Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 70: Old And Weak

The news that came, was both happy and sad. They were happy that Bald and Tie Yi, named Jiang He, lived up to their mission. They successfully led the troops to infiltrate the copper mine to defeat the overseer at the mine, and persuaded more than 400 miners and their relatives in the mine. Xitou Taiping Camp.

Worryingly, Tie Yi firmly believed in the concept of “Three Possessions” of Taiping Camp that Zhou Shixiang promoted and guaranteed. With the idea of taking care of the elders of his hometown, he even advertised the benefits of Taiping Camp in the villages around Laofengzhuang, which caused the surrounding villages to suffer. Hundreds of people responded enthusiastically. Everyone helped the old and the young to follow along, all looking forward to living a good life in Taiping Camp where they could have food, clothing, and meat. As a result, the number of old and weak women and children increased to as many as 2,000.

In addition, the bald man may be too convinced of Zhou Shixiang’s big reason to expand the team, or he may have understood it too well, and he has carried forward the concept of ‘sustainable development”. He was looted by his troops, and as a result, apart from the extra burden of food and clothing for nearly 2,000 elderly and weak women and children, the Taiping Camp gained nothing. Perhaps the only valuable ones are the more than two hundred young men who can only be called peasants.

In addition, what is even more abhorrent is that those young and strong masters in Deqing who Zhou Shixiang had promised to go home at Xihedu were also taken back by the bald man halfway, which not only made the reputation of Taiping Camp worse, but also made it worse. Zhou Shixiang was notorious for breaking his promise.

Compared to what the bald man did, the consequences of his series of actions on the Taiping Camp cannot be overstated. The Taiping Camp’s reputation near Deqing is simply notorious, like a bandit. Within a few days, the papers submitted by the villagers to the Deqing County government office were half the height of a person. Words, just like hearing a tiger, cursing again and again.

Lu Gongming, the magistrate of Deqing County, was also frightened by the insane abduction of the Taiping Camp. If the Taiping Camp really did not retreat westward, I am afraid he would not be able to sit still in the yamen.

However, Tang Sanshui, the thousand-year-old general manager of the Green Camp, regretted it too late: he knew that Taiping Camp was so fond of kidnapping people, so he should have done this business by himself in the first place, because it was a short way to make money. In addition to remorse, he did not scold or scold the people who were kneeling outside the barracks and asking for troops to send troops, but just ignored them and let them cry. The official document to the mansion has already been reported. This meeting is to report that the Ming army will kill and loot the people in the territory. As long as the county is not lost, the people outside the city will be killed and kidnapped by the Ming army. . The only thing to worry about is whether the commander-in-chief will promote himself as a garrison after receiving the official document, and whether he will send troops to recover Luo Ding.

For the former, Tang Sanshui was naturally 10,000 happy, who wouldn’t be happy when he was promoted and made a fortune. The latter, but 10,000 people are not happy, Luo Ding is poor, and Xiu said that the news that he heard was only that the bandits occupied the state city, and even if it was not occupied by the bandits, he was not willing to send troops to claim the credit for regaining the lost land. Besides, it’s hard to say whether Luo Ding is still being occupied by bandits right now. What if this is being occupied by Taiping Camp? You can fight the bandits, but you can’t fight the Taiping Camp! God bless, everyone is promoted to get rich, and they will be exempted from sending troops to fight.

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When the bald man was swaggering and triumphant, standing in front of him like a hero, Zhou Shixiang was really dumbfounded, holding the bald man’s hand and sighing with emotion, his cheeks kept twitching, he really couldn’t say a word, and he didn’t know where to start. . This behavior made the bald man even more proud, thinking that Zhou Shixiang was indescribably excited about his great contribution.

Tie Yi, the representative of the miners, was naturally received by Zhou Shixiang, and after saying a few words of encouragement, Zhou Shixiang took Song Xianggong, who had long been frowning, to the head of the city.

Under the city gate, more than 4,000 old and weak women and children, more than 400 miners, plus more than 200 young men who were captured by the strong and the more than 100 masters who “go and return”, a total of more than 5,000 people are pouring in. Luoding city.

The influx of such a large number of people has made the housing available for the Taiping Camp very tight, and the daily consumption of food has increased exponentially.

If the Taiping Camp wants to grow, it is natural that it is urgently needed, but that refers to the young and strong, not the old and the weak. Luoding is located in a mountainous area, and after years of wars, the territory has long been abandoned, and it cannot afford the living and living of so many people. More importantly, Luoding is located between the defense lines of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there is no possibility of recuperation. Even with this possibility, within a few years, Taiping Camp would never have been able to feed such a large population without relying on external forces.

The elderly, the weak, women and children, the army, food, development.

All day, Zhou Shixiang’s mind was lingering with these words. To support soldiers, you must have money and food. Besides the support of soldiers, the old and weak women and children need countless money and food. Compared with the support of soldiers, the support for the old and weak women and children is undoubtedly the same. Bottomless pit, UU reading www.uukanshu.com will not have any return in the short term, and may not have any return in the long run.

Zhou Shixiang’s promise, or his big words, had already been released, so he couldn’t keep his promises and refused to join these old and weak women and children. If he did this, then the Taiping Camp would really only be able to expand its power by taking captives in the future. This means that People’s hearts are lost. The problem is that it is not what is in front of the people who are not popular. What matters is the miners. Zhou Shixiang didn’t want these four hundred miners who could be transformed into combat power to lose their trust and hope in the Taiping Camp. More than a thousand old and weak women and children bear the burden.

In addition to the original 2,000 people in the Houying Camp, the Taiping Camp now has nearly 7,000 elderly and weak women and children to support, and the young and strong soldiers count the miners and the newly captured soldiers, but there are only more than 1,300 people. The food provided by Qingluying Trading can only last for one month. After a month, if the Taiping Camp does not get a new source of food, the entire camp will run out of food.

Once you run out of food, you don’t need to use your brain to know that the situation is set to go away. Throughout the past and present, there has not been an army that has run out of food to sustain it. The current Taiping Camp is not an iron army cohesive with the beliefs of later generations, but a mob. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang must take measures to nip the food shortage crisis in the bud.

The first method he took was to immediately attack the big households in the city and the people who had not participated in the Taiping Camp, and plundered all their supplies and food for military use. The second method was to leave Luoding and find a place that could obtain stable logistical supplies. site to maintain the long-term anti-Qing struggle.

Zhou Shixiang had not yet decided where to choose this site. After eating a bowl of porridge cooked for him by Lin Wan’er, he told the other party that he would send troops to raid his father’s house.