Three Kingdoms: Prosper Han from the beginning of brushing favorability

Chapter 127 Army Expansion and Flesh Cutting

"You don't need to go into the city, just come with me." The staff of Zhao's firm who received the news and was in charge of responding at the Chengdu Wharf laughed.

Chai Rong and the others followed him to the outskirts of Chengdu in confusion, and they became more and more curious about Song Gongming's identity.

After walking for a while, they finally came to the huge military camp built of logs.

Even though it is in the safe hinterland of Xichuan, it is still built like a regular military camp, with watchtowers at the four corners and banners flying on the wooden walls.

But this is not what surprised Chai Rong the most. What really surprised him was the long queue of young and strong people at the gate of the barracks...

When Chai Rong arrived, it was the day when Liu Chan was selected for expansion.

Although the recruitment notice was only conveyed to Shu County where Chengdu is located and neighboring Guanghan, it still caused quite a stir.

Liu Chan did not select soldiers from Lao Liu's army. Although those soldiers had a certain foundation, they were basically used to the life of an ordinary army.

Both daily drills and combat habits are very different from those of the Red Star Army. It is difficult to form habits from scratch, and it is even more difficult to get rid of old habits and form new ones.

So he chose to recruit recruits, and the scope was the same as that of ordinary recruits, recruiting "good family sons".

But because the registration was based on a voluntary principle, something unexpected happened.

Unlike the general conscription, which recruited all the children of self-cultivating farmers, this time the conscription was unprecedentedly grand, and the main force who registered became the shadow households of wealthy landlords...

Shady households are different from slaves. A considerable part of the shady households are actively attached to powerful families, and they are still free in legal terms.

Of course, this is only legally speaking.

There are too many things to talk about in the Fa, and it is still a matter of how much can be strictly enforced.

At least if these shady households are in normal times, no matter whether you are actively attached to them or occupied by evil tyrants, they have plenty of ways to keep you from getting out of control.

However, the situation this time is a bit special. This time, the prince wants to recruit his own army.

The self-cultivating farmers originally had land, so they were not so interested in relocating their family to become the prince's shadow household. Besides, they had never actually seen the living conditions of the prince's family members.

With land at home, who wants to be someone else's shade household?

Therefore, there are very few respondents.

But those shaded households of rich families are different. They have no land in the first place, so who should be the shaded households?The conditions given by the prince are much better than those of the current family.

For a while, the Zhang, Du, Liu, and Ren families in the vicinity of Chengdu all had a large number of shady households who wanted to apply.

As the announcement was delivered, the shady households of powerful families in other places also responded one after another, preparing to go to Chengdu.

Due to the intensification of land annexation at the end of the Han Dynasty, the population of shade households in many places even exceeded the population registered by the government.

The number of personnel responding to enlistment was unprecedented.

Now I am worried about those powerful families, and the prince recruits his own army, and they are not easy to stop them by force.

It is against the law to restrict the freedom of coming and going of shady households. Normally, it would be a few pounds if you don't get on the scale.

And the prince didn't forcibly enlist their shady households, so he had nowhere to reason if he wanted to raise opinions.

In the beginning, a large number of wealthy and powerful households left their original owners one after another, and rushed to Chengdu with their families...

It was not until the helpless landlords and powerful landlords lowered the land rent again and again that this momentum was stopped.

Even so, their strength was shaved off by this invisible knife, and there was nothing they could do.

Regarding the accidental weakening of the powerful clans of Shu County and Guanghan, Prince Liu Chan expressed his sincere gratitude to the clans who fully supported the expansion of the Red Star Army on the surface, while laughing in his heart.

So, there is the current grand occasion.

Fortunately, Liu Chan saw that the number of people coming far exceeded expectations and set a deadline, otherwise people might come one after another in the future.

Today is the second day of screening for the expansion of the army. Tomorrow, all the assessment work will be completed and the expansion of the Red Star Army will be officially completed.

"Is this right here?" Chai Rong and the people he brought looked at the grand occasion in front of them, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.

The guide smiled and said, "Everyone, wait here for a moment, I'll go in and make an announcement."

Liu Chan actually didn't make him wait for too long, but Chai Rong, who was anxious, felt that he had waited for a long time.

Black brocade clothes, fox fur, Liu Chan's attire at the moment made him open his mouth and didn't know what to call them.

"Master Chai, have you been away for a few months, are you okay?" Liu Chan still bowed his hands and greeted him first with a smile.

Chai Rong hastily bowed and saluted: "Don't dare, I'm... the villain Chai Rong, and I will lead a team to meet you according to the agreement. Gongming... dare to ask your lord's name?"

Liu Chan said with a smile: "You don't have to be so cautious, you have done Gu a great favor, and Gu has not thanked you yet. Gu's real name is Liu Mingchan, and he concealed his real name for some reason before, so please don't blame him."

