Chapter 24: Recruitment Noise

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The day of Wuli Village in midsummer is so poisonous, the time has just arrived at noon, the whole Wuli Village has been smoked and roasted to the seedlings, the rice has almost reached the harvest season, and the lifeless nest is nested in the field, only the sound of knowing one after another is still making noise for a while, but it is also called weak.

On the edge of the Sanggan River, the two sisters walked side by side. Yuling was holding a few washed clothes, while Yulong was holding a wooden basin, and the two walked through the white and bright sun, and the scorching heat of the afternoon made the two of them have a lazy sleepiness on their white and pure faces. Scattered on the empty embankment were a few sheep grazing at unknown homes. There was a sheep that was white and black, with mottled patterns like a cow, and Yulong whispered to her sister: "This must be this little flower sheep made by a white sheep and a black sheep together." ”

The two sisters stopped at a stone step by the river, where many women in Wuli Village liked to come to do laundry, and the water of the Sanggan River has nurtured their ancestors for countless years, and they have been thriving here. But these days the Sanggan River is getting less and less, many places have exposed the dry riverbed, when the Linglong sisters came to the river, they saw more than a dozen ragged women were talking and laughing loudly by the river, while beating their clothes with a wooden pestle, after seeing the arrival of the Linglong sisters, these women showed a trace of awe in their eyes, and even their voices were much smaller, because they recognized that these two beautiful girls were from Yuejiazhuang, and Yuejiazhuang was not only their food and clothing parents for them, The owner of Yuejiazhuang is a well-meaning landlord.

"Sister, why do they all look at us like this?" For the sunshine of these women, Yulong seemed very uncomfortable, squatted down and shrank to her sister's side and asked in a low voice, she is rarely out of Zhuangzi is unfamiliar with this kind of gaze.

"Because we are Yuejiazhuang, and we are also the young master's people." Yu Ling, who had long regarded herself as someone next to Yue Yang, had a hint of pride and honor in her voice, and there was a hint of blush on her little face that she didn't know whether it was afternoon or shyness.

At this moment, a trace of talking voices also came into their ears, "Cui'er and her mother, look at it, it's really a sin, you said that the water of the Sanggan River has dried up like this, the Wang family, the Li family and the Lin family are still digging ditches to divert water so desperately, and if they divert water like this, the Sanggan River will probably be dug up." ”

"Who's to say it isn't, but what's the solution? The young masters of Yuejiazhuang have already agreed to others, so the three families are so unscrupulous in digging ditches to divert water. A middle-aged woman with an honest face looked at the figure on the other side of the river in the distance, who was busy digging the embankment, and scolded unconvinced.

"But we don't have to be afraid, didn't Young Master Yue send someone to dig a lot of wells for us, we don't have to worry about running out of water to irrigate the land, it's nothing if this water is given to them." Another woman on the side spoke.

"But just watching them drain the river, I just don't accept it."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, the river will be there again after the rainy season or next year."

Several women were discussing the recent birth, and the voice was quite low just now, but then the voice became louder and louder, and even the Linglong sisters heard it. Soon, though, a voice caught the attention of the women around her.

"Eh, you've heard, Yuejiazhuang began to recruit group exercises, I heard that the treatment is very good, not only has a settlement fee, but also a tael of silver every month, now many people in Wulizhai have signed up, if you can become a village soldier, presumably the future life is not to worry."

Hearing this, a woman said with a somewhat angry look; "It's not, our family went to apply for a job yesterday, but unfortunately it was brushed off on the spot, I heard that it was because he was too old, but my man is only thirty-two this year, why can't he do it?"

"Hehe......" The women around laughed, "Everyone has said it, as long as a young man between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five, your pillars are sixteen years old, can you be a man who is not old?" According to me, it's almost as good as letting your pillar sign up. ”

"Yes, I can see your pillars, strong and solid, and you look like a strong guy."

"Ah......h Even if my man goes to be a village soldier, my pillar is only sixteen years old, and I won't let him eat this bowl of severed head rice. The woman's demeanor was very resolute.

"Huh...... Why is this person like this, what a good thing it is for the young master to recruit village soldiers, why can't they understand the young master's kindness. Yulong on the side was a little angry when he heard this,

was about to stand up and reason with these women, but was quickly stopped by Yuling, who shook her head gently at Yulong, signaling her not to be impulsive, because Yuling knew that some things were not clear.

In fact, after the news that Yuejiazhuang began to recruit township soldiers spread, it really alarmed Wulizhai for dozens of miles, and everyone's reactions were different. There are applauded, some disdainful, and some watched. But this condition set by Yue Yang did attract a lot of people, and it also made many people who lived in poverty moved, so that many idle laborers and men in the family began to sign up, but to everyone's surprise, Yuejiazhuang's recruitment conditions were surprisingly harsh. The first condition made everyone bite their tongues, because the first condition stipulates that the age of recruitment is sixteen to twenty-five years old, and it is okay to be out of this age, but it must be more than 500 literate, and this alone has stopped nearly fifty percent of the people.

"Young master, isn't your condition too much, I'm afraid we won't be able to find qualified soldiers if we continue like this, why don't you relax the recruitment conditions?"

In front of the gate of Yuejiazhuang, Hu Laosan, the nurse of Yuejiazhuang, looked at the sparse figures who came to sign up and was a little sad, because it had been three days, but less than 400 people had been recruited, less than half of the scheduled number, which also made Hu Laosan worried, and implored Yueyang to relax the conditions for recruitment.

"It's better to lack than to be indiscriminate, our team training would rather be lacking than recruit those who are indiscriminate." Influenced by the elite soldier policy of later generations, Yue Yang's conditions for recruiting soldiers naturally also brought the heavy traces of later generations, after all, twenty-five years old is already the limit of what he can bear, Yue Yang really can't imagine, in this era when the average life expectancy is only more than forty years old, why recruit a group of uncles in their thirties and almost forty years old, is it because Zhuangzi's food is too much?

Seeing Yue Yang's resolute attitude, Hu Laosan could only give up. Although he was the head of Yuejiazhuang's courtyard, Yue Yang was unusually arbitrary in this matter, and would never allow anyone to change his decision.

Suddenly, Yue Yang remembered something, turned his head and asked, "By the way, Master Hu, have all the township soldiers who were brought in before settled down?" ”

"It's arranged, and they're all settled in the newly built row of bungalows on the north side of Zhuangzi." For Yueyang's orders, Hu Laosan did not dare to be sloppy, and now Yueyang has established initial prestige in Yuejiazhuang and Wulizhai because of the matter of fighting weapons and organizing group exercises.

"Let's go, go over and have a look!" Yue Yang waved his hand and walked towards the north side of Zhuangzi......

The north side of Yuejiazhuang was originally a wasteland, because the land here belongs to the salty salt land and does not produce food, and there are many broken stones, so no one has ever been interested in this place, but it is a natural school field. After Yueyang ordered people to build a few rows of temporary wooden houses on this wasteland, it became a military camp for Yueyang to settle the regiment to train the township soldiers, and now hundreds of township soldiers selected by Yueyang from Wuli Village have gathered here.

Since there was no one to control them, and they had just entered the barracks, these people had become idlers who were uncontrolled, scurrying around one by one, and the entire school field was filled with all kinds of figures and shouts, which was also the scene that Yue Yang saw when he first came in.

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