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After a few roosters crowed in the distance, the roosters from Donggouzi's house also began to resonate.

It was getting dark, and Liu Jun put on his clothes and walked out of the yard. The night sky before dawn seemed darker. Several shadows were jumping. Liu Jun took a few steps and found that there were two left of Donggouzi and Dog, leading a group of young young people there to practice their pace.

Donggouzi has a bit of an instructor. He stood naked in the drying field outside the yard with agility, his movements were quick, his steps were standard, and his legs were strong. Liu Jun looked at it and felt very happy.

In the past few days, Donggouzi has become a celebrity in Taiping Township. The villagers in nearby Shilibazhuang all know that there is a young man named Donggouzi in Zhangjia Village, Shiling. More than two months ago, they joined the township team in the county and made great contributions. Not only did they receive a lot of silver and money rewards, they were even promoted to the team leader.

Many people rushed to see how developed the children who emerged in the mountains were and how different they were. Looking at the novel items brought back by the Winter Dog, everyone believed the rumors and they were indeed developed. Otherwise, you can see that the big white rice was piled like a hill, with several baskets of them, and there were also good things like silk, how many of them were there.

Looking at Dong Gouzi's face, wearing a long robe and a long boot, he was completely a city man.

Then, more people came. The relatives of the Zhang family, the three aunts and aunts, came to visit. In addition, the matchmakers from the village also came to hear the news and rushed to the Zhang family, almost breaking the threshold of the Zhang family. They were all dragged by the family committee of the nearby women who were suitable for marriage, and took the initiative to come to the Zhang family to propose marriage. They offered many good conditions, and even didn't want brides. They just hoped that they could marry their daughter to the Zhang family to live a good life, and they could eat white rice and wear silk in the future.

Some people saw that Zhang Donggou was so popular, so they simply turned to the second best, asking the matchmaker to marry Zhang Donggou's younger brother, and even dragged the matchmaker to come and propose marriage to Zhang Donggou's sisters.

For several days, people from remote Zhangjia Village came and went, and the Zhang family was even more guests.

This scene made Mr. Zhang feel very proud. He warmly treated everyone who came to him. In the past, he had never eaten white rice for a few days and drank a few taels of good wine, but now he generously asked Donggou to entertain the tea, sugar, rice and wine he brought back.

In addition to the proposals, many people came here with their younger generations, and wanted their children to enter the village group to eat food and get salary like winter dogs.

Liu Jun did not completely reject the expectations of these people.

This time he came here to recruit some newcomers. He carefully assessed the young people who came and chose very strictly. Among them, he picked three young people including Ergou in Zhangjia Village. Later, Liu Jun went to Gousheng's house again and brought back several suitable young people when he came back.

Then Liu Jun simply raised the recruitment flag in Zhangjia Village. Zhang Shan and more than ten brothers, Dong Gouzi and Gou Zuo, helped. The recruitment went smoothly. Originally, he only planned to recruit twenty or thirty people first, but unexpectedly, he found that there were many young people with very good conditions in the remote mountain pit of Taiping Township.

Although these young people are poor, many of them have good brute force and many hunting bows are good. For example, Ergou's big man shoots well, but his best skills are two big axes. The reason is that Ergou chops wood for a long time, especially chops the chopped wood stakes into chop firewood to buy it. He chops wood for a young age. After more than ten years, he dances with two big axes more convenient than kitchen knives. Such a person is definitely suitable to be a front-row knife player.

There were too many excellent soldiers who were good at picking left and right. In the end, Liu Jun recruited 120 new recruits. Liu Jun also figured it out that since he wanted to recruit new recruits, it would be impossible to use any move. Although all the new recruits were recruited from Taiping Township this time, the soldiers from Taiping Township may be grouped together in the team in the future. However, in the early stage, the new recruits from the same area will allow them to adapt to the new team faster. Moreover, the team will definitely expand in the future. Then try to recruit fewer soldiers from Taiping Township.

It's still a holiday now. After Liu Jun recruited 120 soldiers, he originally wanted them to go back to their own houses first, and wait a few days before they went to Queen's City to report, and then they would be given Anjia silver, uniforms, etc. to them. As a result, the recruits were so excited that they refused to go home at all, so they stayed at the Zhang family and refused to leave.

Liu Jun had no choice but to let them stay. He took out the money and asked the Zhang family to help them take care of their meals and arranged to sleep at the villagers' homes at night.

Liu Jun did not arrange training or anything, but Donggouzi and Gouzu got up to exercise every morning at dawn every morning, and then these guys also got up. Finally, Donggouzi and Gouzi simply became recruit instructors and took the content they learned after they were trained not long ago to teach these fellow recruits one by one.

Although Liu Jun had no objection to these accidents, he didn't take them seriously at the beginning, but in just a few days, the two instructors Dong Gouzi and Gou Zuo actually trained those 120 new recruits in a bit.

At least, you won’t turn the left and right. You can’t turn the wrong way, and you even walk in a row.

"This group of new recruits is good." Zhang Shan also got up and said beside Liu Jun.

