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When I woke up in the morning, the obscene autumn rain had stopped, and the smell of soot mixed with the air was washed away. Guo Tao breathed in this rare fresh air, but felt that he was a little uncomfortable with such fresh air for a while. He had gradually become accustomed to the smell of soot, although it was a little pungent, but after a long time, it became the best smell.

Walking on the way to the school with his schoolbag on his back, looking at the wisps of green smoke rising above the neatly planned rooms, he couldn't help but feel a lot more comfortable in his heart.

Guo Tao is an orphan, a twelve-year-old orphan. When he was six years old, his parents, brothers and sisters died in the Pangxun Rebellion in Xuzhou, when his mother hid him under him, and the spear of the rebel army pierced his mother's chest and left a scar on his young body, but he survived. He was the only one in the family who lived, and in the six years since then, he has been reduced from a young son of a scholar's family to a beggar.

From Xuzhou to Yangzhou, from Sizhou to Haozhou, from Yingzhou to Songzhou, from Bianzhou to Luoyang, from Zhengzhou to Caozhou, from Yanzhou to Qingzhou, in six years, he followed an old beggar to countless places. But although the world is big, there is no place for him. encountered countless white-eyed and vicious dog bites, but after getting sick, he could only stiffen up, and he couldn't survive again and again, but he survived again.

It's just that this kind of life, for a teenager, is numb and hopeless, just a habitual beggar and survival.

Until half a year ago, when the old beggar was dying in Luoyang City. Let him go to Dengzhou.

The old beggar said in Dengzhou. There are no beggars. All people have access to food and clothing. In Dengzhou, not only can they eat every day, but they also eat three meals a day, and I heard that people in the mines and workshops only need to work overtime and even eat four meals a day. In the morning, we eat porridge, fried dough sticks, eggs boiled with tea leaves, and steamed cakes called steamed buns and steamed buns. You can eat dry food for lunch and dinner, so you don't have to worry about food at all. You can eat it with your belly open. You can even eat meat regularly and have your own house. The people of Dengzhou don't even have to go up the mountain to collect firewood, they just burn the black stones dug out of the mountain.

It is said that the remuneration that an ordinary man in Dengzhou can get for one day of work can be exchanged for six catties if all the corn is exchanged, seven catties if it is exchanged for sorghum, eight catties for soybeans, and five catties for rice. Enough for the whole family to eat. I heard that even women in Dengzhou can work to make money, and a woman can earn at least five catties of corn a day. All children in Dengzhou can go to school. Wearing clean clothes, carrying a schoolbag, sitting in the bright and clean school, reading and reading.

Dengzhou, that is a paradise outside the world, a paradise in the eyes of the poor people.

Guo Tao also studied, at the age of three he began to learn from his father, at the age of four he began to read and write, at the age of five he was able to write neat big characters with a wolf hair, and at the age of six, he already knew hundreds of words, and could write them, and even memorized dozens of poems.

That night, the old beggar kept muttering about the countless legends about Dengzhou that he had heard while begging, and his eyes were full of yearning, until his voice stopped at the end of the day, and his body was cold, but the corners of his mouth were still smiling. Guo Tao has traveled all over the country over the years, and has seen too many prosperous cities, but the more prosperous the city, the more beggars. This is true of Yangzhou and Xuzhou, that is, Songzhou, Bianzhou and Luoyang, the eastern capital, are all the same.

He didn't believe that there was such a paradise as Dengzhou in the world, but he decided to take a trip for the sake of the old beggar. According to the old beggar's last wish, he washed his thin body, burned it to ashes, put it in a gourd, and resolutely set out on the road to Dengzhou. In any case, the old beggar has the grace to nurture him, and without the old beggar, there would have been no him, and he would have sprinkled his ashes on the land of Dengzhou.

Today is the 31st day after Guo Tao arrived in Dengzhou, and he was brought to Dengzhou by the Zhenguo Army in Qingzhou. On the border between Dengzhou and Laizhou, there are hundreds of thousands of people waiting to get the opportunity to enter Dengzhou, but it is difficult to get in, because Dengzhou only needs craftsmen, literati who can write and calculate, and young and strong men and women. The old and weak are generally not wanted, he is only twelve years old, if he came a month earlier, he may only be able to wait blankly outside the twelve cities in Dengzhou.

But this time he was very lucky, Li Jing, the commander of the Zhenguo Army, issued a new order to take away all orphans under the age of fifteen from Ziqing Town, and the rest of the homeless children over the age of seven and under the age of fifteen could also be handed over to the Zhenguo Army to bring into Dengzhou as long as the parents wished.

After these children are brought to Dengzhou, they will have to recuperate and recover for a month in a children's camp. There are special doctors and nurses to check their bodies, enough meals are served every day, there are brand new clothes, and some text study and queue training are carried out.

Yesterday, Guo Tao's one-month children's camp life ended, and according to the age of all the children, he was arranged to live with a couple in their 40s. This is also a new regulation of the Zhenguo Army, these children brought in, after a month of life, under the age of seven, will be transferred to a special nursery for raising. All those over the age of seven will be placed in various foster homes.

