Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 41: Reorganization

One person takes the lead, and the crowd is like an ant nest on a long dike. First you look at me, I look at you, and soon, you call me and bring a family to sign up. Zhou Shi’s promises to them were too tempting. They couldn’t help but be tempted.

Basically all the people who signed up were residents whose homes were burned by fire. They have nothing now. Since they have nothing to eat or wear and wait to die, it is better to bite their teeth and believe it. The next pie! Besides, how is it the Ming army, no matter how bad it is, can it be worse than the Tartars?

You have to hurry up, or else people will not hire you, there will be nowhere to regret it. After they leave, who cares if they live or die in the city, they can still count on two more gruels a day to die!

“After signing up, you will be given food, clothing, and meat, right?”

“Yes!”

“Is the two taels of silver that I said earlier still paid?”

“The hair, but only for the young and strong, not for the elderly and children.”

“Why not the elderly and children?”

“Because we didn’t accept them before, but now we accept them, and we have to give them food, clothing, and meat!”

“Oh? Okay!”

“Xiusai, my second grandfather is blind, let me ask, can he also sign up?”

“This… OK, let him sign up.”

“Xiusai, my family still has some relatives in the mountains. If they are willing to come to participate, will you accept them?”

“receive!”

“…”

Zhou Shixiang couldn’t even count how many words he said, and he couldn’t remember how many words he said against his will. For disabled people such as the blind and the lame, he really didn’t know what he could do, but the big talk was ahead. , this will also have to bite the bullet and should come down. As for how to arrange them in the future, we will talk about it later.

Zhou Shixiang didn’t think it was worthwhile to continue cashing out the two taels of silver to the young and strong. To put it bluntly, these two taels of silver were actually money for life. Money can be given to them, but whether they can spend their lives depends on their fortunes. Besides, if they don’t work hard, what will they use to support their wives and children.

There is no such thing as a pie in the world at all. No matter what the promise is, in the end, it is still up to the people involved to earn it, expecting others to sacrifice for you selflessly. There will be no such thing in a few hundred years.

Survival of the fittest.

Looking at the fiery registration scene, these four words suddenly appeared in Zhou Shixiang’s mind. He knew very well that most of these people may not live to the day when their dreams come true, because the reality is too cruel and the enemies they face are too great. too powerful.

Zhou Shixiang knew very well that no matter how hype he said, the word “coercion” could not escape today’s scene. If he succeeds, he will be fine. In the future, the historian will always sing a hymn for his actions today, such as the people returning to their hearts, raising their arms, and all parties responding. But if he loses, he will end up not much better than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, but I’m afraid it’s better than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At least, he didn’t come up with a **** to teach him.

Now let’s see if I can lead these “coerced” people to create one miracle after another, so that they can have a little more chance of survival.

………

There were too many people who were encouraged by Zhou Shixiang. They surrounded the city gate with three floors and three floors. They waited on the left and right, but Zhao Sihai, who could not wait for Boss Hu and Duke Xianggong of Song, did not dare to stop them, so he could only lead the way he recruited earlier. The young man maintained the order, and called two clerks to register those who signed up to make a roster.

The two little officials who were brought in to do the registration were dumbfounded when they saw this scene. They had seen the world to some extent. How could they believe that such a good thing really happened in this world? They all said that these bandits were coaxing the people to replace They gave their lives to death!

Virtuous, you just pull the young men away, why bother to lead these old and weak women and children to death!

God **** it!

Rogues, rogues, don’t die!

Cursing and cursing, the knife handle of the “thief” is right next to him. No matter how brave these two officials were, they would not dare to openly dissuade the people. They could only honestly register the roster there. Every time a person’s name is written, both of them sigh inwardly: Another idiot who will die!

“My name is Song Erniu. My family of six signed up. This is my mother, this is my mother-in-law, these two are my babies, and the younger one is my nephew.”

“My name is Lin Qilong, my family of four signed up, this is my father, my mother, this is my son, nicknamed Lin Shitou.”

“Where’s your mother-in-law?”

“The year before last, the soldiers were called and taken away.”

