Chapter 747 Enlistment Review
In Haihan's normal recruitment process, travelers rarely participate in the enlistment review stage in person, and such troublesome matters are basically left to naturalized officers to handle. However, Qian Tiandun was determined to train a strong army at the Penghu base, and also expanded the special operations battalion under his command. Therefore, he paid special attention to the source of new recruits. Apart from the two time travelers he and Chen Yixin, who participated in the enlistment review, The others are all naturalized officers at the company and battalion levels.
Qian Tiandun's plan is very clear. Among the recruits selected in Penghu, those with the best conditions will definitely stay in the local area to practice in person. Those who are qualified but not outstanding enough can be sent back to Sanya to receive recruit training. Those who are unqualified will be returned to the immigration camp and work and farm honestly. A very small number of talents with special conditions, such as snipers, will be singled out and sent to the corresponding department to receive professional training.
After the interview session, it was already dinner time. He did not return to the immigration camp on Baisha Island that night. Instead, he stayed in a nearby air force camp. Most people were very excited about today's experience. After dinner, they gathered together to discuss their experiences and feelings about their first arrival in Penghu. In particular, the true form of the Haihan people they met during the interview was the focus of discussion.
A common view is that the Haihan people have no airs and are not condescending because of the difference in status. They will even stop someone when they kneel down and kowtow, and tell them that there is no such thing as kneeling and kowtow in Haihan etiquette - even if Yes, that is only applicable to the elders in the family. The Haihan soldiers indeed looked more energetic and majestic than the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, which made some people who signed up just for the quick naturalization and high military pay really attracted their attention.
Sun Zhen is undoubtedly one of them. He did not consider more factors when he signed up. He just wanted to become a naturalized citizen as soon as possible and stabilize himself. As for fighting as a soldier, he is not too worried - since the Haihan people are helping Ming Dynasty solve the war refugee problem, they will naturally not go against Ming Dynasty. There does not seem to be much danger in being a soldier.
But if Sun Zhen knew how many battles Haihan had fought in the past few years, he might not have made such a rash decision. There are at least five or six countries that have directly or indirectly fought against Haihan. The frequency of its military operations is definitely second to none in the South China Sea. The Haihan Militia were not the private armed forces he imagined maintaining local security, but a professional army that was actually going to the battlefield and conquering all directions.
However, for these new immigrants who have just arrived, their attention is not all about enlisting in the army. Although they have only been in Penghu for one day, what they see and hear all reflects what Haihan has. of great strength.
Although on the way south, I had heard the crew repeatedly say how powerful Haihan was, this impression was only verified after getting off the ship and entering the immigration camp. Sun Zhen and others had never seen a refugee camp like this in the north that could accommodate thousands of people. Although Huai'an Prefecture was also a prosperous place, no one would build such a large-scale camp to solve the refugee problem. It is said that there are as many as five camps like this on Baisha Island.
No one can calculate how much money it would cost to bring so many people here from the north and raise them, but such financial resources are undoubtedly something they have never seen in their lives. The crew members said that they would live a good life after arriving in Penghu, and it seemed that they were not entirely lying. This place has food and accommodation. Although the conditions are not superior, at least the social order seems to be very stable, and there is a Haihan militia stationed on the island. This is a condition that cannot be matched elsewhere.
Early the next morning, the recruit review began with the physical fitness test. The person presiding over the review activity today has been replaced by a naturalized military officer, but Qian Tiandun and Chen Yixin were still present to personally supervise the testing process.
Considering that these new immigrants have just arrived in Penghu for only one day, their physical condition should not have returned to a better state, so the content of the physical fitness test seems a bit unworthy of the name. Basically, it only allows the officers to confirm whether they have any hidden diseases such as physical movement disorders. No. Arrange heavy exercise projects. However, in order to give those with extraordinary abilities a chance to stand out, the test site can still apply for opportunities to demonstrate their skills. For example, those with strong strength can try to lift stone locks.
