warring states careerist

Chapter 975

At this time, the strange hit rate of muskets can always create many myths.

Even in the Sishang army, there are some weird superstitions in the army, such as the horseshoe nails that the cavalry used as amulets.

Every country is no exception. Sometimes all the partners around you may die, and the people behind make up wave after wave, but you are not dead, so you will wonder if there is any reason for this.

The veteran's words touched the new recruits a lot, and after thinking about it again, it seems that this is the truth.

Because Qi was usurped by Jiang Qi, unlike Mohism’s violent revolution, Tian Qi still needs to use the old legal principles, so he came up with the theory of reincarnation of the five virtues, which made the easy-to-understand theory of the five virtues widely circulated in the army .

When the recruits thought about it, this was not the case. There was water in the drowning, which could defeat the fire of muskets; and yellow was the color of fire, which could defeat gold, so maybe it was really effective.

Several people couldn't help being nervous, thinking that it's useless to urinate at this time, and what if it doesn't look so yellow before the battle tomorrow, so what should I do?
After thinking about it, fortunately, I still have a partner, so I made up my mind.

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In the camp of the Mohist striker seven miles away, singing was loud and clear.

At this time, the army that dared to sing when camping at night, at least did not have to worry about the noise of the camp that would be caused by a little noise at night.

Beside a bonfire in the ninth company of the third brigade of the eighth division, a pot of boiling water hadn’t boiled yet. Several soldiers held their bamboo cups and anxiously waited for the water to boil.

The cups contained the cane sugar rationed before the war and the tea cakes rationed to the company. The members of the Soldiers Committee were busy chatting nonsense.

The soldiers of the Eighth Division are mainly from the village community that has been operating in Sishang for a long time, and half of them are retired veterans who have been recruited again. Therefore, there is not much need for the task of literacy in the army. Most of the soldiers have reached the simplest literacy standard.

As forwards, their dinner was not very good compared to usual, salted lard and dry biscuits.

It was a bit cold in the evening, and it was very comfortable to drink some rationed tea.

Beside the bonfire, a re-conscripted veteran is reading a book called "Sui Xing and Surveying and Mapping" by the firelight.

This is not a very professional book, but it is not a very popular textbook, but a book with a little depth.

The book is co-authored by two people, both dukes, one named Gander and the other named Shujunzi.

Although Sishang is in order to disgust the emperor and popularize those noble titles, even though marquises are everywhere, the meaning of the title itself has changed, it is just an honorary title, and the number of dukes is still very small.

Dukes are usually awarded only when they are designated as "great contributions to the world" in some matters, and it is more of an honorary title.

There are quite a few people in the Xiangxu University Hall, and there are also many people who have made outstanding achievements in the army, but they are mainly among the scouts and Qingqi.

This "Sui Xing and Surveying and Mapping Test" mainly talks about some relatively simple things compared to the research content in Xiangxu University Hall, such as triangulation and mapping, longitude and latitude, planetary retrograde and so on.

This requires a certain mathematical foundation to understand. The veteran who is reading is only 23 years old this year. He is said to be a veteran, but he has already completed his service before. This is a special call under the Juzi Order.

He watched with relish, unaware that half of the dry biscuit smeared with lard that he had baked on the fire was already a bit mushy.

The partner next to him joked with the comrades beside him in a low voice: "Do you believe that Sima Qiong doesn't even know I'm putting the ashes on it now?"

There are people with famous surnames on their surnames, most of their ancestors were not nobles, and most of them were surnames drawn by lottery, but Sima Qiong was not.

After the joke was finished, the partner grinningly grabbed a handful of plant ash from the ground, sprinkled it lightly on the dry biscuit, took down the already somewhat mushy dry biscuit, patted Sima Qiong on the shoulder and said, "Hey , it’s mushy, eat it quickly.”

Sima Qiong said thank you, opened his mouth and smiled, took the cake and gnawed it, not noticing the ashes on it at all.

The army is forced to brush their teeth every day. Although they use simple bristle toothbrushes and simple tooth powder mixed with salt, lime, and soap, the teeth of the Sishang army are generally very good. At least this kind of burnt and crunchy cake can be bitten.

The companions beside him all laughed, Sima Qiong closed the book in a daze, and carefully put it in his backpack, not knowing what was going on.

His father was a down-and-out taxi man who came to Sishang a few years ago, but instead of joining Mohist, he became a businessman in Sishang.

Speaking of the history of their family's fortune, it is actually very immoral and dishonorable. His father had partnered with others to sell long-term workers in the South China Sea in the early years.

After making a fortune, he partnered with others to run a horse farm in Huaishui. In order to catch up with the expansion of the army a few years ago, he made a fortune and invested the money in some trading chambers in the South China Sea.

The chamber of commerce that invested the money at the beginning, taking advantage of some unsound regulatory laws in Sishang, engaged in a big scam, saying that a gold mine was discovered overseas in the South China Sea, which caused the stock of the chamber of commerce to skyrocket.

His father thought that he was going to make a fortune, but seeing the money he invested was increasing every day, who would have thought that things would be exposed, and the price would plummet.

Fortunately, his father didn't borrow money at that time, but only invested some of the money he earned, so he didn't hang himself.

Since then, his father who dared to think and act has changed from a rampant crab to a timid tortoise. He honestly went back to run the horse farm and bought a house in Pengcheng.

