When he returned to Sun's house, Chen Wen and Sun Yu had a drink and had a chat. The next day, the rooster crowed, and Chen Wen immediately got up. He knew very well that if he hadn't drunk some wine yesterday, he might not have been able to sleep well all night.

After leaving the room, Chen Wen yawned and stretched. At this time, the white horse must have seen the owner get up, and then neighed, probably saying hello.

Seeing that nothing happened, Chen Wen went over to feed the horses. However, the white horse seemed to be very dissatisfied with living with the donkey from the Sun family. During Chen Wen's feeding, it sniffed at the donkey several times and glanced at it fiercely. The donkey was like an angry little wife, hiding by the wall without even daring to get close to the white horse.

Seeing this, Chen Wen picked up a handful of soybeans from the kitchen and fed them to the white horse, and the white horse also rubbed Chen Wen intimately.

After a while, just as Chen Wen was communicating with his mount, Yi had already gotten up. After ceremonies, Yi hurried to make breakfast, while Chen Wen went back to the room to pack up his things.

After breakfast, Chen Wen said goodbye to the Sun family. Although he only went to the old camp to live in the old camp from today and could always meet Sun Yu on weekdays, this is a moving house after all, and he always has to thank others for his care during this period.

Hanging his luggage on the saddle, Chen Wen led the white horse and left the Sun family. He was particularly nervous at this moment, because today would be a new beginning for him, and it is likely to be his starting point for the next few years. Over the past few days, whether unintentionally planting willows or intentionally, they will be verified today after yesterday's fermentation.

Soon, Chen Wen came to the threshing farm in the south of the village. At this time, Wu Dengke and Yin Ergou were already waiting for Chen Wen with their respective village party. He walked over and started chatting with these men, without any guise of a guerrilla general. These men also expressed gratitude to Chen Wen's courtesy and wise men.

Soon, the men who planned to serve Chen Wen's troops began to come one after another. Even in this small village at the foot of Dalan Mountain, there were many young people planning to follow Chen Wen. After looking down for the past half month, they knew more about Chen Wen than those who only came to listen to the ancients. In the small village, they went to the threshing farm with their relatives farewell to the threshing farm, preparing to welcome a new future.

Gradually, more and more people gathered, and soon the 100-5-digit number was broken. This surprised Chen Wen. In his opinion, it was amazing that those two or three hundred people last night could be at most one hundred. After all, joining the army was a beheading business. Even if they did not die on the battlefield, they would probably be executed by military law. You should know that the ancient Chinese military law was very strict, and there were even more soldiers who died in military law than those who died in battle.

But he didn't know that the five combat barracks of the old camp of Dalan Mountain had already formed an army when Wang Yi defeated the regiment to train troops two years ago and set up camp on Dalan Mountain. In the past two years, only Liu Yiming had recruited soldiers when he went up the mountain, but the number was astonishingly small, because before Liu Yiming went up the mountain, he followed his subordinates when he was still under his old commander Liu Mu.

However, in the past two years, some men who planned to join the army and eat food had no way to join the army. Moreover, Dalanshan had strict military discipline and very few troubles to disturb the people, so that many Han people around the prefectures and counties who were unwilling to be bullied by the Qing officials and soldiers gathered here one after another. Some of these people wanted to fight back to their hometowns, so that the supply and demand relationship of local recruitment had already undergone qualitative changes.

Wang Yi ordered Chen Wenxin to build a camp, which gave these men who were determined to join the army a new way out, which allowed them to support their families and realize their dreams through their own bravery. Therefore, this scene only appeared on the threshing ground at this moment.

Seeing that the sun was getting higher and higher, Chen Wen didn't plan to wait anymore, but left a mature man to continue waiting here, while he led nearly two hundred men to the old camp in Dalanshan.

Walking on the road, Chen Wen talked and laughed with these subordinates, and seemed very relaxed. From time to time, he broke out dirty jokes at the wine table, making everyone fall back and forth.

He knew that in the army, the soldiers should not suppress their fantasies about the opposite sex too much, because doing so would lead to the proliferation of "picking soap" in the army. But even so, it is strictly forbidden to rob a civilian woman in military law. This is not only related to military discipline and combat effectiveness, but also because Chen Wen wanted an army that would freeze to death and not demolish houses and starve to death and not plunder, just like the Yue family army. He already had a preliminary idea about this, but he did not have the ability to execute it for the time being.

At this moment, the people walking behind suddenly became noisy.

