Chapter 80
Li Xiao's words deeply touched Chen Hailong, as a guy who has been in the barracks since he was a child. I know too well that money is for the left battalion of the army, and I want others to sell your life to you. In addition to money, it has to be money.
The righteous anger of buddies in the early stage of entrepreneurship will eventually be replaced by naked interest relationships.
He, the boss, is in front of the scenery, but there are many hardships behind the scenery. As the boss, it's just about collecting wealth. Then divide it among the big guys, keep less for yourself and not enough to spend, and if you keep more, you will have a reputation as a greedy boss. It's easy to say that a bowl of water is flat, but when it comes to doing it, who dares to say that a bowl of water is flat.
Every time someone says you're biased, no matter how fair you do, someone will be dissatisfied.
Behind the silver is a sword, and those who are obedient will be given money, and those who are disobedient will be given a knife. Ci is not in charge of the army, and sometimes even if he is a henchman, he can't escape a knife in the neck.
Many famous generals in history led troops, in fact, to put it bluntly, it was silver plus a knife.
The knife is in his hand, and the silver will have to be the boss to find it.
The most unpleasant thing for Chen Hailong is the word silver, and many times he is greedy for money. In fact, he was forced by these vampires!
If you want to maintain the status of the boss of the rivers and lakes, you need more men and more warships. If you don't have any money, you can't play with it at all.
"Tonight, it's me Chen Hailong who can't stand you. In the future, if you do things in Shandong, I Chen Hailong will have no problem. Where is the Duke of Wei in the capital ......! ”
"The kid gives the adult a letter, and the adult only needs to prepare a generous gift to find Cui Chengxiu and Master Cui. You can see the Governor! ”
"Lord Cui, but Lord Cui, who is about to take up his post in the Ministry of War?"
"Exactly!"
Chen Hailong's eyes immediately widened, knowing that Li Xiao had a relationship in the capital, but he didn't expect to have such a hard relationship. There is news from the capital that Cui Chengxiu is about to take up his post as a squire in the military department. I heard that he is still a popular candidate for the next secretary of the military department, and he is the right-hand man of the governor Wei Zhongxian, but I didn't expect Li Xiao to make him look at him differently with a note.
This Li Xiao's energy in the capital is too great!
In order to make Li Xiao feel at ease, Chen Hailong personally sent Li Xiao out of his mansion. Now he can see that this kid is no longer the kid he saw at the beginning. Now Li Xiao has experienced wind and rain, and sharp corners have emerged on his head. He is no longer a small snake lurking on the island, but a dragon, a dragon that can call the wind and rain.
Returning to the ship can be described as a life of nine deaths, and Li Xiao also wiped a handful of sweat.
"Chen Hailong has done it, and he won't cause trouble again?" When Mao Wenlong saw Li Xiao coming back, he leaned over and asked.
Li Xiao leaned back in his chair, and the bones in his body seemed to be falling apart. Today, as long as one is not done well, it will be a broken end.
This is also something that can't be helped, Shandong Taiwan is important. If Phi Dao wants to replenish troops, the most convenient place is Shandong. There are a lot of people in North Korea who are willing to come to Phi Dao to serve as soldiers, but Li Xiao will definitely not ask for these international mercenaries. It's not a matter of price, it's just a reluctance to go outward.
"As long as Chen Hailong is not crazy, there should be no problem. To put it bluntly, everyone came out to mix it up for money. Follow us to make money, follow Zhao Nanxing, what do they have?
There was a lot of fighting in the capital, and now Zhao Nanxing and they were at a disadvantage. They are all smart people, people are in the place. Those eyes are all looking at the capital!
That Chen Hailong is a personal essence, and he knows the importance of it. ”
"These bastards are really rich today, you see today's bet is not. Win or lose a hundred or ten taels of silver, without blinking an eyelid. This Chen Hailong is so rich! Ao Canghai was lying drunk on the barn. Every time he does something with Li Xiao, Li Xiao catches the other party's boss and chats.
Poor Ao Ye was caught and poured wine, all of them were a bunch of rough people who ran to the sea, and the wine was drunk like water. Ao Canghai deals with such a group of guys, it's strange if he doesn't get drunk. Now Ao Ye misses Man Gui who can drink more than him!
"Money is Chen Hailong's weakness, and without money, he can't hold on to those people under him at all." Li Xiao looked at the flickering candle flame and said faintly.
"People say that you only become fine when you are old, but you kid will become fine when you are the age of a cat. How can you let others mess up! Mao Wenlong looked at Li Xiao, who was crooked like mud, and couldn't believe that this was a child under the age of eighteen.
Early the next morning, Chen Fu came to the dock.
