Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 333 Recruiting Female Soldiers
Xu Yingwei and other recruiters have not yet returned to their hometowns, but a general who aided Xuzhou in suppressing Xuzhou has received a special order from Chongzhen and has officially returned to Nanjing Wuyi Lane to prepare for recruitment.

The general who helped suppress Xuzhou was Li Xiangjun.

When Li Xiangjun led a team of frontier troops to the entrance of the bird's clothing alley, he happened to see Chen Zhenhui entering the bird's clothing alley in front of her with a dozen servants.

Chen Zhenhui?
Li Xiangjun frowned slightly.

Xin said that she probably came to find her mother.

Immediately, Li Xiangjun led the frontier army to follow.

Li Xiangjun guessed right, Chen Zhenhui really came to find Li Zhenli.

Because Li Zhenli, the former bustard of Meixianglou, is Chen Zhenhui's old friend.

She is said to be a madam, but in fact she is only in her early thirties, more like Li Xiangjun's sister.

After Li Zhenli sold the Meixiang Building, she bought a small building in Wuyi Lane, and bought several young girls from Renya who are trying to train them, and plan to return to Qinhuai River in a few years.

When Chen Zhenhui came to the door and said, Li Zhenli's lungs exploded immediately.

"Chen Dingsheng, how can there be such a shameless person like you in this world?" Li Zhenli was trembling with anger, her hands and feet were cold, "It's fine if you refuse to marry me for a long time, after all, my mother is a prostitute, and she is not younger Girl, but my old lady has been with you for more than ten years, and she has washed all her charms and kept herself clean for you, but now you..."

Chen Zhenhui salivated and said: "Liniang, just this time, please help me this time no matter what, after this time, I will immediately return to my hometown in Yixing and tell my mother to accept you as a concubine."

Li Zhenli sneered when she heard this: "How many times have I heard you say the same thing? I won't believe you anymore. In fact, what Miss Xiangjun said is right. You and Hou Fangyu are the same stuff. You have never really regarded us sisters as human beings in your heart. To you romantic talents, our sisters are just a luxury item. When you need it, you can use it to decorate your appearance, and you can give it away if you don’t need it. other people."

Chen Zhenhui also became a little impatient, and her face collapsed: "Li Niang, it's boring for you to say that."

"It's not interesting, then you should get out." Once Li Zhenli turned her face, she also said unforgivingly, "If you insist on begging for nothing to stay here and let me look down on you, aren't you cheap?"

"Bitch!" Chen Zhenhui was furious, and slapped her with a slap.

With a bang, five finger marks were left on Li Zhenli's pretty face.

"Chen Dingsheng, I'm fighting with you!" Li Zhenli was furious, and scratched Chen Zhenhui's face with her hand.

Several servants following behind Chen Zhenhui rushed forward and knocked Li Zhenli to the ground.

At this moment, a Qianying rushed out of the yard holding a fire stick, and knocked down two servants with two slaps. Chen Zhenhui and the other servants retreated hastily.

Looking closely, she was a pretty little girl of sixteen or seventeen years old.

Although this little girl looks juicy, she is obviously different from ordinary little girls.

If other little girls were sold into prostitutes, the first thing they would do would be to bind their feet, but this little girl in front of her has a pair of natural feet, and her hands are also covered with calluses.

Chen Zhenhui said: "Where did this wild girl come from?"

But Li Zhenli shouted: "Young lady, drive them away!"

The little girl named Nunniang immediately lit a stick of fire and shouted coquettishly: "Mom said, tell you to get out!"

However, Chen Zhenhui had a new idea, and thought that it would be better to snatch this pretty girl and give it to Wang Wei. Anyway, this girl was bought by Li Zhenli, and Li Zhenli was his woman, so she didn't break the law.

At that moment, Chen Zhenhui waved her hand and said, "Take down this little girl for me!"

"Yes!" A dozen servants agreed, and immediately rushed forward with a whoop.

But this little girl is really good at wielding a fire stick so vigorously that more than a dozen strong servants of the Chen family couldn't get close to her, and instead they were beaten until they cried for their parents.

The little girl reprimanded while beating: "If you don't know your face again, this girl will be murdered."

Well, the co-authors didn't kill anyone, so I don't know if it's a bluff or it's true?
Anyway, Chen Zhenhui didn't believe it, and thought that the little girl was bluffing. Just as he was about to spend some money to go outside to hire someone, a group of soldiers wearing hats and cotton armor suddenly rushed in.

Moreover, these soldiers were holding bird guns in their hands, and aimed at him and his servants.

