Qian Tai was full of curiosity about how Li Xin used to refine the soldiers, what kind of standard could be stuffed out of the vast majority of hundreds of people? Or is it that the chief soldier has no rules in the first place, and he only does it according to his mood?

The initial rugged work has been basically completed, and although the inventory of goods has entered the final stage, because he dared to pick a pick and was in a hurry, so on the ninth day of the lunar month, Qian Tai was sent to preside over the inventory of goods. It turned out that this Qian Tai was still a good calculator, and he sorted out the mess in just one day, and all the inventory was completed. Therefore, on the 10th day of the first lunar month, he began to assist Li Xin in the second selection of soldiers.

The method of selection was very simple, Li Xin handed over a piece of paper with writing to Qian Tai in advance, and he glanced at it a few times, only to see that there was probably a problem listed on it. Li Xin told him that when selecting the candidates for military households, he only needed to ask the questions on the paper one by one, and then record the answers of the selected people one by one and name them at the same time.

This was the first time he had seen this method, and the problems were all ordinary problems, and Qian Tai didn't see anything special in the slightest.

For example, one of them asks why the other party should sign up for recruitment. The answers of the military households are also varied, some of them say the scene, some of them can't tell the reason, and some simply admit that they are here for the generous treatment, which is a relatively formal question, in addition to many questions that seem to be more meaningless, and even some trivial things in life are also included, although he does not understand or carry out the tasks assigned by Li Xin.

The questions are meticulous, and the records are also meticulous.

After most of the day's work, hundreds of Q&A records were copied and stacked in a thick layer in Qian Tai's hand. He finally couldn't help it and asked Li Xin why he was asking these questions.

Li Xin did not answer Qian Tai's question directly, but clapped his hand on the thick transcription record and asked, "Governor Qian thinks how many truths are in these records?" ”

Qian Tai asked questions according to Li Xin's list for a day, and he was tired of listening to all kinds of answers, but what made him feel most disgusting was that he had to listen to these military households talk about some lies and lies most of the time.

"Those who speak from the bottom of their hearts are not a lot of people who can compare with one hundred and two of these people." Qian Tai followed Li Xin's example and patted the thick record in his hand.

Li Xin smiled.

"This time, Governor Qian knows how to screen and select, right?"

Qian Tai suddenly realized that the standard of the chief soldier turned out to be honesty and trustworthiness. I can't help but be amazed, this seemingly absurd screening method is an allusion to a letter in Confucianism's "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, loyalty, filial piety, forgiveness, and courage".

Although the basis for judgment is still their subjective assumption, the criteria are not unclear. Under Li Xin's specific requirements, as long as more than eight of the twelve questions are judged to be answered truthfully, they are considered qualified. With this principle in place, the work of selection has suddenly become simpler.

In just half an hour, Qian Tai has processed all of them, and compared with yesterday, the number of qualified people is no more than two hands.

For four consecutive days, the number of qualified candidates for the second selection every day did not exceed 10. Qian Tai couldn't hold his breath anymore, and took the initiative to find Li Xin and ask whether the standard should be lowered, because according to this ratio, it is already a lot to recruit 100 people in the end, and how can a mere 100 people become an army?

Li Xin was noncommittal, and only said that he would continue the selection and see it tomorrow. In fact, this method was not only conceived by patting his head on a whim, but also his hidden concern that it would be difficult for soldiers to become an army in this era.

Although it is hard work, according to the values of later generations, military households have been guarding the border for generations. But the fact is that these guards in Tuntian were already rotten in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The soldiers are simply hopeless, and therefore, when Qi Jiguang formed the anti-Japanese recruitment, he chose the mountain people who were far away from the hustle and bustle, and the mountain people had less contact with outside things, and they were relatively simple-minded, and they would not slip like the guards and leave no hands, and their selfishness was so heavy that it was outrageous.

And Li credited this seemingly playful trick, which was really helpless. However, neither Li Xin nor Qian Tai expected that on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the work of the second selection encountered unprecedented difficulties. This has to start on the morning of the twelfth day of the first lunar month.

Early in the morning, the soldiers guarding the city captured the only city gate that was still in operation on the acropolis, and when the south gate was opened, it was already crowded with military households waiting to enter the city to participate in the second selection.

Gu 14 of Zuo Qianhu is one of these hundreds of people, he came here to sign up to hide from his family, although the soap and secretary office of the Wei Si Yamen did not personally come to Zuo Qianhu to read the notice to do the work of mobilization and recruitment, but the news still came. The older generation has prejudices against the General Military Mansion and the Weisi Yamen, and they are not enthusiastic about this kind of thing, and the Weisi Yamen did not come to Zuoqianhu to do the work, which proves that they are still wary of the people here.

