On February 1, the recruitment propaganda in Ping'an Town began.

Seeing his son cut his braids, have a big bald head, wear a military uniform of the Liberation Army, and wear red and colorful colors surrounded by a group of local officials, when he walked in front of the recruit team, Liu San's eyes had complicated feelings.

Being someone else's soldier is equivalent to becoming someone else's person, Liu San has a clear understanding of this, so he is full of resentment. The son who had worked hard to raise him did not say that he stayed at home to honor his father and mother, but abandoned the family and went to work for others. Liu San couldn't figure out where his son learned this from anyway.

But things have come to this point, and Liu San has no other way. He also tried to beg the governor, hoping that the town's leading man could help get the man back. After listening to Liu San's words, the lieutenant sneered, "Liu San, the Governor's Mansion has never forced people to become soldiers. It was your son who ran to be a soldier himself. The army also sent people to me to ask about your son and your family. Do you think that if you don't come from a clean background, you can become a soldier if you want to? ”

Liu San never expected that his son would be characterized as "innocent". This should have been a topic of praise for Liu San, but at this time, Liu San felt extremely unhappy. Liu San scolded in his heart: You said that my family was born innocent, so why didn't your son go to the army! But this can only be scolded in his heart, Liu San repeatedly begged Li Chang to bring his son back.

After more than ten days, the first batch of young people from Ping'an Town were brought back to the town. They came back on a tall horse. Leading the horses are the mayor of the town, the lieutenant chief, and some officials of the Liberation Army who have never seen it.

Liu San's son is not the only one who has joined the army in Ping'an Town, the son of the town mayor has joined the army, the son of the lieutenant has joined the army, and the son of the first bookkeeper in the supply and marketing cooperatives has also joined the army. There are also several other families with many children who have also joined the army. In Ping'an Town, where hundreds of households are located, more than a dozen young people have joined the army. If you look closely, nearly half of the young people are from official families related to the Liberation Army.

After seeing these people, Liu San felt a lot more comfortable in his heart. Officials naturally pay the most attention to their own interests, and if it is not beneficial to be a soldier, they will definitely not let their children become soldiers. Next, Liu San had joys and worries in his heart. I am happy that my son has not been cheated, and I am worried that my son will not be bullied when he is with the sons of these officials under the Liberation Army.

However, Liu San thought about it, his son dared to run to the army on his own initiative, although Liu San couldn't do anything to his son now. Thinking that this bastard kid would suffer a little more, Liu San felt an indescribable joy in his heart.

At this time, all the people in Ping'an Town were gathered, and for so many years, the people had never heard of anyone whose family members had to show off when they were soldiers. This is not a talent who has been admitted to the show, and needs to show off. Good iron does not twist nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers. Especially in Guangdong, where commerce is prosperous, being a soldier is by no means a decent job.

Therefore, when the people saw that the officials in the town were leading the horses for the recruits, they began to talk about it. How fierce are these soldiers, they can force the local officials to lead the horses. And those people wore red and hung colors as if they were relying on fame, which made the people unable to understand what was going on as soldiers.

When a group of people arrived in the town, they sang and sang in peace, and when the meeting was held, the recruits dismounted. Then the officers of the Liberation Army and the officials of the town began to talk about the contents of the Military Welfare Law.

"If one person joins the army, the tax paid by the immediate family members will be reduced by three percent! Two people joined the army, and the taxes paid by their immediate family members were reduced by sixty percent! The mayor loudly announced the contents of the welfare law.

Hearing this, there was an exclamation from the crowd. Most of the military personnel this time are from a family with a child to serve in the army. However, there are also Zhao Jiashan and Zhao Jiashui brothers who joined the army together. The Zhao family has five children and four boys. Their family was given ten acres of land, and the income itself was not low, and now the two boys were in the army together, and they should have paid 30% of the tax, but now they only have to pay 10%. And the two brothers are in the army, and there are five people left in the Zhao family. One person averages two acres of paddy fields. Mulberry trees are planted on the base of Zhaojiatang, and there is the income of silkworm raising. The livelihood of these five people immediately increased a lot. The people calculated that these were extremely talented, and everyone couldn't help but envy them.

Liu San couldn't help but feel envious in his heart. Only one son of his family joined the army, and he changed from paying 30% tax to paying 20%, and one guy can save almost 200 catties of rice. That's a year's worth of food for one person. But compared with the Zhao family, Liu San couldn't help but feel that he had suffered a loss.

But the "Military Welfare Act" did not just give such a small benefit, the mayor went on to announce that during the service of the military, if the family members apply to work in the factory, the family members of the military will be given priority under the same conditions.

This welfare treatment made a burst of amazement among the people. Naturally, the Governor's Office was vigorously developing industry. Those heavy industry sectors need workers with a specially trained base, but factories such as sugar refining and silk reeling do not have such high requirements. With a little training, ordinary people can do errands in it. The countryside is divided into busy farming, and the farming season is really idle. At this time, if you can go to work in the factory, you will immediately have another income. In the past year, the people of Ping'an Town, which is very close to the city, have a lot of feelings about this.

