sweeping the world

Chapter 1016 Recruitment ([-])

When Jia Shang learned that he was selected and was about to go to Chang'an to be incorporated into the firearms division, he was completely dumbfounded.

Because of the combat effectiveness shown by firearms divisions in several battles on the grassland, unless they are completely unable to get the news, they all know that cold weapons are about to be eliminated, and only firearms are the future.

Under this current situation, who can be given priority to enter the firearms unit is tantamount to familiarizing themselves with what firearms are before others.Waiting for some other units to be reorganized into firearms divisions, they are likely to be transferred to become "models", and it is inevitable to mention the position in the process.

"I'm the only one in the whole county?" Jia Shang knew that others said he was stupid, but he believed that he had to be meticulous in everything he did, and he was not stupid if he showed rigidity.He looked at the village chief Cai Ping standing in front of him, and asked in disbelief, "Is it just me?"

Cai Ping is the leader selected by the county to send Jia Shang to Chang'an, and they will dispatch a whole bunch of people to escort Jia Shang.

Using a pen to escort is almost the same as the county magistrate's trip, the only difference is that Jia Shang can't show the guard of honor.

"Yes, you are the only one who was selected in the entire county." Cai Ping went to the Military Club to find Jia Shang directly. In his heart, he was extremely envious of Jia Shang being selected, and urged Jia Shang who was stunned: "Although there are still seven days to go." , but if you arrive one day earlier, you can be more familiar with the environment. You don’t have to pack up and salute, so you can leave earlier.”

"My father and my mother?" Jia Shang confirmed it, and at the same time he asked in ecstasy, "You don't need to tell my father and mother, just go?"

"Huang Bingcao went to notify yesterday." Cai Ping said with a smile, "It's also your father's idea to leave early."

Originally, the young lady wanted Jia Shang to go home, but even if she couldn't, she wanted Jia Wei to send some money and clothes.

Jia Wei also had the same impulse at one point, but then he endured it abruptly.

The whole county was selected as one, and it was heard that the county magistrate and prominent figures in the county had already gone to condolences to Jia Shang, and they would come to Jia's mansion as guests later.

The Jia family used to be well-known in the county, because Jia Shang was the only person in the county who was selected to be a firearms division. Now the Jia family is even more famous, and it is not at the same level as the Zhao family. I believe that in the future, the Jia family will overwhelm Zhao. Home is an inevitable thing.

In fact, the same is true. When Zhao Bing learned that Jia Shang was selected as a firearms division, he went to Jia's house to congratulate him. Apart from being envious and jealous, Zhao Bing had already bowed his head to Jia Wei. Wei becomes bigger and he becomes smaller.

The limelight is already big enough, there is no need to let the children go home to stick to those fireworks, they should go to the barracks as soon as possible, and arriving a day in advance may give the officials more good impressions.

As for sending money or something, it's fine to send someone to send it when you're done.Although he is in the army, he has enough money and can eat and drink better, and besides, everyone needs human relations.

There is no need for clothes. When people enter the army, the army is equipped in various ways. They usually wear uniforms. Only when the army collapses and they need to pretend to escape can they have the opportunity to wear ordinary clothes.Sending clothes, the meaning is quite bad.

"Oh." Jia Shang also had full expectations for going to the firearms division, nodded and said: "Then I will trouble Officer Cai."

Cai Ping is 31 years old this year and is the head of the county army system in the county.

At that age, if you are a village chief, even if you are only a village chief in the county and county military system, it should be said that you are doing well. Even Cai Ping knows that he has almost no room for improvement.

Jia Shang is only 19 years old this year, and his father is an eighth-ranked nobleman. As the eldest son, if he does nothing, he will lose one rank and inherit Laozi's title in the end. He will be a prince no matter what.

The Han Empire allowed titles to be inherited. People with titles would generally choose their eldest sons to inherit them. Only some eldest sons with titles that did not lose to their fathers would choose other heirs to inherit the titles of their fathers.

People who could have been able to sit on the merits of their parents and wait to die, but they are so competitive, and they will get the opportunities they deserve. Others are envious, but they have to be convinced.

