The noble general has been raised for a few days, and his body has healed, but he stayed on the mountain all day, staring blankly into the distance, thinking about his thoughts.

"My Zhou family is in such a situation, thinking about how to transfer it!" Zhou Fugui put a dog's tail grass in his mouth, looked at the mountains in the distance, looked at the clouds and mist, and sighed: "But how to transfer it?" Little sister, do you have a good idea? ”

"Poof!" Zhou Xiaomei couldn't help laughing when she heard this, lying next to her second brother Zhou Fugui, while enjoying the scenery with him, she smiled: "Second brother still thinks about my sister-in-law who hasn't passed the door, right?" Little sister, where do I have any good ideas? But I also understand that people like us want to transport and get rich, but it is more difficult than climbing to the sky. ”

"Well, hey, my little sister has a point." Zhou Fugui nodded in agreement when he heard this.

The children of poor families want to have a good life, want to take the whole family to turn over, and live a rich life, there are only three ways, one is to do business, make money and make a lot of money, this is also; The second is the imperial examination, the imperial examination is admitted, and when you become a master, naturally the family will also turn over; The third is to join the army, and to make a name for himself and a future.

But after understanding these days, Zhou Fugui learned that after Yan destroyed Wei and drove away Xia, the imperial examination was basically abolished.

Although the Yan court did not explicitly abolish the imperial examination, it did not hold the imperial examination for three years.

Hu people dominate the world with riding and shooting, where do they know the importance of reading? Even if there are Hu people who know how to read, there are very few.

And to do business, you first need to have capital, and the Zhou family is surrounded by walls, and it is not easy to turn over a few copper coins, so what is the cost?

Even if the Zhou family scrapes together, borrows all the neighbors, scrapes together enough capital, and sells in the south and the north, it also needs to have a way, and at present, Yan, Xia and other countries are fighting endlessly, thieves are numerous, and the north-south trade route has long been cut off, so how can we talk about trading? And some traders who dared to take risks to do business, most of the goods were robbed, and even died halfway.

In the troubled times, human life is like a mustard, and if you can survive, even if it is green smoke on the ancestral grave.

It is impossible to take the imperial examination and do business, so there is only the road left to join the army, and as a Han army under the Hu regime, almost the same as slaves, Zhou Fugui certainly does not want to do this.

All the ways to make a fortune have been cut off, so Zhou Fugui is left to make a living with his brother Zhou Dashan facing the loess with his back to the sky...

"People look down on our Zhou family, and they are running for a bright future, and they will mention her again in the future." Zhou Fugui then reminded Zhou Xiaomei.

"Hee-hee, got it." Zhou Xiaomei lay on the ground, her legs kept swinging, and said with a smile: "But I also know that the second brother is a capable person, and in the future, I will bring ten or eight sisters-in-law home and be angry with them." ”

"Smack!" Zhou Fugui gently patted Zhou Xiaomei's little head and said, "What are you thinking in your little head?" Ten or eight daughters-in-law? You are your second brother, I am a kind of ma? ”

"Ouch, second brother, it hurts!" Zhou Xiaomei held her head in her hands and asked, "What is a kind of ma?" ”

"Breeding horses is..."Zhou Fugui glared at Zhou Xiaomei and said, "Isn't there a breeding horse at home?" ”

"Second brother..."Zhou Xiaomei came back to her senses and said with a red face: "There is only one old horse ploughing the field at home, with... With what? ”

"Erlang Zhou, go home quickly, something happened to your family." At this moment, Xu Mancang, a neighbor of the old Xu family, ran up the mountain panting and shouted loudly.

Xu Mancang is a stocky teenager, about the same age as Zhou Fugui, and he is his childhood playmate.

"Mancang, what's wrong?" Zhou Fugui asked in surprise when he heard this.

"There are a few soldiers in your house, go back and have a look." Xu Mancang replied.

Military? What do you do in my house? Zhou Fugui didn't have time to think about it, so he ran to his home at the bottom of the mountain with Zhou Xiaomei on his back.

"Military master, military master, the old in the family, the young and the young, have taken away the head of the family, how can we live?"

When Zhou Fugui ran home with Zhou Xiaomei on his back, the crying voice of his sister-in-law Gu Sanniang came from inside the house.

"We were ordered by the emperor to sign the army, how do I care about your life?" A military man shouted viciously at Gu Sanniang.

The so-called signing of the army is to sign the army, and the issuance of Ding Zhuang as a soldier is a kind of conscription system in Yan, and the strong men who are signed must immediately throw down their hoes, prepare their own blades, horses, grain and grass, etc., and follow the army to assemble.

In Yan, the soldiers recruited by the imperial court were divided into five classes, the first class was of course the Xianbei people, the second class was the people of Di, Qiang, and Qian, the third class was the Han people under the jurisdiction of the former Wei State, mainly referring to the Yan people of the sixteen states of Youyun, and the fourth and last class was the original Xia Han people, who were generally called the southern people.

