Lin laughed and didn't make a sound, the soldiers are also people, and if they are people, they have thoughts. Before, they were ordinary farmers, workers, and men, and their hope for the future was to have enough to eat, warm clothes to wear in winter, and to marry and have children. Now they have embarked on another road, every month they have a generous salary, there are well-cut, warm and thick military robes to wear, and more importantly, they have begun to read and write, such as Lin and Lin have more opportunities to go to the capital four thousand miles away, passing through Jiangling and other places, growing knowledge, opening their eyes, saying that the hope like before seems too small.

I watched and listened a lot, and I thought a lot.

In troubled times, Xu Zixian has great ambitions, everyone can see it, who can say that everyone can't follow Nan'anhou and fight for a bigger world?

Thirty years ago, when the remnants of the pirates were still there, the king of Qi led his troops to quell the pirates, exterminate the pirates, and return Fujian Road to a peaceful world.

Now the king of Qi has a hereditary rebellious prince, wealth and glory go without saying, the subordinates who followed the king of Qi back then, now most of them are also the middle and lower military attaches of the imperial court, from the command of a village to the battalion system, the military capital system, the deputy commander, the marquis of Yu, or the deputy envoy of defense somewhere, the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, although most of them are the box army system, but the town guards the military states, each village, as a military attaché, of course, the income is not expensive, and the status is not low, with the identity of the former farmer and the head of the Lin brothers, of course these things dare not think of it, and now of course they dare to imagine more, I hope to get more.

"Look, the recruitment of new soldiers has begun."

Lin Dalin stood up together and looked outside the tavern.

The crowd of the brigade came from all directions, there were middle-aged men among the homeless people living in the east of the town, and there were also men who came from as far away as Jianzhou, and the standard requirement for martial arts was over eighteen years old, and the upper was not more than thirty-five years old, so most of the people who came over were strong men in their twenties to thirty years old.

The height standard was five feet three inches last time, that is, the height required to be more than one meter six or five, and according to the standard of the Great Wei Forbidden Army, it was actually relaxed.

Wei Juncaiyong, that is, the forbidden army, the standard height needs to be five feet five inches, that is, more than one meter seventy-two, most of the forbidden army is recruited in the north or Jianghuai, and it is not too difficult to be one meter seventy-two tall, if you don't even have this height, it means that you have too little nutrition when you were a child and teenager, and most of your strength is not enough.

There must be a strong man among the short ones, but in terms of odds, they are not as likely as the tall ones.

In the period of Wuzong, there were Japanese people in the south of the country, and there were repeated invasions of the northern captives in the north, Wuzong led many large-scale wars against the north, and the standard for recruiting the forbidden army was slightly relaxed, but the minimum standard was still at five feet three inches, and later in the Wenzong period, the scale of the war was reduced, and the standard of the forbidden army was restored to five feet five inches.

In the founding years of Taizu, those who first joined the camp less than five feet three inches were not paid military salaries, only military robes and weapons and meals were issued, which was already considered good governance, and it was a chance to give the poor people who had no food and clothing to have a full meal, but did not expect these short and thin men to serve as the main force of the battle array.

During the reign of Renzong and Xuanzong, the country was strong, the financial resources were sufficient, the forbidden army was well paid, and the treatment was generous.

In other words, every Great Wei crossbowman holding a divine arm bow must be more than one meter eight tall.

This is quite an astonishing record, Xu Zixian couldn't believe it when he looked at the history of the dynasty before this, a million forbidden troops, at least a hundred thousand crossbowmen, all of them were 1.8 meters tall and strong men? Even in later generations, under the premise of adequate nutrition, the average height of the army is only one meter seven, there are some poor and small countries, the height of the soldiers in the army is terrifying, and there are many soldiers who are more than one meter and a half, and the Wei army is at the forefront of the times.

Later, Xu Zixian learned that the crossbowman not only requires the waist strength and arm strength of the divine arm crossbow, but also requires a large body length and strength, so the forbidden army's standard for the crossbowman has been raised, one is based on national strength, and the other is really needed.

As far as national strength is concerned, it is indeed not too difficult to select more than 100,000 tall and strong men from the north to the south of the Yangtze River.

In this era, being a soldier is not a compulsory soldier, when you are discharged from the army in three or two years, once you become a soldier, most of them are lifelong, and it is not a group of 100,000 1.8 strong men every few years, even if you can't afford to change it with the population base of Wei.

Fujian Road is more special here, the average height of Fujian people is the same as that of Liangguang people, as well as Guizhou people, in the Wei more than 20 roads are considered to be short, the tall ones are Hebei Road, Shandong Road, Qinfeng Road, Yongxing Military Road, the second point is Henan Road, Huaidong, Huaixi, and another point is Jiangnan, Liangzhejiang, Jinghu, and the most important is Fujian, Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road.

Since there are not many tall and strong men, the last conscription, the standard was five feet three inches, and the height was more than one meter six and five.

In the era of cold weapons, a group of tall people held a long man, and a group of short people held a long man, and the power was too far apart.

