golden scales

The carriage stopped outside Shenzhou City, and most of the people in the carriage got out of the carriage and went their separate ways.The rest of the people were merchants going to Shulu County, and it was a bit lonely to watch their traveling companions disperse.

People of later generations cannot imagine the occlusion of this era at all.A businessman who seems to travel all over the world may not be able to obtain the amount of information that an otaku receives at home watching the news for a day.Similarly, the strangers they meet in their lives may not be as many as the people of later generations will meet in a week.

Even Wang Yi, who had seen the "big world", was a little depressed when he watched the carriage go away, until the excitement brought about by going to the station completely diluted this inexplicable reluctance.

Hu Er took Wang Yi to the camp, first went to the battalion headquarters to register Wang Yi, signed and pledged, and then took the list issued by the quartermaster to the warehouse to pick up individual equipment.

Although Wang Yi is a sergeant, he still belongs to the soldier class.In Daming, a society with distinct classes, he received a bright helmet decorated with bright red tassels, two sets of natural-colored linen jackets, two sets of red fat jackets, a pair of cotton armor with iron linings on the inside, and a belt , a coconut scoop.

Ambassador Ku is a three-pole non-commissioned officer. After distributing the basic equipment, he mechanically took care of him: "Be careful not to lose the three guns on the helmet, or you will be fined half a month's military salary. The belt should be changed every six months. Don't use it too much." Fei. If the coconut ladle is broken, come and pick it up. It doesn’t cost money. What kind of weapon do you use?”

"Gun." Wang Yi said simply and clearly.

Ambassador Ku glanced at Wang Yi's shoulder, and took out a spear with an old bamboo pole from a pile of spears, handed it to Wang Yi, and said, "Check if the tip of the gun is damaged. If not, sign for it. Yes." Do you use a bow?"

"No." As Wang Yi replied, he lowered the four-foot-long gun to check whether the tip of the gun was sharp and whether it had a curving blade.He saw that Curry still had a long gun with a wooden stick, and he was very satisfied with being able to get this gun.In the case of the same thickness, the gun with the old bamboo stick body is more solid and durable, has better toughness, and is extremely light in weight.

"If you can't, I won't give it." Ambassador Ku crossed out "One Heli Bow", "Two Strings", "Thirty Arrows", "Bow Insert" and "Arrow Insert".

"Your military position is... Deputy Banner Captain?" Ambassador Ku looked at the recipient's information on the front of the form, curled his lips helplessly, and said, "Wait here." He put down the form and went into the warehouse. After a while, he heard him saying loudly to the people inside: "If the deputy is equipped with the same outfit as the principal, is the waist knife worthy?" Muttering: "A knife does not deserve a flag, a knife does not deserve a flag..."

Wang Yi looked at a pile of six-foot-five-inch (approximately 2.1 meters) long knives, his face twitched, and he said, "I'm a spearman, and I also use such long knives?"

"Behind the back." Ambassador Ku said impatiently, "This is for the long swordsmen and musketeers."

Wang Yi passed the long knife, only to see a four-foot-long waist knife behind him, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.Although he doesn't know how to use a knife, he knows that the waist knife in the army is a status symbol, and it is only available to military officers above the banner captain, and it is changed to a sword when he reaches the battalion officer.

"Go take a bath before changing your clothes, so as not to break it in three or two days." Ambassador Ku saw that Wang Yi had all the equipment, and handed over the weapon list: "Sign for receipt."

Wang Yi signed the name obediently, came out with Hu Er, and asked in a low voice: "I didn't offend him, why are you throwing face at me?"

"It's a good thing I didn't offend him," Hu Er also whispered, "From now on, you'll have to deal with him when you lead weapons. Come this way, let's go to the bathhouse to take a bath."

Each department has its own bathroom, and each bureau has its own toilet, which cannot be mixed.Because it is a military camp, civilian husbands cannot come in, and the auxiliary soldiers do all the work of fetching water and manure.

Wang Yi always felt that it was awkward to write his own number on the toilet, but he had to admit that it was easy to distinguish in this way, and he could not go wrong.

When he got to the bathroom, Wang Yi sighed again, feeling like a country bumpkin entering the city.

