One day later, Shao Rong was brought to the county by the officer. Tianlai Novel.|2
Yunzhong City, the county seat of Yunzhong County, became lively immediately after Wang Shi recaptured Gaoque and Yulin Fortress last year.
All the big businessmen in the world gathered here like flies that smelled the smell of blood.
The furs seized by the Han army, the unwanted livestock eliminated, the prisoners of war who were enslaved and allowed to be traded, and a large number of Yi and Di women...
These are goods that merchants urgently need.
Therefore, as soon as he entered Yunzhong City, Shao Rong was so mesmerized by the prosperous scene in front of him that he could not move his eyes.
On both sides of the street, there are rows of business travelers buying various goods or waiting to return from the north.
Horse-drawn carriages loaded with goods were parked in boxes on the street, and many workers were loading the goods on the carriages.
Although, the cargo loaded in this carriage was already piled very high.
However, the owners of those workers seemed to want to pile more goods.
Full bags were piled deep in the alley.
Shao Rong knew that these people were businessmen who came to Beidi and Daidi to purchase furs.
The aristocrats and wealthy businessmen in these big cities like Chang'an, Luoyang, Suiyang, Sanhe and even farther away Pengcheng, Guangling, Linzi, all love all kinds of furs produced in the grasslands.
It is said that these fur traders can basically double their profits on one business trip.
Shao Rong had a cousin who worked as a domestic servant for a famous fur merchant. Shao Rong heard these things from his cousin.
Originally, his cousin also tried his best to encourage and encourage Shao Rong to join him and work as a domestic servant for this big businessman.
The cousin even promised that as long as Shao Rong agreed, he would guarantee that Shao Rong would be able to save at least four thousand dollars every year after deducting food and clothing expenses! - This is indeed an extremely generous salary.
Even a well-off family in Yunzhong County may not be able to save four thousand dollars throughout the year.
As for Shao Rong's family, after paying the oral tax every year, not even a copper was left after the money was exchanged.
Shao Rong's mother once wanted to buy a piece of fabric to make herself a new dress.
So, he would get up early and go late every day, taking Shao Rong and his brothers and sisters up the mountains and down the river, cutting grass and wood, and saving the money one by one.
After working hard for three years, I could not save the money for that piece of fabric.
In the end, it was Shao Rong's father who made a contribution to transporting supplies to the army last year, and the court rewarded him with fabrics. This finally allowed Shao Rong's mother to get her wish.
Therefore, seeing these busy business travelers and looking at the hard-working but smiling men, Shao Rong's pace also slowed down a bit.
But, in the end, he gritted his teeth, walked forward quickly, and followed the team.
"Only those who can immediately become heroes are the real men of today!" Shao Rong clenched his fists and told himself: "No matter whether it is money or official position, they are not as good as the honor of a warrior!"
Although Shao Rong is young, he has seen a lot of things.
He remembered clearly that during the battle of Gaoque last year, the eldest son of the Wang family from the neighboring village went out with the army and killed three Xiongnu-level weapons on the battlefield, one of which was the bone capital of the Xiongnu.
The whole country is proud of this heroic boy.
The county magistrate even came to announce the good news in person.
The news of the success of the beheading and the government's commendation notices were plastered all over the countryside.
That's not all. When the eldest son of the Wang family returned in triumph, officials from the county and city led their troops, beating gongs and drums, walking through the streets and houses, holding the captured Huns bone in the capital parade, and announced.
The head of the Wang family was even more excited. He said he didn't sleep a wink for three days and three nights.
As soon as the eldest son came back, he immediately held a grand ancestor worship ceremony.
People who don’t know, think that the Wang family is a noble person!
From that time on, Shao Rong knew what it means to be a "strong warrior, a worthy minister of the country!"
This is it!
Besides, the young master of the Wang family has more than just honor.
There are also real benefits.
Because of his meritorious service and bravery in killing the enemy, the Holy Emperor rewarded their family with five draft horses and three sets of farming tools. It is said that the reward money and silk alone filled a whole box.
In addition, the emperor also gave him plaques and swords.
The Wang family took the plaque and the sword and immediately welcomed them into the ancestral ceremony, alongside the ancestors' divine masters.
The most important thing is that the eldest son of the Wang family was immediately taken to Chang'an Martial Arts Garden for training.
