Hearing the noise, Liu Xin didn't feel too anxious. After all, every recruiting office had soldiers drawn from the major corps to maintain order. He hurried forward and saw a tall young man dying in front of him. Grasping the collar of the recruiter's bookkeeper, I don't know what he was arguing about. While persuading him to fight, the soldier next to him tried to pull the young man's hand, but he couldn't pull it away.
The soldiers of the regular army have been trained for a long time. Those who are selected to maintain order at the recruiting office have the strength, but this soldier pulled for a long time, but the young man didn't move at all. Liu Xin nodded secretly, squeezed to the front and said, "You all stop first. , Who will talk about it first, what is going on,"
The young man still refused to let go, yelling: "If you don't agree, I won't let go,"
Liu Xin heard the voice like a drake. He walked around and saw that he was only a young man. He was tall and looked mighty from the back. From the front, his face was full of childishness. Liu Xin reached out and held him. With a little effort on his wrist, the young man was in pain. He let go of his hand with a "Ouch" and turned to Liu Xin and glared.
The soldier who was pulling there just now recognized Liu Xin, and in a panic, he knelt down on one knee to worship. Liu Xin quickly cast a look, motioned him to keep silent, turned to the boy and said, "You want to apply, just fine. Wait in line, why do you want to do it,"
The boy said bitterly: "He wouldn't want me,"
Liu Xin stretched out his hand and patted the boy's chest, and said to the book official: "I think he is tall and strong, why don't you agree to apply for him,"
Now that there are so many applicants, Liu Xin is very worried that the calligrapher will act for private purposes, deliberately weed out some people who have no way out, and recruited his own relatives. Sure enough, the calligrapher defended: "He doesn't meet the conditions."
Liu Xin thought that the book official had some selfishness, so he said, "Why doesn't he meet the requirements? You see that he is tall and powerful. It is a good material for the soldier."
The book official said with an aggrieved look: "He is too young to apply for next year,"
The boy picked up the broken gong again and said loudly, "Nonsense, I'm eighteen years old, and he deliberately made things difficult for me,"
The book official raised the account book in his hand and said: "This is a copy of the household registration book of Yamen. It is clearly remembered on it. Wei Yan, male, born in the third year of Xiping, you are only sixteen this year, and you are two years behind. I can only apply for the next year,"
These household registration books are Ma Yun’s masterpieces, and now they can play a big role. Not only can prevent age fraud when recruiting soldiers, but also play an important role in taxation, anti-theft and other daily social management.
Hearing that the young man in front of him was Wei Yan, Liu Xin was taken aback. He has been looking for Wei Yan's whereabouts since he came to Jingzhou. Who knows that he is only sixteen years old now. To a person named Wei Yan,
Wei Yan already yelled again: "Who doesn't know, you won't be recruited the year after, who will I go to when the time comes."
Liu Xin grabbed his hand and said, "Since you want to be a soldier like this, come out with me first. I will take you to meet someone and ask him if he will help."
Wei Yan softened his tone and asked, "Really,"
Liu Xin smiled and said, "Of course it is true. I will lie to you as a child."
Wei Yan muttered: "Who is a kid, not much shorter than you,"
To be honest, he also knew that no matter how entangled here, there will be no results. It is better to try his luck with this person, so he obediently followed Liu Xin and left the long dragon, Wei Yan followed Liu Xin and turned left and right. Kwai, and gradually came to the Dongcheng District. He knew that the people who lived here were high-ranking officials in Jingzhou, and ordinary people could not go in and out at will, and the person with him didn't even have to say hello to the soldiers, just like that. When I walked in, I couldn’t help but increase my confidence.
In a blink of an eye, the two came to the front of a big house. Liu Xin raised his foot and walked inside. The soldiers standing guard on both sides of the gate saluted him. Wei Yan looked up and the plaque above the gate read "Zhou Mufu". Three big characters, could not help but hesitate, hesitated,
Liu Xin turned his head, saw him standing still, and asked, "Wei Yan, why don't you leave?"
Wei Yan vaguely said: "This is the prefecture, can we go in casually,"
Liu Xin laughed and asked, "Do you know who I am?"
Wei Yan asked with a naive look: "Who are you?"
Liu Xin's face sank and said, "My name is Liu Xin,"
Wei Yan touched his head and murmured: "Liu Xin, ah, you are Lord Zhou Mu,"
Liu Xin straightened her face, her eyes widened, and stared at him and said, "Wei Yan, you know you are guilty,"
Wei Yan's heart was hairy by him, his legs softened, and he fell on his knees with a "plop" and said: "Xiaomin has eyes but no knowledge of Mount Tai, so he ran into an adult. Please forgive him, ah, I, I didn't rush into an adult either. what,"
Liu Xinqiang held back a smile, walked to Wei Yan, put his hand on the back of his head, and touched it vigorously. It happened that Jushou came over and saw Liu Xin pressing his hand on a young boy’s head, feeling it a little strange. Liu Xinchao Jushou beckoned and said: "Gongyou, come and see if you feel any difference,"
Jushou stretched out his hand on Wei Yan's head curiously, touched his head again for a long time, and said puzzledly: "There is nothing special, lord, how do you think he is different?"
