Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 94 The First Notice

Early the next morning.

Just after breakfast time, in the two gates of the formal residential area and the isolation area, a notice board was erected, and a large notice in traditional Chinese characters was pasted on it.

The top of the notice is "recruiting security police" in six characters.

Just after breakfast, dozens of refugees who were chatting in the camp gradually gathered in front of the notice and talked a lot.

"What's written on it?"

"Then who, hey, Yajiro, didn't you go to a private school for a few days? Come and help me to have a look." A refugee shouted to a young man outside the crowd.

The onlookers turned their heads and saw a young man squatting against the outer wall of a tent basking in the sun.Hearing the greeting here, the young man got up lazily and walked over.So everyone took the initiative to dodge a way to let him in.

"Has he attended a private school?" a refugee asked curiously.

"Not really. I heard from his brother that his family used to be wealthy and could afford a private school, but it won't work in a few years."

Yajiro walked through the crowd and walked to the sign.When he looked up, he knew the words on it, so he began to read the title word by word.

"Recruitment, recruitment, security, police, police."

"What is security?"

"What are the police?"

"Are the adults here looking for a follower?"

Just after reading the title, the onlookers began to discuss.Except for the first two words, the remaining four words have no meaning at all.

"Shut up and listen to him continue." Several people standing under the sign were dissatisfied and turned around and yelled at everyone.

In fact, Yajiro doesn't understand what a security police is.He still knows every word on it, but what does it mean when they are put together?

At this time, everyone just listened to Yajiro continue to read: "Requirement, adult male, age from 18 to 30 years old. Good health, no bad habits..."

"I said, what is a bad habit?"

"It's a bad habit!" Yajiro explained impatiently.

"Oh~~" Everyone suddenly realized.

What are the bad habits of these refugees?Isn't it just a waste of money!We don't waste food, we don't drink and smoke, and we don't drink tea.Bad habits have nothing to do with us scumbags. (The shogunate strictly ordered farmers from all over the world not to eat rice casually, not to buy wine, tea, or to drink or drink alcohol, and not to grow and consume tobacco.)
"... Treatment, two stones of rice or wheat noodles every month!" Yajiro couldn't help widening his eyes after reading, and he himself was shocked by what was told.

"What?! Two stones a month, isn't that year..."

A refugee was about to count with his fingers, when a person next to him immediately exclaimed: "24 shi!"

"My God, there are nearly seven liters of rice a day!!" There is someone who is thinking faster.

What is the concept of seven liters of rice a day?
According to the "Liu'an Miscellaneous Bi" compiled in the late Edo period, a family of eight to nine people in Edo Castle consumed fourteen stones and four buckets of rice a year. 4.4 cups, about 1 kg; 10 cups is about 1.3 catties, plus steaming with water, it can reach more than 4.4 catties of rice).

(There is a scene in the Japanese drama "Doctor Benevolence". The protagonist eats at the samurai's house for the first time. The samurai's sister brings a bowl of tall rice, which almost scared the protagonist to death.)
From the mid-Edo period, the food consumption of urban residents increased significantly.An important reason is the change from two meals a day to three meals a day.

With the increased production and popularity of mustard oil, lighting up at night is no longer a luxury.Many people have to work at night, and two meals a day are no longer enough.Interestingly, the popularity of tempura is also due to the large-scale use of mustard oil.

Although many farmers still insist on two meals a day, who doesn't want to eat three meals a day!The problem is I can't afford it.

The onlookers were completely shocked.Don't worry about what this "police policeman" does, just the monthly treatment will scare people to death.How much is the salary of a samurai master?Even if the whole family throws off their cheeks and eats fiercely, how much can they eat in a day?
At present, each refugee family in the camp is only five or six people at most.If you are so extravagant that you only eat rice and order pickles, you will not consume more than [-] hectares of rice in one day.

This "police policeman" has seventy-six rice in one day, let alone eating it, the whole family will be swollen.

So many people started to wake up.This is recruiting valet and petty officials, this is clearly recruiting to be a samurai master! ! !
At this time, there were more people around, and some people eagerly asked Yajiro where he could apply for the application. As long as Yajiro said the location, they immediately ran away.

"Don't worry, there are more below." Yajiro said unhappily.He turned his head to look at the notice, and continued to read: "The number of applicants is limited to 50. The location of the application..."