"Well, I plan to wait until the rest is over and organize our Nine-Headed Birds Team. Now the front and back flags are incorporated into the Central Military Bureau, and outside the left and right flags, a new Zhongqi will be added. The three flags are all equipped with horses. Another infantry bureau is organized, with three infantry flags under it. In this way, we will be the organization of the Third Bureau of the Department."

"It's so big?" Zhang Shan was a little surprised.

Liu Jun whispered to him, "Tell you something. After the Gong Ji returns home this time, he may withdraw from the Nine-Headed Birds team. In the future, we will be the only one in this team. Moreover, now the bandits in various places are rekindled. I am sure that this time the thieves are not just small-scale fights, but the court may be difficult to suppress these bandits. It is difficult for us to be stable in East Hubei. In the future, we will no longer be the small bandits. We will most likely be those fierce bandits who are wandering around the world. We now have a batch of money and grain, and the support of the Li family, so we should take advantage of this time to strengthen the Nine-Headed Birds."

"What then?" Zhang Shan asked. He was not surprised that Li Chunjiang might withdraw. But he was confused about the sworn brother Liu Jun's intention to expand the Nine-Headed Bird, such as what they were going to do after the expansion?

"Put down the thieves and kill the bandits, defend the country." Liu Jun said eight words. In fact, he wanted to say that he would do his best to strengthen himself and prepare to welcome the Qing Dynasty to the south in a few years. But even if he really said that, I am afraid that not only Zhang Shan would not believe it, but not only those gentry in Macheng would believe that the Qing Dynasty would be able to destroy the Ming Dynasty in a few years.

In the eyes of many gentry, the Later Jin Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty was too far away. In their opinion, the threat to them by the Later Jin Dynasty was not as strong as the thieves from the surrounding areas. They generously gave money to the township group to help the money, but refused to pay the money to support the court in using troops in Liaodong. After all, they felt that the Later Jin Dynasty was still far away from them. Anyway, the sky was falling, and there were Beijing, Hebei, Shandong and Henan.

Zhang Shan was a little silent, feeling that he couldn't keep up with his elder brother's thinking.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from outside: "Where is the head of the team Liu of the Nine-headed Bird?"

"Who!"

Dong Gouzi shouted outside, and at the same time, he led a group of recruits to pull up an array and stopped a rider who was running towards him.

Liu Jun looked up and saw a horse running wildly in the morning light. From a distance, he could see the horses were covered in sweat. The knights on the horse had already been wet with sweat.

"Who are you?" Liu Jun shouted loudly.

The knight was stopped, rolled down from his horse, and gasped, "I'm looking for Captain Liu of the Nine-Headed Bird, there is an emergency."

"Let him come here." Liu Jun shouted, as he walked forward.

The man was so tired that Dong Gouzi and Gou Zuo helped him to Liu Jun.

Liu Jun looked at the man and saw that he seemed to be a postman in his outfit.

"I am Liu Jun, the deputy of the Jiutou Birds. What urgent things do you have to ask me?"

"I am a postman from Taiping Post. I am ordered by inspector Zhao at Hutou Pass and come here to ask Captain Liu for help. The bandits surrounded inspector Zhao and his archers and brothers. Now they are in danger. Please help Captain Liu quickly." The postman said gasping.

Dong Gouzi whispered to Liu Jun, "Taiping Post is not far from here, and the post station is under the jurisdiction of the Hutou Pass Inspection Department in the north. Inspection Zhao is the inspector of the Hutou Pass Inspection Department. He has twenty archers under his command, not only guarding Hutou Pass, but also his entire Taiping Township."

Thirteen passes on the Dabie Mountains, and five passes are lined with the northern border of Macheng.

Liu Jun also knew something about the inspection department. In the fourth year of Hongwu, the imperial court set up an inspection department at Hutou Pass.

According to the Ming Dian, the Inspection Department often set up Guanjin, where the main points were in conflict. The inspectors and officials led the warriors with swords, guns and arrows, were responsible for inspecting pedestrians, cracking down on smuggling, arresting thieves, and maintaining the safety of merchants and travelers. The Hutou Pass Inspection Department also manages Taiping Post.

The inspection department is somewhat similar to a police station, but its power is greater than that of a police station. It is an important dispatching agency established by the government at the township level below the county level. Not all counties have inspections, but the establishment places are definitely important places in the gates and gates, either in the border area or important inland passages.

The inspection department of Hutou Pass is set up at Hutou Pass 70 miles north of the county. It is guarded by a nine-rank inspector. Some inspection department offices, as well as clerks, clerks and twenty archers.

The most important task in normal times is to collect thieves and catch thieves, and then be responsible for inspecting transactions and cracking down on smuggling.

There were more than a thousand such inspection departments in the Ming Dynasty in the world. Inspection was just a small official from the ninth rank, but the task was extremely heavy.

Hutou Pass is an important passage between Huangzhou, Huguang and Guangzhou, Henan, guarding Guanghuang Avenue.

Liu Jun did not expect that the Hutou Pass inspector actually sent someone to come here to ask him for help.

"Give this brother water." Liu Jun shouted, bringing the water, the postman took several sips and finally got better.

"Tell me slowly, what happened?" Liu Jun asked.

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Chapter completed!