The officer in charge of recruiting soldiers looked at the big man up and down, and then at the accomplices behind him.

Good guys, they were all dressed like hunters in the mountains.

This was not uncommon in Chang'an City.

He immediately asked,

"You must not be from Chang'an, right?"

"of course not!"

The big man with tiger skin around his waist said carelessly,

"You can tell by our accent, but our place is not far from Sili.……"

When he heard that he was a foreigner, the young official hesitated immediately.

He frowned slightly, but the big man asked impatiently,

"Then tell me, how can I join the army in exchange for food?"

"There are still many people in our family waiting for us to transport the food back to satisfy our hunger!"

Hearing that the big man said that he wanted to transport the grain back, the conscript officer was immediately very dissatisfied.

He slapped his hand on the table and said in a more serious tone,

"This is the army, serving our Xiliang army."

"Good guy, you transported the food back, who knows if you can come back!"

No matter how good-tempered this big man was, he was slightly irritated at this time.

He took a deep breath, pointed at the wooden sign and said,

"Anyway, we just want food, and you just want people to serve in the army, so that’s the end of it!"

"At worst, we send a few brothers back to deliver food, and the rest of us can stay here!"

Thinking about this, the clerk nodded and said,

"I saw that there are no stone locks here. Each one weighs sixty pounds. If you lift one, you will be considered qualified."

"Lift two to get double the food!"

"Just three……"

Before the clerk finished speaking, the sturdy man burst out laughing.

He said quite confidently,

"Is this the only requirement?"

"Come on, brothers, show your skills!"

This sturdy man brought more than a hundred hunters.

They stepped forward one after another and lifted up the stone locks easily.

Everyone lifted at least two, and there were many strong ones. can lift three or four

"this……"

This shocked the little official, and he quickly said,

"enough! enough!"

"You are all qualified!"

"do not!"

Perhaps he was given trouble by this little official before.

The leading burly man deliberately patted his chest and said,

"I, Mr. Xu, haven’t lifted it yet!"

"let me!"

Then he took a step, opened his arms, and actually held all ten stone locks present in his arms, and then lifted them up easily,

"Hahaha! How about it?!"

"I raised ten stone locks. Do you want to give me ten bags of food?"

The little official was shocked, ten?!

Isn't that six hundred pounds? Many of the young and middle-aged men in Chang'an City can barely lift one, and very few can lift two!

He can be regarded as a great person today. Opening his eyes, he quickly wrote down the astonishing record of ten stone locks on a booklet, and asked the militiamen on the side to count the food for them.

The man named Lao Xu watched the bags of food being pulled onto the car.

He said quite happily,

"Yes, yes, your Xiliang Army is still very trustworthy!"

"Then I, Lao Xu, can't act recklessly. In this case, I will assign ten brothers to escort the food back."

"The remaining people will temporarily work for your Xiliang Army!"

The clerk quickly asked these people to register their names.

The leader, Lao Xu, directly reported his name.

"Xu Chu!"

"good! good!"

The clerk said quickly,

"More than a hundred of you are here together, so let’s all merge into one training brigade!"

"Warrior, you were their leader before, now you will be their captain!"

He did not refuse to let Xu Chu be the captain.

After all, when these Orion brothers were brought out from Xujiazhuang, they also regarded him as a leader, but he had never heard of this training brigade. So he seemed to have been given by his power. The conquered little official patiently explained bit by bit,

"It's our lord's order,"

"All of your recruits will undergo a month of intensive training called boot camp."

"Then they are divided into different units according to the results of the training."

Is there such a statement?

It made Xu Chu feel fresh.

He scratched his head and said,

"We understand what you mean. Anyway, as long as we give you enough food,"

"You have the final say what happens!"

In the large tent of the Xiliang Army's military camp,

Li Ru was reporting to Dong Yu on the results of the army's expansion.

"Reporting back to my lord, this time using food to recruit young men in Chang'an City was quite effective."

"A total of more than 4,000 young men have been recruited and have been organized into about 40 training brigades."

"Next, we will arrange for them to undergo basic military training in the first ten days of this month according to your scheduled plan."

"Those who fail will be eliminated directly! Those who pass the exam will enter the mid-term training camp."

"In the middle of the month, we will hold drills on various subjects such as archery, siege, and riding in batches. Those who fail can be incorporated into the militia! Those who pass the test can join the independent army."

"The outstanding ones will be able to participate in the elite training camp in the second half of the year!"

Dong Yu nodded.

He made up this centralized training method bit by bit based on the memories of his previous life.

The purpose is to select and evolve elite troops who are loyal and possess sufficient force.

But at this time, Li Ru The expression on his face is a bit complicated, not entirely filled with the joy of completing the military expansion mission.

"Military advisor, are you still worried about food?"

Li Ru saw that his master did not avoid it, so he said bluntly,

"My lord, I am really worried about food."

"For example, with this expansion of the army, we distributed at least five to six thousand bags of food."

"This has stretched our food reserves!"

"If the people in Chang'an City later have no food, hunger is rampant, and starvation is everywhere, it will definitely affect the morale of our army."

"When the time comes, there will be no need for Lu Bu to fight, and the army will be dispersed."

"No matter how many troops you train, it's useless!"

Dong Yu looked at Li Ru's serious look.

He didn't intend to tell the loyal military advisor directly all the cards he had.

Instead, he walked down, patted Li Ru's shoulder affectionately and said,

"The military advisor was able to go to Jiwuwu to be loyal to me in times of adversity."

"I understand your loyalty, and I was very pleased to be able to give you your advice just now."

"But don’t worry, military advisor, since I promised to solve the food problem, I will definitely solve it!"

"After all, we still want to make the Xiliang Army the best in the world together. How can we be hindered by the mere food shortage operation?"

Dong Yu's words were equivalent to injecting a booster into Li Ru's heart.

He nodded slightly, took a step back, bowed deeply to Dong Yu and said,

"My lord, it’s Li Ru who is worrying too much."

"I will definitely organize the training for you later and select suitable talents for you!"

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