It was noon, and they had just finished eating, so they were inevitably a little sleepy, and the guards guarding the city gate were no exception, and the spear in their hands had long since begun to know which horn to throw it to.

As soon as he raised his eyes and saw the darkness in front of him, the guards didn't care at first, but after suddenly reacting, they jumped up excitedly, but saw only a few hundred homeless people.

"Get out of here, I've disturbed Lao Tzu's good dreams!"

"Get out of here, it's disturbing Lao Tzu's dream!"

The guard turned from shock to anger, shouted a few words, and continued to lean against the city wall with his chest around his chest, squinting and napping, ignoring it.

"Disturbed, military master, dare to ask if this is the station of the Wendeng camp?"

As soon as he closed his eyes, he heard a voice of inquiry, and the guard soldier scolded angrily in his heart, and glared at his side, but he was caught in the air.

Hey, what about Lao Tzu's spear?

Seeing the refugees in front of him from nowhere, the guard soldier was not afraid, and pointed impatiently towards the city, and said angrily.

"Isn't there a sign, I can't see such a big word?"

In fact, it is true that the layout of the city cannot be seen in this position, but Wang Zheng has already got the answer, so there is no need to worry about it.

Just glanced at the guards, Wang Zheng walked into the city with Huang Yang, Dong Youyin and his party without saying a word.

Seeing that the number of displaced people was too large, the guards would not be able to finish for a while, so they directly made way for the villagers of Yijingzhuang, found a shady place, sat down and fell asleep.

Walking into Wendeng City, Wang Zheng frowned.

As far as the eye can see, this Wendeng City is really deserted enough, and the degree of dirt and chaos is even worse than that of Ninghai Prefecture City, which seems to be a common problem in the city at this time.

No wonder the problem of the plague has never been solved, Wang Zhengchao glanced at the innermost, this Wendeng City is not as narrow as he imagined, it is also accessible in all directions, although it is not as good as Ninghaizhou City, but it is not much different.

glanced at it, and sure enough, he saw a temporary shack next to the horse road, if it weren't for a big recruitment sign erected inside, and a soldier who looked like a soldier lying on the wooden table and falling asleep, Wang Zheng really couldn't see that this was the place to recruit soldiers.

Dong Youyin also glanced around a few times, except for a few guards who were napping on the side, he didn't see a single person coming to apply, and he was not surprised at the moment, but he just pouted.

Seeing that Dong Youyin was in a daze, Huang Yang gave him a punch when he passed by, which was to learn from Wang Zheng.

"Dong Wuyin, why are you stunned, keep up!"

Dong Youyin didn't react at first, listened carefully, and shouted: "Dong Wuyin? Huang family boy, you're fucking looking for death, I'm really beating you this time! ”

Dong Youyin chased after him while shouting, and at this time Wang Zheng had just walked to the wooden table, organizing the language, thinking about how to speak concisely to this officer and soldier, but he didn't expect Dong Youyin to shout in his voice, and he actually woke up the soldier.

Yawning up, the soldier rubbed his eyes, and was about to roar angrily, but he was startled, and he didn't know when a large group of people came.

These people actually surrounded themselves.

"Y-you, where did you come from!?"

Seeing that this soldier was frightened like this, Wang Zheng glared at Dong Youyin, Dong Youyin and Huang Yang were a little weak-hearted, they both looked up at the sky tacitly, Dong Youyin laughed.

"Huang Yang, look at how big the salt particles are in this sky."

Without thinking about it, Huang Yang nodded and was about to say something, when he suddenly reacted and slapped Dong Youyin violently, "Where did the salt particles come from in the sky, you want to go crazy thinking about silver." ”

Seeing the appearance of Huang Yang and Dong Youyin, Yu'er and Zhang Ping covered their mouths and snickered, and Aunt Huang came over and said, "You two will stop the meeting, and listen to what Wang Zheng has to say." ”

"Hey."

......

Since the Wendeng camp was stationed in Wendeng City, a tall and large middle military officer hall has been built in the city, and now this official hall is also the only building in the city that does not appear to be dilapidated.

At this moment, inside and outside the hall of the Chinese army, the sound of noisy discussions came and went, and with a few drums, there were constantly generals wearing iron armor with their families into the hall, and the people in the city heard and saw them and stayed away.

"This is the new arrival of Wu Xietai!"

"It's not, I heard that this Wu Xietai is a close confidant of Lord Futai, there are not many people recruiting troops in the Wendeng camp this time, Wu Xietai is anxious, I'm afraid that the Wendeng camp will take any measures after this time!"

"Bullshit measures, if you don't increase military salaries, no matter how you talk about it, it's useless! Who wants to carry their heads to work for these big-tailed wolves, I don't want to! ”

"That's right, I'd rather go out and fend for myself, what is that little money enough to do."

In the hall, a general wearing fine iron armor and a round waist stood at the front, this was Wu Weizhong, the new battalion officer of the Wendeng Battalion who had just been added from the second rank of the deputy general.

