Three months later.

This day, early in the morning.

Zhou Xian walked out of his room and stretched.

By this time, the soldiers had already gotten up and started the day's training.

After the soldiers had breakfast, they came to the square and assembled.

Zhou Xian came to the high platform and said to the soldiers below: "I saw everyone's performance yesterday, I am very satisfied, and today I have to promote some soldiers who have performed very well, and the soldiers whose names I call out below stand up." ”

"Xiang Shaoyun, Sun Wu, Liu Hu, Li Huaping, Bao Changwu, Ou Jiahua, Zhang Shan, Zhang Guodong, Zhang Qingyun, Wu Haibin."

Zhou Xian stopped after reading these ten people in one breath.

Looking at the ten people who came out below, Zhou Xian nodded with satisfaction and said: "The ten of you have performed well in this battle and are brave in killing the enemy, so you have been promoted to platoon commander, and you will each be in charge of three squads of thirty soldiers in the future." ”

Xiang Shaoyun and the other ten people said in unison: "Lord Xie Zhou promoted, I will definitely kill the enemy more bravely in the future, and swear allegiance to the Zhou family's army!" ”

There was a round of applause from the soldiers below.

Zhou Xian waited for the applause below to be a little smaller, and continued: "Yesterday, all the participating combatants were rewarded with five taels of silver. ”

The soldiers below excitedly shouted in unison, "Lord Xie Zhou's reward!" ”

Zhou Xian continued to encourage the soldiers for a few words before leaving.

Zhou Xian said to Daniel Zhang: "You guys continue to train, I will take two classes of people to bring Liu Zongmin and other thieves to the county." ”

Daniel Zhang said: "My lord, you go and get busy, and leave the training of the military camp to me." ”

Zhou Xian took two squads of soldiers and escorted Liu Zongmin and some bandits who were unwilling to surrender to the county seat.

In the past few months, the Ming Dynasty has gradually entered the right track after experiencing the siege of the capital by thieves.

Although there are still bandits and bandits in various places, and the Qing soldiers outside the customs are also eyeing each other, they want to break into Shanhaiguan several times and enter the Central Plains.

But they were all blocked back by Wu Sangui.

In general, Daming has temporarily entered a period of calm.

And in the past three months, Zhou Xian has used iron ore to create a lot of modern good things, and at the same time used agricultural reclamation to vigorously engage in economic development.

Especially in Datong Mansion, after the imperial court was stabilized, a prefect was sent to be in charge of many affairs of Datong Mansion.

Liu Zongmin and these people have been imprisoned for three months and interrogated for three months, and now it is indeed time to hand them over and let the court deal with them.

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After finishing all this, Zhou Xian began to recruit again.

Soon spread to the surrounding counties, and the young people from all the nearby villages came to Zhou Xian's current station, Monkey Mountain Village.

At this time, Monkey Mountain Village is no longer the dilapidated small village it used to be.

The current Monkey Mountain Village is divided into four districts: southeast, south, and northwest.

The eastern area is a barracks that prohibit people from entering, the southern area is a trading ground where many shops are built, the western area is a residential area, and the northern area is a production factory where idle people are not allowed to enter.

The recruitment office is arranged in a large square in the southern district, which is crowded with people, some come to apply, and some come to see the excitement.

This recruitment only requires young people, a height of more than 1.6 meters, and good eyesight.

The recruits were carried out in ten squads of soldiers, and there were three places to apply, so the recruitment was fast.

Three thousand people were recruited in one day, and a total of nine thousand people were recruited in three days.

Teng Jianye is a twenty-eight-year-old bachelor in Tengjia Village, who is quite burly, with a height of 1.75 meters and a good appearance.

The reason why he has not married a daughter-in-law at the age of twenty-four is because he is poor.

There is also a poor old lady and a ten-year-old brother at home, and no one wants to marry their daughter to him.

This time Zhou Xian recruited soldiers, and only Teng Jianye was admitted in Tengjia Village, and after Teng Jianye returned home, all the villagers in Tengjia Village were boiling.

All of them were envious and jealous people, and many villagers came to Teng Jianye's house to congratulate him.

Now being able to go to Monkey Mountain Village to serve as a soldier is like finding a golden job.

Teng Jianye looked at these people who came to the house to congratulate him, and he was very happy in his heart, and he had a feeling of raising his eyebrows.

Tomorrow he will take his mother and brother to Monkey Mountain Village.

Monkey Mountain Village now arranges accommodation for the families of the soldiers, and the soldiers can let their families live in Monkey Mountain Village.

The reason why Zhou Xian asked the families of the soldiers to move to Monkey Mountain Village was to develop Monkey Mountain Village and increase the population of Monkey Mountain Village.

These villagers came to Teng Jianye's house for one purpose, that is, to let Teng Jianye not forget the young people in the village, and he could help the young people in the village when he got out in Monkey Mountain Village in the future.

Teng Jianye heroically agreed, saying that in the future, he would definitely let the young people in the village also go to the Qin Mansion to be homemakers.

After hearing Teng Jianye's assurance, these villagers left satisfied.

Teng Jianye's mother, Zheng, was very happy to see her son so prosperous now.

She said to Teng Jianye: "Jianye, after you enter Monkey Mountain Village, you must work hard, strive to be a little steward, and take our young people from Tengjia Village to be Lord Zhou's soldiers in the future." ”

Teng Jianye replied: "Well, don't worry, mother, I will definitely work hard." ”

The next day, Teng Jianye took his mother and younger brother to Monkey Mountain Village.

The soldiers in charge of the reception led them to the residential area of the West End, where three-story buildings made of red bricks had been neatly erected.

There were thirty rooms in each building, and they were placed in one of them, and when they entered, they found it quite spacious, with one main hall and three rooms.

This kind of brick house is not afraid of wind and rain, Zheng nodded with a smile on his face, and said that it is good here.

After the soldiers arranged Teng Jianye's family, they took Teng Jianye to the barracks.

When he came to the barracks, he was assigned to a squad and was taken back to the dormitory by the squad leader.

At this time, there were already nine people in the dormitory, and Teng Jianye was ten people, so there were already all the people.

The squad leader began to speak when he saw that everyone was together.

The squad leader said: "Welcome to join the Zhou family's army, I am your squad leader, Liu Fan, we are the Zhou family's army, so you are soldiers and not families, of course, for the time being, we are the Zhou family's families." ”

"There are three military regulations of our Zhou Jiajun, which are:

Article 1: Obey the command in all actions, absolutely obey the orders of the superiors, and those who violate the order will be killed!

Article 2: Do not oppress the people, do not rob the people, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!

Article 3: All seizures after the battle must be handed over, and the merit of the battle will be distributed, and those who violate the order will be beheaded! ”

"You hear me clearly!" Liu Fan shouted loudly.

Teng Jianye and the other ten people replied in unison: "We heard clearly. ”

Liu Fan said with satisfaction: "Very good, as long as you perform well, you still have a chance to be promoted, I used to be an ordinary soldier, it was because I performed well in training, and last time I fought bravely in the encirclement and suppression of bandits, and killed five bandits, so I can become this squad leader." ”

Teng Jianye and the others were enthusiastic when they heard this, and they couldn't wait to kill a few bandits now.