Jinghong Tower

As soon as He Ran sent the reply to Xinggu, the third group of people recruited this time arrived at Qingcang Mountain.

This batch was obviously more efficient than the previous two batches. He Ran looked at it and found that the number of female soldiers was also more than the previous two batches.

She asked specifically. It turned out that King Jin had added land tax. There was no way. King Jin not only had to fight with the court, but also with Wu Dongming. Except for Cai Jie and his son, they could not get the Cai family's money bag. King Jin We are still short of money, very short!

This time's land tax has made things worse for those who are not wealthy.

Although the King of Jin was also recruiting soldiers, he only recruited male soldiers, but He Ran recruited both men and women.

For many families in this era, a girl is a loser. She has worked hard to raise her and may not be able to get a gift of ten taels of silver. It is better to sell her to the army. No matter whether she lives or dies, the ten taels of silver are real money.

You even have to tell me that when you are a soldier, you have military pay and you are not allowed to spend it. You have to find a way to send it home to supplement your family's income. You have military rations to eat in the army, how can you bear to let your brothers at home go hungry? Your conscience has been eaten by dogs.

As for which army they are going to, whether it will be inconvenient for girls to eat and live together with male soldiers, whether they will die in the war, these are not important. Those who send their daughters to apply for the army do not ask at all, they only care Should the ten taels of silver be given in person? Some people even asked if they could advance military pay now.

After hearing these things, He Ran felt deep sadness in her heart. It was the same situation in her previous life when she was recruiting soldiers. Decades later, it still hasn't changed.

He Ran picked up the roster and looked at it. Most of the girls did not have decent names, such as the second sister of the big flower coming to Di Zhaodi. He Ran took out the rosters from the first two batches. They were all the same, with names like Taohua Chunhua. , already considered decent.

"Ask Yin Xiucai and He Aiping to take a few students to Maple Ridge to name and write down the names of the new recruits."

They were warriors, people who wanted to follow her through life and death. They wanted to have their own dignity. She couldn't let them not even have a decent name.

He Ran still remembered that when she changed Li Daya's name to Li Jinxiu and wrote her name on a piece of paper, Li Jinxiu couldn't read at that time. She ran outside with the piece of paper with her name written on it. Hold it up high, watch the sun shine through the paper, and put a gold edge on those three words.

Many years later, when Li Jinxiu was sitting upright in high-quality makeup, what flashed in He Ran's mind was still the girl giggling at her name.

The next day, Yin Xiucai and He Aiping took the students to Maple Ridge. Lu Zhen heard that they came here specially to name the new recruits, and he was extremely curious.

A few tables were specially set up for them to set up stalls outside the training ground, so that the soldiers could come and name them when they were taking a break from training.

He wanted to see if anyone really wanted to change the names given by his parents.

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhen was surprised on the first day. There were long queues at all the naming stalls. Not only did they want to change their names, some people even wanted to change their surnames.

One of the first batch of female soldiers recruited strongly requested to change her surname. She did not have a name, only a surname. Her surname was Lin. When recruiting, you must write your name, so her name was Lin Nu.

Lin Nv told He Aiping that she was sold by her family before she could remember, and was sold as a child bride to a family whose surname was Lin. She had done all kinds of work since she was a child, and even cooked for a large family before she had a stove. Last year, her husband went to work as a waiter in a shop in the city. The second shopkeeper of the shop took a fancy to him and wanted to marry his daughter to him. Not long ago, when the man came home and told her, the family decided to sell her. They happened to hear that the army was recruiting this time. He even wanted a girl and gave her ten taels of silver, so he sent her to serve as a soldier.

Ms. Lin asked to change her surname. She didn't know what her surname was. She was sold and her family never took care of her. She didn't know her original surname, but she didn't want to follow that family's surname of Lin. She wanted to be surnamed He.

With a stroke of his pen, He Aiping wrote the three characters He Tianai on the paper, followed by another person whose surname was He. Lu Zhen's eyes widened when he saw it. Not only did he change his name, but he also changed his surname. If you want to change your surname, just change your surname. Why should you follow He Ran?

If you pay attention carefully, you will see that there are quite a few people who changed their surnames, and all of them asked to change their surnames to He.

Some of those who changed their surnames, like He Tianai, did not know what their surname was. Others wanted to completely separate themselves from their original families by changing their surnames. In this case, almost all of them were female soldiers.

For example, He Changying was not forced by her family to become a soldier. She escaped from her family.

When she was twelve years old, she married a lame man in his thirties in exchange for her brother's marriage.

Although the lame man was disabled, it did not prevent him from beating his wife to death.

On the fifth day after her marriage, He Changying ran back to her parents' home. She was beaten and bruised all over her body. The twelve-year-old girl fainted like a rag doll at the entrance of the village and was carried home by the villagers.

His father and his mother didn't say a word and sent her back to the cripple himself.

Later, she ran back again. This time, she was beaten by her brother and sent back.

Now she was fifteen years old. She had grown up and had a clear mind. She heard people in the village talking about an army that wanted female soldiers, and a girl could be given ten taels of silver.

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. She ran away again, but she did not run back to her natal family, but ran to the recruitment office. She took the ten taels of silver she was given and put it into her arms. Whether it was from her natal family or her husband's family, she would be there for the rest of her life. Won't go back again.

As Lu Zhen watched and listened, he suddenly remembered that his grandmother had said that her name was given by the head master.

Lu Zhen smiled. It turned out that no matter it was He Ran or He Jinghong, these two generations of masters liked to change people's names.

He suddenly knew what excuse he would make when he saw He Ran next time, and he wanted He Ran to give him a name too.

Something even more unexpected happened to Lu Zhen. They just changed their names. All of a sudden, these new recruits were as if they had been given a shot of blood. They all held their heads high and their chests high with fighting spirit.

Looking at the soldiers who were glowing with vitality, Lu Zhen was a little puzzled.

He Aiping said with a smile: "The boss said that a name is the most basic mark of a person's existence in this world. An object with a name written on it, a stone tablet with a name engraved on it, a memory with a certain name involved, They are all traces of their existence in this world. Names are very important, so you must have an upright and resounding name.”

Lu Zhen was stunned, it turned out that that person could say such a thing.

He looked in the direction of Hejiacun, He Ran, what was she doing?

He Ran was packing her bags. She was going out. She had not forgotten her agreement with Wu Dongming. Jinyang belonged to her and she wanted to take it down.