Facing the black muzzle, the dozen or so members of the Chen family were too frightened to move, and Chen Zhenhui's expression was ashen. What's going on?How did Li Zhenli hook up with the government?
But soon, Chen Zhenhui knew what was going on.

Because it was Li Xiangjun who came in following these officers and soldiers.

I saw Li Xiangjun wearing a white cotton armor with a bowl on his head, he was really heroic.

"Li Xiang..." Chen Zhenhui shouted halfway, and hurriedly bowed to change her words, "I pay my respects to General Li."

Li Xiangjun glanced at Chen Zhenhui coldly, walked up to Li Zhenli and called softly: "Mom."

"Xiang girl, have you returned to Nanjing?" Li Zhenli burst into tears when she saw Li Xiangjun, "You are back, if you don't come back, my mother will be bullied to death."

Li Xiangjun also saw the slap marks on Li Zhenli's face.

A pretty face immediately turned cold, and asked: "Mom, who hit you?"

"No one beat her, but she was scratched by a dog." Li Zhenli shook her head.

The little girl Nenniang next to her said, "Chen Zhenhui beat me."

"Chen Zhenhui?" Li Xiangjun suddenly turned around.

"General Li, Xiaosheng..."

Chen Zhenhui wanted to explain, but she didn't know how to say it.

But Li Xiangjun didn't want to listen to his explanation at all, and scolded softly: "Come on, slap him on the mouth!"

A head of the frontier army came out more and more, and could not help but slap Chen Zhenhui twice on the face. These two slaps were so severe that Chen Zhenhui's face immediately swelled up.

Chen Zhenhui didn't dare to say anything.

In the past, because she was the son of Chen Yuting, the leader of the Donglin Party, and the leader of the Fushe, Chen Zhenhui could really walk sideways in the city of Nanjing. At that time, let alone a general, even the chief soldier had to respect and salute when seeing him, but now The Donglin Party has collapsed, the Fushe has also collapsed, and Chen Zhenhui has become a street rat.

At such a time, a general or even the whistle chief would dare to embarrass him.

What's more, Li Xiangjun is not only a frontier general, but also has another identity.

Although no one has confirmed this matter, but there will be no rumors, so it is probably true.

Li Xiangjun shouted again: "Chen Zhenhui, if you dare to make trouble again, this general will treat you harshly, so get out!"

Chen Zhenhui took her servants away in a desperate manner, but Li Zhenli asked Li Xiangjun on her arm: "Xiang girl, didn't it say that the emperor took you upstarts to climb the Lion Mountain? Why didn't you go?"

Li Xiangjun said: "My daughter is anxious to see her mother, so she came back halfway."

"This girl." Li Zhenli blamed and was happy at the same time, and then pulled the pretty little girl and said to Li Xiangjun, "Xiang girl, this is your little sister, Ge Nunniang."

Ge Nunniang saluted and said softly, "Nenniang has met Sister Xiangjun."

"What a pretty little girl." Li Xiangjun touched Ge Nunniang's pretty face affectionately, and asked again, "Just now I saw that none of the dozen servants are your opponents, where did you learn your martial arts?"

Hearing this, Ge Nunniang's beautiful eyes immediately turned red, as if she was about to cry.

Li Zhenli next to her sighed, and said: "Nen Niang's martial arts is learned from her father. Her father Ge Tingyu was originally a general in Liaoxi. After Wu Sangui was enslaved, his father did not want to be in cahoots, so he took his wife and daughter with him. He escaped from Shanhaiguan under the protection of his servants, but was hunted down by the Guan Ning army."

"His father was killed by Guan Ning's army to protect them."

"The servants of the Ge family are also dead and scattered."

"In the end, only their mother and daughter are left to depend on each other."

Speaking of this, Li Zhenli was already in tears: "Her mother left the last bite of food for Nunniang, but she starved to death. Nunniang also came to Nanjing all the way to beg for food."

"Good sister." Li Xiangjun felt extremely distressed when he heard that.

After a long while, Li Xiangjun said: "Sister Nunniang, it's a pity that your martial arts are left in Qinhuai River to entertain people, why don't you follow my sister and I join the army and serve the court?"

"Sister Xiangjun, can my young lady join the army?"

When Ge Nunniang heard this, her beautiful eyes lit up immediately.

She was born as a general, and her biggest dream is to be a female general.

Given a choice, who wants to stay in a brothel and be a prostitute?
"Of course." Li Xiangjun nodded with a smile and said, "In ancient times, Fuhao, Hua Mulan, and Liang Hongyu joined the army. Besides, my sister, I am also a woman, and I was also named a general by the Holy Lord? What's more, sister, your martial arts are so good. Well, the future achievements will definitely be higher than that of my sister, and it is entirely possible to be a general soldier."

