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Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian followed behind Li Jing like two generals, followed Li Jing to visit the fifty-three hungry people who were taken in, and introduced the names of everyone to Li Jing on the side. Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian were also hungry people brought back by Li Jing on the way back to his hometown that day, Zhang Chengzong was Xing'er's father, the man who was more than two meters tall and almost starved to death on the side of the road.

According to his own words, his family was originally in Cangzhou, one of the four states controlled by Zheng Hanqing, who was controlled by Zheng Hanqing. He originally ran an ancestral blacksmith shop in Cangzhou, and was later recruited into the craftsman battalion of the Yichang Army. Later, because of his tall stature, his strength, and a set of guns and sticks, he was later selected as the former Yichang Army's envoy Lu Jianfang's internal soldier, and even achieved the position of the head of the team. However, the year before last, Lu Jianfang was transferred back to Chang'an to serve as the imperial servant, and Zhang Chengzong did not follow him because his family was in Cangzhou. After the new Jiedu envoy Zheng Hanqing arrived, he cleaned up the original Ya Nei soldiers as soon as possible, and Zhang Chengzong was involved in a trumped-up crime and almost lost his life. After spending all his family savings, he saved his life and lost his military position and went home. Originally, I wanted to return to my old business after returning home, but I had no capital, so I had to work for other blacksmith shops. This year's famine, Cangzhou in Hebei Province is more serious, two months ago the blacksmith shop was closed, after being dismissed, he took his family to Dengzhou to join his relatives, but he did not expect that his relatives had already fled the famine, and his family almost starved to death on the road.

Liu Shouqian's situation is similar to Zhang Chengzong, his hometown is Laiwu County, Yanzhou. His ancestors also used to be the military academy of the Pinglu Army, and later after the Li family was destroyed by the imperial court, the ancestor of the Liu family returned to his hometown in Yanzhou and bought hundreds of acres of land to become a rural landlord. When it was passed on to Liu Shouqian, the Liu family already had a thousand acres of land, and a radius of more than ten miles was also a leading figure. Liu Shouqian didn't like to read since he was a child, but he liked to dance with knives and sticks, practiced horse lances, and could ride and shoot. However, Liu Shouqian, who was in his early thirties, kept in mind the family motto and was unwilling to join the army as an official, but just married a wife and had children, and lived a landlord life with peace of mind. After this year's catastrophe, the famine in Yanzhou is not the most serious, but Yanzhou, Hunzhou, and Caozhou guard the Yellow River and the canal, and the salt merchants who have always sold smuggled salt are the most. With the famine, the displaced people gathered, and many smuggler salt dealers took the opportunity to gather and began to sell illicit salt with arms, ranging from dozens to hundreds. Later, some smugglers simply became bandits and directly led people to loot the prefectures and counties. Liu Shouqian's township was robbed by an armed group of more than 100 smugglers, and he saw the opportunity quickly, and ran out at night with his wife and three children. I hid outside all night, and I didn't dare to go back, so I wanted to go to Dengzhou to join my relatives, but I had no money to eat halfway through, and I came all the way to ask for food, and I almost starved to death.

After eating a few fatty rice meals at Li's house, Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian, two men who were over two meters tall and were a head taller than Li Jing, immediately recovered the spirit of a martial artist. Although the body can't make up for the moment to return to the peak state, just looking at the spirit is extraordinary. When Li Jing visited the hungry people that day, he picked out these two people from the crowd at a glance.

After personally testing the martial arts of the two, Li Jing asked them if they would like to follow him as a soldier to eat food and be his family? And proposed to appoint the two as the team leader, and promised to be five times a month, plus five buckets of conditions. Zhang Chengzong agreed without the slightest hesitation, he had been the head of the Yanai Soldier of the Yichang Army, and the conditions at that time were not so generous as those given by the life-saving benefactor. Liu Shouqian was a little hesitant, although his house in Yanzhou was burned, the land was still there. However, under Li Jing's persuasion, he thought about it for a long time, and knew that for the time being, he would not be able to return to Yanzhou, which was now full of bandits. In addition, even if you go to join your family, it is not a good way to bring such a large family. No one knows when this famine will end, and seeing that Li Jing is also a believer, he agreed to stay after the end.

Li Jing immediately appointed the two as the leaders of his own team, both of whom were the team leaders, each leading a team. Zhang Chengzong is the leader of the first team of Jiading, and Liu Shouqian is the leader of the second team. Although it is said that Li Jing can only have fifty family members, Li Jing does not intend to really follow the rules in everything. It's just that although there are now two leaders of the family Ding team, in fact, both of them are still just bare-bones commanders, and they don't even have a subordinate below.

At this time, it was close to noon, and the smell of food was wafting from the courtyard of the thatched hut of the village chief Wanglao, where dozens of hungry people who Li Jing had taken in for the time being. In the courtyard there were three large, rough long tables, lined up. Fifty-one men and women, young and old, sat on long benches on either side of the long table.

Two large wooden barrels are filled with fragrant white rice, and the long table is filled with vegetables in large wooden basins. In addition to dried vegetables from the sea, such as kelp and salted fish, there are also fresh weads and white radish. There are also a lot of large pieces of pork stewed together in these dishes, and the oil is vigorous. Although the hungry people did not have the gobbling up appearance when they ate at Li's house on the first day, they still ate extremely fast.

