Volume 2 Xihe Bai Boyan Section 5 Talents
For this group of young children, Zhao Hong plans to train them as an important reserve force for himself, and these children will be of great use in the future.
Children's minds are not as immature as adults, their worldview and values are far from being erected, they are like a blank sheet of paper that has not been painted, and they can paint their future at will.
If these children are cultivated and educated, no, to be precise, brainwashing, then in the future, their loyalty will far exceed that of the adults directly recruited, and Zhao Hong can better control and use them. These children generally grow up to die for themselves, like eagle dogs.
This phenomenon that Zhao Hong knows is not discovered in modern society. This characteristic has been discovered by various nomadic peoples in ancient times, and it is estimated that the history of adopting children can be traced back to ancient primitive societies. At that time, human life, medical conditions were extremely bad, unnatural death of people was a common thing in that era, many children lost their parents at a very young age, the chiefs or elders of the tribe and other people, often for the prosperity of the tribe, or blood relations, so often raised these orphans who lost their parents, and later people gradually found that the orphans raised by them were often loyal to the people who raised them, so many tribal nobles had the habit of adopting their sons. It's just that there was no full-fledged written record at that time, so later generations did not realize it.
The Chinese people, who live very affluently, often believe that this phenomenon comes from the nomadic people in the north of the country, and is the habit of the Hu people. The question is, which ethnic group was born agrarian and settled? The productive forces of human beings have developed step by step, and the descendants of Yan and Huang living in the Central Plains have also developed from primitive society. It's just that when the Chinese people had entered the feudal system, the Hu people on the grassland were still in a primitive society due to the limitation of productivity. In addition to communism, the inequality of the political, economic, and cultural levels of the development of human society exists in any era, which is similar to Zhao Hong's previous life, the rich second generation looked down on the second generation of farmers from the countryside, but what the rich second generation did not know was that most of his ancestors were also engaged in agriculture-related industries in the three generations.
The Chinese regime living in the Central Plains is like the rich second generation is often trampled under the feet of the impoverished second generation of farmers, and the Han regime is often sitting on the superior conditions of thousands of family wealth but drunk and dreaming of death, and finally robbed of the essence by the impoverished nomadic tribes on the grassland.
Therefore, the fathers and sons of the primitive society were often brought back to the Central Plains by the Hu people who entered the customs.
During the Three Kingdoms period, both the Qiang and the Xiongnu had begun to move into the pass, and the Bingzhou area and Liangzhou area where Jinyang was located were affected by the customs of the grassland, and the righteous son and father were very popular. Under the influence of such a cultural atmosphere, the righteous son and the righteous father have also become an important means of connecting people in areas affected by grassland customs. is more typical of Lu Bu from Bingzhou and Dong Zhuo from Liangzhou, and the relationship between them is that of a righteous son and a righteous father. And Liu Bei, who was also born in Youzhou, Northland, also received his son Liu Feng in Zhao Hong's previous life. However, in this era, people only know it but don't know why, they only know that raising their righteous sons is often more faithful, so they also accept many adult righteous sons, but they don't want to have them, so they want their own lives. For example, Dong Zhuo in Zhao Hong's previous life was stabbed to death by his own son Lu Bu. The root cause is that Lu Bu was not raised by Dong Zhuo, and the adult mind is so mature, this kind of righteous son and father is often a combination of interests, rather than the result of feelings. Once there is a contradiction and conflict of interests between the two parties, it is normal for the righteous son to rebel, while the righteous son who has been raised since childhood is often an emotional union, and this bond is much stronger than the simple combination of interests.
The phenomenon of Yizi reached its peak during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the most typical example being Li Keyong, the ------Shatuo King of Hedong, who played a great role in his various wars with the famous "Thirteen Taibao" under his command.
The Turks of the Mongolian steppes were forced to migrate all the way west with the steppes of Central Asia after a series of events were defeated by the Tang army and the Uighurs conquered their homeland. After the Turks arrived in the Middle East, they also brought this custom of adopting adopted sons to the West.
After the Turks captured Constantinople, the bridgehead that hindered their westward advance, ----- there were no more powerful forces that could stop their Turkic invasion. The entire Balkans were then conquered by the Ottoman Empire, and the Turkic forces reached the heart of Europe ------- Austria*.
