In terms of the composition of the armed forces developed by our party in the early days, peasants were the majority, followed by a part of the workers and handicraftsmen, and there were quite a few "vagrants" and homeless people, and the composition of the personnel was very chaotic.

In other words, in China at that time, in addition to the laws and regulations of the state, the most basic social bottom also had a very important social morality influenced by Confucianism, such as township rules and township covenants, to supervise and restrict, and ordinary people would not take the initiative to leave their hometowns to carry guns and eat, so what kind of people could go to be soldiers?

In the past, it was said that good iron does not nail good men and not soldiers, this is not a joke, soldiers are a very unappreciated part of the old social system, just like how high the status and very good catch are now played by movies and TV series, in the past it was a very humble job, a person became a fast catcher, the whole family could not be an official, and three generations were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination! It is basically equivalent to three generations of people who have broken the way to become the upper echelons of society!

No wonder Qi Jiguang was about to take office to fight the Japanese invaders, and he lost the first battle, and when he checked his soldiers, they were all composed of unemployed vagrants and ruffians recruited from the society.

In the early years of the Republic of China, when the warlords were fighting, there were more such soldiers, and perhaps the general's military salary was high, and everyone ran away in a swarm. After a few days, the other generals paid more money, and everyone ran there again, and becoming a soldier became a means of earning a living.

That is to say, the soldiers are basically people who have no food to eat and no place to go, and compared with surviving, the days of licking blood on the knife are better than starving and waiting to die!

In fact, when our party created the armed liliang. There is no magic trick either. It's the same thing, they use a full meal to eat and pay a military salary to recruit people. If you look at some historical materials of the Red Army in the early days, there were incidents of non-payment of salaries, and even mutinies of soldiers in various Soviet base areas.

There is a true story, there is an uncle in my hometown, when he was a teenager, he was hit by a drought and locust plague for many years, and his hometown had no way to live, so he wanted to go out as a soldier to earn a bowl of food, and a few friends made an appointment to go together. As a result, my uncle overslept, and those left first.

At that time, there were five shili with guns in my hometown, one was a Japanese devil, the second was a pseudo-security army, the third was a guerrilla of the national army, the fourth was the Eighth Route Army, and the fifth was a bandit.

A few people made an appointment, the devil can't vote, and the others bump into which one is which, as long as he takes care of the food, he will be his soldier.

As a result, the Yujian puppet army that came out of the village first. I followed the puppet army, and my uncle got up late. When they chased out of the village, the first few had already disappeared with the puppet army, and the guerrillas of the Eighth Route passed by, and it became the Eighth Road!

If you walk a little earlier and a little later, the troops you throw are different, and your life will change a lot! It didn't take long for those who joined the puppet army to be ambushed by the Eighth Road, some died, some fled back to the village, and after liberation, they suffered a lot because of the experience of being a puppet army for a few days.

followed the eight roads, until 58 years when he returned to his hometown with epaulettes, and married the most beautiful girl within a radius of dozens of miles as a daughter-in-law, and took his parents, brothers and sisters to the city, and became a bureau-level cadre after transferring to the local government.

When I was a child, I asked this uncle, why did you join my party? The old man is very realistic, just one sentence: "Whoever gives food will do it with whom!" ”

It's all for a bowl of rice, and the ending is very different! So weishenme figured it out as a soldier, but it was the first element to become a fierce man.

And some of the people who have read books and come into contact with new ideas can persuade the people at the bottom of society, such as peasants who have lost their land and workers who are perpetually dissatisfied, to change their fate, and tell them not to be obedient to the people and go on to be so poor, but to take up the sword and gun to take back their own land.

This gets rid of the embarrassment of relying on the part of the soldiers who are already soldiers in the early stage, those soldiers, if they don't give money or food, they don't follow you to play with their lives, for example, more than 20,000 people participated in the Nanchang Uprising, most of them are "professional soldiers", after a few battles, how many people are left with Mr. Zhu and others? Hundreds of people!

For another example, Sun Yat-sen relied on this warlord and that warlord all his life, and Zuihou found that without his own descendant troops, no warlord was reliable, so he formed the Whampoa Military Academy.

Grandpa Mao also discovered the disadvantages of the old army's milk-giving mother, so he developed armed liliang from the children of workers and peasants, and it just so happened that in those years, we should also change the dynasty in China, natural disasters are one after another, military disasters and wars have not been interrupted, the fragile rural survival system, by natural disasters and man-made disasters, a large number of desperate peasants or something have entered our party's army.

So the second element of becoming a fierce man is to follow a more fierce person with a future!

Turning back to the relationship between the peasants and the landlords, since most of these fierce men came from poor peasants and workers, why didn't they farm the land and not be miners, and go to the errand of soldiers who can eat today and move their heads tomorrow?

If I want to say, it is not forced by the landlord or anything, but also that people voluntarily go to the army, there are two relatively new sayings, one is to pull relatives and friends, and the other is to be driven up the mountain by Jiang someone.

In the past, it was said that the peasants had no way to live, and the landlords and bullies forced their families to be ruined and destroyed before they embarked on the road of resistance, hehe, this is all the need for political propaganda, I said something interesting, and everyone will understand what was going on with the peasants and landlords in the past.

