Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 17 027. Mercenaries Appear

At noon the next day, Zhang Ren entered the Changsha barracks with more than 1000 children. The mighty team also attracted the attention of many people, especially Liu Biao's spies in ambush in Changsha, as well as people from various princes. Wang Hao is the richest prince today, even Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Yuan Shu of Jiangnan are not as good as him.

After Wang Hao took office as the prefect of Changsha, the first thing he did was to exempt all taxes, but only for farmers with less than ten acres of land, in the name of letting the people rest and recuperate. As for the part required by the court, Wang Hao paid for it himself, anyway. The fruits and vegetables of the imperial court were bought from him, and even if the tax was deducted, Wang Hao could still get money from the imperial court once a year.

The clans in Changsha County are unwilling, and ordinary people don’t have to pay taxes, but they still have to pay a lot of taxes, but Wang Hao is not afraid that they will not pay. Although Changsha County does not have many troops, they can collect thousands of soldiers and horses. There are still some, Wang Hao told Huang Zhong that you are not polite to the clan, if you don’t give it, you can grab it, and whoever refuses to accept it will take the knife. In short, the Changsha clan hates Wang Hao, but the people support Wang Hao very much. If there is less taxation in this era , As long as you have hands and feet, you can't starve to death, and you can be self-sufficient if you open up a piece of wasteland.

These children were all innocent after being carefully selected by Zhang Ren, ranging in age from 12 to 16 years old. Huang Zhong and Wang Hao are standing side by side on the stage. After seeing the girls in linen clothes standing in the crowd , he frowned and didn't speak, but he no longer had any hope for the mercenaries that Wang Hao said.

There were hundreds of veterans left behind in the school grounds. They were also curious to see Zhang Ren leading a bunch of dolls into the barracks, and everyone stood by the school grounds to watch.

"Okay, I think everyone knows who I am without my introduction. Listen to my slogan and stand still, stand at attention..."

No wonder Wang Hao shouted enthusiastically, but the children below gathered in twos and threes, and they didn't know what Wang Hao was shouting at all. Wang Hao forgot that these people have not received any formal training, and they can't even do the most basic standing in line I realized that there were still some illiterate children, and this result was beyond Wang Hao's expectations.

"My lord, why don't you pick out those girls, and I'll let these veterans take them to train for a few days, and then take them out to patrol and wipe out bandits. Within three months, they will definitely become qualified soldiers." ..."

Huang Zhong saw Wang Hao standing there awkwardly, and Zhang Ren also looked at Wang Hao strangely. However, he did not expect that the result would be like this. He blushed and wanted to laugh but did not dare to, but the veterans next to the school ground coaxed him away. Laughing, Wang Hao’s deployment of troops on the school field became a big joke.

Wang Hao was not angry when he saw the chaotic scene. He declined Huang Zhong's kindness and invited Zhang Ren. He would not have Huang Zhong's idea of ​​looking down on women. In his previous life, his coach in the mercenary army was a female instructor. Wang Hao's memory is still fresh.

"Zicong, if you want to laugh, you don't have to hold back. Let me ask you, have they ever learned arithmetic in the ranch?"

Wang Hao asked the blushing Zhang Ren, as long as these people have learned arithmetic, as for the other Wang Hao has his own way, Huang Zhong doesn't know where Wang Hao's self-confidence comes from, but he didn't stop Wang Hao from letting him continue blindly. Come on, Huang Zhongxin thought that after a few days, Wang Hao would naturally give up after tossing enough.

"Okay, everyone just entered the barracks and I don't need you to line up, but I said a few things, you should listen carefully, this is related to your future life.

In my hometown, there is a kind of army called mercenaries. They don’t belong to any party. They only fight for themselves. As long as others give them money, they can do anything. They sell information as scouts or assassins to assassinate some important people. Or assist others to participate in the expedition..."

Standing on the school grounds, Wang Hao said a lot about the characteristics of mercenaries. In other words, mercenaries are similar to bandits in this era, and even worse than bandits in some places, but this is indeed the essence of mercenaries, mercenaries It's a lunatic who wants money and life. Huang Zhong couldn't take it anymore after hearing half of it. He turned around and left the school grounds. A master like Wang Hao would not be surprised by this. Yuan Shu or Yuan Shao would never allow his subordinates to do this.

After Wang Hao finished his dirty words, he even boasted in the school grounds that he would set up a mercenary army. The children in the audience were stunned, and even the garrison standing outside the school grounds were dumbfounded. Although Zhang Ren I don't know why Wang Hao said that, but Wang Hao, a good man from Jingzhou, wants to form a bandit army, even if he kills Zhang Ren, he won't believe Wang Hao's words.

But he didn't believe it, but many people believed it. Liu Biao wrote back the letter and scolded Wang Hao for this matter. Many princes also despised Wang Hao. Raise an army of bandits.

On that day, Wang Hao asked the children present to make a choice. If they wanted to join the mercenaries, they could stay. If they didn't, they could leave with Zhang Ren and join the Chamber of Commerce. Wang Hao's Datong Chamber of Commerce has spread across the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty. Being a follower of the Chamber of Commerce can also provide enough food and clothing.

More than half of the school grounds were occupied by Wang Hao. There were still more than 700 people staying on the second day, and the ninth floor of the 300 people who left were all boys. They were willing to stay. As for the girls, they didn't hear what Wang Hao said clearly. They only knew that Wang Hao needed girls. They didn't care about the army. Female soldiers, many girls mistakenly believe that Wang Hao needs to follow the maids, just like the maids in the palace need to be selected.

Men and women slept in separate camps. Wang Hao came to the barracks just after dawn the next day. There were more than 400 boys and less than 15 girls. Wang Hao wanted to pick a few leaders to come out, but unexpectedly found a treasure among these people, a [-]-year-old man. A [-]-year-old boy took the initiative to stand up, and Wang Hao only found out when he asked his name. It turned out that he was Jinfan thief Gan Ning, and there were more than a dozen of his fellow villagers among the children.

Gan Ning was recommended to Huang Zhong by Wang Hao, but he insisted on staying in the team with everyone, Wang Hao couldn't help but secretly sighed that the thief was not dead.

In three days, Wang Hao only needs them to learn to line up, get up at six o'clock every day to wash up and line up, 20 people in a row, divided into men and women, stand on the school field, and return to the school field to line up before sunset at night. After three days of training, no matter how stupid they are Finding their own position, they have to run three laps around the school field before eating every day, which is an eight-kilometer jog. At the beginning, the formation was a little messy, but gradually it got better. After a few days, they all formed the habit up.

(End of this chapter)