In the past two years, Wang Ding's prestige in Chang'an City has been at its peak.
Especially this time, not only the tens of thousands of soldiers who returned from Hanzhong, but also 30,000 civilians.
The soldiers usually stay in the military camp and have little contact with ordinary people.
But when thirty thousand civilians returned, they said countless good things about the Han army.
The recruitment notice had just been posted. Even in the cold weather, countless people from Chang'an City responded and wanted to sign up for the army.
In order to avoid affecting the farming after spring, Wang Ding had to order that each household could only have at most one adult man enlist in the army.
The age limit is over 20 years old and under 30 years old.
In this way, most of the people will be eliminated.
This time, Wang Ding only plans to recruit 50,000 new soldiers.
Nowadays, Sanfu Land has a population of more than two million.
Wang Ding only gave a sign to 50,000 people, which had little impact on the spring plowing after the beginning of spring.
With a population of two million, even if there are 200,000 new recruits, it is not impossible.
It's just that, maybe the young labor force in Sanfu Land will be wiped out by Wang Ding.
After Dong Zhuo's disaster for several years, many people fled the Sanfu Land.
Compared with other stable prefectures and counties, the proportion of women and children among the people in Sanfu Land is higher.
After Dong Zhuo's death, although Wang Ding also launched several wars, they were all external wars. They had little impact on the people in the Sanfu area, and they avoided the busy farming season.
In addition, in the past year or so, many refugees have been taken in, and there are also people who fled before. After hearing that Dong Zhuo was killed, Chang'an is now very peaceful, and many people have returned to Chang'an.
There is no shortage of cattle in Guanzhong. Even if there are no men in the family, women in good health can rent a cattle from the government and cultivate their own fields.
In the same period of time, they cultivated two or three times more fields than before.
With the announcement of Wang Ding's conscription conditions, many people who are interested in joining the army but do not meet the conditions can only go back sadly.
But those whose families have several brothers and whose families have not yet been separated have not given up yet.
The eldest brother joined the army, but the second child did not meet the requirements and wanted to join the army, so he adopted him to his uncle so that he could meet the conditions.
What's more, they would marry a wife immediately, separate from their original family, and register their household registration with the government again.
After Wang Ding learned about it, he had to add a condition to the recruitment notice again.
If every household has only one young adult, they are not allowed to join the army.
Wang Ding knew that the people were now very enthusiastic about joining the army because they only heard about the goodness of the Han army from among the 30,000 civilians, but they did not know the hardships of being a soldier.
What they saw were soldiers who survived the battlefield, but they didn't see the martyrs who died on the battlefield, but they didn't see the clay pots filled with ashes that came back with the army.
Even though the Han army went out several times and suffered few casualties, it was still compared to the enemy.
In this battle of Hanzhong, they wiped out hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, but the total casualties of the Han army before and after were over ten thousand.
They are all Leilei white bones.
But the living people have only seen the scenery of the Han army.
Wang Ding didn't want those people who joined the army to join the army because of their enthusiasm and left happily.
But a year later, the newlywed wife waited bitterly for a year, and all she got was a handful of ashes sent back by her comrades.
When Dong Zhuo was here, the more he forced the people to join the army, the more no one wanted to be a soldier.
Now the more Wang Ding uses various conditions to keep out those who want to join the army, the more people are vying to join the army.
For those families with two or three brothers, for a spot, the brothers fought hard, resulting in bruises and bruises. Force was paramount, and the one who won in the end came to the Veterans Mansion to register with bruises all over his body.
Wang Ding specially set up the registration place in the Veterans Mansion, so that veterans who were forced to retire due to physical reasons would be responsible for receiving the new recruits who signed up.
He wants these passionate recruits to see clearly the cruelty of the battlefield on the first day.
In the veteran's mansion, Zhang Wang looked at the young man in front of him and said, "You are sure to join the army. Write your name here, but you won't regret it."
After Zhang Lu surrendered, Zhang Wang, Liang Min, Wang Hui and others also followed the army back to Chang'an.
While Zhang Wang was talking, he also deliberately exposed his left leg, which was missing half of his calf.
The young man did not show any timidity, he said: "My name is Liu Ye, and I want to be a soldier."
Zhang Wang said: "A certain person's foot was chopped off by the enemy during the Battle of Hanzhong. At that time, a certain person was standing on the city wall. The enemy climbed up from the ladder. When he was about to board the city wall, a certain person rushed over.
He was stabbed in the body with a bullet, but his foot was also chopped by the other party. The wound was too deep. In the end, the doctor cut off half of his calf to save his life."
Zhang Wang was not in a hurry to register the boy, but instead talked to the boy about his experiences on the battlefield.
"X was so scared at the time. The blood kept flowing, and it was so painful that X almost bit off his tongue. A compatriot around him stuffed his mouth into X's mouth with his arm, and then he helped him walk down the city wall."<
/p>
Zhang Wang didn't feel at all how poor his performance was at first, but felt that this was his glorious deeds.
Being able to fight with Wang Ding, Zhang Wang has never regretted it, even if half of his leg is missing now.
The young man listened curiously to Zhang Wang's story, his eyes full of curiosity, but there was never a trace of fear in his eyes.
Even when Zhang Wang deliberately showed the healed wound to the boy, the boy did not flinch.
Zhang Wang then wrote the boy's name on the directory.
"Liu Ye, right."
The character Zhang Wang is crooked, and the character Liu is missing a dot.
It was only during this period that he learned some things from the gentlemen in the old soldier's mansion. His own name was the most written, and the others just learned a hundred surnames, plus simple characters.
Fortunately, most of the people who signed up to join the army were uneducated and their names were simple.
There are really people who Zhang Wang can’t write, and there are other people sent by Wang Ding to help.
Today, there are more than 8,000 people in the Veterans Mansion.
Fortunately, at the beginning, Wang Ding had already expected that there would be more and more disabled soldiers, so he allocated a large area of land to this old soldier's mansion, enough to accommodate more than 20,000 people.
Many people came to sign up. Some of them shrank after seeing the disabled veterans and hearing their stories.
There are also fearless young men like Liu Ye, who look at the veterans with enthusiasm and write their names and their place of origin information on the directory.
After registering their names, they will be assigned a small wooden sign and will report to the military camp in the west of the city half a month later.
Wang Ding still gave them time to separate from their families.
Even though they are all from Chang'an, after joining the army, family members can no longer be seen whenever they want.
Perhaps, this time, it will be their final reunion.