Zhu Nao

After a period of time, with the joint efforts of the officers, soldiers and common people, the city of Chengdu has been renovated, and the previous decadent and messy appearance is no longer seen.

After the repairs in the city were completed and Zhu Nao's position in the government was secured, he ordered the army to withdraw from Chengdu and went to the countryside to help the people repair water conservancy and complete farm work.

The people in the city are still reluctant to leave the army.Back when the army first entered the city, everyone was afraid and trembling, fearing that another wave of bandits would come and rob houses.At that time, I really hoped that the army would leave early every day.Who would have thought that their mood would turn into this when they really left...

After a while, people will gradually get used to it.

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When the busy farming season is over and the common people's lives are relaxed, a new notice is suddenly posted all over Chengdu.

That day when Pan Dachun was going out, he happened to pass the public list, and when an official came out to post a new notice, many people had already surrounded the public list.He was too busy to go over to watch the excitement.

"What's in the notice?"

"Whoever knows how to read, read it quickly."

After the official put up the notice, he cleared his throat and said loudly: "This is the recruitment order of the Chengdu government. From the [-]th of this month, the government will open recruitment offices in various places. Those who are interested in joining the army can go to the recruitment offices to register."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the crowd.

"Recruitment?? Why are you recruiting again??"

"How much time has passed since the last time the rebellious army entered the city, why did the government do such a thing again? What can we do if we recruit a group of bandits again?!"

"This time, you won't forcefully arrest people to join the army like last time, will you?"

Since the common people have not forgotten the painful lesson from the last time, when they heard about the recruitment of soldiers, most of them expressed their opposition excitedly, but some accepted it rationally.

"Don't be so excited. How can Zhu Yushi and Yuan Gouguan be compared? This time recruiting soldiers must be different from before."

"That is, Zhu Yushi and Commander Yu led the troops well. Didn't everyone see the Langzhou officers and soldiers before?"

"Oh, you're getting too far. Brother Guan, what's the deal for recruiting soldiers this time?"

"Yes, yes, I also want to know what the treatment is. Last time I heard from soldiers in Langzhou that their military pay was five taels of silver a year! Can we get it if we sign up?"

Everyone said one sentence to another, and the voices all converged in one place, making people's ears buzzing.The officers and soldiers who issued the notice knocked the gong in their hands several times, which finally calmed everyone down.

"Listen to me after I finish reading the notice," said the official, "this time the government has made a lot of changes to the military system!"

When everyone heard this, they all fell silent and listened to him eagerly.

The official looked around and found that he was stared at by countless pairs of earnest eyes, and his chest straightened up immediately.

Officials like them who issue notices are actually quite bitter sometimes. If the notices issued are not liked by the common people, such as bad news such as tax increases, they are likely to become the targets of the common people to vent their anger. May be beaten.But on the contrary, if the notices are good, the common people will show respect to them.

Originally, when he came out to issue the recruitment order today, he was ready to be punched, but he didn't expect the common people to scold him, and they were not so disgusted.

In the final analysis, Zhu Yushi is still very good. In the past two or three months, he has gained the hearts of the people and changed everyone's views on being a soldier for decades...

The official sighed silently in his heart, and hurriedly announced the business: "From today, the Chengdu government will abolish the military household system. Those who join the army will no longer be registered as military members, but will still retain their original places!"

As soon as this remark came out, the crowd immediately boiled.

"You can still keep your country of origin when you join the army?? Really??"

"Then if I join the army, my family will not be affected??"

The official said: "I have retained my original place of origin, of course it will not affect my family - oh no, if you join the army, your family still enjoys the right to tax relief."

He also said: "The military pay is five taels per year. In addition, due to the cancellation of military registration, joining the army is no longer a lifelong system. After serving in the army for eight years, you can choose to retire. When you retire, you can also receive an additional [-] shi of rice."

As soon as this remark came out, the expressions on everyone's faces were dumbfounded.

From lifetime service to only eight years? ?Five taels of military pay, and other subsidies? ? !This... After eight years, save 40 taels of silver, and then bring home a hundred shi of grain, enough to marry a wife and raise a bunch of fat babies! !

Excluding businessmen and extremely powerful craftsmen, how many people may not have saved 18 taels of silver in 40 years!

After a while, the crowd was completely boiling.

"Brother Guan, what are the conditions for recruiting soldiers?"

"I, I, I, I'm not too tall, can I sign up? Will there be a height limit for this recruitment?"

"How old is it? How old is it?"

The official said: "Of course there are restrictions, and there are many more! This time, the government only recruits 5000 people. They must be between 28 and [-] years old and over seven feet tall. If they are the only child in the family, they will not be hired. There are also grip strength, arm strength, Running speed... There will be a special assessment at the recruiting office, and only after passing the assessment can you be hired."

The crowd was stunned again.This condition seems to be much stricter than when recruiting soldiers last time.Obviously, what the government wants this time is not only "soldiers", but also "elite soldiers".

People were so curious that they still surrounded the officials and asked all kinds of questions.However, Pan Dachun had roughly figured out the situation of the recruitment this time, and ran home in a hurry.

