The only problem at the moment is that the walls of Shouchuo City are too small and can accommodate nearly a thousand people. The newly built brick houses have taken up all the open space in the city.
Yu Gou arranged for the caravan to barely stay in the city, and a few people had to pitch tents in the streets and alleys between the houses. After settling the caravan, he immediately went back to report to Li Siye to start a new round of escort team selection.
The selection competition for the escort team is also a lively festival. Many vendors in the city and tribes outside the city gather on the highlands northwest of the city on this day to cheer for the selected athletes. There are three major events in the selection competition, horse fighting and foot fighting.
, Archery, the winner not only won the spot, but also won the applause of the audience.
The daughters of the Hepantuo tribe also dress up beautifully on this day and hide in the crowd to choose their favorite husband. They will give wild flowers picked on the hillside to the victorious hero. At night, they will boldly sneak into the
Enter the winner's house and form a beautiful marriage. Of course, the premise is that the soldier does not have a wife.
The Congling Shou Zhu Lang is a hot commodity in this area of thousands of miles. Everyone knows that the Tang army is paid, although it is very meager, but it is an iron rice bowl; the Congling Shou Zhu Lang not only has military pay, but also cotton fields
Since Li Siye, the guardian of the city, opposed excessive land reclamation, the cotton fields in Congling were kept below a thousand acres, and no one else was allowed to cultivate them. The cultivated land was available;
The guards took over the work and sewed cotton-padded jackets and quilts. Two jobs were guaranteed, right?
Not only that, Li Shouzuo once revealed that he planned to hire a teacher from Kucha City to open a school to teach the children in Shouchuo City to read and write. If you want to study in the school, there is a rigid condition:
I live in Shouzhuo City, so if I marry Mr. Shouzhuo of Congling, I will even be guaranteed a house in the school district.
Such superior conditions made the Hu women in the Congling area consider marrying Tang Jun as their ultimate goal.
In this way, the ultimate goal of the sons of the Hepantuo and Shinni tribes is to become the Tang army guarding the Congling.
For this reason, these men and women who make a living from hunting often wander in front of the official residence of the Cong Ling Shou Zhuo. Some determined people even kneel down in front of the hall, hoping to join the ranks of the Shou Chou.
Whenever Li Siye goes out hunting, he always attracts a lot of sharpshooters who are hidden in hiding. They do everything possible to wait on the road that Li Siye must pass. As long as Li Siye passes by, they will bend their bows to shoot snow chickens or argali sheep.
Gain the favor of the Keeper.
"Good archery skills!"
Li Siye rode on Hei Fatty and clapped his hands and praised him.
Not far away, a Pantuo-drinking boy wrapped in thick wool, with white skin, a high nose and deep eye sockets, showed his white teeth and a somewhat restrained smile.
They should be the ancestors of the Tajiks and even the Uyghurs. Their white skin and high nose bridge are their appearance characteristics. The girls in the tribe are also so beautiful. It is easy to think of little beauties like Dilraba and Hanikezi.
He was very lucky today and shot down a Himalayan vulture. Vultures are birds of prey with a wingspan of two meters and can fly higher than Mount Everest. Normally when they fly, their bows and arrows would never touch a single hair. This vulture was flying at a low altitude.
When he was pouncing on his prey, he was left behind by the oriole.
Even so, this young man's shooting skills are quite impressive.
He ran towards the vulture's body, held the bow in both hands and walked it to Li Siye's horse. Then he looked at the guard longingly and repeated two Chinese words he learned back and forth: "Li Shijun, nest."
I want to be a soldier, Li Shijun, I want to be a soldier."
Li Siye frowned, not because he didn't want to see the young man in front of him, but because the team guarding Congling was already overstretched.
The establishment of Congling Guards is a brigade, which belongs to the 6th Regiment of the 33rd Anxi Zhechongfu. Zhechongfu was established in Shule Town. Although it has lost its real power and is fully managed by the Shule Town Envoy, over-staffing is absolutely not allowed.
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The crime of overstaffing can be light or serious, it all depends on what the leader says. If the leader doesn't like you, then you are recruiting soldiers privately. What do you want to do by recruiting soldiers privately? Is it because you want to rebel? At the least, it is bloated personnel, ordering layoffs, and fines to calm the trouble.
The only function of Zhechong Mansion now is to limit the establishment. It requires two brigades per regiment, two teams per brigade, and fifty combatants per team, plus horse breeders, team leaders, team deputy, flag bearers, and one team personnel.
No more than 70 people, no more than 160 people per brigade, no more than 160 people, no more you will be paid.
Li Siye started the spring today and successively recruited more than 20 young men with amazing physical strength, proficient in bow and horse, drinking Pantuo and hiding in Shouchuo City. For this reason, he had to pay these recruits out of his own pocket, and it was not impossible to pay.
The key to this money is that it is difficult to explain it to superiors.
Behind him, Tian Zhen kept poking his waist with a riding crop: "Hey! This is a good seedling! Don't let it go!"
"He is born to fight. If you don't accept him, who will?"
Li Siye turned around and glanced at him angrily: "Shut up! Do you think I don't know?"
Tian Zhen retracted his riding whip angrily, lowered his head and kept coughing while winking at the young man. Fujimu also looked at the young man's eyes, his face full of admiration.
This young man who drank pantuo was also very smart. He quickly placed the vulture corpse in front of Li Siye's horse, blocked the way and knelt on the ground.
Li Siye had no choice. It seemed that if he didn't accept him today, this kid would chase him all the way.
He raised his hand and asked, "What's your name?"
"Li Shijun, @%#@%, my name is Kubani."
"Okay," Li Siye nodded solemnly: "Learn Chinese as soon as possible and communicate without any barriers within a month, or get out."
Li Siye rode his horse around him, and Tian Zhen picked up his riding whip from behind. Kubani immediately understood and happily led his horse to follow behind the guard.
The moon at the border is like a hook, and the stars hang down on the plains. Under the escort of the guards, the Persian caravan slowly moves toward the distance along the ridgeline of the hills. The torches are arranged in rows, and they look like stars in the sky in the vast night.
fell to the ground.
Li Siye stood on the top of the city and looked at his brothers who were leaving. He felt a little reluctant and melancholy in his heart. He would have to leave this place sooner or later. To them, he was just a temporary passerby in life.
Yu Gou stood next to him and asked with some confusion: "The city of Shouzhuo is already crowded enough. Why do you agree to allow the Persian caravan to leave a merchant here? Why don't you just let him stay here?"
Did you earn our money?"
He turned back and pointed to the city at his feet and said: "Don't be afraid of exodus. Money is meant to be circulated. Money held in your hands is not real wealth. Real wealth is these people, this city, and what this city has gathered together."
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If Yu Gou realized something, Li Siye turned around and looked at him, then asked: "Yu Zhubo, what rank are you now?"
Yu Gou didn't understand why he asked this, but he just laughed at himself and said: "I am just a disciple of the ninth grade."
"Ninth rank, the lowest level for the guardian is the eighth rank, but there is a big gap in the middle."
Yu Gou's face suddenly turned red, like a braised crab. The extravagant desire in his heart to be noticed by others made him even more panicked than being caught in bed.
Fortunately, Li Siye didn't look at his face. He just raised his head and faced the darkness in the distance and said to himself: "I think you can be a good guard. All that's left is to sit on it."
Yu Zhubo lowered his head, quietly rubbed the corners of his eyes with his fingers and sighed: "It's such a big wind and sand."