Xu Yingwei and other recruiters have not returned to their hometowns yet, but there is a Xuzhou general who has followed Chongzhen's special order and has officially returned to Nanjing's Wuyi Lane to prepare for recruitment.
This general who assisted Xuzhou was Li Xiangjun.
When Li Xiangjun led a group of frontier troops to the entrance of Wuyi Alley, he happened to see Chen Zhenhui leading a dozen servants into Wuyi Alley in front of her.
Chen Zhenhui?
Li Xiangjun frowned lightly.
Xin said that she was probably looking for her mother.
At that moment, Li Xiangjun followed with the border troops.
Li Xiangjun guessed right, Chen Zhenhui really came to see Li Zhenli.
Because Li Zhenli, the former Madam of Meixianglou, was Chen Zhenhui’s old sweetheart.
She is said to be a bustard mother, but she is actually in her early thirties, and looks more like Li Xiangjun's sister.
After Li Zhenli sold Meixiang Building, she bought a small building in Wuyi Alley and bought several young girls from others. She is training them hard and plans to return to Qinhuai River in a few years.
When Chen Zhenhui came to talk to her, Li Zhenli's lungs suddenly exploded with anger.
"Chen Dingsheng, how can there be such a shameless person like you in this world?" Li Zhenli was so angry that she was shaking all over, her hands and feet were cold, "It's okay that you haven't been willing to marry me. After all, I am a prostitute, and I am not too young.
Girl, after all, I have been with you for more than ten years, and I have long since washed away all my glory and kept myself clean for you, but now you..."
Chen Zhenhui said with saliva on her face: "Liniang, just this time, please help me no matter what, this time. Once this is done, I will immediately return to my hometown in Yixing to report to my mother and take you as my concubine."
Li Zhenli sneered after hearing this: "How many times have I heard you say the same thing? I won't believe you anymore. In fact, what Xiangjun girl said is right. You and Hou Fangyu are both the same thing.
You have never really regarded us ladies as human beings in your hearts. To you romantic talents, our sisters are nothing more than luxury goods. They can be used to embellish your appearance when needed, and you can give them away as you like when you don’t need them.
other people."
Chen Zhenhui also became a little impatient, and her face fell: "Liniang, it's meaningless for you to say that."
"It's boring, then you should get out of here." Once Li Zhenli turned her face, she was also unforgiving, "If you insist on staying here and begging for nothing, are you a bitch?"
"Bitch!" Chen Zhenhui was furious and slapped her in the face.
A snapping sound was heard, and five finger marks were left on Li Zhenli's pretty face.
"Chen Dingsheng, I will fight with you!" Li Zhenli was furious and reached out to scratch Chen Zhenhui's face.
Several servants following Chen Zhenhui rushed forward and knocked Li Zhenli to the ground.
At this moment, a beautiful figure rushed out of the yard holding a fire stick and knocked down two servants with two clicks. Chen Zhenhui and several other servants hurriedly retreated.
Looking closely, she turns out to be a pretty little girl of sixteen or seventeen years old.
Although this little girl looks pretty, she is obviously different from ordinary little girls.
If other little girls were sold into prostitution, the first thing they would do would be to bind their feet, but the little girl in front of her had a pair of natural feet, and her hands were also covered with calluses.
Chen Zhenhui said: "Where did this wild girl come from?"
But Li Zhenli shouted: "Young lady, drive them away quickly!"
The little girl named Nian Niang immediately held up the fire stick and yelled: "Mom said, let you get out of here!"
However, Chen Zhenhui had a new idea and thought that it would be better to snatch this pretty girl and give it to Wang Wei. Anyway, this girl was bought by Li Zhenli, and Li Zhenli was his woman, so it was not illegal.
At that moment, Chen Zhenhui waved her hand and said: "Get this little girl for me!"
"Yes!" More than a dozen servants agreed and immediately rushed towards him.
But this little girl was so skilled. She swung a fire stick with such force that the dozen or so strong servants of the Chen family couldn't get close to her. Instead, they were beaten until they cried for father and mother.
The little girl yelled while beating her: "If I continue to be ignorant, I will kill you."
Well, none of the co-authors have killed anyone, so I don’t know if it’s a bluff or if it’s true?
Anyway, Chen Zhenhui didn't believe it and thought the little girl was bluffing. Just when he was about to spend some money to go out to work and hire people, a group of soldiers wearing hats and cotton-padded armor suddenly rushed in.
Moreover, these soldiers all had blunderbuss in their hands, and they aimed at him and his servants.
Facing the black hole of the gun, more than a dozen servants of the Chen family were too frightened to move. Chen Zhenhui also had a pale face. What is going on? How did Li Zhenli get involved with the government?
