Seeing this, the officer leading the team immediately pulled out his waist, raised it above his head, and shouted "Silent" with an astonishing volume. The men who were yelling to join the army, especially those standing in the front row, were shocked by his eardrums. In this way, the outside of the City God Temple became quiet in an instant.

At this time, Chen Wen couldn't help laughing in his heart. When he screened the first group of participants, he had talked with the officer. The officer who spoke very much on weekdays was born like this. The family did not speak indifferently, so to use his saying that the fellow villager who always felt a little vulgar, no one in their family got married, and no one in the room needed to slim the windows or cracks on the door.

It is precisely because of this officer's expertise that Chen Wen directly led his troops down the mountain to maintain order. So far, it seems that the effect is quite good.

Maintaining good order, Chen Wen got up and entered the City God Temple, and even the kooks and the big pot of porridge were moved in. His regulations required that those who joined the army enter the courtyard of the City God Temple every five times and accept Chen Wen's screening. Those who pass the qualification can stay and have a meal first, and they can go up the mountain together before dinner, while those who fail the qualification can directly Say Goodbye.

Miao Zhu did not show any displeasure about Chen Wen's behavior of occupying the venue and not paying the venue fee. He even helped Chen Wen prepare the table and chairs. After all, the reputation of beating his colleague was so sensational that he did not dare to protest to Chen Wen under legitimate reasons.

After Chen Wen prepared his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the first five people also walked in under the leadership of a soldier. They lined up from left to right according to the instructions and stood in front of Chen Wen's table.

The first man was a Shaoxing person. He used to be a farmer. He rented the land of the landlords in his village. His life was quite good. After Wang Yi captured Shangyu County for the second time, after the Shaoxing Green Camp was defeated by the Ming army in Dalanshan, the soldiers and officials of the Green Camp did not dare to be too far away from the city, for fear of being ambushed by the Ming army.

However, his family was near Yuyao County, close to Cixi, which was far from the occupied area of ​​the Ming army, so he was exploited quite well. Over the years, all the land passed down from ancestors was offset by heavy taxes. The landlord who rented the plant took the opportunity to raise the rent and wanted to turn his family into a slave, so the man brought his family to Siming Mountain.

This man originally planned to open up land here or be a tenant for people, but because he came too late, almost all the land here had been occupied. He had no land to plant and could only rely on giving people the strength to work for short-term work. He worked hard all day long and could only eat enough. In fact, he was pretty good. As a strong laborer in the family, he and his younger brother could still eat enough, but the rest of the family could not do it and could barely starve to death. But if the food was distributed equally, the strong laborer would not have the strength to work and the whole family would starve to death.

Just now when Zhang Jun was reading the recruitment list there, the man was moved. One or five cents had his true nature. He and his brother could easily support the family and save some betrothal gifts for marrying a wife. As for military merits and beheading rewards, this man dared not think too much. After all, he wanted to kill people. He thought about catching up with a general like Chen Wen who loved soldiers like his son. If he worked hard in the camp and worked more and talked less, he would not have been driven away.

Thinking of this, the man squeezed in with all his strength. The officer outside the City God Temple saw that he had the strength, so he called him in first.

Chen Wen observed the face of this person and asked a few more questions. Overall, he felt that he was a more honest man. Because he could eat a lot, and had been engaged in heavy physical labor for a long time, and his physique was pretty good, so he decided to set up this person.

However, after kowtowing to thank Chen Wen for recruiting him, the man did not go to the husband to drink porridge. Instead, he ran away. In his words to Chen Wen, he wanted to call his younger brother to join Chen Wen to serve as a soldier.

The second man was a local mountaineer. He hunted for a living on weekdays, but although some people collected wild animals in the mountains, the price was far less than usual. This person was not as good as Wu Dengke like that of the old camp, so his life was not very good.

Originally, this man was just selling prey in the town today, but when he heard that Chen Wen was recruiting soldiers here, he thought that he could be an officer in his archery skills and could not make it easy for him to be an officer in a few days. It was much better than to continue to endure the exploitation of those fur merchants, so he squeezed in and asked to join the army. The officer outside the temple saw that he was a hunter at a glance. He thought about Chen Wen's senior skilled person first, so he let the guy come in early.

Chen Wen checked the prey he had shot, and all of them hit the vital point with one arrow. The archery technique should be pretty good, so he settled down. After the man saluted Chen Wen, he ran to the chef's pot without hesitation and ordered a bowl of porridge. He didn't care about the scalding, so he picked it up and poured it into his mouth. He kept smacking his lips happily, and he didn't even want to treat himself as an outsider.

The third one is different from the first two illiterate ones. It is a Tongsheng from Ningbo, but this person's Tongsheng is different from Gu Shouli. Gu Shouli at least passed the county examination and the government examination, but he just failed the scholar. But this scholar didn't pass the exam at all, and it was hard to say that he didn't even pass the exam. Even a formal Tongsheng was not considered an amateur.

