Back at Sun's house, Chen Wen and Sun Yu drank and talked freely. When the rooster first crowed the next day, Chen Wen immediately got up, he knew very well that if he hadn't drunk a little wine yesterday, he might not have been able to sleep well all night.

Out of the room, Chen Wen yawned and stretched. At this time, the white horse must have seen that his master had gotten up, and immediately neighed, probably to say hello.

Seeing that there was nothing to do at the moment, Chen Wen went over and began to feed the horses. However, the white horse seemed to be very dissatisfied with living with the Sun family's donkey, and during Chen Wen's feeding of the horse, it snorted at the donkey several times, and even glanced at it fiercely. And the donkey, like an angry little daughter-in-law, hid by the wall and did not dare to approach the white horse.

Seeing this, Chen Wen took a handful of soybeans from the kitchen and fed them to the white horse, and the white horse also rubbed Chen Wen affectionately.

After a while, just as Chen Wen was exchanging feelings with his mount, Yi Shi was already up. After saluting, Yi hurried to make breakfast, while Chen Wen went back to the room to pack his things.

After breakfast, Chen Wen said goodbye to the Sun family. Although from today onwards, he only goes to live in the old camp, and he and Sun Yu can always see each other on weekdays, but after all, this is a move, and he always has to thank others for taking care of him during this time.

Hanging the luggage on the saddle, Chen Wen led the white horse and left Sun's house. At the moment, he was very nervous, because today would be a new beginning for him, and it would probably be the starting point for him in the next few years. These days, whether unintentionally planted or intentional, will be confirmed today after yesterday's fermentation.

Soon, Chen Wen came to the threshing floor in the south of the village, and at this time, Wu Dengke and Yin Ergou were already waiting for Chen Wen with their respective township parties. He walked over and chatted with these men, without putting on the guerrilla general's stand, and these men also showed gratitude to Corporal Lixian of Chen Wen.

Soon, the men who planned to serve Chen Wen's department began to come one after another, and even in this small village under the Dalan Mountain, there were some young people who planned to follow Chen Wen, and they didn't look up for half a month, so that they knew much more about Chen Wen than those who only came to listen to the ancient times. In the small village, they came to the threshing floor with their relatives in mind, ready for a new future.

Gradually, more and more people gathered, and soon the number exceeded one hundred and five. This made Chen Wen feel very surprised, in his opinion, it was very remarkable that the two or three hundred people could come at most a hundred last night. After all, joining the army is a head-killing business, even if you don't die on the battlefield, you are likely to be executed by military law, you must know that the military law in ancient China was very strict, and there were even many more soldiers who died in military law than in battle.

It's just that he didn't know that the five battalions of the old camp in Dalanshan had already formed an army when Wang Yi broke through the regiment training and camped in Dalanshan two years ago, and only Liu Yiming had recruited soldiers when he went up the mountain in the past two years, but the number was surprisingly small, because some of Liu Yiming's subordinates followed him when he was still under his old officer Liu Mu before he went up the mountain.

However, in the past two years, there have always been some men who plan to become soldiers and eat food. Moreover, the military discipline of Dalanshan is strict, and there are very few things that disturb the people, so that many Han people in the surrounding prefectures and counties who are no longer willing to be oppressed by the Manchu officials and soldiers have gathered here, and some of these people want to go back to their hometowns, so that the supply and demand relationship of local conscription has already undergone a qualitative change.

And Wang Yi appointed Chen Wenxin to form the head of the battalion, which gave these men who were aspiring to join the army a new way out, which allowed them to support their families and realize their dreams through their own martial arts. That's why there is such a scene on the threshing floor at this moment.

Seeing that the sun was getting higher, Chen Wen didn't plan to wait, but just left an old man here to continue waiting, while he took these nearly two hundred men to the old camp in Dalanshan.

Walking on the road, Chen Wen and these subordinates talked and laughed, looking very relaxed, and from time to time broke out a meat joke on the wine table, which made everyone lean forward and back together.

He knew that the illusions of the opposite sex should not be suppressed too much in the army, because that would lead to the proliferation of the phenomenon of "picking up soap" in the army. But even so, it is necessary to strictly prohibit them from robbing people's daughters in military law, which is not only a matter of military discipline and combat effectiveness, but also because what Chen Wen wants is an army that freezes to death like the Yue family's army, does not demolish houses, starves to death, and does not plunder. And in this regard, he already has a preliminary idea, but he does not have the ability to implement it for the time being.

At this moment, the people walking behind suddenly became noisy.

