Xue Shao returned to Zuo Fengchen Guard and called his followers.

Lu Siyi, Tang Zhen, Pan Yi and others had been waiting for Xue Shao to wait for a long time. The Tang Dynasty recruited troops and expanded its troops to fight against the Turks, and they also wanted to participate. But Xue Shao poured a bucket of cold water on them - just left Zuo Fengchen Guard staying obediently, protecting the emperor well, and not being allowed to go anywhere!

These people were confused and wanted to ask for a reason. Someone suggested that we follow the general and join the army and continue to be the general's personal follower.

Xue Shao didn't say anything nonsense, and changed into the military uniform of the pawns that Pei Xingjian gave him in front of everyone, "I'm just an ordinary pawn, how can I take my relatives?"

Lu Siyi and others were stunned on the spot.

Xue Shao comforted them and said that after I finished the war, I would still return to Zuo Fengchen Guard. I would go to the battle and have opportunities in the future.

Lu Siyi and others stopped talking, but just questioned why they became a small pawn with their general's origin and title. Pei Xingjian was too ruthless.

"It is precisely because I am born with a good background and have a high title that Pei Xingjian deliberately asked me to start with a small pawn." Xue Shao said: "If you want to gain a foothold in the army, especially in the field army on the expedition, it is not enough to rely on a good background and interpersonal relationships alone. The soldiers who fight against the enemy in the field are suffering every day. I am a person who has never suffered from the hardships of the army for a day. Can they accept me? If I don't understand the actual things and details in the army?

Can they convince me by just relying on some things learned from books? Only by sharing the same joys and sorrows can they share the same hatred and prestige. So when I go on a war, I will endure hardships and understand every detail in the army. On the surface, Pei Xingjian is tormenting me without being merciless, but in fact, he is for my own good. As the saying goes, a tree has deep roots. If a tree does not lay its roots into a deep soil, how can it grow into a towering tree?"

Lu Siyi and others suddenly realized and said together: "The general is diligent, pragmatic, not greedy for vain. We will be taught! We will do all our duties down-to-earth and never be ambitious!"

"That's right." Xue Shao sat down, picked up his pen and wrote two short letters and handed them to Lu Siyi, and said, "You went to my house in person and handed these two letters to my elder brother. One was a farewell letter to my elder brother and sister-in-law, and the other was a farewell letter to my elder sister-in-law who asked me to pass it on to Princess Taiping."

Lu Siyi was shocked and said, "It will take at least several months for the general to return this time, so why don't you say goodbye to your closest relatives in person? All those who have fought in ancient times have been like this!"

"No." Xue Shao took a deep breath, frowned slightly, "Pei Xingjian ordered me to go to the right guard to report joining the army immediately, because I was afraid that my hero would be angry and my children would be in love. I would cut the mess quickly, and it would be the best!"

"I understand..." Lu Siyi and others sighed. Only by enduring hardships can one become the best. Those who do big things must have a cruelty, including being cruel to themselves!

Xue Shao left all his official seal, horses, money and other items in Zuo Fengchen Guard and handed them over to his subordinates for safekeeping. As Pei Xingjian said, he only brought a new household registration book and two clothes, and did not even bring a copper plate.

"General, you... this is too exaggerated!" Lu Siyi and others said in surprise: "At least you have to bring some money on your body. The army is the same as outside. It is hard to move without money!"

"Then do I have to bring a group of dance philanders and servants?" Xue Shao smiled and said, "It's all right to eat and drink in the army."

Lu Siyi and others were speechless. Ordinary pawns would bring some copper plates to prepare for emergencies. The general was even more able to hang out than the pawns!

Xue Shao thought about it and brought two more things - a fountain pen made by himself and a blank paper sheet packed with thread. He thought about it along the way and wrote it into a marching diary!

"Don't publicize my affairs and what I say to you!"

After explaining this, Xue Shao left the Zuo Fengchen Guard and went directly to the Dajunping behind the Right Guard Office.

There were already thousands of people queuing up to log in to the list in Dajunping, and people kept rushing to the place. There were generals and schools who were receiving troops. Every time the people who were logged in to the list gathered a team of fifty people, one of them was taking them away.

In wartime, the usual recruitment of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty was carried out in various Zhechong prefectures. After entering the prefecture, there were new recruits training and various adaptations.

Now the court is promising to recruit "mercenaries" for food and money, and they are professional soldiers. Regardless of whether you have the ability, since you take the initiative to join the army and receive food and money, you have to use it immediately and get used to it yourself when you get to the army.

Just like learning to swim, some people are slowly teaching in the beautiful and clean swimming pool, holding the insurance ring with coaches and helping them; some people are thrown directly into the river to choke on the water, and if they don’t learn, they will wait to drown!

Xue Shao, like many of the people present who came to join the army, was the latter.

After stripping off a flower-embroidered suit and jade pendant and golden crown, Xue Shao was not noticed in the crowd of millions. But someone around him noticed him. A thick-browed bearded man with a taller beard than Cheng Boxian, stretched his arms across the two people and put them on Xue Shao's shoulders, and shouted to him: "Hey, what's your name?"