In the areas south of the Yangtze River where rice can be grown, in the old society, 50% of the villages were homesteaders, that is, households with their own land, and their lives were okay. There are also about 20% of the wealthy households, in addition to food and clothing, they can also have a surplus to do some small business or something.

The remaining are about 30% of the tenants, who live by renting the land of the wealthy all year round and doing odd jobs for the yeoman farmers for a short time.

Generally speaking, the land rented and cultivated is divided according to four or six, and in many places it is also divided into three or seven, that is, the owner of the land takes four or three, and the tenant takes six or seven.

What's also interesting is that natural disasters do not pay rent, if the grain production is reduced or the harvest is not cut off due to drought, the landlord does not collect rent, and the harvest can be reduced or delayed due to floods and insect plagues. If the discussion is good, you can not pay!

There's something more interesting. "Mountains, rivers, and soil" do not need to pay rent. At most, you can give some symbolic gifts, such as the mountain forest for you to manage as a tenant, and everything that comes out of the mountain belongs to this tenant, and during the New Year's holidays, just send some pheasants and mushrooms to the landlord.

In many places, tenants grow a season of wheat, which is called "soil", because there is no hydroponics, and the harvest goes to the tenants. Then the rent of the second crop of rice is paid.

In the past, old movies and novels said that as soon as the landlord arrived at the autumn harvest, he took the housekeeper or something to force the tenant to pay the rent, and there were murderers with guns and sticks, hehe, that basically didn't, the landlord went to the tenant's house, and he went to say good things to the tenants, hoping to pay the rent in full according to the lease.

When it came time to pay the rent, according to the custom, the landlord's family had to take care of a meal. There has to be wine and meat, see. It's not easy to be a landlord! If you ask someone to pay rent, you have to take care of a good meal!

In this way, it is generally not enough to collect the full amount of rent, and it is generally good to receive 80%, because tenants will find all kinds of reasons to pay less rent.

Speaking of this, friends have to ask, being a farmer is very nourishing, so why do you have to rebel? Very simply, this natural economic bond between tenants and landlords is very fragile, especially in the era of continuous natural disasters and military disasters, the field can not produce crops, today this banner shili also grabbed grain once, tomorrow the shili will come to grab grain again, who can stand it!

I still remember that in the novel "White Deer Plain", the soldiers and bandits came to grab the grain, didn't they force the landlord to come forward and ask the big guys to hand over the grain, and they carried the conflict between not paying and being a soldier, and they died.

The chaos for a year or two is not terrible, and after a long time, the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and the relationship with the tenants will be tense, but there are restrictions on the township covenant and the clan covenant, and it is still passable on the surface, and the one who really broke this straw has to say that it is Jiang someone!

In the early activities of our party, don't believe that it will take more than 20 years to raise your arms and call out all the people to respond to it, and it will take more than 20 years to seize power in a few days.

In the past, this was often the case, but people who were studying or doing things outside the country were educated by our party and understood that in order to completely change the backward and poor situation in China, it was necessary to emancipate the productive forces, mobilize the peasants, and eliminate unequal relations.

These people return to their hometowns, starting with their relatives and friends, one or two development party members, not to mention the disaster year, even in the harvest year, they also lead the tenants and rich landlords to face the rent and the public grain sent by the government.

This killing, the seven aunts and eight aunts have all been affected, and those who have a little bit of contact with our party have been forced to go up the mountain, and if they don't resist or escape, they will have to lose their heads!

Those who went up the mountain suffered even more at home, and those who died fled to escape, this is good, these people have become the backbone of our party's armed forces, and they want to take revenge!

If you have a piece of territory and have some people, you can recruit troops and buy horses, where will the money come from? The landlords and the rich have it! What if you don't give it! It's also killing! Fight the local tyrants and divide the fields! In this way, we can also pull more peasants to follow our party, and there are benefits!

After going back and forth, this relatively balanced rural relationship, which had lasted for hundreds of years, has become a life-and-death struggle, and both sides have to take revenge!

If you have the seed of revenge in your heart, you can endure any hardship and any crime, and you can charge with your life without paying the army, because on the other side is the army of the government on which the landlords and rich families depend!

If you don't work hard, you can't do it, if you are defeated and caught, you will also be beheaded!

This is the third element of becoming a fierce man, you have to take revenge to become a fierce man!

So let me say, most of these fierce people in our party's army were honest peasants or hard-working workers at the beginning, and they were all forced to become fierce men by Jiang who didn't use his brains!

If Jiang had not purged our party from the beginning, and the Nationalist Government had been able to intervene to mediate the contradictions in the rural areas, how could there be so many things later? It's a pity that after Jiang realized this, he had already arrived in Taiwan.

When we arrived in Taiwan, we basically copied our party's approach to land reform and the solution of the rural problem, and now Taiwan's problem was solved, and with the gold and silver shipped from the mainland, we were able to gain a firm foothold and develop the economy.

But the troubled times were put together by you Jiang and other people, and these fierce people were also forced by you to become fierce people, and the history of this account is clear! (To be continued......)