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"What?? You want to join the army?? Are you crazy???" Old Mao Pan looked at his eldest son in shock, suspecting that something was wrong with his ears.

"Yes. Dad, the city has started to recruit soldiers again, this time only 5000 people are recruited. I happened to be full last month, and I met the requirements for registration..."

Before he finished speaking, Lao Mao Pan grabbed the cup beside him and threw it at him.

Pan Dachun reacted quickly, and immediately avoided it.

The whole family knows how much Lao Mao Pan discriminates against Qiu Ba.His eldest son actually offered to join the army. He should have been furious, but at the moment he felt more absurd and unbelievable, so that he was not too annoyed.

"Say it again, what do you want to do??"

Pan Dachun was obviously very scared, and he didn't dare to raise his eyes to meet his father's.But he still had the courage to continue: "Dad, it's different now. There will be no military households in the future, and you can keep your original place of origin after joining the army. You can retire after eight years. You can receive five taels of military pay every year, plus food Subsidies, family members can also reduce taxes."

He finished speaking in one breath, and Lao Mao Pan was stunned for a while, unable to digest so much fresh news for a while.

After a while, Lao Mao Pan still asked in an unreasonable tone: "So?"

His deep-rooted discrimination against Qiu Ba cannot be shaken by a few taels of silver or a few stones of grain.

Pan Dachun took a deep breath, raised his eyes and looked at his father: "So, I want to cure the fifth brother, I want to buy some new clothes for the fourth sister, and I want to help the second and third marry a wife. I want to Let father and mother no longer have to work hard every day."

Old Mao Pan was stunned.

Even though he has the skill of carving jade, his family has too many children and lives very poorly.His youngest child suffers from wheezing, but he has not been properly healed because he is distressed about medical money.The three sons grew up day by day, and it was time for them to get married one after another, but they couldn't find a good marriage because of their family circumstances.

And because of the false accusation against the soldiers last time, he became the laughing stock of the city, and fewer and fewer people asked him to do things.Recently, the family has become so difficult that they need to pawn things to make ends meet.

He had a teapot in his hand, which he had originally copied in his hand, and was about to smash it when his son said the word to join the army again.But the teapot hung in the air for a while, and was finally put down.

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In a blink of an eye, it was the day when the recruitment officially started.

However, when Pan Dachun wanted to go out that day, Pan Lao Mao still stopped him.

"No, you can't go. If you go to our Pan's house, you will become the laughing stock of everyone." Lao Mao Pan said, "If we don't have money, we can find ways to earn money, but what is it like to be a soldier? No, no, absolutely not! "

Pan Dachun thought he had already explained his father, but he didn't expect that the old stubborn would suddenly become stubborn again.

He said in disbelief, "Why did you become the laughing stock of others? Now being a soldier is different from before, and you won't be laughed at anymore."

Lao Mao Pan said coldly: "How is it possible? Stop talking nonsense!"

Pan Dachun said: "If you don't believe me, you can go to see it with me. There must be a long queue at the recruiting office. Everyone is rushing to sign up, who is still laughing at whom?"

In the past few days, before the notice of recruiting soldiers, many people were crowded every day, and people surrounded the officials and repeatedly asked about the details of recruiting soldiers.Therefore, Pan Dachun believed that many people were interested in recruiting soldiers.

But Mr. Pan was still stubborn.He had seen the situation of Yuan Jilu recruiting soldiers before, it was so cold that he had to arrest people everywhere in the end.It's only been a few months since this incident, how can people's views on being a soldier change so quickly?

The father and son couldn't stop arguing, so they simply went out together to see who was right and who was wrong.

When they got near the recruiting place, the two of them saw from a distance that the recruiting place was indeed surrounded by people, but most of the people were just watching from the side. In fact, there were not many people queuing up.

This situation surprised both of them.Pan Dachun was surprised that there were so few people in line, and Pan Laomao was surprised that a recruiter is worth so many people watching?

After a while, Lao Mao Pan thought about the reason first, and immediately scolded: "You bastard, what are you talking about now that you don't discriminate against soldiers. Look, so many people are waiting here just to see other people's jokes." ! Anyone who goes to sign up will be really ashamed and thrown at grandma's house!"

Pan Dachun said in disbelief: "Impossible!"

Old Mao Pan said: "What's impossible? They're not here to watch a show, so they're still singing for you?"

He firmly believed that his idea was correct, so he took his son home: "Just give up, and don't think about joining the army. Unless everyone is rushing to join the army, then I won't stop you gone."

Pan Dachun was unwilling to go back like this, so he became stubborn with his father.

After struggling for a while, the two suddenly saw a group of people approaching not far away.The group of people hurried to the recruiting office, and they were all overjoyed when they saw that there was no one queuing at the recruiting office.

"Brother, that's great, we've caught up!"

"Hurry up and line up, there will be more people later."

"This time only [-] people are recruited, and we still recruit from all over Sichuan, so we will be overwhelmed? We must register today, or it will be too late!"