"Cheng Yu." Xue Shao looked back at him and felt that it was dark in front of him, as if the sunlight in the sky was blocked.

This guy is so strong, it's like a big wall!

The man gave birth to a pair of big blue copper bells with big eyes, his lips were thick like two pieces of sausages, and the beard on his face was almost connected to his eyebrows and was red and yellow, like a glaring lion. He wore a short brown waist and tied a hemp rope to his chest and exposed his abdomen. His shiny bronze skin was very thick, and his standard six-pack abdomen was like a raised iron plate, like a professional gladiator who escaped from the Roman gladiator.

The big man looked at Xue Shao's eyes, "Look at you, you look like a rich man, why did you come to join the army?"

"I came from a minor official family, and my family was in trouble." Xue Shao said, "Do you have something to do with me?"

"You... do you have something to eat?" The big man licked his lips and swallowed his saliva. "I see you look like a rich man, so I asked you. He has been standing here for almost two hours and it's not time to eat. I'm almost starving to death!"

The people around him burst into laughter.

"Smile!" said the big man angrily, "I'm holding my head to fight for my life, so why don't I eat?"

A general wearing armor next to him shouted, "No noise in the army!"

Everyone was silent immediately, and the rules in the army have always been very strict.

Xue Shao smiled and stepped back and stood with the big man in two positions, saying, "What's your name?"

"I don't have a name, those idle birds call me Niu Ben!" said the big man.

Xue Shao couldn't help but smile, "How come a big man doesn't even have a name?"

"I was a refugee from the Western Regions since I was a child. I don't know who my parents are, so I just rely on raising horses and running merchants for others." The big man said, "I wandered around the pass with a horse-trafficking caravan in the pass. The shop owner was unsolicited. I didn't want to do it for him anymore. It was the imperial court recruiting Guan Jian, so I secretly ran here to make a living."

The Tang Dynasty generally implemented the system of government soldiers. Most of the government soldiers came from peasants as conscripts, and they were free in wartime. "Officials" was a very extraordinary period of war. The Tang Dynasty's official volunteers paid and recruited by professional soldiers, that is, professional soldiers and mercenaries!

"Niu Ben? This name is appropriate." Xue Shao smiled, "Since he is a refugee, he has no household registration?"

“What is household registration?”

"..." Xue Shao scratched his head, "Come with me."

"Come on to eat?" The big man's eyes shone.

"Eat you!" Xue Shao said angrily, "You don't have any household registration, you can get a bird army!"

"What should I do?" The big man panicked, "Okay, I'd better go back and continue to do it for the black-hearted shopkeeper!"

"Stop talking nonsense, come with me!"

Niu Ben was stunned for a moment and followed Xue Shao.

Xue Shao brought Niu Ben to the Ministry of Revenue, and there was a group of people queuing up here, all of whom were temporarily registering their household registration to join the army. The population census of the Tang Dynasty was not as strict as that of later generations. It was common to miss the population, especially some refugees and servants from wealthy families, who had no household registration.

The Tang Dynasty attached great importance to military industry. If ordinary soldiers could make military achievements in the army, they could get titles and salaries to turn over. Therefore, once the court issued grain and salary to recruit officials, for "unpreiquitous people" like refugees, spring is coming, and even if they could not kill military achievements, they could get some military salary.

The Ministry of Revenue and governments at all levels have to be busy re-registering household registrations for these people.

"There is such a thing? Why have I never heard of it before?" Niu Ben said in a daze.

"Come in line quickly." Xue Shao said, "I'll wait for you here, and I'll join you after I finish."

"Okay!" Niu Ben's happy big butt arched his head and inserted it from the middle of the team. Of course, the person who was sent to the team was not happy, but when he saw that such a bull-like guy was talking to him, he endured it all.

Xue Shao was funny on the side. People like Niu Ben are suitable for making a living in the army.

"Hey, you're a white-faced!" Niu Ben stood in the team and shouted to Xue Shao: "I think you are a very knowledgeable person. Can you get some food?"

"You are not very good at flattering!" A black line appeared on Xue Shao's head. Are these two tied up?

Niu Ben smiled and bowed to Xue Shao with fists, "Help, help, I'm so hungry that I'm almost dizzy!"

"Okay, wait."

Xue Shao shook his head and smiled and was about to leave, but suddenly he remembered that it seemed that I was a super poor person now and had no penny on him.

"Forget it, you'd better bear it. There will be food for you when you get to the army later." Xue Shao scratched his face, "I don't have a penny on me."

"Look at you like a rich man, why are you poorer than me?" Niu Ben glared at Xue Shao with disdain, took off his shoes on the ground, and took out two cents from it, "Go to buy some steamed buns quickly, I'll treat you to eat!"

Xue Shao took the two stinky copper coins and blinked forty-five degrees and looked at the sky speechlessly. My dignified young master Lantian is also today?
Chapter completed!