Wearing a military uniform, Xiangma has occupied Chenjiaya for 20 days, and Chenjiaya is calm on the surface, and in this sudden "catastrophe", Chenjiaya has no casualties, no property loss, and no earth-shaking changes like Zhengjiazhuang. Everything is still the same, that is, the more than 20 ringing horses stationed in Chenjiaya, which has only become a scenery added to the villagers who live a dull life and rarely talk about it. The dolls always gathered around to watch the horses when they were exercising outside the Nanzhai Gate, and later they added idlers, and even some older women became spectators.

Chen Chao has seen the drill of the ringing horse twice, although they only have more than 20 people, but the momentum they show is as straight as thousands of horses! Chen Chao sighed in his heart, no wonder Zheng Jing's village soldiers couldn't resist it, the difference between this soldier and the soldier was really no better than not knowing the way.

Xiangma did not infringe on the villagers. But the change is that the villagers are becoming more and more restless. Chen Gouyu and a few others were the first to "defect" to Xiangma, and they took Xiangma to their home to help Xiangma do things. Chen Gouyu got an errand in the ordnance group of Xiangma, and it is said that Xiangma gave a lot of money. Later, even the honest blacksmith Chen was hooked by Chen Gou, and he didn't see each other every day, and he heard his family say that the blacksmith Chen lived in Zhengjiazhuang and had a lot of work in his hands. Of course, there is also a lot of money to be earned.

Later, there was news that Zhengjiazhuang divided the land, grain, gold and silver. This news made Chen Chao unable to sit still. I always feel that the villagers who used to be deferential to him have begun to look at themselves in a different light. Of course, Chen Chao knew that this was all caused by the changes in Zhengjiazhuang.

Niece Chen Shu felt anxious. persuade my uncle to go to Long Qian quickly.

Chen Chao was silent. Chen Shu said, fortunately, you have a little friendship with him after all, and a meal is also a friendship. What's more, our family treated him well that time. Moreover, I feel that that person is quite sensible, and his soldiers are also well-behaved. If you wait for the people in the village to come, it will be too late.

Chen Chao was shocked, will the people in the village make trouble? No way?

"Oh, uncle, you don't want to think about what could be more pleasant than getting land, gold, silver and grain out of thin air? You haven't bullied the villagers in our village, but most of them are poorer than our family, right? Sometimes it's a sin to be rich, like now. I'm young and ignorant, but I think that Long Qian is a savior. ”

After a fierce ideological struggle, Chen Chao finally put down his shelf and took the initiative to go to Zhengjiazhuang to find Long Qian.

In the past few years since Zheng Jing returned to his hometown, Chen Chao had some different meanings and rarely came to Zhengjiazhuang. But Zheng Jing's experience made Chen Chao feel a trace of sadness, a trace of grievance, and a trace of anger.

On this day, his brother put on a jacket and turned over the ditch, and the gatehouse of Zhengjiazhuang was already in front of him. From a distance, I saw a group of people talking about something, and I saw that they were all villagers of Zhengjiazhuang, a soldier with a gun stood in front of the gate of the village, and the villagers completely ignored the soldiers, and still gathered there to talk.

Chen Chao quickened his pace, walked over and found that they were reading a poster, Chen Chao approached, only to find that there was also a Mengshan army he knew, that is, Jiang Yun, who was pretending to be Long Qian's entourage, was explaining something to the villagers.

Seeing Chen Chao, Jiang Yun left the villagers and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

"What does that mean?" Chen Chao pointed to the notice. He was a little short-sighted and couldn't read the contents of the notice.

"Recruitment! Recruitment notices. Jiang Yun grinned, "Is the owner here to find my commander?" ”

Chen Chao was stunned, and then nodded.

"Okay, I'll take you there. In the morning, the commander is still talking about you. As he spoke, he made a gesture of please and walked towards the village.

After completing the redistribution of Zheng Jing's land and floating wealth, the Mengshan army erected a recruitment flag in Zhengjiazhuang, which was an inevitable part of Long Qian's plan. Since we are trying to establish so-called "base areas," the expansion of troops on the spot is the proper meaning of the question. In addition to the economy and military force, the support of the local people is the most important factor in the construction of the base areas, and the participation of the soldiers in the army is probably one of the reasons why the people unconditionally support the army.

Ink-drenched recruitment notices were posted all over Zhengjiazhuang, and some literate villagers had already told the villagers the news, triggering onlookers from the villagers. For more than 20 days, the villagers of Zhengjiazhuang have experienced the process of panic, hatred and even kindness, and the change is actually fast enough.

Without him, the division of land, grain and silver has captured the hearts of most of the villagers. They listened to Jiang Yun, who was extremely eloquent, explain the policy of recruiting troops, and showed great interest.

Chen Chao silently followed Jiang Yun and walked towards Zhuangzi, seeing that Zhengjiazhuang did not have the scene he imagined, Zhuangzi was peaceful, and the streets were full of villagers who came and went freely, including Mengshan soldiers in military uniforms, looking at the appearance of the villagers and not afraid of the soldiers, and even he saw the villagers who talked to the soldiers very affectionately, which made him puzzled.

The villagers of Chenjiaya were accustomed to the garrison of the Mengshan Army, and the discipline of those soldiers was indeed good, and there was nothing that made him feel unbearable these days. But Zheng Jiazhuang doesn't seem to be like this, they killed Zheng Jiazhu, and copied Zheng Jing's home, and what kind of land and floating wealth were shared__Suddenly, Chen Chao reacted, I said, these mud legs must have benefited from Xiangma!

Unseen mud legs! Don't you want to think about it, once the officers and soldiers come back, you can keep the land that was given to you? Who is Zheng Jing, and can he swallow this breath?

