Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

This was his own little thought. The Senate probably thought that this kind of thing was harmless. After all, it was self-funded recruitment and not a regular legion, and his army would not stay for long, so they directly acquiesced to Orwell's propaganda and recruitment standards, just as Orwell was recruiting mercenaries. Roman citizenship was not valuable and easy to obtain in Rome, not to mention that this was really joining the army for the country, so there was no problem with the number of years.

Orwell divided it into two tracks - one for recruiting soldiers and one for recruiting staff.

Recruiting soldiers mainly depends on physical fitness. Those who pass the officer's examination will be brought to Orwell for an "interview", which is actually a slight check of ability attributes. Orwell will have people write down those with good attributes and focus on them. The specific division of labor will be discussed later.

Recruiting staff is more complicated. It is mainly to recruit intellectuals who have no combat ability or talents with special abilities. Orwell does not have a particularly suitable reviewer, so it can only be handed over to Procopius and Belisarius. The former reviews intellectuals and the latter reviews special talents, mainly those who are gifted.

The recruitment work was still very smooth. Orwell didn't need many people. The first round of recruitment required 1,200 people. Rome could fully supply these people. There were many excellent grassroots officers with military values ​​between 15 and 20, and even several veterans with military values ​​between 20 and 25. They were fully capable of serving as legion commanders, which could fully meet Orwell's needs. He selected the best of the best and found a group of people that made him very satisfied.

Rome is not short of soldiers now, and there are also many soldiers who are talented but not appreciated. Many people are willing to come if they are given a chance. Orwell can see through the other party's ability with just one touch, and it is still easy to find soldiers with good quality from them.

As for the recruitment of staff, it is more difficult to put it nicely, and it is disastrous to put it bluntly.

There must be few intellectuals in ancient times, and Orwell was able to find Procopius, which was actually a bargain.

He was a Roman born in Palphi, who had lived in Caesarea before. He came to Rome to avoid the war. He was unfamiliar with the place and had no connections. The residents of Rome were somewhat xenophobic, so Procopius felt that his talent was not appreciated, and Orville happened to run into him.

Generally speaking, in this era, reading or buying books is a luxury. People who can be called intellectuals are either rich or have a background, and most people have both.

There are people who can learn by themselves in places like libraries without hiring teachers or buying books, but they are definitely very, very few. If there are such child prodigies in Rome, they would have been noticed by those in the Senate long ago. Orville is a latecomer and can't catch up.

So Procopius didn't have much to satisfy him after reviewing for a long time, and Orville was not very satisfied when he and these people were second-in-competence.

These people have a certain level of knowledge, but Orville is really useless for people who are proficient in poetry, drama, and rhetoric, so he can only decline the other party.

In the final analysis, the noble families in Rome did not really recognize Orville. The respect they showed was for Vespa and the Flavian royal family. They would not send the truly gifted children in their families to him. If they really wanted to bet, they would bet on Tia. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Tia was the one Vespa wanted to support. Orville did not want to compete with Tia, and he remained almost invisible without jumping up and down.

He himself did not care about this situation, and he would not feel unbalanced. He knew that the noble families in Rome would not treat him well, and his position did not make people respect him from the bottom of their hearts. It was only with the protection of Vespa that he had some room to play, just like a child riding on an elephant. The adults around him looked up to them not because the child was tall, but because the elephant was tall.

If he wanted to respect him, he had to make military achievements like Tia or prove his worth in other ways. This was the next step.

Vespa had already considered this, and sent several of his confidants with good personalities and abilities to Orville. He also sent Belisarius to Orville without knowing it, and also sent Procopius to Orville. With these two people, Orville should not complain.

After a few days, Orville lost interest, and in the end, no one was selected. He could only let Procopius take over first, which should not be a big problem in the short term.

As for the selection of talents, if the intellectuals disappointed him, this side made him speechless.

According to the current situation, there will be one talent in about three or four thousand people. It sounds like a low ratio, but looking at the entire Roman Empire, there are actually quite a few people. At least in the capital, there are thousands of talents. The essence of the Roman Empire is in this place.

But among these thousands of people, only half or even one-third can really be used in normal times. Among the "useful" people, there are many in literature and art or life skills, and there are even fewer people who will be useful to Orville in the future.

The Roman authorities also paid great attention to the gifted. They had their own mature screening system to select these useful gifted people. For example, Aurelian, who came into this historical period, was also a gifted person and was promoted by the emperor Claudius at that time to become a cavalry officer, and then he was promoted in the Guards system.

Capable people can get along anywhere, and they don’t necessarily want to come to Orwell. They serve the royal family in Tia, Vespa or the Guards, and they also serve Rome in the Senate.

In the end, those who were not selected by them and left to Orville were basically all ugly.

Except for one of his subordinates who kindly recommended a gifted person in the family to him, whose talent was in the direction of practical combat, Orville did not see any particularly useful characters.

For example, apart from that person, the most useful person Orville saw was a provincial Roman citizen of Gaulish descent. According to him, he was blessed by fairies and had two pairs of fairy wings on his back, which allowed him to "fly in the sky."

It sounds like being able to fly is very powerful. When fighting, flying into the sky, Orville would be like turning on perspective. As a result, Orville found that it was not what he imagined at all.

His two pairs of wings were very small, only as long as two forearms, and when using them, they would cause a very serious burden on the heart and lungs. Generally, he could only fly three meters high and stay in the air for two or three seconds. Flying three or four times would basically be unbearable.

Orville had watched for a few days without any results and was a little frustrated, so he insisted on testing the opponent's limits. It turned out that the opponent really needed this position, so he flew to a height of about five meters, and then fainted before landing, and almost died on the spot.