After half a day of testing, by about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, all 354 employees of 13 factories in the industrial park who had signed up to join the new army had completed the test, and only 86 of them finally passed, with a pass rate of only about 25 percent.

These people received a complete set of recruit suits worth nearly one gold lunt and their first month's salary under the envy of others, and under the supervision of the officers of the recruiting office, they changed into the new army uniforms, and after confirming the appropriate size, they carried a rucksack with other things on their backs and returned to the open space in front of the recruiting office under the guidance of the officer.

Xia Lin stood on a platform temporarily built with a table, looked at the eighty-six recruits who had passed the test, smiled and said:

"Everybody's got their gear and their first month's salary, right?"

"Boss Xia Lin, I got it!"

"Well, we've got it!"

For Xia Lin, many old employees of the industrial park have had one or even several faces, after all, most of the production problems in the industrial park need to be solved by him, so he has definitely not a lot of time to run to various factories.

Hearing Xia Lin's words, these employees all replied happily.

"Well, it's good to get it, and if you get these equipment and salaries, it means that you are already an honorable soldier to be enlisted.

After these three days, you will go home and settle your families, and on the morning of 7 February, you will gather here and go to the barracks of the New Army to officially begin training.

After completing the training, you will transform from a trained ordinary person to a real warrior, and this process will not only increase your salary, but also mean that you have an extra responsibility on your shoulders.

This responsibility is to protect the satellite blue industrial park, to defend the business alliance that supports our industrial park, and also to protect ourselves and our families!

Today, you can still call me Boss Xialin, but in the barracks, there are no bosses and employees, only commanders and subordinates, so you must remember the change of your status, adapt to this new responsibility on your shoulders, and dismiss it now!"

After a few simple words, Xia Lin ended his training for these young recruits, and the next three days were the key work time for soldier recruitment, and he still had a lot to do.

After listening to the lecture of Xia Lin, the owner of the industrial park, Bud carried a rucksack on his back, and walked home in a kind of excitement and apprehension about the coming new life, wearing a crisp and handsome new army uniform, with his salary and some other things.

Bud grew up in the slums, and had never worn such fine woolen clothes, and the people around him saw this strange but rather good-looking outfit, and they also stood in the distance and pointed at Bard with a look of amazement, and many children who had not found a job as a newsboy because they were not old enough to play on the street showed longing and envy in their eyes.

It was the first time for Bard to receive attention like this, and he couldn't help but straighten his chest and walk more and more briskly.

Soon, he returned to the Black Rope neighborhood where he was born and raised, and in this neighborhood, most of the people who knew him, Bard in a strange uniform quickly attracted the attention of a group of women and children.

"Bud, you look so good, where did you get it?"

"Oh my God! Bard, did you steal something from the textile mill? If you find out, you won't be a hire!"

"This is what our boss Xia Lin sent me, and I never stole anything!"

Bard had nowhere to do anything in the face of the gossipy women, so he retorted in a gruff voice, brushed aside the dirty hands of some imps, and hurried back to his door to protect his new clothes and backpack.

A middle-aged woman in the neighbor's house, who was drying her laundry on a bamboo pole in front of her house, saw Bud's outfit and asked with a surprised face:

"Bud, ...... you?"

Since the spinning industry in the imperial capital has now been replaced by large-scale spinning mills, women in the slums have lost this subsidized household job.

However, benefiting from the emergence of industrial parks, now

There are many job opportunities in the slums, no matter how strong the family is, they can work as brick workers in a brick factory, and their children can sell newspapers, so their lives are much better.

The only job left for the women is to wash their clothes.

"Aunt Mei Li, this is the new army uniform issued to us by Boss Xia Lin, and I have now joined the new army in the industrial park!"

Others who didn't know each other well could just say a few perfunctory sentences, but Bud explained carefully to his neighbor.

"Joining the army? What?! Bud, you're in the army?"

Hearing Bud's words, the women who had been following him to watch the excitement suddenly gathered around in surprise, and one woman hurried to find Bud's mother.

"Isn't this year's call-up over? And you're a worker in a textile factory, how could Black Rope let you go to the army?"

Unexpectedly, Aunt Merry immediately raised her mind, and hurriedly wiped her hands on her apron and asked Bud with concern.

"No, no, Aunt Merry, it's not like I was sent by Black Rope to apply, it's my ...... of choice."

"Bard, how can you volunteer to be a soldier! Don't you know how miserable those who were sent to join the army were? The eldest brother of the little Brant family was drawn by the black rope to become a soldier, and there was still a little news in the first two years, and then only a wooden sign was left!

If you die, what will happen to your mom and sister?"

Aunt Merry grabbed Bard's thick arm and said in alarm.

"yes, yes! You finally entered the textile factory, became a hired laborer, and had dozens of copper bis every day, enough to feed the family, why can't you think of becoming a soldier yourself?"

"That's right, what would Sarah and your mother do without you?"

"Bard ......"

Just as the neighbors' aunts were accusing Bud with hatred, a familiar voice from Bud came from the side, and Bud looked at his already elderly mother and young sister Sarah.

"Bard, how did you get sent to be a soldier? This year's call-up should have already ended!"

Bud's mother asked in a trembling tone.

"Bard seems to be ......"

"Stop arguing!

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Seeing that these neighbor aunts didn't seem to hear what they had begun to say, Boss Xia Lin's new army, and wanted to deepen the misunderstanding for his mother, Bard hurriedly interrupted their words with a loud yelling in his thick voice, and then hurriedly explained to his mother and the neighbors' aunts in the surprised eyes of a group of people:

"Mother, aunts, you are mistaken, I, Bud, was not sent by Black Rope to enlist in the Empire's military service, but I voluntarily applied to join the new army established by Boss Xia Lin in the Star Blue Industrial Park!

See this military uniform on me? It's a piece of wool! One piece is worth more than a dozen silver mar! After joining the army, Boss Xia Lin sent two sets of these clothes to each of us, and two different sets to wear in the summer!"

Bard pulled his collar in one hand and held the bag with other clothes and leather boots to show the crowd, and then took out a thick paper bag from the rucksack, and opened the sealing rope to reveal the silver mar inside:

"Also, this is my first month's salary, a total of twenty silver mar, and I have just joined the army, and I have received so much money!

Moreover, the factory director also said that after completing the training, our salary will rise to forty silver mar, which is not better than the ten silver mar I used to earn a month as a cotton bale worker in the textile factory?"

"Boss Xia Lin's new army?!"

Finally understanding that things didn't seem to be what she had guessed, Aunt Merry was full of surprise.

"That's right! It's Boss Xia Lin's new army! Even if you don't believe me, you have to believe Boss Xia Lin, right?"

Bard nodded affirmatively, and the women around him suddenly showed a look of surprise and surprise.

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