After two years of construction, the area of Taipei County is not only twice as large as last year's when the immigrants first arrived, but also the population settled in the city and the prosperous business environment are incomparable to last year.

Zhu Dan, who was sitting in a small wine shop next to the main road of the cross street in the city, watched the merchants coming and going in the city. He is not like those wealthy families who have bought land in Taiwan, but he just uses Taiwan's industry as a branch of the family industry to increase income, and the principals have left Taiwan to return to their hometowns during the Chinese New Year.

Like his Zhu family, the declining head of the four surnames of Wu County, in his hometown, Suzhou, which changed the counties of the world into states in the early Tang Dynasty, a county order can bully them, and they only live on the little land left by their ancestors. Rely on the collection of books at home to maintain a certain level of education, so as not to completely become a member of the general public.

This is also the general situation of those families in Jiangzuo who have glorified the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties for hundreds of years.

In Zhu Dan's view, there is no way to develop in his hometown of Suzhou, let alone revitalize the lintel. A newly expanded place like Taiwan was nothing more than a wild place for collecting economic benefits in the eyes of the ruling elites, which was more in line with the cornerstone of family revitalization for a declining family like him.

In addition to leaving a nephew to take care of the ancestral property in his hometown in Suzhou, Zhu Dan moved his family and hundreds of relatives within the three suits to live in Taiwan. The total number of fields and forests obtained from the Governor's Office exceeded 10,000 acres, and it became the most powerful country in Taiwan.

In line with the friendship of the world, Zhu Dan also persuaded Gu Cheng, who was also in decline after Wu Qun's Gu family, to follow his method and use the land obtained in Taiwan as a new family foundation for construction.

In line with the good of Qin and Jin, the Zhu and Gu families purchased the fields and properties that were still next to each other, and the manor they built was only a hundred steps away from the road.

Seeing the continuous rows of heavily armed soldiers rushing through the street, Zhu Dan frowned.

The movement of troops in the city was undoubtedly the outbreak of war, either the eastern mountains of the island to attack the city, destroying the reclaimed fields and the construction of water conservancy facilities, or the governor's office was sending troops to conquer the unsubjugated island tribes on the island.

It's better not to be the former, otherwise the fields of his family and the Gu family are relatively close to the eastern mountains, and they will definitely suffer first. Otherwise, after a year of hard work, the farm, which was cultivated, was destroyed by the people because the sugarcane grown in the grange would be in vain.

"Have you heard, there is news from the Governor's Mansion that Xue Maoxun is going to recruit 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight for Magalan, and now he is recruiting troops from all cities and subservient societies."

"But no, I heard that Xue Maoxun ordered all departments to gather troops and horses within ten days, and set out on the fifteenth, this is the fourth group of soldiers and horses I have seen in the past two days."

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"Hey, my son has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, he is strong and strong, he is registered in the Governor's Mansion, and he has been conscripted into the army as a unity soldier, and I don't know if he can come back alive."

A drinker said with a gloomy face.

Taiwan Island covers an area of more than 30,000 square kilometers, and at present, the Metropolitan Government can control the northern part of the island from the Taixi Plain and the Taipei Basin to the Keelung River. With a population of more than 70,000 and more than 50,000 subjugated fans, there are 18 cities and one pass. Relying only on the 3,000 men and horses of the Chaos Guard would definitely not be able to defend such a large area, and the Governor's Mansion came into being out of the need to recruit young and strong soldiers from among the common people, which was also the right that Li Yu allowed the overseas Governor's Mansion to act cheaply.

In the Taiwan Governor's Office, Xue Maoxun ordered that the young people who moved into the island should be registered when the fields were divided, and if necessary, they would be collected according to the roster, regardless of whether they were ordinary people or wealthy and powerful.

The emperor of Taiwan Island is far away, and the Taiwan Governor's Mansion is subordinate to the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate, and he is the person of Li Yu, the king of Yan. Those children of the powerful who were sent by their families to Taiwan Island to preside over the development of the industry, encountered Xue Maoxun's requisition order, which was called the heaven and the earth. sent someone back to the mainland to send a message to the family, and the people in the family went to Li Yu, the capital of Anton, to respond, and most of the time passed.

