Chapter 90: Grievances

"I know very well that you are all helpless thieves."

On the school field, everyone's expressions were all in Chen Wang's eyes.

Chen Wang did not let the recruiters force the recruitment, but set conditions in each battalion to recruit only those who volunteered.

"Your family, I will send someone to the resettlement camp in Sanshui City to try to find it."

The twisted melon is not sweet, and the forcibly conscripted soldiers will inevitably have resentment in their hearts.

This resentment should not have appeared in the Forces nouvelles, and no one knew when it would erupt.

And the most basic condition offered by Chen Wang is one tael of silver per month.

As long as they are selected, the first month's salary will be paid directly to the recruiter.

After March, the money is calculated according to the grade of the examination school, and if the ordinary soldier reaches the highest level, he can get two and a half of silver a month.

The second is that if there are family members in the old and weak camp of the invading army, they will send people to find the separated family members.

If they are still there, they can be given food and rice to ensure their basic safety.

On the school ground, many people's eyes are no longer just numb, but a little more bright.

Many of them are already disheartened.

But the recruiters who walked into the camp gave them hope.

Although many people don't believe in the second condition in their hearts.

But for them, this is the last hope, the only hope.

Chen Wang knew the psychology of these people very well, but he did not write a blank check.

He registered everyone's name, including household registration and where they lived, and several people could remember it clearly.

Chen Wang specially asked Zuo Liangyu about the current situation in Sanshui.

The Bizhou side has sent officials to manage the old and weak who are now stranded in Sanshui.

There are only 30,000 or 40,000 old and weak people outside Sanshui City, and it will not take long for things such as resettlement and separation to be completed.

At that time, you only need to follow the index of the household registration and check from house to house to find people.

Of course, the premise of all this is that there is really nothing wrong with the information.

When the order is down, when you go to Ningzhou, you will inevitably pass by Sanshui.

There is free time for these recruits and their families to reunite for a few days.

One is the heart of the army.

The second is to be in the army.

Collect the heart.

The credit of the imperial court is almost used in Shaanxi.

"I know very well what happened in Shaanxi, Liaodong has also been affected, and it has also been plagued by famine for many years."

"The famine continues, but the taxes and forced labor do not end."

"I, Chen Wang, am just a martial artist."

"I can't do anything in Liaodong, I can't help it in Shaanxi, I can't do anything."

Chen Wang raised his voice slightly, clenched his fists, and slammed the podium in front of him.

The loud sound of the loudspeaker burst into everyone's ears through the amplified horn, and everyone's attention was determined.

"Nothing can be done!"

Chen Wang raised his voice and repeated the four words of powerlessness that he had said before.

These four words are not difficult to understand.

"We are all the same, and there is no way to deal with natural and man-made disasters."

Chen Wang did not say you again, but instead used "we" as a pronoun, and will put himself in the concept of collectivity. ….

On the school ground, the numb faces of many soldiers were a little more touched.

Shaanxi has been in drought for many years, but the people of Shaanxi have not been able to wait for the relief of the grain, waiting for one after another additional documents.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi was hungry, Yan and Gongmin gathered together for thieves, there was no rain for a year, and the grass and trees were scorched.

In the second year of Chongzhen, there was a great drought in northern Shaanxi, Yan'an County, starvation, and people ate each other.

In the third year of Chongzhen, there was another great drought in northern Shaanxi, there was no harvest in summer and autumn, Qin was drought, and there was a great hunger in Qingjian.

Even the years are hungry.

The famine continues and spreads, and relief is delayed.

A large number of civilians and soldiers can only leave their homes and make trouble from thieves.

The interior of Shaanxi has been peaceful for a long time, and there is a shortage of soldiers, people have no fixed will, and they are divided into chaos.

The person who lit the first fire was not a hero, he was just an ordinary person.

His name is also very common, his name is - Wang Er.

The popular rebellion initiated by Wang Er in Baishui was like a spark falling into the dry grass, and the dead grass was ignited in an instant.

The fire has become a prairie fire in an instant, and overnight, it has swept the entire Shaanxi.

"Everyone here has their own experience and has experienced different sufferings."

"The wives are separated, the families are broken, and the people who are dead are difficult to count."

Chen Wang raised his right hand, clenched it into a fist, and said in a loud voice.

"Many people say that fate is determined by heaven, and there is nothing that can be done, and it is fate that should be like this!"

"But I've never believed that!"

Chen Wang stopped talking, and his gaze slowly swept over the bodies of the soldiers on the school ground.

"The most painful thing in the world is powerlessness."

"I watched everything happen, but I couldn't do anything about it, I couldn't do anything about it......

Many people on the school field had pain in their eyes.

Chen Wang's words were like sharp blades, poking at the deepest scars in their hearts and revealing their painful memories.

Natural disasters are continuous, man-made disasters are endless, officials are corrupt, and the gentry are powerful and domineering.

Facing the loess with his back to the sky, he has to work in the fields when the sun is scorching.

Even if the skin is cracked by the scorching sun, there can be no slackness.

