Chapter 168 Recruitment
For Roland, the main value of Old Qi City is to provide sufficient manpower and a stable base. As for how it develops, it is just a matter of course. Roland will not deliberately develop it.

After all, the Green Tide is still active on the front lines. No matter how prosperous a city is, if it does not have sufficient military strength, it will be reduced to ruins when the Green Tide approaches.

Therefore, as the government team was initially established and the old Qicheng was initially put on the right track, all civilians inside and outside the city were carrying out various large-scale constructions under the command of grassroots officials and gradually integrating into the new order.

Roland did not wait for the old Qi City to be completely stable before he immediately shifted his focus from administration to military affairs.

Outside the old Qi City, an empty shell of a military camp was built and started operating under Roland's orders as soon as the enclosure was completed.

Although the conditions Roland offered were not very good, with food and accommodation provided, the monthly salary was only one silver coin, or one hundred food coupons.

One food coupon can be exchanged for one pancake.

However, even though the conditions were not very favorable, there was still an endless stream of refugees and citizens coming to join the army outside the camp.

Although at Roland's request, a large number of public works in the old city of Qi absorbed a large amount of labor.

However, there are still too many people in the old Qicheng. Even though new projects are launched and recruiting people every day, all the current public projects combined cannot absorb all the labor force.

Therefore, Roland had no choice but to divide them into shifts to ensure that everyone had half a day's work to do. In order to prevent them from making trouble in the remaining half a day, Roland cut their food supply and only provided basic survival guarantees to ensure that they would not starve to death, but would not eat too much either.

After all, some people eat too much and become bored and want to cause trouble. This was the experience Roland gained the seventh time he asked Hela to suppress a fight that suddenly broke out because of overeating.

Therefore, after cutting the food supply, if they wanted to have enough to eat, they either had to pass Roland's review and become part of the rapidly expanding government team of Old Qi City, or join the army and become soldiers of Roland's new army.

For civilians who don't know magic, the former needs to pass Roland's magic review, and whether they can pass depends entirely on luck, while the latter only depends on physical fitness and willpower, and can also rely on their own efforts.

Therefore, as civilians from Donnar, there are more civilians who choose to join the army because they are afraid of Roland's magic.

Moreover, one large pancake can meet the daily needs of an adult. If you eat a hundred pancakes a month, it can feed at least three adults. If you break them into pieces and eat some tree bark and wild vegetables, then doubling the amount is not a problem.

Although one silver coin is not bad, in today's old Qi, no matter how much money you have, it is not as real as a piece of cake.

Therefore, as Roland expected, more than 99% of the soldiers who joined the army chose food coupons.

And because he solved the food problem by making pancakes with the art of making meals, Roland had the confidence to continue to expand his army. Three thousand was too few, five thousand would be enough, and ten thousand or even more would not be too much for him.

At the recruitment office in Old Qi City.

The only first-level knight in the Old Qi City was in charge of recruiting with dozens of soldiers, and was also responsible for maintaining order.

Sitting at the table, the soldier looked at the civilians in front of him, pointed at a square crystal on the table, and said.

"Put your hands on it."

Some timid civilians heard the soldiers' words and obediently stretched out their right hands and pressed them on the crystal.

Then the soldier pressed a button on the side of the crystal.

A miniature figure immediately appeared under the table and followed the civilian's right hand that was touching the crystal stone, conducting a full body examination on him.

After spending more than ten seconds checking, the micro magic circle quickly dissipated, and the inspection results appeared on the crystal.

There was no detailed and complex data, only a faint red light.

After all, the soldiers couldn't understand the specific data, so Roland simply used colors to divide them.

This is just a simple check and classification of the physical fitness and talents of civilians. Even if their physical fitness and talents are particularly poor, they will not be eliminated immediately.

The soldier looked at the light of the crystal and pressed another button to reset the crystal result. He turned around and pointed to a passage with a red sign behind him. "Red, go through the red door. If you can reach the end of the passage within one minute, you will pass. Don't ask how long one minute is. Just run and you'll be done."

The civilians hesitated.

"Hurry up, the next one is waiting."

Seeing the civilian hesitate, the soldier urged impatiently.

Hearing the soldier's urging, the civilians did not dare to say anything more. They quickly stood up and walked quickly into the passage behind the red sign.

"Next!"

Following the voice of the soldier behind him, the civilian swallowed, took a deep breath, and ran all the way deep into the passage.

As he ran all the way, the passage suddenly lit up, and various magic arrays quickly unfolded, slowly beginning to exert pressure on the civilians.

Fear Mind, Gravity Field, Slowness, Weakness
The negative spell that was weakened countless times was bestowed upon him. At first, it was just a negligible effect, but as he went deeper, the influence of the spell became more and more profound and intense.

Under the effect of the spell, he went from walking very fast in the beginning to having to grit his teeth and move forward step by step in the end.

Since he didn't know it was the influence of the spell, he could only guess that he was too tired from time to time or some other reason. However, thinking about the 100 food coupons he would get after joining the army, he didn't want to endure hunger anymore, so he gritted his teeth, and moved forward step by step despite all the negative buffs.

Fortunately, Roland was only conducting a simple coaching selection and did not set the standards too high. Therefore, with his persistence, he successfully survived and walked out of the passage.

The moment he walked out of the passage, all the negative buffs on his body disappeared. At the same time, a weak life force was injected into his body from under his feet, quickly replenishing and stimulating his extremely tired body.

"Huhu."

After walking out of the passage, he breathed a sigh of relief and was aware of the marks on his body while breathing heavily.

Countless sludge mixed with sweat was constantly pouring out of his body, and he almost vomited just by smelling it.

Just as he was about to look up and see what was around him, a man crawled out of the passage beside him.

That's right, it crawled out.

He touched the mud beside his eyes and watched the man holding his head high, using his hands and feet, biting his lips, and crawling out of the passage little by little, dragging a trail of blood on the ground.

After desperately crawling out of the passage, mud began to flow out of the man's body, but he ignored it. Instead, he raised his head and made a hoarse sound.

"Did I pass?"

"You passed."

A voice sounded from in front of him, and after hearing these words, the man finally couldn't hold on any longer and finally lowered his head.

The civilian looked in the direction of the voice and saw a soldier with a mouth covered in iron sheet walking over.

"Follow me."

After speaking to the civilians, the soldier picked up the guy on the ground and muttered.

“This is the first time I’ve seen one crawl in.”

(End of this chapter)