After the war, Xunyang City can no longer see many traces of the original residents' existence, and the streets are full of all kinds of volunteer soldiers who are standing or standing in groups, or wandering in groups of three or five; Most of the shops along the street were open, but it was a mess and a mess, with only a few rebels in and out or occupying them.

After a little questioning of Zhao Zhang, he learned that he had actually imitated the early male and female camp system of the Taiping Army, and the remaining soldiers and people in the city were confined and managed elsewhere. Well, Zhou Huai'an at this moment didn't know how to complain.

It should be known that the system of separate battalions for men and women under the military management of the Taiping Army in the early days was mainly an expedient measure created by sacrificing a certain degree of efficiency and mobility in order to quickly control and use the local human resources in the newly occupied cities and towns within the calculation time.

In this way, when the Taiping army was attacking in front, the men were all assembled to provide the corresponding labor transfer, while the women remained in the rear cities to receive collective arrangements or household assignments in exchange for rationed food and supplies;

In this way, under the limited resource input and management costs, there is not much room for the rear to be instigated to cause chaos, and the young and strong people who provide assistance in the front are also shackled, and for the sake of the family, they can endure hard and heavy labor, and will not easily flee or rise up against the rebellion.

However, with the gradual increase in the resources that could be mobilized by the Taiping Army in the later period, the replenishment of the manpower of the low-level management and the refinement of many occupational divisions, the objects of this kind of organization and management were gradually narrowed to specific professional specialties and categories.

As a result, although there are still women's battalions today, they are mainly staffed in the logistics sector. It is specially used to house the families of the old and new rebels, as well as to accommodate the widows and orphans who have been displaced by the war; They even recruited women from some places to work and earn money to support their families with long-term or short-term work.

However, if you think about it a little, this kind of nascent and simple system is really more suitable for the style of a highly mobile peasant rebel army like Huang Chao. At least in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in later generations, the original Taiping Army was one of the important bases for the Taiping Army to quickly become bigger from a corner of Jintian Village, and finally enter Nanjing.

In addition, among the people of today's Huangchao Formation, there are actually some other obvious or inconspicuous traces of imitation from the Taiping Army. For example, the logistics system of the General's Mansion is obviously relatively centralized and has a detailed division of labor, among which there are many things that Zhou Huai'an personally created outside the ridge and inherited after the transformation;

Among them, there is a workshop dedicated to managing all kinds of craftsmen, collecting materials and simply repairing armor; and the aftermath battalion, which concentrates all wounded for unified treatment and recuperation.

For example, although they did not directly copy it, the Taiping Army had a clear hierarchy to the team's holy treasury system; However, he also imitated a similar model and principle under the name of the envoy of Du Zhi, and engaged in a so-called "Jun Compensation Method" that took a percentage of the seizures of all the horses under his command, and then redistributed, withdrawn, and transferred.

And under the right envoy Zhao Zhang's envoy of the General's Mansion, there is even a Changping Division and the establishment of the Pingzhun Yuan. At first glance, the former is the one set set up by Zhou Huai'an, which communicates with each other among the various departments of the rebel army, and regularly holds flea markets and conventions;

The latter is specialized in the internal business of the rebel army, which is obviously similar to the number of supply and marketing systems at all levels of the Taiping Army; But in terms of categories, it is much more varied. In addition to the traditional sale of tea, wine, salt and vinegar sauce and rice cloth, there are also some part-time craftsmen in the service industry; There are even effective judges of the army's public prostitutes, official tricks and the like, who specialize in following the army to do the skin and meat business.

Obviously, the peasant army led by Huang Chao did not know where to adapt and find shortcuts in the difficult and dangerous environment of repeated defeats after going north.

Of course, according to the development trajectory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations, once the upper class began to covet comfort and prosperity and stayed without thinking of making progress, and in the midst of mutual large-scale construction and extravagant comparisons, the system of confiscating the sacred treasury that was confiscated into the public and used according to need, and the division of men and women into camps for each of their own efforts, etc., were destroyed. It is inevitable that it will go to the endless cycle of eventual decline.

I don't know how far Huang Chao can go out of this misplaced time and space; At least not in the years after entering Chang'an in the future; Obviously, he has hundreds of thousands of household registrations in the capital, but he is in a predicament where few people can use it and even the city is full of enemies.

After passing through at least six newly erected bamboo-shed towers, and three gates that had been deliberately renovated and reinforced, and filled with armoured soldiers and patrolling guards; Zhou Huai'an finally arrived at the northwest corner of Xunyang City, known as the largest garden in the city.

This is also the famous sentence made by the famous poet Bai Lotian in the previous generation - "Pipa Xing", the owner of the background story, Chen Zhifan, a big tea merchant known as "valuing profit and ignoring separation", and the garden - "Guangyuan".

It is said that after "Pipa Xing" gradually became popular all over the world, he didn't care about the story of his concubine's private handover with him, but he minded the evaluation of Sima Bai Lotian in the green shirt about "Xunyang is secluded and has no music"; The garden was renovated and expanded. He also placed the singers and beauties in it, and invited the literati and scholars to travel to the house, singing lyrics and composing music to make a name for themselves, which is why this place has a temporary reputation in the paradise.

