Gao Guiying's attitude is very obvious.

These officers and soldiers must all be killed.

Naturally, there is no need to say much about the contradictions between the rogues and the officers and soldiers, and now, Zhang Mu wants to co-opt these rogues, and Gao Guiying is naturally extremely dissatisfied.

If it is adopted by Zhang Mu, it doesn't matter.

The key is that Zhang Mu treats the captives preferentially, and those who are unwilling to surrender and those who are unwilling to stay, Zhang Mu actually has to give them the money to leave.

Preferential treatment of captives is not so preferential.

Gao Guiying was very dissatisfied, and went straight to Zhang Mu: "General Zhang, I only ask you about this matter, the officers and soldiers who are unwilling to stay, why did you let them go, and why did you give them the travel expenses?" ”

This is the internal meeting of the Communist Association, and Gao Guiying broke in directly.

The soldier wanted to stop it, but Gao Guiying's voice was very loud, Zhang Mu waved his hand and asked Gao Guiying to let him in.

"General Gao!"

Zhang Mu made an inviting gesture and said with a smile: "Please take a seat!" ”

Gao Guiying sat down.

Zhang Muyou looked at Liu Sihai: "Pour tea!" ”

"I don't drink tea, General Zhang, you give me an explanation today!" Gao Guiying looked at Zhang Mu and said very seriously: "Why didn't you kill this group of officers and soldiers, do you know how many of our brothers these officers and soldiers have killed?" How many people have they harmed? ”

"General Gao!"

Zhang Mu paused, and then said: "Preferential treatment of prisoners, this is our principle, it is not the officers and soldiers who are at fault, but the imperial court, these officers and soldiers are also low-level soldiers, they are willing to stay, willing to leave, this is their own business, of course, the premise is that they realize their mistakes!" ”

Liu Sihai came to the two of them with two teacups.

Gao Guiying stared at Zhang Mu for a long time before he spoke: "This is the reason why you don't kill officers and soldiers?" Do you know what these officers and soldiers have done? ”

"General Gao, do you think that all officers and soldiers should die?" Zhang Mu asked rhetorically.

"yes, damn it!" Gao Guiying said directly.

"Then, General Gao, you should think about it carefully, your father is also from the border army, and your father is also an officer and soldier, so should he also die?" Zhang Mu asked rhetorically.

"Me!" Gao Guiying was slightly stunned, and was speechless for a while.

Then she said, "My father is different! ”

"King Chuang is naturally different, he is a border army, the court deducts military salaries, and treats these soldiers as pigs and dogs, and even as his own slaves!"

Zhang Mu smiled: "However, aren't these officers and soldiers being deducted from their salaries by the imperial court?" Aren't they treated like pigs and dogs by their superiors? ”

Gao Guiying was stunned.

"They don't have the courage to fight back, nor do they have the courage to rise up, this is the difference between them and King Chuang, but not everyone in this world can be like King Chuang, can rise up in a difficult situation, can have the courage to uphold justice for everyone, and can have the wisdom to deal with officers and soldiers, isn't it?"

Zhang Mu just smiled and spoke softly, which really made Gao Guiying unable to find any place to refute.

After all, when Zhang Mu spoke, he still blew Gao Yingxiang, Gao Guiying couldn't directly refute his father, right?

"Then, why, are you letting them go again?" Gao Guiying couldn't help but say, "Then won't they still have to be our enemies in the future?" ”

Zhang Mu just smiled and said slowly: "Most of the Ming soldiers are poor, many of them have been arrested as soldiers, and there are soldiers for generations, and there are many women in the family who are prostitutes, and they pick up several people every day. But as for the officers, they were all very wealthy, with houses and land, and wives and concubines. ”

Gao Guiying was slightly stunned, while Zhang Mu said with a smile: "This kind of poor soldier captive, what if you kill him?" After killing them all, it will only unite them internally, after all, the officers only want their money, and we want their lives! ”

Hearing this, Gao Guiying was somewhat acceptable, and Zhang Mu continued: "If you don't kill it, it will indeed cause some fish to slip through the net, and some people will turn their heads and become soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, or continue to be our enemy, but what if there is really a war? As long as the officers can't see it, I will hide, and when I see our rebel army rushing in, I will surrender directly, and when the time comes, I will not only save my life, but also earn a sum of money for the passage and eat a few good meals. ”

"This!" Gao Guiying hesitated for a long time, and then nodded: "General Zhang, what you said is reasonable, today, it's me Meng Lang!" ”

Zhang Mu just smiled: "General Gao doesn't have to be like this, if you really have a question, you can ask it, and I will answer it for you wholeheartedly!" ”

Gao Guiying nodded, then got up to leave.

