Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 218

The news of Yanwang Mansion's recruitment of personal guards spread throughout Tianjin City almost instantly.

For the people big and small in Tianjin, this is a pretty good opportunity. Coupled with Li Tai's support for them, there is an endless stream of people who come to serve as Li Tai's personal guards.

Not only ordinary people, but even families big and small in Youzhou wanted to squeeze people in.

After all, compared to the ordinary people who either eat their own food or are grateful to Li Tai, the Youzhou family and Li Tai are a real combination of interests.

Regardless of planting plans, investment in Cangzhou, or selling salt, for the Youzhou family, being able to place people next to Li Tai is a way of showing their loyalty.

Zu'an said earnestly to Zu Changming, "Changming, it is a very good opportunity for King Yan to recruit personal guards this time.

You don't want to embarrass our ancestral family, you must be included in Yan Wang's personal guards! "

"Father, King Yan is just a prince, even if I become King Yan's personal guard, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave Youzhou!" Zu Changming said.

"Idiot!" Zaan knocked Zu Changming's head hard, said,
"Do you know that many people, big and small, have robbed the identity of the Youzhou family!
Not to mention the current age of King Yan, just say that our ancestral family has invested heavily in the planting plan and the Cangzhou plan, so you should hug King Yan's legs tightly for me. I will go up there with my life! "

"Father, go up, I'm afraid he's dead!" Hearing Zu An's words, Zu Changming wondered if this was his own father?

"You can go to the family tree even if you die, maybe you can create a new one!" Zu'an reassured,

"If you die for King Yan, then my ancestors' investment in the planting plan and Cangzhou will be completely secure.

Then it's not impossible for my ancestor's family and Lu's family to compete for the county prestige of Youzhou! "

"..." Zu Changming opened his mouth, but he didn't want to say anything, and snorted, "Then I'm leaving!"

Although Zu'an spoke directly, but for Zu'an, who was raised by the family from a young age and valued the country more than the family, he understood that King Yan really had direct interests linked to his family.

Keeping Li Tai is to stabilize this line of interest. If Li Tai dies, the entire line of interest will be in turmoil.

And a lonely family like the ancestor's family may not have any advantages whether compared with the imperial court or the Fan Yang Lu family.

Because Li Tai does things fairly, and has never been in the habit of bullying those small families. Basically, how much money you pay, you can get as much benefit.

But people like Fan Yang Lu's or Hedong Wei's family may not want to get more. For some small aristocratic families who are at most only the first rank of county prestige, or even worse, Li Tai's existence is too important.

At the same time, the corvee who was working for Wang Zhenru also heard the news that Li Tai was recruiting soldiers.

Of course, in addition to getting food stamps every month, two sets of clothes are rewarded every quarter. The most important thing is that anyone who becomes Li Tai's soldiers can be exempted from corvee and tax, and they can also give gifts to their families during festivals. Some benefits.

Each of these conditions is very exciting, not to mention that they are all integrated together.

"King Yan is recruiting soldiers, tell me, how about I go!" A thick-backed and cheeky man, carrying a basket of bricks, asked the people around him eagerly, obviously very interested.

"Leitou, how old are you!" The people around looked at the big man and couldn't help but say, "It's written in the notice, it only wants a young man between fifteen and 20 years old. You look like this, don't say 30 years old!"

"Fuck off, I'm 19 years old, and I'm growing up a little bit anxious!" The cheeky man stroked his beard and said angrily.

"Oh~" The people around heard the words of the big man with cheeks, and responded suspiciously.

But someone next to him said, "Leitou, even if you are 19 years old, you can't do it.

You escaped from Fanyang when you were hit by a disaster a few years ago, and there are no parents on it.

It can be said here that the parents need to be alive, otherwise you can eat enough for one person, and the whole family will not be hungry, so there is no point in giving you tax exemption! "

"Why do you still have such a request!" Hearing this, Lei Tou reluctantly picked up his backpack and said, "It's so boring!"

"If Leitou really wants to sign up, I'll write a letter of recommendation and be a guarantor, and I can sign up!"

At this time, Wang Zhenru looked at Lei Tou's face and said calmly,
"Of course not only Leitou, but also other corvees. As long as I am old enough, I can be the guarantor. I recommend you to go!"