Chen Wen was afraid that the private fight would occur, so he hurried over, but saw Li Ruixin riding a war horse and trying to pass through the crowd to catch up with Chen Wen. No one behind knew that he had actually joined Chen Wenjun, and when he saw him coming with a horse oar, he naturally refused to let him go, so the scene just happened.

Seeing Chen Wen coming, Li Ruixin immediately turned over and got off the horse, leaned on his ancestral oar and knelt down in front of Chen Wen on one knee, and began to tell his experiences over the past two days.

It turned out that after Chen Wen talked with him that night, he rode his horse and weapons out of the mountain to find trouble for the Green Camp soldiers, so that he could exchange some rewards to facilitate his trip to Fujian with Chen Wen. After all, he was poor and rich. After he succeeded, he rushed back overnight, and Chen Wen had already led his people to Dalan Mountain. So he hurriedly rode his horse to chase him, fearing that he would not be able to catch up and be blocked from the old camp.

Looking at Li Ruixin's blood-stained eyes, excited expression and the war horse full of sweat and gasping, Chen Wen had nothing to say, so he had to help him up and warn him to abide by military discipline when he entered the military camp in the future and not to act freely again.

After Chen Wen warned him, Li Ruixin quickly turned around and untied a blood-dripping cloth pocket hanging behind the saddle, throwing it in front of Chen Wen. The cloth pocket did not disappoint everyone's expectations and spit out the things in its stomach. It was the heads of five men with money rat tails combed behind their heads.

In Li Ruixin's words, four of these five guys were Green Camp soldiers, and the one led was a fake Tartar of the Han Eight Banners. He originally wanted to try his luck, but who knew that as soon as he left the mountain, he encountered these guys robbing merchants, and the fake Tartar of the Han Eight Banners forced a girl to walk into the woods. So, Li Ruixin first shot archery and sniping, and then rode a horse to kill, and the five two ghosts turned into five real ghosts.

Chen Wen saw the five heads rolling down to his feet, and even a few drops of blood were thrown on his new boots. Chen Wen almost vomited it out. Fortunately, he had already anticipated this scene and had to suppress the disgust and praise Li Ruixin's martial spirit.

But around him, Brother Chu, who had never seen the head and had never thought of this scene, almost immediately vomited out after seeing these rolling heads. Judging from their appearance, it was very likely that the supper yesterday was ruined by these heads.

However, after comforting the front team, Yin Ergou chased Chen Wen over and happened to see the scene just now. He looked at Chen Wen meaningfully, and when he looked at Li Ruixin again, he showed a look of alertness.

Looking at the group of new recruits who had never seen blood, Chen Wen immediately asked Li Ruixin to show the five heads and captured waist-branded weapons to everyone, and then he burst into vomiting again. Next, Chen Wen said that if anyone is afraid, he can leave. This is the last chance, because he is a formal soldier after going up the mountain, and it will not be so easy to do it immediately.

Fortunately, no one of these men who dared to follow Chen Wen wanted to be ridiculed as cowards by others. They all expressed that they would stay with General Chen who followed them, and would definitely kill thieves and protect the people like Li Ruixin in the future and bring glory to Chen Wen, the general. Even those men who vomited so much that they seemed to vomit out all their internal organs said that they would never do this in the future and would not embarrass Chen Wen.

When the farce ended, Chen Wen looked at the mess all over the ground and felt glad. If this scene happened on the battlefield, it would affect the end of the war. The vomit in this place was supposed to be in class in advance.

Afterwards, Chen Wen led everyone forward and soon arrived outside the gate of the old camp. Chen Wen remembered that when he first came here, he was ambushed and besieged by the king's guerrillas. But now, I guess that guy would not dare to come out even if he was hiding on the roadside. Each of these two hundred people could not drown him with a spit, and he would definitely be able to trample him to death.

Seeing Chen Wen bringing a crowd up the mountain, the gatekeeper saw that Chen Wen, who was in and out of the old camp many times these days and was appointed as a guerrilla general, hurried out to negotiate.

Chen Wen knew that general, because this man was the officer who blew the horn of the enemy's attack when Chen Wen went up the mountain for the first time and saved his life. After expressing his purpose, general immediately ran back and headed straight to the central army hall.

After a while, Hu Er rushed over with the boss, and when he met, he greeted Chen Wen with a smile on his face.

Hu Er knew that Chen Wen had been a celebrity in the eyes of Wang Yi and Wang Jiang since he went up the mountain, and now he is a powerful soldier. Although the soldiers had just started recruiting, he was also a big shot in the mountain. Moreover, at this moment, if there was a soldier, he was the King of Grass Head. Naturally, there was no need to offend Chen Wen with a small character like him. Besides, he has taken a lot of silver from Chen Wen these days. Whether it was running errands or acting, Chen Wen was always generous in his move, which further strengthened his welcome heart.

