I want to be emperor

Chapter 82
At the entrance of Gotham Village, in the temporary recruitment station of the Baoxiang Camp, Gao Zheng and other people who passed the medical examination stood in line obediently.

And Gao Zheng, like the other newly recruited soldiers who were queuing up, was looking at the cauldron ahead.

Gao Zheng seemed to be able to smell the aroma of the porridge boiled in the big pot in front of him, which made him swallow his saliva several times in a row.

But Gao Zheng, like everyone else, lined up honestly, and no one dared to jump in line and rush up to snatch the porridge.

Because not long ago, a newly recruited soldier relied on his strength, and he should have been an outsider in the past. As soon as he came in, he rushed straight up and wanted to drink porridge. Put it in your eyes.

As a result, before this man could reach the front, he was directly hit with a scabbard by a soldier of the rural protection battalion who was maintaining order.

The man still wanted to resist, but when he looked up, he saw an unsheathed knife pointed at him.

Then, the two soldiers who maintained order beat the new recruit who broke the rules.

Right in front of Gao Zheng and the others!
He beat the man half to death, and then dragged him out like a dead dog.

A young corporal leader of the rural protection battalion who was in charge of the order here snorted coldly, and said to Gao Zheng and other recruits: "Since you have entered our rural protection camp, I don't care if you were dragons or tigers before, you have to abide by the rules of our rural protection camp." I think you have seen the rules and the consequences of violating the rules, so you probably don’t want to go through it.”

These words, together with the recruit who was beaten half to death, produced a huge deterrent force, letting Gao Zheng and others know that they can't do whatever they want when they come to serve as soldiers.

Afterwards, Gao Zheng and others lined up to get the porridge honestly, after all, no one would make life difficult for them.

When it was Gao Zheng's turn, Gao Zheng took a big bowl of porridge.

This porridge is so thick!

Gao Zheng could swear that he had never eaten such thick porridge made from white rice in his life.

It seems that it is true that joining the rural protection camp can provide enough food.

Gao Zheng didn't even know that the reason why the people who passed the assessment were to drink porridge and limit it, instead of letting them eat dry rice or steamed buns, was purely because the Baoxiangying was afraid that their stomachs would not be able to bear it. To avoid eating themselves to death after eating too much, the Baoxiangying specially formulated a recipe for recruits, which is to first control the amount of food, and at the same time serve mainly thick porridge.

Because when recruiting soldiers in the early days, in order to reflect the fact that joining the rural protection battalion can have enough food, and at the same time to allow the recruits to quickly improve their physical fitness to cope with high-intensity training, they all let the recruits open their mouths to eat, but appeared It has been reported many times that recruits eat too much in a short period of time, causing gastrointestinal problems, and there have even been extreme examples of direct starvation.

Later, the rules should be followed. After the recruits enter the camp, the food standard will be gradually improved, so as not to spoil it!

Gao Zheng ate very quickly, and he didn't even care about the fact that the porridge was still hot. After eating a big bowl of porridge, he even used his tongue to lick up the last bit of residue in the bowl.

Not only him, but most of the other recruits around him did the same.

After eating, Gao Zheng and the other recruits had a rest, and at noon they followed the conscription team and started heading west. Gao Zheng knew without asking, that he should be returning to Songshan Village.

On the way, Gao Zheng simply counted and found that there were [-] people in their Gotham Manor, including him, who were recruited to serve as soldiers.

In the next two days, recruits from other villages joined their team. By the time they arrived at Songshan, there were already two hundred recruits in their recruiting team.

After arriving in Songshan Village, Gao Zheng and others were not immediately arranged to enter the barracks, but were first taken to a row of wooden houses and asked to use wooden buckets to carry hot water for bathing.

At this time, Gao Zheng also received the first set of clothes without patches in his life.

Moreover, the military uniform he received was not just one piece, but a complete set, including the underwear worn inside, cotton-padded jacket, trousers, belt, hat and other items.

This whole set of military uniforms was set up by Luo Zhixue himself.

In fact, the style is similar to that of the military uniforms of the contemporary Ming army. They are all jackets with narrow sleeves on the right lapel and bottom trousers.

However, compared with the Ming army uniform, it is more self-cultivating, so as to facilitate the soldiers to make tactical actions and save cloth.

And the color is also a uniform grayish brown.

why?Because the fabric of this color is relatively cheap, the logistics factory under Baoxiangying can get dyes for dyeing the fabric itself.

And these military uniforms seem to be very tall, but they are actually relatively cheap clothes. The cloth is made of coarse cloth and linen, most of which are coarse cloth spun by the mountain people in Funiu Mountain. A small part is seized, and only a few Some of the cotton cloth used to make underwear is purchased cloth.

When making padded jackets, the logistics factory also recruits village women to sew them. The cotton is mainly produced in Funiu Mountain, and a small part is seized and purchased.

