After the battle to defend Jingnan, Zhu Pingan's prestige was at its peak in Jingnan, and he won the love of the people in the county. Many people who survived the disaster even secretly worshiped Zhu Pingan in their homes.
Thanks to Zhu Ping'an's good reputation, Liu Mu's preparations went very smoothly.
Jingnan is their home, and everyone has the responsibility to protect Jingnan, but Taiping County is not. Rushing to aid Taiping and rescuing neighboring counties is not the vital interest of the people of Jingnan County, but after the county government posted a notice to recruit young people,
People in Jingnan County enthusiastically signed up to participate. It was originally planned to recruit 500 people, but the number of people who signed up soon exceeded the planned quota. After hearing the news, more and more people came to participate in the recruitment excitedly.
"The county magistrate has defended Jingnan and saved the lives of tens of thousands of people in Jingnan. The reason why you, me, and our whole family are still alive is all thanks to the county magistrate. Now the county magistrate has recruited
Qingzhuang goes to rescue Taiping County. If you, Ergouzi, dare not to apply, I won’t have you as a son!"
An old man with a white beard on crutches couldn't help but tap his crutch after hearing the notice read, and shouted to his son Ergouzi.
"Dad, of course I'm going. I signed up for the last defense of the city. The county magistrate said that I was not allowed to participate because I have seniors and juniors. This time, there are no restrictions on the notice. I will participate regardless of what I say.
." Ergouzi replied excitedly, paused for a moment, and then said firmly, "It's just, dad, if your son can't come back this time, you and my mother should take more care of your health...
.”
"Don't worry! Your father and I are in good health. You don't need to worry about it. Just go and sign up!"
The white-haired old man was leaning on a cane and waved his hand impatiently, as if to chase people away.
"Dad, my son is gone."
Ergouzi kowtowed to the white-haired old man on the spot, stood up and squeezed in towards the direction of the crowd.
There are many more scenes like this. Although Taiping County has little to do with them, just because this is a notice issued by Zhu Pingan, they actively support it from the bottom of their hearts and sign up enthusiastically.
Of course, after all, he was rescuing a neighboring county that had nothing to do with his own vital interests. The number of people who signed up was much less than the number of people who signed up to defend the city when the Japanese pirates besieged Jingnan. However, Liu Mu did a rough count and found that there were more than 700, which was far away.
The number of people recruited exceeded the planned number, so Liu Mu quickly terminated the recruitment.
For this reason, Liu Mu was scolded by many people who came late.
Liu Dadao's recruitment was also very smooth. After taking out the county government documents, Liu Dadao didn't need to say anything. People who owned carriages actively donated their own carriages. Not only that, when people donated their own carriages, they also returned the carriages.
There was a lot of food, meat, eggs, fruits and other food on them, and not a single cart was empty.
Some people are happy and some are worried. Liu Mu and Liu Dadao's preparations went smoothly. However, Liu Dagang's work failed. He inspected the sixth house of the county government and recruited the subordinate staff of the six houses, but encountered obstacles at every turn.
The subordinate officials who were still shameless and came back to work as if nothing had happened in the morning turned pale with fright when they heard Liu Dagang's purpose. When they heard the meaning of the recruitment, it was like hearing the call of death.
"Ahem, I suddenly remembered that I have a life-threatening emergency at home. I have to go back and deal with it. I came here to ask for leave today. Oh, look at my brain. Really, I almost forgot. Sorry, sorry
, I’m sorry, Xiaoke, I’m sorry...” After hearing the message from Liu Dagang, a subordinate suddenly turned pale and was stunned for three seconds. Then he said as if his butt was on fire.
A stream of excuses full of loopholes was thrown around at lightning speed.
I had received the letter and Jingnan had been guarded, so I had the courage to return to the county government office. I didn't expect that Zhu Ping'an, a stupid young man, would risk his own life and rush to help Taiping! Just kidding, what's the difference between this and committing suicide? Zhu Pin'an, a stupid young man,
After defending Jingnan, I was so bloated that I didn’t even know what my last name was. You were able to defend Jingnan County because of the city wall. With the city wall blocking it, you could condescendingly smash rocks and pour gold juice on it. That’s it, you’d still die.
A man with a city wall was lucky enough to defend Jingnan County, and went to fight the Japanese pirates. Are you crazy? The Japanese pirates are demons who kill without batting an eye, eating people without adding salt. Killing people is like chopping melons and vegetables. Without a city wall, they act condescendingly.
Barrier, your stones and gold juice are all useless. What are you using to fight the Japanese pirates in the wild? The young and strong people who have never touched the sword a few times, hehe, even the regular troops of the guard station were killed by the Japanese pirates.
How many of those mud-legged guys have heads that the Japanese pirates can chop off! If you want to die, I won’t stop you, but don’t pull me, my dear, I haven’t lived enough yet, so I won’t die! Do you want to recruit me?!
Bah! I won’t accompany you to death!
"Ahem, me too. I also have a life-threatening emergency at home. Ah, what's the emergency? I, I...my mother-in-law is about to give birth. Hey, what a coincidence, today is the due date.
, Granny Wen has long said that I must worship my ancestors outside the delivery room today, otherwise there will be a bloody disaster, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." A subordinate next to him was watching Liu Dagang.
After facing him, he also gave up a lame excuse and followed the first subordinate, slipping away at the same quick speed.
When Liu Dagang rushed to the next public house, there were originally two subordinates who came to work in this public house. However, when Liu rushed to this public house, his face became dark, and he had already got the news and ran away.
It is estimated that the first subordinate official said hello to these subordinate officials before running away. After these subordinate officials heard the news that Zhu Pingan was recruiting them to help Taiping, they fled just like hearing the news that Japanese pirates were attacking the city!
Well, the sixth room of the county government office is empty again!
The few subordinates from the sixth floor who had come back so shamelessly and boldly no longer showed any signs of running away again.
After Liu Dagang visited the last public house, as expected, it was empty again. He saw someone coming in the morning. Liu Dagang clenched his fists angrily, wishing to catch the person who had sneaked away and beat him up.
"I'm sorry, sir, I ruined my errand..." Liu Dagang reported back to Zhu Ping'an with a guilty look on his face, "Originally, six subordinate officials came here in the morning, but after hearing the news that they were recruited to aid Taiping,
, they all made excuses and ran away, running faster than a rabbit, and no one was willing to respond to the call."
"Haha, brother Dagang, it's okay. This was all expected. I didn't include them in the plan originally." After Zhu Pingan heard Liu Dagang's report, he was not surprised at all. He smiled and reassured Liu Dagang,
"To be honest, after hearing the news that they ran away, I felt relieved. I am still reluctant to give the credit to people like them."