Four archways, here is the boundary of the flag camp, the west of the street to the city wall is the boundary of the flag camp, also called the flag boundary, to the east is the boundary of the common people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Huiai Fang, Xiaoyou Fang, Zhongxian Fang, Zhenlie Fang four arches are located on this street, one end of the street is connected to Huiai Street, and the other end leads to Guide Gate.

At this time, under the four torii arches, there was an offering table on each table, on which there were no tributes, but thick papers, behind the table sat a scribe, and in front of the table was a group of flag men.

Zhu Jinglun finally began to recruit troops, because after thinking about it all night, Mukdenne finally compromised.

There is no way not to compromise, and there is no fun in the night, these flag people's children either throw stones at his house, or sprinkle dog blood on the wall, and even throw torches to burn his house, so if they go on, they must die, do not find a way for these people to live, they can do everything, the flag man can't fight, but he is a good hand at fighting and making trouble.

I don't know who has summed up such a truth, those nations who fight hard, often do not fight well, a typical example is the Koreans, who have a hot temper, and fight when they disagree on the street, but in history, they are instigated when they fight. There are also black people, who are also typical people who love to fight and make trouble, but it is not satisfactory to fight, otherwise they will not be captured as slaves.

The reason for this is that fighting means that there is little obedience, and that there is discipline buried under the docile character.

Mukedene didn't know this truth, but he knew that the consequences of not letting these flag people find something to eat, when the time came, it would really make a big fuss, and the unlucky one must be him, the general of the Eight Banners, the law does not blame the public, those flag people just burned his house, and finally the emperor also raised it high and fell gently, his master can tell the four years of Yongzheng in detail, and in the end, the unlucky ones are not the two generals of Guangzhou and Fuzhou, those flag people, even if it is Shang Kexi and Geng Jingzhong's flag bearers, it is not a big deal.

Mukdenne's life is expensive, where can he fight with these poor ghosts, anyway, if they don't give them food, they will drag Mukdenne into the water, and when the court recovers Guangzhou in the future, he has no good fruit to eat, if the court can't recover it in the future, this Guangzhou, like Nanjing, will be occupied by the thief, and Mukdenne will not be able to offend Zhu Jinglun, the thief.

So after discussing with the master all night, Mukdena felt that he had no choice, and wrote a notice early the next morning, and after Zhu Jinglun read and agreed, in the name of the Eight Banners General, he sent troops to post it to the flag camp, telling the flag man that he could be recruited as a village warrior, and then there would be a soldier's salary to eat.

When the flag people saw the notice, they also had an inexplicable feeling, how could the flag people also be a villager, which was something that had not been encountered for eight hundred years. Not everyone may have this idea, but the flag people are used to being idle, so they will look lively, so soon a large number of people gathered here in the four archways, but none of them came forward to ask, and they all gathered not far away and pointed to the scribes who recruited troops here and muttered.

It wasn't until noon that a man pushed away the crowd and walked forward with his head down and dull steps.

"I said that you are really paid to be a soldier?"

The man was tall, and his clothes were shabby and loose, because he was very thin.

No one had stepped forward since the scribe had set the table, and he didn't bother him, but sat down quietly and watched, his legs still hanging on the table, when someone suddenly asked, and then he raised his head to look.

"It's clearly written in the notice. See for yourself! ”

The scribe didn't have a good breath, and pointed to the notice on the pillar of the archway on the side and said.

The scribe is a logistics soldier in the army, he is a scholar, he is a person from Enping County, and the family has been looking forward to him relying on Xiucai, but the Tuke weapon fight made his family ruined, not to mention, and also forced a scholar to become a person who kills people with a knife, but after a fight, he was finally occupied by someone, and hid in the deep mountains of Wukeng to survive.

If it weren't for Zhu Jinglun's recruitment, maybe he would have starved to death.

He has no good impression of the imperial court, and the entire Hakka people do not have a deep understanding of the imperial court, except that they know that they have to pay taxes to the imperial court, they never know what the imperial court can do for them, Zhu Jinglun pays them military salaries, then kills people for Zhu Jinglun, and has nothing to say, just like they work hard for Hong Xiuquan, but just for food.

