In a really strong dynasty, the status of the soldiers is actually quite high.

For example, the Western Han Dynasty, such as the early Tang Dynasty.

In a powerful dynasty, the son of a good family was willing to join the army, and the family was a small landlord, so he sent his son to the frontier to fight the Huns, fight the Turks, and come back to make meritorious contributions, and the whole family also followed the glory.

In a dynasty that is strong on the outside and dry in the middle, the soldiers will be humiliated, such as the military households of the Ming Dynasty, many of whom are already struggling.

The Five Dynasties is a very special period, that is, all the battles, there is no glory at all, everyone fights for one family and one surname, so the soldiers' faces are tattooed.

This kind of tattooing is to prevent the soldiers from escaping.

Therefore, in the matter of tattooing, it is the small soldiers who are stabbed, not the officers.

When we watch "Water Margin", we will find that Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, and Hu Yanzhuo definitely have no words on their faces, but they are born as small soldiers, and they have words on their faces, and they are born as criminals, and they also have to be engraved on their faces, Song Jiang and Wu Song have all been stabbed.

There was a general Di Qing in the Northern Song Dynasty, who was born as a small soldier, and always had words on his face, and the emperor later told him, find a way to cover it, he said, no need, this is very good, you can't forget your origin.

The tattoo on the face is not only ugly, but also painful.

Such a trace full of humiliation has a good name, called "Golden Seal".

There is a contemporary Chinese poet who writes old-style poems called Nie Xuanxuan, and he once wrote two lines of poetry about Lin Chong:

The man's face was marked with gold, and he smiled lightly and was white.

This is probably the most romantic description of the matter of tattooing.

But everyone who is tattooed on their face actually has parents, brothers, sisters, and possibly wives, can they not feel distressed?

Xu Yongzhi pondered for a while, and said to Duan Meimei:

"Adapt to the situation, in short, even if it is really marked with a gold seal, Uncle Taiyue is estimated to be able to find a way to cure it."

"There will be scars!" Duan Meimei said unwillingly.

"Can't you draw one with a brush?" Duan Zishou said.

"Yes, Amori, smart son-in-law!" Huo Yizun was elated.

"Thank you, old man!" Amori agreed simply.

"Amori, you want to call your father-in-law!" Crisp said.

"Draw one yourself?" Xu Yongzhi frowned.

"We prepare ourselves a medicine that can be wiped off with an antidote, and there will naturally be a way in the future." Huo Yizun said.

The group first went to the Bianliang branch of the Shanzitang to settle down.

The shopkeeper of Shanzitang in the Bianliang branch is surnamed Jiang, in his early thirties, and he is a person who does not talk much, but has a very strict mouth.

Because of this person's strict mouth, the dignitaries and nobles in Bianliang feel very safe when they grab medicine here.

Lao Jiang picked everyone up and arranged a courtyard to live in.

Xu Taiyue also lived here temporarily, and hurriedly came to see Xu Yongzhi.

Taiyue quietly told Xu Yongzhi that Chai Rong's body is okay, but he can't be angry, but he may have to use troops this year, so it may be even more difficult for him to recuperate, Xu Yongzhi nodded, secretly knowing in his heart.

Xu Taiyue took out Zhao Kuangyin's letter again, the content was very simple:

The first compartment of the Bujun Yamen is all the words:

Today, Xu Jin and one person have come to you to serve as soldiers.

Signed: Zhao Kuangyin.

There is also a flower monogram.

"Brother Taiyue," Huo Yizun said, "we have to dispense some medicine for Gongzi and make a fake gold seal." ”

"Okay," Xu Taiyue looked at, "Do you want to wash it, or can't wash it?" ”

"Uncle Taiyue, how can you do anything?"

"There are no soldiers in the world who are willing to tattoo words, and everyone in Ezhou wants to be soldiers, so they all go to our Shanzitang to make fake seals."

"Did you fail it?"

"Yes, if you don't give money after making a fake print, you can't pass it, and you will lose it as soon as you wipe it. After we collect the money, we will give the medicine that is smeared with water, and it will not fall off for a month. ”

"You're ruthless."

"When doing business, you have to guard against some bad guys, besides, those who are willing to be soldiers these years are basically ruffians."

"Hey, don't be like this, Uncle Taiyue......" Xu Yongyi's face was depressed.

"Childe, I didn't mean you, why did you break into the forbidden army?" Xu Taiyue looked curious.

"I'm really determined to be a soldier......"

"Be a soldier!" Xu Taiyue was taken aback, "Didn't you say earlier, the top leaders of the forbidden army all inspected Zhang Yongde, and my brother is a son and daughter, how good it is for you to be an officer directly, and you don't need to tattoo." ”

"Taiyue, don't have so many opinions, the son is willing to start as a small soldier, and the young man is willing to rely on himself, not with the help of his father or uncle, this is normal, we are all young." Huo Yizun said.

"Boy, you take this." Xu Taiyue stuffed two pieces of paper into his hand.

"What is this, peace charm?" Xu Yongyi didn't see it clearly.

