Next to the oil lamp, four transparent glass bottles were placed on the table, and the light was on, and the mouth-watering yellow flesh in the bottles could be clearly seen.

The flesh is crystal clear, so it's not tempting.

Lying in front of the table, Chun looked at the can with wide eyes, and his mouth even swallowed saliva from time to time.

"Third uncle, this is canned fruit?"

"Hmm."

Sitting Chunni on her lap, Wei Daoan picked up the bottle and said.

"This canned food is canned fruit, in the army, there are canned meat, there are canned fruits, everyone's favorite food is this canned fruit, you know what this fruit is called......

These cans of canned food were bought by Wei Daoan when he went home from visiting relatives, and he deliberately went to the military welfare society to buy things that could not be bought outside, such as canned food is one of the bases, ordinary people usually canned food, only when the army is marching and fighting, it will occasionally eat, otherwise the fleet and merchant ships will have canned food, after all, compared to ordinary food, canned food is stored for a longer time.

The same canned food also gave the northerners their first taste of tropical fruits – these canned fruits are produced in Taiwan, where large tracts of pineapples are grown, but because of the limited output, they are currently only supplied to the fleet, and a small amount to the army units, even in welfare cooperatives, which must be purchased by ticket. It is precisely because of this that canned pineapples have become the first choice for officers and soldiers to visit their relatives as a rare thing.

"Is it delicious?"

"Delicious!"

"Is it sweet?"

"Sweet ......"

In the uncle's answer, not to mention the six-year-old Chunni, even the four-year-old nephew Ming Lei and his younger brother Ming Yang were also drooling, if it wasn't for the grandfather's permission, it is estimated that they would have been making a fuss about eating it a long time ago, after all, this is the grandfather of the third uncle's filial piety.

"Chunni, get off your third uncle's lap quickly, this third uncle has walked hundreds of miles before coming back."

Seeing her daughter on the third child's lap, the sister-in-law who had just served the food to the table hurriedly said.

"I'm not tired, I'm not tired, sister-in-law, it's not that far from the barracks in Luzhou to here, besides, now it's all about making carriages, that is, nearly a day's work."

Looking at his son, Wei Fengguo didn't speak, just smoked his cigarette silently, and it wasn't until the meal was served that he knocked off the ashes in the cigarette pouch, and then picked up the wine that had been poured and said to his son.

"Third child, for more than half a year, you have been out alone, and it has hurt you. This glass of wine is your father's honor. ”

"Daddy?"

Looking at his father in surprise, Wei Daoan's eyes were puzzled, after a while, he understood why his father would say this, if he became a deserter, their family would be involved, he suffered in the army, all for this family, and even in the future, he went to the battlefield and died under the enemy's knife, that is also for this family, for the family not to be beaten into a pariah.

"There are also the eldest and the second, you also have to toast the third, if it weren't for the third child serving in the barracks on an errand and suffering, you would still have a peaceful birthday, and you wouldn't be happy to respect the third."

Looking at his father and brothers who toasted him, Wei Daoan, who felt a panic, waved his hand again and again and said.

"It's not hard, it's not hard at all, in the team, the food is better than at home, you look at this clothes, look at the meat on my face, Dad, it's really not hard, besides, besides, it's the duty of the people to serve as a soldier, if, if you don't become a soldier, it's the same as back then, then the Manchurians want to kill our Han people, kill and rob ......"

While explaining, Wei Daoan picked up his wine glass and said.

"The eldest brother and the second brother, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and now the younger brother cannot be filial piety in front of his parents in the army, and the family relies on the two brothers, this glass of wine, the younger brother respects the two brothers."

"Third child, it's you who is really suffering."

"But no, the third child, after you walked over, there were also soldiers stationed in our village, those who were soldiers, looking at the good food, but they were not less tired, being a cow and a horse, don't say anything, you are suffering, all for our family......"

In the face of the gratitude of his father and brothers, Wei Daoshan was just able to keep explaining how well he was doing in the army, and the reason why this was so was because he didn't want his family to worry about him, and secondly, he didn't want his family to feel indebted to him. He even unscrewed the can and said.

"Dad, mother, you taste, taste this pineapple, this is transported from thousands of miles away, that place is summer all year round, such fruits, all year round...... Mother, you try it, Dad, you try it too, and Chunni ......"

Distributing the pineapple meat in the canned food to the people in the family, he has never eaten pineapple, but he has heard of the taste of pineapple, and when faced with his mother's words that he asked him to eat it, he said even more exaggeratedly.

"Mother, you eat more, when I was in the barracks, I ate this every day, mother, you don't know, the food of our loyal and righteous army, that is known to the whole Ming Dynasty, even ordinary big families, it may not be comparable, white rice is full at once, eat as much as you want to eat large pieces of meat, chicken, fish, meat and eggs, you have everything, you haven't suffered any sin at all......"

But the more he said this, the more no one believed it, and everyone knew that maybe the loyal and righteous army ate well, but the sin that deserved could not be less than the slightest, after all, everyone knew that when a soldier eats food, he eats severed food, if it weren't for his family, he wouldn't need to suffer so much from those sins.

