Chapter 372: Strong China
Zhou Tiezhu, who was on crutches, didn't know that a scene that was deeply remembered by history was born behind him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
He was staring at his labor team with wide eyes.
These people were all prisoners of war, including sailors and Lu Yong, Qing troops and regimental training, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, southern Jiangsu, and northern Jiangsu. There are high and low identities, the highest is Qianzong, and the lowest is an ordinary soldier.
In the First Battle of Changzhou, the First Battle of Hangzhou, as well as the Battle of Wusongkou and the subsequent Battle of Zhoushan, the Fu Han Army really captured 100,000 prisoners of war.
And how to use this group of people?
There is no dispute. -- Labor reform.
Those who have committed 'bloody crimes' -- especially in non-war times, let the prisoners of war expose and report, and if they expose them, they will be rewarded and their sentences can be commuted, so that a batch of garbage and scum will be removed, and all the remaining officers above the garrison level will be placed in centralized custody, and all the soldiers and officers below the garrison level will be reformed through labor.
Taking the establishment of the Fuhan Army as an example, Zhou Tiezhu is the captain of the second team of the Su 055 labor camp. They are now part of the construction army of Wusong Port in Shanghai. There are already four or five hundred such labor camps in the territory of the Han army, some of which have been disbanded, and many more have always existed, even if they are not full.
A large number of veterans and disabled soldiers were pulled into such a team as captains and battalion commanders, which was specially distinguished from the Fu Han Army.
Zhou Tiezhu is one of them. He was originally 'happy' in Nanyang's home, he himself was disabled by injury, Zhou Tiezhu's younger brother was exposed to his eldest brother's light, and became a bailiff in the Nanyang Mansion Court. But when the requisition order was sent to Zhou Tiezhu's hands, Zhou Tiezhu, who had already been suffocated at home and his bones were rotten, came to Jiangnan in a hurry.
He was just in his twenties, how could he stand the days of being fed like a wasted man?
Zhou Tiezhu has been in Jiangnan for a month, and he also deliberately took a training course for half a month before, and his three platoons were all Changzhou prisoners of war at the beginning, and slowly exchanged for a group of prisoners of war from Chongming Island. He erased two of the three original platoon commanders, reflected upwards, and executed one of them in front of all the prisoners of war in their battalion. The two newly promoted platoon commanders, he took advantage of the newcomers' psychology of 'positive performance' because of fear, which caused the relationship between the only remaining old platoon commander and the other two to be very unpleasant, and then used the psychology of the two newcomers competing with each other to win the first place, so that the two newcomers were like black-eyed chickens to each other.
These tricks are naturally not something that Zhou Tiezhu, a big soldier, can come up with, this is what Zhou Tiezhu taught in the training class before he became the captain - management!
It really works. Let three people who are at odds with each other be platoon commanders, and deliberately encourage competition between them, this kind of personal grudge 'hatred' is better than any kind of intimidation, and each platoon commander drives his subordinates to work harder in order to make himself more appreciated than the other two, lest he fall behind his opponents.
What's more, the labor camp itself has a series of material reward mechanisms, and the prisoners of war also have points for their work, and they have the lowest workload, and if they fail to complete it, they will be punished, and the workload of the unit [squad, platoon, team, battalion] cannot be completed continuously, and the unit commander -- up to the captain and battalion commander, down to the platoon commander and squad leader [the position where the prisoners of war can sit], one of them will be punished one by one, and the captain and battalion commander will be transferred, and the most serious punishment for the prisoners of war can be directly executed.
There is no restriction on the upper limit, but what rewards will be given to those who complete more than 10% of the unit workload; 20% is rewarded ......, and so on.
This measure of the Fu Han Army is to ensure the most basic workload, because they cannot find too many trustworthy and experienced managers, and the quality of the captains and battalion commanders is not very different, so in order to prevent the progress of the project from being delayed, this can only be done. Whether there can be a reward and whether it can be brilliant or not depends on how many skills these captains and battalion commanders have.
These measures will directly intensify the fierce competition between various units, and if they do not have the necessary skills and the ability to manage reasonably, the captains and battalion commanders who only rely on violent punishment to force the laborers to work hard will not be able to achieve results and move to a higher position even if they can continue to work in their original positions.
Facts have proved that the people above are not thinking about blind worries, and a large number of disabled veterans have just been in place for a month or two, and strange things have emerged one after another. In order to urge his subordinates to work, some people went to 'lead by example' themselves, although they did only small jobs within their ability, while others directly raised three or five strong men with big shoulders and round waists from the prisoners of war, and forced their subordinates to work hard with absolute tyranny and absolute oppression.
Some have high moral standards, so they require their platoon commanders and squad leaders not to oppress prisoners of war, and when they are working, they must also take the lead in working hard and set an example. When encountering such a good commander, the prisoners of war thought that others were good, so it was inevitable that some people would be lazy. The one with a strict personality, or the one with a smart head, will be beaten immediately as soon as he is discovered, and he will never be spared, and he deserves the words 'clear rewards and punishments', and the whole team is very obedient to him. This kind of person is a great good seedling; And those with soft personalities and confused brains don't think it's a big deal, don't want to make a fuss, and are even afraid of making something happen to cause others to laugh, and then find that the workload of their team is slowly decreasing, so they rush to beat people. When the indicator goes up, the cycle starts to repeat again.
Anyway, all kinds of captains and battalion commanders are strange, and there are no surprises!
