"You don't need to go into the city, just come with me." Chengdu wharf, the Zhao business staff who got the news and was responsible for answering it smiled.

Chai Rong and the others dragged their families with them, and followed him to the outskirts of Chengdu in confusion, and they became more and more curious about Song Gongming's identity.

After walking for a while, they finally came to the large barracks made of logs.

Even in the safe hinterland of Xichuan, it is still built according to the regular military camp, with watchtowers at the four corners and flags on the wooden walls.

But this is not what surprised Chai Rong the most, what really surprised him was the long queue of young people at the entrance of the barracks......

When Chai Rong arrived, it was the day of Liu Chan's expansion and selection.

Although the recruitment notice only reached Shu County, where Chengdu is located, and neighboring Guanghan, it still caused a lot of shock.

Liu Chan did not select soldiers from Lao Liu's army, and although those soldiers had a certain foundation, they were basically accustomed to the life of ordinary soldiers.

Both daily drills and combat habits are very different from those of the Red Star Army, and it is already difficult to form habits from scratch, and it is even more difficult to get rid of old habits and form new ones.

So he chose to recruit new soldiers, and the scope was the same as ordinary conscription, recruiting "good families".

However, because it was a voluntary application, something unexpected happened.

Unlike the general conscription, which is conscripted and issued by the children of yeoman farmers, this time the conscription is unprecedented, and the main force that signed up has become the shadow of the big landlords......

Unlike slaves, a considerable part of them were actively attached to the powerful clans, and they were still legally free.

Of course, this is only from a legal point of view.

There are many things that the law talks about, and how much it can be strictly enforced is still two theories.

At least if these shaders are in normal times, whether you are actively attached to them or are occupied by bad tyrants, they have a way to keep you from being able to get out of control.

However, this time the situation is a little special, this time it is the prince who wants to recruit pro-army.

The homesteaders had land, but they were not so interested in moving their family to become the prince's household, and they had not actually seen the life of the prince's family.

If there is land at home, who wants to be the shade of others?

As a result, there were few responses.

But those big clans are different, they have no land in the first place, so whose shade is not dang? The conditions given by the prince are much better than the current family.

For a time, Zhang, Du, Liu, and Ren near Chengdu all had a large number of shade households to apply.

As the notice was in place, the shade households of the powerful clans in other places also responded and prepared to go to Chengdu.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, due to the intensification of land annexation, the population of shaded households in many places even exceeded the population registered by the government.

The scale of the response to the call is unprecedented.

This is sad that those big clans are strong, and the prince recruits pro-army, and they are not easy to stop.

It is illegal to restrict the freedom of the shade to come and go, and it is usually a matter of a few taels if you don't weigh it, and if you don't have long eyes at this time, it will weigh more than a thousand catties if you weigh it.

And the crown prince did not forcibly recruit their shadows, and there was no place to reason if he wanted to give advice.

At first, a large number of powerful and powerful households broke away from their original owners and dragged their families to Chengdu......

It was not until the landlords and the powerful landlords who were forced to do so lowered the rent again and again that this momentum was stopped.

Even so, their strength was cut by this invisible knife, and there was nothing they could do.

Regarding the matter that accidentally weakened the strength of the powerful clans of Shu County and Guanghanhao, the crown prince Liu Chan expressed his sincere gratitude to the clans who fully supported the expansion of the Red Star Army on the surface, and at the same time smiled in his heart.

As a result, there is the current grand occasion.

Fortunately, Liu Chan saw that the number of people who came far exceeded expectations and set a deadline, otherwise maybe there would be people coming over one after another in the future.

Today is the second day of screening for the expansion of the army, and tomorrow we will finish all the assessment work and officially complete the expansion of the Red Star Army.

"Is this it?" Chai Rong and the people he brought looked at the grand occasion in front of them, and were a little at a loss for a while.

The guide smiled: "Everyone, wait here, I'll go in and make a report." ”

Liu Chan actually didn't let him wait too long, but the apprehensive Chai Rong felt that he had waited for a long time.

Xuanxi brocade clothes, fox fur, Liu Chan's dress at the moment made him open his mouth wide and didn't know what to call it.

"The owner of the firewood village, a few months away, are you okay?" Liu Chan bowed his hand and greeted him first with a smile.

Chai Rong hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Don't dare, don't dare, under ...... The villain Chai Rong specially led the subordinates to come to meet as agreed. Komeito ...... Dare to ask the name of the honorable driver? ”

Liu Chan smiled: "You don't have to be so restrained, you have done Gu a great favor, and Gu has not been thanked yet." The lonely's surname is Liu Mingchan, and he concealed his real name for some reason, so don't blame him. ”

Solitary...... Liu Chan......

Liu Bei's son?

The crown prince of Hanzhong?!

Poof!

Chai Rong immediately knelt down in panic.