"The third child, I've tired you."

"Really, I'm not tired, Dad, look at me,"

Pointing to the rank on the collar, Wei Daoan explained.

"This, this is the rank of a regular soldier, there is an allowance of 50 yuan a day, if it is a war, there is a field allowance of 10 yuan a day, if it is promoted to a sergeant, even if it is a corporal, at that time, the monthly allowance is at least 3 taels and a half yuan of silver plus two stones and a half meters, when the time comes, it is not a matter to support the family or anything."

He said this because he wanted to show his family that he had a future in the army. He didn't need his family to worry about him, and he didn't feel like he was in the army right now.

"Third child, don't think that your father and I haven't been out, so I don't know, if you want to hang these three copper beans, I'm afraid it's not so easy, I don't know how many sins I have suffered and how much I have suffered."

Seeing that his father still looked distressed, Wei Daoan explained.

"It's not bitter, it's not bitter. Dad, in fact, I can be a regular soldier, thanks to you let me read in social studies for a few years, if it weren't for the ability to write and calculate, and I wouldn't have just come out of the new barracks, I was promoted to a second-class soldier, two months ago, I was directly promoted to a regular soldier, Dad, this loyal army is different from other places, those who can write and calculate as soldiers can have a future, and even in the future, they can read the martial arts hall, when the time comes, it will really be an official, in the final analysis, it is thanks to your father's vision. ”

Unlike other armies that do not attach importance to the education of soldiers, the Loyal and Righteous Army has always used their spare time to teach soldiers to read and write, according to Zhu Mingzhong's statement, "only by reading can they know why they are fighting", in order to motivate the soldiers to take the initiative to learn, in the "universal education" in the Loyal and Righteous Army at the same time, the standard of promotion is also linked to its culture, like Wei Daoan, who has read books in the society for seven or eight years, it is easy to get promoted, and in the army, he is often used as a teacher, these can read and write articles, Recruits who know math are often also a reserve for promotion sergeants.

It was this preference that made him rise through the ranks so quickly.

"Third child, are you saying that if you can read and write, you can be an official in the barracks?"

Wei Fengguo looked at his son, with some expectation in his eyes, if he was a little worried before, now he heard his son say that he might be an official in the future, his attitude naturally changed. Military attachés are also officials.

"Well, if you can read and write, and then train well, pass the exam of the lecture martial arts, enter the lecture martial arts hall to study for a year, and come out as a second lieutenant platoon commander, which is the rank of the seventh grade."

Although Zhu Mingzhong referred to the official ranks of later generations and established the four-level military rank of general, colonel and lieutenant, it also corresponds to the official rank. The second lieutenant of the Loyal and Righteous Army has the same rank as the county, and he is the grade of the seventh grade.

"What is the martial arts hall for?"

"It's a school for training officers, anyone can take the test, and if they get in, they will be said to be officers when they graduate."

Even though he had been in the army for seven months, Wei Daoan only knew that after entering the martial arts hall, he would be able to become an officer.

"Really, is that martial arts hall good for the test?"

The third child's words made the boss hurriedly ask, this officer is also an official, and the Wei family has never been an official.

"It's not easy to test, but it's not easy to take the test, and it doesn't matter,"

Shaking his head, Wei Daoan continued.

"Big brother, as long as you pass the non-commissioned officer cultural level test, and then come step by step, when you are promoted to sergeant, you will have to have more than 7 taels of silver for a month's military salary, and if you are a sergeant major, you will have to get 10 taels of silver a month, and this non-commissioned officer is also an officer, and the corporal is the same as the inspection, from the ninth grade. The sergeant Ge is the same as the county master, and is the ninth grade, as for the sergeant, he is the same instructor, from the eighth grade, and the additional officer sergeant major is the same county as the eight grades. Moreover, the military salary is also higher than that of the civil officials of the same grade, the annual salary of the ninth grade official is only 36 taels of silver, and the rice is 33 stones, and the corporal officer is in addition to the military salary of three and a half taels per month and the salary of two and a half stones, plus the monthly salary of the previous year, it is 42 taels of silver and 32.5 stone rice a year......"

Unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, which treated civilian officials favorably, making the civil officials' salaries generally higher than those of military attachés of the same level, the officers of the Loyal and Righteous Army not only had generous military salaries and were higher than those of civilian officials at the same level, but also had Lu Mi and New Year's favors. In the 17th century, this was undoubtedly an extremely generous treatment, and it was precisely because of this that those veterans were happy to join the army, of course, such a generous treatment also made recruits like Wei Daoan envious of the veterans' life to the extreme, after all, most of the veterans in the army were sergeants, and the kind of life they lived was unimaginable in the eyes of these ordinary soldiers.

"So, Daddy......"

Turning his head to look at his father, Wei Daoshan said with a smile.

"It's really not hard to be a soldier, if you are good, you can have a future!"

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