The festival is always short-lived, after the fifteenth day of the first month, whether it is the government or the military people, they can no longer stay at home, they should go to work, they should work, and Pang Gang also urged Wen Renjun, Huayan, Meng Qing and others to start his army expansion plan.

The expansion of the army is a big deal, especially the expansion of 50,000 troops, which is not a trivial matter, and it is absolutely impossible to hide from people, and the entire Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou, Jinan, Gunzhou and other places are discussing the news that the champion Hou is going to recruit troops again.

This news is not only good news for the indigenous residents of Shandong, but also a way to survive for those who have been displaced to Shandong and have no food and clothing.

In recent years, Shandong's rich reputation has begun to spread to the surrounding state capitals, every winter solstice there are always many homeless people flocking to Shandong, and the number is increasing year by year, just like this year, Shandong has sheltered no less than 400,000 homeless people, the arrival of these homeless people not only alleviates the demand for manpower in various industries in Shandong, but also brings many qualified soldiers.

Now in Shandong, everyone knows that it is very difficult to be a soldier under a huge number of people, first of all, there will be a minimum of one or two silver per month. Secondly, being a soldier not only means that you can eat well and dress warmly, but also you can rely on the salary to feed a family of three, and the champion will also give everyone ten to twenty acres of land per household, although these fields cannot be any good land, but as long as you serve carefully for a few years, plus diligent irrigation, it will become good land in a few years.

What's more important is that there can be captures and rewards for fighting with the champion Hou, and those soldiers who first followed the champion Hou are now not building a new house and marrying a daughter-in-law. Who wouldn't want to follow a general who can win battles and have a lot of rewards, so after the New Year, many displaced people came to the recruitment points in their respective state capitals to start registering, and from the sixteenth day of the first month, people who came to the registration points to sign up for the army began to flow endlessly.

Since the conscription was carried out separately in Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, Jinan, and Gunzhou, and although the conscription was presided over by local governments, Pang Gang also sent military representatives to various localities to supervise and prevent local officials from doing things perfunctorily, and the conscription work was carried out for more than 20 days before it was completed, and it was not completed until early February.

However, unlike his subordinates who were too tired to do anything, Pang Gang spent most of his time accompanying Kong Ruolan's mother and son and his wives and concubines, and his subordinates were very knowledgeable and rarely disturbed him, because they all knew that seeing that the world was getting more and more chaotic, adults couldn't tell when they would lead the troops again.

It may be the world's first big house built of cement, there are four pots of burning charcoal fire on the hall of nearly 100 square meters, the blue flame is very beautiful, and Pang Gang's wives and concubines are sitting in the hall playing horses.

This full deck of cards has 40 cards that is the predecessor of mahjong, in the Ming Dynasty, the horse hanging in the scholar class is very popular, the Qing dynasty of later generations Wu Weiye in his book "Suiguan Jiluo" that the Ming Dynasty will die, a large reason is because of the horse hanging. Of course, such a conclusion is biased in Pang Gang's opinion, but this is enough to show the popularity of horse cranes in Daming.

Because Pang Gang has a large number of wives and concubines, a table of horse cranes can't accommodate everyone, except for Kong Ruolan, who can't go on the field for confinement, everyone is full of interest, and even Qiao'er is standing behind Emanyao to give advice.

Looking at the wives and concubines having fun, Pang Gang felt a sense of satisfaction, he sat on the recliner on the side, lazily drinking tea, and thinking carefully about what to do after the beginning of spring, and couldn't help but calm down for a while.

"Husband, husband, people are talking to you!"

At this time, a crisp voice sounded in Pang Gang's ears, pulling Pang Gang up from his contemplation, Pang Gang looked up, only to find that Li Xuezhu was looking at him with a pout. Although a jade carved baby face is tight, it still makes people feel quite cute because it is as bright as a flower.

Because there is a fire in the hall, there is a dragon under the ground, and the fire in the kitchen ensures that the hall is always steaming, Li Xuezhu and the girls don't wear much, a thin yellow gauze along the edge of the placket, Bai Hangjuan's embroidered skirt is the most fashionable style in the Ming Dynasty, Li Xuezhu also ingeniously added a few ribbons to the placket on the back, tied on the chest, not only outlining a pair of precipitous twin peaks that are extremely incommensurate with her age, but also the ribbons flutter and flutter with her movements from time to time, adding a bit of elegance.

The back behind her is not as long as Jiangnan's to cover the back of the hips, but it only reaches the waist of Xiaoman, and it looks more and more slender. The bee's waist swayed lightly, and the green ribbon tied was looming, and the hanging five or six jade pendants of various sizes were jingling, which was really pleasing to the ears and eyes, "Well, this girl is worthy of growing up in the Korean royal family since she was a child, and she really knows how to dress up." ”

Pang Gang secretly praised in his heart, but his hand was not idle, he stretched out his hand and pulled her over, let her sit on his lap and asked with a smile: "Good Xuezhu, it's not good for your husband, what did you just say." ”

"Hmph, bad husband, people said you didn't listen to it just now, but now they don't say it." Xuezhu raised her little head, her nose was slightly cocked, and a cute look appeared in front of Pang Gang.

