one hand, and lifted Qiu Baopeng up effortlessly:

"I don't care what your previous identity was, after entering the barracks, you have to obey orders, I don't like people to resist orders, this is the first time, I will spare your life, if there is a next time, I will break your neck, and then your father will be helpless, understand?"

Hearing Ren Xianzhong's cold words, Qiu Baoming felt an unprecedented coldness, he seemed to have a feeling, if he was hard-mouthed, Ren Xianzhong might really abolish him, thinking of this, Qiu Baopeng nodded with difficulty.

Seeing that Qiu Baopeng softened, Ren Xianzhong snorted coldly, and then threw Qiu Baopeng outside the camp tent as if he was throwing garbage, clapped his hands, Ren Xianzhong returned to his seat casually, and continued to place everyone's recruit positions.

With Qiu Baopeng's experience, all the people on the scene became honest, and they all obediently accepted the position placed by Ren Xianzhong, and when they saw Qiu Baopeng rolling in pain outside the camp, Ling Xia swallowed the words back from his mouth.

After assigning posts to the thirty-two recruits, Ren Xianzhong asked everyone if they had any opinions? In fact, the big guys have a lot of opinions, but when they saw Qiu Baoming's fate, everyone shook their heads in recognition and said that they had no opinions.

Ren Xianzhong was very satisfied with this result, seeing that everyone had no objections, he waved his hand and motioned to the two personal soldiers to take Ling Xia and them to their respective posts, and after hearing the order, the two personal soldiers led everyone towards the outside of the military tent.

Just after everyone walked out of the military tent, Ling Xia made an excuse and turned back into the military tent, looking at Ren Xianzhong staring at him with an unkind expression, Ling Xia took out a gold coin from his arms, put the gold coin on several cases in front of Ren Xianzhong, looked at Ren Xianzhong's suspicious eyes, Ling Xia said in a sincere tone:

"Your Excellency General, the humble duty knows that the military takes obedience as its duty, for the arrangement you just made, the humble duty resolutely supports and obeys, this is a little bit of the humble position, there is no other meaning, that is, I hope the general can carry the humble post more in the future, the courtesy is light and affectionate, this little meaning, and I hope the general will not dislike it."

After leaving the gold coins, Ling Xia did not give Ren Xianzhong a chance to refuse, and then turned around and left the military tent, when Ling Xia left, Ren Xianzhong looked at the gold coins on several cases with a surprised face, at first he was worried that this was a set set by Ling Xia for himself, but when he remembered the cowardly appearance that Ling Xia had just shown, he was relieved again, hesitated, and Ren Xianzhong put away the gold coins.

When the two soldiers led Ling Xia and others to their respective posts to report, they handed them over to their respective commanders, and after a while, everyone came to the pigsty, and from a distance, everyone smelled a smelly smell, and as far as the eye could see, there were rows of pigsty in front of them, which raised hundreds of pigs, and the task of the recruits was to clean up the manure of the pigsty every day and feed the pigs regularly.

Before entering the pigsty area, everyone pinched their noses, especially a few girls, frowned, seeing that the pigs were going to be fed here in the future, Qiu Baopeng and Ling Xia all showed a trace of sadness, originally those newcomers were a little dissatisfied with their positions, but after seeing the environment of the pigsty, everyone was suddenly content.

Just as the soldiers called the swineherd who raised the pigsty and planned to hand over Qiu Baopeng and Ling Xia to the swineherd, suddenly, a soldier chased after him from a distance, and after meeting, the other party took out a note, which was a note written by Ren Xianzhong, which read: "I heard that the cooking canteen is understaffed, and Ling Xia is specially transferred to the cooking canteen to serve as a recruit." ”

After receiving this note, Ling Xia suddenly jumped high excitedly, and then, he escaped from the pigsty without looking back, leaving Qiu Baopeng, who looked aggrieved, standing there in a daze.