In August 197, recruitment news: Due to the rapid increase in the population of Chenhe District, which has exceeded 3.5 million at present, 9,000 professional soldiers are specially recruited from the whole district, and the requirements are as follows.

First, they must be over 15 years old and under 25 years old male, and there are no professional soldiers in their families.

Second, they must have participated in at least one year of cultural training and obtained a certificate of completion.

Third, it has a county civil certificate of Chenhe District.

Fourth, those who have a medical employment certificate can relax the conditions.

The deadline for entries is August 20.

The news of the recruitment of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce was published, and the people of the county rushed to tell each other, and the whole people were boiling.

The reason is, of course, that enlisting in the army is the same as entering the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and the monthly military salary is nine hundred yuan per person, which is almost one or two silver.

Yang Xi conscripted, but because the officers of the first military academy graduated at the end of the year, these 800 people, he decided to select 60 people as platoon commanders, set up 60 platoons, and formally establish a new army with three battalions, and this will be the case every year in the future.

The soldiers of Chenhe District are honored, and they are not worried about whether anyone has signed up, and now that the area of Chenhe District is so wide, it needs stronger defense forces.

Although it is not necessary to conquer other princes, it is necessary to have a certain military force to deter Xiaoxiao.

Another point that Yang Xi had to consider was that Cao Cao in the north was intimidated by Yuan Shao's power, and ceded the title of general to Yuan Shao, so that Kong Rong, the master craftsman, went to Jizhou to worship Yuan Shao as a general, and made him concurrently supervise Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou, and recognized the four states as Yuan Shao's sphere of influence.

Cao Cao's general Cao Hong, the southern expedition to Zhang Xiu, repeated battles were unfavorable, Cao Cao finally decided to personally conquer, Yang Xi knew that this pro-expedition, Cao Cao got Zhang Xiu and stabilized Xu Du.

In this way, the basic sphere of influence has been determined.

On 25 August, Yang Xi received a list of conscription registrations sent from various places, and after a glance, Yang Xi was taken aback.

There were 47,362 applicants.

"I'll it! With so many people, if all of them are recruited, how much will the military expenditure be? ”

So Yang Xi ordered all localities to take the exam in a centralized manner. Including the literary examination and the martial arts examination, the literary examination is a unified examination, and the martial arts examination is also simple, that is, a physical function test, push-ups and sit-ups or something, only the top 9,000 comprehensive scores are taken. The rest can go home on their own to study, exercise, and come back next year.

Xu Du, Zhou Wei is now like a fish in water here, and has made friends with many families, especially Chen Qiong, Chen Qun's brother, and the two are now like glue.

Since Chen Qiong provided some news to Zhou Wei last time, Zhou Wei said that the matter of sending the ship has been submitted to Dong Maru, the director of Donglai Port, and Dong Maru has already promised to report to the headquarters of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, and a Chenhe boat will be approved and sent to Chen Qiong in the near future.

So Chen Qiong and Zhou Wei privately agreed that next year, the two would fund the establishment of a dock on the riverbank in Yanzhou, dismantle the boat they sent, and then order craftsmen to copy it.

Yang Xi knew that when they copied it, it would be a year and month, and it was estimated that they would not be able to do it next year, at least one more year later.

At the end of the year, Cao Cao really defeated Zhang Xiu and entered Wanxian County. When Liu Biao's department will Deng Ji Tun according to Huyang, Cao Cao led the army to attack, captured Deng Ji alive, and then took advantage of the victory to attack Wuyin, and defeated Zhang Xiu and Liu Biaojun, and recovered Wuyin. Cao Cao recovered all the lost territory south of Xuchang and led his army back to Xudu. Zhang Xiu and others retreated to Sui County.

Sun Ce also broke Zou Tuo, Qian Tong, Wang Sheng, Yan Baihu in the south, and Xu Gong, the former Taishou of Wu County, who defected to Yan Baihu, was killed, Yan Baihu led the remnants of the army, and wanted to cross the Zhejiang River to defect to Wang Lang, but Wang Lang did not accept him at all, there was no way, Yan Baihu had to lead the army to the west and hide in the mountains and forests.

Yan Baihu entered the west, and Sun Ce would not be able to do it, but to the west was the junction of Danyang County's hometown and Yuqian County, which was Yang Xi's Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

Sun Ce had a headache, so he had to give up the pursuit, and then ordered someone to inform Danyang Huang Zhong.

