"Uncle, I'm going now."

"Well, go, but it's not as good as at home in the army. Overseas Chinese govern the army strictly and obey orders. Don't be careless. At least you can make a fuss. It's not in vain for me to spend all my efforts, and I can be worthy of your parents."

"Yes, uncle, I've recorded it all."

"Okay, it's getting late, so just go, and remember to write letters to your home often."

Zhao Ping knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Zhao Weizhong, then got up and carried his luggage and left the door.

After returning from Shanghai, Zhao Weizhong immediately took Zhao Ping to the recruitment station to sign Zhao Ping up for the army. At the same time, Zhao Ping also called himself "uncle" from then on, rather than the master. Although Zhao Ping was Zhao Weizhong's distant nephew, in Zhao Weizhong's family, he was actually just a servant with a higher status. Of course, this was a common thing in this era.

Although Zhao Weizhong had his own selfish intentions when Zhao Ping joined the army, he also considered that if Zhao Ping really made a fool of himself in the army, overseas Chinese obviously valued the army more than the Qing court, and the status of soldiers in overseas Chinese was much higher than that in the Qing court. Therefore, it was obviously inappropriate to regard Zhao Ping as his servant, so Zhao Ping changed his name to him.

However, because Zhao Weizhong's identity is a bit special, he was Li Hongzhang's old subordinate and had a deep relationship with the Qing court. Now he sent his family to join the army. I don't know what the intention was, and maybe he was to send his family to the army to undercover? Therefore, the staff at the recruiting station registered Zhao Ping, checked his health, and reported to the Military Commission. He soon received the reply from the Military Commission: official business.

It turned out that Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Xiao Jianjun had a brief discussion and believed that from another perspective, if Zhao Weizhong really sent his nephew to join the army, he said that he had decided to tie himself up with the chariot of the Time Traveler. Even if he sent his nephew to the People's Army to be an undercover agent, he didn't have to be afraid. Of course, the army formed by the Time Traveler did not need to be as good as the Qing army. It had its own system and discipline. Just rely on a soldier to make a big fuss. If Zhao Weizhong's nephew wanted to be promoted to a middle- and senior military position, he needed real military achievements. He could not survive in the Time Traveler's army by other means.

After receiving the instructions from the Military Commission, the recruiting staff were relieved. After checking Zhao Ping's health, they immediately conducted a physical fitness test on him. Because there are sufficient soldiers now and there is a lot of room for recruitment. They are no longer just for individuals. At least they have to choose soldiers with good physical fitness. In addition, after passing the physical examination, there must be ten to fifteen days of trial training. Only after passing the trial training can they be considered a formal soldier.

Zhao Ping is not old. Although he is currently a human being in Zhao Weizhong's family, his diet can be guaranteed and his nutrition is not bad. He has practiced boxing for several years. In this era, he is considered to be of moderate physical fitness. After testing, his physical functional indicators meet the standards, so he can participate in the trial training.

The content of the trial training is similar to that of the military training in the old time and space. Living in a temporary military camp and carrying out some basic military training, on the one hand, it helps the recruits to have a transitional adaptation process before officially entering the military camp. On the other hand, it also comprehensively tests whether the soldiers who passed the preliminary examination are ready to become a formal soldier. There is no military pay during the trial training, but they can withdraw at any time.

Zhao Ping's grades in the trial training were also good. He passed all the trial training items, and he was also able to read and write. This is very rare among new recruits. There are still some soldiers who can read, but there are only a few people who can write. Of course, writing here is not just about writing his own name, but about the ability to keep accounts and write letters. Therefore, Zhao Ping can be regarded as an intellectual among the newly recruited soldiers. In addition, Zhao Ping also has a skill, which is swimming. So after the trial training, Zhao Ping was assigned to the Navy and became a naval soldier of the People's Army.

The Navy is a high-tech service. Because a warship of this era represents the highest industrial and technical level of a country, the navy soldiers must have a certain cultural foundation in order to learn to drive a warship. An illiterate person is almost unable to work on a warship, and reading and writing has become the most basic ability of a navy soldier, otherwise there will be no way to learn how to operate a warship.

Among the recruited soldiers, all soldiers who can read and write are assigned to the navy, and most of the soldiers who can read but cannot write are assigned to the navy. Although the army has many complaints about this, they can only recognize it. Because the three giants of the Military Commission are all born in the navy, some of them will be partial to the navy, and the army was originally separated from the navy. The two commanders Zhu Yaping were only at the battalion level and the rank of lieutenant colonel, while the seven captains of the navy have the lowest level of deputy regiment level and lieutenant colonel, so the army is now unable to compete with the navy.

