At noon, the sun was three poles, but at this time it was close to early winter, the sky was very cold, and the captains who patrolled the streets and changed their duties went to the ear room to get charcoal to rest, and Wang Si and Lao Huo took the food box sent by the family to Liu Chengfeng's duty room to eat.

Not for anything else, whether it is the signing room, the ear room or the flower hall in the backyard, there is no warmth in Liu Chengfeng's duty room, but there are three carbon basins here, and the hot charcoal fire burns in the basin, bringing out the slightest heat, making the whole duty room warm like spring all of a sudden.

Ask people to warm the pot of hot wine, pastries, wine and dishes, are sent by each family, the original ancients of the meal and the later generations are very different, if in the later generations, often use some pastries in the morning, noon, evening is the main meal, and here, early morning and evening is the main meal, and noon is the time to fill the stomach with some pastries at will.

It's just that Liu Chengfeng is always a little unaccustomed to it, others bring pastries to eat, but he brings some wine and food, but Wang Si and Lao Huo are not polite, so they naturally want to take advantage of him.

Chen Hongyu was on duty at noon today, so he didn't come, the three of them took Liu Chengfeng's case as a wine table, placed it in the center of the hall, drank a sip of warm wine, and already felt a little hot all over his body, the heat brought by the charcoal fire and the wine in his body hit together, and his whole body was warm.

Lao Huo smiled and said, "Chen Zongqi doesn't have this blessing today, ha...... I'm afraid that he is now cowering under the root of the wall and eating hastily, now that the weather is so cold, the captains are really too lazy to move. ”

The priest Wang took a bite of the pastry and said with a squeak: "It's winter, wait for the tributaries of the canal to freeze." When the boat arrives in Beitongzhou, it can only enter Beijing by land, and we can also take the opportunity to rest. ”

Liu Chengfeng shook his head and said, "Want to rest?" It's not that easy. From tomorrow onwards, you will be busy. ”

Wang said, "What? What's the matter? ”

Liu Chengfeng saw that there was no one left and right, glanced at Lao Huo again, and said to Wang Siguan: "Starting tomorrow, recruit 500 helpers, this matter will be handled by Lao Huo, and Wang Siguan is responsible for registering and making records." Also, these helpers can no longer be called helpers, so let's call them auxiliary lieutenants. Yiying's uniforms, weapons, and military salaries were all allocated from the treasury of the hundred households, but this time it was not so casual. There is no need to hide it, buy a piece of land directly on the edge of these hundred households, build a camp, and conduct centralized drills, and make a military training appearance. It's just temporarily attached to the name of the Imperial Horse Warden. After all, military training is not a trivial matter, and it must have a name, so as not to let people grasp the handle. ”

Liu Chengfeng was silent for a moment. Ignoring the terrifying gazes cast by the Wang Si and Lao Huo, he continued: "So I pondered, this matter still has to invite the crown prince, although it is attached to the imperial horse supervisor, it is still very inappropriate. It's much more convenient with the crown prince. ”

After a pause, Liu Chengfeng continued: "With the prince, it is more convenient to ask for advice, practice hard, and train an elite army, which will be of great benefit to the hundred households in the future." ”

The official Wang said miserably: "My lord, train the soldiers...... Military training is not so easy to practice, and if someone catches the handle, he will cut off his head. Although you can be attached to the imperial horse supervisor, you can also ask the prince to come forward, but the imperial envoy is not so easy to fool, besides...... It's not a violation of any imperial court decree to recruit helpers in our guard, but what's the use of recruiting so many people at once? ”

Liu Chengfeng smiled slightly and said, "The matter of military training is not something I came up with with a pat on my head, but what Your Majesty meant." ”

"Ah......" Lao Huo and Wang Si were even more surprised, they even forgot to chew the food in their mouths, and stared at Liu Chengfeng in a daze.

Liu Chengfeng said lightly: "Does the priest still remember the Jade Buddha?" ”

The priest came to his senses and said in astonishment: "Remember." ”

Liu Chengfeng said: "Your Majesty means that this matter can only be secretly investigated, but our hundred households are extremely short of manpower, and there is not much strength, it is not easy to do it by yourself, Your Majesty is sympathetic to us, so let us recruit a group of people in the guard, so even if there is an impeachment of the imperial envoy, we don't have to be afraid, as long as these people are attached to the imperial horse prison, and then ask the prince to come out, so that Your Majesty can rest assured, this matter will be done." ”

Liu Chengfeng invited Zhu Houzhao, on the one hand, Zhu Houzhao has a lot of resources, and this resource is the reputation of the prince, if the prince wants to train the army, most of them can directly go to the army to select some backbones to increase the strength of the new army, on the other hand, with the prince here, it also saves a lot of trouble.

The most important thing is that the crown prince is the only son of the emperor today, and the identity of the only son is enough to make there no suspicion between father and son. Otherwise, how dare Liu Chengfeng be the prince's henchmen? If it were an official who was attached to the prince at another time, what would have happened to him?

As for the crown prince, he has always been good at martial arts, and he is also keen on military training, so he will be happy to invite him out.

