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After a few rooster cries in the distance, the roosters of the Winter Dog family also began to resonate.

The sky was about to dawn, Liu Jun walked out of the courtyard in his clothes, and the night sky before dawn seemed darker and darker. A few shadows were jumping, and Liu Jun took a few steps closer, only to find that it was the winter dog and the dog left, who were leading a group of young students to practice their steps there.

Winter Dog has a bit of an instructor's taste, he is shirtless, standing on the drying field outside the courtyard, his movements are agile, his steps are standard, and his legs and feet are strong. Liu Jun looked at it and was very happy in his heart.

In the past few days, Winter Dog has become a celebrity in Taiping Township. The villagers in the nearby Shili Bazhuang all knew that there was a descendant named Dong Gouzi in Zhangjia Village, Shiling, who participated in the county's township regiment more than two months ago, and then made great contributions, not only received a lot of silver rewards, but even promoted to official and became the team leader.

Many people rushed to see how developed this baby in the mountains was and what was the difference. Looking at the novelty items brought back by the winter dog, everyone believed those rumors, and it was really developed. Otherwise, you see that the big white rice is piled up like a hill, and there are several baskets of it, and there are such good things as silk, and there are several horses.

Look at the winter dog that is wearing, with a robe and long boots, the whole person is full of red light, and he is completely from the city.

And then, more people came. The relatives of the three aunts and eight aunts of the Zhang family all came to visit, and the matchmakers in the township also rushed to the scene, and the threshold of the Zhang family was about to be broken. They were all dragged by the families of those women who were of the right age to marry nearby, and took the initiative to come to Zhang's house to propose marriage, and offered a lot of good conditions, and they didn't even want a bride price, just hoping to marry their daughter to the Zhang family to live a good life, and they could eat white rice and wear silk in the future.

Some people saw that Zhang Donggou was too popular, so they simply turned to the second, asking the matchmaker to marry Zhang Donggou's younger brother, and even dragging the matchmaker to propose to Zhang Donggou's sisters.

For a few days, people came and went in the remote Zhangjia Village, and the Zhang family was full of guests.

This meeting made Daddy Zhang feel very face-saving, and he warmly welcomed anyone who came to him. In the past, I had never eaten white rice for a few days, and I had never drunk a few taels of good wine, but now I generously let the winter dog treat the tea, sugar, rice, and wine that I brought back.

In addition to those who came to propose, many people brought their own offspring to come, and they also wanted their children to enter the township group to eat food and get paid like winter dogs.

For these people's expectations, Liu Jun did not completely refuse.

He originally came to recruit some new recruits this time, and he carefully assessed and selected the young people who came to him. Among them, three young people such as Ergou were picked in Zhangjia Village, and later Liu Jun went to Gouyu's house again, and when he came back, he brought back several suitable young people.

Then Liu Jun simply set up a recruitment flag in Zhangjia Village, with more than ten brothers such as Zhang Shan and Dong Gouzi and Gou Yu two to help, the recruitment went very smoothly, originally he only planned to recruit twenty or thirty people first, but he didn't expect to find that in the pits of the poor countryside of Taiping Township, there are many young people with quite good conditions.

Although these young people say that their families are poor, many of them have good brute strength, and many of them shoot well with hunting bows. The reason is that the two dogs have been chopping wood for a long time, especially the miscellaneous wood stakes that have been cut down into firewood to buy, and they have chopped firewood for more than ten years, and the two big axes are more comfortable than kitchen knives. Such a person, as a front-row knife player, that is absolutely suitable.

Left picking, right picking, there are too many excellent good soldiers, and in the end, Liu Jun still recruited one hundred and twenty recruits. Liu Jun also figured it out, since he wants to recruit new soldiers, where to recruit is not to recruit. Although it is said that the recruits were recruited from Taiping Township this time, it may be that the soldiers from Taiping Township may be in the team in the future. However, in the early days, recruits from the same region will allow them to adapt to the new team more quickly. And the team will definitely expand in the future, and then try to recruit as few soldiers from Taiping Township as possible.

It was still a holiday, and after Liu Jun recruited 120 soldiers, his original intention was to let them go back to their respective homes first, and then they would report to the Queen City in a few days, and then give them a settlement silver, uniforms, etc. As a result, these recruits were so excited that they refused to go home at all, so they stayed at Zhang's house and didn't leave.

Liu Jun had no choice but to let them stay, he took a sum of money out and asked the Zhang family to help take care of their food, and arranged to sleep in the villagers' houses at night.

Liu Jun didn't arrange training or anything, but Dong Gouzi and Gou Yu got up every morning at dawn to exercise, and then these guys also got up, and finally Dong Gouzi and the two simply became recruit instructors, and took the content they learned from training not long ago to teach these fellow recruits one by one.

Although Liu Jun had no opinion on these unexpectedly, he didn't take it seriously at first, but after only a few days, the two two-knife instructors of Dong Gouzi and Gou Yu actually really trained the one hundred and twenty recruits.

At least, turning left and right will not turn wrong, and even when walking in unison, it is quite neat.

