Chapter 246 Chapter 257-258: Self-inflicted thoughts are the most deadly

When the leading soldier heard their whispers, he showed disdain and took them to visit the second stop, the canteen.

"This is the Royal Army's barracks canteen, which can accommodate 9,000 people at the same time.

Now that the army has been divided, the scale of the place has been reduced, and it can only feed two thousand people at the same time, so meals are eaten in batches.

Every day, our cooking team soldiers will pull out fruits, vegetables, eggs and milk from the ingredient library provided by His Majesty, and cook according to the menu.

The Royal Army usually implements standard three meals a day, and if there is night training, there will be a supplement of midnight snacks.

Strictly set eating time for each meal. From sitting down to finishing the meal, it must be within a quarter of an hour. After eating, the plate must be placed in the plate collection area.

Breakfast is pasta + staple food + soy milk + milk + the same stir-fried vegetables + a fruit.

Lunch and dinner are steamed buns + rice + soup + two meat and one vegetable + fruit. For breakfast, lunch and dinner, you must eat until you are full. Vegetarian dishes must include meat, and meat must account for 70% of the meat.

The dishes are updated every day to ensure that they are not the same for seven days. Here are the pictures of the meals for these seven days.

Let me see, tonight we are eating braised pork with potatoes, stir-fried pork with bell peppers, minced pork mapo tofu, winter melon soup, and a banana for each person.

It is important to note that all the above-mentioned dishes and meals are provided by His Majesty’s internal funds, not by the Ministry of Household Affairs. In other words, all the Royal Army is maintained by His Majesty.”

"Gudong."

There was a crisp swallowing sound, followed by swallowing sounds one after another.

"Brother Leng, you should be able to eat it every day at home, right? This food is too exaggerated."

"Brother Han, you are joking. Although my family is rich, the province still knows how to save money. Eating meat every meal is still a bit exaggerated."

Leng Ke was telling the truth. As the son of a county magistrate, his father allowed him to come and report as a soldier, which meant that he was not a completely corrupt official.

Although the living conditions are very comfortable, it is okay to eat meat every day, but it would be difficult for them to eat such exquisite food every time.

A group of onlookers, the new recruits, looked at the pictures and listened to the soldiers' explanations, and their mouths were watering.

In addition to Leng Ke, even Han Shu has changed his mind now. This food is perfect if you practice it to death. If you eat here for a few years, you can eat all your life's share.

Keeping soldiers in the canteen is more than half the success.

There are a total of more than ten menu bars placed in the cafeteria, which are used to prepare for the promotion of multiple teams of recruits today.

In fact, the veterans have only been eating this kind of food for more than a month, and they feel like they can't get enough even if they look at the menu every day.

Han Shu and his team followed the soldiers who led the team, walked out of the canteen, walked through an empty training ground, and came to a basketball court, where several teams of the Royal Army who took turns playing ball were playing.

“The Royal Army implements an internal system of nine days off and one day off. Although you cannot leave the military camp during the rotation, you can play basketball and football by yourself.

At the same time, starting in three months, after the Ming Post Office is successfully established, you will be allowed to write letters and send telegrams home every month.

You can also have your family write letters or send telegrams to you, but all letters and correspondence will go through triple verification to confirm that no military information has been leaked.

If your family tells you that there is a wedding or funeral, the Royal Army will honor you and give you a holiday. If you don’t have a brother, sister or wife, the Army will select someone to go home with you to support the event."

"good!!!"

"This is good! It's just that Eidi Niang can't read."

"If you are illiterate, why won't your mother ask someone to read it? Then the newspaper seller can read the letter to your mother."

Looking at the soldiers who are playing basketball and cheering, how many of you imagine that if you write letters to your family every month and your family can still reply to the letters, it seems that it is very acceptable not to go home for a few years?

"And during your break, you can also go to the library to consolidate the knowledge you are interested in and borrow books. There will be an hour before lights out every day for you to chat, rest and read.

You can also go to the military camp store to buy items, and you can also go to the military theater to watch movies.

The next stop is the Military Cinema, where movies are played every day, but only soldiers on rest can come and watch. New movies are updated every month."

After walking from the basketball court, we continued to visit the library and cinema.

The rich collection of books is printed directly from all types of books, excluding some out-of-date items.

The cinema consists of several wooden theaters, which can accommodate hundreds of people watching movies at the same time. The soldiers who were originally assigned to play movies, and the apprentices they brought out, can now operate completely independently.

After watching Lu Xiangsheng's biography immersedly, Leng Ke finally decided to stay.

"Brother Han, I can't imagine that this is a guardhouse. This is simply more enjoyable than the palace I imagined."

"Yes, there are so many books and this magical cinema. If it hadn't been there only once every ten days, I would have thought we were in some paradise."

"Your Majesty's financial resources are so terrifying! With so much money, I'm afraid you can support hundreds of thousands of troops, right? But you only use it to support these tens of thousands of people.

Being on duty in the Royal Army, even if there is no future, it is still good to gain experience after a few years."

After watching the movie, everyone came to the second half of the camp.

"This is a twelve-person dormitory, which can accommodate just one class. All bedding is also provided by His Majesty.

At the entrance of the dormitory, there is a washing area, towels, toothbrushes, shower gel, toothpaste and shampoo, also provided by His Majesty.

Just remember one thing, the entire Royal Army spends your Majesty's money on food, drink, housing and transportation, except for supermarkets, without costing you a penny, and you are exempted from personal service tax.