In the distance, neat singing could be heard. Chen Chao walked a few more steps and saw a hundred and ten soldiers gathered in front of the Zheng family ancestral hall, singing military songs under the command of an official. The soldiers sang it again, listened to a few words from the commander in front of the team, and sang again, "__Resist foreign aggression and go to the battlefield, protect the family and defend the country, and spread the good news__"

"Is this song written by your dragon leader?"

"Of course." Jiang Yun replied proudly, "These soldiers did not participate in the Mengshan Army, and now they are given supplementary lessons." The commander said, sing the military song, and always remember the mission of the Mengshan Army. ”

These ringing horses are really refreshing__

Along the way, there were villagers who knew him to greet him, Chen Chao replied casually, and unconsciously came to the gate of Zheng Jing's house, and saw that there was also a recruiting station here, and there were more villagers around, not only men, but even women joining in the fun.

The gate of Zheng Jing's house faces south, a large open field, a table is set up in front of the wall carved with the brick carving pattern of the pine crane Yannian, and there are three bandits in military uniforms, the military uniforms are gray, very spiritual, and the three bandits answer the villagers' inquiries with a kind attitude. There was also a large chest beside the table, which was piled with white silver.

Chen Chao didn't enter the door, but stood up to look. Seeing that someone really signed up for the house, they registered their names here, pressed their handprints, and took silver taels over there, cut them up with scissors, weighed them out, and handed them to their parents and family. After a while, Chen Chao saw three young people who signed up, one of whom he knew, was the small leader of Zheng Jingzhuang's Ding team, and he even joined the gang as a bandit.

"Does Master Chen not believe it?" Jiang Yun seemed to see Chen Chao's doubts, "At the beginning, we didn't believe that the villagers would join the army. But our commander believed that as long as we did our job well, the villagers would send their children into the army. ”

"What kind of army are you?" Chen Chao couldn't help but speak.

"It doesn't matter if it's the army or not, the villagers will be able to tell who is better for them. Joining the Mengshan Army, there is a settling-in allowance, food, and a monthly military salary. The most important thing is that they get the land. They are not fools, and whoever treats the common people as fools is a fool. Oh, I didn't say that, it was the commander who said it. ”

"Settling-in expenses? Military salary? Chen Chao was extremely shocked.

The treatment given by Mengshan Army was generous, and anyone who signed up to serve as a soldier was given a settling-in allowance of five taels of silver on the spot. This is a large amount of money, enough for a family of five to spend more than half a year. Moreover, in addition to five taels of silver, the Mengshan army also issued 200 catties of grain to the villagers who joined the army, which were copied from Zheng Jing's warehouse.

The mountainous area of Lunan was already barren, Shandong was hit by disasters year after year, and in addition to the sudden increase in various miscellaneous taxes since the First Sino-Japanese War, the peasants were on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was not difficult to recruit soldiers under such favorable conditions. Some people recruit soldiers, some people become soldiers, not to mention that the Mengshan army has taken out unprecedented preferential treatment, even if there is no silver and food, there are idle men who are thinking about eating military food to avoid starving to death. There are always a large number of idlers in the countryside - Long Qian called it a second-rate son, probably the name of the idlers in his hometown of Shanxi who are landless and unemployed, and make a living by working part-time jobs or being abducted and cheated.

But the situation in Zhengjiazhuang is different. The most important thing is that the villagers actually met with the Mengshan army, shed blood, and died! Why do they still vote for bandits?

Although the tenants of Zhengjiazhuang were amazed by the strict military discipline of the bandits, they still called Mengshan Army in private. These people did not disturb the people, did not burn or kill, did not insult women, and a soldier was beaten by a soldier who beat a villager because of a verbal conflict and was beaten with a stick in public.

But after all, the children of the tenants were village soldiers and had enmity with the Mengshan army.

The change of tenants came from the discipline and policy of the Mengshan army, and the policy was more crucial. The situation changed when they killed Zheng Jiazhu, who was very angry with the people, and distributed a large amount of land and floating wealth to the poor households. Those who had served as village soldiers found that the Mengshan Army did not discriminate against them at all because they had been village soldiers, and they divided land, grain, and money. The wounded among them were also cared for by the Mengshan Army. Except for those who died in battle, the rest have already thrown their hatred out of the clouds.

Especially those bankers whose IOUs were burned. They thought that even if the government came back, including the young master of the Zheng family who was a big official outside, and there was no IOU, it would be difficult to ask the original tenants for old accounts, and these bandits helped them remove the big stones that weighed on their bodies. When the propaganda of the Mengshan Army's recruitment is overwhelming, and the favorable conditions are removed, what impresses them the most is to take up arms and defend your land. The Mengshan army will not leave, as long as the Mengshan army is here, no one can take away those lands, gold and silver.

When Cheng Daniu and others took the lead in joining the army, the situation opened up. In two days, more than 120 people have signed up to join the Mengshan Army, and they are basically the original village soldiers.

"Mr. Chen, shall we go in?" Jiang Yun urged Chen Chao, who was deep in thought.

"Hmm." Chen Chao walked into the courtyard door, and saw two female soldiers wearing military uniforms and holding cloth in their arms and laughing, but he was surprised, "What, you still have female soldiers?" ”

"Red grass, are you going to dye cloth?"

"yes, the dye you just recovered. The commander himself tried it. The female soldier hurried away.

"The commander is in the backyard, you go to the commander's room and sit down, and I'll tell him you're here."

"No, let's go together." It seems that Long Qian regards Zheng Jing's mansion as his home, Chen Chao is still shocked by the female soldiers who have disappeared in his mind, and the Xiangma team is still recruiting female soldiers? I don't know what Shu'er would think if she saw this.