Chen Wen was afraid that it would be a private fight, so he hurriedly walked over, but saw Li Ruixin riding a war horse and trying to pass through the crowd in order to catch up with Chen Wen. And no one walking behind knew that he had actually already joined Chen Wenjun, and when he saw him coming with a horse oar, he naturally refused to let him go, so the scene just now appeared.

Seeing Chen Wen coming, Li Ruixin immediately turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee in front of Chen Wen with his ancestral horse oar, and began to tell his experience in the past two days.

It turned out that after Chen Wen talked to him that night, he rode out of the mountains with weapons to trouble the Green Battalion soldiers, in order to exchange some silver for him and Chen Wen to go to Fujian, after all, the poor family is rich. After he succeeded, he rushed back overnight, and Chen Wen had already led people to Dalan Mountain. So, he hurried to chase after him, for fear that he would not be able to catch up and be blocked out of the old camp.

Looking at Li Ruixin's bloodshot eyes, excited expression and the sweaty and panting war horse, Chen Wen really had nothing to say, so he had to help him up, and warned him that when he entered the barracks in the future, he would abide by military discipline and not act so freely.

After Chen Wen admonished him, Li Ruixin hurriedly turned around and untied a blood-dripping cloth bag hanging from the back of the saddle and threw it in front of Chen Wen, and the cloth bag also lived up to expectations and spit out the contents of its stomach, which was the head of five men with money rat tails on the back of their heads.

In Li Ruixin's words, four of these five guys are green battalion soldiers, and the one led by them is a fake Tartar of the Han Eight Banners. He just wanted to try his luck, but who knew that as soon as he got out of the mountain, he ran into this group of guys robbing merchants, and the fake Tartar of the Han Eight Banners forced a girl to walk into the woods. So, Li Ruixin first shot arrows and sniped, and then rode a horse to kill, and these five two devils became five real ghosts.

Chen Wen saw that the five heads rolled down to his feet, and even a few drops of blood were thrown onto his new boots, Chen Wen almost vomited, but fortunately, he had already expected this scene, so he had to force this disgusting praise for Li Ruixin's martial bravery.

And around him, there were quite a few junior brothers who had never seen the heads, and they had not thought of this scene, and when they saw these rolling heads, they spit out almost immediately, and looking at their appearance, it was likely that yesterday's dinner was ruined by these heads.

However, after Yin Ergou pacified the front team, he chased Chen Wen over, and happened to see the scene just now. I saw that he glanced at Chen Wen meaningfully, and when he looked at Li Ruixin again, he actually showed a slightly wary look.

Looking at this group of recruits who had never seen blood, Chen Wen immediately asked Li Ruixin to show the five heads and the captured waist card blades to everyone, and then ushered in another vomiting sound. Next, Chen Wen said that if someone is afraid, they can leave, this is the last chance, because if you go up the mountain, you are a formal soldier, and it is not so easy to want it immediately.

Fortunately, none of these men who dared to follow Chen Wen wanted to be ridiculed as cowards by others, and they all said that they must stay and follow their General Chen, and in the future, they will definitely kill thieves and protect the people like Li Ruixin, and win glory for Chen Wen, the general. Even those men who vomited so much that they seemed to vomit out all their internal organs also said that they would never do this in the future, and they would definitely not embarrass Chen Wen.

When the farce ended, Chen Wen looked at the mess in one place, and he was still happy in his heart. If this scene happened on the battlefield, it would not affect the outcome of the war, and the vomit in this place should have been taught in advance.

Afterwards, Chen Wen led everyone to continue to move forward, and soon arrived outside the gate of the old camp. Chen Wen remembered that when he first came here, he was still ambushed and besieged by that king's guerrilla. But now, it is estimated that even if the guy hides on the side of the road, he will not dare to come out, and it is estimated that each of these two hundred people will not drown him by spitting, and he will definitely be trampled to death.

Seeing Chen Wen leading a group of people up the mountain, the gatekeeper always saw that the leader was Chen Wen, who had been in and out of the old camp many times these days and had been appointed as a guerrilla general, and hurriedly came out to negotiate.

Chen Wen knew the commander, because this person was the officer who saved Chen Wen's life by blowing the horn of the enemy attack when he first went up the mountain. Indicating his intention, the general immediately ran back and went straight to the hall of the Chinese army.

After a while, Hu Er rushed over with the boss, and greeted Chen Wen with a smile on his face.

Hu Er knew that Chen Wen had been a celebrity in the eyes of Wang Yi and Wang Jiang since he went up the mountain, and now he was a powerful leader of the troops. Besides, in this situation, a soldier is the king of grass, and there is naturally no need to offend Chen Wen for a small role like him. Besides, he has taken a lot of silver taels from Chen Wen these days, whether it is running errands or acting, Chen Wen has always been generous, and this has strengthened his flattering heart.