Day after day, year after year, I don't dare to slack off for a moment.

The hemp rope is broken in detail, and the bad luck is looking for the miserable.

They didn't wait for the days to get better, but for the rogues to come like a tidal wave.

The meagre gains of years of hard work have been burned, and even lives cannot be saved.

More than 300 days a year, I dare not rest for a day.

Finally, if you want to pay taxes, you have to find a grain merchant to exchange it for silver before you can pay taxes.

Those grain merchants bought from the "name", and the "name" was much larger than the official title, and the lowest price of grain that was originally one stone was even seven buckets after the scale.

The grain merchant earns one stone of grain at the price of seven buckets.

And when buying rice, the grain merchant used the word 'out of the scale, selling rice, which was supposed to buy one stone of grain, but could only buy seven or eight buckets.

Conscription and taxation weighed on their shoulders like mountains.

"I, Chen Wang, have come all the way to the present, and I only understand one truth, a very simple and simple truth." ….

Chen Wang clenched his fist and hammered down and knocked on the podium in front of him again.

The dull sound of percussion was like a heavy hammer, beating on the chests of the soldiers on the school grounds.

"Anything, anything, everything in this world is 'fought for, comes, and does not 'wait, come'."

"If you don't fight, if you don't fight, if you just wait."

"Then in the future, there will still be countless powerless moments waiting ahead."

"Before, you couldn't do it."

Chen Wang lowered his voice and said in a deep voice.

"But that has changed now."

"You are no longer peasants, you are no longer laborers, you are now battalion soldiers."

"You will no longer have hoes and farm tools in your hands, but spears and swords in your hands."

"No one can bully you at will, every comrade on the school field is your backing, including me!"

Chen Wang looked around at the people on the school field and said solemnly.

"I take all the credit for what you have done

They will not be overlooked."

"I won't be a guerrilla forever, and you won't be just an ordinary soldier forever."

"In the future, you can also become the captain, the flag chief, the hundred commander, the general general, the thousand general, and even like me, become the guerrilla leader of the battalion!"

……

Watching the sun gradually set westward, Chen Wang's heart gradually sank downward, slowly returning to calm.

What he said during the day was just an introduction, and Chen Wang knew very well the effect of the day's preaching.

It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to change and change people's attitudes with just one word.

In fact, everything he said was just to arouse the fighting spirit in the hearts of those recruits and plant a seed in the hearts of everyone.

What can really change his mind is the next ***.

In this era, many people don't care about talking about the country, the nation, and the righteousness.

Because it is already very difficult for them to even live, they know honor and disgrace in a hurry, and they know etiquette when they have enough food and clothing.

The country, the nation, and the righteousness are too distant and too vain.

A happy life is mostly the same, but an unhappy life has its own sorrows.

The same encounter, different sufferings can most touch people's hearts, make them empathetic, and make them feel the same hatred.

Most of these recruits are Sanshui and Zhenning, as well as the villagers around Ningzhou who have been coerced into thieves.

They are basically peasant households and workers, who are at the lowest level of society in feudal society, and have always been the objects of exploitation and oppression.

In a normal year, you can only barely survive, and you will encounter a famine year.

If there is no food to eat, you have to borrow it from the landlord, borrow a bucket in the spring, and return a bucket and three liters in the autumn.

If you can't pay off the arrears, you can only continue to owe them, which is usury to put it bluntly.

Many people are forced to have no way out but to sell their children and beg for other places.

On weekdays, many of them have already suffered from bullying.

And when the rogues arrived, they forcibly dragged them into the camp.

They were organized as starving soldiers, taking the lead in battle, and as cannon fodder, they were in danger.

In the camp, the lights gradually lit up.

The darkness of the night is intimidating and emotional at the same time. ….

Chen Wang stood on the lookout, overlooking the camp.

Two thousand seven hundred men, a total of six divisions, were all in their respective garrisons.

Chen Wang sent a total of six people to preach and went down to each division.

There aren't many people around him who can use it now.

But six people are enough to do this.

All they need to do is to guide, to guide the soldiers below them to talk about what they have suffered.

The vast majority of ordinary peasant households have been bullied and insulted by the landlords and bullies, and have been swept up in the wave of gangsters, and the war has caused them to lose everything.

At first, only a few voices could be heard from the camp not far away.

And then as time went on, the voice became louder and louder.

On the lookout, Chen Wang could clearly see that many of the recruits in the camp had begun to become excited.

The original noise was mixed with crying.

Chen Wang didn't panic, but all the guards beside him looked extremely nervous, all with swords in hand.

In their opinion, this is a precursor to the roar of the camp.

Chen Wang just raised his hand and stopped the actions of the surrounding guards, all of which were expected.

This is not a precursor to Yingxiao, Chen Wang knows it very well.

And even if it is really a camp, there will be no big commotion.

Not a single large stone could be found in the barracks, and the recruits had no access to any blades.

At the same time, the cries in the camp were getting louder and louder, muffling out all other sounds.

Luo Xiaoming

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