Now Li Jin and Li Hongji were finally relieved.

Even if you can't recruit the emperor's servants, you can still come back and continue to be a postman... Although there is no future as a postman, you can always have a peaceful life!

If they really have no food to eat, given their abilities, is there any other way to survive besides rebelling and becoming the emperor?

At that moment, the uncle and nephew thanked Zhao Papi, and then had another good meal - all the wine and food that Zhao Papi had brought. The watery wine and the slightly smelly pig head meat made their mouths full of oil. Eat.

After that, Zhao Bapi personally took them on horseback and went to Ningxia Acropolis to receive the reward.

However, the three of them probably did not expect at this time that Lu Jiude, the eunuch who was stationed in Ningxia Acropolis and was responsible for recruiting Li Zicheng from among the postmen, was almost dying of anxiety because of Li Zicheng's affairs!

This is really a mouthful at the top, but a broken leg at the bottom!

Eunuch Lu came out with a secret mission under Zhu Youjian's personal care - to find Li Zicheng at a designated location!

Of course, Zhu Youjian did not name anyone, but he gave quite detailed conditions. Not only did he stipulate "Li surname", "Ningxia Weiyi soldier", "20 to 30 years old", but he also drew an image.

!Big forehead, thick eyebrows, high cheekbones, deep eye sockets, high nose, big beard...you have to look like this, no, you have to recruit!

And you must recruit exactly the same one. If you can't recruit...haha, it won't end well!

Also, don’t even think about cheating, because Zhu Youjian has to check it himself!

But Lu Jiude had been looking for him in Ningxia Wei for a long time, but he couldn't find him! In order to find a servant who met Zhu Youjian's requirements, he paid the bounty out of his own pocket, and had to go to the sea to catch official documents and paste pictures and pictures.

..... Is this to catch rebels or to recruit servants?

What made Lu Jiude even more unbearable was that Zhu Youjian sent a young eunuch to ask questions every once in a while - have you found it? You have to hurry up! This emperor is so anxious!

Of course, I was anxious. If it were a little late, Li Zicheng might have rebelled!

In this way, the Ming Dynasty will have one less loyal person and one more rebel!

Zhu Youjian forced Lu Jiude, so Lu Jiude had no choice but to force Du Hongyu, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia Town, and You Shilu, the deputy general, and asked them to find the "shadow drawing" every day.

Du Hongyu and You Shilu were confused by him, thinking that Lu Jiude had married a woman before becoming an eunuch... that the bearded bandit leader (Li Zicheng) was his long-lost son!

Of course they had to help find Eunuch Lu's long-lost son, so they sent their confidants to search at various inns below. As a result, before these confidants came back, Zhao Papi took Li Hongji, whom Eunuch Lu had longed for.

, Li Jin’s two uncles and nephews brought it.

Hearing that two servant candidates who met Emperor Zhu's requirements had arrived, Eunuch Lu was so happy that he almost ran out to greet them. When he got to the courtyard, he remembered that he was here to recruit servants for the emperor!

So I hurried back and sat down in the lobby.

In the capital of Ningxia Town, a sturdy man named Hu Dawei led Li Hongji and Li Jin, who were also very tough, to Eunuch Lu.

When Lu Jiude saw the appearance of Li Hongji and Li Jin, his uncle and nephew, his heart was filled with joy... It was them! Two of them came at once, Long Live the Lord must be satisfied, right?

"Father, these two are uncle and nephew. The younger one is my uncle, named Li Hongji. The older one is my nephew, named Li Jin. They are both from Mizhi County, Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province. They live in Mengchengyi

Be a postman. You two, stop kneeling and stand up quickly to show Eunuch Lu a look."

The speaker was Hu Dawei. He was a Mongolian, and he was also a servant. Because of his skill in killing people, he was promoted to the rank of Dusi step by step.

Lu Jiude, who went to Ningxia to serve as an imperial officer, saw that he was tall and powerful and could do things well, so he seconded him to his side and planned to let him join the army as an official before joining the army.

"Dawei, have you passed the test of their bow and horse skills?" Lu Jiude asked pretendingly.

