"General Yan." Fang Qianhu was as enthusiastic as seeing Yan Fei when he saw Yan Fei. People who didn't know thought Yan Fei was the commander of the Jinyiwei. "I'm ready for the house you want."

"Is that so? Let's go and have a look." Yan Fei followed Fang Qianhu excitedly to the mansion. The bright glazed tiles, red painted gates, towering courtyard walls and the stone lion in front of the door all show the difference between this mansion.

"This was originally the residence of Chen Weiqi, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue." Fang Qianhu happily introduced Yan Fei. "Last year, Chen Shilang was jailed by the lord and senator, and this residence was taken as a magistrate. When the house was raided, it was our Jinyiwei who was responsible for it. The commander set a price of 5,000 taels, no one bought it, so the house was kept. I wonder if General Yan is still satisfied?"

"Five thousand taels?" Yan Fei raised his eyebrows. This is not a small number. No wonder no one took over for such a long time. However, for Yan Fei, it is not a big deal to spend five thousand taels on this mansion, which covers an area of ​​tens of acres. If this area is converted into soft sister coins in the modern world, it is probably impossible to afford a toilet.

"I want it." Yan Fei nodded with satisfaction, then stepped into the spacious main hall.

After entering the main hall, Yan Fei was stunned because a large group of men and women appeared in front of him. Seeing Yan Fei come in, many men and women in the room all leaned over and shouted, "Welcome to the master to return home."

"What does this mean?" Yan Fei looked at the men and women kneeling in front of him in the room, and looked at Fang Qianhu with confusion.

"Hahaha~~~" Fang Qianhu explained to him with a smile, "The general is an important official of the country. He wants to protect me, and he works day and night. Of course, someone needs to serve him. These people are servants of Chen Shilang's family. They were originally locked in prison and waited to serve the army. However, the officials asked them two days ago whether they were willing to make meritorious service to serve the general and they all agreed."

Speaking of this, Fang Qianhu took out a large stack of body sales contracts from his arms and handed them to Yan Fei. "This is the little intention of the Xiaguan."

For Fang Qianhu, he really didn't pay anything. The money he sold the house was in the pocket of the Jinyiwei. He could at most drink some soup. These servants were either guilty or sold, and they would not have to pay anything directly to Yan Fei. If this could please Yan Fei, the benefits would be great.

"Oh." Yan Fei nodded slightly to express his understanding. After taking the contract for sale, he immediately asked, "Are these people reliable?"

"There is absolutely no problem." Fang Qianhu responded with a smile. "If you can continue to stay in the homes of wealthy families, you don't have to go to sell the army. They are grateful to the general, so how could they be unfaithful?"

To be exiled to guard the border does not really let you go to the frontier to carry guns and serve as soldiers, but to send you to the frontier to be an army slave. Every year, I don’t know how many people who are exiled to the frontier are exhausted and die of exhaustion on the frontier, and there is not even a place to bury bones. At this time, you can continue to serve in the houses of officials, which is really a escapist for these servants.

This kind of thing is even more reinvented for the female family. The case of Mr. Chen was finally closed a few days ago. Mr. Chen was exiled for three thousand miles, and all his family members were sold out. The men were sent to guard the border, while the women were going to join the Jiafangsi to work as official skills.

For women, in this era where chastity is greater than heaven, life is really worse than death.

So when Fang Qianhu asked them if they were willing to sell themselves as slaves to serve Yan Fei, everyone agreed.

"The official has a gift to give to a general." Fang Qianhu squeezed his eyes with a strange look, and then led the way to lead Yan Fei to the backyard of the mansion.

There is a garden in the backyard, with all kinds of beautiful flowers, plants and trees planted. There is even a pond in the middle of the garden, and rows of willow trees on the shore look very beautiful. If you live in this kind of house in the modern world, you can't even think of it if you see it.

After passing through the garden, we came to a three-entry courtyard. Two girls dressed in maids stood at the door chatting. After seeing Yan Fei and Fang Qianhu, we hurried forward to salute.

"People are inside?" Fang Qianhu asked thornfully.

"Miss is resting in the room." A beautiful girl responded quickly.

"What lady, your master has been exiled for three thousand miles." Fang Qianhu glared and introduced, "This will be your master in the future. Your lady doesn't have to go to the Jiafangsi because of General Yan. Do you know if you have to serve him well in the future?"

The maid responded quickly, and Yan Fei also vaguely understood what Fang Qianhu meant, "What the hell are you doing?"

"General Yan, you must have a caring person to take care of when you are alone." Fang Qianhu smiled and introduced, "The Minister Chen has a daughter named Chen Yuqi, who is a well-known beauty in the capital. She was originally going to be sent to the Jiafangsi, but the official saw that the general was not cared for by him and deliberately sent him here to be a concubine for the general."

