July 18, 12th year of Chongzhen.

The weather has turned cooler, and the newly repaired Tiger Head Fort has set up a recruitment banner again, and the warriors of the Quartet have come to vote when they hear the news. Many people even came from the capital and provincial capitals, and when they arrived, they found that the tiger head fort was full of brave men who came to recruit, and they thought it was too late, but they did not expect that the tiger head fort recruited a large number of new recruits this time.

"Recruit three thousand recruits!"

"Oh my God, how can you recruit so much." Some people looked at the recruitment list in surprise, a little hard to believe.

The companion next to him hurriedly said, "It's not good to recruit more, but we will have a chance if we recruit more." You didn't see the treatment written on this, all soldiers are paid according to the rank of the soldier, even the lowest level of privates, there are 200 point coupons in January. ”

"What is a point coupon, treasure money?" A young man with a black face on the other side asked busily.

"Oh, you're a foreigner, this coupon is a good thing. With the point coupon, you can go to the military service agency in Hutoubao to exchange things, you can exchange what you want, one hundred points for one or two silver, and the exchange of other goods even has a nine-percent discount, which is quite cost-effective. "The one who spoke was obviously the local.

"That is, there are at least two or two months of silver, if you can really get the full amount, it is much better than the treatment of the border army, and even the family of a good multilateral army is only two or five dollars of silver per month."

"Two, two, five dollars, then you have to be able to get your hands on it, and now the armies in various places don't deduct so much, but they just deduct more and deduct less."

"Nonsense, the nine-headed bird never withholds money, and even does a good job and is often rewarded. There are rewards for good training, and there are rewards for good performance in battle, in short, you have to work hard, and the money is absolutely bright, do you know, those earliest members of the Nine-headed Bird team have only been in the camp for about three months, but do you know, it is said that one of them is called Winter Dog, and he has received hundreds of taels of silver in front. ”

"Wow! ~”

A group of young people who had rushed to apply for the recruitment opened their mouths wide in unison, full of amazement. Most of these people were farmers in the neighborhood or even the sons of some tenants, and even some remnants of the guards, etc., and it was difficult to fill their mouths on weekdays, and it was at most three or four cents of silver to do some work for a day.

Not to mention earning a few hundred taels of silver in three months, that is, earning one or two taels of silver a month, they can already be excited.

"Are you still hiring?" Several people couldn't help but ask.

"Don't worry, I want to recruit 3,000, and it took a few days to recruit, but Liu Shoubei has very strict requirements for recruits, and he has to take many exams in a row, and finally he will be eliminated and selected based on the total score, and we still have a chance."

"Liu Shoubei?"

"It's the boss of the nine-headed bird."

"Isn't he the general manager?"

"When did you have the news, Lord Liu annihilated thousands of bandits last time and made great achievements, and now he has been directly promoted by Prime Minister Xiong to the garrison of Macheng, and he is in charge of the five counties to guard the palace, so he has expanded the soldiers and horses."

"I see, where to sign up, let's hurry up."

A group of young people excitedly searched for the registration office.

In the official hall of Yacheng, Liu Zhaoxing hurriedly ran in, "Second brother, someone has come to visit again, look at the name, it is the surname of Zhu Qianhu of a thousand households in Huangzhou Wei." He said that he had known you for a long time, so he wanted to let him in. ”

Liu Zhao said while tossing a silver ingot of five taels in his hand.

Since Prime Minister Xiong Wencan's promotion order was issued, Liu Jun's identity has been rising gradually, from a county regiment to the general practice, and he has suddenly become the commander of the Macheng garrison, which is a dignified and upright official position.

Liu Zhao, the former logistics manager of the Nine-Headed Bird Firearms Workshop, also immediately followed and the chicken dog ascended to heaven and the tide rose. Originally, he was just in charge of the canteen and dormitory in the firearms workshop. Since Liu Jun was promoted to the garrison of Macheng, countless people have come to visit these days, and Liu Zhao immediately took the initiative to greet him outside.

In fact, he just wanted to show off to the visitors that he was Liu Shoubei's eldest brother, and at the same time to collect the visitors' gifts.

For this big brother who does not seek progress and has no ambitions, Liu Jun can only let him go, but there is one point, he must not deliberately ask for money, nor can he look down on people, and if he has money, he will bring it in and ignore people if he has no money.

"Zhu Qianhu?" Liu Jun suddenly thought of the extremely obese Zhu Pet. This guy is quite familiar, although he is a little cowardly, but he is still a relatively practical person.