Everyone waited nervously with their ears open.

These people are all one idea, fifty people are nothing, as long as I can run faster than you, it is mine, and no one can take it away!

At this time, Yajiro took a few steps back inadvertently, in order to spread out the people around him a little and not be so crowded.Taking advantage of the crowd's retreat, he used the corner of his eye to pinpoint the largest gap between the crowd.

At this time, his upper body leaned forward slightly, his arms and legs began to accumulate power, his left foot stepped firmly, the forefoot of his right foot was close to the ground, and the back heel was slightly raised.

In other words, this running posture was taught to him by my brother after he became a guard.Listening to my brother, the adults have said carefully that this kind of action can make me run faster.

"...Application location..." Yajiro said slowly.

"Where is it? You are talking about it! I'm so anxious." A young man on the left of Yichiro shouted.

"The sea...side the big boat~~"

As soon as Yajiro finished speaking the first word, he suddenly turned around and pulled away the few people on the right blocking the road, and rushed out of the gate in a flash.When he rushed out of the door, the following words were passed to everyone's ears along with his disappearing figure.

"Hey? Why is he going?" A refugee said strangely, but he immediately reacted. Yajiro was talking about the big ship by the sea!
If you don't run now, when will you wait?The refugee immediately turned around and ran towards the beach.

"This kid is too bad!" The onlookers also wanted to understand at this time, and cursed.

Hula la~~~ The sound of footsteps suddenly caused a cloud of dust, and hundreds of people immediately ran away.

"Mother, what are they doing? The person who ran out just now seems to be the second uncle."

Asaki and Yichiro's wife were carrying two large buckets and had just come back from the fetching pool.

"Don't worry about him. It's time to eat when you're full! You're going to be messing around after a few days of full food."

Yichiro's wife walked towards the tent without looking back.

On the deck of Thor, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, Katayama Kanbei, and Katsu Kaishu just met.Several people were about to go to the conference room in the cabin to talk about the morning interview in advance, when they heard a sailor on the deck exclaim: "Sir, it seems that something happened!"

When the few people heard it, they quickly turned around and came back to stand on the side of the ship, and followed the sailor's fingers to look at the shore.

On the road 200 meters away from the pier, a small refugee ran quickly towards this direction; tens of meters behind him, hundreds of refugees brought up a cloud of smoke and dust, and they were also running fast.

The leading group of people ran while shouting, "Yajiro, you shameless fellow! Stop for me!"

I'm stupid, still want me to stop?
Yajiro, who was running wildly, couldn't help but miss his dead father at this time.If it wasn't for the fact that my father sent me to a private school in the town to study for two years, I would never have had this opportunity.

When Yajiro rushed to the pier where the Thor was moored in one breath, he was stopped by the sailor on duty on the pier.

"Stop! What are you doing?!" The sailor nervously held the Shundao in his hand and scolded Yajiro.

"Yes, yes, candidates." Yajiro said with his hands on his waist, bending over and sighing.

"So are the people behind you?" Said Said, pointing behind Yajiro.

At this time, more than 100 people had already run to the beach, crowded with each other and were about to rush to the trestle bridge.

"Bang Bang!!!" There were two gunshots in the air.The crowd on the beach immediately quieted down.Everyone was frightened by the sound; those with more knowledge knew that it was the sound of iron cannons being fired.

"I'll go take a look." Liu Sheng said with a pistol.

Zhao Xin turned his head and said to Sheng Haizhou: "Sheng Haizhou, you go to Lord Wang and ask him to send a team of guards over to maintain order. Let them line up, five at a time, get on the boat to apply for the draft. You tell those people below who wants to If you dare to rush to the trestle again, you will be disqualified from the application."

Katayama Kanbei hurriedly said to Zhao Xin: "My lord, let me help maintain it as well."

Zhao Xin nodded and said, "When the guards come, you will come back to the ship to find me. After all, the first batch of recruits will be yours in the future, so you have to take a look."

Katayama Kanbei bowed and saluted, and immediately went down to the trestle with Liu Sheng.

Half an hour later, Wang Yuanfang trotted to the beach with five guards.The guards, each armed with a stick as a weapon, began to maintain order.

Soon, the timid refugees lined up honestly and waited to board the ship in the order of five at a time.

Yajiro was placed in the first group.

(End of this chapter)