Chapter 30 Recruitment
"Okay, then please show me your kung fu. As long as you meet the conditions, then so-and-so will admit you. Liu Jun smiled and waved his hand and asked them to go to the test.
There is no need to test age and height, these monks are young and strong, with bald heads, but they are all strong, their height is basically more than 1.7 meters, and the warrior monks who practice martial arts all year round are indeed different.
The third level tests the strength, and there is no problem.
Under the gaze of countless onlookers, the eight monks stepped forward in turn, and they did not lift the stone lock, but walked directly to the two-hundred-pound Qinglong Yanyue Knife.
This iron-cast broadsword borrowed from the Guan Gong Temple was extremely heavy.
However, several monks who stepped forward in turn danced like flying, lifting weights lightly, and even really danced a set of knife techniques. This is the most beautiful performance in this level since today's recruitment, and it was immediately greeted with a group of applause from onlookers.
Liu Jun was also surprised, he didn't expect this group of monks to be really not simple. Two hundred catties of big knives, he can only barely play with them, but this group of monks danced with a knife, but their faces were not red and sweaty, and their strength was really great.
"Beautiful, mages with divine power."
The leading monk looked calm, "Please lead the horse." ”
"Wang Qian, lead the horse over."
Wang Qian and the others led their mounts over, eight tall healthy horses lined up, and eight monks stepped forward to take the reins. Then they got on the horse in a uniform manner, and the movements were skillful and amazing. The eight horses were extremely tame, and they did not cooperate with him, and did not resist in the slightest.
"Drive!" Eight bald monks dressed in monk's robes rode big horses, and began to trot in the encircled field, and even a few came to hide in a kick from time to time, and one guy even stood directly on the saddle, with his hands open, and he didn't even control the reins.
This wonderful riding skill immediately ushered in a wave of louder applause, and Liu Jun's eyes lit up. He didn't have such riding skills himself.
He looked at Li Zhen, the head of Li Chunjiang next to him, "How is it?" ”
Li Zhen smacked his lips, "If you don't have seven or eight years of skills, you can't do this." ”
Professional people are so sure that there is naturally no problem with this horseback riding assessment, and in this item, Liu Jun personally scored and gave the monks the highest score.
"How many mages?"
"No desire, no self, no heart, no thought, no action, no evil, no color, no emptiness."
Liu Jun, who was carrying a pen, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "Good name." ”
The last test is ejaculation.
Ten bows were placed on the field, ranging from bows of five forces to bows of fifteen forces.
This time, the monks did not directly choose a bow with fifteen forces, they stepped forward in turn, and they all chose a bow with ten forces, which is commonly known as a stone bow.
This is already equivalent to more than a hundred pounds of pulling force, and Liu Jun himself uses this kind of bow.
Eight unmarked monks stepped forward in turn, first riding and shooting, and then shooting on foot.
Twenty-five paces of riding and eighty paces of footing. Each shoots ten arrows, and basically you can shoot more than seven out of ten. This is a very beautiful result. And these monks are also literate, they are all orphans, grew up in the temple since childhood, received training as a warrior monk since childhood, and at the same time chanting scriptures and practicing Buddhism is also a necessary homework, so in addition to having a good martial arts, they are all considered cultural people.
Liu Jun sighed in his heart, if it weren't for them being a group of monks, they would really be a group of perfect recruits. However, monks are not a problem.
It can be said that the recruitment of these eight monks on this day is the biggest gain, and in the end, they were recruited for half a day one after another. But there is no monk as good as a few monks. But in the end, the tallest of the shorter ones was selected, and twenty more were chosen.
Among them, there are more than a dozen hunters, all of whom are from the mountainous areas in the north of Macheng, where they are poor because of the mountainous areas, and they mainly live by hunting, and many of them are good hunters, shoot good arrows, and set traps. Liu Jun carefully selected more than a dozen of the best archery skills from these hunters, and at the same time, they were young, tall and strong, and had great strength.