Liu Xin touched Wei Yan's head, of course, to find the legendary anti-bone, but he found nothing. He didn't know how Zhuge Liang and his old man touched it out. He couldn't help but laughed, "I didn't think it was different,"
Wei Yan knelt there and was touched by the two of them, feeling bored, but he didn't dare to have a seizure, so he pouted and secretly angry.
Liu Xin had stopped laughing and said sharply to Wei Yan: "Wei Yan, you didn't rush into the official, but you disturbed the recruiting scene, what crime should you be guilty of?"
Wei Yan said unconvincedly: "I just want to be a soldier, so what is wrong,"
Liu Xin snorted coldly, and said, "There are family rules, state-owned laws, no rules and no rules, if everyone is like you, it is not a mess. I will now punish you to be a fellow in the Flying Tiger Guard. Look at your performance within the year. If you perform well, you can be a soldier. If you perform poorly, you will go home."
"Flying tiger guards, be a partner," Wei Yan also stretched out his hand and straightened out the hair that had been messed up by the two of them. He suddenly understood, and quickly kowtowed, "Thank you, my lord, for your fulfillment."
Jushou smiled and said, "Why are you still called an adult?"
Wei Yan would feel sorry, and then kowtowed to Liu Xin: "Thank you, lord,"
The guards on both sides took Wei Yan down, arranged for him to live, helped him measure his height and weight, and prepared armor and equipment. Not only the guards of the Flying Tigers, but also the men of the major army groups must also participate in daily training and get ready at any time. prepare,
Liu Xin watched Wei Yan leave, and asked Ju Xu: "Mr. Gong Yu is here at this time, do you have anything to do?"
Jushou said, "The lord, Zhang Ren, Lei Tong, and Wu Lan have been in prison for almost three months. I don’t know what the lord is going to do."
Liu Xin groaned: "These three people have some abilities, especially Zhang Ren, all talented in civil and military. It is a pity to kill him. Let's go and persuade them together to see if they can agree to return and their family members are all. Keep it in jail,"
Jushou nodded and said, "It's all closed, so a lot of food has been wasted for so long."
Liu Xin laughed unconsciously, and said jokingly: "Gong and you, even if you are in charge of the money, you don't have to be so stingy."
Jushou also smiled and said, "Without saving some flowers, how can I help my lord to be such a big home?"
The big prison in Xiangyang is not as cold and dark as it used to be. After being rebuilt, the cell is relatively clean and spacious. The facilities are relatively complete, and the food is not bad. Jingzhou is carrying out a number of major projects at the same time. The engineering team used to focus on Relying on some prisoners and temporary recruits, these prisoners have reached the deadline. Some of them stayed, and some chose to return to their villages to work in agriculture. Therefore, the engineering team is very short of manpower. In order to solve the problem of insufficient manpower of the engineering team, some crimes are known. Minor criminals were also transferred to the engineering team to participate in forced labor. Very few criminals were actually imprisoned, mainly those who committed capital crimes.
Because there are not many people in the prison, the large prison in Xiangyang is shared by the state, county, and county. The people who guard the prison are all under the jurisdiction of the prefect of Xiangyang, Cai Hao. Since serving as the prefect of Xiangyang, Cai Hao has performed various affairs in order to perform well. They are all doing their best to manage the prisons shared by the three companies extremely strictly. For people like Zhang Ren with martial arts, it is even more shackles, the same is indispensable.
Zhang Ren’s neck was yelled, and the shackles on his feet clinked. He was dragged into the reception room by two jailers.
Liu Xin sat on the chair, looked at Zhang Ren with a haggard face, and said, "General Zhang, it has been three months, I don’t know if you have figured it out yet. Because of your stubborn resistance, thousands of soldiers in Jingzhou died heroically. Now you only surrender is the only way out,"
Zhang Ren raised his head and said, "I only have General Decapitated in Xichuan, not surrendering generals."
Liu Xin couldn’t help smiling. Zhang Ren said this in history and was killed. However, Liu Xin didn’t want to kill him. He looked at him carefully and continued, “General Zhang, have you ever thought about it? , If you die, what will your parents, wives and children do in the future,"
Zhang Ren said awe-inspiringly: "Zhang is guilty and only died. What to do with my family, I believe Ming Gong will not embarrass them,"
"Minggong," Liu Xin laughed, and his face sank immediately, "Who said I am Minggong,'Under the cover of the nest, there is no end to the eggs', hasn't General Zhang heard this sentence?"
Seeing Zhang Renyi’s blank face, Liu Xin remembered that this sentence was spoken by Kong Rong’s son. Maybe he was not born yet, so he coughed and said: “I thought General Zhang was all talented in civil and military affairs. I couldn’t think of being so ignorant. , Then, Liu is a lascivious and he likes to eat human flesh. You have always heard of that."