Fortunately, he was used to this kind of thing in Xingjing, he just thought about it for a while, and when he saw that he couldn't think of a reason, he didn't think about it anymore, what he had to think about now was how to meet Zhou Xian tomorrow, and how to let Zhou Xian give him a position.

The next day, Zhou Yanru got up early in the morning, he asked everywhere how to meet Zhou Xian, and the hard work paid off, and he finally inquired.

A special recruitment office was set up next to Xingjing Square, which was mainly used to receive former officials like them.

Soon Zhou Yanru came to the official office, and when he arrived here, he found that there were really a lot of people here, at least more than 30 people were waiting in line here.

Zhou Yanru hurriedly stepped forward to line up, and soon it was his turn, and the staff in charge of registration asked without humility: "What's your name?" Have you held an official position before? ”

"Zhou Yanru, who previously served as the first assistant of the cabinet!" Zhou Yanru said a little proudly.

The staff was also shocked when they heard Zhou Yanru's name, and hurriedly became polite, "It turned out to be Zhou Ge Lao, it's really disrespectful!" ”

As he spoke, he wrote down Zhou Yanru's information with a pen, and after writing it, he also stamped a stamp on the paper.

"This is a voucher that you can go to the palace to see the emperor tomorrow, and I hope to collect it." As he spoke, the staff respectfully handed the paper to Zhou Yanru.

"Thank you!"

Zhou Yanru took the paper and thanked the staff.

Walking out of the office, Zhou Yanru came to a bookstore, bought the latest Xingjing Daily in it, and took Xingjing Daily to the elegant seat of a teahouse, where Zhou Yanru sat and read the newspaper.

The headline on the front page of today's newspaper was Xingjing Sleepless City, which introduced the completion of the power station and the principle and function of the street lamps lit last night.

At this time, Zhou Yanru knew that the thing that scared him last night was originally called electricity, this electricity was invented by Zhou Xian, which can be used for lighting, and can also be used to drive the motor, although it is not clear what the function of the motor is, but just by looking at the vigorous publicity in the newspaper, I know that it must be a good thing.

In fact, just the role of lighting up at night is already very amazing.

When Zhou Yanru was reading the newspaper, two more big people came to the official office, they were Ruan Dacheng and Ma Shiying.

They are a pair of good friends, Ruan Dacheng is not good in the capital now, he has ambitions but nowhere to show, which makes him very melancholy.

He has been reading Xingjing Daily, and he is also very curious about Xingjing, a few days ago he heard that Zhou Xian had established himself as king in Xingjing, so he moved his mind to come to Xingjing to have a look.

Ruan Dacheng naturally wanted to pull his good friend Ma Shiying, so the two of them came to Xingjing together, and when they first arrived outside Xingjing City and saw the magical train, the two of them were also shocked for a long time.

After registering at the office, the two also returned to the inn to wait for tomorrow's summons.

The next day, in the main hall of the imperial palace, all the qualified people were brought to the main hall during this time, and there were more than thirty people in total.

When everyone saw Zhou Xian sitting on the dragon chair, they knelt down and saluted, "Meet the emperor!"

"Flat!"

"Emperor Xie!"

After everyone stood up, they all stood up and looked at Zhou Xian.

Zhou Xian was also looking at them, Zhou Xian already knew who was coming today from the manual, but he didn't know it yet.

At this time, Zhou Xian opened his mouth and said, "Introduce yourself!"

Everyone became nervous, and everyone knew that the time had come to decide their fate.

"Zhou Yanru has seen the emperor!"

Zhou Yanru stood up first and spoke.

Zhou Xian didn't know much about this Zhou Yanru, but he knew that he was Chongzhen's cabinet chief, and later seemed to be given death by Chongzhen.

I didn't expect him to come to himself, now is the time for a shortage of civil officials, no matter what they used to do, as long as they brainwash them, they will become loyal to themselves.

