Mi Han

Chapter 161
Although most of the people who came from the north to the south were old and weak, women and children, there were still many young and strong.

Compared with ordinary young and strong farmers, they who have experienced the farming system are better trained than ordinary young and strong farmers.

Moreover, they were originally from Jingzhou. In the case of strong local concepts in ancient times, they have the ties to their hometown, and their loyalty will definitely be better than those Wu soldiers who were captured by Mi Yang.

Mi Yang selected soldiers from tens of thousands of people, and he did not search aimlessly. He opened several recruiting offices outside Xiangyang City.

In order to attract the young and strong people who just went south to join his army at his recruiting place, Mi Yang hung a banner outside the recruiting place that he favored as general Mi Yang.

On the one hand, he ordered people to shout the benefits he proposed in the temporary settlements of the people outside Xiangyang City.

Just eight big characters: "Three meals a day, one meat a day."

Mi Yang knows very well that most of the young and strong who were born as peasants in this world are illiterate. They don't understand the military merit system, let alone righteousness.

Food is the most important thing for the people. For the young and strong born in poverty, what they need most is to fill their stomachs.

That being the case, then Mi Yang will start from the point they desire most.

Different from later generations, in this world, the main meals of ordinary families are only two meals a day.

As for meat, it is a precious thing that ordinary families can hardly imagine for a year.

The eight-character treatment of "three meals a day, one meat for seven days" seems to be nothing to the people of later generations.

But these eight words fell among the Jingzhou people who had just returned to the south, but they caused waves of violent commotion.

Among the tens of thousands of Jingzhou people returning to the south, they have never had a full stomach since the war, let alone tasted meat.

How can they not be excited when they are faced with the preferential treatment that they never dreamed of!
Because it was too unreal, many people didn't believe the eight words Mi Yang promised at first.

But those soldiers who are Mi Yang's mouthpiece are promoting Mi Yang's recruiting treatment on the one hand, and promoting Mi Yang on the other hand.

When tens of thousands of people learned of Mi Yang's identity and his reputation in the world, they were shocked.

Then many people began to be a little moved by the preferential treatment proposed by Mi Yang.

Anyway, I was already starving to death, why not give it a try?
The nephew of King Hanzhong should not lie.

When some pioneers started to act, more people were mobilized.

Not long after, attracted by Mi Yang's eight characters, nearly ten thousand hungry young adults flocked to Mi Yang's recruiting place from all directions.

This spectacular scene, like a surging tide, has become a unique landscape outside Xiangcheng during this period of time.

It also attracted many generals of the Han army in the city to come out to watch.

They were also a little dumbfounded when they learned about the recruiting treatment of "three meals a day, one meat for seven days" proposed by Mi Yang.

They looked at the soldiers behind them, and found that they were also a little moved when they looked at Mi Yang's recruiting office.

This made them frown slightly.

In the words of later generations, Mi Yang is trying to drag them.

But they could only complain silently in their hearts about Mi Yang's approach, and they were not dissatisfied.

Because of this preferential treatment, it is not unique in many Han armies. For example, the Baimu soldiers of the Hanzhong King's army had similar treatment.

And Mi Yang dared to propose such a generous enlistment treatment because he had a rich father who used his private money to subsidize the military and train elite soldiers to serve the country. No one could be dissatisfied.

Those generals of the Han army could only sigh a long time in the end.

It's just that the generous treatment proposed by Mi Yang has attracted almost all the young men returning from the south outside Xiangyang City to his recruiting office.

But Mi Yang's requirements are quite strict, so after several days of selection, many people did not meet Mi Yang's recruitment requirements.

In the end, after several days of screening, Mi Yang only selected less than two thousand elite soldiers.

Such a small number of people, of course, cannot satisfy Mi Yang.

Therefore, in the past few days, he has been bringing a few friends with him, and has been shuttling between the recruiting office outside Xiangyang and tens of thousands of people, supervising the progress of the conscription.

At this time, outside a recruiting office set up by Mi Yang in the east of the city, there was a long queue queuing up.

There are thousands of people in this long queue, and these thousands of young and strong people are looking at the flag of the Mi clan flying high not far in front of them with fiery eyes.

Many of the thousands of people from the same hometown and old friends were successfully selected as Mi Yang's soldiers.

According to the propaganda of the young and strong who were successfully selected, they ate meat on the first day after being selected.

In the next few days, he would have three meals a day as promised by Mi Yang.

When the news was spread by those who had personally experienced it, the hearts of those who hadn't acted yet, or those who had just arrived from Nangui, became extremely hot in an instant.

They don't believe that their old folks will lie to them, not to mention that everyone says so.

And among the long queue of thousands of people, there is Deng Ai who just went south.

He looked forward to the Mi clan's battle flag in front of him with more fiery eyes than anyone else.