As soon as he saw the handsome man kneeling, everyone behind him knelt down with their families.

"Chai Rong didn't know that the prince of Hanzhong was in person, and his words were offensive before, and he hoped that the prince would forgive his sins!"

No wonder he was suddenly so frightened, the difference between the identity of a copycat bandit leader and the crown prince is too great.

Thinking of it again, he drank at the same table with the crown prince before, spoke openly, and even invited the crown prince to be the leader of the bandits...... How could he not be afraid.

At this time, the others were also shocked, General Komei...... Is it the crown prince?

"The prince forgives his sins!"

"Alright, let's all get up." Liu Chan personally stepped forward and helped Chai Rong up with his arm, which made him a little flattered, "It's just a lonely intention to hide it, so you don't have to be afraid." ”

"Prince Xie."

After experiencing the initial panic, Chai Rong's heart suddenly throbbed again.

He turned out to be Liu Bei's son, the next controller of Liu Bei's group.

This bet was the right one!

Looking at Liu Chan's previous attitude towards the soldiers under his command, as long as he and others are loyal to him, he has a much better future than being a bandit.

Liu Chan pointed to the conscription brigade behind him and said loudly: "Since you come to defect to Yu Gu, you must come according to the standard of Gu, so you must also participate in the selection before you can join the army." But even if they are not selected, Gu will be properly settled, and Paul and others will live without worry. ”

In this regard, Chai Rong and others have no objection.

Then Liu Chan said to Chai Rong: "Once you join my Red Star Army, you have to start from scratch and be the same as a new soldier." The subordinate relationship of the past generals is all nullified, can you think about it? ”

Chai Rong nodded without hesitation: "Everything is subject to the public...... Prince arrangement. ”

There was no turning back from the bow, and now that he had arrived in Chengdu, he was determined to follow Liu Chan.

"Good! The lonely Red Star Army will not bury talents, if you really have the ability, the position of the general will also have a place for you. Liu Chan smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and then saw the baby in his wife's arms, "This is your son?" ”

Chai Rong nodded: "Yes." ”

"Do you have a name?"

"When I went back to the prince, I only took the name of the milk." It was Chai Rong's wife who answered.

The husband and wife looked at Liu Chan with bright eyes, could it be that the prince wanted to give the child a name?

What a great honor!

Liu Chan did have this intention, no matter what, Chai Rong could be regarded as a great favor for himself, even if he didn't have any great achievements in the Red Star Army in the future, with the fact that he gave his son a name, their family should be able to mix well here.

Originally, he knew that this person's name was Chai Rong, and he wanted the child to be called Chai Zongxun...... But it's a bit unlucky to think about.

And at this time, the three-character name is a cheap name, and giving a three-character name has become an insult, so I gave up.

"Or call Chai Jin." Liu Chan said with a smile.

"Prince Xie gave the name!" Unexpectedly, the two of them who could really get the name of the prince were overjoyed, and bowed down again.

"Chai Jin, Jin'er, what a name......" Chai Rong smiled from ear to ear, but unfortunately he was uneducated, and he couldn't say it like Fa Zheng explained the word "Red Star", so he could only keep praising it, and he didn't know what was good.

At the beginning of the establishment of the shantytown, Liu Chan reserved many empty houses for the subsequent expansion of the army.

Anyway, the cost of yellow mud houses and rammed earth walls is not too high.

It is not a problem to settle Chai Rong and others.

However, the other unsuccessful shade households, because the number far exceeded Liu Chan's expectations, it is impossible to give this treatment.

Originally, Liu Chan thought that they would have a livelihood by recruiting good families, and even if they were unsuccessful, they would not have to pay a passage fee to let them go home like they had done before.

But now that they are from Haoqiang Yinhu, there is no reason to let them go back.

So Liu Chan threw this problem to Lao Liu, who was also happy to see the success of weakening the big clan, so he decided to place these people in Hanzhong.

Each household is given land according to the person, and preferential tax reduction and exemption policies are given to them, so that they can make use of the large amount of idle land in the Hanzhong Plain.

After Boss Cao moved, there was good land in Han, but there was a shortage of people who farmed.

After several days of selection, the Red Star Army was finally expanded to 2,000 people.

Chai Rong's people were brushed off by half, which shocked him at the strictness of Liu Chan's selection.

But many of the people he brought were fierce Danyang people, and they had been bandits for so long, so it was a pity that they were not selected to enter the shantytown for fear of disaster.

So Liu Chan reciprocated the favor and recommended these people to Lao Liu, who were enriched into the Central Army, and some of them were also selected into the Bai Yu Army.

The Red Star Army, which has doubled in size, is about to usher in another round of army reorganization.

At the same time, Chai Rong, who came from Jiangdong, also brought the latest news about Soochow......

(End of chapter)