Although Danyang has Gu Yong to manage the administration, but the military is in charge of Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong got the letter, and quickly ordered someone to inform the town to guard the hometown of Huazi to be careful, and led 3,000 troops from Qinghe Port to the south to prevent Yan Baihu.

Yan Baihu was originally a hero, but now he was forced into the mountains, how could he stand it, although there were only more than 2,000 remnants left, he was not willing to be lonely, and he thought about going down the mountain every day to grab some food and grass supplies.

Unexpectedly, Huazi had already taken precautions, invited the brothers of the special service battalion to investigate the news of various townships day and night, and without waiting for Huang Zhongbing to arrive, he broke the remnants of Yan Baihu's army, and captured Yan Baihu and his subordinate sergeants more than 1,000 people, and escorted them to Qinghe Port.

Huang Zhong took the prisoner and handed over more than 1,000 people to Gu Yong for education, but Yan Baihu himself was not decided, so he had to order someone to release him to Jiangxia and hand it over to Yang Xi for processing.

Yang Xi knew that Yan Baihu was from a wealthy family and had a very irritable personality, so he didn't see him, so he ordered someone to put him in prison for a year or two.

At the end of the year, after the final exams of all parties were over, Yang Xi first looked at the situation of Xu Shu and Shi Tao, and found that the two were really different, and they had already stood out in the exam in less than a year.

Yang Xi can't arrange a position for the two in person, but he can't arrange a position directly at this time, to be fair, just and open, Yang Xi suggested that Xu Shu be arranged for an assistant position.

Xu Shu is the assistant clerk of Li Qi in Wuchang County, and Shi Tao is the assistant clerk of Luo Lan, the magistrate of Exian County.

After arranging these two people, Yang Xi looked at the exams in other regions, and finally found a name in the school exams in Shangyu Port.

Kan Ze, the first place in the adult training examination in Shangyu Port, the word Derun, and the people of Shanyin.

"Huh? This Kan Ze should be the later minister of Wu, a university scholar, the history books say that his family was poor when he was a teenager, so he had to copy books from others to learn. Look at the effect of building schools in my various places, people like this are the objects of excavation. ”

It is rumored that Kan Ze once wrote a book. Also, it's a pity that it's lost.

Kan Ze also studied pi very well, and Zu Chongzhi's accurate calculation of pi was borrowed from his results.

"Okay, transfer you to the School of Economics as an assistant to the dean, and continue to study for a while."

The most depressed this year is Yuan Shu, who conquered Lu Bu and was defeated, Sun Ce rebelled, and failed more than defeat, and the princes of the world, Mr. Yuan became a deflated man who nested in a small place in Jiujiang County.

But Mr. Yuan is unwilling to fail, the jade seal is still in our hands, and the destiny of heaven returns.

So Mr. Yuan continued to recruit troops in the local area, which was a horizontal expedition, and as a result, there was a conflict with the local clan Lu Su's family, and Lu Su was angry and led the whole family to cross the river south and defect to Sun Ce.

Mr. Yuan was still not convinced, but he finally recruited another 20,000 troops and gathered 30,000 horses.

If you want to turn over at this point, you can't, so you can discuss with Changshi Yang Hong, the chief bookkeeper Yan Xiang, and the generals.

Changshi Yang Hong said: "The lord wants to jump out of the cage, and now there is only one way, that is, to obtain this territory, retreat to defend the family, and enter the world." ”

Yang Hong drew a circle on the map, but he circled all the territory of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce.

Yuan Shu said: "But Yang Xi is powerful, with 100,000 armor and a population of 4 million, how to compete with him." ”

Yang Hong said: "It is the so-called open and secret fighting. Naturally, it is not possible to fight openly, why not fight in secret? ”

"What is a secret fight?"

All the generals were skeptical.

Yang Hong said: "The former has Yang Xi's intention of refusing Lu Bu's marriage, and Lu Bu didn't take it to heart, but according to the spies' report, his daughter Lu Lingqi hates Yang Xi, if she can use this Lu Lingqi and say something bad about Yang Xi to her, the assassination can be done." ”

Yuan Shu said: "But how can Lu Lingqi be a woman? ”

Changshi Yang Hong said: "Although Lu Lingqi is a woman, her martial arts are not inferior to the generals, if the lord is supplemented by human and financial resources, there is a chance to succeed." Even if it doesn't work, it can cause Lu Bu and Yang Xi to be dirty, and the momentum of the two-sided attack will be resolved. ”

Yuan Shu and the others thought it was true after hearing it.