Just listen to Luo Zhixue continue: "This time I am waiting for the Baoxiang camp to recruit the children of Huangjiacun to protect the country and the people."
Hearing this, Huang Lao'er's face turned extremely pale. These thieves were trying to recruit young men and use them as a coercion...
Luo Zhixue also saw Huang Laoer's appearance. In order to prevent him from kneeling down and asking for mercy, Luo Zhixue couldn't help but speak faster: "Anyone who is selected will be given twenty kilograms of Anjia food on the spot."
"The selected candidates will have three meals a day!"
"Just like the dozen or so soldiers behind me..."
"Stay full!"
What Luo Zhixue said is actually true. Anjia has food and three meals a day.
After all, training and combat for soldiers requires high physical fitness, and this basic food still needs to be guaranteed.
But what I eat every day is whole grains, and not every meal is dry rice, but two dry rice and one thin rice.
Moreover, the rationed food will not allow you to eat freely, and it is an empty talk to ensure that you are full.
Not to mention the newly selected soldiers, even the elite cavalry behind him couldn't let them eat freely.
Furthermore, another very important point is that even the current food standards are based on the current situation of sufficient food. If you go out to fight in the future and are unlucky enough to have insufficient food, then you will have to go hungry. Belly.
In the past, when these cavalrymen followed Li Tonglin around, they also had bad luck and had to starve due to lack of food.
But there is no need to say these facts out loud, just choose something nice to say.
Have you ever seen that when a start-up company recruits people, they will say that our development prospects are unclear, and there is a high possibility that we will be in arrears with wages or even the company will go bankrupt while we are still working.
Although we have not yet found any business growth point, nor any profit, and are losing money every day, but... our prospects are very good, and we have a group of elite soldiers. We will make profits next month, go public next year, and domestically in three years. Fortune 500, Fortune 500 in five years, everyone will be a billionaire by then...
When I hear these words, whether you believe it or not, I don’t believe it anyway...
However, times are different, and people's needs are also different. For poor people these days, their biggest pursuit in life is to have enough to eat.
At the foot of Luoyang City, a group of refugees fought for porridge and water, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries. Even Luo Zhixue's father, Rod, died tragically at the hands of the refugees because he was holding half-potted porridge in the reserve area.
So when Mr. Huang heard that Anjia food would be distributed, and he didn't need to bring his own dry food, and he could still have a full meal, his face looked much better than before, and he even looked like I didn't believe it.
In his long life of more than 40 years, he has seen many officials conscripting young men to serve as corvees, officers and soldiers conscripting young men, and bandits conscripting young men and even kidnapping them.
However, he has rarely seen resettlement allowances paid out a few times.
In fact, most of the time, especially when the government recruits young people, they will ask them to prepare their own food.
Now Luo Zhixue said that Anjia food will be distributed, and there is no need to prepare dry food by yourself. You can eat it when you go. To be honest, Huang Lao'er can't believe it.
At this time, Sun Chengli also saw the suspicion on Huang Lao'er's face, and also saw the same suspicious expression on the face of the young man behind Huang Lao'er.
He was also decisive. He waved his hand and ordered his soldiers: "Bring up the food!"
Soon, Sun Chengli's soldiers brought several generations of food from the horse at the back and placed it in the front, and also opened the opening.
For several generations, several hundred kilograms of grain in total were left on the ground. Huang Lao'er and the others couldn't help but salivate when they saw it.
In their eyes, these grains are more attractive than any fairies in the sky.
Because food means life!
Only when you have food to eat can you survive.
At this time, a man in his early twenties who was standing behind Huang Lao'er finally took a deep breath and stood up slowly after struggling for a while.
With suspicion and a hint of expectation, he said: "If I go with you, will I really have this Anjia food? Can I still have enough to eat when I go?"
Luo Zhixue glanced at him. He looked like he was in his early twenties. He was dressed in tatters and his hair was messy. He was not bad in height. He was about 1.78 meters tall by visual inspection. Although he didn't look too strong, he still looked good. Not bad.
After all, poor people these days are generally suffering from malnutrition. They can't even get enough to eat, so don't expect to see a young mountain man with all the muscles.
Luo Zhixue nodded slightly: "Of course I take it seriously. As long as you pass the assessment and are selected, you will be given twenty kilograms of Anjia food immediately. From now on, you will eat a big pot of rice with us all, and you will be satisfied with three meals a day!"
After the man heard Luo Zhixue speak, he glanced at Luo Zhixue and quickly lowered his head.
Luo Zhixue in front of him was dressed in a green robe, a square scarf on his head, and a folding fan in his hand. Even though he had no knowledge, he knew that this was the dress of a scholar. When he was in his hometown, he saw several old scholars in the nearby village doing the same. They are all dressed like this, and if they meet each other occasionally, they have to step aside and bow to ask questions. As for looking at each other for a long time, they dare not look at each other for a long time. Otherwise, they will be whipped every minute...