However, Gu Shishi and several young people from the same hundred households felt that they always had to go outside to break into the world, which was a rare opportunity, and after some secret discussion, they secretly went to the Acropolis. Therefore, he and his friends caught up with this rare evening gathering on the last day of the initial selection. Gu Shishi is absolutely qualified in terms of age and body, and there is no problem at all in passing the initial selection. As for the second selection, he is also full of confidence.

Gu Shishi's family background is also considered "prominent" in Zhenyuwei, his father is the uncle of Gu Tong of a thousand households, and he is a hundred households of hundreds of households, and he has a lot of land in the family.

I saw that many of the teenagers in the same village who went with him failed in the second selection and were depressed. On the contrary, it strengthened Gu Shishi's confidence and determination to succeed. But after listening to the description of the previously selected people, I still gasped, how did less than ten of the five hundred people qualify, this low proportion is scary, but this also shows the gold content and the importance of the general army.

Gu Shishi also inquired about the specific process of the second selection, and when he learned that the governor asked some inexplicable questions, he carefully analyzed the answers of those who failed, and felt that their answers failed because they were not perfect enough, not invulnerable enough, and had too many flaws.

At the moment when the city gate was opened, everyone rushed to the city, and Gu Shishi was no exception, eager to sharpen his body and drill the rig. Those who knew him made mockery of him.

"Isn't this Gu Fourteen, you are already within the quota of those two hands, why bother squeezing with us?"

"That's it, that's it, I laughed at my brother yesterday, and today you are in a hurry, aren't you nine out of ten......"

Gu Shishi always gathered a few dead friends around him, and they all ridiculed each other.

"You are all envious, jealous and hateful, ...... capable"

Gu Shishi didn't care about getting angry with them at all, it was true that he was squeezing in, he wanted to make a splash at the time of selection, and let the chief soldier remember his name Gu Shiv.

It is true that Gu Shishi did make a splash in the second selection, and it did make Li Xin, the chief soldier of the Third Guard, remember him. It's just that this qiē is the effect of doing the opposite.

To Gu Shishi's surprise, his almost flawless answer was ruthlessly brushed down, and when the list was announced, when his name was not from beginning to end, he could hardly believe that this was the truth, and the sound of ridicule and schadenfreude sounded in his ears at the same time.

Gu Shishi, who had lost his mind, had a strong hatred for this recruitment selection work, and he began to think that Li Xin's method was completely arbitrary, and it was simply irresponsible, and he was even making fun of them. He began to stir up discontent among his defeated fellow villagers. As a result, discontent spread like a plague as the military households entered and left the city.

The military households who were anxiously waiting outside the city and did not get the opportunity to enter the city that day were also ignited by this feeling, and they shouted for Qian Tai and Li Xin to give an explanation, many of them have been guarding outside Chengwai for five consecutive days from the beginning of the eighth day of the first lunar month to today, just to be able to squeeze in as soon as possible, but they have never thought about it but have been stumbling until today.

Thousands of people are not a trivial matter, guarding the south gate is Zeng Dare's guards, facing the military households outside the city who are seeing the love getting higher and higher, the guards decisively close the city gate to prevent the situation from spreading to the city.

However, he didn't expect that there were still military households in the city who had not had time to leave the city, including Gu Fourteen. The behavior of the guards closing the city gate and entering a state of defense completely angered Gu Shishi, not to mention being despised and guarded by others as a thief, this is a great shame and humiliation that he has never suffered since he was born, and it is unbearable. Seeing that there were no more than a dozen soldiers defending the city, he instigated a group of angry fellow villagers to rush forward and entangle with a dozen guards.

Although Zeng Dare's guards were not as effective as the cavalry under Lu Jiu's command, they were not vegetarians, and they not only did not suffer losses but also faintly gained the upper hand when they fought with nearly 100 military households, but after all, there were few people, and the military households in the city took the time to open the city gate that had just been closed. Chengwai military households took the opportunity to rush in, and the guards could no longer support it, so they had to flee in all directions.

The soldiers then seized control of the southern city gate.

The news soon spread back to the Weisi Yamen, and the soldiers made trouble, and the city gate was out of control, like a heavy punch slammed into Qian Tai's chest. Does this count as an accident, capsizing in the gutter? He had no idea, and soon set his eyes on Li Xin.

Li Xin's face was as usual, and the military households were dissatisfied, to put it bluntly, it was still money.

"Let's go, go to the south gate!"