Mi Yang has already become Deng Ai's half idol because of the first battle of the police.

Moreover, Mi Yang's status is precious, and his future is limitless.

If you can fight with such a person, whether it is for your own development or the pursuit of your own emotions, it is the best choice.

There might even be a chance to save his mother.

So when he heard the news that Mi Yang was recruiting troops, Deng Ai was overjoyed.

He knew that the opportunity must not be missed, so he immediately asked an old man in the clan to help him take care of his mother first, and then he quickly came to the recruitment office at the east gate.

The "eight characters" conscription treatment proposed by Mi Yang also made Deng Ai feel a sense of identity with Mi Yang.

It is Deng Ai's concept of army management to eat first and then soldiers.

Now he saw that Mi Yang was willing to spend a lot of money to achieve this, which made Deng Ai feel that Mi Yang was what he had been looking for, the person he could assist in doing great things.

After a long queue, it was finally Deng Ai's turn.

Deng Ai stepped forward full of expectation, and he came to Wang An.

Mi Yang's army was first established, and there were not many capable men under him. Although Wang An was not talented, he was very loyal and diligent, so Mi Yang arranged him to be the person in charge of his East Gate Recruitment Office.

When Wang An saw Deng Ai approaching him, he first took a good look at Deng Ai's figure.

It can be seen that although he is thin, he is more than seven feet long, has a straight face, and has slender limbs. From the appearance, he meets the requirements for conscription set by Mi Yang.

Wang An nodded in satisfaction.

Seeing Wang An looking at him and nodding, Deng Ai was overjoyed.

But before Deng Ai was happy, Deng Ai's heart sank when he heard Wang An ask him his name and place of origin.

Growing up, he was humiliated too much because of his stuttering.

Now he is expected to join Mi Yang's command, and he doesn't want to lose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because of his stuttering.

But as he kept silent, Wang An's suspicion was instantly aroused.

Conscription is important, but it is necessary to prevent recruiting unruly people from the north.

The name, place of origin, and the accent of the visitor are all important criteria for judging.

Today, Deng Ai kept silent in the face of Wang An's ordinary inquiries, which of course made Wang An suspicious.

Suspicious, Wang An urged Deng Ai to answer his question again.

Seeing the suspicious look on Wang An's face, Deng Ai had no choice but to answer: "I, my name is Deng Ai, I'm Shi Zai, and I'm from Yiyang."

This sentence was spoken by Deng Ai in Jingzhou local dialect.

When Deng Ai went to the north, he was already a teenager, so of course he could speak his hometown dialect.

And when he answered Wang An, he also spoke an authentic Jingbei accent.

Originally, all these were enough to initially dispel Wang An's doubts, but unexpectedly, after Deng Ai answered Wang An, a burst of laughter broke out in the team behind Deng Ai.

No wonder why I didn't speak just now, it turned out to be stuttering.

Even the little official beside Wang An, who was in charge of registering the names and places of origin of enlisted soldiers, couldn't help chuckling when he found out that Deng Ai had a stutter.

Human prejudice is like a time bomb, as long as it is detonated, it will only bring harm.

Even if the status of the people behind Deng Ai was not higher than him, it didn't affect them wantonly laughing at him.

After the ridicule, some people in Deng Ai's team began to clamor for Deng Ai to retreat.

"What are you doing? People who can't even speak clearly want to join General Mi's command, why don't you get out of the way quickly."

"Working with such a person, if you let him deliver orders, it will harm everyone, get out of here."

Even the people behind Deng Ai had already started to push and push Deng Ai.

All kinds of ugly words came to Deng Ai's ears, but this did not shake Deng Ai's resolve.

Over the years, he has been humiliated and ridiculed because of his stuttering.

Under this kind of torture, Deng Ai's determination has already been far stronger than that of his peers.

Those with great ambition must have great tolerance.

Faced with the push and push of the people behind him, Deng Ai's body remained motionless.

He looked at Wang An with expectant eyes, he knew that whether he could join Mi Yang's command now was all a word from the person in front of him.

Among all the people present, Wang An was the only one who didn't make fun of his stuttering just now.

Wang An saw Deng Ai's expectant eyes, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

He used to be ridiculed because of his low background and illiteracy.

That's why he felt sympathy for Deng Ai who had a similar experience with him just now and did not laugh at him like others.

It's just that he can't make a decision about whether he wants to recruit Deng Ai into the army.

Although Mi Yang did not expressly say that people who stutter cannot join the army, but he hastily included a person who couldn't speak a single word into the army. If Mi Yang was blamed for this matter, Wang An could not afford it.

Just when Wang An was in a dilemma and couldn't make a decision, and when the hope in Deng Ai's heart was losing a little bit, a sincere voice reached the ears of Deng Ai and the people around him.

