A few days later, Dengzhou Chengbei Campus Field.

After rigorous screening, a total of more than 7,900 young people passed the second round of tests and have been assembled in the school yard at this time.

It didn't take long for Li Congyan to lead 300 soldiers of the New Army to the school ground, and the 300 soldiers of the New Army with helmets and armor were majestic, completely different from the soldiers and horses of the Jiedu Envoys seen by the people on weekdays, not only well-equipped, but also exuding an unusual spirit, which made the thousands of young men present look sideways.

Li Congyan strode to the platform, the armor pieces on his body made a sound, attracting everyone's attention, and Xu Hui, who joined the army, crossed his hand and said: "Enlighten the Lord, all the young and strong have been assembled, please show the Lord!" ”

Li Congyan sat in the center, his eyes swept over the crowd of black and oppressive people under the stage, his heart was indescribably happy, and he said loudly: "The third round of selection, let's start." ”

"Whoa!"

More than 7,000 young men were immediately dispersed, and every 300 or so people were formed into a team, and the officers and men of the New Army were responsible for screening, focusing on the purpose of these young men joining the army, the situation at home, and whether they had committed adultery and crimes.

After that, all the young people will be asked a basic knowledge quiz on the army, and everyone will be scored, and the top 4,000 people with the highest score will be admitted to the new army.

Looking at the hot scene in the school field, Li Congyan had no intention of participating in specific affairs, so he asked Xu Hui: "In the screening in the past few days, are there any outstanding talents?" ”

Xu Hui took out a form and said: "Your Excellency, after the first two rounds of screening, a total of 178 outstanding young men have been recorded, these people are not only very good in physical fitness, but also most of them have flexible minds, have read books, especially a few who are familiar with military affairs, and should be the children of some small families." ”

Li Congyan frowned slightly, he didn't expect that this recruitment would attract the children of the coming family, it seems that the new government military system he formulated is very tempting?

But after thinking about it carefully, I realized that something was wrong, a mere 100 acres of cultivated land and a military salary of 200 yuan a month were completely a drop in the bucket for the big families, even if it was a small family, they would not let their children join the army for 100 acres of arable land.

Li Congyan understood after a little thought that it should be these small families who wanted to bet on themselves, and even the children of these families might have sneaked out, after all, the folk martial arts were prevalent at this time.

"It seems that these little families are all masters who can't be idle and want to toss."

Li Congyan asked, "Which ones are the children of the small family?" ”

"Li Siye, a son of the Li family in Penglai County, is the concubine of the Li family's third room."

"There is also a man named Chen Zhu, who is the eldest son of the Chen family in Huang County."

"The rest are also from Penglai County and Huang County, but their families are smaller. Everyone was also faintly led by Li Siye and Chen Zhu. ”

Li Congyan nodded, the Li family in Penglai County and the Chen family in Huang County have heard of it themselves, they are all local families, but compared with some real big families in Dengzhou, they are far behind, and they are all small families with no background.

"It seems that these two companies want to bet on me, and they want to see if they can strengthen the lintel? However, the Chen family's bet was too big, and they actually sent an eldest son? ”

When Li Congyan first arrived in Dengzhou, he had already investigated the situation of various families, and knew something about the Li family in Penglai and the Chen family in Huangxian County. It's just that the attitude of these two companies made Li Congyan a little surprised, and he didn't expect to take the initiative to come up.

After thinking for a while, Li Congyan instructed: "These two people should pay attention to it, and if they can pass the third round of screening, they will be assigned a position." These two may be able to come in handy in the future. ”

"Whoa!"

After more than an hour, the third round of screening ended.

Four thousand young people, including Li Siye and Chen Zhi, stood out, and although the remaining three thousand young men were not selected for the new army, these young men were also good seedlings, and they were all first-class good soldiers in other feudal towns, and Li Congyan naturally would not let go.

On the stage, Li Congyan was dressed in a bright light armor, shining under the sun, and in the eyes of thousands of people in the audience, he was like a heavenly soldier and a general, which suddenly ignited the fire in everyone's hearts.

Li Congyan immediately made an impassioned speech, positioning the new army on the eight words of protecting the country, securing the people, and defending China, and directly distinguishing it from the old army in the hands of the local jiedu envoys.

"The soldiers and horses prepared by this assassin are the new army, what is the new army? To protect the territory and the people, and to defend China, if you can do these eight words, it is the new army! ”

"From now on, you must draw a clear line with the soldiers and horses under the command of the envoys of all sections, you are not soldiers who show off their power and fish the common people, nor are you soldiers who are as smooth as oil and flattering, and you are not soldiers and bandits who kill good people and make meritorious deeds, and are lawless! You are my Li Congyan's arms and my Li Congyan's comrades! ”

In the end, Li Congyan roared in his heart: "You will work with me to pacify Huaxia and rebuild the Tang Dynasty!" ”

Although at this time, the thousands of young people in the audience still didn't understand it, and they didn't know much about Li Congyan's expectations, but they also vaguely realized that the new army they were in was different from those soldiers and horses. As for where the difference is, time will tell.

"Why is the division joining the army?"

Xu Hui crossed his hand and promised.

"Bring 4,000 new troops into the barracks, complete the reorganization within ten days, and start drills!"

"Whoa!"

"Where is the judiciary in the military?"

Wang Yong promised with a forked hand.

Li Congyan pointed to the more than 3,000 unsuccessful young men in the audience, and said to Wang Yong: "Although these young men were not selected into the new army, they are also good seedlings of the first class. ”

"Whoa!"

The more than 3,000 unsuccessful young men were still in a low mood at first, and at this time, they suddenly heard that Lord Assassin Shi was going to reorganize himself into a city patrol archer, and he was immediately ecstatic.

