In the face of the surging tens of thousands of Black Water Warriors, Zhao Qin and Zhang Chen had a headache, and they didn't know what to do for a while?

Especially Zhao Qin, he never thought that he was worried about whether he could recruit enough soldiers before, but now he has to worry about too many people from the Blackwater tribe who came to defect.

The number of young and strong people in front of him also exceeded the quota of five thousand people given by Cao An and Zhang Hang, and with the arrival of the Black Water tribe people farther away from Jiangkou City, this number continued to increase with an astonishing number.

Zhao Qin and Zhang Chen knew very well in their hearts that the matter in front of them was a good thing, which showed that their influence in the nearby indigenous tribes was already very strong, but if it was not handled well, it would make these Black Water tribesmen have a bad mood, then it would be a super big trouble in the future, so in a hurry, the two of them were in a hurry to sweat in the cold.

"Captain Zhao, Lord Tent, Daoist Lu is here!" Just when the two of them were anxious and didn't know how to start, a soldier suddenly came to tell him, Zhao Qin looked outside the door and asked, "What is Daoist Lu doing here?" As he spoke, he was going to go out with Zhang Chen.

Before the two of them went out, they saw a young Taoist priest in his twenties walking in, this Taoist priest was dignified, with a smile on the corner of his mouth all the time, and a pair of sharp eyes that were particularly firm and powerful, but the light blue robe on his body was extremely simple.

It turned out that this Taoist priest was the grandson of the old immortal Liu Qing, Lu Wangzhi's eldest apprentice Lu Han, after years of study and experience, Lu Han came here to preside over local teaching affairs when he expanded the Jiangkou at the beginning of last year, and is currently regarded as a county-level Taoist priest.

Seeing that Zhao Qin and Zhang Chen were greeting him in the hall, there was still a sad look between his eyebrows, so Lu Han immediately said in his heart: "Two adults, since we must recruit soldiers, why don't we start now, but what are the difficulties?" ”

Immediately, Zhang Chen explained the worries of the two, and now the number of Han people in the entire Jiangkou City and nearby is only fifty or sixty thousand, if the recruitment of these Heishui tribes is released, the number of people will exceed the number of local Han people in a short period of time, and over time, I am afraid that the old things of the Western Jin Dynasty will be reproduced.

Who knew that Zhang Chen's worry caused Lu Han to chuckle, he stroked a small strand of beard that was not too long on his chin, and then said with a smile: "Since they are willing to join the army, it is better to accept them as soon as possible, people just say that they will join the army of the little marquis, and they do not have to join the army of Jiangkou and Zhenhai, and the big deal is that they can send the extra people to places like Sakhalin Island and Whale Island!" ”

Lu Han's words immediately woke up the people in their dreams, and only now did Zhao Qin and Zhang Chen realize that they had really gone to the tip of the bull's horns, yes, there were many benefits after absorbing all the people of the Heishui tribe near the mouth of the river, and they could take over the territory of these tribes by themselves.

Moreover, a considerable part of the Blackwater tribesmen do not necessarily have to stay here in Jiangkou, and they can also use the name of improving their lives to select a certain number of tribes to move to Whale Island, which is currently in better conditions, or some other counties with better conditions to live in peace.

In this way, the area of reclamation near the mouth of the river can be further expanded, and the local Heishui tribes will be diluted, and over time, these Heishui tribes will be no different from the Han people.

Zhao Qin and Zhang Chen, who got Lu Han's suggestion, were like treasures, and immediately went out according to this way, and sure enough, the people of the Heishui tribe originally came to join in order to live a good life, as long as they waited to enjoy good treatment, they didn't care where they would move in the future.

In this way, after three days of careful selection, Zhao Qin selected more than 4,000 elite young men and women of the Heishui Department to form an army alone, while the other more than 2,000 young men and more than 30,000 old and weak women and children in Heishui were all registered, and they will be the families of his soldiers in the future.

Because time was in a hurry, after Zhao Qin finished recruiting, he set off with more than 4,000 young people from the Black Water Ministry, while Lu Han assisted Zhang Chen to deal with the tens of thousands of Black Water Ministries who had just defected, and at least he had to register and make a register for these Black Water Ministry.

To Zhao Qin's surprise, when these Heishui people registered their names, some people said that they were actually descendants of the Han people, but their ancestors were Han people in Liaodong in the Central Plains at that time, and they fled here because of the turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty.

Even in order to prove that they are Han, these people have changed their Han surnames for themselves, of course, there are only a few people who can make up the Dao, and more Heishui people have begged the Taoist priests of Haotian Daomen who are in charge of registration to also take a Han name for themselves.

For this kind of initiative naturalization of the people of the Heishui Ministry, Zhang Chen and Lu Han also welcomed it very much.

Because Lu Han's group of Taoist priests also took on the duties of doctors here in Jiangkou City, some nearby beings in the Heishui Department would also come here for medical treatment when they were sick, so in the past few years, these Taoist priests had a higher status in the minds of the people in the Heishui Department than Zhang Chen.