The rest picked a few good horsemen, these were originally post men, and their equestrian skills were good. In the early years, the post station was cut, there was no livelihood, and it was not good to do odd jobs, but this time it can be regarded as earning a good job with a skill.
In the end, several craftsmen were recruited, including veterinarians and surgeons, as well as blacksmiths, carpenters, cooks, grooms, etc., who were considered logisticians.
Liu Jun finally took the roster and looked at it, and today a total of 40 township warriors were recruited, and there were 10 logistics personnel. Including Liu Jun's twelve brothers, as well as Li Chunjiang's eight family members, their horse team is initially recruited, seventy team members, plus Li Chunjiang and Liu Jun, a total of seventy-two people.
"Give everyone steamed buns, everyone has a share, two steamed buns and two steamed buns per person." Li Chunjiang finally rushed over from home at this time, and brought a few truckloads of freshly made steamed buns. In addition, pots and stoves were also brought in, and stoves and pots began to be built on the spot, and white porridge and egg soup were distributed.
"A total of forty people were recruited today." Liu Jun handed the recruitment roster to Li Chunjiang.
Li Chunjiang looked at it, beckoned his head and looked at the forty newly recruited villagers sitting under the willow tree over there, and was a little surprised to see a few of them with bright bald heads and those few monk robes, and then saw Liu Jun explain in detail the assessment results of the eight monks in the recruitment book, and did not say anything.
"Do you want to continue to recruit again tomorrow, and then recruit a hundred people first?" Li Chunjiang asked. In Li Chunjiang's opinion, forty people are too few, as for his family and Liu Jun's brothers, he is not counted in the village Yong, these people, in his opinion, should be regarded as a two-person family team.
Liu Jun shook his head, "I think it's enough to recruit so many for the time being." First, almost all the suitable ones have been recruited today, and if they are recruited, they may not be able to recruit any more suitable soldiers. Second, there are not many soldiers, so we will recruit these first, and after training, it will not be too late to recruit more. There are too many recruits, and it is not easy to bring, and the cost of more soldiers is large, and the Anjiayin alone is not a small number, besides, we can't only recruit soldiers, and we have to pay for recruiting soldiers, and we also have to buy horses and weapons, which is a big head. ”
They are a township regiment, so they have no imperial salary, and Liu Jun doesn't want to recruit soldiers but has no money to buy equipment.
"You don't have to worry about this, I'll take care of the money, and the horses and ordnance won't be a problem." Li Chunjiang was very calm, "But since you think it's okay to recruit so many first, then listen to you." ”
"The Li family will hold a banquet tonight, and we will invite all the squires, famous landlords, and wealthy businessmen in Macheng to come, and we have to make an appearance tonight. I brought a thousand taels of silver, you first give you the money to settle down, and then send a month's salary first, and then give them a new set of clothes in the ready-to-wear shop. ”
The Li family has a banquet? Liu Jun's mind turned, and at this time he had almost thought of some possibilities, "Gongji, are you planning to ask Uncle Ling to come forward and raise money for us?" ”
Li Chunjiang smiled lightly, "We set up a township regiment horse team, this is also to ensure the safety of one party, how can we contribute both effort and money, of course, we have to have money to contribute, and we have to make a strong contribution." Don't worry, when the banquet is over tonight, we won't have to worry about the money for the army. ”
Liu Jun felt that things would not be so simple.
I think that in history, Emperor Chongzhen later wanted to transfer the Guanning army into the Weijing Division, but he needed a salary of one million taels to mobilize the Guanning army. Then the treasury ran out of money, so Chongzhen asked the court officials to donate silver, and drew up a list, pledging two taels of silver according to the size of the official position, wanting to make up enough one million to transfer the Guan Ning army into Beijing.
As a result, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty could pretend to be poorer than the other, and Chongzhen asked him to donate 50,000 yuan, but he donated 500, and even donated 100 or 50, and in the end he couldn't make up the money at all.
Now if you want these gentry in Macheng to pay, I'm afraid it won't be so easy.