Zhou Qing's efficiency is still very fast.

After receiving the master's instructions, he immediately shuttled between the taverns and teahouses in the city, spreading the news that Lu Yuan planned to sell his official position in order to attract customers.

At the same time, he also began to walk the streets and alleys, looking for people in the city who knew how to train the army.

Not to mention, after looking for it like this, the competition made him find a suitable target.

There was an old soldier in the city who had retired from the county army, although he had only reached the rank of chief in the army, and he did not even have an official position.

But he is indeed a veteran who has been a soldier for 30 years and has even fought more than a dozen battles.

And what is even more rare is that this veteran has also practiced martial arts, and has cultivated internal strength in his body, although he has only refined a meridian, he is barely a good hand.

This man is a little old, forty-five years old, and at the age of today's world, he will not live for a few years.

But Lu Yuan doesn't care.

He just wants someone to help him train his troops, and it would be better if he could train soldiers and have some strength at the same time.

This veteran named Liang Hu perfectly met Lu Yuan's requirements.

So after learning about this person, he let his apprentice come to the door to recruit people with a patrol officer from Jiupin.

Although he has been discharged from the army, he is also tired of fighting.

But when he saw that Liang Hu, who was already half-gray from the official of Jiupin, immediately became old and strong, and his face was full of red light.

Without saying a word, he took over the official body, and then followed Zhou Qing to see his direct boss.

Isn't it just to fight some chaotic people?

He even fought the Beiyu Liang soldiers, and there were only some rabble, and he was not afraid at all.

"Liang Hu, right?"

In Sun Siwen's mansion, Lu Yuan sat on the Taishi chair, looked at the old man standing below, a little cramped, and smiled: "Don't be nervous. As long as you do things for me, I will not treat you badly.

The official position has already been signed, right?

Now that you have taken over the patrol, then first take Zhou Patrol and go to the villages below to recruit some mountain people and recruit them into the army.

The mountain dwellers were all fighting wild beasts, and most of them were capable of being ruthless, especially good at bow shooting. They have a hard time on weekdays, and many of them don't have an identity yet.

You can promise them that as long as they join the army, they will give them twenty taels of silver for settling-in, and five taels of silver per month in the future.

At the same time, the army also helped them arrange their identities, and when they arrived in Wugang County, as long as the bandits were eliminated, I, the county lieutenant, would be the master, and give them a place to settle down and give them a foundation.

As for the number of recruits, let's set it at three hundred. ”

Lu Yuan didn't plan to recruit five hundred soldiers, and even the fourteen official bodies he had on hand, including Liang Hu, only sold five copies.

One of them patrolled, and four patrolled and arrested, because Liang Hu gave it away, so he received a total of 2,500 taels of silver.

People who are not afraid of death for the sake of the future are still limited after all.

Liang Hu slowly climbed up from the bottom, and knew that those mountain people at the bottom of the society were hard, so after listening to Lu Yuan's conditions at this time, he immediately admired: "If there are such conditions, the mountain people will enthusiastically join the army, and they will all feel the kindness of the county captain." ”

Lu Yuan smiled: "I don't need them to thank me, as long as they help me suppress those bandits." Go ahead, fill up the crowd early, we can only stay in Changning County for a month at most, and we will leave in a month. ”

"Yes, lowly command."

After taking over the military position, Liang Hu also regained some of the feeling of being in the military camp back then, and immediately gave a military salute.

Not to mention, being saluted by the army, this feeling made Lu Yuan feel quite comfortable, and the smile on his face was even worse. Then he instructed his apprentice: "Xiaoqing, you also follow Liang Patrol to recruit troops." Although Liang Patrol is your lower official, he is a senior and has experience, so you should learn more. ”

"Yes, lowly command."

Zhou Qing saw that his master seemed to like to be called like this, and suddenly learned the same.

……

With the assistance of Liang Hu, a veteran soldier, and Changning County has been dotted by Zhou Qing, the recruitment of soldiers has been given the green light all the way.

The mountain people in the county, after listening to the lucrative conditions offered by Lu Yuan, the poor people who were used to it suddenly saw the opportunity to change their fate, and they all enthusiastically joined the army.

The army of 300 men was filled in only ten days.

In the end, because there were too many people joining the army, after Zhou Qing's instructions and Lu Yuan's consent, he temporarily recruited another 50 more people, making up 350 officers and soldiers.

And Sun Siwen, on his side, also began to exert his connections and influence, and raised 1,500 taels of military salaries from the rich squires in the county.

Five years to hand over the prestige of three people, it is so terrifying.

In addition to collecting donations, Sun Siwen also applied to the county government for a batch of ordnance to arm the recruited recruits. The county government gave instructions and allocated and paid by the local Hengyang government.

When the soldiers are recruited, it is natural to start training.

Lu Yuan handed over these training matters to his disciples and Liang Hu, and became his own shopkeeper.

On the county side, after seeing that there were already 350 officers and soldiers escorting Zhou Qing to his post, he immediately gave many people confidence.

Four more people found Lu Yuan and bought one inspection and three patrol official bodies, which happened to fill the official vacancies of 350 people in the army.

Lu Yuan made a profit of two thousand five hundred taels of silver, counting the one he had sold before, and the net income was five thousand taels of silver.

The original investment of 3,000 taels of silver was not only recovered, but also made a net profit of 2,000 taels of silver.

And just when he was selling his official position to make a fortune, the newly recruited officers and soldiers in the barracks, after training for more than half a month, finally came to prepare for the promotion.

So the day before the army pulled out the camp, Lu Yuan, the chief military officer, invited Sun Siwen and the bureaucrats and gentry in Changning County to come to review the army together.

……

Day.

The north wind is gusting, and the flag is fluttering.

After more than half a month of stick training, the recruits, who could barely distinguish between left and right, were divided into seven columns and formed a slightly twisted line.

Liang Hu and Zhou Qing, as well as the patrol inspectors who have bought officials in these days, are wearing armor one by one, holding the swords and arrows at their waists, shuttling between the queues to maintain order.

Because the training didn't take long, Lu Yuan didn't let them perform any battle formation changes or anything like that, just walked in line for a few laps and shouted "kill, kill, kill" twice.

But not to mention, although it looked unbearable in his eyes, the many audiences who attended the meeting were still shocked.

Here I have to say that the source of soldiers selected by Lu Yuan has brought special benefits.

Those mountain people who are accustomed to fighting wild beasts in the mountains, although they are inferior in discipline and experience, but the courage to fight with people is not bad.

When these hunters and mountain people who had killed countless lives shouted "kill, kill, kill" together, the audience present really felt a murderous aura and rushed to their faces.

This thick murderous aura is terrifying, the back is cold, and the expression changes.