Frustrated and said: "Back to the lord, Mr. Zhang has already gone to see it, Liu Mao's body was weak, and he was frightened at the wedding, and he has been a little delirious, and he doesn't know what the reason is recently, it has become more and more serious, often talking nonsense, crazy, and even beating and scolding the people in the courtyard for no reason, Mr. Zhang said, this disease is different from other diseases, it is not an ordinary medicine and stone, he has no good way for a while, he can only give him some drugs to calm the nerves and calm the brain, but the symptoms are not cured. ”

Liu Xin has already understood, it turns out that Liu Mao is suffering from mental illness, and he is also a martial arts madman, not to mention that in this era, even in the future generations, this disease is the most difficult to treat, Liu Mao has this disease, he himself may not feel anything, but this can be bitter Wu Amaranth, Liu Xin didn't feel a little guilty, if he hadn't insisted that Cheng Yu return Wu Amaranth to Liu Mao, the little girl would not have suffered this crime,

Seeing that Liu Xin was silent, he said cautiously: "Lord, my subordinates thought that this Liu Mao might be pretending to be crazy and stupid, so my subordinates immediately sent someone to keep an eye on him and pay attention to his every move." ”

Liu Xin knew that with Liu Mao's ability, he shouldn't be able to think of this way, he was probably really crazy, thinking of this, Liu Xin couldn't help but shake his head and said: "Forget it, he is also a member of the Han family, if you want to make trouble, let him make trouble." ”

Fu Zhu no longer insisted on his opinion, and continued: "My lord, the news from Chang'an, Dong Zhuo is recruiting people on a large scale, I don't know what I want, I need to be careful. ”

Liu Xin vaguely had an impression, Dong Zhuo had collected more than 200,000 people in history, and built a Yiwu near Chang'an, when it was built, he couldn't remember clearly, could it be now, Liu Xin was not sure, but he had just won the three counties of Yizhou now, and what he needed most was stability, so he said: "Gonghe, for Dong Zhuo, as long as you keep an eye on his actions, no matter what he does, we will only respond to all changes with the same, if he dares to raise troops to attack, he will definitely be called to have no return, if he does not come to the side, Then wait for our recruit to train and go to his lair. ”

After another five or six days, Wu Xian gave birth to a daughter in the Exian Post House, when the sun was setting, the afterglow shone in the house, reflecting the red light all over the room, everyone who knew was amazed, Sun Ce was also very happy, commanding everyone to be busy, but saw Cheng Pu hurriedly running in, holding a large piece of paper in his hand, and said in a loud voice: "Young master, there is good news, you don't have to wait until next year to apply." ”

Sun Ce was also overjoyed when he heard this, seeing that his sister was really a strange person who could bring good luck, and couldn't help asking: "Demou, is it that Exian County has started recruiting troops again." ”

Cheng Pu smiled mysteriously, replaced the paper in his hand with Sun Ce, and said, "Young master, look, we can go to Shu County, Guanghan, and Qianwei to apply, and the posts there are not yet full." ”

Sun Ce took the piece of paper, and saw that there were four big characters written neatly in the middle of it, Dahan Express, and many articles were written on both sides of the paper, including introducing the tax policy, introducing the recruitment policy, introducing the treatment of the army, and some excerpts from the subset of the classics and histories, and even a large number of jokes, and in the most eye-catching place, there is a whole page of story serialization, the title is called "Journey to the West", and a half-human and half-monkey monster is drawn next to it, holding a stick in his hand,

Seeing Sun Ce's blank face, Cheng Pu hurriedly pointed with his hand and said, "Young master, look here, the soldiers of Shu County, Guanghan, and Qianwei County have not yet been recruited this year, and there are still many gaps. ”

Sun Ce took a closer look, what was written there was a current affairs news, the content was quite complicated, there were the appointment and dismissal of officials in various places, the tax situation in the past few months, and even the price situation in various places, and this year's recruitment situation was also sandwiched in it, although it was only a very inconspicuous piece of news, but for Sun Ce, he did not hesitate to send the gospel from God, and couldn't help asking: "Demou, what is this thing and where did it come from." ”

Cheng Pu arched his hand and patiently explained: "Back to the young master, they call this a newspaper, it was only recently issued by the government, this is the first issue, and there will be one or two issues every month in the future, this kind of newspaper is quite expensive, each copy will be sold for a penny of silver, this one is borrowed from the post and will be returned immediately." ”

Sun Ce is only a sixteen-year-old boy after all, and he is very interested in this novel play, especially the serial, he really wants to take a look, and when he learns that this newspaper was not bought by Cheng Pu, he can't help but feel a little regretful, and said: "Although we are shy in our pockets now, we can still get a penny of silver, why don't we buy one ourselves, and take a closer look, what is the difference between him Liu Xin and others." ”

Cheng Pu said helplessly: "Although this newspaper is expensive, it is still very popular, and when I get the news, it will not be available on the market for a long time." ”

At this moment, Yi Cheng walked in and said, "General Cheng, the newspaper can be read, if you finish reading it, please return it to the villain as soon as possible, the villain has to put it away." ”

Sun Ce didn't think carefully about the recruitment just now, but hurriedly read a few lines of "Journey to the West", saw Yicheng's stingy appearance, didn't feel annoyed, and returned the newspaper to Yicheng, but he was very reluctant in his heart, and waited for Yicheng to leave for a long time, then he retracted his gaze and said: "Demou, without further ado, let's leave for Guanghan to see if we can be recruited into the army." ”

Wu Shu was very happy that his son could wake up, since he wanted to join Liu Xin's army with his own ability, how could he not support it, when Sun Ce was leaving, Wu Shu took out a large bag of gold and silver given by Liu Xin, handed it all to Sun Ce, and repeatedly told him to work hard when he arrived in the army, and not to have other ideas,

Sun Ce did not take all the gold and silver away, but only took out a small part as a coil, and the rest was quietly handed over to Sun Quan.

