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It is said that life in troubled times is like grass, but in Li Jing's opinion, people are actually equally valuable resources in troubled times. Especially those craftsmen with skills are treasures. In this era, whether they are a blacksmith, a carpenter, or even a bricklayer, they all start from an apprentice and then become masters after their masters. The process they experience in the middle is based on several years. If a junior apprentice wants to become a master and then become a master who leads an apprentice, it is impossible to imagine that it will take ten years or even twenty years to go.

It is easy for Li Jing to recruit soldiers. There are a large number of strong young and strong people to choose from, and even some of them who have been formal officials or even officers like Zhang Chengzong. Those young and strong people who have been trained for half a year will basically become a type. But craftsmen are different. Although the craftsmen have a low status, their skills cannot be learned in a short time. If Li Jing wants to train soldiers, he must have money and food, and even have his own workshops and ordnance workshops. However, these require skilled craftsmen, and there must be a large number of them.

Prepare for the future, Li Jing now has to start preparing for the future. Of course, he will not miss this opportunity today.

"Are there any craftsmen among you? You can be a craftsman apprentice. Whether you are a mattress, a blacksmith, a carpenter, a kiln, a rolling tank, a tofu, a goldsmith, a silversmith, a coppersmith, a potter, a painter, a coupe, etc., as long as you have a skill, you can stand up!" Li Jing smiled and tried to prevent these refugees from fearing. "Of course, as long as you are skilled and willing to serve the court and me, you can forgive the crimes of thieves today and forgive your whole family."

Fearing and cold, the hungry people who were trembling in the frost and dew at night could not help but feel shocked when they heard this. On the originally solemn field, there were finally people whispering and began to whisper to each other. Soon, a person in the field stood up and said in a trembling voice: "Reply to the general's words, can you calculate the young man who is a boatman?"

Li Jing looked at the man who claimed to be a boatman. Under the firelight, he clearly saw that the man was about thirty years old, with a black and charcoal face. He was wrapped in a torn ragged dress on his body, and there was no hat on his head. He tied a bun with messy hair in a bun, and inserted a branch with a split branch on it. In the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, he didn't even have a pair of forty or fifty-month cloth shoes, and he was wearing a pair of straw sandals with all his toes and insteps exposed on his feet.

When he reached out to call the man, he found that his face was frozen and purple. Li Jing asked strangely, since he was a boatman, how could he become a hungry man? You must know that Dengzhou is surrounded by the sea, with countless large and large ports, and there are more ships coming and going. As a boatman, he should not end up escaping famine and begging for food.

The man stood in front of Li Jing and blushed. After a long time, he replied: "Reply to the general, the young Yuan Hong is twenty-three years old this year and is an Onmyoji."

Twenty-three? Li Jing almost vomited Yuan Hong's face. His rough and dark old face actually said that he was twenty-three and thirty-two. But what surprised Li Jing even more was that the profession of Onmyoji. Li Jing did not know that there was such a business in the boatman in the past. Do you need an Onmyoji to read Feng Shui when you go out to sea?

"General, the young man grew up in a Taoist temple. He did learn Yin and Yang from his master to see Feng Shui. If the general needs a young man, he is willing to serve him."

"No hurry, please make it clear first, how did you, a Taoist priest, run to the sea to become an Onmyoji?" Li Jing asked strangely. As soon as this question was asked, Yuan Hong's expression was a little nervous and confused, and he didn't know how to answer for a while. Zhang Hong, who was standing beside him, approached Li Jing and explained a few words in a low voice. It turned out that Onmyoji was not just about Feng Shui. Almost all merchant ships going out to sea would invite an Onmyoji to go out to sea. However, onmyoji did not look at Feng Shui, but asked them to observe the weather. It is said that an excellent and experienced Onmyoji can prepare to observe and predict the weather on the sea and allow the ship to avoid the storm in advance. After hearing this explanation, Li Jing couldn't help but feel embarrassed for his ignorance just now. However, he still looked at Yuan Hong a little strange. If he was such an Onmyoji who could predict the weather, how could he become a refugee?

Yuan Hong's black face turned red with a rare blush: "I was a young man who was adopted by his master since he was a child. He lived in Baiyun Temple with his master. However, in recent years, the Buddhist temples have flourished, and our Baiyun Temple has become more and more cold. In the end, the belly of the few people in the temple was not enough. The master was familiar with Yin and Yang and could observe the weather, so he took me to work as an Onmyoji on the merchant ship at the port. Although the ship was hard, it could solve the livelihood of the master and the apprentice. However, the master ascended to heaven last month. Although I also learned some Yin and Yang techniques, I had predicted the wrong weather several times on the ship, which caused the owner to suffer a lot of losses. After returning to the port, the owner no longer hired me. I wanted to use the money I saved with the master in the past two years, but I was caught by bandits halfway."

