Chapter 42 Requisition

According to the order directly issued by Lord Bao of the Tojifu, Yeoncheon Prefecture summoned all its forces and extended the reinforcement on a limited date. The soldiers first encountered the fleeing people halfway through, and then they were raided by the horse team led by Gu Baisong in panic, including the leading Zhixian and Xiancheng, more than 100 were killed, and most of the rest lost their armor and ran south to Yanchang under the suppression of the horse team. Gong Derun's Zhenyong battalion converged with Gu Baisong and very easily occupied the well-garrisoned county town of Yanchuan.

Before the army set off, Guan Shengyun and Luo Yonghao explained to the generals of Gu Gong that they should properly restrain their subordinates, and they should not go too far like they did in Yan'an Mansion. Therefore, although the people of the two counties were inevitably subjected to some robbery, rape and adultery, on the whole, the situation was much better than they imagined, at least, the people killed in the two counties combined were only in single digits. At that time, China's unique concept of bastard "chastity" had not yet been formed. This thing was mainly tossed out in the Manchu Dynasty by the Han people who wanted to be slaves and could not, before that, it was far from being so perverted to throw herself into the well if she was humiliated - the wife and daughter were humiliated, and they didn't dare to copy the kitchen knife and fight with the abuser, but what did they say don't stop her from dying clean? What kind of bastard does this have to do?!

Insert a little story.

Northern Song Dynasty, Lantern Festival. The Son of Heaven enjoyed the lanterns with the people. Hearing a commotion outside the tent, someone reported: A thief was caught and the royal gold cup was stolen.

The thief who stole the gold cup was a woman. Subclaimed: Today's festival, the people are happy. On the street, the saint gave the royal wine, and the concubine drank a glass. But he was not strong enough to drink, and he felt that his face was red and his ears were red, and he was afraid that his husband would misunderstand eating wine with idlers when he went home, and wanted to steal the golden cup of drinking and go home to make a credential. Don't dare anymore, ask for forgiveness......

Shi Zai: "The people in the tent laughed and said: 'With it'"!

What a good one to go with!

The person who laughed and said, "Give it to her" - it was Song Huizong.

Readers, do you have a different feeling about this "famous faint king" who was abducted from Huashigang at this moment?

It is better to believe in a book than to have no book at all. Historical figures are by no means kindergarten children, either "good people" or "bad people", black and white as simple - I think that such as Mr. Gu Cheng's "History of the Peasant War in the Late Ming Dynasty", Mr. Luo Ergang's "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" and other masterpieces, the value of historical materials is indeed valuable, but it is not necessary to rigidly set history from the specific viewpoints of the so-called peasant proletariat, reactionary feudal rulers, landlord class, etc. Zhu Yuanzhang and others were righteous "rebel army" when they did not become a climate, became the emperor, and completed the "transformation" overnight, and immediately became a reactionary feudal ruler...... I'm not tired from sleeping!

Straight to the point.

Whether it is Gu Baihua or Gong Derun, they are neither cannibalistic demons, nor Guanyin who saves suffering. Although he didn't massacre the city, he didn't be too polite to the people of the two counties, and he was going to leave anyway, and he wouldn't let go of the floating wealth he could take away. The Gaomen compound and the Yamen warehouse and the large and small shops, everything that seems to be able to grab has not been let go. But they really didn't grab much grain - Guan Shengyun and Luo had already negotiated with the Shaanxi authorities about the supply of grain and grass along the way, and there was no need to bother to scavenge the extra burden of three or five buckets from the people's homes.

However, Ding Zhuang must be caught. If there is no huge number of auxiliaries to support, no matter how many soldiers you have, no matter how many soldiers you can fight, the troops will be abolished. If you lose your auxiliaries for one to three days, your troops will be paralyzed, lose their ability to maneuver, and their combat effectiveness will plummet: you must divide most of your troops to do logistical tasks such as fetching water, chopping wood, cooking food, digging ditches, and building and repairing barracks, provided that you have enough food to keep in stock, and you can't get out of the camp. Don't even think about tactics such as retreat, pursuit, and outflanking! Without auxiliaries, the soldiers themselves marched in iron? You don't have to go far, just ten miles - you don't have to wait for someone to fight, and you'll be tired.

Gong Derun set fire to the county government in Yanchuan, grabbed a thousand strong men, and let them push and pull the looted property, and returned to Yanchang to join Gu Baihua.

The work of the valley birch is more.

Whether it was the defenders originally recruited by Yu Shengliang, or the routed troops who were driven over from the direction of Yanchuan by the horse team, they were all cats in the fields around Yanchang, and the direct threat was much more than that of Gong Derun. Especially in terms of public security: these routs also had to eat, and they did not dare to enter the city, so they had to rob the fleeing people. Later, the people gradually understood that although the thieves had occupied the city, it was safer to return home than in the wilderness—at least, as long as they did not resist desperately, their lives could always be saved.

