On the one hand, the daily relief food allocated by the imperial court was only for the sake of food, and there were still many young people who could not eat enough and had nothing to do. On the other hand, since Zheng Yunming entered Sichuan, his reputation in Jinghu has gradually spread, and the soldiers have always had an idea, first, to follow the generals who love soldiers, and must not let the generals dispose of their lives casually, and second, to follow the victorious generals, as long as these two points are held, the chances of surviving on the dangerous battlefield will be greatly improved.

Xu Yuanjie and a group of clerks were on the way to the school grounds, but they were stopped by the crowded crowd several times, and the school yard was full of young students wrapped in white turbans, and it seemed that there were always forty or fifty thousand people.

By the time Xu Yuanjie finally squeezed into the school grounds, Zheng Yunming was already sitting on a temporary high platform, talking to the Sichuan scholar who had met in a hurry yesterday.

"The people everywhere are accustomed to wrapping their heads with white cloth, and it is said that it is for Zhuge Wuhou Dai Xiao, has this ever been true?"

Yang Fang listened to Zheng Yunming's question, so he had to take the trouble to repeat the answer that he had told the outsiders over and over again to all the people: "This rumor is true in Sichuan, but listen to the old people, the habit of the Sichuan people to wrap their heads has existed when Wuhou was alive, it is said that Wuhou Nanzheng is not hairy, there are many barbarians in the army, and it is not easy to distinguish from the Nanban, so Wuhou ordered the whole army to wrap the head with white cloth to distinguish it, so this custom was retained by the Sichuan people. ”

Zheng Yunming's doubts that have been hidden in his heart for many years have only been confirmed at this time, this matter is just a joke, but some things have to be asked: "Mr. is a native of Sichuan, you and the general have a solid relationship, in the territory of Sichuan Gorge 4th Road, where is it suitable to recruit soldiers?" ”

Yang Fang said: "If the students themselves are concerned, there are no young people in Sichuan who are not suitable for joining the army. The baby near Chengdu Mansion in western Sichuan, the locals evaluate that they are clever and cowardly by nature, but in fact, it is just a one-sided statement. The peasants near Chengdu are very smart, and they learn things very quickly, so they are reluctant to fight, just because they cherish their property and are unwilling to work hard, and now they are living here, most of the property has been lost, if they are registered as soldiers, they must fight bravely for reward, and learning martial arts will also be quite active. As for the man on Kuizhou Road in eastern Sichuan, he was originally a descendant of the Ba people, who was fierce and aggressive, and settled disputes locally, often by fighting with the villagers in the whole village. As for the land of southern Sichuan, the land is close to the barbarians, where the military ban is almost abolished, everyone carries a sword with a sword, and likes to use crossbows, which are all influenced by the customs of the barbarians, and the people here are very good at climbing the mountain, they can march eighty miles in the mountains in one day and night, nicknamed flying over the mountain, such border children, it is really a good talent to recruit soldiers, but it is a pity that the border people have never liked to deal with the Han people more, only their local Miao chiefs go to recruit, or can recruit a sufficient number of people and horses. ”

Yang Fang said, after all, it was a verbal description, Zheng Yunming wanted to recruit soldiers, and the original idea was to recruit all regardless of the boundary. But he soon showed the difference between Sichuan recruitment and Jinghu recruitment, he recruited soldiers in Jinghu, at the beginning was to recruit mine apprentices as soldiers, and later absorbed some northern soldiers, although these two kinds of people are also involved in the clan, but after all, they are all floating population, for the relationship between relatives in the army, it is already a fairly open group of people in the land of the Great Song Dynasty. The re-recruitment of new troops in Sichuan was completely different, even the refugees who were exiled to Chongqing, because of the proper organization and relocation, most of them maintained the complete structure of the clan, and even if they joined the army, they were recruited by fathers, sons, brothers, uncles and nephews. Not to mention the local people, it was the patriarch who sent people to lead the entire clan to join the army.

Zheng Yunming is well aware that the biggest drawback of this kind of recruitment is the construction of a large and complex interpersonal network in the army, the existence of which will attach to seemingly inconspicuous but rather stubborn interest groups, and eventually form the power to defend themselves in secret and resist the will of their superiors. Although this point is not obvious enough in Zheng Yunming's army, Zheng Yunming has seen a lot in other people's armies, for example, if the country needs to eliminate some of the old and weak, then the dominant clan that holds real power will not only not cut off the part that has no combat effectiveness according to the rules, but will give priority to the removal of the backbone combat members of the other faction, and try their best to maintain all their own members, so that after the elimination, the combat effectiveness of the army will not only not be enhanced, but will continue to weaken.

The general army's way to deal with this kind of clan power is to go along the way, generally selecting the leader sent by a clan as a general, or a more direct way, letting go of the general's own pro-party clan organized into subordinates, so that the army can be united and can be restrained by patriarchal blood relations, and can ensure strong combat effectiveness. But Zheng Yunming has his own way, that is, the marshal personally participates in the recruitment, grasps the grassroots team officers and team officers in his hands, and then uses the team officers and team generals to control the soldiers, so he must come to participate in this recruitment ceremony.