"Firearms divisions have a lot of opportunities to go to the battlefield." Cai Ping said: "I am a person who knows the sharpness of firearms, and it is very clear that it is easy for a rifleman to obtain a head. I guess it will take two or two more years." For three years, your title will be equal to or even higher than mine, and when there is another person with a fourth-level title or higher in the county, the county will also benefit. Escorting is only a trivial matter, don't forget that your hometown is."

The evaluation of political achievements in various places in the Han Empire generally included the assessment of population size, and then the amount of taxes paid. The infrastructure construction in the county was also one aspect, and the number of nobles was part of the political achievements.

In the county, there are nobles. It can be considered that the county magistrate and other administrative personnel and the local military are well-educated, which is more or less an achievement.

If someone in a county earns a high title for meritorious service, even if the evaluation is sloppy in all aspects, he will definitely be evaluated as "good". Then won't the recipient of the title give back to his hometown?
Take a look at the places where the Marquis was born, even if the Marquis didn’t help or give back to his hometown, but only a Marquis came out of his hometown, the outsiders don’t say that they are patient everywhere, the fairness should be guaranteed, otherwise who knows Will he go to the Marquis from his hometown when he is bullied?

If the Marquis has a deep affection for his hometown, and under the care and care of him everywhere, and pulls out a good project, the benefits to his hometown will be beyond imagination.

The Marquis of the Han Empire still had marquis countries abroad, and most of the good positions must have been obtained by the relatives of the Marquis. For other positions, they might be looking for helpers, shouldn’t they be looking for more reliable people from their hometown?
Without exception, under the premise that those marquises can choose people, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely the people from their hometown.

Isn't that what the so-called one person attains the Tao and ascends to heaven?If you can support a native of your hometown, so that he will continue to upgrade his title until he becomes a marquis, I believe that all counties and towns will spare no effort to help.

Jia Shang set off on his way to the sound of gongs and drums. When he left, the streets were full of people from the countryside who came to see him off.He could see an expression called expectation on the faces of the villagers. As a young man, he didn't quite understand why.

"I hope you can achieve something." Cai Ping said something bluntly: "It's like the 'li' you grew up in. It's not because of Jia Gong, there are good things to fight for."

Jia Shang also thought of his father, as if that was really the case.

"This..." Jia Shang said both happily and anxiously: "The boy just entered the firearms division, and I don't know what to do. I really can't live up to the expectations of the folks."

"You must be able to afford it." Cai Ping, who is also a native of the county, said very seriously: "There is pressure to be motivated. If you encounter any hurdles that you cannot overcome, think about your parents, brothers and sisters at home, and think about it again." Thinking of the folks in the village, with so many ardent expectations, don’t give up lightly.”

Jia Shang only felt a lot of pressure.

It is 430 miles from Yong County to Chang'an, and they traveled on horseback.

Resting in some towns or counties along the way, you can find that the road is busy.

This time, the general's mansion issued the recruitment document, which was for the counties and counties in Guanzhong, and all the places fell into a warm atmosphere.

Being conscripted is not a disaster for contemporary Han people, on the contrary it is a good thing.

Some are veterans who can't forget the glorious years. They are happy that they can still be recruited by the army. Apart from proving that the army still remembers them, what they want is whether they can raise their titles one step higher.

Most of them are young men who have long been looking forward to being recruited. Their generation grew up listening to the stories of their parents. Everyone wants to go to the battlefield to gain fame and become the protagonist of the next generation's stories. .

"Are you going to Chang'an?"

"Yes."

A teahouse beside the national road, as long as the people on the road are not in a hurry, it is not a problem to stop for some tea and delay ten minutes when they see that they are thirsty.

"What a coincidence!" Jiang Chao said with a smile on his face: "So are we!"

Just now they heard the conversation about the firearms division at the next table, and after listening carefully for a while, they knew that the team at the next table was escorting a person to report to the firearms division.

Cai Ping was equally happy, and asked, "You escorted the young man from the village?"

"Isn't it?" Jiang Chao confirmed that he was correct, looked around, saw that Jiang Shang was the youngest, and almost immediately believed that he was the one who was recruited to the firearms division: "We came from Pingnang. It's been four days of driving."

Jiang Wei also believes that the youngest person on the other side is the one who has been conscripted.He made do with it, and said with a smile, "We are likely to be Pao Ze of the same unit. My name is Jiang Wei, how about you?"