Although the archers patrolling the city will not have 100 acres of arable land and generous military salaries, they will also have a stable salary, so they can get out of the original poor life, and it can be regarded as a good ending.

Suddenly, I don't know who took the lead, and several young people shouted long live, and the whole school field was shaken.

Xu Hui, Wang Yong and a few others changed color slightly, but then calmed down as before, and looked at Li Congyan with very much admiration.

Li Congyan's face was calm, and he calmly accepted the cheers of thousands of people, but he was thinking about another thing in his heart: money!

After this large-scale recruitment, the money stolen from Liu Yu and others' homes is afraid that it is about to bottom out, and the cost of supporting thousands of soldiers and horses is amazing, Li Congyan is about to start thinking about long-term and stable sources of income.

"This family is not easy to do!"

The barracks of the new army were located in the south of the city, which was originally a deserted house, and was later opened up by Liu Yu and others as a military camp.

After Li Congyan entered Dengzhou City, he swept away the old army in the barracks and placed the new army here.

After integration, the new army took ten people as a fire, one fire chief, a total of eleven people, five fires for a team, a team of one person, five teams for a brigade, a brigade commander, five brigades for a regiment, a school captain, five regiments for a fold Chongfu, a squadron commander, a left and right Guoyi lieutenant.

In this way, the new army in Dengzhou had a strength of Zhichong Prefecture, not counting the horsemen, baggage auxiliaries, medical officers, assassins and other auxiliary personnel, with a total of more than 5,600 soldiers.

The strength of this reorganization was 5,000 people, and after Xu Hui consulted Li Congyan, he selected more than 600 people from the more than 3,000 young men who were not selected, and then began to practice.

Li Siye and Chen Zhi were both awarded the position of team leader, the rest of the fire captains and team leaders were selected from the outstanding young and strong, and the brigade commander was a carefully selected confidant from the three hundred old tooth soldiers.

Subsequently, Li Congyan himself concurrently served as the captain of Zhichong, and ordered Li Wei to be the captain of Zuo Guoyi, Wu Conghan to be the captain of Right Guoyi, and Li Ren, Wang Yong, Xu Hui, Zhu Ming, and Wang Zuhe respectively served as captains.

After the appointment, Li Congyan couldn't help but sigh that there were too few people who could be used under him, Wu Conghan, Li Wei and others were all wearing multiple hats, and if they led the troops now, they would already lack skills.

"Make money first, and when you have rich money, you can recruit talent."

Thousands of young men were integrated into the new army, and the momentum of Li Congyan, the assassin of history, suddenly soared. Li Congyan immediately began to divide the fields and land, and divided all the more than 4,000 hectares of cultivated land that had been confiscated, and distributed all the farm tools, seeds, and cattle that the Thorn Shifu could mobilize.

Under the arrangement of the Assassin's Mansion, thousands of young and strong families were also properly settled, scattered and settled in Dengzhou City and various places in the four counties, where the houses were insufficient, and the Assassin's Mansion even organized people to build some simple houses, for which the Assassin's Mansion also spent a lot of money, so that Zhu Ming, who joined the army, complained more than once.

Li Congyan ignored Zhu Ming's complaints, but instructed Si Tian to join Wang Zuhe and ask him to urge these thousands of households to hurry up and cultivate and not miss the agricultural time.

"The harvest of these thousands of households is not only related to the morale of the officers and men of the New Army, but also to the income of the Assassin's Mansion and the source of military food for the New Army, so we must not be careless!"

Wang Zuhe held back his strength to show himself in front of Li Congyan, and immediately crossed his hands and said, "Please rest assured, the lord will do his best." ”

As for the 200 old soldiers and hundreds of selected old soldiers, there were also benefits, although there was no arable land, but Li Congyan took 100 acres of arable land as a price and gave money to these hundreds of people.

The 5,600-strong New Army roared with joy, and the faces of everyone in the New Army camp were filled with joy.

One day, Li Congyan had just returned to the Assassin's Mansion from the New Army camp, and Li Congyan was tired from this period of busyness, but it was gratifying that the military system of the New Mansion was basically on the right track, and the next step was to continue to reclaim wasteland and think about how to make money.

Li Congyan took a big sip of a bowl of water, and saw Li Ren coming.

"Lord, Chen Dongli, the head of the Chen family in Huang County, asks to see you."

Li Congyan was slightly stunned, Chen Zhu had just entered the new army, and the head of the Chen family came to meet him, this is too presumptuous?

"Let him in."

"Whoa!"

After a while, Chen Dongli came to the back hall and said with his hands crossed: "The grass people have seen Li Thorn History. ”

Li Congyan smiled and gave up her seat, and then exchanged a few words with Chen Dongli, and then asked, "Come here today, what advice does Elder Chen have?" ”

"How dare the grass people mention the word advice, but I heard that Li Tingshi has just recruited thousands of soldiers, and the Thorn Shi Mansion must be nervous, so I want to donate some money and food for Li Tingshi, which can be regarded as the grass people's contribution to the country."

Li Congyan raised his eyebrows, and then had an idea in his heart, and said: "Old Chen has a heart, so I will be disrespectful." ”

"As it should be."

Then the two chatted for a while, Li Congyan asked about the situation of the Li family in Penglai, and Chen Dongli also talked about it one by one.

Half an hour later, Chen Dongli got up to say goodbye.

After Chen Dongli left, Li Congyan recalled the situation of the Li family, this Penglai Li family not only sent a Li Siye to himself, but also had contacts with several surrounding festival envoys, which was obviously a "multi-faceted investment", and it seemed that he was not a stable and reliable "partner".

"This Chen family is different, not only did they send an eldest son, but they also sent money and food, it seems that they are ready to make a desperate bet."

Li Congyan smiled slightly: "Since you are affectionate, I must also be righteous!" ”