Sun Zhen took the initiative to make this request because he found that the first two people who came out to show their strength were actually not as strong as himself. So he stepped forward, bowed and picked up a fifty kilogram stone lock with one hand, and then picked up another one on one side, saying, "Brothers, make room for me!"
When others saw his posture, they immediately separated to the left and right, leaving a large open space for him. Sun Zhen's strength penetrated his arms, and with a shout, he danced the pair of heavy stone chains. As soon as he danced, the circle next to him immediately moved back another five feet, lest he lose his strength and lose control of it, causing the stone lock to fly out and hurt someone.
"This guy has a lot of strength!" Qian Tiandun immediately noticed this applicant with outstanding arm strength.
"This guy is younger than me. I don't know what he grew up on. He is a monster!" Chen Yixin couldn't help but sighed.
"Did you interview him? What rating did you give him?" Qian Tiandun asked with interest.
"A. His name is Sun Zhen. He was born in Dengzhou and came to Penghu alone. He was born as a farmer. I talked to him about some things in the fields. His identity should be true." Chen Yixin introduced: "Looking at his body, he is indeed It has been trained through long-term physical labor, but judging from the movements, there should be no basis for practicing martial arts.”
"If he can successfully pass the physical examination and political examination, leave him to me." Qian Tiandun had read countless people, and naturally he quickly saw the potential contained in Sun Zhen. As soon as possible, the recruit review was only halfway through, but he already had the intention of taking Sun Zhen into his employ.
Sun Zhen danced with the pair of stone locks for a full minute before stopping and placing them back on the ground. This group of newcomers hadn't formed any rules yet, but they were actually shouting together at this time, as if they were watching a martial arts show and selling medicine on the street.
Because the content was relatively simple, the physical examination of these hundreds of people did not take too long to come to an end. However, the final passers among them will still take a formal supplementary test five days later. At that time, there will be tests on sprinting, middle and long-distance running, and some strength events. The candidates were then taken indoors to undergo a physical examination. The relevant content and standards are basically copied from later generations, mainly checking vision, color vision, smell, hearing, height and weight, checking whether the body structure is normal, whether there are skin diseases, etc. Although the newcomers did not understand the contents of these examinations, they still cooperated with the doctors to conduct corresponding examinations as requested by the officers.
The subsequent political review process is no longer centralized. After all, the personal information of these new immigrants is not very detailed for the time being, and most of them cannot be verified. It can only rely on these people's own descriptions and the personal feelings of the officers. Make a judgment about whether it is trustworthy. However, the officers are also convinced that as long as these people enter the barracks, the training and life in the army will naturally gradually turn them into standard Haihan soldiers, even if there are some minor flaws, it will not hurt.
After the two-day enlistment review, about 70% of the people received permission to enlist, while the remaining about 30% did not meet Haihan's recruitment requirements for various reasons and will be returned to the immigration camp. However, not all those who remain will serve locally. More than half of them will be sent to Sanya to join the army after completing the basic isolation and observation period. Only about twenty people will be "lucky" to stay in Penghu and serve.
Sun Zhen passed the examination as a matter of course, and as the best candidate in this application, he was appointed by the local chief Qian Tiandun to stay in Penghu - of course Sun Zhen himself did not know this. Next, after a week of quarantine and observation, he will enter the newly built local training camp with other lucky people and begin to receive military training personally implemented by Qian Tiandun.
Although the number of recruits recruited in a single batch may seem small, several batches of new immigrants like this arrive in Penghu every month. Even if Qian Tiandun selects carefully with higher standards, the recruits who will serve locally after a month will have at least a company establishment. This expansion speed cannot be said to be fast, but if measured by the high standards of special operations forces, it cannot be considered slow.
Throughout September, the number of new immigrants coming south to Penghu from areas north of the Yangtze River was more than 6,200, reaching a record high in a single month since Haihan entered Fujian. It was higher than the number in Guangdong, Guangxi, Annan, Champa and other places during the same period. The total number of immigrants was still higher, which also made the Executive Committee fully aware of the necessity and urgency of opening up the northern route.
