Chapter 1: The Traveler (2)
When Li*, who was covered in blood, was personally carried back to the mansion by the young observer, the servants of the mansion and Li Bin's son, a daughter and three staff members were shocked by the scene in front of them. Li* lay in Li Bin's bedroom for more than ten days, and during these days, in addition to Li observing his own daily visits to his injuries, the servants even worshiped Li as a master, and served him meticulously.
No one would have imagined that Li *, a thin and small person, could become a murderous demon king at such a time.
Even Lee* himself didn't think of it.
When he followed Li Bin out of the palace, he had no idea how he would deal with this turmoil, which was not recorded in history. Perhaps it was the fierce shouts and the roaring fires in the market that stimulated him, or perhaps it was the moral conscience of civilized society that made him unbearable to the bestiality of the rebels, when a rebel waved a baby less than a month old with a sharpened wooden stick, Li * only felt a burst of blood rush to his head, and this rebel became his first ghost under the short knife.
Looking at Li Fu's almost trembling and frightened gaze, Li*, who was lying on the bed, was finally convinced that this hateful housekeeper would never dare to oppress himself in the future.
One of the things that Li Bin* was more concerned about was whether Li Bin's reward could be cashed in, and 100 acres of sloping fields and 200 copper coins were a lot of wealth. Although Lee* does not know how to plow the land, he hopes that he can use it to repay and help those who have been kind to him - he has decided to give Li Hu'er fifty acres of land.
However, to his surprise, before he could get out of bed, Li Bin brought a piece of hemp paper with a fairly good texture to his couch, which contained a short line of words: "Awarded the name of XX Prefecture X to the rank of deputy lieutenant of the military army from the ninth grade, the fourth day of the second month of the first year of Guangshun of the Great Zhou Dynasty." The following is a dense signature with signatures, from the book of the house official to the Ministry of War Lang Zhong, the staff of Lang Lang, everything, the name of the person in the largest official rank is the Ministry of War Lang Lang Tao Gu, in the middle and lower part of the hemp paper covered with a bright red seal, Li * to this era is only a year, although most of the common traditional Chinese characters have been recognized, but the seal on the seal is still a little unfamiliar, after looking for a long time to vaguely understand that the seal is engraved on the seal is "Shang Shu Bingbu Seal of the body" eight words.
"Tao Xiushi is also a native of Guanzhong, his poems and writings are mediocre, but he is also kind, such an edict, from the deputy lieutenant of Zhu Rong to the captain of Zhiguo, the military department issued a total of thirty-six copies to Yanzhou Jiedu." Li Bin said in a very flat tone while studying ink in front of Li *.
Lee* was completely speechless......
Tao Gu ...... the author of "Good Scenery", if his poems can only be regarded as "mediocre", what kind of poems are "better" in Li Bin's eyes?
But he was in no mood to think about this, Li Bin's meaning couldn't be more obvious, although Li * was not a history major in his previous life, he had been in the history forum for four or five years, and he still knew what this thing was.
This is a letter of appointment issued by the central government to officials at all levels, which is drafted by the Zhongshu and signed by the Shangshu, and the blank space is reserved for the local feudal towns to fill in the names of people.
Li Bin said that the Ministry of War issued 36 copies of these edicts to Yanzhou, that is, the central government allocated 36 places for officers of different ranks in the Zhangwu Army.
It's just that, according to reason, this thing should be in the hands of Gao Yunquan, the lord of Yanzhou, the commander of the Zhangwu Army, how could a seven-grade judge have this thing?
Seeming to know the question in his chest, Li Bin said in a very relaxed tone while picking up the brush and dipping it in ink: "There are six copies of such a document in the old man's hand, and the senior servant asked me to recommend it by name at the beginning of the middle school, and I have always wanted to recommend a few martial arts backgrounds, but I have never won anyone, you are the first!" ”
At the beginning of this year, Guo Wei ascended the throne in Bianliang and called the emperor, established the Great Zhou, changed the Yuan Guangshun, and Li Bin, who has always been the liaison between the Yanzhou Domain and the central court, sent an envoy to Kaifeng again after four years ago to Hedong, and presented the Yanzhou Domain to Emperor Guo in exchange for 36 military attaché edicts, and additionally invited Gao Yunquan to inspect the school and the canonization of the servant. Therefore, since the beginning of the year, the town of Yanzhou has been renamed Gao Yunquan as "Gao Shizhong".
In the gap when Li * was stunned, Li Bin put pen to paper and filled in the five words "Zhaozhou, Li *" on the edict.
Regarding his unwarranted life experience, Li * took a lot of painstaking efforts when he was just rescued, and the reason why he set his ancestral home in Zhaozhou, Hebei Province has no special meaning, just because Li is the premier surname in Zhaozhou, and there are too many branches, after all, hundreds of years ago, "Zhaojun Li" was a well-known name that made the emperors of the Tang Dynasty envious and jealous!
As for the genealogy of the clan - four years ago, the Khitan iron hooves went south, and the clansmen were slaughtered cleanly, and they escaped alone, and now they are exhausted in the world and have no relatives.
This is not a lie, in this era, Li * is absolutely unaccompanied, and even his eighteenth generation ancestor has not yet been born.
Li Bin filled out the edict, spread it on the case to dry, and took out another piece of paper casually - it was a deed of sale printed with Li *'s bright red handprint, and in front of the owner, Li Bin tore the rough paper to shreds......
