Outside the recruitment point, Li Xuan, accompanied by Qian Mengjiu and others, watched the officers below them selecting soldiers one by one, at this time Qian Mengjiu took a step and said: "Your Majesty, can our recruitment conditions be further improved, if it is still according to the current conditions, I am afraid that we will have to recruit hundreds of people today, and we still have a lot of places to go!" ”

Li Xuan looked at the long queue of recruits sent out in front of him, and he also felt that the current recruitment requirements seemed to be able to be improved!

In order to recruit enough soldiers, the conditions for recruiting soldiers in the Datang New Army can be regarded as relatively low, and the requirements for physical strength and height are not high, and even the age has been relaxed to fourteen to forty years old.

At this time, Zeng Ziwen also said: "According to Weichen's knowledge, the recruitment of the Xingquan prefect only needs to be strong and strong under the age of thirty, and the recruits we recruit now are afraid that they are worse than the recruitment of Fucheng in terms of quality!" ”

Li Xuan said: "Since this is the case, then improve the corresponding conditions, but also take into account that the children of the poor have not eaten for a long time, as long as the height and age are passed, the physical requirements still maintain the current standard, as long as you eat well, your physical fitness can always make up for it!" ”

Malnutrition is common in these years, and if the physical requirements are too high, none of the ten recruits may be qualified.

After three months of training and nutritional supplementation, the soldiers of the Datang New Army will have a significant improvement in physical strength, so when recruiting soldiers, it doesn't matter if their physical fitness is slightly worse, the focus is still to have a foundation, such as height.

Speaking of this, Li Xuan said again: "In addition, you must always keep in mind that the recruits must be all children of peasant families, and you must not recruit all kinds of idle people, especially second-rate people!" ”

Qian Mengjiu said: "The ministers understand that the soldiers we recruited before were all children of peasant families!" ”

Li Xuan recruited soldiers to expand the army to build an army, not a gang of bandits, so he didn't need a so-called chivalrous man with high martial arts, he needed an honest person, preferably the kind that couldn't be released with a kick.

Because of this, we can better build an army with strict discipline and can play in formation!

In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is a spearman or a musketeer, they do not rely on personal martial arts, but fight in neat queues, they do not need any strong martial arts, what they need is strict obedience to orders.

Retracting his gaze from the queue of recruited soldiers in front, Li Xuan turned his head to look at his uncle Bai Yunqi, and then said, "How is the recruitment of the more than 200 Ming army prisoners going?" ”

Hearing Li Xuan's culture, Bai Yunqi immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, at present, half of the Ming army captives are willing to join my Tang New Army, and Weichen is convincing the remaining half of the people, if nothing else, most of these Ming army captives will join my Tang New Army!" ”

Bai Yunqi in the Tang Dynasty, has been a continuous surrender training of many Ming army prisoners, is the Tang Dynasty in the persuasion of training prisoners of the most experienced person, many times of recruitment of prisoners also let him figure out a lot of methods, this is only a few days before and after, it is actually half of the Ming army prisoners have joined the Tang New Army, it can be seen that his work is not bad.

Seeing that Bai Yunqi said quite confidently, Li Xuan nodded slightly, he still has more trust in Bai Yunqi's ability to recruit prisoners, he is really not good at leading troops to fight, Li Xuan has given him several opportunities to lead the troops, but there is nothing outstanding about it, not even decent, there will always be some mistakes, but this person's ability to brainwash the captives is really not bad, with him recruiting prisoners, Li Xuan is also relatively relieved.

Therefore, he didn't ask too much about the details of Bai Yunqi's recruitment, anyway, he didn't care much about how to recruit prisoners, and even if these Ming army prisoners joined the Tang New Army, except for soldiers with special skills, such as archers, sword and shield soldiers, and cavalry, everyone else would be incorporated into the baggage team, and they would be used as ordinary young people, which belonged to inferior combat power.

The core troops of the Tang New Army, such as spearmen and musketeers, would not include these Ming army prisoners, which is not to say that they are not good, but what Li Xuan wants is a pure new army force, and he doesn't want those veteran soldiers to bring bad to the peasant children he recruited with great difficulty.

The first day of recruitment in Quicksand Village went quite smoothly, and on this day, although the requirements for recruiting soldiers had been raised, they still recruited more than 60 qualified soldiers.

Moreover, the people below said that in recent days, the news of the recruitment of soldiers by the Datang New Army has spread to the surrounding villages, and many young people from small villages have come to apply, and many are still on the way.

For this reason, Li Xuan planned to stay in Liushazhuang for a while to see if he could recruit more qualified recruits.

The next day, sure enough, many people came over to apply, but on this day, Li Xuan found that there was a very special person among the recruited soldiers.

