Chapter 295: It Can't Be Done Without an Army
In Bai Gui's plan, there was no regular army. But! It does not mean that the army is not needed.
In this troubled world, you can't defeat your opponents without an army.
What if? Zhongshan or Wei, or Qin, or Yiqu, or the nomads of the north, who organized a powerful army to come and rob you of your property?
King Wei Hui of Wei likes to do this kind of unearned work. When your country becomes rich and strong, they will find an excuse to fight you and rob you of the fruits of your labor. If you can defeat him, all your gains will be in vain, and you will be lost in the battle. If you lose, you will have to cede the land and pay compensation.
Today's rice country has the taste of King Wei Hui of Wei at that time. Only I can get rich, and you are all at my service.
No! You are all objects of my enslavement.
What Bai Kyu means: he does not raise a regular army. But! The strength to defend his homeland is what he needs.
Just like the guards around him, he can't do without them.
In the future, Linquan's side will become rich, and they will also need to be guarded.
The trade center has become bigger, and it needs to be guarded as well. Otherwise! It's useless to get rich, it's robbed by people who don't work hard. The more prosperous the business is, the more people want to rob it.
These simple truths are clear to everyone. So! You're going to have to train them and train them to protect their homes. This is the power of self-preservation, and I believe that everyone will listen to you. And then! Then you tell them to form a whole protection team. With your financial resources, how many people should be sent to the "national team" for training.
Or! You tell them: The white officials will train you for free and teach them martial arts. Such! There are more people who are willing to let their diehards participate in the training.
And he, Bai Gui, only needs to feed a group of coaches to train these people who have been transferred.
These trainees from all over the world, businessmen, and families are not trained every day. But! Train in your spare time. Or! Assuming that an enemy is coming to invade, these people will be brought in for training. Then take them to war, which is equivalent to military exercises conducted by the army in modern society.
Baekyu does not raise a regular army, but! It's no different from the regular army. These people who are transferred are paid. In order to prove that the people they recruit can fight, each master will only send people who are strong and strong in martial arts to save face.
And most of the troops in Zhou Di usually eat for nothing. And when it comes to the real war, it is not necessarily combative. Because! These people were reluctant to join the army, and they were forced to do military service.
Their military service meant that they would be sent to their deaths at any time for the king's hegemony or to protect the king's personal enjoyment.
And the reserve army trained by Bai Gui is all voluntary and capable of fighting. And also! Some of them are salaried professional soldiers.
For example! The guards raised by those merchants' families are professional guards. They made a profession as guards.
There is no regular army on Baekyu's side, but! However, there are militarized intensive training, military ideological education, and education in the principle of "loving the family and patriotism" in defending the homeland and defending the country.
Teach the world to love their homes first, and then teach them to love their country.
Only when the danger of the country is threatened and seriously affects the small family can the world have patriotic enthusiasm and patriotic consciousness.
And the emperors, princes and other powerful people in the Zhou land first taught others to love the country and the king, but ignored the feelings of the people. Or! Treat the people like fools.
So! Only when you first teach others to love yourself, then your family, and then your organization, and the country, and explain the truth clearly, will others be willing to fight and kill the enemy.
One is to fight for oneself, for one's family, for one's loved ones, and it is voluntary. One is to fight for the king, and to fight passively under the persecution of the king. One can imagine, which army is more combat-ready?
In terms of militarized training, Bai Gui plans to train these people like the regular army, and teach them in all aspects. Amateur intensive training is certainly not as effective and effective as regular military training. But! We're going to have a game here.
Let the coach select outstanding talents from the training personnel, let them compete, and the person who wins the first place in the project will be rewarded. Other people who have achieved results also have awards and honors of different ranks. Such! It can increase the motivation of the trainees. It can also mobilize everyone's enthusiasm.
Furthermore! Conduct drills often, and make them look like the real thing. Suppose the Yiqu people or the people from the depths of the grassland invade, how should we defend against it? And then! Take advantage of this opportunity to carry out militarized construction of Linquan City. Incidentally! Popularize the military knowledge of Linquan people.
In a word! If we do not raise a regular army, we can still develop the fighting capability of the regular army by training and teaching the people in accordance with the method of all the people being soldiers.
In the regular army, although the quality of the soldiers is better in terms of training, it is a waste of human resources when it is not fighting.
Furthermore! The training of the human body is long-term. If you relax after a period of training, the effect will not be great. The shortcomings of the regular army are also in this regard, and the professional personnel trained by the army with great effort are wasted of manpower and financial resources because they do not fight.
And the training of all the people is long-term. In normal times, people can go home to farm normally and do physical training. Farming is also a form of physical exercise, not without physical training. And when the war comes, there is another intensive training, and then you can devote yourself to the battle.
In these troubled times, war is inevitable. So! We must actively prepare for the war.
But! Some visible dangers can still be avoided. For example! We can have good relations with the people around us, and if everyone is united, there will be no civil strife. In the event of an invasion by a foreign enemy, we are all united and are not afraid of others.
Furthermore! We are all united, and the enemy, seeing that our strength is great, will not dare to act rashly and invade.
And more! Bai Gui's subordinates have always raised a group of secret guards. These people have been hiding in the world all year round, inquiring about the evil forces in society. For those wicked people, there is no need to investigate and collect evidence, and there is no chain of evidence, only to determine that they are wicked, and there is no forgiveness for killing.
This is the reason why Bai Gui's caravan traveled freely in the Great Zhou world and rarely encountered powerful robbers. The route he traveled through had been investigated by secret guards in advance. For those underworld forces, if they can be subdued, they will be subdued, and if they can't, they will be killed secretly. And then! Support those who have a sense of justice among them to come out and take charge.
What humanity do you tell them about the underworld forces? Is he humane to you?
Civilize? Probation? Those are all made up by the wicked to deceive the honest man, so that the honest man will believe the truth, and then save the wicked man's life. And then! The wicked have regained their strength and come back to take revenge......
(End of chapter)