Hearing the noise, Liu Xin was not too anxious. After all, every recruiting office had soldiers drawn from various legions to maintain order. He walked forward quickly and saw a tall young man in front of him dying.
He grabbed the clerk at the recruitment office by the collar, not knowing what they were arguing about. The soldier next to him tried to break up the fight and tried his best to pull the young man's hand, but he couldn't pull it away.
The soldiers of the regular army have been trained for a long time, and those selected to maintain order at the recruitment office are all very strong. However, the soldier held on for a long time, but the young man did not move at all. Liu Xin nodded secretly, squeezed to the front and said: "You all stop first.
, who can tell me first, what’s going on?”
The young man still refused to let go and shouted: "I won't let go until you agree."
Liu Xin heard the voice sounded like a drake's throat. When she walked around, she saw that he was just a boy. He was tall and looked very powerful from behind. But from the front, his face was full of childishness. Liu Xin stretched out her hand to hold him.
With a little force on his wrist, the young man felt pain and let go of his hand with an "ouch", turning to Liu Xin and glaring angrily.
The soldier who was there just now had recognized Liu Xin, and in a panic, he knelt down on one knee to worship. Liu Xin quickly made a look to signal him to be quiet, turned to the young man and said, "If you want to apply, just do your best.
Queuing up, why do you need to do something?"
The young man said bitterly: "He doesn't want me."
Liu Xin reached out and patted the young man's chest and said to the clerk: "I think he is tall and strong. Why don't you agree to his application?"
Now that there are so many people coming to apply, Liu Xin is very worried that the clerk will pretend to be a public servant and deliberately exclude some people who have no connections and recruit his own relatives. Sure enough, the clerk argued: "He does not meet the conditions."
Liu Xin thought that the clerk had some selfish motives, so he said: "Why doesn't he meet the conditions? You see, he is tall and strong, and he is a good material for a soldier."
The clerk said with an aggrieved look: "He is too young and will not be able to apply until next year."
The young man raised his broken gong voice again and said loudly: "Nonsense, I am already eighteen years old, and he is deliberately making things difficult for me."
The clerk raised the account book in his hand and said: "This is a copy of the Yamen's household registration book. I remember clearly on it, Wei Yan, male, born in the third year of Xiping. You are only sixteen years old this year, and you are still two years shy.
You can apply for it only the year after tomorrow."
These household registration books are Ma Yun's masterpiece, and they are now playing a big role. Not only can they prevent age fraud when recruiting soldiers, they also play an important role in taxation, anti-theft and other daily social management.
Liu Xin was surprised when he heard that the young man in front of him was Wei Yan. He had been looking for Wei Yan's whereabouts since he came to Jingzhou. Who knew that he was only sixteen years old now? No wonder he had people look through the military roster and couldn't find him.
I met a man named Wei Yan.
Wei Yan had already shouted again: "Who knows, you won't be recruiting in the year after next, who will I look for then?"
Liu Xin grabbed his hand and said: "Since you want to be a soldier so much, then come out with me first. I will take you to see a person and ask him if he is willing to help."
Wei Yan softened his tone and asked, "Really?"
Liu Xin smiled and said: "Of course it is true, I would still lie to you like a child."
Wei Yan muttered: "Who is a kid? He's not much shorter than you."
After all, he also knew that there would be no results if he continued to struggle here. He might as well try his luck with this person, so he followed Liu Xin obediently and left the long queue. Wei Yan followed Liu Xin and turned left and right.
Turning around, he gradually arrived in the Dongcheng District area. He knew that the people living here were all high-ranking officials from Jingzhou. Ordinary people were not allowed to come in and out at will. However, the man who led him didn't even have to say hello to the soldiers. He just went straight to the area.
As soon as I walked in, my confidence greatly increased.
In a blink of an eye, the two of them arrived in front of a large house. Liu Xin raised his feet and walked inside. The soldiers standing guard on both sides of the gate saluted him. Wei Yan looked up and saw that the plaque above the gate read "Prefectural Shepherd's Mansion"
Three big words, I can't help but hesitate and hesitate to move forward.
Liu Xin turned around and saw that he was holding back and asked, "Wei Yan, why don't you leave?"
Wei Yan hesitated and said: "This is the Prefecture Mufu. Can we go in at will?"
Liu Xin laughed and asked, "Do you know who I am?"
Wei Yan asked with a naive look: "Who are you?"
Liu Xin's face darkened and she said, "My name is Liu Xin."
Wei Yan touched his head and murmured: "Liu Xin? Ah! You are Lord Zhou Mu!"
Liu Xin straightened her face, widened her eyes, stared at him and said, "Wei Yan, do you know your guilt?"
Wei Yan was so frightened by what he saw that his legs went weak, and he knelt down with a thump, saying: "I am ignorant of the truth, so I bumped into an adult. Please forgive me! Ah! I, I didn't bump into an adult either.
ah!"
Liu Xin suppressed her laughter, walked up to Wei Yan, put her hand on the back of his head, and touched him vigorously. Jushou happened to come over and saw Liu Xin putting his hand on a young man's head, feeling something strange. Liu Xin said to him
Jushou waved his hand and said, "Mr. Yu, come and touch it, do you feel any difference?"