It's Li Hongji, Li Jin's appearance and height, as well as their place of origin, occupation, and martial arts level are no longer important... Even if it's just a little bit close, at worst, if you go back and find someone to teach you, you can always fool them.

"My father-in-law, the general has personally tested them," Hu Dawei said, "their martial arts are not bad, they are very good at bow and horse, and they are very strong. If they are well trained, they can become warriors in battle."

Can Li Zicheng and Li Guo be inferior in martial arts? They are both emperors!

Moreover, because there are four major border towns in Shaanxi, there are many guard posts, and there are frequent conflicts with the Mongols, so the folk customs have always been fierce. Many people's children are also proficient in martial arts, and they are not as powerful as tigers and Mongolian barbarians.

Ding Cha - the most powerful tiger in history, wasn't Li Zicheng beaten to death?

Lu Jiude nodded with satisfaction and looked at Li Hongji and Li Jin with a smile: I found you!

He smiled and said: "Okay, since you passed the exam, Dawei, let's leave tomorrow...Long live the Lord is still waiting!"

What? So anxious?

Li Hongji and Li Jin were both stunned. They both wanted to go back to Mizhi to explain things to their families!

"By the way," Lu Jiude also remembered, "You two have families, right? Have you both taken wives?"

When Li Hongji heard his wife, he grinned and asked: "Eunuch, I heard from Zhao Bapi from Mengcheng Yi that the emperor will also send maids to his eldest nephew as aunts, but is it true?"

"Really, really," Lu Jiude said with a smile, "but there are only a limited number of maids released from the palace. We have to go to Beijing quickly. After we go there, there will be no more."

When Li Hongji heard that the number of palace maids was limited, he became a little anxious and glanced at Li Jin: "Nephew, how about we follow my father-in-law to Beijing first?"

Li Jin frowned and said, "What about the family? My mother, my mother-in-law, and my uncle, they have to settle down, right?"

"Take all the family members away!" Lu Jiude said, "Long Live the Lord will also give you servants 500 acres of land. Each of your uncles and nephews will have 1,000 acres of land, which is at least several hundred acres a year."

Shi Zuzi... As long as you are still servants of the emperor, these official fields will be yours to use, and you will not receive royal grain or taxes!"

The 500 acres of land in the Gyeonggi area are quite valuable and cannot be given to servants. The ownership of these lands is still owned by the royal family and is only used as official fields for servants. All the income generated from these lands during the servants' service will belong to the servants.

The servant owns it and does not have to pay any taxes or apportionments. Of course, the title field is not free.

When a servant goes on an expedition, he needs to provide his own horses, armor, equipment, and auxiliary troops. All or part of these expenses must come from the 500 acres of farmland. Zhu Youjian will give a certain amount of money to the servant according to the length of the expedition and the losses.

subsidy.

Although there is no ownership, the income from 500 acres of Gyeonggi land is still very high!

The two uncles and nephews Li Hongji and Li Jin have really reached the sky in one step... Even the richest Aiju people in their village can't compare to them now.

With such a huge benefit, of course these two uncles and nephews had to rush to Beijing. So they had no intention of going to Mizhi County to pick up their family members. Instead, they asked Zhao Bapi, who was also here, to do a favor and go to Mizhi County.

They picked up their mother and Li Hongji's little brother. They themselves followed Lu Jiude and rushed to Beijing. On the second day of February in the first year of Chongzhen, the group finally arrived at Nanhaizi University in the south of Beijing.

Camp, and on the next day, the third day of February, I met Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.

"Uh-huh, Li Hongji, uh-huh, Li Jin, I would like to express my sincere greetings to you, Your Majesty. Long live, long live, long live..."

In the lobby of Nanhaizi Camp, Li Hongji and Li Jin were kowtowing to the Ming Emperor and shouting long live.

"Pingshen... Li Hongji, Li Jin, you, stand up!" The emperor who was sitting high on the throne spoke, his voice sounded very excited, even a little trembling.

The two uncles and nephews Li Hongji and Li Jin were also dizzy. Of course, they did not notice that the emperor's tone was a bit wrong. When they heard someone telling them to get up, they quickly got up from the ground, and then they also forgot about the etiquette of Lu Jiude's care.

He just looked up at the emperor stupidly.
Chapter completed!