"Wang Zhubo, is this true? Will it affect you?" Lei Tou asked Wang Zhenru with some hesitation.

After all, if there were only one or two people, Wang Zhenru's promise to the first guarantor's letter would definitely pass.

But Wang Zhenru took such a big deal to choose Yan Wang's personal guards to fill in, no matter how you look at it, it looks like courting death!
"This is an order from the King of Yan, because the Tianjin corvee has made outstanding contributions to the construction of Gaoling, so it is a special honor.

As long as the corvee origin in Tianjin, the corvee of the right age and have worked for more than one year, can enjoy this registration discount.

But this only helps you solve the registration problem, but you still need to take the test, and you can't get in if you are brushed off. "

"That's good too!" Hearing Wang Zhenru's words, Lei Tou was excited.

Of course, it's not just Leitou, but also many young people who have gained muscle and bronzed skin from working in the Gaoling corvee. They are all full of enthusiasm.

In addition to Tianjin corvee, the other part is those ordinary people who come to live in Tianjin for various reasons, and they are also happy to see their relatives sign up.

Some of these people have their own land, because the national policy is to allocate land to these people.

Although Li Tai selected some people to enter the large farm for large-scale agricultural experiments.

However, the government still gave these people a lot of farm tools in a half-sell and half-gift method, encouraging them to reclaim the land.

After all, the situation in Tianjin City, or the whole of Youzhou, is that there are many people and few lands. Encouraging them to cultivate fields will increase the overall income of Youzhou.

And some of them entered Li Tai's large-scale farms. The people here were not so much tenants as agricultural workers. Most of them were paid monthly, so at least they didn't have to worry about starving to death.

At the same time, following the agricultural students, these agricultural workers will master relatively cutting-edge agricultural technology and use the most advanced agricultural technology.

Some people, after accumulating enough wealth, will find a way to buy fields and use the agricultural technology of Yanwang Mansion to cultivate their own fields.

After all, for the vast majority of ordinary people, it is self-taught to pluck the wool of socialism.

Li Tai did not stop this kind of behavior, but punished one if he found one.

But after punishment, certain tools are allowed to be borrowed for a fee, and a deposit is required.

To be honest, many things are actually not suitable for ordinary people with less land.

Because a lot of heavy-power equipment needs to plow enough fields, the cost of use can be diluted, and the effect can really be brought into play.

In contrast, these people just want to take advantage of it, and it is a waste to give them a lot of things.

But no matter what, Li Tai finally gave them a chance to live. More importantly, Li Tai can have a plan for Tianjin City, so that the environment of Tianjin City will continue to be excellent, and they will be able to enjoy Tianjin. dividends of urban development.

Although for the aristocratic family, the dividends these common people received might not even count as soup.

But as long as Tianjin City is developing, many problems that belong to Tianjin City can be easily covered up by economic development.

At this time, Li Tai released the news of recruiting personal guards, which also seemed to activate this layer of ripples.

Compared with the aristocratic family, the people at the bottom don't know what this means, but they will still respond to this matter out of instinct.

Especially in this martial-minded Zhenguan, being a soldier is never a bad choice.

Not to mention, for the local people, Li Tai is a good official, and the benefits given this time are good, so his son serving as Li Tai's personal guard is also a step for his son to advance, and each of them may not think about it. Very long-term, but very happy.

So Li Tai's recruiting of personal guards this time, the whole class in Youzhou City was quite enthusiastic after all.

But what surprised Li Tai the most was that when the list of five hundred personal guards came down this time, there were only more than a hundred people from aristocratic families and only a hundred people from ordinary people who were finally selected. The people who passed the most were those who graduated from agricultural schools students.

Most of them are not over 20 years old!
For the students of the agricultural college, some of them were corvée in Tianjin, the management of the saltworks, and the technology of the farm, but for the students of these agricultural colleges, all of these were incomparable to Li Tai's status as a soldier.

Let’s not talk about this group of agricultural students from Youzhou Branch, because they will have 800 graduation quotas until next year, and most of the students from agricultural schools come from Gaoling, Chang’an.

Most of the students who are willing to come have some kind of ambition in their hearts.