The Wang family's family was immediately upgraded by a whole level.
From just a landlord in the township, he became a famous general in the entire county.
Shao Rong witnessed the whole thing.
At that time, as a young man, he was deeply shocked and immediately made up his mind to join the army to serve his father, establish military honors, and honor his ancestors.
only……
It is very, very difficult to join the army now.
The county soldiers are fine, as long as they put in some money, they can be selected.
But those field armies, those famous ace armies, cannot be solved with money!
Last autumn, the Yulin Guards recruited troops in Yunzhong County.
There were more than 3,000 applicants, including Shao Rong.
At that time, the Yulin Guards only recruited fifty recruits in Yunzhong County.
There are more than 3,000 people competing for 50 places, which is equivalent to only one choice for every 60 people.
Almost one of a hundred!
In such cruel and fierce competition, power, not to mention money, is of little use.
Among the young people who signed up in Yunzhong County, even the legitimate sons of Liehou and Guanneihou were rejected.
Naturally, a young man like Shao Rong, who had no power, no money, and was not in particularly good physical condition, was undoubtedly dismissed.
He didn't even pass the first level, but he was told - Although you are a son of a good family, you are a guard of Yulin and the emperor's personal guard. Your quality is still insufficient. Please work hard and train for the future.
Habayashi Wei is so cruel and intense.
The Flying Fox Army and the recruiting troops from Xiliu Camp are almost nowhere to go.
Choose one from thirty, choose one from fifty, this is what happens when the ace army recruits soldiers.
As for the Cuirass Corps, which symbolizes glory and sharp blades, and which all aspiring young people in the world dream of joining, Shao Rong heard that the competition is even more intense.
Every year, the number of places allocated to each county in the world is often in the single digits.
Because Yunzhong County is praised by the emperor as "the county of heroes and the hometown of loyalty," it is allocated slightly more quotas every year.
But there were only fifteen people.
This was because the old governor Wei Gong said good things to the chariot general Dongchenghou.
In the whole world, Guanzhong alone has a recruitment quota of one hundred cuirassiers every year, followed by Beidi County, which has thirty recruits every year.
The competition is so fierce that it has basically blocked the possibility of ordinary people being selected for the breastplate through normal channels.
Unless you are confident that you are as brave as Meng Ben, as loyal as Lin Xiangru, and as smart as Bai Qi, it is unlikely that you will be selected.
The cousin like Shao Rong was selected because he was proficient in bow and horse, and he was eight feet tall, could shoot a five-stone bow on horseback, and had great arm strength!
Even so, he defeated countless competitors and endured strong pressure before he was selected.
And Shao Rong now knows that he has no capital, so he can buy a war horse like his cousin and train it every day - until now, Shao Rong's equestrian skills are all practiced during the one-month winter training every year.
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It is even less possible for him to be like his cousin, who can eat meat every day, has big muscles and a thick waist, and is as strong as an ox.
Therefore, he wanted to counterattack and become a glorious cuirassier who was respected and worshiped by everyone in the world.
You can only take a path that noble people would not choose and ordinary people would not be able to endure hardships.
And this road is the Reclamation Corps.
"If I can join a better reclamation group, I will have a chance!" Shao Rong said to himself in his heart.
The chances of being selected for the Breastplate in the Reclamation Regiment are far greater than those in other places.
Apart from other things, a reclamation group only has three to five thousand people.
However, if it is top aces like Yulinwei and Hubenwei, they select hundreds of young people from the reclamation regiment every year to train, so the intensity of such competition is naturally much smaller.
What's more, Shao Rong knew that he had an advantage.
Generally, the young people who join the Reclamation Corps are poor people whose families are too poor to take the blame.
There are few people like Shao Rong, who was born in a middle-class family and received certain cultural and martial arts training.
After all, Shao Rong's grandfather was once a Sima in Yunzhong County. His grandfather died only ten years ago, but he still left some legacy.
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However, when Shao Rong followed the team and arrived at a military camp on the north side of Yunzhong County, he found that he seemed to be a little too optimistic.
Because there are too many people.
It was so densely packed that there were four to five thousand people.
Shao Rong knew what this meant - there must be someone like him, with the same idea.
