Chapter 59: Clouds
Guangzhou City,
Zhou Shen, the former Confucian official of the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion and the de facto owner of several large merchants, was also deeply troubled, so much so that his favorite wine Bailingchun, which he liked to print a cup to calm his mood, became difficult to swallow.
It all stemmed from the fact that a large number of local people had been disposed of from the side of the arsenal, especially the generals and leaders of the rebel army, who had been directly or indirectly bought and co-opted by the rich and gentle village methods they were most accustomed to, were also punished and transferred away one after another; Now it is becoming more and more difficult for his subordinates to deliver news and smuggle supplies outside the city.
Could it be that the heavens are not fake to the imperial court, but to let these grass thieves in this place outside the ridge, just make a momentum and not fall away? Even his actions these days are also all kinds of unpleasant, it seems that he has heard some rumors or is afraid of the cruel methods of the grass thieves in the city, and those former origins and old instructions are no longer so powerful, and even began to appear obvious drag and prevarication.
After losing the identity deterrence of the official face, all he can consume is his past resources and popularity, so that he can push forward these follow-up things. He also had to give up the luxurious life of the comfortable and comfortable mansion in Congshanfang in the inner city under the pursuit of those grass thieves, and temporarily succumbed to the Guanghua where Guo Po settled and untouchables gathered outside, relying on this mixed environment to cover his whereabouts.
But his efforts to hide in Tibet finally waited for the news he wanted; After confirming the news that these grass thieves have begun to liquidate the acres of land and household registration, and the soldiers clearly put on an attitude of wanting to take root in the land outside the mountains, the powerful giants in those places who were originally fighting against the government against the thieves and all kinds of half-hearted giants finally couldn't sit still, and they connected with each other to protect themselves and wanted to drive them out, and the influence of these grass thieves was well controlled.
But the only thing that did not agree was that the man he sent to find the evil monk and his followers found nothing in the dozens of jungles in the city, and according to some rumors, it was presumed that it was a monk who had returned from overseas; Then, he immediately sent the men who approached and spied on the other party's whereabouts, and also reported that this man had already set out with the army, and his original arrangement and calculation that he wanted to make an example of chickens and monkeys suddenly fell into the void.
In the end, he still tried to find a way to send a message to the outside world, and now he is waiting for things to slowly ferment and the results come out.
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Xunzhou, Changle County, Zhou Huai'an fell into some strange enthusiasm for work.
After having more than 1,000 people under his direct control, just setting rules for them, arranging tasks and allocating manpower occupies a large part of the daily energy and time; After all, it's not a business game, a few mouse clicks
Or pull the slider, and you can spontaneously operate and produce resources.
They are living beings, with their own minds and thoughts, as well as very different habits and characteristics; They will also get sick and injured and even die of overwork; It is necessary to use relatively reasonable management methods in order to make a living more smoothly
A part of the production process, or a consumable and a number, exists.
In addition, as the official and camp manager of the grain station, he actually managed most of the residents in Changle County indirectly and in disguise; According to the records in the yellow register of household registration, there are about 1,000 households, and now there are still 8,900 people left, and they are the same
It is also a group that Zhou Huai'an can use in a limited way; It's just that some soldiers with swords and guns are needed as an endorsement of deterrence and execution in force.
Although he thought that he had seen the ugliness and cruelty of these famines when he was a volunteer teaching volunteer in the mountains and later a medical team in war-torn areas; But after a brief visit and investigation of the city,
I still find that I obviously underestimate the hardship and hardship of these people at the bottom in ancient times when the productive forces were backward.
The vast majority of the low-income residents in the city live in shacks and straw huts that do not see the light of day, and live in the company of the ubiquitous sewage and garbage all year round. Doing the heaviest hard work, most of the time of the year
Occasionally, they are barely living by eating bran vegetables, or surviving by using wild vegetables and bran; It was also explained in the year that a bowl and a half bowl of rancid rice were saved from between the teeth, and after offering it to the ancestors, the whole family was allowed to make a tooth sacrifice and taste it
the taste of grain;
Even the whole family can't make up a set of uncertain clothes, but can only let the whole family nest in the house when they are outsiders. Therefore, as long as there is a relative abundance of grain and copper coins in hand as compensation,
Supporting and deploying them is not a problem at all.
As for the few wealthy or well-to-do families with slightly better conditions, although they do not need to directly pull people out to work, they are also apportioned according to the capitation, and the corresponding payment of cloth, leather and other materials and money and grain is on behalf of the index, or it is simply combined
The main thing is to let the servants, who are good at serving, take care of the seriously wounded.
There are about 1,000 people who have been temporarily evaporated, and most of them are mainly tasked with assisting the production team, providing some raw material sorting and processing and rough processing of semi-finished products, and then there are professional tailor groups, pottery groups, hardware groups, and masonry groups to complete the sewing of clothes, quilts, shoes and socks, and even various daily utensils and other consumables.
Even those wounded who were left behind to recuperate, including those remnants of the rebels from other parts who were rescued and temporarily returned to his command to recuperate, most of them had to complete a certain amount, except for those who were really bad at walking or could only lie still
Low-intensity routines and assignments of work and tasks. For example, polishing weapons, cutting arrow shafts, weaving baskets, etc.