The lower the level, the worse the treatment, but charging to death, consuming the opponent's arrows, etc., is the first wave, to put it bluntly, it is cannon fodder, and at the same time, the cannon fodder is also the worst when distributing the spoils, which is extremely pitiful.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Yan country, because of the civil strife in the summer, it was weak, so every time the army was sent out, almost a large amount of property could be looted, at that time, the Yan army conscripted, and the responders were still more enthusiastic, but now the Xia according to the river is stubbornly defending, and the Yan army sent troops to loot less and less property, so not only delayed the agricultural time, grazing, etc., but also could not grab many things, and the most important thing was to die, so at this time, most of the people of the Great Yan country were unwilling to be signed by the army, whether it was Di, Qiang, Qian and other ethnic groups, or Han people.

Some wealthy families can pay bribes with money, so as to find someone to pay for it, exempt from military service, and the poor family can only serve in the army, and even all the men in poor families may be forced to enlist in the army.

At this time, the Yan army marched south to Jiangzuo, and the emperor's order was to draw one out of two, and the Zhou family had two men, so one person must be drawn to fight in the army.

Zhou Dashan is in the prime of life, so he is among the signing soldiers.

"It's okay if you don't want to go." The person in charge of signing the army is called the signing envoy, and one of the signing envoys said with a smile: "If you have enough money, you can be exempted from signing the army." ”

"If you don't have money, it's okay to use people to make it offset." Another military envoy looked at Zhou Xiaomei who entered the house and smiled lewdly.

Gu Sanniang was still begging.

"Sanniang, don't say it, I'll go." Zhou Dashan, who had been bored, opened his mouth and said.

"Dad, Dad, no, no, you can't go." Gu Sanniang, who had been sharp-mouthed and sharp-toothed, didn't pay attention at the moment, just crying.

The Han army is almost cannon fodder, and when the battle starts, it is rushed to the front to die, in order to consume the strength of the other party, and the Han people who signed the army in the past did not come back, and those who came back were also missing arms and legs, almost all of them were disabled, and the pension money given by the Yan court was pitiful, which was a drop in the bucket.

Zhou Dashan's trip is almost a dead end.

Zhou Dashan could only sigh and shake his head, but there was nothing he could do.

"Big brother, sister-in-law, I'll go." Zhou Fugui looked at Zhou Xiaomei with malicious eyes, so he protected Zhou Xiaomei and said coldly.

The Zhou family has an old mother and a young son, and the whole family is still counting on Zhou Dashan to farm and feed, if Zhou Dashan is sent to death in the army, the whole Zhou family may be starved to death, so at this moment, only Zhou Fugui stepped forward and joined the army for his brother.

"Fugui, what are you doing? Get back to the house, it's none of your business. Zhou Dashan was shocked when he heard this.

Zhou Dashan would rather die himself than send his own brother to death.

"Get out of the way, it's not up to you who you want to sign." After a military envoy viciously pushed Zhou Dashan away, he walked up to Zhou Fugui, looked at Zhou Fugui and said, "How old is the kid?" Well, the body is not bad, and it is quite strong. ”

"Thank you for the compliment!" Zhou Fugui grinned and said, "The kid just turned eighteen years old. ”

"Eighteen? Well, you can also join the army. The military envoy nodded: "Does the kid know what war is?" ”

"Isn't it just killing and being killed?" Zhou Fugui sneered.

The leader-like military envoy was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then coldly ordered: "Three days later, prepare horses and ordnance, and assemble under Youzhou City." ”

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"Second uncle, eat more, when you get to the barracks, but..."

Zhou Fugui joined the army for his brother or sent his brother to death, so that Gu Sanniang, who had always looked down on him, was finally moved to tears, and made a table of delicious food, which was practiced for Zhou Fugui.

"Fugui, you... Why did you come out? I'll forget if I'm old and die, but you... It's not as good as a weak crown. "Zhou Dashan has been complaining about Zhou Fugui.

"Big brother, look at what you said, it's too unlucky, right?" Zhou Fugui said with a smile while eating and drinking: "Will you definitely die if you join the army?" I can't see it, I am rich and auspicious, how can I die so easily? ”

When he arrived, he still joined the army, and he was still a puppet army, a second devil, Zhou Fugui couldn't help laughing at himself in his heart.

At this moment, the large-scale signing of the army of the Great Yan State is to attack the Xia Dynasty with Han people as the main population, so what is Zhou Fugui not a traitor? What is it if it's not a puppet army or a second devil? Although he was persecuted.

Zhou Fugui was simply speechless and helpless.

If the Han ancestors of the old Zhou family knew underground, they would definitely be angry and alive, and then they would be angry to death...

"The second brother is right, it'll be fine, I'm still waiting for the second brother to find ten or eight sisters-in-law for me to go home." Zhou Xiaomei nodded.

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and there was a hint of joy in their sorrow.

"Go, go, you know?" Mother Liu scolded Zhou Xiaomei and said to Zhou Fugui: "Look, let you practice martial arts more, now it's coming in handy, right?" ”

Zhou Fugui was speechless when he heard this.

The mother can't wait to take care of her child under her wing, and the Liu family seems to be eager for Zhou Fugui to charge into battle...

Zhou Fugui really wants to know what his mother's identity was in the past and what kind of experience she had?

At this time, Zhou Fugui became the center of the family, and the gossip around him was a thousand instructions.