I want to be emperor

Chapter 27 He Wants To Live Too
Just listen to Luo Zhixue continue: "This time I waited for the village protection battalion to come, because I want to recruit the children of Huangjia Village to protect the environment and the people."

Hearing this, Huang Lao'er's face turned extremely pale. These bandits are trying to recruit strong men and play coercion...

Luo Zhixue also saw Huang Lao'er's appearance. In order to prevent him from kneeling down and saying, "Your Majesty, please forgive me."

"Three meals a day for those who are selected!"

"Just like the dozen or so soldiers behind me..."

"Stay full!"

Luo Zhixue's words are actually full of moisture, there is food for the family, and there are three meals a day.

After all, soldier training and combat requires high physical fitness, and this basic food still needs to be guaranteed.

But the daily food is also coarse grains, and not every meal is dry rice, but two dry and one thin.

And the fixed amount of food will not let you open your mouth to eat. Controlling your fullness is just empty talk.

Not to mention the newly recruited soldiers, even the elite cavalry behind him couldn't make them open their mouths.

Furthermore, another very important point is that even the current standard of food is based on the fact that food is sufficient now. If you go out to fight in the future, if you are unlucky and the food is insufficient, then you can only go hungry. Stomach.

In the past, when these cavalrymen followed Li Tonglin around, they were also unlucky when they ran out of food and had to starve.

But these facts don’t need to be said, just choose the nice ones.

You have seen that when a newly started company recruits people, it will say that our development prospects are not clear, and there is a great possibility that there will be wage arrears or even the company will go bankrupt.

Although we haven't found any business growth point yet, and we don't have any profit, we are losing money every day, but... our prospects are very good, and we have a group of elite soldiers who will be profitable next month and go public next year. The top [-], the world's top [-] in five years, everyone will be billionaires by then...

When you hear these words, believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway...

However, times are different, and people's needs are also different. For the poor people these days, their greatest pursuit in life is to have enough food.

At the beginning of Luoyang city, a group of refugees fought for porridge water, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries. Even Luo Zhixue's father, Luo Zhixue, was a half-clay pot of porridge in the protected area and died tragically at the hands of the refugees.

So when Huang Laoer heard that the food for the family would be distributed, and he didn't need to bring his own dry food, and he could still eat enough, his complexion was much better than before, and he even had a look of disbelief on his face.

In his long life of more than 40 years, he has seen many government conscripts young and strong to serve in corvee, officers and soldiers conscript young and strong, and thieves conscript young and strong and even coerce them.

However, he hadn't seen a few times that the resettlement allowance was issued.

Even, most of the time, especially when the government recruits young and strong, they will let the young and strong prepare their own food.

Now that Luo Zhixue will distribute food for the family, and he doesn't need to bring his own dry food, he can eat explosives when he goes there. To be honest, Lao Er Huang can't believe it.

At this time, Sun Chengli also saw the suspicion on Huang Laoer's face, and also saw the doubtful expression on the face of the three or five young and strong men behind Huang Laoer.

He was also decisive, waved his hand directly, and ordered his soldiers: "Bring up the food!"

Soon, Sun Jiancheng's soldiers moved several generations of grain from the back of the horse and put it in the front, and opened the mouth.

For several generations, hundreds of catties of grain were just placed on the ground like this, making Huang Laoer and the others swallow their mouths when they saw it.

In their eyes, these grains are more attractive than any fairy in the sky.

Because food means life!

There is food to eat in order to survive.

At this time, a man in his early twenties who was originally standing behind Huang Laoer struggled for a while, and finally took a deep breath and stood up slowly.

With suspicion, but also with a trace of expectation: "If I go with you, there is really this food for the family, and I can still eat enough if I go there?"

Luo Zhixue took a look at him. He looked like he was in his early twenties. His clothes were tattered and his hair was messy. Not bad.

After all, the poor people these days are generally malnourished, and they can't get enough to eat, so don't expect to see any young and strong mountain people with muscles all over their bodies.

Luo Zhixue nodded slightly: "Of course it is serious. As long as you pass the assessment and are selected, you will be given [-] catties of food for the family immediately. From now on, you will have a big pot of rice with all of us, and you will be full with three meals a day!"

After hearing Luo Zhixue's words, the man glanced at Luo Zhixue and quickly lowered his head.

Luo Zhixue in front of him was dressed in a green robe, a square scarf on his head, and a folding fan in his hand. Even though he was ignorant, he knew that this was the attire of a scholar. When he was in his hometown, he saw a few gentlemen who were studying in the nearby Zhuangzi also They are all dressed like this, and occasionally they have to step aside and bow to ask questions. As for staring at each other for a long time, they dare not, otherwise, they will be whipped every minute...

