A young man stood on the castle tower and looked at the crowded and excited crowd at the notice wall below the city, and pondered. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

A good man should join the army and make meritorious contributions in the battle array. I am the heir of China, and now Liaodong has returned to China, why should I nest in a remote city and waste my life?

Having made up some kind of decision in his heart, the young man in a snow-white shirt walked down the city tower with a seven-foot long sword at his waist in his hand, and the oncoming soldiers saluted him.

was originally the beloved son of Beisha City, but Bai Shuiheng was lofty in his heart and wanted to explore a broader space. Every time I read that in the year of the Han Dynasty, Wei Qing and Huo Qu were sick and conquered the Huns, and the soldiers of the Han family attacked in all directions, and they opened up tens of thousands of miles of territory, and it was difficult to hide the heart of passionate worship.

I have been in China for hundreds of years, and now I am rising again in the world and reproducing the majesty of the Han dynasty in those years. On the occasion of employing people, it is an immortal achievement that will leave a name in history. Am I Bai Shuiheng a mediocre who is a hereditary assassin and covets comfort and enjoyment?

Shuiyang, who sold fish in the bazaar, returned home with more than a dozen cents on his body.

"Daddy's back."

When the five children saw that their father was back, they happily ran out of the house and gathered around Shuiyang. Going out to sea to fish is a very dangerous job, maybe one day you will encounter a storm and big waves on SH, and a big wave from the small fishing boat in Shuiyang can be overturned in an instant.

Whenever Shuiyang goes out to sea to fish, the wife and children at home often worry about it all day, and the whole family is happy to come back safely.

"Why did Ah Yang come back so early today?" Shuiyang's wife Yu, who was cleaning up the house, walked out of the room after hearing the children's voices, and asked strangely when she saw her husband returning earlier today than before.

"I didn't catch much fish today, and I sold out at the market, so I came back early."

Shui Yang took out the money from selling fish on his body and put it in his wife's hand, but it was only a dozen yuan, which made Yu frown.

The surplus food at home is only enough for one meal, and it is still a meal that is not enough.

Beisha City is surrounded by the sea on both sides, there are many mountains, and there are few plains suitable for growing grain, and the grain yield is not high. Originally, a part of the grain had to be transported from other places to solve the problem of eating grain for the local people, so the local grain price was more than twice as high as that of other places.

The high grain prices in the interior of Datang are only a dozen to tens of yuan, which is the grain price of the unaffected prefectures and counties.

Since the Zhenguan period, there were continuous wars in Liaodong, and the grain of Beisha City mainly relied on Dengzhou on the other side of the sea to transfer grain by sea ships, and the price of grain was also affected by the interior of the Central Plains.

This year, dozens of prefectures and counties in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty have been affected by locusts and drought, and grain prices have risen. Dengzhou, which was the food supply area of Beisha City, was naturally also affected, and coupled with the rebellion of the remnants of Goguryeo in Liaodong, the price of grain transported to Beisha City rose from 11 wen per bucket to 20 wen per bucket.

Yu Shi looked at the more than a dozen yuan in her hand, which means that she couldn't even buy a bucket of rice, and she couldn't help but feel bitter.

Seeing his wife's bitter face, Shui Yang felt uncomfortable, in the past, there were a lot of fish, and if he couldn't sell out, he could take it back and add food to the family to replenish his body, and save some food by the way. The fish caught today is not enough to sell, and thinking about it makes my heart miserable, and I am even more determined to keep flashing in my mind.

Poor families, both in winter and summer, will finish their dinner before dark, so that they do not need lamp oil, after all, lamp oil is not cheap. Some people who are too poor don't even have any lamp oil at home.

When it gets dark, either a ditch fire is built in the yard, or it is an early bedtime. This is the case with the Shuiyang family, after dinner, the family rests on the kang in the morning.

The husband and wife lay on the kang without saying a word, in fact, they both knew in their hearts that the other party was not sleeping. Yu was very worried when she saw her husband come back today, and she didn't ask, she was speculating in her heart alone.

"I want to be a soldier, and the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate posted a notice to recruit soldiers, and I meet all three conditions. When you become a soldier, even if you don't go into battle, you will have a fixed military ring of 300 wen per month, which is completely enough for the family to eat and drink now. Shui Yang, who had been silent for a long time, still said the thoughts that had been hidden in his heart for most of the day.

