Chapter 238 Break through the resentment of the sky
Outside the recruitment point, Li Xuan, accompanied by Qian Mengjiu and others, watched the officers below selecting soldiers one by one. At this time, Qian Mengjiu walked in and said, "Your Majesty, can our recruitment conditions be improved?
Some, if we still follow the current conditions, we may have to recruit hundreds of people today, and we still have a lot of places to go!"
Li Xuan looked at the queue of recruits dispatched far ahead, and felt that the current recruitment requirements could be improved!
In order to recruit enough soldiers for the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the conditions for recruiting soldiers can be considered relatively low. The requirements for physical strength and height are not high, and even the age is relaxed to fourteen to forty years old.
At this time, Zeng Ziwen also said: "According to Wei Chen's knowledge, Xingquan Prefecture only recruits strong men under the age of thirty. The quality of the recruits we are recruiting now may be worse than those recruited by Fucheng.
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Li Xuandao: "In this case, let's improve the corresponding conditions, but we must also consider that the children of the poor have not had enough to eat for a long time. As long as the height and age are passed, the physical requirements should remain at the current standards. As long as they eat well in the future,
You can always make up for your physical fitness!”
People these days are generally malnourished. If the physical requirements are too high, you may not be able to find a qualified candidate among the ten applicants.
The soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will have greatly improved their physical strength after three months of training and nutritional supplements. Therefore, when recruiting soldiers, it does not matter if their physical fitness is slightly worse. The key is to have a good foundation, such as height.
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Speaking of this, Li Xuan said again: "In addition, you must always remember that the new recruits must be farmers' children, and you must not recruit all kinds of idlers, especially second-rate people!"
Qian Mengjiu said: "I understand that the soldiers we recruited before were all children of farmers!"
Li Xuan recruits soldiers to expand the army to build an army, not a gang of bandits, so he doesn't need so-called knights with strong martial arts skills. What he needs is honest people, preferably those who can't even fart after being kicked.
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Because of this, we can better build an army with strict discipline and the ability to fight in formation!
In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, whether they were spearmen or musketeers, they did not rely on individual martial arts, but fought in neat formations. They did not need any strong martial arts, but strict obedience to orders.
Withdrawing his gaze from the queue of recruiting soldiers in front, Li Xuan turned to look at his uncle Bai Yunqi, and then said: "How is the recruitment of the more than two hundred Ming army prisoners going?"
After hearing about Li Xuan's culture, Bai Yunqi immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, half of the prisoners of the Ming army are willing to join our new army of the Tang Dynasty. We are trying to persuade the remaining half. If nothing else, most of the prisoners of the Ming army are willing to join us."
Some of them will join our new army of the Tang Dynasty!"
In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Yunqi had continuously recruited and trained many Ming army prisoners. He was the person with the most experience in persuading and training prisoners in the Tang Dynasty. He had found many ways to recruit prisoners many times.
In just a few days, half of the prisoners of the Ming Army joined the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, which shows that he did a good job.
Seeing that Bai Yunqi was quite confident, Li Xuan nodded slightly. He still trusted Bai Yunqi's ability to recruit prisoners. He was not very good at leading troops in battles. Li Xuan had given him several opportunities to lead troops.
, but there is nothing outstanding about it, and it is not even satisfactory. There will always be some mistakes more or less, but this person's ability to brainwash prisoners is not bad. With him recruiting prisoners, Li Xuan
It's relatively reassuring.
Therefore, he did not ask too much about the details of Bai Yunqi's recruitment of prisoners. Anyway, he did not care much about how to recruit prisoners. Moreover, even if these Ming army prisoners joined the new army of the Tang Dynasty, except for soldiers with special skills, such as archers and sword and shield soldiers,
Except for the cavalry, everyone else will be incorporated into the baggage corps and be used as ordinary young men, belonging to the second-class combat power.
The core troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, such as spearmen and musketeers, would not incorporate these Ming army prisoners. This is not to say that they are not good, but that what Li Xuan wants is a pure new army.
He didn't want those old veterans to spoil the farm boys he had managed to recruit.
The first day of recruitment at Liusha Village went very smoothly. Even though the requirements for recruiting soldiers had been raised during this day, they still recruited more than sixty qualified soldiers.
Moreover, the people below said that in recent days, news of the recruitment of soldiers by the New Army of the Tang Dynasty has spread to the surrounding villages. Many young people from small villages have come to apply for recruitment, and many of them are still on the way.
For this reason, Li Xuan planned to stay in Liusha Village for a while to see if he could recruit more qualified recruits.
The next day, as expected, many people came over to apply, but on this day Li Xuan discovered that a very special person appeared among the enlisted soldiers.
