Chapter 242: Arrangement A year has passed

If this kind of notice is issued on weekdays, I am afraid that it will be laughed off by the bold green forest people, "Otherwise, it doesn't matter if you kill you", who will believe it.

However, under this notice is the blood-red seal of the Shandong guerrilla Jiang Feng, which is completely different. Although it is now rumored that Jiang Feng led tens of thousands of troops to annihilate the rebellion of Chen Deaf and the White Lotus Sect bandits, these people who have fallen into the grass in various places now understand it in their hearts.

It is clear that one against five, with less to win more, those people under him are simply evil stars. Two days after this notice was posted, the number of people suddenly increased in the places where troops were recruited, which was originally relatively deserted. The folk have always been inferior in everything, and only the concept of reading is high.

When a soldier is the inferior of the lower grades, in the Song Dynasty, the face of the soldier was tattooed, like a prisoner. In the Yuan Dynasty, the people who served in the army were all scoundrels and ruffians, and in the Ming Dynasty, if they were soldiers, they were farming and working under the jurisdiction of officers for generations, and they were basically serfs.

After hundreds of years of tradition, the people simply look down on those who serve as soldiers, believing that being a soldier is something that they do only when there is no way out.

Therefore, when Jiang Feng was preparing to recruit children from good families in mines and farmers in various places, the results were minimal. Although Jiang Feng asked his subordinates to propagate there that being a soldier in the Dengzhou battalion could have enough to eat, it was not as hard as the legend said, I am afraid that no one would believe it for many years since the recruited officers said it.

When many people were waiting to see the joke, Jiang Feng's notice was posted, and now there was a rare spectacle for many years, and people from all walks of life hurried down the mountain on the road, and they must be recruited as soldiers in the nearest place, just in the same state as the market.

At the recruitment office in Mengxian County, a column commander of the Dengzhou battalion with two spearmen borrowed a table from the newly restored county government and set up a recruitment formation on the street. At the beginning, no one came to accept it on the first day, and occasionally some people couldn't open the pot at home, and Mengxian was already corrupt.

But as soon as these people stood in front of them, they were pulled back by their families.

However, after the third day, the column commander was very busy, and the small Mengxian town did not know that so many people had popped up there, and they asked to join the Shandong guerrilla Jiang Fengjiang's command.

Jiang Feng's quota for various places varies, Mengxian County is the number of 400 people, in such an enthusiastic situation, it will soon be full of people, and on the day of the end, there is also a rather "touching" scene, just when the column commander was about to return the table to the county yamen, more than a dozen sweaty young men who hurriedly entered the city ran in front of him. The captain arranged for the recruited soldiers to return the table, looked at the dozen or so young men who had just arrived, and said angrily there:

"It's late, we're full here, don't get in the way."

There were also some idlers around who watched the excitement, but they didn't expect that these dozen young people knelt on the ground with a brush, and exchanged tears, and several people said with tears in their eyes:

"This uncle, the younger ones are not yet twenty-five years old, and they want to live a few more years."

"I still have parents at home, and I have to rely on the little ones to support them!"

Whether it was the person watching the excitement on the sidelines, or the column commander who recruited the soldiers, they all thought in their hearts that these young people were so sad and scared that they must not want to be soldiers and eat food. The column leader looked back at the queue behind him, and couldn't help but think softly: the people are also full, and there is no need to deliberately pull people in.

A dozen young people were there plopping and knocking their heads, crying and saying:

"Master Jun, just give Xiaomen a way to live, and let us be soldiers!"

Similar things have happened in other recruiting places, Jiang Feng suppressed Chen Deaf's rebellion, killing less than 2,000 people, but the impact is really extraordinary, and now Jiang Feng is already described as a murderous demon king in the countryside.

The reason is that it is almost overwhelming, and it uses a large number of hot weapons - artillery and arquebuses, such a battle and human psychological shock is unique, or in other words, in a relatively isolated inland place like Lunan, the Dengzhou battalion behaves like a ghost.

It is already rumored that Jiang Feng's subordinates are all paper men and paper horses, Jiang Feng is a disciple of Laoshan Quanzhen Taiqing Palace for many generations, carrying the Taoist method down the mountain to save the world, when fighting, chanting incantations, paper people and paper horses are scattered on the battlefield, and immediately become invulnerable and breathe fire to kill ghost soldiers.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, there was no market for atheism and the like, and the people were most afraid of ghosts and gods. Even many of the rioters who had been in turmoil back then had already gone up the mountain and fallen into the grass to become outlaws, but the scene of the battle that day, no matter when I think of it, I tremble all over my body and fall into fear and despair.

When Jiang Feng posted the notice, he still came to apply honestly, for fear that after this deadline, although Jiang Feng's practice of summoning souls and the like was absurd, many people believed it to be true.