"Li*, this is the last time the old man will call you by your name, from today onwards, you are no longer a slave of Li's people, no longer a lowly and inferior person, you are the captain of my Zhangwu Army, and you are the deputy lieutenant of Yanzhou Jiedu!"
These were the last words Li Bin said to Li Bin when he left his "hospital room".
In this way, Lee* became an officer in the town of Yanzhou Domain. As a Jiupin military attaché, Li * began to have his own monthly salary, theoretically, from the Jiupin military attaché's monthly salary of thirty stones, according to the ridiculously high price of rice in this era, in addition to the pickles and salt of the single collar, it should be converted into copper coins as much as eighteen yuan. For a bachelor like Lee*, who alone has enough to feed his whole family and is not hungry, this is already a great fortune.
However, in fact, Li * only got less than two copper coins in his hand every month, of course, this money was enough for him to feed himself, at this time Li * began to understand a little why the army in this era was always mutiny, such a small amount of money, even the officers were very difficult to support their families, not to mention those soldiers whose salaries were much lower than those of the officers.
Sufficient food and clothing is to know honor and disgrace, and in the case of not having enough to eat, any military discipline requirements for soldiers are harsh and impractical.
The Red Army, which traveled 25,000 miles to fight for faith and belief in the era of Lee*, was absolutely a product of the times, and it was inconceivable to cast such an army in an era of relatively low cultural level.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for the soldiers in Yanzhou Domain to have poor military discipline, and public robberies in the market occur almost every day, and the military justice organs and the imperial history supervision organs in Yanzhou have a blind eye to this. The salaries of the officers are meager, so it is almost impossible to eradicate corruption in the army, there are almost no officers in Yanzhou who do not eat vacancies, and the Yanzhou Jiedu Mansion does not prohibit this situation, this culture has been prevalent for almost two hundred years since the Middle Tang Dynasty, and for a stubborn habit that has lasted for two centuries, it takes more than courage for anyone to shake it.
Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Guanzhong military disaster connection, the population has been decreasing, the situation in Yanzhou is more special, since the rise of the party Li family who occupies the land of the four states in the north, this land that was originally regarded as the land of Guanzhong began to face a serious military threat, the Central Plains Dynasty has been fighting for warlords in turn, Shi Jingjiao still has a little control over this place when he was alive, but since the Khitan iron hoof went south to the Yellow River, the party's activities have been greatly intensified in the past five years, and almost every autumn when the horse is fat, the party people will go south, rob the farmers of Yanzhou of the fruits of a year's hard work.
This kind of annual raiding is not the same as the Khitan grass valley, the Feng family of the Shuofang army and the Gao family of the Zhangwu army are the main targets of the party's looting, the purpose of this looting is not unplanned pure robbery, when Xiang people go south, in addition to the elite cavalry troops, there will always be a large number of Han slaves, these slaves will be in pieces to rob the farmers of Yanzhou have not had time to harvest the crops, these grains are necessary for the party people who are not engaged in farming.
The military armament of the Feng family in Shuofang is relatively strong, with a combat force of nearly 10,000 people, even among all the feudal towns in the Guanzhong region, the Feng family is second to none. But the Gao family in Yanzhou is much more similar, the strength of the Zhangwu army is only more than 2,000 people, as a traditional Yanzhou warlord, Gao Yunquan does not want to expand his military strength, if there is no threat from the party, this may not be a difficult matter. The ten counties of Yanzhou, with a total population of nearly 30,000 households, are more than enough to support an army of 5,000 people. However, under the threat of the party, all the peasant households in Yanzhou are panicked, and every year, thousands of peasant families abandon their homes and flee south, becoming displaced people.
Without sufficient food reserves, Gao Yunquan's military expansion plan could only be on paper.
This is also the reason why the Yanzhou Jiedu Mansion is unwilling to pay the officers and soldiers in full, there is no necessary material stimulation at the critical moment, and no soldiers are willing to go to the battlefield to sell their lives. However, the irony in fact is that the more this is the case, the faster the fighting quality of the Zhangwu army declines, and the Zhangwu army has happened more than once when it sees the cavalry of the party on the battlefield, and the officers who led the team in the latest time are not even willing to go out of the city gate, and Gao Yunquan, who was completely enraged, stopped the monthly salary of the whole army, which led to the mutiny in August of the first year of Guangshun.
At present, the Zhangwu Army has five battalions of combat troops, each battalion has five teams, each team has 50 soldiers, plus the scout team to which each battalion is subordinate and the scout brigade directly under the command of the Yanei, theoretically there should be 1,600 regular soldiers.
But in fact, the total strength of the five battalions of the Zhangwu Army was more than 1,000 people, and the vacancy of nearly 600 people was eaten up by officers at all levels.
According to the standard configuration, each team has a captain Ren Yong as the team leader, and a school captain as the team vice-president.
However, in fact, at present, each team of the Zhangwu Army has at most one captain as the team leader, and less than half of the troops are equipped with team deputies, and all of these team deputies have no military rank appointments.
Li * was assigned to the C team of the left battalion by the commander of the Yanei Command, not as a team deputy, but directly as a team leader.
The reason is very simple, the left battalion C team is not in the team at the moment.
The leader of the left battalion C, an accompaniment lieutenant named Qiu Shengde, was assassinated by Li * on the street on the day of the August mutiny.
So, in September of the first year of Zhou Guangshun, Li * wore the armor given by Li Bin and came to the C team of the left battalion of the Zhangwu Army, and officially took office as the head of the team, which is also the third officer of the C team since the establishment of the Zhangwu Army.