"Very good, you are all good, and I am very satisfied with you! Keep working hard!" Wen Yuan smiled and asked them to be quiet, and then said: "Then I will ask the brothers who are empty-handed and have not received the reward.
As a result, are you...convinced!?"
"Not convinced..." nearly two thousand people shouted loosely. Only a few people shouted loudly, and most of the answers were weak.
Wen Yuan smiled nonchalantly and said, "Don't be discouraged. I want to tell you that this time is just the beginning. The opportunity is today!"
Wen Yuan's words made many people's eyes shine with light again. They began to breathe heavily, clenched their fists tightly, and looked feverishly in the direction of the high platform.
After a pause, Wen Yuan walked up to a young and strong man who had not received any rice. He opened his eyes and said in a serious voice, "Now I'm going to ask you again. Are you convinced that you didn't get any rice this time?"
"I... don't accept it!" The man had long been jealous that the other people had gotten it last time. When he saw the general looking at him, he felt as if the pent-up energy in his chest was about to burst out. He choked with sobs and shouted hoarsely.
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Wen Yuan nodded lightly, then glanced at the crowd with sharp eyes and said, "What about you? Are you... convinced?"
Nearly two thousand young men who had not received any reward were completely aroused with pride: they cried like ghosts and howled like wolves: "You are not convinced!"
"You...want to regain the dignity you lost on the ground?"
"think!"
Wen Yuan applauded and said with enthusiasm: "Very good, I will also remember your words! Maybe before today, you might have thought that what I promised you were all lies, but now you have all seen that my army has
If you fail, you will be punished, and if you succeed, you will be rewarded! If you fail this time, I will not look down on you, but if you fail next time, even you will look down on yourselves. If you are a man, just stand up for me. If you are a man, stand with your head held high.
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"yes……!"
Wen Yuan then shouted loudly: "I announce that the second round of selection begins now! The rewards for the first one thousand people are still the same, and they are still guided by my personal guards all the way, and the end point is Nanpi, Bohai County! But this time I want to tell you
, from Ye to Julu, there are only more than 200 miles! And this section of the road is nearly 600 miles! Each person is only given ten days of dry food! Anyone who does not live for eight days will be sent to the baggage team, and those who do not live for ten days will be disqualified.
, everyone returns to his hometown, there is no need to come to see me again!!"
"Ouch!" More than 1,900 men howled like hungry wolves, and no one cared about the harsh conditions.
"Distribute dry food! Let's go!" Wen Yuan shouted and left the scene proudly.
Julu is just the first stop for Wenyuan's new recruit training. In his plan, the next places he has to visit are Bohai, Hejian, and Anping! He wants his troops to train in this month
After traveling through every inch of land in Jizhou and finally returning here, Wen Yuan will not regret leaving at all, and those who can withstand the test of such a cruel forced march will surely become an iron army in the future!
Behind the scenes, those who were still puzzled by Wen Yuan's treatment of his soldiers were open-jawed and showed admiration. The wildness of these two thousand young men has been brought out by Wen Yuan. In the future, they only need to be trained a little and then brought to the battlefield to hone their skills.
, see the blood, and soon you will be a roaring elite soldier! It turns out that soldiers can still be trained like this!
Twenty days later.
Smoke and dust billowed on the official road leading to Julu in Hejian County, Jizhou, and a team of more than a thousand people was rushing westward.
To say he was running fast is not quite appropriate, because the speed is at least comparable to that of an ordinary person trotting. You must know that although it is already August, the sun is still fierce, but while trotting all the way, not one of the more than a thousand people has a blushing face.
It's not breathtaking, but it's really surprising.
If we say that this team is an army, these more than a thousand people are all wearing patchwork shabby linen clothes. They have no armor and no weapons in their hands. They are all unkempt. But if we say it is not an army, even though they are wearing tatters,
But he was very energetic. Looking at the appearance of the army, the formation, and the dozens of cavalry cruising on both sides of the army, it really couldn't be justified.
Yes, these are the young men who came back from training in Hejian, and they are also the strong army that Wen Yuan hopes to build!
"Brothers! Work harder! According to the pace, we will definitely be able to reach Xiaquyang City before dark. When we arrive at Xiaquyang, we are home. The brothers in the supply team have already prepared delicious food for us.
There are meals and hot water. Your Majesty has given orders to return to Xiaquyang City. Everyone eats happily and sleeps happily!" Riding horses beside the brigade, Zhang Yu followed him and shouted at his throat.
Shouting, these more than a thousand people were in high spirits, and there was a sudden howl of wolves!
"Yeah, it's finally almost over." Wen Yuan also smiled with emotion. After nearly a month of outdoor training, he really didn't have a full meal or a good night's sleep. He was quite thin.
One lap, he had never suffered such a foreign crime before, but fortunately, he was about to reach the final destination, and he, who had been tense, could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Compared with all the hard work, Wenyuan's gains are also very rich. After three rounds of marathon selection, a total of 1,228 people were finally selected. After elimination, the number of people who entered the baggage team reached 1,520.
