Late Tang

"Is everyone here?" Elder Wang leaned on a vine-wood crutch and turned to Village Chief Li Shugen.

Li Shugen stretched his neck and looked around for a while, then shouted in his loud voice: "Have all the families come? Is there anyone who hasn't arrived?"

"It's all here, it's all here." There was a lot of noise below. Basically, everyone already knew the reason for calling the villagers this time. They heard that they were going to gather for training. Many people were worried. They have all lost their income, and each family is planning to do some part-time jobs nearby, or go fishing on sea boats to earn some food.With one stroke, a strong labor force is gone.

"General Wang, everyone is here." Old Village Chief Wang turned his head and said to the saber-wielding officer who was asleep with his eyes closed.

The officer opened his eyes, glanced at the crowed villagers under the locust tree, nodded, and said to the long-clothed official: "Officer Zhang Kongmu, please declare the emperor's edict."

Kong Muguan surnamed Zhang nodded, walked up to the crowd, took a scroll of silk script from his bosom, opened it slowly, and chanted loudly.

"Keeping the battlefield carefully, so you are prepared for danger, and training your soldiers, so you can keep violence out of the way, pass the codes of generations, and have a picture of the country forever....In the year of natural disasters and famines, the people were famine, the remnants of Pang Xun, selfless and great virtues, invaded Yizhou County, To copy and plunder villages, read the words here, and never forget to learn from them. And originally set up a square town to guard against the border. As for the emergency, it is appropriate to rescue. Now, gather all the troops, unite the strong soldiers, and make sure that the head and the tail are guarded, and the heart is strong. In the same way, Zhang Luo's punishment, the power of opening the horns, so that the poor can't invade, and retreat can't return, mow horses and train troops, watch the provocations and move, garrison fields and valleys, solidify the enemy's desire, destroy the army can be expected, and victory is here. Order all the places in the Henan Province to draw one ding from fifteen households to gather in the counties, and continue to lead them in order to wait for them. If they want armored soldiers, they will support them. Public and private farming, and farming and fighting. Everyone should train Xu and serve as my deputy. .”

After reading a long section of the emperor's edict, the clerk took out another notice, which was the order of Song Wei, the envoy of the Ziqing Pinglu Army who controls the five states in the east of Henan Province.

"Ziqing, Pinglu, bordering the border bandits, although the regiment trains soldiers, they must always guard against them. If you hear that Pang Xun's remnant crimes are coming back, you should order Qi, Qing, Zi, Lai, and Deng to review the situation and double your defenses. , when you must store up your energy and wait for work with ease, when a thief is on the way to a key military county, you must increase the number of troops and horses. Those who take care of everything with all their heart and mind should be rewarded more heavily; if officials are abolished, thieves are slowed down, and those who are obedient are restrained, they must be strictly constitutional. It is still clear that the envoys will be encouraged to serve as deputy commissioners. The management of the city fortress should be built. Those who have done it will be ordered to complete their merits early, without delay, and they will be on guard. The soldiers will be recruited according to the dangerous passes, and they will be called athletes. They will be given spring and winter clothes and rations for their families; Daily food and pickles."

The clerk recited the two announcements for a long time, with ups and downs like singing.However, he read it hard for a long time, and almost all the villagers below were dozing off, and few of them understood half a sentence at all.

"Brother Xiucai, what is that old man with white beard thinking?" Wang Xiaoshitou, who was beside Li Jing, asked him with a confused face.

"The imperial court wants to draw a man to train soldiers and prevent bandits, and one man from fifteen households." Li Jing replied, but there was a kind of uncontrollable excitement in his heart.The two circulars only said one thing, to recruit strong men to join the army and form regiments for training.And I also said the reason for the drafting, that is, the remnants of Pang Xun, who had been rebelling from Guilin to Xuzhou four years ago, started to move again, and the imperial court dispatched soldiers to form a united army as a reserve force.

It's just that Li Jing deduced a result from these two circulars, that is, the so-called Pang Xun's remnants have caused a lot of trouble, otherwise it would be impossible for the central court to issue such an edict.If it is really just some remnants, it is enough to order troops from all over the country to suppress the bandits, so why bother to form a large-scale training regiment with one in [-] draws.

It's not easy, if something goes wrong, it's a demon.If his prediction is correct, it must be because of this year's catastrophe that the Great Famine began.People who can't survive will definitely run around, and some ambitious people and even bandits will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble.The imperial court draws one out of fifteen, not only to prepare for the formation of a reserve army, but also to draw salaries from the bottom of the pot. It will draw out many young men one step ahead of time, so as not to all follow the thieves.

It should be true, according to the historical knowledge of later generations mastered by Li Jing, because of the locust plague and drought in the Tang Dynasty, the harvest in Kanto, Henan Province was completely wiped out, and then the food price skyrocketed.Then, next year, the two biggest rebels, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, will rise up.The incident of Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao was the outbreak of civil uprisings in the late Tang Dynasty, and the first spark should have started at this time.

The civil uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty will begin, and the Tang Dynasty will soon enter the last few decades of turmoil.The peasant army fled and fought in all directions, and the last point of balance in the Tang Dynasty would be broken. The balance barely maintained by the mutual checks and balances among the feudal towns would be completely broken, and the era of separatist regimes and melee wars would begin.

Troubled times, a real troubled times is coming.

People are not as good as dogs in troubled times, but there are heroes in troubled times!

Do you want to be a dog, or do you want to be a hero?

Li Jing once thought about using his knowledge to make some small voices, start a small business, and live freely in this coastal area.But after experiencing the unjust prison disaster that just passed, he finally came to his senses.This is the late Tang Dynasty, this is not the prosperous age.

In the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, the life of a human is not as good as that of a dog. The Huang Chao army and the Caizhou bandits were all in the dark age when people were used as food for the army. It is impossible to be alone.That bastard Wang Liang just colluded with a small sesame warehouse official, and he could easily put himself to death.If it weren't for the amnesty order, he might have become a few skeletons outside Chishan Town at this time.

Putting life and death in the hands of others is absolutely unacceptable.Your own destiny should be in your own hands.

In this troubled world, how do you control your own destiny?

The head of the chaotic king is the king, the one with the biggest fist is the boss, and the force of soldiers and horses is the most powerful and core force in this world.

To be a soldier, to be a soldier, is to have the opportunity to grasp one's own destiny.

Li Jing turned her head, just in time to see Guiniang and Wan'er standing beside the Han family, behind them, several other members of the Li family also arrived.Looking at this family, there was a moment of reluctance in his heart, but the next moment, he immediately strengthened his thoughts.Staying here is just to gain a moment of peace. With the tide of chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, no one can be alone.

In troubled times, only by protecting yourself and strengthening yourself can you have the opportunity to protect the people around you.

Before the villagers understood the content of the notice, the clerk had already brought a clay pot and shouted loudly to the crowd: "Wangli Village has a population of 150 and eight households. According to the method of drawing one ding from fifteen households, this There are a total of 150 eight pebbles in the clay pot. Among the 150 eight pebbles, only ten are soaked in ink. Send one person from each household to touch a pebble, and each of the ten households that touch the ink-stained pebble must give one dime Enlist in the army!"

All the villagers understood the meaning of this one, and no one went up to touch it for a while.

"I'm coming!" Li Jing yelled, squeezed out of the crowd, and was the first to go forward. Amidst the exclamation of everyone, he put his hand into the clay pot.

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