Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 36: Coerce

Song Xianggong was right, Zhou Shixiang said that “all the people are soldiers”, in fact, he was coercing the people in disguise.

There are always old camps, few young camps, and women and female camps. It sounds like a good thing, but to put it bluntly, it is not a sinful method to coerce the people and force the people to follow in order to strengthen their own momentum!

Coercion of the people is not without benefits. For example, if Zhou Shixiang could only recruit 300 young men to join the army in Luoding City, then in the eyes of the Qing army, they were just a small group of Ming troops with 300 soldiers, and the Qing army naturally refused to let them go. In the heart, there can be no fear. But if Zhou Shixiang had more than 3,000 men, no matter how many young and young men there were, how many were old and weak, in the eyes of the Qing army, it would be a large Ming army with thousands of troops!

The march of more than 3,000 people is definitely more spectacular than the march of 300 or 400 people. From a distance, the darkness is overwhelming, and the momentum is not great!

In the face of many more troops than their own, the Qing army with fewer troops naturally did not dare to fight easily. If the opponent hit the city, most of them could only cower in the city. In this way, the party with the largest number of people can naturally continue to coerce more people in the villages outside the city, like locusts passing through the border, to obtain more money and food, and thus snowball bigger and bigger, until it becomes a real unstoppable force. Despised centaurs. At that time, it will not be a small band of thieves, but a big band of bandits!

This method is not uncommon. Most of the peasant uprisings in the past dynasties have used this method. Not to mention the distant ones, there are big thieves such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. It was because they defeated countless Ming troops who came to encircle and suppress them, until the foundation of the Ming Dynasty was shaken. Therefore, it cannot be said that this method is completely useless.

However, Duke Xiang of Song, who had been in the camp for two years, hated the act of coercing the people. He firmly opposed Zhou Shixiang’s absurd means of using the so-called “all people to be soldiers” to expand his power. Because he was too surprised and angry, his voice trembled a little.

“Since ancient times, no rogue has been able to achieve great things! The lessons of breaking the thieves are not far away, and I can’t learn from him to destroy Brother Hu Xian. The method of all people being soldiers is too absurd and unacceptable. It is absolutely impossible!”

Song Xianggong’s words were sincere, but Zhou Shixiang was unmoved. Instead, he said: “If we don’t coerce the people, how can we quickly grow our strength, and if we don’t even have the power to protect ourselves, how can we do anything major!”

Of course, coercing the people is not a long-term solution, and it has too many disadvantages. It is easy to be criticized by others, and it is easy to be regarded as a rogue, thus losing people’s hearts, but now Zhou Shixiang can’t think of a better way. “It is different from simply coercing the people to strengthen their momentum, and the two must not be confused.

More importantly, what Zhou Shixiang is facing now is not whether to establish a base in the future, and to have a land that can continuously supply money and food to support the long-term anti-Qing war, but the problem of Luoding City, which is inseparable from the homeland of young and strong people!

Difficulty leaving one’s homeland is a unique complex of Chinese people for thousands of years. Under the premise of inconvenient transportation and little knowledge, it is very difficult for a person to leave his hometown, especially when facing a powerful enemy.

If it cannot solve the problem that Luo Ding’s youth cannot leave his homeland, then it will be of no use to recruit more youth in Luo Ding. If Luo Ding’s young people voluntarily follow him, Zhou Shixiang, to do great things, he must solve the problem that their homeland is inseparable, otherwise, all his efforts will be a castle in the air, without foundation.

Just imagine, one day, when Zhou Shixiang issued an order to send the whole army to Guangzhou, Fujian and beyond, or decided to temporarily abandon Luo Ding for a certain strategic purpose, as a result, Luo Dingbing, his subordinate, refused to leave his hometown. , fearing that his relatives would be reprised by the Qing army and refused to carry out the order, and even dispersed in a hurry, then how did Zhou Shixiang deal with himself?

“I also understand Mr.’s concerns. There is no such thing as rootless water in this world, so it is only an expedient measure for all the people to be soldiers. When the strength becomes great in the future, we will naturally set up government offices, govern localities, and collect money and food. The long way.”

Zhou Shixiang couldn’t lose Song Xianggong’s support, so he patiently tried to persuade him, “If you think that it is not desirable to have all the people in the army, but I don’t know what your idea is to make those young men willing to follow us? At least when the Qing army came, They can fight to the death for the safety of their loved ones, instead of running away and going home!”

Song Xianggong couldn’t tell him, and he knew that this was the truth, so he could only say: “Even if you want the whole people to be soldiers, the people may not be willing to let you be coerced.”

Song Xianggong’s loosening made Zhou Shixiang overjoyed: “So let’s start with the affected people first, and control half of the city’s population, so we’re not afraid that the rest won’t follow us!”

Zhou Shixiang’s method was very simple. He used money to buy the affected people in the city. After these people were controlled, he could naturally use them to threaten the remaining people who were not affected. can solve them. When all the people in the city are gathered under his banner, naturally there is no need to worry about these people turning against the water, or shrinking in the face of the Qing army’s attack and not daring to fight.

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“That’s it!”

Song Xianggong stared at Zhou Shixiang for a while, then Fang sighed: “If you really want to do this, I can’t persuade you. You should understand the pros and cons better than I do. I hope you will not go astray in the future.” , looked outside the hall, and said with some worry: “I don’t know how many people Zhao Sihai recruited?”

“I’ll go take a look.”

Zhou Shixiang also cared about recruiting troops. If it wasn’t for the need to raise food first to keep the recruits and their families fed and clothed, he wouldn’t let Zhao Sihai and Peng Dazhu be responsible for this.

No, Song Xianggong grabbed him and persuaded him: “You haven’t slept all day and night. It won’t be too late to recruit troops tomorrow. You’d better go eat some food and rest.” After speaking, Zhou Shixiang was not allowed to do so. If he refused, he called a clerk and ordered him to ask someone to prepare some meals.

When Kong Guoliang was there, there were people who helped cook in the yamen, and immediately someone brought the food.

After Zhou Shixiang had eaten, he listened to Song Xianggong’s persuasion, and found a room in the Houya and wanted to rest.

After lying down, he was shocked that something seemed wrong in the room, as if someone was watching him, he couldn’t help but stand up, clenched Yu Yunlong’s saber, and shouted, “Who!”

Within sight, a good-looking 28-year-old woman sat under the bedside cabinet with her arms over her shoulders and looked at herself tremblingly.

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Dear book friends, I’m sorry that Bones is a good drinker. I drank a bottle with my grandfather today. When I came back, my head was dizzy, and I couldn’t stay awake. Therefore, I reluctantly updated only one chapter today. Please forgive me!