Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War.

Chapter 86 The Difference Between Respect and Honor
This was his own little thought. The Senate probably thought that this kind of thing was harmless. After all, it was self-funded recruitment and it was not a regular legion, and his army would not stay for long. So they directly acquiesced to Orwell's propaganda and conscription standards, and regarded it as Orwell recruiting mercenaries. Roman citizenship was not valuable and easy to obtain in Rome, and what's more, this was really joining the army for the country, so there was no problem in calculating the years of service.

Orville divided the tracks into two - one for recruiting soldiers and one for recruiting staff.

The main consideration in recruiting soldiers is physical fitness. Those who pass the examination of the officers will be brought to Orville for an "interview", which is actually just a quick check of their abilities and attributes. Orville will have people note down those with good attributes and pay special attention to them. The specific division of duties will be discussed later.

Recruiting staff is more complicated. It mainly involves recruiting intellectuals who have no fighting ability or talents with special abilities. Orville does not have any particularly suitable examiners, so he can only leave it to Procopius and Belisarius. The former examines intellectuals and the latter examines special talents, mainly those with special abilities.

The recruitment work went smoothly. Orville didn't need many people, and the first round of recruitment required 15 people. Rome was fully capable of supplying these people. Among them were many excellent grassroots officers with military values ​​between 20 and 20, and even a few veterans whose military values ​​were between 25 and . They were fully capable of serving as legion commanders and could fully meet Orville's needs. He selected the best of the best and found a group of people that satisfied him.

Rome is not short of soldiers now, and there are many soldiers who are talented but not appreciated. If they are given a chance, many people are willing to come. Orwell can see through the other party's ability with just one touch, so it is easy to find soldiers with good quality among them.

As for the recruitment of staff, it is difficult to put it nicely, and catastrophic to put it bluntly.

There must have been few intellectuals in ancient times, so it was a rare opportunity for Orwell to find Procopius.

He was a Roman born in Palphi and had lived in Caesarea before. He came to Rome to escape the war. As a newcomer, he was unfamiliar with the place and had no connections. The residents of Rome were also somewhat xenophobic, so Procopius felt that his talent was not appreciated, which happened to be what Orville did.

Generally speaking, in this era, reading or buying books is a luxury. People who can be called intellectuals are either rich or have a good background, and more people have both.

There are people who can learn by themselves without hiring a teacher or buying books in places like libraries, but they are definitely very, very few. If there were such a child prodigy in Rome, he would have been noticed by those in the Senate long ago. Orville was a latecomer and could not catch up.

So Procopius didn't find much to satisfy him after reviewing it for a long time, and Orville and these people were not very satisfied during the second review either.

These people had some knowledge, but being proficient in poetry, drama, and rhetoric was of little use to Orwell, so he had to politely decline their offer.

In the final analysis, the noble families in Rome did not really recognize Orville. The respect for face was given to Vespa and the Flavian royal family. They would not send the truly talented children in the family to him. If they really wanted to bet, they would bet on Tia. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Tia was the one Vespa wanted to support. Orville did not want to compete with Tia, and he remained almost invisible without jumping around.

He himself did not care about this situation, nor did he feel unbalanced. He knew that the noble families in Rome would not treat him well, and his position did not make people respect him from the bottom of their hearts. It was only with the protection of Vespa that he had some room to play. It was like a child riding on an elephant. The adults around them looked up to them not because the children were tall, but because the elephants were tall.

If you want to respect him, you have to fight like Tia or prove your worth in other ways. This is the next step. Vespa has already considered this and transferred a few of his confidants with good personalities and abilities to Orville. He also sent Belisarius to Orville without Orville knowing, and also gave Orville a Procopius. With these two people, Orville should not complain.

After a few days, Orville lost interest and in the end, he didn't select anyone. He could only let Procopi take over. This shouldn't be a big problem in the short term.

As for the selection of talented people, if the intellectuals disappointed him, this side left him speechless.

According to the current situation, there is about one gifted person for every three to four thousand people. The proportion sounds low, but looking at the entire Roman Empire, the number is actually not small. At least there are several thousand gifted people gathered in the capital. The essence of the Roman Empire lies in this place.

However, among these thousands of people, only half or even one-third can be really useful in normal times. Among the "useful" people, many are in the arts or life skills, and those who can be useful to Orville in the future are even rarer.

The Roman authorities were also very concerned about the talented. They had their own mature screening system to select these useful talented people. For example, Aurelian, who intruded into this historical period, was also a talented person and was promoted to a cavalry officer by the then Emperor Claudius, and then continued to be promoted in the Guard system.

People with ability can get along anywhere and don't necessarily want to come to Orville. They can serve the royal family with Tia, Vespa or the Praetorian Guards, and they can serve Rome with the Senate members.

In the end, those who were not selected by them and left to come to Orville were basically all ugly.

Apart from one of his subordinates who kindly recommended a talented person in the family to him, whose talent was in practical combat, Orville did not see any particularly useful characters.

To give a practical example, apart from that man, the most useful person Orville ever met was a provincial Roman citizen of Gallic descent, who, according to his own account, was blessed by fairies and had two pairs of fairy wings on his back, which enabled him to "fly in the sky."

It sounds like being able to fly is very powerful. When flying into the sky during a battle, Orville will feel as if he has a perspective. However, Orville finds that it is not what he imagined at all.

His two pairs of wings are very small, only as long as his forearms, and will place a very serious burden on the heart and lungs when using them. Generally, he can only fly three meters high and stay in the air for two or three seconds. Basically, people can't stand flying three or four times.

Orville had watched for a few days without any results and was a little frustrated, so he insisted on testing the opponent's limits. It turned out that the opponent really needed this position, so he flew to a height of about five meters, and then fainted before landing, and almost died on the spot.
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