What's more, the children who can be sent by the family to the wild island of Taiwan Island to develop industries shows that their status in the clan is not high, otherwise they would not be sent to run the family industry, and they can only wear armor and go into battle in the face of Xue Maoxun's requisition order.

"Brother Tai relax, when the Governor's Mansion doesn't return with a big victory, you just wait for your son to go home with military merits and rewards." The drinkers on the side were relieved.

"Wasn't the Governor's Mansion defeated in the Governor's quest against Magalan a few years ago? One of the sons of the Zhang clan of Wu County contracted the disease and died. ”

A drinker reminded him, and suddenly provoked the reproachful eyes of a group of drinkers, knowing that he had said the wrong thing, he quickly punished himself with a glass.

"I heard that the solidarity soldiers recruited by the Governor's Office this time are limited to the people who have settled in the cities north of Xihu City. The people of the cities to the south have been moving for a short time, the land is not cleared, and the Atayal people in the mountains are rampant, and they need sufficient troops to take precautions, so they are not included in the list of requisition. ”

"After deducting the soldiers who surrendered to the Fan Society, the number of united soldiers requisitioned is only a few thousand......"

"The news from the Governor's Mansion said that Xue Maoxun asked for the conscription of unity soldiers to be fine but not many, and priority was given to those who were strong and strong and had practiced martial arts since childhood. As soon as the children of several wealthy families in the city heard the news, they left Taiwan by boat to pay New Year's greetings to the elders of their families. ”

"Ha, these children of wealthy families are silver spear wax heads, no matter how well they learn martial arts, they don't dare to go to the battlefield to fight and kill."

Immediately, some people ridiculed.

"This brother is too partial to cover everything, and he has seen some children from wealthy families serving in the army, and some of them have no less than a dozen knife wounds......"

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Zhu Dan was in no mood to listen to it anymore, so he left after finishing the wine money.

The Wujun Zhu family is the only one of the four surnames in Wu County to establish a martial family, which is different from the Wujun Zhang family who abandoned literature and followed the military in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Zhu clan of Wujun produced many generals in the Three Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty.

For example, Zhu Huan and Zhu Yi in the Three Kingdoms period made great achievements in the battle with Cao Wei. In addition, Zhu Ran Jian'an fought Jingzhou from Lü Meng, captured Guan Yu alive, and his descendants Lü Meng guarded Jiangling, and repeatedly broke the soldiers of Wei and Shu. At the time of Liu Yu's rise, there was still the family style of the ancestors, taking the road of military merit, Zhu Lingshi and Zhu Chaoshi brothers were brave and fruitful, Liu Yu cut down Shu, and took Lingshi as the marshal and made great contributions.

Zhu Dan's three sons have studied family martial arts since childhood, and they are agile and strong, and they are good candidates for the conscription of the Governor's Mansion, and they belong to the registration of the Governor's Mansion conscription roster.

Zhu Dan was afraid that his three sons would be requisitioned by the Governor's Mansion at this time, so he hurried home to see the situation. No one wants to let all their sons go to the battlefield without swords and eyes, and accidentally all die, but the family has no queen.

This is also the reason why the conscription in the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties only levied military service and labor for those families with many children.

When Zhu Dan galloped back to his family in the south of Taipei County, in the territory of Taoyuan in later generations, he was relieved to see that the two sons and three sons were all there, but the eldest son Zhu Chong had not seen it.

The second son, Zhu Cen, replied in the face of his father's inquiry: "Dad, my brother was conscripted as a united soldier by the conscription order issued by the Governor's Office three days ago, and he should be in the military camp in Taipei at this time. ”

Knowing that his eldest son had been conscripted as a united soldier, Zhu Dan could only wish him to be smarter on the battlefield, so as not to lose his life in vain. It is hoped that the eldest son can make great contributions on the battlefield and be favored by the governor Xue Maoxun and rise to prominence in the army. If he can become a general in the army, the revival of the Zhu clan of Wu County, which has been in decline for hundreds of years, is just around the corner.