The group of people trotted all the way to the recruiting office. Everyone's household registration information had already been prepared, and they scrambled to stuff it into the hands of the officials in charge.

"Brother, I sign up!"

"I came first, look at me first!"

There were twelve or thirteen people in that group, and they didn't know where they came together, and they crowded the booths at the recruiting office into a lively scene.Before they finished fighting, another three or five people lined up behind them one after another.

This time it was good, the crowd of onlookers rushed out of the crowd one after another like a firecracker that had been ignited, and sent to the back of the line.At first there were a dozen or so, and later it became more than thirty, and finally they all rushed up, and the team actually lined up a street!

Someone took out the household registration that he had prepared earlier from his arms, and someone stood in the queue and yelled at the woman next to him: "Go home and get my household registration for me! Don't miss the queue!"

The Pan family father and son watched the line getting longer and longer, and they were all dumbfounded.

It turned out that not all the people who watched the excitement just now were there to watch the excitement.As soon as the new recruitment order came out, quite a few people were tempted.But many people, like Lao Mao Pan, find it hard to let go of their stereotypes about being a soldier over the years.So most people hesitate and want to see other people's reactions before making a decision.When seeing that everyone is hesitant, the hesitant people are even more hesitant.

But once someone started, the deadlock was broken.The people who were infected completely put their hesitation behind them, and even turned into scrambling for the first place.

Seeing that every time he blinked his eyes, there would be one or two more people at the tail of the team, and Pan Dachun couldn't bear it anymore.He grabbed Pan Laomao's arm and shouted: "Father, you just said that you won't stop me as long as others are vying to become a soldier! I'm going home to get my household registration!" Can't keep up.

Lao Mao Pan reached out to grab him, but he didn't even catch a piece of his clothes: "Hey..."

His son had already run away, and Lao Mao Pan stood alone, looking at the increasingly long registration line, full of bewilderment.

For the first time, he began to suspect that he was old, or that he was really stubborn.

For so many years, being a soldier has always been stinking, who would have thought that it would become a sweet pastry that everyone is vying for now.The world is changing so fast...

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The recruiting situation on the first day was extremely lively, and the excitement caused excitement. The later it was, the longer the queue was.So much so that it was originally scheduled to close the stall at the time of application, but in the end it was extended by half an hour.As it was getting dark, the officials had to drive the people who were still in line back home, and gave them a token of order, promising to arrange them early tomorrow, and the crowd finally dispersed.

When it was almost dark, Zhu Nao was still watching the accounts in the government.Wei Yue walked in swaggeringly.

Zhu Nao put down the ledger and said, "You're back. How's the situation?"

Wei Yue smiled triumphantly and said, "I, General Wei, will go out in person, what do you think?"

Junao couldn't help laughing.Wei Yue's ambition is big enough, he appointed Wei Yue the post of school lieutenant, Wei Yue has already appointed himself a general.

Wei Yue sat down opposite him: "Hey, after all, you are really accurate every time. After the stall opened this morning, there were not many people who signed up for an hour or two, and there was a large group of people standing around watching .In the end, I took my brothers to do a scene, and all the people around me rushed up. That scene was really interesting."

He asked again, "Should I still go tomorrow?"

Zhu Nao said: "It shouldn't be necessary. After today, what should have changed has changed."

Wei Yue nodded.To put it bluntly, this is still a matter of prejudice.Zhu Nao took this step by step, from commanding the army to do things for the common people, to increasing the military pay, and then changing the military registration system, no matter what prejudices he had, he should break through.

The situation has changed, and those who refuse to change their prejudices have been pulled down by others.

Wei Yue asked again: "You recruit 5000 people this time, how many can you give me?"

Zhu Nao raised a palm, which is five characters.

I also want to know that only 5000 people are recruited, and it is impossible to give all [-] to Wei Yue.Wei Yue asked, "Five hundred?"

Junao nodded.

Wei Yue pouted.In fact, I can't say that I am disappointed or happy.Of course he hopes that he can become stronger soon, but he knows his own abilities.You have to take it step by step.

After all, Yu Changming had three years of experience in leading troops.No matter which direction he still has something to learn, it is not easy for Zhu Nao to give him another 500 people, including the previous ones, it is enough for a thousand.

Zhu Nao said: "For the sake of your hard work today, I will give you another chance."

Wei Yue's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly said, "What opportunity?"

Zhu Nao smiled slightly and said, "For the 5000 recruits, you will pick your 500 first, and leave the rest to Yu Changming."

Wei Yue was taken aback for a moment, and said in surprise, "Hey? Seriously?!"

Zhu Nao said, "What do you think?"

Wei Yue was even more delighted.Junao never lied to him, so it is true!

In fact, he had thought about this before, but he was not ashamed to tell Junao.He is different from Yu Changming, Yu Changming is an extremely upright person, he can take care of any kind of people.But he is a person who likes to choose, he chooses it himself, so he can use it smoothly.

He slapped the table excitedly, and said cheerfully, "Okay! Then it's settled!"