About ten kilometers west of Qingshan Town, in a village in Sanyang Town, a group of more than ten people wearing military uniforms arrived at the entrance of the village early in the morning.
At first, the villagers thought it was officers and soldiers crossing the border, and everyone was very nervous. However, when these people wearing officer and soldier uniforms arrived at the village entrance, they behaved very well. They said they were here to recruit soldiers and did not even intend to enter the village.
They just plan to set up a recruitment point at the entrance of the village and let people notify them that they are recruiting soldiers, so that those who are willing to serve as soldiers and eat food can apply as soon as possible.
Then they erected a large flag at the head of the village, with the two characters "Recruiting Soldiers" written on it, and a line of slightly smaller characters below: Qingshan Town Patrol Camp.
There is a notice posted on the wooden board next to it. It doesn't contain much content. It just says that Qingshan Town is recruiting recruits. As long as the selected candidates are given ten kilograms of Anjia food on the spot, the recruits can receive eight hundred yuan of salary every month they join the army.
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Although this place is already in Sanyang Town, this village is actually adjacent to Qingshan Town, so they know a little bit about Qingshan Town. Some people have also heard that the Qingshan Town patrol camp has been recruiting troops recently.
But I didn't expect that they would come to Sanyang Town to recruit soldiers.
In the past, Qingshan Town recruited new soldiers by setting up recruitment points in the town for a long time, and at the same time sending people to various surrounding villages to recruit soldiers.
However, it was the first time that I left Qingshan Town and came to Sanyang Town next door.
Wu Dajiang, who led the team here to recruit troops, was actually unwilling to travel so far to recruit troops. It was more than ten kilometers away from Qingshan Town, and a trip would take several hours.
However, the source of qualified soldiers in Qingshan Town was almost exhausted. He had no choice but to run to the surrounding villages.
The Qingshan Town Patrol Camp has been recruiting troops in recent months, and has now recruited hundreds of people. This number may not seem like a lot, but you have to know that Qingshan Town is just a town.
The total population of the town plus the rural areas outside the town is estimated to be only about 20,000, and there are not many young people among them.
The Qingshan Town Patrol Battalion's requirements for recruits are not high, but they are not low either.
Not tall, because it is suitable for young people as long as they are 1.55 meters tall, over 16 years old, under 40 years old, in good health, and have certain physical qualities.
But it is said to be high, but it is also high.
Because the patrol camp in Qingshan Town only wants farmers, not street gangsters.
This may seem low at first glance, but in fact, many of the people who volunteer to join the army these days are unemployed vagrants and gangsters, because many of them are willing to take risks to gain wealth.
Rejecting this group of people means actively rejecting a large portion of potential sources of troops.
In addition, not all farmers’ children who meet the requirements will come to serve as soldiers.
These are turbulent times, and even unsophisticated peasants know that being a soldier is very risky these days. It is a business where one wears one's head on one's trousers, and one might die in battle.
However, the vast majority of people who meet the conditions are still willing to become soldiers.
What they do is very simple, just to have enough food!
Whether it is other regular armies or Lin Ziran's Qingshan Patrol Camp, the treatment is actually pretty good. Although the soldiers may not get much money, they are able to eat well, and the food is generally good.
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In order to ensure the physical fitness of the soldiers, Lin Ziran, like other ambitious vassals, would not treat his soldiers badly, so he would still give the soldiers the best possible rations as long as conditions permitted.
For soldiers in the regular army of Luo'an Army, the salary of newly-enlisted third-class soldiers is ten yuan per month, while the salary of the Qingshan Town patrol camp is eight yuan per month.
However, whether it is the regular army or the Qingshan Town patrol camp, they will deduct various expenses such as food expenses, and the final cash distributed to the soldiers is actually very little.
However, in fact, such a small amount of money was not enough for the soldiers to eat and drink with open stomachs.
Most of the time, Lin Ziran would always post it backwards.
For comparison, a worker in the Qingshan Refinery who has no special skills and only does physical labor earns about six yuan per month. This amount of money is enough for them to barely fill their stomachs, and even six yuan
Very few people can get Hengyuan’s monthly salary.
When Qingshan Oilfield and Refinery recruit workers, each recruitment will cause a large number of people to queue up to apply, and the proportion of people who can be selected is very small.
Lin Ziran heard that a few decades ago, people's salary income was quite high, and the monthly salary of ordinary workers could generally reach more than ten yuan.
When the older generation talks about Yongchang's early years, they often have fond memories.
In the early years of Yongchang, Daheng was still one of the most powerful countries in the world. On land, Daheng's army suppressed several other countries in the central continent and could not hold their heads up. A black sword regiment swept across the entire central continent invincible.
At sea, the Daheng Navy relies on more than a hundred sail battleships, and its strength can also be ranked among the top five in the world. Especially in the endless sea, it is an invincible existence.
However, all this changed completely in the early years of Yongchang.
Because in the early years of Yongchang, a war broke out between the Daheng Empire and the Orissa Empire in the southern continent!
In that cross-sea war, Daheng spent several years, suffered millions of casualties, and spent at least nearly billions of yuan in military expenditures, but in the end nothing gained.
The most critical thing is that the huge war expenditure completely dragged down the Daheng Dynasty's finances.
In order to make up for the financial deficit, the Daheng Dynasty began to increase taxes generally, which caused turmoil in the country and triggered numerous rebellions.
In the process of suppressing the rebellion, countless vassal towns rose up, and finally evolved into a situation where the local area was strong and the capital was weak.
Year after year, Daheng has become more and more chaotic. Today, everyone knows that Daheng is going to be doomed.
In such troubled times, for many people, even simply wanting to have enough to eat is already a luxury.
Whether it is working in a factory or serving as a soldier, as long as they can have enough to eat, it is already the wish of many people.
This is why every time the Qingshan Town Patrol Battalion recruits new soldiers, it can easily recruit enough soldiers.
However, although many people are willing to serve as soldiers, not everyone is needed in the patrol camp. At least they must be strong and young. The population of Qingshan Town is limited, and the potential source of qualified soldiers is also limited.
Now we have almost recruited several hundred people.
Otherwise, Wu Dajiang would not have been sent to Sanyang Town by Lin Ziran to recruit soldiers.
The process of recruiting soldiers went smoothly, and Wu Dajiang soon recruited about a hundred new soldiers from several nearby villages.
But what he didn't expect was that when he was about to go back with the new recruits, he was blocked by a group of people.
This is a group of soldiers also wearing military uniforms!