At this time, many Heishui did not always see these Taoist priests in charge of registering their names and documents, and as a result, they all gathered in front of several Taoist priests, even if they had to wait a little longer, they had to let these Taoist priests be responsible, and finally they were so busy that even Lu Han stepped forward to help. Baidu

These enthusiastic Heishui people don't know, but after a few days, several Taoist priests in charge of local teaching affairs have their hands trembling to varying degrees, think about it, holding a brush to write the names of thirty or forty thousand Heishui people, the workload is not small!

After Lu Han finished writing the name of the last Blackwater Tribe, he finally had time to rub his sore wrists, it was really not easy, if all these Blackwater Tribes were naturalized as the people of Haotian God at once, wouldn't it be a great achievement for the Daomen? Moreover, for the future, the Daomen also had more experience in preaching among these indigenous tribes.

Just as Lu Han was thinking about how to promote the Daomen among this new group of former Blackwater tribesmen, he suddenly heard someone shouting about himself, he looked back and rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and saw Zhou Cheng looking at him with a smile on his face.

"Second uncle?" Lu Han walked to Zhou Cheng's side excitedly, then pulled his sleeve and asked, "Second Senior Uncle, when did you come back from the Central Plains?" Could it be that the little marquis sent you? ”

Zhou Cheng said with a smile: "After the fall of Qizhou before, my little sister-in-law and I stayed in Jiaozhou Port for a while, and it was in July after the summer harvest this year that I came to the East China Sea.

Then the little marquis left a letter to me asking me to be in charge of the teaching affairs of the four northern counties of Choshu Island, Whale County, and Sakhalin County, and you, the city of Jiangkou, are also within my scope of responsibility.

I happened to be in Sakhalin to inspect the school affairs, and I heard that something was going on here, so I came to see what you were doing, and the boy did a good job! I'll bring your sister-in-law to see you another day! ”

At first, Lu Han was quite happy when he heard his uncle praise him, but when he heard that Zhou Cheng was going to bring his little sister-in-law to see him, he immediately made a bitter face, and he felt embarrassed when he mentioned his little sister-in-law.

His little sister-in-law, of course, is Miss Cheng Xueying, this woman took the initiative to incorporate Zhou Cheng for her own happiness, and now she has been thinking about it for a few years, but when it comes to age, Cheng Xueying is several years younger than Lu Han.

What embarrassed Lu Han the most was that Cheng Xueying was Zhou Cheng's apprentice, Zhou Cheng was Liu Qing's second disciple, and his master Lu Wangzhi was Liu Qing's eldest disciple, plus Lu Han was older than Cheng Xueying, so he asked Cheng Xueying to call him his senior brother.

Who would have thought, the mountains don't turn around, and in a blink of an eye, the little junior sister has become a little sister-in-law, which makes Lu Han a little helpless, and he doesn't know what to call it, it's just that everyone is no longer together before, but now that Zhou Cheng and Cheng Xueying are back, what should I do?

Zhou Cheng doesn't talk much on weekdays, but this time it may be because he hasn't seen Lu Han for a long time, and the uncle and nephew talked a lot, but after turning for a long time, Zhou Cheng suddenly said to Lu Han: "You go and remind Lord Zhang, and let the soldiers guarding the city pay attention, I think some of the Black Water Department may not be sincerely attached!" ”

Lu Han immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and he asked curiously, "I don't know how Uncle Shi concluded that there are people in these Blackwater tribes who have malicious intentions?" "To be honest, Lu Han really didn't see that anyone had malicious intent.

After all, Zhou Cheng is in his forties and has a wide range of experience, because he is not good at talking on weekdays, and he has developed a good habit of being good at observation, he just saw that many members of the Black Water Department showed happy expressions after registering and making a register, but some of them only barely made a happy expression on their faces, but their eyes and movements revealed the resentment in their hearts.

It turns out that this part of the Blackwater tribe is not the Blackwater tribe at the bottom of the tribe, but from the leaders and leaders of the middle and upper levels of the tribe, although their lives are also very unsatisfactory on weekdays, but because they have the power of life and death of the tribe, they are very happy in this regard.

This time, because of the recruitment of troops, the people of the Blackwater Department were in turmoil, and they couldn't stop this general trend, so they also pushed the boat down the river and prepared to take these subordinates to join the army, and they also mixed with an officer, and they still had to bring their subordinates unchanged.

But what they didn't expect was that Zhao Qin, who was in charge of recruitment, didn't pay attention to the careful thinking of these tribal leaders at all, but in the future, these tribal leaders directly excluded this part of the people from the scope of recruitment, and they didn't have any preferential treatment.

That's not all, when these tribal leaders saw that a few young men at the bottom of the tribe who were nothing in front of them in the past turned out to be a petty officer leading a few people, or ten people, because of their outstanding military strength, and they were already nothing, the resentment in their hearts became even stronger.

However, after all, these people have held positions such as leaders, and their facial expressions are well concealed, so Lu Han and Zhang Chen, who were busy in a mess at the time, did not find these problems, but after all, these old people like Zhou Cheng can't hide them, and they are old people who are good at observation.

That night, when the leaders of these tribes were about to kill a few of the Blackwater tribesmen, and then kill a few Han Chinese, creating the illusion that the two sides were dying because of each other, in order to provoke a conflict between the Han people and the Heishui tribesmen, they were suddenly successfully captured by the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time.