But soon, Chen Zhenhui knew what was going on.
Because the person who walked in right after these officers and soldiers was Li Xiangjun.
I saw Li Xiangjun wearing a white cotton armor with a stomach bowl on his head. He looked really heroic.
"Li Xiang..." Chen Zhenhui shouted halfway, then she quickly bowed and changed her words, "Meet General Li Shen."
Li Xiangjun glanced at Chen Zhenhui coldly, walked up to Li Zhenli and called softly: "Mom."
"Xiang girl, have you returned to Nanjing?" Li Zhenli cried with joy when she saw Li Xiangjun, "You are back. If you don't come back, my mother will be bullied to death."
Li Xiangjun also saw the slap marks on Li Zhenli's face.
A pretty face immediately turned cold and asked: "Mom, who hit you?"
"No one hit me, I was just scratched by the dog." Li Zhenli shook her head.
The little girl next to me said, "Chen Zhenhui beat me."
"Chen Zhenhui?" Li Xiangjun turned around suddenly.
"General Li, Xiaosheng..."
Chen Zhenhui wanted to explain, but didn't know how to say it.
But Li Xiangjun didn't want to hear his explanation at all, and scolded in a sweet voice: "Come here, slap him in the mouth!"
A commander of the border army immediately stepped out of the crowd and slapped Chen Zhenhui twice on the face without any reason. The two slaps were so severe that Chen Zhenhui's face immediately swelled up.
Chen Zhenhui didn't dare to say anything.
In the past, because he was the son of Donglin Party leader Chen Yuting and the leader of Fushe, Chen Zhenhui could really walk sideways in Nanjing City. At that time, let alone a general, even the general had to salute respectfully when they saw him. But now
The Donglin Party has collapsed, Fushe has collapsed, and Chen Zhenhui has become a street rat.
At this time, a commander or even a commander would dare to embarrass him.
What's more, Li Xiangjun is not only a general of the border army, but also has another identity.
Although no one has confirmed this, it is probably true.
Li Xiangjun shouted again: "Chen Zhenhui, if you dare to make trouble again, I will be rude to you, so get out of here!"
Chen Zhenhui walked away with her servant in a hurry, but Li Zhenli took Li Xiangjun in her arms and asked: "Xiang girl, didn't it say that the Holy Father took you upstarts to climb Lion Rock? Why didn't you go?"
Li Xiangjun said: "My daughter was anxious to see her mother and came back halfway."
"This girl." Li Zhenli was annoyed and happy at the same time. After that, she pulled the pretty little girl and said to Li Xiangjun, "Xiang girl, this is your little sister, Ge Nanniang."
Ge Nun Niang bowed and said softly: "I have seen Sister Xiangjun before."
"What a pretty little girl." Li Xiangjun touched Ge Nenniang's pretty face lovingly and asked, "I saw just now that the dozen or so servants are no match for you. Where did you learn your martial arts?"
Upon hearing this, Ge Nenniang's beautiful eyes immediately turned red, and she looked like she was about to cry.
Li Zhenli next to her sighed and said: "My young lady learned this martial arts from her father. Her father Ge Tingyu was originally a general in Liaoxi. After Wu Sangui was surrendered to slavery, his father did not want to collude, so he took his wife and daughter with him.
He escaped from Shanhaiguan under the protection of his servants, but was chased by Guan Ning's army."
"His father was killed by Guan Ning's army to protect them."
"The servants of the Ge family are also dying and scattered."
"In the end, only mother and daughter were left to depend on each other."
Speaking of this, Li Zhenli was also in tears: "Her mother left the last bite of food to the young lady, but she starved to death, and the young lady also begged all the way to Nanjing."
"Good sister." Li Xiangjun felt extremely distressed after hearing this.
After a long while, Li Xiangjun said: "My dear sister, it's a pity that your martial arts skills are left in the Qinhuai River to entertain people. Why don't you follow my sister and join the army to serve the imperial court?"
"Sister Xiangjun, can I also join the army?"
When Ge Nenniang heard this, her beautiful eyes immediately lit up.
Born into a general, her biggest dream is to become a female general.
If given a choice, who would want to stay in a prostitution shop and become a prostitute?
"Of course." Li Xiangjun nodded with a smile and said, "In ancient times, there were good wives, such as Hua Mulan and Liang Hongyu, who joined the army. Besides, sister, I am also a woman, and I was also named a general by the Holy One. Not to mention, sister, your martial arts are so good.
Well, my future achievements will definitely be higher than those of my sister, and it is entirely possible to become a general soldier."
