In the courtyard of the back house of the Xunzhou Thorn Mansion,

Zhou Huai'an was slowly and methodically served by Xiao Qi and enjoyed the afternoon meal: plum roast duck specially cooked by a local chef in Xunzhou.

It is a specialty dish of local aged dried plums and ginger slices to cook native black feather duck; The roasted crispy duck meat slips into the duck fat soup with swollen plums when you poke it gently, and it tastes sweet and sour, tender and fresh but not greasy.

The complementary food dim sum is the local tea cake, which is steamed into a cake with oil rolled from camellia seeds, stone honey and rice noodles, which has a unique fragrance to eat. The duck soup with a sweet and sour flavor is even more refreshing.

In the corridor and hall in front of him, Liao Yuan and Yuan Jing, who were assistants, were also leading a group of hard-working clerks and handling personnel, burying their heads in piles of documents and books, counting various profits and losses and gains before and after the construction of Xunzhou City.

Then from time to time it turned into a simple rough diagram, and presented to him and read one or two in a low voice. Although all this is still very sketchy and crude, it also represents the rudiments of a certain system and system.

For example, Wang Pan didn't know what recruitment methods he used along the way, but he actually gathered more than 6,000 people at the most, which was almost four or five times the number of people when he set off; It's just that after days of offensive attrition and subsequent replenishment, it still slowly retreated to more than 4,000, and there are still more than 1,000 light and serious wounded waiting to be disposed of.

Therefore, under the chewing of so many people, the grain and grass that were originally brought out for half a month were also consumed rapidly; At least a few days before Zhou Huai'an arrived to converge, they had almost begun to implement a minimum quota to limit supply. If we had not received this batch of timely follow-up supplements, it is very likely that there would have been a flight of soldiers and a loss of personnel due to the interruption.

But the harvest after the battle was also particularly surprising, because these officials and soldiers who defended the city and the soil regiments had already looted the surrounding places, and concentrated the grain, livestock and goods in the state city, which filled more than a dozen storage places.

In addition, the strong donations of the eunuchs, wealthy merchants, and large households in the city, as well as the heavy apportionment of the families of various villages; All kinds of grain and fodder, cloth, clothing, armor, carriages and horses that have not had time to be set on fire can be said to be everything, and after a rough calculation, it is also more than ten times or more than twenty times that of Zhaojiazhai.

With relatively sufficient resources and manpower, some plans and ideas that originally existed on paper or have achieved initial results can be continued and expanded. For example, at the request of Wang Pan, who knows the taste of marrow, the original experimental flag team needs to be expanded, from 35 people to 120 people, to meet the requirements of hundreds of teams today.

Then it was the reorganization of the existing men and horses, and after converging the 3,000 people brought by Zhou Huai'an, the number of people who had swelled up again also needed to be further selected and screened, and the surplus of the old, weak, sick and disabled and the selection of the strong and strong to enrich the various sub-camps, and by the way to reduce unnecessary waste and waste;

The system of the rebel army is the product of the division and judge army, but they have similarities and differences between them according to their circumstances and the quality of their territory;

Almost all of them are ten people and one fire, and each has a fire chief and five deputies in charge; There are no fixed number of people in each team between 30 and 50 people, and there are three members of the team leader, team deputy and flag head; Three to five teams are a brigade, with a brigade commander, brigade deputy and five miscellaneous assistants; Two brigades to three brigades are a regiment, and the officers are captains, deputy captains, and miscellaneous envoys; Two regiments to five regiments are a battalion, with large, medium, and small grades, the big ones are officers and generals, the middle ones are lieutenants, and the small ones are lieutenants.

Basically, the battalions, regiments, brigades, brigades, and fires at each level only have to be provided with basic food and clothing for the corresponding heads, and the rest of the things have to be raised and captured by themselves. Now it is necessary to reunify under a fixed establishment, which has achieved a better effect of orders and prohibitions; In particular, the reason for this expansion and increase in the number of troops is to break up and dismantle the rudiments of the small gangs formed by those township parties and relatives, of course, this is something that can only be done but cannot be said.

With the captured horses, the size of the horse team and the sentinel was expanded, and the number of mule and horse brigades and vehicles was expanded; Build more armor and equipment on the spot to achieve at least 80% of the weapon and equipment rate, and about 40% of the armor rate; The more elite teams had to change into captured leather armor or inlaid armor, and the leaders had to wear a big coat and a robe...

In addition, after having a relatively sufficient amount of food, it is necessary to put porridge outside the city gate, on the one hand, to buy people's hearts, and on the other hand, to attract suitable people; This also requires Zhou Huai'an to be distracted from paying attention to, screening, and selecting.

There are so many different types of needs that need to be raised and scheduled. Then, Zhou Huai'an found himself a little embarrassed; As the saying goes, the pit dug by yourself has to be filled by yourself, and the Haikou that you boast of has to end by yourself.