It is even possible that descendants of nobles and scholar-bureaucrats will appear.
As expected, not long after entering the camp, Shao Rong heard the officer leading them exclaim: "What happened? Even the nephews of the Wei family and the Chen family came to join the reclamation regiment! Have they endured that hardship?
?Isn’t this nonsense?”
Shao Rong heard this complaint clearly and made his hands and feet feel cold.
In this Yunzhong County, there are no feudal lords or feudal lords.
But there is Guan Neihou.
In addition, the family of the old governor Wei Shang is also very powerful in the local area.
There is no doubt that now, the nephews of the old governor's family and the nephews of the Guannei Marquis' family have also participated in the reclamation group.
What do they want to do when they come to the Reclamation Corps?
Naturally, he must have come here for the breastplate quota in the settlement regiment.
"What should I do?" Shao Rong thought anxiously in his heart. He knew that if he was unlucky and ended up with the nephews of these noble families, it would be terrible.
The power and connections of these guys are definitely not comparable to mine.
But he knew better that there was no point in being anxious.
The most urgent task is to figure out what will happen?
Shao Rong knew that the Han family's reclamation regiment system was distributed according to the army to which they belonged.
For example, in Anton, there are dozens of settlement groups, large and small.
Among them, the five main aces of the Han family, as well as the northern and southern armies, the Yulin Guard and the Tiger Guard, which represented the emperor's will, were the ones everyone wanted to squeeze in with their heads broken.
Joining these reclamation groups, although the training will be very hard, the beginning will also be a bit difficult.
However, the benefits gained in the end will be great.
On the Anton side, there are even lucky people who, because of their outstanding performance in the settlement group, are appreciated by the leaders of the settlement group and marry their daughters or adopt them as adopted sons.
Moreover, a powerful settlement group will protect and shelter its members.
If such a strong military settlement regiment is disbanded in the future and the people are reorganized into households, the connection with these armies will not be broken.
They will still be regarded as one of their own, family members and even brothers by these troops.
If something happens, I will definitely protect you.
Even local officials do not dare to bully easily.
Otherwise, who knows which owner of the family once opened wasteland and hunted pheasants with which big shot in the Han army?
If we offend such a family, their family members will file a complaint and attract the attention of the military. Wouldn’t it mean that we can’t afford to eat and walk around in circles?
Over the years, it has often happened that generals, lieutenants, and captains in the army have stepped in to help the hometowns of their warriors to fight against and denounce corrupt officials.
And when encountering this kind of thing, unless he is justified, the local magistrate will be in trouble!
Even the county guard may not dare to act against the pressure from the army.
As for ordinary county magistrates and county lieutenants, when encountering this kind of thing, they will immediately apologize and say that it was a misunderstanding.
Those who don't do this will all die.
The captains, captains, and generals of the Han army had many connections, and could even directly see the court captains, imperial censors, and even the prime minister.
However, after considering the current situation, Shao Rong wisely gave up the reclamation regiment of these famous aces and the emperor's personal guards.
the reason is simple.
He didn't just want to be a farmer or a rich farmer.
He wants to be a hero of the world and a hero admired by the world.
In order to achieve this goal, he must avoid those elites from noble families and scholar-bureaucrat families!
If they were the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles from Chang'an in the mainland, Shao Rong might not take them seriously.
However, every family member of the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles in this county is a true husband who can pass the exams in literature and can kill enemies in martial arts.
From birth to adulthood, many people hone their martial arts and various techniques and tactics under the supervision of their fathers and ancestors.
They received the most orthodox and best training and education.
If nothing unexpected happens, their growth and potential cannot be compared to those from a poor family like mine.
Upon thinking of this, Shao Rong made a decision.
Two days later, it was time to choose the reclamation group.
And he will give up those highly competitive settlement groups.
"The Zhongyong Army Reclamation Regiment or the Loufan Army Reclamation Regiment are my best choices..." Shao Rong made a decision silently in his heart.
Although the Zhongyong Army and the Loufan Army were both dominated by Yi and Di troops.
But they were also the field army of the Han army and may also have some breastplate quotas.
As long as he performs well, Shao Rong believes that he will be able to realize his dream, become a member of the Jiujiu warriors, and become the strongest cuirassier among the glorious Han cavalry who is worshiped and respected by others!
