Chapter 118: Recruits
Su was one of the first newcomers to come to the barracks, and he was as shocked by the barracks as the old team members, and the visual impact of the angular and towering concrete buildings was far from being comparable to the low adobe houses in his hometown. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Inside the barracks, the clean and tidy environment made them feel overwhelmed. These newcomers usually can't eat enough, they are busy with their livelihoods, how can they have the leisure to clean up their homes every day, and the farmers who raise chickens and feed pigs are not clean anymore.
The first thing I did when I entered the barracks was to learn to be hygienic. The usually sloppy newcomers were ordered to take a shower, change into new cotton clothes, fold the quilt neatly, everyone had to take turns cleaning, there could not be a little garbage on the ground, and even the latrine had to be kept clean.
Speaking of the thatched toilet in the barracks, Su Thick Legs was impressed, it was even cleaner than the house he slept in, and he was very uncomfortable when he went in for the first time, and he couldn't pull it out. If you don't do what you're asked to do, you'll be punished. Su Thick Leg saw with his own eyes that a partner from the same village was beaten with ten rattan sticks because of his perfunctory cleaning on duty, and his buttocks bloomed, so he remembered the lesson and swept the floor cleaner than his face every time it was his turn to be on duty.
After the newcomers have initially adapted to the environment, they will receive basic training. The instructors were the best of the three hundred old team members, and after they had experienced boring queues and assassination training, they were particularly interested in training others, and the rattan in their hands was called a joy.
Like all people who are new to training, Su Thick Legs cursed in his heart as he stood and walked in the scorching sun, and the person who came up with this method was useful, so boring and useless training? Queue training and assassination training are staggered, and when practicing assassination, the newcomers complain even more, if queue training is boring and difficult, then assassination training is painful escalation. Repeating several movements hundreds of times a day, especially the last assassination action, Su was so thick that his arms were about to dislocate.
But what makes them happy is that after a large amount of training every day, the white rice is full, and there is a meat dish every day, sometimes pork, and more often fish and shrimp - for Xia Nan, in a rural place like Lingao near the sea, fish and shrimp can also supplement enough protein and calories, and the cost performance is much higher than that of pigs and sheep and other livestock - so that these strong young men who can't eat rice all year round are about to shed tears of happiness. If training is like hell, eating is like going to heaven.
During the boring training process, the only thing that made them feel magical and interesting was to observe the shooting training of the veterans. The power of the Qionghai-style rifle shocked this group of dirt buns, and the spectacular sight of hundreds of people shooting at the same time made them even more unable to close their mouths.
After watching the shooting training, Su was convinced that he had come to the right place and hugged the right thigh -- with such sharp firearms, how could officers and men not be defeated? However, what disappointed them was that they could only train with a spear, and the miraculous firearm had never even been touched.
All the two hundred new soldiers arrived, and after receiving more than ten days of training, Xia Nan gathered them together and lectured. Su stood in the crowd with thick legs, looking at Xia Nan on the wooden platform, very young, not much older than himself, is this the new owner? Why is he so young to do so much?
Xia Nan looked at the two hundred people in the audience and said slowly: "Since you have chosen to come here and become one of us, you must abide by the rules here." There are not many rules here, but they are very strict, and if you don't do it, you will be punished, and I believe many of you have tried rattan. However, don't think that this is the most powerful punishment, if you go to the battlefield, if you are greedy for life and afraid of death, and do not obey orders, even if you do not die on the battlefield, you will be punished or even executed when you come back! ”
The newcomers were in an uproar, they hadn't heard of this before! I just want to help the owner keep the land, and I am not a soldier.
As if knowing that they would think so, Xia Nan continued: "You may say, I am not a soldier for the imperial court, why do I deal with it like this? Let me tell you why: First, I will take care of your food and lodging, and pay you a salary of one tael of silver a month, and the officers and soldiers will not have this treatment; Second, join my escort team, and you will have preferential treatment for tenant farming, not only can you pay less than 30% of the rent, but you will also be given as much land as you can plant; Third, I treated the wounded in the war, and I raised the disabled, and the family gave 50 taels of silver for the dead. ”
These are the enhanced versions of attracting native soldiers to join the escort team, adding the content of tenant farming. The newcomers are all tenants, and the mud on their legs has not been washed, no more than the soldiers who cut off their feet like fighting and eating, and they are still a little hesitant in the face of these three, but their hearts are shaken. One tael of silver a month, 50 taels when you die, you can still have white rice every day, and you can eat a meal of meat every day, which was a day that I couldn't think of before. In this way, it seems less scary to be a soldier for the owner.
Xia Nan saw the hesitation of the newcomers, and added the final weight to the balance in their hearts: "There are no male soldiers in the family to join the escort team, so they can only cultivate five acres of land and rent as before, which you all know." If you feel that the rules are too strict now and want to go home, I am not reluctant, and you can leave at any time. However, those who quit will return the land and will never be able to farm my land again! ”
This is the method of using cooked carrots and sticks in the summer south, and it turns out that this method is simple and crude, and it is straightforward and effective. If there are still people who spare their lives in the face of the temptation of salaries and pensions, then it is absolutely unacceptable for them to return the land they have planted under the present conditions, and instead go to the land of other landlords to cultivate the land of other landlords, and continue to accept the double exploitation and oppression of the landlords and the government.
Go further to heaven, take a step back to hell, even if anyone who is afraid of death insists on quitting, they will be drowned by the spittle of their family when they return home, and they have no choice. In the end, none of the 200 new recruits chose to quit, and all of them stayed.
The training was still going on day after day, and the newcomers were slowly getting used to the new environment and the intensity of the training.
Qiongshan County, the capital city of Qiongzhou.
In the prefect's yamen, Qin Bingyan, the prefect's highest official in Qiongzhou, was convening all the high-ranking officials in the yamen to discuss matters.
There were two people kneeling on the ground, one was the official sent by Chengmai County to report the news, and the other was Gou Ergui who escaped from Hefeng Village. Qin Bingyan coughed twice and reconfirmed the news brought by the two: "Chengmai County Ling Lin Sanfeng did die at the hands of the chaotic people? ”
The official of Chengmai County replied: "Lord Hui, the villain was present at the time, Lord Lin was killed by the leader of the chaotic people, and the villain recognized that it was Huang Mengjia, the Li man who attacked the county seat before!" ”
Qin Bingyan turned to Gou Ergui, "Your brother was indeed harmed by the rebels?" ”
Gou Ergui said hatefully: "Lord Hui, it's true, my brother was killed by the Li people, and they claimed to be a subordinate of Huang Mengjia. And the villain really saw it, and the newly recruited township warriors in Lingao County also wore Li costumes and mixed in. ”
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