Chapter 55: Captain
There are four people, and five apprentices can help. ”
Wang Hai stood aside, looking at Li Meng rubbing his hands excitedly there with incomprehension, thinking to himself Isn't it just a few craftsmen and blacksmiths, or those Liao people, why is Master Li so happy, and when he was pondering there, Li Meng suddenly turned around and ordered Wang Hai:
"Go find Master Ning next door, let Guo Dong say his name, go outside the city to find them one by one, and after finding out, he will be placed in Fengmeng Town, and let Hou Shan think of arrangements."
"Brother Li, don't be in such a hurry, so many people next door are talking about things......"
"Don't talk so much, go ahead and arrange it, this is the biggest thing."
Guo Dong on the side was full of tears, if Lang Zhong hadn't bandaged him there and medicated him, he would have turned over and kowtowed, and now he just muttered there, "The great kindness of the adults is that they can't repay them in the next life if they are cows and horses!" ”
Record the name of the person, take a book office and Yan Ding out of the city gate to find someone, it didn't take much effort, outside the east gate are the victims from Dengzhou, Guo Dong's family and villagers quickly found it, bought some food in Jiaozhou City and simply filled their stomachs, all of which were arranged towards Fengmeng Town.
It is not yet the harvest season, there is no extra harvest, these victims are waiting outside the city to die if nothing else, after all, it is very rare for Guo Dong to pretend to be dumb and work in the city to support his family outside the city, Li Meng sheltered these Liao people, and claimed to sell slaves to Zhuangzi in Fengmeng Town, and the idlers in Jiaozhou City said that Li Erlang really made a good deal.
Hou Shan has long been out of the middle, he presided over the Lingshan Salt Farm and Xuejiadao Salt Farm two places of salt trading, has long been busy, seeing Li Meng sent so many people, is also a little overwhelmed, listening to the messenger of the salt Ding said, Master Li asked him to arrange people to Zhuangzi, can't help but be a little confused, thinking that there is a Zhuangzi, afraid of doing something wrong, personally went to Jiaozhou City to confirm, but was stuffed back by Li Meng's words:
"If there is no Zhuangzi, then build one."
This is also convenient, the well-fed Liao people, whether they are military households or artisan households, are good laborers, just to build Zhuangzi can be used, directly is a big construction.
After settling Guo Dong and their companions, he also specially arranged for people to visit outside the city.
These disaster victims are also easy to feed, as long as they are full, there are really some craftsmen, some are craftsmen, some can raise horses, even if they can't do anything, if they have the strength and no family, they can go to Fengmeng Town to work, where salt is transported and produced, and the construction of Li Meng's Zhuangzi all need manpower.
In almost ten days, nearly two or three hundred people were found, and there were not too many victims outside Jiaozhou, and more people went to the more prosperous Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, and there were also those honest fleeing farmers, but Li Meng's ability was also limited, and it was impossible for good deeds to affect everyone.
Ten days after the restaurant party in May, on the first day of June, Fengmeng Town was like a festival, aside from the construction site in the south of the town, four or five hundred young people came here, and there were long queues outside several houses on the edge of the town, and the young men in line were looking at the courtyard door expectantly.
Every once in a while, some people ran out excitedly, and some people walked out of the door dejectedly.
There are a few tables in those houses, and there are stone locks and stone bars in front of the tables, Wang Hai, Chen Liuzi, Zhao Neng, and Ma Gang are each sitting on a table, and those young people are not a big thing when they lift the stone locks and stone bars, and they have to follow the demonstration actions of several Yanding there.
For example, if you are lying on the ground with your whole body straight, you can use your arms to prop up your body and then put it down, such a simple action looks like a joke, asking for fifty, and lying on the ground, bending over with your head in your hands, but you can't bend your legs up. Pulling the wooden pole with both hands and pulling the body upwards, these movements are like children's play, and young people feel embarrassed to do this.
But if you can't finish it, you won't be allowed to be a salter, and it's really not easy to complete these seemingly simple actions, and when these four or five hundred people have been verified, half of the manpower will be eliminated. This is the son of those salt lords and salt sellers, in the Lingshan Health Center, there is another selection, and the scene of signing up is naturally very enthusiastic, but in the end, there are only one hundred and fifty people selected.
Counting these three hundred and fifty people and the four hundred newly recruited, Li Meng's subordinates are also nearly a thousand, there are many people, and the cost suddenly becomes bigger, and the silver taels that Li Meng has just accumulated in his hands have gone down by most of them, and these seven hundred and fifty people are divided into five teams by Li Meng, Li Meng directly belongs to a team, Zhao Neng, Chen Liu, Wang Hai, and Ma Gang each lead a team, Li Meng's team is the original batch of old salt ding, after the baptism of battle, there is also enough training, and it is the strongest among the teams.
As for the rest of the team, they all dispersed the old Yanding and let them lead the new with the old, and Li Meng did not give them time to train, but directly sent them to the station to set up a card for training, and regularly checked the training situation. These teams are rotated every two months, in addition to the team led by Li Meng himself, there is always a team stationed between the Lingshan Guard Station and Fengmeng Town, and after being rotated to be stationed here, this team is under the command of Li Meng.
Li Meng didn't have any explanation, and others thought it was normal, but Zhou Xiucai, who lived in Jiaozhou City, laughed and talked to others while drinking:
"This inspector is small, but he is not a reckless person, he knows how to control the way, five teams of salt, he always guarantees the advantage in his hands, and he has a perfect strategy!"
The inspection is a petty official of the ninth grade, and the masters below are all privately funded by themselves, and those salts naturally do not have any official names, Li Meng really racked his brains in order to think of this name, and the titles of battalion commander, company commander, platoon commander and the like are handy, but Li Meng always resists. In the end, he figured out the name, Li Meng claimed to be the captain of the patrol and salt inspection brigade, the four people below were called captains, there were team deputies under the captain, and a team of 150 people and five squad leaders.
Zhao Neng, Ma Gang They don't have anything to do with this title, and they are also happy to add a "long" title, and no one has any objection to Li Meng's self-proclaimed captain, but occasionally Li Meng himself feels a little blushing, and always feels that his title is very similar to a certain modern organization - the captain of the urban management brigade.