One person. Except for the elimination of more than 1,000 people who failed in the first round of selection, the last two were successful from Julu to Bohai County and Nanpi, and from Nanpi to Hejian County. The distance was longer and the time was tighter, but
Just over two hundred people did not arrive at their destination on time!
Now this group of young men, especially the 1,228 people who will become soldiers, have been nourished by three meals for nearly January 1st. They are all full of energy, with rosy faces, and their whole bodies are full of energy.
With such strength, the pace is even more astonishing. Normally, you can cover a hundred miles in a day. If you run wildly, you can even cover two hundred miles in a day and a night!
Especially Zhang Nan, who was at the front of the team, was in contact with these two people. Wen Yuan rode his horse slowly and the two of them were slower. Wen Yuan rode his horse faster and the two walked faster. He always followed Wen Yuan a few steps behind, which made Wen Yuan laugh again.
Angry again.
Wen Yuan squinted his eyes and thought, these two guys are quite capable. They practiced three times and won the first place twice. They were rewarded with lots of food, wine, money and rice. Wen Yuan was ready to return to Quyang to reorganize the army, and ordered the two of them to do so.
Each one will lead a group, and after getting familiar with the army, they will be promoted slowly.
Speaking of the whole army, Wen Yuan had read Qi Jiguang's military books "Records of Military Training" and "New Book of Records" several times in his previous life. Although he only read them briefly a few times, he deeply believed in the views expressed in them. Along the way, he mentioned
After some discussion with Zhang Jia, we decided to base on the results of the three selections, the generals in the third grade will be divided into nine points, the third grade will be divided into upper, middle and lower grades, and the third grade will be divided into ten, hundred and thousand.
Numbers from 1 to 10 are ranked high, and you get three points; numbers from 11 to 100 are ranked in the middle, and you get two points; numbers from 101 to 1,000 are ranked below, and you get one point, and numbers after 1,000 are scored no points.
In this way, the three rounds of scores are added up, and those with nine points are considered to be superior, those with eight points are considered to be superior, those with seven points are considered to be superior, and those with seven points are considered to be superior or inferior.
There are ten categories: superior, inferior, middle, inferior, and unqualified.
After statistics, according to this classification method, no one reached the top nine points! Zhang Nanjiao was in the third round because he only got the 12th and 15th places, which was just a hair's breadth away from the top! Eight points
There are fifteen people in the middle class and eighty-three people in the seventh class. These are the people in Wen Yuan's mind who will become the backbone of the army in the future.
The new army has just been established, and it is possible to promote the backbone of the army in an emergency. However, what Mo Yuan feels most urgent now is the lack of civil servants. Food, clothing, housing and transportation for more than 2,000 people are not a simple matter. Money and food are consumed, and documentation is required.
Registration requires people who are literate and proficient in arithmetic. At the beginning, Wen Yuan and Zhang Jia were barely able to take care of both. But in the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed and the two of them were in a hurry. Each of them had lost weight. It was unreasonable to delay it any longer.
, thinking about how to recruit two civil servants after returning to Julu, thinking that Jiao Chu and Zhang Nan were from Julu County, he casually asked: "Zhang Nan, you two have lived in Julu for several years, do you know how to read and count?"
people?"
After getting along with each other for a month, Zhang Nan, Jiao Chu and the two had already roughly understood Wen Yuan's temper. They knew that the lord had a good temper and was as cordial as his own brother. Only when dealing with serious matters would he occasionally show his majesty.
So Jiao Chu rushed to answer: "How can we not have it? The fortune teller in our alley is a great scholar. He knows astronomy and geography. He can read fortunes and tell fortunes. He is very effective."
Zhang Nan pushed him and cursed: "Get out of the way, you kid interrupted me, Chen Laoliu's trick in the alley can fool a coward like you!"
"Oh!" Wen Yuan let out a disappointed sound, bowed his head and said nothing.
Zhang Nan then added: "If you want to talk about capable people, we do have one in Ren County. I heard that this gentleman promoted Maocai many years ago and served as a high official in Luoyang City. Later, he resigned because he offended the eunuch.
When the official returned to his hometown, Jizhou Han Shijun asked him to be an official two years ago, but later he offended someone and stayed at home."
"Oh? Could you please tell me what this person's name is?" Wen Yuan was immediately tempted to recruit him. From what Zhang Nan said, this scholar has quite some background. He might be someone with a name from the Three Kingdoms, but first he
He offended the eunuch and also offended Han Fu. This man had a very bad temper.
Zhang Nan thought for a while and said: "The surname is Tian. It seems that it is called Tian Feng or something. I don't know clearly. It is better to send fish to his family and listen to what the people in his family say."
"Tian Feng!? Tian Yuanhao?" Wen Yuan was shocked and almost fell off his horse in surprise.