Originally, Yang Chao had planned to go back to the barracks and stay at home for a day to accompany his parents, but Liu Ru took the initiative to come to the door to ask to see him.

Yang Chao asked Liu Ru to invite him to the flower hall.

"Miss Liu, don't come unharmed!"

Yang Chao and Liu Ru have not seen each other for a long time, probably not long after the scholarly commotion ended, Liu Ru is a well-connected person, and he will not stay in one place for a long time, I heard that Liu Ru went to Hangzhou.

Liu Ru walked into the door of the flower hall, did not return the salute immediately, but let go of the figure, and another girl followed behind.

This girl is dressed a little chic, wearing a Taoist dress, which makes people think of Miaoyu in the Dream of Red Mansions at once, the same description is thin, the same is out of the world, and she really has the style of not eating the fireworks in the world.

"Young Master Yang, this is my friend Caoyi Daoist!"

Yang Chao arched his hand but suddenly didn't know what to call it, if it was a male Taoist, it would not be wrong to call Dao Chang, but a female Taoist, it seems that it is not good to call Dao Gu.

"Poor Dao has seen Yang Gongzi."

Dao Gu started first.

Yang Chao simply didn't say anything and said with a smile: "Two distinguished guests, please." ”

Yang Chao had already asked someone to pour tea, but the person who came was a mother-in-law.

Yang Chao said: "Aunt Yang, let's have tea." ”

This mother-in-law is a lonely widow among the distant relatives of the Yang family, and she used to be a moderately wealthy family, but unfortunately her husband died early, and she supported a son and a daughter alone.

The straw-clothed Taoist smiled and took the tea set in his mother-in-law's hand, and smiled at his mother-in-law: "Just leave it to the poor road, and bother your aunt." ”

The straw-clothed Taoist said, but there was a taste of rejection on his face.

Yang Chao understood: "Aunt Yang, go out." ”

Aunt Yang bowed her head and went out, closing the door at the same time.

The Taoist in grass poured tea and water himself. Liu Ru also generously asked her to do it, just caring about gossiping with Yang Chao.

Yang Chao wanted to inquire about Li Xiangjun, but it was a little difficult to speak. After casually bringing the topic to Meixianglou, Liu Ru said it himself.

"There is something I want to ask Yang Gongzi about the incense fan fall."

Yang Chao said: "Miss Liu, please speak." ”

Liu said: "Hou Chaozong Hou Gongzi has always liked the incense fan pendant. I want to comb the incense fan pendant, I don't know if Yang Gongzi thinks it's a good match? ”

Hou Chaozong Hou Fangyu is also a son of a wealthy family, and his father Hou Sui is a scholar of the military department, but now he is imprisoned in Beijing, but the status of the Hou family will not be shaken.

It's just that from Yang Chao's point of view, the matter of men and women, or whether the men and women are suitable or not is the most important thing, thinking of Hou Fangyu's last face. With the demeanor of a famous person, he pulled his lower face to rely on the imperial examination of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and was ridiculed by the world, and his character was obviously very inferior, which was very unsuitable for a high-ranking woman like Li Xiangjun.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao said: "I think that Hou Gongzi's character seems to be lacking, and he is not a good match." ”

Liu Ru nodded slightly, revealing a chuckle, and stopped talking about this topic as soon as he clicked.

Yang Chao didn't know much about the minds of women in this era, so he didn't care. He started talking about other things.

Liu Ru didn't talk about Mei Xianglou anymore, but turned to the Dao Gu in front of her.

"Young Master Yang, the little woman has something to ask for. Affirm Yang Gongzi's help. ”

Liu Ru's own energy should not be underestimated, if it is not too big, he generally does not need to ask for help.

Yang Chao said: "Miss Liu, please speak, but I don't dare to pack a ticket." ”

Liu Ru can't do things, and they are generally very troublesome, such as getting into trouble with something like Tian Wan.

Liu Ru didn't speak, but the grass-clothed Taoist stood up and bowed down.

"It's a poor road and I have something to do, so I asked Sister Liu to introduce it on my behalf. I'm afraid that only Yang Gongzi is willing to help with this. ”

The straw-clothed Taoist said softly in a pleading tone.

Yang Chao could also imagine it, so he turned to Caoyi Dao and said, "Girl, please speak." ”

Caoyi Dao is humane: "Poor Dao has a sister ......"

Things are very troublesome, and the Caoyi Taoist is also a famous prostitute. It's just a famous prostitute in Hangzhou, and her painting boat is very famous on the West Lake. Characters like Qian Qianyi often go to her to talk freely, and the Caoyi Taoist, like other famous prostitutes, chose a great scribe to marry, but unfortunately, the famous man later married a concubine, the concubine is called Yang Wan, who is also a famous prostitute in Hangzhou, and has a good relationship with the Caoyi Taoist in the past.

It's just that Yang Wan is younger and more beautiful than the Caoyi Taoist, and as a result, the celebrity loves Yang Wan more, although the Caoyi Taoist has a close relationship with Yang Wan, but he can't stand such a snub, so after discussing with the celebrity, let her redeem herself, and then she became a free famous prostitute.

As a result, the celebrity died early, and the family fell into the middle of the road, and when Tian Wan plundered beauties in Jiangnan two years ago, he actually plundered Yang Wan to Beijing.

The Caoyi Daoist begged Yang Chao to help rescue Yang Wan.

I have to say that the mind of the Caoyi Taoist is still good, Yang Wan is equivalent to robbing her favor, not only is she not jealous, but she wants to save Yang Wan.