In front of the aconitum gate of the garden, there have been several rows of flags, yaks, canopies, halberds, axes, melon hammers and other ceremonial guards holding high the flags of five directions and five colors; There are also horses with silk and colorful horses, and they are the guards of the black and yellow cedars. It is said that this is the story of imitating the Son of Heaven in Chang'an, and the inside and outside are all sandwiched by the "Dancing Horse".

And at the location of the walls on both sides of the door, there are newly built sheds; Through the curtain of colored silk, you can see the musicians sitting in vertical rows and wearing scarlet shirts, taking turns playing some unknown high-pitched and cheerful tune.

After seeing the arrival of Zhou Huai'an and his party on horseback, they hurriedly stopped the lively sound of silk and bamboo that swirled around it, and replaced it with some kind of thicker and high-spirited sound of Zhongding Jinshi. It's as if people have suddenly entered some kind of illusion of richness.

After arriving here, Zhou Huai'an gave Xu Yijiang, a fellow pro-general, a look between dismounting; He also quietly led the order, beckoning the pro-soldiers who had come together to stay in the temporary resting place across the street from the gate, and sat down in front of the guards of honor around a few specially made carriages.

In the waterside hall that is open and transparent on all sides, surrounded by a group of old and new faces like stars holding the moon, Zhou Huai'an also saw Huang Chao again, the commander of the million-dollar rebel army in the sea, the general and a generation of anti-kings, and the last gravedigger of the Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning, the rough old peasant was generally calm and simple, but he had been worn out and replaced by the rich atmosphere of wearing silk and brocade, and he looked a little old and emaciated.

It's just that on the vicissitudes of life, which are obviously overworked, and the eyebrows and forehead lines are becoming more and more cautious, the eyes revealed are still sharp, sharp and more deep and severe; And between the casual gentle rotation of Gu Pan, it is full of a certain persistent meaning that seems to be able to penetrate people's hearts.

Obviously, after this major setback and turnaround, he has further transformed and matured; And it has become more and more of the unpredictable bearing of the traditional superior and the incomprehensible depth of the city.

I saw that Huang Chao slowly got up, and in an unquestionable tone, he greeted the public before the birth of the doorman who sang the newspaper:

"It's Brother Xu's coming, it's really a blessing for my righteous army."

As soon as these words came out, they once again set off a whisper in the audience, and then turned into a low and irrepressible discussion.

After all, as the people under his command benefit the people and the power is getting deeper and deeper, the old people who can make the Yellow King call "Brother X" in public are more and more numerous; But I didn't expect it to fall on this virtual monk who was still late, but there were already some latecomers.

Then someone suddenly looked at all this, and said calmly as if he had just woken up from a dream; This little-known virtual monk has actually jumped above most people, and has become the point where even the Yellow King has to be treated politely in public.

"The Yellow King is really overrated, compared to Wang Shangxing's great achievements in cleansing the world and making up for the average of the people, I am just getting started."

And Zhou Huai'an also flashed a few times, and responded earnestly and enthusiastically.

"This time, I brought 50,000 stones of rice and 30,000 pieces of cloth, and I am willing to do my best for the general trend of the righteous army."

Then, in the midst of incomprehensible exclamations and discussions, his gaze was at the many familiar faces present; This time, I am afraid that the generals and subordinates and staff of all parties under the command of Huang Chao have been able to gather the most complete occasion, and I don't know what kind of existence there will be under Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

One of the roles and meanings of his personal presence at the risk of this occasion is that the proclamation and overture have diverted the main contradictions; It's just to take the opportunity to swing a hoe and dig up the corner of the Yellow Nest or something. After all, now that he has both territory and army, he is enough to become one of the candidates for choosing good trees in the usual sense.

According to the previous experience of Zi Zhou Huai'an combined with the historical records of later generations, the peasant rebel army in the early period of Huangchao was simply the soil and seedbed where the five dynasties and ten kingdoms fought for hegemony in the later five dynasties and ten kingdoms.

And now is a more suitable opportunity and pass. If it had been said earlier, it might have been either the other party's lack of understanding of his own side and disdainful of it, or he would have been suspected of pulling the rebels' own front back and further turning against him, and even led to the risk of his career failing and overturning.

And if it was a little later, once the Northern Expedition of Huangchao began, it would be difficult to say how many people would be willing to give up the momentum of the seemingly good march and stay or turn to the Taiping army.

In contrast, it is more appropriate at this point now. The main force of the Yellow Nest has just gone through the attrition of a tragic battle, and the people who can survive are more or less people who have the ability and luck. Then, in a short period of time, it expanded dramatically, and it became "numerous" and "powerful" again.

At this time, poaching and pulling away some individual people will appear more hidden and inconspicuous; In other words, not everyone can realize the value of the corresponding person; In this way, even if it is detected and discovered, the backlash and doubts encountered are not so obvious, or easy to be feared.

And the specific screening and co-opting of talents who may come out in the future, and even this kind of thing between Shien and the other party, obviously can't fake others casually.

Hearing Zhou Huai'an's response, Huang Chao's side was surrounded by a few people who were thinking about it or tensed their bodies, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and exchanged a few glances with each other;

Since the other party can lower his body and posture in person, it also means that under this initial tone, there is room for further negotiation and settlement. Regardless of how the situation changes and develops in the future, at least the benefits and benefits of the present can be grasped first.

"Brother Void really has a heart. And thank you on behalf of many children. ”

Huang Chao also said with a little satisfaction as the description was unchanged.