Chapter 217: The Soldiers Are Enlisting in the Army
The news of the Yan Prince's Mansion recruiting personal guards spread in Tianjin City almost instantly.
For the people of all sizes in Tianjin, this is a very good opportunity. With Li Tai's support for them, there are endless people who come to be Li Tai's personal guard.
Even not only ordinary people, but even the families of all sizes in Youzhou want to get people in.
After all, compared to ordinary people who make a living or are grateful to Li Tai, the Youzhou family and Li Tai are truly a combination of interests.
Regardless of planting plans, investment in Cangzhou, or selling salt, for the Youzhou family, being able to put people around Li Tai is a way to show their loyalty.
Zuan said earnestly to Zu Changming, "Changming, this time the King of Yan recruited personal guards is a very good opportunity.
Don’t embarrass our ancestors, you must join the guard of the Prince of Yan!”
"Dad, the King of Yan is just a prince. Even if I become the King of Yan's personal guard, I am afraid I will not be able to leave Youzhou!" Zu Changming said.
"Idiot!" Zuan knocked Zu Changming on the head hard and said,
"Do you know how many people from all over the Youzhou family have snatched this identity?
Not to mention the age of King Yan now, just say that our ancestors have put a heavy bet on the planting plan and Cangzhou plan. You should hold the King Yan's legs tightly. If there is any danger, give me
I will use my life to push it up!”
"Dad, if you push it, I'm afraid I'll die!" Zu Changming felt a little suspicious when he heard Zuan's words.
"You can be listed on the genealogy even if you die, and maybe you can start another line!" Zuan said with relief.
"If you die for the King of Yan, then my ancestors are in the Planting Plan and Cangzhou's investment, then they will be completely stable.
Then, my ancestral family and the Lu family compete for the county honours in Youzhou, and I am afraid it is not impossible to do anything!"
"..." Zu Changming opened his mouth, but he didn't want to say anything, and snorted, "Then I'll leave!"
Although Zuan said it a little direct, for Zuan, who was trained by his family since childhood, attached more importance to the country, and more importantly, he understood that the King of Yan really had direct interests with his own aristocratic family.
Keeping Li Tai means stabilizing this line of interest. If Li Tai dies, the entire line of interest will become turbulent.
However, the lonely aristocratic family like the ancestors may not have any advantages in comparison with the imperial court or the Lu family in Fanyang.
Because Li Tai is fair in his work, he has never bullied those small families. Basically, it is just that you can get as much money as you pay.
But the Lu family in Fanyang or the Wei family in Hedong may not not want to get more. For some small families that are at most just one level in the county or even worse, Li Tai's existence is too important.
At the same time, the corvee service that was working for Wang Zhenru, also heard the news that Li Tai was recruiting his own soldiers.
Of course, in addition to having food coupons available every month, two sets of clothes are rewarded every quarter. The most important thing is that anyone who becomes Li Tai's personal soldiers can be exempted from labor service and taxes, and can also give it to your family during festivals and festivals.
Points for benefits.
Each of these conditions is very exciting to take out, let alone all of them are integrated together.
"The King of Yan recruits his own soldiers. You guys, how about I go!" A big man with a tiger back and a bear-back, carrying a basket of bricks, couldn't help but ask at the people around him, obviously very interested.
"Leitou, how old are you?" The people around looked at the big man and couldn't help but say, "The notice is written, it's just a young man from fifteen to twenty years old. You look at least thirty years old!"
"Genggugugugugugu, I'm nineteen years old, I'm a little anxious!" The big man touched his beard and said angrily.
"Oh~" When the people around him heard the words of the big man, they responded suspiciously.
But someone next to him said, "Lei Head, even if you are nineteen years old, you won't be able to do it."
You escaped from Fanyang a few years ago because of the disaster, but you have no parents.
It can be said that parents need to be alive, otherwise you will be full and your whole family will not be hungry. It would be meaningless to give you tax exemption!"
"Why do you have this request?" Lei Tou said, and he had no choice but to carry the basket on his back and said, "It's really boring!"
"If it's Lei Tou, you really want to register, I can write a letter of recommendation and be a guarantor, and I can also register!"
At this time, Wang Zhenru looked at Lei Tou and said calmly,
"Of course it's not just Lei Tou, but other corvee labor is the same. As long as I'm old enough, I can be this guarantor. I recommend you to go!"