After all, the ancients did not have the gold and squeamishness of modern people, and when they were sick, they could only lie there and not move; For them, not working or eating is the most simple basic principle. If you can get a little reward and encouragement after working hard and driving for a long time, then you will obviously be more motivated.
The essence of human resource management in the future generations is to make the best use of all existing resources to reduce waste and improve efficiency under the condition of controlling input and consumption as much as possible. For example, the black-hearted bosses of some small private businesses can come in handy with verbal benefits used to fool employees into drawing a big pie.
In this mood, Zhou Huai'an checked the production progress of each group in one morning, adjusted and allocated their processes and manpower one by one, and also made prescient guidance and correction for the problems and deficiencies that have emerged in the past few days;
The attendant Xiao Qi was very considerate and brought up the cut strips mixed with sauce as his lunch meal; That is, the way to eat a pancake made of fermented rice milk beaten eggs, cut into strips, and then mixed with chopped salt melon and sweet sauce; The sweet sauce was made by himself with stone honey, tempeh, and rice flour, the salted melons were also pickled by himself, and the eggs were made from ducks collected in the city; It can be regarded as taking into account the basic nutrition and taste under simple conditions.
Then, in the afternoon, Zhou Huai'an mainly stayed in the lifeguard team composed of temporary requisitioned buildings, except for some unexpected situations, answering the questions accumulated by the "apprentices" whose names and faces he could not even remember for the time being, and by the way, giving them detailed demonstrations and evaluating the results of their busy work; However, now there is a small number of special beings in the lifeguard team.
Among the prisoners detained in the county jail, excluding some felons who were traitors, most of them were willing to follow and defect to the rebels; also because of their origins and encounters;
Some people were arrested because they couldn't pay their taxes or couldn't show the filial piety urged by the officials and soldiers, and they were released before they were tortured to death, only to find that their families were ruined and they were all dead;
Some are simply for a simple reason to take revenge, or to have the mentality and idea of repaying the righteousness.
But more people have nowhere to go after these changes, and there is nothing to worry about in the world anyway, so they simply follow the rebels and go with the flow to eat well.
However, all of them have some kind of problems and injuries in one way or another, and it takes some time to treat and recuperate before they can really come in handy.
Among them, there are also individual accidental discoveries, such as lying in a clean corner specially opened up for the number of serious patients, the ground and walls are disinfected with lime, and the hanging curtains are also fumigated with old vinegar, and he stitched up eleven wounds and saved a life; When they were cleaning the cell, they found him in a corner full of filth and stench, and there was not a piece of good flesh on his body hanging like a corpse, and the wounds of rotting maggots could even see bones.
But when Zhou Huai'an habitually scanned out, he unexpectedly found that his vital signs were still there, and they were even more obvious than most normal people, which made him so surprised that he was specially brought out, as a living material for demonstration and practice of those new apprentices, battlefield injury first aid and follow-up infection treatment.
As a result, this guy not only survived the major and minor surgeries that lacked sufficient disinfection methods and a sterile environment, but also slowly recovered under the infusion of salted rice milk and sugar water, but the original appearance was destroyed by the scars and scabs, which made people look a little hideous.
Although the other party is still unconscious, from the stability of pulse and breathing, as well as the induction of vital signs, it is gradually recovering and strengthening; Didn't this make Zhou Huai'an have some interest and curiosity about the origin of this living material, could it be that after special exercise and stimulation in this era, the potential of the human body can be developed and tapped to what extent, even the basic physical potential and recovery effect are much faster and more obvious than ordinary people.
According to the interrogation of the remaining jailers and the search for the documents, I learned that his name was Ning Yi, and he was actually a big family from the state city of Guishan County (now the northeast of Huizhou City) - the Su family, the head of the weaving guild, and the martial arts foreman and teacher of the nursing home
got the blue eyes to join the master's family and became the little son-in-law of the inverted door, which can be regarded as a step from the vulgar and unliterate lower ninth rate, and mixed into the upper class of decent people in society;
It's just that I don't know what happened later, the Su family, the head of the local famous association, was ruined all of a sudden, and the main family members disappeared one after another, and he was also arrested and imprisoned by the government and reduced to this point;
Originally, on the charge of colluding with bandits to cause rebellion and attacking officials to kill the public, he planned to be sent to Guangfu to await execution, but when passing through Changle County, he encountered the rebels going south and was detained and stranded in the local area
It's an outlier that he hasn't hung up until now.
Of course, Zhou Huai'an also has a real purpose in his selfish heart, that is, after seeing the special existence of this era, he has to find himself a bodyguard with corresponding skills in times of peace, preferably the kind of relative obedience and loyalty that has the grace of saving his life in private, so that even if he leaves the peasant army in the future, he can also provide a certain amount of force as a comprehensive guard.
After re-examining the wounds and patients of the second brigade, he felt a little hungry again, and was about to ask someone to steam half a goose before going down, but at this time, the messenger from the direction of the city gate brought the news of the main formation of the Fury Wind Camp in front.