Chapter 420: Recruiting Troops South
I can't help Li Xin not be excited, more than a year ago, he was just a Henan Juzi who dreamed of making a contribution and going to Beijing to catch the exam, and then for more than a year, he was first a high school jinshi, and then he was selected as a scholar in the middle school, and now he was the core of the Ming Dynasty's power in the military aircraft department, and then, he became the deputy envoy on behalf of the Ming Dynasty to foreign countries, and now, he was ordered by the emperor to be the envoy of Lushun Town. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Moreover, in order to facilitate his command and mobilization of Denglai soldiers and horses, the emperor also considered him so carefully that he concurrently served as the imperial history of Dengzhou Town Supervisor.
The emperor's kindness, trust, and promotion were something he had never even thought about before!
On May 12 of the second year of Chongzhen, the imperial court set up a new Lushun town guard, and the emperor appointed Li Xin, a scholar in the Wuying Palace, as the Lushun town guard and the imperial history of the Dengzhou town supervisor, and entrusted it with the will of the military and political authority of Lushunkou.
At the same time, Li Xin went to Tongzhou, with the holy decree to the Emperor Ming Zhongyi Lecture Hall to recruit generals, in addition to his younger brother Li Yu, there are also Henan Governor and Dusi Yamen recommended Baoju to be enrolled in the third phase of the lecture martial arts young students Xu Zhizhong, Yang Yuchun, Wang Yiming, Chen De four people.
These four people are either from the army in Luoyang, or from the army in Kaifeng, they are all lower-level petty officers in the army under the command of Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, Xu Zhizhong and Yang Yuchun are a little better, before entering the lecture hall, one is the capital division, the other is the garrison, and Wang Yiming and Chen De, the rank is lower, one is the general manager, the other is the general manager,
As for Li Xin's younger brother Li Yu, before he entered the martial arts hall, he was just a child, although he liked bows, horses, guns and sticks, and his martial arts were good, but in terms of military attache rank, he was simply a white body.
However, Li Yu's own riding and archery skills are good, and he has an older brother who is a scholar in the Wuying Palace, and since he entered the martial arts hall, he has also made a group of friends.
And these fellow villagers from the Luoyang and Kaifeng armies naturally came together very quickly, enrolled in February, graduated in May, practiced queues and learned firearms within three months, got along day and night, and formed an extraordinary friendship.
Li Xin as a scholar in the Wuying Palace, was ordered by Emperor Chongzhen as the Lushun town guard and Dengzhou town supervisor of the imperial history, for a while the limelight is unique, at this time personally with the emperor to give the holy decree, to the martial arts hall to recruit generals and school officials, everyone is a hot-blooded youth, within two days should be like a cloud.
However, Li Xin considered that he would have to return to his hometown to recruit troops next, so he was still prepared to focus on the locals.
At the same time, these people have a bad relationship with their younger brother Li Yun, so they quickly set the graduation destination of these people with Jiangwutang, and recruited these people into their command.
Of course, the lecture hall is also a special case, and the report was quickly sent to the military aircraft department, and when it was transferred back to the lecture hall, the five graduates of the third phase of the lecture martial arts hall, including Li Yun, had been specially awarded by the emperor to the positions of guerrilla, capital division, garrison, thousand general, and general manager of Lushun Town.
Seventeen or eighteen-year-old Chen De, the general manager, and eighteen or nineteen-year-old Li Yun, who is white, all of a sudden, have a thousand general positions.
The eldest of these people was the twenty-five-year-old Li Xin himself, a group of young people who were young and vigorous and eager to make meritorious contributions, and were easily inspired by the bright prospects that Li Xin had depicted.
After all, the precedent of the Rehe Town Guard Mansion is there, and it is also a group of young junior officers who have made contributions within a few months, and since then Jane has been in the heart of the emperor, not only in the sky, but also famous in the nine sides!
Now these few have just learned a set of almost new military tactics from the lecture hall, and don't pour into Mao's mind Huayi's distinction, they are looking forward to and looking for a place for heroes to use, Li Xin's arrival, and the construction of Lushun Town's defense of the mansion is simply a godsend!
In this way, three days later, that is, on May 15, Li Xin took Li Yu, Xu Zhizhong and other five people, as well as the emperor's will to recruit troops, rode a fast horse, followed the post road to the south, and traveled south under the stars and nights.
