The next stop is Qingzhou Mansion, which is Bai Xiaode's hometown, and he also has a strong local base. After the last lesson, the recruitment team began to change its method, no longer concentrating the people in the county seat, but directly recruiting workers in the village. The team was divided into 30 squads, entering the state city, the villages around the county seat, each squad has 3 first-term students responsible for registration, 20 Jinyi guards are responsible for escorting, and 3 of them are holding small-scale combat weapons - Zhuge crossbows.

The next action was very fast, basically each county only had to stay for 2 to 3 days, and the local government also cooperated quite well. These poor people were not good people to the officials, because they often failed to pay their taxes on time, but because of the strength of the local clan groups, they sometimes could not use coercion.

In the local area, many clans are led by meritorious clansmen, and these leaders have friendships with each other and with officialdom. The feudal era was an era when the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the best way for the government to go to the village to do anything was to rely on the power of the local clan. In the peaceful and prosperous times, there are not many people who are sentenced to behead every year, is it really that the people are self-disciplined and do not violate the king's law? In fact, this is not the case, most criminal laws have already been punished in the clan, and there is no need to report it to the county or state.

The government regards these poor people as a burden, and wants to send them out of the rule as soon as possible, but the clan doesn't think so, no matter how bitter the clansmen are, it is also a family, if they go away because they are poor, it means that the patriarch is not capable, and he can't lead the clansmen to a well-off life. Those poor people do not trust the crown prince recruitment very much, and they are not willing to go to a place where they are not familiar with life to find an uncertain future, and most importantly, they have not seen successful cases, so the recruitment team in 13 counties of Qingzhou Prefecture, a total of more than 300 villages recruited, only more than 100 households were recruited, and on average, only 1 family in three villages was willing to go, which was still because of Bai Xiaode's assistance, otherwise there would be less. Mu Bin and Bai Xiaode had anticipated this situation when Xiao Li Zhuang made the plan, so the result this time did not hit their confidence.

The more than 100 families were first escorted by some brocade guards and took a boat directly on the Grand Canal to the capital, while the rest were divided into two parts, one to Yanzhou Mansion and the other part to Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou Mansion. Bai Xiaode and a deputy commander of Jinyiwei went to Yanzhou, and Mu Bin personally went to Denglai Erzhou.

Let's talk about Bai Xiaode in Yanzhou first, his situation is very stable, more than 20 counties in Yanzhou, nearly 500 villages, a total of less than 200 households have been recruited, but there are still a few households from Henan. The deputy commander of Jinyiwei took these people back to the capital first, and Bai Xiaode took the rest of the people and rushed to Dengzhou to help Mo Bin.

At this time, Mu Bin's team had already traveled all the counties in Laizhou, recruiting a total of more than 50 households, and the rest was the health center in Laizhou. Before they came, they thought that it would be difficult to recruit people, and the facts proved their suspicions. So many counties have recruited less than 400 households in total, and the results are very unsatisfactory. This time, Zhu Houwei gave them the target of 1,000 households, which is still more than half. If you can't do it, then you can only try the military household. The household registration system and the health system of the Ming Dynasty were set since the founding of the country, and the main thing is that the private households can become merchants, military households, artisan households, and can also take official careers, but this is not the case with military households, artisan households, and happy households. Their identity has been like this since birth, the military family is still the military family, the artisan family is still the craftsman, and the same is true of the happy household, basically this is the case for life. It is now the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but the life of the military family is already in dire straits. There are fields in the guards, and these fields are also the main source of livelihood in the guards. However, over the years, the fields of the low-level military households in the guard station have become less and less, and more of them have become the land of Shangguan, and most of the low-level military households are even landless, so they can only help Shangguan farm to obtain income.

If you meet a good Shangguan, you will be rewarded with a mouthful of food, and if you meet someone with a bad character, it will be bitter, and you will work non-stop all year round, you will not be able to eat or dress warmly, and you will have to owe Shangguan debts. It's bizarre to say, but it's normal in the guardhouse.

Because the military households are living very hard, there are basically no civilian households to marry them, and they have to find the same military households to reproduce. Because the family is really poor, when you get married, your daughter marries my son, and my daughter marries your son, and the bride price is low and pitiful, and sometimes there is not even one.

On this day, Mu Bin led the team to the Fushan Front Office in Laizhou. Recruiting people at the guard station was the last resort, and Zhu Houwei also agreed at that time. As soon as he arrived at the Fushan front office, Mu Bin's face slowly sank, and on the way here, he saw a military household working in the fields by the roadside. It's only early March, and the weather is not warm, about 15 to 20 degrees, but the military households in the fields are basically bare-chested, and there are many holes in their pants.

