"Oh, you are a prank, quickly return the old man's braids, alas!"

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There was such a scene on the street of Chengdu City: an old man was walking in front, and a young man jumped out from behind, holding a pair of scissors in his hand, aiming at the direction of the old man's head, and the head was cut off... Wrong... It was the braid on the back of the head that was cut off, and the splash ran away excitedly with the cut braid, and the old man covered his head and chased after him, but he couldn't catch up, so he could only sigh.

After a while, Splashy came to a place where there were several long queues, and soon, the braid in Splashy's hand turned into a five-pound bag of rice, and Splashy left excitedly with the rice, his eyes swept around from time to time, perhaps looking for the person with the pigtail on his head ready to start.

On the third day of the occupation of Siqi Province by the Yan clan, the governments of Siqi Province issued orders to cut off the ugly braid that symbolized the Manchu slaves at the back of their heads.

However, there must be many people who are unwilling to cut off this braid that has accompanied them for many years, so the policy of reducing braids for rice has emerged, as long as the braids are cut, you can go to the designated positions of governments at all levels to find staff to exchange five catties of rice.

(There are more than 40 million people in Siqi Province, men and women are half, excluding some children, there will also be nearly 20 million braids, one braid for five catties of rice, 20 million braids are equivalent to 25,000 tons of rice, that is, 400,000 stones, one stone of rice is about three taels of silver, and Yan needs to spend 1.2 million taels of silver just to cut the braids.) ）

Sure enough, after the policy of reducing braids for rice appeared, many people cut the braids that were in the way and got the corresponding position in exchange for a bag of rice, but there are still many people who are unwilling to cut their braids, especially those who are older and those with better family backgrounds.

However, the policy of reducing braids for rice allows the pranksters to find a chance to make a fortune, because it does not say that you must exchange your own braids for rice, and you can exchange them for rice if you take other people's braids?

So one by one splashes took a pair of scissors to the street, and saw who had a braid hanging from the back of their head, so they quietly touched forward, clicked the scissors, cut off the braid and quickly fled, and took the braid to change the rice, and for a while people who were unwilling to cut the braid did not dare to leave the house, even if they left the house, they had to take care of their braids, don't accidentally be cut by the splash.

Of course, he is not stupid, he will not look for those who are physically stronger than himself, but for older or younger people, so that he can escape smoothly by cutting off his braids, and if he cuts the braids of strong people, not to mention that he can't get his hands on the braids, he may be beaten.

In this way, at the end of the day, the powerful splashes in Chengdu can get hundreds of catties of rice, and the unlucky ones can also get dozens of catties of rice, so that the splashes in the entire Chengdu City have made a small profit, and the same is true for the splashes in Siqi Province.

The staff of each city don't care about those, as long as someone takes braids to exchange for rice, they will be changed directly, who cares who owns the braids, as long as the braid-cutting order can be implemented, sooner or later the braids all over the city will disappear.

In addition to the braid-cutting order, there is also an important task, that is, the Han army conscription, along with the police station to recruit a group of auxiliary police, to assist in maintaining law and order in various places, the original auxiliary police (Yan's hired workers) still need to work, can not always act as an auxiliary police, said that on the third day, the city gates of each city in Siqi Province will be opened, allowing people to enter and leave the city at will, and many wealthy people are ready to leave Siqi.

The simplest requirement for conscription is that you have to cut off the braids on your head, and if you have a braid on your head, there will be no further screening at all.

The second step of screening is to select people who want to become soldiers based on their age, height, physique and other data.

The Han army recruited 20,000 soldiers this time, and planned to double the number of Han troops, and the police stations in various places will also recruit a total of 10,000 auxiliary police.

Although the recruitment requirements are very high, it also attracts countless people to sign up, and the main reason for this is the high monthly salary of soldiers and auxiliary police.

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the salaries of the green battalion soldiers were divided into three classes: horse soldiers, literacy and literacy were two taels of silver per month, one tael of silver per month for war soldiers, and one tael of silver per month for the guards, all of which were three buckets of rice per month.

The Han army recruited soldiers, as long as they could be recruited, they would be given ten taels of silver to settle in, two taels per month during the recruit period, three taels per month after becoming regular, and at least five taels per month after being a soldier for one year, and more for officers and soldiers.

As for the salary of the auxiliary police, it is not as high as that of the soldiers of the Han army, and the salary of becoming an auxiliary police officer is only one or two or five dollars a month, but compared with the Han army, the auxiliary police do not need to fight the enemy, and mainly maintain public order.

Under the temptation of high wages, a large number of men went to various recruitment locations to sign up to see if they could be selected.

Don't think that no one will sign up, the reason is very simple, in this era, there are many people who don't have enough to eat, a job can feed the whole family, there will be a lot of people rushing to do it, not to mention the work of soldiers and auxiliary police who can not only feed their families but also dress warmly, even if it is life-threatening, in order to be full and warm, then they have to fight.

It didn't take a day for all parts of the province to recruit enough personnel, and even more than a few, the Han army recruited 21,000 recruits, and the auxiliary police were close to 11,000.

The training of recruits and auxiliary police officers cannot be compared with the previous time in Yuanhe City, where there are places for training recruits and policemen, but now recruits recruits and auxiliary police officers separately in various parts of the four provinces, and can only be trained by the local Han army and police themselves.

The auxiliary police are good to say, after all, they only train the auxiliary police and not the police, and in the end, the auxiliary police are equipped with large knives, not police rifles and pistols, so the training of the auxiliary police is relatively simple, as long as they are trained to abide by discipline first, and then take a big knife, they can become an auxiliary police.

Han army recruits are more troublesome, a Han army recruit has to train for at least three months to become a full-fledged soldier, and then a veteran has to take it for a while.

Now it is expected that in a month at most, the Han army will have a battle with the Manchu officers and soldiers in the surrounding provinces of Siqi Province, and the recruits will definitely not be able to participate in the battle, at most they can only act as auxiliaries, helping to carry ammunition and the wounded on the battlefield, and it is impossible for the recruits to have much to fight in a month.

Anyway, the people have been recruited, and the training has begun, and the rest will be talked about later.

End of the third day.