Like Ren Liang, who is idle to the extreme, and is in the mood to slowly ** the traversal under his command are very few after all, and not everyone has a group of hard labor that can be called upon at will. Gu Wei, who had just been transferred out of the labor camp, is now in a very anxious state.

Gu Wei received an order from the Military Police Department to join the newly established recruitment office, and at the same time will serve as the chief instructor of this batch of recruits after the recruitment of soldiers, which is naturally a familiar errand for Gu Wei, who has been engaged in militia training for a long time, and it is much better than getting angry at the group of mud monkeys every day in the labor camp. Of course, at present, this organization only bears the title of "conscription office", because of the shortage of space, the executive committee has not arranged an office for this organization at all, and when necessary, it can only go to the office of the military and police department to squeeze in.

The main targets of this conscription were the local people who had already joined the two newly established communes, and these people had basically been identified and registered, and they had a high degree of reliability, and they already had a certain sense of trust in the traversers, and the heads of the military and police department considered these two places to be excellent sources of soldiers. And Gu Wei was assigned the task of recruiting soldiers on the side of the farm commune.

Gu Wei was very excited when he first got the job, his personal goal was to become the head of the future military academy, and training the local militia was obviously the first step to achieve this goal. Before he even went to the farm to see his future subordinates, Gu Wei had already imagined more than once that he was surrounded by a large group of naturalized civilian officers.

However, when Gu Wei actually came to the farm and saw the scene here, he had to face the reality and readjust his thinking, as for the concept of an army academy, it would probably have to be postponed a little longer.

The Management Committee of the Farm Commune had been notified by the Executive Committee to assemble all the men in the Commune in advance for selection by the conscription office. The vast majority of these local people standing in front of Gu Wei were black and thin, and their bodies were even thinner than those in the labor camps.

Most of the local people who joined the commune were extremely poor, and they could ignore everything else in order to have a stable meal, and joining the commune was also a life-saving straw that they could grasp. Such people are naturally not much better, and Gu Wei can't help but worry about whether they can withstand the heavy training of recruits.

"Gao Huan, is this all the people in your commune?" Gu Wei was still a little incredulous, and could only count on the farm management committee to set up some ambush and hide some of the young and strong laborers. （.）

Gao Huan also had a helpless expression: "Don't dislike it, I'm reluctant to hand over people to you! I have only these dozens of people who can live here, and you are ready to take half of it away for me with a word, and I don't know what to do with the production task here." The roster is also here, and you can count them by the points. ”

"All of them are as thin as monkeys...... Doesn't it mean that the food on your farm is the best?" asked Gao Huan as Gu Wei looked at the numb laborers.

"These people have only been accepted for a few days, how can they recuperate so quickly, even if they take tonic medicine all at once. Gao Huan explained: "Besides, now that many crops have just been planted in the ground, what can they eat? At most, they can eat three meals without going hungry." ”

"There aren't many of these Nima available!" Gu Weixin said that Yan Chujie was still counting on being able to pick out a hundred young men from the two communes, and he should really bring him here to see for himself, there were some young people, but none of the strong ones could be found.

After looking around, Gu Wei didn't find a few suitable ones, so he could only ask Gao Huan again: "Have you told these people about our conscription policy?"

"That's it!" Gao Huan wrenched his hands and said, "We are recruiting soldiers on behalf of Yazhou, but we serve locally, so we don't need to go to Yazhou." There is a monthly military salary, meat can be eaten every day, there is a bereavement pension for the war dead and wounded, work arrangements are arranged for discharge, and children are arranged to go to school...... Oh yes, veterans can also apply for contracted land. You see, everyone in the commune signed up. ”

"These people have already signed up?" Gu Wei didn't expect that the enthusiasm of these people to join the army could be so high.

"If I were like them, I would probably sign up for the army, after all, the pay is so good. Gao Huan sighed and said: "But don't be happy early, maybe the food in their eyes is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"So these people think it's just a change of place to continue to be farmers?" Gu Wei suddenly realized that the Tuntian soldiers in this era have almost been equated with farmers, and for these people, whether they are members of the commune or go to the army to become soldiers, they are all farming anyway, but the treatment is very different, so why not choose a more beneficial way out for themselves?

In this way, Gu Wei felt that the previous optimism of the Military Police Department about the source of soldiers became more and more unreliable, in addition to the physical element, this ideological element was also quite worrying. If a large number of people with this mentality are recruited to serve as soldiers, the ideological work in the early stage may be much more difficult than expected.

