The pace of training was not so satisfactory, but it was still as he expected; After all, this thing is something that cannot be rushed, and it is also one of the sequelae of expanding too quickly all at once; However, compared with what I heard in several other sub-camps, all kinds of chickens and dogs jumping, but there are some more than enough to talk about.

In particular, with the remaining resources, including five heavy teams, it is relatively easy to replenish the equipment, equipment, and consumables under the false public and private affairs of the water building. As a result, these mud-legged and urban poor, who looked like a mess, also became a little orderly and out of the queue in a certain speed and efficiency visible to the naked eye.

Of course, in other respects, it is still not flattering, after all, the time that can be used for training and running-in is limited and the cycle is too short, and the remaining time for treatment and continuous investment is accumulated in proficiency; In contrast, more of his attention is occupied by the most superficial theoretical self-consistency and propaganda to boost morale.

As the saying goes, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense; If you are happy for a while, you have to spend double your energy to deal with the aftermath and justify yourself, so as not to waste the effect and atmosphere of the shareholders, but to turn it into a continuous buff for a long time.

However, with Zhou Huai'an, who almost learned Sipin, Ma Ji, Deng Lun, Social Philosophy, etc., in his early years, he has forgotten the level and insight of a layman; That is, it is only a matter of racking your brains to piece together a set of things that can barely be self-consistent, and let the people around you and your subordinates understand who they are fighting for and what they are fighting for. But if there are more, it will be beyond the scope of the general psychological tolerance and understanding of those illiterate peasant soldiers;

After all, things like world view, outlook on life, and values take a long time to cultivate, and it also takes enough time to polish and touch the words before they can be changed and corrected.

If we ignore the economic foundation and the environment of the social productive forces at that time, and directly advocate that socialism according to work is better and communism is better according to needs, it will easily turn into the crooked and evil path of blind faith and worship in some religions, such as the Taiping Road to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

And time is still slowly passing.

At the same time as continuing to train and recruit soldiers in the city, the battalions of soldiers who had completed the reorganization also began to attack the remaining counties in Xunzhou, in addition to the state city of Guishan and Xingning and Lei Township on the way to come, other counties such as Longchuan, Boluo, Luoyang, Shicheng, Haifeng, and Lu'an also fell back under control one after another, and contributed a lot of money and food and military service to the army in the state city.

Among them, the investigation team, census team and task force sent by Zhou Huai'an also played a big role in it; In the daily exercise, a set of tasks such as: the investigation team lurks in advance, the census team conducts extensive private visits, and the team is responsible for targeted actions according to the feedback, and cooperates with each other in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, of course, there is the blockade of the flow of information in this era, as well as the neglect and almost unpreparedness of these "advanced" means. In the end, even the stone pit lead field, the original destination of the Fury Wind Battalion, was recovered, but according to the returning soldiers, there were no living people there except for the corpses discarded in the mines, so naturally there was no way to talk about resuming production.

At this time, the spies sent out by Wang Pan finally brought back news about the surrounding places in Xunzhou; In short, it is not optimistic at all, originally in these places with the county seat as the basic unit, there are at least seven or eight rebels stationed separately for food; Most of them are more than 4,000 people, and some are more than 1,000 people, but now all of them have been cut off.

On the other hand, several counties along the southern coast have even reappointed a number of so-called county commanders, county magistrates, and county lieutenants in the name of the imperial court, and have played various local banners. And the remnants of the defeated and fleeing Tutuan in Xunzhou are also showing signs of fleeing towards the southern coast to join them.

Well, this is obviously one of the results of the limitations of the peasant rebel army itself, ranging from the short-sightedness of the lack of long-term planning and overall layout, to the carelessness and omission of the deployment and control of the sphere of influence and beyond.

There is also the delay and confusion of news between the various ministries, and the lack of a single communication channel between the upper and lower levels, but this is obviously a worse era, and they may not do as well as the later generations, as long as they are faster and more effective than the government of the same era, which is already mired in corruption and bloated inefficiency.

However, this time, the opponent is obviously not the traditional corrupt and corrupt government forces, but those local gentry forces with the background of big and powerful families; At least in the vital interests and positions of protecting one's own life, property, and generational privileges, it is undoubtedly much more resolute and decisive than those governments that are slow to be efficient and overly busy.

Coupled with the fact that they have controlled the resources and popularity of the township for generations, or the direct or indirect influence, the mental prestige and inertia that have been passed down from generation to generation have not changed much, and it is not a rebel army that is completely strange from outside and has been seriously demonized and distorted, and the image can be easily broken.

"Kill all the big dogs, grab money and food, and divide the girls."

"Rob his mother, eat his mother, it's better to have a big family for the New Year"

A sudden shout outside made Zhou Huai'an, who was looking back at something in the pile of books, his brows couldn't help frowning again, and then he sighed helplessly.

This is clearly a slogan from other sub-battalions; Although he had made up some popular slogans before, after being learned by other sub-camps, he unceremoniously changed them into other specious things like that.

Then, in turn, some people in the camp began to ask, when will they be able to grab money and food and distribute the girls; So after the feedback to Zhou Huai'an, he could only continue the opportunity to talk about the ancient and the reason at night, and give them limited enlightenment:

For example, let the people of the task force come out to explain in public, and explain in public that it is not a simple matter to eat big households, and how those local tyrants are so stubborn and cunning, and how they need to tirelessly struggle, confrontation, and see-saw, so that he can obediently spit out all the fat and ointment that have been squeezed and exploited for many years.

Instead of letting people casually grab a handful and kill a few discouraged people, this will not only be likely to escape the real culprit, but also accidentally injure those ordinary people who are forced to do things for large families, but also leave many disasters and aftermaths for the rebels, and even let those poor families who have been given relief suffer the suffering and sins of the second crop.

Therefore, it is necessary to find out the general details and many crimes of the target party one by one in advance, so that they can get twice the result by eating a big family and knowing the root of the matter, and can also expose their true face of using the titles of "great benevolent", "righteous man" and "family of virtue" under the official list, and paving the way with the tired corpses that ignore poverty, and the male thief and female prostitute eat people without spitting out bones; It also makes those strangers who are afraid and suspicious of the rebels not resist and reject Yunyun.

Then Wang Pan, who "coincidentally" passed by the patrol camp and stopped for a while, simply came down on the spot, copied such a big truth, and took it to the brigades of each sub-battalion, and preached it from time to time by taking advantage of the meal time when he got together three times a day.

As a result, the slogans that had been seriously changed were finally gone, but they were also unified into something that had similar meanings but was far from them; After all, no matter how lofty and great the cause and ideal is, it has all the grounding spirit and is in line with reality without touching the fundamental core and code of conduct.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but write down his thoughts quickly with charcoal strips on the special whiteboard, and then took a look at it and rubbed it off with a cloth.

At the same time, this was added to the inner markers and logs in his field of vision; One of the features of this inexplicable assistance system is that it can be scanned graphically like a notepad, remembering thoughts and thoughts that pop up anytime and anywhere, and storing them as data for later reference.

In this way, he unlocks a new accessibility feature that can be called a disguised memorably; Correspondingly, during this period in Xunzhou City, Zhou Huai'an's other big gain; It is all kinds of books copied from the homes of those big families, rich people, and eunuchs, and the books and atlases in the state government cabinet and so on.

In the end, these things, which were abandoned by the vast majority of the rebels or used as waste paper, were collected by him as many as two carts; Although many of them are useless pastimes and entertainment books of strange and legendary kinds, they are still of great benefit and help for him to understand the general situation and basic knowledge level of this era.

Therefore, Zhou Huai'an specially used the image scanning function in his body, and soon read it in his spare time for almost three days; Although they are all things that are swallowed and not understood, they do not prevent them from being retrieved and retrieved from the records for emergency purposes when necessary in the future;

What's more critical is that among them, the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Fixation", "Ancient Arithmetic", "Island Arithmetic", "Zhou Ji Sutra", "Sun Tzu Sutra", "Wucao Sutra" and other tool books have been handed down, thus bringing together these contemporary mathematical and liberal arts and sciences, and compiling a set of concise and easy-to-understand castration quick edition textbooks.

However, whether these things can continue to be promoted, Zhou Huaian can't help but hesitate again; Although the situation seems to be quite good in a short period of time, most of the Israeli troops, represented by the Fury Wind Battalion, are still in no fixed base area, and there is no stable source of money and food income, and they all rely on the flow from time to time, and they are full of uncertain probability again and again to obtain the money, food, and soldiers they need for the time being.

Therefore, no matter how good the situation seems to be, in the long run, it can be said that it is "rootless wood" and "water without a source". Therefore, no matter how much thought and energy he puts into it, there is a high possibility that it will be a castle built on floating sand, and I don't know when it will be dissipated because of a failure.

At this time, some extremely familiar faces that get along with each other on a daily basis resurfaced in front of Zhou Huai'an's eyes, at least their enthusiasm and intentions are not false.

In the end, he could only say in a certain dilemma, let's comfort himself; It should be used to collect various lessons and lessons on how to adapt to local conditions in this era, in order to redevelop and avoid detours in the future.

(End of chapter)