At this time, the man said again: "Master, do you think I can do it?"

Luo Zhixue looked at him carefully again, then nodded slightly and said, "It looks pretty solid, but we still have to pass the examination to succeed!"

As he spoke, he beckoned An Yongduo over: "Take him to the assessment!"

Before they came, Luo Zhixue and Sun Chengli had already finalized the assessment criteria, but there were actually no criteria, as long as they were in good health, free from hidden illnesses, and had a lot of strength, they were considered physically qualified, and don't be glib.

After all, what they want is honest and obedient soldiers who can obey orders to train and fight, not bastards who are disobedient in training and fighting, and put oil on their feet when they see danger.

After An Yongduo heard Luo Zhixue's order, he stepped forward to look left and right at the man, and even asked him to take off his clothes to check to make sure there was no disease or anything like that.

Then let him run and jump, and finally let him move a big stone next to him.

In the end, I asked him in detail, asking him such common questions as how many people there are in his family.

A few minutes later, Ernst and Young walked up to Luo Zhixue and Sun Chengcheng: "According to the assessment standards, you can pass."

Sun Chengli nodded slightly, then looked at Luo Zhixue again.

After Luo Zhixue saw Sun Chengli nodding, he said to the panting man, "You passed, this is your food for the settlement!"

At this time, Sun Jiancheng's personal soldiers immediately took out a small bag of grain from the grain bag.

The man hesitated at first, but until now, he still couldn't believe that the other party really took out a bag of food.

But it was only a second of hesitation, and the next second he took the food, and then hugged it tightly in his arms, as if afraid that others would snatch it away.

After this scene happened, only a few seconds later, among the group of men standing behind Huang Laoer, several people stood up and said, "I'm going too!"

"Choose me, I have strength too!"

In addition, some people turned around and ran, and one of them shouted loudly while running: "Brother, come quickly, get the food!"

Looking at this scene, after Luo Zhixue and Sun Jiancheng glanced at each other, they both saw satisfaction in each other's expressions.

This time the recruitment may be smoother than they imagined.

In fact, Lin Dongsheng and the others suggested before that there is no need to distribute food for the Anjia. After all, they will recruit more people in the future. Each person will be given [-] catties of food for the Anjia. If hundreds of people are recruited, it will cost tens of thousands of catties of food.

On the other hand, Luo Zhixue suggested that the first batch of people recruited at the beginning should distribute food for the settlement, so that they could buy horse bones with thousands of dollars. As for the second and third batches, naturally there would be no food for the settlement.

In the current world, it would be nice to recruit people here so that they can have enough food.

Therefore, this food for settlement is actually just the beginning, in order to open up the situation. Once the situation is opened, there will be no food for settlement in the future. After all, their food is limited, and it is impossible to return everyone when recruiting hundreds of people in the future Give Anjia food.

Sure enough, the role of food is powerful. After seeing that Luo Zhixue and the others really gave food to the family, many men rushed over to apply for it.

The situation of these people is similar, basically they are the ones whose family really can't get rid of the blame, otherwise, as long as they can have enough food at home, they will not follow these rebels.

Even if they have never seen the world, even if they are ignorant, they still know very well that if they take the rebels' food and eat their three meals a day, they will completely sell their lives to these rebels.

However, there are still many people who come to apply.

Some are young and alone with no worries. As soon as these people grit their teeth and make up their minds, they will go to recruit as bandit soldiers. After all, if they eat enough for one person, it means that the whole family is full, so the psychological pressure is not that great.

And some are the unmarried second sons of poor families.

Huang Sangou, the first man to stand up and apply for the job, was such a person.

Of the three brothers in his family, the eldest died of starvation when he was in his teens. The second brother married a wife and had two children after fleeing to Huangjia Village for a few years, and he himself was single.

After they fled famine and arrived in Huangjia Village, their life was already extremely difficult, but after the second brother got married and gave birth to two nephews, the family had three more mouths, so the life of the family became even more difficult up.

In order to save food for the family, and to keep himself alive, Huang Sangou enlisted as a bandit soldier as soon as he gritted his teeth.

Anyway, he is single, has no wife and children, and his father has a second elder brother who is a filial piety.

He thought about applying to be a bandit soldier by himself. Not only would he be able to provide some food for the family to settle down, but he could also save the family's rations.

Every time he eats at home, he is embarrassed and dare not eat even a bite!

Because every time he cooks, his old father, who was emaciated due to long-term starvation, stares at him...

He still remembers last year when he put an extra spoonful of rice into the bowl, his old father sighed and said to him: Leave a bite for your two nephews and a way out for them!

but!

He wants to eat too!

He also wants to live!
He didn't want to starve to death like his own mother!
(End of this chapter)