Although the people in the farm commune were highly motivated to sign up, Gu Wei did not accept people here on a large scale out of concerns, and in the end, less than twenty people were carefully selected. Even so, Gu Wei was not very satisfied with the little person he had chosen, looking at this group of thin young people, the only thing he could do was sigh and sigh.

In the afternoon of the same day, the unwilling Gu Wei went to the Yanchang Commune again, but the situation here was not much better than that of the Farm Commune, and most of the people's physical and mental states were still far from Gu Wei's requirements. The only thing that can make Gu Wei feel more gratifying is that the members here are mainly villagers from Yulin Fishing Village, so they have a higher degree of recognition with the traversal, and some people dare to communicate with Gu Wei with a few words.

For example, Yu Dashan, a special assistant to the commune management committee, leaned over and asked a very serious question with a cower: "Sir, are you openly recruiting troops like this...... Intend...... Rebellion?"

Gu Wei gasped and said, "Yu Dashan, you can think of this question, your ideological consciousness is very high!"

When I went to the farm commune in the morning, none of those people had asked Gu Wei such a question, and perhaps some people didn't dare to ask it even if they thought of it. Of course, the Military Police Department did not expect the excuse of "recruiting soldiers on behalf of Yazhou" to fool everyone, and there are always some smart people who can see through the trickiness in the middle. It's just that what Gu Wei never expected was that Yu Dashan, who had always been honest, raised this question first.

Yu Dashan's face turned pale suddenly, and he waved his hand again and again: "No, no! Don't dare, don't dare!"

"Don't be afraid!" Gu Wei also knew that his tone was probably scaring Yu Dashan, so he lowered his voice and asked him, "How many people think the same way as you?"

Yu Dashan stammered, "No...... No, I didn't tell anyone else. ”

"Actually, we're not recruiting soldiers this time, we're police. Gu Wei knew that if he didn't explain this matter clearly, people like Yu Dashan would only become more and more afraid, and once this kind of situation spread, it would never be a good thing for the idea of controlling the naturalized people, so he immediately moved out of another set of statements prepared by the Military Police Department: "We recruit these people mainly to maintain local law and order, calm disputes, arrest bandits, and resist pirates, in fact, it is the same thing that the Inspection Department does." However, we recruit people and raise them ourselves, and we don't need to listen to Yazhou's transfer. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood, understood. Yu Dashan raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I will tell the future generations what the chief meant, so that they don't think wildly." ”

"Sensible!No wonder the executive committee values you so much......" Gu Wei felt that Yu Dashan was very knowledgeable and interesting, and he didn't understand what to say thoroughly, so Yu Dashan already knew what to do next.

Although the process was quite smooth, the result was still not ideal, and Gu Wei only singled out more than 20 people in the Yanchang Commune. Of course, if it weren't for Anxi following with a black face throughout the whole process, Gu Wei might have been cheeky and asked for a few more people.

As a result, the number of recruits from the two places where the military police department had originally estimated that the number of soldiers had not even reached half of the expected number had not yet arrived, and this situation obviously could not satisfy the military police department. As a result, the backup plan had to be put forward again to recruit local minority youths into the army. The reason why ethnic minorities are mentioned here rather than Li is that Miao migrant workers have begun to appear on a small scale in the territory of the people. They come from a deeper mountain area than the Li village, and their living conditions are poorer than those of the Li and the local Han Chinese.

These Miao people are basically the descendants of the Miao soldiers who were conscripted to Hainan to quell the rebellion during the Jiajing to Wanli period, and it is recorded in the "Yazhou Chronicles" that "when the Ming Dynasty was covered, Luo Huo was suppressed, and the two mountains were held, and the camp was set in Jianle, and the Miao soldiers in Guangxi were transferred to defend, and they were called medicine crossbowmen." After the camp was abandoned, the descendants were scattered in the valley, and they were still named after seedlings. "Because of their status as guest soldiers, the local Han and Li people did not like them very well, so that these people could only settle in the mountains.

At first, the Military Police Department did not give much thought to using the Li and Miao ethnic groups as a source of soldiers, because it believed that these people had not yet been fully civilized, and the mixing of different ethnic groups might cause some trouble for subsequent military training. But now there is no way to recruit the required number of soldiers, so the military police department has to start rethinking the recruitment plan.

There were already many people in the military and police department who were in favor of recruiting from ethnic minorities, and the last time they went to Fushantong to do business, some people were already building a Li mountain army, but at that time they were rejected because the conditions in all aspects were not mature. Now that the old story has been brought up again, and a Miao tribe who is also good at mountain warfare has been added to choose from, the call for a multi-ethnic mixed army has become louder again.