Chapter Eighty-Three: Lady Diplomacy
After returning to Longzhou, Xiao Tianjian did not hesitate to take out nearly two thousand taels of silver, and gave them to the meritorious people in this battle, and according to the old rules, the names of the fallen soldiers were engraved on several wooden cards, as a collective spirit card, and placed in a spirit tent specially arranged in the army, leading the army up and down, worshipping them very solemnly, and burning paper money for them to comfort their spirits in the sky.
And this kind of thing has now become a tradition of the Xingtian Army, the name of each fallen soldier will be engraved on the wooden tablet, and there is a special scribe for these fallen soldiers to make a book, in a proper way, to ensure that in the future, when the New Year and festivals, their spirit tablets will be taken out to pay tribute.
And for this kind of thing, we must not underestimate its role, the ancients all believed that people are spiritual, many people are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of death, no one remembers to burn a piece of paper to them to the underworld, they were poor when they were born, but they don't want to be poor ghosts after they die, and the Xingtianjun did this, calmed the hearts of many soldiers, let them know that no matter when they unfortunately died on the battlefield, there are always people in this world who remember them and will burn them to the underworld to ensure that they will not suffer poverty in the underworld because of this.
So don't underestimate such a trivial matter, after Xiao Tianjian learned about the psychology of these subordinates, he regarded it as the first major thing, and often personally paid tribute to these soldiers who died for the Xingtian Army before, and burned paper to them, which also calmed the hearts of a large number of soldiers under his command.
Although the Xingtian Army does not pay the generals at the moment, but after every war, they will take out silver money to reward the meritorious people, so the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army are not short of money, as long as they dare to fight, almost everyone has the opportunity to receive rewards, so that the pockets of the soldiers are gradually full, and the idea of being keen on war has gradually begun to form in the Xingtian Army.
As the saying goes, food, clothing, lust, and desire, the soldiers of the Xingtian Army have money to spend, but they have no place to spend it before, most of the things they need are collectively supplied by the Xingtian Army, and they have no chance to go out at all, so even if they have money, they have nowhere to spend, but now after they came to Longzhou City, they finally found a way to spend money.
What Xiao Tianjian never expected was that after the two armies arrived outside Longzhou City, some women who had no way to make a living actually gathered outside Longzhou City, and no one wanted them to join the army, in order to survive with something they stuttered, they actually built a grass shed or a grass hut on some woods or dirt slopes a few miles away from their camp, or simply dug a simple earthen kiln, and actually started the skin and meat trading of these rebels, which caused some soldiers and generals of the two armies to see blood like mosquitoes, and they wanted to sneak to them when they were free." Relax, relax! ”。
The vast majority of the Xingtian soldiers are singles, and the Xingtian Army is not allowed to rob the people's daughters as wives due to military discipline, so these singles have always been singles, and when there is this way for them to relax, they are restless.
Some soldiers and generals tried their best to find excuses and take the opportunity to go out of the camp for "business trips", and after being discovered by Xiao Tianjian, they wanted to stop it, but after thinking about it, it was really unfair to the soldiers of the Xingtian Army to do this, and as a soldier under his command, he had to abide by all kinds of military rules and regulations, and he had to conduct high-intensity drills every day, like an ascetic, although he also tried to mobilize their enthusiasm through food and rewards, but it was not a way to go on like this for a long time.
And the times are different from the times, at this time he doesn't want to copy everything from the military regulations of later generations to restrain his subordinates, in that case it is likely to be counterproductive, the so-called feminism is even more bullshit, and now he proposes feminism, he will definitely be drowned by the spitting stars.
What's more, he himself has Fan Ling'er, but he wants to limit the instincts of his subordinates, this matter is not good to say, it will make people feel unfair, and those women who do skin and meat trading are actually poor people, they either died of their husbands, or the whole family died, in order to stutter to live, they had to even lose their face to start this kind of business, if he strictly restricted the soldiers to go out to "relax", these women don't know how much more they will starve to death.
Although he knew that the weak would be eliminated in the troubled times, so for a long time, in order to ensure that the Xingtian Army would not form a huge family group, he always recruited bachelors, and it was human instinct to be fed and lustful, and it was impossible for him to limit the instinct of his generals.
So after thinking about it for a while, seeing that there will be no major war in a short period of time, he secretly acquiesced to his generals to go out of the camp to "relax", but this situation is not the norm, and he also took the opportunity to introduce a rule, where in the exercise, the team that won the first place can get the reward of a half-day holiday out of the camp, so that he took advantage of this matter and immediately set off a training frenzy in the army.
In addition, Xiao Tianjian also found that Li Zicheng's attitude towards him seemed to be better, and even his two wives, who didn't show up much on weekdays, unexpectedly followed Li Zicheng to the Xingtian military camp to walk around.