Sima Qiong liked to look at the stars when he was a child, but it was not easy to pass the exam in a place like Pengcheng, there were too many talented people, and in order to be as fair as possible to the poor, there was only one chance to take the exam.

He failed the entrance examination to learn astronomy and arithmetic, but he was good enough to enter some other schools, especially those whose scores far exceeded those teachers who had to stay in the village for several years.

But his family was rich, so he naturally refused to go. It wasn't that Mo Zhe had no mandatory internal mobilization to go, so he didn't continue to go to school, but went to serve step by step when he reached his age.

The military system in Sishang is a compulsory military system with semi-recruitment, so there is no such thing as rich people paying taxes and exempting them from military service.

Merchants who have legal protection of rights and interests in Sishang must have the status of Sishang, and their obligations are equal. Therefore, their heirs must also serve in accordance with the regulations.

The Mo family has been doing well in recent years, and there is no shortage of exempt money, and the collection cost is too high.

When Sima Qiong returned home after serving his service limit, the horse farm at home was already in operation, and he had skipped the process of needing labor at the beginning, and reached the process of only needing to invest capital and hire people to work. His life was very comfortable.

Reading books every day, and going to listen to Xiang Xu at their own expense, my family can afford it.

After the war against Chu, the People’s Legislative Assembly in Sishang voted to pass a mobilization order for full mobilization. All veterans who have retired within five years must go to the armed forces of various places to report and be reorganized into the army to start training from reserve service to active service. .

The group of shameless people in the Supervision Department severely punished a group of people who tried to avoid military service before the war, or those who wanted to use their connections to serve in the logistics department. The means of the inspection department are superb, and there are many people in the inspection department who are self-sufficient. They are extremely dissatisfied with some new contradictions that are gradually increasing in Sishang, and the investigation is extremely strict.

It's not that Sima Qiong was found out and re-enlisted, he just respected the rules - if the vote in the People's Legislative Assembly fails, then the general mobilization will naturally not be carried out, and since the pass has come, then he can only obey.

The Eighth Division has recruited a lot of veterans, and there are actually quite a few people like him who like to read books. Many of them are still of a very high level, but they can't be counted as top-notch people who are inferior to those who have entered the ranks.

The battle will start tomorrow, and Sima Qiong, like most of the soldiers of the Eighth Division, does not have much fear or fear. The atmosphere in the army is like this, and this time it is Juzi himself leading the army. Some of the previous stories have become as if Mythical confidence, they are confident.

The members of the Soldiers Committee have conveyed the purpose of this battle before, which is to quickly break through the blocking of the Qi people, so as to buy time for the coalition forces to encircle the princes.

Different from the Qi State Army, the soldiers in the Sishang Army need to know what they are doing, even if it is clearly a death mission, they will never allow cheating.

The bottom-up grassroots construction, and the Mohist organization that is beneficial to the world's ambitions, all enable the Sishang Army to be able to use their arms, and each finger knows what the brain is going to do.

This is not a military secret, and it has reached this stage, so it has nothing to do with secrets.

Sima Qiong, who was teased by his friends and didn't know that he just ate a lot of plant ashes, looked at his friends with a smirk and asked, "What did you do again?"

Several people laughed but didn't answer, someone said: "Sima Qiong, you have books in your backpack, so you don't have anything other than stars? We want to hear about Suo Lucan's journey to the west, but you don't?"

Sima Qiong scratched his head and said: "I only like stars. I don't have that book. Haven't you read Qilian's stone? He has also seen some Yate turned over by Solucan. His father was the son of the Lezheng family back then. Those of the Confucian school, those who use words to compare things, if you want to hear stories, go to him."

Someone in the company said with emotion: "It's a pity that you said that you have learned so much nine-number geometry."

Sima Qiong wondered: "What a pity?"

The partner in the company smiled and said: "You are a rich man, not like us. Your father can let you spend money to live in Pengcheng, but you don't need to learn arithmetic."

"If I had learned how to count and see the stars well, I would have gone to work in those chambers of commerce in the South China Sea. There is a shortage of people who can read the stars and understand the numbers. If I do well, I'm lucky I didn't die At sea, you can make a fortune."

"Hey, tell me, do you count as a silverfish? You don't do production, but you have money to spend?"

Sima Qiong smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer, but his partner was only joking, and sighed after laughing: "When the war is over and retired, I guess there will be no need to fight. When my son grows up, the world will It settles down. That's all right."

"Yeah yeah."

Many people echoed it. They grew up in the propaganda that the same is the same, and they have experienced at least three or four wars since they were young. fantasy.

But most of the fantasies are concentrated on the generation of their children. Most of them are 23 or [-] years old, married and have children. Everything has been finalized. They may see many in this life. Strange new things, but after all, life is doomed, so I can only hope that I can create a stable and unified living environment for future generations, and hope that their children will no longer need to be conscripted to serve and experience such cruel wars.

Speaking of children, these married veterans suddenly had a common topic, and Sima Qiong and some recruits were left out in the cold, and it was difficult to form a circle.

Some lamented that their son was fined for failing to learn how to read and write; at home...

When the discussion was serious, the sound of sleeping horns sounded in the camp, and the people who were chattering just now quickly quieted down.

Sima Qiong looked at the bright stars in the late autumn sky and thought to himself, the difference between life and death is too insignificant after all compared to the past and present and the four directions.

(End of this chapter)