Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Yu Liang went home and told about his joining the army, but his mother and wife were crying and he was almost beaten by his father. Later, I talked about it, saying that I was going to be an official, just a military officer, and only then did I get a little understanding.

Then he began to encourage the villagers to join the army, tirelessly talking about the benefits of being a soldier in the village army. Because if you don't find some people to go, you can't be a ten general... He is a student, if he is a pawn, he can't do a job at home.

The situation is not bad. The branch office in Kaifeng Prefecture is not easy to recruit because the villagers don't know about it! The people in the village were illiterate and rarely went to the city, but the officials in that county did not implement the government's government orders well.

... In the village of Zhangzhuang, the old Zhang family used to have five sons, but now there are three left. The eldest is already in his early thirties, and they are all bachelors!

A family of five is having dinner in the yard while discussing what the Yu family said.

Although it is a courtyard, there is only a dilapidated earthen wall without a door. The sky was already dark, and several people were in the yard with thick bowls, and there was still some light, but the house was pitch black, and there was no lamp oil.

The second and fourth children are dead, and the one who repaired the Yellow River died. Now besides old man Zhang, there are three other men.

Old man Zhang took a sip of vegetable leaf soup and said, "Exemption from corvee..."

The old woman with gray and disheveled hair hurriedly said, "Those who want to fight for their lives don't have eyes for swords and guns."

The third child said: "It's better than building the Yellow River every year. You don't need to bring rations."

The boss said weakly: "There is still a lot of money for burning and burying after death..."

The whole family spoke one sentence, and then fell silent again.

Zhang Da was dressed in tattered clothes, and his hair was tied on top of his head with a hemp rope. He was very thin, but because of his thick bones, he looked very big and rather burly.

He finished a bowl of vegetable soup, leaving a thin layer of rice grains in the bowl, then stood up and walked to the fifth child who was squatting on the threshold and holding the bowl silently. The fifth child was only twelve years old. Zhang Da poured the rice grains in the bowl into Lao Wu's bowl.

The fifth child swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and hurriedly said, "Brother, you eat, you eat."

Zhang Da turned around and went into the room to put the bowl.

After a while, the third child also poured the leftover rice grains into Younger Brother's bowl, and said with a smile, "Half a child, when it's time to eat. The fifth brother grows up better, and I will ask for a daughter-in-law in the future. My old Zhang's family will pass on the incense."

The fifth child wiped his eyes and said, "If I can get a wife, let her serve the eldest brother and the third brother."

When the old woman heard this, she spit and cursed, "Stupid words!"

Zhang Da came out of the room, humming and said: "I'm going to find Shusheng Yu, I'm going to join the army."

Zhang Sandao: "Brother, let me go, you are a good farmer."

Zhang Dao: "The third child is still young, maybe he can still ask for a wife. If I die, I will take the money from the government to marry a wife, and wrap me in a straw mat and bury me."

At this moment, the two younger brothers suddenly burst into tears.

"Cry ass!" Zhang cursed, "Isn't the second and fourth child buried in the same way? They're all dead, so what are you spending money for?"

Zhang Da talked to his parents, then went out to Yu's house, and the third child followed without any explanation.

When I arrived at Yu Liang's house, I entered the main room of Dewa, and there were two men talking to Yu Liang there. Zhang Da and the third child stood against the wall at the door without saying a word. The two brothers moved together, put their hands in their tattered sleeves, and stood there with their necks locked.

Yu Liang cast his gaze over and asked casually, "What are you two doing?"

Zhang Dao: "Just do the job, Yu Shusheng said in the village."

Yu Liang said: "Join the army?"

"Hmph." Zhang Da let out a snort.

Yu Liangdao: "You two brothers, old Zhang's family?"

Zhang Dao: "I'll go, he will come and see."

The third child said: "I will go too."

Yu Liang asked in a slightly polite tone, "Have you eaten yet?"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Old Man Yu next to him coughed dryly twice. Zhang Da turned his head and took a look, and said, "The general will have eaten."

Yu Liang picked up the pen and wrote for a while, then raised his head and said, "Then go back and prepare, and leave with me in three days."

"Successful?" Zhang Da wondered.

Yu Liangdao: "I've won! As soon as I report it, your Zhang family will become a military household. As long as someone is registered in the military, the whole family will not have to do corvee."

Both of them joined the army after a few words in a daze, and talking about it when they went back made my mother cry again. But the whole family said that they had joined the army, and they dared not repent, for fear of being arrested by the government and interrogated.

Three days later, Yu Liang had already gathered more than a dozen men and led them to the county on foot. An official in green robes received them, and then took them to the official courtyard for dinner.

It turned out to be white rice!

A group of people with bright eyes sat on the table and started to eat with their chopsticks. No one said a word, only the sound of chopsticks colliding with the bowl and the rustling of chewing on the table.

Some eat fast, and after a while, they are holding the bowl and licking the bottom of the bowl.

At this moment, a burst of crying was suddenly heard, and when everyone turned their heads to look, the third son of the Zhang family was crying loudly there. Zhang Da was annoyed: "Why are you crying? It's not shameful to be ashamed!"

Zhang San choked up and said: "I eat white rice, my parents are drinking vegetable leaf soup..."