"Brother Xiao, you are really amazing! Just yesterday, it really calmed my lord. Chen Fu looked at Li Xiao's eyes, and little stars were about to pop up.
"Old Chen, don't laugh at me, isn't this all forced. You're here today to help us recruit troops? ”
"Yes! Yesterday, the notice was posted, and the entrance of the yamen was full of people in the middle of the night last night. You don't know, you people are famous in our Denglai.
You don't owe money, and you don't have to work hard. The money earned in a year can catch up with the family's income for several years, and there is a bereavement pension when you die. Our Ming soldiers only paid a few children when they died, and they were not worth the money of a donkey. How much do you give, the money of two big scalpers?
You recruit troops and don't break your head, whoever recruits breaks your head. Look at what we look like when we recruit troops? Sometimes you can't recruit at all, and you have to go to the countryside to tie up. Catch the strong guy, you know no! If you are caught in the barracks, you have to let it run away. Why do you think the recruits are training on the island, it's because they're afraid of running away. ”
"Gotcha! I can't say you're old, haven't you eaten breakfast? Li Xiao pointed to the steamed buns and small salted fish on the table, and asked people to serve a bowl of porridge.
"I just haven't eaten yet, so I'm here to eat you." Chen Fu sat down in his seat, picked up the rice porridge and began to drink.
Talking and laughing while eating, the sun has risen a rod high after breakfast.
When Li Xiao led people to the gate of the county government, he was immediately shocked by the situation in front of him. The front of the county yamen has become a sea of people, and the horns and treetops are full of people.
I've never seen so many people before watching the Voice audition, my God! Is this the scene of Lao Tzu's recruitment? Lao Tzu is also too popular!
"See! If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you! I told you to go around the back door, but you don't believe it! ”
"Let's go!" Old Chen Fu was still chattering, and Li Xiao had already pulled Chen Fu and ran away. There were already thousands of enthusiastic people on the other side, and if they didn't run faster, they would be trampled to death.
Don't look at Lao Chen Fu's age, he is still quite agile. was pulled by Li Xiao, and there were guards behind him. The crowd fled, and when the team returned to the docks, it looked like a defeated army.
"Oh my God, what a mess! I'm not going, I'm going to be trampled to death. Ao Canghai took a sip of water and said that he would never do such a dangerous thing again.
Li Xiao was also a little depressed, he thought that the registration scene would be very enthusiastic, but he didn't expect it to be so enthusiastic.
"Let each county government gather its own people first, and let's divide it into several places. The wharf, the county office, together to select. Not only is it faster, but it also diverts people. Mao Wenlong suggested.
"Hmmm! I think this trick of Lord Mao is feasible! ”
"That's it, I'm at the docks!" Ao Ye immediately made a decision, and resolutely did not go to the county yamen again.
"You go to the county office!" The two old cultivators pointed to Li Xiao together.
"I'm ......!" Li Xiao didn't have the slightest way to face these two old shameless people.
Chen Fu deserved to be the head snake of the ground, and he gave an order. Before noon, forty or fifty thousand people came to the pier with a whining voice.
"There are so many people, what a whole thing."
"Didn't Brother Xiao say it? Let them run, and those who can run will stay. If you can't run, shave it! Ao Canghai came up with an idea.
"I'll see it!" Mao Wenlong agreed.
"I can do it!" Chen Fu also agreed.
So there was a spectacular scene, and tens of thousands of people began to run in circles around the dock. I couldn't see what people looked like, and I saw countless heads moving on the dock.
"Uh......! How do we know who ran first? Ao Ye suddenly asked a sharp question.
"This ......!"
"This ......!"
The two old ones don't know what to do.
Li Xiao was quite smooth on the Yamen side, and he was the first to send people to look at them one by one. Don't have tattoos, don't have white skin. These two levels will brush down a lot of people!
Just as he was supervising the next procedure, Li Xiao suddenly saw Chen Hailong in the crowd. Hurriedly handed over the work in his hand to Jiang Chaozong, walked up to Chen Hailong and bowed.
"It turned out that the Hou Ye had arrived."
"Huh! In the end, you are so powerful, you can recruit such a big scene. Seeing the scene of Li Xiao's recruitment, Chen Hailong's heart was a little pantothenic.
When he was recruiting, there was no such big scene. Even if you recruit it back, you have to still watch it on the island, otherwise you will run a ball.
It's not that he doesn't pay these new guys, but what kind of goods are the goods under his hands. I clearly understand in my heart that there is no one who does not embezzle military salaries.
If military discipline is really strict, I'm afraid there will be no one in my barracks.
"It's all bitter, and they will naturally be grateful if they are kind to them. Not only do we pay money, but we also give pensions to the dead. ”
"It's not that the old man doesn't want to give it! Pity......! Ay......! ”
Chen Hailong also looked helpless, and the foundation was laid in his father's time. What can he do?
