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1557.Chapter 1557: There is money to be made from being a soldier


On the issue of recruitment, Gao Dong actually agrees with the commander-in-chief's opinion.Please search for the most complete and updated novels, select the brave from the local people, and train them, they will be the most advantageous force to defend this land.After all, Chinese people have special plots for their hometowns.Hometown carries all the memories of a person from childhood to adulthood, like a beautiful dream that no one can break.In ancient times, Qi Jiguang, his Qi family army was a soldier selected from the coastal areas of Zhejiang.In order to protect their hometown, soldiers often do not think about personal gains and losses when dealing with strong enemies.What Gao Dong wants is such soldiers, and only such troops can keep Taiwan and never let Taiwan fall into the land at the feet of the great powers.Gao Dong ordered the troops to issue a conscription notice to the whole of Taiwan.As long as the family background is innocent and the family has not done anything for the Japanese, young people can come to join the army.Those who were persecuted by the Japanese, or even tragically destroyed, were given priority to become soldiers.The purpose of this is because these people who have joined the army have a better understanding of the meaning of their homeland.They come from poor backgrounds and are oppressed.Only these people know better what it means to be a soldier.Taichung City, where Gao Dong sits, transferred to conscription.At the same time, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taipei, Hsinchu and Hualien launched conscription at the same time.The scope of conscription radiates to the entire island of Taiwan, and Gao Dong means that even ethnic minorities hiding in the mountains must let them know the news of joining the army.Before conscription, Gao Dong also specially resent a copy of his report to the headquarters, detailing the preferential policies for treating new recruits.There must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward, and Gao Dong's policy is actually a settlement policy.The people of Taiwan have lived under the oppressive rule of the Japanese for a long time, and their lives are very difficult.The city is full of refugees who have lost their places and live on the streets.Gao Dong pointed out in the report that in order to successfully recruit reliable soldiers, it is first necessary to appease their families.If a person goes out to fight, but his family is starving and freezing all day long, then such a person will never be a good soldier.In this reconquest of Taiwan, the captured Japanese army materials and property were almost innumerable and piled up.Gao Dong proposed to the commander that these materials and goods be used to recruit soldiers, appease the families of the recruits, and give the best conditions to the soldiers, so as to attract the best soldiers.When the commander-in-chief saw the telegram, he immediately called a meeting, because it was indeed a big deal.With so much financial and material resources and an open-minded personality, he will definitely not make his own opinions, but will consult with everyone.But the result of the deliberations was completely unanimous, and everyone agreed.Everything seized from the Japanese was plundered by the Japanese devils from the Taiwanese people.Except for half of the materials left to hand over to the General Headquarters, the rest of the materials were all properly distributed by Gao Dong.Whether it is conscription or appeasing the common people, in short, these materials must be used on the knife edge.At the same time, the commander-in-chief immediately sent a study group to study Taiwan's conscription policy.The commander was keenly aware that in the future conscription, he could no longer pull poor children into the ranks as before.If you want the fighters to have real peace of mind, you must first take care of their families.The warriors must not be chilled, and the families of the warriors must not be allowed to suffer from hunger and cold.The commander-in-chief decided that if Taiwan's conscription work is done well, it will be extended to the whole army in the future, and it will become a common practice for conscription in the future.The telegram was sent to Gao Dong first, and the members of the study group also arrived in Taipei by plane, and then immediately went to the recruitment sites in various cities to learn from Gao Dong's recruitment experience.Gao Dong had the approval of the commander-in-chief, and his waist immediately thickened.First of all, he divided the supplies seized from the Japanese, in two.Half of the supplies were shipped back home and handed over to the General Headquarters.Because the country is also in difficulty, these materials will greatly improve the lives of the army and the people.Half of the remaining supplies were obtained from Japanese merchants, some were military supplies from the Japanese, and more were looted from Taiwan itself.Military supplies alone are enough for more than 200,000 people.And a large amount of money, Gao Dong found someone to calculate, and it was almost more than enough to serve as the recruitment fund for this time.With the money, he immediately took action.First of all, a policy of recruitment was set.All soldiers who are selected for the army and their families can receive a copy of the subsistence items immediately.These include the blankets and coats of the Japanese troops, as well as the marching beds, horses, cups, and towels that seem worthless in the eyes of the rich, but for the real poor people, they are life-saving things.Secondly, in addition to the distribution of these household items, no family will receive