"What? Soldier? ”

"Am you not mistaken? Let us be soldiers? ”

"That is, is there no one in Datang? How did you let us go to the army? Besides, if we become soldiers, who will build this railway? ”

"Didn't you say that the North Korean side had already ended? Why would you let us be soldiers? ”

An inquiry caused a lot of confusion on three railway construction sites in Datang.

In fact, chaos is inevitable, and the reason is very simple.

Datang has long changed to a professional soldier system, professional soldiers, which means that the requirements for soldiers are extremely high, although regardless of their background, but there are still the minimum requirements.

For example, the first restriction is age, and the army only recruits those who are between the ages of 18 and 25 years old as recruits.

In addition, physical strength, physical and other conditions must be assessed, and only after all of them are met can they have the qualifications for preliminary enlistment.

Of course, there are benefits to being a soldier, eating well, wearing well, earning more, and the army's high salary is more than what they earn for a year of hard work on the construction site, and the children of direct parents can also go to school for free, how much money can be saved?

The young people of the Tang Dynasty, the young people who echoed the request, there were not ten million but five or six million, and the Tang Army after the expansion was only just over a million, so how do you think that it will be their turn to enlist in the army.

Therefore, people's hearts are complicated, and when there are more people involved, the whole thing will be even more chaotic if you say what you say to me.

In the end, this matter has completely changed its taste, and it has become that the front line is too miserable, and the recruits cannot be replenished, and they need to be enlisted to fight on the front line, etc.

Originally, it was just to get a preliminary understanding of the workers' thoughts, but in the end, the officials sent by the Ministry of War had to come forward to give a detailed explanation.

As the person in charge of a construction site, Qu Tuquan naturally came to inquire.

Although his people are only responsible for the construction of the station, but in the same way, the track in the station still needs to be laid by them, but the final docking belongs to others, which involves issues such as track change, so it is more conducive to the unification of technology when put together with the construction of the station.

"It shouldn't be what it says it is out there now, right?" Facing the officials of the Ministry of War, Qu Tuquan asked calmly.

Anyway, he was also born in a family of eunuchs, his father was a military general, and later became a civil minister, in this regard, Qu Tuquan was not less edified, although he did not embark on that road in the end, but this did not affect his judgment.

"The old man hasn't heard of any wars going on recently, even if it's as said outside, the imperial court doesn't need to recruit these people who obviously don't meet the requirements, the soldiers who retired in previous years only need to be called back, and they can be formed immediately after a few months of training, no matter what, the combat effectiveness is stronger than these people." Qu Tuquan continued.

Although there is some contempt for these workers, this is the way it is.

On building railways and stations, a worker can be a few soldiers, but when it comes to fighting a war, a soldier can be a few workers, or even a dozen workers.

No one looks down on anyone, it's just that there is a specialization in the art industry, and their specialty is not in that aspect.

"It's really not like that, but this inquiry is indeed to prepare for their enlistment, if nothing else, in the first half of the year." The officer of the military department nodded with a heavy face, but judging from the current situation, the effect is not ideal.

Although no one explicitly refused, the words that were said outside now basically had already seen the meaning.

After hesitating again and again, I decided to tell Qu Tuquan about some of the details, but fortunately, Qu Tuquan could not be completely regarded as an outsider, and it was not necessarily a bad thing to tell him that he was admonishing.

"In fact, when these people are recruited into the army, they still go to build railways, but the places where they are built are different. The hinterland of the Tang Dynasty can be built by these people, and it is closer to home, plus the buildings near the water are first available for the month, and every time they celebrate the New Year, they can still go home or something. It is said that this situation is because of the construction of railways in some remote areas, and it is obviously impossible to go home once a year to build railways there, and in order to make it easier to manage, these workers will be allowed to enlist in the army, which is formed according to the treatment of Class B troops, but it is different from Class B troops.

Only the treatment of the B-level troops is adopted, but the establishment is not too certain at present, and the only thing that can be affirmed is that it is expected to form a corps of 200,000 people, and these people all belong to this corps.

In addition, experienced team leaders, technicians, can be awarded the corresponding military rank, in addition, as mentioned above, if you also want to participate, you can be directly appointed as a division commander. The military officer said.

The above is indeed what he said, but this was not said by Li Yuanji, but by Cheng Zhijie.

Although he is about to step down as the secretary of the Ministry of War, Cheng Zhijie is not ambiguous at all in this regard.

His relationship with Qu Tutong is not far or close, but he admires Qu Tutong very much, and the performance of his two sons in the future has also been recognized by most of the imperial court.

At present, Qu Tuquan manages an engineering team of about 2,000 people, which is the largest number in a single engineering team.

There is no problem with management experience, there is experience in building stations, there is experience in laying railroad crossings, and as for laying rails in the middle, you can transfer a few people.

The reason why he was directly given the division commander is that his identity is only one of them, and more importantly, there is no talent in this area who can use it.

This corps is not like an army, it can be promoted and led from other old troops, and it can be directly expanded, there are no old troops here, everything is started from scratch.

Therefore, Qu Tuquan's experience is what Cheng Zhijie values the most.

Qu Tuquan was silent, he has done a lot of work in this aspect of architecture, if it is said to be a scholar, Li Yuanji said this a few years ago, as long as he nodded, he could be an official directly, but he had indeed broken off the idea of entering the office, so he would calm down to do this.

But now, a corps of 200,000 people, this is not a trivial matter, and the army does not seem to have much experience in this area.

"The old man needs to discuss it with his family, but rest assured, no matter what the old man's final decision is, he will try his best to persuade the workers who are in favor of the conditions to participate." Qu Tuquan finally responded.

This is not a trivial matter, nor can it be decided with a pat on the ass, once the nod agrees, the pattern of the entire Qu Tu family will change again, and he has to discuss it with his eldest brother to decide, and choosing this means that the current financial road is gone, and it took so many years of hard work to get out, and it was lost in a blink of an eye?

It was a headache to choose, but deep down, he wanted to say yes.