From Jiangxia to Ba County, all the way is a flat avenue, Sun Ce and others hurry up, eager to fly to the city, at this time the autumn harvest has just ended, the fields can still see three or five groups of busy people, wait for Ba County, it is another scene, everywhere is a big construction, this is the engineering team in the repair of roads, bridges, cities, construction of water conservancy facilities,

The engineering team has now grown to the scale of 100,000 people, and more than half of them are newly organized Yizhou prisoners, although a large number of prisoners were used, but it did not affect the progress of the project at all, because the motivation of these prisoners is no worse than that of the old members of the engineering team, in addition to the assessment and incentive mechanism implemented by Liu Xin, these Yizhou prisoners also found that they came to participate in the so-called forced labor, that is, to do some manual work of repairing bridges, paving roads, and building cities, but the food was much better than they were in the Yizhou army, not only could they be full, And you can eat meat and eggs almost every day,

In recent years, Liu Xin in addition to vigorously developing agricultural production and commercial trade, but also carried out an important work, is to vigorously promote livestock and poultry breeding in his jurisdiction, in order to ensure that meat food can be supplied to the army in large quantities, with the development of livestock and poultry breeding, in addition to meeting the supply of the army, the meat on the market is also more, in the past except for a few aristocratic classes, ordinary people are rare to eat meat a few times a year, protein intake mainly relies on bean food, now the people are rich, have the economic strength to buy meat, And there is an abundant supply of meat in the market, and the standard of living is naturally better day by day, and now even the prisoners of war of the engineering team and the convicts in the prison can eat meat.

After living in Xiangyang for so long, Sun Ce and the others certainly knew that Liu Xin had an engineering team under him, which was responsible for building roads and other affairs, and they also knew that the engineering team was mainly composed of prisoners of war or former prisoners of war, what they didn't expect was that these prisoners of war in the past tense or in the present tense not only did not rise up to resist, nor did they choose to escape, but they all did quite happily, seeing such a scene, the hearts of the three people sank halfway, so that the prisoners of war could sell coolies willingly, They couldn't help but have a new view of Liu Xin's ability, and they were less and less hopeful that they could find a chance to rise again in the future.

They stayed overnight, and they arrived at the city after three days' work, and they didn't live in a post house along the way, and it was the same when they came here, so they found an inn and stayed down.

Early the next morning, after paying for the room, they asked Xiao Er about the recruitment office, and Xiao Er led them to the door, pointed in the direction of the city, and said: "Three guest officers, you go down this road and see where there are the most people, and that is the recruitment office." ”

Sun Ce listened to Xiao Er's words, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, he didn't expect to hurry up, a few days ago, there were not full recruits in the city, and now there are more recruiters, and when they find the recruitment office, there is already a sea of people, three long dragons line up a mile away, and the soldiers who maintain order walk around with spears and salts, in fact, if they come a few days earlier, this is still a different scene, the recruitment office is full of people, and the officials in charge of recruiting are yawning idly,

In this case, it is impossible to cut in line, Sun Ce and the others hurriedly stood at the end of the line, and lined up together from early morning to noon, and then they reached the front.

In charge of their team's recruitment was a local scribe in Luocheng, who was tired for most of the day, looking listless, and didn't even seem to have the strength to look up at Sun Ce, but shouted very mechanically: "Name, age, household registration certificate." ”

Sun Ce couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "What is the household registration certificate?" ”

In fact, the household registration of Guanghan and other three counties is in progress, and the registration is far from being completed, but the inspection of household registration in the process of recruitment is very strict, in order to meet the needs, those who participate in the recruitment can give priority to household registration, these are the new things implemented in Liu Xin's jurisdiction, where do Sun Ce and them know,

When the scribe heard that he didn't have a household registration certificate, he ignored him and said casually: "If you don't have a household registration certificate, go to the yamen to make up for it, and come back next." ”

Sun Ce was anxious when he heard this, and said: "You accept me first, I am a martial artist, and I am a good material for being a soldier." ”

The scribe became a little impatient and shouted: "Resolutely can't do it without a household registration certificate, hurry up, go to the side, and let the people behind come first." ”

Behind Sun Ce are Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, and they don't have household registration certificates, but the people behind them can't wait, and they are agitated.

Sun Ce thought that he had worked hard to queue up for most of the day, but because he was about to start over again because of his words, he couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, and slammed the table with a "snap" punch, and actually smashed the table with a big hole.