This time it was completely different.

The standard line is five feet five inches, and the height needs to be more than one meter seven, which is considered tall in Fujian, but among the walking crowds, there are also many people who are more than one meter seven and five, and there are quite a lot of strong men above one meter eight walking in the crowd, which is quite eye-catching.

The most eye-catching is a very tall strong man, obviously taller than ordinary people, seems to be nearly two meters tall, the muscles on his body are coiled, strong as a bear, when walking on the road, his eyes are wide-eyed, and the onlookers are running fast to dodge.

"This time the martial arts are really good......" Lin Da is only in his early seventies, and he is not too short, but he still feels a lot of pressure in front of these new martial artists.

"Tall people don't necessarily have perseverance." Lin Er said with a smile: "This is what the adults said, when training, most of the people who can endure hardships are short people, and when they start fighting, the real strength is the soldiers of medium stature, and the body comes over, and the toughness is not enough during training, and they can't suffer too much, and when they fight, they are really arrow targets......

Although there is a sour taste in the words, what is said is also close to the truth, and it is indeed true, a strong man like a big dog bear, I am afraid that he is the most conspicuous in the battle array, and the archer does not greet him but greets whom?

"But the big man is tall and strong, so he still takes advantage of it after all."

"It's natural, but after all, you have to pass the recruit training level."

"There's still a literacy level in the future."

Literacy classes have been put on the agenda, and in the past, only military officers participated, but now all soldiers who are interested in improving their careers can sign up, and in the future, all military officers will have to participate in literacy classes.

Listening to history books, talking about loyalty, understanding the general trend, understanding reason, not reasoning, loyalty and righteousness, and Huayi, these things did not fall from the sky.

In addition to loyalty, it is also necessary to read history books and military books, and each soldier may not be able to be a general, but those who can read and write will have a significant improvement in their ability to receive information, which is also the foundation of a strong army.

For ordinary soldiers, it is easy to listen to stories, but it is difficult to read and write.

Fortunately, it is divided into literacy classes, intermediate, advanced and other literacy classes, and ordinary military soldiers can be literate and read newspapers, even if it is successful.

Even so, Lin Da and the others regarded it as a bitter matter, but fortunately, they had already laid some foundations, and when they mentioned this matter, they couldn't help but feel a little gloating.

A large number of sturdy men began to line up in front of the camp gate, and as soon as Xu Zi came back, he didn't care about anything else, and first carried out the major event of recruiting military soldiers, which also fully illustrates the importance of regimental training as in the past, not as many people judged, since there is a position of Qizhou defense envoy and Shangzhai commander, it may be dominated by Qizhou.

Nan'anhou's performance made Nan'an's regiment feel at ease, and the morale was invisibly much higher.

Many old soldiers, including the Lin brothers, rushed to the camp to watch the excitement.

At this time, people knew that there were many newcomers left in this recruitment, and the public statement above was that there were many applicants, and it was not good to chill the hearts of everyone, leaving more than 3,000 people, and eliminating some of them with strict training.

"Set up another cavalry of the capital, and two battalions of water battalions, and there will be 11,200 people, leaving more than 3,000 people......"

Luo Fangbo was also mixed in the crowd, he posted a post as a Lanfang person to ask to see, Xu Zixian was entangled in many important matters, of course he would not meet a foreign businessman for a while, Luo Fangbo was not in a hurry, he came from thousands of miles across the ocean, and he didn't care about delaying these few days.

This recruitment is also a novel perspective for Luo Fangbo, Lanfang has been in the country for more than a hundred years, both military and political are rotten, the army has tens of thousands of people, most of them are ordinary sea sailors, and the recruitment is quite arbitrary, there are a large number of families in the country, and many armies are like private soldiers, even the lord of the country cannot be transferred and used at will.

Luo Fangbo still has a vision, he has seen the old warriors trained by the Nan'an regiment before, and he knows that it is a rare elite, which makes him a little more serious about cooperating with Xu Zixian, and then looking at the recruitment of new pawns this time, the whole process makes Luo Fangbo sigh, surprised, and then admired.

Orderly, in the details, thousands of people poured over, and the dispatch was not chaotic at all, Luo Fangbo knew that not only his own Lan Fangguo could not do it, but also the Three Buddhas, and the full thorns and thorns could not be done.

There are also celestial mercenaries in Manthorn Plus, tall and strong, all blue-eyed, all eyes are above the top, using scimitars made of stainless steel, brave and brave, not afraid of death, whether it is the Three Buddhas or Lanfang and other countries, they have been beaten by the heavenly mercenaries of Manthorn Plus.

At first, he thought that the Tianfang people were too strong, but now it seems that if Luo Fangbo has realized, he is still too weak.

But after thinking about it, it seems that the Great Wei Forbidden Army does not have such a scene as the Nan'an regiment training now, and Xu Zixian is different from ordinary people.

"Or the turning point of my Lan Fangguo should be on this person." Luo Fangbo finally had someone around him who admired him.