After a while, they arrived at the city in front of Fushan, and the city wall was very powerful. In the thirty-second year of Hongwu (1398), the imperial court set up Aoshanwei in the east of Jimo County, Laizhou, under the jurisdiction of the right, front and back 3 thousand households, of which the former office was set up in Fushanzhai, called "Fushan Beiyu Thousand Households", referred to as Fushan. The south side of Fushansho is close to the sea, and it is an important military building. Fushan Castle is slightly rectangular, 422 meters long from north to south, 403 meters wide from east to west, with a circumference of about 1,500 meters, covering an area of about 17 hectares. This city, which does not look very large today, was built for 14 years. The city wall of Fushan Castle is about 8 meters high and 5 meters thick, and is made of rammed earth, and the outside is also covered with blue bricks, and there are pheasant moats (low walls) on the city, which looks quite large-scale and majestic from the outside of the city. There is a cross street in the city, which can run horses and drive, and the official office is located on the west side of the intersection of the cross street. Two main streets divide the rectangular city into four parts, and the various surname divisions are clustered.

There are a few people waiting at the gate of the city wall, Mu Bin rode forward, only to see that those people have trotted all the way over, 4,5 meters away from Mu Bin and knelt down, the leader said, "Xiaguan Fushan in front of the thousands of households Jin Laibao knock to see the adult." Mu Bin grabbed the reins and said with an expression on his face, "Jin Qianhu, get up." Jin Laibao immediately stood up, looked at Mu Bin flatteringly, and said, "I don't know what the adults are doing here?" If there is anything, you speak, and the lower officials will definitely do it. Jin Laibao looked about 40 years old, less than 1.7 meters, but weighed at least 170 pounds, no wrinkles on his fat face, short and light eyebrows, a pair of goldfish eyes, the most big, wearing a brand-new official uniform, the robe was cyan, embroidered with Biao, and the waist was a plain silver belt. I can see that this person also doesn't know a few big words. "You don't know what this official is coming for?" Mu Bin's eyelids were half-clasped, and he said a little coldly.

Jin Laibao continued to flatter: "My lord, but you are recruiting long-term workers for His Royal Highness the Prince? Mu Bin glanced at him and nodded. Jin Laibao said with an embarrassed face, "Aren't there only civilian households recruiting workers, but there are only military households in the thousands of households." Mu Bin snorted: "Do you want this official to show you the holy decree?" ”

Jin Laibao's face changed, and he hurriedly bent down and arched his hand and said, "Don't dare, don't dare, there are adults here, just listen to the instructions and do it well." The adults must be tired from coming all the way over, why don't you go to the city to rest in the official office for a while, and go down to gather those people, what do you think? ”

Mu Bin nodded, sat on the horse and handed over the reins, Jin Laibao hurriedly took the reins, led the horse, and walked to the official office, and the team behind also slowly walked towards the city.

As soon as he entered the city, Mu Bin frowned involuntarily. Just from the outside, the city wall is majestic and majestic, and the city of Fushan can also be called a strong city, but after entering, I turned my head to see, there are basically no military equipment on it, and it is in disrepair, many battlements have fallen into the earth, only a thin layer is left, and the steps on the city wall are also potholes, if you quickly run along the steps to the city wall, you have to fall.

There is also a peculiar smell from time to time on the street, and there are potholes on the road, and there is a lot of garbage, and there is even human and animal feces on the side of the road. There were no pedestrians on the street, and the houses next to the street were basically closed, but there were people inside, and some of them were looking at Mu Bin's team through the cracks in the doors or windows with a curious, fearful look.

Fushan City is not big, and it will come to the official office after a while. Mu Bin got off the horse and was led to the lobby by Jin Laibao, so he asked him to gather the military households. Jin Laibao walked out quickly, and after a while, the bell rang in the city, and the people who worked in the fields looked at the city with some doubts, and then they all began to walk towards the city, and some people came out of the houses in the city, but there were not many of them, and they were basically women.

It turns out that the military households in Fushan are very poor, how poor are they? Many people can't make a set of clothes. They let their relatives who left the house go out in clothes, and those who don't leave the house stay at home all over. That's why that's the case in the city now.

Mu Bin looked at the decoration of the house in the official office, and it was generally good. In ancient times, there was basically an unspoken rule for officials, that is, officials did not cultivate the government, but it was different in the guard. Civil officials are officials in the county and state, basically they have a certain number of years, and when the time comes, there will be Jingcha, that is, the people above to evaluate your results, if you are good, you will be promoted, and if you can't do it, you will be demoted, or transferred, and when you are old, you will retire, in short, it will change, that is, you will be a liuguan. Many of the thousands of households in the guard house are basically hereditary, so if several generations use an official office, they will naturally build the official office better, and they will live comfortably.

About half an hour later, in the open space in front of the official office, there were about 1,000 military households standing one after another, about 1,000 people, all of whom looked like men and women in the prime of life, and there were very few old people. Mu Bin had already arrived at the gate of the official office and was standing on the steps. Jin Laibao trotted over, smiled like a flower and said, "My lord, people are almost here, you can start." Mu Bin nodded and looked at these military households.