Chen Wen regretted not taking Gu Shouli or Qi Xiufeng down the mountain, otherwise he could tell it. However, Gu Shouli was still registering the men who went up the mountain to join the army yesterday, while Qi Xiufeng was taking stock of the military supplies and preparing to continue reporting to Wang Jiang after the recruitment was over. So, Chen Wen continued to listen to him finish his story because he knew the words.

Because Ningbo is adjacent to Zhoushan, the Qing army's strength is much stronger than Shaoxing. Whether it is the Green Camp or the Eight Banners soldiers, it is not uncommon to plunder the people and bully men and women. This scholar lives in the countryside and is considered to be a family heir to farm and study. The Qing army passing by saw that his wife was a bit beautiful, so he forced him to rob him.

Youdao is a scholar who meets a soldier, and it is hard to explain it, let alone a child like him. As a result, the scholar ran to see the county magistrate, but the county magistrate did not dare to provoke the Eight Banners soldiers. When he saw that he had no reputation, he was knocked out by a stick. The scholar was angry, so he planned to join the Ming army to take revenge, but he was a lie, so no one was willing to hire him. So, the scholar set up a stall for writing letters in the town and could only make a living.

The scholar's past reminded Chen Wen of a story he had seen online. It was said that the Qing army went south and a scholar's wife was taken away by the passing Qing army. The scholar sold his house and land to redeem his wife. However, the army was in chaos. The Qing army was transferred, but the scholar had not been found for several months.

Just when he was disheartened, he saw that the woman on the boat opposite was his wife, so he chased her. After asking, he realized that the Qing army that snatched her was dead, and she was sold to someone else by the Qing army's boss, and was about to send her over here. As soon as the scholar saw this, he found the person who bought his wife from the Qing army and asked for redemption. Seeing that the scholar was deeply in love and did not accept the scholar's money, he returned the scholar's wife. At the end of the story, it seemed that the person who returned the wife also received blessings, but Chen Wen could no longer remember it.

Although this guy was just a whisper, he said this and that in front of Chen Wen, and finally Chen Wen pinched his nose and accepted him. After all, in this era when the literacy rate is no more than 10%, picking up is profitable.

However, after seeing Chen Wen accept him, this guy was different from others. He just bowed a lot and went to eat porridge on his own, which made the soldiers next to Chen Wen quite angry. Moreover, his eating look was like an evil ghost reincarnated, without the temperament of a scholar. Chen Wen began to doubt whether this guy had passed the imperial examination or not, so he should have asked Gu Shouli to test it before taking the appointment.

Compared to this scholar, the fourth person is much simpler. He seems to have strength, but his eyes and behavior are a bit rogue. Chen Wen asked him to get out after a little test. A rogue man is involved in the fun. Qi Jiguang's standard for the selection of soldiers said that this person must not be wanted.

The last one in the first group claimed to be from Fuyang, Hangzhou. He was originally a profession with the ancestor who was fabricated by Chen Wen. He was a charcoal burner. Seeing that his clothes were torn, his hair was dry and yellow, there was a little black in the cracks of his nails. He didn't know if it was mud or carbon ash, and his muscles were well developed, he felt a little bit strong, so he believed it.

However, when this person introduced his hometown, he looked unconsciously at the upper right, as if he was looking for something. Seeing this, Chen Wen immediately slapped his desk.

"You guy is not very honest, you are clearly doing it! The person who comes, take this guy down and send it to the old camp for severe trial!"

Chen Wen once heard a theory when watching criminal investigation TV series in modern times that when a person answers a question, if his eyes move to the left or look to the left, it means that the person is recalling the past and telling the truth; and if this person moves to the right or look to the right when answering a question, it means that the person is lying.

This habit can be disguised through training. It is said that agents from all over the world have received such training. However, Chen Wen did not believe that a Ming Dynasty person would disguise like this, and the result of the disguise was to make people doubt himself. Of course, even if the Qing halal halal training at this time, in Chen Wen's opinion, such a spy should not be sent to him, a small army head with only 300 soldiers. He had to send it to the Yongli court, after all, that goal was great.

Hearing this, the two soldiers around Chen Wen immediately took him down, but the man did not resist, but just kept begging for mercy. After the man was pinned to the ground by Chen Wen's soldiers, he immediately admitted that he had lie about his hometown. The reason for lying was quite strange, which aroused Chen Wen's interest. Then he would finish his words.

This man is called Chen Fugui. He is indeed a charcoal burner. Just as he said, the same surname as Chen Wen, and he is indeed a person from Hangzhou. However, the problem lies here. He is from Hangzhou, but not from Fuyang County, Hangzhou, but from Xincheng. He not only has the same profession as the ancestor fabricated by Chen Wen, but also from the same hometown!

