Chapter 289 ID card

The news in this era is very closed, not to mention the Internet, even if you don't even have to watch the news broadcast, it is difficult to know about the world and understand the people of the world. Although Cao Xiu is not an unknown person, he also does not think that he is so famous that a grassroots captain-like figure can know his situation well.

He didn't know that the Hong Army was a learning army, and the soldiers at all levels regularly participated in the study, and the soldiers under their command regularly gave lessons. The content of the soldiers' classes is relatively small, including military discipline, loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, the concept of family and country, the concept of national and the idea of protecting the family and defending the country, and cultural courses such as Chinese, mathematics, and science. Elective courses include scientific farming techniques, breeding techniques, blacksmiths, carpenters and other handicraft techniques.

Elective courses are designed to allow these soldiers to have a skill to earn a living after leaving the army, and each of them can choose one or more skills according to their future career plans. It is no exaggeration to say that these soldiers are not much different from elementary school students who have been studying for a few years.

Not only do they know some common words, they can do simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but they also learn one or more skills. After being discharged from the army in the future, even if there is no land distributed by the imperial court, there is no worry that he will starve to death. Of course, everyone who served in the army was assigned a field, and with the field and the techniques they learned, it was foreseeable that as long as they were not incorrigibly lazy, the veterans would be able to live a prosperous life.

Being a soldier is equivalent to going to school, which is also one of the methods proposed by Liu Hou to attract the children of the people to become soldiers. In addition to ideology and politics, they also have to learn the art of war, the current situation in the world, the weather and geography, how to do ideological work for soldiers (somewhat similar to psychology), and even include understanding the characteristics of some important figures in the enemy country, and so on.

It is said that the master helped Cao Xiu register the information according to the dictation of joining the army, and then asked them to take a form with his information to the next level. And Cao Xiu's personal soldiers did not pass so easily, they were forced by the guns of the black hole ~ hole ~ to register their personal information one by one before they could continue to go down.

Walking to the next level, Cao Xiu saw that there were carpenters here, and they were also sitting on chairs, and there were carpenter tools such as hammers, carving knives, saws, and planers on the table in front of them. Cao Xiu, who joined the army, handed the form to a carpenter who was idle, and the carpenter took the form without looking back, and engraved his name, date of birth, gender, characteristics and other information on a small wooden plaque the size of a palm according to the contents of the form.

These carpenters are very skilled, and it takes less than five minutes to carve the wooden plaque, and after carving, they use a piece of cloth to dip some cinnabar on a jar of cinnabar, and wipe it on the wooden plaque, and the handwriting just engraved suddenly becomes clear. Then, he threw the wooden card on the table, still without looking back, and said, "Next." ”

The army helped Cao Xiu take the wooden card and the form, took Cao Xiu and continued to walk forward, and handed the form to a person at the next level, who gave him a red head rope, and the army passed the red head rope through a small hole in the upper part of the wooden card, and connected the tail of the red head rope on both sides and tied a dead knot, and a wooden card pendant was ready.

He handed the wooden pendant to Cao Xiu and said, "Hang this around your neck, this will be your identity certificate in the future." ”

Cao Xiu took the wooden sign and looked at it, and there was a line of numbers at the top: "1829308796", and then the name, age and other information. Cao Xiu was furious, threw the wooden card back to the army, and said, "Hmph! What do you mean by this, do you treat us like dogs? Let's each have a dog tag around our neck so we can identify ourselves? ”

Joining the army took the wooden card, he smiled and said: "General Cao, this move is definitely not an insult to you, just to facilitate household registration management, Shu ~ The military and civilians have this identity card." ”

In the Han Dynasty, the household registration not only had to register the population, but also the land and other property occupied by each household should be recorded in the household registration register, which was used as the basis for collecting population tax and assigning military service and forced labor. At this time, the household registration was a combination of the three registers of population, land, and servitude.

But he had never heard of a sign hanging around everyone's neck in addition to household registration, and what was the difference between that and those who put a mark on their body to mark that they were the animals of such and such a family? So he said dissatisfiedly: "Hmph! You don't want to deceive a certain family, a certain family has been an official for many years, and you have never heard of hanging a wooden sign around everyone's neck, you are clearly discriminating against us. ”

Joined the army and said: "Hehe, in our Han, there are many things that the general has never seen, and soon the general will see them one by one." In fact, this brand does not have to be hung around the neck, and it can be kept at home without going out. However, you must bring it with you when you go out for inspection.

The reason why the rope is hung around the neck is because in the long-term practice, we find it more convenient, and the brand is carried day and night, and we will never forget to bring it, which saves a lot of trouble. ”

"You said that Shu ~ The military and civilians have this brand, do you also have it?" Cao Xiu said.

"Of course there is, if you don't believe the general, please take a look, oh, and also, we are the Great Han Kingdom, not the Shu Kingdom, please remember the general, don't say the wrong thing next time." As he spoke, he pulled around his neck and pulled out a red-headed rope, which was indeed tied to a brand, but the brand was made of silver with white flowers, and the size was much smaller than Cao Xiu's wooden sign.

The army took off his brand and handed it to Cao Xiu, who took it and saw that this brand was a thin piece of silver, about the same thickness as a copper coin, about three copper coins in size, densely engraved with small characters. The top row is also a string of numbers: "20168~97432", followed by name: "He Xuri", gender

The number of the army brand starts with two, the same is ten numbers, Cao Xiu didn't notice the mystery of this string of numbers, but those who know how to join the army know that this string of numbers has implied a lot of information such as birth date, gender, place of origin, etc., but the coding method is not known to outsiders.

Although Cao Xiu saw that there was also a sign for joining the army, he still refused to give up, he said: "You still say that you are not discriminating against us, why do you use a silver medal and we use a wooden card?" ”

"Hehe, ordinary people use bronze medals, only those who are soldiers can use silver medals, Your Majesty said that silver can be disinfected, soldiers are injured on the battlefield, if you can't get the help of the military doctor for a while, you can use this silver medal to scrape the dirty things of the wound, and then apply the gold sore medicine specially made by Hua Shen Doctor.

If you don't even have gold sore medicine, you can also use this silver medal to cover the wound, it is said that the silver can sterilize and disinfect the wound to prevent the wound from suppurating and festering. Therefore, His Majesty specially approved that all Han soldiers can use silver identification certificates. No matter how big the other people are, as long as they are not soldiers and have never been on the battlefield, they can only use bronze medals.

Of course, His Majesty and the three Niangniang also used silver medals, because they were all soldiers and had all been on the battlefield in person. As for why you use wooden plaques, it's because there are so many people all of a sudden, and if you make bronze plaques on the spot, will the craftsmen be able to make them at once?

Therefore, you can only use this kind of wooden plaque that can be engraved quickly, and temporarily serve as your temporary identification. Moreover, your whereabouts have not yet been determined, and when you are assigned to which unit or where to work in the future, the household registration management department will naturally slowly renew the bronze medal for you. ”