Li Xiao took Chen Hailong around a long time, and Chen Hailong was extremely surprised by Li Xiao's selection method. Generally, when you choose soldiers, you choose those who are good at fighting hard. Why does Li Xiao choose honest candidates, and he also chooses those who don't know how to read.
I wanted to put a few people in, but I saw that those guys were now among the losers.
There is no way, people who walk the sea all year round have a smell of sea. No matter how much you wash it, you can't wash it clean.
"Brother Xiao, can you choose soldiers who can fight like this?" Chen Hailong looked at Li Xiao suspiciously and asked.
"If you can fight or not, the Hou Ye has also seen the record. The Tartars are in our hands, and we have not been able to get any favor. There is an old saying in our hometown that black cats and white cats are good cats, and catching mice is a good cat. ”
"Black cats and white cats, catching mice is a good cat. That's right, a good cat is one who can catch a mouse. You kid, you know a lot at a young age. How did you read "The New Book of Ji Xiao"? ”
"Ji Xiao Xinshu" is the training method of General Qi Jiguang Qi back then, and it can be called the first military book in the Ming Dynasty. Qi Jiguang's family is the hereditary commander of Dengzhou Wei, and it is not far from Penglai. Of course, Chen Hailong has visited the Qi family, and naturally he also knows something about the Qi family's "Ji Xiao New Book".
Li Xiao couldn't help but look at this warlord with admiration, but he didn't expect this warlord to know the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness". The hateful military forum of later generations instilled the idea of a head of its own. "Ji Xiao's New Book" is one of them, of course, you can't say this to Chen Hailong.
If you talk to Chen Hailong about what the Internet is, this product may think that he is evil and burn himself alive.
"An old gentleman in the village told me before, but he didn't understand it at the time. The last time I recruited, I somewhat understood. This time, it is also a joke for Hou Ye to learn and sell now. ”
"I wonder where the old gentleman is now?" Chen Hailong asked eagerly. Having this kind of hidden talent is something that every warlord wants. Chen Hailong's current mood is as if Liu Bei heard about Zhuge Liang for the first time.
"Hey......! When the Tartars slaughtered the village, the old gentleman was unfortunately killed by the Tartars. Li Xiao clenched his hands into fists and looked ahead to make a bitter and bitter hatred.
Hearing that such an old gentleman was killed by Tartar, Chen Hailong's heart was like a deflated ball. The little hope that had just been ignited was wiped out in an instant.
"It's so unfortunate! Brother Xiao, you also mourn, according to your momentum. It is estimated that the Tartars will be wiped out in a few years, and the new and old accounts will be counted together. There is revenge, there is revenge, there is revenge, and it will definitely not make the Tartars feel better. Chen Hailong said on his lips, but he didn't do anything in his heart. After all, he and Tartar do not have a blood feud, and there are even a few times when Chen Hailong has done a few smuggling business with Tartar.
Chen Hailong left disappointed, and screened out twenty or thirty thousand people on the first day. The efficiency is not ordinarily high!
Ao Canghai's side is also very smooth, but there are more people eliminated. A few people eliminated tens of thousands of people in a daze!
This time, the quota for recruitment is 4,000 people, but there are still more than 30,000 people left after sifting around. Even now, these people are almost ninety percent eliminated.
They are all peasant children, and they come out and go out together. Many people looked at Li Xiao pitifully, and Li Xiao felt guilty in the first interview.
The second day went as usual, then the third day, the fourth day ......!
It took five days for Li Xiao to finally finalize the posts of 3,000 people.
Tomorrow is leaving, some people are happy and some are sad. The people who are selected are naturally beaming and imagining a new life.
Those who were not selected were reluctant to leave, and they were reluctant to leave around the port.
There are even many people kneeling on the dock, no matter how much they persuade them to leave. Even if he was pulled away, he would crawl back and kneel on the ground, just begging Li Xiao to take him in.
The night passed, and there were far fewer kneeling people at dawn.
"Stay one more day and let the chosen newcomer meet his family." Li Xiao looked at the people who were kneeling on the ground, and suddenly commanded.
The team stayed for another day, and the new Dingmen went ashore to say goodbye to their families.
When the newcomers returned to the camp in the evening, they saw those who were still kneeling at the gate of the pier. There is an indescribable feeling in my heart!
It's dark! There were a lot fewer people kneeling in front of the dock, and everyone got the news. The team will set sail tomorrow and will not recruit any more people. Many people leave staggering as if they had lost their souls. But there are still people who insist, and as time goes by, fewer and fewer people insist.
It's dawning again!
There were only five people left kneeling at the gate of the dock.
"Call them here!" Li Xiao pointed to the five people and said.