"Yes." Ge Nunniang nodded repeatedly, "Then I will listen to my sister."
"Eh, eh, eh." Li Zhenli said angrily and amusedly, "Just listen to Xiang girl. I was the one who spent money to buy you back from Ren Ya. Why don't you ask your mother about mine?"
Any opinions?”
When Ge Nenniang heard this, she was startled. Really, how could she have forgotten this incident?
"Mom, you always love me the most." Li Xiangjun hugged Li Zhenli's arm and acted coquettishly, "Besides, I am a woman, and the military camp is full of men. It is really inconvenient."
"Yes." Li Zhenli glanced at the soldiers standing like javelins outside.
"It's really inconvenient to have no one around to help you. Well, let me follow you."
Li Xiangjun continued: "Mom, my daughter has one more thing I want to ask you for, and you must help me."
"Okay, then you didn't come back to see me." Li Zhenli pretended to be angry and said, "This is a waste of time for me."
"Mom, of course my daughter is back to visit you." Li Xiangjun said coquettishly, "It's just a matter of course. Oh, mom, just help your daughter, help me."
"Okay, what's going on?" Li Zhenli couldn't resist.
Li Xiangjun said: "Mom, can you find more people to come over? My daughter wants to buy someone."
Buying people was actually just an excuse. What Li Xiangjun really wanted to do was recruit soldiers, and they were female soldiers. Chongzhen had personally promised her to recruit a battalion of female soldiers.
Li Xiang returned to Nanjing this time just to recruit troops.
"You want to buy someone?" Li Zhenli asked in surprise, "Who is it?"
"Rough messenger maids." Li Xiangjun said, "My daughter wants to buy a group of rough messenger maids to serve around her, but you'd better ask those people to prepare more candidates. My daughter has to pick some who are strong and have strong bones."
Li Zhenli looked at Li Xiangjun with a look that was hard to describe and could only mean.
"Xiang girl, tell mom honestly, you and..." Li Zhenli asked in a low voice.
"Mom." Li Xiangjun answered evasively, "Don't ask, just go and find someone for me."
"You are treating your mother as a maid." Li Zhenli said, dumbfounded. "It's dark today. Even if you look for her, you have to wait until tomorrow."
…
Li Zhenli really treats Li Xiangjun as her own daughter.
Early the next morning, Li Zhenli personally called everyone in the Qinhuai River area to her home.
As soon as Li Xiangjun explained the selection requirements, dozens of people immediately dispersed, looking for girls with strong physiques, big feet and thick hands in Nanjing and even in the countryside outside the city.
That's right, Li Xiangjun wants a girl, not a married woman.
But this was actually not Li Xiangjun's request, but Chongzhen's special instruction to her.
Chongzhen asked Li Xiangjun to recruit unmarried girls. The reason was very simple, just to find wives for the soldiers.
Nearly 150,000 soldiers from thirty towns in Xuzhou have officially retired, and the clearing and division of Endian are also in full swing under the auspices of Du Yinxi.
But in order for these 150,000 town soldiers to truly settle down in Xuzhou, they must find a way to solve their lifelong problems.
It is a solution to let these town soldiers go back to their hometowns to marry wives, but there will always be some town soldiers who are too stupid to marry wives. At this time, the court has to find a way to act as matchmakers for them.
What are you talking about, do you think the daughter-in-law assigned by the court has big hands, feet, a thick face, and is not handsome? If you have the ability, then find a wife yourself. If you don't have the ability, don't act blindly. It would be great to have a daughter-in-law, but you are still picky.
Besides, after receiving Li Xiangjun's orders, those dozens of people searched everywhere for girls who met the requirements.
Then that afternoon, the first batch of qualified girls were sent to Wuyi Lane, more than a hundred of them!
After Li Xiangjun asked Ge Nanniang to register the names and place of birth of these girls, he asked them to go home and wait for news.
After sending Ren Ya away, Li Xiangjun took Ge Nanniang and dozens of border troops and began to go door to door to recruit soldiers. She was the girl Ren Yazi was looking for before.
Soon we came to one of the Zhutanfang shops.
I saw an old man beating a strong girl with a thorn stick, and the girl's back was already stained with blood.
While beating him, the old man kept scolding: "You can't do anything, but you are quite good at eating. Finally, a wealthy family is willing to buy you as a rough maid, but you don't want it. What else can you do, me?"
Tears fell from the girl's face, but she managed not to cry.
Li Xiangjun couldn't stand it any longer, and immediately yelled: "Stop, don't hit anyone!"
"Who is it? The old man cares about his own daughter. Can you care about you?" The old man was furious.
