Guo Wei was ordered to go on the expedition, which means that he will quell Li Shouzhen's rebellion in this year and a half, although things can not be reversed, but life has to go on, early the next morning, Yang Lian called Lu Duoxun, Chen Tie and others, and discussed with them about conscription, the situation in Haichu and Chu Prefecture is now stable, winter wheat has been rushed to plant last year, spring ploughing is almost underway, it is time to recruit troops. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yang Lian told Lu Duoxun the conditions, and asked him to draft a notice to make the conditions for recruiting soldiers simple, in view of yesterday's situation, Yang Lian had a new idea, all the families who are soldiers will further reduce taxes, and in order to encourage joining the army, Yang Lian also proposed that the families who join the army can divide more than 30 acres of land, this field is not Yongye field, if it is not a soldier, the land should be returned to the government, of course, it is to take the way of redemption, so as to avoid no land to be distributed to the people in the future, It also made the people interested in joining the army.

Lu Duosun listened carefully, from time to time put forward his own opinions, when the matter was finalized, the morning had passed, and finally with the efforts of several people, the matter of conscription was finalized, Lu Duosun wrote a notice, let the officials of the yamen write a few copies, and posted them at the downtown entrance of the city and the city gate and other places with a large flow of people.

After the matter was done, Yang Lian went to find the boatwrights brought from Fuzhou, and these boatwrights were promised by Yang Lian to clear their slavery, and Yang Lian also promised them that as long as they work hard, they can get paid according to their work, and those who perform well can take up official positions, have money, and land, which is a great temptation.

After these shipwrights arrived in the north, they lived in Chuzhou temporarily, and Yang Lian planned to let them go to Haizhou next month, and on the first day of returning to Chuzhou, Yang Lian had already written a letter to Lin Renzhao, asking him to preside over the arrangement, and after making preparations first, the shipwrights would go to Yuzhou again.

After Yang Lian comforted the group of shipwrights who had left their hometown, he threw himself into the intense government affairs, and Yang Lian focused on the two things of patrolling the border and recruiting new troops. After the notice of recruiting the new army was posted, some of the people were happy, some sighed, and they were happy that the conditions given by Yang Jiedu to the soldiers were quite generous, and being a soldier meant that there were a lot less taxes and conscription, and if there were some positions, the conditions were even more favorable. sighed that Yang Jiedu had made all kinds of constraints, not if he wanted to be a soldier.

For more than ten days in a row, the registration office for recruiting recruits was crowded with people, and after preliminary screening, there were about 5,000 people who met the family conditions and physical conditions, and among these 5,000 people, it was basically the prototype of the new army, but Yang Lian also planned to select a more excellent part from it to form an elite, similar to Yang Wu's "Black Cloud Capital", which belonged to the elite of the elite.

The Tang Dynasty lacks war horses, the cavalry team is very precious, the reason why Heiyundu became the killer of the Yang and Wu courts back then, is because he is a rare cavalry of Yang Wu, it took several days, the soldiers were selected, at this time, the weather has turned hot, it has entered April, and there is news from all over the country.

First of all, after a long journey, Guo Wei entered the river and began to besiege Li Shouzhen, it is reported that he did not directly attack the city in the river, but built an earthen city outside the river mansion, intending to besiege Li Shouzhen for a long time. Yang Lian is not surprised by this, if it goes well, Li Shouzhen will definitely lose at the end of the year.

On the other hand, the news of Li Hongji, the king of Yan, came, that Li Jing, the son of heaven, ordered him to think about it behind closed doors at home, and at the same time relieved him of his rights in Runzhou. Pinning hopes on Li Jing to kill Li Hongji, which is almost impossible, unless Li Hongji rebels. Therefore, Yang Lian is already quite satisfied with this result, Li Hongji cannot be in power, especially the military power, which is much less resistance for Yang Lian.

In addition, the news is that the envoy of Wu Yueguo is in Jinling, trying to redeem Hu Qing, and the Son of Heaven according to Yang Lian's method, he played a "drag" trick, which made Hu Jinsi and Qian Wenfeng and others very depressed, and the two sides secretly gave gifts and bribed the ministers of the Tang Dynasty, King Qi received a lot of gifts, and Princess Huairou also got things like agate and pearls.

In the short term, Wu Yueguo had civil strife for the sake of Hu Qing's affairs, and he was temporarily unable to attack Fuzhou, which also gave Cha Wenhui time to restore the economy and strengthen his defense.

