After all, among these peasant armies who have just eaten enough for a few days, there are too few and too few choices for entertaining and educational entertainment and cultural and sports activities. You must know that the vast majority of sports competitions in later generations require a lot of physical strength, venues, and equipment resources, which is too difficult for these former farmers who have not washed the dirt on their feet and are forced to take up arms and fight desperately.

Therefore, the practice of most armies in this era was to periodically release soldiers in groups of three or five to let them have fun on their own, whether it was hanging out with nothing to do, eating and drinking, or looking for women.

As a result, it has also become a major source of nuisance and even harm to the local area by these soldiers. However, as long as the generals of these armies have the need to continue to use their lives to fight afterwards, they will often resort to various means to shield and connive at them, and at the cost of local people's relations and lives, the soldiers will be given a channel to vent their emotions and pressures wantonly.

Of course, there are times when you can't act recklessly; The generals will find ways to restrain them and lock them up in the barracks by means of rewards and punishments in front of them; Then they could not stop or avoid their boredom, but let them gamble, drink, and fight for pleasure; The more clever generals spent some money in the battalion to hold some competitive tricks such as horn fighting, arching, and warping, to temporarily divert the high tension of some soldiers.

Since Zhou Huai'an, as a time-traveler with thousands of years of experience, it is of course impossible to tolerate and indulge this kind of rough and laissez-faire practice.

Compared with track and field, ball games and other sports that sweat at every turn, and require sufficient caloric intake to persevere; Accumulating some story jokes to tell the story is a relatively simple and quick way to entertain; Theoretically, all you need is a glass of water and two pieces of mouth skin, and once the scale and habit are formed, it is easy to spread and spread.

And the requirements for the first batch of storytellers are not high, and they don't even need to be literate but can remember the general meaning of a certain fragment, anyway, the soldiers who can't read big words themselves are not very demanding. Therefore, in less than a month, the storytellers from the Fufeng Battalion have already swept the large and small rebel garrisons inside and outside Guangfu, and even extended and dispatched to the forward troops in Meizhou and Shaozhou at the invitation.

As a modern person who has been bombarded by information, the last thing that is missing is all kinds of stories and jokes; And at first, the price they came to listen to Zhou Huai'an told the story was just a stipopy from the first meeting, and anything could be. Until now, only a small number of acquaintances can hear the latest topics told by Zhou Huai'an himself.

In addition to the theme of the Dream of Red Mansions, whether it is "Journey to the West", which is a collection of myths and legends of the three religions and nine streams, or "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which will be the theme of the princes, princes, loyal ministers and righteous men in the world, it can be said that they are all excellent choices.

But the most timely is undoubtedly the "Water Margin", which gathers people in Liangshan to rebel against the government and has many characters with distinctive characteristics, so any excerpt and fragment can become one after another interconnected small stories and allusions rich in rhyme.

After the audience has formed a certain psychological inertia and receptivity, they can start to bring some of his personal private goods inside, and by the way, sell some chicken soup for the soul that has been rotten in later generations as a cover for the name;

Of course, this is a kind of experimental layout of widely scattered nets and fishing, through thanking the meaning or private goods in the story, to obtain some objects that can be resonated and recognized, and then under in-depth communication and doubts, you can get the initial help from within the rebel army; After all, if he wants to get out in the future, relying on his own means of preparation alone is obviously far from high.

Of course, because of the fake identity of this monk, the first thing that was taken out and said was "Journey to the West", which happened to be a ready-made story related to the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang Sanzang more than 300 years ago.

Then gradually released "Water Margin", which was the culmination of many strong Liang rebellion stories, and finally "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", where the empire generals competed for domination of the world. This is also a step-by-step process of disguised screening, where you can see all kinds of characters with different pursuits and mentalities;

For example, people who like "Journey to the West" can undoubtedly get a sense of relief and spiritual comfort from escapism in the story of wild monsters fighting against heaven;

Those who like "Water Margin" can gain a certain illusory sense of identity for their actual behavior from the brotherly righteousness who lives and dies together and Liangshan who acts for the heavens;

As for those who can get feelings and understanding from "Three Kingdoms", which uses the world as the stage in the late Han Dynasty and uses power to compete in the art of war, they are at least characters with ambitions and prospects.

As for "Dream of Red Mansions", I'm sorry, at least in this precarious atmosphere of the low-level troubled times, except for a glimpse of the imaginary life of the upper class people, it has no meaning and no use.

