Chapter 6: The Spark (1)
From the beginning of the year to the week of the Chinese New Year, Li* was busy in the dark.
To pull up a team to occupy the mountain is just a matter of swearing a bowl of wine and smashing a bowl of blood, but it is not so easy to build a regular army......
Li *'s thinking is very clear, there is nothing to do in these years, there is a shortage of people who even farm the land, and what kind of scientific and technological leap forward to make guns and cannons in this era sweep thousands of armies and dominate the world is basically a fool's dream. Not to mention that the current social structure and population base do not have the industrial base for carrying out a technological revolution, and in the current situation of war in which armies are fighting at both ends in three days, even the most basic agricultural foundation cannot be secured.
Li * was very sober, he was very angry at the Fenglinshan Military Region Economic Development Work Forum (the leading comrades attending the forum included Comrade Li *, chairman of the forum, Comrade Zhou Zhengyu, vice chairman, and Comrade Liu Heng, secretary general, and this is also the list of all the personnel attending the meeting), facing Zhou and Liu Er's idiot-like eyes, waving his dirty giant hand, and proclaiming, "We are still in the initial stage of feudal society......
Whether it is an ideology or a slogan, to solve practical problems, we still have to rely on down-to-earth and meticulous work.
If the technological revolution cannot be carried out for the time being, then the institutional revolution should be carried out.
Li * does not yet have the ambition to reform the superstructure of the entire feudal society, and he does not have the capital, which is something that Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin, who will be emperors in the future, have to consider. Lee*'s revolution was confined to Fenglin Mountain, a semi-military and half-civilian administrative division with a total of more than 800 people.
The establishment of the military supervision system is to ensure that this army is politically reliable, although Li * said it in a high-sounding manner, but it can be seen from his selection of Wei Xun, a guy who has always been good at ganging up, to be the first battalion supervisor, this guy's purpose is to turn the small army in front of him into his own private army, which is simply a matter of obvious in the front battalion, and this sanctimonious guy himself is still full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. And the most direct effect of the large set of specious theories that Li * said to Wei Xun on the day of the young year was that the newly baked Director Wei told these "rabbit cubs" loudly when he convened all the officers and soldiers to give a lecture on the first day of his tenure that although this army was not surnamed Li, there was only one boss under the command of Li, and if anyone dared to betray the boss, then his Uncle Wei would unceremoniously let him taste the taste of three swords and six holes......
Wei Xun didn't notice when he was speaking, their boss Li was standing at the back of the line, covering his face with his hands, and the old tears were streaming down his ......
Wei Xun is just the beginning, and more professional political workers will join the army supervision team in the future...... Lee* comforted himself.
It is undeniable that although the level of Wei Xun's political work is really bad, it is much more effective than Li*'s large-scale preaching and blind encouragement. Watching the soldiers listen to Wei Xun's "political mobilization" about "eating meat and drinking wine with the big chunks of adults" and "having women, houses and fields in the future", Li * shook his head and walked away with a lot of facelessness.
The military supervision system has just begun, and it is a little different from what Li * originally imagined, and Supervisor Wei's education of the soldiers has not yet gone out of the category of "coercion and temptation", but looking at the appearance of the soldiers, it seems that they are very suitable for this kind of education, and it is Li * himself who is the initiator of the military supervision system.
It's not just a military supervision system.
For an army to truly become an army, it is not a matter of gathering people together and then issuing a wooden gun to each person. The army needs temperament.
Lee* decided to spend a lot of money to make uniform uniforms for his soldiers, in order to create a temperament that was impossible for the army of this era......
He didn't know how to express it, but he knew that when the soldiers put on the standard uniform, the sense of honor and pride would make them more positive and energetic, although he didn't know what kind of essential change this would bring to the battalion in his hands, but he knew that there would be a change.
Neat military posture, standard military uniforms, strict ranks, and sophisticated weapons are all indispensable components of a modern army, and these are all forms, but these forms are the essence of thousands of years of military development. Lee* firmly believes that the reason why these forms are summed up is by no means unreasonable. In this regard, Lee* absolutely believes in the experience and wisdom of the people of the past, and the experience of the past is more worthy of relying on than his own pitiful creativity.
After all this work was gradually carried out, the issue of military discipline was gradually put on the agenda.
Mature rules and regulations must always be more trustworthy than one's ability and moral character, and on the question of military discipline, Lee* has been working on his brain for several months, trying to formulate a set of practical troop discipline norms according to the characteristics of the army of this era.
After a long and painful struggle and reflection, Lee* gave up the effort.
He summoned all his close officers to a meeting to discuss the formulation of military discipline, at which he made a programmatic speech with only three main themes.
First, all actions should be subject to command.
Second, don't take a penny from Li Shu.
Third, all seizures must be handed over to the public.
Nothing new, Lee* secretly despised his shameful behavior in his heart.
This is just his own feeling, the officers are extremely impressed by these three simple and clear but all-encompassing military disciplines, the words are simple and clear, covering a wide range, and almost every one of them is to the point. For the armies of this era, disobedience, harassment of the people, and looting of war were the chronic diseases that existed in almost any army. Even the Fuzhou army, which is known to be extremely powerful in combat, can hardly avoid harassing the common people and stealing the spoils of war in private.