"Ha!" Yan Fei patted his forehead, and it was true. Sugar-coated shells hit him one after another, which was really unbearable.

"Okay, I understand this. Now there are important things to do, and I will talk about other things later." Yan Fei was really not in the mood to bully this devastated girl. After leaving the backyard with Fang Qianhu, he handed him six silver notes of one thousand taels as the payment and hard work fee for purchasing the mansion this time.

Fang Qianhu left with a smile, and made a lot of money this time. In his heart, Yan Fei's status was almost the same as that of the boy Shancai.

After Yan Fei walked around this mansion that already belonged to him, he took a few servants onto the carriage to the camp of Shenji Camp.

It won’t take long before the army of the King of Rebellion Li Zicheng will be launched. If he can’t stand it, everything will be just a mirror. At this time, only the army is the most important.

When Yan Fei came to the left camp of Shenji Camp, he asked the servants beside him in confusion, "Is this really a military camp? Where are the soldiers?"

Yan Fei saw a large area, but it was covered with mud and garbage. The dilapidated and collapsed houses around it looked no different from slums. There was no ghost inside.

"The master is really the camp of the Zuoying of Shenji Camp." The servants on the side hurriedly explained, "Everyone in Beijing knows that the three camps have been ruined for a long time. Not to mention that they can't even beat the green skin after fighting. As for people, they are all working outside."

In the late Ming Dynasty, the three camps of Mongolians who had gone north to fight were already rotten. The soldiers were severely short of money and were given empty wages, and even the rest were ordered to work everywhere by those who treated the masters as servants. As for the original duties of the soldiers, they had already been thrown into the Pacific Ocean.

There are 3,000 registered personnel in the left camp of Shenji Camp, but in fact, two thousand quotas were paid by officers at all levels of Shenji Camp, and the remaining one thousand were basically called by officers at all levels as servants. In other words, Yan Fei actually became a commander with a bare commander.

"No wonder he became a guerrilla general so easily. So that's how it is." Yan Fei was completely disappointed with the Ming Dynasty's army this time. But he recovered quickly. Anyway, he had never thought of counting on these Ming troops. Since that's the case, then recruit soldiers by himself!

Of course, Yan Fei could recruit soldiers by himself. When the military system collapsed in the late Ming Dynasty, everyone recruited soldiers by themselves. However, these soldiers were not on the court's list, which means that all the expenses of these people were borne by Yan Fei himself. These unregistered soldiers had a very Ming Dynasty identity, and they were called servants.

Years of natural disasters and man-made disasters, coupled with the Qing Dynasty's entry into the pass, led to a large number of refugees everywhere. The soldiers Yan Fei was preparing to recruit were selected from these refugees.

During the Ming Dynasty, everyone looked down on soldiers and thought they were worse than beggars. However, the servants were exceptional, because the servants were treated very well. If they became servants, the family would be able to eat and drink enough. So when the refugees gathered outside the city waiting to pay porridge, they heard that there was a general who wanted to recruit servants, and they all rushed to sign up.

The conditions for Yan Fei to recruit soldiers are very simple, the first thing is to be healthy. These refugees may have sex with their faces and are thin or even suffering from illness, but Yan Fei doesn't care about these. If you have illnesses, you can treat them. If you don't have food, you can eat and drink enough every day. As long as it is not missing arms or lack of legs or blind eyes and deafness, you have problems with IQ.

The second requirement is to have a family. People who are not worried may run away or surrender directly, but those who are bound by family will have great courage because of concerns that implicate their family.

Yan Fei recruited only one thousand people in the first batch, and this thousand people were the seeds he prepared. If there were too many people at once, he would not be able to take care of it.

After the people gathered together, Yan Fei and his men came to the camp of the firearm camp Zuoying to start cleaning and reorganizing the entire camp.

When the new recruits were having dinner that night, they cried out when they saw the white rice in the bowl. People who had been farming for the rest of their lives might not be able to eat this rice several times in their lives. Many people immediately vowed to the sky to die for Yan Fei.

The Ming Dynasty court did not allow refugees to enter the city. They relied on the daily charity porridge sheds of powerful and wealthy families for their reputation. Now that Yan Fei took over these people, it was equivalent to carrying the family burden of these people. However, Yan Fei did not shirk at all. After returning to modern time and space, he urgently ordered a batch of grain and tents and brought it back to Ming Dynasty time and space to distribute it to the families of the new recruits.

There was a completely different scene in the gathering place of refugees outside the city. The neat tents and three meals of rice every day made other refugees around them envious. Many people were complaining about why their men didn't choose servants, and then they crazily asked when Yan Fei would pick people again.

There were hundreds of thousands of refugees gathered outside the city, and Yan Fei could not have summoned all of these people, at least not yet.

After solving these problems, the next step is important military training.
Chapter completed!