After a whole night of struggle by the officials of the old camp and the scholars brought from Dongyang County, Chen Wen finally got an approximate figure. It's just that when he saw the comparison between the book numbers and the actual numbers, he couldn't help but blurt out the curse.

The ink greed rate of Yiwu warehouse is almost the same as that of Dongyang, and it is clear that it is two brothers taught by a master, and I really don't know what to say about them.

But for Chen Wen, scolding is just a vent in the room, there are still a lot of serious things to do today, and there is no time to waste time with them. Of course, after scolding, Chen Wen still secretly spontaneously beat him, and when Wang Jiang came to meet, he would definitely persuade these two dog officials to be punished for their lives, whether they were dead or alive, and vowed to let them spit out everything they ate as it was.

Soon, the time to set off in the itinerary formulated according to yesterday's agreement was approaching, and Chen Wen hurriedly took a group of entourages out of the county government and went straight to the filial piety temple.

Yiwu County, named after the Qin Dynasty 25 years, was originally named Wusheng, and then repeatedly changed, from Wusheng to Wuxiao, and then to Chouzhou, until Tang Wude seven years before changing to Yiwu, since then, there has been no change.

Whether it is black wounds, or black filial piety, or the current Yiwu, in fact, they are all taken from "Qin Yan filial piety, filial piety, burial of relatives and bows, group of black rank soil to help it, beak for the injury." This story is recorded in Liu Xiang's "Shuo Yuan" in the Western Han Dynasty, "Sou Shen Ji" in Ganbao in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and "Alien Garden" by Liu Jingshu in the Southern Song Dynasty.

As the source of the name of the county, the tomb of Yan Wu father and son and the Yongmu Temple, commonly known as the filial piety temple, are the most important cultural buildings in Yiwu County, which have been rebuilt and built for later generations. Especially in the Song and Ming dynasties, and even in the Guangxu period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were records of the rebuilding of the Yongmu Temple.

When Chen Wen arrived, the gentry and village elders were already waiting on the side of the road. Although the time should be just right, it is always a bit inappropriate to make an appointment with someone to come with you and let the family wait first. Chen Wen hurriedly stepped forward to apologize, while the gentry and village elders said "don't dare" one after another, and let Chen Wen salute.

Seeing that the people had arrived, Chen Wen and the gentry and village elders walked towards the tomb of Yan Wu's father and son. Until recently, a large stone stele with the book "Filial Piety and Virtue Feeling Wu" stands in front of the tomb, which was erected during the reign of Ming Hongzhi. It's just that there is also a trace of recent years on this workshop, which is the poem mentioned by Xiong Renlin of Yiwu Zhixian County during the Chongzhen period:

Qin Shi's filial piety was sad, and he looked at the side of the parking and worship road. But he asked the king of Qin to seal the meditation place, and the black cry was lying in the sun. ”

Passing under the stone tablet, it is the tomb of Yan Wu's father and son. It's just that at this time, the tomb of Yan Wu's father and son was more than 40 zhang in size, and it was like a hill.

Fortunately, since he decided to come to worship, Chen Wen naturally did his homework. As far as he knows, because the Yiwu county magistrates and county school officials of the past dynasties have used Yan Wu's filial piety as a teaching material and example for educating the county people. A new county magistrate or magistrate takes office. The first major event is to go to the tomb of Yan Xiaozi to pay respects, "worship under the tomb" and "look very solemn". At the same time, adding soil to the tomb of filial piety is an example and a primary measure for educating the people. Over time, the tomb of Yan Wu's father and son has become larger and larger, until it is as large as it is today.

Walking to the tomb, Chen Wensu straightened his clothes and crowns, and after the servants placed the prepared sacrifices properly. A short prayer was recited, and after the recitation he took the lead in dressing and bowing down. It can be described as very polite. After completing the next earth-adding ceremony, Chen Wen went to the Yongmu Temple on the back of the mountain in the east of the tomb under the guidance of the county gentry.

The name of the temple was given by Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Kang Zhi, a native of Cao Village, Houzhai Town, Yiwu, who was originally ordered to bring back the plaque, built several houses in the east of the tomb to place the tablets. Later, in the second year of Jingding, Li Bu, then the governor of Yiwu County, adopted the opinions of the local people to build a temple to highlight the filial piety of Yan Wu, raised silver taels, and assigned Cao Chen Ningzu to preside, together with the squire Lou Siwen and other four people. The site of the temple was selected and construction began. After its completion the following year, it was repeatedly repaired until today.

It's just that the Yongmu Temple that Chen Wen saw already looked a little dilapidated. In fact, this is not uncommon. Now it is the turbulent autumn of the barbarians stealing China, Yiwu has been under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for several years, there are harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes every year, and the barson and plunder are common every year, the people of Yiwu live in dire straits, and the matter of repairing the temple is naturally not as attentive as when Chengping was concerned.

