In this day and age, that's how it works.

But in the Celestial Empire, being a soldier, and then killing a rich and noble on the battlefield is also a way out, it is indeed the choice of the dicks, although the success rate is very low, the mortality rate is extremely high, there is no labor insurance subsidy, medical insurance protection, but most of them are the only few ways.

In elegant France, those who were really capable of officers had no way to advance, and there was a clear rule in France at that time that anyone who wanted to become an officer had to be approved by the court genealogist and have at least one-sixteenth aristocratic blood. If you want to become a general, you must have the blood of a big noble, and a small nobleman can only be a colonel at most. As for those who have no aristocratic blood at all, such as the middle class and the descendants of capitalists, they can only be promoted to lieutenants at most in the French army of the Bourbons, and it is impossible to command a company, and even to spend money on officials like the British.

This is not a glass ceiling in the workplace, some unspoken rules that can only be done but not said, such as the yellow race naturally cannot do management positions, but the steel armor plate is clearly stipulated, so the French bourgeoisie is naturally full of complaints, and in addition to France, the armies of other feudal kingdoms on the European continent are also similar, the same aristocratic supremacy, the same suppression of the commoners, so after the Revolution, the French civilian officers who turned over can beat the waste wood aristocratic feudal armies of European countries......

The composition of the origin of the soldiers, the composition of the officers, is almost a representation of the development of a country, which can indicate whether the country is healthy or rotten.

At this time, in Europe and even in the East, there was no concept of compulsory military service, at least in Europe, if you want to recruit soldiers, you can only rely on catching strong men, and the vast majority of conscription targets are "social scum" who have been discriminated against, including bankrupt peasants, urban poor, unemployed vagrants, criminals, gangsters, and so on.

At that time, European countries generally believed that craftsmen, farmers, merchants, and scholars were the creators of national wealth, so countries tried not to consider those with serious occupations when recruiting soldiers. The vagrants who roamed the towns all day long, the drunkards who drank in the bars, and the thieves and criminals who roamed the slums became the best source of soldiers for the army. Because the rulers of various countries believe that these inferior people who do not do their jobs properly cannot create wealth for the country, but are an unstable factor that affects social order, it is better to recruit them into the army on the spot than to keep them as traitors in society, which can be regarded as giving them a legitimate job, and winning glory for the country if they are killed.

Of course, one of the jobs of Queen Elizabeth of England was to sign a charter to allow the "navy", that is, former pirates, who went to sea to capture those "inferior people", and after being caught in the cabin and chained with iron chains, they went to the East as sailors to plunder, which was by no means a common phenomenon.

In the same way, basically in this era, the life and death of the low-level soldiers are basically not in the hearts of the superiors, and the most outrageous Russian soldiers are even crowned with gray cattle.

If it weren't for the settling-in allowance of ten taels of silver, not many people would have signed up to be a soldier of the Presbyterian Church.

Of course, once you come in, it's completely different, when Hu Sanqi eats the first bite of fried chicken legs, he almost tears flow, and this kind of great satisfaction of taste buds and digestive organs in the memory of life has almost been forgotten, and then every bite of meat is as delicious as heaven.

If you don't always remind yourself that this is the lair of thieves, you have to wait to work hard here, and after becoming a general, you will go to the imperial capital to slaughter the city, and kill and kill no one, Hu Sanqi may have surrendered under such a life offensive.

In fact, except for Hu Sanqi, everyone else was a little distracted by the impact of fried food, and after eating, they could only watch the people in the back of the queue come to receive their breakfast.

Then, Hu Sanqi didn't know where he had been, anyway, it was a very big place, much bigger than the barnyard in the village, and there were thousands of people standing here. Anyway, there are more than all the people in the Hu family's soil enclosure, and Hu Sanqi's mathematics is only in the order of thousands, which is nothing more than to deceive those peasants when settling accounts.

Ten people in a squad, a squad in a row, divided into countless platoon companies, respectively led by a veteran who has just taken office, in fact, these people may have been the head of the army last month, but now they have completed their promotion task, although they do not understand the military rank system, but one by one has regarded themselves as a master.

Hu Sanqi didn't understand why he was standing there when this soldier was a soldier, he had to "raise his head and chest and stomach", and he was not allowed to move, but as the person on the very edge, he had to stand upright, and occasionally from behind, the platoon commander came over and kicked his calf hard, almost kicking him down, but he was immediately scolded: "Stand firm!" ”

was rudely propped up, standing in place, Hu Sanqi barely supported himself without collapsing, but fortunately, the big official went to toss others again.

I was allowed to rest a few times in the middle, but I was actually sitting on the side, of course, I was not allowed to drink too much, otherwise I would be messed up when I ran to the toilet, of course, in fact, this training did not last long.

At noon, the lunch that Hu Sanqi was looking forward to finally came.

Because the recruits still can't learn the order, they have just walked from the state of hunger to the order of the imperial capital, and overeating is going to have an accident, so the general "self-service" food of the imperial capital army has become a meal system for the recruits, of course, the veterans who eat are rotated, each person has three meat and three vegetables, plus a boiled egg, an apple, plus egg soup that can be beaten casually, this meal is definitely a surprise for Hu Sanqi to eat.

He originally thought that what he ate in the morning was a meal, and then he would have to endure hardships, but what he didn't expect was that there would be at noon, but he still had to act in unison with others, and there were always people watching, but the non-commissioned officers who managed them also took the same utensils to eat, and those who fought also said a few small words to them, but when they were beating, they were given a spoonful, but they ate the same thing.