"If people who stutter enlist in the army, they should be fired, so shouldn't those who push the front row and disturb the recruiting team be killed?"

"What Zicheng said is true, of course he should be killed!"

When two gentle but murderous voices reached the ears of everyone present, the recruiting team that had already begun to commotion fell silent immediately.

Maybe the deterrence brought by the two voices was not enough, but after the two voices came out, dozens of cavalrymen had already drawn their long knives around their waists.

They rushed to the recruiting team and surrounded all the people in the front row who pushed Deng Ai just now.

Under the threat of the flashing blade, everyone present was shocked at once.

At this time, Deng Ai turned his head to look in the direction of the voice, and he looked at the person who rescued him.

He saw several young cavalry generals coming into his eyes, and the first one was a young man in a Hu suit and a martial crown on his head.

When Mi Yang rode on a tall horse, his heroic look of raising his whip fell into Deng Ai's eyes, and Deng Ai's eyes showed various complex expressions.

Some are touched, some are excited, some are delighted, and some are worshipped.

In his life, no one but his mother would come to his rescue when he was being teased because of his stuttering.

there has never been!

This caused a deep warmth to flash in his heart.

And the person who rescued him was the one he had been thinking about all this time, Mi Zisheng who became famous in that battle.

This was also General Mi whom he wanted to serve.

When Wang An and the surrounding Han soldiers saw Mi Yang's appearance, they knelt down to salute Mi Yang and called out to the general.

The battle flags of the Mi Clan on everyone's heads fluttered in the cold wind. When Wang An and a group of Han soldiers called out the word "General", the rest of the people present did not know who the young leader in front of them was.

Seeing that Mi Yang, who was famous all over the world, had arrived in person, the long dragon of thousands of people fell to his knees in an instant, and those who just laughed and pushed Deng Ai were already ashamed with fright.

Mi Yang looked at the scene in front of him with a gloomy expression on his face.

Just now, when he and Guan Ping visited the east gate, they noticed some commotion in the recruiting office of the east gate. After getting closer, they found that someone was laughing at a stammering young man.

This made Mi Yang very upset.

Whether such a person is suitable for enlisting in the army will not be mentioned for the time being.

In the previous life, Mi Yang hated this act of laughing at a person with an incomplete body at will.

Mi Yang pointed at Wang An with a horsewhip, ordering him to come under him and report the details to him.

Wang An immediately ran to Mi Yang's horse, and Mi Yang leaned over to listen to all Wang An's reports.

When he heard Wang An say that the person in front of him was named Deng Ai and named Shi Zai, Mi Yang couldn't help tightening his hand holding the rein, and his eyes flashed with surprise.

Isn't this the vanguard who killed his big man in the previous life?

But now Mi Yang is also a person who has seen the big world, so he quickly concealed his surprise in his heart.

After listening to Wang An's report, Mi Yang whispered a few words to Wang An.

Then he straightened up and ordered to the cavalry who surrounded those who disturbed the recruiting team just now: "Take them all away, and take them into prison."

When Mi Yang's order came out, those people's faces turned pale, and they all knelt down and begged for mercy, but Mi Yang's cavalry didn't care about them.

Under the threat of long knives, these people could only be taken away in the end.

After doing this, Mi Yang pretended to glance at Deng Ai inadvertently, and then he was about to leave with Guan Ping and the others.

But when Deng Ai saw that Mi Yang just glanced at him and was about to leave, he was very anxious.

He thought that Mi Yang was just helping him out of the siege, and had no intention of recruiting him into the army.

Thinking of his old mother suffering from illness in the shanty town, thinking of his ambitions, and thinking of the humiliation he had suffered in the past 20 years, Deng Ai made a decision that was unexpected for everyone present.

He quickly rushed to the front of Mi Yang with his vigorous body, and then stretched out his hands to block the way of Mi Yang's horse.

This scene also greatly exceeded Mi Yang's expectations. At this time, the horse had already started to move under his gallop, but fortunately, Mi Yang reacted very quickly. In order not to hurt Deng Ai, Mi Yang tightly pulled the reins and forced to start. The starting horse stopped.

There was a loud horse cry, and the strong horse's hoof was raised high three steps in front of Deng Ai, and then fell heavily, stirring up a cloud of dust on the ground.

And Mi Yang leaned back on the horse because of inertia.

Immediately after this scene happened, dozens of screams appeared around: "Bold!"

Dozens of saber unsheathed sounds sounded, and dozens of surrounding soldiers stepped forward and surrounded Deng Ai.

Facing the dangerous situation of being surrounded by dozens of male Wuhan troops, Deng Ai had no fear on his face.

He bowed deeply to Mi Yang in front of him, and pleaded expectantly: "Ai, Ai has a strategy to offer to the general."

Give me a chance to fully explain, just once!
Deng Ai's eyes were already full of pleading.

(End of this chapter)