After all, Gu Baihua grew up in Lijiang, where the folk customs are simple, and he is a person who attaches great importance to feelings. Seeing that the people came back one after another, he was a little moved, and simply ordered: except for shops and wealthy households, ordinary people should not be harassed. And the former, as long as you have a good attitude and take the initiative to pay some property, you will be fine. Seeing this, the gentry in the city gradually became bold and took the initiative to take on the work of coordination and communication. Of course, they are also for themselves.

With the assistance of the gentlemen, Gu Baihua's work was completed smoothly.

The first is personnel screening. After Gu Baihua solemnly promised to take everyone away and not leave a disaster, the gentry led the search team to identify them door to door, and picked out all the stragglers in the city who threatened the people to hide themselves. Then the gentry organized their families and residents to take a small team to the field to find people. Where can people be hidden, the local people are naturally much more familiar with Gu Baihua and other foreign guys. The gentleman and the neighbors pulled their necks and shouted: "Eh, where does so-and-so live, come out, folks and neighbors, it's okay, the army doesn't kill the people!" "It worked very well. In less than two days, nine out of ten of the people who had been displaced in the wilderness returned home, and at the same time, hundreds of soldiers scattered outside were also captured. Those who tried to escape and resist were either killed on the spot or intercepted by the horse team in the outer circle - there was nothing wrong with Yanchuan, and Gu Baisong came back three days earlier than Gong Derun.

A little bit of trouble is the scratching. The gentry also knew that this must be something that could not be escaped, but they always favored the local people in their hearts, so it was a little difficult to do. Take one out of three for example, and take one out of three strong laborers to take it away. It sounds okay, but when it comes down to execution, it's a different story. For example, a male from fifteen to fifty-five (the rules vary slightly from dynasty to dynasty) are "ding", a family of five, a grandfather is fifty-one, a father is thirty-three, a son is sixteen, and there is a grandmother and a mother. Whether it is the grandfather who takes away (most likely, because Gu Baihua definitely doesn't want to be burdensome) or the grandson, there is a chance that he will die outside; But if you take your father away, the sky of this family will fall, and it won't be long before the whole family will die. For this, the communication between the gentry and Gu Baihua almost reached an impasse.

Later, Luo Shifan, who came with him, had an idea and gave Gu Baihua a good idea: buy people.

Anyway, there are supplies. Yu Shengliangtun's hundreds of thousands of catties of miscellaneous grains are nothing to the army, Gu Baihua has long said that he does not want to, and when he leaves, he will hand them over to the gentry and distribute them to everyone. But for the people, there are a few hundred catties, and the whole family will not have to worry about eating for a year or two - of course, it is necessary to mix some wild vegetables, and it is impossible for the landlord's family to eat dry at that time.

Just do it, the gentlemen wrote notices and knocked on the gong to walk the streets and alleys to publicize: those who take the initiative to sign up will be given 200 catties of grain per person, and an additional 225 yuan of silver will be added to the settlement fee for the first three days. On the fourth and fifth days, only food was given, and no money was given. If the number of people is not enough, on the sixth day, arrest people, catch them, and follow them, nothing! They themselves lead by example. Since it is inevitable, simply call your own family member Changgong directly: A few of you follow the army, I have already told General Gu that I will take good care of you and others. As for the family, rest assured, it's all left to me......

The people privately summed up: instead of gambling on their lives in the end, there is a high probability that there will be nothing, it is better to receive silver and food! A laborer for a family ration for a year or two is a great thing - according to past experience, being forced by the official family, you not only have to bring your own dry food, but after a few months of people, it is not in vain? You dare to ask the government for someone! I have already taken the initiative to sign up for someone, even if the kings don't make up enough at the end, it's not good to hold down the same sheep to kill the wool, right?

In less than three days, more than 3,000 people came, more than half of the 2,000 required by the Luo army. Until the fourth day, there were still people coming, saying that Lu Lu was too late to hear the news, and the little leaders who pestered the recruits begged for money for nothing......

In addition, Gu Baihua also collected more than a dozen artisan households, such as blacksmiths, leather workers, long carpenters (who build houses), square carpenters (who make furniture), round carpenters (who make pots and barrels), and arrested a veterinarian and a langzhong. Although most of the craftsmen were only semi-slaves in the Ming government: the government assigned the work, and the sun rose and the sun was released home. As for wages, don't even think about it, just provide food and clothing that barely makes ends meet. But after all, it is a career editor, and life is relatively stable, so these craftsmen with a stable income were not as reluctant as the guys who took the initiative to join the army at first, and the whole family hugged and cried when the end came when they entered the camp.

But here in Gu Baihua, they are all talents with special skills, and special talents have to enjoy special treatment! It's still Luo Shifan's idea: a big bowl of oily fat and a thick stack of flatbread pestles mixed with a lot of white flour in front of you, even after the old and the young are ventilated and the clouds are whirled, there is no need for Gu Baihua and others to do any ideological work! Everyone has discovered that outside the system is a paradise for talents!