Yu Shi was shocked, opened his eyes and turned to look at his husband, and said with tears in his eyes: "The rebellion of the Goguryeo people has not been quelled, you will definitely go to the battlefield if you go to become a soldier, if you die in battle, how should I and my five children live?" ”

"Don't worry, even if I die in battle, the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate will give pensions to the families of soldiers who died in battle, and their families can get 800 acres of land, 1,000 acres of mountains, and give 500 yuan pensions, and their sons can study for free in government schools, and they will be tax-free for three years. For the disabled, they will be given 500 acres of land, 800 acres of mountains, and a monthly pension of 300 Wen'an, and their sons can study free of charge in government schools, and they will be tax-free for two years. ”

"Woo woo......" Yu couldn't help but cry under the quilt, she knew that her husband had made up his mind to be a soldier, otherwise he wouldn't have said it now, it was useless to persuade her.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Shui Yang took his wife into his arms and comforted: "Although my family is poor, I am still tall and strong, and I have a lot of strength. With your husband's shrewd mind, the tens of thousands of troops of Anton's capital protectorate, which round will get me to die on the battlefield. And the Andong Protectorate has set up a rich reward for military merits, and there will be dozens of dollars for cutting off the next level, and if you win a battle, you will cut off a few Goguryeo heads, and our family will not have to live a hard life, and we will no longer be ridiculed by the surrounding villagers. ”

In the following days, Shuiyang went out early every day to raise a small fish boat to fish, try to catch as many as possible, and if he couldn't sell it, he put it at home to become dried fish, and he should be in a hurry when there is a shortage of food.

Shuiyang also went to the Tang Army camp to inquire, and after signing up for the army, he would wait in Beisha City for a while. After recruiting a certain number of people, they will be sent to the prefecture of the prefecture to be stationed in Anshi, and the prefecture will concentrate on the training of recruits for at least one month, and those who pass will be officially recruited as soldiers, and the fifth day of the next month will be issued to the military ring of the previous month after a month.

That is to say, in the month of Shuiyang recruit training, only the capital protection house was fed and sheltered, and the quilt was issued, but there was no military sound, and the military sound of the first month of the official soldier had to wait until the fifth of the next month to receive the military sound.

For the first two months, there was no money, and the family of six had to ask for money and food to survive. Therefore, Shuiyang must prepare more money and food at home before going to sign up, and it should be these two months.

Since the day the notice was issued, the recruitment registration point at the entrance of the Tang Army camp in the north of the city has been full of applicants every day, but on the sixth day, 800 soldiers were recruited, and it would be appropriate to wait for a few more days for 1,000 people.

Gao Chongli was in charge of the recruitment of troops in Beisha, Qingnipu, and Shicheng, and he was in a particularly good mood when he came to the gate of the camp every day to see so many people coming to recruit. He took a chair from King Yan's Mansion and sat at the recruiting office, looking at the long queue of recruits.

"Xi Ping, you honest peasant boy didn't do farm work at home and came to be a soldier? Beware of being cut off by the Goguryeo people as soon as they go into battle. ”

"Hahaha......" made the queue laugh out loud with a joke from the sinister line.

"My father said that I am an adult, and it is time to go out and make a career, and coming out to be a soldier can not only save some food for the family, let my younger brothers and sisters grow stronger, but also make military achievements and glory to my ancestors." Xi Ping replied very shyly, looking at the ground with his head down, obviously in a low mood.

"Hahaha, your dad obviously thinks you're stupid, you can't plant a little land, it's a waste of food, seeing such a good opportunity, don't send you to the family to open your mouth, and you are better off. Otherwise, whose father would let his eldest son go out to fight as a soldier? Isn't your second child also an adult? Why didn't he go to the army? ”

As a person from the south of the city who is in the same place as Xi Ping, how can he not know the truth about his family. Xi Ping is one of the objects of conversation and laughter among the scoundrels in Beisha City.

Faced with a sarcastic rhetorical question, Xi Ping lowered his head and became more silent, and the pain in his heart was not enough for outsiders.

"Eh, isn't this poor sour water? Why don't you fish and work as a soldier? Seeing that Shui Yang also came to line up, Yin Xing immediately turned the object of teasing and teasing, and made a bubble at Shui Yang.