However, the officers did not feel that these three disciplines could not be enforced because of this, and the fundamental reason for the problems in the army in this era was because of the huge difference between the arrears of military salaries and the officers and soldiers. And in the former battalion of Lee *, neither of these problems existed.
After some intense discussion and research, the front battalion of the Zhangwu Army finally came up with a set of military regulations and military discipline although simple, but systematic, this document is a must, compared to the ancient military camp in the "seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings", this set of regulations is simply super humane, so that many soldiers do not know that this is military discipline for a long time after it was announced.
This military discipline, which only has two pages of hemp paper, is roughly divided into three parts: three principles, three disciplines, and five must and five are not allowed.
The three major principles are the foundation of this new-style army, that is, the principle of paying actual soldiers, the principle of equality between officers and men, and the principle of subordinate subordinates obeying their superiors.
The three disciplines are the foundation of this army, that is, all actions are subject to command, not a single cent is taken, and all seizures must be handed over to the public.
The five wants and five prohibitions are some of the detailed rules for the implementation of the three major disciplines, that is, internal affairs must be neat and tidy, talking to Li Shu in a friendly manner, buying and selling fairly, borrowing and repaying, compensation for damages, officers are not allowed to enslave soldiers, are not allowed to molesting women, are not allowed to steal and embezzle military property, and are not allowed to destroy military uniforms, ordnance, armor and other distribution items.
These five demands and five prohibitions were put forward by Li * on the basis of the eight points of attention and were perfected through collective discussion, of which five should almost copy the eight points of attention, and among the five prohibitions, the eight points of attention were changed from officers not being allowed to beat and scold soldiers to officers not enslaved soldiers, the clause that no abuse and humiliation of prisoners was removed, and three new contents were added: no embezzlement of other people's property, no theft and embezzlement of army property, and no destruction of military uniforms, ordnance, armor, and other distributed items.
In addition to these three parts, Lee* also put forward the three major rights of soldiers.
The so-called three major rights of soldiers are that soldiers have the right to receive military salaries, soldiers have the right to complain to their superiors about officers, and soldiers have the right to protect their private property from infringement.
Correspondingly, everyone summed up the three major obligations of soldiers, that is, soldiers have the obligation to participate in training and combat, soldiers have the obligation to obey orders and abide by discipline, and soldiers have the obligation to help rescue Li Shu.
Three rights, three obligations, three principles, three disciplines, five wants and five prohibitions; There are a total of five parts, which constitute the basic skeleton of the "Code of Conduct for Officers and Soldiers of the Former Battalion of the Zhangwu Army".
After nearly four months of deliberation, on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the second year of Guangshun, the "Code of Conduct for Officers and Soldiers of the Former Battalion of the Zhangwu Army" was officially released to the whole army. In order to welcome this commemorative New Year, Li * specially got two pigs from the bottom of the mountain and wrapped a full meal of pork dumplings for the officers and soldiers of the battalion on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Director Wei was very dedicated, and seized this opportunity to do a good ideological and political mobilization to the soldiers, accompanied by the fragrant smell of dumplings to let the soldiers understand the truth that "father and mother, no Lord Li, the river is deep and the sea is deep, and there is no deep kindness of Lord Li", but the words that the supervisor chewed three or five dumplings while muttering vaguely in his mouth can be heard and understood by how many people can hear and understand it, whether it is really "father and mother, no Lord Li" The soldiers do not know, but they absolutely know"Father and mother, there is no oily meat dumpling parent".
It's a pity that the brother who was used as the object of personality worship is called the tree I don't know who the tree is, and he is not on the mountain at the moment, so he didn't see this touching scene, fortunately!
On the first day of the first lunar month, Li * got up early in the morning, took out his dark blue eight-grade official uniform that had basically not been put on since he received it, put on a slightly larger head than his own head, and put on a pair of six-fold boots to make his feet who were accustomed to wearing multi-layer cloth shoes feel comfortable.
After making such a big mess, without bringing two teams of heavily armed soldiers by his side, Xicheng Li * said that he would not dare to go in again. However, Dongcheng is the territory of Li Bin and Qin Gu, and Liao Jianzhong, the commander of the left battalion who is responsible for garrisoning Dongcheng, is an old superior, and Li * is more at ease.
It's a pity that he, the Xuanjie lieutenant, doesn't have a carriage, as a military attachΓ©, he should have ridden a horse, and there are five high-quality horses in the village, but Li *, who has never ridden a horse, has secretly started to practice riding under the guidance of Xifeng Minda, but after a few days of practice, at this moment it is barely able to sit on a horse without falling off the level, at this level Li * did not dare to ride into the city, he was afraid of losing his ugly, so he finally chose to walk.
This month, the west city was turned upside down, but the east city was not affected, because the people affected by the snow disaster received the help of Li * and Qin Gu, and the market saw some prosperity. Li * looked at it as he walked, and couldn't help but feel a little happy, and his originally slightly dignified expression became relaxed.