"The king is boring, will this really affect you?" Lei Tou hesitated to Wang Zhenru and Taoism.
After all, if it was only one or two people, Wang Zhenru's promise to the first guarantor would definitely be able to pass the letter.
But Wang Zhenru took such a big shot and picked up people in the King of Yan to pick someone in his personal guards, which seemed like he was looking for death no matter how he looked!
"This is the order issued by the King of Yan, because Tianjin corvee has made outstanding contributions to the construction of Gaoling, which is a special honor.
As long as you are born in Tianjin, who are of the right age and have worked for more than one year, you can enjoy this registration discount.
But this will only help you solve the registration problem, but you still need to go to the test. If you are brushed down, you will not be able to get in."
"That's good!" Lei Tou was so excited when he heard Wang Zhenru's words.
Of course, it is not just Lei Tou, but also many young people who have developed muscles and bronze skin in Gaoling corvee are all excited.
In addition to Tianjin corvee labor, the other part is the ordinary people who come to Tianjin for various reasons and live in Tianjin. They are also happy to check their relatives to sign up.
Some of these people have their own land because the national policy will divide the land for these people.
Although Li Tai selected some people to enter the farm for large-scale agricultural experiments.
But the official still gave these people a lot of farm tools by half selling and half giving away, encouraging them to reclaim the fields.
After all, in Tianjin City, or the entire Youzhou, there are many lands and few people. Only when they are encouraged to reclaim land will the overall income of Youzhou increase.
Some of them entered Li Tai's large-scale farm. The people here were more of agricultural workers than tenants. Most of them paid monthly wages, at least they didn't have to worry about starving to death.
At the same time, these agricultural workers will master cutting-edge agricultural technology and use the top agricultural technology.
After saving enough wealth, some people will find ways to buy land and use the agricultural technology of Yanwang Mansion to cultivate their own fields.
After all, for most ordinary people, it is self-learning without a teacher.
Li Tai did not stop such behavior, but found that one was to punish the other.
But after punishment, some tools are allowed to be borrowed for a fee and a deposit is required.
To be honest, many things are not suitable for ordinary people with less land.
Because many power-heavy equipment requires enough farming, the cost can be diluted and the effect can be truly exerted.
In comparison, these people just want to take advantage of the wild day, and it is a waste to use a lot of things for them.
But no matter what, Li Tai gave them a chance to live. More importantly, Li Tai can have a plan for Tianjin City, so that the overall environment of Tianjin City will continue to become excellent, and they can eat Tianjin City.
The dividends of urban development.
Although for the aristocratic families, the benefits these people may not even be considered soup.
But as long as Tianjin City is developing, many problems that belong to Tianjin City can be easily covered up by economic development.
At this time, Li Tai released the news of recruiting his guards, which seemed to have activated this layer of ripples.
Compared with the aristocratic families, the lower-class people do not know what this means, but they will respond to this matter out of instinct.
Especially in this martial Zhenguan, being a soldier was never a bad choice.
Not to mention, for the local people, Li Tai is a good official, and the benefits given this time are good. Then his son is the personal guard of Li Tai, which is also his son's advancement. Maybe one by one may not think about it.
It's long-term, but all are happy.
Therefore, the entire Youzhou City class was very enthusiastic about Li Tai's recruitment of personal guards this time.
But what surprised Li Tai the most was that when the list of 500 guards was dropped, there were only more than 100 families selected, and only more than 100 ordinary people. The most people who passed the exam were still graduated from the Agricultural University.
Student.
Most of them are not over twenty years old!
For the students of the agricultural institution, some of this group of people have the corvee service in Tianjin, the management of salt farms, and the technology of the farm, but for the students of these agricultural institution, all this is not as good as Li Tai's personal soldiers.
Let’s not talk about this group of agricultural students at Youzhou Branch, because they will not have 800 graduates until next year. Most of the students in agricultural institutions can come from Gaoling, Chang'an.
Most students who are willing to come here have some ambitions in their hearts.
After all, if a normal person doesn’t want to stay at his home peacefully, he will go out and explore!
Even if these agricultural students who came here didn't know that the closer they were to Li Tai, the more beneficial they would be, there would always be a few smart people among so many people.
