Chapter 10 Changed Jobs?

The staggering crowd, most of them bald and barefoot, only a cloth coat and a nephew, and bruises and other scars on their faces, obviously did not have a good time.

"Next,"

I have worked hard to record the names, origins, identities and ranks, and the valuable ones will be singled out for another record.

From time to time, they swept over in anticipation, or resentment, or pleading, and they had numbed me.

This time, they broke the siege of the officials and troops of the five prefectures, and captured a lot of people, as many as eight or nine thousand people were captured by the state soldiers and regimental training families in various places, as well as the people, volunteers, and township soldiers who came to help in the battle, and the number of people who failed to escape was even more than this.

Therefore, Liangshan can probably divide these captures into three categories to deal with, those with a certain background can be used as bargaining chips for negotiations, and through certain channels to trade with defeated officials and troops, similar to some kind of political bargaining chips; Ordinary captives with wealth can be exchanged for money or other materials, which are counted as another form of meat tickets; As for ordinary captives who have no wealth or background, they can only stay in Liangshan to do hard labor, which can be said to be the best use.

If you are a wounded, I'm sorry, Liangshan won't have extra food to waste for you, it's a pleasure to make up for it, otherwise you will try to save trouble, and bury it together directly if you live or die, unless you have a good net worth, or a valuable background, you will be left to recuperate.

This group of captives can be said to be the last group, and the Mizhou defense envoys to which they belonged, because they suffered the greatest losses among the five-state coalition forces, together with a large number of generals and officials, including Gao Yao himself, were lost in the battle of attacking the mountains.

Therefore, as soon as the news of defeat was transmitted, civil strife broke out in the state city, and several wealthy families elected Sima with the highest rank among the remaining officials, as the acting Taishou, and then killed the Gao Yao clan in defense, and quickly sent people to negotiate with Liangshan about the payment.

Therefore, except for a few generals from wealthy families or local wealthy backgrounds, who may be redeemed and stayed, no one pays attention to these ordinary soldiers, so their final fate is to be sold as commodities to overseas domains, and live their lives in a large island manor in Yizhou or Fuso.

Since the Yongtai period of Li Tang's second restoration, except for the Lingnan court, most of the foreign domains have lost the desire and motivation to go deep into the interior to develop, but instead operate the coast, or support the corresponding local power agents, and then from the wars in the Middle Kingdom, a steady stream of people and goods have been obtained.

At least that's what I told in my remaining memory.

But when it comes to my turn to be in the rebel army, there is a little difference. Because he has been serving as an auxiliary service, he has not been stained with much blood, and he has taken a group of officials, soldiers and important people to surrender his name, so he is looked at differently, and it is the so-called Saion who loses his horse and knows the blessing and the curse.

Although it was surrendered, the famous Dengzhou Army did not need us as miscellaneous cannon fodder, so together with those officers and soldiers who surrendered, they voluntarily or involuntarily became the targets of encirclement and suppression--the coolies of Liangshan Kou.

Then he returned to his old business and took up the work of collecting corpses and burying them and sorting the wounded on the battlefield, but he just changed camps.

As soon as the battle around the mountain ended, all kinds of men, women, and children driving carts and cattle began to appear on the battlefield and became busy, mixed with some loud bargaining figures.

Dressed in silk robes, they stood out against the backdrop of corpses and bloodstains, foaming at the mouth and instructing their servants and hired servants to turn the freshly arrived booty and possessions into a harvest that quickly piled up on the cart.

It is said that these were the most common and seemingly ubiquitous foreign merchants among the Liangshan Kou, who controlled and participated in almost all sorts of trophies and other pre-military trades through certain connections and channels.

So I, the chief bookkeeper and secretary, the bookkeeper and the general secretary of the rebel army, who had not been in the right name for a long time, was selected and assigned to help, and began my career in the Liangshan congregation.

After these things have been temporarily over, the effect of looking at each other began to be reflected, because the losses of the Liangshan people in this war were very large, so it was easy to gather the rebels under the command of the shore, and the rebels with some combat effectiveness and other reputations were looked at by many people.

was soon picked and scattered and supplemented to the various departments of Liangshan, and even Jiang'an himself was included in the Chinese army, giving him the identity of a deputy capital head, which is another kind of grace and future, of course, how much real power and gold content, I will say it separately.

"Liangshan Kou, but after the five thieves who are poisonous in the sea, one of the four great thieves in the blazing world, it is not comparable to the ordinary bandits who gather and scatter."

At the time of separation, although the chase of wealth has come to naught, the general who seems to be full of worries sighed to me.

"You...... And do it yourself......"

In short, the great luck in the misfortune, because of the identity of a certain sea born with a common word, I will be treated slightly better than the general shore, and it is more or less an unexpected result that I was looked at differently and sorted out to continue my temporary occupation.

Of course, I later understood the meaning of the so-called sea people.

The so-called Haisheng people, that is, the descendants of the Tang people born overseas, were similar to some kind of discriminatory derogatory terms in the early years, specifically referring to those foreign feudal clans of various lowly origins, or the nouveau riche who rose to prominence because of their maritime trade.

However, with the weakening of the authority of the imperial court, the gradual decline of the marriage between the wealthy nobles and overseas vassals, and the increased involvement and penetration of the affairs of the native continent, became a unique and neutral title.

Compared with the local land where the war has been in the wilderness for many years and it is rare to live in peace, although the overseas feudal domains also have disputes or fight against each other, the scale of the war is much smaller, and the punishment for the loser and the associated poison are also more limited.

The main reason is that at the beginning, overseas feudal domains were set up all over the country to open up foreign regions, and the sub-feudal system was adopted in a step-by-step and multi-layered feudal system, and many low-level feudal lords were developed from generation to generation in the vast and sparsely populated barbaric forests, and they relied more on the Tang people of the same species in their own country.

On the other hand, as the natives or household fillers of the Tang people under their rule, there were also a large number of hired labor and slave classes from the vassal states of Waju, Silla, Tianzhu and other vassal states, which could be exploited and oppressed, so most of the Haisheng Tang people lived a decent life.

Therefore, there are many Haisheng Tang people, with their family generals, return to their homeland, join a certain military town to serve in order to seek a career, or simply wander the battlefield as a righteous servant, accept the employment of various forces, and eat a desperate meal of licking blood with knives.

It is said that there are also some people, backed by financial resources from overseas, who have become participants and promoters of intrigue and calculation in this great era of turmoil that has lasted for hundreds of years.

Their biggest feature is this weird Haisheng dialect (Mandarin?). The behavior and posture that are very different from those of the East are obviously also included in it.

Of course, the scope of the Haisheng Tang people is too wide, from the vast East China Sea to the blue sea of the South China Sea, from the familiar and naturalized Annan and Pi countries, to the still large areas of wild Tianzhu and Persia, and even the more distant southern Shanzhou and Taixi land, all have their existence, so it is not easy to distinguish the road specifically.

As for why I know this, it's obviously the legacy left to me by my predecessor.

As for these Liangshan Kou that I am temporarily sheltering in. Well, these immediate-feeling Liangshan righteous teachers, their names and slogans, are actually from a banned book that was privately circulated by the people hundreds of years ago, which is said to have been written by the famous Liang Gong, called "Water Margin Loyalty".

Of course, this Liangshan is not Biliangshan, and it has not much to do with it except for its own name. At first, it was just a group of bandits with less than 100 people on the grass mountain, but because of fate, they would catch up with the chaos in the Central Plains, and suddenly rose at the junction of the two major avenues of Henan and Hebei, and then gained a firm foothold.

It is said that this pattern of Liangshan Kou, the historical origin and root can be traced back to a hundred years ago, since the Yiwei Rebellion, there are disputes in the imperial court, there are military coercion outside, originally as the center of the state administrator, has been flawless, and the local government is inevitably greedy and rampant, for the repair of the river governance investment is almost gone, the earliest can be traced back to the Taixing period to rebuild several sections of the Yellow River embankment, the inevitable disrepair is increasingly declining.

