To say that China's army began to modernize, it began with the late New Army, which updated the system of the new army and the training methods of the army after drawing on the recruitment conditions and scale of Germany and Japan.
The reason why it borrowed from the German military system was because in 1871, the Franco-Prussian War led by Germany and France broke out, and the German army actually defeated the French army that was the dominant side in Europe in the war, shocking the world, and since then, countries have begun to imitate the German army system.
At that time, after the late Qing Dynasty emulated Germany and Japan, the training of the new army became very strict, and if according to the recruitment standards at that time, I estimate that less than ten percent of the young people in China today can meet the requirements, which shows how strict it is.
At the beginning, the formation and training of the new army was actually in Xinnong Town, Tianjin. At that time, Hu Yandi, the envoy of Guangxi At that time, was responsible for recruiting and training troops, and there were about ten battalions, one thousand artillerymen, three thousand infantry, and five hundred cavalry and engineering departments combined. In total, there were 4,750 men, and the name of the army was "Dingwu Army". At that time, it was very powerful, and it was a force that gathered elites from all over the world.
Later, after Yuan Shikai came to power, he renamed it the "New Army" and expanded its number to 7,300 people. At that time, the scale was very large and well-equipped, which was where the training of the late Fresh Army began.
Since then, new recruits have begun to be recruited all over the country, and the recruitment is very strict, and the conditions for recruitment are generally as follows:
1. The recruitment of the New Army first excludes incomplete facial features, weak hands and siblings, frailty and diseases of the eyes, all of which are not accepted.
2. Recruit people who are not honest and uneasy, and those who have a case background will not be accepted.
3. If you want to participate in the recruitment, you must be sponsored by the village chief and the chief of the security bureau, and at the same time, you need the consent of the family, and finally the local government can inspect and accept it.
4. Those who participate in the recruitment must participate in the place of their own province, and do not accept or accept people from their own province.
5. Northern soldiers must be four feet eight inches tall, and southerners must be four feet six inches tall to participate in recruitment
6. Those involved in the recruitment must be able to lift something that weighs more than a hundred pounds.
7, there is no smoking, must be in good health, no bad habits.
8. Recruits from the North must be between the ages of twenty and twenty-five, and recruits from the South must be between sixteen and twenty years of age.
9. The person who is selected will also have a three-month probationary period, and if the performance is not good or there is a problem, they will be kicked out.
This is a relatively common recruitment standard in the country, and each locality will also adjust the recruitment conditions according to its own situation and the conditions proposed by the leader. For example, the new army recruitment in Hubei, the ruler at that time was Zhang Zhidong, he required that the new recruits in Hubei must be able to read and write.
One of the 1905 Changsha requirements was: "It must be for those who can read." Later, with the passage of time, the provinces also began to require soldiers to have a certain cultural foundation. Probably for these universal requirements, and the conditions that require knowledge, I believe that many people find it easy to achieve today, how can it be that less than ten percent of the people meet the standard.
Don't worry, the following article, there will be many young people who can't meet the conditions, and even feel that they are not as good as they are. I think someone should have guessed that it was the strict requirement for vision in recruit recruitment.
In the recruitment conditions of Jilin Province at that time, there was a high requirement for eye vision: all applicants must be able to see the five fingers of the person clearly at a distance of two hundred meters. This is more high than the way we measure vision today, that is to say, even if you reach the current vision of five points and two, it may be difficult to see people's five fingers at a distance of two hundred meters, which really tests the limit of people's vision.
Not to mention that today's society uses mobile phones and computers so frequently, and now the learning tasks are so heavy, looking around at how many students in a class can not wear glasses? Even the height of parents, resulting in many children now born with myopia. In this way, it is true that few people today can meet this standard.
After emulating the German conscription system, the strength of the army at that time increased significantly, and the more scientific recruitment conditions made the overall quality of the soldiers improve, and there would no longer be that kind of muddy waters. Slowly, the conscription system replaced the backward eight-stage, green camp era of the world soldier system.
The biggest feature of the new recruitment system is that it always maintains the youthfulness of the army; in the past, there were always many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the ranks, and the current recruitment system can retire after serving at a certain age, which has a great positive effect on our modern times.
Although the technology of the army at that time was far inferior to that of foreign countries, it was already a qualitative leap in the incidence rate at that time in the late Qing Dynasty, which was also a big step forward in China's modernization to modernization, so it was well deserved to be called the most arrogant army in China at that time.