The bathroom here not only has a series of faucets like a boot camp, but also has small rooms.It is all made of pine wood, and the joints are pasted with cement, so it is airtight.The floor is made of wooden boards, and the dark red fire can be seen from the gap, which is the kiln room with coal burning next to it.Right above the kiln chamber is a slightly red iron plate.

"What's this for?" Wang Yi said and wanted to go in.

Hu Er grabbed Wang Yi and said, "This is a place to take a steam bath. Only military officers and members of the jujube nuclear team can use it. We can't enter."

Wang Yi snorted, but he was still very interested in steam bathing.He stood under the faucet and let the warm water wash away, but he was still thinking about how to wash in a steam bath and how it tasted.

After a while, a group of strong men hula-la broke in, each of them was a head taller than Wang Yi, and his body was twice the size of Wang Yi.Hu Er whispered beside him: "This is the Zaohe team."

Wang Yi watched these strong men enter the steam room in groups of three or four, and within a short while there was the sound of hissing water vapor.Soon, wisps of water vapor emerged from the open door.

"Won't this steam death?" Wang Yi asked.

"I haven't steamed it." Hu Er also shook his head in disappointment, "I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made it, anyway, those people seem to be very comfortable. Sigh, I can be an officer sometime. "

"Not a sergeant?"

"A non-commissioned officer is still a soldier at the top." Hu Er sighed: "But look at me, the training is no less than yours, and the allowance is even less than yours."

At first, the fire soldiers were of the same class as the auxiliary soldiers. Later, the number of auxiliary soldiers expanded, and they were weaker than those who were eliminated as fire soldiers in the old guard camp.Although the character and salary are the same as soldiers, soldiers still have allowances. For example, rattan players have the highest allowances, followed by corporal commanders, spearmen, boring palladium players, and even flag and drum divisions. But the subsidy for fire soldiers can almost be omitted.

"Work hard, and I'll be promoted to a serious soldier in the future." Wang Yi comforted, and sighed casually: "It would be great if I could be promoted to an officer soon."

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"All deputies at all levels will be transferred to military officers, assigned military ranks according to actual military positions, and go to the new barracks overnight to recruit troops!"

In a side room in the Governor's Office of the Jinan Prefecture, Xiao Mo finally got a full set of approval documents, and he can enter the last step of battalion expansion: recruiting soldiers.

As the first large army to be expanded, of course we should take advantage of this good opportunity to pick out all the good candidates among the recruits.This is not the time to talk about friendship in battle. If the main force relaxes, it will be a disaster in the future, and it may be reduced to an inspection department at some point.

Speaking of the Inspection Department, this organization is really a little transparent in the sequence of the Ming Dynasty's armed forces.

This institution was founded before the first year of Hongwu. At the beginning, it was not only a local armed force, but also had administrative power, similar to the armed police force whose functions were expanded in later generations.From the Hongzhi period, it began to be abolished on a large scale, and finally became an armed force that was under the command of the prefecture and county and had no administrative power.

These inspection divisions are often located in key cities and checkpoints, one in each county, or several in a county.The soldiers are all local villagers, forming archers, responsible for arresting robbers and deserters, and sometimes suppressing local riots and rebellions.

As the Donggong strategy shifted to Shanxi and Henan, the troops originally stationed in the Jiaodong Peninsula had to move to defend the Luxi area.This left a vacuum in Jiaodong's armed forces, which must be filled without affecting combat effectiveness.

So Zhu Cilang thought of the inspection department.

The new inspection department still belongs to the leaders of the prefectures and counties, and retired soldiers are given priority to occupy positions at all levels.

Now there are only soldiers and officers who have been discharged from the army due to injuries, and there are not many of them, so if they want to practice strictly and build up this local armed force, it is naturally not a matter of overnight.

The soldiers of the inspection department are no longer locals, but active soldiers.

Those soldiers who have been eliminated from the new barracks can apply to be transferred to the inspection department if they are unwilling to serve as auxiliary soldiers.Although they are not enough to fight the enemy as strong soldiers, they are enough to wipe out the remaining bandits in a stable rear.

The ensuing change of powers of the county-level yamen also made the land of Shandong lively in October of the 17th year of Chongzhen.The once gloomy, depressing and unchanging days seem to be gradually gone, and a new world is slowly unfolding.