Solitary... Liu Chan...

Liu Bei's son?
Prince Hanzhong? !

Pfft!
Chai Rong immediately knelt down in panic.

Seeing the commander kneeling, all the people behind him, including their family members, knelt down one after another.

"Chai Rong didn't know that the Crown Prince of Hanzhong was in person, and his words offended me before, so I hope the Crown Prince will forgive me!"

It's no wonder he was so panicked all of a sudden, the identity difference between a bandit leader and the crown prince was too great.

Thinking back to the fact that he drank at the same table with the crown prince before, spoke without restraint, and even invited the crown prince to be the bandit leader...how could he not be afraid.

This time the others were also shocked, General Gong Ming...is he the crown prince?
"Prince forgive me!"

"Okay, let's all get up." Liu Chan personally stepped forward to support Chai Rong with his arms, which made him a little flattered, "It's just that I deliberately concealed it, so you don't need to be panic."

"Thank you, Prince."

After experiencing the initial panic, Chai Rong's heart suddenly throbbed again.

The person I took refuge in turned out to be the son of Liu Bei, the next leader of the Liu Bei Group.

This time the bet was right!
Judging from Liu Chan's attitude towards the soldiers under his command before, as long as he waits for others to be loyal and repay them, he has a better future than being a bandit.

Liu Chan pointed to the recruiting brigade behind him and said loudly: "Since you have come to join the orphans, you have to follow the standards of the orphans, so you have to participate in the selection before you can join the army. You can live a worry-free life."

In this regard, Chai Rong and others have no objection.

Then Liu Chan said to Chai Rong: "Since you join our Scarlet Star Army, you have to start from scratch and be equal to the recruits. All the previous affiliations of generals will be cancelled, can you think about it?"

Chai Rong nodded without hesitation: "Everything is according to the arrangement of the prince... the prince."

There was no turning back when he opened the bow. Now that he had arrived in Chengdu, he was determined to follow Liu Chan.

"Okay! The lonely Red Star Army will not bury talents. If you are really capable, you will have a place as a general." Liu Chan patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and then saw the baby in his wife's arms. Your son?"

Chai Rong nodded: "Yes."

"Can you have a name?"

"In the case of the prince, he only took his baby name." It was Chai Rong's wife who answered.

The husband and wife looked at Liu Chan with bright eyes. Could it be that the crown prince wants to give the child a name?
This is a great honor!

Liu Chan did have this intention, anyway, Chai Rong did him a big favor, even if he didn't have any great achievements in the Red Star Army in the future, by virtue of the fact that he gave his son a name, their family should be able to get along here Well done.

Originally, he became very playful after knowing that this person was called Chai Rong, and wanted the child to be called Chai Zongxun...but thinking about it, it was a bit unlucky.

And at this time, the three-character name is a humble name, and giving the three-character name is an insult, so I gave up.

"Or call him Chai Jin." Liu Chan said with a smile.

"Thank you for the name!" The two who did not expect to get the name from the prince were overjoyed and bowed down again.

"Chai Jin, Jin'er, what a great name..." Chai Rong couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. It's a pity that he was uneducated and couldn't talk like Fazheng explained the word "Red Star". He could only keep praising. I don't know where it is.

At the beginning of the establishment of the shanty town, Liu Chan reserved many empty houses for subsequent military expansion.

Anyway, the cost of yellow mud houses and rammed earth walls is not high.

It is not a problem to arrange Chai Rong and others.

However, because the number of other unsuccessful shade households far exceeds Liu Chan's expectation, it is impossible to give this treatment.

What Liu Chan originally thought was that if he recruited good families, they would have a livelihood. Even if they lost the election, they would not need to pay them a travel fee to go home as they did before resettling refugees.

But now that the people who come here are wealthy and powerful, there is absolutely no reason to let them go back.

So Liu Chan threw this problem to Lao Liu. Lao Liu was also happy to see the results of weakening the big clan, so he decided to resettle these people in Hanzhong.

Each household is given land according to its population, and preferential tax reduction and exemption policies are given, allowing them to utilize a large amount of idle land in the Hanzhong Plain.

After Boss Cao moved in, Hanzhong had a lot of good land, but there was a shortage of land farmers.

After several days of selection, the Scarlet Star Army finally expanded to 2000 people.

Less than half of Chai Rong's people were wiped out, which shocked him by Liu Chan's strict selection of people.

But many of the people he brought were tough Danyang people, and they had been bandits for so long, so it was a pity to let them lose the election and enter the shantytowns for fear of causing chaos.

So Liu Chan reciprocated and recommended these people to Lao Liu, who were enriched in the Central Army, and some of them were selected into the Baimu soldiers.

The Red Star Army, which has doubled in size, is about to usher in another round of reorganization.

At the same time, Chai Rong, who came from Jiangdong, also brought the latest news about Soochow...

(End of this chapter)