After many days, Wu Haowen returned to Jiehe Market. He was invited by Wu Haogu.

When Wu Haowen arrived at Xuanfusi Castle, he saw a fence built on an open open space outside the castle. It seemed like a slum inside the fence, with several rows of dilapidated slab houses. A group of men in tattered slabs were squatting outside the slab house, squinting their eyes at the people coming and going on the official road. The eyes were both helpless and a little curious.

These men didn't know what they were doing? They seemed to be with their families. Now it was time to fuck lunch. Some women in the same plain clothes were busy inside and out. A few wisps of smoke were coming out of the small chimney of the wooden house. There were also some uninformed children playing in the fence.

There are several Jiehe soldiers standing guard outside the fence. Their outfits are very different from those before Wu Haogu became the Hebei Xuanshu. He no longer uses huge "Roman shields", but instead wears half-equipped (full armor is only worn during training and battle), and the weapons in his hands have become standardized spears.

The reason for such a change is that Wu Haogu is now named as the No. 5 Hebei Xuanfu. Although his Xuanfu was very weak, he was much worse than Gao Qiu's third northwest Xuanfu. However, under Zhao Ji's instruction, the Dujun Mass and the Ministry of War still gave the Hebei Xuanfu Department the power to form a new army of four generals.

In other words, the Hebei Xuanfu Department can legally recruit soldiers, recommend officers (requires approval from the Ministry of War), and purchase or build equipment and armor.

However, the civil servants of the two prefectures were not so easy to talk. The power to recruit soldiers, recommend officials, and purchase machinery was given to the Xuanfu Department, but the money and food required to recruit soldiers and purchase machinery were stuck. Wu Haogu wrote countless memorials, and in the end he only got enough money and food to raise and maintain the new army of the two generals.

The Ministry of Revenue and the Hebei Transportation Commissioner also had a strong sense of the new army, which was the government army, so it was enough to have food, so why do you need money and silk to recruit soldiers and pay?

In addition, the Ministry of War sent more than 10,000 domestic soldiers who complained to the Hebei Xuanfu Department, saying that they were used to train the new army for the Hebei Xuanfu Department.

This really makes Wu Haogu a little bit painful!

However, Wu Haogu is not a vegetarian. He also bit Tao Jiefu, who was training soldiers in Hedong, and he sipped in Hebei. Hedong is the world of the court, so he cannot favor one or the other! Since Hebei's military training is mainly based on government troops, Hedong should not be an exception.

So the Ministry of Revenue and the Hedong Transportation Command happily cut off half of Tao Jiefu's money and grain, which was probably only enough to recruit cavalry from four battalions to pay salaries and benefits to military officers with official positions, plus some miscellaneous benefits, as well as food and clothing for 20,000 people and expenses for thousands of horses.

No matter how Tao Jiefu dealt with it, Wu Haogu was not in a hurry. It was still early to the Northern Expedition, and the mercenaries he recruited were old by that time, so the most important thing now is to train the officers and non-commissioned officers and train the cavalry well.

As long as you have good officers, non-commissioned officers and cavalrymen, even if you use the palace soldiers in the future, you will not be unable to win battles.

So Wu Haogu simply regarded the new army of the four generals as the sharpening bricks of the non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers. He also mastered very good officers and sources of non-commissioned officers. Jiehe Knights Academy is nominally a training of cavalry officers. In fact, the courses of infantry, engineers and baggage soldiers in this academy are also world-class, much better than the infantry school in Kaifeng Prefecture!

The Knight Primary School, which provides students for the Knight Academy, also has a very high teaching level and can provide very excellent cavalry (including knights) and sergeants. In addition, Tianli Academy, also located in Jiehe Shang City, can also provide non-commissioned officers for the new army.

Therefore, as long as Wu Haogu obtained control of the four generals' new army, he would not be afraid of not being able to train excellent officers, non-commissioned officers and cavalry teams.

At the same time, Wu Haogu also took advantage of the power to adapt the militia, utility knight, and dash knight of Jiehe Shang City into a new army. Two of the four generals were built with Jiehe Militia as the backbone. The backbone of the troops stationed in Xuanfusi Castle, which is now stationed in the south of Jiehe Shang City, was adapted from Jiehe Militia.

Because of the official new army title, Wu Haogu was able to legitimately purchase controlled equipment such as armor, spears and military crossbows for them.

Moreover, the new government soldiers also have a "reserve service" system, which was also used by Wu Haogu to trap the Jiehe militia. All the reserve government soldiers can legally possess armor and weapons!

Once this force that was raised among Jiehe folks was launched, although it could not be compared with the serious new army, it was still very confident to defend Jiehe Market during the war.

"What's going on with these people? Why are they enclosed in the fence?"

A new soldier born in Jiehe militia was called in front of Wu Haowen's horse, and Wu Haowen asked a question on the horse's back.