After paying homage to Yan Wu's tablet, Chen Wen left the Filial Piety Temple. It was noon, and he sat on the ground with everyone in the open space beside the road, eating the dry food and drinking water he had brought and continued to talk about yesterday's topic.

Last night, Chen Wen introduced this Dalanshan Ming army, especially the Nantang battalion under Chen Wen, in the way that the local children of Yiwu appeared. Although everyone listened with great interest, Chen Wen also noticed that the villagers outside the city showed much more attention to the slogan of rebuilding the Qi family army and the Nantang battalion, which had basically completed the replication work, than the gentry in the county town; The gentry of the county town paid more attention to the civil ethics and military discipline in this Ming army

Chen Wen knew very well that the reason why these gentry and those villagers outside the city jointly led the Ming army into Yiwu was actually more resentment against the Manchu Qing Dynasty's harsh taxation and exploitation and the plundering of places by the Jinhua Green Battalion, which in the final analysis could not be separated from the word profit.

Therefore, by publicizing the history of the Ming army of Dalanshan and this Nantang battalion, he made the local gentry and common people understand that good military discipline is the tradition of this army, not a deliberate disguise. In this way, for the locals who were plundered by the Qing army, it was naturally more able to win their support.

In addition to deepening the good impression of the local people on the Ming army, the worship of filial piety can also lead to the "loyalty" that is often called "loyalty" and even the Confucian ideology and theory through the "filial piety" of "Yan Wu filial piety", so that the gentry and scholars in the upper strata of Yiwu society are emotionally inclined to the Ming army.

In the theory of Confucius Lao Confucius, "the defense of Yixia" is an extremely important political proposition, "Yidi has a king, not as good as the death of Zhuxia", "Inner Zhuxia, and outer Yidi", "Micro pipe, I was sent to the left" and other words that emphasize China and ignore barbarians can be said to abound. For the people of this era, the vast majority of them still firmly believe that the Huangming, a dynasty that has lasted for more than 200 years, is the orthodoxy of the Han family, and the Manchu Qing is just a group of Tartars, no matter how they package it.

In this way, whether emotionally or materially, the local gentry will naturally be more inclined to increase their support for the Ming army. In order to ensure that it can isolate the Qing army, this is the most important purpose of Chen Wendai Wang Jiang and Sun Yu to worship the filial piety temple.

The conversation between Chen Wen and the local gentry and village elders ended in the afternoon, and the results of this series of activities will not be apparent until at least a few days.

On the third day of the Ming army's occupation of Yiwu, the arrangements for Qi's house had already been completed, and Chen Wen and his subordinates arrived here early in the morning.

The so-called Qi Mansion is also called Dafudi. It is the ancestral hall of the Qi family built by Qi Jiguang. Back then, Qi Jiguang recruited troops here, thus forming the Qi family army that had not tasted defeat in the north and south, and Chen Wen's choice to recruit troops here was actually just to strengthen its influence by reenacting the scene that was remembered in the annals of history.

There were seven entrances in Qi's house, but in Chen Wen's time, there was only the seventh entrance. However, it was fashionable and relatively intact here, and when Chen Wen arrived here, there were already many men waiting at the door.

Chen Wen smiled and chatted with them, only to know that these people had actually come here before dawn to wait for the selection of conscripts. Chen Wen naturally appreciates such an attitude. So he gave a few words of encouragement, and after entering the Qi mansion, he instructed the officers in charge to lower the standards of these people when they were selected.

After carrying out the relevant rituals, Chen Wen saw that the hour was almost up, so he came out of the Qi mansion. At this moment, this is not just those men who have arrived before dawn, but densely packed with people, there may be thousands of people at a glance, at least more than the 1,000 Nantang battalion soldiers under the platform when Chen Wen swore to go out on Tiantai Mountain.

And even so, in the distance, there are still groups of men who are constantly gathering here. The crowd swelled up.

Seeing that the series of activities in the past two days began to reap the fruits, Chen Wen was not in a hurry. I still waited for that auspicious time to start reading out the rules and regulations for recruitment. Later, after announcing the start of the conscription, he returned to the interior of the Qi Mansion as a final selection.

After Chen Wen announced the start, these men who came to enlist rushed forward, but the officers who led the team were also experienced, and he was responsible for maintaining order when Chen Wen was recruiting troops in Dalan Mountain, Tiantai Mountain, and Dongyang County, and he was already familiar with it.

I saw that the crowd began to rush forward. The officer pulled out a tin horn as if he were playing tricks, and then, by virtue of his own innate advantage in the voice, shouted "silence".

This voice not only stopped the crowd's movements, but also buzzed the ears of the other officers and soldiers who were responsible for maintaining order. Even Chen Wen, who had already reached the second entrance, was taken aback. Immediately afterward, the leading officer, after directing the other officers and soldiers to separate the crowd in order, signaled for the official start of the conscription.