Tian Wan since the death of Tian Guifei Xian, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard, depressed, relying on the beauty looted in the south of the Yangtze River to envelop the ministers, in history Wu Sangui is Chen Yuanyuan who saw in the Tian family, at first sight, Tian Wan observed the words, and gave Chen Yuanyuan to Wu Sangui in exchange for Wu Sangui's protection.

But Tian Wan's own body is getting worse and worse after the death of his daughter, so the Caoyi Taoist cares about his sisters and wants to rescue them in advance, otherwise when Tian Wan dies, according to the practice of large families, Yang Wan is afraid that she will be sold to the Ji Yuan in Beijing.

It's just that although Tian Wan has lost power, he is still the emperor's family, as long as he is in Beijing, no one dares to go to his house to arrest people, otherwise the emperor's face is not good-looking, so the Caoyi Taoist has no way to ask for help, but he knows that Yang Chao has fought against Tian Wan in Jiangnan, and he has made great achievements in the limelight, and hopes that Yang Chao will come forward to help.

"It's Tian Wan again."

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this Tian Wan really has a fate with him.

If it is in Nanjing, Yang Chao is also a matter of one sentence, Beijing, Yang Chao does not have much weight.

So I didn't dare to agree to the Taoist in straw clothes: "Hey, there are not many ways in Beijing, so I can only try my best, and the success or failure depends on the will of God." ”

Seeing Yang Chao, he was obviously not very concerned, but the Caoyi Daoist still expressed his gratitude.

Yang Chao later only wrote a letter to Wang Xiao, who remained in Huai'an to run the salt industry. I explained this matter, and I really didn't take it to heart.

After sending Liu Ru and the others away, Yang Chao rushed to the barracks the next day.

The people who have returned from Haizhou have arrived. But not all of them, but batches of them coming slowly. After all, it is impossible to recruit enough troops at once, and the ship is not specially waiting for them.

So recruit a group of people, and send back a group of people, and a few days ago the first batch of 100 people came back.

These people were recruited in Haizhou in the first batch, Yang Chao's people arrived in Haizhou in early September, they set off a few days later, and now in early October, they arrived at Xinjiangkou.

One to the barracks. Yang Chao went directly to the office of the logistics department of Huangfeng Mansion.

The logistics department is next door to Yang Chao's room, it was originally a large barracks, and now it is full of bookshelves and desks, there are no books on the shelves, all of them are a test file, a page of cousins are designed by Yang Chao, and specially engraved molds to print a large number of them, and the filled form is bound into a book is the file, this standardized form greatly improves the efficiency, and it is more convenient to read.

Yang Chao came. Let Huang Fengfu give him the recruit's file first.

There are only a hundred people, and Huang Fengfu now has hundreds of subordinates, and he will take some time to compile files for them at night.

Look at the concise files.

"It's all coolies!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh. The background of these recruits in the archives is mostly coolies on the docks, but there are also a few salt works of hard labor.

Huang Fengfu nodded: "I asked these people, the people in Haizhou are mainly the coolies on the wharf, the hard laborers in the salt works, and some tenants in the surrounding countryside. ”

After flipping through it casually and understanding the situation roughly, Yang Chao got up and took two personal soldiers with him. Rush to the boot barracks.

The new barracks was the general barracks of the right division in the past, and the general barracks of the left division is now used by Yang Chao as the territory of the logistics department. Scholars who handle all kinds of paperwork and various documents and archives are placed here, and the left division serves as a recruit barracks. The middle thousand general camp in the middle is the soldier barracks.

After passing through the general camp and not entering, go directly to the right camp, and you can hear all kinds of trumpets from a distance.

"Stand upright."

"Take a break."

"Stand upright."

Now the recruits are still in the stage of standing in the military posture.

But there are other stages.

"Let's go!"

"Run, go!"

"Let's go!"

This is another batch of recruits.

"Assassination!"

This is another batch of recruits.

At this time, there were three batches of recruits in the recruit camp, and it was the newly arrived Haizhou Minzhuang who was practicing military posture, and it was Haizhou Minzhuang who was practicing assassination, but it was only a few days ago that the military posture was practiced, and the one who practiced assassination was the one who came back from Haizhou and Yang Chao.

But the most special thing is the group of recruits who are practicing their pace, because these soldiers all look polite and weak, more like scholars than soldiers.

This is not surprising, because this is a group of scholars.

The scholars recruited by Huangfeng Mansion are all members of the outermost part of the Erli Society, and they don't even have a meritorious showman, because once they are admitted to the show, the scholars' life plans will basically yearn for officialdom, so even if they are to be staffed by others, they will not choose military generals, but prefer to follow civil officials, because following civil officials, they can accumulate some officialdom contacts for them, and they can use it to enter the officialdom in the future.

It is precisely these who can't even pass the show, so they will bring a pessimistic mood of 'breaking the jar and breaking the fall' to give a general's most staff.

Moreover, the batch recruited by Yang Chao is probably the pessimistic among the pessimistic, and the most pessimistic among the scholars, because Yang Chao's recruitment requirement is to let them receive military training.

Just this one made Huang Fengfu have a great headache, and it took a lot of effort to fool so many people, otherwise the thousands of peripheral low-level scholars of the Erli Society would not be able to recruit so many people.

Let the scholars be trained, so these scholars can only find time in the evening to deal with official business, such as writing files for the recruits.

In addition to allowing these scholars to receive military training, some people were also selected to help the soldiers enlighten and teach them to read and write.

Yang Chao let the scholars practice martial arts and let the soldiers read, and this matter has become a joke in Nanjing.

It's just that Yang Chao has a deep intention, even if it is difficult to recruit people because of this, he doesn't plan to compromise, because Yang Chao feels that the significance of scholars practicing martial arts is too great. (To be continued...... ）。