"That's an old friend, please let him in."

Speaking of which, Liu Jun is now Zhu Pet's boss. He turned out to be not a person in the same system as Zhu Pet, but because he had studied in Huangzhou Weiwu School, it was also a little related. But this time Liu Jun was promoted to garrison, and according to the usual practice, he was given a guard position, and his guard post was the commander of Huangzhou Wei, which was a four-grade military position, and the higher leader in Huangzhou Wei, even if it was actually just a temporary position, he could not manage the affairs of Huangzhou Wei.

But at least on the surface, he and Zhu Pet are in the same system and in the same Huangzhou Weili. Zhu Pet is also a good person, and as soon as he heard the news, he immediately ran over. He naturally knew that Liu Jun, the boss, actually couldn't control him, but he knew better that Liu Jun was now a garrison at the age of twenty, and he had to be personally promoted by the prime minister, so he obviously had a bright future. But in just a few months, Liu Jun has already sat on the garrison post with his real military exploits again and again, and this garrison position was specially set up for him by the Prime Minister.

People are more angry than people, although he is hereditary from a thousand households, but he is still a thousand households for half a lifetime, and Liu Jun has become his boss in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Pet attaches great importance to this relationship with Liu Jun, and when Baba came over, he also prepared a big gift, ten horses outside the mouth, plus eight hundred and eighty-eight taels of silver, which can be regarded as blood.

There are indeed a lot of people who come to visit Liu Jun these days, and now Liu Jun's Macheng garrison is no longer just a county regimental exercise, but the responsibility of leading the five counties to guard and suppress bandits.

Speaking of which, the martial arts level of the fourth grade seems to be very high, but the Ming Dynasty emphasizes martial arts lightly, and a four-rank garrison is sometimes not as noble as a seven-rank county commander from a jinshi. But this is not absolute, when is it now, when thieves are everywhere, not long this time, it was nearly 20,000 bandits attacking, if it wasn't for Liu Jun and them to repel them, Qi Huang would have been in dire straits.

Therefore, in this situation, Liu Jun, a fourth-grade official, has become very hot again, especially since this is still a garrison with 3,000 soldiers. No one wants to offend Liu Jun, even if they don't want to befriend him, they can't be rude to offend him. The big clans and wealthy families in various counties are lining up to give gifts these days, and all kinds of gifts are directly loaded in carriages.

In addition, such as Lu Jinxi, the magistrate of Macheng, the old boss of Liu Jun, now has to come over to give gifts, although Liu Jun can't manage the magistrate, but the grade is much higher. Usually, everyone can ignore Liu Jun, a martial artist, but in this situation, if you don't have a good relationship, if the thieves attack again, why should Liu Jun save your county first.

In addition, the general practitioners of the counties, as well as the inspections of the inspection divisions, as well as the military attaches of all sizes in the regiments, everyone inevitably has to prepare a courtesy to meet the officials, maybe the new garrison lord doesn't care about your fifty taels of silver, but if you don't give it, he may immediately write you down.

Especially after Liu Jun was promoted to the garrison, the positions of Macheng regimental training and Hutouguan patrol were vacant, and many people wanted to ask for this position.

Zhu Pet also came today, of course, not to seek the position of general practitioner or inspector, he just wanted to have a good relationship with Liu Jun.

In fact, Liu Zhao has been busy in the past few days, and he also wants to make some progress, but unfortunately he is embarrassed to talk to his brother. Yesterday, my sister-in-law came over and said that she had brought Liu Jun some home-cooked dishes, but she actually took the opportunity to mention this matter to Liu Jun. According to the meaning of the sister-in-law, Liu Jun is now on guard, so it is also appropriate to bring his own brother by the way.

However, my sister-in-law didn't go too far, I just wanted to mention it in my hand, but I didn't ask for any position.

Liu Jun still has a good impression of his sister-in-law, so he can't refuse such a request, and finally promised that she will consider it, but he hasn't thought about what to do with the specific arrangements, and it remains to be seen.

Zhu Pet didn't come alone, but also brought several young people.

"Who are these?" Liu Jun got up and stepped forward and asked with a smile.

Zhu Pet walked in with a big fat belly, and when he saw Liu Jun first trotting two steps, and then actually wanted to kneel, Liu Jun hurriedly held on. Zhu Pet still did a lot of work, and Liu Jun used a lot of strength to pull him up. After getting up, Zhu Pet immediately called several young people forward.

"Why don't you come over and meet Liu Shoubei and call Uncle Shi."