"Money, Da Zhou's salt introduction, remember, if someone thinks there is a problem with the words on your face, fifty times for the doctor, one hundred times for the commander, generally speaking, this price can be passed in Ezhou, and I don't tell him about ordinary people." Xu Taiyue said.

"Sure enough, money is the best thing to use." Huo Yizun said with a smile.

"Okay, Uncle Taiyue, you can pay this money from the counter." Xu Yongzhi said.

"No, no, no, this time you introduced me to this private job, I didn't earn less, and I want to give you a share." Xu Taiyue said.

"Don't don't, don't don't, I recommend you to go to help General Zhao, since it is a reward from the emperor, you can keep the rest by yourself." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Then you're welcome." Xu Taiyue looked proud.

Huo Yizun adjusted the medicine.

"Brother Taiyue, please, your handwriting is good."

"Brother Yizun, you come, your painting is absolutely amazing."

The two of them pushed modesty in front of Xu Yongzhi's face.

"I'm coming!" Duan Meimei copied the pen.

"Sister......" Duan Zishou looked at Duan Meimei in surprise.

"If you want to be disfigured anyway, it's better to destroy it in my hands."

"Very good mentality." Xu Taiyue praised.

"Bear with me, I'll start drawing!" Duan Meimei put pen to paper.

Duan Meimei began to draw the words "Forbidden Army Infantry Camp" on Xu Yongzhi's face.

Xu Taiyue then used sugar gum to create a scar effect, ink color, and potion to fix the color .......

Early the next morning, Xu Yongzhi took the gold seal on his face, said goodbye to everyone, and went straight to the Yamen of the Bujun Army.

Duan Zishou carried his luggage and sent him there with Ah Crisp.

The forbidden army of the Great Zhou has a total of four teams:

Tiger Infantry Army, Dragon Horse Army, Crane Infantry Army and Iron Horse Army.

Hu Jie and Long Jie were under the command of the guard Ma Busi, headed by Zhao Kuangyin; The crane and the iron cavalry were under the control of the front of the palace, and the generals of the unified army were all inspected by Zhang Yongde.

One person is in charge of two armies, and both are responsible for the emperor, and the emperor sits more peacefully.

The Bujun Yamen, in fact, is the common name of the common people for the Hujie Bujun Yamen.

Not far from the house where Xu Yongzhi and the others lived, there was a square table at the door, where a veteran who was almost forty years old was sitting.

"Uncle, I want to join the army."

"It's late, your group of soldiers said they would arrive on time, and now it's all morning?" The veteran said.

"No one told me it was time." Xu Yongzhi said.

"It's useless to tell me, I'm just General Zhao's secretary, someone inside will beat you with a stick for a while, what's your name?"

"Xu Jin."

The veteran stared at the form.

"Can you still see it when you're old?" Duan Zishou asked.

"Nonsense, don't you look down on uncle? I was the standard-bearer of the forbidden army back then, if I hadn't been hit by an arrow in the head later...... "The veteran said babblingly.

"Hey, I don't have your name." The veteran looked up from his notebook.

"I received it on the road from General Zhao Taibao Zhao, and he said that I should be his personal soldier, and this is his handwritten letter."

The veteran lay on his stomach and read the note.

"The word is the word of the general," the old soldier muttered, "but I have heard of it." ”

The veteran looked at Xu Yongzhi again.

"Quite a handsome young man, this is going to be disfigured!"

"Uncle, I already have the Golden Seal." Xu Yongzhi hurriedly pointed to his cheek and said.

"In every group of soldiers, there are a few people who think they are smart." The veteran said with a smile.

"So we changed the way we carved the lettering recently."

"Huh?"

"Each batch of soldiers, the font is different."

"Ou, Liu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, each batch of soldiers, there is a different word in the four words, if the stab is not right, then stab it hard." The veteran said.

"I've already been stabbed, how can I stab it hard?"

"Don't you still have one cheek?"

"Stabbing on both sides, that's a prisoner!"

"Now, honestly wash off the fake words on this side, and I'll go through the formalities for you when you come back," the veteran said with a sneer......

"Uncle, it's convenient." Xu Yongzhi took out the hundred guan and gently stuffed it into the veteran's hand.

"One hundred yuan of pocket money, you will be deposited in the commissary I opened, I will confiscate your money, and you will buy things here to support ...... I'll give you a receipt. ”

What a veteran oilman who doesn't eat oil and salt.

"Go ahead, wash the fake words. Otherwise, I'll write about your bribery. The veteran said coldly.

Xu Yongzhi reluctantly walked to a secluded place, took out the antidote and a hand towel, scrubbed the fake gold seal, and returned to the veteran.

"Name?"

"Xu Jin, the word Yongzhi."

"You're just a creep, and no one calls you a word."

"Jin is a ...... on the side of the spear"

The veteran wrote a "Xu towel" on the paper.

"Now people have good names and are uneducated, I think I was the standard-bearer of the forbidden army back then...... It's because the name ......"

"Uncle, it's not a towel, it's Xu Jin."

"If you want to call a towel, just go in, if you don't, you can come back one day when I am on vacation." The veteran looked disgusted.