As a result, the Yellow River was diverted many times after heavy rain during the flood season, creating a large number of victims and bandits, and also greatly changing the appearance of the area through which it flowed.

And then

A large number of bankrupts and disaster victims who were hungry and foodless in the troubled times fled to this area, reclaimed the wasteland, and fished and hunted, and gradually became a peripheral force under the protection of Liangshan Kou, although the price will not be light, they have to pay at least five to sixty percent of the harvest, and they also have to go to the army, but there is no other place, as many as cattle and miscellaneous taxes and levies, as well as the risk of catching and captive, can finally barely survive.

On the other hand, behind Liang Shankou, he also received support and assistance from overseas rebel parties, as an important chess piece and force to disrupt and contain the hinterland of Qingxu, he could help from armor and various materials, and even personnel training.

At the same time, it also has a water system connected to Guò Liangshan Bo, and a river network to cover it, so it is convenient to smuggle various overseas products inland. Therefore, it is not necessary to rely on robbery and exploitation to maintain it like ordinary thieves, and it is more or less stable in a sphere of influence.

Yes,

Since then, it is also a great cause, known as the vast land on both sides of the Yellow River, Hebei to Huaishang, claiming to be the righteous teacher of the Heavenly Road, and the command has the front and rear left and right in the five armies, and the twelve road generals.

There are also seven battalions in the mountain and outside the mountain, about 10,000 to more than 20,000 people who can fight, in addition to more than a dozen auxiliary armed forces of different sizes, scattered in the periphery of Liangshan in the form of mountains or water villages.

Among them, the three battalions outside the mountain are mainly responsible for the outlying strongholds and auxiliary forces in the south, north, and west directions, while the four battalions in the mountain, the front and back, the left and right are the management bodies of non-combatants and their dependents that are similar to the integration of military and civilian personnel on a daily basis.

In peacetime, it organizes and engages in various production activities such as farming, fishing and hunting, as well as daily maintenance such as building and building camps, and can come out as a source of soldiers to supplement and help at critical times, and there are also about tens of thousands, of which it is said that young and strong account for about half.

The five armies of Liangshan, each army has several to more than a dozen of the size of the capital head composition, the so-called capital, is relatively the official army of the battalion team fire ten system, between the battalion and the regiment of the unique organization, originated from the early Liangshan Kou historical legacy of the problem, when the flag was pulled and gathered, the people who went up the mountain were all kinds, with the township party or relatives as the link of the small group form, and were retained and used.

The number of them is uncertain, most of them are more than a thousand than a large battalion of the same officer army, and the few are only more than 100 people, but only a team leader, according to the distance and proximity, they are attached to the names of each general.

Among them, the former army is the most mobile horse team in Liangshan, with the only cavalry of a large scale, and a corresponding number of donkeys and mules to travel auxiliaries, the first three are all, the latter five are all, they are also the main force to go out to plagiarize and plunder;

The left army was not only a traditional sword player, a spearman and a crossbow, but also a self-prepared weapon, most of the mixed infantry soldiers without armor, and also the backbone of the Liangshan Kou's daily siege and field battles, with a full twenty-six heads, but most of them were stationed on the periphery;

The right army is a mixed water battalion sequence, and the water transportation between the river and the sea, mainly the sailors or boatmen without armor short soldiers, in wartime they are more used as side responders and auxiliary troops, and they also have corresponding combat effectiveness in the river network area connected to the Liangshan water system, and their territory is mainly on the side near the sea;

The Chinese army is the direct subordinate subordinates of the high-level of Liangshan and the defense force of Benshan, which has mastered the most elite old battalion Jiudu, as well as the Xuanfeng Capital and the Dang Cavalry Capital similar to the death squad, in which the equipment and training are provided by those overseas vassals, and it is said that there are also a small number of firearms troops.

At the same time, he controls all the horses and outposts in Liangshan, as well as other forces such as eyeliner and dark piles on the periphery. The generals of the Chinese army are also responsible for the management and dispatch of new recruits or new soldiers who have been coerced, which are called new battalions and reserves.