The Turks forcibly plundered the little boys who were playing in the conquered Christian countries of the Balkans, and the Turks brought these children to the army, subjected them to harsh military training, and at the same time educated or brainwashed them in Islam. After decades, these young boys from Christian countries eventually became faithful followers of Islam.
And the little boy who received brutal military training since he was a child grew up to be the Sultan's guard, and the entire army can be said to be the adopted son of the Turkish Sultan.
This was what would later become known as the new Turkish army. This well-equipped and well-trained army terrified Turkey's enemies, both in the war with Tsarist Russia and in the siege* siege battles, and was a well-deserved imperial elite of the Ottoman Empire.
Of course, this army maintained its loyalty to the Sultan not only by raising them from an early age, but also by many other means, such as the fact that the new Turkish army was not allowed to marry for life. In this way, the new army will not have their own family, and there will be no entanglement of their own family's interests, and it will not be easy for the new army to betray the Sultan.
The Ottoman sultans looked out for the interests of the Turkish community by depriving the new army of their small homes.
In China's various peasant wars, whether it was Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the Eight Great Empires, or the Taiping Rebellion that changed the color of half of China after the war, these young boy scouts in the rebel army were also important reserve forces for the regime of these emerging peasants. In the later years of these peasant regimes, many important generals were born from these growing up scouts. Even in times of crisis, these Boy Scout leaders rarely betray their fathers. For example, Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and so on. Li Dingguo became the last pillar of the Yongli Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty.
After the Tianjing Rebellion, in the face of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which had no generals in the court, a large part of the new generals came from the growing up of the boy scouts, among which the British king Chen Yu, who set up a mansion in Anqing, became the representative. It is these boy scout generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that let the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom survive for several more years, and these scout generals are often willing to die rather than surrender, such as Chen Yucheng, who was captured in Luzhou, and Chen Yucheng is in stark contrast to the loyal king Li Xiucheng, who is not guaranteed in the later season, he wrote a 10,000-word confession to Zeng Guofan for his own life, but the ruthless Zeng Guofan finally did not let go of Li Xiucheng, and suffered the same ending as Chen Yucheng.
It can be said that these scouts eventually grew up to be the mainstay of the Onishi regime and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Zhao Hong, a high school student who often went to forums in his previous life, had already decided to emulate the peasant regime and started early in this regard. Zhao Hong's decision was not hasty, but after his careful consideration.
For Zhao Hong, he is a lonely traverser, but also a traverser with the world in mind, and the traverser is inevitably incompatible with this era. For Zhao Hong, he does not have enough resources, nor enough contacts, nor enough social connections. In this era, talented intellectuals are almost all children of families, and their families are rich and connected. It is naturally very difficult for a person like Zhao Hong, who has no background in the scholar family, to start a business.
And the children of the family are much easier, for example, why did Liu Bei and Liu Xuande start a business because of the fierce generals like Guan Yu Zhang Fei who followed, and the two big businessmen were willing to provide funds? The reason is that Liu Bei is a standard child of a family and has enough social connections. Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan were both students of the great Confucian Lu Zhi, a peasant boy who sold straw mats could not even eat enough, could he learn knowledge and culture from the famous erudite Confucianism in the country? Just like in Zhao Hong's previous life, could a migrant worker with a difficult life train his son and daughter to become a pianist like Lang Lang and Li Yundi?
Think about what kind of team Liu Bei is now, a brave and invincible general, a strategist who has no last resort, and a family that helps each other. Why is Liu Bei, a child of a family, so lucky? These unparalleled talents keep throwing themselves at Liu Bei, if there are those conditions, Zhao Hong feels that it is difficult to achieve a career!
And what about their own men? Zhao Hong, who was thinking about this question, turned around and looked at Cao Peng, who was always vigilant with a sword, and he looked at Wang Ming, who was holding the door panel and holding a short sword ready to fight, Li Yong, who had an indifferent expression, and Liu Song, who was glaring at Zhao Hong. A part-time blacksmith who works in agriculture, a part-time carpenter who works in agriculture, and two poor peasants who have been farming for generations, none of them are literate, and they are all inseparable from the word "farming", all of them are second-generation farmers. These subordinates immediately saw that Zhao Hongqi would not fight anywhere. Hating iron does not make steel, Zhao Hong dodged his feet fiercely, lowered his head and sighed a long breath. What kind of are your subordinates? It's really more people than people have to die, and goods have to be thrown away. Expecting these poor peasants to make their own careers is as difficult as chasing a flying saucer on a donkey in a previous life.