Shen Lie thought about it for a long time and finally sorted out the relationship.
It turns out that the hereditary new uncle Wang Chengxun, the grandson of Wang Yangming, a great man of the generation, was working as an official in the General Water Transport Yamen not far away under Shen Lie's nose.
Still a deputy commander.
"Okay!"
Or colleagues.
Looking at the sharp-mouthed and monkey-cheeked Wang Hu, Shen Lie couldn't help but look weird, so he could only wave his hand: "Go down."
Watched Wang Hu walk out.
Shen Lie scratched his head again.
This Wang Hu’s background is really incredible.
Don't abolish him, just keep him.
Clicked Mao.
After a few more instructions, the time quickly arrived in the afternoon.
After receiving the roster and account books, Shen Lie officially took office in Tongzhou and asked his followers to clean up the inside and outside of the guardhouse and sprinkle water on the yard.
Some dilapidated toilets look much more comfortable when they are clean.
Then Shen Lie began to think about recruiting troops, and called the leader Wang Hu to give instructions. He decided to fill up the vacancies of 112 people first, and then recruit some helpers.
Even if you pull your own team together.
Wang Hu was surprised and said: "Master Qianhu... do you really want to fill the vacancy?"
Shen Lie looked at him sideways and nodded: "Yes."
Don't fill up the staff.
Is it possible that I still want to drink the blood of soldiers and live on empty wages?
Wang Hu observed the words, quickly put on another smile, and thumped his chest: "Look, sir, I will take care of this matter. The most indispensable thing in Tongzhou is people. As long as there are A salary of two cents of silver and two legs of youth are many!"
Shen Lie nodded, his heart moved slightly, and he warned: "Listen to me, don't attract some scoundrels to me, look for someone young and innocent."
Wang Hu quickly responded respectfully: "Yes, sir."
Shen Lie didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he waved his hand again and said: "Go."
Watching Wang Hu lead the group away with a playful smile.
Shen Lie shook his head again, then touched his chin and started thinking.
After filling up the vacancies of about a hundred people as soon as possible, we will transfer a few villagers from Shenjiazhuang. With a little training, we will have a very useful team of people.
Let’s get the team together first and then talk.
However, the emperor did not give much money. He only gave three thousand taels of funds when he left the capital. It is estimated that when he gets the team together...
Give a settling-in allowance, a monthly salary plus horse chews.
Five hundred taels are gone.
At this time, Shen Lie finally understood the difficulty of raising troops and understood why the subsequent Liaodong War was able to bring down the Ming Empire.
The matter of raising soldiers is simply a bottomless pit!
Gotta save some money.
In the yamen, Shen Lie slowly hid his steps and looked at the gangsters who were cleaning up the blind spots. Shen Lie began to think about it again.
At this moment, I thought of the elite cavalry under Li Rusong.
Shen Lie naturally had an account in his mind.
It is true that the elites of the Liao army are fierce, but how many years does it take to train an elite cavalry?
A cavalryman is raised from birth to a hard-working man, and then undergoes strict riding training until he is sixteen years old, and then becomes proficient in bow and horse.
How much energy and effort does this require?
It only takes three months to train a musketeer.
"Um……"
Shen Lie was thoughtful.
At this time, he thought of the Liao army's aid to Korea in the war against the Japanese, and the unprecedented battle between the Liao army's iron cavalry, which boasted it was invincible in the world, and the Japanese iron artillery team.
That battle.
The Liao army's cavalry suffered a tragic victory.
Think about this.
Shen Lie's eyes became dim.
The busy day passed quickly.
In the hustle and bustle.
Another night has fallen.
Tongzhou Wharf once again became quiet and peaceful, with people from all walks of life, traffickers and lackeys carrying a few copper coins they had worked hard to earn in a day.
Returned home in a hurry.
Work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
This has been the case for two hundred years.
After the coolies working on the dock dispersed, the officers and soldiers also began to be on guard, lighting torches and lanterns, and setting up sentries at various traffic arteries.
On the brightly lit pier.
There are also some officers and soldiers who are counting the military supplies and grain that are shipped to the border gates overnight.
Everything looks the same as usual.
But the weather suddenly changed at midnight.
In the hot summer, suddenly the wind started blowing on the pier.
With a burst of lightning and thunder, a strong wind, and in the dark back office, Shen Lie woke up from his sleep and vaguely heard a cry of killing mixed with the rolling thunder.
Turn over and sit up.
Shen Lie picked up the musket alertly, raised his ears, and listened attentively.
After another burst of rolling thunder.
The cry of killing became clearer.
It's not an illusion.
As soon as Shen Lie was excited, he hurriedly picked up the long spear, inserted the three muskets into his waist at will, put on the raincoat behind the door, and put on the bamboo hat.
Then he rushed out of the back office with a single stride.
In the pouring rain.
Shen Lie wore a raincoat, a bamboo hat, and a flintlock musket. He stepped on the ladder and climbed to the roof. He took the hard-earned monocular telescope in his arms and looked at the dock not far away.
It was pitch black on the pier.
The heavy rain had already extinguished the torches and lanterns.
in sight.
Shen Lie observed quietly, and finally waited until a series of dense lightning fell, and the gorgeous white light illuminated the sky for half the sky, illuminating the dock in detail.
It also illuminates the struggling figures on the dock.
Looking at the figure, Shen Lie's expression changed slightly, his body stiffened, and an idea immediately came to his mind.
"Someone is robbing food!"
This surprise is no small matter.
Shen Lie did not dare to neglect, so he hurriedly got off the ladder, walked quickly and knocked on the door of Wang Hu and several guards. There was a rapid knock on the door.
A sleepy-eyed Wang Hu and others rushed out.
"Sir, what's the matter?"
Shen Lie adjusted his raincoat and whispered: "Someone is robbing food, copying people... let's go!"
Wang Hu and several fans were so frightened that they ran back to the house, picked up their swords, put on their raincoats, and ran out in a hurry.
The entire houya became chaotic.
After a while.
Shen Lie took the lead, carrying a flintlock musket and leading seven or eight Dongfang people to the outside of the dock in the heavy rain.
Then he crouched under the eaves of a shop and watched the Shura Field not far away.
The distance was much closer, and Shen Lie couldn't see clearly what was going on on the dock in the darkness, but in the wind and rain, the clear sounds of killing people could be heard one after another.
There were also a few screams from time to time.
Seven or eight people crouched in the corner at Shen Lie's signal, pricking up their ears and listening...
Wang Hu was so frightened that he trembled, hunched over, crept over, and said in a trembling voice: "Sir... we'd better go back, this matter is not our business."
Shen Lie turned back to look at him, lifted the bamboo hat a little, and said angrily: "Get out."
Wang Hu shivered again.
In embarrassment.
So he gritted his teeth and stepped back, his face already turning into a bitter gourd.
After a short stick of incense, as the shouts of death gradually subsided, Shen Lie raised the monocular telescope to observe again, only to find.
The thieves who had robbed the grain had won a complete victory. The officers and soldiers on the dock had been killed and scattered, throwing down all kinds of weapons in their hands and running away.
It's really hopeless.
This scene.
Shen Lie began to sweat on his forehead. This group of thieves was so courageous that they dared to rob the canal to transport military supplies. This was a shocking case that could shock the capital!