Pang Gang hugged her delicate body lovingly and smiled to make amends, which made her laugh again, and Xuezhu, who was coaxed happily, soon twisted her delicate body dishonestly and moved on her husband's thighs, which made Pang Gang laugh for a while, and pulled his hand up, leaned into her arms, and grasped a huge dangerous peak.

"Baby, you're seventeen, aren't you?"

As soon as Pang Gang touched his hand, he realized the amazing bullet surname, which was only half of the hand, and the dangerous peak that was more abundant than Ruolan Shangfeng, who was in confinement, was still slightly upturned as if he had not passed the door, and such a bullet surname could only appear on a young girl.

"Well, after the New Year, people will be seventeen years old." Xuezhu leaned on Pang Gang's body, panting lightly against this guy's ear, a pair of white lotus arms wrapped around Pang Gang's neck, looking at his husband affectionately, with gentle water waves rippling in his big eyes.

Pang Gang was very uncomfortable by the delicate body of Xuezhu's constant writhing, and was thinking about whether to carry her into the room, at this moment, the door was pushed open, and a maid walked in and said to Pang Gang after saying a blessing: "Hou Ye, Wen Zanhua is asking to see outside!" ”

"Well, Wen Renjun, this guy is here?"

Pang Gang was a little surprised, but he still put the snow beads down, reached out and patted her plump buttocks lightly, and said, "You can play with the sisters first, and do something for your husband." ”

"Well, the concubine went to play first!"

Although Xuezhu is sometimes very lively and naughty, she is very sensible, and never bothers Pang Gang when he is doing business.

Since the hall is full of maids and female dependents, it is inconvenient to receive outsiders. Pang Gang stood up, put the fur coat handed over by the maid on his body, opened the door and walked out.

When he went out, Pang Gang saw Wen Renjun standing ten steps outside the door and looking at him with a smile.

Seeing Wen Renjun, Pang Gang scolded angrily: "Wen Zan painting, what are you doing to find this official, is there another "Spring Dawn Picture of the Han Palace" to be sent to this official?" ”

Wen Renjun smiled and arched his hand: "My lord Mingjian, there is only such an heirloom painting in the humble family, I wanted to give it to you to pat the ass, but a few days ago, you sent someone to send five thousand taels of silver, which is to make the humble job a lot of money, but the humble job is greedy for money." ”

"Make a fart, if you kid knew that this painting would become one of the top ten national treasures in China in the future, you would definitely regret it until your intestines were green." Pang Gang secretly scolded this guy in his heart for not knowing the goods, but he said angrily: "Didn't you assist Hua Shi in recruiting soldiers?" Why do you have time to come to this official today? ”

Wen Renjun said with a smile: "So that my lord will know that the humble post is to report to you on the order of Hua Experience, our conscription has been completed, and 50,000 recruits are being trained in Jinan, Qingzhou, Laizhou and other places, and will be reorganized into the army after the three-month recruit period." My lord, our soldiers and horses are getting stronger and stronger! ”

Pang Gang sighed lightly: "Yes, the soldiers and horses are getting stronger and stronger, but there are more and more things. ”

"What's wrong with having too many things, adults have to be busy if they want to achieve great things, and now is a good time for us to make contributions."

Wen Renjun was excited, since he took refuge in Pang Gang, he has been busy all day long, and his spirit has become more and more vigorous, as if he has inexhaustible energy.

"Hehe, I can't talk about your mouth. Let's talk about everything together! Pang Gang shook his head and said.

"You can't hide anything from your lord." Wen Renjun said with a smile: "There has been news from Hubei, just after the fifteenth, the thieves sent their general Liu Zongmin to lead 50,000 troops to Changde Mansion to kill, and now Changde Mansion is still in a hurry, Hunan Governor Tang Hongguang has sent several letters of 800 li to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to send troops to suppress the bandits. ”

Pang Gang said quietly: "Well, is there anything else?" ”

"Also," Wen Renjun hesitated for a moment before saying: "According to the report of the prefect of Gunzhou Prefecture, it is said that some businessmen and homeless people have appeared near Gunzhou today, and they have spread rumors in Gunzhou Mansion, saying that "the army of benevolence and righteousness of the king will not be killed or plundered"; also made up nursery rhymes, so that children sang everywhere in the streets and alleys: "Open the gate to welcome the king, and the king will not pay food when he comes", "Open the door early to worship the king, and discipline everyone is happy" The prefect of Gunzhou has arrested hundreds of people who spread rumors, and after torture to extract confessions, they confessed that they were all sent by thieves, the purpose is to disturb our military and people's hearts, and see if it is possible to cause trouble in our place! ”

"Hmph" Pang Gang's face darkened suddenly, and he smiled instead of anger: "Okay, the official hasn't troubled them yet, they came to the door first."

(To be continued)