"There is a country in the far west of the overseas country, there are strong neighbors bullying outside, and the court is corrupt inside, causing the people to live poorly, when a hero leads the people to rise up, under the siege of millions of troops of the imperial court, from the south to the north, they cross the big river, climb the snowy mountains, cross the grassland, go through a lot of hardships, 100,000 people lost to more than 10,000 people, but no one surrendered to the enemy, and finally overthrew the old court and established a new dynasty."

In the steward's room of the wine workshop, Gu Haotian spoke to all the stewards on the mountain, and it was the story of Mao Taizu's Long March in later generations. Eighteen warriors stormed the chain bridge, the quartermaster who climbed the snow-capped mountain froze himself into a monument, and the golden fish hook that grew over the old fire in the meadow, and so on, and so on, the people sitting below listened to it with fascination.

"How can this team defeat the old court and establish a new dynasty in such a difficult situation?"

Everyone thought about it, too, there is no food and grass in this team, there are pursuers behind them, and the future is so difficult, what can they rely on?

"One of them is called faith. What is Faith? In fact, it is a spirit that does it with indomitable strength for the sake of the good wishes in one's heart. ”

To tell the truth, "faith" is an abstract word, how to make people in this era understand, Gu Haotian took a lot of effort and died countless brain cells to come up with this kind of explanation, and he can only use it.

"Let's take our Liangshan as an example, what is everyone's wish? It is nothing more than some food, some clothing, and some housing, and those who are farther away are those who eat well, dress well, and live well, and those who are farther away are about to be well fed, clothed, and housed well. But can these wishes be obtained with your mouth open? Of course, there is no such good thing in the world, and everyone must work hard for it, and sometimes even shed blood and desperately. ”

"It's hard to live a good life, and it's even more difficult to keep a good life in this world, which is why living a good life requires firm faith and not being afraid of sweat and blood."

"For example, the people of Liangshan are living a good life, and there are bandits who want to come and rob them, the powerful people who want to invade them, and even the government wants to bully them, so what should we do?"

"If there is such an eye-opener, I will cut off the head of the bird with an axe."

"I have two iron swords, I haven't drunk blood yet, and I'm waiting to make a fortune." Sun An originally had two iron swords, and when he fled, Gu Haotian gave him another pair.

"What kind of bird's official mansion, it is not that these eight hundred miles of water cannot drown people." Ruan Xiaowu is a deep-rooted revolutionary who doesn't pay attention to the government at all.

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"I naturally believe in your courage, we have more than a thousand people in Liangshan at the moment, if the general strongman attacks, each with a moment of blood courage can naturally deal with it, if in the future we have thousands of people on the mountain, tens of thousands or more, but we have to fight against several times, or even dozens of times the enemy, if it is also with blood bravery, will it still be a fight?"

"Actually, the answer is actually written in the history of our China." Gu Haotian's speech slowed down, and his voice grew deeper, as if he had fallen into a kind of memory.

"Chen Sheng and Wu Guang stood up and shouted, 'Is there a kind of prince and general Xiangning?' But did they become marquis and generals? ”

"The Yellow Turban Rebellion swept across the country, spreading the word 'Cangtian is dead, Huangtian should stand', Cangtian died later, but did Huang Tianli stand?"

"Huang Chao opposed the Tang Dynasty, saying that he was asking for his life for the people, but later he captured people and ate them, killing thousands of people a day, eating up the people of the eleven states of Henan, and how many flesh and blood of the children of the Han family were crushed by the grinding mill? History books are hard to contain! ”

Huangchao's anti-Tang Dynasty was in the previous dynasty, and its terrifying act of "knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow" is still fresh in the memory of people in this era.

Everyone who was in a state of emotion fell silent in unison, and everyone fell into deep thought. Why did the team in the Far West encounter such great difficulties, why didn't they do things like Huang Chao's doing? The quartermaster, the old captain, and so many others died of starvation, but they did not harm the people. They have weapons in their hands, they can rob and kill, why is that?

After thinking about it for a long time, everyone looked at the young man in front of them, and everyone knew that the answer was in his heart.

"Why? They are missing two things, one is the belief we talked about earlier, without faith they don't know what to do, so then they are the walking dead; The other is that without strict discipline, they can do whatever they want, which is why such an appalling incident as feeding people has occurred. ”

"Another magic weapon of the team in the country of the extreme west is military discipline, everyone in this team abides by a military discipline called 'three disciplines and eight attentions', so the internal unity is like a family, and there is no offense against the people, better than compatriots, so everywhere the people go, the people are all supportive."

"If they have faith in their hearts, they have the direction of their efforts, and although they have discipline outside, they are like a family, so they are like the fire that cannot be extinguished and extinguished, and once there is a suitable place, it will become a prairie fire."

"There are currently more than 1,000 people on Liangshan, and the escort team is less than 600, of course, there will be more than these people in the future, but my Gu Haotian's belief is that no matter how many people there are, as long as they are from Liangshan, I will definitely let him live a good life. I believe that everyone here can do it, but I can't be sure that everyone on the mountain or everyone who will go up the mountain in the future can do it, and they are willing to do it, even if they can do it, they can't guarantee that everyone can twist into a rope and work hard in one place. This requires that in addition to the strength to create a good life in our hearts, we in Liangshan must also have the 'three disciplines and eight attentions' like the country in the extreme west, so as to punish the black sheep, gather people's hearts, and create a good life together. ”

The lobby was silent, most of the people sitting here were born poor, or had just been lifted out of poverty, and the description of the petty officials "living a good life together" was too attractive to everyone, and it was everyone's idea to keep a good life that had only been lived for a few days.

