The morning sun crosses the endless horizon and casts a bright morning light on the misty Thebes River.

With the ringing of bells, the security guards on duty in Xinglan Industrial Park rang the cast iron bell next to the sundial, announcing that the industrial park's intense and orderly production work in the new day had kicked off again.

Robin *** asked his fifteen furnace workers to complete the daily safety production education as he recited the safety production regulations of the brick factory, and then handed over the shift with the furnace workers who were responsible for taking care of the fire of the wheel kiln at night, ready to start today's work.

In the summer, the huge kiln is enough to steam a person alive, but in the cold winter of Hurgana, the kiln, which is constantly emitting amazing heat, has become a favorite place for the employees of the brick factory, as long as they are not too close, then they can feel the warmth of spring.

"Furnace Master! There's nothing wrong with the heat now, when will you start moving the heat?"

A young furnace leader, topless, opened the furnace with an iron chisel to see the coal burning inside, and turned back to Robin and asked aloud.

From the beginning, they often couldn't grasp the heat, resulting in a high rate of broken bricks in the wheel kiln, to now almost every kiln can meet the standard, and their group of ordinary people in the slums have gradually become qualified brick factory employees.

"Wait another hour, Bunian! I see that the third group left a record that they had already warmed up in the evening!"

Robin put down the production record sheet and said to his furnace leader, and then turned his head to see his factory director, Edmund Sully.

"Good morning! Director, why are you here?"

Seeing Edmund, Robin immediately put down what he was doing and took the initiative to greet him, greeting with a smile on his face.

Although Edmund was nearly twenty years younger than him, he had the power to hire and dismiss 144 regular employees and more than 400 employees of the brick factory, and even for this power, Robin had to do his best to curry favor with the factory director, who was not a few years older than his own son.

"Well, good morning, Robin! And Cotton, a few of you too! The boss has a new job for us to deal with."

Edmund was no longer the shy young man he had been, and he calmly greeted his subordinates and called the four furnace masters who were on duty in the day shift at the brickyard.

In their surprised gaze, Edmund handed them a stack of leaflets that smelled of ink, and carefully admonished:

"This is a recruitment flyer for the New Army, you can read it and promote it to your boys, and then go back to the hired men after work to explain it to the hired men to see if anyone is willing to join the New Army."

"Joining the army? Director, I'm afraid this ......."

Unexpectedly, the factory director came to himself and others for such a thing, and Robin, who was a little surprised, suddenly showed a look of embarrassment.

Joining the army is always something that people in the slums avoid.

Because the loss of an important working-age workforce that has been raised with great difficulty is definitely a very heavy blow to a slum family.

Moreover, in the imperial capital, the sources of troops recruited by the Military Affairs Department will go differently depending on the source, such as the people living in the imperial capital, most of the troops they provide will be used to supplement the First Guards Division and the Second Guards Division stationed near the imperial capital.

The people in the slums are not much different from the freedmen in the countryside, and the children who are drafted into the family often have to be distributed according to luck.

It's okay in the middle of the border, and maybe there is a chance to send back the pitiful military salary to subsidize your family.

If you are assigned to serve in other parts of the empire, you may not be able to send back a letter in a year, let alone send back money. Moreover, after a round of service for five years, there is often a lot of possibility that those who are drafted will not be heard from at all.

In this case, when everyone heard that the Military Affairs Agency was going to start conscription, they avoided it as much as they could, and tried to avoid the limelight, anyway, most of the time in the empire, which lacked the household registration system

I can't control the people in the slums.

However, the Military Affairs Agency also has a countermeasure, that is, to entrust the matter of conscription to the gray organization, and give the gray organization a settling-in allowance of five silver mar per soldier, and the gray organization will provide them with the soldiers they need in full.

As for how the gray organization accomplished its mission, the imperial officials did not care at all, whether it was a rough door-to-door direct removal of the boy who had reached the age requirement, or a relatively modest lottery in the neighborhood, the people in the slums could only accept it, otherwise they would face the dilemma of not being able to find a job to support their families.

Over time, everyone's face changed dramatically when they talked about conscription.

"Don't worry! This is what Boss Xia Lin explained, Boss Xia Lin is an officer of the New Army, do you think the boss may harm us? As long as you look at the treatment of recruits on the flyer, you can see that it is not difficult at all!"

Edmund, who had gone through three draws, was lucky not to be selected, naturally knew why Robin and the others had such a reaction, he shook his head helplessly, and pulled out a recruitment flyer to show Robin:

"Look, recruits are immediately given four sets of uniforms, and two more every year.

In addition, there is a salary to receive during training, and recruits can receive twenty silver mar every month, and after completing three months of training, they are a private with forty silver mar a month.

If you are injured in battle, there will be free medical treatment, a monthly allowance for the disabled, and a pension of three gold lundes if you die, and these mud rats in our slums have never been so expensive!

I can also send money back to my family regularly every month, which is more than the income of many of our hired workers, and I am sure that some of them will definitely want to join the army.

So don't worry! Even if the employees of our factory want to go, there is no problem, and our brick factory has to complete the conscription requirement of more than 30 people!"

Edmund briefly explained the conditions and treatment listed on the flyer, patted Robin on the shoulder and encouraged.

"Twenty silver a month for recruits? This...... That's an exaggeration, isn't it?"

"Isn't that private after completing the training more paid than many of our regular employees?"

The four furnace masters looked at each other, some of them unable to believe that the conditions listed on this leaflet were true.

Imperial conscription would only give a symbolic settlement fee of five silver mar, and after passing through the hands of the gray organization, the top heaven that was distributed to the family members was two silver marrs.

And the salary they pay for serving in the army is only about ten silver mar a month, and they will be in arrears from time to time, in this case, it is naturally a little shocking to suddenly see the high salary of forty silver mar a month.

The four furnace leaders even began to think about whether to send their own families or relatives' school-age youths to the new army, after all, no matter how you look at it, this new army related to Boss Xia Lin looks very promising.

"That's right, but I heard Boss Xia Lin say that the training of the new army is very hard, and after filling out the registration form, you have to go through a screening similar to our literacy class test before you can officially enlist, and if you want to join the new army, it is not as simple as you think.

Okay, you guys remember, the minimum requirement for our brick factory is to recruit thirty people, but it's best to find fifty!"

Even as Edmund was telling his men a thousand things, such scenes were taking place in the factories of the industrial park.

The recruits have a monthly salary of 20 silver mar and are immediately allocated four sets of military uniforms, and after completing the training, they can also be promoted to a private with a monthly salary of 40 silver mar, and the injured and dead are given subsidies and pensions to their families.