On the second day, early in the morning, Liu Wei lived at his residence.

Liu Wei sat on the main seat, and Luo Cheng and Wang Bodang stood under the hall

"Blatantly, Bodang, you two will start recruiting troops from today." Liu Wei said to the two people in the hall.

"Ah, Your Highness, does Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang allow us to recruit troops here." Wang Bodang's face was full of surprise when he heard Liu Wei's order.

Liu Wei smiled and said, "Bodang, you are asking just right, and the next thing I want to say is the point, we can only recruit a thousand, and we can no longer recruit if we have a thousand people, we can only recruit soldiers for three days, and if we don't reach a thousand people in three days, we can't recruit anymore." Do you understand? ”

"We understand."

"When you two recruit soldiers, remember that those under the age of fifteen will not be accepted, the only child in the family will not be accepted, the children in the family will not be accepted, those who are over the age of thirty will not be accepted, and the refinement will not be more, of course, the conditions can be relaxed when the number of people does not reach 1,000. But remember to be refined, but also to improve the treatment, this is our first recruitment, we have to make a good start. Do not be alone. ”

"By the way, Your Highness, we have recruited soldiers and have weapons and armor to distribute, and we don't have money and food, how can we feed these soldiers?" Wang Bodang stood at the bottom of the hall with a puzzled face.

"That Wang Kuang, he is a loyal minister, but he is not an absolute loyal minister, otherwise he will hand over the military power to Gu Rang Gu to recruit soldiers at will, he is a loyal minister, otherwise he will give Gu the opportunity to recruit soldiers, and give Gu weapons, armor, food, horses, money, in general, he is a good and bad man, a loyal minister who is finally a big man but is not loyal to my Liu Bian. Ha ha! After Liu Wei finished speaking, he burst out laughing.

"Since we have weapons, armor, food, and money, then we will go to recruit troops," Wang Bodang and Luo Cheng looked at each other and retreated outside the door

"Wait, go to Wang Kuang and get horses, fifty of them. Then send some soldiers to the surrounding villages to recruit troops. Don't go to other counties and provinces for trouble. Liu Wei stopped the two of them.

"No!"

Too much to guard Wang Kuang's place

"Wang Taishou. The two of us, on the orders of His Highness, came to receive the fifty horses. Wangtaishou handed over the horses to the two of us," Wang Bodang and Luo Cheng bowed to Wang Kuang.

"Oh, why do you just want horses, and now?" Wang Kuang looked puzzled.

The two looked at each other and said, "Your Highness wants me and the two of us to send some soldiers to the surrounding villages to recruit troops, so now ask Taishou for horses." ”

"I have now ordered you to be taken to the barracks to fetch horses, and you should bring them with you." Wang Kuang said, and said to the guards outside the door, "Someone" and "My lord." "You went and fetched my token, and went to the barracks and fetched fifty horses, and gave them to the two generals." "No!" The guard took the token and walked out.

"I'll wait, thank you, Lord Taishou." The two hugged their fists and went out with them.

Half an hour later

After Luo Cheng and the others took the horses.

He said to his subordinates, "Fifty of you, in groups of five, go to the villages outside the city to recruit soldiers, and remember that those who have only children in the family will not be accepted, those under the age of fifteen and over thirty years old will not be accepted, and those who are not yet able to walk will not be accepted." From time to time, the recruited people were brought outside the city. We'll screen when we're done. Now go out of the city. ”

"No!"

"Bodang, the two of us are also going to start recruiting." Luo Cheng said with a wry smile.

"Blatantly, let's go meet Yuanqing." Wang Bodang smiled mysteriously, and said to a few soldiers beside him, "You recruit soldiers here, remember the rules, and those who are qualified will stay and wait for us to come back for screening." ”

"Let's go, blatantly, go see Yuanqing." The two of them went to find Pei Yuanqing.

After a while, the two found Pei Yuanqing.

"Yuanqing, do you know what the two of us are looking for you for?"

"Cut, I know what can I do, what are you going to do if you don't recruit troops to come to me, be careful that Your Highness punishes you." Pei Yuanqing didn't care with a face full of indifference.

"Yuanqing, we are here to recruit soldiers." Wang Bodang said with a smile. And Luo Cheng on the side was "confused". "Bodang, what are you doing here," Luo Cheng asked. Uncle Wang laughed and said nothing.

"Yuanqing, do you know that Your Highness has recruited a thousand soldiers?"

"You know, what does it have to do with me."

"Yuanqing, then let me ask you again, Your Highness wants to recruit soldiers, so what kind of soldiers do you want to recruit."

"Nonsense, of course you want elite soldiers, and of course Your Highness's soldiers want elite soldiers among elite soldiers." Pei Yuanqing hurriedly said.

"Haha, that's right, that's what we're here for, the Silver Hammer to be precise." Wang Bodang laughed.

"What are you recruiting soldiers to do with my hammer, the master's hammer is not far from him." Pei Yuanqing said on the side.

"Yuanqing, since he is an elite soldier, he must first have strength, your silver hammer weighs more than 100 catties alone, you said that it is not good to use this force, and you don't want the hammer to leave you, so I came to look for you to go with you." Wang Bodang said slowly to Pei Yuanqing.

"You, recruit your soldiers, don't care about the master's, the master won't go." Pei Yuanqing glanced to the side after speaking.

Wang Bodang squinted his eyes and chuckled, "Yuanqing, this is a recruitment for His Highness, if His Highness knows that you are like this, he will punish you." ”

Pei Yuanqing was very panicked when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "It's not okay for the master to go, don't tell His Highness."

"Haha! Ha ha! Wang Bodang and Luo Cheng next to them laughed.

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"How's the recruitment?"

Luo Cheng asked the recruiting soldiers.