"Report to Shuaisi, those people were all slaves transported from Luoyang. I heard that they were owed debts and sold to Jiehe Shangshi."

"What!?"

When Wu Haowen heard this, his brows immediately frowned.

Luoyang is the hometown of Wu Haowen! And Jiehe Market allows slaves to be traded... How could Luoyang fellow villagers be sold to Jiehe Market? Who is so unethical?

"Go and find someone who can talk for me." Wu Haowen gave orders, and was supported by his followers to get off the horse. Immediately someone took the horse stool and asked Wu Haowen to sit down.

Soon a young farmer with a dark face, a thin figure and a bitter face was brought to Wu Haowen.

"The little Chen Jiang of Luoyang has met a high-ranking official."

The young man bowed and bowed to his house. He did not kneel down and kowtow, nor did he call Wu and Wen "Sir".

"Are you from Luoyang?" Wu Haowen asked, "Where is Luoyang?"

"Baibo Town."

"How did you get born here?"

"Oh..." When a young man named Chen Jiang heard this question, his tears fell down, "Isn't it just that Bai Bowu was hurt by the skin!"

"Wu Baosai!" Wu Haowen was stunned and thought to himself: The bad guy actually has the surname Wu, is he his relative?

"Is it from the Baibo Yimen Wu family?"

"The silly righteous!" said the young man angrily, "It's the silence of unkindness and unrighteousness. This year, the spring wheat harvest in Luoyang was obviously a failure. However, their Wu family colluded with profiteers to suppress the price of grain, so that tenants like us who rented land could not pay back the interest on the King of Hell's account, so they had to sell themselves as slaves."

It turned out that this Chen Tiannong was stripped of Wu Cheng and was cheated on Java...

"It's good to go to Jiehe to work," Wu Haowen didn't know what to say, so he had to comfort him, "Even if you are a servant, you can save a lot of money in a year, which is much better than farming in Luoyang."

The "selling one's body as a slave" in the Song Dynasty mostly refers to "signing slaves", which usually lasts for three or five years. And being a "signing slave" does not mean that you have no income of a penny. In order to encourage slave workers to work, employers will pay some money, reward money, and also provide food and accommodation. If you work in Jiehe Commercial City and Jingdong Commercial City, your annual income will definitely exceed that of farming.

If you can stay in Jiehe Commercial City to work in three or five years, you will be considered a miserable situation... Jiehe Commercial City is a place that can easily make money, and it is many times better than farming in Luoyang.

Farming is a business! You are responsible for your own profits and losses, without any guarantee. For tenants who do not even have basic means of production (land, plowing ox), need to rent, and have no capital, and need to borrow usury, farming is definitely a business that is at a loss. The only meaning is to earn bitter food for yourself and your family, eat two meals a day, eat hard when you are busy, drink thin when you are free, and not starve to death.

"Oh," Chen Jiang sighed, "If I stayed in Jiehe Market, the young man would be happy... The whole family would be in charge of food and accommodation, and even if there was no money, we would be willing to do so.

But Wu Baopi was fed by his conscience and actually cheated all of us villagers to Luoshiji Java... We will be on the boat and go to sea in a few days!"

Speaking of this, Chen Jiang suddenly fell down and knelt down for Wu Haowen and bowed to him, "Good official, okay, let my family stay in the Song Dynasty, even if you are willing to make a cow and a horse for the official!"

It turns out that my brother cheated you...

Wu Haowen already understood what was going on! But he was powerless to do anything, so many people wanted to make a cow and horse for him! He is so handsome all the way! He is still so young and will definitely be the slaughter in the future... The "cow and horse" of the slaughter family is also an elite in the slaughter world. I wonder how many people are going to curry favor with him!

He sighed, ignored Chen Jiang and walked towards Xuanfusi Fortress, and was led all the way to Wu Haogu's General Office by the gatekeeper.

"Second brother, you're here." Wu Haogu got up and greeted his younger brother, and said with a smile: "There is a good thing to get promoted and make money."

Promotion and wealth? Wu Haowen has no interest in getting promoted and wealthy. It is too easy for him to get promoted and wealthy, and he has no sense of accomplishment at all.

Wu Haogu didn't know what his brother was thinking, so he continued to smile and said, "Our Song Dynasty is now famous! The countries of the East, South, West, and Tianzhu all regard our dynasty as the superior country of the Celestial Empire and call the officials the lord of the four seas... This is an unprecedented grand occasion in the Han and Tang dynasties!"

"Is that true?" Wu Haowen said in his heart: Didn't he call the official "Zhao Papi"?

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "It's better for us brothers to promote a grand ceremony for all nations to come to the court, and ask overseas foreign island capitals to send envoys to Kaifeng Prefecture to pay tribute to the officials!"

"All nations come to pay tribute!" Wu Haowen frowned, "I'm afraid it will cost a lot, right?"

The Central Plains Dynasty likes to engage in diplomacy with weak relationships. It often wins face and loses the inner world.
Chapter completed!