A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 48 Undercurrents within the cottage

The news of the recruitment soon spread among the village. Some people were happy and some were worried.

In matters like recruitment, in fact, the only people who can be officials are those leaders who have seats. It is impossible for everyone to be an official, even cheap military attachés.

Once Yushan Village was recruited by the imperial court, those generals and generals would at most be divided into unranked miscellaneous officials and join the Xiang army.

If you are lucky, you can continue to be a general or team general, but if you are unlucky, you can't even get a regular low-level official.

As for the ordinary bandits, they were directly dispersed and assigned to different Xiang army teams. They were still just the top soldiers.

Now as bandits, ordinary soldiers train hard every day, but they still have enough food. Once they win a fight, the villagers will hold a banquet, eat large pieces of meat, and drink heavily. Every time they rob a gentry, they will receive a large reward, but After becoming a regular army, these will be gone.

There are those who keep their composure and are willing to change their status from thieves to soldiers, and then return to their hometowns openly and be honest pawns.

The more restless ones would rather continue to be bandits in Yushan than become an honest cannon fodder again.

Their hearts have been fed by Li Gui with wine, meat, gold and silver.

It's just that they themselves also know clearly in their hearts whether the copycat will be recruited or not. The attitude of these pawns is meaningless. Only the opinions of a few village owners will matter!
If the ordinary soldiers still had some objections to the recruitment, the other three leaders of the village had a very consistent attitude.

"Brother, I, the seventh one, have never thought that one day I will be able to become an official. I have to thank my brother for his kindness!"

Li Laoqi's face was full of excitement, and he kowtowed while lying on the ground with a "bang bang" sound.

Huang Silang followed closely behind, his face full of excitement, pulling his neck and shouting:

"I just want to be a village leader with hundreds of men under my command. I can eat meat when I want and drink when I want. This is the happiest thing in my life. But I don't know that this is just the beginning. The happy days are still to come! "

Zhu Fu also smiled and said: "I have inquired carefully. The general who was killed by my brother was a commander, and he was in charge of an army. Since my brother even killed the commander, he must have a high official rank, at least not Lower than that damn ghost.”

"Recruitment? Control? Haha..." Li Gui sneered twice. Seeing that his subordinates were very eager to "find a career", it was hard to dissuade them. He only said: "Let's see what the imperial court gives us." Let the bird officer talk about it later! If it satisfies someone, it’s not a bad idea to recruit him.”

Originally, the appearance of Yushan Village was an accident. Li Gui did not expect that it would develop so smoothly.

But the current level of development is already the limit of Yushan Village. If it goes up, it will be necessary to conquer the state and county and start to occupy the city.

Once a city fails, the court's response methods will be completely different. Those who come to suppress it will inevitably be the Forbidden Army or even the Western Army.

Although Yushan is a poor place with high mountains and dense forests, it is not considered a natural danger. If the imperial court gets serious, it can easily destroy Yushan Village by just setting fire to the mountain in autumn.

Even if we don't use such vicious tactics and just rely on the soldiers to fight hard, the more than a thousand infantrymen under Li Gui will not be able to resist for a few months.

If they are supplemented by psychological tactics and differentiation, just look at the ecstatic expressions of Huang Silang and Li Laoqi to know what the result will be.

Therefore, if the imperial court really offers a good price so that Li Gui can develop here with peace of mind and spend a few years to turn this place into an iron barrel, it might not be a bad idea.

However, the big headscarfs in the imperial court are not fools. They have their own rules for recruitment. How can they be allowed to retain the original army? It is most likely the result of idleness.

This is not what Li Gui wants. When the time comes... let's take it one step at a time!

The reckless man doesn't think about using his brain. At worst, he will kill him and turn the world upside down. Let's see if grandpa can prove the truth through killing and kill all the way to become a superman!
After making up his mind, Li Gui asked people to spread the news about the recruitment. At the same time, he asked the small bosses to secretly pay attention to the movements of his men, especially those who did not want to be recruited, and report all the names.

Everyone just said that the leader of the village did not want anyone to ruin the recruitment plan, so he was very careful. Within a few days, he found out the details of all the personnel and reported them quietly.

Li Gui ordered the reorganization, and divided these people into separate groups and formed independent battalions. They were directly managed by his own family. Their salary was raised by one level, and they were given enough food and wine to eat on a daily basis.

Outsiders didn't know what Li Gui was thinking. They only thought that the leader of the village was trying to appease the people and prevent them from causing chaos and disrupting the recruitment process. They didn't know anything about their extraordinary treatment.

After receiving such treatment, everyone in Xinying not only remained resentful, but even became more dissatisfied.

As long as they think about becoming ordinary soldiers in the future and no longer having this kind of food and wine, they will be full of complaints and want to cause some trouble to mess up this trick.

Li Gui just didn't know what to do, and he didn't even mention any punishment. He also asked people to increase the training intensity, and drilled these people until they complained endlessly.

Within a few days, complaints arose in the new camp, and many ambitious people had even begun to secretly join forces, planning to rebel again after recruiting troops in Yushan Village.

Someone secretly reported these things to Li Gui, but Li Gui just ignored them and let them do whatever they wanted.

Those who joined forces began to respond in large numbers, but as soon as they thought about the officers and soldiers who would come to suppress them in the future, most of them would be led by the current leader of the village, the brother of the Li family, their hearts immediately became cold and they did not dare to think about rebellion anymore. .

This series of things stopped here, and it only took a few days to spin up and down.

There were many people in the village, and what happened in the new camp soon spread throughout the village.

While the other bandits were laughing at these ignorant fools, they were saving their money honestly, planning to buy land and build houses after being recruited, so that they could live as obedient citizens.

Only Zhu Fu was careful and had other concerns in his mind when he saw this kind of scene, but he didn't say much nonsense and just watched with cold eyes.

Just half a month passed like this, and suddenly one day, someone from the hotel outside the city came to report that the angel had arrived in Yishui County and would go up the mountain to announce the decree soon.

The village immediately became busy. People were wearing red and colorful clothes all over the village, sweeping and cleaning, preparing incense tables and other items in advance, waiting for the angel to come.

Unexpectedly, the angel stopped when he arrived in Yishui County. He only sent an envoy to Yushan, and everyone in Yushan went to the gate of Yishui County to welcome the imperial decree.

Everyone didn't notice anything was wrong and hurriedly packed up their things and followed the envoy to the county town. Li Gui hurriedly stopped everyone and yelled:
"Thieves and birds!"

"I'm so fooled by my official hat!"

"If it's a trap and ambush, I won't be afraid if you get to the city. I'm just afraid that your lives will be at risk!"

"Now the copycats are winning. They are begging the copycats for help, but we are not begging for mercy from them!"

"A certain family is staying on this mountain. If he wants to declare a decree, let him come up the mountain to meet him!"

(End of this chapter)