The surveying and mapping performed by the students impressed all the young people who came to apply. As some country children, they have seen very little of the world, and any new thing can arouse their infinite reverie. Everyone hopes that they can become like those students, and take a photo with a little play, and you will know how far apart the two things are in the distance. This kind of skill is something that even the most learned master in the township can't do, and if you can master it and return to the township in the future, what a beautiful scenery it will be.

After Hao Tong announced the discipline, the next step was to accept the registration, and then screen the applicants.

Conscription, as the name suggests, is a system of voluntary conscription. Recruits signed up for the army on a voluntary basis, and the imperial court paid salaries to the recruited soldiers, which was a bit of a mercenary in later generations. Of course, these soldiers are still soldiers for their own country, which is not the same as the nature of mercenaries who fight purely for money.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, after the conscripts were selected to enlist in the army, the government would give him a placement fee of 3 taels of silver for him to settle his family. In addition, a military salary of 1 tael and 5 yuan of silver was paid every month, but this money also included the money for the soldiers' meals, and the army did not provide additional food.

Under normal circumstances, there are three situations for conscripts to join the army: first, they have no livelihood and need to find a place to eat; second, they took a fancy to the resettlement fee and military salary, and thought about saving some money from between their teeth to subsidize their family's income; The third type is those who have ideals and hope to be able to make meritorious contributions in the army and seek a career.

The young recruits who came to Su Hao's camp also included the above three types, but after watching the students' white spoon mapping performances, all the recruits had added the last idea regardless of their original ideas, that is, they wanted to learn some skills from Su Hao in order to have a better future in the future.

Su Hao arranged for Ma Yu and other students to work with Hao Tong and Deng Kui to conduct strict screening of recruiters: don't be thin, don't have a low IQ, don't have a perverse personality, don't behave badly, and don't even look too ugly, the reason is that they are afraid of causing discomfort to other soldiers.

Those recruits who were eliminated had just walked out of the gate of the barracks when they saw a middle-aged Taoist priest with a fairy wind and bones standing outside the barracks under a guise to recruit them. He was clever and recommended to the losers to dig coal in the coal kiln or work as a small worker in the glass factory. Those young people who planned to come to the army to make a living because of their family difficulties thought that since their dream of joining the army had been shattered, it would be good to be able to have another job to do, so they followed this old man named Chen Guanyu and went to work in the industry under the Su firm.

As for the fact that they finally found out that the boss of the Su family firm was also the Su Baihu in the army, and he was still under Su Hao's command after turning around, this is a later story.

The work of screening and screening took a long time, and when it was dark, 55 recruits were screened out and became soldiers of Fengnan Baihu. This number is a little different from the figure explained by Su Hao by the Jiangxi Dusi, but Su Hao said that it is better to lack than to abuse, first cultivate these 55 entrants, and then gradually recruit new entrants in the process, and finally reach the standard of 110 entries in a complete 100 households.

Tell Hao Tong and Deng Kui to group the selected soldiers, and then take them to the barracks and assign dormitories, Su Hao himself returned to the wooden room that served as a hundred official offices, sat on the Taishi chair behind the case, and gasped.

In the past three months, Su Hao has been running around, due to the increase in exercise, and the food is better than in the past, Su Hao's physical condition has greatly improved compared with the weak scholar three months ago. But Rao is like this, this whole time jumping up and down, Su Hao is still tired enough.

"Su Baihu, the soldiers' white spoon residences have been arranged, Deng Kui and I divided the soldiers into 6 small flags, and he and I each brought 3, what do you think?" Hao Tong flashed in at some point, stood in front of the case, and respectfully reported the situation to Su Hao.

Su Hao said: "You have experience in this matter, so it's up to you to decide." ”

Hao Tong said: "Okay." There is another thing that has to be reported to hundreds of households, how to arrange the white spoon dinner of the soldiers? ”

"Dinner?" The second monk Su Hao was puzzled, "The barracks are managed by you and Deng Kui, haven't you found a good cook?" ”

Hao Tong said: "Naturally, there are cooks, I just asked, how to distribute the white spoon rice to the soldiers?" ”

"Why do you want to send rice?" Su Hao was even more confused, "You can roughly calculate how much food you want to eat, and let the cook make the rice." ”

"This ...... Su Baihu, this matter in the army, I may have to explain a thing or two to you. Hao Tong said sneeringly, he saw that Su Hao really didn't know anything about the army, and it was not okay not to explain to Su Hao.

It turned out that the military rations in the army of the Ming Dynasty were to be distributed to the hands of each soldier, which was also to reflect the need for fairness. The soldiers carried their own rice, and when they wanted to eat, they either made it themselves or handed it over to the cooks to cook. In the latter case, each rice should be packed in a separate bamboo tube, and after the cook steamed the rice, he received his own bamboo tube, so as to save the phenomenon of grabbing rice to eat.