"Meet Uncle Liu Shi." Several young people are about eighteen or nineteen years old, all of them are very strong, and they are not fat like Zhu Pet, but they still look a little similar on their faces.

"They are all my sons and nephews, the two on the left are my concubines, and the five on the right are the sons of my three brothers. They are all strong young men, and they have usually practiced riding and archery, and they can even fire guns. Put it in the guardhouse, that is, fool around. I thought, since Brother Liu wants to recruit troops here, our own family can't support it, so I simply called all these boys. If you don't have to leave someone in the family to inherit the family business, I will send you the eldest as well. ”

Liu Jun looked at the seven young people, all of whom were more than 1.7 meters tall, which was considered tall at this time. And it's not a loss that he is the son of a military attache in the guard, who has practiced in elementary school, and his physical fitness is good.

"They are all good seedlings, but there is an ugly saying ahead, the nine-headed bird camp has no love to talk about, and there is no back to go. Therefore, although you are the nephews sent by Zhu Qianhu, if you want to enter the nine-headed bird camp, then you have to treat it all from scratch and start from the low. When you enter the camp, you all have to start with the privates, what is a private? It's the lowest-level big head soldier. If you want to be the captain of the army, the captain of the team, the flag general and even the general manager of the hundreds, you can, you can climb up step by step with your ability. ”

Zhu Pet's face was a little sneering when he heard Liu Jun's words, he didn't expect Liu Jun to be a little affectionate.

Surprisingly, however, the seven young men did not show the slightest impatience, their faces were calm, and they shouted loudly, "Understood! ”

"Very good young people, if you are willing to put them with me to train, then I will accept them." Liu Jun turned his head to Zhu Pet and said.

Zhu Pet originally wanted to go through the back door, send his nephews into the nine-headed bird, and then let the nephews be the general flag of the team or something, and then follow to make some meritorious contributions in the future, and then earn an officer or something, it is better than staying in the guard station and getting rotten and moldy. Unexpectedly, Liu Jun actually let them start as small soldiers.

He hesitated a little, but several Zhu family disciples agreed, and finally Zhu Pet had to smile and say, "Okay, that's it." ”

asked someone to take the seven Zhu family children to the registration office, although Liu Jun had agreed to accept a few people, but he also had to go through a fair assessment, and if he didn't reach the goal, he might be eliminated.

It's not that Liu Jun is unsympathetic, but after the rise of the nine-headed bird, many people want to send their nephews into the nine-headed bird. Some really want their nephews to find a way out to earn fame and fame on their own, while many people simply treat the nine-headed bird as a gilded place, and let their children come in and mix with official bodies and the like.

In this regard, no matter how big it is, Liu Jun will refuse politely, he has made a rule, everyone must be assessed and selected, and those who fail to pass the grades will be returned no matter who sends them.

"Brother Liu, I still want to make a deal with you here, I don't know if I can do it." Zhu Pet said the second purpose of the trip. "I want to buy the kind of flying dragon gun I used last time in Huang'an City from my brother, and I am going to purchase a hundred, and I also want to purchase ten tiger squat guns."

Last time in Huang'an City, Zhu Pet almost fell inside. After that, he also had some introspection, his thousand households had long been rotten, although it was not rotten in his hands. But it turned out that he could still be mixed, but now there are wars everywhere, and his thousand households are often transferred, and it is possible to be lucky once or twice, but it is impossible to be lucky all the time. In case of a tough battle, you have to have a few pieces of life-saving equipment, anyway, you can't buy that kind of tigers running together, pure fucking cutting corners.

Thinking about it, Liu Jun's flying dragon gun is still powerful, with a fixed paper bullet and the self-firing door cover, it is really much more convenient and fast, especially the nine-headed bird's fire gun is obviously more sophisticated, and there is basically no explosion. Moreover, it is safer to be equipped with firearms than to buy knives and guns, and to shoot them far away when fighting.

He has a team of fifty family members under his command, and if they can all be equipped with this advanced dragon gun, then they will be able to lose some family members less in future battles.

"Oh, I didn't expect Brother Zhu to have this need, of course it's no problem. Our Wyvern Gun can be called the strongest fire gun today, not I blow it, the range of one hundred and twenty steps, even if the thief is wearing a wet blanket, it can still penetrate it. And you also know that a lot of guns are easy to blow up, and one gun can only shoot thirty or fifty rounds, but our Wyvern guns, I promise you, each gun tube can shoot at least 500 rounds, as long as you don't deliberately put several lead bullets into the gun, our Wyvern gun is not in danger of exploding! ”