Zhang Da looked gloomy for a while, and said: "Hurry up and eat, what you eat is not the family's ration, and it will save them."

Everyone was silent.

The county government distributed wheat cakes for a few days, and put them in cloth bags! Then Yu Liang and another leading man took people to Kaifeng mansion. The crowd was very dull for the first two days, but it didn't take long, because everyone was full after every meal, and everyone didn't feel tired, and the atmosphere became more and more lively.

As far as Day Camp outside Tokyo, wheelbarrows on the main road pushed grain into the camp, and the words "Taicang" were still on the sacks. Everyone felt more at ease when they saw so much food.

The commander personally received Yu Liang and his dozen or so people. Seeing that they were all young and strong, he was very happy. He immediately appointed Yu Liang as the first commander of the ten generals of the third team of Youdu Youdu.

Then, a large cart of clothes came over, and there was a flag on the cart, which read: Shen Chenli Weaving.

The robed escort clasped his fists and said, "This batch of military uniforms is Mrs. Shen's wish, please accept it with a smile, General."

The commander's face was full of smiles: "Shen Chenli Trading Co., Ltd. dedicates money to righteousness, so it can be regarded as a charity business!"

"Where is it?" the robed man said politely.

The commander waved his hand: "Go to the river to fetch water to boil the bath water, wash it and put it on!" After finishing speaking, his eyes stayed on Zhang Da's tattered clothes, and he frowned, "Like this kind of clothes, quickly change them and throw them away! We are not beggars!"

In addition to clothes, each man had a helmet; no armor, no weapons.

After everyone took a shower and changed into military uniforms, the camp was even more noisy, and there was a "haha" laugh from time to time, and everyone was very happy. Because this military uniform is really beautiful!

The shoulders are leather! Looks like shoulder pads; wrists are also leather. Gray linen, strong and smooth, well-made, with dense and neat stitches. A large placket on the chest is like a breastplate, with a blue fluorene head and a leather belt on the waist; the linen trousers on the lower body are slightly lighter in color, and the color of the whole set is very layered. Melaleuca boots are also very comfortable to wear.

The commander also laughed and said: "I heard that Shen Chenli weaves all the clothes of dignitaries and dignitaries, and the things they make are really amazing! Prestige!"

Zhang Da widened his eyes, looked at his third younger brother, turned around twice, "tsk tsk" and said in two voices: "Mother, it's no wonder that people depend on clothes and horses. How can the third brother be so worried that he can't get a wife?!"

The waists of the two of them also straightened up, and they were full of energy after eating, and they talked endlessly there.

The third child said: "If you know that Congwu is so good, you should have come here long ago."

... After about ten days, the commander of the Kaifeng Mansion was recruited. The commander didn't train troops, he just asked everyone to stand in line and told them that they were going to Jiangnan camp.

Tokyo is the capital of the Great Zhou Kingdom, but they want to go to the south of the Yangtze River. Everyone doesn't know why, but most of them are honest farmers, very obedient, have food every day, and go wherever they are told.

Soon, good things are coming! Not only manage meals, but also send money!

Each person always receives copper coins and a piece of cloth as "settlement expenses". The commander said that he couldn't go home for a while, so he went straight to the battle after the training; he gave everyone a few days to go home and get "relocation money", and then set off to the south.

The commander said several times in a row that he had to come back. Everyone has been registered and registered, and if they don't obey the military order within three years, deserters will be beaten fifty times and exiled for three thousand miles!

Taking delicious food from the imperial court, if you want to run away, it is a felony!

The third child below murmured: "Who wants to run away? Every time I eat dry food, I will not leave..."

A few days later, Zhang Da waited for the two brothers to return to Zhangzhuang with the money, just like a dream! Not seeing each other for more than half a month, they have changed and "returned to their hometown".

Every household in the village came out to watch, Zhang Da held his head high, was asked by acquaintances, but couldn't answer, and said from time to time: "The emperor sent it."

When the people heard the emperor's words, they all looked at them in awe. The Zhang family brothers suddenly became the emperor's bodyguards.

The dilapidated yard of their house was even more crowded with people. The third child handed over the settling expenses he got into the house to his mother, but Zhang Da looked at the fifth brother calmly, deliberately shook the copper coins in the money bag in front of everyone, and opened the cloth bucket to look at it. He deliberately loudly said: "The emperor issued an imperial decree. We have made meritorious deeds. The distribution is not cloth, but silk, gold and silver!"

Everyone was in an uproar.

As for the risk of coercion, Zhang Da is not aware of it, besides, who in this village knows about the Son of Heaven?

Zhang Da looked at the generals in the barracks, clasped his fists at his side, and said: "The officials treat the soldiers well, how dare we refuse to die?"

The old man Zhang, who was dressed in rags and skinny, had unconsciously changed his tone when talking to his neighbors, as if he was a respected old man. Everyone spoke very politely, Zhang Yuanwai one by one.

Zhang Da noticed that the young mothers and daughter-in-laws in the crowd were all flushed when they looked at him. Less than half a month later, he felt as if he had been reborn.

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(I'm sorry everyone, I've been delayed going out due to some business these two days, and I've been feeling guilty all the time, alas.)\u003c