Chapter 159: There are benefits to being a soldier

The only problem at the moment was that the walls of the city were so small that they could accommodate more than a thousand people, and the newly built brick houses filled the open space in the city.

Yu arranged for the caravan to barely settle in the city, and a few people had to pitch tents in the streets between the houses. After settling the caravan, he immediately went back to report to Li Siye and began a new round of escort team selection.

The selection of the escort team is also a lively festival, many hawkers in the city, tribes outside the city are concentrated in the northwest of the city on this day, cheering for the selected athletes, the three major events of the selection competition, horse fighting, foot fighting, archery, the winner not only won the quota, but also won the applause of the audience.

The daughters of the Pantuo clan also dressed up in fancy fashion on this day, hiding in the crowd to choose their favorite Langjun. They would give the wildflowers they had picked on the hillside to the winning hero, and at night they would boldly burrow into the winner's chamber and form a beautiful marriage, provided that the soldier had no lady.

The Green Ridge Guards and Catchers are fragrant and sweet within a radius of thousands of miles. Everyone knows that Tang Jun has a salary, although it is very meager, but the iron rice bowl hugs it; Because of the arrest of Li Siye, Li Siye opposed excessive land reclamation, and the cotton fields in Green Ridge were kept below 1,000 acres, and other people were not allowed to plant if they wanted to, so there was arable land; The ladies who guard the military households in the city can take over the work from the hands of the guards and capture the envoys in winter, sewing cotton jackets and quilts, and the double workers are guaranteed.

Not only that, Li Shou also revealed that he planned to hire a teacher from Qiuzi City to open a school to teach the children in Shou Capture City to read and write. If you want to go to school in the academy, there is a hard condition that you must live in the Shouyu City, so marrying the Green Ridge Shou Lang will even guarantee the school district house.

With such superior conditions, the Hu ladies in the Green Ridge area regard marrying Tang Jun as the ultimate goal.

In this way, the ultimate goal of the sons and daughters of the Drinking Pantuo and Zhiyi clans is to become the Tang Army who is guarded by the Green Mountains.

For this reason, these sons and daughters who make a living from hunting are not less wandering in front of the grass hall of the official office of the Green Ridge Guard, and some of the strong-willed people even kneel in front of the hall, hoping to join the sequence of guarding and catching Lang.

Li Siye always provokes a large number of hidden marksmen when he goes out hunting, and they do everything possible to wait on Li Siye's inevitable path. As soon as Li Siye passed by, they would bend their bows and shoot snow pheasants or argali, so as to gain the favor of the guards.

"Good archery!"

Li Siye rode on the black fat body and clapped his hands in praise.

And not far away, a young man with thick wool, white skin, high nose and deep eyes showed a mouthful of white teeth, and his smile was a little restrained and jerky.

They should be the ancestors of the Tajik and even Uyghur people, white skin and high nose bridge are their appearance characteristics, and the girls in the tribe are also so beautiful, it is easy to remind people of Dilireba, Hanikzi and other little beauties.

He was very lucky today and shot down a Himalayan vulture. Vultures, birds of prey with a wingspan of up to two meters, can fly at an altitude of more than Mount Everest, usually when they fly, the bow and arrow do not want to touch a single hair, this vulture pounces on its prey at low altitude, and is drunk by the Pantuo boy to the yellow finch behind.

Even so, this boy's archery skills are quite good.

He ran towards the vulture's corpse, bowed down to Li Siye's horse with both hands, and then looked at the guard with blank eyes, repeating two learned Central Plains words back and forth: "Li Shijun, the nest wants to be a soldier, Li Shijun, the nest wants to be a soldier."

Li Siye frowned, not because he didn't want to see the young man in front of him, but because the team guarding the Green Ridge had already been overnumbered.

The establishment of the Green Ridge Guard is a brigade, which belongs to the 6th Regiment under the command of the 33rd Zhechong Mansion in Anxi, which is set up in Shule Town, although it has lost its real power and is under the full management of Shule Town, but it is absolutely not allowed to exceed the number.

The crime of supernumeration can be light or serious, it all depends on the leader's words, and the leader does not like you, then you are recruiting soldiers privately, what do you want to do when you recruit soldiers privately? Could it be that he wants to rebel? To put it mildly, the personnel are bloated, and the layoffs are ordered, and the fines and salaries are calm.

The only function of the Zhechong Prefecture today is to limit the establishment, it requires a regiment and two brigades, a brigade and two teams, each team of 50 combatants, plus horse breeders, team leaders, team deputies, and flag bearers, a team of personnel shall not exceed 70, a brigade personnel shall not exceed 160 people, and any more will not pay you.

Li Siye has received more than 20 people with amazing strength one after another, and the skillful drinking Pantuo and the hidden boy have entered the city of guarding, so he has to pay these recruits out of his own pocket, and it is not that he can't afford to pay this money, the key is that it is difficult to explain to his superiors.

Tian Zhen behind him kept poking his waist with a horsewhip: "Hey! This is a good seedling! Don't let it go!"

"He was born to fight a war, you don't accept anyone from him!"

Li Siye turned around and glanced at him in annoyance: "Shut up!" You think I don't know?"

Tian Zhen retracted the horsewhip stupidly, lowered her head and kept coughing to give the young man a look. Fujimaki also looked at the young man's gaze, and his face was also full of appreciation.

This young man who drank Pantuo was also extremely smart, and hurriedly put the vulture corpse in front of Li Siye's horse, blocking the way and kneeling on the ground.

Li Siye can't help it, it seems that if he doesn't accept him today, this kid can chase him all the way.

He raised his hand and asked, "What's your name?"

"Li Shijun, @%#@%, my name is Kubani."

"Okay," Li Siye nodded solemnly: "Learn Chinese as soon as possible, and communicate without barriers within a month, otherwise you will get out."

Li Siye rode his horse around him, and Tian Zhen picked a whip at him from behind, and Kubani immediately understood, and happily led his horse and followed behind the captor.

The moon was like a hook, the stars hung down and the plains were wide, and the Persian caravans, escorted by the guards, slowly marched along the ridge of the hill into the distance, and the torches were lined up, like stars falling to the ground in the vast night.

Li Siye stood at the head of the city and looked at the brothers who were far away, feeling a little reluctant and melancholy, he would have to leave this place sooner or later, and it would be a short life for them.

Yu Gou stood beside him and asked with some puzzlement: "The city is already crowded enough, why do you still promise the Persian caravan to leave a merchant here, don't you let him earn our money?"

He turned back and pointed to the city at his feet and said, "Don't be afraid of the outflow, money is meant to circulate, money is not real wealth in your hands, the real wealth is these people, this city, and the popularity that this city has gathered." ”

Yu Gou realized, but Li Siye turned his head to look at him, and then asked, "Yu Zhubo, how many rank officials are you now?"

Yu Gou didn't understand why he asked like this, but laughed self-deprecatingly: "I'm just a warehouse master from the ninth grade."

"Nine pins, the lowest is the eighth pin, and there is a big step in the middle."

Yu Gou's face suddenly turned red, like a crab that had been boiled, and the little extravagant hope in his heart was detected by others, and he was even more panicked than being caught raped in bed.

Fortunately, Li Siye didn't look at his face, but just raised his head and said to himself in the darkness in the distance: "I think you can be a good guard, all you have to do is sit on your ass."

Yu Zhubo lowered his head, quietly rubbed the corner of his eyes with his finger and sighed: "What a big wind and sand."