Xue Shao went back to Zuo Fengchenwei and called his personal entourage.

Lu Siyi, Tang Zhen, Pan Yi and others had been waiting for Xue Shao to wait for a long time. The Tang Dynasty conscripted troops to expand the Northern Expedition to the Turks, and they also wanted to participate together. But Xue Shao poured a bucket of cold water on them - just stay obediently in Zuo Fengchenwei, escort the emperor well, and don't go anywhere!

These people were stunned and wanted to ask for a reason, but some people proposed that we should follow the general to join the army, and it would be better to still be the general's personal follower.

Xue Shao didn't talk nonsense, and changed into the pawn uniform given to him by Pei Xingjian in front of everyone, "I'm just an ordinary pawn, how can I bring my relatives with me?" ”

Lu Siyi and the others were dumbfounded on the spot.

Xue Shao comforted them and said, When I finish the battle, I still have to go back to Zuo Fengchenwei. If you want to go on the expedition, there will be opportunities in the future.

Lu Siyi and the others didn't say much, but they just questioned that with the general's background and rank, how could he be a pawn, and Pei Xingjian was too unsentimental.

"It is precisely because I have a good background and a high rank that Pei Xingjian deliberately let me start as a pawn." Xue Shao said: "If you want to gain a foothold in the army, especially in the field army of the expedition, you can't just rely on a good background and interpersonal relationships at the top. The soldiers who fought against the enemy in the field were suffering every day, and I was a person who had never suffered a day of army suffering, could they obey me? If I don't know the facts and details of the army, and I only talk on paper based on what I learned in books, will they be able to convince me? Only by sharing weal and woe can we have prestige in the same hatred of the enemy. So I went on this expedition to endure hardships and understand every detail of the army. On the surface, it seems that Pei Xingjian is not emotional, but in fact, he is for my good. As the saying goes, a tree has deep roots, and if a tree does not dig its roots into the deep soil, how can it grow into a towering tree? ”

Lu Siyi and the others suddenly realized, and said together: "The general is diligent and pragmatic, not greedy and vain, we will be taught!" We will do all our duties in a down-to-earth manner, and we will never be ambitious! ”

"That's right." Xue Shao sat down, picked up his pen and wrote two short letters to Lu Siyi, and said, "You personally went to my house and handed these two letters to my eldest brother. One is a farewell letter to my eldest brother and sister-in-law, and the other is a farewell letter to my sister-in-law to pass on to Princess Taiping. ”

Lu Siyi was shocked: "It will take at least a few months for the general to return, so why don't you go to say goodbye to your loved ones?" The people who came to fight in ancient times were all like this! ”

"Nope." Xue Shao took a deep breath, his eyebrows twisted slightly, "Pei Xingjian ordered me to go to the right guard to report on joining the army immediately, just because I am afraid that I will be short of breath and have a long relationship with my children." It's best to cut through the mess with a quick knife! ”

"The subordinates know how to ......" Lu Siyi and the others sighed, only by suffering hardships can they become masters, and those who do great things must have a ruthless heart, including being ruthless to themselves!

Xue Shao left all his official seals, horses, money and other belongings in Zuo Fengchenwei and handed them over to his subordinates for safekeeping. It's really like Pei Xingjian said, he only brought a new household registration and two clothes, and he didn't even bring a copper plate.

"General, you ...... That's an exaggeration, isn't it? Lu Siyi and the others were surprised: "Anyway, you have to bring a few money with you, the inside of the army is the same as the outside, it is difficult to move an inch without money!" ”

"Then do I have to bring a group of maiko musicians and slave servants?" Xue Shao smiled and said, "There is food and drink in the army, that's it." ”

Lu Siyi and the others were speechless, ordinary pawns would also bring a few copper plates in case of emergency, and the general was even more able to mix up than pawns!

Xue Shao thought about it for a while, but he still brought two more things - a pen made by himself and a blank paper book bound by thread. If you have any ideas along the way, use them to write a marching diary!

"Neither my affairs nor what I say to you can be publicized to the public!"

After explaining this sentence, Xue Shao left Zuo Fengchenwei and went directly to the Dajunping behind the Right Guard's official office.

There are already tens of thousands of people queuing up to log in to the roster, and people are still pouring here. There is a general colonel who receives troops on the side. For every team of fifty people who have been registered, a team will take them away.

In wartime, the usual recruitment of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty is carried out in various Zhichong Mansions, and there are recruit drills and various adaptations after entering the government.

Now it is the imperial court that allows the recruitment of "mercenaries" with food and salary, and they are professional soldiers. Regardless of whether you have the ability or not, since you have taken the initiative to join the army and receive food, you have to come in handy immediately, and then adapt to it yourself when you get to the army.

It's like learning to swim, someone is in a beautiful and clean swimming pool, holding the safety ring and slowly teaching with the help of a coach; There are also people who are thrown directly into the river to choke on the water, and wait to drown if they don't learn!

Xue Shao, like many of the people present who came to join the army, was the latter.

stripped off a Huadian embroidered dress and a jade and gold crown, Xue Shao was inconspicuous in the sea of tens of millions of people. But there were still people around who noticed him. Behind him, a thick-eyed beard taller than Cheng Boxian stretched out his arms and put them on Xue Shao's shoulders across the two of them, and said loudly to him: "Hey, what's your name?" ”

"Honor." Xue Shao looked back at him, and felt that it was dark in front of him, and it felt like the sun in the sky was all covered.

