Gunpowder and Sanitation (8)

The military is an organization where, no matter the era, if you're told to do it, you do it.

You also have to believe that simply hanging up a bell that makes everyone smile whenever it rings would somehow solve all 'barracks corruption' and create a happy barracks where everyone is content.

It was also an organization where, if some lowly sergeant warned a private that mixing rice into soup was a serious breach of discipline, then even if that private later broke the rule and the company gathered the soldiers below his rank to chew them out to death, it would still be the private's fault.

Therefore, even in the Chungmu Guard, if the Minister of War told them to do it, it was an order they couldn't make sense of with their own heads—but what could they do? They had to obey.

Daejeong Kim Han-mo of the Chungmu Guard was now hearing an order that, by his own common sense, made no sense.

"The Minister of War has ordered that all troops bathe once every three days, and before eating, they must wash their hands thoroughly with water. In addition, they must wash their uniforms once every seven days, and the barracks where the soldiers live must always be kept clean."

A lowly Daejeong (a platoon-level officer, former soldier) couldn't argue with or defy the orders of a Tongjang (battalion-level officer).

No, this was an order issued by the Minister of War himself; if he dared to resist it, something very unfortunate would happen.

So even if this was the sort of command that came out of nowhere, he had no choice but to obey.

Besides, it wasn't even an order to send the soldiers off to die; it was just telling him to suffer a little more with them. What else could he do...