Li Jing entered the hospital with the second general, smiled at everyone and nodded: "Everyone eats and drinks well, even if you eat, just say if it's not enough." When the hungry people saw Li Jing coming in, they all put down their dishes and chopsticks and stood up, looking at Li Jing respectfully.

Seeing the restrained appearance of everyone, Li Jing smiled, said a few more words and then withdrew from the courtyard again. He knew that if he stayed in the courtyard all the time, it was estimated that these people would not be able to eat this meal.

"Have their names and identities been registered?" At the beginning, these people said that they would sell themselves and not slave Li Jing, but Li Jing was not willing to turn this group of people into his slaves.

Liu Shouqian replied: "It's all registered, including me and Team Leader Zhang, one is fifty-five people." Among them, there are 18 young men between 18 and 50, and 13 young women between 18 and 50. In addition, there are three elderly people over 50 years old, and nine young men under 18 years old and over 12 years old. There are still 10 children ranging in age from five or six to their teens. In general, the 53 people are divided into 21 households. Although Liu Shouqian said that he didn't like to read when he was young, he also read a lot of books seriously, and he can write. The registration was done in detail, and the report was well organized. This made Li Jing a little surprised, but he didn't expect him to be able to martial arts.

Zhang Chengzong said on the side: "The Lord has taken in everyone for several days, but they don't do anything except eat and sleep every day, and they also add rice and meat every day, which is not a small expense." Everyone was a little unhappy, did the Lord arrange for them to work in the field or something? ”

"Not necessarily." Li Jing smiled, "I see that everyone's bodies are very weak, so I will recuperate with peace of mind recently." After waiting for the year, I will make arrangements, and I will help prepare for my mother's birthday when there is nothing to do these days. In addition, if you think that there are suitable soldiers in it, you can also ask them, as long as they are willing, then they will be selected into the family team, and the salary will always be two times a month and two buckets of rice and rice. However, you have to remember one thing, it is better to lack than to abuse, although the two teams are still empty, but it is better to be empty than to fill the number indiscriminately. ”

"Understood." Both of them were a little surprised to hear Li Jing's strict requirements, but they immediately agreed. Zhang Chengzong has been the leader of the team, of course, he knows that only good soldiers can bring out the elite. Although Liu Shouqian has never been a soldier, he has also practiced riding and archery martial arts for many years, so he naturally understands that he can't make good nails without good iron.

While he was talking, Xiao Shi suddenly rushed over and said loudly: "Brother Xiucai, there is something urgent." ”

"Look at your panicked appearance, didn't you ask you to be in charge of setting up the stage, why did you run back in such a panic."

Xiao Shi was dressed in a round-necked robe, with a gauze head, and a beard on his lips, and from a distance, he really looked like an officer, and he couldn't find the appearance of the little blacksmith with a face full of smoke and dust in the blacksmith shop. He leaned in front of Li Jing and said softly: "Just now, Sister Yueying of the Wang family sent the bolt to buy in Chishan Town and said that I saw that there were many people gathered at the door of the Silla Mansion store at the foot of Chishan. It is said that there are about one or two hundred people, all of whom are tall horses. The bolt said that they are all face-to-face people, and looking at their appearance, I am afraid that they are coming towards our village. ”

Li Jing was also a little surprised when he heard this, this time because he wanted to give the Han family a more lively birthday, so there was a lot of noise for several days in a row, and the villages near and far all knew about it. It's hard to guarantee that some bandits and strongmen won't want to make a deal after hearing the news.

"Stone, you immediately go and inform Lin Dalang, Erlang and Wang Sanlang and a few of them, and you can also arouse the fine dog and a few of them. There are also all the villagers in the village who are usually on duty to guard the village wall, it is best to close the village gate immediately, and let Lin Dalang and them take the guys to the village wall to guard first. The identity of the other party is unknown, and Li Jing has no choice but to prepare for the worst first.

Zhang Chengzong smelled it on the side, and immediately said: "Lord, I will immediately go back to the courtyard to call everyone over, and I have been eating and drinking for several days, and now it is finally time to have the opportunity to do something for the Lord." Li Jing knew that he was talking about those homeless people, and after thinking about it, Li Jing also felt that many people had a lot of strength, so he said: "You call those eighteen young and strong men, and as for the other women, children, and the elderly, let them stay in the courtyard." ”

Li Jing took the two of them back to the courtyard and called the eighteen young men, and as soon as they got out of the courtyard, the old village chief Wang had already taken the village chief Li Shugen to ring the gong of the whole village. In the rush of gongs, Li Shugen was directing the village's old man to ring the bell. The sound of the gong is to gather the villagers, but the ringing of the bell is to indicate that people outside the village will return to the village immediately, and the villagers will immediately go to the village gate and the village wall to guard.

Out of the courtyard, Li Jing went home again and took a horn bow, a horizontal knife, and a horse lance, and found some sticks from home for Zhang Chengzong and others to hold, and then went straight to the north gate of the village.

PS: I'm going to push it today, ask for everyone's recommendation votes!