What's more, Zhu Jinglun takes extra care of them as scholars, if he can't become an officer, he will also arrange a civilian job, so that he won't be like a big soldier.

For this reason, scholar Xu Kuang still has some gratitude to Zhu Jinglun in his heart, if Zhu Jinglun can help them take back the lost land in the future, it will be better, this idea is also the idea of many Hakka people now, they feel that following Zhu Jinglun is equivalent to following the government, of course, it is the government after the rebellion, with the help of the government, they naturally want to ask the local people for justice.

"Why don't you go and see it?"

Xu Kuang saw the flag man in front of him and didn't move.

He doesn't have a good impression of the imperial court, and it's even less likely that he has a good impression of the banner people.

"Illiterate?"

He thought the other party was illiterate.

Qi said: "Why is it only two taels of silver a month, I heard that your military salary is five taels." ”

Xu Kuang's eyes glared: "One soldier is two or two, should it be inappropriate?" Don't go aside! ”

The flag man gritted his teeth: "Dang!" ”

Since he came out, he had already thought about it in his heart, he had no choice, two taels a month was not bad, he had already inquired about Zhu Jinglun's soldiers, and never deducted military salaries.

Even if it is a soldier of the Eight Banners, a regular soldier is only three taels a month, and the raising soldier is only one or two or five dollars, but even the court of raising soldiers can't afford to raise it, he is just a raising soldier, fighting with a knife like a regular soldier, and taking half of other people's money and food.

Seeing that someone was answered, Xu Kuang sat up lazily, sharpened the ink, flicked open the paperwork, and opened his mouth to ask:

"Name?"

"Guan Liao!"

"Age?"

"Twenty-three."

"Banner?"

"White flags."

"Parents?"

……

When Guan Liao completed the complicated registration process, holding a piece of paper with an enlistment notice, and at the same time receiving a month's salary in advance, as soon as he turned around, there was a sarcastic speech from the Eight Banners who was watching the excitement next to him.

"Yo, isn't this Guan Lao Wu. Why did you jump out as the first thief, your Guarjia ancestor has been out of Fei Yingdong, who is worthy of enjoying the Taimiao. ”

"My ancestors are still Han Chinese, I know how to be loyal to the emperor, do you want your family's face!"

Guan Liao held the enlistment notice in his hand, his face turned red, and the other Eight Banners disciples also looked at him, so that he couldn't get off the stage, and shouted angrily:

"You are a coated person, you dare to say Lao Tzu!"

As he spoke, he was about to step forward and beat the one who was "loyal to the emperor", and suddenly he was lazily hugged by a partner next to him:

"Old Five, if you take the money, don't you hurry up and grab medicine for your wife, he is a shabby, what are you angry with him?"

Guan Liao snorted coldly and left.

The shabby didn't give up, jumping to his feet and scolding: "What is he angry like an anti-thief?" ”

Someone next to him immediately persuaded him: "Don't say a word, his family is not having a good time, don't you know, his wife can't afford to be sick in the years, and a good family has been dragged down." What can he do if he is not a soldier, I heard a few days ago that he has the intention of selling his daughter. ”

The broken settlement also showed his loyalty: "Even if you sell your daughter and wife, you can't be a thief, the big guy said yes." ”

At this time, no one paid attention to him, and when he saw Guan Liao go to the conscription and received a month's military salary, how many flag people who couldn't open the pot at home looked at the conscription office.

Zhu Jinglun waited for news at home, his body still had not recovered, but he was able to walk on his own.

And Zhu Jinglun reshaped his body through a mechanical body, he increased the density of his bones by four times, Zhu Jinglun knew that a British brick worker in later generations had four times the bones on his neck as ordinary people, so that he could hold up a small car, and his regrown bones also reached this level, which can be called superhuman.

Zhang Rou has adapted to the role of a wife, and she is busy greeting her subordinates and handling housework every day, and she is very happy.

The family is still in Zhang Qianshan's house, and the original person in charge is Zhang Pan's concubine Cuiyun, but now Zhang Rou has completely seized the power, Cuiyun is very familiar and does not fight with her, and hides in the door of her room all day long, and Zhang Pan's wife still eats fasting and recites Buddha every day without asking about mundane things, this family is not normal.

