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Under the temptation of high-salary recruitment, Zhang Yang, Li Su and other dozens of platoons of new soldiers recruited more and more new soldiers from the surrounding and nearby areas, and soon the number exceeded 10,000. The new army expanded more than 30 battalions, and they were in intensive training or secret training with other teams, the Security Bureau and the Special Operations Team.

Of course, some people who met Lu Bu's qualifications and conditions for employment gradually became grassroots reserve cadres of the new army, because the recruitment scope of the new army soldiers continued to advance and expand to the farther outskirts of Jiuyuan County.

Lu Bu selected some older soldiers over 30 years old and those with experience as craftsmen, and filled them into the engineering battalion, the general battalion, and the arsenal. In addition to the necessary military training, they were mainly responsible for mining coal and iron, smelting, casting, sewing, and military production. He also selected personnel suitable for farming, animal husbandry, and medical care to set up different business departments, and recruited a certain number of female soldiers to engage in logistics and medical care. He also specially arranged a battalion of personnel, and Diao Chan was responsible for the unified coordination and management of the medical department.

Soon after that, Lu Bu specially arranged a battalion of personnel to brew high-proof liquor according to Lu Bu's special requirements. It was mainly used for surgical disinfection and anti-inflammatory and sterilization. It was kept strictly confidential. When the production of high-proof liquor was in excess, it would be handed over to Han Yulan for use in running the restaurant.

In theory, such large-scale recruitment of soldiers was a taboo in all dynasties. However, in order to suppress the endless peasant uprisings in various places and the border prefectures to guard the border, the Eastern Han government allowed the governors of the prefectures and counties to recruit soldiers on their own, and the governors of the prefectures and counties delegated power to the counties. Of course, this operation also led to the unlimited spread of military power held by local governors in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was also the source of chaos that led to the separatist rule of local armed forces.

Local officials recruited soldiers on their own and gained control of a certain number of troops, which indeed made great contributions to suppressing local peasant uprisings and guarding the border. However, it also led to the gradual loss of the centralized status of the Eastern Han court.

At this time, the military service in the Han Dynasty was generally divided into two types, namely regular soldiers and guard soldiers. Regular soldiers are conscripted soldiers, which is similar to the current conscripted soldier system in my country. The conscripted soldier service period is generally two years, and in the event of war, the period can be extended indefinitely. Guard soldiers are adult men who take out three days of military service every year, or pay someone to serve in the military instead. (my country's modern military service system is divided into two types: one is the compulsory military service system, also known as the conscription system. This system is a system in which the state uses legal forms to stipulate that citizens must serve a certain period of military service within a certain age, which is compulsory. The other is the voluntary military service system, also known as the recruitment system. In this system, citizens voluntarily respond to the military service and sign a service contract with the military.)

The recruitment system of Lu Bu, where soldiers are paid monthly, is derived from the voluntary military service system. The characteristics of the recruitment system (professional army) are: recruited soldiers or soldiers become professional soldiers, with long training time and high combat capability. Since a large number of troops need to be maintained, the burden of military expenditure is relatively heavy, but Lu Bu has a large amount of gold and silver in the storage space of the space-time router system, so he does not need to worry about the lack of funds. Moreover, the stability of soldiers in the recruitment system is relatively high, and the number of soldiers and service time are relatively unrestricted by agricultural production.

You should know that the military system of the Han Dynasty required all men to serve in the military. The system of all-male soldiers has a long history, at least 1000 years earlier than that of Western countries.