Zhang Mu took a hard breath, and waited until Gao Guiying left completely, then called Liu Sihai: "Keep an eye on Gao Guiying and see who she is dealing with!" ”

Liu Sihai was slightly stunned, and then nodded: "Okay!" ”

An hour later, Liu Sihai sent the detailed news to Zhang Mu.

And Zhang Mu also quickly distinguished, needless to say, naturally Gao Yingxiang's old department gathered here in Gao Guiying, and now the time has come to March, throughout February, March, Zhang Mu is gathering the scattered rogues.

Some of them are routs, and some of them are small bosses of rogue gangsters.

When all the rogues and homeless people come to Zhang Mu, they can naturally allocate five acres of land, and at the same time establish a production team, and then select some of them to be incorporated into the militia, and then into the regular army.

If you want to join the regular army, this is conditional, Zhang Mu did not bite the literacy clause, but gave priority to the young and strong, the right age, joined the regular army and then slowly trained, teach them literacy.

If you really bite the word about literacy, 99 percent of the people will not be literate.

Fortunately, Zhang Mu went to Huazhou College and directly captured a large number of scholars, forcing them to teach Liukou to read and write, mainly in Mongolia.

In addition, no Confucian anything was allowed to be taught, and it was the members of the Communist Association or the external members of the Communist Association who were responsible for teaching them.

At present, Zhang Mu's members of the Communist Association have reached sixty people, and the number of peripheral members has exceeded the thousand units, so it is enough for them to do this work, although there have been many contradictions, but they have all been discovered and resolved by Zhang Mu in time.

A considerable number of rogues have benefited, but naturally, there are also people whose interests have been lost.

This group of people, the original leader of the rogue, the leader of the rogue, used to be a leader of his own size, and now,

Some of the rogue leaders who came to Zhang Mu were naturally reused and willing to improve, and they did have their own opinions on leading the troops, and another point was to let these rogue soldiers evaluate whether their leaders were good or not.

There are also some gangster leaders who are not happy, they belong to this group of people whose interests have been damaged.

In the past, he was also a leader in laughing, although he was a thief, but he also experienced the feeling of being a master, but when he came to Zhang Mu, everything changed, and he was no longer a master, and he actually had to start all over again.

So, this group of people also gathered on Gao Guiying's side.

They tried to influence Gao Guiying, and then, slowly, tried to gain power.

There are quite a few people in this group, but there are not enough soldiers under his hands, and Zhang Mu is also very confident, and the vast majority of the rogues do not want to return to the situation of hiding in Tibet after being chased by officers and soldiers after getting a relatively stable life.

These people need to be on guard and, if necessary, to strip them out of their ranks.

The emergence of contradictions was much faster than Zhang Mu expected.

To accept the rogue, you must also accept the whole of the rogue.

It is also necessary to include the thoughts of the rogue.

The outcasts are unwilling to do hard work to establish their own base areas and thus expand their political influence, but only want to use mobile guerrilla methods to expand their political influence.

The second is to directly follow the line of "recruiting troops and buying horses" and "recruiting and surrendering rebels" in order to rapidly expand.

In the end, he was impatient to fight hard with the people, and only wanted to go to the big city to eat and drink.

This kind of thinking will naturally affect the decision-making level on Zhang Mu's side, these are unstable factors, if there is enough time, guide slowly, but the speed of these rogue leaders is very fast, gathering around Gao Guiying, exerting influence, and also causing contradictions to erupt.

Zhang Mu also knew very well that Gao Guiying could not stay here for a long time, and sooner or later he would have to find his father, or Li Zicheng.

They are the trendsetters of the times, and now, they are just a little transparent, if they can let Gao Guiying go, take away all these unstable factors by the way, this is also a good thing for themselves.

The problem now is that Henan and Hubei have become a pot of porridge, Zhang Mu doesn't know where Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang are, he only knows that Gao Yingxiang will be captured in July, and the rest is unknown.

After talking about the information in his hand, Zhang Mu quickly made a decision to win over Gao Guiying as much as possible, and take Gao Guiying's understanding, as long as they themselves do not have civil strife, time stands here, and they have land and food, they can digest these rebel armies.

Night falls

Zhang Mu was about to rest, but the guards outside the door knocked on the door and said, "General, Mr. Song Xiance asks to see Mr. Song!" ”

Zhang Mu originally wanted to sleep, but when he heard this, he opened his eyes and said, "Let him in!" ”

Seeing Song Xiance, Zhang Mu beckoned and said with a smile: "Mr. Song, please take a seat!" ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" Song Xiance said politely.

Zhang Mu looked at Song Xiance and said with a smile: "Mr. came to me late at night, but there is something!" ”

"Exactly, there is a family business!" Song Xiance said with a smile.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Mu raised his eyebrows slightly.

"General Zhang and Miss!" Song Xiance said with a smile.