The rice distributed to the soldiers was to be counted in the soldiers' salaries, and the amount of rice distributed was to be deducted. Some soldiers have a small amount of food, or want to save money, so they can receive less rice and more silver taels in the future.

"This ...... Is this necessary? Su Hao asked depressedly, "Isn't it better for everyone to cook and eat together?" ”

Hao Tong said: "Su Baihu, you don't know, our army has always been like this. The military rations are divided according to the head, and if it is not distributed to each head, then some pot-bellied men will eat the rice of other robes, and the others will not be satisfied. If you do this, I am afraid that the army will have to fight for food. ”

"What about the dish? It's also their own speculation? Su Hao asked again.

Hao Tong said: "Where are the dishes of the soldiers? You can make some pickles and moldy tofu for your own rice. If the camp was in a smoke-dense area, the soldiers could buy some vegetables from the villagers and cook them themselves. If you go out to fight, on the battlefield, it is good to have a hot meal, what else can you eat? ”

After hearing this, Su Hao pondered for a while and said, "Hao Tong, let's do it, I can't control what the situation is in the Ming army." But in my 100-household office, everyone eats together, you go and explain to the cook, cook more rice, cook a few refreshing dishes, and ensure that every soldier can get a full spoonful of dishes. By the way, you must put more oil in the dish, and you will see the meat when you are young. ”

"Hundred households, this matter must not be allowed." Hao Tong dissuaded, "You don't know the amount of food of those soldiers, if you let them eat, the money and food allocated by the Dusi will only let them eat it all in a few years." ”

Su Hao waved his hand and said, "It's a good thing to be able to eat, and only when you can eat can you fight." They only ate a large amount of food at the beginning, and after eating for a while, there was oil and water in their stomachs, and the amount of food was small. We are cultivating scouts, and we want them to go over the mountains and mountains to draw maps, how can they do without good physical strength? ”

"However, in terms of money and food, how to solve it?" Hao Tong asked.

Su Hao asked rhetorically: "Hao Tong, we trained this army for the purpose of handing it over to your Yunnan border army in the future, didn't Mr. Tu give you another silver strip for military training?" ”

"This one is not." Hao Tong replied honestly.

Su Hao smiled: "Hehe, you don't have to be afraid, I'm just joking with you." You said that Zhang Dusi ordered 200 telescopes from us, each for 100 taels of silver, is this serious? ”

"There is no joke in the army, and Zhang Dusi will not break his word." Hao Tong said.

"When will Zhang Dusi be able to give the money?" Su Hao asked.

"Pay as you go." Hao Tong said.

Su Hao said: "That's good, your uncle's side, these aborted hired more than a dozen short-term workers, working day and night, and now they have made 5 telescopes, you will take these 5 telescopes to Nanchang tomorrow, see Zhang Dusi, and ask him to pay 500 taels of silver." The money was in place, and the money for the soldiers to eat was also available. ”

"Su Baihu, the money from the sale of telescopes, but how can the money you get privately used for public use?" Hao Tong exclaimed.

Su Hao said: "You concealed the cost of the telescope in front of Zhang Dusi for me, and I should give you a commission." However, this commission cannot be paid to you, only to General Deng. Now I take Mr. Deng's money to train Mr. Deng, there's nothing to say, right? ”

Hao Tong was silent for a moment, then bowed to Su Hao and said, "Su Baihu is true temperament, Hao Tong admires." The matter of the soldiers' meals is according to what Su Baihu saw. So how should this meal be deducted when the soldiers are paid in the future? ”

Su Hao said: "According to the calculation of one penny of silver, a total of 3 yuan of silver will be deducted a month, and every 1 tael of 2 yuan of cash will be used as military salary, what do you think?" ”

Hao Tong smiled bitterly: "Su Baihu led the troops like this, I am afraid that these soldiers will be spoiled." In the future, when they serve in our army, how can we afford to raise such a delicate army? ”

Su Hao didn't think about this level of things, he just felt out of a kind of traverser instinct, and felt that since he came to the family to be a soldier, he always had to let the family eat enough. He did not think that the society at this time was still a society of scarcity of materials, and even the army could not guarantee that the soldiers would have enough food and clothing. It is not easy for officers at all levels to be able to not deduct soldiers' salaries, and how can anyone join the club and use their own money to subsidize the soldiers' lives like he did.

He had the heart to retract his opinion, but after thinking about it, he felt that since he had traveled back in time, he had to do something to change the world with all his might. He said to Hao Tong:

"Hao Tong, when these soldiers are in my camp, they will follow my rules. Wait until they come to your camp, and then follow your white spoon rules. In addition, the duties of this survey battalion are different from those of other battalions, even if they go to Yunnan in the future, I hope you can still let them maintain a relatively poisonous establishment, so that it is okay to take a little care of them, right? Mapping is such a thing, Bi Jing is not known to everyone. ”

Hao Tong said: "If you understand the mark, I'll arrange it." ”