Lushan County, Ruzhou.

Since the sixth year of Chongzhen, compared with the floods in Henan last year that flooded more than 30 counties, this year, the entire Henan land has almost no rainfall, the small rivers have been cut off, and the rivers have exposed riverbeds full of pebbles. On the plain, in late spring

The season should be full of grass and birds flying, and the vibrant scenes no longer exist, withered branches and leaves everywhere.

The refugees wandered again on the plain land of Henan, dragging their families with their families, helping the weak refugees with all their belongings, wearing tattered single clothes, stopping step by step, walking around hard just to find a bite of food.

Be able to survive.

In this era, life is worthless. A small bag of food can be exchanged for a big girl. A steamed bun buys an adult man to work hard for you. As for underage children who cannot work but still have to eat food, it is cheaper.

, you can be a slave and a servant for your whole life if you just need to give a stutter. Eating your son to the present is not just four words in history books.

Some people may ask, young people are so cheap, what will happen to the older people? In fact, there is no need to worry, because most older people can no longer live now, and have already gone to the Western Paradise to enjoy their happiness.

During the period when the Pei family army was stationed in Lushan County, the public security in Lushan County was generally maintained well.

When other places were already in sorrow and deaths were killed or injured, the people of Lushan County at least did not have to worry about people sitting at home, and suddenly a group of people rushed in and became food for others.

However, I don’t know how long this scenario will last. There are more and more refugees outside the city. The governments of the surrounding prefectures and counties have never thought about helping the victims. Perhaps they have thought about it, but they have no food in their hands. The court urged Liao to pay the salary.

The officials sent away a batch of people.

All local officials have become ostrichs. They usually close the gates of prefectures and counties, and strictly prohibit refugees from entering the city. They themselves hide in the city, continue to be in peace and peace in the world. Only when the Shangguan urges the Liao official documents to arrive will they

Open the city gate and sent yamen runners to attack everywhere, collect food and grass, and complete the levy.

Perhaps in their opinion, it doesn’t matter how much the people die. As long as the black hat on their heads is still there, then it will be peaceful.

The refugees who were hungry and cold were wandering everywhere. During the period, many of them joined various rebels, bandits, etc., providing them with abundant soldiers. In this case, the refugees near Ruzhou were circulated.

Such news said that the rebels in Lushan County were opening warehouses to release grain, and they could survive as long as they arrived in Lushan County. Therefore, more and more refugees were around Lushan County.

In fact, it is actually a misleading saying that the Pei family army opened warehouses and released grain. If the Pei family army did not use enough, how could it give the military rations to the victims for nothing and make their soldiers hungry?

However, the rumor that you can survive in Lushan County is true. The reason is that the Pei Family Army recruits soldiers in Lushan County. Any soldiers who can be recruited by the Pei Family Army or craftsmen with skill can be recruited by the Pei Family Army to obtain a meal.

Can live in this troubled times.

"How are the recruitment? How many people are there?" Pei Xiaoer smiled and asked, looking at the man who had just come over and was sweating profusely.

The person who just ran over was named Lu Wenfan, who was the commander of the recruits camp. He used to follow Mr. Pei and was his deputy. Later, Mr. Pei gradually disappeared behind the scenes and stopped inquiring about errands, and became Lu Wenfan.

Obey orders and Xiaoer Pei directly.

"Return to the general, we have recruited more than 34,000 soldiers, more than 3,000 craftsmen of various types, and more than a dozen scholars. The refugees who were able to come this time were generally hungry and lost their bodies.

People are still the ones that are preferred. Even so, they need to have no shortage of food every day and take some time to be useful." Lu Wenfan replied.

The Pei family army recruited the most this time, naturally qualified soldiers. Now the war may break out at any time. The more soldiers and horses they have, the greater the confidence to travel around the world. Although there are many people from Wenxi County in the back camp.

The people followed, but some of these talents were selected into the army, and the remaining were only some old and weak, so that they needed to be supplemented by refugees.

The second recruitment target is craftsmen. Youdao is technology and the primary productivity. This sentence has changed to this point. With craftsmen, there will be a steady stream of weapons and armor, a future firearm unit, and a future.

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But there is no shortage of people in this era, but craftsmen with skills are still scarce resources. In addition to some of the craftsmen I grabbed from the Fan family last time, the number of craftsmen in Li Huamin's hands has exceeded 10,000, reaching more than 12,000.

Many people formed the technical backbone of the Pei family army.

But now he is in exile and his days of wandering every day have greatly affected production. So many craftsmen have not played their due role. Even the musket that Pei Xiaoer likes the most has stopped production after receiving a thousand shots.

It's right.

However, despite this, after arriving in Sichuan in the future, the abilities of these craftsmen will become the strong backing of the Pei family army to the strongest army, which is not unimportant.

As for those literate scholars, it is not that important to Pei Xiaoer.

There is nothing else. Since leaving Shanxi, the group of scholars have escaped the most. Perhaps they are not satisfied with the hardships of their current living conditions, or they are desperate for the future with little hope. Anyway, seven out of every ten scholars can run.

Pei Xiaoer was very open about this. If you are willing, you will be harmonious and if you are unwilling, you will be separated. If you don’t want to, you will not force those scholars to follow him. Everyone has their own ambitions and hope that they will not regret it in the future.

"Talk all the craftsmen to Li Huamin, tell him that these people will be well-fed and delicious, don't treat them badly, and find a chance to try their quality, and don't be deceived by them.

Let him take the right measures by himself, just don’t go too far.” Pei Xiaoer explained.

"Yes, let's make arrangements when I go back."

"Well, the recruits recruited this time should not be sent to the recruits battalion first. They should be handed over to the generals of each army to complete their troops, and the rest will be directly trained by each army. Well, this time it is considered an exception,

In the future, we will follow the previous rules." Pei Xiaoer thought for a while and said.

During this period, Pei Xiaoer was not idle in Lushan County. He expanded the weaving of the entire army again and built two new army-level weavings, namely the Brave Army and the Dingguo Army. Each army has three towns under its jurisdiction.

The quota is 30,000 people, and a general admiral army is set up.

The admirals of the two armies were Wang Daozhi and Liu Changle. The last time Pei Zhuer sent a message to Wang Daozhi, he deposed the public because of his personal deeds and acted as a provocation. Pei Xiaoer decided to beat him up so that he could be sober.

In order to avoid his tail being too high and causing him to suffer.
Chapter completed!