Although from a time perspective, the Denglai Rebellion is coming to an end, and the chaos in Shandong will gradually calm down in the coming year, the Executive Committee believes that the social situation in the entire north will still tend to deteriorate, and the continuous outbreak of peasant uprisings will be extremely serious. The earth destroys social productivity, causing more places to fall into turmoil. Not only will the number of refugees not shrink, but it may even exceed the previous situation.
Just when Sun Zhen and others successfully enlisted in the army and began to transform from the obedient people of the Ming Dynasty into the war machine of the Haihan Executive Committee, more problems were emerging within the Ming Dynasty.
In September of the fifth year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty, peasant army generals Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and others gathered in Shanxi and attacked in multiple directions, successively conquering Daning, Xizhou, Zezhou, Shouyang and other prefectures and counties. The Ming Dynasty, which was tired of coping, could only order Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, to garrison in Pingyang, and the governor Xu Dingchen to garrison Fenzhou to defend against the peasant army's offensive separately. However, such measures can only defend part of the city and cannot prevent the peasant army from acting recklessly in Shanxi. On September 14, Li Zicheng led his army to capture Xiuwu County and killed the county magistrate Liu Fengxiang during the battle. This achievement also made Li Zicheng gradually stand out from many generals of the peasant army.
Although the Ming court later sent three generals, He Renlong, Li Bei, and Ai Wannian, into Guanzhong to encircle and suppress the peasant army, this response measure had no obvious effect. Before the end of the year, the peasant army will continue to use multiple attacks and divide the troops to attack Jiaocheng, Wucheng, Qinzhou, Liaozhou and other places. In the next year, the peasant army will invade Hebei, Sichuan and other places, spreading the war to a wider area within the Ming Dynasty.
For Haihan, the most scarce resource now is not money, but population. Haihan's development has been limited by the population bottleneck. If it wants to continue to increase its strength at a high speed in the short term, it must introduce more immigrants as quickly as possible. The number of immigrants currently obtained by the Penghu base is basically in line with the expectations of the Executive Committee. However, the current cost and speed of immigrant introduction are difficult to satisfy the Executive Committee. In other words, the price-quality ratio is too low. If a large number of immigrants are to be introduced from the north in the long term, then continuing to expand the sphere of influence northward and creating an immigration route that is completely Haihan's own has become the next goal that must be completed.
Of course, this is not just something that can be accomplished by sending a fleet to the north every month. What is more important is to establish a transit point north of the Fujian Strait and use this as a basis to achieve efficient transfer of immigrants. However, the military and civil affairs departments do not have the same views on this matter.
At the third quarter summary meeting of 1632 held at the end of September, Ning Qi, on behalf of the civil affairs department, proposed a proposal to expand the northern route as soon as possible and establish the next base near Hangzhou Bay as soon as possible. The purpose of this proposal is basically to expand the scale of importing immigrants from the north, so that Haihan can send its own high-speed fleet to take on the task of transporting immigrants.
Ning Qi had already proposed a similar plan before this, but at that time, because Penghu had not yet been completed, his proposal was regarded by most people as too ambitious and unrealistic, and was not discussed in the executive committee. passed. Now that various military and civilian facilities in the Penghu base have been put into use and operated, and the immigration base has begun to continuously transport immigrants to Hainan Island, it seems that the conditions for moving north are gradually maturing. Therefore, Ning Qi brought up the old matter again and put the relevant plan on the executive committee's agenda again.
In terms of long-term planning, Ning Qi's plan is actually consistent with the military's, because the next springboard chosen by the military is indeed in the archipelago area outside Hangzhou Bay. However, the military believes that before continuing northward, it is necessary to resolve nearby hidden dangers to ensure the absolute safety of Haihan ships in the channel.
The hidden danger that the military refers to is the Dutch and Spanish who are currently settled in the south and north of Taiwan Island. The Dutch occupied Damuan Port in the south, while the Spanish built a base in Keelung Port in the north. The military believed that these two hidden dangers must be eliminated before they could continue to expand Haihan's territory northward.
(End of chapter)