“Sir, little girl Qi Qin, my aunt and I are willing to sew and mend the soldiers, and please remember us.”

“What about your man?”

“…all dead…”

“Alas, two widows…”

“Little baby, you were alone yesterday, where are your parents?”

“My father’s name is Tarzi Lafuzi, and my mother ran away with someone.”

………

The registration was busy until the afternoon, and the rest was either killed or unwilling to join the army, or there were relatives who could defect.

These people account for about one-fifth of the total number of victims, more than 200 people. They huddled together and watched with cold eyes, sometimes with a sneering smile on the corners of their mouths.

Zhou Shixiang saw their expressions, and sneered in his heart, but he didn’t plan to use them right now, because he still needed to reorganize the people he had recruited, and he didn’t expect them to be able to fight immediately, but at least he had to obey. Order, know to obey the commander’s words.

Zhao Sihai showed the roster to Zhou Shixiang with a bitter face. According to Zhou Shixiang, all men who were fourteen and under forty-five were considered young and strong. Form an army. After screening, a total of 320 people met this condition, and the remaining more than 800 people were all elderly, weak, women and children.

Zhou Shixiang asked Zhao Sihai to lead people to reorganize the 320 young men and 35 people who were willing to join the army. Zhao Sihai asked how to reorganize. After thinking about it, Zhou Shixiang asked him to organize it according to the method of 10 people and 50 people. Shan’s old brothers served as corps leader and team leader respectively. After the people are reorganized, they will invent military uniforms and weapons for them, and strive to reorganize the entire team before the sun goes down. He will be of great use at that time.

Although Zhao Sihai was dissatisfied with Zhou Shixiang’s recruitment of old and weak women and children, he was happy to reorganize the young and strong. He had been in the Ming army before. Although Zhou Shixiang’s formation method was somewhat different from that of the Ming army, the general meaning was similar, and after the reorganization , he and the old brothers from Daqiao Mountain can lead troops one by one. Although the corps leader and the team are far away from the generals and garrison they imagined, it is always a good start. As long as there are soldiers~www.readwn.com~, are you afraid of not being an official?

There are more than 800 old and weak women and children. Zhou Shixiang has no plans to divide them into old camps and female camps for the time being. Instead, they will be mixed for the time being. This will easily dispel the suspicions of these people, and it will also facilitate the younger families to take care of the older ones. After all, with relatives around, this heart can always be a lot more stable.

There is a promise in advance that as long as you participate, you will have food and meat to eat, and there is no rush for clothes. Grain is readily available, and the large households and the unaffected residents have all been assigned the task of collecting grain, so as long as a pot is needed, the stove can be opened. The meat is a little troublesome, but in the end, I relied on three big fat pigs “borrowed” from Zhang Chang’s family to solve the urgent need.

In the evening, all 355 young men were reorganized and put on clean Ming army uniforms, holding swords and guns in their hands.

Hu Boss and Song Xianggong also rushed over from Zhizhou Yamen when it was about to get dark, but beyond Zhao Sihai’s expectations, Hu Boss actually greatly appreciated Zhou Shixiang’s practice of recruiting all the people to join the army, Song Xianggong couldn’t stop praising it, which made Zhao Sihai The four seas are very confused.

However, Zhou Shixiang knew that this must be Duke Xiang of Song who told Hu Quan what he thought, which made Hu Quan support him so much.

In order to avoid the suspicion of ultra vires, Zhou Shixiang asked Boss Hu to appoint the team leader and the team leader. After Boss Hu refused for a while, he was not polite. He appointed Zhao Sihai, Ge Wu, Peng Dazhu, Ge Liu, and Baldzi as the team leaders of the five teams, and the remaining team leaders were all served by old brothers.

Because there were still dozens of Qing prisoners locked up in the yamen, Boss Hu sent Peng Dazhu to lead a team of soldiers to the yamen to guard.

Ge Wu and the others just came over, and they still don’t know what Zhou Shixiang said and did during the day. After Zhao Sihai told about the public treasury and the old and weak women and children, sure enough, he started making trouble again. ;