"This batch of recruits is good." Zhang Shan also got up and said beside Liu Jun.

"Well, I plan to wait for the rest to be over, and then tidy up our nine-headed bird team again, and the current front and rear flags will be incorporated into the Central Military Bureau, and outside the left and right flags, a new middle flag will be added, and the three banners will be all equipped with horses. In addition, an infantry bureau was formed, under which three infantry flags were under its jurisdiction. In this way, when the time comes, we will be the establishment of three bureaus of one division. ”

"It's so big?" Zhang Shan was a little surprised.

Liu Jun whispered to him, "Tell you one thing, the public album may quit the Hydra team after returning home this time, and we will only be in this team in the future." Moreover, now that thieves are resurrecting in various places, I am sure that this time the thieves are not just making small fights, and the court is likely to be difficult to suppress these thieves. It is also difficult for us to be stable in eastern Hubei anymore, and in the future, we will no longer be just some thieves and thieves, but most likely those bandits and giants who are running all over the world. We happen to have a batch of money and grain in our hands now, and the support of the Li family's Mei family, so we should take advantage of this time to strengthen the nine-headed bird. ”

"And then?" Zhang Shan asked. He is not surprised that Li Chunjiang may quit. But for the sworn brother Liu Jun who is bent on expanding the nine-headed bird, he has some puzzles, such as what are they going to do after the expansion?

"Kill thieves and defend the country." Liu Jun said eight words. In fact, he wanted to say that he would go all out to strengthen himself and prepare for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to go south a few years later. But even if he really said this, I am afraid that not only Zhang Shan does not believe it, but also those squires in Macheng estimate that few people will believe that the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be able to destroy the Ming Dynasty in a few years.

In the eyes of many squires, the Manchu Houjin was too far away, and in their eyes, the Houjin was not as threatening to them as a few surrounding thieves. They generously took money to help the township regiment, but they refused to pay money to support the imperial court's use of troops in Liaodong, in the final analysis, they felt that Houjin was still far away from them, anyway, the sky was falling, and there were Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan.

Zhang Shan was a little silent, feeling that he couldn't keep up with his eldest brother's thinking.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from outside: "Where is the head of the nine-headed bird's Liu team?" ”

"What people!"

Outside, the winter dog asked with a shout, and at the same time pulled up an array with a group of recruits, stopping a rider who was galloping.

Liu Jun looked up, only to see that in the morning light, a horse galloped forward, and from a distance, he could see that the horses were sweating all over their bodies, and the knights on the horses had already been wet with sweat.

"Who are you?" Liu Jun shouted loudly.

The knight was stopped, rolled off his horse, and gasped, "I'm looking for Captain Liu of the Nine-headed Bird, there is an emergency." ”

"Let him come." Liu Jun shouted, stepping forward.

The man was tired, so the winter dog and the dog were left to help him to Liu Jun.

Liu Jun looked at the man again, and saw that he seemed to be a post man.

"I'm Liu Jun, the deputy of the nine-headed bird, what's the urgency you're looking for me?"

"I am a post guard of Taipingyi, and I am on the order of the inspection of Hutou Guan Zhao, and I have come here to ask Captain Liu for help. The thieves surrounded Inspector Zhao and a group of archer brothers, and now they are in danger, so please ask Captain Liu to rescue them quickly. The postman gasped.

Dong Gouzi whispered to Liu Jun on the side, "The Taiping Post is not far from here, and the post station is under the jurisdiction of the Hutouguan Inspection Department in the north. Zhao Patrol is the inspection of the Hutou Pass Inspection Division, and there are twenty archers under his command, not only guarding the Hutou Pass, but also the entire Taiping Township is under his control. ”

There are thirteen Xiongguan on Dabie Mountain, and five passes are in the north of Macheng.

Liu Jun also knows something about the inspection department, and in the four years of Hongwu, the imperial court has an inspection department in Hutou Pass.

According to the Ming Dynasty, the Inspection Department often sets up Guanjin and key places. The inspector is responsible for inspecting pedestrians, cracking down on smuggling, apprehending thieves, and maintaining the safety of business travel. The Hutouguan Inspection Department is also in charge of the Taiping Station.

The inspection department is somewhat similar to the police station, but the power is greater than the police station, and it is an important dispatch agency set up by the government at the township level below the county level.

The inspection department of Hutou Pass was set up on Hutou Pass, seventy miles north of the county, and was guarded by an inspection from Jiupin, with an independent inspection department yamen, as well as classics, scribes and twenty archers.

The main task in normal times is to catch thieves, and then to be responsible for inspecting transactions and cracking down on smuggling.

There are more than 1,000 such inspection divisions in the world, and the inspection is only a petty official from the ninth grade, but the task on his head is extremely heavy.

Hutou Pass is an important passage between Huguang Huangzhou and Henan Gwangju, guarding Guanghuang Avenue.

Liu Jun didn't expect that the Hutou Pass inspection would actually send someone here to ask him for help.

"Bring water to this brother." Liu Jun shouted, bring the water, the post guard drank several sips, and finally got better.

"You say slowly, what the hell is going on?" Liu Jun asked.