In the labor camp, Chen Ming made a very meaningful attempt -- paper money. It is different from the silver bills in circulation in China in this era, but it is a pure paper money like the Daming treasure banknote. It is a paper money that uses its own reputation as a guarantee and is used as collateral!
This thing is the real book of profits, but Chen Ming never thought of publishing it in the society, it was asking for trouble. At this time, the credibility of the Fu Han Army was far from the point of issuing paper money, and it was necessary to have a unified and stable government and a government that all the people could trust before they could step into that category.
Chen Ming used the labor camp to do experiments and accumulate the necessary skills. You know, there are paper money, there are counterfeit money, just like the old American tanks in the previous life, a research team is responsible for developing protective armor; The other group specializes in sabotage, which is responsible for destroying the protective armor that has been developed.
Besides, he has to plant a seed, and sooner or later paper money will be issued in China.
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The monk of the clear sky, who had no hair on his head, stood in front of the gate of a manor house in a proper military uniform, and behind him were two neat rows of members of the internal guards.
The Internal Affairs Department was a very inconspicuous department in the Chen and Han dynasties, and both inside and outside was regarded as a dispatch of the Manchu Internal Affairs Bureau. However, few people know that there is also an internal security force under the Internal Affairs Department, which is small in number, but all of them are capable and capable people. They are like Chen Han's inner guards!
The monk is no longer a monk, he has returned to the world, but he still has a monk's head. The name of the pure space vulgar family has long been forgotten, so he takes 'Shi' as his surname, and Jingkong is Jinggang, and now his name is Shi Jingkong!
He was put into action last year, Chen Ming returned to Hubei in the spring of last year, Chen Han stood up, and Shi Jinggang finally came out of the mine.
Relying on his outstanding martial arts, quick eyes, and clear ears and eyes, Shi Jinggang was directly selected into the guardhouse of the Internal Affairs Department.
Several carriages came from the trail and stopped in front of the manor, and Robert Peel knew through the window that the meeting was not in the county but outside the city, and that they were riding in a Western-style four-wheeled carriage, something he had never seen in Canton. Robert Road still regrets not being able to see the city of Shanghai with his own eyes.
A group of people got out of the carriage, surrounded by people from the internal security forces, and did not stop at the door, but went straight to the gate.
The highest person on the Fu Han side to attend this meeting was Chen Min, and Chen Ming himself did not intend to meet Robert and them. The identities of the two sides are asymmetrical.
The Fuhan Army will open ports such as Ningbo and Shanghai, allowing Westerners to move and live freely in the port trading cities, of course, if they want to live for a long time, they must apply for a residence permit. It will also change some of the tariff problems of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, there will be changes in the trade model of both sides, and Chen Ming does not plan to use this kind of trade organization in the Thirteen Lines, so that the merchants on both sides can trade freely.
This is the 18th century of the Western calendar, and although there is a big gap between China and the West in natural science, China still occupies an absolute superior position in bilateral trade and national strength. Therefore, Chen Ming didn't plan to meddle too much in this regard, and let the businessmen on both sides do it.
Compared with the policies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the policies of the Han Army can be described as too much 'open'.
The West naturally has to pay a certain price for this, and Chen Ming's desire for Western-style sailing ships is already in sight. The Europeans had just fought a seven-year war that spread half of the world, and Britain and France had fierce contradictions, otherwise when the old American war of independence a few years later, how could the French help the old United States so badly?
Louis XVI filled in his own family.
From the perspective of Chen Ming's later generations, Louis XVI's gang of Lao Mei and the Wanli Emperor helped Korea have the same effect.
"This proposal can be opened to discussion. If the British don't want to, there are still the Portuguese, and the Portuguese in Macao have different interests than the Portuguese in their homeland. And then there are France, Sweden ......"
The shipbuilding skills of the French were not inferior to those of the British, but the French lacked capable and wise naval generals. Sweden is completely harmless, and Chen Ming remembers that the country's East India Company was the only Western country in history that did not sell opium to China, and he had a great affection for Sweden for that point. And Sweden is still on the western side of Russia!
"The problem of opioids must be clear, and once the smuggling of opioids is investigated, we will never spare it. You can say these things directly to the British during the talks, and tell that Robert, if they dare to sell opium privately, they will be beheaded if they are caught. If the British were to sell opium in China, they would trade with our government. "There is a huge need for opiium in the army to make medicines. Chen Ming wants to define opioids as a pharmaceutical product again, and it is a controlled drug.
Other than that, Chen Ming had no other requirements for this meeting. The only option is the Portuguese in Macau, and if Ribeiro really raises the question of the definition of Macau, Chen Ming said to his fourth cousin: "You just tell him bluntly that all power in this part of Macau will be taken back by Chen Han."
But Chen Han allowed the Portuguese in Macau to continue to live there, and if they wished, to become Chinese nationals. "And then it's not Portuguese anymore.
"Of course, Portuguese nationals who have become Chinese nationals can live in Macau, and they enjoy all the same rights as Chinese people." Chen Min had not yet come forward, and Han Teng, who was the deputy of this meeting, stared at Ribeiro with a flushed face, "They can move to any place within the territory of the Han Dynasty to live, and they can enter inland cities at will, travel, and do business, including being an official and entering the army." ”
Shanghai is not Nanjing after the Opium War in history, and the mentality of the Celestial Empire has not yet been directly impacted, and China still has a great advantage in this meeting, and the officials will naturally behave very strongly. (To be continued.) )