Outside the city, the Qing army besieged the city, but inside the city was shaken by rumors, and if it was not broken early, it would inevitably cause a catastrophe. Without thinking about it at all, Zhou Shixiang set the target of deliberately spreading rumors on Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo. These two people are the ones who are advocating for breaking through the siege, and the situation in the city today has nothing to do with them.

Zhou Shiqi immediately wanted to send someone to get Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo, so that he could ask them what they wanted to do!

Song Xianggong dissuaded him from sending troops to get it, saying that he didn't know if these two people were really the people behind the scenes, and if they still had any hands, if they sent troops to get it, they were afraid that it would attract the hearts of the army even more. Not to mention that Shao Jiugong is still a hundred households in the majestic camp, leading troops to guard the south gate, and his subordinates are even more henchmen who are from the Jiangxi Green Battalion.

Li Fuguo used to be the commander of the Gaoyao Green Battalion, after the Taiping Army broke through the Gaoyao City, he led the rest of the troops to surrender, in order to win over and strengthen the strength of the Taiping Army, when the five major battalions were reorganized, Zhou Shixiang ordered him to serve as the guard battalion to try 100 households, and there were more than 100 subordinates from the Gaoyao Green Battalion. In the same way, if it is not handled well, it is easy to cause trouble.

After weighing the current Xinhui City, Zhou Shixiang accepted Song Xianggong's opinion and ordered him to secretly send someone to investigate the source of the rumors, so as to avoid internal instability in the Taiping Army due to too rude actions.

At the same time, Zhou Shixiang felt the need to hold a city-wide military-civilian meeting to clearly inform the soldiers and their families of the movements of the Taiping army.

The best way to deal with rumors is to make everything public. The Taiping Army had never held any military-civilian conference before, and Song Xianggong couldn't understand what a military-civilian conference was, but he supported Zhou Shixiang to convene this conference, for no other reason, this city really needs the military and the people to talk openly and honestly, and it is even more necessary for Zhou Shixiang, the chief officer, to personally come forward to explain everything to the military and the people, and tell them what they should do!

At the same time, Zhou Shixiang made a request to Song Xianggong. This request was to ask Song Xianggong to select some people from the camp elders, camp managers and others to serve as the security envoys of the Taiping Army.

The name "An Jun Envoy" is very fresh, Song Xianggong has never heard of it, looked at Zhou Shixiang with a puzzled face, and said in astonishment: "What is An Jun Envoy?" ”

"The Anjun envoy, as the name suggests, is an envoy who plays a role in calming the morale of the army, of course, this envoy does not refer to the kind of envoy who serves as an envoy for exchanges between the two countries, but an envoy who is in the army on behalf of me."

"The task of the Anjun envoy is not only to calm the hearts and minds of the army, but also to have a grasp of the soldiers' thoughts. This idea specifically refers to the emotional changes of the soldiers, and it is subdivided into that the security army envoy must absolutely grasp all the situation of the soldier on weekdays, including his background, past experience, etc., and the most important security army envoy must win the trust of the soldiers, and must resolve all difficulties outside the battle for the soldiers in a timely manner, of course, the security army envoy cannot interfere with the work of the chief officer in the army, the same. Hundred-households and general bannermen cannot interfere with the duties of the Anjun envoys."

At the moment, Zhou Shixiang explained the work of the political commissar of the army in the later generations to Song Xianggong concisely and clearly in the language of the world, strictly speaking, the "military envoy" that Zhou Shixiang made out is no different from the duties of the political commissar of the later generations. The difference is that the former represents his mastery of the army, while the latter represents a certain power.

This rumor about the breakout caused the instability of the army, which touched Zhou Shixiang's determination to introduce the political commissar of later generations into the Taiping army, but it is undeniable that the introduction of the An army envoy also has another private idea of Zhou Shixiang. That is, he believes that it is necessary to strengthen his control over the army, to ensure that everything in the army is headed by him, and that there can be no resistance to him.

Although the Taiping army was still very weak. Although the fate of the Taiping army was still unknown, Zhou Shixiang had already made up his mind to do so, and after a brief introduction to the An military envoy, Zhou Shixiang ordered Song Xianggong to select a candidate to serve as the An military envoy in an unquestionable tone.