In fact, Zhou Xian feels that the evaluation of historical figures in history books is not necessarily true, after all, the person who writes the book may also have a certain bias.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xian opened his mouth and said: "It turned out to be Zhou Lao, my Great Zhou Empire is in need of a talent like Zhou Lao, how about you temporarily be a ceremonial waiter?"

"Thank you, Lord Longne!"

Zhou Yanru hurriedly thanked him, although Zhou Xian seemed to be asking him if he was willing, but the fool also knew that Zhou Xian was just polite, if he really didn't know how to refuse Zhou Xian, maybe he wouldn't think about any official position at that time.

At this time, Ruan Dacheng also walked out of the column and said, "Ruan Dacheng has seen the emperor!"

"Okay, good, Ruan Dacheng's reputation can be heard for a long time, you can come to my Da Zhou, it's really a great blessing, how about you be a servant of the criminal department." Zhou Xian looked at Ruan Dacheng and asked.

"Thank you, Lord Longne!" Ruan Dacheng knelt down directly and thanked him.

Then he made Ma Shiying a position as a waiter in the Ministry of Works.

This time, there were also a lot of not very famous Ming Dynasty officials, and Zhou Xian arranged a five- or six-rank official position for them.

When arranging these people, it is natural to give them a gentle brainwash, which is mainly to prevent them from betraying themselves in the future.

After arranging the positions of Zhou Yanru and the others, Zhou Xian looked at Daniel Zhang, "General Zhang will start recruiting soldiers now, you can go to Li Zicheng and Zuo Liangyu's prisoners to choose some of them." ”

"Yes!"

Daniel Zhang bowed and agreed.

Now that he has completed his ascension to the throne, he can justifiably expand his territory and expand his own domain, and now there are still too few soldiers in the Zhou family's army, so he needs to recruit some more soldiers, and only if there are enough troops can he complete the unification of the world.

Because he snatched tens of millions of silver from Fusang, this time Zhou Xian was ready to recruit a little more soldiers, after all, he had money now.

This time, the recruitment of soldiers was very strong and very fast, and the news that Zhou Jiajun was going to recruit soldiers was published in Xingjing Daily News, and aspiring young people from all over Shandong flocked to Xingjing.

After only a few days of recruitment, 100,000 soldiers were recruited, and 50,000 of these soldiers were soldiers who had been captured before, and these soldiers were selected, and those who did not want to continue to serve as soldiers were not forced to do so.

Now the Zhou family army has a total of 110,000 troops and 20,000 navies, a total of 130,000 troops.

Fuso has 40,000 troops and 20,000 navy, Xingjing has 70,000 soldiers and horses, plus the 100,000 soldiers and horses recruited now, a total of 170,000 soldiers and horses.

Zhou Xian decided to wait for his side to stabilize and then transfer 40,000 troops to Fusang, with these 100,000 troops, it should be more than enough to exterminate one Fusang.

The remaining 130,000 troops should have no problem unifying the entire Ming Dynasty, and there will definitely be a lot of surrendered troops to conquer the city in the future, and those soldiers can be used as second-line troops to defend the city.

With such a plan, Zhou Xian decided to wait for two months of training for the recruits to start expanding his territory.

After Daniel Zhang received Zhou Xian's instructions, he began to step up the training of new soldiers.

While Daniel Zhang was training recruits, Zhou Xian issued an order to open the sea ban, encouraging merchants to go to sea to do business in Korea and Fuso.

Merchants were also encouraged to build ships, and the imperial court provided technical support, and reduced taxes, but of course they could only build ordinary sailboats, which were more than enough for merchants to go to sea to Korea and Fuso.

Zhou Xian's decree made the merchants of Shandong happy, in the past, when the Ming Dynasty was banned, they also secretly went to sea to do business, but it was all cautious, and it was necessary to deal with officials.

Now that Zhou Xian has opened the sea ban, they can go to sea to do business in a bright and bright way, which can bring them a lot of profits.

There are also some families who are eyeing the big goal of shipbuilding, which is very expensive and ordinary families cannot afford to consume.