Although Zhang Yan still did not understand Lu Xu's approach in the end, as Lu Xu's subordinate, he still faithfully carried out Lu Xu's orders.
Lu Xu's method of recruiting and selecting soldiers is very simple - snowballing.
Lu Xu ordered Zhang Yan to go to various places where coolies gathered to recruit some coolies who would be bullied by their colleagues at first glance. Such coolies who can even bully coolies obviously cannot be gang members among the coolies.
Seeing these people, Lu Xu asked Zhang Yan to ask - "I will give you a way to survive and buy your life. Do you dare to sell it?"
For these people, the choice Zhang Yan gave them is not even a choice. These people are actually people who are always hovering on the edge of life and death. They may be beaten to death or starve to death or freeze to death at any time. This life is
It’s the only thing they have. What can’t be exchanged for this thing in exchange for a way of survival?
As long as Zhang Yan finds three or four such people in each place, and then asks them to help recommend and select people, Lu Xu will soon be able to recruit a large number of coolies with innocent wealth. Because these people know best who has the net worth.
Not clear? Who are the people who were bullied with them?
After the people were recruited, Lu Xu asked them to put their fingerprints on the deed of sale, and these people were regarded as Lu Xu's servants. Once the deed of sale was signed, life and death could only be decided by the master's family.
These people are powerful and obedient, and they are exactly the soldiers Lu Xu needs most. For a long time in the future, they are likely to be Lu Xu's absolute main force. In order to have absolute control over them at all times
Right, he must hold the deeds of these people in his hands.
Otherwise, if someone disobeys orders when escorting, he can't use military law against a group of escort masters, right? But he can use domestic law against servants! Therefore, the deed of betrayal must be signed!
In fact, the job provided by Lu Xu is considered a good job for people in this era. Although the servants of wealthy families have no freedom and cannot control their own life or death, everyone's life in this era is very difficult, and there are
How many people are really left to their own devices?
On the contrary, when you work as a servant in a wealthy family, even the servants who are in danger can have enough to eat, and most of them have good clothes to wear. For poor families, this is also a very attractive job.
However, it is not easy to be a servant of a large family. Servants are also divided into three, six or nine grades. The job Lu Xu recruits is basically similar to that of a nursing home. It is the highest level among the servants and the position with the best pay. The lowest position
The waiting servants are basically no different from coolies.
It is not difficult to be a low-level servant in a wealthy family, but if you want to be a servant in a nursing home, you must go through strict assessment and review. Most people who work as coolies do not meet this standard. If nothing else, it is
The fact that they have no martial arts skills does not meet the standards.
But Lu Xu still gave them a job similar to that of a nursing home, so this job was naturally very attractive to the coolies.
Because of this, Lu Xu's recruitment work went very smoothly.
According to Lu Xu's plan, he will recruit at least 350 servants.
This number was recruited by Lu Xu based on the general number of bandits. Although Lu Xu didn't know how strong the bandits were specifically, he could estimate based on the imperial court's troop dispatch records over the years.
In the more than two hundred years of history of Daliang, it is not that no one has thought about sending troops to deal with the bandits in the Qinling Mountains. They have indeed tried hard, but they just did not get the desired results. According to the people in the Jinglue Mansion
Records show that whenever the imperial court sends more than 5,000 troops, the bandits will run away resolutely.
Starting from this point, Lu Xu deduced that the number of bandits could never exceed 3,000, and the total strength of the bandits might not even exceed 2,000. Otherwise, the bandits would not be able to run away when encountering an army of 5,000 people.
As far as bandit armed forces are concerned, the scale of two to three thousand people is already very terrifying. After all, not all bandits are Liangshan heroes, and Liangshan heroes cannot be regarded as bandits. The complete Liangshan heroes are more like rebels.
According to Lu Xu's estimation, to deal with such a large-scale armed force, he would need to use at least 500 people. And among these 500 people, he must ensure that about 150 are his direct descendants and are fully equipped with armor and weapons!
Lu Xu thought that it would not be difficult to recruit another 100 people in Wei'an Fort, and the rest of the people would have to be selected from coolies. At least judging from the recruitment results in the past few days, this number is not difficult to achieve.
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Wen Yueqi gave Lu Xu so many shops and yards, which could be used to house these people. Lu Xu also ordered people to go to the blacksmith shop and buy a bunch of Daguan knives for martial arts training, which were unedged but full of weight.
Close the knife, and then teach the newcomers how to listen to the command and draw the knife.
Not only that, Lu Xu also bought a lot of bow tensioners.
The so-called bow tensioner looks like a bow, but it is not actually a bow. It is just a tensioner that archers can use to exercise their arm strength.
You cannot draw a bow without an arrow, because doing so will seriously damage the bow. However, the force required to draw a bow is very special. If you don't draw a strong bow regularly, it will be difficult for the archer to gain the strength.
It is an effective exercise, so there is a bow tensioner, which can be pulled repeatedly without an arrow, to train the archer's arm strength.
Whether it is an unedged Guandao or a bow tensioner, they are actually equipment used by martial artists for special strength training.
The reason why Lu Xu bought these things for these newly recruited people was because Lu Xu didn't need them to master martial arts, nor did he need them to make perfect arrows, or even really know how to shoot arrows. He only needed these people to be capable.
Just listen to the command and act in unison. These two things just meet Lu Xu's training needs.
As long as they understand these two things, when Lu Xu needs it, he can directly send the equipment to them, and they can immediately form combat effectiveness!
Lu Xu's side was progressing smoothly, and Shen Binhong's side naturally received the news. This gave Shen Binhong a headache. He already knew that his method of using Liu Xiangling to delay Lu Xu was probably going to fail.
But seeing how smooth things were going on Lu Xu's side, and his attempt to plant spies failed.
This made him a little anxious!
It takes time to form a caravan. Some merchants are in a hurry to leave, while some are not in a hurry and even want to stay and watch. It takes a lot of time and energy to agree on a suitable time to set off, not to mention allocating manpower and resources.
Supplies!
The news brought back by the people Shen Binhong sent out to contact various families was pretty good. All the big bosses agreed to join the Shen family's caravan. However, Shen Binhong did not relax his vigilance because he knew that if the progress of the formation of his caravan could not be improved,
If everyone is satisfied, I'm afraid someone will still contact Lu Xu secretly.
So...he wanted to release Liu Xiangling again.
And what about Lu Xu? He happened to know what Shen Binhong was up to!