"But I've heard that last year there were people in our convoy who went to steal from the people. Some people may think that a little New Year's goods are not worth making a fuss, in fact, this is indeed a small thing, but if you can't take it as a warning, small things can become big things, and you can become many times at a time, and then the people on Liangshan will still create a good life with us with one heart? Are the people from beyond the mountains willing to come up to us? If a strong enemy is coming, will everyone fight against the enemy with us? ”

Gu Haotian's series of three questions made the enthusiasm of everyone sitting just now cool down in an instant, and Du Qian and Song Wan were even more sweaty.

"It's all my fault, and it's dragged down Liangshan's reputation." Du Qian and Song Wan got up and admitted their mistakes.

"The two brothers don't need to feel guilty, if you want to say that the fault is mainly on me, because I have never set military discipline for Liangshan's escorts, so even if there is no matter of Zhang Gouzi, there will be things like Li Gouzi and Wang Gouzi. It is not too late to make amends, and the most important thing is that we must do the next thing - to set the military discipline of our Liangshan. ”

"A few days ago, I discussed with Master Wen and roughly determined the military discipline of our Liangshan, and the next step is to start by myself, and all the guards on Liangshan must follow this."

Then Wen Huanzhang read out and explained the military discipline of Liangshan, especially the "Three Disciplines and Eight Ideas" which made everyone feel refreshed, even if they were the big bosses such as Su Sheng, Sun An, Ruan Family Brothers, Du Qian, Song Wan, etc., they could understand it as soon as they heard it.

But when Wen Huanzhang announced punishment measures such as confinement, punishment, labor reform, dismissal, and beheading, some people felt very new about new words such as confinement.

"Master Wen, what is the punishment for this confinement?" Ma Qiang had been with Master Wen for a long time, so he had the courage to ask.

"Well, I can't explain this clearly, you might as well try it tomorrow."

Gu Haotian almost couldn't hold back his laughter, he didn't expect that a righteous gentleman like Master Wen would also set up others, it seemed that he was really miserable that day.

Once the military discipline was established, it was immediately enforced, and the first to bear the brunt was Zhang Gouzi and other five people, all of whom were sent to Tao Zongwang for labor reform to see the after-effects. At the same time, Gu Haotian asked Xiao Rang's literacy class to start on the Lantern Festival, focusing on faith and military discipline. He also asked the personal guards, the teaching team, the navy, and the logistics department to recommend the backbone cadres to participate in the first phase of the literacy class, and the infantry army and the horse army were newly established and placed in the next batch.

Since the establishment of the escort force, due to the small number of people, only a few captains have been set up, and this time, with the increase in personnel, it is inevitable that lower-level positions will be created, so everyone understands that this recommendation is an opportunity given to them by a petty official. Du Qian and Song Wan saw that the little officials did not despise them because of Zhang Gouzi's matter, and they were even more grateful, thinking that they could not make mistakes again this time.

This meeting, which lasted from afternoon to late at night, can be said to have sown the seeds of hard work for faith in the hearts of the people of Liangshan for the first time, and also set the tone for the military discipline of the Liangshan army.

Xiao Rang, who participated in the meeting, later described the meeting in his autobiography: On the 10th day of January of the 11th year of Zhou Chengping, Taizu convened a military meeting in Liangshan, and I was fortunate to attend the meeting,...... At that time, Taizu was only twelve years old.

During the Lantern Festival in the eleventh year of Chengping, some lanterns were also hung on Liangshan, especially in the family area, adding a bit of joy, but the most intense atmosphere was the first literacy class in the canteen.

At the meeting five days ago, the news that the petty officials had selected key personnel to participate in the first literacy class was dispersed after the meeting, and those with a little light understood the meaning of the "first period." In the past few days, the training of the escort team has been extremely conscious, and several captains have come to find a relationship openly and secretly. On the afternoon of the 15th, Gu Haotian reported that the personal guard team reported ten people, the teaching team reported fifteen people, the navy army ten people, the logistics department six people, and Ruan Xiaoqi's traffic team reported two people.

After dinner, the canteen was tidied up, Bian Xiang stood on the platform temporarily erected in front of the canteen and shouted the password, and there were several columns standing in the military units under the stage, as many as 15 people in the teaching team, and as few as Zhou Yunqing in the Ma Army. All the personnel were all in the same escort system, neatly lined up under the password, solemn and silent, only the excitement could not be concealed from their eyes.

Gu Haotian watched from a distance, and his heart was very satisfied, what he wanted was to give people this solemn and sacred feeling, but the canteen as a classroom was a little unsatisfactory, and Tao Zongwang had to choose a place to build a lecture hall as soon as possible, and it would definitely be more useful in the future.

In the middle of the unitary hour, in Bian Xiang's command, each team entered the classroom in turn, and more than 60 people, including 44 team members plus the leaders of each team and the stewards of various places, sat in most of the canteen.

Just as everyone was waiting, Gu Haotian came in from outside the door in a guard uniform, and then he stood on the podium and began to lecture: "Tonight is the first class for the escort team to move to Liangshan, and it is also the first time I teach everyone a class, and the topic I want to talk about tonight is called——"

As he spoke, he picked up a makeshift charcoal pen from the podium and wrote five words on the white-plastered wooden board behind him: faith and military discipline.