Chapter 39 The countryside surrounds the city
In the first three years, Fang Nan taught 42 students, and asked nearly 100 families in Qingshan Village to acquiesce in the rebellion of the juniors.
In the second three years, the students who had already graduated from Fang Nan taught in eleven villages such as Qingshan Village, Hutou Village, Xinghua Village, and Wufang Village, teaching a total of 296 students, and asked the elders of the students in the other ten villages to acquiesce to the fact that the juniors wanted to rebel, especially Hutou Village, so they almost followed Fang Nan to rebel directly.
At the same time, in the second three years, Fang Nan successfully built the tiger head gun and tiger head cannon in the tiger head village.
In the second three years, Fang Nan and the students' rebellion plan has taken a big step forward, it can be said that the team has just begun to form and has some strength to rebel, but these preparations are not enough, Fang Nan still lacks an invincible army, still lacks tiger head guns, and lacks enough supporters.
It was time to start a new plan, and after the autumn harvest of Wanli 11, Fang Nan gathered the main members of the team in Qingshanzhai, including Fang Nan's students, and representatives of the first batch of students from other villages to discuss the next plan.
With the addition of Fang Nan and Hu Xiaoya, a total of fifty-seven people were present in the end, and each class sent two students as representatives, most of Fang Nan's students were present, and only a few students couldn't get away because of other things.
It is said that it is a discussion, but it is better to say that Fang Nan issued tasks to the team members, through the relationship between teachers and students, Fang Nan has established absolute leadership authority in this team, except for inexplicable orders such as "making students commit suicide", most of Fang Nan's orders can be seriously implemented by the team members.
There is a difference in the relationship between Fang Nan and the students, but when Fang Nan's students communicate with their students, they always talk about how broad Fang Nan's knowledge is and how extraordinary Teacher Fang Nan is, so that the newcomers of the team have not yet met Fang Nan, the "ancestor", but they have great respect for the ancestor in their hearts.
The teacher's teacher was generally called Shizu in ancient times, but this title looked very old, so Fang Nan asked his students to call themselves "teacher" as well.
The teacher-student relationship, combined with the shared goal of overthrowing the Ming dynasty, kept the rapidly expanding team very united.
How many peasant uprisings have failed because of internal problems, and Fang Nan does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past on this issue.
"It may be two years, it may be three years, we will officially raise the banner to call on the poor people of the world to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, before that, we still have two very important things to do, the first, to build a real army; Second, before raising the flag, we should unite as many people as possible, and the more people we unite, the more strength we will have after raising the flag. Fang Nan said to the team members who had gathered.
Hearing Mr. Fang Nan's words, everyone present agreed, and then Fang Nan divided the two things in detail.
To build an army, Fang Nan is divided into three steps:
The first step is to establish an experimental "small" army, the soldiers are mainly students or team members, as long as men, not women, and the other eleven young people in the village who are willing to join the army can also join this experimental army, it is expected that about 100 people.
The second step is to build on the experimental army in the first step, select personnel from each village, and form a firearms army of about 1,300 men, divided into 1,100 infantry and 100 to 200 artillery, the infantry is equipped with a tiger head gun, the artillery uses tiger head guns, and if there are surplus tiger head guns, the artillery must also be equipped.
The third step is to form a firearms army with mountain people in the deep mountains, which is basically the limit, and the next step will be to select middle-aged men from among the ordinary people who are united by the team in the outside world to form a cold-weapon army with more numbers.
The greater the number of the cold-weapon army, the better, the main officers will be selected from the firearms army to serve as a hundred people, the firearms army is the main combat force, the cold-weapons army is the combat auxiliary, when the firearms army is killed or wounded, or because of the increase in firearms production and expansion, personnel will be selected from the cold-weapon army.
The entire cycle of building an army can be completed in two years, there are no archers in the army, and the time from learning to use firearms to becoming proficient in the use of firearms is much less than the time it takes to train archers.
A recruit can go to the battlefield within a week of contact with the tiger head gun, but every soldier in the firearms army is very important to Fang Nan, and he must be trained strictly, and every soldier in the firearms army must be elite, and he can lead at least ten people in the cold weapons army.
As for uniting more people, Fang Nan and his team have done enough in the past six years to continue according to this skillful plan, that is, to send students to teach in more villages.
There are many villages in the deep mountains, Guangdong has many mountains and forests and few plains, most of the population lives on the plains, and most of the people living in the mountains and forests are mountain people without household registration.
There are only a limited number of villages that Qingshan Village has made friends with and contacted, but there are many villages that have been friends and contacted by Hutou Village, Xinghua Village and other villages, and these villages are a goal of the unity of the Fangnan team.
The villages in the deep mountains should be united, and it is expected that in a few more years, the Fangnan team will raise the flag, and it is also time to unite some poor people from the outside world, starting from the villages close to the mountains, and slowly advancing in the direction of the city, with the countryside surrounding the city.
Fang Nan taught the children of Qingshan Village to read and write, and finally Qingshan Village was pulled into the chariot by Fang Nan, and the students of Fang Nan went to Hutou Village, Xinghua Village and other ten villages to teach, and finally these ten villages were also pulled into the chariot of Shangnan.
Although reading and literacy is useless in the mountains, the story of "for the literacy of the ancestors and ancestors" was widely circulated in the mountains a few years ago, which made the mountain people interested in reading and literacy, and it was not a problem to send students to more villages to teach.
Under the pretext of teaching, if the progress is faster, these villages can be pulled into the chariot in a year or two.
Compared with the mountain people, the people who are still struggling to live in the outside world have a greater desire for reading and literacy, as long as their children can read and write, they can change the fate of the family, even if they can't be officials, there is not much problem with food and clothing, in this era, it is difficult for scholars to starve to death.
It's just that the common people who are still working hard to eat enough are unlikely to invite readers to teach their children to read and write, and now that some people come to teach for free, no matter what conspiracy there is, the people will try, even if there is a conspiracy, will their lives be worse in the future?
In addition to forming an army and uniting more people, increasing the production of tiger head guns and tiger head guns, building spears, and exploring the areas where the Ming Dynasty troops were stationed in the outside world, etc., are all things that need to be carried out in the next few years.