Volume 1 Rising in the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 32 Recruitment
Chen Zuyi really has no experience in recruiting people, but fortunately, the A team and the B team will also go to the Boni Kingdom to recruit people together. This time, the three teams were led by Qian Wu, the captain of the B team, and Chen Zuyi followed to familiarize himself with the process. Each of the three teams arranged a squad to follow, and Zhao Shiduo guarded Lombok Island.
Because the Gengzi team needs more manpower, it may not be able to recruit personnel with other brigades, so it can only go to the old port of Sriwijaya to recruit people alone, Zhou Shuo is inconvenient, he asked the only squadron leader Niu Dali to take all the people with the ship, and before leaving, he also borrowed a team with Chen Zuyi to escort him.
As for the T-shaped and E-shaped teams, they had to go to the Majapahit Empire on Java Island to recruit people, and they were the farthest one, so the two teams of men and horses only left one team to assist in the defense of Lombok Island, and the rest all followed the boats, and drove away the T-shaped and E-shaped warships of the two teams.
Their Black Shark Gang has set up contact points in various cities on the surrounding land, and on the surface, they are all serious business, so if you want to recruit people, you just need to contact them.
This time, I came out on a B-shaped warship, hiding all the artillery, and covering the muzzles of the guns on the ship. Chen Zuyi brought Meng Chengbi, if he recruits people again in the future, he will need Meng Chengbi to do it, and it is impossible for Chen Zuyi to personally lead the team every time.
After only one day at sea, they arrived at Brunei, the capital of the Bo Ni Kingdom, in the evening. The current Bo Ni Kingdom has been driven from the southern tip of Kalimantan Island to the north-central part of the Majapahit Empire, and has lost Sibu State, and there are only two states of Laosha Viet and Brunei.
As the current king of the state of Bo Ni, Mana Zhe Wuli was struggling to support the kingdom's current territory, and most of the army was sent to the border of Sarawak and Sibu to resist the continued northward advance of the Majapahit soldiers, but was unable to regain the occupied land.
That night, Qian Wu took six personal guards and Chen Zuyi and Meng Chengbi and a group of 14 people to live in the Fulai Inn in the east of Brunei, and they chartered a small courtyard alone. All three of them changed out of the leather clothes and leather armor of the pirates, and changed into the more popular satin robes, and the guards who followed were all dressed in black and carried swords at their waists.
The Black Sharks' point of contact in Brunei is a ready-to-wear shop, called Chunhui Ready-to-Wear Shop, located in the downtown east of Brunei, selling new clothes and second-hand silk brocades, and business is also booming.
The next morning, after breakfast, the group set off to the Chunhui ready-to-wear shop not far away. When he arrived at the front of the store, Qian Wu motioned for the guards to wait outside the door, and he entered the shop with Chen Zuyi and Meng Chengbi.
In the shop, there are already three or two customers in the thrift section to pick out suitable robes.
As soon as Qian Wu and the three of them entered the door, a clever young man came forward to greet them: "What clothes do you want to buy?" ”
"Is your shopkeeper here? Do we have a big deal to talk about? ”
The young man was obviously stunned, and randomly put on a smiling face and hurriedly said, "What is the business of your guests?" ”
"10,000 horses of silk, can you eat it?"
"Distinguished guests, please wait in the private room, I will ask the shopkeeper to come!"
The young man led the three of them into the private room, and left through another door, which seemed to lead to the backyard.
After a while, a shrewd-looking little old man came out from behind the door, and walked briskly as he greeted him.
"Who am I, what kind of wind blew the Qian officials to the trumpet?"
"The black whirlwind swept me in!" Qian Wu still replied with a smile.
"Inner Courtyard, please!"
The shopkeeper was no longer polite, but opened the little door from which he came, and invited the three of them into a hall in the backyard to sit down, and waited for the servant to bring the tea.
"Captain Qian, these two brothers are tight?"
Qian Wu pointed at Chen Zuyi, "This is Chen Zuyi, the newly promoted captain of the C-shaped team, and the one next to him is his military advisor Meng Chengbi!" Then he pointed to the shopkeeper and said: "This is the shopkeeper of Yuyao Yu, who is always in charge of the affairs of the Bo Ni Kingdom!" ”
Chen Zuyi, Meng Chengbi and Yu Yao hurriedly greeted each other, and waited for a polite finish.
Shopkeeper Yu asked, "I don't know what Captain Qian has to do when he comes over this time?" ”
"Whoa! This is the recruitment document of the first team, the second team and the third team, this time the three teams need to recruit a total of 220 new people, how many days can you do it? ”
Shopkeeper Yu took the three documents, and couldn't help frowning, the content on them was roughly the number of recruits reported by each team, and finally the captains used the seals and the helpers to seal the letters, but there was a lack of the two masters' seals.
"Captain Qian, these three recruitment documents are not in accordance with the rules, and the second master's seal is missing!"
"Alas! The second master died in battle, and there will be no more of his seal in the future! ”
"Huh?! When was this? Shopkeeper Yu was taken aback, and the news about the island did not reach the various contact points on the mainland.