The blacksmith's hammer is very vigorous, and it takes a few days to make many knives and guns that may not be possible in a few months, the cobbler makes a good saddle for General Gu in less than three days, the carpenter makes a suitcase for General Gu, the round carpenter makes a washbasin and footbath for General Gu, and they all wear holes and ropes to tie to the new saddle, the long carpenter chases after General Gu and asks when he wants to build a house, just wait for your words, the veterinarian rushes into the stable, breaks the horse's mouth one by one and sticks his head inside, Lang Zhong carries a medicine box and grabs his arm to check the pulse when he sees someone. A few pairs of big tonic pills went down to pour Gu Baihua into a nosebleed, so that later General Gu, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, was afraid of him in his heart, Lang Zhong saw General Gu baring his teeth from a distance, and ran forward with a fart, Gu Baihua was so frightened that he shook his hands together: Don't come here, I'm really not sick today...... turned his head and ran, as if the men and horses of the three battalions of the Beijing Division were chasing him behind him!

At this time, Gong Derun also arrived.

Look at Gu Baihua everything is so harmonious here, Lao Gong is so angry in his heart! After all, he is a person who has studied in a private school for a few years, and he has tossed Yanchuan County to the point of not saying anything, although he finally distributed the grain to the people, he still received a lot of scolding behind his back; This illiterate guy is still a barbarian, he only spent a few thousand taels of silver, and he did the same bad things, and he was praised by the people as a living Bodhisattva! Where the hell is reasonable...... Well, the current landlord Gong is really wealthy, and thousands of taels use the word "cai"!

However, this stark contrast made everyone in Guan Shengyun's department understand two profound truths:

1. The cooperation of the gentry class plays a much greater role in maintaining local order than the steel knife.

2. The efficiency of systematic and planned expropriation is much higher than that of barrage.

Understanding these two truths will bring a lot of benefits to Guan Shengyun in the future, which is a later story.

Before returning to Yan'an Mansion, it was a routine training and organization work.

Second General Gu Gong first vigorously expanded his personal guards. Some veterans of the battalion were selected from the veterans of the battalion and incorporated into their own personal troops, bringing the total number of each guard to almost fifty or sixty. In this era, whether it is Guan Shengyun or the imperial court, no one cares about the number of personal soldiers of various generals under him: anyway, it is your "private soldier", and you have to pay for it yourself. You are responsible for feeding them, eating them well, providing them with the best equipment, and training them systematically. All in all, it is your "private property", and you can both give away favors and count on them to save your life at critical moments. In a word, you can raise as many people as you can afford to get as much money as you can.

Then there is the battalion to replenish itself. The ideal candidate would be a rout at the imperial court. In this era, the so-called loyalty to the monarch and serving the country is only a concept only for literate scholars, who have been instilled in them since childhood. For the vast majority of others at the bottom, being a soldier is just a way to make a living, and has nothing to do with ideals and beliefs. These people don't have any ideals at all, and if they insist on having one, then the so-called ideal is to have something to eat. In order to achieve this ideal, as long as they can eat a bowl of rice, they will obey the order to kill anyone without any scruples, and if they are defeated and captured, they can throw themselves into the other camp and cut them back without guilt. To put it bluntly, whoever gives them food, they listen to him and cut down the other party. The so-called "loyalty" is often confined to small circles such as pro-soldiers and lineage generals: "selling out for glory" is despicable, and even the enemy generally does not encourage such behavior.

Both the Gangfeng Battalion and the Zhenyong Battalion were replenished to full capacity. Traditionally, each battalion would consist of four infantry teams, each with a number of more than 100 people, plus a total of about 500 people from the pro-soldiers and Tang cavalry scouts, and five teams for the larger battalions, the number of which would be 600. Gu and Gong both expanded their battalions to six teams, and if they weren't afraid that other generals would be anxious with them, these two would not have stopped.

The rest were temporarily put into the auxiliary barracks. Of course, except for those guys who know that their conditions are really not enough to be soldiers, most people still want to be soldiers - not only are the food and treatment much higher than that of auxiliary soldiers, but as long as the war is won, there will always be a chance to rob and make some windfalls.

So there was a lot of complaining.

The second general Gu Gong could only appease everyone: when he arrived in Yan'an Mansion, there were still several battalions with vacancies, and he would definitely be picked by other generals at that time.

The worse ones are the officials in Yanchuan County. These guys with six doors are more well-informed than other honest ordinary residents, full of bad ideas, and have been robbing the people of food under the sign of the imperial court. Organized into the barracks, if you don't do it, you will make a little mess. Not to mention the defection, trying to escape at any time will have an extremely bad impact. Therefore, it can only be used as a consumable: as a cow and a horse in the auxiliary barracks, when you are tired and when you die. Yanchang County stopped Liao Xingxiang from burning the warehouse, but Gu Baihua was not too embarrassed. And those in Yanchuan were all arrested by Gong Derun.