The mountain people in Funiu Mountain are basically self-sufficient except for salt and iron. They grow their own food, and they also grow cotton and hemp by themselves, and then spin and weave cloth.

But even so, there was not enough cotton, so some unusable rags, reed catkins, chicken and duck feathers and other messy things were actually added to the padded jacket.

If Gao Zheng took apart the cotton-padded jacket he had on hand and looked at it, he would find that everything was in a mess...

On the whole, the cost of these military uniforms is not high. After all, most of the raw materials are either produced in Funiu Mountain or captured, and only a small amount of cotton and cloth are actually purchased.

But even so, it is not easy to distribute military uniforms to so many people.

However, it’s okay if they don’t distribute them. It’s winter now. If the soldiers don’t distribute enough winter clothes, they can freeze to death at the current temperature.

Although the quality of the current cotton jacket is a bit poor, it can still keep warm.

In addition, the uniform was dyed gray, so the soldiers of Baoxiang Battalion looked very energetic after wearing these gray winter uniforms.

After taking a bath, Gao Zheng shaved his head directly with the help of an army barber.

Although it feels weird to have a shaved head, Gao Zheng doesn't have any psychological barriers to this. He can't read a single word, so he doesn't think of his parents like a scholar.

If the superior asked him to shave his head, he shaved his head.

The soldiers in the Baoxiang camp shaved their heads. This was an order issued by Luo Zhixue himself, and it was once opposed by many people.

However, Luo Zhixue continued to push forward. At the beginning, it was mandatory for all new recruits to shave their heads, and those who did not want to shave their heads should leave...

As for the existing veterans, he maintained a certain engraving system and gave them the right to choose independently, but if they shave their heads, they could receive a one-time subsidy of [-] to [-] cash.

150 Wen is equivalent to half a month's subsidy for ordinary soldiers, so there are still many cash-strapped veterans who can't resist the temptation to exchange their hair for the 150 Wen subsidy.

With this subsidy of 150 liters, whether it is to send it back to the family, or to buy something to eat and drink at the military sales station, it is very good.

There is one thing about hairstyles, there are two. When the veterans see that their comrades and new recruits all have big bald heads, and the person who continues to wear his hair turns out to be a different kind of person, they basically don’t like it. They all ran to shave their heads one after another.

When all the subordinates are like this, as the boss, blind Wang, they don't care whether they like it or not, but in order to show the intimacy with the subordinates, the image of the battalion is like a son, and it is more important to show support for Luo Zhixue To express his loyalty to Luo Zhixue, he had to shave himself bald.

Many soldiers in the current Baoxiang camp simply regard themselves as monks.

When some playful soldiers pursued the enemy, they would occasionally say: Donor, please stay still, the poor monk will see your seal black, and there will be bloody disaster... After finishing speaking, he swung his knife and slashed over...

You see, isn't this a bloody disaster...

But now many mountain people call Baoxiangying simply the Monk Army and the Bald Army.

The reason why Luo Zhixue asked the soldiers to keep their heads bald was not because of a good hairstyle or anything like that, it was purely for hygiene and for easier combat.

If the soldiers had long hair, it would be very troublesome to wash their hair every day. It would be impossible to wash their hair every three days or so. Bacteria would easily breed, leading to itchy scalp, fleas and even sores.

In wartime head injuries, even minor scratches cannot be treated due to the obstruction of the hair, and may even lead to serious infections.

At the same time, if the hair is too long, even if the hair is tied, it will affect the battle. During the battle, if the hair is loose, and a head of extremely elegant long hair flies out and tosses the line of sight... then it will not be dead.

At the same time, you still can't let the soldiers cut their hair and keep a cropped head. Blind Wang and the others can't accept this at all. They think that even a bald head is much better than a cropped and disheveled hair.

With a bald head, they can still convince themselves that they want to imitate the monks. After joining the army, they cut off the worldly ties with the outside world, and devoted themselves to the army to kill the enemy.

As for keeping hair, it is natural to continue to grow hair after being disarmed and returning to the fields. Luo Zhixue's hair-shaving policy is not aimed at ordinary people, but only at soldiers of the rural protection battalion.

Ordinary people, what do you like...

So in the end, all the bald heads in the Baoxiang camp, even Luo Zhixue himself, in order to set an example, had already put on a big bald head.

It was the turn of Gao Zheng's group of recruits to be no exception. After grooming, they all appeared in the open space with big bald heads, newly issued caps, and brand-new cotton-padded jacket military uniforms.

Then he was wearing a similar military uniform, but there was a small red cloth on both shoulders of this person, and there were two yellow lines on it, and the person who seemed to be very long began to lead away the people in the queue one after another.

There are nine people in each queue, plus the long man with the red background and two yellow lines on his shoulders, there are exactly ten people.

(End of this chapter)