These people know how to form cliques and know that they must be weak in following Li Tai alone. Of course, Duoduo recruited students from the same agricultural college to join Li Tai's personal guard.
Therefore, the proportion of students from Litai Agricultural College has increased significantly through selection.
Needless to say, compared with the aristocratic families and ordinary people, the people under Li Tai who are responsible for the assessment will not let the test out when facing students from agricultural institutions, even if they will not let the water go, they will not be too strict. After all, they are
The disciple of the emperor.
However, as soon as these people arrived at Li Tai’s personal guard camp, Lu Anshou and Ren Yaxiang immediately began to train them.
On the first day of training, Ren Yaxiang said coldly, "Everyone runs twenty miles first, and those who can't finish running are not allowed to have lunch!"
These guards had already known that this life would be miserable, but they didn't expect that the first day would be so miserable.
But what can they do? The same thing is said. Since Ren Yaxiang has spoken, he can only run away!
"Is it so miserable?" Lu Anshou held a chicken leg in his hand, and gnawed the chicken leg clean in a few bites, leaving only a bone.
Ren Yaxiang looked at Lu Anshou. If he hadn't been unable to beat him, he would have to teach him a lesson.
Ren Yaxiang looked at Lu Anshou and said, "You don't seem to be so casual in front of the King of Yan!"
"That's natural! Isn't King Yan not here!" Lu An Shouliu said for granted,
"But you, under General Su, have a dead look, but now you still have a dead look. Who can you show this way!"
"..." Ren Yaxiang listened to Lu Anshou's words and said in a deep voice, "The hippie smile is definitely not a good soldier in the army!"
"It's up to you!" Lu Anshou didn't want to pursue this, but just said, "I'll go see what's going on for lunch!"
Ren Yaxiang looked at Lu Anshou with some surprise, because if he remembered correctly, the chicken bones in Lu Anshou's hand had not been gone for long, so he was hungry again.
"His strength should be stronger than I expected!"
Normally, a general's strength is proportional to his appetite, especially in this world with true qi, the idea of trying to extract the true qi of heaven and earth out of thin air and then refine it does not exist, and can only be done one by one.
Eat and absorb the nutrition from the food.
Of course, Ren Yaxiang didn't care much. After all, being able to eat only shows that you transform your true qi, and it's not the actual combat power. It's a pity that you can't beat it.
Ren Yaxiang said behind him, "Show me the menu, let me see what the King of Yan has prepared?"
"Okay!" Lu Anshou answered calmly, and soon he sent a menu to Ren Yaxiang.
Ren Yaxiang looked at the menu and murmured, "Can you get meat every day? Why do our soldiers only deliver it once every half a month!"
"You said they are just soldiers of the palace. Is it great to be able to eat once every half month?"
Lu Anshou looked at the menu he handed over and picked his teeth,
"Besides, I don't eat beef every day, I mainly eat mutton!"
"Why, here is marked with fresh seafood, and there is no specific thing!" Ren Yaxiang asked again.
"Is it very strange? When this fishing boat went out to fish, it was naturally only on the same day that we could find out what we could eat." Lu Anshou said, "But unfortunately, winter is coming to the north, and it would be fine if the Bohai Sea did not freeze. If it is frozen, it is fine if it is frozen.
Then, I can only avoid eating for a few months!”
"..." Ren Yaxiang was full of desire to complain, but he didn't know how to complain, and pointed at a place,
"What does it mean to choose green vegetables by yourself? Winter is coming soon, where do green vegetables come from?"
"This is the students of the Agricultural Institution have developed a winter greenhouse to ensure that they grow live green vegetables in winter.
It was successfully planted last year. The King of Yan was afraid that the soldiers would not get used to eating it, so he asked them to choose a few vegetables and vegetables by themselves and plant them in winter to eat it!"
Lu Anshou explained in detail, looked up and saw that there was no dead look on his face. Instead, Ren Yaxiang, with a slightly red look, said, "It's a pity that it's not spring and summer, and there's more things you can eat then!"
"Is this an excessive amount?" Ren Yaxiang said, "Do you know what kind of food we soldiers of the Tang Dynasty eat?"
"Uh... we are now training as the personal guards of the King of Yan, not the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!" Lu Anshou quickly comforted him.