a food ration.This is not a simple individual ration, but it includes a bag of rice, ten days of individual rations, a basket of canned beef and fish, and even two bottles of sake.For food, people are more eager than those daily necessities.But that's not all, the next one is that anyone who joins the army, the family can get five silver dollars as a living allowance for the family.Five silver dollars in those days and days might not have been worth a meal at all for a rich man.But in the hands of ordinary poor people, it may be the annual income of a family of three.The last one, for the people, is the most important news.Because after the Japanese occupied Taiwan, they expropriated all the land of the common people.Although many people are still farming, they only help the Japanese to work for free, and they can't get any of the things they grow.The Japanese just gave them some life-sustaining food so they could continue working.Without land, there is no source of income, and for many ordinary people, it is the foundation of their survival in this world.Therefore, Gao Dong ordered that all the land be redivided.The military has contracted a large area of land so that the families of military personnel who have joined the army can come to work in these places on a priority basis.They don't need to produce anything, they just need labor.What is ripe in the ground, and the troops are divided in half.And after five years, the land they planted will be theirs, and no tax will be levied for three years.Suggesting it in the past few days is equivalent to solving the major events of the people's life.Except for assigning them a house, almost everything was thought of.Gao Dong made a plan, but he still didn't dare to make a claim, so he sent it to the commander for review first.His suggestion was very conservative, and after the commanders read it, they still unanimously approved it.He also instructed Gao Dong that if there are soldiers who have served in the army for a long time and have reached the age of 10 years, the army will allocate houses to solve personal problems.After Gao Dong received the telegram, he didn't expect the commander to be so open-minded.Once such conditions are met, the recruited soldiers will be extremely loyal.The country has solved almost everything for them, and they will also dedicate their youth to the army and the country.Recognized, Gao Dong divided the plan he had drawn up into two parts.Some of them went to study for the comrades of the study group, and the other part was distributed to various recruitment sites.The announcement of conscription was made by the soldiers and the local people together to form a propaganda team.Instead of using a public announcement, a loudspeaker was used to go to various villages and mountains to carry out propaganda.This is also Gao Dong's cleverness, he knows that many poor people have never gone to school at all, and if you give him the simplest announcement, he can't understand it.Moreover, many ordinary people live in mountainous areas, and the news is closed.The only way to let them know is to go to all the mountain villages and tell them the news.However, what Gao Dong didn't expect was that his approach almost set off a sensation on the entire island of Taiwan.Originally, there were not many people who came to see the recruitment offices every day.Because although the common people knew that it was the Chinese army that recruited soldiers, they had been oppressed by the Japanese for too long and were afraid of everything, so there were not many people who actually came to serve as soldiers.But since the announcement came out, the recruitment offices in various cities have been overcrowded.During peak hours, it can even be crowded from inside the city to outside the city.Not only the common people in the mountain villages came to serve as soldiers, but even many people in the city also wanted to become soldiers.Because the vast majority of people are from poor backgrounds, being a soldier gives such favorable conditions.Not only did the soldiers have no worries about food and clothing in the army, but their families were also stained with light, which made them squeeze into the army when they broke their heads.Faced with the hot conscription sites in various cities, Gao Dong, who was sitting in Taichung, was a little dizzy.In Taichung City alone, where he is located, there are tens of thousands of people who have signed up to be soldiers, and this number is still rising.Gao Dong had no choice but to formulate another condition.The age of enlistment in the military will be reduced to only young people who have reached the age of 18 and have not exceeded the age of 23.In this way, half of the people were brushed off at once.But even so, there are still many people queuing up at the recruitment office every day.So Gao Dong ordered again to assess the people who signed up.Each person is given a ration and then tested on their physical and physical fitness, and only those who pass can move on to the next step.The next link is naturally the screening work, because Taiwan has been occupied by Japan for too long, so in order to prevent Japanese spies from mixing into the army, it is necessary to conduct an identity check on every newly recruited soldier.Those who were persecuted by the Japanese could almost directly enlist in the army.Those who have interacted with Japanese people in their homes are usually brushed off.The conscription work is in full swing, and those who have been brushed off are dejected, and some even cry bitterly.What was left behind was joy, and it seemed that the whole fate had changed dramatically.Gao Dong has been checking the progress of the conscription work, and after only five days, the soldiers he wants to recruit are basically in place.aa2705221: