On the eighth day of September, it was Zhang Guodong's wedding.

Zhang Guodong was brought up by Liu Jun, and the two not only have the relationship between their boss and subordinates, but also the names of teachers and students. For the wedding of this beloved general, Liu Jun naturally wanted to attend in person.

Since joining the Hydra, Zhang Guodong has been promoted to a guerrilla general in a short period of time with his hard work and Liu Jun's appreciation and promotion. Such a young guerrilla general is naturally instructed by others, not to mention that he is still a single guerrilla general, and countless families want to marry Zhang Guodong, and even many of them are big families, and even some official gentry families.

But in the end, to everyone's surprise, the young guerrilla general actually chose a married woman to marry. It is even rumored that the woman was once robbed and insulted by bandits. In this matter, at the beginning, the Zhang family was also unwilling. Their family used to be miserable, and their sons in their twenties could not marry a daughter-in-law. Later, Guodong went to participate in the nine-headed bird, and took the money to marry the eldest daughter-in-law.

Seeing that now that his son has finally followed someone and become a general, the Zhang family naturally hopes to marry a gentle and graceful daughter-in-law for his son. But who would have thought that the son would not agree to the initiative of so many jinshi and the old man's family, but he had to marry a married woman, and he was once insulted by bandits.

Father Zhang resolutely disagreed, and Zhang's mother was going to die and cry. In the end, Zhang Guodong found Liu Jun and said that his relationship with Fang Qing was real, and he just wanted to marry her.

Liu Jun listened to these words, and his heart was still very moved, in the era of the Ming Dynasty, there are people who don't care about those worldly eyes, and insist on that feeling, which is really rare. He went to find Fang Qing in person. turned out that Zhang Guodong was simply a fool, and he was fighting to the death with his family, and as a result, he had never officially confessed to Fang Qing at all.

Fang Qing didn't know that Zhang Guodong was going to marry her, and he didn't know that he had a falling out with his family. She and Zhang Guodong have known each other for a long time. She did know that Zhang Guodong had a good impression of her, and she also had a good impression of Zhang Guodong, but she never thought that she would marry him.

"I can't marry him." Fang Qing replied after being surprised, it turned out that the matter between her and her ex-husband had not been broken. Previously, she was captured and humiliated by bandits, and her family did not accept her at all, only as if she were dead. After Liu Jun rescued her, she contacted her husband, but he refused to take her back.

Later, Liu Jun took them in to work in the service club, and then they had a job and a salary, and she sent the salary home. Her husband took it, and then now, it seems that her husband doesn't plan to divorce her, but he doesn't say that he wants to take her back.

Obviously, her family was originally just an ordinary peasant family, and now Fang Qing has more than one or two monthly salaries and bonuses in the service cooperative, which is obviously a lot of money.

Liu Jun didn't expect this to be the case, but he still told her a word very directly.

"Think about who is really good for you. Zhang Guodong, who doesn't care about worldly eyes and gossip, just wants to be with her. Or is it just thinking about her husband's salary. ”

"You will never meet someone who is as good to you as Zhang Guodong again, don't make a choice that you regret."

Liu Jun's persuasion was very effective. Fang Qing finally decided to marry the man who was younger than him but loved him very much, but there was still a trouble, Fang Qing and his husband were still husband and wife.

Liu Jun just smiled, sent someone to pick up her husband, and then made a condition for her husband, one hundred taels of silver. Change a letter of resignation.

The black and thin man didn't expect that his daughter-in-law, who was ruined and ruined, could still be worth so much money, so he pressed his handprint without saying a word, and asked someone to write a letter of divorce and divorce his wife.

Fang Qing witnessed the whole process of her husband divorce her from beginning to end. When she got the letter of resignation, she felt more relieved.

With Liu Jun personally acting as a big matchmaker for the two, the Zhang family also accepted the marriage, and without Liu Jun, there would be nothing about the Zhang family today. Now that the son is bent on marrying that woman, and Liu Dashuai is the matchmaker himself, they can no longer object.

The wedding was scheduled for the eighth day of September.

Zhang Guodong wants to hold a lively wedding, and he doesn't want to wronged Fang Qing. Liu Jun and the generals of the nine-headed bird rushed to congratulate, and many squires and merchants in the vicinity also came uninvited, wanting to use this young general chased out of the poor mountain nest.

Liu Jun still blessed the couple very much and sent a lot of congratulatory gifts. The wedding was very grand, with more than 800 tables, which shocked the entire Macheng, and this pomp made Liu Jun a little surprised. But he didn't say much, Zhang Guodong wanted to be lively, anyway, Zhang Guodong is now worth a lot of money, and there are only hundreds of tables of banquets, rural banquets, although the number of tables is more, but the cost is not much, a table is only one or two silver, this is already the most generous banquet in Taiping Township for hundreds of years.

There are many brothers of the nine-headed bird in Taiping Township, especially Zhangjiazhuang, a small Zhuangzi, there are more than 30 officers and soldiers of the nine-headed bird, and now more than half of these people have official ranks. This time, the remaining sturdy young people in the village are also ready to defect to the nine-headed bird, and the young people from the nearby ten miles and eight townships have already signed up with Zhang Guodong and them.

Liu Jun didn't plan to go back immediately when he came, he stayed in this mountain, saved a lot of social trouble, and there were guests visiting every day in Macheng. Liu Jun walked around the villages and villages every day, visited the homes of the Nine Headed Bird brothers, and then chatted with them, and he also paid special attention to the lives of ordinary people in Taiping Township.

After talking to many people, Liu Jun learned that the life of the people in the mountains is getting more and more difficult, Taiping Township has few fields and many mountains, and the output is not much, but the donation is increasing year by year. Since the beginning of this year, there have been more training salaries, as well as regimental training and rations, and so on, if it weren't for the fact that many children of many families joined the nine-headed bird this year and brought back a lot of money, and then everyone helped each other again, I am afraid that many people would have to flee today.

Once someone flees, then there will be no shortage of food taxes, and the share of those who flee will be distributed to the rest of those who remain.

I heard that in the mountainous areas of Gwangju and Luzhou in Henan Province on the other side of the mountain, many young people in Zhuangzi have some disturbing thoughts, they are unwilling to endure it, and secretly hope that the bandits will come, and even some young people who have no concern take the initiative to leave home to join the bandits, just to survive. No more despair of life, endless exploitation.

"It's better for us to have Taiping Township, with the Hou Ye recruiting troops, everyone has a way out and hope. Marshal, recruit more soldiers. Our guys from Taiping Township are brave and obedient. Recruit more soldiers, and the people of our Taiping Township will have more ways to live. While chatting, a group of old people in the village begged Liu Jun to recruit more young men to serve as soldiers.

For these requirements, Liu Jun also tried his best to meet them, and this time for the expansion, Liu Jun recruited a large number of people in Macheng. For Liu Jun, recruiting new recruits from Macheng are all soldiers from the same township and neighbors. the same accent, say the same thing, everyone knows the roots, the most credible, and easy to manage. Especially in places like Taiping Township, where young children are honest and willing to endure hardships, they will cherish hard-won opportunities.

Every time Liu Jun goes to a village. Always bring a lot of gifts, all of which are very useful food cloths. Door-to-door distribution to people in the village, especially those who are lonely and widowed, disabled families, etc., will give an extra copy.

Liu Jun's reputation has also soared in Taiping Township, and now he has become a living bodhisattva in the hearts of the people, and even every household has begun to erect Liu Jun's immortal tablet. Pray for him day and night.

After living in Taiping Township for several days, Liu Jun returned to Hutou Fort. When they went back, there were also Zhang Guodong and other officers from Taiping Township, as well as thousands of recruits they recruited at home when they returned to their hometowns this time.

As is the old rule, the recruits who pass the recruitment assessment. Liu Jun gave each of them a settling-in allowance of five taels of silver. The salary and reward method of the nine-headed bird have changed a lot, but the settling-in fee has never changed, although it is a large expense.

Back at Tiger Head Fort, there were already many officers and soldiers who had returned first and the recruits they had recruited, and from time to time new teams would return. The officers and soldiers returned to their hometowns for vacation, and when they returned, they all came back with large and small teams.

This time, the nine-headed bird recruited a large number of recruits, in addition to the thousands of recruits recruited when it was in Sichuan, a total of more than 20,000 recruits will be recruited this time. Among them, Liu Jun asked Qin Yimin and Ma Wannian to return to Shizhu to recruit a total of 4,000 white pole soldiers from their headquarters, and Liu Jun would also recruit 20,000 recruits in Macheng and the surrounding areas.

Among them, the focus is on recruiting 10,000 recruits in Macheng.

Tiger Head Fort is becoming more and more lively day by day, and teams are stationed.

This time, Liu Jun did not break up all his veterans, for him, the team that had just been expanded once in Sichuan was originally mostly new recruits. Therefore, this time, Liu Jun changed the new expansion plan, and while recruiting a large number of new soldiers, he maintained the five battalions that had returned from Sichuan, and transferred a group of elite veterans from these five battalions as the backbone to fill the training battalion, and then drew some officers and some recruits from the training battalion to establish a new infantry battalion. Then the baggage battalion was split, and the replenishment of recruits was expanded into two battalions, one baggage battalion and one chariot battalion.

In the end, Liu Jun set up a martial arts lecture hall to train officers at all levels of the whole army in rotation, and at the same time recruited a group of outstanding young people for long-term training of one to two years, and then in the future they served as low-level officers in each battalion, and transferred other foreign trainers such as the Fushe, Baipole Soldiers, and Xiangyong Regiment Training.

In the end, Liu Jun's general standard battalion is two steps, one car, one horse, front and one horse, four general town standard battalions, one general serves as the battalion officer of the Chinese army, and four guerrilla generals serve as the battalion officer of each battalion, in addition, there is another teaching battalion and a baggage battalion, these two battalions are led by two guerrilla generals, and do not belong to the general standard battalion, but they also directly belong to Liu Jun's command.

These six battalions are the elite of the nine-headed bird that Liu Jun wants to prioritize and refine, and the rest of the recruits are partly recruited and trained by the deputy general Qin Yimin, specifically the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the Chongqing deputy general's battalion and the 1,000 soldiers and horses garrisoned by the White Emperor City.

As for the remaining recruits, they include the first-in-command battalion, the four general reinforcement battalions, and the five garrison thousand-man troops.

These two lieutenants, four staff generals, and six garrisons have a total of 22,000 recruits, and only a small number of veterans will be selected to serve as officers, and then they will have to start over.

All ordnance and equipment will be given priority to equipping the six battalions under Liu Jun's direct control.

As soon as he returned to Hutou Fort, Liu Jun immediately received an urgent letter from Yunyang.

"It was sent by Lord Yunfu Zhu, something happened to Yunyang!" (To be continued......)