It's just that this tall Wu Weizhong didn't have the momentum of a battalion officer at all, and bent down and hugged his fists to smile and greet every Wendeng battalion general who came in.

When everyone arrived, Wu Weizhong cleared his throat and waved his hand: "Everyone, everyone... Listen to me. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, Wendeng Camp is an important town in Jiaodong, and Lord Futai values us very much! This time I came to Wendeng Camp to serve as this camp officer, inside and out, and I still need a lot of help from my colleagues! ”

"All the cooperation with Taiwan!"

After Wu Weizhong finished speaking, the generals of Wendeng Camp also replied with their fists, but they still looked lazy and lazy and didn't care, which made Wu Weizhong helpless.

The hot face was attached to a cold butt, but Wu Weizhong was not surprised.

He knew that these generals of the Wendeng camp were almost monolithic, either hereditary generals or had some connection with the gentry in the city, but they were out-and-out outsiders.

The so-called strong dragon does not suppress the snake, Wu Weizhong can't find a way to deal with these old slippery heads in the army for many years, just standing there in a hurry.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this recruitment still needs to be put on the agenda, this..."

Before Wu Weizhong finished speaking, a general of the Wendeng battalion shouted: "Wu Xietai! Didn't we send a recruitment notice, and let people be in charge, what's the urgency? ”

"yes, what's the hurry!"

"Just wait!"

The surrounding Wendeng camp generals began to laugh to themselves, and hung the new camp officer aside, Wu Weizhong's face was pale, but he didn't dare to attack.

Wu Weizhong sneered with a bitter face: "Everyone, didn't Lord Futai give the silver..."

"Bullshit silver! This amount of money is not enough for Lao Tzu to drink a drink, who will come to be a soldier? ”

A sentry officer laughed, didn't take Wu Weizhong in his eyes at all, and proposed: "Yes, Wu Xietai, why don't you go and talk to Lord Futai, and give us more money in Wendeng Camp, with silver, the brothers are also energetic, don't you say?" ”

After the general finished speaking, the generals of the Wendeng camp in the house nodded one after another, and the shouting and shouting could not be suppressed at all, and all the cattle reached the sky.

Seeing this scene, Wu Weizhong's heart was cool and cool, and the ambitions he had when he was still on the road disappeared not long after.

In fact, Yang Wenyue, the governor of Denglai, gave Wendeng a lot of silver, which was several thousand taels.

If this batch of silver is distributed truthfully, at least nearly ten taels will be in the hands of each recruit, which is not much, but it is a great temptation for the poor people, and it will not be difficult to recruit full soldiers.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, corruption had reached the point where it could not be suppressed, even if Yang Wenyue was not greedy, but his subordinates were not always.

After the settlement of the silver hair, when he passed through the civil and military bureaucrats at all levels, he had to be greedy for ink, and he was deducted layer by layer, and there was very little left when he arrived at the Wendeng camp.

However, this is not over, the matter of military generals deducting money is more common than that of civilian officials, and most military generals will withhold silver.

Some people use it themselves, spending all day and drinking.

But most people use this silver to buy armor, knives and guns for their families, so that the money that is really used to recruit new soldiers is pitiful.

At present, the situation is difficult, the northern barbarians have won successive battles as if they were in a no-man's land, and the peasant army in the hinterland of the Central Plains is huge and irrepressible.

It's too late for the people to dodge, and who would pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers for such a low salary.

Wu Weizhong knows this kind of thing, but he can't say it, even if Wu Weizhong reports to Yang Wenyue, the governor of Denglai, what can Yang Wenyue do?

Wendeng Camp is an important town in Jiaodong, since its inception has controlled the soldiers of the various guards in Jiaodong, and now it is still the only large-scale imperial court soldiers and horses in Jiaodong, once there is chaos, the consequences are simply unimaginable.

What's more, Denglai has been in turmoil every year, and the biggest Kong Youde military disaster has swept through Shandong, even Yang Wenyue is afraid of this kind of thing.

After that time, the civil officials of the various prefectures of Denglai could only make trouble with the generals who held military power, and they could only turn them into big things, and small things into nothing.

After appeasing Fayin, Wu Weizhong was picked up by Yang Wenyue, and it was too late to repay the service by swearing, so how could he report such a headache to Yang Wenyue in Futai.

This not only made Yang Wenyue have more headaches, but also felt disappointed in Wu Weizhong, so he could only smash his teeth and swallow it himself.

At that moment, Wu Weizhong's face was gloomy, and he waved his hand weakly, and said: "Alas, then so be it, let's discuss it another day, another day..."

At this moment, the soldier of the Wendeng battalion in charge of recruitment in front of the door rushed into the Zhongjun Hall with a surprised face, and shouted with a fist.

"Report to Wu Xietai, some people have come to join the army, saying that they are the villagers of Yijingzhuang, and the leader is the general banner of Qishan Institute named Wang Zheng, and there are more than 200 young and strong people!"