Repukatijiang's wife is an unrestrained and enthusiastic Northeast girl who likes to travel and is a member of the new generation of women in the empire. However, unlike those independent women who are determined to have jobs and realize economic freedom, Repukatijiang's wife is obviously more wild. Her dream is to travel the world, and she met Repukatijiang, a guy who is also traveling around the world on the way to practice her dreams.

Since returning to their hometown, both of them are not very comfortable with the current step-by-step life. Even if they haven't had this, they plan to go to the South Pacific region that they have never been to during the New Year.

As Zhang Tong said, after his superiors learned about Repukatijiang's experience, he made a decision to ask him to take his wife to Shenjing to meet. He took a boat in Dalian and met Li Zhaocheng less than three days after arriving in Shenjing.

The team recruited less than 70 people, but they are all capable, most of them are grassroots officers and veterans, each of whom have the experience of serving overseas.

"Zhang Tong! I still remember you." Li Zhaocheng met Zhang Tong and gave him a big hug. Li Zhaocheng said to everyone around him: "This is Zhang Tong. We have been to Paris together. At that time, this veteran Youzi didn't know that I was the child of the Yu Wang family. He thought I was a young master who had been trained in the army. He served as a guard for me. Every day, he pointed at the women inside and outside the city of Paris, and told me which one had a big butt and a big breast and enough breasts."

After hearing this, Zhang Tong lowered his head in shame. But Li Zhaocheng said again: "But don't underestimate him. He is a real warrior, a soldier king-level figure. I have seen him riding a horse and shooting down a flying sparrow with a pistol. He is a real elite in the army."

"Second Young Master, I'm sorry for your teaching. I have accomplished nothing over the years." Zhang Tong was even more ashamed.

When he was young and joined the army for more than ten years, Zhang Tong has always lived a very casual life because he has always been full and his whole family is not hungry. Now he is almost forty years old and retired from the army, but he has no savings. Although he has been through life and death and has made many military achievements, he has always violated more military laws than military achievements, so he has not become a noble.

Others returned home in glory, married and had children, and were the only one who came back in shame, seeing that my mother and father were still facing the loess and facing the sky.

Li Zhaocheng patted his shoulder and said, "What a coincidence. I have achieved nothing in recent years. Zhang Tong, and you all, I invite everyone to join my team to do something together. Now we have nothing, but when we come back, we will definitely be wearing red and romances, which the world admires."

Zhang Tongzhong focused: "This time, it must be certain."

Li Zhaocheng pointed to the lawn in the distance, where there were many service staff setting up grills and preparing charcoal fires. He said: "Tonight's barbecue meal, there is enough meat and drink wine at will, just for welcoming."

Everyone cheered again.

In the evening, the barbecue stall was set up. Zhang Tong was grilling meat and drank a glass of beer for half an hour, but half was left. Repu walked over and asked, "Zhang Tong, I remember you are very good at drinking."

Zhang Tong shook his head: "This may be the last chance I will make a name for myself in my life. I will never lose it again. But the first thing to do is to control my mouth, neither speak nonsense nor drink more."

"It's good that you have this determination, but you may not be confined to the form." Repu clinked his cups with him. Seeing Zhang Tong a little puzzled, he said, "Zhang Tong, look at the hands of these people around you."

"It's mostly thick people's hands, swords and guns." Zhang Tong said casually without looking.

Rep said, "Look at your fingers."

Only then did Zhang Tong look around and find that many of them are missing fingers. Some are missing one, but many are missing three or four, all of which are missing the tail finger and ring finger.

This is a rare disability. Generally speaking, whether it is a worker or a soldier in the army, he or she has a disability on his or her fingers, and his or her fingers are mainly lacking in index fingers and thumbs. Such a large-scale lack of tail fingers is really rare.

"I seem to have seen such a person somewhere..."

"Lei Laohu, Zhao Laoniu..." Repu said several names, all of which were often seen in the taverns in Dalian. Zhang Tong remembered the familiar faces of the drinkers and suddenly realized what they were in common - gamblers!

