Chapter 32 Recruitment in Shandong
After the three of them came out of the imperial study, they went straight to Xiao Li Zhuang. It didn't take long to arrive at Lao Li's house. Jin Yiwei is known as a civil and military official, and whatever he said to his concubine overnight, he could send the original version of the words to the emperor's table the next day, but there was not so much supervision over the poor people in the countryside. Now Bai Xiaode knows the most about the people in Shandong who may be instigated, and the three of them came over to understand the situation first, and then formulated a strategy.
Several people sat down in the hall, and only the two brothers Zhu Houzhao, Bai Xiaode, Mu Bin and Lao Li participated in the discussion. As for how to deal with the possible civil unrest, everyone agreed that recruiting workers was a good choice. Most of the people who were incited were landless people, and it was easier to move them to leave their homeland and come to the capital to work.
In the end, Bai Xiaode automatically asked Ying to go to Shandong to recruit people. Everyone else agreed, after all, he was originally from Shandong, and he had a good reputation there, so it was more reassuring to have him there. Zhu Houzhao's brothers couldn't go far away, they were too young, and finally decided to let Mu Bin personally lead the team, Bai Xiaode assisted from the side, and Zhu Fu sent 100 14,5-year-old first-term students to be responsible for registration. Mu Bin also went to Hongzhi to ask Zhang Shengzhi for advice, and asked the local government to assist together, and all the procedures to be done were immediately implemented. The road guidance system implemented by the Ming Dynasty greatly restricted the travel of the people, once it was necessary to cross the prefecture or even the province, it must have the road guide issued by the government, otherwise it would be arrested as a spy.
Jinyiwei also has to dispatch a large number of people, one is responsible for notifying the people to gather, the other is to protect the operation personnel this time, the diehards who came to the capital have been eliminated, but there will definitely be other existences in the local area, and there are many sects in Shandong, Henan and other places, and the possibility of being mixed into the spies sent by the little prince has also greatly increased. Interestingly, when Li Denghui first came to Shandong, he issued a road guide issued by Datong Mansion in Shanxi, and it seems that the important town in the north also has an unclean side.
In the end, it was discussed that the operation team should set off in 2 days, one is that Mu Bin will start to organize manpower, and on the other hand, it is necessary to build more Zhuge crossbows, which is still very practical in small-scale battles.
Originally, Zhu Houwei said that he would build 5,000 houses, and it was expected that about 20,000 people would come, but everyone else except Zhu Houzhao advised him not to use so much, and there would not be so many people. Zhu Houwei doesn't know much about the psychology of the people in this era, although he knows that everyone pays attention to "things are expensive to leave their hometowns, people are cheap to leave their hometowns", "it is difficult to leave their homeland", and they are almost full of food, and these people will definitely make changes, but he still underestimates the persistence of people in this era to their hometowns.
Early in the morning two days later, the team set off, Bai Xiaode went to Shandong this time without bringing his daughter, leaving her at Lao Li's house, Mu Bin brought 500 people this time, and a large number of local Jinyi guards joined when they arrived in Shandong. These hundreds of people are wearing flying fish suits, with an embroidered spring knife pinned to their waists, and there is a wooden round Jinyiwei waist card hanging on the belt, with two dragons on both sides, just surrounding the entire waist card, and in the middle is the position and name of Jinyiwei. These 500 people are all middle-aged men with big shoulders and round waists, and they are divided into 2 columns and stand on the side of the road in Xiaolizhuang, with amazing momentum. The number of people in Xiao Li Zhuang is much larger than before, but it is much quieter than usual, and the deterrent power of Jinyiwei is still very great. After a while, Mu Bin accompanied the two Zhu Houzhao brothers, followed by 100 first-term students who went to Shandong this time. There were some whispers just now, but now the whole thing is quiet, only the occasional snort of the 200 horses brought by Jinyiwei. Zhu Houzhao's carriage was still about 20 meters away from the team, and Jinyiwei knelt down on one knee at the same time, clenched his hands into fists in front of him, and lowered his head, "See His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Second Prince, and the Commander." The voice was loud and powerful, and the people of the village knelt down as well. Zhu Houzhao jumped out of the carriage at this time, stretched out his hand and said, "Get up." "His Royal Highness Prince Xie." They all stood up on their knees. Zhu Houwei, who was sitting in the carriage, did not get out of the carriage, but opened the curtain of the carriage to watch, and couldn't help but think in his heart, "If I can lead the army to fight, the number of people does not need to be large, even if it is 35,000." "Men always have some natural affinity for the military.
Zhu Houzhao said in front of the team, "In this mission, you must do your best, there must be no mistakes, and when you come back, you will be rewarded for your meritorious deeds." "Obedience." 500 brocade guards replied at the same time. They all have a good impression of the prince, because they used to sell books and newspapers, and all the errands were paid, so this time the task released by the prince was enthusiastically signed up by Jinyiwei. Zhu Hou took care of their morale, waved his hand and shouted, "Go", 200 of the 500 people turned over and got on horseback, walked in front, followed by Jinyi Wei on foot, went to the front, wrapped the 100-person carriage in the procession, and then continued to move forward. Zhu Houwei jumped out of the carriage at this time and said to Mu Bin, who was standing next to the carriage, "This time, I have to ask Commander Mu to protect these 100 people." "Zhu Houwei attaches great importance to the students of Zhu Mansion, because it is not easy to cultivate, to teach these people some modern military management behavior and modern knowledge, it does not cost a lot of money, but it takes a lot of effort, some time ago Zhu Houwei has been a teacher, often feel mental fatigue, teaching students is not so easy, especially want to teach excellent talents.