Li Jing had previously thought that Onmyoji was also a good talent, but after Master Yuan Hong died, he did not predict accurately, and he could not help but feel beaten and reduced his impression of Yuan Hong's ability.

"General, the young master has learned more than 90% of his skills. These two mistakes are really accidental. Under normal circumstances, I can accurately calculate the changes in the sea weather within three days." Yuan Hong seemed to see Li Jing's dissatisfaction and strongly recommended himself.

Zhang Hong also whispered: "General, we already have a sea ship now. We need such an Onmyoji on the ship. Why not just keep him. Even if it's half a bucket of water, it's better than not."

Li Jing thought it was true, and if Yuan Hong was left behind, he could still be a big money to buy horse bones. He nodded and said, "Okay, you can stay. From now on, you will have a monthly salary of four and a half horses of silk every month, including all food and accommodation, two liters of rice and two spoons of salt per day. If you perform well, you will get a bonus!" The standard wage for a most ordinary civilian is to give silk three feet a day, which is equivalent to sixty cents. Although Yuan Hong's level is not high, Li Jing still gave him twice the salary of a civilian, which is considered as a technical worker.

When Yuan Hong heard that Li Jing finally accepted him, he not only saved him from his guilt, but also gave him a monthly salary of four and a half pieces of silk per month. He could still have two liters of food every day. He was a little happy to suspect that he had heard it wrong. He and his master ran for the caravan for two years on the sea, and they only had money and food when they went to sea. When they didn’t go to sea, they only had two meals a day, and they worked for two years, but they only saved ten cents of money.

While he was still wondering if he had heard it wrong, Zhang Hong had already assigned a young man to come over and take him aside. After registering his name, he sent him another wooden sign with his name written on it. Another young man immediately sent him two hot pancakes and a bowl of kelp rib soup. He ate the golden pancakes and drank the kelp rib soup with a layer of lard. Yuan Hong felt as if he was dreaming.

There were other hungry people in the field who were waiting and watching and hesitating to see Yuan Hong squatting aside, eating cakes, drinking soup, and smelling the seductive fragrance that came from the wind, and finally couldn't wait any longer.

"I'm a blacksmith!"

"I can be a carpenter!"

"I am a blacksmith apprentice and have been studying under my master for three years."

"I'm a plasterer!"

......

One by one, he stood up and reported his abilities loudly. Li Jing saw a few dozen. They said that it was difficult to find craftsmen, but they did not expect that there were so many craftsmen among the hungry people. Although they found that among the fifty-seven craftsmen, there were seven blacksmiths most needed in total, but six were apprentices who had not yet started their masters. There were only one master, and he was still a master with gray hair and a hunched back and couldn't hold the hammer. The others were also common craftsmen in the countryside, such as carpenters, bricklayers, bricklayers, etc.

"General, I am Ma Yazi. Can I eat with my salary?" An old man in his fifties stood aside after the registration craftsmen registered, and he stood up and asked with the fragrance of cakes and soup.

"Ma Yazi? Then, besides you know how to watch horses, you can also raise horses?"

"Yes, I have been dealing with horses for half my life. Not only can I look at horses, but it is also okay to raise horses and feed them. I can cure them by myself if I usually have minor illnesses and troubles in horses." Ma Yazi looked at Li Jing with a look of hope.

"It's a talent!" Li Jing nodded. He was a guy who knew how to be a horse, raise horses, and worked as a veterinarian part-time job, but he was a real talent. No matter how many such people there were, Li Jing didn't bother too much, so he waved his hand and accepted it.

In this way, there were a few self-reporters, including those who whistled the trumpets, those who drove the pigmen, as well as tents, coroners, butchers, shoemakers, and even a matchmaker and a midwife. Li Jing simply waved his hand and accepted them all. Zhang Hong registered and counted them one by one, and finally there were 63 people of famous craftsmen. Li Jing picked out their family members from the refugees, and together they were 237 people of old and young. In addition to the sixty-three craftsmen, there were 31 young and 33 young and 63 young and 33 young and 33 young and 33 young and 33 young and 3.

"The craftsmen were organized into the craftsmen team alone, and the young and strong men formed another team, and the young and old formed a team together, and divided them into three teams. First take them to have a hot meal, then take them a hot bath, change them into clean clothes, and live in three yards." Li Jing ordered Cui Zhiyuan, the new aide.

"Okay, I'll do it right away. In addition to the 237 people we picked out, there are still more than 800 people who have registered."

Li Jing pondered for a while and said, "Let Zhang Chengye and Liu Shouqian each select fifty strong and willing people to join the military team, and let Liu Shouqian pick up a hundred honest couples who are complete and capable of farming from the rest, let them be the tenants of my Li family, and stay to help cultivate the more than 1,000 acres of land in the Li family. In this way, we will probably accept five to six hundred people, and the remaining two or three hundred people, let the other gentry divide into each family to be tenant servants."
Chapter completed!