On this day, when I came to Dazhou, Yang Risheng, Zhizhou, Fan Mingshan, the capital of the 1st Regiment, and Ma Mingluan, the commander of the 9th Regiment, first inspected the implementation of the new policy, and then looked at the resettlement of displaced people, the planting of crops, and the collection of commercial endowments in the bazaar. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These are all promoted by Yang Xuan, and they are also the most concerned, hearing that the inspection is here, Yang Risheng and others have reconfirmed it a few days ago, so as not to make any mistakes.

Seeing that the crops in the field were green, there were many people in the market, and everyone had a heartfelt smile on their faces, Yang Xuan seemed quite happy.

On this day, when I returned to the military camp in Dazhou Prefecture, Fan Mingshan led the way in front, and along the way, I saw that the soldiers were practicing in sweaters, and they were very satisfied when they walked down to test one or two.

But on the way to the canteen, he felt a slight breathing sound coming from the haystack next to him, Yang Xuan was startled and hurriedly stopped.

The guard next to him was shocked, kicked the haystack open, and saw four or five men hiding in the haystack and playing long cards from a distance.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Fan Mingshan was pale, this time it was too embarrassing, the 1st Regiment was the most prominent unit except for the guard regiment, and now they actually found that they were gathering people to gamble, and this was okay.

The gendarmes rushed over, tied five men to a tree, stripped them naked, and beat them with more than 50 lashes in public.

Fan Mingshan was hoarse in front, accusing gambling crimes and telling bloody stories.

That person used to have heaven and earth, but he got into the habit of gambling, and finally lost his family and his wife were separated.

Because of the gambling habit, his wife wanted to leave and cut off her fingers.

The five men who were beaten wailed one by one and begged for mercy miserably.

Yang Xuan calmed down instead, calmed down after confirming a false alarm, and after seeing Fan Mingshan finish speaking, he threw his coat to the guard next to him, picked up a simple horn and walked to the front of the stage, and asked: "Brothers, gambling vices, gambling harms, I think everyone knows that families are ruined, wives are separated, everyone has seen a lot of this kind of thing."

But on the other hand, we are manly husbands, and it is our talent to be competitive, and I have played gambling and playing cards in the past.

But I'm different from everyone else, every time I win or lose, I don't win or lose much, and I just pay a penny for a game, just for fun.

But on the other hand, I started another gamble.

In the past, I was born as a scholar, and although I was able to wield guns and sticks, in addition to being proficient in firearms, I just had brute strength, which was not good, and I would suffer a loss on the battlefield. After joining the army, I practiced with the masters every day, and competed with the masters around me every three or five times.

In each competition, if I lose, I will lose the other party's 1 yuan of silver, so in two years, the master who used to win my silver has already been beaten by me, and I have to lose 2 or 3 taels of silver in the past month, and now I rarely lose.

Everyone said, is it okay to gamble like me? ”

Everyone looked at each other and applauded one by one.

Yang Xuan then gave an example, telling everyone through examples, so that the competitive nature of men can be transformed into improving their own skills and improving their status.

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, but how to become a general, Yang Xuan pointed out a roadmap for everyone, that is, the selection criteria for squad leaders, squadron leaders, brigade leaders, and battalion commanders.

Simply take a squad leader as an example, he must be familiar with all kinds of equipment in the army and be able to guide his subordinates

It is necessary to be familiar with various formations and be able to reasonably allocate training and combat tasks

It is inevitable to kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions

must obey the command of the superior and unite his soldiers

…..

Otherwise, even if you become a squad leader or squadron leader by virtue of your relationship, and you don't have real materials, you will be looked down upon and ousted.

Yang Xuan shouted, if you think that you should be promoted to squad leader or squadron leader and you don't have it at the moment, you can find your battalion commander and regiment commander.

The one who thinks that he should be promoted to battalion commander or regiment commander but has not been promoted, can find himself.

This is a fair gamble, not like these sneaky and cheap card players.

On the stage, Yang Xuan asked everyone to improve their abilities and skills through mutual competition, instead of playing cards all day long to eliminate time.

Everyone applauded, and Yang Xuan called each captain to the stage and said his worst three to challenge the strong.

The crowd was inspired, and some claimed that the squad was poorly trained and how much time it took them to bring it to normal.

Some claimed that the skills of the other brigade were good, and made him swear loudly on the stage that he must catch up with him at some point.

This method was often used in the training of the previous life, the ancients were very simple, and after Yang Xuan's provocation, everyone responded enthusiastically, and the whole school field resounded with bursts of applause from time to time.

Back at the Zhizhou Yamen, Fan Mingshan knelt down and confessed again and again.

First fiercely criticized a military discipline problem, after deducting two months' military salary, seeing that his confession attitude was very sincere, and then he would be helped up, Yang Xuan sighed and said: "Fan Dusi, gambling is probably not unique to your 1st regiment.

Manly husbands, competitive and competitive, in the past training, we want them to practice, so that everyone will be scattered, will take the opportunity to slip aside to play cards.

Now they practice on their own, there is no doubt that they will also be allowed to compete with each other when the time comes, and if they win, of course they must be rewarded, so that it is a healthy competition. ”

Seeing that Yang Xuan's anger had subsided, Fan Mingshan wiped off the beads of sweat on his face again and again, and only now did he find that his back was cold, and all of it was sweat.

And the gambling in the army also made Yang Xuan realize the seriousness of the problem again, in addition to letting the soldiers compete with each other and have a big competition, they should find ways to solve it in other aspects.