After entering the old camp, Chen Wen led everyone to follow Hu Er to the military camp next to the west school field, where Chen Wen's headquarters were stationed.

Along the way, Hu Er not only diligently introduced the layout of this old camp to Chen Wen, but also patted a sycophant or joked from time to time to adjust the atmosphere, which was much more competent than the uncle-like tour guide when Chen Wen went on a tour.

However, Chen Wen was not surprised by this at all, after all, there is no one who can be a small official in this era who is not a slippery character, at this moment he can slap the horse on you, maybe he will sell you in the next second. So from the beginning of knowing this Hu Er, he held the principle of not offending people. Coupled with Chen Wen's current identity, it is even more prompted to keep a distance from Hu Er, if he is too angry, he may miss some information, and if he is too familiar, he will be tabooed by Shangguan, so it is best not to be far away.

But all this at the moment has frightened those men who followed Chen Wen up the mountain.

Youdao is the seventh rank official in front of the prime minister, although Wang Yi is not the prime minister, but he is also the commander of the Ming army in the Siming Mountain area, and the leader of the supervising army and civilian officials of the military affairs of the south and Zhejiang. Although Hu Er is just a small official, he is the one who serves in front of Wang Jingluo, this guy has never looked at people with a straight eye on weekdays, but now he is bowing down and being small in front of Chen Wen, which shows Wang Yi's blue eyes for Chen Wen.

Soon, Chen Wen and his entourage arrived at the West Campus. It was originally built for the left and right camps, so there was plenty of space. Later, after Liu Yiming went up the mountain, these two battalions were under his command, and after a period of training, they were quite effective, so they were stationed in the vicinity of Shengxian County, on the one hand, to guard against the Qing army there, and on the other hand, to put pressure there.

In this way, the military camp next to the west school field was empty, and Wang Yi naturally granted this place to Chen Wen.

After Hu Er left, Chen Wen gave a lecture to these recruits on the point stand in the west school field.

"After entering the barracks, you are the soldiers under the command of this general, and from today on, as long as I Chen Wen have a bite to eat, I will never let the brothers starve. At this moment, the brothers are now staying here for the time being, and after three days, when the soldiers have been recruited, they will begin to train. ”

Next, Chen Wen appointed Li Ruixin, Wu Dengke and Yin Ergou as the general manager of Qian, responsible for assigning temporary shelters and cleaning the barracks and school grounds to these recruits, and then he hurriedly took the two soldiers to the hall of the Chinese army and reported to Wang Yi.

Although it is very strange that there are only 3,000 general officers under the command of a guerrilla general, Chen Wen's battalion has only 500 soldiers for the time being. If it is placed before Jiashen, it is one thing to eat empty salaries, a garrison has thousands of soldiers, such as the Wendeng battalion that Qi Jiguang wrote poems for him back then, there are more than 1,100 soldiers, not to mention the guerrilla generals who lead the guerrilla battalion.

However, at present, the official position of the Ming Dynasty is degraded, and the commanders of the two battalions under Wang Yi, Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan, only lead a thousand soldiers, and there are actually more than 600 people, but they all still have the class of hanging generals, so Chen Wen immediately balanced.

When he arrived at the hall of the Chinese army, Wang Yi obviously knew that Chen Wen had brought 200 people up the mountain less than a day after receiving the appointment, but he just praised Chen Wen's efficiency, and asked Hu Er to bring Chu Suxian, the ambassador of the silver treasury.

Seeing Chu Suxian himself, Chen Wen understood Wang Yi's intentions almost instantly. I saw that Chu Suxian was about forty years old, and his appearance was not bad, although he had lost some weight, but his skin was very good, and he seemed to be able to feed him without getting tired of eating and being fine. It's just that the two mustaches and the rat whiskers on his chin really don't look like a good thing.

This is probably the intuition of Chen Wen, who doesn't know whose daughter-in-law it is, who lent him in the dark.

After seeing the ceremony, I saw Wang Yi say a word to Chu Suxian's ear, so Chen Wen and Chu Suxian went to the silver treasury to get the 1,000 taels of silver that Wang Yi had promised Chen Wen before to make a conscription reserve. Of course, there is also a settling-in allowance Chen Wen did not plan to send it so quickly, so he temporarily deposited it in the silver treasury.

Along the way, Chu Suxian hinted at Chen Wen's kickbacks several times, but he ignored them on other topics. By the time Chen Wen took the two soldiers to take the silver away, Chu Suxian's eyes had become as if he could breathe fire. Even so, Chen Wen didn't pay attention to him, leaving Chu Suxian to continue to COS the little fire dragon in the treasury of the silver vault.

