The people on the street, everyone's face has a trace of rigor, as if anxious, as if helpless.

The defeat of the country, but the final bitter fruit fell on the heads of all the people, they must pay for the failure of the country, but they can only accept it helplessly, but are powerless to resist.

The tax of three taels of silver per household shall be paid in one year, and all the taxes can be paid at one time, and those who exceed one year shall be levied at four taels per household if they are less than two years, and those who are more than two years old shall be levied at the rate of five taels per household.

Different policies have been introduced in various places, and even the three eastern provinces and regions, the nest of the Manchu court, have not been spared, and they still cannot escape the fate of taxes.

Compared with other places, the three eastern provinces seem to be somewhat lucky.

The richest region of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the whole country, their tax ratio will exceed that of all provinces in the country, and unlike other places, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are levied according to the number of people, adults each have one tael of silver, and children under the age of sixteen, regardless of men and women, each person has half a tael of silver.

And the richest region in the country, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, just because of a name, they have to spend twice or even twice as much as other provinces.

Comparatively speaking, the people here are not actually wealthy, at most they belong to the type that does not have enough to eat, but they also do not starve to death.

Such a heavy tax has also made people across the country a little difficult.

Because the taxes of the Qing court are not only so much, this so-called tax is only used as war reparations, and some other normal taxes, they still have to pay as usual.

"My lord, you can accept me, if you don't accept me, our family will have to wait for death." A middle-aged man pleaded bitterly with several soldiers in camouflage uniforms in front of him.

It is said that it is a camouflage military uniform, but the actual effect is very unsatisfactory, because of industrial technology and materials, so the final dyeing is a failure.

The early samples have basically been scrapped, and the four-color camouflage uniform looks more like a monster, and even many colors have overlapped and mixed into other colors.

In the end, in desperation, Wang Sirui had no choice but to let the Qiao family and the Qiu family change their strategy, changing the color of the cloth to earthy yellow, a single color will not be too complicated, and the processing speed is also very fast, which can basically meet the current needs.

And those failed test items, they were not wasted, but were made into thousands of military uniforms, which were distributed to some logistics units or non-combat units for use.

For example, the baggage brigades, the instructors of the boot camps, etc., and, of course, the recruited officers and soldiers, who are also dressed in these failed test pieces.

"Your physical condition does not meet our recruitment requirements, so I'm sorry, you can't pass our review, please cooperate with our work, don't block the applicants behind." An officer told the middle-aged man in a calm tone why he didn't accept him.

A large number of recruits come to sign up for the army every day, and the reason why so many recruits sign up is actually due to Wang Sirui's move of sharing the compensation equally.

The large amount of indemnity made it impossible for the people to serve at all, and they did not know where to find so much money to hand over to the state. In particular, the Gyeonggi region is second only to the Jiangsu-Zhejiang region in terms of taxes.

And just when everyone shook their heads helplessly, suddenly someone came to the capital that they were recruiting, and they could get two taels of silver every month, and the further they went, the higher the military salary they could get.

Desperate people can only try to come and sign up for the army.

However, what they didn't expect was that the recruitment of recruits was not only in the capital, in fact, in the Gyeonggi area, but in every county in the area that Wang Sirui actually controlled, there was a recruitment point in every county.

And this scene happened in Baoding County, not far from the capital.

"How is this not up to the mark? Although my eyes are not very good, my ears and nose are very good, I can hear small movements from dozens of meters away, and I can smell the smell of meat from hundreds of meters away. When the middle-aged man heard that it was because of his own eye problems, he was a little excited and defended himself, he really couldn't imagine that once he was not able to be accepted by them, what would happen to the taxes in that family?

"Alas, if you don't accept you, in fact, this is also for your own good, your eyes can't meet the requirements, and when you reach the army, you won't be able to see the target, and if you can't see the target, you will naturally not be able to hit the target, and you can't even hit the target, can you still hit the enemy on the battlefield? Moreover, your eyes are not good, and if the enemy sneaks up on the battlefield, and you happen to be the only post, you are not able to detect the enemy, will not you affect the whole army? Sometimes it's good to want to make money, but you also need to take into account your own situation, and you can't let other fighters lose their lives because I opened this back door for you. The officer in charge of recruiting patiently persuaded him.

"Sir, I can hear with my ears and smell with my nose, and in the night, if there is the slightest movement, I can hear it clearly, and I can know where it is coming from. Really, I don't believe we can give it a try, if I tell a lie, then there will be five thunderstorms in the sky, and I will not die! The middle-aged man seemed to be a little anxious.