On the wide martial arts arena, the officers and generals are strictly testing the martial arts of the recruits, Xichuan Confucianism is prosperous, but there is rarely the style of martial arts, so the target is mostly off target, and even the stone used to assess strength cannot be lifted, Zheng Yunming touched his forehead with his hand in frustration: How should such young people be trained to make them become qualified warriors?

The only thing we can rely on is time and unremitting efforts, as long as we accumulate little by little, a year is like a white horse, and ten years is just a flick of the fingers.

A Tanma Red Army carefully controlled his mount and cautiously approached the stone bridge, he had to avoid the sight of the Song army's watchtower at the bridgehead, if it weren't for the Song people's extensive planting of trees around Xiangyang for hundreds of miles in the past ten years to form a barrier against the Mongol cavalry's assault, or the Song army's lookout post would not have been so easy to spot.

It is now the eighth month of the sixth year of Baoxing, which is the eighth month of the year 1256 in the Jesus calendar. It has been twelve years since the Mongols first invaded Jinghu. In the past 12 years, both countries have undergone tremendous changes. On the Mongol side, after the illness and death of Ögedei Khan, after a short period of reign of Empress Naimazhen, and after a period of chaotic rule by Guiyu Khan, power finally fell back into the hands of the princes of the Tolei line. The newly enthroned Möngke Khan, as soon as he took office, showed a different attitude.

First, he ordered the abolition of the ban on scholars from serving as judges, and promoted six scholars from Han nationality in Yanjing Shilu in one go. This was seen as a positive sign for the new Great Khan and would set off a fresh storm in the young Mongol Empire.

Although it is well known to the world that the reformists, represented by Möngke and Kublai Khan, were in fierce conflict with the old Mongol aristocracy on which Guiyu Khan depended. Among them, Kublai Khan was the most radical, and he repeatedly proposed to Guiyou Khan that he should follow the example of the Southern Dynasties, open colleges, promote technical education, reform the selection system, promote new technological innovations, open handicraft workshops, and develop trade. On the one hand, it cultivates its national strength, and on the other hand, it reforms its army, and after decades of bloody fighting, Mongolia now has a vast territory from the Great Food Country in the west to the sea in the east, and it is time to show its national strength with peace of mind. Although the Song Dynasty in the south has also been actively exploring in the past ten years, it has only established a few strongholds in Nanyang, and in the eyes of the Mongolian aristocracy, these strongholds with only a few hundred or thousands of people are not a big deal at all. Even if the Mongols garrisoned the weakest territory, there was at least one Minhan Nayan force, similar to the Sinansi people, a stronghold with only a few hundred people on the southern sea, what could it do?

Kublai Khan, however, had already found out the terrible things about the Southern Dynasties in the Nanyang trade network through various reports. If nothing else, let's just say that the Kunlun Island Yanchang, which has a garrison of only 320 people, imports more than 10 million yuan of goods into the Southern Dynasties every year, and the total amount of goods exported from here even exceeds this amount. The Southern Dynasties relied on the import and export merchant tax and the state's trading fleet to trade every year, and its profits were enough to support the supply of troops on two or three routes. The key points are not limited to this, the materials exported by the Great Song Dynasty are mostly tea, ceramics, glass, handicrafts, brocade or guns and armor, etc., the items are small in size and have high added value, and the Song Dynasty imported bulk commodities, such as refined copper bought from the Fengnan Islands, rice imported from the Champa State, pig iron imported from Nanyue, gold and silver imported from the Three Buddhas, etc., to name a few, in the past ten years, the number of luxury goods imported by the Song Dynasty has only increased steadily, but the number of imported bulk materials has increased rapidly. These foreign supplies greatly strengthened the national strength of the Song Dynasty, and Kublai Khan believes that this is one of the reasons for the repeated ineffective southern expeditions. Hao Jing's spies came back with information that the Southern Dynasty was discussing with the princes of India to build a gunpowder factory in the coastal area, using India's rich saltpeter resources, it is expected to produce 100,000 catties of gunpowder per year, if so, the plan to attack the Song Dynasty will almost come to naught.

Moreover, these huge ships built by the Song Dynasty posed a threat to Mongolia that went far beyond what appeared on the surface. They are quietly eroding the foundation of the Mongol Empire, since the Song Dynasty envoys arrived in Ceylon, with a rich bribe to make the King of Ceylon submit to the Song Dynasty, immediately opened a trading post and a field in the city of Trincomalee, every year sent dozens of large ships to the Great Food Country and Far West Mo Sanbi to trade with other countries, Sinan Si and the Great Food Country, led to a strict consequence, that is, the Great Food Merchants took advantage of the large body of Sinan Si's ships and a lot of loads, Abandoning the six-way trade route from Persia through Khorezm to the Central Plains, and switching to the maritime trade route via Trincomalee and Srivijaya to Guangzhou, Sinan Si's ships, which have greatly improved their safety and loadability, have offset the operational risks caused by the voyage to the ocean. Instead, there is the overall advantage of maritime trade for trade on the 6, whether from the perspective of one-time freight volume, safety or economy, the maritime trade line is the choice of businessmen.

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