The rear army concentrated on logistics, baggage, transportation, forging, etc., and the vast majority of auxiliary personnel were established, and the number of people managed was also the largest and most miscellaneous, and they were also responsible for the sale of stolen goods and the daily maintenance of equipment.

Among them, the most elite is that a Huwei capital directly under the jurisdiction of the great leader of Liangshan is the second and third generations of the old Liangshan Kou, everyone wears armor and wears a hat, and is a green Baotou, so it is also called the Qingtou Army, and it also implements the criminal law of Liangshan, and serves as a supervisor and reserve in wartime.

Such a strength and structure, placed in the various scattered and reckless smoke of the same era, can be regarded as a regional hegemon.

Therefore, there are nine leaders in Liangshan, known as the Beidou Jiuyao, from the great leader Lu Tianjun down, each with a position and subordinates. Then there are the twelve generals of the number of heavenly stems, and a number of their own deputies, many heads, deputy heads, partial leaders, small and medium-sized leaders, etc.

Among them are bankrupt merchants and famous thieves of the green forest; There are former local heroes who have traveled widely, and there are also former officers and generals who have defected to thieves; There are people in the public family, and there are prisoners in exile who have committed felonies; There are former rangers, and there are monks who break their vows.

They were wonderfully gathered here by a kind of power, and became the most headache tumor in the land of Qilu, among the officers and soldiers from all walks of life.

therefore

It is not so much the Water Margin Liangshan that has been exaggerated and artistically processed by Yan zhòng in history, but more like the small Wagang Village of the late Sui Dynasty, and the place where they operate is naturally not limited to the large forest villages around Shuibo, but between Henan and Hebei, and even between the two sides of the Yellow River to the mouth of the sea.

Even in several nearby counties, he drove away the officials and soldiers, swept away the powerful and powerful, stationed the armed forces, and set up his own management organization similar to the yamen, in order to levy taxes and levy forced labor, and even accept lawsuits, and even besieged the state capital, extorting a large amount of money before retreating.

Because their activity was too conspicuous, and they were really too popular, which led to the so-called envoy of a big town in Hebei Province to come out in person to mediate the other town guards who had a lot of grievances at the junction of the two provinces, and contributed to this joint suppression of the officials and armies of Qi, Li, Qing, Zi, and the five prefectures across Henan and Hebei.

In a certain way, they are the natural opposite of the surrounding landlords, large and small, who are the main components of the local Haoqiang, and these Wubao Granges are also important targets for obtaining money and grain, and at the same time, they can also share some goods and grain that cannot be taken away, absorb new blood from the poor, and by the way advocate and publicize their own reputation, the so-called robbing the rich and helping the poor, and doing the right thing for heaven.

However, like Shuibo Liangshan in history, their pattern is also this kind of process, subject to the knowledge of most people and the limitations of the era itself, the simple requirements of most people to be fed and clothed, the primitive justice concept of the middle class, and the pursuit and ambition of the upper class for personal fame and wealth.

If you want to grow further, you will face something called a bottleneck, or a choice.

They must choose a direction and position in order to continue to make their business bigger and stronger, which is no different from the private enterprises in later generations, but the business of killing people and setting fire in the troubled times is replaced by those behaviors and means that should be opened in the early stage, taking advantage of the imperfect law and taking advantage of the deviation.

But a cohesive and authoritative core is needed to suppress these differences and dissenting opinions, and their composition is too complex to ignore, as well as a large number of factors of overseas interference.

This is also one of the reasons why after I learned a little about the situation, I was not very optimistic about this place and went with all my heart.

But these things are too far away from me, whether it is the hard-earned money of migrant workers, the heart of the political bureau, I came back to my senses with some self-deprecation, moved my somewhat stiff arm, and caught a snowflake with my hand.

I couldn't help sighing, seeing that I was deviating from my original goal, I was getting farther and farther away, when would I be able to return to Luoyang.