Different from the etiquette on the official face is that in the righteous army, because they have to fight outside all the year round, the wives and children of the soldiers in the army naturally have no fixed place to live, and can only move everywhere with the righteous army, so each volunteer army has an old battalion, which is specially designed to accommodate the female dependents and children of the soldiers, and the female dependents of the soldiers of the righteous army are naturally impossible to be like the women, rarely come out and walk around, and they have to show their heads often when they are outside, and even take on some affairs in the army for special reasons.
And Li Zicheng's two wives, one is Gao, who is Gao Yingxiang's niece, and is deeply favored by Li Zicheng, and the other is a Xing family that Li Zicheng married after he joined the army in his early years.
Li Zicheng brought the two of them to the Xingtian military camp as guests, firstly, to show goodwill to Xiao Tianjian, and on the other hand, he also wanted to enhance the relationship between the two armies through his wife's diplomacy, and this kind of thing is also a common thing among the righteous army, and there is no taboo at all.
Although Xiao Tianjian famously said to Li Zicheng that he was not married, and the old camp of the Xingtianjun also had very few female dependents, only a small number of wives and children brought by some craftsmen, which was by no means comparable to the huge old battalion of other rebels, but Li Zicheng still heard that Xiao Tianjian had a personal maid, who was considered a person in Xiao Tianjian's room, and Gao Yingxiang also gave Xiao Tianjian a woman Die'er, which is also Xiao Tianjian's woman, so it was not an abrupt move for him to bring the two ladies over.
Xiao Tianjian was a little surprised that Li Zicheng brought two ladies over to his Xingtian military camp, but Li Zicheng smiled generously and said: "Brother, don't blame, these two of me heard that you led the troops to beat He Renlong to the ground, killing nearly a thousand enemies, and I admire you a lot, I have to take them to see you as a hero, so the foolish brother has no choice but to bring them to meet you!" Hehe! ”
After Xiao Tianjian came to this world, he naturally gradually understood the customs of this era, and he was able to bring his inner man out to meet strangers, under normal circumstances, because of the deep friendship between the two, so he would not avoid suspicion, and Li Zicheng's move was to show favor to him, obviously there was still a meaning to win him over.
However, since Li Zicheng promised to let him lead the army alone to fight against the He Renlong Division, Xiao Tianjian has had an estrangement with Li Zicheng in his heart, and he no longer has the kind of intimacy when he first met, but on the surface, since Li Zicheng is still so affectionate to him, then he will naturally not be stupid enough to turn his face with Li Zicheng, so on the surface, he is still very close to Li Zicheng as a brother, after all, the age difference between the two is not very big, and Li Zicheng is only less than thirty years old. There's nothing wrong with them being brothers.
Since Li Zicheng brought his two wives along, it shows that Li Zicheng is very good at befriending him, and this superficial work naturally still has to be done.
For this Mrs. Gao, he once read Yao Xueyin's book Li Zicheng when he was a teenager, although his memory has long been blurred, but for the righteous Mrs. Gao described in this book, he is still very admirable, when he sees this Gao, he sees that although Gao is not beautiful, but between gestures, there is a kind of demeanor, quite decent and quite affinity, no wonder she will be loved by Li Zicheng's soldiers.
As soon as Gao saw Xiao Tianjian, he gave him a blessing and praised: "Gao has seen General Xiao!" ”
And the one next to him was naturally Xing's, that Xing's peeked at Xiao Tianjian, and saw that Gao's gave Xiao Tianjian a salute, so he immediately stepped forward and said, "Xing's has seen General Xiao!" ”
Xiao Tianjian hurriedly hugged his fists and saluted: "I don't know that the two sisters-in-law are coming, Xiao has missed the distance, forgive the sins!" ”
However, he also paid attention to this Xing family, this Xing family's appearance is obviously more beautiful than the more ordinary Gao family, and her figure is a relatively tall woman in this era, and because she has followed Li Zicheng all the year round, she is indispensable for dancing guns and sticks, so her figure is quite good, and it can even be said to be hot, although she is not well dressed, it is also a coarse cloth shirt, but after her deliberate modification, this coarse cloth skirt is also quite decent, outlining her figure well. And her dress is more gorgeous than Gao's, especially those pretty eyes, which imply a hint of charm.
Such a woman is indeed quite attractive to men, otherwise, that handsome Gao Jie would not have hooked up with this Xing family.
But of course Xiao Tianjian will not fall for this Xing's appearance, for the beauty of women, what kind of beauty Xiao Tianjian from later generations has not seen! There are countless beauties in various magazines, newspapers, movies, and television every day, so even if this Xing is a little beautiful, in his eyes, it is just ordinary, and it can't arouse any interest in him at all.
Xiao Tianjian was a little sympathetic to Li Zicheng, although he couldn't guess whether this Xing family had hooked up with Gao Jie or not, but it was estimated that the relationship between the two would never be normal.
As a surprising figure, Li Zicheng is also enough to carry it, before he rebelled, his first wife stole people, and as a result, he was arrested and imprisoned for killing his wife, married a Xing family, but he didn't think about it or put a green hat on him, he turned his head and glanced at Li Zicheng, looking at Li Zicheng's brain, he couldn't help but feel a little green.