"General Hui, since you left the meeting, there have been hundreds of people who have signed up, but there are only more than 30 people who meet the rules, and they are all here."

"Go and rest, we'll take care of the rest, oh yes, go and bring one from our own horse, I'll be useful." Wang Bodang said to the soldiers.

"No!" After that, he went to the camp to lead the horses.

In a moment the horse came.

When Wang Bodang saw this, he said to the thirty or so people, "We are under the command of His Royal Highness King Hongnong of the Great Han Dynasty, and we are passing through Hanoi, and Wang Taishou has mercifully allowed me to wait here to recruit troops, now I will tell you how the military pay is." ”

"First of all, each person has a consistent monthly salary, two meals a day, and is full. Secondly, if you have won merit on the battlefield, then you can get an additional reward, according to the size of the military merit, if you die on the battlefield, your parents, wives and children will be taken care of by our team, if your relatives do not want us to take care of them, then we will give them ten taels of silver and a hundred catties of grain. ”

"Now, let me talk about the selection conditions, the first time I saw this sledgehammer, it weighed more than 100 catties, lift it above the head for three breaths to enter the next link, the second link is to ride a horse, ride the horse behind me, ride forward ten steps, fail not qualified, we will not treat you badly, if you fail in the first link, you can take away five copper coins, and if you fail in the second link, take ten copper coins." Turning to look at Pei Yuanqing, Luo Cheng and the two, the two immediately understood that Pei Yuanqing took the silver hammer and put it in front of the crowd, and Luo Cheng led the horse to the side of the open space.

"The test begins," Wang Bodang shouted.

……

Until then, only more than 90 people were qualified, but these 90 were all young and strong, and their strength and body were all good.

"Bodang, is this too strict, thousands of people come to sign up and less than 100 people are qualified. When will it take to recruit 1,000 people? ”

"Blatantly, His Royal Highness said that he would recruit elite soldiers, only unless he recruited less than a thousand people could relax the conditions, now that there are people coming, then he must select elite soldiers well, have you forgotten those soldiers who went out, they will definitely bring people back, if there are really few people, it will be relaxed on the third day." Wang Bodang replied.

"Phew!" "Phew!" "Phew!" ……

A group of soldiers who had gone out of the city had returned, with more than 100 people behind them. When Wang Bodang saw this, he told those people the rules, and the hundred people heard that they were treated so favorably, and they still had copper coins when they failed, and they were all overjoyed.

More than 100 people have completed the test, but more than 40 people have passed, and almost all of them have passed the first link, and the quality of these 100 people can be described as high. The intermittent soldiers who went out all returned, most of them brought more than 100 people, and some of them only had more than 10 people.

"Bodang, it's been calculated, a total of two hundred and thirty-seven people have passed the assessment." Luo Cheng ran over to Wang Bodang.

"Have those who failed to pass already issued copper coins?" Wang Bodang asked Luo Cheng.

"The copper coins have been issued, but these coins are all made up by more than 100 of our brothers, do you want His Highness to get money from Wang Kuangna." And now there are more than 200 people, do you want to bring grain and grass too? Luo Cheng asked.

"Yes, it's time to mention it to His Highness, let's go, come back tomorrow to recruit troops, and let the brothers all go to rest."

……

"Your Highness, do you want to go to Wang Kuang Taishou to get money, food, weapons, and armor." Liu Bian's residence, Wang Bodang and Luo Cheng stood under the hall and asked.

"What you said about loneliness has been understood, you go to Wang Taishou tomorrow to get money and food, by the way, use twice the money to return to the brothers who made up the money, and then give them no one to keep money, it is not easy for them to follow us out of Luoyang."

"No!"

On the second day, the two took the money and grain, returned the money to the soldiers according to Liu Wei's instructions, and then each of them gave the same money.

"Today's recruitment, continue according to yesterday's method, but change fifty people to go out to recruit soldiers, do you understand?"

"No!"

……

By the time it had arrived, more than 150 people had been recruited. Just wait for the soldiers who went outside the city to return.

"Phew!"

The first soldiers have returned

"General, we brought back more than 100 people today, but there is one special." The soldier said intermittently.

"Oh, what's so special, take me to see it."

When Wang Bodang saw the man, he saw that the man was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, and said angrily, "Can you be convicted? ”

"I'm waiting to be convicted, but the man has to follow, and his parents are also coming, and the man's strength is not weak, but we can't do anything about him," a few soldiers knelt on the ground and quickly explained.

"I'm fourteen years old, and they can't beat me, so I can be a soldier." The boy's face was full of stubbornness.

"Bodang, the master sees that this kid is very good, he has some ability, it's better to let him test it first" At this time, Pei Yuanqing interjected on the side.

"Well, boy, what's your name? Do you dare to test it," Wang Bodang agreed, and asked the young man.

"My name is Ergouzi, test, why don't you dare."

I saw the two dogs running in front of the silver hammer, raising the silver hammer with both hands and dancing in a circle. Seeing this, Pei Yuanqing played, "Good boy, your strength is not small." ”

"Cut, I'm even more powerful, I see you're not a few years older than me, don't call me a kid." The second dog was full of pride.

"The silver hammer you raised is the master's weapon. What a boy, I can't accept it. Pei Yuanqing raised another silver hammer to demonstrate to the two dogs. The second dog was shocked when he heard this, and stood aside.

At this time, Wang Bodang said, "Okay, Yuanqing, let him test the second link, Ergouzi, you go"

The second dog, when he heard this, ran to the horse in three or two steps. But after a breath, he got on his horse and rode around for a while.

Wang Bodang, seeing this, said to Luo Cheng, "This kid seems to be a talent, he is so vigorous at a young age, and he is also good at riding a horse." It seems that it depends on the meaning of His Highness. ”

"I'll go and ask Your Highness."

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