There have also been some problems within the Tang Dynasty recently, because Ma Xicao of the Chu State hoped that the Tang Dynasty could send troops to support him to take Ma Xiguang, so the ministers debated endlessly, and there has been no conclusion so far.

Among these things, Yang Lian is most concerned about the Huaibei group of thieves. However, judging from the current news, although the Huaibei group of thieves has been ready to move, they have not come to Chuzhou to rob, perhaps the spies they sent have collected a lot of news in Chuzhou. All Yang Lian can do is to actively prepare for the war.

Yang Lian's training of the new army is intended to be collected for personal use, of course, he must not leak this kind of thought, let alone say it. The secrets of the new army are only guessed by a few people, such as Lin Renzhao, for example, Fu Jinzhan all know what Yang Lian's purpose is in training the new army.

But as long as most people don't know about it, that's enough.

When the selection of soldiers came to an end and was about to train the new army, Yang Lian temporarily moved out of the Jiedu Mansion, and told Fu Jinzhan that he should not come to him if he was not in a hurry, Fu Jinzhan nodded, after all, she was the daughter of Jiangmen, and she knew that this new recruit was very important, especially Yang Lian still had that purpose, so he naturally wanted to train the soldiers in person.

At the beginning of the training, Yang Lian got up early in the morning, had breakfast, and hurried to the barracks, which was in the northwest corner of Chuzhou City, which was a newly built barracks. When Yang Lian arrived at the barracks, it was still quiet inside, and it was obvious that these recruits had not yet thought of getting up early.

Yang Lian called Chen Tie and Zhu Qi and asked them to take the soldiers to wake up the recruits, and the recruits were woken up, so they were inevitably a little resentful, but when they heard that the Jiedu envoy was coming, they all hurriedly washed up and gathered at the school field.

Thousands of people stood on the school grounds, densely packed like ants, and at a glance, they were all heads. Yang Lian stood on a high place, staring down, these people are all good seedlings, but it will take a long time to become an elite soldier, and it will take even longer to become an elite soldier in Yang Lian's heart.

At present, these soldiers will not be in line, if they start a battle, it will be a mess, and the recruits must first practice in formation, but before that, Yang Lian has something to say.

"This festival envoy is the Shuntian festival envoy of Haichu and Chu Prefectures, welcome you to join the army, here, you can learn a lot of things, and you can also get rich rewards - as long as you fight bravely, Benjie Du envoy will naturally not be stingy with rewards. You can live a life without food and clothing, but you need to be faithful to the envoys of this festival, can you do that? ”

"It can be done." The answers were a lot of voices and they were messy, just like in a wet market.

Yang Lian listened quietly, these people still need to exercise, after the soldiers finished speaking, Yang Lian shouted again: "The next words, you have to hear clearly, most of you are farmers, you used to just plough the land in the field, but now it is different, you are the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, you are the soldiers and horses under the command of the envoy of this section, for the envoy of this section, in addition to maintaining loyalty, you must also absolutely obey the orders of the envoy of this section." Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of you, you can't frown. ”

"During this time, you will be training in this barracks, and the days of training will be very hard and boring. The envoy of this section will personally lead you to training, and what you eat, the envoy will eat whatever you want, and he will never frown. Although the training is very hard, this section does not want deserters, and if there are deserters, this section will kill them! ”

Yang Lian said, and when he said the last, he raised his voice, and his eyes scanned the recruits majestically, and the recruits whispered. Yang Lian waited for another moment, and said: "Now that the drill has not started, this section will give you another chance, if anyone is unwilling to endure hardship, you can quit, I don't care." But if you choose to persevere, and you become deserters in the future, I will kill them! ”

The recruits below heard Yang Lian say, and whispered again, Chen Tie, Zhu Qi and others shouted loudly in the rear, passing Yang Lian's meaning to everyone, after waiting for a while, more than 500 people chose to leave, for this part of the people, Yang Lian did not choose to stay, as a soldier must be able to endure hardships, not afraid of death, these people chose to retreat as soon as they heard that there were difficulties, obviously not suitable for being a soldier, even if they went to the battlefield in the future, I am afraid they are also deserters.

After the more than 500 people left, Yang Lian waited for a full meal, and no one under the recruits chose to leave. Yang Lian glanced at the recruits, and then waved his hand to let Chen Tie, Zhu Qi and others take the recruits to sign and draw the pledge, and at the same time divide them into battalions.