Jushou curiously put his hand on Wei Yan's head, touched it for a long time, then touched his own head, and said puzzledly: "There's nothing special about him. Lord, what do you think is different about him?"
Liu Xin touched Wei Yan's head, of course to look for the legendary traitor, but found nothing. She didn't know how Zhuge Liang found it, so she couldn't help laughing and said, "I don't think there's any difference either."
Wei Yan was kneeling there, being touched here and there by the two of them. He felt upset, but he didn't dare to show up, so he could only pout and get angry secretly.
Liu Xin had stopped laughing and said sternly to Wei Yan: "Wei Yan, you didn't quarrel with me. But you disturbed the recruiting scene, what crime should you deserve!"
Wei Yan said unconvinced: "I just want to be a soldier, so what's wrong with that?"
Liu Xin snorted coldly and said: "Family has family rules, and the state has national laws. Without rules, there is no rule. If everyone is like you, then it's not chaos! I will punish you now to be a cook in the Feihu Guards, two
We will see your performance within the year. If you perform well, you can be allowed to join the army. If you perform poorly, you will pack up and go home!"
"Feihu's personal guard? Be a cook?" Wei Yan also stretched out his hand and straightened his hair that was messed up by the two of them. He suddenly understood and kowtowed quickly, "Thank you, sir!"
Jushu smiled and said, "Why are you still calling me sir?"
Wei Yanhui regretted it and kowtowed to Liu Xin again: "Thank you, Lord!"
The guards on both sides took Wei Yan down, arranged a place for him, helped him measure his height and weight, and prepared armor and equipment. Not only the cooks of the Feihu guards, but also the cooks of the major legions also had to participate in daily training and be ready for battle at any time.
prepare.
Liu Xin watched Wei Yan leave and asked Jushu, "Mr. Duke and I are here at this time. Do you have anything important to do?"
Jushou raised his hands and said, "My lord, Zhang Ren, Lei Tong, and Wu Lan have been in prison for almost three months. I wonder what my lord is going to do with them?"
Liu Xin muttered: "These three people all have some abilities, especially Zhang Ren, who is versatile in both civil and military affairs. It would be a pity to kill him. In this way, we will go to persuade them together to see if they agree to surrender. Their families are also concerned
In jail?"
Jushu nodded and said, "It's been locked up for so long, but a lot of food has been wasted."
Liu Xin laughed unconsciously and joked: "My lord, even if you are in charge of money, you don't have to be so stingy."
Jushou also smiled and said: "How can you help your master manage such a big family without spending a little money?"
The prison in Xiangyang is not as cold and dark as it used to be. It has been rebuilt and the cells are relatively clean and spacious. The facilities are relatively complete and the food is pretty good. Jingzhou is carrying out many major projects at the same time. The engineering team used to mainly
Relying on some prisoners and temporarily recruited civilian husbands, these prisoners have now expired, some have stayed, and some have chosen to return to their hometowns to work in agriculture, so the engineering team is very short of manpower. In order to solve the problem of insufficient manpower in the engineering team, some criminals
Lesser criminals were also transferred to the engineering team to participate in forced labor. Very few criminals were actually imprisoned, mainly those who had committed capital crimes.
Because there are not many people in jail, the prison in Xiangyang is shared by the state, county, and county. The people guarding the cells are under the jurisdiction of Xiangyang Governor Cai Mao. Since he became the governor of Xiangyang, Cai Mao has been responsible for various affairs in order to perform well.
They all tried their best and managed the prison shared by the three families extremely strictly. For someone like Zhang Ren who was skilled in martial arts, shackles and shackles were indispensable.
With the shackles on Zhang Ren's neck and the shackles on his feet clanking, he was dragged into the reception room by two jailers.
Liu Xin sat on the chair, glanced at Zhang Ren who looked haggard, and said: "General Zhang, it's been three months, I don't know if you have figured it out. Because of your stubborn resistance, thousands of our soldiers in Jingzhou died heroically.
Now surrender is your only way out."
Zhang Ren raised his head and said: "We in Xichuan only have generals who have beheaded, not generals who have surrendered!"
Liu Xin couldn't help but smile. In history, Zhang Ren said this and was killed. However, Liu Xin didn't want to kill him. She looked at him carefully and continued: "General Zhang, have you ever thought about it?"
, if you die, what will happen to your parents, wife and children in the future?"
Zhang Ren Dayi said solemnly: "Zhang is guilty and will only die. What does it have to do with my family? I believe Mr. Ming will not embarrass them."
"Ming Gong?" Liu Xin laughed loudly, and then her face darkened, "Who said I am Ming Gong! 'Under the cover of the nest, there are no intact eggs.' Hasn't General Zhang heard of this sentence?"
Seeing the confusion on Zhang Ren's face, Liu Xin remembered that this sentence was said by Kong Rong's son, who might not have been born yet, so he had to cough dryly and said: "I thought General Zhang was a versatile man in both civil and military affairs, but he didn't expect to be so ignorant.
.So, Liu is a lecher and likes to eat human flesh, you have always heard about this."