Some people here may ask, why does it become an incentive to let your soldiers do hard work?
In fact, the reason is that life in the military camp is too boring. In addition to training and studying every day, there is just sleeping, eating, chatting and spanking. Although the mercenary regiment has a full training schedule, the officers and soldiers must also take a half-day off every week to recuperate mentally and physically.
Health. However, you are not allowed to leave the military camp unless there are special circumstances.
The cultural life of the military camp during this period was not comparable to that of later generations. There were no mobile phones, TVs or libraries. Moreover, the discipline of the mercenary regiment strictly prohibited gambling. Apart from bragging and chatting, the officers and soldiers had no entertainment life, which of course seemed boring.
In the past, a regiment was all new recruits. The training and cultural studies in the first year of joining the army were basically fully booked, and everyone's military salary and material security were sufficient. Most of the officers and soldiers who came from poor families cherished this opportunity, so
I just feel like I don’t have enough time and I don’t have enough time to think about other things.
However, as the regiment participated in two local wars with Japan, everyone has experienced two tests of life and death, and is no longer the new guy when he first joined the army. Moreover, the war itself is a test of human physiology and health.
It is a psychological torture like purgatory. Those with poor psychological quality will inevitably leave some psychological shadow.
The situation of the veterans of the Second Regiment is even more serious. First of all, most of them have been away from their hometowns for several years and far away from their old troops. In addition, a series of things happened after arriving in Nanjing, and the military morale was naturally shaken.
Although Zhou Wen is now using material means to bring these veterans back home again, he must always find some way to divert the attention of the officers and soldiers and cultivate some good interests and hobbies.
Zhou Wen now plans to build a few simple basketball courts in the military camps in Shanxi and Pukou, and also plans to build a small library. The library does not need to be decorated with famous books and poems, just buy the newly popular little book from Shanghai.
Comics, everything about the Three Kingdoms and Yue Dynasty.
Sports can vent the excess energy of these strong young men, and can also cultivate team consciousness and a sense of honor. The Little People Book can enrich everyone's spiritual life.
In fact, most military camps in later generations also did this, and Zhou Wen just copied it.
However, these all require time and dedicated personnel to do.
Books and other things are easy to say, as long as you buy them, you can move them to the military camp, but basketball is not easy to handle.
why?
You must know that this was the Republic of China, not the era where sports were quite popular in later generations. You can't just buy a basketball and throw it to your brothers to figure it out for themselves, right?
Then someone needs to teach the basic rules and movements, at least let everyone know that you can't just punch the ball when it is lost.
Otherwise, these big-blooded soldiers have all seen blood on the battlefield. If they don't follow the rules and mess around on their own, why don't some of them end up in the hospital every three days?
As for the current officers of the mercenary regiment, none of them understand basketball. Even those officers who stayed in the Soviet Union have only seen it before, but they only know a little about the rules and nothing else.
It wouldn't be impossible for Zhou Wen to teach, but he really doesn't have the time now.
So Zhou Wen has asked Commander Zhang of the Army Military Academy for help, asking him to help find two instructors who know basketball to teach the brothers for a period of time, even if they pay for it.
In fact, there are physical education teachers in other schools now, but Zhou Wen is afraid that the teachers in the school will not be able to control these arrogant warriors, and it will not be beautiful if conflicts arise.
That is to say, instructors from military schools are the most suitable. In the army, the rule is that the rank of senior officer is the highest. The rank of instructors in military schools is at least major. No one of the top soldiers dares to make a mistake in front of their superiors.
But these all take time.
Moreover, for these big-headed soldiers who live a boring life, as long as they can change the environment and change the novelty, they can always inspire extraordinary enthusiasm. Anyway, as long as I can get out of the military camp, I am willing to work as a cow and horse, let alone
He said that he was going to work for Commander Zhou. And I heard that he could earn some extra money for the army and himself. Who wouldn't be happy?
It was because Zhou Wen understood the psychology of the soldiers that he made working as an employee at Fengyu Terminal an incentive for the army.
Those who perform well in training and strictly abide by disciplines will be selected first. If any of them have worked at the dock or sailed a ship, they will be given priority.
However, this is only the first batch, and the batch will be rotated every month in the future, so that everyone has something to look forward to during training.
Moreover, these subordinates are usually workers at the wharf, and after boarding the ship, they become boatmen. When encountering bandits or the like, they become ready-made security personnel with guns in hand.
Even if you are rich and powerful, you may not be able to find so many generalists, not to mention they are so cheap and cost almost nothing.
Of course, Zhou Wen will not be too harsh on his subordinates. He still has to pay some wages, but it is much lower than the normal salary.
What? You say this is oppression and exploitation?
The military salary I gave you is not low, and I also took you out for a change of scenery to gain knowledge. Why the hell do you think I’m taking advantage of you? Well, don’t go, and give your place to those brothers who are vying for the first place.
them.
Moreover, even if it is a small amount of wages, Zhou Wen will not give all of them to the soldiers. Part of the wages will be given directly to the companies and platoons to which the soldiers belong, turning it into incentives for these grassroots units and building a sense of collective honor.
Therefore, although Zhou Wen also sympathized with the workers who worked on the docks all year round, he knew that this move would ruin the jobs of many people. However, for doing extraordinary things in extraordinary times, Zhou Wen had no choice but to say sorry in his heart.
As for some of the technical backbones and skilled workers, after investigation and clear investigation, if they are not too deeply involved with the Sha Gang, they can be hired as appropriate.
Even though the Sha Gang is just a gang organized by a group of dock workers who work hard to make a living, and they usually don't do anything to bully men and dominate women, being organized itself is the original sin.
No matter what you do in this world, you are afraid of the common people gathering to make trouble. If you don't handle this situation, conflicts will occur and lives will be lost. In that case, it will be detrimental to the reputation of the Yangtze River Company.
Zhou Wen still needs to rely on a good reputation to plan for the next development of Yangtze River Company.
What's more, the Sha Gang also has some hidden rules for outsiders, which is even more intolerable to Zhou Wen.
Since I have soldiers and guns, I didn’t dare to go sideways in the Republic of China. At least it was considered a force. When you come to Shanghai and you are intimidated by a small gang, then no one will dare to step on you in the future.
Nose and face.
So he had no intention of using these people from the beginning.