As the saying goes, both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be hard; If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools,

He first begged from Wang Pan, and requisitioned all manpower and resources in a small area without interference; Then about fifty of them were selected from the rear team, and at the small meeting after dinner, they showed the most bitterness and hatred, and usually did things most resolutely and simply, and were not afraid of bloody and dirty manpower.

Demarcate the site and arrange the corresponding furnishings and equipment in advance, and allocate enough money for renovation and construction; Then according to the plan of Suoji, he sent people to control and seal them, and the gatehouses of the wealthy families in the city entered and exited, and temporarily confined them to their homes, allowing only the most basic drinking water to enter and exit;

Then, as the great man of later generations said, "without investigation, there is no right to speak", so he specially organized and arranged two teams to act privately;

A market census team composed of more than 20 young people under Xiao Qi walked to the streets and alleys to inquire about the news; On the one hand, it is to understand the layout and belonging of most of the industries in the city, and on the other hand, in the name of searching for relatives and friends, they inquire about the news by the wells and ditches where women are gathered, mainly to comment on the reputation and reputation of some famous people in the city.

The other is composed of relatively honest and honest soldiers who are easy to get close to, and their task is to take advantage of the porridge to conduct spot checks on those people at the bottom, etc., in exchange for an extra bowl of porridge and water, in exchange for their sources of information about the big families and former officials in the city.

Although there are many errors and exaggerations in the information collected from this, under the sufficient probability of repeated control of many samples, it can still be cross-formed, and the basic distribution and social relations of these large families, wealthy families, or other wealthy families in these cities can be crossed.

Then, it's a matter of what to do next.

In a sense, as a means of systematic robbery and blackmail, it has appeared in the history of human evolution very early; In the view of the lessons of later generations, it can also be made into something full of artistic and cultural traditions; And the way of breaking into the door directly with an open fire and holding a cane, wantonly smashing and looting, and coercing the other party to hand over their wealth is undoubtedly the lowest and least efficient and cost-effective method.

As for the highest-end of the group, it is undoubtedly the European and American powers of later generations, relying on the dividends of the bones of the third world countries, and enjoying the benefits of the colonial era and the primitive accumulation of industry for hundreds of years, they can still rely on supporting puppet regimes and comprador agents to continue to suck blood and wool on the economic lifeline of the host country under the banner of exporting and protecting democracy and freedom;

In the name of justice and justice, they even create disputes and hot spots in the surrounding areas to force their allies (junior brothers) to pay for the maintenance of the garrison and share the military expenses of the war, or simply make regular offerings and pay protection fees in the name of arms procurement.

All of the above ways and means are aimed at achieving the ultimate goal of long-term robbery and extortion that is more concealed and stable under the fig leaf and camouflage of universal values; Moreover, there are many unscrupulous literati and public intellectuals who have been bought and brainwashed, and they have been whitewashed and advocated for their bandit logic and black history.

This is the crowning achievement of bandit logic.

Of course, now Zhou Huai'an has not been able to achieve this level and height, even the country where he is in the future is far from reaching; However, he could have retreated to the next best thing and found some successful examples based on the lessons of history. That is, Li Zicheng entered Beijing and wantonly plundered the set of things of the princes, ministers, wealthy businessmen and wealthy merchants in the city, and used them to bring them to life after being remodeled.

At least in terms of imagination in torture and interrogation methods, these mud-legged rebels obviously have no way to compare with Zhou Huai'an, a modern person like Ye Gonghaolong; You know, out of some malicious interest, he even read the famous "Luo Weaving Sutra" handed down in the Tang Dynasty.

As for the goat's heart, clamping sticks, and teppanyaki, they are all pediatrics, such as "ants on the tree", "fish-flavored shredded meat", "palace fried chicken" or something that uses the human body as the material, which is practical and effective, not only does not threaten and hurt life, but also can achieve the greatest persecution effect.

Even if the object who is not dead after the interrogation is completed, it is completely possible to continue the next step of waste utilization, and the previous actions in Zhaojiazhai are just a small test; Now with the bigger stage of the state city, there is no doubt that more practice and play can be played.

For example, as an online military historian, he also read the "Report on the Issue of Land Reform", and used it as dry goods to fight those, obviously the descendants of the poor middle peasants of Miao Zheng and Hong, but he always forgot the ancestors and delusionally imagined that his ancestors were the landlord exploiting class and were born as young masters and young ladies;

relies on the torment of the poor to knock on the bones and suck the marrow of the family, to maintain the dignity of the wind and snow and the petty bourgeois mood of moaning without disease, but he keeps defending that all these are the Internet parasites, feminist tables, public knowledge, and fruit fans who have worked hard to get rich on their ancestors.

(End of chapter)