When later generations talk about ancient times, they always feel that ancient people will generally have the concept of "good men should not be soldiers". It seems that the ancients were very resistant to being a soldier. In fact, just like the common people often jokingly say "the emperor takes turns, come to my house today", this kind of remark is more of an emotional reaction, rather than saying that everyone will really feel that the emperor himself has a chance to sit in the throne.

To be honest, in the feudal society, where the strata are fully solidified, except for some wealthy homesteaders and rich peasant families, they may have the opportunity to realize the social status change of "being a Tianshelang in the morning and ascending to the Tianzitang at dusk" in the form of studying and participating in the imperial examination. If the vast majority of ordinary Chinese people want to realize the change of their social status, the only way to do this is to become a soldier and fight.

Of course, even putting aside the possibility of this weak change in social status, for the people at the bottom, being a soldier is also not the worst choice. Especially at the end of the feudal dynasty, for the people at the bottom, being a soldier is very likely to die on the battlefield, but compared with dying on the battlefield and dying of starvation, being a soldier is naturally not the worst choice.

From here, we can see such a truth, in addition to starving to death, for the people at the bottom, being a soldier is a good choice in addition to starving to death (the choice of being a bandit is actually the same as being a soldier). When the common people have no livelihood to rely on and are empty-handed, they generally have no choice but to become soldiers. And being a soldier is not always happening.

In the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the Ming Dynasty as the party that suppressed the uprising or the peasant army as the rebels, there were more than 100,000 or 200,000 people at every turn. On the one hand, of course, this is caused by the coercion of the local people by the armies of both sides, but from another aspect, the situation in which the people can be coerced and acquiesce in their own coercion is not a manifestation of the forced choice in desperation.

In terms of personnel, Zhu Xieyuan had two generals and a battalion of more than 2,000 governors. In terms of funds, Zhu Xieyuan was allocated by the imperial court, which could really support the food and salary of the 5,000-strong troops.

According to Zhu Xieyuan's understanding of the situation of the troops in the provincial capital, he generally deduced that the number of rebels in Wuchang was between 2,000 and 3,000 at most. Therefore, he felt that he already had more than 2,000 people in his hands, and he would recruit about 3,000 people to form a team of about 5,000 people, so it would be completely possible to suppress this rebellion.

Zhu Xieyuan's overall idea was good, and from the perspective of cost, he was ready to recruit soldiers in the Xiangyang area on the spot, and use local soldiers to quell the local bandits. Originally, he thought that in the current environment, the work of recruiting soldiers would not be difficult to do. But what he didn't expect was that because the reconstruction society had absorbed a large number of labor in the Xiangyang area for the construction of the Xiangyang area, the recruiters he sent had been tossing around Xiangyang for a long time before they recruited less than 200 soldiers of acceptable quality.

Why do we say that Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five provinces, is a relatively knowledgeable soldier who can fight. This is because Zhu Xieyuan knows how to consider the cost aspect of military operations.

Taking recruitment as an example, most people know that the southern soldiers are best recruited from Sichuan and Sichuan. Of course, Zhu Xieyuan also knows this truth. However, Zhu Xieyuan, who was in Xiangyang, Huguang, knew that if he wanted to recruit troops in Sichuan and Zhejiang, he would need more economic expenditure.

Therefore, from this point of view, Zhu Xieyuan mainly hopes to recruit troops in Huguang Province to reduce his own expenses.

The problem is that not only the relatively surplus labor force in Yangyang has been absorbed by the Fuxing Society. As far as the entire Huguang region north of the Yangtze River is concerned, the vast area in the west, from Jingzhou Prefecture to Xiangyang Prefecture, has become the sphere of influence of the Fuxing Society.

Except for some county towns that are dotted between the two prefectures, the vast rural areas of the two prefectures are either the farms of the Renaissance Society or the base villages of the Renaissance Society.

For the Fuxing Society, the county seat, which undertook the most basic administrative functions of the Ming Dynasty, had no meaning to them.

In the eyes of the Renaissance Society, China's greatest power lies not in the stronghold-like county towns, but in the vast rural areas. Both in terms of population and resources, these things are distributed in rural areas. Therefore, the Fuxing Society, which has always adhered to the policy of encircling the city from the countryside, has carried out an all-round penetration into Jingzhou and the vast rural areas around Jingzhou in more than five years.

Because there is an example of Zhijiang County there, the penetration of the Fuxing Association into Jingzhou Mansion and the surrounding land has been very smooth in recent years. Except for a few landlords who resisted stubbornly and were eliminated by the Fuxing Society in the form of an agrarian revolution and established Jidu Village in the village, the Fuxing Society annexed land in large quantities in Jingzhou Prefecture and the land around Jingzhou Prefecture through land exchange.

The Renaissance Society carried out large-scale transformation of these lands, organized the original peasant households on these lands and arranged manpower from other places, and established a large number of state-owned farms.

In other words, Zhu Xieyuan wanted to recruit soldiers in the area north of the Yangtze River in Huguang Province, especially in the area around Xiangyang Province, which was not an easy task. You must know that the demand for labor in specialized, specialized, and modern industrial agriculture is still very huge.

Fuxing Society built industrialization in such a backward social environment in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and their demand for labor was really massive. After all, not all of the large-scale farmland and water conservancy projects carried out by the Reconstruction Society in the vast rural areas can use mechanized means.

Especially because of the limitations of the mechanical processing capacity of the Fuxinghui industrial system, the output of the Fuxinghui tractor factory has not been able to rise, and the stupid black and coarse steam tractors produced by the Fuxing Society cannot be compared with the exquisite and delicate products customized by Wang Shuhui from modern times.

Under such circumstances, the Renaissance Association has not only carried out all-round efforts to absorb the local labor force, from 99 to 99 to just leaving, but also has been absorbing a large number of displaced people from all regions of the country to supplement its own labor shortage.

If there is any reason why the existence of this organization, which defies the laws of history, has had the greatest impact on the original time and space, it should be that the large surplus labor absorbed by the development of industry and industrial agriculture by the Revival Society has dissipated many of the turmoil and uprisings that could have occurred.

The most direct proof is that since the industrial construction of the Fuxing Society began in full swing in 1621, most of the displaced people caused by the climate of the Xiaoice River have been absorbed by the Fuxing Society, not only within Huguang Province, but also in the surrounding provinces of Shaanxi, Henan and Jiangxi.

By the end of 1625, according to the statistics of the Renaissance Society's Government Office, the Renaissance Society had absorbed more than 400,000 displaced people and disaster victims