Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 35: Popular Sentiment

After beating, scolding and threatening, the “guest and host” reached an agreement on borrowing food, and the final amount was set at 120 shi.

Zhou Shixiang made it clear to them that they would all be delivered within three days, and one day later, he would bring someone to pick them up in person, scaring Qi Yuantai and the others to wipe the sweat from their foreheads with their sleeves.

After Lu Changyuan took the people away, Duke Xiang of Song angrily asked Zhou Shixiang why he was so rude to these gentlemen. You must know that they all have status and status in Luoding, and they have a great influence on the people. Sometimes they What he said was more useful than what the government said. If Zhou Shixiang really intends to make a big fight in Luoding, then he should win over these big gentry and talk to them nicely, instead of intimidating and coercing, the latter is equivalent to pushing these people to their opposites. I can’t see any consequences at the moment, but over time, this drawback will definitely appear, and it will be too late to regret it.

Song Xianggong repeatedly emphasized that the so-called people’s hearts are actually the ideas of these big gentry. If you master them, you will gain the people’s hearts. Without the support of the people, it is impossible for everyone in Daqiao Mountain to have a foothold in Luoding, let alone strengthen their strength to do great things.

Song Xianggong is a master, but after all, he is an ancient person, and his thinking must be contrary to Zhou Shi, who has been a man of two generations.

Zhou Shixiang felt that it was necessary to talk to Song Xianggong about his ideas, so that the other party could accept his ideas, so that he could assist him in doing great things in the future.

“Sir, do you think it’s better for the common people to follow our orders directly, or do I just ignore the common people, as long as the gentry follow our orders?”

“Since ancient times, the people will obey orders because of the gentry!”

This question made Song Xianggong stunned for a moment. In his opinion, the government has always relied on the local gentry to govern the people. Otherwise, why would there be only county magistrates and ignorant towns and villages.

Right in the middle of the city, and which one in the countryside is not the responsibility of a big family!

Gentlemen are even more scholars. Scholars are educated in Confucianism.

What does the scumbag know!

It is the practice of successive dynasties for thousands of years for the government to govern the people under its jurisdiction through gentry and large households. This method is effective, and it is today’s Ming and Qing Dynasties Yi Ding. The Manchu Qing Dynasty still used this method to control the people, and I didn’t hear them like Li Chuang. Killing the gentry to please the people.

Song Xianggong couldn’t understand Zhou Shixiang’s approach. According to his original intention, he only needed to intimidate Qi Yuantai and the others with a slight gesture. Unexpectedly, Zhou Shixiang asked Ge Liu to carry a bunch of heads, which was too much. Previously, in front of those six families, he didn’t have a bad attack. Now that there is no one in the hall, he can’t help but talk to Zhou Shixiang.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Shixiang shook his head and said, “If you follow Mr.’s approach, then we won’t be able to gain popular support here in Luo Ding, and we won’t be able to gain a foothold!”

Song Xianggong was astonished: “What is this, the gentry are all on our side, why is the people’s heart not on our side?”

“Sir, you must understand that these big gentry are not on our side. They are temporarily obeying us because they have no resistance. Once they have the resistance, they will definitely turn against us! Besides, we occupy Luoyang. It must be to fight against the Qing Dynasty and do big things. To do big things naturally requires a lot of money and grain. Luoding has a sparse population and limited money and grain income. How many days can those ordinary people be found? , will the big gentry still turn to us? If they don’t turn to us, how can we get the people’s hearts? What’s more, in their eyes, our identity is doubtful!”

Zhou Shixiang tried his best to explain, and almost pointed out that Duke Xiang of Song was not Luo Ding Zhizhou appointed by the Yongli court of Nanming Dynasty, but a bandit who became a bandit! It is true that the gentry obey the government, but how could they obey the bandits!

In his opinion, Song Xianggong’s attempt to win the hearts and minds of the people by wooing the gentry is too wishful thinking, and it can even be said to be extremely stupid, not realizing that they have not completely controlled Luoding City! Putting hope on a group of gentlemen who may bite back at any time, wouldn’t they wash their necks and wait for others to chop them off!

Song Xianggong was speechless when he heard that, and realized that his thoughts were a little confused, he sighed and said, “But I am confused, but we just borrowed some food from them, they may not dare to turn against us, most of them still have to Listen to us, as long as they listen to us now, the people’s heart is on our side and can still be used.”

“The dog is in a hurry and bites people. As a husband, the food at home was borrowed by us under the pretentious name, but in fact it was stolen. The husband is happy in his heart? No idea?”

Zhou Shixiang never believed that landlords and businessmen would be a kind class, a class that was oppressed and would not resist.

Song Xianggong said: “Without external force, they would not dare to move.”

“I admit that as long as the Qing army does not come over, these people will not dare to act rashly. But have you thought about it, sir, once we have troops and horses, we must first deal with the attack of the Qing army. Let’s lead the troops out, but these big gentry are in chaos behind, so do we still need to fight this battle?”

Song Xianggong was silent, with troops and horses outside, he naturally knew what the consequences of the chaos in the rear would be.

“In order to avoid chaos in the future, I thought that not only did I not need to be polite to these people, but I should be more cruel to them!” Zhou Shixiang’s eyes flashed fiercely, “As I said, only the dead will not cause us trouble!”

“This…. not possible, absolutely impossible!”

Song Xianggong was taken aback. He didn’t expect Zhou Shixiang to kill all the big gentry in the city, and he couldn’t accept it for a while.

“If I don’t kill them all, I feel uneasy! But right now we don’t have the strength to kill them, so we’re in a hurry. It’s hard to solve these people even if they are in a group, so the top priority is to recruit troops right now!” Zhou Shixiang knew what to do now. Heavy.

“For recruiting troops, the brothers from all over the world have already done it. If you have money, the young people in the city must be enthusiastic.”

However, Zhou Shixiang asked a question, “Those young men follow us, what about their families? We don’t care? If we do, where will the money to support them come from? If we don’t care, how can these young men still follow us? We? We have to do something big, so we can’t stay in Luoding all the time. What if these young men refuse to go with us when we want to leave?”

“This is trouble.” Song Xianggong frowned and looked at Zhou Shixiang and said, “What’s your idea?”

“I just came up with the idea. If we want to solve these problems, we have to take extraordinary measures!”

“Why an extraordinary measure?”

Zhou Shixiang spit out four words: “All the people are soldiers!”

“All the people are soldiers?” Song Xianggong looked puzzled.

“Yes, all the people are soldiers, I want to make Luoding City’s more than three thousand men, women and children all soldiers, the old have the old camp, the few have the young camp, and the women have the female camp. In this way, everyone is a soldier, and everyone is a citizen. No matter where we go, these people will follow, and will not be reluctant to leave their homeland because of their loved ones.”

Song Xianggong only reacted after listening to the second half of the sound, and lost his voice: “Isn’t this just coercing the people!”