On July 5, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the head of Chuzhou City.

"This person is extremely vicious, and his crimes are extremely evil, and for many years, he has done mischief and brutalized the people!" A literati in a gray robe, holding a piece of military order, was spitting and shouting something, he swallowed his saliva and continued;

"Anton Hou is aware of everything, and will never tolerate any thief, and the garrison officer Li Jingguang will be beheaded in the West Market today to set an example!"

The man who was tied to the platform, his standard armor had long been taken off by the soldiers, and he was left white, covered in blood, and he was dying.

More and more people gathered around, and they continued to spread this exciting news.

"What's going on?"

"You don't know yet, Anton is going to behead Li Jingguang in the West City!"

Hearing this, the man who had just come out of the house, and who was still a little confused, obviously didn't dare to believe it, and said disdainfully:

"Dog, don't you want to lie to me, I'm not stupid, Li Jingguang welcomed the Shandong army into the city, how could he be killed!"

An old man next to him came running, her face was full of wrinkles, and she said earnestly:

"Da Zhuang, the dog really didn't lie to you this time, Master Hou is going to kill Li Thief."

The man who was called Dazhuang was taken aback, this is the old woman in the front yard, she sells tofu for a living on weekdays, and the dog has nothing to do and often cheats money to buy alcohol and drink, but she will not lie to herself.

At the moment, they couldn't care about so much, and the three of them hurriedly followed the flow to the West Market, which was originally the least good of the three markets in Chuzhou City due to geographical reasons, and even the shops were relatively few.

But today it is a little unusual, Dazhuang, Gouzi and Mrs. Wang have not yet arrived, and they see that the crowd has surrounded the place.

Because Mrs. Wang was old and couldn't stand the toss, Dazhuang carefully supported her, and the dog was also very honest this time, and the three of them listened carefully on the periphery.

They can also hear the conversations of many people, and most of them are talking about the recruitment of people in the Shandong Army's gathering of farms and the recruitment of new divisions and branches.

A middle-aged man next to him said that because there were seven people in his family, he happened to have one more child than the six people stipulated by the Shandong Army, so he was given an extra cow.

Looking at that expression, it seems that he has picked up some big bargain, and he can't close his mouth at all.

Some people are full of pride, saying that their graves have blue eyes, because they have no money to study, but the children are very fond of reading and literacy, and they pick up the remaining half of the books used by other people's homes to make fires, and turn them back and forth more than a dozen times if they have found a treasure.

At that time, I heard that the Military Council Department of the Shandong Army was recruiting, and I went to the Military Council Division to participate in the examination with the mentality of trying it out, and the surrounding neighbors were laughing, saying that the show talent in the street did not pass, how could this poor boy of your family be.

But somehow, this poor boy finally passed the examination of people from Shandong, although he only served a small position in the military department, but this made the neighbors look at the family with admiration.

The book office also depends on where the book office is, even if the court has a department book office, in the final analysis, it is an official family, there is an iron rice bowl, how many people can't ask for it.

What's more, the kid in his family is serving in the branch office of the Shandong Military Council, which is amazing, he was worthless in the past, and there are already countless people who turned over after entering the Shandong army.

The Shandong Army and the Shun Army are in full swing, but even if it is a small position, the competition is already extremely fierce, but no one knows what to test for this so-called examination, and it is all responsible for the General Administration of the Military Affairs Department in Licheng, Shandong.

Judging from the experience of recruiting people from all over the world, it is not a simple mix to pass.

But many people don't understand that the first Xiucai on the street is also a literati with a reputation in the court, and he is also considered to be the top three in the county, and the poor boy just read half a broken book over and over again, how can he be favored by the people of the Shandong Army.

Zhang Xiucai, who was on the other side of the street, got into a dead end, and he didn't understand what the head of the Military Council said to him that day, and suddenly moved a little crooked thought, thinking that there must be some secret in that broken book, and trying to get it.

But Zhang Xiucai read back and forth a few times, and didn't see anything unusual, this is just an ordinary literacy book, and he can memorize those things even after reading them once.

In the end, he still didn't feel that there was anything wrong with reading those eight-strand texts for many years, and he felt that the humanities of the Military Discussion Department were not enough, and he couldn't understand what he was saying.

More than ten years later, this Zhang Xiucai is over half a hundred years old, but he still worked in vain, and he still failed to make an inch, but the poor boy who had read half of the broken book and was despised everywhere became a famous man in the world that the locals were proud of.

Hearing this news, Zhang Xiucai became ill from hard work, and the more he thought about it, the more he didn't understand, he felt sad and indignant, and finally hanged himself in his own home, which was embarrassing.

Of course, these are all later words, so let's not mention them for now.

There are more and more people around, and soon the three of Dazhuang are surrounded in the middle, at this time, many years of experience make Dazhuang feel a little dangerous, maybe there will be some chaos around, or go home.

Just as Dazhuang was about to say something, some Shandong soldiers ran down from the platform, stood among the onlookers below, and divided them into several shares.

Soon after, there were soldiers to protect the military council and the civilians who continued to press the booklets, but anyone who saw no one in the register would be temporarily detained and wait for their families to come and recognize them.

If the donkey's lips are not right, and the number is not right at all, these people will eventually be sent to the mines and salt factories in various places as coolies.

"What are you doing with me, I'm a good person, I'm a good person!"

In the distance, a man in tattered clothes was dragged by several Shandong soldiers without warning, and he was constantly struggling in panic, and several people around him who were about to flee were also subdued.

The clerk of the Military Council Department who looked at the document several times, and finally determined that this person was not in the book at all, nodded and waved his hand to take it away.

The soldiers of the Shandong army did not bother to talk nonsense with these details, and directly guarded him with a knife around his neck to leave the crowd, so as not to cause chaos.

Seeing this, Dazhuang and Mrs. Wang glanced at each other, and they both saw peace of mind in each other's eyes, so they tacitly continued to watch.

At this time, a man who looked like an officer shouted loudly:

"Anton is here!"

The surrounding people suddenly became excited, and kept crowding forward, but they were soon stopped by the stern soldiers around them.

Even Dazhuang was worried about his feet, wanting to see if Anton Hou, who was brave and famous in the world, had three heads and six arms.

When they saw it with their own eyes, many people were sure that Wang Zheng was still an ordinary person with two arms and two legs.

But his eyes were sharp and firm, sometimes like a storm and a storm, and sometimes as warm as the sun.

Behind Wang Zheng stood Huang Degong, the chief soldier of Fengyang, Lu Jiude, the commander of the Beijing camp, Yue Qijie, the supervisor of Fengyang, Weng Zhiqi, the chief soldier of Zhoushan, and Wu Dai, the new garrison of Chuzhou.

Except for Wu Dai, the rest of these people, which one of them are all well-known figures in Nanzhili, but now they are all headed by this Hou Ye, standing quietly behind.

At this moment, neat footsteps sounded outside the city, and a group of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses rumbled into the city from the south gate, and finally stopped on the street not far from the west market.

The leader of the general came to the platform, immediately jumped off his horse, and took the other two tall and good-looking generals to give a military salute from afar, and shouted:

"The last general Shuyang garrisons Lu Ying, see Anton Hou!"

"The last general Haizhou garrisons Qi Shuiyang, see Anton Hou!"

"The last general, Qiu Wu, led 30,000 Huai'an soldiers, see Anton Hou!"