Of course, although the army also needs soldiers with high knowledge level, they can be solved by learning to read, read, read, cultural knowledge and training. Therefore, soldiers are not educated and have little impact on army construction. This is also the biggest difference between the army and the navy. Otherwise, although the Military Commission is biased towards Navy, it will not ignore the construction of the army. After all, warships are not equipped with wheels.

After passing the trial, Zhao Ping was put home for three days to rest, of course, and it was also time for him to prepare his luggage, because once he officially entered the military camp, he could not go home easily, so there were a lot of things he had to bring.

Today is the Riji, who officially joined the army. Zhao Weizhong bought a batch of goods from Shanghai, and both shops reopened. Because the supplies in the Tianjin market were still relatively poor at this time, Zhao Weizhong's business was good. So during Zhao Ping's trial training, Zhao Weizhong recruited six new friends in one breath to ensure that after Zhao Ping left, there would be no shortage of personnel around him.

After saying goodbye to Zhao Weizhong, Zhao Ping carried his luggage, left his home, and came to the conscription station. Because the navy's barracks were located in Dagukou, Zhao Ping's group of new recruits were jointly organized by the conscription station to report to the navy's barracks.

It is about 40 kilometers from Tianjin New District to Dagukou. In this era, this is a short distance. If you walk, it will take at least half a day. However, the conscription station was prepared and arranged three donkey carts. After all the recruits arrived, they took the donkey carts and headed towards Dagukou.

It turned out that in the battle ahead, the time traveler seized some donkeys, horses, livestock and vehicles, and these things were naturally left in the army. After all, the transportation of this era was mainly based on animal power. Horses were naturally incorporated into cavalry units, and donkeys were used to pull carts and transport goods. Of course, some vehicles were also changed to vehicles carrying people. Just like the type Zhao Ping is now riding, they are all four-wheeled vehicles, pulled by two donkeys, each car can ride eight people and carry luggage.

Three days ago, the roads from Tianjin to Dagukou had been open, but the road construction project was not over yet, because the original plan was to first repair half of the road, which could be opened to traffic as soon as possible, and then the other half was repaired.

Three donkey carts left Tianjin New District and drove towards Dagukou along the road that had just been completed and opened to traffic. Although the newly built road was only half completed, it was much wider than the roads in the past, and four carriages could be driven side by side. After all, this road was built according to the standards of the four-lane highway in the old time and space. In this era, even though it was only half, there were few broad roads built. The road surface was flat, and the four-wheeler originally had a suspension shock absorption system, so it drove very smoothly on the road.

Most of the recruits went on a long journey for the first time. At this time, they sat in the car without any bumps. They all watched the scenery on the roadside and the construction scene on the other side with interest, and talked and laughed at each other. Although Zhao Ping was not old, he had followed Zhao Weizhong to Dagukou for more than ten times. Every time he took a Chinese two-wheeled carriage or donkey carriage. One reason was that the Chinese two-wheeled carriage itself had no suspension system, and the other was that the road was uneven. Therefore, every time he walked, he was almost disbanded. That was so comfortable this time.

The car was seized from foreigners, but this road was built after overseas Chinese took over Tianjin. It took only more than two months to build such a flat and wide road, which made Zhao Ping amazed how overseas Chinese did it. You should know that if the Qing court presided over the construction of such a road, it would take at least one year.

At this moment, someone in the car suddenly said, "Look, what is that?"

Everyone looked at the sound and saw that on the other side of the construction, there was a huge cart, about 100 meters tall and about 100 feet wide. The front wheel was a huge round with a diameter of 4 feet long. It was no donkey or horse to pull it, and it drove on and made a harsh roar. Wherever the car passed, floating soil, broken sand, fine stones and other objects were pressed into a flat road. Everyone was shocked, not knowing what it was.

In fact, the crossover uses a medium-sized optical wheel roller with a total weight of 18 tons. It adopts rear-wheel drive and front-wheel rolling technology. In the old time and space, this was one of the commonly used machinery for road construction. Generally, the construction of secondary highways, third-level roads, or first-level highways, first-level and second-level roads can be used for compaction and rolling using medium-sized optical wheel rollers.

Now in the crossing group, there are six such medium-sized optical wheel rollers, and two heavy-duty optical wheel rollers and six light rollers. This time, the construction of the Jingu Highway, the temporary executive committee drew two medium-sized optical wheel rollers and two light-duty optical wheel rollers to the construction team. These four rollers have greatly improved the efficiency of the entire road construction.
Chapter completed!