After entering the old camp, Chen Wen took everyone to the military camp next to the Xizhai Farm, where the headquarters of Chen Wen's troops were located.

Along the way, Hu Er not only diligently introduced the layout of the old camp to Chen Wen, but also flattered or told jokes from time to time to adjust the atmosphere. It was much more competent than the tour guide like that old man when Chen Wen went on a trip.

However, Chen Wen was not surprised at all. After all, there is no one who can be a minor official in this era who is not a sloppy person. At this moment, he can flatter you and may sell you in the next second. So from the beginning of knowing Hu Er, he has been dating with him with the principle of not offending others. In addition, Chen Wen's current identity has further prompted him to keep a distance from Hu Er. If he is too distant, he may miss some information. If he is too familiar, he will be taboo to Shangguan, so it is best not to be far or near.

But all of this is now scaring the men who followed Chen Wen up the mountain.

Youdao is the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister. Although Wang Yi is not the prime minister, he is also the commander of the Ming army in the Siming Mountain area and the leader of the military affairs of the Southern Zhili and Zhejiang. Although Hu Er is just a minor official, he is the one who serves Wang Jingluo. This guy never looks at people with a straight look on his face, but now he is leaning down in front of Chen Wen, which shows Wang Yi's green eyes towards Chen Wen.

Soon, Chen Wen and his party arrived at the Xizhaichang. This place was originally built for Zuoying and Youying, so the place was very sufficient. Later, after Liu Yiming went up the mountain, the two battalions were led by him. After training for a period of time, it was quite effective. He was stationed in Shengxian. On the one hand, he was guarding against the Qing army there, and on the other hand, he also put pressure on the place.

In this way, the military camp next to the West School Field was empty, and Wang Yi naturally granted the place to Chen Wen.

After Hu Er left, Chen Wen gave the new recruits a lecture on the soldiers' ordering platform standing in the West School Field.

"After entering the military camp, you will be the soldiers under my general. From today on, as long as I, Chen Wen, eat with one bite, I will never let my brothers starve. At this moment, the brothers are now temporarily staying. After three days, after the recruitment of soldiers is completed, they will start training."

Next, Chen Wen appointed Li Ruixin, Wu Dengke and Yin Ergou as General Qian, responsible for assigning temporary residences and cleaning the military camp and schoolyards to these new recruits. Then he hurriedly took the two soldiers to the central army hall to report to Wang Yi.

Although it is very strange that a guerrilla general has only three thousand general officers under his command, Chen Wen's battalion has only five hundred soldiers for the time being. If it is placed before Jiashen, it is one thing to eat empty salary. A guard has thousands of soldiers. For example, the Wendeng camp where Qi Jiguang wrote a poem for him back then had more than one thousand one hundred soldiers, let alone the guerrilla general who led the escort camp.

However, the demotion of the Ming Dynasty is worthy of great importance. Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan, the commanders of the front and rear battalions under Wang Yi, only led a thousand soldiers, but in fact they only had more than 600 people, but they all had the class of General Hanging Seal. After thinking about this, Chen Wen immediately balanced.

When he arrived at the central army hall, Wang Yi obviously knew that Chen Wen had brought two hundred people up the mountain less than a day after receiving the appointment. He just praised Chen Wen's efficiency and asked Hu Er to bring Chu Suxian, the ambassador of the Yinkukuku.

When Chen Wen saw Chu Suxian himself, he almost understood Wang Yi's intentions in an instant. He saw that Chu Suxian was about forty years old and looked pretty good. Although he was a little thinner, his skin was very good. It seemed that he could only feed him with fine food and fine stews. However, the guy's two beards and the handful of rat beards on his chin really looked like a good thing no matter how he looked at it.

This is probably the intuition of Chen Wen's wife whom he doesn't know who she is, and she lends it to him in the dark.

After seeing Li, Wang Yi asked Chu Suxian for his life, and then Chen Wen and Chu Su went to the silver treasury to get the recruitment reserve fund of the 1,000 taels of silver that Wang Yi had promised Chen Wen. Of course, there was another An family fee, Chen Wen did not intend to send it so quickly, so he temporarily placed it in the silver treasury.