These men eat but can be called gobbling, although other people's eating looks are not very good, but their eating skills are obviously more skilled, especially the boiled eggs with skin, Hu Sanqi can only watch others knock open like that, and then peel the skin, it is inevitable to waste time, plus the trivial egg skin left on the egg, but the squad leader is an understatement, and then the whole egg skin is taken down, and then the whole intact egg is thrown into the big bowl of dishes, and the vegetable juice is eaten.

Three big steamed buns, each of which didn't seem to stand up to chewing, was eaten in the blink of an eye, and then the bowl of egg soup was drunk.

Just this kung fu, Hu Sanqi ate the second steamed bun.

After the platoon commander finished eating, he began to urge, saying: "Hurry up and eat, if this is on the battlefield, the delay in eating will be enough for the horse thief to rush over and cut off your heads!" ”

Of course, it's not nonsense, is it.

After eating, Hu Sanqi thought that he still had to learn what kind of "standing in military posture" Lao Shizi, but what was surprising was that at least he could take a good rest.

After lunch, the recruits in the queue were taken to the barracks, and the small station training camp was designed by the Dalian team, with a platoon of 30 people and 15 bunk beds, and they found a place to live under the command of the platoon commander.

Prepare the bedding under the hair, what toothbrush and basin are ready, and naturally it is a burst of freshness and satisfaction.

He has lived on the kang since he was a child, and the family sleeps together, but he is not dissatisfied with dozens of people huddled together, and then the people in the class sit on the lower bunk, saying what their names are one by one.

Hu Sanqi suddenly felt uneasy, but lying itself is also a skill, so he said that he didn't remember where his home was, but only remembered that his parents were dead and now fleeing the famine.

In the context of the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were 800,000 people who had this kind of experience, not millions, but in fact, there were many people with him who had such a miserable past.

In fact, as a citizen of a country with at least a superficial left-wing educational background, the elders' preferences for the class army are naturally overflowing, and even flaunting their own army as being from a worker and peasant background is by no means derogatory, compared to the strange thing that military officers in Western countries will be controlled by the powerful in the next few hundred years, and if they want to go to military schools, they need to be recommended by parliamentarians, although the Chinese tradition has discriminated against scholars because of the emergence of Confucianism, but in the future, under the needs of a large global army, the promotion of the status of soldiers is indispensable.

Soldiers are not machines, they also have their own thoughts and aspirations, for the elders, the existence of the army, first of all, is to achieve their own political purpose of laying out the earth, if the army cannot be held in their hands, even if the saber is sharp, what is the point? Of course, on the other hand, if the saber is so blunt that it can't cut anything, such a waste wood army is useless even if it is held in the hand.

So, how can we ensure that the army has a certain combat effectiveness and is firmly controlled by the ruling class? As an armed group that requires strict discipline, the most important soul of any army in ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, is non-commissioned officers and officers. And for the sake of the interests of the ruling class, it is necessary to ensure that the majority of the officers must come out of the middle of the ruling class, or at least be co-opted by the ruling class with interests and marriages after they have come out.

But the problem is that in any country, the number of people in the ruling class is limited, and the interests that can be used to encompass the interests of the people are also limited.

If the size of the army is so large that the number of officers and non-commissioned officers increases in proportion to the fact that it is impossible to bring most of them into the upper classes, it may be okay to fight a foreign war, but it is a break in the face of setbacks.

The European and American powers saw this very early, for example, in the era of the Second German Reich, in order to ensure their stable control of the army, the Junkers officer corps deliberately limited the size of the German army for a long time. In reality, however, from the end of the Franco-Prussian War until the outbreak of World War I, the German Empire never really implemented universal compulsory military service.

During the Franco-Prussian War, Germany had a population of only 43 million, but it still raised an army of 1 million, but on the eve of World War I, Germany's population grew to 67 million, and the entire navy and army shrank to only 890,000...... Ahem, this is obviously not because of insufficient money, the real reason is that in the Second German Empire at that time, there were no longer enough Junker nobles and bourgeois children who could serve as officers, and for the fundamental interests of the brazen Junker officer corps, Germany, known as ****, had to deliberately limit the size of the army.

Even if the Junker aristocracy at that time almost all of their qualified children were put into the army as non-commissioned officers, but on the eve of World War I, in the German Empire, only about one-third of the officers and non-commissioned officers from the grass-roots aristocracy were from the rank and file, plus only two-thirds of the non-commissioned officers and officers from the bourgeoisie, which could maintain the control of the ruling class over the army.

With the outbreak of World War I, Germany had to expand its army again and again, and finally mobilized a total of 13 million men in the four years of the war. Once the size of the army expands several times or dozens of times like this, it will have to make civilians the main body of middle- and low-ranking officers.

It is against this background that such a dick as our Führer joined the army.

In this way, the crowns of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Russian Empire fell and crushed these dynasties in the war, although to a large extent because of defeat, but before the First World War, European countries fought today and tomorrow won tomorrow, and they all fought many defeats in the past history. Especially in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, these three families were beaten by Napoleon the Great terribly, why did they lose badly at that time, but they did not destroy the entire dynasty, but the First World War made them finally perish?

Because before the advent of general warfare, war was a fierce sport in which only "professional players" could participate, and even if the war was lost, the army was still in the hands of the aristocracy, and it could still be used to suppress the revolting people, while the general war made the main body of the officers change from nobles to commoners, so that the army was actually no longer in the hands of the aristocracy, and could only fight externally, and could not suppress the domestic revolution.

Of course, it was certainly impossible for the elders to learn the ways of the Europeans, but the American Empire provided a good enough path for later generations.

(End of chapter)