Well, the firewood money used to melt the broken silver ingots in the silver vault today must be saved.

Although Chen Wen knew that it was not beneficial to offend the finances, every penny of money was very important to him now, because these would probably affect the effectiveness of his military training, so he didn't care about it much. Besides, there is still more than a month to go, and the Qing army will encircle and suppress Siming Mountain, which is so imminent, how can there be any effort to perfunctory these chicken and dog things.

Back at the barracks, Sun Yu had already sent someone to deliver all the food, vegetables, sauce and vinegar and other things needed today. Chen Wen thought about it, and gave some silver to the officials at the grain depot and told them to send a fat pig or a fat sheep every two days, one knot each time. I saw that these people agreed without hesitation, and rushed away with excitement on their faces, as if they were afraid that Chen Wen would regret it.

In this regard, Chen Wen had to laugh secretly, it seems that Sun Yu has forced the small officials of the grain depot to be a little abnormal.

At noon, the old adult man who Chen Wen left in the threshing floor took more than 20 people to the barracks. At the same time that Chen Wen lamented that the number of people finally exceeded two hundred, he actually found two outliers in this group of people.

A boy in his forties and a Xiucai in his early twenties, and these two intellectuals are still from Hangzhou, and what is even more speechless is that these two people actually strongly demanded that they must come to Chen Wenzan to paint military affairs.

Jokes, the kind of thing that a civilian official leads the army to buy a lottery ticket with five million is like a big luck, Chen Wen doesn't plan to do it. Even if it is Wang Yi, he is not ready to let him meddle in the military affairs of his battalion, let alone these two rotten Confucians who seem to have not even read "The Art of War"?

It's just that why these two Hangzhou people came to Dalan Mountain, and why the civil officials of the old camp didn't apply for the military affairs of the old camp, aroused Chen Wen's curiosity. After a little temptation, the two intellectuals spit out their experience without hesitation.

It turned out that they originally lived in Renhe County, Hangzhou, the young cultivator and heirloom, and the older one opened a private school in the city. Originally, life was okay, even if the Qing army occupied Hangzhou, it was not too greatly affected, after all, they were all meritorious scholars.

As a result, this year, the Manchu Qing Dynasty built a Manchu city in the enclosure of Hangzhou, and drove out all the people in the enclosed land, even the two of them. The older family did not resist, and after being plundered, they fled outside the city; The eldest brother of the young Xiucai was beaten to death by the Qing army for no reason in order to protect the ancestral land.

Chen Wenzhi had seen the Mancheng incident at the forum, but he remembered that Hangzhou Mancheng was one of the earliest enclosures among the provinces in the country, and it was burned down during the Taiping Rebellion, and the Qing army reoccupied Hangzhou and rebuilt it, and it was not completely banned until the Xinhai Revolution. However, he did not remember the details of the time.

According to the "Kangxi Renhe County Chronicle", it is recorded: "The people of this side help the old and the young, carry the bags and carry the signatures, or relocate to Guowai, or transfer to other places, and the encircled house will be the same for 20 years to pay taxes for grain and grain." ”

Black intermediaries won't be so desperate!

After that, the banner people broke into local houses, looted property, destroyed ancestral graves, demanded women from local officials, insulted scholars, and plundered merchants, which made the business travel sluggish and seriously affected Hangzhou's commercial activities and taxes. This led to the construction of the city wall in order to isolate the soldiers and civilians and reduce the occurrence of such things.

After meeting each other outside the city, the two of them discussed the same year as the middle school students, and they took their families to Dalanshan to serve the Ming army. It's just that none of them are locals, and they are not like Sun Yu, who has the fame of raising people and is more good at settling accounts. As a result, I have been here for almost a month and have not yet been assigned a position.

Last night, they listened to Chen Wen's talk about the ancients, and felt that instead of working under the local civil officials, it was better to defect to the military generals from their hometowns. In their opinion, although Chen Wen can speak well and is knowledgeable, he is also a person after all. Almost all of the people in the army are illiterate, and a lot of copywriting work must be handled by someone, so they will definitely be reused as fellow villagers.

Chen Wen didn't bother to understand their thoughts, just based on the matter of the city, these two should be able to be trusted, and besides, he really needs the talent to deal with copywriting. So, he appeased them, saying that he accepted the two of them and had a preferential salary, but the specific positions would have to be arranged after the conscription in the next few days.

Lunch was quickly ready, although they were all vegetarian dishes, but Chen Wen's sentence of fullness still won the cheers of these recruits, especially Chen Wen's behavior of serving rice in a pot with the soldiers won their favor.

It's just that the two scholars still hold their own identities, and they return to their residences together after dinner, and they don't plan to dine with these Qiu Ba.