Valley Emperor

At the foot of Huangzhu Mountain, a group of people who were dizzy with hunger were in a daze in the isolated wooden house.

This simple wooden house was originally a new cowshed in Huangzhu Mountain, but now it is a prisoner of war camp.

Two months ago, Prime Minister Liu Bagou suggested that the state should uniformly stock the cattle in Huangzhu Mountain, so that the cattle could be kept in better condition. However, many villagers believed that their man had finally snatched it from outside the mountain. A cow came back, and now you officials will take the cow back. They will definitely not do it. Datang is a small and widowed country, and naturally cannot stand the toss. When the villagers objected, Liu Bagou dismissed the idea.

These newly built cowsheds were useless until a large number of Ming army prisoners arrived three days ago.

The place where the more than 60 prisoners need to live also needs to be guarded together. Other places are not suitable, only this cowshed is suitable.

Therefore, these cowsheds became a prison camp with compartments after the prisoners themselves transformed them.

On this day, Bai Yunqi came to the prisoner camp excitedly after he had just finished the court meeting and received the 'decree' to formally take care of the prisoners.

As soon as he arrived at the captive camp, he couldn't wait to take out the solicitation note that he had discussed with Mrs. Bai before to announce to the captives.

The recruiting conditions are very simple. As long as you are willing to surrender to join the Great Tang Emperor and become a Great Tang soldier, you can immediately get the same treatment as a Great Tang soldier.

What is this treatment?

One word: Eat!

Two words: Eat enough!

No matter what era it is, eating is always the top priority, especially in ancient times when food production was extremely low, most ordinary people worked hard all their lives to eat enough, and this effort often did not work. Frozen and starvation are common.

Now, as soon as they heard that they could have enough to eat by joining Datang as a soldier, even if they knew that Datang was a gang of rebels, many people were still moved.

Although these ordinary Ming army captives and Zeng Ziyun, a thousand households, are both hereditary, the former and the latter are not the same thing.

Hereditary officers, especially those like Qianhu, lived a very dashing life. After a hundred years, they have not only become hereditary officers, but have gradually evolved into a large landowner, while those ordinary soldiers have gradually become their tenants.

Therefore, to a certain extent, a contemporary guardhouse is actually a village, where Qianhu is the landlord and the common soldiers are tenants.

Those ordinary military households were even worse off than ordinary tenants, because if the landlords collected too much rent, the tenants could flee to other places to rent land from other landlords, but if they couldn’t, the military households were not allowed to escape.

After the mid-Ming Dynasty, ordinary military households actually became the serfs of the officers!

It may be difficult to intuitively understand how miserable the military households are, but how miserable the serfs are, it is enough to read the literal meaning.

A group of serfs heard that as long as they joined the Tang Dynasty as rebels, they would be able to live a well-fed life, and many people were tempted on the spot.

But still no one came out and agreed directly, because they also had other worries, such as family members.

Bai Yunqi seemed to see their concerns, and immediately said, "Don't worry, everyone, even if you join our Great Tang Emperor, the Ming army doesn't know about it, and you don't have to worry about the safety of your own families.

Moreover, when my Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty leaves the mountain, your family members will also become citizens of the Great Tang Dynasty, and the Ming army will not be able to harm them! "

When Bai Yunqi said this, many people felt that this was the case. They were captured as prisoners, and even surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and the court did not know about it.

At this time, although most of them still have various concerns and are unwilling to agree, there are still a small number of people who make a decisive decision. Anyway, who should be a soldier is not a soldier. As long as they can eat enough, why not be a rebel?

At this time, a young man who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old in the captive crowd stood up and said, "I am willing to submit!"

As soon as this young man stood up, more than a dozen other people came out one after another, expressing their willingness to surrender, to contribute to the anti-thief cause of the Tang Dynasty, and to contribute their own strength.

Although only a dozen of the more than 60 people expressed their willingness to join the big family of the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible, Bai Yunqi still showed a satisfied expression.

Then it was announced that these new defectors would become the soldiers of the rear army of the Standing Army of the Datang King Division, and they would also be the leaders who would supervise the remaining prisoners in the future.

Bai Yunqi organized the remaining fifty prisoners who refused to surrender into more than ten groups, and handed them over to the soldiers who surrendered first, and generously gave the more than ten new soldiers the title of 'Hundred Households'. .

These soldiers heard right, they were the 'hundred households' that the Ming army often said!

Of course, there are more than 100 people under a hundred households in the Ming army, and there are only a few dozen people, but these new hundred households in front of them only have four or five people, and some even have only three. One, in fact, is just a corporal.

But even so, when Bai Yunqi announced this, the dozen or so surrendered soldiers couldn't help but change their color.

Wouldn't it take a few days for them to become thousands of households or even commanders?

Not to mention, their idea is really right. There are not many other things in the Tang Dynasty, except that there are many official positions!

It is a fine tradition that the Tang Dynasty has been established for more than a year since the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

As for the civil servants below the prime minister, and the military officers below the generals, that is simply not worth mentioning.

Therefore, the thousands of households that these surrendered soldiers hoped for in the hearts of the soldiers, the commander or something is really not a problem, UU reading www.uukanshu. If com is changed tomorrow, Li Xuan will be able to seal one person per head, and there is still an unlimited supply, as many as you want!

However, the Tang Dynasty was so strange, those ordinary soldiers didn't know that, in their fixed concept, the positions of these hundred households were of the sixth rank, and they were very powerful officials of the imperial court.

But now, they are a hundred households, the sixth-rank military attache of the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning, they had not been able to adapt to their 'official' status, but Bai Yunqi discovered within a few days that these surrendered The soldiers seem to pay more attention than the original large group of bandits in Huangzhushan, and even maintain the decency and prestige of the officials.

Especially when Bai Yunqi announced that one thousand households would be selected from their ten or so 'hundred households' in the future, these more than ten hundred households who had just surrendered became even more diligent and transformed into an official more quickly. Use various methods to force the prisoners under his hands to work.

Because the standard for promotion is very simple, that is, whoever has the most work under his command can be regarded as the first thousand households of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, it was not a group of bitter serf soldiers who soon appeared in front of Bai Yunqi, but a dozen high-spirited 'hundred households'.

Seeing them shouting and scolding their former comrades and letting the prisoners under his command work hard, Bai Yunqi was extremely excited, and he admired his sister Mrs. Bai even more in his heart.

Mrs. Bai had told him a few days ago that at the beginning, there would definitely not be many people willing to surrender, but Mrs. Bai also told him that it didn't matter.

When he asked why, Mrs. Bai said something like: No comparison, no harm!

At first, Bai Yunqi didn't know what this meant, but now he understood what it meant.