Wang Si finally understood, it turned out that this soldier was not used to help idle, but to deal with the rebellious party, since the emperor nodded, it stands to reason that Liu Chengfeng is not attached to the imperial horse supervisor, does not invite the prince, and does not matter. Doing this now is naturally out of prudence, and there shouldn't be anything wrong, so he smiled slightly, and said: "I see, the student also said that the adults suddenly have this interest, and now that winter is about to begin, Suo Xing can be idle for two months, and then he will do this." ”

Wang Si was silent for a while, if Liu Chengfeng was a general who made a quick decision, and Wang Si was a good soldier who had to plan everything in detail, he said lightly: "If you want to build a camp, you must first report to the town government department, no matter what, the town government department must always approve it." Secondly, it is the side of the Imperial Horse Eunuch, the Imperial Horse Eunuch's palm print eunuch Guo Yong has finished, we have to take advantage of the fact that the new palm print eunuch has not yet eased up, and immediately do the attached matter, otherwise when he stands on his feet, he may not be able to give us this convenience. There is also the prince's side, naturally it is Lord Liu who said Xiang. There is a vacant piece of land near the Hundred Households, but if you want to buy it, the value is also very expensive, and this matter has to be negotiated with Shuntianfu, without them, we will have a lot of trouble. It's just that this Shuntianfu is not a fuel-efficient lamp. ”

Wang Si Yan smiled bitterly and continued: "In addition, it is necessary to recruit craftsmen and strong men, these things are headaches to think about, and Lao Huo will naturally handle the manpower, as for Shuntianfu, students can only negotiate." There is also the prince on the side of the town government department and the imperial horse supervisor, so it is necessary for adults to go out. ”

Lao Huo is still confused, what jade Buddha, and what si self-inspection, anyway, it is in the clouds.

But Lao Huo is a cautious person after all, he should never ask more questions, let him be alone naturally can't do it, but let him do some chores, such as recruiting manpower and the like, he can do better than others, in the final analysis, Lao Huo is the kind of person who does what others say, he does what he does, he has no idea, but Liu Chengfeng tells him to do a good job, one is one, two is two, Liu Chengfeng said what to recruit, how tall and how much weight, Lao Huo will not make mistakes.

He can have today's opportunity, all thanks to the appearance of Liu Chengfeng, so in terms of loyalty, the old Hobby Wang is more down-to-earth.

Lao Huo said: "Okay, when will the recruitment of manpower start?" ”

Wang Si said: "It's about to be winter, it's the time for farming, you can start now, but I don't know what the adults want?" ”

Liu Chengfeng smiled, knowing that Wang Si suddenly guessed his mind, Liu Chengfeng recruited people, and has always rarely recruited idle men in the city, to put it bluntly, the people in the city are a little ruffian, no matter how honest they are, they can't go anywhere, but the countrymen are honest and sincere, you give him a bite to eat, he can remember your kindness for a lifetime. Although there will be some little ninety-nine, it is easier to practice well and train a hundred elite soldiers.

Thinking that he could recruit sergeants for his own use, Liu Chengfeng suddenly became interested, his cheeks were flushed because he ate wine or moved, and he held the case with his hand, and said: "Yes, in the past, when recruiting helpers, I had to recruit idlers in the city as a last resort, because these people knew a little bit about the Jingshi and had a flexible brain. But now that we want to recruit troops, we can no longer recruit from the city, we can go to the vicinity of Gyeonggi to recruit people, and there is no problem in terms of monthly money. ”

Wang Si smiled and said: "My lord is a little interesting, I usually value money very much, but I don't feel distressed at all when I spend it." The students just did the math in their hearts, these 500 people, to build camps, to practice, to provide food, and military salaries, if there were no 30,000 taels of silver before, they might not be able to succeed, and in the future, the annual salary is not a few, let alone a few thousand taels of silver a month. ”

Liu Chengfeng said proudly: "Anyway, it's the money in the treasury, it's just a few thousand taels, what's the matter!" ”

What he means is that it's about eating the public anyway, and it's about my birds. Wang Siyi and Lao Huo both laughed, this hundred households have a very strange temper, they can obviously divert the money for their own use, but on the contrary, he is very clear, he should be his own, he must not suffer, he should not be his own, and he will not take a single hair. But at this time, he was very arrogant when he had to spend the public's money, and if he had to pay out of his own pocket, most of the time he wouldn't have said so.

"But if you want to train soldiers, you have to have some teachings, these teachings are best old soldiers, at least they have fought and seen blood, to find such a person, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, what do you think?"

Liu Chengfeng smiled slightly and said: "I have to go to the prince for this matter, the prince comes forward, what can't be done?" ”

What he said was the truth, after all, a military camp under the jurisdiction of a hundred households, even if it was attached to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, it would not be taken seriously, and it would not be even thought of letting those people with great military achievements come here to train you. But the prince himself came forward differently, which means that this is the people of the East Palace, and the prince is the future emperor, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this military horse is a reserve camp of the forbidden army and the pro-army, and the future is completely different.