The establishment is still the same as the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Lian will not make any changes, this will be more than 4,000 people, Yang Lian will be divided into two command battalions first, one command battalion has jurisdiction over five capitals, and the part with insufficient numbers will be counted as one, and it will be made up in the future.

More than 4,000 people spent a whole day to finish the work, and the next day, they stood in line, turned left and right, ran long distances, and stood in military postures, etc., most of these recruits were farmers, and they could not even distinguish between left and right, and many people often made jokes, and the officers shouted left turns, some turned right, some turned right, and some even turned backwards

Chen Tie and Zhu Qi, the old people brought up by Yang Lian, took a lot of effort to make this group of farmers recognize the left and right, and when they learned to turn left and right, running, etc., there were problems when they stood in a military posture.

In this era, there is no military posture, but Yang Lian introduced, when Yang Lian trained soldiers in the Praetorian Guard, those veterans were not used to it, let alone these recruits, Yang Lian took his own soldiers to inspect, and if there were not in accordance with the regulations, they were immediately whipped with leather whips and urged them.

Yang Lian doesn't feel cruel, tolerance at this time is cruelty, only by sweating more in peacetime, can there be less blood in wartime, and Yang Lian also set an example in his spare time, standing there motionless, with Yang Lian's example, many people gritted their teeth and insisted.

Although the training was hard, but the food every day was not bad, Yang Lian increased the meat in order to improve the soldiers' eyes, and the sales of fish and pork and other meats in Chuzhou City rose sharply, causing prices to soar for a while. Later, Yang Lian thought about it, and opened up a piece of land covering an area of seven or eight acres in the barracks and built a pig farm.

Of course, these pigs were castrated, and when the soldiers ate pork without smell, they would naturally let their families feed them, and at that time, the number of pig breeders increased, and the number of people who ate them increased. Moreover, pig manure can also fertilize the field, increase grain production, and with grain, it can be raised on a large scale.

At the end of April, the training of the recruits in military posture and other training came to an end for the time being, and it turned to more arduous training, learning to listen to the sound of drums and flags, and practicing basic martial arts.

Daily running with weights is essential, the purpose is to train the endurance and physical strength of the soldiers, without which a soldier who is exhausted after a short fight is obviously not qualified. Yang Lian also took this opportunity to carry a sack of more than 50 catties on his back, and also tied more than a dozen catties of weights to his feet, and practiced with the soldiers.

At this time, the drill is already several times a day, morning, noon and evening are essential, regardless of his wind and rain, on time to exercise, on time exercise, can be described as rain or shine. After this period of training, the soldiers' skin became darker, their physiques stronger, and the supply of meat allowed the recruits to withstand such a large amount of training, and their eyes became more determined.

After exercising like this for more than half a month, in the early morning of this day, Chen Tie grabbed seven or eight recruits and threw them in front of Yang Lian, saying, "Yang Jiedu, these people became deserters today, but fortunately, I found them out early and caught them back." ”

When several deserters saw Yang Lian's blade-like eyes, they couldn't help but shake their bodies, kowtowed again and again, and said, "Jie Du spares his life, I won't dare anymore, why don't I dare." ”

Yang Lian looked at these seven or eight people coldly, waved his hand, and said, "There will be no next time." Come, they kill, the first to pass the battalions, if you want to escape, they are an example. "Yang Lian has already said in advance that now that someone has become a deserter, he will naturally not be polite, and he has already signed and detained, so there is no need to be soft at all. If it is the beginning this time, there will be people who will escape in the future, and he must make an example of the monkeys, so that the recruits know that the military order is not child's play, and he will definitely honor what he said at the beginning.

"Whoa!" Chen Tie said, took the veterans to catch these people out, cut off their heads, and put them in wooden boxes, the bloody heads, frightened faces, and the smell of blood that made people vomit were presented in front of the recruits one by one, and some people couldn't help but vomit, but in their hearts, more shock, the Jiedu envoy said that one is one, these people are deserters, and after they were captured, they were killed with a knife. It seems that the words of the festival envoy are not child's play at all, not child's play.

The heads of seven or eight people were hung at the gate of the camp, and they could be seen every time they went out to exercise, constantly reminding the recruits that they must not be deserters, otherwise they would be caught, and the one hanging at the gate of the camp would be their own heads.

In the eyes of the recruits, although the Jiedu envoy is a little fierce, he can lead by example, most of the time he exercises with his own soldiers, his face is tanned, and his body is stronger. The food is the same as oneself, and with such a temperance, as long as you don't desert, it is also excellent. (To be continued.) )