In July, the Reich newspaper published its first article on the recruitment of female soldiers, in which it not only described in detail the treatment of female soldiers, but also mentioned that the recruits were to be sent to the frontier. Since this article, the "Empire" has published ten consecutive issues of articles on the recruitment of female soldiers, and the recruitment of female soldiers in the empire has officially begun. The recruitment of female soldiers began in the north.

There are not many voices in the court about the recruitment of female soldiers, after all, it is not the first time that female soldiers have been recruited, and female soldiers of the Praetorian Guard have always been recruited. The difference is that the number of female guards recruited by the people is very small, and most of the female soldiers of the Janissaries come from palace maids or orphanages, unlike this time to recruit 30,000 female soldiers from the people at a time.

"What is written in today's yamen announcement?" Seeing a group of people talking in front of the sign, a man in his forties squeezed into the crowd and asked.

"Old man Li, this announcement is related to you."

"Shen Xiucai, what does this have to do with me?" Li Laohan asked in a panic.

"Your daughter is sixteen this year, right?" Li Xiucai asked.

"What does this have to do with my daughter? Is there another palace maid to choose in the palace? Li Laohan asked.

Since the palace has been constantly releasing palace maids, so that the palace has to select women from the people to enter the palace almost every year since the twenty-seventh year of the Apocalypse, and the people have been relatively resistant to the selection of palace maids at first, but since the beginning of the apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao decreed that the palace maids have two days of rest time every month, up to 12 days in a row, and the female guards have four days of rest time every month, and they can only take 12 days off at most, and more importantly, Zhu Youxiao allows the palace maids and the female soldiers of the Praetorian Guard to apply for leaving the palace at any time after the age of twenty-five.

A series of relatively relaxed systems have made the people far less resistant to recruiting palace maids than before.

"The imperial court is to recruit female soldiers, and all unmarried women, widows, and divorcees over the age of sixteen and under the age of thirty can apply. Once elected, the imperial court not only paid a settling-in allowance of five taels of silver, but also a monthly salary of two taels of silver, and in the event of death or injury in the line of duty, they enjoyed the same treatment as male soldiers. ”

"Give so much money?!" Li Laohan said in surprise.

"Of course, this recruitment of female soldiers will be sent to Xipol, Lengzhou, Great Wilderness Dongzhou and other places, all of which are thousands of miles away from the empire, and they are all bitter cold places." Another person watching the hilarity continued.

"But the court is really giving this money, a year of silver alone has twenty-four taels, as long as the soldier for three years, the settling-in allowance does not need to be refunded, if the soldier is five years old, the court will give another ten taels of silver dollars for the settling-in fee, so calculated, after three years of soldiering, there will be eighty-two taels of silver, when five years will have one hundred and forty taels of silver, which is enough for the family to live a well-off life."

"yes!" Li Laohan was really moved.

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The wealth is moving, and Zhu Youxiao's military salary treatment can indeed make many families who have just solved the problem of food and clothing tempting. Of course, there are many people who are unmoved, and these five years of soldiers are now, and they are leftover women in this era. And Zhu Youxiao did not write out the intention behind it. On the whole, Zhu Youxiao's female soldier recruitment plan went quite smoothly, and in just three months, Zhu Youxiao recruited enough female soldiers.

After three months of simple training, in February of the 34th year of the Apocalypse, the first batch of female soldiers to Lengzhou set off.

Hearing this news, the soldiers stationed in Leng Zhou were boiling, compared to female slaves, the empire recruited female soldiers were more popular among male soldiers, and when they got married, they were all unwilling to marry female soldiers of the empire, and the female soldiers had not yet arrived in Leng Zhou, and there were even cases where male soldiers asked to marry female soldiers after leaving.

This phenomenon may not be incomprehensible in later generations, but in this era, it is a very normal thing. When Jingkang was difficult, countless noble-born women were taken captive to the Jin country, and many low-level generals among the Jin soldiers who went out with the army were assigned female prisoners, and many of them were sold after playing with these female prisoners, and for a while, the Qinglou was filled with many female prisoners from the Song Dynasty, and a blacksmith was recorded in the book at that time, "buying a woman with eight gold, in fact, she was the daughter and grandson of the prince, the niece of Xiangguo, and the lady of Jinshi."

Fortunately, Zhang Yan proposed to set up a new military justice department to be responsible for this matter, and there is also the military justice department of the Dadu Governor's Mansion who is personally responsible for this matter, otherwise, it will really be messed up. The second group set off for Xiboer, and only the female soldiers who went to the Great Wilderness Dongzhou stayed for the time being.

The Left Governor of the Lengzhou Military Region personally went to the port to greet the 1st Division of the Royal Women's Army. In the Lengzhou Military Region, Zuo Dudu was the highest-ranking officer, while Pi Jun was born in the second batch of new troops of the empire and was a veritable veteran.

"Admiral Lian, it's been hard all the way, you take the soldiers to rest first, and tonight I will pick up the wind and wash the dust for all the members of the first division of the female soldiers." Pi Jun said.

"There's the Governor of Laupi Zuo."

"It should be, it should be. Your Majesty! This incident is of great significance to Leng Zhou, it is simply a stroke of genius, and it can be said that it completely solves the problem of Leng Zhou immigrants. ”

Admiral Lian smiled slightly, but did not speak.

In order to welcome the first division of female soldiers, the leather army had already organized people to build a barracks near the port. Moreover, in the barracks, the Pi Army also planted a large number of flowers and trees, and even put ten koalas in the barracks.

"Wow! What is it? Someone saw the koala and exclaimed.

Although the empire occupied Leng Zhou, the koala was the first time to see this animal, which made many female soldiers feel very new.

"This is a koala?" Even the Admiral asked in surprise.

"Exactly, if even the governor likes it, he can bring a few back to the empire when the time comes."

"I met once when I was in the palace." Then Lian Du Du shook his head and said, "Forget it, if you bring it back to the empire, it will be difficult to feed." ”

"It's hard to feed in the Empire, but there's a lot of it here, and it's everywhere. The scenery of Leng Zhou is very different from the Empire, and if the Governor of Liandu had time to take the soldiers around, maybe the soldiers would like it. ”

"Well, it will." Admiral Lian nodded.

"Governor Lian, when do you think the soldiers will be arranged?" Admiral Pi asked.

"I am on the orders of the queen, this matter cannot be rushed, let alone simple and rude, everything is based on the principle of mutual consent." Even the Governor emphasized.

"Of course, everything is subject to the queen's will, but the situation in Leng Zhou is special, and I ask Admiral Lian to arrange it as soon as possible."

……

In the evening, the Pi army held a grand welcome banquet, at which only a few high-ranking officers of the garrison of Lengzhou participated. As for when to arrange a blind date, this matter has to be arranged by Admiral Lian.

(End of chapter)