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At the same time, Huangzhou Caoshi Street.

It was already afternoon, before the Zhao family's carriage and horses, several coachmen who were driving the cart were sitting shirtless in front of the pergola to rest, only to see the coachmen holding a long willow branch with leaves in their hands, and poured a bucket of cold well water into the shed, and then gently hit the willow branch dipped in water on the back, and the wind blowing through the hall river from time to time on the grass market street was indescribably cool.

An honest coachman used willow branches to cool down, and then said: "Have you ever heard that yesterday a post man saw that he was interested in making money, and saw that Cui Fu, the shopkeeper of the Cui family's silk village, was killed. ”

A few people on the side shook their heads, and an old man said: "I went to the head of the water market early this morning to take work, who knows what is going on in the city, you will talk about it in detail." ”

The honest coachman also said: "I also took the guests to Anguo Temple to incense only overheard a few words, and it was not true, just said that last night when the shopkeeper Cui crossed the street to go home, it should be in a hurry to turn into the back street of the official post to relieve the situation, but called a few Yingchang Mansion post guards to bump into him, thinking that it should be the Cui shopkeeper with a silver coin, a few birds saw the wealth, so they killed him......"

"Zhang Er, what did you just say?" At this moment, a middle-aged man wearing a dark gray shirt and a light gauze on his head walked out quickly, and several coachmen saw that they also hurriedly got up and bowed with their hands crossed and said, "I've seen the owner!" ”

The middle-aged man is the owner of this carriage and horse dealer, naturally surnamed Zhao, seeing that he is just eager, the honest coachman Zhang Er told Fang Cai about it, and he is also curious to ask: "Could it be that the owner has a reason with the shopkeeper Cui?" ”

Zhao Dongjia didn't hide it, so he clapped his hands and said: "You are also confused, I forgot that I had pulled materials with his family last month, and now there are still thirty car wash money not counted with him." That's it! That's it! How can I say that my car dealership is also related to Cui's shopkeeper, Ma Si quickly went to prepare the car, and he should go to the house to worship. ”

This so-called car wash money, that is, after the merchant hires a car, the car dealer will give the handler a kickback, so as to encompass the handler to find his own livelihood next time. After a while, I saw Zhao Dongjia hang up the drum and come out, get in the car and go to Cui's house, and see that the drum should be loaded with 30 copper coins and silver taels, and a few cold coachmen saw it, and they all said that Zhao Dongjia was really kind, that is, the owner was gone, and he had never relied on the car washing money.

But said that this Zhao Dongjia drove to Cui Fu's house, but it was the courtyard of a small door in the north of the city, at this time the door has been hung with Su Min, the courtyard has set up a hall, Cui Fu's two-room concubine is wearing plain clothes and crying burning paper, Zhao Dongjia came to the door to mourn their own set of greetings, and after he handed over 30 car wash money, this attracted incense in front of the hall, but found that the coffin of the master's house was not seen, so he asked. Cui Fu's concubine in the first room naturally replied that Cui Fu's corpse is still parked in the yamen's room, saying that it is easy to return the corpse only after identifying the traces and doing a good job.

So Zhao Dongjia had no choice but to give incense to the spiritual seat first, and then served the fragrant tea and took the seat.

It wasn't until the afternoon that someone came to the house to inform him to collect the corpse, and the Cui family sent someone to carry the coffin to bring the corpse back, but the government also sent six arresters to come over, saying that the thief escaped during the day, and in order to prevent trouble, he made the tolerance come to cover it.

The Cui family was naturally grateful to Dade, hurriedly greeted him with good wine and food, and placed the coffin in the hall, and found someone to come to tidy up the funeral. The Zhao Dongjia never left, but he slowly showed a restless mood, and soon found an opportunity to enter the hall, and after carefully examining Cui Fu's body, he left the Cui family under the pretext of leaving the Cui family.

It's just that he didn't know that when he left the Cui family, there was an extra tail on his body.

After two days, the streets and alleys of Huangzhou were lively, but it was the Huangzhou Mansion that posted a big list in front of the government, which would recruit 500 archers and 500 transfer officers, and the first condition was the good children who were innocent near Huangzhou.

It is said that this kind of recruitment should be disgusted by the people, but all the people of the Great Song Dynasty know that there are three hardships in the world. However, as soon as the post in front of the government office was posted today, it caused a sensation in the whole city, because the salary given by the transfer officer was actually two silver coins and one stone of miscellaneous grain per month, and as for the monthly salary of the archers, the monthly silver money and five buckets of miscellaneous grain were also twice as high as in the past, or even in other places.

What is even more surprising is that the recruitment conditions for transfer officers do not require height or physical strength, but only two conditions: one is a healthy man or a literate woman who is at least fifteen to eighteen! The second is to know how to be water-based!

In the Great Song Dynasty, whether it was a forbidden army, a box soldier, an archer, or an errand soldier, the method of recruitment was generally adopted, and only a very small number of criminals would be issued to serve in various military states as thieves and soldiers to atone for their crimes. The main physical criterion for recruiting soldiers is height, that is, height is one of the hard indicators of recruitment in the Song Dynasty, from Song Taizu to Song Zhezong, soldiers are basically selected according to height.

When Song Taizu recruited the forbidden army, he required a height of more than five feet eight inches to be selected into the superior forbidden army, and the regular army standard was five feet five inches, according to the Song Dynasty system of weights and measures, one foot was equal to ten inches, and one inch was now a little more than three centimeters, so that is to say, one meter seven could join the regular army of the Song Dynasty. When Song Zhenzong recruited the army, it was also stipulated that the minimum height should not be less than five feet two inches.

The Song Dynasty issued military salaries to forbidden soldiers at all levels, box soldiers, and soldiers stationed in the army. However, the ranks of military personnel are extremely complex, and there are differences between officers and soldiers, and there are equal differences between officers and soldiers, and due to differences in currency systems and prices in various places, regional differences are formed, and even differences are formed because of height. Even when Song Renzong was in power, he used to pay soldiers according to their height, with a height of more than five feet eight inches and a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan; More than 5 feet 7 inches, monthly salary of 700 yuan; More than 5 feet 6 inches, with a monthly salary of 500 yuan.

And now, according to the current market situation on Huainan West Road, the highest monthly salary of an archer is only 400 Wen, and there is no miscellaneous grain, and even the archers in some small counties not only need to raise their own weapons and equipment, but even the salary can only be paid once a quarter or even half a year.

Therefore, as soon as the list in front of the Huangzhou Mansion is released, it is naturally like a fried pot, the archers have always had silver money and five buckets of miscellaneous grains, and the consistent money is 770 yuan, and now a bucket of miscellaneous grains also costs more than 40 yuan, and five buckets of miscellaneous grains are at least more than 200 yuan, which adds up to nearly 1,000 yuan, which is not a small amount at the moment.

Besides, the salary given by the transfer officer is only higher than that of the forbidden army in Tokyo, and the requirements are so strange, it is reasonable to say that the target of this conscription is young people between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, but why is it still required to be literate? Why are you still recruiting women?

First of all, under normal circumstances, a scholar would not go to the army, and if he can read and write, he will naturally go to the imperial examination to become an official! Isn't it stupid to be a soldier? Secondly, the army of the Song Dynasty could have camp prostitutes, but the composition of camp prostitutes was mostly composed of declining female musicians, widows who lost their ability to work, wives and daughters of criminals, female prisoners, and female prisoners.

As a result, the whole city was in an uproar, and they all started to talk about themselves.