Having said that, the squad leader is responsible for the hygiene of each dormitory, and bunks are assigned randomly.

It was emphasized that no one is allowed to change privately for any reason. If you want to change bunks, you must apply to the squad leader together, and the platoon leader will confirm whether it is voluntary.

If there are special reasons, you can report it to the company-level staff officer to appeal for a change of bunk to ensure fairness and justice. This is the Royal Army, and fairness and justice are achieved to the extreme."

Several young people from the village couldn't help but reach out and touch the green quilt on the bed. The softness and smoothness they touched made their hearts melt.

Look at the lightbulb above the head that is turned on, and then look at the row of toiletries placed on the table at the door. No matter how you look at it, how you feel can be said in one word, strong.

Along the way, apart from the first stop where I told them about training and lowered their minimum limit, the rest was all about treatment. Such good treatment, I have to keep it even if I practice vomiting blood.

On the last step, the soldiers took them to an open space with hundreds of tables, and a huge black board at the front.

"This is the place where you study every night, and you need to learn to write here every day.

As long as you train hard and don't get eliminated, not only reading and writing, but also the imperial examinations will be arranged for you."

After being pulled back to the gate of the military camp, everyone looked at the gate of the camp and surprisingly they didn't want to leave.

Han Shu looked at Leng Ke beside him and rubbed his elbow.

"Brother Leng, how are you?"

"What else can I do? Of course I can keep it. Why don't I keep such a good place and regret it later?"

"Haha, that's what I thought too. The royal army's treatment is so generous. It's completely different from the military households in the guards. You can keep it, you can keep it."

Han Shu and Leng Ke, who were completely relieved, and those who were willing to stay, were organized by the soldiers and lined up. By the time of dinner in the afternoon, there were already nearly 3,000 people.

And they also saw the soldiers eating for the first time. As they lined up to enter, they looked at every soldier inside devouring their food, but their expressions did not look like they had not eaten meat for a long time, which made them feel more relieved.

It took three days to report to the military camp. Except for the further Xin'an Baoding, which had not yet arrived, the people from Zunhua had been assigned to Yong'an.

Not all of the new troops stationed at each station will be retained. Instead, 20% of the new troops will be forcibly eliminated at the end, depending on the final score.

The 20% of soldiers who have received half a month of training will be assigned to study in power plants or other places to reduce the increasing fuel consumption of diesel generators, but that will be a month later.

The vigorous entry-in-camp activity of the new army lasted for three days, and with the departure of Chongzhen in the entire Northern Zhili, the six departments went their own way and no longer went to court early, so they had their own time.

Moreover, due to the news blockade in Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan was strictly prohibited from passing through. Gradually, as time passed, people's suspicions began to increase, and some targeted small actions began to appear.

Around Zhu Cihong, the officials in the East Palace intended to encourage him, but considering that he had to send reports to Chongzhen every day, they did not dare to say too much.

Zhou Kui was instructed by someone to talk to the queen several times in order to get information. Duke Cheng, merchants, nobles, and the censors of Donglin were all in contact with each other.

The entire capital looked like a storm was about to come.

In Rongyang County, Li Zicheng, Li Yan, and Niu Jinxing commanded the peasant army in the city and looted the wealthy households throughout the city.

"King Chuang, why do you take special care of those families? Who is protecting them this time?"

"Someone from the Fan family came, saying they are Cao family and relatives of the Qu family."

Li Zicheng was in a complicated mood and wanted to rob all these wealthy households. He looked at the closed door of the mansion behind him and said calmly.

"The messengers have become more and more eager recently. It seems that Chongzhen's son must have done something that is difficult for them to accept. I don't know what it was."

"I'm really anxious, but Zhang Guowei's side went very smoothly. It was so smooth that I felt something was wrong."

"The people sent there some time ago wrote back saying that Zhang Guowei had promised to move several guard posts away, leaving only empty defenses.

But this is very strange, why is Zhang Guowei suddenly willing to cooperate?"

Li Zicheng was also confused for a while, and just as he was about to continue the discussion, a peasant soldier came over quickly holding a cloth bag, panting.

After Li Zicheng took it, he opened it and his face turned pale instantly. He looked through it repeatedly in disbelief, and then sat down on the ground with a thud.

"What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Niu Jinxing supported Li Zicheng who was mumbling to himself. Li Yan took the newspaper and just glanced at the title, and stars came out of his eyes.

"More than ten days ago, Jinzhou was restored? Emperor Jiannu was killed by Zhu Youjian, and Hauge surrendered? Is it a trap?"

"Let me see, what do you mean about the restoration of Jinzhou, exemption from Liao's salary, exemption from taxes for half a year? Amnesty for the world?"

"How is it possible!!! This is impossible!"

The two of them just felt like the sky was falling as they looked at the contents of the newspaper.

What did they rely on to start the uprising? They relied on heavy taxation and the people had no food to eat, so they had no choice but to rebel.

And the imperial court did not have extra energy to deal with them, so the various guard posts in the Northern Zhili had to always be on guard against attacks by Mongols and Jiannu.

But now that all the slaves have been killed, will it be their turn next? How many more days will they have before their good days?

"Ju Ming, how about we fight back to Sichuan and defend Sichuan's natural dangers. We can still stand on our own in order to follow up. Isn't that what the Shu Han was like back then."
To be continued...