But Zhou Huai'an obviously aggravated the barrenness, boredom, and deprivation of these peasant rebels in terms of spiritual world and entertainment, and as a result, he suddenly became famous with a speed of spread that he had not expected, and many people knew that there were monks in the Fufeng camp who had their own theories of the ancients and were also very profound.

Then, he justifiably indicated to the General's Office that he needed a group of people who could take notes with him, and thus obtained a relatively limited right to select and solicit. At least he had to thank the city of Guangzhou in which he lived, compared to the Chaoshan region, which was still surrounded and infiltrated by a large area of wilderness, Guangzhou City was a city where the essence of the entire Lingnan region was gathered.

In addition, for the long-term needs of trade and interpretation exchanges, a large number of specialized practitioners and related industries have been created; In addition, the Lingnan region has been used as a penal colony for political prisoners in the Tang Dynasty, and these political prisoners, who often have high-end academic qualifications and political experience from the center of the imperial court, as well as their descendants, have also left their own traces and imprints in this giant city.

Therefore, the literacy rate and civilization of the people in Guangzhou are far higher than those in other places, and they are known as the first in the prosperity of culture and education in Shilingnan, which also gives Zhou Huai'an more room and space for choice;

Especially when the rebels arrived and killed most of the Hu merchants in the city, and after raiding many official eunuchs and large households, and thus locking the reaction caused a wave of unemployment among the people involved, Zhou Huai'an found that he seemed to have stepped into a rich treasure trove, and he could choose and select manpower in various fields in a pretending public and private manner, so as to enrich his surroundings and the corresponding training center.

Then, with the unknown power and operation, more young men with good memories and quick minds were sent to his subordinates to listen to and record the stories he told, and then bring them back to spread and spread them to others.

Only a small number of the best of them were retained, teaching him vulgar words and simple arithmetic, and helping him to free him from the most tedious chores; I have enough time to brew stories and collect stories, and while checking and parading around, I cover myself up and do some private things secretly.

For example, he is currently responsible for health and epidemic prevention, publicizing and implementing the ideas of the righteous army, and organizing and arranging collective labor; In addition to the limited self-sufficiency of the Tuntian, it was actually the merger and production management of some handicrafts inside and outside Quangfu.

According to the lessons and lessons of the development of social productive forces and the refinement of the division of labor in later generations; If there is no industrial capacity, even the most basic five small industries as the upstream, to absorb and digest and transform the surplus value of agricultural production and the means of production generated; Even if it encounters three bumper years one after another, it is difficult to change the serious overflow of agricultural products in social circulation, and they will be wasted and consumed in various transshipment and storage links over time.

Therefore, the rice after the harvest hurts the farmers, in fact, it involves the field of macroeconomic regulation and control; Therefore, the ideas and measures that are usually a little more normal in ancient dynasties are, on the one hand, adjusted through the liquidation system at all levels of "expensive and lowly harvest"; On the other hand, the government or local people will take the lead in presiding over the construction of various large and small infrastructure projects, and consume these redundant and overflow in a short period of time by turning them into labor and materials.

Now what Zhou Huai'an is doing is similar. At least until these surplus food and materials that were still in the hands of the rebels were corrupted and moldy because of the weather in Lingnan, it was completely in vain to turn them into base facilities that would continue to benefit the rebels through large-scale organized labor and engineering projects, or exchange them for other much-needed materials.

Of course, the fields he is currently handling and engaged in, whether it is organizing large-scale collective labor, centralizing the management of handicraft workshops, or sorting out and counting the mineral resources in Lingdong, are all the fields that these rebels who were born in farming are not good at at all, or they are blank fields that have been ignored and rejected for a long time; Although most people shout that the sky is making up for the average, they still stay in the simple stage of "grabbing big households and killing officials and soldiers", so that they can live a good life.

Therefore, Zhou Huai'an can play the fastest effect like a fish in water. After all, it's easiest to see the results of painting on a blank sheet of paper with nothing; There is no need to worry about being unloaded and killed by a donkey or taking the opportunity to pick peaches for a period of time. Because in this regard, as the founder of the corresponding system and system, it naturally has a first-mover advantage that is difficult to shake and replace.

With this mixed mood of slight complacency and expectation, he embarked on the road to the banquet after dark.

(End of chapter)