Recruitment Order

Thomas shed tears of happiness. He had been with King Serius for 50 years. They had been thinking about what they should do to change people's perception of them, but they failed. However, Porus accomplished it on his first day. Maybe they should have thought in a different direction.

It's December 25th today. Porus thought about two other cities so that he can understand this region much better. He traveled to the other two cities in the following days. There is a bad smell in every city. Due to his orders, some people's lives have changed, and they are now living in church quarters. Also, old children and disabled people are also happy now.

The West region has a population of more than 20 million. It is impossible to care for everyone, so as a king, he needs to give opportunities to everyone so that at least everyone can have a chance. He thought and issued a recruitment order for literate people who can read and write.

He ordered Thomas to select these people from all places in the western region. He wanted to include everyone. A king should not be biased.

Thomas issued another recruitment notice. He interviewed and selected 500 educated individuals from various locations. Porus selected 90 people for mine supervision, assigning 5 people to each mine. The remaining individuals will oversee food distribution in all areas of the western region.

Now, Porus has ordered the recruitment of 50 individuals to conduct a population census in the western region. He has instructed them to record the number of people in each family, their ages, gender (men or women), occupation, talents, and family status (rich or poor). Since this task is quite challenging, he has assigned an additional 50 people to assist with the work.

The next day, supervisors wrote down the names of the workers and informed them that their salaries would be given on a weekly basis. If they worked hard, free food would also be distributed daily. The mine workers got excited as their working hours were also changed from 12 hours to 8 hours per day.

Total 18 mines, each mine can have 2500 workers. Total 45000 people got jobs from the mines.

Church ration shops were taken over by guards and the prices of grains were normalized. In the past, people had to pay 1 copper for 3 catties . Now, you can buy 6 catties of grains for 1 copper.

All the people have become happy due to the reduction in prices. Now, they can afford to buy things with their salaries.

Now Porus has the west region. He can't stay here forever. Before winter ends, he has to capture the capital. The capital city has become light church headquarters, which is his palace.

Once the capital and west regions were controlled, the remaining regions are not as powerful. So, he needs to do it before winter. Once winter is over, the light missionaries in the central region will send resources and food for the next five years to the churches here and take back the children and ores mined here.

Yes, the light missionaries only come once every 5 years because the journey of coming and going is time-consuming. It takes them one year to complete the journey. That's why they only come once every 5 years. They start in March from the central region of the continent and travel to the banished lands, where they will arrive in October. So, he has to visit all the churches and wipe them clean before October of this coming year.

He had to stay in the capital once it was captured. So, he needed soldiers to guard the western region. Therefore, he decided to recruit young men and women and train them as soldiers. He told his plan to Thomas, who readily accepted.

Early in the morning, guards posted notices in all the crowded places in the city. It was a recruitment order for soldiers who are between 16 and 30 years old. The salary offered was 2 silver per month, and food would be provided by the King.

Once the notice was read, all the young people ran towards the recruitment place. Looking at the running people, everyone became happy. Finally, they had sweet smiles on their faces.

James and the head guards sat in front of tables. There are papers and pens on the table. Hundreds of young men are standing in lines. The first test is a running test of 100 meters. The second test is reasoning, and the third test is a character test.

There were a total of 4000 people who participated in the running test, but only 1400 passed. The next test was the reasoning test, which assessed their IQ and reasoning ability. There were 20 questions that they had to answer correctly, at least 5 of them. A total of 800 people were selected from the reasoning test. Finally, there was the character test, which determined whether a person was greedy, selfish, or altruistic. Only 600 people passed the character test. James recruited a total of 5000 people from all parts of the western region.

Now, Porus has 6000 guards, but he does not have soldiers. He has to train them this month. He explained the detailed training method to James. Like soldiers on Earth, all these exercises were included in this training program. It is a 100-day training program.

He also told Thomas that nutritional foods like eggs, meat, and milk should be included in their diet. Meat should be consumed twice a week, while an egg and milk should be added to their daily meals.

He also ordered soldiers to purchase wild meat from hunters daily. Hunters became very happy because they could sell their hunt to the soldiers, so they need not be afraid of buyers.

In the 100-day training, it will only train body strength and body reflexes. After all regions are under his control, then he will find a way to make them cultivate. Then he can train them into warriors so that his army has warrior soldiers.