Chapter 218: The Sky Is Not Dead, the Yellow Sky Destroys First—8
Suning obviously knew the nature of the Yellow Turban Army very well, otherwise his subordinates would not be able to capture a large number of prisoners with a casual shout.
At this time, Suning also slowly and leisurely rushed over from not far away, and after they had a simple exchange with Aetius, he asked his subordinates to bring over a few Yellow Turban soldiers for interrogation, and he was going to let several foreign generals know through this questioning that in China, a place with many people underground, the war, to what extent was caused by hunger.
After the first Yellow Turban Army was brought over, it didn't take long for him to explain his background clearly. It turned out that this person used to be a qualified person, but his land was occupied by a few powerful tricks, and then he could only go to other places to work as a tenant farmer, but because she often accused the master's family of not being right, so he was driven out many times, and later, when he went to other places to find fields to rent, he accidentally came into contact with the preachers of the Yellow Turban Army, and since then, he has become a staunch supporter of the Taiping Dao.
Suning knew that landless peasants like him were the main components of the Yellow Turban Army, and the careerists who really had political plans were only a small part of the Yellow Turban Army. Especially the group of people in power, who have just revolted, have begun to act as a prestige, it can be seen that their yearning for power in their hearts has been parasitic in the planning of this uprising from the beginning, maybe there are really a few of them who see the suffering of the world in their eyes and need to be appreciated, but most of them obviously do not have the same concept as them.
As in the proletarian revolution after 1700, it was often the lumpenproletarians who were the first to start the revolution, and in the revolutionary ranks, there were often many indiscriminate ones, which were abolished, and only when the revolutionary ranks were impure could their faith gather a strong enough force.
However, the beliefs of the Yellow Turbans are too fragile in the face of the proletarian beliefs, and even in relation to this era, the strength they can gather does not represent the direction of the development of the times. Therefore, their failure, whether from the technical level of the grassroots level or from the general trend of history, is doomed and inevitable.
Later, several Yellow Turban Army captives who were dragged out also had similar experiences with the first person, and everyone's life was like a rag, splicing together the pain and misfortune at the bottom of the Han Dynasty.
The word land annexation was quickly scavenged from Suning's mind, and when he appeared after the suffering of the people, he had a more impactful understanding of those foreign generals. They finally learned that wars that broke out in China, especially civil wars and rebellions, were often provoked by a group of political careerists, taking advantage of a group of people who wanted to change their fate, and brought havoc to innocent people.
Suning generally does not have too high expectations for this kind of person, even if this person is Zhang Jiao, who is famous in history, he will not have a special opinion on this, after all, he is just an otaku who studies the history of technology, and he is usually indifferent to how to evaluate the leader who used religion to set off a peasant uprising in politics and culture, anyway, the impact that this person brings to the world has nothing to do with the field he is studying. And he has always insisted that the field of his research is the source of power that can truly bring new changes to the happiness of the people.
As for these people, he still stubbornly insisted on the original view that they were only worthy of providing enough food for the workers on his agricultural estates, so he ordered his men to tie their hands with ropes, and put them together in series, and then transport them to Luoyang, and then through Guanzhong, back to Beidi County, which was controlled by Suning.
After this short battle, Suning got new news from Luoyang, that is, his political ally, and amateur subordinate, the former state assassin Shi Dong Zhuo had accepted the emperor's appointment to assist him in his crusade against the Yellow Turban Army, and at the same time the emperor also gave Suning a special order, because he did not bring many soldiers this time, so the emperor specially allowed him to recruit new soldiers in the Guanzhong area, which the royal family regarded as a forbidden area. The emperor's special permission made Suning very happy. In the action of arresting Ma Yuanyi, he appreciated the military literacy of the villagers in Guanzhong, if he can be brave from Zhang Mou among them, it is estimated that the training time can be greatly shortened, you know, they are not the ruffians on the border of Liangzhou, they are the children of Guanzhong with potential military ability, as long as they pick up knives and guns, they are a group of good men who can kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions, even in the mountains, they can also use a simple formation to fight with the robbers who rob the house for a while. Now in a word, they are disciplined in military affairs, and they far exceed those men in Liangzhou.
Therefore, the establishment of the sixth column and the seventh column was quickly formed in Suning's order, and the corresponding weapons and equipment will also speed up the pace of production in Liangzhou, and use the fastest speed to transport to the front line, the only thing they need to worry about is whether the imperial court can provide enough rich grain and grass for these two columns, if not, then Suning can only transfer grain from Liangzhou.
You must know that the recruits of these two columns are private troops recruited in his personal name, and under the system of the Han court, most of the generals, especially those who are stationed in Youzhou and Liangzhou, have a large number of private troops. It was through these private tribes that they achieved the purpose of fighting for the country, in fact, this system was passed down until the end of the Ming Dynasty. Guan Ning Tiecai, who guards the border pass, doesn't have to take out a lot of silver money to reward you and their families, as for the other soldiers, it is just a miscellaneous fish to boost morale, and when it comes to real battles, the generals trust their own families the most.
It was still in the Ming Dynasty, where the monarch's power was constantly strengthened and the power of the subjects was constantly weakened, and in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, this situation was much more serious than in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately, not long after this order was sent, another holy decree of the emperor, don't rush to chase after it, that is, to allow him Suning to act cheaply, not only can he purchase a large amount of grain under the rule of the Han Dynasty, but also according to the needs of the war, the captured spoils of war can be distributed in advance, as long as it is supplemented afterwards.