Chapter 133: The Men and the Soldiers

The wealth is moving, and you can earn two taels of silver in ten days, which is already a very luxurious thing for ordinary people.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was already in decline, and disasters in various places continued for many years, and the price of grain in Shanxi even reached five taels and one stone.

However, the price of grain in Jinan, a north-south thoroughfare, is not so expensive, and two taels of silver can still buy about one stone of rice.

If an ordinary family of three saves a little, this stone of rice can last for three months, so the bitter people in the city who can't survive are moved by the wind.

Of course, there are also many people who suspect that the Jingbei Army is pulling Zhuang Ding under the pretext of transporting grain, but their suspicions are strongly despised by the families of the Shandong Army in the city.

"Li Dashuai is righteous, since Li Dashuai entered Jinan, the man of my family has brought back fifteen taels of silver, and he used it to deceive you?"

"Li Dashuai wants to pull you mud legs to be strong men, you don't pee and take pictures yourself, Li Dashuai's hands are full of Manchurian Tartars, and those Tartars see Li Dashuai like mice see cats."

The generous treatment of the Jingbei Army made everyone in Jinan feel excited, coupled with the word of mouth of the small Shandong army, after the announcement was issued, nearly 10,000 young people rushed to the registration point, and then lined up in a long line under the maintenance of the government service.

These young and bold people clamored to add the Jingbei Army, and the timid ones were embarrassed to say that they wanted to be young and strong with the army.

To tell the truth, after the Jingbei Army entered Jinan, in addition to not allowing the people to disturb the people, there was no policy to benefit the people, Li Youcai did not expect that the people of Jinan would be so enthusiastic, so he handed over the work of recruiting young people to Lu Qinghou to be responsible, and he ran back to the governor's yamen to report to Li Xingzhi on the situation of the recruitment office.

"What? So many people have signed up? ”

Li Xingzhi was also shocked by the hospitable Shandong people, and first the officials of Jinan eagerly invited him to Jinan as a guest, and gave him millions of money, food, and materials for nothing.

The people of Jinan are also so enthusiastic now, and they have a document to recruit young and strong, and so many people ask to join the army.

Lu Liangzhi and Song Guangkun, who were also in the government, were also overjoyed.

Song Guangkun suggested on the spot that it was better to take this opportunity to strike while the iron was hot and directly mobilize the people of Jinan to move to Leiden, so that it could be done once and for all.

Huang Wenchang also thinks that it is time to retreat to Leiden now, after all, Jinan is connected to Beizhili, and no one knows whether Dongyu will take advantage of the situation to enter Shandong, so naturally the farther away he is, the safer he is.

Lu Liangzhi groaned: "Li Shuai thinks that the people are asking for something? ”

Li Xingzhi said with a smile: "Mr. Lu's question is not difficult for Ben Shuai, Ben Shuai is also from the people, naturally knows the suffering of the people, such as today's chaos, what the people ask for is nothing more than food and clothing." ”

"Good! Li Shuai said it well! ”

Lu Liang straightened up and sighed: "The world is bustling, all for profit, the world is crowded, all for profit, all the people want is three meals a day, clothes to wear, and then there is a piece of tile to cover the ears, although Li Shuai entered Jinan not long ago, but after entering the city, it made up for the lack of the Shandong army, and my Jingbei army did not harass the people, so these people enthusiastically signed up, and the people who were trying to do so were only money." ”

Li Xingzhi also understood what Lu Liang wanted to say, and said: "Mr. Lu means that the young men who are willing to join the army and their families can be brought to Leiden first, and then the military and civilians in Jinan can be evacuated. ”

"Yes! If we order the people to evacuate now, unless Li Shuai is strong, most of the people will never evacuate, so we will not fall short, and if we recruit enough soldiers this time, then the small families with the army will naturally not be less, then we will move these remaining people, wouldn't the pressure be much less. ”

Lu Liangzhi suggested taking the opportunity to recruit troops, Li Xingzhi thought so, after all, he got so much money and food this time, if he didn't recruit soldiers, would he hide the cubs in the family? At that moment, he took Song Guangkun, Lu Liangzhi and others to the barracks, wanting to investigate on the spot.

When everyone separated from the people in line and came to the front of the barracks, they found that Li Bangjie was also recruiting soldiers with the ramming goods blocking the door, and it seemed that he had recruited a lot.

Song Guangkun said with a smile: "Dashuai, do you want your subordinates to go up and ask?" ”

"No need, let's see how this coward recruits troops!" Li Xingzhi waved his hand, his eyes staring in the direction where Li Bangjie was.

Li Bangjie shouted to the flow of people passing by with a big grin, "Hehe, I want to be a soldier, Lao Tzu collects elites here, as long as there are six hundred people, do you see the stone mill next to you?" Move it ten steps, and you can be the commander's pro-army, and when the time comes, you will eat fragrant food and drink spicy food, and you will still be worried about running out of money?

Everyone looked at it intently, the stone mill was afraid that it did not weigh three hundred catties, and the one who could move ten steps must be a good man, and it was natural to train the Iron Man Army to eat meat at once, so it was simply up to Li Bangjie to do it at will.

Looking further in, it was the area where Lu Xiucai was in charge of recruiting soldiers and people's husbands, and I saw that he and more than a dozen bookstores were asking Ying Qingzhuang's name and place of origin, while registering and making a register, and the young men who entered the camp were orderly divided into two groups on the left and right and sat on the ground.

Li Xingzhi smiled and said, "Mr. Lu, what do you think of this Lu Xiucai?" The former Hutuo River offered a plan, let us escape by water, and now these tens of thousands of people have been recruited, he has brought more than a dozen book offices, and it is also handled in an orderly manner, and when he arrives in Leiden, there should be no problem to be a magistrate, right? ”

"What the marshal said is that if you train hard for two years, you will be the prefect and the governor will do it."

A showman, Li Xingzhi was directly appointed as a county magistrate, which did not take the imperial court seriously at all, but Lu Liangzhi was already insensitive, the governor of a province said to take it, and the mansion of the imperial court's relatives was broken, and the appointment and dismissal of the county decree was what it was?

Seeing this, Li Xingzhi didn't want to look at it anymore, and when the result was to look at the situation, it would be possible to count all the young men and soldiers tomorrow, and if it was a young companion from the new soldiers, the Gangfeng Battalion would be the first to go to Lyden the day after tomorrow.

Sure enough, as Li Xingzhi expected, Li Youcai hurriedly ran into the governor's yamen with the list of recruits in the afternoon of the next day.

"Marshal, this time is not counting Li Bangjie's Iron Man Army, our Jingbei Army has recruited a total of more than 4,300 recruits, 5,100 young and strong, according to Lu Xiucai's statistics, there are nearly 20,000 soldiers in their families, and they are all packing up and preparing to leave tomorrow."

Li Xingzhi estimated that Jinan City had a total population of 130,000, and nearly 30,000 people set off with the army this time.

Now in front of him is how the remaining 100,000 people moved to Leiden? In fact, the most effective way now is to follow Li Zicheng to copy the homes of the rich families in Jinan, and then coerce the people of Jinan to transfer to Leiden.

However, Li Xingzhi didn't plan to do this, he had just arrived in Shandong, and his wings were not complete, so it was only right to clean up the hearts of the local people first.