This kind of recruitment is extremely effective, not only to replenish the source of soldiers. After a few months of rebellion between Chen Deaf and those stupid forces, although several related bandit leaders and forces were either destroyed during the fire merger, or disappeared under Jiang Feng's attack.

In addition to Wen Dao and hundreds of people missing, but they were coerced by a lot of cannon fodder young and strong, there are many such people who are unwilling to continue to go back to their duty to farm, and they are also very worried that they will be held accountable when they are coerced, so under the instigation of their bold companions, they will fall into the grass and disturb the place.

Although the big rebellion was eliminated, but the sudden increase in small bandits, but also made local officials and people involved in maintaining law and order anxious, now Jiang Feng's conscription order came out, these large and small new bandit forces, deterred by Jiang Feng's military might, so they have surrendered to the army.

As for those veteran Green Forest Ringing Horses, they all knew how powerful Jiang Feng was, so they were naturally honest and didn't dare to act rashly.

The 8,000 young and strong soldiers recruited, and the food and salary allocated by the imperial court, Jiang Feng did not leave anything in his hands, and all of them were distributed. You must know that the usual allocation of food and salary, the people who handle it are all deducted, and in the end, the money and grain in the army are only fifty or sixty percent.

Shandong guerrilla Jiang Feng is a figure that the whole of Shandong does not dare to offend, so the salary is less deducted than other places, but it is difficult to return from the accumulated disadvantages, so it is still seventy percent, but don't forget that now the officers of the Ming Dynasty are often deducted in their hands after getting the salary, and they do not distribute it to the bottom at all, and they have to deduct half of it here.

There is nothing left on Jiang Feng's side, and all of them are sent to his subordinates, which is a great act of kindness, and now the soldiers are soldiers, and they don't expect anything from the leader's salary, just to be able to eat a full stomach. As soon as Jiang Feng's behavior came out, it really won a lot of people's hearts.

At the very least, these additional troops in their hands have been maintained, and the outstanding soldiers and middle and lower officers in the Dengzhou battalion have been scattered among the eight thousand, and how to train the recruit barracks of the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households has been applied here without change.

Under Liu Twelve's arrangement, half of the Dengzhou battalion was transferred from soldiers to officers. As an officer who recruits new recruits, and at the same time selects the best young men in the ranks of recruits to supplement the vacancy of the Dengzhou battalion, and these additional recruits are rotated with those who are not selected.

In this way, first, it will increase the recruits' understanding of Jiang Feng's command of the army, and second, it will popularize this very effective training method. Now in terms of Jiang Feng's level, he can already assign the power of sitting on one side to his subordinates, and Jiang Feng has set up four battalions in the area of the three prefectures under his jurisdiction.

They were stationed in Tengzhou, Shijiu, Laiwu, and Wendeng, with 1,000 to 3,000 people in each battalion, and one garrison. The Tengzhou battalion garrisoned Yang Da and led 1,500 men to guard the local coal mines and transportation, the Shijiu battalion garrisoned Luoyi and led 3,000 men to guard the local port to the sea and salt works, and the Laiwu battalion garrisoned Liu 13 and led 1,500 men to guard the local iron mines. The Wendeng battalion garrisoned Yang Shishi, led a thousand people, guarded the Ninghai salt field, and formed a horn with the Dengzhou battalion.

Jiang Feng led 3,000 people to sit in the Dengzhou camp, of which 2,000 were family members, 1,000 were soldiers, and Zhang Liang was the deputy. This arrangement has completely encircled the resources that Jiang Feng needs, and it is needless to say that the coal mines in Tengzhou are not to mention that in addition to the government-run iron mines in Laiwu, Jiang Feng privately spends silver to open the mines.

Salt and iron monopoly, so it is also a big profit, many wealthy families are engaged in private mines, and Jiang Feng is not very conspicuous. Shijiu is a good port and has a sea mouth and a salt field, which happens to be within the jurisdiction of Jiang Feng, so it is naturally necessary to grasp it firmly in his hands.

Wendeng is also under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou, and the Wendeng camp has the smallest number of people, which should have been directly under the jurisdiction of Jiangfeng, but because of the accident in Ninghai Yanchang some time ago, Yang Shi was dispatched to lead the troops to guard it.

After the matter was roughly arranged, it was already a month later, and the soldiers were naturally handed over to the town guards in various places for training, but Jiang Feng, as the chief officer, also had some privileges, such as going home for the New Year.

Some of the officers and men of the battalions have already been promoted, and some are still undergoing training. Jiang Feng returned to Dengzhou with 200 light horses, and the whole family had a happy reunion. On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the secret agent outside sent back a letter, and after Jiang Feng read it, he laughed.

The letter reads, in rather scribbled handwriting:

"The Aoshan Salt Works have never suffered from the Japanese and falsely reported the military situation!"