In this era, life in the army was very boring and boring, and in the past, in addition to training, it was still training, and the effect was not very obvious.

Although the Loyal and Righteous Army has increased the time for learning cultural knowledge (that is, reading books and telling stories to everyone who is literate), the time for singing military songs, the time for self-summary every day, and now in addition to regular competitions, the rest period is still very free.

It seems that it is necessary to introduce more healthy cultural life, and after thinking about it for two days, Yang Xuan listed a series of options, such as modern sketches, football (bow, in the past, it was like a volleyball on both sides, but now it is just for everyone to shoot on the grass like a football), storytelling, shadow puppetry, etc.

By mid-December, after arriving in Pengzhou, he resorted to the plan of the golden cicada to get out of his shell and returned to Shunqing with great fanfare, while Yang Xuan secretly arrived at Yilong County upstream by boat to take measures to launch a final blow against Yao Huang, who was entrenched in Bazhou.

Considering that next year (AD 1646) Zhang Xianzhong was shot by the Barbarian Qing Tartars in Phoenix Mountain, Xichong County, considering that the Great Western Army may attack Shunqing Mansion before the collapse, and the whole Sichuan will suffer a catastrophe after the Barbarian Qing enters Sichuan, in order to be able to change history, it was decided to expand the territory first, enhance the strength, and first expel the local tyrants from northern Sichuan.

Chen Yingzong of the 2nd Regiment (1000 regiments of the C regiment, 2 regiments of the 2nd regiment, and guerrillas of the A regiment) and Liu Weiming, the 100 general of the 6th regiment, secretly introduced the group into a manor ten miles north of the city.

The staff officers who arrived early were divided into two rows, and after a brief inspection, everyone came to a huge sand table, where Chen Yingzong, Liu Weiming, and others held wooden sticks in one hand to introduce the situation of the local rioters in Bazhou.

Liu Weiming came from the side of the local thugs, and he was quite familiar with his situation, and in the past month, he had sent three times to Bazhou, so he had a good understanding of the local situation.

The local rioters went deep into Pengzhou, Dazhou, and Guang'an Prefecture many times, burning, killing, looting, kidnapping, and extortion, and doing all kinds of evil. But what is surprising is that the local thugs not only did not loot in the local area, but even assumed the role of the local government.

But this is also very easy to understand, as the saying goes, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, and in order to survive, of course, they won't do anything wrong in the nest.

Just like the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most troublesome is northern Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng were all born in northern Shaanxi, but after making a name for themselves, everyone often ran to Shanxi, Henan, and Huguang to run around, and did not harm Shaanxi.

Yao and Huang thirteen families, except for a few core backbones from Hanzhong and other places, most of the local scoundrels who joined afterwards were local scoundrels, local poor and helpless homeless people, even those scoundrels, who were taught by their families when they were young, many of them did not completely lose their conscience.

Everyone mainly couldn't survive, so they went out to loot with the head of the family to support their families.

In the time of slack farming, under the leadership of the bandit leader, everyone gathered together, went out to grab some food, and worked in the fields to support the family when the farm was busy.

In this way, although these local thugs are particularly brutal in other places, they are honest farmers in their hometowns, and they do very little harm to the local area.

In this way, although Yao Huang often gathers tens of thousands of people, he is mainly a personal soldier under the major masters in Bazhou and other old nests.

Despite this, due to the grain harvest failures for many years, especially the rise of the Loyal and Righteous Army in Pengzhou, the successive victories of the local rioters, and the expulsion of the local rioters from Pengzhou, Guang'an, and Dazhou, the local rioters controlled less and less territory, so that the food supply became more and more difficult.

In the past, although the local rioters often committed crimes in other places, they were strictly disciplined in the base areas, collecting taxes from the people under their rule and strictly prohibiting robbery.

Just like Cheng Yanjin often shouted, I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave the money to buy the road. In the lair of the local rioters, to make up for the vacuum of the government, the use of ten taxes and one is to force the surrounding people to hand over one percent of the land to the local rioters.

It is impossible for the local tyrants to clear the land and clean up the household registration like the government, and the ten taxes are a standard, and the leaders of each family act rashly in the process of implementation, and not all of them are ten taxes and one tax.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the local squires had very great rights, especially some wealthy families, not only in two days, but also hundreds of protectors, plus slaves who came over, and the local power was also quite strong.

Some local squires and villagers dared to resist, mainly due to the local geographical environment and the living environment of the people.

Bazhou is at the junction of the Qinling Mountains and the hills in Sichuan, the terrain in many places is dangerous, many people live in the cottage, if the local riots come, everyone beats the gongs and drums of the early warning, one by one they are hiding in the cottage, the young and strong, the healthy women are defending in the mountains, although the local rioters are many and powerful, but to break through the cottage, it is more difficult.

(In this era, heavy firearms were very scarce, and the local rioters lacked heavy firepower, and they had limited means for the people entrenched in the cottages.)

Some people think that the Sichuan people were mainly slaughtered by the Barbarian Qing, mainly because when the Barbarian Qing and the Southern Ming Dynasty confronted, because of the requirement for the people to shave the tail of the money rat, the people naturally resisted, and the Barbarian Qing grain was mainly transported from Hanzhong and Shaanxi at that time, and the grain was even bought for more than ten taels and one load.

In order to force the people to obey, in order to solve the food shortage, they went out to collect grain for more than ten years, and so on, like the no-man's land created by the Japanese in North China, the local people were slaughtered).