At this time, the weather in Beizhili, because of the relationship between the Xiaoice River period, according to the "Great Unified Calendar", which has lagged behind climate change, is already mid-May, but in fact, in terms of heat and cold, it is only the middle of April in the future.
But even so, the North Zhili and even Henan area is already scorching like summer, from Tongzhou to the south, through the North Zhili Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Shunde Mansion, into Henan Zhangde Mansion, Weihui Mansion, May 18 at noon that time to cross the Yellow River, that is, into the city of Kaifeng.
Li Xin, with several of his subordinates, first went to the Yamen of the Henan Metropolitan Command Envoy located in Kaifeng City, and conveyed Emperor Chongzhen's special order for Li Xin to recruit young and strong soldiers in Henan to Cai Xianchen, the commander of the Henan Metropolitan Command Division, and then went to visit Wang Shaoyu, the deputy commander-in-chief of Henan, and others.
Because Li Xin himself is settled in Kaifeng Mansion, he can be regarded as a person who goes out to Kaifeng Mansion to try and get a jinshi, and he has been in the center for a year, and he has won the emperor's trust, and among the people who have traveled with him, Chen De is the son of Chen Yongfu under the jurisdiction of Henan General Military Mansion, and Wang Yiming is the nephew of Wang Shaoyu, deputy chief soldier, so Li Xin and his entourage arrived in Kaifeng, whether it was in the Yamen of the Command Division, or the Yamen of the former Henan General Military Mansion where Wang Shaoyu, the deputy chief soldier, stayed behind, all the way was smooth and everything went smoothly.
Not only did several generals and colonels from the Henan Army successfully complete the transfer procedures, but they also had strong official support for recruiting troops in several state capitals in Henan.
After a one-day stay in the open, they returned to their hometowns and began to recruit young and strong soldiers by using the power of their families in their hometowns.
Li Xin first went to Qixian with Li Yu to visit his uncle and heir, Li Chunyu, and his wife, Chen, who had been married a few years earlier.
And this Chen family is the cousin of Chen Zuoting, one of the military attachés in front of the imperial court.
Before, the Chen family was just a big landlord, and there was no official status among the clansmen, but now the identity is naturally very different, not only the old Chen family has a martial artist, but especially importantly, this martial artist has now become the "guard with a knife" at the military attache of the Imperial Palace.
Now that Li Xin wants to recruit troops in his hometown, in addition to his eldest brother Li Lun, he also needs to rely on the Chen family behind his wife Chen.
In this time and space, Li Xin certainly has no chance to meet the red lady who walks the streets and alleys and sells art everywhere for a living, and before his biological father died, he kissed and kissed his uncle's family, which is also a big family in Hanoi, Huaiqing Prefecture, that is, the Chen family, and set up a family affair, and before he was promoted in the exam, he had already married a wife.
Although it is the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker, but in this era it is a legal couple, who was admitted to the Jinshi before, and did not return to Qixian County to visit relatives because of the embarrassment of the identity, which is a bit too much, and at this time to go back to Henan to recruit soldiers, has arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, and then wants to pass through the door and not enter, then it is even more impossible to say.
So Li Xin took Li Yu back to Qi County first, visited his father's family, and then stayed in Qi County for three days, and then left Qi County with his wife Chen, and returned to his hometown Huaiqing Mansion to visit relatives, and at the same time, he also planned to recruit 1,000 strong men in Hanoi County, Huaiqing Province and other places.
The other five people, of course, also have their own tasks, Xu Zhizhong returned to Henan Mansion to recruit 1,000, Yang Yuchun returned to Defu to recruit 1,000, and Wang Yiming recruited 1,000 locally in Kaifeng Mansion.
And Chen De went to Shaanzhou and relied on his father Chen Yongfu to recruit 500 soldiers.
Li Yu was in Qixian County, with the help of his biological father Li Chunyu's power, to recruit 500 strong people from among the tenants of his own grange and the nearby homeless people.
A total of 5,000 people, six of whom acted separately, each with their own clan forces, started the process of recruiting troops in Henan, a place with many places and frequent famines.
This time, Li Xin went to Henan to recruit troops, in addition to the emperor's will to give 10 mu of land per capita in the south of Jinzhou as a reward for Yongye Tian, he also asked the household department to give Li Xin an official document, which could withdraw 20,000 silver dollars from the household division located in Luoyang City as a due expense for the newly recruited young people to settle down and settle down and go north to Denglai.