Song Xianggong is not wrong, what Zhou Shixiang said about "all the people are soldiers" is actually a disguised coercion of the people.

What old camps, few young camps, and women have women's camps, it sounds like a good thing, but to put it bluntly, it is not a criminal means to coerce the people and force the people to follow in order to strengthen their own momentum!

For example, if Zhou Shixiang could only recruit 300 young men to serve in Luoding City, then in the eyes of the Qing army, they were just a small Ming army with 300 soldiers. But if there are more than 3,000 people under Zhou Shixiang, no matter how many young and strong there are, and how many are old and weak, in the eyes of the Qing army, it is also a large Ming army with thousands of troops!

The march of more than 3,000 people is definitely more spectacular than the march of three or four hundred people.

In the face of many more men and horses than their own, the Qing army with fewer troops naturally did not dare to fight easily, and if the other side hit the city, most of them could only cower in the city. In this way, the outnumbered side can naturally continue to entrap more people in the villages outside the city, like locusts crossing the border, to obtain more money and food, and thus snowball bigger and bigger, until it becomes a real force to be despised and not to be underestimated. When the time comes, it will not be a small group of thieves, but a large group of thieves!

This method is not unusual, most of the peasant uprisings in the past dynasties followed this method, not to mention far away, close to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other big thieves at the beginning of the incident had the bad deeds of coercing the people, through coercing a large number of people to join the army, it was indeed allowed them to defeat countless Ming troops who came to encircle and suppress, until they shook the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, so it cannot be said that this method is completely useless.

However, Song Xianggong, who had worked in the camp for two years, hated the act of coercing the people, and he resolutely opposed Zhou Shixiang's use of the absurd means of "all the people are soldiers" to expand his strength, because he was too surprised and angry, his voice trembled a little.

"Since ancient times, no rogue has been able to achieve great things! The lesson of the thief is not far away, you can't learn from Hu Xiandi, the method of all the people being soldiers is too ridiculous, and it is not advisable, and it must not be done! ”

Song Xianggong's words were sincere, but Zhou Shixiang was unmoved, but said: "If we don't coerce the people, how can we quickly increase our strength, if we don't even have the power to protect ourselves, how can we talk about big things!" ”

Coercing the people is naturally not a long-term solution, and the disadvantages are too great, easy to be criticized, and it is easy to be regarded as a rogue and thus lose the hearts of the people, but at the moment, Zhou Shixiang can't think of a better way, and his "all the people are soldiers" and simply coerce the people to grow stronger are different, and the two must not be talked about together.

More importantly, what Zhou Shixiang is facing now is not the question of whether to establish a base in the future and have a territory that can continue to supply money and grain to support the long-term anti-Qing war, but the problem of Luo Dingcheng, which is difficult to leave from the homeland of young and strong!

The difficulty of leaving one's homeland is a unique complex of Chinese for thousands of years, and it is very difficult to get a person to leave his hometown under the premise of inconvenient transportation and little knowledge, especially when facing a powerful enemy.

If we can't solve the problem that Luoding is young and strong and difficult to leave their homeland, then no matter how many young people are recruited in Luoding, it will not help. If he wants the young people of Luo Ding to voluntarily follow him Zhou Shixiang to do great things, he must solve the problem of their homeland being inseparable, otherwise, all his efforts will be in the air and have no foundation.

Imagine, when Zhou Shixiang issued an order to march the whole army to Guangzhou and Fujian and even further afield, or decided to temporarily abandon Luo Ding for a certain strategic purpose, but his subordinate Luo Dingbing refused to carry out the order because he refused to leave his hometown and was afraid that his relatives would be retaliated against by the Qing army, and even dispersed in a hurry, then how did Zhou Shixiang deal with himself?

"Sir's concerns, I also understand, there is no truth in this world, so it is just an expedient measure for all the people to be soldiers, and when the strength is greater in the future, we will naturally open a government to set up a government, govern the place, and collect money and grain, which is the long-term way."

Zhou Shixiang couldn't afford to lose Song Xianggong's support, so he patiently tried to convince him, "If Mr. thinks that it is not advisable for all the people to be soldiers, but I don't know what idea Mr. has to make those young men willing to follow us?" At least when the Qing army came, they would be able to fight to the death for the safety of their loved ones, instead of running home in a hurry!"

Song Xianggong couldn't say anything about him, and he knew that this was the truth, so he could only say: "Even if you want all the people to be soldiers, the people may not be willing to let you be coerced." ”

Song Xianggong's loosening made Zhou Shixiang overjoyed: "So let's start with the people affected by the disaster first, and control half of the people in the city, so we are not afraid that the rest of the people will not follow us!" ”

Zhou Shixiang's method is very simple, use silver to buy the people affected by the disaster in the city, and after these people are controlled, they can naturally use them to threaten the remaining people who have not been affected by the disaster, as for those gentry and big households, it is not a problem, as long as it is necessary, they can be solved at any time. When all the people in the city are gathered under his banner, there is naturally no need to worry about these people turning against the water, or cowering in the face of the attack of the Qing army.

The whole family is in the army, can they not listen to orders and fight to the death?!

"That's it!"

Song Xianggong stared at Zhou Shixiang for a while, and Fang sighed: "If you really want to do this, I can't persuade you, you should know the pros and cons better than me, I hope you won't go astray in the future." After speaking, he looked outside the hall and said with some melancholy: "I don't know how many people Zhao Sihai recruited?" ”

"I'll go check it out."

Zhou Shixiang was also concerned about recruitment, if it weren't for the need to raise food to maintain the food and clothing of the recruits and their families, he would not let Zhao Sihai and Peng Dazhu take charge of this matter.

No, Song Xianggong grabbed him and persuaded: "You haven't closed your eyes for a day and a night, it's not too late to do the recruitment tomorrow, you better go eat some food and rest first." After speaking, Zhou Shixiang was not allowed to refuse, so he called a small official and ordered him to ask someone to prepare some food.

When Kong Guoliang was there, there were people in the yamen who helped the cook, and someone came over with food at that moment.

After Zhou Shixiang had eaten, he listened to Song Xianggong's persuasion, and found a room in the back office and wanted to rest.

After lying down, he was shocked that something seemed to be wrong in the room, as if someone was peeping at him, so he turned over and got up vigilantly, clutched the saber of You Yunlong, and shouted: "Who! ”

In the line of sight, a good-looking twenty-eight woman sat under the table in front of the bed with her hands and shoulders, looking at herself tremblingly

Dear book friends, I'm sorry that the bone is a good drinker, I drank a bottle with my grandfather today, and when I came back, my brain was dizzy, and I really couldn't stay awake, so I barely had one chapter today, and I ask you to forgive me!