This man seemed extremely uncomfortable while standing in line, and even had an uncomfortable look on his face.
And the people around him were pointing at him, showing a look of disbelief!
He was such a special person that Li Xuan spotted him at first sight when he was applying for the recruitment site. This person was so easy to recognize.
No matter how well-dressed the surrounding soldiers were, most of them were dressed in short robes. Only this young man was wearing a tattered robe. Although the robe was in tatters, Li Xuan recognized him at a glance.
A piece of Confucian clothing, a garment reserved exclusively for scholars.
What's going on? There are actually scholars running over to join me?
After seeing this scene, even Li Xuan opened his mouth. It was because the world had changed too much, or he had seen it wrong, or maybe the young scholar in front of him, who was obviously in a desperate situation, was so smart that he came to apply for the university.
Tang Xinjun?
Although the recruitment document for the New Army of the Tang Dynasty also stated that all literate people, regardless of age or infirmity, would be given priority, and those with great knowledge could be appointed officials. And you can choose any official position below the minister, what kind of Li do you want to be?
Li Xuan can give you whatever you want, even if you don’t have the official position, Li Xuan can make one up for you on the spot.
This shows that the Tang Dynasty longed for cultural people!
There is no way. There are only about a dozen people in a dynasty who can read and write official documents, and there are only a few people who are good at writing. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty is extremely eager for any literate talent. If you have read for several years,
Talents who can write official documents well, among other things, can't be found in a doctor.
At this time, if a scholar came to Li Xuan to seek refuge with him, Li Xuan would dare to give him the title of Grand Bachelor!
Sadly, this has never happened!
When those scholars saw the Tang Dynasty, they ran away as if they had seen a ghost. In order to increase the number of officials in the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan even used the method of capturing hostages.
And today, a scholar actually came over to join the great Tang Dynasty? How could we not surprise Li Xuan!
Not only was he surprised, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, who were recruiting soldiers at the front, saw a young scholar coming into the queue and immediately sent soldiers forward to call the young scholar to them.
After seeing them say a few words, they saw Fang Dongquan personally leading him up to Li Xuan.
At this time, Li Xuan finally saw this young scholar clearly. He was probably in his twenties. His Confucian clothes were already in tatters. He was dirty, his hands were black and stained, and his face was stained.
There is also a very obvious scar.
It can be seen from his appearance that this man is extremely miserable!
But even though he looks extremely miserable, you can tell at a glance just by standing there that he is a serious scholar, not the kind of impostor who is illiterate and wears Confucian clothes!
Just listen to him say: "Student Ma Wei has met His Majesty!"
Li Xuan looked at him and said: "Oh, have you ever entered school? What kind of teachings do you have?"
Ordinary people would never be able to answer this sentence. They don’t even know what Li Xuan is asking, because they cannot understand it literally. This admission does not ask whether you have read books or gone to school.
Rather, it asks whether you are a scholar in the examination and what classics you are studying.
Those who are illiterate will be confused when they hear this!
But any scholar can hear what Li Xuan asked.
Upon hearing Li Xuan's question, Ma Wei immediately said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the student entered the school in the thirty-sixth year to become a minister!"
Damn, he is really a scholar, did you hear me right?
What Li Xuan asked just now is just a common inquiry among scholars. When scholars meet, they usually ask whether they have entered school, how many years have they passed the provincial examination, and whether they have passed the Jinshi. This is used to determine seniority, titles, and methods of communication.
A scholar will definitely not call himself a brother-in-law with a child who is not even a scholar!
Li Xuan asked this just to be polite. He originally thought that this person would say, "Students are stupid and haven't entered school yet." But he didn't expect that he is really a scholar. Oh my god, his academic qualifications are even higher than his original body.
Not a scholar!
How could such a scholar reach such a low state and come over to join his own rebel army?
Don't look at what the novels say about poor scholars, but that's a relative term. No matter how poor a scholar is, if he wants to make a living, he has many ways to make a living, such as being a private school teacher, or even just writing letters and copying documents. That income
It is not something that ordinary people can compare with.
You can even choose jobs like copywriting and book cleaning!
No matter how bad you are, you won't end up like Ma Wei in front of you!
Perhaps seeing the confusion in Li Xuan's eyes, Ma Wei said: "The student was stripped of his honors last year because he offended the powerful, and was banned from taking exams for life. Later, the thieves were ordered to be killed, so that the student's family was ruined. The student was from Liuzhou.
I avoided being chased by officers and soldiers all the way and climbed over the mountains before escaping here!"
When he spoke, Li Xuan could clearly feel the resentment in his tone. This was a resentment that was about to break through the sky!
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