After the set goal of the Great Plains after the capture of the Yunling Mountains at the turn of spring and summer next year was set, both the guard battalion and the county guard yamen began to prepare intensively.

At this time, the group of nearly 100,000 refugees who fled from Liaobei County to Yunzhou County finally came to Yunzhou City after nearly half a month of fleeing.

In this regard, the county guard yamen, who had been prepared for a long time, responded quickly, and all the displaced people were temporarily confined to the outside of the city, and were not allowed to enter the city at will.

The county guard yamen provided enough felt tents for the people with a minimum of three households and one household, and also provided a supply of gruel twice a day, although it was not enough to eat, but it could prevent people from starving to death.

As soon as the safety of housing and food was solved, the nearly 100,000 displaced people who fled quickly settled down.

Immediately, the county guard yamen began to organize the major workshop owners in the city who were short of people, and formed an interview group to come to the camp to recruit people.

Soon, those who were skilled among the homeless people found work in the city, and after the county guard yamen disinfected these people, they were allowed to enter the city.

In this way, it can be regarded as solving the problem of the survival of some displaced people.

At the same time, the news of the recruitment of the guard battalion also quickly spread in Yunzhou City, this news was not attractive to the people in the city, but it was a big way out for those displaced people outside the city who still relied on the government's supply of two meals of gruel a day, attracting the attention of most of the displaced people.

Somewhere in a felt tent, a family of four was eating gruel that they had just received from a porridge shed set up by the county guard's yamen.

Both the women and the children were eager to drink their own porridge, for them the present day was already excellent compared to the previous half month of migration, although they still did not have enough to eat, but they did not starve to death.

On the way from Liaobei County to Yunzhou County, they don't know how many people they knew from the same village starved to death on the road.

Even some of the most hungry people did unspeakable things, and the old and weak in the ranks were often taken away by those men and never returned.

Everyone knows what those people are doing, but no one cares, no one says, it's hard for everyone to even survive, as long as it doesn't happen to them, no one will meddle.

Therefore, they are very satisfied with the two meals of gruel a day.

However, the man of the household looked at the gruel in the bowl, and then thought of the large bread brought back from the city by the village's fellow carpenters.

The tempting aroma, the sesame seeds scattered on the cake, and the tempting sound of clicking when you eat it!

Suddenly, the porridge in the bowl was no longer as fragrant as it was a few days ago.

Li Erniu silently put down the bowl full of gruel in his hand and sat in place without saying a word.

His strange expression was soon noticed by the woman who had just finished eating the porridge.

"Master, why don't you eat porridge? How delicious this porridge is! ”

Li Erniu said sullenly when he heard this: "No matter how delicious the porridge is, it is not as delicious as sesame cakes." ”

The woman suddenly knew what kind of stimulation her man had received, but when she heard this, she sighed helplessly and comforted:

"It's not the same. That Li Laosan knew how to do carpenter work, so he was recruited by the carpentry workshop in the city and ate the food.

We don't have any craftsmanship, so we will farm, and you have seen it all the way in Yunzhou County, there is no place to farm, and our craftsmanship is useless at all.

It's good to have this gruel to drink now, at least no one will die of hunger, and we're much better than those who starved to death on the road.

Anyway, we think that we should be content, and it would be good to have these two bowls of gruel to drink every day. ”

The woman's persuasion did not make Li Erniu relieved, he was already sitting sullenly in place, not knowing what he was thinking.

In the middle of the sound, Li Erniu suddenly stood up, picked up the gruel that was put aside, divided it into three parts, and poured it into the bowls of the two children and his mother-in-law in turn, and then said to the three of them in a firm voice:

"We don't want to drink porridge every day anymore, we want to eat cakes! We want to eat meat! ”

The woman was startled by her man's movements, and when she heard this, she said, "But, we don't have any skills?" ”

Li Erniu seemed to have made some kind of decision, and said in a deep voice:

"We heard from Li Laosan today, King Yun's guard battalion is now expanding, and the salary is generous, with three taels of silver a month!

This salary is not high, but as long as I join the guard battalion, you can live in the military area in the city, and you don't have to stay outside the city anymore.

Moreover, our two children will also receive a five-dollar allowance every month until they are eighteen years old.

At that time, we will be able to eat large bread and meat! ”

Li Erniu's words suddenly startled the woman, and she hurriedly got up and grabbed her man and said:

"Don't be in charge! To be a soldier is to fight, and to die is to die! If something happens to you, how will our mothers live! ”

Li Erniu was unmoved, and said in a deep voice: "You don't need to persuade us, we don't want to drink porridge anymore, and you don't want to think about how long the government's soup soup can last?" Our nearly 100,000 people, no matter how rich the government is, can't help 100,000 people eat and drink for nothing, and this porridge shed will be withdrawn sooner or later.

At that time, we can't find a buddy, and our family of four will all have to drink the northwest wind.

So, even if it's for our family, we have to find a way!

And don't worry, we have inquired, the pension of the Yunzhou County Guard Battalion is very high, if we die in battle, you will directly have a pension of one hundred taels, and the parenting allowance for our two children can also be directly converted into a pension allowance of one tael per month until the age of eighteen.

So even if we die in battle, we can rest assured that the three of you mothers.

You don't have to persuade us anymore! ”

After speaking, Li Erniu didn't pay attention to the woman, let go of the woman's hand, and strode out of the tent, he wanted to hurry to the registration office at the city gate to register.

Li Laosan said that this time the guard battalion only recruited 15,000 people, and if it was too late, there would be no quota, so he had to hurry up.

He believes that there are definitely not a few people who think the same way as himself.

Anyone in the camp who has a little vision can see that this porridge shack will not last forever, otherwise the government will not personally organize those workshop owners to recruit people in the camp.

If you want to live, if you want to live well, you must find your own way to survive!

In the felt tent, looking at the back of her man's departure, the woman finally had to sigh softly and pour all the porridge in the bowl into the bowl of two children who were eating and did not know the world.

She didn't know that what her man said was right, but she was just a woman, and she could only take care of her own small family, what could she do if she had more?

Serving as a soldier is to kill people, if it is not really no way, a few people of the Great Song Dynasty will go to become soldiers.

As the saying goes, a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail.

But now, their family really has only this way to go, and they can only hope that the Ji people who are in charge of the family have their own natural appearance......