"Yes." Ge Nunniang nodded again and again, "Then Nunniang listens to my sister."

"Hey, hey." Li Zhenli said angrily and amused, "You just listen to Xiang girl, I was the one who bought you back from Renya with money, so don't ask your mother about mine. Opinion?"

Ge Nunniang was taken aback when she heard the words, really, how could she completely forget about this?
"Mom, you love me the most." Li Xiangjun hugged Li Zhenli and acted coquettishly, "Besides, I'm a girl, and the military camp is full of men, which is really inconvenient."

"That's right." Li Zhenli glanced at the soldiers standing outside like javelins.

"It's really inconvenient if you don't have anyone around, so well, let Nen Niang follow you."

Li Xiangjun continued: "Mom, my daughter wants to ask you one more thing, you must help me."

"Okay, you didn't come back to see me." Li Zhenli pretended to be angry and said, "It made me happy for nothing."

"Mom, of course my daughter came back to visit you." Li Xiangjun said coquettishly, "I just do things by the way, oh, mom, just help my daughter, help me."

"Okay, what's the matter?" Li Zhenli suddenly couldn't hold back.

Li Xiangjun said: "Mom, can you find more people to come over? My daughter wants to buy people."

Buying people is actually just an excuse. What Li Xiangjun really wants to do is to recruit soldiers, and they are female soldiers. Chongzhen had personally promised her to recruit a battalion of female soldiers.

Li Xiang returned to Nanjing this time to recruit soldiers.

"You want to buy someone?" Li Zhenli asked in astonishment, "Who is it?"

"Rough envoy maids." Li Xiangjun said, "My daughter wants to buy a batch of rough envoy maids to serve by her side, but you'd better let those people prepare more candidates. My daughter has to choose some strong and strong ones."

Li Zhenli looked at Li Xiangjun with an indescribable and meaningful look.

"Xiang girl, tell mom honestly, you and..." Li Zhenli asked in a low voice.

"Mom." Li Xiangjun evaded and did not answer, "Don't ask, go and find a human tooth for me."

"So you treat your mother as a maid." Li Zhenli couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry, "It's dark today, so even if I look for it, I won't be able to find it until tomorrow."

……

Li Zhenli really treats Li Xiangjun like her own daughter.

Early the next morning, Li Zhenli personally came forward and called all the people from the Qinhuai River area to her home.

As soon as Li Xiangjun mentioned the requirements for the selection, dozens of people scattered away in an instant, looking for girls with strong bodies, big feet and thick hands in the city of Nanjing and even in the countryside outside the city.

That's right, what Li Xiangjun wants is a girl, not a married woman.

But this is actually not Li Xiangjun's request, but Chongzhen's special order to her.

Chongzhen asked Li Xiangjun to recruit unmarried girls for the simple reason that he wanted to find wives for the town soldiers.

Nearly [-] soldiers from the [-] towns of Xuzhou have been officially retired, and Entian's clearing and division are also in full swing under the auspices of Du Yinxi.

But in order for these [-] town soldiers to really settle down in Xuzhou, they have to find a way to solve their lifelong affairs.

It is a solution to let these town soldiers go back to their hometowns to marry their wives, but there will always be some town soldiers who are stupid and unable to marry a wife. At this time, the court has to find a way to act as matchmakers for them.

What are you talking about, do you think the daughter-in-law assigned by the court is not handsome?If you have the ability, you can find a wife by yourself. If you don’t have the ability, don’t force yourself. It’s good to have a daughter-in-law, and you still pick and choose.

Besides, after receiving Li Xiangjun's orders, those dozens of people searched everywhere for qualified girls.

Then that afternoon, the first batch of eligible girls were sent to Bird Clothes Lane, there were more than a hundred of them!
After Li Xiangjun asked Ge Nunniang to register the names and places of origin of these girls, he asked them to go home and wait for news.

After Renya was sent away, Li Xiangjun took Ge Nunniang and dozens of frontier soldiers, and started door-to-door to recruit soldiers, the girl Renyazi was looking for before.

Soon came to one of the bamboo charcoal workshops.

I saw an old man beating a strong girl with a stick of thorns, and the girl's back was already stained with blood.

While beating, the old man kept scolding: "What can you do? You can eat well. Finally, a wealthy family is willing to buy you to be a maid, but they don't want you. What else can you do, oh?"

Tears trickled down the girl's face, but she tried her best not to cry.

Li Xiangjun couldn't stand it any longer, and immediately scolded: "Stop, don't hit anyone!"

"Who? Little old man who cares about his daughter, can you control you?" The old man was furious.

(End of this chapter)