Chapter 1236 System
This morning, Feng Shi first attended classes and then started training.
As for the content, it was not a variety of physical training, but a simple and pure obedience training and coordination training, aimed at training their ability to execute orders and coordinate with other soldiers.
The mountain people are born unruly, especially teenagers. Compared with civilians outside the mountains, it is more difficult to train them and more likely to cause various incidents.
Outside the mountains, many powerful people have tried to recruit mountain people into the army, but few have succeeded.
The mountain people are not only more expensive to train, but also difficult to be trained to be obedient, and they are also prone to escape.
Especially when a sufficient number of mountain people gather together, even if these mountain people come from different mountain villages, it is easy to gather into small groups. Throughout history, there have been many cases of mutinies in the army composed of mountain people.
However, Feng Shi's group benefited from the brainwashing of the long story before. In the morning, in the wooden house, the class was full of enthusiasm. Although the subsequent training was very boring, the old soldier who led the team was also very strict. The content of the training made them very uncomfortable with the freedom they were used to. However, in terms of emotions, everyone was just depressed and did not think of retreating.
For the Yingtian Army, for the new recruits, regrets are allowed in the first ten days. However, once regrets, they cannot go home directly, but have to follow up and plant the land for the Yingtian Army for a year.
If regrets after ten days, it will be dealt with by military law.
Such rules are undoubtedly a great mercy in this era. After all, outside the mountains, from ancient times to the present, there is only one way to deal with deserters, that is, kill!
In this regard, Zhao Cheng wants to use this group of mountain people with a clean background to create a powerful elite force. Now it is considered to be laying the foundation. It is a good thing to screen out some mountain people with weak wills.
The training on the first day was particularly heavy. Except for a break for an hour at noon, it finally stopped when night fell.
After Feng Shi and his men had eaten and gone to bed, the Taoist who taught them in the morning came to their wooden house.
The wooden house was built very large. After all, it was made of local materials, so there was no shortage of wood or land. The house was not a big bunk bed, but was separated by wooden strips in the middle. There were exactly 20 people in one house, but these recruits were allowed to eat and live together to improve their tacit understanding.
After the Taoist came, he did not mention the daytime training and subsequent training, but asked about everyone's physical condition and whether they could bear it. After that, he started to chat with everyone about family matters and talked about the situation of his family, which completely opened up the topic.
One by one, the recruits talked about their family situation more or less. At this point, the gap between these recruits and the Taoist was eliminated by half.
Then, the Taoist began to guide the topic unintentionally, letting the recruits express their thoughts.
Some people said that they wanted to be successful and wanted a wife, and the Taoist would smile and say that there were countless women outside the mountains who were good at giving birth, and as long as they could make achievements, it would be no problem to marry as many as they wanted in the future.
Others said that they just wanted to be full, because there were too many brothers in the family, not enough food to eat, and not enough land to share. They also said that if the general had not distributed food, some of their brothers might have starved to death this winter.
The man was very calm when he said this, and the others were also very calm, because this kind of thing was too common in the village.
There were indeed no taxes in the mountains, and it seemed that the mountains and forests were vast, and the land could be planted as desired.
But in fact, there were not many places for the mountain people to plant land, only the one around the village, and it was difficult to manage farther away.
The power of nature is very strong. A piece of land can be covered with weeds in a few days when the climate is suitable.
Then there is the problem of wild animals, insects and snakes.
Another point is that the land will become barren if it is frequently planted and there is not enough fertilizer. The fertility can only be improved by abandoning it for a period of time.
Facing wild animals in the mountains, even for experienced hunters, it is very dangerous to encounter wild animals.
Only around the village will hunting occur alone. If you go a little deeper, you have to form a hunting team of three or five.
In addition, without enough fertilizer, even if you cultivate carefully, the grain output is very limited. Even in the mountains, once there are too many children, it is normal to not have enough to eat.
Only the Yingtian Army, which is full of brave soldiers and fearless of wild animals, plus a large number of people, can burn the wasteland on a large scale in the mountains.
As for having fewer children to reduce food consumption, the infant mortality rate of children in this era is high. If you have fewer children, the family's risk-bearing capacity will be weak. If you are not careful, the bloodline will be cut off.
When facing the new recruits who said this, the Taoist first said that this was the kindness of the general. Outside the mountains, there is no such thing as winter tonic. In many families, people will die in winter, either the elderly or children.
Only the general is a god-like hero descended from heaven. He is not only a god in commanding troops, but also has a great compassion. Three hundred kilograms of food is not much, but it is enough for a family to survive at a critical moment.
Afterwards, the Taoist said that if he could have met the general earlier, his old mother might not have starved to death that winter.
When it comes to the general, Feng Shi, who is good at talking among the new recruits, gets even more excited and talks a lot, saying that the reason he joined the army is because he admires the general's wisdom and bravery...
The atmosphere of this long talk gradually became heated, and it was not until the night was a little dark that the conversation finally ended.
And such things did not happen in this place. This batch of new recruits all encountered similar things.
Originally, the new recruits had just entered the barracks, and the restricted life made them feel uncomfortable, but after a casual chat, the barracks seemed not so strange all of a sudden, and they felt much more at ease.
When the conversation was over, the Taoist officials did not go back to rest directly, but used charcoal pencils to draw on a piece of wood.
On this piece of wood, there was a table-like thing written in charcoal pencil, with the names of the new recruits on it.
The names were arranged in a row, and in the first row, there were words such as: pure, unruly, vicious, indifferent, dull..., etc.
After one of the Taoist officials finished drawing, he thought about it and wrote a sentence at the bottom of the table, saying that Feng Shi had expressed admiration for the general several times, and he could focus on observing.
Afterwards, all the wood chips were taught to one person and filed. The next morning, the wood chips appeared on Zhao Cheng's desk.
Such a system was naturally formulated by Zhao Cheng. As of now, it is still very rough, and the quality of the most critical Taoist officials is still mixed.
But compared with the training methods of those powerful people outside the mountain, Zhao Cheng's method is undoubtedly ahead of the times, improving the loyalty of the army from the most basic place.
In a short period of time, this system may not be effective, but over time, the cohesion of such an army is extremely strong.
Even in the middle period, some excellent Taoist officials can completely disperse them to the land of Shenzhou, let them organize small teams separately to destroy the enemy's rear.
In modern times, some people have used similar systems.