If a gambler quit gambling, or if he is warned to not pay back his debts, he will cut his fingers, mainly by cutting the last two.

"All of them are gamblers?" Zhang Tong asked. Since he came to Shenjing, he has been cautious and rarely goes out because he is afraid of causing trouble.

On the contrary, Repukatijiang, because of his professional habits, was already familiar with many of them. Repu said: "Not it is all, even if he is a gambler, he is a gambler who returns to the prodigal son. Zhang Tong, there are more than 70 people here, most of whom are Zhang Tong."

"It's all Zhang Tong?" Zhang Tong is a straightforward person and doesn't understand what he means.

Repkatijiang said: "This second young master is very interesting to choose materials. Do you think you were selected because of your overseas service experience and combat experience?"

"Isn't it?" Zhang Tong asked.

Repkatijiang said: "There are a lot of people in the empire, and some of them are better than you, and some are more obedient than you. To be honest, who is the master who likes to cause trouble like you, who likes to use it?"

Zhang Tong had never thought so, but what Repukatijiang said made sense. He thought about it carefully and focused on the key points. Repukatijiang ate Zhang Tong's baked big waist and said, "To put it bluntly, everyone here is a prodigal son who returns to the gold. There is only such a person. Since he is devoted to cherishing the opportunity in front of him, he has rich experience to help the second young master achieve success."

The people recruited by Li Zhaocheng are core members of an army, and soldiers who can fight and kill can be recruited better when they arrive at their destination, so that they can adapt to the local combat environment faster and enter a state of war. There are quite a few people with overseas combat experience in the empire, but these people are not successful and famous. They have many difficulties to leave their homes and go overseas to fight, and they also need to meet more favorable conditions.

But people like Zhang Tong don’t need it anymore. The prodigal son only needs one chance to turn back. Because he has lost it and has not seized it, he knows how valuable it is. They have one thing in common, that is, they have a low background, are dissatisfied with their current life, and have a positive and ambitious heart.

Repu and Zhang Tong chatted and suddenly said, "Speaking of this, the second young master is quite as charming as His Highness Yu during the Western Expedition. When King Yu organized the gang of gangs and the abandoned children, and now the second young master organized the prodigal camp, it really complements each other."

The charlatan legion of the charlatan legion mentioned by Repukatijiang was the two camps organized by Li Junwei during the expedition of the west, mainly the sons of nobles from other vassals, called the two battalions of Qiexue and Batulu. At the beginning, these two battalions were composed of children of Mongolian tribes and Jurchen tribes.

However, in the hands of Li Junwei, the two camps expanded and recruited the concubines among the nobles of foreign vassals on a large scale.

Because according to the inheritance law of the imperial nobles, there are often only three children in a family who have the power to inherit the title, and the three are decided by the nobles themselves. However, if there is a legitimate son, if you have an excellent son, you must have at least one legitimate son among the three.

If there is no military merit, the legitimate son will be demoted to the first-class title and the other two sons will be demoted to the second-class title.

However, most of the foreign nobles of the empire were surrendered by the Jurchens in the pre-imperial period. In the first year of the empire, the empire swept across the south of the desert and conquered them. By the time King Yu advanced to the west, there had already been a second generation. Moreover, due to the 20 years of peace and medical technology progress inside and outside the border wall, there were particularly many noble children.

A foreign nobleman gave birth to seven or eight sons.

This caused many of the nobles to be unable to inherit their titles at all, and King Yu expanded his army to the west, giving him the opportunity. A large number of noble sons and even noble illegitimate sons joined them. These people were strong and good at bows and horses, and were originally good at warriors.

Although they are not their own sons, they are their own children. If they participate in the Western Expedition, they will definitely prepare some war horses and animals at home and have several guards. Therefore, the two battalions of Qiexue and Batulu have theoretically three thousand people, but in fact they all have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

This army played an important role in the Western Expedition. They were more adaptable to the climate and hardworking than the Imperial Army and the Imperial Army. They were the best grassroots officers in wartime and the best grassroots officers in peacetime, managing the enemies they captured. And the best among them is Ata, who is already a duke and is in charge of one side.