Jia Shang said his name, after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "Your name is the same as my father's."

Jiang Wei was stunned when he heard that.He didn't even know how to answer the call. Is chatting so chatty?Just say that your father's name is the same as so and so, do you recognize your father, or something? How embarrassing!

Jia Shang regretted what he said.

"Uh..." Jia Wei said with a stiff face, "In our county, I'm the only one. How about you?"

"Same." Jia Shang was extremely embarrassed in his heart, and after a short silence, he continued: "Are the teams heading to Chang'an now like us?"

Jiang Wei found that Jiang Shang couldn't have a good chat at all, how could it be that the people driving to Chang'an were all like them, I didn't see that most of the people driving on the national highway were merchants, and most of them were walking.

If the county had official duties, the Han Empire would not be a country short of horses. No matter how poor a county is, can't it afford a dozen horses?The first choice for traveling is to ride a horse.

Another team of horses got off the national highway and came to this teahouse. Although the dozen or so people looked dusty, they were full of energy.

"Shopkeeper, the food for the horse is good enough to use, and there is enough food in the store." Jiang Fang looked around the shed of the teahouse, and at a glance he saw that most of them were soldiers. Said: "These days, there are so many soldiers or colleagues on the national highway."

They went from Chang'an to the northwest, and they really saw too many small groups of troops or slave catchers along the way, most of them went from east to west, and a few went from west to east.

"A few people." Jiang Fang saw that there were no tables in the teahouse, and there were two tables that were not so full, so he said in a discussing tone, "Can you join us?"

Those two tables that were not filled were led by Jiang Chao and Cai Ping. They responded one after another, so naturally they could make up the table.

"Are you going to report to Chang'an?" Jiang Fang said enviously: "The whole country has issued an order to recruit soldiers in Guanzhong, and there is no movement at all in other places. No, it can't be a matter of recruiting soldiers only in Guanzhong." In two or three years, we gathered around fifty people and planned to go to the Western Regions to find opportunities."

There were fifty or so of them, and only a dozen or so made up a table, and the rest could only find a place at random.

Those who can sit on the table are more sturdy at first glance.The other people did not express any dissatisfaction with them sitting at the table.

Cai Ping and Jiang Chao looked at each other, wondering why this person was so familiar.

"Listen to the accent, are you from the Kanto?" Cai Ping had been to the Kanto to serve as a corvee, so he could hear the obvious Kanto accent: "I'm very well informed. It's only been a while, and we're all in Shiping County."

"Nine days." Jiang Fang made a gesture of nine and said, "We heard the news and walked west from Mount Tai, and it took us nine days to get here."

That is a journey of nearly two thousand miles, and it only took nine days to travel so far?

"Isn't there a national highway?" Jiang Fang grinned and said with a smile: "What we did before was bloody work, and we know better than anyone else how to seize opportunities. Many times, we pay more on the way than we do." If someone else arrives one day earlier, it is very likely that they will earn back what they spent, and there will be more left over.”

They transferred to Julu County on the fast-track rail car. If they could use the rails on the road, it didn’t matter how much money they spent. The rest of the road was covered by the national highway, so they traveled nearly [-] miles in nine days.

"If there is no national road (Chi Dao), we should have only arrived in Jiyin County?" Jiang Fang said with emotion: "If you don't go out, you can't see the changes in the big man with your own eyes. If you go abroad , you will find that there are only two countries in the world, that is, the Han and the barbarians. The Han is the pinnacle of civilization, and the rest of the barbarians are not much better even if they are not ruthless people."

Everyone can see that Jiang Fang is a person with a lot of stories, and he may have been working abroad for a long time.

Jiang Chao was obviously more active in communication and asked: "Where is the furthest place you go, brother?"

"The farthest?" Jiang Fang rubbed his chin and thought for a while, raised his head slightly, and said, "It should be Taixifeng, right?"

Ctesiphon?Many people have never even heard the name, let alone know where it is.

"That's the capital of Sassanid." Jiang Fang thought there was nothing wrong with raising his head when he spoke. Who made him so knowledgeable: "It happened three years ago."

Everyone knew to some extent that the Han Empire had entered a state of war with Sassan, and they couldn't help but want to know more about the Persians from Jiang Fang.

(End of this chapter)