At the moment, there were five or six ox carts parked in front of Li Bin's house, and several of Li*'s former domestic slave colleagues were standing at the door to greet them, but it was Li Jingcun, the young master of the Li family, who led them.
Li * stepped forward and bowed: "The villain greets the young master......"
Suddenly, an official wearing an eight-grade uniform saluted himself, Li Jingcun was startled, and when he saw that it was Li *, the young man breathed a sigh of relief, he avoided it with a flushed face, and did not dare to accept Li *'s salute, and said very gently and politely: "Brother * has killed the younger brother, my father is entertaining guests in the main hall, *brother pleaseββ"
Li Hu on the side knelt down at this time, kowtowed, and said, "Slave Li Hu, it's time to pay New Year's greetings to the young master!" β
Li Jingcun and Li Hu were self-sufficient, and immediately stretched out their hands to pull him up: "It's only been a few days, your injuries are healed, and your body is really strong, what's the matter, my father didn't say anything wrong, right?" Or follow the * brother to have a chance......"
At that moment, the three of them entered straight through the gate, ignoring the extremely envious and fearful gazes of the servants around them, and walked along the stone-paved road into the main hall.
At this time, the main hall was lively, about 20 officials in blue and green clothes were chatting with each other, and Li Bin, as the host, was sitting on the main seat, talking to a man in civilian clothes in his thirties.
Li * took a step forward, knelt down on one knee and bowed: "Captain Li *, the commander of the former battalion of the humble post, Xuanjie, see the observation of the adult, and give the observation of the New Year's greetings ......"
His voice was quite loud, and the main hall, which was still a little noisy, suddenly fell silent, and the eyes of the surrounding officials, big and small, turned almost at the same time, focusing on him.
Even the man who was talking and laughing with Li Bin immediately stopped talking, and his sharp but non-hostile gaze fell directly on Li *.
The people gathered in this room are the magistrates of the nine counties of Yanzhou, and Li Bin is the leader of the civil officials in Yanzhou. After all, the New Year is a big solar term, so most of the counties are chief officials, except for the county magistrate Wu Changyu of Yanchang County who is temporarily ill and cannot come to send the county to seal the year as a representative, the rest of the counties are all county magistrates come in person, and some counties even come to the county magistrate and the county magistrate to take care of the government affairs.
Therefore, at this moment, the youngest of these officials in the room is also an eight-rank official, which is equivalent to Li *'s rank, most of them are seven-rank, and Liu Xun, the highest judge of the festival, is a five-grade scarlet robe, which can already be included in the list of court officials.
An eight-rank petty official, who is almost the lowest status on this occasion, can overpower him in terms of rank and seniority by picking out a random person. However, at this moment, most of the people who came to pay New Year's greetings to Li Bin were civil officials, and they were all wearing a foot cover on their heads, and they were wearing a foot cover, and Li * was the only one in the hall.
He was the only military attache among those who came to pay New Year's greetings to Li Bin.
He is also the first officer of the Zhangwu Army to come to Li Bin for the New Year in so many years.
But it's not for this reason that he's received a lot of attention.
Li * himself doesn't know that his name is now thunderous in the officialdom of Yanzhou.
All counties, far and near, have heard of the state city mutiny that occurred more than ten days ago, and a squad of only 50 people dismembered the state city and the entire Zhangwu army into small soldiers, even in such a remote place as Yanzhou, it is enough to become the focus of news figures.
Judging from the content of this news rumor, the officials of the counties unanimously agreed that Li * should be a guy with a big waist and a round body, a burly and powerful body, and a murderous face. This person is a little weaker even if he throws it into the scholar's pile, how do you look at it, how can he not look like a general who kills people in ten steps and leads arrogant soldiers and fierce generals to drink blood on the battlefield.
is such a person, who has been known as the power of the temple since he became an adult, and Yanzhou has been in the midst of all forces, and Gao Yunquan, who has been in charge of half his life, has made a disgraced face and spits blood, and he is such a person who almost turned over the sky in Yanzhou, and he has done something that he has not even done carefully......
Defeated at the hands of such a person, it is no wonder that the high attendants are about to vomit blood, it is really ridiculous......
Just when these civil officials were thinking about each other's strange faces and ghosts, Li Bin pulled Li * up with a smile: "Huairen is finally here, we are still talking about you, come, I have seen this distinguished guest from Yanzhouββ"
As he spoke, Li Bin's hand waved to the middle-aged man in civilian clothes sitting in the guest seat.
The man stood up slowly, and almost instantly, a strict and killing aura poured out of him, and Li * suddenly felt a pang in his heart - at this time, only the unique temperament of a warrior who had been on the battlefield for a long time and lived a life of licking blood day and night, and this person in front of him was by no means on the same level as himself and the group of bear soldiers under his command who claimed to be able to casually reverse the Zhangwu army one by one.
The so-called veterans in the team, under the tempering of Li * during this time, can only be said to have just become a soldier, but the person in front of him is an out-and-out soldier......
"In the lower three towns, the envoys are commanded to Zhe Deyuan, Li Xuanjie, and they have heard of the great name for a long time......" The middle-aged man arched his hand and introduced himself with a faint smile.
ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
The second change, uh-huh, continues to canvass for votes......