This dude is so strong, it's like a big wall!

The big man had a pair of big blue copper bells, his lips were thick like two sausages, and the beard on his face was almost connected with his eyebrows and was red and yellow, like a lion with angry eyes. Wearing a short brown waist tied with a hemp rope to expose his chest and abdomen, his bronzed skin and chest hair are very thick, and the standard six-pack abdominal muscles and chest are like bulging iron plates, like a professional gladiator who escaped from the Roman gladiatorial arena.

Dahan looked at Xue Shao and rolled his eyes, "Look at your thin skin and tender flesh like a rich kid, why did you also come to join the army?" ”

"I was born in a small family, and my family is in the middle." Xue Shao said, "Do you have something to do with me?" ”

"You...... Do you have anything to eat? The big man licked his lips and swallowed his saliva, "I think you look like a rich man, that's why I asked you." Fuck I've been standing here for almost two hours and haven't eaten yet, I'm dying of hunger! ”

The people around him burst into laughter.

"Laughing bird!" The big man said angrily, "I'm carrying my head to play with my life, why don't I eat?" ”

A general in armor next to him shouted, "In the ranks, no noise!" ”

The crowd was immediately silenced, and the rules in the army had always been strict.

Xue Shao smiled, stepped back two positions, stood with the big man, and said, "What's your name?" ”

"I don't have a name, those people who help idle birds call me Niu Ben!" Dahan Road.

Xue Shao couldn't help laughing, "How can a big man not even have a name?" ”

"I was a homeless person in the Western Regions when I was a child, and I didn't know who my grandmother was, so I lived by raising horses and running businessmen for others." Dahan said, "A few days ago, I wandered to the pass with a caravan of Han people selling horses. The shopkeeper didn't want to do it for him, and it happened that the imperial court was recruiting officials, so I secretly ran here to eat. ”

The Tang Dynasty generally implements the government soldier system, and most of the government soldiers come from the peasants, which are regarded as compulsory soldiers, and they are soldiers in wartime and farmers in leisure. "Guanjian" is the volunteer brave recruited by the Datang government in the extraordinary period of the war, that is, professional soldiers and mercenaries!

"Bull Run? It's a fitting name. Xue Shao smiled, "Since you are a homeless person, then you don't have a household registration?" ”

"What is the household registration?"

"......" Xue Shao scratched his head, "Follow me." ”

"Are you going to eat?" The big man's eyes lit up.

"Eat your head!" Xue Shao said angrily, "You don't have a household registration, you are a bird army!" ”

"What then?" The big man panicked, "Come on, I'd better go back and continue to work for the black-hearted shopkeeper!" ”

"Stop talking nonsense, follow me!"

Niu Ben was stunned for a moment, but also followed Xue Shao.

Xue Shao brought Niu Ben to the household department, and there was also a group of people queuing up here, all of whom were temporarily registering for household registration in order to join the army. The census of the Tang Dynasty was not as strict as that of later generations, and it was common to omit the population, especially the slaves and maidservants of some displaced and wealthy families, most of whom did not have household registration.

Datang attaches great importance to the military industry, and if ordinary pawns can make military achievements in the army, they can get Juelu to turn over. Therefore, once the imperial court pays grain and salary to recruit officials, it is spring for "untouchables" such as homeless slaves and maids, and even if they can't kill military merits, they can mix some military salaries.

The household department and the government at all levels have to be busy filling in the household registration of these people.

"And that kind of thing? I've never heard of it! Niu Ben was stunned.

"Hurry up and get in line." Xue Shao said, "I'll wait for you here, and then we'll go to join the army together." ”

"Okay!" Niu Ben's joyful big ass arched and thrust in the middle of the team. Of course, the people who were cut in line were very unhappy, but when they saw that it was such a brute who reasoned with him, it must be a matter of no problem, so they all endured it alive.

Xue Shao laughed on the side, people like Niu Ben are suitable for making a living in the army.

"Hey, white-faced!" Niu Ben stood in the team and shouted to Xue Shao: "I think you are a very learned person, can you get something to eat?" ”

"You don't shoot well!" There is a black line on Xue Shao's head, are these two boundary?

Niu Ben smiled and shook his fist at Xue Shao, "Help, help, I'm so hungry that my eyes are almost black!" ”

"Okay, wait."

Xue Shao shook his head and smiled and was just about to leave, when he suddenly remembered that I was also a super poor ghost now, and I didn't have a penny on me.

"Forget it, you better bear with it, you will have food in the army in a while." Xue Shao scratched his face, "I don't have a penny on me." ”

"Look at you like a rich man, why are you poorer than me?" Niu Ben glared at Xue Shao with great disdain, sat on the ground and took off his shoes, and took out two coins from them, "Here you go, go buy a few steamed buns, I'll invite you to eat!" ”

Xue Shao took the two stinking copper coins, blinked his eyes forty-five degrees and looked at the sky speechlessly, my dignified Lantian son, there is also today?.

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