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Chapter 72 The old camp

Since ancient times, Han people have been at peace with their wealth. Since the Song and Ming dynasties, there has been a saying that they value culture over military affairs and prefer men rather than military affairs.

Unlike those residents who were in a fire at home, who had nothing to participate in the Taiping Camp in order to fight for a road of life, those residents who did not participate did not suffer from the fire at home, so they were unwilling to abandon their homes to participate in this Laoshizi Taiping Camp.

Even if such people have a home, the family is still barely covered, and the whole family has no meals after having a meal, these people will not give up this home, because this home can shelter them from wind and rain and give them a root.

If you have a home, you will have hope; if you have roots, you will not be a lonely ghost who dies in a foreign land.

If they were not in desperate situations, the Han people would not leave their hometowns, nor would they become soldiers or masters of cannon fodder. Therefore, when the magistrate's office posted a notice to ask the entire city's residents to join the army, panic and resistance would naturally be inevitable.

In the eyes of these residents, Taipingying deluded the victims of disasters with food, clothes, and meat, just to deceive ghosts. How can there be such a good thing in this world? Besides, their eyes are not blind, and it can be seen that many of the people who flocked into the city in the past two days have bitter faces. If this is a good thing, they can have bitter faces, just like their parents who died? And the guys who shouted to sign up a few days ago, just a few days ago? The living people were buried in the ground. Did this person die yesterday? The battle was fought yesterday? The ghost knows!

Mr. Wu, Mr. Qi and others are famous good people, and have passed on the family traditions. They have all become officials of the Ming Dynasty. Why did this Taiping Camp confiscate others? Could it be the order issued by the Emperor Yongli? No matter how you look at it, this Taiping Camp is acting strangely. Anyway, it doesn’t look like the serious Ming Dynasty official army. It may be like some people say that these people are not Ming troops at all, they are bandits at all!

Besides, the people are illiterate, do not recognize words, cannot read the great principles in books, and cannot understand the teachings of sages, but we are not stupid. In this world, people can bring people into the army without caring about the elderly, weak, women and children, and there is no one else except bandits!

For ordinary people, if you are poor, you will be poor. As long as you abide by the laws of the king and be honest, no matter which emperor in the world is the one who is the one in the yamen, no matter the surname Ming and Qing, you can live your life. After fighting for so many years, someone who is an official must farm land and feed them, right? He can give us a way to live. Now a bullshit notice tells us to join the army. Isn’t this driving people to death and giving them a way to live?

One hundred people have one hundred hearts. In this case, the word "voluntary" on the notice of the prefectural yamen is really just the word "voluntary" on paper. No one is voluntary at all, and they are all hiding at home!

At first, Duke Xiang of Song also arranged a group of minor officials, and found some young people who could read a few words from the camp, mostly men and people who could talk. These people held the gongs sent by the yamen, knocked everywhere along the street, and then shouted at the top of their voices, but after shouting, they had no effect. Two hours passed, but none of them took the initiative to open their doors and go to Taiping Camp to sign up.

So, the violence began.

In the process of forcing those residents who refused to join the Taiping Camp to join the camp, some were given off their arms, some were injured in their legs, and some were beaten to the faces of blood. It was really a mess and every household was crying.

Force was forced, but with Zhou Shixiang's repeated warnings, several general flags ordered to carry out the mission still restrained their subordinates, so that no one could die. After an afternoon of shouting, crying and chaos, the Taiping Camp finally carried all the residents of Luo Ding into the camp, thus increasing more than 400 young and strong, and increasing more than 1,000 elderly, weak, women and children.

All the materials that could be used for the Taiping Camp in the homes of unaffected residents were also collected, ranging from iron tools to pots and pans to pots and pans. In short, all the things that could be used were taken away, and even the door panels were removed. It is said that they could be used to block the Tartars' arrows during marches in the future, and they could be used to make beds when camping. If there are wounded people, they can also be used to carry people. When there is a rainy day, the wood for burning fire cannot be found, and this door panel can also be used.

The number of elderly, weak, women and children in the back camp increased to nearly 10,000. Such a large population made Duke Xiang of Song whitewash overnight.

There are many people and many people, many people coax, many people cause chaos, and many people are difficult to say... In short, if there are too many people, it will definitely not be a big force, and it will become more chaotic and more difficult to manage.

Without rules, there will be no order.

Governing the people is essentially the same as marching and fighting. As long as there is a charter and the responsible personnel at all levels are designated, things will not be messed up. Once a few days of running-in period is over, this matter will be on track.

In order to adapt these elderly, weak, women and children to the life of Taipingying in the shortest time and accept the leadership and command of Taipingying, Gong Xiang of Song spent most of the night to compile the basic management system of the Houying. During this process, Zhou Shixiang also came up with many ideas based on some methods from later generations. In the end, a "Taipingying Houying Organization Management Measures" was released.

Although this management method cites some methods from later generations, it generally follows the idea of ​​governing the people in this era.

Duke Xiang of Song divided the Hou battalion into twenty small battalions, each battalion had one battalion, five battalion managers and ten battalion managers.

The so-called old man in the camp is actually equivalent to the chief banner officer in the front camp. However, the former is to govern the people and the latter is to manage the army, so he has the position of "old man in the camp", rather than having a chief banner officer as in the army.

Most of the elderly in the camp are elders, or the village chiefs. In short, the only condition for appointing the elderly in the camp is that they must be unanimously recognized by the elderly, weak, women and children in the camp, and others are willing to listen to what they say. As for the camp management, it is convenient to choose the elderly, weak, and people with some strength to take on the role. The main task is to assist the elderly, weak, women and children in the camp. If the wounded soldiers who retired from the camp will be placed in the future, they will be arranged in this position.

The grain of the people in the camp is also collected from the public treasury by the Ying Lao and the Yingguan before being distributed. In Zhou Shixiang's view, this procedure is very likely to lead to the corruption of the Ying Lao and the Yingguan. However, it is not the time to consider this. Compared with the disadvantage of the Ying Lao and the Yingguan, the ration of the Ying Lao and the Yingguan may embezzle the food of the Ying Lao and the Yingguan, the ration of the Ying Lao is the most effective organizational method at present.

The candidates for the camp were soon released. The more than 1,000 elderly, weak women and children in the Laofengzhuang Copper Mine were divided into three battalions. The battalions and battalions were selected by themselves, and the people who voluntarily followed were also appointed by the elders in their original village. Duke Xiang of Song only interfered when arranging the Luo Ding's private camps to be forced into the camp. Most of the other battalions were chosen by themselves, so they could report them.
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