When Zhou Shi saw that there were many people, he ordered that the people should be organized immediately, so that they would not be in trouble. He personally selected 60 young men from the 118 prisoners to use as the dead soldiers of the Taiping Battalion, and the team of the dead soldiers camp was served by Chen Mo, a strong man who had just talked with Shao Jiugong and his face was still blue.

The first thing Chen Mo did after taking office was to establish his authority first, he followed the example of the cell boss in the prison, co-opted the stronger of the prisoners to oppress the weaker ones, and set various rules to make the camp of dead soldiers as dark as in prison.

In this regard, Zhou Shixiang turned a blind eye, he only wanted the obedient dead soldiers, as for the inhumane treatment suffered by these dead soldiers who were still prisoners a few hours ago, he didn't care, to be honest, even if Chen Mo killed a disobedient prisoner who dared to resist in order to establish rules, he would treat it as if it hadn't happened, and even sent troops to assist Chen Mo in suppressing the prisoners who were unwilling to obey.

Although Zhou Shixiang served in the people's army in his previous life, the army is a violent machine in the final analysis, and it does not require soldiers to have independent thoughts, let alone allow a hundred people and a hundred hearts to happen, and obedience is the primary principle of the army. Therefore, when a recruit who has stepped into the army rebels against various discomforts and theoretical persuasion and education cannot be effective, corporal punishment may be the most effective means.

Zhou Shixiang had no intention of transferring the theories of later generations to 17th-century China, and in his view, anything that transcended the characteristics of the times was unrealistic, so there was nothing to blame for corporal punishment of soldiers and even the killing of disobedient soldiers in the 17th-century army.

Compared with the tragic experience of a single soldier, the existence and strength of the Taiping Camp overwhelm everything, if the Taiping Camp is defeated, it will not be a soldier who is unlucky, but countless soldiers and their families who are unlucky!

Rebellion is a technical job, how to make soldiers obedient is one of the techniques, Zhou Shixiang's choice is very simple - violence.

In what era you live in, you have to do things according to the national conditions of what era, such as what kind of parliament and separation of powers some time-traveling novels in later generations like to engage in in ancient times, which is purely conjecture in Zhou Shixiang's view, and a joke that comes up with a pat on the head. Let me ask, under the premise that the majority of the people are illiterate and uneducated, how can they think independently and use their political rights?

Regardless of the national conditions, certain policies that seem to be "high-minded" are forcibly implemented, and the result is that the separation of powers is a legal system in which the powerful and the rich sit and divide the dirty, and the parliament is also a ruffian. A club in which gangsters, officials and businessmen collude with underworld forces. Ordinary people simply can't participate in this game because they can't read, they don't have money, they don't have power, they don't have time, because they have to work to support their families.

Democracy is the game of the rich.

Zhou Shixiang never believed in democracy, and he always believed that the most suitable political system for China was centralization, especially in 17th-century China, and even more so in the military.

Of course, thinking about these now, it's really salty and eating radishes to worry about, as far as the problem at hand, Zhou Shixiang sees it very simply, the dead are used to send their lives, if these dead soldiers are disobedient, what are they going to do? So as long as Chen Mo can make these prisoners obedient, no matter what method he uses, Zhou Shixiang's attitude is acquiescence, he doesn't have the energy to play any Qingtian master, whether these prisoners are wronged, and whether they shouldn't die for the dead is not something he cares about. At least, it is not what he should be concerned about now, what he should be concerned about now is how to keep the Taiping camp alive and grow until the Manchu Qing Dynasty is completely eliminated and China is restored.

The more than 600 people who fled to Deqing were also drawn out and organized, a total of 230 people, some of them were supplemented into the teams with heavy losses, and the remaining part was newly formed into two teams, so that in addition to the troops of Luo Ding and Zhao Sihai, the Taiping Battalion had 8 teams in Xihedu, a total of 400 people, including 60 dead soldiers.

The captured weapons of the Deqing Green Battalion were quickly distributed, and forty pieces of cotton armor were distributed to the outstanding performers of the Jiangxi soldiers and the Luo Ding soldiers, and most of them were also quickly promoted to captains, which made the Taiping Battalion look new, and the depression caused by the heavy casualties was swept away, and the morale was greatly boosted.

The battalion of dead soldiers did not issue weapons, not because they were not enough, but because they were not necessary. Shao Jiugong said to Zhou Shixiang that these people eat, drink, and offer on weekdays, and they don't need to train, and when they fight tough battles, one person stuffs a knife, and if conditions permit, they will wear more layers of armor, let them rush, and they will be pulled down when they die.

Zhou Shixiang naturally had his own ideas about the future development of the Dead Soldier Camp, but at the moment, Shao Jiugong was right, so he didn't make too many arrangements.

The more than 100 young men captured by Peng Dazhu from the surrounding villages were not incorporated into the army, but temporarily used by the master, and Zhou Shixiang was ready to return to Luoding, and chose those who were willing to stay in the army, and let them come back if they were unwilling.

These young and strong people in Deqing are different from Luo Dingbing, and they are also different from these people who fled from the famine, their homes are in Deqing, and their relatives are also in Deqing, how can they feel at ease in Taipingying? The result of forcibly leaving them behind is that they are in Cao Ying's heart in Han, so they flee on a large scale because they are homesick, and then leak the true situation of the Taiping Camp, so it is better to let them come back directly, and it is not too late to coerce them when they have the strength to break Deqing in the future. Forcibly conscripting people into the army now is nothing but a waste of food.

Zhou Shixiang asked Master Liao, who had not yet changed from the identity of a prisoner, to appease those young people, promising them that they could go home after sending the wounded and materials of the Taiping Camp to Luoding, and each person could also receive 20 catties of rice and a tael of silver, and the livestock robbed at home could also be compensated to a certain extent.

This promise had a great effect, at least, the hostility of the more than 100 young people to the Taiping camp was much lessened, and the soldiers were no longer scolded and whipped to work, but took the initiative a lot.

It is better to have a promise than not to promise, and it is better to have hope than no hope, and compared to the army of the former Lafuzi, it is a very benevolent thing that the Taiping camp can give a promise to let them go home.

There were no soldiers in the army, and there were no langzhong in the surrounding villages, so the wounded soldiers were not treated, and they wailed at the ferry. Zhou Shixiang had no choice but to ask people to boil some boiling water, try to bandage these wounded soldiers with boiled cloth tape, and let Luo Dingbing, who was familiar with him, comfort them and encourage them to go back alive to see their relatives. This method gave some wounded soldiers the will to survive, but only for those who were not seriously injured. In the middle of the night, news came from the ferry that eight seriously wounded people with broken hands and legs still died of excessive blood loss. Every soldier who has experienced death is an elite seed, and being able to save one more is to save more strength for the Taiping Battalion.

Around the same time, Tang Sanshui sent someone to send silver and grain, and proposed a good deal that Zhou Shixiang could not refuse.