According to Chen Wen's regulations, everyone entered the Qi Mansion in the first place in the order of the officers outside the mansion in the order in which they were organized. The first selection process is relatively simple, mainly physical examination to see if there are physical defects or sensory impairments.

The first entry is all in charge of the military doctors of the Nantang battalion, each military doctor only checks one item, and finally an apprentice in Lu Laolang does the final pulse work, and the first entry selection of qualified people can enter the second entry. After the first inspection is more than halfway through, the officers outside the door will invite the next team to enter, and so on.

Of course, people with special skills can be prioritized in the selection process, as has been the practice in previous recruitments.

Those who pass the first selection can enter the second entry. These candidates who are physically asymptomatic will be inspected by the officer in the second place to check whether they meet Qi Jiguang's standards for soldiers, such as not being a soldier and not being too meritorious. Chen Wen did not intend to isolate all urban soldiers, but he also recruited mainly peasants, miners, and slender men, because the social and economic structure of feudal society made these occupations more suitable for military service.

Generally speaking, those who can pass the second round are basically one foot in the door of the boot camp. However, when it comes to the fourth entry, there will also be people who will be defeated, but the proportion is slightly smaller.

Since the Ming army lured the defenders of Dongyang County out of the city and defeated it, Feng Qi took advantage of the chaos to escape after turning out some silver money from the dead Qing army on the way to escape, but because of the defeat of the Qing army, he was afraid that he would be pulled out by Master Feng as a scapegoat for the Qing army, so he did not dare to return to Hengdian Town, but took this opportunity to break away from the control of the Feng family and came to Yiwu County, intending to find a business and start over.

It's just that the changes in Dongyang and Yiwu counties are too fast, and the silver money turned out is almost spent, not to mention, the new livelihood is also because of the changes in Dongyang County, which caused Yiwu to start to rumor and could not be found, and then it was out of Yiwu Qing army to loot the county and fled back to the city, and the Ming army took advantage of the situation to enter Yiwu County.

The money on his body has been spent, and even if he asks for food, he was bullied by local beggars, Feng Qi learned that the Ming army was recruiting soldiers in Qi's house, so he hurriedly rushed over, at least he passed the selection and could eat a full meal.

In the previous few levels, he relied on being a slave in the Feng family, engaged in manual labor for a long time, and his physical fitness was not bad and passed one by one, and even when he entered the third time, although he was not as martial arts as the men who entered in the same batch, he also had the strength to move the stone lock, so he passed. It's just that when he reaches this fourth advance, he has to face a greater test.

There was only a table in the courtyard in the fourth entrance, and behind it sat an officer and a clerk, and after Feng Qi walked over, he saluted the two as before.

The officer saluted, and then asked with a blank face. "Where's the brother?"

Hearing the officer's inquiry, Feng Qi hurriedly bowed his hand, and then replied, "The villain used to live in nearby Dongyang County. ”

Dongyang County?

Receiving this answer, the officer frowned. "Dongyang County has also been conscripted before, why did you go here to enlist, instead of in your hometown?"

"Ugh."

This question really stunned Feng Qi for a moment, but if he didn't answer, he would be blasted out if he didn't get it right, and this kind of livelihood that could eat well might be gone.

Seeing this, Feng Qi gritted his teeth, and then replied: "The villain is indeed from Dongyang County, but he was already in Yiwu before Wang Shi recovered the county seat. The villain originally wanted to find a job in the county, but who thought that this place was even more chaotic than Dongyang County, not only did the villain not only not find a livelihood, but even the coiling on his body was spent. Fortunately, when Wang Shi recovered the county, the villain thought that he would definitely be able to eat well with Chen Dashuai, so he came to join the army. ”

It turned out to be to have enough to eat.

The officer sighed, didn't he join the Nantang battalion just to have enough to eat? Who would have thought that now he has not only become an officer, but even a daughter-in-law, this fragment of memories instantly caused him to sigh, and after sighing, his eyes were far less suspicious than before.

Next, I saw that the officer nodded to the clerk next to him, and the clerk took out a piece of paper and asked Feng Qi, "Name?" ”

Name!

Since he asked for his name, he thought it was passed, and thinking of this, Feng Qi hurriedly replied: "The villain is called Zhang Yida, the benefit of gain, and the attainment of officials and nobles." ”

"Dignitaries? This brother is so courageous. The officer laughed. A certain was also in the army in order to have enough to eat, and after more than a year, relying on hard training and brave combat, he has now become an officer, and even his daughter-in-law has it. Brother Zhang, follow the handsome man to work hard, kill a peaceful world, and always fight for wealth and wealth! ”

After saluting again, Zhang Yida, who had recovered his original name, went to the side with a soldier to stand in line, waiting for the number of people to be gathered and then went to the barracks to report.

Holding the stamped admission document tightly in his hand, Zhang Yida recalled the words of the officer just now, and his heart was still so excited.

"From today on, I am no longer that house slave, I am Chen Dashuai's soldier. If you work hard, you will definitely be rich, definitely! (To be continued.) )