"During the busy farming season, if the army goes to the countryside to help the people do farm work, give priority to taking care of the military families!" The mayor of the town continues to announce the benefits that military have. And this benefit is even more terrifying.

Last year, the Liberation Army went to the rural areas to help the local people do farm work, and the military discipline of the troops was strict, and they did not commit any offences against the people. So the soldiers that the people of the town saw were all young men, and they were all strong laborers. If this rule can really be enforced, it will be equivalent to the families of military personnel getting free short-term work during the busy agricultural season. That's a lot of money. Many people are reluctant to let their children become soldiers, in addition to looking down on the profession of being soldiers, they are also worried about the loss of their own strong labor. Now that there is not necessarily a loss of strong labor, many people have become eager to look at those young soldiers and their families.

At this time, the mayor of the town asked the officers of the Liberation Army to speak, and the officers told the people about the "three major laws and eight points of attention" of the Liberation Army. He also talked about the concept that the Liberation Army is a people's army. Of course, the military officers naturally had to talk about the concept of the modern nation-state, that the Governor's Office was a regime to protect the people, and that the purpose of forming an army was to defeat the Manchus and defeat the foreigners who invaded China.

When the Guangfu Army propagated the "Chinese nation," "motherland," "Chinese," and "foreigners" in the town, Liu San also went to hear it. Liu San knows very well that there are Tujia and Hakka in Guangdong. There was a fierce conflict between the two sides, and there were often fighting and killing people. Using the Chinese nation to refer to the people on both sides, Liu San really can't understand.

Foshan is a very important city in Guangdong, and Liu San has met foreigners two or three times. When foreigners entered Guangzhou more than ten years ago, Liu San had also heard of it. It's just that the military of Guangfu calls foreigners foreigners, and this in turn uses Chinese to call their own people. Liu San didn't understand why this was at all.

As for the motherland, Liu San has no idea. The Qing Dynasty is the Qing Dynasty of the Qing Emperor, and what does the Qing Dynasty have to do with Liu San, a small common man.

But at this time, listening to the narration of the officers of the Guangfu Governor's Mansion, Liu San had some other ideas. His son became a soldier, so he will stand with the Governor's Mansion from now on. In other words, Liu San is no longer an ordinary person, but a person who has some relationship with the imperial court. Although his son is just an ordinary soldier now, if his son can mix with an official and a half-position, the Liu family will change from an ordinary person to an official.

Although he didn't have any confidence in such a future, Liu San really couldn't help but have some hopes.

Liu San knew that among the people who served as soldiers this time were the children of the mayor of the town, the villagers of the township, and the people also saw the children of the mayor of the town as soldiers. After the officer had finished speaking at length, some people with many children asked if it was okay for their children to sign up for the army now.

The purpose of the officer's trip was to show the importance of the army to the soldiers, and he immediately began to answer the questions of the people with the mayor of the town, and called on the people to respond to the call of the Governor's Office to let their children sign up for the army.

Not only in Ping'an Town, but in all parts of Guangdong, a new round of conscription is being launched. Originally, the General Staff thought that the people in the mountainous areas might be more active in signing up to join the army, but they did not expect that after the number was collected, the registration of the areas in the Pearl River Delta that had implemented the land grant order was no worse than that in the mountainous areas. If we only count the total number of recruits, the number of recruits in the plains is much greater than the 23,000 recruits in the mountains.

At the meeting of the Central Committee, Bi Qingshan, the governor of Guangdong Province, said with a sad face: "Governor, this is a lot of tax losses!" ”

Wei Ze smiled: "Do you think I only let them fight? That's underestimating the labor force. When they retire, we will arrange jobs for the retired soldiers, and they will go to work in factories and mines. Many of them also have them working at all levels of administration if they have the relevant cultural knowledge. If we don't believe in our own army, do we still believe in those gentry who think they are great after reading a broken book for a few days? ”

Bi Qingshan is not as optimistic as Wei Ze, and the military service period is now set at five years. In other words, a large number of military personnel will have to wait until five years later. Far water can't quench the thirst of the near, let alone the far water in five years.

Wei Ze saw Bi Qingshan's attitude, and he persuaded: "Comrade Bi Qingshan, Guangdong has never been a province that relies solely on farming. He naturally has unique benefits. ”

"What's the benefit? How to solve so much food? Bi Qingshan was not persuaded by Wei Ze.

Wei Ze replied: "There is food! After we opened the sea route to Vietnam, we could buy rice from Vietnam. With an army that obeys orders and listens to commands, it is only two or three years of effort to develop the military industry. At that time, we were able to build a large number of ships to do business in Vietnam, you can calculate the account. It's a bargain. ”

Bi Qingshan sighed and replied, "It's still too long!" ”

"Then get through this section! Grit your teeth and get through! Weser replied with great firmness.

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