Candidates to serve as Anjun envoys are not only selected from the battalion veterans and camp managers in the rear battalion, but also from the war barracks, in short, all people in the city who can read more than 100 characters can be used as candidates for the Anjun envoys.

Song Xianggong asked how many security envoys were needed and how the battalions would be placed.

Zhou Shixiang groaned and said that each army should have an An army envoy, also known as an army envoy; Each team has a lieutenant envoy of the security army, and each battalion has an ambassador of the security army.

In this way, according to the military system of the Taiping Army, 20 soldiers are one team, five soldiers are one team, and five teams are one battalion, so one battalion needs 1 ambassador of the Anjun army, 5 envoys of the Anjun army, and 25 junior envoys of the Anjun army, a total of 31 people. The five battalions combined were 155 men.

In order to facilitate the better integration of the Anjun envoys into the army, and at the same time facilitate the coordination of the relationship between the upper and lower levels, Zhou Shixiang also set the Anjun envoy as the test small flag, the Anjun lieutenant envoy as the test general flag, and the Anjun ambassador as the temporary official position of the test hundred households.

In addition to ideological work, the military envoy also has to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining military discipline, and if the soldier makes a mistake, the military envoy will first interrogate and then report the handling opinions to the chief officer, and finally Zhou Shixiang will personally handle it.

Zhou Shixiang said it, Song Xianggong was a little dizzy when he heard it, in addition to feeling that this An military envoy has a great effect on controlling the hearts of the army, but also feeling that there are many more officials this time.

Song Xianggong frowned and said a big problem, the Taiping Army is an army composed of bandits and poor, where are there a few literate people. There are some respected battalion elders in the back camp who are literate and literate, and there is even one who has a reputation for showing off his talents, but the problem is that these battalion elders are all white-haired old men, where can they still toss in the army. There are literate people in the camp management, but the number is too small, according to Zhou Shixiang's needs, there will be 155 An army envoys at this time, where do he go to find in a hurry, and pull up those guys from the public treasury army, at best, 30 is considered great.

This problem also gave Zhou Shixiang a big headache, yes, no matter how good his plan is, someone must be able to implement it, otherwise it will be a castle in the air and will not be implemented.

The Taiping army forcibly coerced some gentry, but most of these people were stared at in the back camp after being deprived of their property, and they complained about the Taiping army one by one, and they were willing to come out to cooperate with Zhou Shixiang's work. It's these people who are really willing to come out to serve Zhou Shixiang, and Zhou Shixiang doesn't dare to use them!

Later generations of great men said that the more you read, the more reactionary you become, and there must be something wrong with this statement, but it is true in this era. Why? The gentry are all about him. Isn't it a joke that the landlord class with land and houses, the class that lives by sucking the blood of the poor, and expects them to come out to help the Taiping Army, which is a combination of bandits and the poor, to serve their lives!

If you want to have a group of security envoys who can faithfully carry out their own orders and experience their own thoughts, there is no other way but to train and train themselves!

But the top priority is that the army's instability needs to be solved urgently, so Zhou Shixiang asked Song Xianggong to select the 30 who can read first, and then select some loyal ones from the army, and those who have wives and children in the back camp.

Song Xianggong had no objections, but emphasized that the most urgent thing to stabilize the army's heart was not the An military envoy, but Zhou Shixiang, the commander of the Taiping Army, himself, and the military-civilian conference must be convened immediately, and there is no delay for a moment!

Zhou Shixiang didn't say a word, and ordered his soldiers to find Liao Ruixiang, and ordered him to immediately organize people to arrange the venue, and hold a military and civilian conference of the Taiping Army in the afternoon.

The investigation of Shao Jiugong and Li Fuguo, Song Xianggong also immediately started. He has experience in investigating rumors, and he has done it in Luoding at the beginning, and he is also familiar with it this time. Xinhui City is such a big place, and the military and civilians together are not more than 10,000, and it is not a piece of cake to find out who is spreading rumors.

At the same time that Zhou Shixiang started to hold a military-civilian conference, Shao Jiugong came uninvited.

When he saw Zhou Shixiang, he went straight to the point and said: "Qianhu, the rumors in the city were not dispersed by me, but by Li Fuguo's guy." (To be continued.) )