"Okay, good, towels are towels." Xu Jin said.

"Where's this?" The old man pointed at Duan Zishou.

"This is my younger brother, he is still too young to be a soldier."

"Wait, you don't count."

"Huh?"

"Look at the man at this door."

Xu Yongzhi looked at this street, and sure enough, it was sparsely populated, and it was either a woman or an old man who passed by.

"The rules of the infantry army yamen, whenever a man comes, he must have a physical examination, and if he passes, he will be arrested and trained."

"It's too unreasonable." Xu Yongzhi protested.

"Are you here to reason with the barracks?" The veteran muttered.

"This kid has a big head and thick shoulders, and he is the kind of soldier that we like the most in the Yamen of the Infantry Army." The veteran touched Duan Zishou's shoulder and said with a grin.

"Kid, are you a good man?"

"Of course!"

The veteran came with a stick.

Duan Zishou laughed, "Uncle, do you want to fight me?" ”

"If you go in, someone will naturally beat you, and this stick is for you." The veteran was also amused by Duan Zishou.

The veteran compared, "It's really a little shorter, let's come back in two years, let's assassinate your brother-in-law first." ”

The thorn is the conscription, because it is necessary to stab the face, so the common people are also called the thorn.

"Uncle, do you have to stab?" Xu Yongzhi also asked openly.

"Look, ask for advice, and I'll tell you well. In fact, in the Hujie Infantry Army, there is this method without tattooing. ”

"Please teach me, uncle!" Xu Yongyi bowed to the ground.

"When you go in and someone wants to stab you, you can say, 'Please avoid stabbing.'" The veteran said.

"And then?"

"I'm going to be beaten."

"That's it?"

"I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it, if you scream, you'll have to stab after the fight."

"I'm not afraid of this."

The veteran fills out the form in duplicate.

"Let's go in, towels. This one goes in to the quartermaster, the army uniform. ”

The veteran opened the barracks fence, and Xu Yongzhi pushed open the small door on the black door and walked in.

"After you go in, be careful, how your life depends on your own creation!" The veteran shouted.

Ah Crisp and Duan Zishou watched Xu Towel walk into the black gate of the Bujun Yamen.

"How can this barracks seem to be more powerful than the black shop?" Ah Crisp said to Duan Zishou.

"Oh my God? Can your panda still talk? The veteran said in surprise.

"Oh my God, uncle, you can still know pandas!" Ah Crisp said even more surprised.

Too many people call her a tanuki, a raccoon, a raccoon dog or a fox.

"Why don't you know, I used to grow bamboo." The veteran said.

"What do you call you?"

"Everybody's called me Lao Pu."

"Is it Pu in Puyang City, or Pu in Pukou?"

"No, no, no, it's neither, committing a big-mouth stab with Phuket's Pu."

"How can anyone with the surname this Pu."

"It really wasn't in the past," said the old man hatefully, "until I met a secretary who loved to make typos ......"

"Oh oh oh, it seems that this is the tradition of the Forbidden Army......"

"It's not all like that, I think I was the flag bearer back then......"

"Uncle, don't say it, why do I think my brother-in-law has entered a black shop?" Duan Zishou felt worried.

"Huh? He's your brother-in-law, huh? ”

"How?"

"Tell your sister to marry someone else."

"What!"

"The people who enter this gate are all heroes, this is the hardest and most dangerous team in Da Zhou's training, how can he survive as a white and tender boy?" Lao Pu said.

"My brother-in-law's martial arts are good, second only to me," Duan Zishou said, "He won't be so easily disabled." ”

"But he wants to be stabbed, right?" Lao Pu said.

"Won't you be beaten without stabbing?" Crisp said.

"I didn't say how many people beat him." Lao Pu said.

"How many people are there?"

"Everyone is tattooed, you don't have to stab, you are everyone's enemy."

"So, it's all the Tiger Jie Infantry Army who beat him together."

"Huh?"

"There aren't a lot of them, not to mention the cooking class and those in charge of logistics, that is, more than 3,000 people......

"Holy! Sure enough, it's a black shop. ”

"Don't bury the black shop!" Lao Pu was so excited that he spitted, "The black shop just robbed you of your money, and at best harmed your life." ”

"And what about this barracks?"

"Hujie Bujun still insults your personality!" Lao Pu said.

"Getting the wrong name is part of that, isn't it?"

"I really can't write that word, I don't read much. But it doesn't matter, no one cares about his name when he goes in, it's all called a nickname. Lao Pu said.

Duan Zishou looked depressed.

"Ah Shou, don't worry, how can there be a reason for five thousand people to beat one person, I think it is thirty or fifty people who come up, and they can't beat him, so let him go. Uncle must be joking. ”

"Panda, you're right, it was indeed this rule in the past, but now, if you can defeat fifty people, you have to deal with the first soldier of the Great Song Forbidden Army!"

Duan Zishou shouted loudly at this black door: "Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law! ”

A bunch of ill-intentioned ** inside, loudly agreeing to take advantage:

"Hey!!!!!"

The future of this black door and Xu Yongzhi is suddenly a little unpredictable.