At this time, the man said again: "Master, do you think I can succeed?"
After Luo Zhixue looked at him carefully, he nodded slightly and said: "It looks pretty strong, but you have to pass the assessment to succeed!"
As he spoke, he called An Yongduo over with a wave of his hand: "Take him for the assessment!"
Before they came, Luo Zhixue had already finalized the assessment standards with Sun Chengli. In fact, there were no standards. As long as he was healthy and had no hidden diseases and had a little strength, he would be deemed to have passed the test. Also, don't be glib.
After all, what they want are soldiers who are honest and obedient, can train and fight according to orders, not bastards who are disobedient in training and will grease their feet when they see danger.
After hearing Luo Zhixue's order, Anyongduo stepped forward and looked at the man left and right, and even asked him to take off his clothes and check to make sure there was no disease.
Then he was asked to run and jump, and finally he was asked to move a big stone next to him.
Finally, he asked him detailed questions, asking him common questions such as how many people there were in his family.
A few minutes later, An Yongduo walked up to Luo Zhixue and Sun Chengli: "According to the assessment standards, you can pass."
Sun Chengcheng nodded slightly and looked at Luo Zhixue again.
After Luo Zhixue saw Sun Chengli nodding, he said to the panting man: "You passed, this is your Anjia food!"
At this time, Sun Chengli's soldiers immediately took out a small bag of grain from the grain bag.
The man was a little hesitant at first. In fact, even now, he still can't believe that the other party actually took out a bag of grain.
But he only hesitated for a second. The next second he took the food and held it tightly in his arms, for fear that others would snatch it away.
After this scene happened, just a few seconds later, among the group of men standing behind Huang Laoer, several more people stood up: "I'll go too!"
"Choose me, I have the strength too!"
In addition, some people turned around and ran away. One of them shouted loudly while running: "Brother, come here quickly, get the food!"
Looking at this scene, Luo Zhixue and Sun Chengli looked at each other, and both saw expressions of satisfaction in each other's expressions.
This time the recruitment will probably be smoother than they imagined.
In fact, Lin Dongsheng and the others had suggested before that there was no need to distribute Anjia grain. After all, they would recruit more people in the future. If each person was given twenty kilograms of Anjia grain, then if they recruited hundreds of people, they would need tens of thousands of kilograms of grain.
Luo Zhixue suggested that the first batch of people recruited at the beginning should be given food to settle down, so that they could use the money to buy horse bones. As for the second and third batches, there would naturally be no food for settling down.
In today's world, it would be good to recruit people so that they can have enough to eat.
Therefore, this Anjia food is actually just the beginning, to open up the situation. Once the situation is opened, there will be no Anjia food later. After all, their food is limited, and it is impossible to pay back everyone when they recruit hundreds of people in the future. They all gave Anjia food.
Sure enough, the role of food is powerful. As soon as they saw Luo Zhixue and the others actually providing Anjia with food, many men came over to apply.
The situation of these people is similar. Basically, they are the ones who really can't let the blame go. Otherwise, as long as they can have enough food at home, they will not follow these rebels.
Even if they have never seen much of the world, even if they are ignorant, they still know very well that if they take the food provided by these rebels and eat three meals a day, they will completely sell their lives to these rebels.
However, there are still many people coming to apply.
Some of them are young men who are alone and have nothing to worry about. These people just need to grit their teeth and make up their minds and run to recruit as bandits. After all, if one of them is fed, the whole family is fed, and the psychological pressure is not that great.
And some are unmarried second sons from poor families.
Huang Sangou, the first man to stand up and apply, was this kind of person.
Among the three brothers in his family, the eldest died of starvation when he was in his teens because he fled famine. The second brother married a wife and had two children after fleeing to Huangjia Village for a few years. He himself was unmarried.
After they fled to Huangjia Village, their life was already extremely difficult. But after their second brother married and gave birth to two nephews, the family had three more mouths, making the family's life even more difficult. .
In order to save food rations for his family and to survive for himself, Huang Sangou gritted his teeth and signed up to be a bandit soldier.
Anyway, he is single, has no wife and children, and his father has a second brother who fulfills his filial piety.
He just thought that he would be recruited as a bandit soldier, which would not only give his family some food to make a living, but also save his family's food rations.
Every time he had dinner at home, he was embarrassed and did not dare to take even one more bite of food!
Because every time he was fetching food, his old father, who was emaciated from long-term hunger, would stare at him...
He still remembered that last year when he put an extra spoonful of rice into the bowl, his old father sighed and said to him: Leave a mouthful for your two nephews to eat and a way for them to survive!
but!
He also wants to eat!
He also wants to live!
He didn't want to starve to death like his mother!