Guo Tao's new family, his adoptive father is also surnamed Guo, Guo Xiaoshan, 43 years old, works at Dengzhou Wharf, has a monthly salary of three yuan, and has three days off every month. The adoptive mother, Liu, works in a dyeing workshop in Dengzhou, with a monthly salary of two yuan, and three days off in a month. There are no elderly people in the family, and the two have three children, two sons and two daughters, the eldest son is 25 years old, and he joined the Japanese army in the Zhenguo Army. The second son is 22 years old and is now training in the Dengzhou Solidarity Camp. The two daughters, one fifteen and one fourteen, have not yet been married, but they are already working in their adoptive mother's workshop, and they can get a salary of 1,800 wen a month, and they are not bad, and many families have come to ask for marriage, but they have not yet agreed.

The Guo family has a courtyard house with a yard and thatched tuqi, and the house is still very wide. A family of six people has a monthly income of more than ten yuan, and there is no burden from the elderly, which is an excellent condition. The children have reached the age of marriage, but they refuse to marry early, which is the biggest worry for the adoptive parents.

But in Guo Tao's view, the life of the Guo family is indeed the paradise in the mouth of the old beggar, eating three meals a day, eating meat every three days, either fresh fish or dried fish every day, or even eggs, this life is Guo Tao's memory of his childhood, and the life of the Guo family was not so good.

Guo Tao is fostered in the Guo family, but it is not a burden for vain, and the Zhenguo Army subsidizes the Guo family with six buckets of millet every month, with 33 catties. Thirty-three catties of millet, these are enough for Guo Tao's life.

It is said that this time, the Zhenguo Army brought back more than 100,000 children from all over Henan, including 100,000 people over the age of seven. These children, according to Li Jing's orders, are to study and train.

100,000 children have been newly established as Scouts, who will not fight until they become soldiers, but will be trained.

The 100,000 Scouts were organized entirely in accordance with the military, and they also wore uniforms in peacetime to receive military training and cultural learning. Although they are fostered in various families, they have to go to a special military school. He entered school at the age of seven, received twelve years of military training, and graduated at the age of eighteen. After graduation, you must enter the Zhenguo Army and complete six years of military service. If you have outstanding performance in the service, you can enter the lecture hall for further training and become a non-commissioned officer after the completion of three years.

If you are unwilling to continue in the army after six years of service, you can retire.

The Zhenguo Army has established a military academy in each county of Dengzhou and southern Liaoning, and there are two key military academies at the state level in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning, ten military academies, each with 10,000 people. The training was completely closed, and he was not allowed to leave the school at 12 o'clock during the rest of the week, except for one day off every week. In school, everything is the same as in the barracks.

Guo Tao is 12 years old this year and directly entered the intermediate class of the Dengzhou Military Academy for training.

Yesterday, Guo Tao had already come to school with him and accepted the assessment. After the assessment, Guo Tao was assigned to the 8th Squadron of the 5th Brigade of the 10th Detachment of the Intermediate Class of the Scout Corps. Because Guo Tao knew a lot of words, although he was thinner, he was very tall and energetic, so he was appointed as the squadron leader of the eighth squadron after the assessment.

The Scout Corps has 100,000 people, with beginner classes, intermediate classes, and detachments below. Each detachment has 1,000 people, which is the box level, a brigade is a battalion level with 500 people, and a squadron is a capital level with 100 people. The squad is a gang level, ten people.

Scouts have a hundred detachments, two hundred brigades, a thousand squadrons, ten thousand squads.

When they came to the gate of the Dengzhou Military Academy, the principal of the school, the military representatives, the director of teaching, the director of training, and the teachers and other people with the school guard and the school military band were playing music at the gate to welcome the new students.

However, on the first day of school today, almost all the principal officials of the Zhenguo Army, the Pinglu Army, the Unity Army, and the 26 counties including Dengzhou were present. The handsome Li Jing was dressed in dazzling armor, standing at the door like an iron tower, watching the teenagers one after another wearing sky-blue military uniforms different from the regular arms and red army uniforms stepping into the military academy.

When Guo Tao walked in front of Li Jing, his heart couldn't help beating violently, his throat was a little dry, and the blood rushed straight to his head, although he tried his best to pretend to be calm. But the whole body still collapsed, and the body involuntarily followed the knowledge of the queue trained in the youth camp, raised his chest and raised his head, strode forward, and the right hand of the most rearmost was even more fingers together, naturally raised violently, raised to the side of the head, and performed a scout salute!

Every teenager passing by involuntarily raised their hands to salute, and Li Jing and the generals standing at the school gate also raised their hands from time to time to return the salute.

As soon as you enter the school gate, on a large stone wall with marble relief, there are thin gold characters inscribed by Li Jing himself, welcome to Dengzhou Military Academy!

There is also a row of slightly smaller words below that are the school motto, precepts, and code of honor of the Scouts.

Formal motto: Duty, Honor, Country.

Scout Discipline: Punctuality, discipline, strictness, integrity, fortitude.

Cadet Honor Code: Do not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate such behavior. No shirking of responsibility. Selfless dedication. (To be continued......)