Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 101 Shi Yigong Joins the Army

Forget it, let's fight, if I don't join the army and stay in Yangzhou, I'm afraid neither of us can survive.

If I go to be a soldier, even if I die in battle, I can still afford to raise Little Shitou. As long as he can grow up alive, then I can do whatever I want.

Shi Yigong made up his mind that joining the army was not only for his own future, but also for Xiaoshitou to have a meal.

Although Yangzhou was rich, it couldn't support too many refugees from the north. The porridge factory opened by the gentry in Yangzhou city was getting thinner and thinner, and the imperial court didn't have any effective measures to relieve them.

If Shi Yigong didn't go with his son in his arms, he might end up with both father and son buried in a mass grave.

"If you read the notice, please read the notice, don't crowd."

"If you want to join the army, come here, write down your name, place of origin, and family members, and then go back and find someone to vouch for you."

An officer spoke loudly to the tumultuous crowd.

He was an officer transferred from Banner Guard to Jinwu Guard. Because soldiers were to be recruited in Yangzhou, these officers were sent over to manage the recruitment station.

Shi Yigong relied on his physical strength to finally squeeze through the crowd to a table.

"Master Jun, I want to be a soldier, I want to be a soldier." Shi Yigong said excitedly.

He couldn't help being excited. After joining the army, he had to listen to the words of the chief and the court in everything. From now on, his own destiny would no longer be under his control.

The most important thing is that it will be very difficult to see his son. The army is fighting outside, and the shortest distance may be thousands of miles apart.

"Don't crowd, come one by one." The clerk in charge of registering information said impatiently.

He didn't know how many words he had written today, as people kept signing up to join the army, he had to keep writing.

After half a day's work, his hands were sore and unbearable. The secretary reckoned that if the recruiting continued for several days, his hands would swell.

"Name, place of origin, who is in the family, and where do you live now." The clerk asked Shi Yigong without raising his head.

"My name is Shi Yigong, the stone of a stone, the one of one, two, three, the work of kung fu."

"A native of Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture."

"There is only one young son in the family, and I took him to live in a shack in the north of the city."

Shi Yigong truthfully told the clerk his information. He did not dare to hide anything in front of the government officials.

"Well, bring your guarantor in the next two days, and then you will be given the settlement allowance." After finishing speaking, the secretary pushed Shi Yigong out impatiently.

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Back in his shack, Shi Yigong looked at his son who was still sleeping. Four or five years old was when the child was lively and energetic, and when he knew the people and things around him, Shi Yigong wanted to leave his side.

"Son, don't blame dad for being cruel, dad is also doing it for your own good."

"If one day my father wins fame and wealth, even the position of a prince, by fighting with a knife and a gun on the battlefield, you can also be the young master of a rich man's family."

"Just like Lao Cai, the king of our village, he eats fish and meat all day long, and wears silk and satin."

Although Shi Yigong said it nicely, his heart was completely different.

There are always many dead and few living on the battlefield. Even if you have survived hundreds of battles, how can you know that your superior will not monopolize your credit and money.

Although Shi Yigong was just a mud-legged farmer, he had heard from an old man in the village who had served as a soldier that there was a strict hierarchy in the army.

It is fine for a superior to beat and scold his subordinates at every turn, and what is more, he will be jealous when his subordinates do meritorious service, and plot to kill the subordinate who has done meritorious service, so that the credit will naturally be his own.

Another situation is that the Shangguan will ask you to be filial when paying the salary, and even directly deduct your salary. Many people are afraid of retaliation, so they dare not speak out.

And some people who dared to speak out were all speechless in the end, because dead people can't speak.

In short, Shi Yigong knew that his road to joining the army was full of dangers, not only from the enemy's swords and guns, but also from the frame of his comrades.

But he has no better way to go besides joining the army, he can't do business, and he can't read as a petty official.

But for the sake of myself and my children, I have to go through it even if there are mountains of swords, mountains of fire, and seas of stone ahead. Furthermore, even if I die, I have to die closer to my hometown.

Thinking of this, Shi Yigong covered the little stone with a small quilt made of dirty hemp pieces sewn together, and walked out of his shack.

"Aunt Zhang, please protect me so that I can enlist in the army." Shi Yigong came to a nearby village and knelt in front of Aunt Zhang's door.

"What are you doing? This man has gold under his knees. Stand up and talk." Aunt Zhang saw Shi Yigong kneeling in front of her house and quickly pulled him up to talk.

But she didn't expect Shi Yigong to be so stubborn, no matter how hard she pulled him, he wouldn't move.

In fact, Shi Yigong didn't want to kneel down, but he had no choice. In order to prevent spies and tricksters who cheated money, Zhu Cihong stipulated that anyone who came to join the army must be guaranteed by a family in Yangzhou, otherwise he would not be allowed to join the army. join the army.

But in the huge Yangzhou, Shi Yigong only knew Aunt Zhang's family, so he had no choice but to find him.

"If you don't agree, you will have to kneel down forever." In order to be able to join the army, Shi Yigong resorted to the means of stalking and scoundrels.

"Okay, I promise you." Aunt Zhang couldn't bear seeing Shi Yigong, a seven-foot man, kneeling in front of her, so she agreed to Shi Yigong.

"Old man, go and accompany him." Aunt Zhang asked her husband to accompany Shi Yigong because she was not familiar with Yangzhou city, although she was not a woman with little feet.

"Go ahead, it's too dangerous to be a guarantee, so I won't go." The old man Zhang cursed as soon as he came out, he was very reluctant to give Shi Yigong a guarantee.

"This is a major matter related to the future of the family, so you can do me a favor." Aunt Zhang advised her husband.

"Okay, okay, I really can't hold you back." Seeing his wife's strong request, the old man had to agree.

He thought to himself, anyway, if the imperial court wants to recruit [-] soldiers, then it needs [-] households as guarantees. on my head.

Under the mentality of old man Zhang, Shi Yigong was able to successfully join the army and received five taels of silver to settle down.

The price of goods in Jianghuai is about one stone of rice and one tael of silver. If the settling allowance that Shi Yigong received was not exchanged for rice grain, it would at least be enough for Xiaoshi to eat for two years. After all, he is only a child of kindergarten age.

Before entering the barracks, Shi Yigong handed over his son to Aunt Zhang's family to raise him, and even gave Aunt Zhang the five taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)