After all, if a normal person doesn't want to stay in his own home with peace of mind, he wants to go outside for a living!
As for the agricultural students who rushed over, even if they didn't know that the closer they were to Li Tai, the more beneficial they would be, there would always be a few smart people among so many people.

These people know how to form cliques, knowing that they are weak if they follow Li Tai alone. Of course, Duoduo recruits students who are also from agricultural colleges to join Li Tai's personal guards.

Therefore, the proportion of students from Li Tai Agricultural College who passed the selection has greatly increased.

Needless to say, compared to the family members and ordinary people, the people in charge of the assessment under Li Tai's command, even if they can't let go of students from agricultural schools, at least they won't be too strict. Son of Heaven student.

However, as soon as these people came to Li Tai's personal guard camp, Lu Anshou and Ren Yaxiang immediately began to train them.

On the first day of training, Ren Yaxiang said coldly, "Everyone runs twenty miles first, and those who can't finish are not allowed to have lunch!"

These personal guards already knew that this day would be miserable, but they didn't expect that the first day would be so miserable.

But what can they do, it's still the same sentence, since Ren Yaxiang has spoken, they can only run away!
"Is it so miserable!" Lu Anshou held a chicken leg in his hand, and gnawed the chicken leg clean in a few bites, leaving only one bone.

Ren Yaxiang looked at Lu Anshou, if he couldn't beat him, he must teach him a lesson.

Ren Yaxiang looked at Lu Anshou and said, "You don't seem to be so casual in front of King Yan!"

"Naturally! King Yan is not here!" Lu Anshou said naturally,
"You, on the other hand, had a dead face under General Su, and you still have a dead face now. Who will you show your face to?"

"..." Ren Yaxiang listened to Lu Anshou's words, but said in a deep voice, "Smiley face, definitely not a good soldier in the army!"

"Up to you!" Hearing this, Lu Anshou didn't want to pursue it any further, but said, "I'll go see what's for lunch!"

Ren Yaxiang glanced at Lu Anshou in surprise, because if he remembered correctly, the chicken bone in Lu Anshou's hand hadn't left for a long time, and he was hungry again.

"His strength should be stronger than I expected!"

Normally, the strength of a general is directly proportional to his appetite, especially in this world with true qi, the idea of ​​extracting the true qi of the world and refining it out of thin air does not exist, only one bite at a time Eat and get the nutrients in your food.

Of course, Ren Yaxiang didn't pay much attention to it. After all, being able to eat it just shows that you can transform your true energy, not the actual combat power. It's a pity that you can't beat it.

Ren Yaxiang said behind him, "Show me the menu too, to see what King Yan has prepared?"

"Okay!" Lu Anshou replied calmly, and soon delivered a menu to Ren Yaxiang.

Ren Yaxiang looked at the menu and muttered, "Meat is available every day? Why do our soldiers only deliver it once every half a month!"

"You said they are just government soldiers, it would be nice to eat once every half a month, okay?"

Lu Anshou looked at the menu handed over, picked his teeth and said,

"Besides, it's not beef every day, the main thing is mutton!"

"Why, fresh seafood is marked here, but nothing specific is marked!" Ren Yaxiang asked again.

"Isn't it strange? When this fishing boat comes back from fishing, we can only know what to eat on the same day." Lu Anshou said, "But it's a pity that winter is coming in the north. It would be fine if the Bohai Sea didn't freeze. Now, you can only avoid it for a few months!"

"..." Ren Yaxiang was full of desire to complain, but he didn't know how to complain, so he pointed at one place and said,

"What does it mean to choose green vegetables by yourself? Winter is coming, where do you get green vegetables?"

"Well, the students of the Agricultural Institute have researched a winter greenhouse to ensure that green vegetables can be grown in winter.

It was successfully planted last year, and the King of Yan was afraid that the soldiers would not be used to eating it, so he asked them to choose a few vegetables and grow them in winter! "

Lu Anshou explained in detail, looked up and saw Ren Yaxiang, who no longer had a dead face, but a little red eyes, and said, "It's a pity it's not spring and summer, and there will be more things to eat then!"

"Isn't that too much!" Ren Yaxiang said, "Do you know what kind of food our soldiers in the Tang Dynasty eat?"

"Uh... we are now training as the personal guards of the King of Yan, not the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!" Lu Anshou hurriedly comforted him.

(End of this chapter)