This person seemed extremely uncomfortable when he was in the queue, and even had an uncomfortable look on his face.

And the people around him were also pointing at him, revealing a look of disbelief!

Such a special person, so much so that Li Xuan found him at first sight when he applied for the recruitment point, this person is really easy to recognize.

No matter how good or bad the soldiers were dressed around, most of them were dressed in short robes, but this young man was wearing a tattered robe, and although this robe was tattered, Li Xuan recognized it at a glance, this was a Confucian costume, a costume exclusive to scholars.

What's going on? There are still people who read books and run to him?

After seeing this scene, even Li Xuan opened his mouth wide, did the world change too much, or did he say that he was wrong, or was the obviously down-and-out young scholar in front of him so funny that he actually ran over to recruit the new army of the Tang Dynasty?

Although it is also said in the recruitment documents of the Datang New Army, all literate people can be hired preferentially regardless of age and infirmity, and those who are knowledgeable can be awarded officials, and you can choose the official position below the Shangshu at will, you can give Li Xuan whatever you want, even if you don't have this official position, Li Xuan can make it up for you on the spot.

It can be seen that the Tang Dynasty has a desire for cultural people!

There is no way, there are only a dozen people in a dynasty who can read and write official documents, and there are only a few people who want to write well, so the Tang Dynasty is extremely eager for any literate talent.

At this time, if a showman took the initiative to come over to him Li Xuan, Li Xuan would dare to directly give him a university sergeant's official hat!

Unfortunately, this has never happened!

Those scholars who saw the Tang Dynasty were like seeing ghosts, running far away, and Li Xuan even used the method of taking hostages in order to increase the number of officials in the Tang Dynasty before.

And today, there is a scholar who came over to join the great Tang Dynasty? How can you not surprise Li Xuan!

Not only was he surprised, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, who were recruiting soldiers in front, saw a young scholar in the queue, and immediately sent soldiers to call the young scholar to him.

After seeing them say a few words, he saw that Fang Dongquan personally took him in front of Li Xuan.

At this time, Li Xuan could see this young scholar clearly, this person was estimated to be in his twenties, the Confucian clothes on his body were already tattered, dirty, his hands were black and full of stains, and there was an obvious scar on his face.

It can be seen from his appearance that this person is extremely downcast!

However, although he looks extremely depressed, this person can be seen at a glance just by standing there, this is a serious and authentic scholar, not the kind of impostor who doesn't know how to read big characters and wears Confucian clothes!

I only heard him say: "Student Ma Wei has seen Your Majesty!" ”

Li Xuan looked at him and said, "Oh, have you ever gone to school?" What is the rule?"

This sentence, ordinary people will never be able to answer, and they don't even know what Li Xuan is asking, because it can't be understood literally, this study is not to ask if you have read or gone to school, but to ask if you have been in the exam.

Those who can't read big words are confused when they hear this!

But anyone who reads can hear what Li Xuan is asking.

Hearing Li Xuan's question, Ma Wei immediately said: "Back to Your Majesty, the student entered the school in the thirty-sixth year and is still a scholar!" ”

Damn, he's really a showman, I heard you right!

Li Xuan's question just now is just an ordinary inquiry between readers, and when readers meet, they will generally ask whether they have entered school, a few years of the township examination, and the middle jinshi, so as to rank seniority, and determine the title and way of communication.

A person who lifts people will definitely not be called brothers and sisters with a child who is not even a showman!

Li Xuan asked, just a kind word, originally he thought that this person would come to say, 'The student is dull, and he hasn't entered the school yet'. I didn't expect him to be a showman, mom, his education is higher than his original height, and his original body is not a showman!

is just such a showman, how could he be so downtrodden, how could he come over to join his own rebel army?

Don't look at what the book says about poor Xiucai, but that's relative, even if Xiucai is down, people want to make a living if they have more means, being a school teacher, or even just writing letters and copying documents, the income is not comparable to ordinary people.

You can even pick and choose from jobs like copywriting!

No matter how bad the mix is, it won't be mixed into the appearance of the Ma Wei in front of you!

Perhaps seeing the doubts in Li Xuan's eyes, this Ma Wei said: "The student was dismissed last year because of the crime of the powerful, and his reputation was dismissed, and he was banned from the exam for life, and the thieves had to be killed cleanly, so that the student's family was ruined, and the student escaped from Liuzhou all the way to escape from the officers and soldiers, and fled here after crossing the mountains!" ”

When he spoke, Li Xuan could clearly feel the resentment in his tone, this was a resentment that wanted to break through the sky!

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PS, at the end of the month, I asked for a wave of monthly passes, and now the starting point is to do the activity of double monthly passes, and everyone will smash the more monthly passes in their hands..