There is a big notice posted on the city gate again.
The thief Zhang Lu killed Su Gu, the prefect of Hanzhong, burned bridges, and took up residence in Hanzhong. He disrespected the court and promoted evil cults. The right general was ordered to fight against the thief, and he needed to recruit 30,000 civilians to transport food and grass to the frontline soldiers. The treatment is as follows.
Fifty dollars a day, including food and accommodation, and the tax will be halved next year. Those who are interested can go to the Veterans Mansion to sign up.
Most of the people are illiterate, but beside the notice, there are soldiers reading loudly, and the human voice plays in a loop.
Ensure that every citizen who enters and exits the city can understand the content of the notice even if they don't read it.
When one of you gets tired of reading, replace him with another soldier.
Imperial recruitment has been a hard job since ancient times, and no one is willing to participate.
When the season is good, meals will be arranged for the civilians, but more often than not, the conscripted people have to bring their own dry food.
Not to mention wages, it has never been available.
If anyone doesn't want to go, they will be recruited by force.
If you don’t want to die, you can only work hard with the team.
The last time he recruited the Qiang people from Hetao, Wang Ding also recruited a group of civilian men.
However, we didn't pay wages last time, which made many people happy. As long as they are not busy for a short time, they are willing to participate.
This time, more civilians were recruited, but more people came to the Veterans Mansion to sign up than last time.
Wang Ding deliberately set up the registration point at the Veterans Mansion because he wanted these veterans to have more things to do.
In addition to the remnants of soldiers in the Old Soldier's Mansion, Wang Ding also asked Sima Lang to bring a group of civil servants to help.
Although the remnant soldiers in the old soldier's mansion were taught literacy by teachers during this period, the effect was not very good.
Nowadays, most remnants can only write their own names.
Thirty thousand civilians were recruited in five days.
The autumn harvest has just ended, and the people outside the city are no longer busy.
Rice threshing and drying can be done by women in the family.
During this time, they were recruited as a food transport team, which could save some food for the family and earn money every day.
In the past, when civilians were recruited, people would hide wherever they could. Some people even hid in the mountains to avoid being drafted.
But things are different now. I don’t say that everyone wants to sign up, but there are really many people who want to sign up.
Wang Ding took Xu Huang, Han Sui and other generals, as well as 30,000 civilians, and 100,000 shi of food and grass, and set out for Chencang.
Diao Chan stood at the top of the city, looking at Wang Ding's figure crazily.
No one is sure how long this trip will take.
Wang Ding looked back at the city wall. The distance was too far and he could no longer see his face clearly. Only the red dress seemed to be dancing in the wind.
With 30,000 civilians, and transporting grain and grass, the team was not very fast.
You can walk fifty miles every day.
For Wang Ding, marching at this speed is like going out for fun.
But this is relative. Wang Ding rides a bay-red horse and can run leisurely and slowly.
But the 30,000 civilians behind him are not as relaxed as Wang Ding.
They had no horses and could only walk on their legs, and they had to push grain carts.
When encountering difficult roads, you have to carry bags of food forward.
Even if Wang Ding had the intention to walk slower, he would still have to rest for an hour in a cool place at noon when it is hottest.
But even so, some civilians will still be injured on the road.
Some people sprained their feet, some had their waists broken. Some people accidentally knocked out their teeth while pushing a grain cart.
There are more than 30,000 civilians, and various accidents happen to people every day.
The injured civilian husband couldn't go on his way, so he sat on the grain truck.
Wang Ding treated them very leniently. As a result, more than 30,000 civilians were optimistic every day, laughing and laughing along the way.
There are also soldiers who specially teach these civilians to sing "loyalty to serve the country" together.
Although they were just recruited civilian husbands, everyone was treated equally along the way, and no one beat or scolded the peasant husbands, let alone whipped them.
The whip will not fall on anyone except the horse pulling the cart.
Although civilian husbands have been recruited before, Wang Ding has never walked with them.
Sometimes he walked in front of the team and sometimes lagged behind. He found that all the civilian men he had recruited were very active in their work and did not need supervision at all.
The people at the bottom have been squeezed for too long. Even if Wang Ding only gives them fifty yuan a day, it still makes them feel like they have a completely different life.
Pushing the grain truck every day is very tiring. But no one complained.
They all signed up on their own initiative. Some of them have been recruited before, so they can feel the difference even more.
If this is the case every time civilian husbands are called up, why do so many people evade the call?
Even those peasants who accidentally sprained their feet were still grinning and joking while sitting on the grain carts because they no longer had to walk.
Han Sui and Liang Xing, the generals who had just surrendered, felt incredible when they saw the strange scene in front of them.
They have never seen anything like this.
Han Sui was also an official in the Han Dynasty at the beginning, and he was very clear about the treatment of the conscripted civilian husbands.
In the past, those civilians not only did not have enough to eat, but also had to be beaten. If they walked a little slower, the soldiers would whip them with whips, leaving wounds all over their bodies.
Sometimes, the civilian men who were recruited suffered more casualties than the soldiers on the front line of the battlefield.
Many people had no way to go back and died on the road. Their bodies were not even buried, but were just thrown on both sides of the road.
Han Sui looked at Wang Ding riding a bay-red horse in front of him, feeling very different in his heart.
He has never seen such a general.
Who would care about the life and death of civilian husbands in the past.
The transportation of grain and grass is a major event in the army. Many grain transport officers have their heads chopped off by their commanders because of delays.
They will only urge the people who transport food to hurry up, and will not care about their life or death.
The common people are having a better life, but they may be the ones who die.
If the food and grass are not delivered in time, the commander will only take charge of the officer who transported the food and grass.
Wang Ding is really not in a hurry. He is the commander-in-chief. Even if he is slow in delivering food and grass, no one dares to blame him.
However, before Wang Ding, he had transported grain and grass to Chencang in advance. Currently, Gao Shun on the front line still has sufficient grain and grass, so Wang Ding does not need to worry at all.
Under normal circumstances, as long as arrangements are made in advance, there will be enough time to transport food and grass to ensure that the soldiers on the front line have enough to eat.
Unless there is an emergency, a heavy rain suddenly comes and the original grain road is destroyed.
It is autumn now, there is not much rain, the roads are smooth, and it is easier for grain trucks to pass.
But even so, it took eight days to get from Chang'an to Chencang.
First, compared with the tall Chang'an City, Chencang's city wall is much shorter and smaller.
The people in the city cannot be compared with Chang'an, there are only more than 30,000 people.
This is just a small city, but the food and grass in the city now is enough for a hundred thousand troops to consume for half a year.
Gao Shun had already led the captured soldiers through Chencang Road and was now at the foot of Wudu City.