Zhu Jinglun just inquired about the navy, the formation of the navy is a top priority, the elderly are still in Zhaoqing, where is the Guangzhou waterway, to fight Zhaoqing, the most convenient is through the waterway, so the navy is very important.

People have almost been recruited, the Tan people wandering on the Pearl River are the best water army, but Zhu Jinglun's requirements are stricter, even if they are Tan people, they also want those who are organized and have clans, and they must be guaranteed by the clan, otherwise they will not accept them at all, and the Tan people they recruited in the past are examples, they surrendered to Zhu Jinglun from the coolies of the British army, but in the end, except for a few officers who quit smoking such as black dogs, the remaining more than 1,000 people all mutinied, and now they are all scattered, and they don't know where to run.

It was because Heigou and the others were gang members among the Tan people back then, without any stable clan to restrain them, and they belonged to the outcasts among the Tan people, so they worked as coolies for the British.

The Tan people are very poor, and the government generally doesn't care about them, and they generally don't care about the government, so there is a willingness to be a soldier, but the children of the clan are stronger after all, and they rely on the power of the clan, fishing or trafficking, and can basically barely survive, so the willingness of the children of the clan to become a soldier is slightly worse, so the speed of recruitment slows down.

There is also the flagship, the first warship built by the Nanshan Arsenal in Xin'an, Zhu Jinglun is also concerned. The ship was built not long after it was built and sailed to Guangzhou, and it was built as early as last year, and it is only now being built because there are no skilled technicians. Only one engineer had worked in a shipyard in the past, and then he had dug up some workers in some of the dockyards of foreign companies in Hong Kong, most of whom had never built a ship, and their shipping service only provided repair services for passing merchant ships, and they had only a little more common sense of Western ship construction than ordinary workers.

A total of more than 100 people, with the help of the Nanshan Arsenal, spent more than a year to explore and imitate a steamship, although the tonnage is not large, only 500 tons, but it is technically commendable. This is a model of the mainstream European technology, using the technology of iron rib wood shell, the ribs of the ship are no longer made of wood, but cast of steel, so it is stronger than ordinary wooden boats. The steam engine was also made in the arsenal, and when the old Nobel was in Russia, he produced his own machines, including the steam engine, and the equipment of the arsenal was not bad, and it was completely capable of producing it independently.

After sea trials, the performance of the ship was not bad, after all, it is not an advanced technology. But to produce larger ships, I'm afraid their technical ability is not enough, Zhu Jinglun is not in a hurry, slowly cultivate technology, can produce 500 tons now, next year will definitely be able to produce 1,000 tons of ships, 5,000 tons, 10,000 tons will not be far away.

In the afternoon, Fang Shan walked in and reported to Zhu Jinglun on the recruitment situation.

"Someone has applied?"

"Only three hundred."

"As long as there are people, there is no difference between three hundred and three thousand."

The recruitment of these Eight Banners soldiers is more of political significance, and Zhu Jinglun does not look forward to their combat effectiveness.

"If we can raise the salaries, I think we can recruit more."

Fang Shan suggested.

Zhu Jinglun shook his head: "No, not yet." I don't have that much money to raise soldiers, but I can tell them that the reason why I gave them two taels of silver was because they were new soldiers, and when they saw the battle, I gave them three taels, and when they learned to use muskets, they were given five taels. Five taels are the salaries of our musketeers. Yes, that's it. ”

"See? Really send them out to war? ”

Fang Shan hesitated, he also knew that the children of the Eight Banners were completely abolished, and they all had no spirit at all, it was better not to use this kind of soldier to fight.

Zhu Jinglun said resolutely: "The army's salary, of course, will have to fight, my military salary is not so easy to get, take my money, you have to sell my life." When it's time to fight Zhaoqing, take them with you! ”

There are some Eight Banner soldiers in Zhaoqing, the number is not large, less than a thousand, but Zhu Jinglun has not forgotten the idea of letting the Eight Banners fight the Eight Banners, which is too politically significant. (To be continued.) )