"The relevant facilities and ships at the northeastern port are still under construction. You can start by selecting soldiers. I've already issued instructions to the nearby military districts and training camps. They'll all cooperate with you."
"Yes!"
In Great Zhou, naval soldiers were generally selected directly from military district units or from recruits who had already completed basic training at training camps.
They rarely recruited and trained ordinary people from scratch.
After all, the differences between military branches meant that naval soldiers usually faced higher training requirements than ordinary army soldiers.
Anyone without a foundation simply wouldn't be able to endure it.
After leaving the imperial palace with the appointment letter bestowed by the emperor, Badler quickly got to work.
He did not head straight for the nearest Grassland Military District. Instead, he turned around and went to the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Naval soldiers did indeed need to be carefully selected, but he couldn't possibly pick them one by one.
The simplest method was to send a set of tests directly to the surrounding military districts and training camps.
Anyone who wanted to join the Great Zhou Navy and could pass the tests would be sent over.
According to Badler's plan, they could first screen two or three thousand people at this stage.
Of course, the Northeast Navy currently did not even have a single ship, so they obviously did not need that many people.
The two or three thousand people who passed the basic tests and were sent to him would still have to undergo his formal testing. A large batch would be eliminated then.
After that, some might still be eliminated during the first few months of daily training.
Those who remained would be the first true batch of naval soldiers in Great Zhou's Northeast Navy.
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