Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 62: Promise

Zhou Shi saw a lot of people, so he ordered people to be organized immediately to prevent them from causing chaos. He personally selected 60 young and strong prisoners from the 118 prisoners to serve as the dead soldiers of the Taiping Battalion.

The first thing Chen Mo did after he took office was to stand up first. He imitated the prison tyrant, and he drew the stronger among the prisoners to oppress the weaker, and set various rules to make a dead man battalion with him. It’s as dark as a prison.

In this regard, Zhou Shi turned a blind eye to each other. He only wanted obedient dead men. As for the inhuman treatment of these dead men who were prisoners a few hours ago, he did not care. To be honest, even if Chen Mo was beaten to death for setting rules For a prisoner who is disobedient and dares to resist, he will also treat it as not happening, and even send troops to assist Chen Mo to suppress the prisoners who are unwilling to obey.

The great men of later generations once said that theory must be combined with practice. Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Although Zhou Shixiang served in the People’s Army in his previous life, the army is, in the final analysis, a violent machine. Soldiers do not need independent thinking, let alone one hundred people. Hundreds of hearts occur, and obedience is the first principle of the army, such as stabs and rebels, can never be tolerated in the army. Therefore, when a recruit entering the army encounters various discomforts and revolts, and theoretical persuasion and education cannot be effective, corporal punishment may be the most effective means.

Zhou Shixiang had no intention of bringing the various theories of later generations to China in the 17th century. In his opinion, anything that transcended the characteristics of the times was impractical. Therefore, in the 17th century army, corporal punishment of soldiers or even killing people Obedient soldiers are nothing to blame, nothing to blame.

Compared with the tragic experience of a single soldier, the existence and strength of the Taiping battalion overwhelms everything. If the Taiping battalion fails, it will not be the unfortunate fate of one soldier, but the unfortunate fate of countless soldiers and their families!

Rebellion is a skill, and how to make soldiers obedient is one of those skills. Zhou Shixiang’s choice was simple—violence.

In what era we live in, we must act according to the national conditions of the era. For example, some time-travel novels of later generations like to have parliaments in ancient times, and the separation of powers. In Zhou Shixiang’s view, this is purely imaginary, a joke that came up with a slap in the head. Let me ask, under the premise that most people are illiterate and have no culture, how can they think independently and how can they exercise their political rights?

Regardless of the national conditions, some policies that seem to be “high and high” are forcibly implemented. The result is that the separation of powers is a legal system in which the powerful and the rich sit and divide the dirty, and the parliament is also a club of local gangsters, gangsters, officials and businessmen colluding with underworld forces. . Ordinary people cannot play this game at all, because they are illiterate, they have no money, they have no rights, and they have no time, because they are busy raising their families.

Democracy is a rich man’s game.

Zhou Shixiang never believed in democracy. He always believed that the most suitable political system for China was centralization, especially in 17th century China, and the military must be like this.

Of course, thinking about this now is really worrying about eating radishes. As for the problem at hand, Zhou Shixiang sees it very simply. The dead are used to kill. If the dead are not obedient, what are they going to do? So as long as Chen Mo can make these prisoners obedient, no matter what method he uses, Zhou Shixiang’s attitude is to acquiesce. He has no energy to play the role of a master of the sky. Are these prisoners wronged, and should they not die as dead men in vain? , is not something he cares about. At least, it is not what he should be concerned about now. What he should be concerned about now is how to make the Taiping Camp survive and grow until the Manchu Qing Dynasty is completely wiped out and China is restored.

Among the more than 600 people who fled to Deqing, the young and strong people were also drawn out and organized. There were 230 people in total. Some of them were added to the teams that suffered heavy losses, and the rest were formed into two new teams. In addition to the troops, the Taiping Battalion had 8 troops in Xihedu, a total of 400 people, of which 60 were dead soldiers.

The captured weapons of the Deqing Green Battalion were quickly distributed, and forty pieces of cotton armor were distributed to the outstanding Jiangxi soldiers and Luo Ding soldiers. One new thing, the depression caused by the heavy casualties was swept away and replaced by a boost of morale.

The death camp did not issue weapons, not because the weapons were not enough, but because they were unnecessary. Shao Jiugong told Zhou Shixiang that this group of people usually eat and drink offerings, and they don’t need training. When fighting a tough battle, one person will put a knife, and if conditions permit, they will put on more armor, let them rush, and they will be pulled down when they die.

Zhou Shixiang naturally had his own ideas about the future development of the dead man’s camp, but now Shao Jiugong was right, so he didn’t make too many arrangements.

The more than 100 young men that Peng Dazhu had captured from the surrounding villages were not incorporated into the army, but were temporarily used by the master. Zhou Shixiang prepared to return to Luoding and chose among them who were willing to join the army to stay, and those who were unwilling to let them back.

These young men of Deqing are different from Luo Dingbing and these people who have escaped from the famine. Their homes are in Deqing, and their relatives are also in Deqing. How can they feel at ease in Taiping Camp? The result of forcibly leaving them behind is that they are in Cao Ying and their hearts are in Han. Since they fled on a large scale because of homesickness, and thus leaked the true situation of Taiping Ying, it would be better to let them back directly, and wait until they have the strength to break through Germany in the future. It’s not too late to coerce them at Qing Shi. Forcibly conscripting people into the army now is just a waste of food.

Zhou Shixiang asked Master Liao, who had not yet changed his identity as a prisoner, to appease the young men. UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com promised them that they could go home after sending the wounded and supplies of the Taiping Camp to Luoding. They receive 20 catties of rice and a tael of silver, and they can also get a certain amount of compensation for the robbed livestock in their home. In short, Taiping Ying is the teacher of King Daming, and the teacher of benevolence and righteousness under Li Dingguo, King of Xining, Daming, and will never do anything wrong to the people. thing.

This promise has had a great effect. At least, the hostility of the more than 100 moral and young people to the Taiping Battalion has weakened a lot. Instead of being scolded and whipped by the soldiers, they have taken the initiative a lot.

A promise is better than no promise, and hope is better than no hope. Compared with the army of those Raffars in the past, the Taiping Camp can give them a promise to let them go home.

There were no soldiers in the army, nor in the surrounding villages, so the wounded soldiers could not get medical treatment, and they cried out from the ferry. Zhou Shixiang had no choice but to have them boil some boiling water, try to bandage the wounded soldiers with boiled cloth tapes, and let Luo Dingbing, who he knew well, comfort them and encourage them to go back alive to see their relatives. This method made some wounded soldiers develop the will to survive, but only for those who were not seriously injured. In the middle of the night, news came from the ferry that 8 seriously wounded people with severed arms and legs still died from excessive blood loss. Zhou Shixiang sighed after hearing the news, and decided to strengthen the training of new recruits after returning to the military. Build it up. Every soldier who has experienced death is an elite seed. To be able to save one more soldier is to save more strength for the Taiping Camp.

Around the same time, Tang Sanshui sent someone to deliver silver and food, and proposed a good deal that Zhou Shixiang couldn’t refuse.