In this era, the literacy rate is really low! So much so that he had to recruit people from the street who could read and write to do the work. As a result, he discovered a special group of people, namely Tong Sheng.
These people are the scholars who failed to pass the exam and ended up with the status of children. Their status is very embarrassing. Their knowledge is not very good, but they feel that they are scholars. They are unwilling to do ordinary things and just want a position similar to a scribe.
But there are a lot of talents and candidates waiting for such positions, and where will they get their turn? At that time, the family background of those who could study was still reasonable, allowing them to live leisurely every day, so I often saw people on the street talking loudly but doing nothing!
So Liu Haojia targeted these people for recruitment. As a result, after recruiting a group of children, he found that he had made a wrong decision!
Because these children come here for the high salary of one or two and a half per month, but after they come, they are not keen on working. Because they believed that most of the things Liu Haojia arranged were related to Nijizi, which was really beneath his status!
Moreover, after his contact, he found that these people were very sympathetic to his identity as a scholar, and they were quite contemptuous of nobles! This attitude is even more obvious when this honorable nobleman is still a royal guard that all the scholars are criticizing!
Only then did Liu Haojia realize that these people were not trained by him at all, but people who were trained by accepting traditional literati ideas. They were born to side with the scholar class! If you take this person under your command, you will be setting countless time bombs that will blow you to pieces sooner or later!
After seeing the truth of the matter clearly, Liu Haojia couldn't help but sigh, feeling that the people he would use in the future would have to be trained by himself! Then all these people were sent out. Even if he takes things a little slower now, he is not willing to let these half-read people ruin his affairs!
Fortunately, the people he brought were quite capable, and the original Jin Yiwei in Tianjin were also considered local snakes. The two parties worked together to advance the matter and barely kept up with the plan. This strengthened his determination to cultivate his own people!
On this day, it was finally time to recruit troops. The courtyard, which was not big than a hundred households, was packed to the brim, and even the streets were full of people! The original plan was to recruit 1,500 people, but now there are more than 4,000 people!
Faced with this situation, Liu Haojia was also helpless. It seems that there are still a lot of idle labor on the street! So he had to temporarily place the recruitment address outside the county.
After the venue was rearranged, seven or eight people felt that they were each sitting at a table. The other servants violently forced everyone to line up in rows in front of the table. This scene gave Liu Haojia a headache! These people have no concept of discipline at all. It seems that they will have to worry about it when practicing in the future!
At the same time, he also found that he had completely underestimated the attraction of one or two wages, which gave him a clearer understanding of the lives of the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of the common people, one tael of silver per month is enough for them to work hard!
After the official recruitment began, the servants walked back and forth along the line to maintain order, and at the same time kicked out those who were obviously unqualified. Those who were kicked out of the crowd were either too old, too young, or too thin. After these people were kicked out, they all begged and even cried bitterly. However, the servants who accepted the strict order were unmoved and resolutely carried out Liu Haojia's order!
After an hour, all those who wanted to join the army were registered, and then came the physical fitness test. Everyone was divided into teams of 100 people and began running in large circles on the spot.
After a few laps, Liu Haojia realized that the bodies of the people at the bottom were quite weak! Before the planned test distance of four miles was completed, a large number of people could no longer keep up with the team! The fate that awaits them is to be eliminated directly! Running alone reduced the number of participants from 4,000 to around 1,900.
However, the people who were thrown out were not at a loss. Everyone could go to the shed next to them to get a simple meal with their test number tag. A simple meal includes a bowl of porridge, two pancakes and a pickle.
The reason why Liu Haojia gave them a simple meal was to leave a deep impression on them and let them know that their treatment was good! Even those who lose the election will get benefits, so they will come in droves the next time they recruit troops!
Moreover, Liu Haojia feels that he has taken away more than a thousand young people from the market, which means that more jobs will be available, and those who are unsuccessful will get more salary and can eat more! Maybe next time when we recruit troops, their physical fitness will be up to standard!
Then the remaining more than a thousand people began to perform tests such as lifting barbells, push-ups, and sit-ups. By noon, 1,500 qualified soldiers were finally selected! Those who were selected were naturally smiling, and those who were not selected did not suffer because they knew there would be a meal waiting for them!
But when the meal started, you could see the difference between the two sides! The loser still got a bowl of porridge, two pancakes and a pickle. In addition to the above, the selected people were also given a spoonful of vegetables and a piece of braised pork! This makes the losers even more envious! And those who were selected were pleasantly surprised!
It's not like they haven't seen what Tianjin soldiers eat. It would be a bit exaggerated to say that there is no meat from the beginning to the end of the year, but it is common to go without meat for two or three months! If Tianjin wasn't quite close to the sea and could eat cheap sea fish from time to time, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to see the fishy meat!
After finishing the meal, the servants pushed and pushed the reserve soldiers into a square formation, waiting for Liu Haojia's lecture. When Liu Haojia stood in front of them, he wanted to say a few words to the soldiers, but looking at the blank eyes of the soldiers below, he blocked everything he wanted to say!
In the end, he just said loudly: "Your salary is one tael of silver per month, there will be no discount! The food is also good! But I also have requirements for you, and that is to be obedient! Do you understand?"
As a result, the answers he got were uneven and sparse voices, but they all meant the same thing, they all meant that he understood, but there were various answers, which made him even more frustrated! But he had no idea that his nightmare had just begun!
He gave all the selected reserve soldiers a day off to go home and arrange things at home. The formal training will begin the day after tomorrow. The location is in the open space next to the problem. Many simple barracks have been hastily built here using wooden planks.