After listening to this, Mu Bin arched his hands and said, "Weichen will not disgrace his life", and then said goodbye to Zhu Houzhao and the two brothers, turned over and began to rush to the front of the team. Bai Xiaode also said goodbye at this time and caught up with Mu Bin.
Jin Yiwei is gone, and the life of the village has begun. Now the brick kiln has added manpower, and a new brick kiln is being built, in order to build the house at the foot of the mountain as soon as possible to accommodate the people from Shandong. There is a lot of work to be done now, the seeds that have been selected are to be planted in the ground, fruit trees are to be planted in the mountains, and fish ponds along the rivers are to be dug up. The construction of such a large project as the reservoir can only be started after people come from Shandong, and there is a serious shortage of manpower.
Not long after sitting in Guan Zhuang's Mansion, Gu Dayong came with the report made by the first student. "Xiao Ye (the title of the eunuch of the East Palace to the prince), this is less than 1 month after the start of construction, the silver money and grain will flow out, and now it has spent more than 20,000 taels, the food for the work in the village is provided by the village, and now it has eaten 600 stones, this time I went to Shandong and brought 30,000 taels of silver, and they will come back with a lot of mouths, within a few months, this Zhuangzi will not be able to support it, and the old slave is anxious in his eyes." When Zhu Houwei heard this, he looked at Zhu Houzhao, "You didn't tell him?" Zhu Houzhao smiled, "I forgot." Zhu Houwei rolled his eyes at Zhu Houzhao, then took the report in Gu Dayong's hand and looked at it. Zhu Houzhao coughed, and said to Gu Dayong seriously, "Dayong, if you have any difficulties, come and tell me, I will solve it, let you be this steward is not that I don't want to see you, but it is useful, these Zhuangzi are very heavy, do you understand?" If the money and food are not enough, I will move it from the Zhu Mansion, you can put down your heart" Gu Da choked up in his voice at this time, knelt on the ground and replied, "What did you say, the old slave was also blindfolded, and thought that the young master thought that the old slave was not serving well, and kicked the old slave out of the palace, the old slave really deserved to die." Saying that, he actually cried, Zhu Houzhao's face slowed down, "Okay, how old are you, don't cry so badly, you can do it well, I won't forget you, get up quickly." Gu Dayong got up with thanks, when Liu Jin came to Gu Dayong with an expression that was not yin or yang, he told him to be in charge of the village, Gu Dayong almost collapsed in his heart, out of the palace, it was basically equivalent to distribution, away from the center of power, but he later found that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Second Highness had to come to the village almost every day, and he began to feel that this Huangzhuang was not simple, with what Zhu Houzhao said to him today, he was completely relieved, but thinking of the tormented mood a few days ago, it was difficult to calm down for a while.
Zhu Houwei next to him didn't care about their master-servant, and at this time he said to Gu Dayong, "You and those people in the Zhu Mansion said that in the future, the report will be counted once a month, in duplicate. Gu Da wiped his tears with his sleeve, "Yes, Second Highness, the old slave will order to go down." With that, he took his leave.
Zhu Houwei was still sitting on the chair and thinking about how to arrange the work of the villagers during this time, but Zhu Houzhao said in a somewhat aine manner: "Bai Yulian, what do you think?" After finishing speaking, he looked at Zhu Houwei with bright eyes. Zhu Houwei replied without thinking, "Little chicken belly, inexplicable girl." Although they often met during this time, Bai Yulian didn't give Zhu Houwei a good look, and she didn't even get her smiling face with Zhu Houzhao, and the only thing that the three brothers and sisters could make Bai Yulian smile was the little girl.
At this time, Zhu Houwei came back to his senses and said, "No, you have nothing to ask her to do?" Then he looked at Zhu Houzhao a little strangely. After staring for a while, Zhu Houzhao couldn't hold it anymore, his face was a little red, his eyes didn't look at his younger brother, but stared at the pillar in the hall, pretending not to care and said, "It's nothing, just ask, do you know her?" She's not that bad, is she? Zhu Houwei understood, this brother fell in love with that girl, I didn't see that Zhu Houzhao, who had always been heartless, had a little red on his face, and thought, "The ancients are really precocious enough, this is only 13 years old, and in the next generation, he is just in the first year of junior high school, so he began to fall in love?" It's just that this taste is not good, for the kind of girl who is quite unreasonable and doesn't know how to be grateful, I won't be tempted" Zhu Houwei thought about it and said jokingly, "Whether she is good or not, whether she is bad or bad has nothing to do with me, anyway, she doesn't want to pay attention to me, I don't want to pay attention to her, everyone is fine, it's good, if you really care, then get to know this person yourself, what I said is not important." ”
Zhu Houzhao continued to study the pillar, and said "not carelessly", "I just asked, I didn't plan to understand, just talk about it." ”
Spring is indeed a wonderful season for animals to reproduce.