Super dictator.

The sergeants all looked at Wei Jichen and his party with burning eyes. They had already heard the news that the Dingliao Army would come here to select soldiers.

The Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the level of pulling strong men, so most of these soldiers voluntarily joined the army because of family life reasons or to change their own destiny.

The Dingliao army prepared to invest a lot of financial and material resources for the imperial court. The newly established western-style army, whether it is in terms of food and salaries, or in the future promotion, is not the same as the original army, let alone the original army. The army will be dismissed, so all the sergeants hope that Wei Jichen can choose him away.

Right in front of the playground, there was a seven-foot high platform, on which was a desk. Wei Jichen led the crowd onto the high platform without haste.

Luo Rongguang was secretly curious and wanted to see how Wei Jichen selected the sergeants, so he stood behind and quietly observed Wei Jichen's every movement.

After Wei Jichen stood on the high platform, he first took a look at the soldiers below, and thousands of people focused their eyes on him alone. Without a certain concentration, he really couldn't control the scene.

Blade-like eyes slowly passed every sergeant in the front row, and everyone who looked at Wei Jichen lowered his head secretly.

The playground, which was originally whispering, became silent and solemn.

Wei Jichen ordered in satisfaction: "Start!"

Ruan Zhongshu and Yan Dunyuan waited for the order, and quickly went down with a group of civilian officials. Not long after, they saw more than 200 sergeants carrying boxes of things into the field.

Luo Rongguang had seen these boxes before, and now he was guessing in his heart what was inside the boxes, could it be gold and silver, etc., or guns?

Besides, Luo Rongguang really couldn't think of anything else.

"The general has an order. Anyone who smokes opium should step forward." Seeing that the box was properly placed, Li Chun immediately stepped out and shouted.

"The general has an order, those who smoke opium, step forward." All the soldiers brought by Wei Jichen yelled in unison, and immediately, the voice spread throughout the playground, and all the soldiers heard it clearly.

More than 1 sergeants were all surprised and uncertain. Some smart people estimated that Wei Jichen would not recruit opium smokers and stood still quietly, but more opium smoking soldiers obeyed the military order and took a step forward.

In a short while, more than 2000 sergeants came out. This ratio was very high. Wei Jichen was secretly shocked. Although he knew that opium was rampant in China, he finally had an intuitive understanding today.

Li Chun looked at Wei Jichen, Wei Jichen nodded slightly, and he yelled again: "Open the box and distribute it."

The sergeant standing next to the box immediately opened half of the boxes, and saw that some boxes contained jet-black pipes, while others contained black drugs.

Luo Rongguang, who was standing behind Wei Jichen, saw it clearly, and was really shocked. He couldn't help but stared at Wei Jichen's back with a strange expression, wondering what amazing things were still in the small half of the box.

Ruan Zhongshu and Yan Dunyuan commanded the soldiers to start distributing the smoke, and all the sergeants who stood out just now were not missed. Some of the sergeants who received them were overjoyed, while others were hesitant.

Ruan Zhongshu saw everyone's astonishment, and couldn't help laughing secretly in his heart, and then thought that when he and others were discussing with Wei Jichen about how to choose soldiers, and when he heard Wei Jichen order to do so, the expression on his face probably wasn't much better.

After the tobacco soil was distributed, Li Chun ordered them to smoke on the spot.

Suddenly, the entire playground was filled with smoke. From a distance, people who don't know why might think that there is a fire here or something.

In the queue, those who had smoked opium but did not come out could not help swallowing their saliva quietly when they saw the sergeants coming out next to them. After a while, some people couldn't stand the temptation after all. Smoking opium.

Yan Dunyuan sent it right, and secretly asked someone to write down the positions and names of the sergeants who came out one by one. These people have no perseverance and dishonesty, and they will be the first to be eliminated.

If you pretend not to smoke opium, just stick to the end and hold it back with your own perseverance, Wei Jichen may be more open to these people. After all, the whole big society environment is like this, and it's not personal fault.

As long as he joined the Dingliao Army, Wei Jichen would have a way to keep them out of opium and quit.

Half an hour later, more than 1000 soldiers came out, and there were only about [-] people standing still in the entire playground.

Wei Jichen let out a long sigh, turned his body slightly, and told Li Chun and Chen Guangyuan: "The second batch of people who come out will be eliminated directly."

"Yes, my lord." The two hurried down to order, and soon, more than 1000 people were driven out of the playground.

The selection of soldiers entered the second procedure. Ruan Zhongshu and Yan Dunyuan gave orders, and the sergeants opened the remaining half of the boxes.

Luo Rongguang opened his eyes wide and saw that it was written in ink and paper. Luo Rongguang couldn't help but suddenly realized in his heart that Wei Jichen selected soldiers according to the general conditions he had told him before.

Those who were still smoking opium were immediately taken back, and everyone was asked to write down their names, places of origin and general resumes.

Now, they were all staring at each other, and they hadn't heard that they had to read poetry well before joining the army.

However, since there was such a request from above, everyone had no choice but to bring up their pens, racking their brains to think of the signboards they usually saw on the street, and then write them down according to the gourd.

It didn't take long for the paper full of strange characters to be recovered.

When Yan Dunyuan saw it, he couldn't help laughing angrily. Yan Dunyuan is the 72st grandson of the "Ten Great Sages" Yanzi among the 81 disciples of Confucius. The article is concise and decent, and I specially invited him to meet him.

Seeing these messy things at this time, I only felt that my eyes were dark.

"What, Tongbao Qianzhuang, we want you to write your own name, why are you writing these big characters crookedly?" Yan Dunyuan almost squeezed his hands tightly to suppress the depression in his heart.

"Is this Tongbao Bank? I thought it was Tongyu Bank." The sergeant replied shyly.

"Let's go! Let's go!" Yan Dunyuan shook his finger at the first batch of eliminated people standing on the edge of the playground and said.

Ruan Zhongshu didn't react as much as he did, and said with a smile: "The army is full of illiterate rough people. If you want to choose people who can read and write from here, you are really desperate. If you can choose a dozen people from 1000 people, it is enough It should be worth celebrating."

Yan Dunyuan could only shake his head helplessly.

In a short while, the two of them selected more than a dozen papers from a large pile of papers, some of which only had their names and places of origin written on them. As for the resume, there were only a few sentences, and there were still a lot of typos and typos in it.

With more than 2000 people, only these dozen people were left to see the effect. Wei Jichen was also helpless. How could he not know that there are not many literate people in the army, so he deliberately relaxed the conditions. Just do it.

For example, in Wang Shizhen's engineering team, there must be a large number of literate and literate soldiers, otherwise it is like a surveying and mapping team, who can't even understand how to survey and draw maps, let alone the telegraph team and repairing machinery team in the engineering team. Well, being educated is better than not being educated, and the communications, armored tanks, and chemical units behind are all separated from the engineers, so this gap is very big.