Zhang Tong, who was born in the military, naturally knew about these anecdotes. He clenched his fists and said, "If I have the chance, I will become the second Ata."

"Mr. Repu, I heard that your wife has come too, why didn't she appear?" Li Zhaocheng walked between the two of them chatting and asked enthusiastically.

Repkatijiang said: "I blew the wind on the boat and caught a cold."

Li Zhaocheng laughed: "That's a pity. I hope everything is well. If possible, she can also go to Yizhou to suppress the rebellion. My empire has never lacked female female heroes. This female soldier cannot be a good person, but a female reporter can do it."

"If Neiko heard this news, she would definitely be happy." Repukatijiang smiled happily, because his wife did not catch a cold at all, but deliberately did not show up. She wanted to wait for the army to set off, pretend to be a man and get on the boat, and show up when she arrives in Yizhou, and take action first and then report.

"That's good." Li Zhaocheng said.

Repu asked: "The second young master invited the reporter to accompany him. Is it a record of his own Wuwei?"

"That's not that simple. If I just want to become famous, I have to wait until the overall situation is decided before I can let my reporters enter. After all, taking photos on the enemy's head is better than taking photos of me peeing my pants in front of the formation." Li Zhaocheng responded with a smile.

"Why?" Rep was puzzled. He thought that he could join this team because Li Zhaocheng needed a few reporters who could sing praises, just like the general Ali he followed in North Africa. In order to promote his image of the fight against the colonists, he regarded himself as a guest of honor.

Li Zhaocheng drank a glass of beer and said, "This is a just war. We went to Yizhou to protect the land exchanged for the blood of our ancestors, to protect the enslaved natives there, and to eliminate the evil Japanese pirates.

There will be many people who uphold justice in the war, maybe me, maybe Zhang Tong, or anyone else. Just people are not afraid of being picked in the spotlight. Instead, they need light and shadow, and words to record their great achievements, and they will not be forgotten by later generations after decades or hundreds of years.

And you journalists are such a group of people who record history.”

"That's all?" Repkatijiang was a little disbelieved.

Li Zhaocheng said: "Mr. Repu, you are a neutral journalist, without any prejudice. You only believe what you see and hear, right? I have read the articles you published in the newspaper, and you enthusiastically praised the achievements of General Ali in the fight against European colonists, but also pointedly proposed that his army took inhumane measures against the rebels in North Africa.

This is your fairness and justice, and I appreciate this very much. Honesty is a rare character. Too few people in this world have this character, especially in the profession of journalists, I see more pride and prejudice."

“Who is biased against you?”

"You will meet that group of people because they will also follow us. Some of these people who are biased against me, the royal family, against the imperial government and the army will also become military reporters." Li Zhaocheng said.

Zhang Tong heard this and whispered: "Second Young Master, these people will only keep us from being stubborn."

"Yes, I just want to tie up our unnecessary hands and feet. Zhang Tong, the reason I chose you is because you are a prodigal son and are ready to start a career again. The same is true for the imperial army. In the past, we did a lot of things that should not be done due to the situation or because of being too indulgent, but now we have to turn back and do only what we should do.

But who can make us progress and make us truly do everything for justice? It is not enough to just follow the heart, and there is also supervision from outsiders, even if you hate supervision from others.

And I know that no matter how glorious I am in Yizhou, these Shen Jing guys will definitely point fingers and slander out of nothing, so I just bring them all with me and let them experience it with us. There is nothing better than slapping these annoying ghosts in the face with facts." Li Zhaocheng said with a smile.

In fact, Li Zhaocheng showed his ability to deal with the media very early on. The earliest manifestation of this ability was when he was in the Little Ukraine region, where he was responsible for assisting in the affairs of the peacekeeping security forces of the ten countries, and established good contacts with media from various countries, especially with imperial media.

His personality is very suitable, and he also knows what the media likes and doesn't like.
Chapter completed!