The last time Chen Wen told the ancient story in the village at the foot of the mountain, he told the story he made up, and Chen Fugui was among the audience that day. He had heard the story of Chen Wen's ancestors, not only from the same county as him, but also worked as a charcoal burner, which made him feel a little empathetic. So he also knelt down at the group of people who said he was following Chen Wen, preparing to follow Chen Wenbo and his wife and son.

But when he got home and the passion passed, he hesitated again. The reason for the hesitation seemed strange to Chen Wen, but it was a huge thing in ancient times, that is, taboos.

The taboo here is not about writing or stating the names of the monarch or Shangguan or elders, but about not wanting to cause Chen Wen's displeasure because of his identity. In his opinion, he and Chen Wen's ancestors and hometowns are from Xincheng, Hangzhou, and their surnames are Chen. This is not a fate, but something that will cause Chen Wen's taboo. After all, he has so many similarities with Chen Wen's ancestors, and if it were other Shangguans, they would definitely be very displeased.

As for the reason why he lies was even more bizarre. According to what he said, he hesitated for two days but didn't think of a reason, so he planned to ask someone. As a result, he happened to see the fortune teller who was preaching Chen Wen's recruitment list, so he told his questions to the fortune teller, and the fortune teller gave him a lie after collecting the money.

Chen Wen sent someone to summon the fortune teller, and he awakened his memory without much effort. After all, a man planned to join the army and ended up having a background and circumstances that were almost the same as the ancestor of the general. Even if he was a fortune teller who came into contact with people every day, he felt it was new, let alone that the general had hired him temporarily.

After hearing the suggestion, Chen Fugui felt that lying was not good, and if he didn't tell this lie, he was afraid that Chen Wen would be taboo. He thought about it for two days and hesitated for two days. When he decided to come down, Chen Wen had already finished recruiting. In order to prevent missing the opportunity, the man even went to the old camp, but was stopped outside by the gatekeeper in the middle camp, and had to leave it alone.

Today he entered the town because he had made an appointment with a large family to deliver carbon. When he paid for money to buy some grain and put it in the pot, he happened to see Chen Wen riding a tall horse and taking a group of soldiers to the City God Temple, as if he was about to recruit soldiers again. He didn't want to miss the opportunity again, so he stood in the front row early because he guessed this, and then things developed to what they are now.

Chen Wen glanced at the fortune teller, then looked at the man, and suddenly felt like he was shooting himself in the foot. From this perspective, this ancient temporary worker really had professional ethics. It was obvious that he was eating my food and making a fuss. It seemed that the jokes that were asked by temporary workers to recite in later generations were not completely unreasonable.

Seeing that Chen Wen was quite hesitant, the man had never decided whether to accept him. He quickly said that he would never dare to lie again in the future, and kept selling himself to Chen Wen. The direction of the sales was not about having any skills, but about the strength on his body.

As a general, Chen Wen had no need to compete with him, and Chen Wen didn't plan to ask his own soldiers to try it, so he simply asked him a problem, lifting up the rectangular copper incense burner that enshrines in the City God Temple, and as long as he lifted it off the ground, Chen Wen took him away.

The copper incense burner was placed in the courtyard of the Chenghuang Temple. The place that was not easy to wipe was already quite patina. If you were to see it, it would have to weigh hundreds of kilograms. Seeing that it was just this, the man immediately ran over happily. He lifted his hands with enough strength and actually lifted the copper incense burner. It was not only as simple as Qiangqiang from the ground, but even raised a distance before putting it down at Chen Wen's sign.

Although I have read Bai Juyi's "The Charcoal Selling Man", Chen Wen did not know that in ancient times, people who worked in this profession generally had strong strength. They cut trees and burn charcoal in the forest every day. Life was extremely difficult, but they also honed their will and physique. In this way, it was not surprising that this man had hundreds of kilograms of strength. Instead, Chen Wen gave this man a chance to reform because of his ignorance.

Sorry, Chen Wen, who was reluctant to break his promise, also warned him that if he dared to speak again, he would never give up twice. The man fell to the ground with great gratitude, and his bowing heads were several times more than the previous three shortlisted players combined.

After solving the first batch, Chen Wen looked through the recorded booklet and ordered the accompanying soldiers to summon the second batch.

In this way, outside the City God Temple, Zhang Jun was responsible for reading the list, and the officer was responsible for explaining and maintaining discipline. In the City God Temple, Chen Wen was screened. Those who passed the customs went to the chef to cushion their stomachs, and those who failed the election were taken out by soldiers. The speed of the entire set of quasi-assetline operations was still a fast word.

On the evening of the next day, through Gu Shouli's statistics, Chen Wen learned that most of the personnel needed to be recruited had been completed. If all the troops were organized into the previous three brigades, the strength would be nearly doubled. So he decided not to continue recruiting soldiers to prevent too many new recruits from affecting the combat effectiveness of Nantang Camp itself.

There is not much time left, tomorrow is the first day of September, and September of this year is the month of encirclement and suppression of the Qing army recorded in historical books.
Chapter completed!