Children from wealthy families are looked down upon, while children from good families are looked upon as noble.
Although this sentence is an adjective, it also means that there are children from aristocratic families in the Wuwei Camp of the Jing'an Army.
After Zhou Yuan changed into his red military uniform, he went to the quartermaster's office to report.
The quartermaster recorded his place of origin, age, and name, gave him a wooden badge, and told him to come back in two days to get his official bronze badge.
In terms of weapons, he obtained a yellow birch bow, thirty conical arrows, a refined steel knife, and a cycad wood and iron spear.
With this configuration, ordinary people cannot afford even a yellow birch bow, let alone the subsequent sophisticated iron armor.
"Young man, you will be training for three months and wearing armor for a hundred days. If you are still in this camp after three months, come and take your documents to collect your armor.
But we can't waste these days. Send an assistant soldier here and have him learn how to put armor on the soldiers and how to maintain the armor."
"Li Dazhuang, you stay."
After sending the equipment back to the dormitory and placing it in the weapons rack, Zhou Yuan went to the west hall of the camp.
When he arrived, many soldiers had already eaten. The tableware here was very rough. Most people's tableware was large coarse pottery bowls, while a few people's tableware was more delicate.
Those who were enjoying their fine meal sat together on one side of the hall, and the soldiers passing by avoided them from a distance, creating a clear separation.
Zhou Yuan guessed that those people were either military officers or so-called children of aristocratic families.
However, the two seem to overlap. A son of an aristocratic family must be an officer when he joins the army. He can't be a soldier like an ordinary person.
"Bring me a meal."
"New here? You can only take one bowl of meat. Take as much as you can eat from the rest. Otherwise, you will be fined."
The food in Xitang is not very diverse, but the key is that there is meat.
Even after he sat down with the food and a bowl of brown medicinal soup, Zhou Yuan still felt a little unreal.
The Jing'an Army is simply too rich, or rather, their logistics system is unreasonably rich.
Although Zhou Yuan was a modern man, he also knew that it would be difficult to provide sufficient meat for a local army relying on ancient productivity.
"Good guy, it's still solid."
He flipped it over with his chopsticks. He thought the meat bowl would be like modern ones with meat on top and vegetables on the bottom, but he didn't expect it to be fat on top and lean on the bottom, with only meat except for the soup.
In comparison, the lives of the villagers in Qiaoxi are really not good. The food they cannot even eat during the Chinese New Year is common in Wuwei Camp.
With sufficient meat, Zhou Yuan's "food supplement" skill finally came in handy. Others would get oil and water from eating this, but he could restore his health by eating it.
"Gulp, gulp."
Although the brown-black medicinal soup tasted bland, it had a spicy and sweet mixed medicinal flavor.
It seemed that this was not a good tonic medicine, so many soldiers did not even look at the medicine soup and directly took the dishes to eat.
After asking the chef, I found out that the tonic should be boiled repeatedly every ten days, with one bowl each morning, noon and evening. Today's medicine soup is Shunqi San, which is used to prevent heatstroke and clear heat.
Before leaving, Zhou Yuan wanted to find a sink to wash the dishes, but was taken away by the skillful auxiliary soldiers. He was really served like a young master.
The key is that not only do you not have to pay for these benefits, you can also get a salary every month. If you don’t have to go to the battlefield, it can be considered a welfare unit.
It was not until the new recruits gathered in the afternoon that Zhou Yuan realized that this benefit was not easy to obtain.
After the camp instructor introduced the camp regulations and his own name, he asked the recruits to line up and draw their bows.
If it's just about archery, there will definitely be no problem for a man who can join the Wuwei Camp.
But Coach Hong asked them to practice their strength by pulling the bow in an empty loop. Anyone who dared to do so would damage the bow or bowstring and would have to pay for it themselves.
The yellow birch bow in Zhou Yuan's hand is a stone bow. It has three points of essence attribute, plus the blessing of the martial art 【Big Bear Posture】, drawing the bow is as easy as playing.
The other recruits were in a miserable state. After training for a while, their arms were sore and trembling, and some of them couldn't even bend their fingers.
Coach Hong ignored the painfully insistent recruits and instead walked up to Zhou Yuan.
"This bow is too light for you. I'll replace it with a three-stone hard bow."
"promise."
One stone of Dawei is equivalent to 60 kilograms, and three stones are equivalent to 180 kilograms, or 360 pounds of pulling force.
Coach Hong Hun originally wanted to dampen Zhou Yuan's fighting spirit and let him know that a little bravery means nothing in the army, but he didn't expect Zhou Yuan to actually pull the three-stone hard bow.
"Well, it seems like that, let's practice it.
Your bow is heavy, so I allow you to adapt to the situation. If you can't hold on any longer, just slow down and rewind the string. Don't try to force it and cut your fingers."
Coach Hong, who looked dignified, said this and left with a stern face. When he met other coaches, he immediately lost his composure.
"Brothers, how are your new recruits? I have some unruly ones here, what should I do?
That kid is such a freak! He was able to pull a 3-stone hard bow to train his strength on his first day in the camp."
Although Coach Hong said that something happened, he couldn't hide the smile on his face.
How long has it been since such a young man appeared among the good men from farming families in the city.
That's a three-stone hard bow. The arrows shot out cannot be called feather arrows, but javelins in the shape of feather arrows.
In front of the three-stone hard bow, no matter whether you are an armored soldier or not, you can still be killed with one arrow if equipped with armor-piercing arrows.
"Old Hong, what's going on? How did such a good seedling end up in your hands?
Just wait, I'll report to the commander-in-chief and have him transfer that boy to the Shesheng Camp for careful training."
"No, I'm still addicted to archery. At least give me two days to train him and see if he has any talent for archery.
What if he is just strong and has no accuracy at all?"
"Old Hong, you're wrong. Accuracy is something that comes from practice. As long as he's strong, stamina-rich, and not blind, he'll develop good accuracy sooner or later."
"Okay, then go and report it, I'll teach him a lesson first.
This is the only outstanding one among these new recruits. If it weren't for the Captain, I wouldn't have told you."
"Hehe, we must train this kid well and show those kids from wealthy families that there are good guys among good families."
The commander of the Shesheng Camp and the commander of the Wuwei Camp are not the same person, and the requirements for soldiers of the two camps are also different.
The Wuwei Camp requires soldiers to be brave and daring in battle, while the Shesheng Camp requires soldiers to have extraordinary arm strength and endurance, and preferably also have a talent for archery.
Zhou Yuan never thought that he would be targeted by the coach of Shesheng Camp as soon as he arrived at Wuwei Camp.
At this time, he was still holding the bow to practice his strength, and he didn't know that he was about to receive special attention.
As dusk approached, the new recruits on the training ground gradually dispersed, and only Zhou Yuan was left behind by Coach Hong.
"Young man, do you want to be an ordinary soldier or a general in the camp?"
"Of course he's a general. If he can get promoted, who would want to stay as a soldier?"
"That's right. You can shoot a strong bow and have enough endurance. I recommended you to Captain Li of the Shesheng Battalion.
Your transfer order will probably come in the next two days. With your ability to perform the Three Stones Hard Skill, you will be at least a sergeant in Shesheng Battalion.
If he had some talent for archery, it would be possible for him to be promoted to Dubo."
"This Dubo is the lowest-ranking general in the Great Wei, commanding fifty soldiers. Those below the Dubo are soldiers, and those above the Dubo are officers.
"With an official position and official status, you, young man, have ascended to heaven in one step. How dare you take a chance?"
"Thank you, Coach Hong, for the recommendation. Yuan has been longing for this opportunity, so there is nothing to be afraid of."