Yun Chao was not disappointed.
As soon as the recruitment announcement came out, nearly 3,000 people signed up.
Yun Chao now has tens of thousands of helpers. The reason why he only applied for more than two thousand is not because everyone is unwilling to become a soldier, but mainly because the conditions are not met.
Just a total of thirty days of service will turn away many helpers.
Yunchao developed Woniu Town relatively late, and the subsequent helpers have been less than thirty days old and are not eligible to sign up.
Another issue is age. There are more helpers over 25 years old than under 25 years old.
Nearly 3,000 people have signed up, which means basically everyone who meets the requirements has signed up.
Yun Chao was very satisfied with the result.
It shows that under the current circumstances, serving as a soldier is still a relatively popular profession, and everyone is highly motivated.
It's not that everyone likes to fight, it's mainly because the conditions of Yun Chao's soldiers are too good.
The new recruits will not receive military pay for three months and will only receive room and board.
After three months, if you pass the assessment and become a real soldier, you will receive a monthly salary of twenty taels in full, and no penny will be withheld.
In addition, there are three full meals a day, and you can often see meat and fish.
With such good conditions, if you don’t sign up quickly, you’ll be kicked in the head by a donkey!
In fact, until the 1980s in Yun Chao's previous life, it was normal for most people in China to not have enough to eat.
Don't mention the prosperous age of Kaiyuan, nor the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong. It was just an extremely brief moment in the history of thousands of years of civilization, and it still had a lot of moisture.
Even during the Song Dynasty, when industry and commerce were boasted to be highly developed, most people lived a hard life.
The dreams of Tokyo and the mist of West Lake are just the romance of a few upper class people.
The real people at the bottom have no right to speak and cannot express their voices at all. The true portrayal of their lives is rarely recorded in official history and can only exist in unofficial history!
This can be easily confirmed by calculating the population and food production at that time.
In ancient times, productivity was backward and food production was appallingly low. Even if there was no idle land in the world, it could not support the huge Chinese population.
Every change of dynasty is a reshuffle of the population.
After a period of wars, natural disasters, plagues, etc., the population is greatly reduced, and society cannot settle down again until food production drops below the red line.
After social stability, the population will enter a new round of growth.
When the population increases and food production cannot feed the existing population, it will be another cycle of chaos!
In his previous life, Yun Chao was a quasi-doctorate from the Agricultural University. He knew how to improve soil, grain seeds, and production tools...
In short, it’s about knowing how to increase productivity.
With limited land, Yunchao is confident that it can feed a larger population and significantly alleviate the conflict between population and food.
However, Yun Chao must be given enough land, enough manpower and material resources, and a stable enough environment.
These things cannot be accomplished with just one or two towns, or even one or two counties.
If you don't have enough strength to protect yourself, no matter how hard you try, you won't be able to protect yourself!
The common people were highly motivated to become soldiers, and the recruitment rate was very fast.
It only took five days from when the announcement was posted to when 800 recruits enlisted.
For the training of new recruits, Yun Chao was sent directly to Qingyang Camp.
However, Yun Chao did not include these recruits in the roster of Qingyang Camp.
In other words, Qingyang Camp is still nominally the same old veterans, without even a single new recruit.
Since the death of Pan Yong, Pan Guiying's father, the Qingyang camp's roster has not been touched.
Even the soldiers who died in battle with Pan Yong are now alive and well in the roster of Qingyang Camp.
This is free money.
Many generals wished that some of their soldiers would escape or die.
This will free up more places and allow them to embezzle more money.
If a soldier’s death is not reported, the family members of the soldiers will not receive pensions?
This has something to do with being an official.
There are just a few thieves joining the army. Which family member dares to cause trouble?
This kind of thing is not uncommon even in later generations with highly developed technology and information, let alone ancient times that were backward in all aspects.
Before Yun Chao traveled through time, he had seen a lot of news about students receiving wages.
There are also those old people who have passed away who continue to receive pensions and show off as much as they want.
In order to put an end to those bullshit things, the officers used in Yunchao's recruit camp are all boys who have been trained before, and they are all guys with excellent moral, intellectual, physical, and physical skills.
Compared with the army of the Dawu Dynasty, Yun Chao not only equipped the new barracks with officers, but also with training officers.
The nature of the training officer is equivalent to political cadres such as instructors and political commissars in Yun Chao's previous life.
For an army, it is not enough just to know how to fight.
Not only do you need to know why you are fighting, but you also need to know who you are fighting for.
Yun Chao did not want the army he had worked so hard to cultivate to eventually become a tool for others to overthrow him.
Not to mention being aggrieved, the key is to embarrass the time traveler.
The establishment of the Dawu Dynasty is a living example.
Taizu of the Great Wu Dynasty was originally the most trusted general of the previous emperor, but because he had too much military power, he finally played a trick of adding a yellow robe to his body, and then he conquered the world.
Yun Chao does not think that as a time traveler, he is domineering and arrogant, and none of his subordinates will rebel.
The human heart is the last thing that can stand the test. Yun Chao doesn't want to work hard for half his life and end up making wedding clothes for others.
Therefore, from the beginning, Yun Chao has been emphasizing rules.
Rules are systems.
Only a reasonable system can ensure stability to the greatest extent possible.
In this regard, the army with instructors in later generations did a good job.
Although often at a disadvantage, organized armies rarely rebelled.
Even if there are a few traitors, it is an individual act, and large-scale surrender to the enemy is rare.
No matter what route Yunchao takes in the future, good experiences are worth learning.
It is impossible to ignore the successful experience of later generations and continue to engage in the feudal army.
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Yun Chao was watching the recruit training at Qingyang Camp when someone suddenly reported: "Brother Chao, Wu Er and the others are back!"
"Oh, ask Wu Er to come see me...forget it, I'll go back."
Before Yun Chao could return to the city, Wu Er came with all the dust.
"Brother Chao, we are back!"
When Wu Er first followed Yun Chao, he always called him his benefactor, but now he has long since changed his tune, and the other boys also call him Chao Geer.
Yun Chao took a few steps forward, grabbed Wu Er who was about to salute, and nodded to the boys behind him: "Thank you for your hard work, brothers. Go back and wash up and rest. If you have anything to say, we can talk to you after you have rested!"
Yun Chao is definitely not showing off, at least not now.
Ever since Wu Er took people to Bianliang, Tokyo, he has been worried.
Talents are rare. If Wu Er and the others make any mistakes, Yun Chao will be heartbroken to death!