Along the way, Chu Suxian hinted at Chen Wen's kickbacks several times, but he beaten him and ignored them in other topics. When Chen Wen took the two soldiers to take away the silver, Chu Suxian's eyes had become as if they could spit out fire. Even so, Chen Wen ignored him and left Chu Suxian to continue COSing the little fire dragon in the warehouse of the silver warehouse.

Well, today the firewood money from melting the broken silver ingots in the silver warehouse will definitely be saved.

Although Chen Wen knew that offending finances was not beneficial, every penny of money was very important for him now, because these may affect his military training, so he didn't care about that much. Besides, in more than a month, the Qing army would encircle Siming Mountain. It was imminent that there was no time to perfunctory these fragmented things.

Back at the military camp, Sun Yu had sent someone to deliver all the food, vegetables, sauce, vinegar and other items needed today. Chen Wen thought about it and gave some money to the officials in the grain warehouse to send them a fat pig or a fat sheep every two days, each time. The few people agreed without hesitation and ran away with excitement on their faces, as if they were afraid that Chen Wen would regret it.

Chen Wen had to laugh secretly in response to this. It seemed that Sun Yu had already forced the officials in the grain warehouse to a little abnormality.

At noon, the mature man who Chen Wen stayed in the threshing farm brought more than 20 people to the military camp. While Chen Wen was feeling that the number of people finally exceeded 200, he actually found two aliens among the group of people.

A Tong Sheng in his forties and a scholar in his early twenties, and these two intellectuals are actually from Hangzhou. What's even more speechless is that these two people actually strongly demand that they come to Chen Wenzan to draw military affairs.

Joke, Chen Wen didn't plan to do the kind of fortune that civil servants led their troops to win five million in lottery tickets. Even Wang Yi was not going to let him interfere in the military affairs of his camp, let alone these two corrupt scholars who seemed to have not even read "The Art of War"?

However, why these two Hangzhou people came to Dalan Mountain and why the civil servants in the old camp did not apply for military affairs, which aroused Chen Wen's curiosity. After a little test, the two intellectuals vomited their experience without any scruples.

It turned out that they lived in Renhe County, Chengzhou. The young farming and studying were passed down from family, while the older one opened a private school in the city. They lived a good life, but even the Qing army occupied Hangzhou, they were not affected too much. After all, they were all scholars with fame.

As a result, this year, the Qing Dynasty built a city in Hangzhou Prefecture, driving out all the people in the land they enclosed, even the two of them were no exception. The older family did not resist and was looted and fled outside the city. In order to protect the land passed down by the ancestors, the eldest brother of the young scholar was beaten to death by the Qing army for no reason.

Chen Wen had seen the incident on the forum, but he remembered that Hangzhou Mancheng was the first to be built in the provinces of the country. It was burned down during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising. After the Qing army reoccupied Hangzhou, it was rebuilt and it was not completely banned until the Xinhai Revolution. However, he could not remember the details of the time.

According to the "Kangxi Renhe County Chronicles", "The people of this place support the elderly and the young, carry the bags and visas, or move to the countryside, or transfer to a foreign land, and the house they are surrounded by is still subject to 20 years of food and tax payment."

The black intermediary shouldn't be so amazing!

After that, the bannermen broke into private houses in the local area, robbed property, destroyed people's ancestral graves, asked local officials for women, insulted scholars, and robbed merchants, which made the business travelers stand still, seriously affecting Hangzhou's commercial activities and tax revenue. This led to the construction of city walls throughout the city, in order to isolate soldiers and civilians and reduce such incidents.

After meeting outside the city, the two of them passed the exam together and discussed the same year, they took their family to Dalan Mountain to participate in the Ming army. However, they were not locals, and they were not as good as Sun Yu, and they were more adept at making a record. As a result, they had been here for almost a month and had not been assigned a position.

Last night, they heard Chen Wen talk about the ancients and felt that instead of working under local civil servants, they would rather join military generals from their hometowns. In their opinion, although Chen Wen was eloquent and knowledgeable, he was still alone. Almost all illiterate in the army, and many copywriting work must be handled by people, so as scholars from their hometowns, they would definitely be reused.

Chen Wen was too lazy to understand their thoughts. He could only trust the two of them by relying on the matter of the whole city. Besides, he really needed talents to deal with copywriting. So he comforted him and said that he accepted them and had better salary and benefits, but the specific position would have to be arranged after the recruitment was over in the past few days.

The lunch was ready soon. Although it was all vegetarian dishes, Chen Wen's words still won the cheers of these new recruits, especially when Chen Wen also held the rice bowl and ate the same pot with the soldiers, which won their favor.
Chapter completed!