"Just three days ago, I was attacked by the Wanli Gang, the second boss died, the gang leader was seriously injured, and the various teams were seriously short of people, so I came to recruit new people."
"Okay then, anyway, the helper is here, so let's do it! You give me seven days to guarantee that all the people will be sent to the dock, Captain Qian, do you think it is feasible? ”
"Yes, but it's better to be Han, you should be able to understand this, right?"
"Understood! If you're a local, I'll get you on board in just two days! "The shopkeeper of Yuyao is very confident.
"Brother Qian, is this the end of it?" Chen Zuyi, Meng Chengbi, and Qian Wu walked on the street, and Chen Zuyi asked Qian Wu in disbelief.
"yes, it's over."
"It's as simple as that?"
"It's not easy, the gang has to open a recruitment paperwork, and we have to take this risk to come to the land to bring people back, do you think it's simple?"
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Chen Zuyi was speechless, and at this moment, a loud shout came from the front, "Get out of the way!" Get out of the way! ”
Not far ahead, a man rode a tall horse, whipped away pedestrians in the middle of the road, and shouted this way.
"All aside, there's a big guy going to pass through here!" Qian Wu pulled Chen Zuyi and asked everyone to avoid it quickly.
"This guy at the front has a name, called Jingjiehou, in fact, he is a paver for the big guys! The status of the guy who came to pass by is not low, otherwise he is not qualified to have a clean street Hou Qingdao! ”
Qian Wu is an old fritter, except for Daming, the other three lands around Lombok have been to countless times, and they know the customs and habits of various places.
From the other side of the street, a large group of knights in armor galloped in with a roar, and the knight at the head also held a flying flag in his hand to wave it in the wind, and between them protected a carriage dragged by four white horses.
"Ho! This is the prince's car, looking at the momentum, it is very likely to be the eldest prince! ”
Qian Wu said to Chen Zuyi as he stretched his neck to look at the carriage. At this time, their group had been squeezed to the very edge, and the heads in front of them were clustered, and they did not stand on a high point, and they could not see the situation in the middle of the road.
Chen Zuyi also looked in on his toes in surprise, and it happened that a gust of wind blew through, blowing the curtain on the carriage. I saw a young man in a high-crowned costume sitting in the carriage, which was very similar to Chen Zuyi. As the carriage left quickly, Chen Zuyi had no choice but to put his toes on his toes in disappointment, he really wanted such a cavalry, and he didn't pay attention to the people in the carriage at all.
"Huh~ Boss, how do I look at that person who looks like you! You can't be the illegitimate son of the king of Boni, right? Meng Chengbi rarely made a joke, but a trace of doubt flashed in his heart.
"Nonsense! I'm an authentic Han man, what's like this Southern Barbarian native? ”
Fortunately, both of them communicated in Chinese, which was only popular among merchants and officials. There is still a large proportion of civilians who cannot understand Chinese.
"Well, I saw it just now, but the figure flashed, and now it's a little hard to determine what that person looks like!" Qian Wu glanced at Chen Zuyi a few more times, maybe he was wrong!
When the prince's car was all gone, Qian Wu and his party walked forward slowly and continued to wander around Brunei City.
Early in the morning of the seventh day, a one-eyed man rode a pack horse with a thin head, and came to the dock with more than 200 Han people with tattered clothes and haggard faces. Directly found the B warship, and shouted loudly to the guards on duty on the ship:
"Whoa! That's it, let your family Qian Ye pick up people! ”
After a while, Qian and Wu stepped off the warship. When the one-eyed man saw the three of them coming down, he knew that it was the main owner who came, so he hurriedly dismounted and greeted the three of them.
"Hello Qian Ye! The small one is the Yalang of Xingye Yaxing in the east of the city, the contemptible surname is Ruan, the person you bought has arrived, please accept it! ”
"Well, let's go check it out!" Qian Wu took the lead towards the group of people, and Ruan Yalang hurriedly followed the three of them.
"The number you want is two hundred and twenty people, and now there are a total of two hundred and thirty-five people here, the snake master over there said, the number of people you buy this time is relatively large, and one or two will get sick and die if you don't have a package, so I'll give you an extra fifteen!"
"Oh, then thank you to that snake master! Tell the brethren on the boat to come down and take the men to the boat! The latter sentence was said to Chen Zuyi and Meng Chengbi.
"Yes, Master Qian!" Meng Chengbi nodded, and immediately ran back to the boat to call someone.
"I'll go, you've stabbed the beggar's nest, haven't you? Why are the two of them dressed in tatters, with yellow faces and thin muscles? ”
"Master Qian, you are really good at joking, who is rich and sells his body!"
"Humph! I don't think it's a voluntary sale, right? It should have been shipped by ship! ”
Ruan Yalang's face changed, and he smiled randomly, "Master Qian, don't talk nonsense, that's a big crime to kill your head, just Master Qian, you have a ...... As the saying goes: see through it or don't say it, isn't this the truth? ”
"㕭? Haha~, that's it! Nguyen Ya Lang is so eloquent! Qian Wu didn't say anything more, and casually signed the receipt book brought by Ruan Yalang. As for the money that bought the people, they handed it over to the shopkeeper Yu seven days ago.