The young officer shook his head secretly, I am afraid that it will not make sense to reason with these people, he had only given examples before, but he was clung to by this middle-aged man as a life-saving straw.

Being a soldier is not only about standing guard, fighting is the duty of a soldier, and what can a soldier with a pair of eyes do on the battlefield? At least, he didn't dare to imagine.

Peng Dafei is a company commander, this time with his company was ordered to Baoding to recruit new soldiers, the task given to him above is 2,000 people, for a Baoding county, recruiting 2,000 people is not a problem.

Because Baoding is now a big place, the only way to enter Beijing from the south, there are many small villages nearby.

After the recruitment of 2,000 people was completed, Peng Dafei left 500 people to continue to conduct assault training for these recruits on the spot, and the remaining 1,500 people needed to be taken away by the new regiment that returned to Beijing from the south and went to the vicinity of the capital for training.

That is to say, if nothing else, the troops of this battalion under Peng Dafei will be the garrison of Baoding in the future, and Peng Dafei was promoted to battalion commander and concurrently served as the commander of the Baoding garrison.

And any officer was issued a set of strict recruitment requirements before coming, but those who did not meet the requirements were not allowed to recruit.

The Han army, which is famous for its military discipline, how could anyone open the back door because of this? Once this middle-aged man arrives on the battlefield or is found to have a problem in the training camp, he will be held accountable at that time, and he Peng Dafei will still not be able to escape.

And tomorrow the new regiment from the south and north will arrive in Baoding, where they will rest for two hours, and take away 1,500 recruits at the same time, and Peng Dafei only has about 100 places left in his hands, and these 100 or so people are only a short time for him.

Peng Dafei came to Baoding four days ago, and it took a day to settle down, so the time to really recruit soldiers was only three days.

In the end, the middle-aged man was still not selected, so he could only leave the recruitment point with regret, after all, he was facing all the soldiers, and his attitude did not dare to be too tough, people refused to accept it, and he could only say all the good things, but now, what can he do? Maybe for him, he can only go home and wait for death.

At noon the next day, a new regiment from the south to the north arrived in Baoding an hour later than scheduled, in this era when transportation was basically relied on, an hour in the evening was not a big deal, but in the eyes of the Han army, it was a very serious problem.

"Lao Peng, are you ready?" An officer saw Peng Dafei, who was in charge of recruiting troops in Baoding, outside Baoding City, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"It's been prepared for a long time, all of them are the best of the best, and the rest of the crooked melons and cracked dates are left. Let's go, go into town for a meal, drink a drink and take a break. Peng Dafei greeted him with a smile.

"You kid, don't cheat and trick Lao Tzu here, if I find out that you dare to do something in this batch of soldiers, you can stay here in the future." The officer said.

"Don't, battalion commander, you said that you threw my company here in our battalion, am I wronged?" Peng Dafei was more or less dissatisfied.

According to Wang Sirui's plan, each battalion needed to keep one of the highest-quality companies and assign them to various county towns to serve as garrisons there and train new recruits. Of course, in return, these companies will be expanded into battalions.

It's just that, in addition to those who remain, those who are not left behind will also be expanded into battalion-level units. This large-scale replenishment of new recruits also made many people secretly pinch a cold sweat, for fear that these recruits would affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, but the above did not listen.

"Okay, the grievances won't be wronged for too long, I believe that there will be actions from above soon, you have to be prepared here, practice your gang of raw melons and eggs, don't wait for the opportunity to squander." The officer said.

At this time, Peng Dafei also found that the scale of the recruit regiment outside the city seemed to be larger than he imagined, and he not only frowned when he thought of the battalion commander's words.

"Battalion commander, I see that your recruit almost has a brigade, right?"

"It's almost, but we can only leave one regiment of people, and the rest will be given to those troops in the capital."

"Whatever, as long as we have it, battalion commander, let's go into the city."

"No, there was a delay on the road for an hour, and we have to rush back on the way after, and the troops will continue to set off after an hour's rest, so let's take advantage of this time to hand over the work of the recruits." Speaking of this, the officer took two steps forward slightly, and continued in a low voice: "The regiment commander told me that this time we are very likely to go directly to Lu Long's side for training, the little devil has been a little dishonest recently, I'm afraid that in half a year at the latest, we will have to fight again." ”

PS: Thank you for your support from T5 land! (To be continued.) )