Chapter 376: The Eight Rivers of the Heroes
When Yang Chendong was a little disappointed, Peng Yue over there had already replied, "Back to the sixth young master, the younger one knows some words, but he has not been learning for a long time, and he doesn't know many words, and he doesn't know how to look at the map." ”
"Are you literate?" There is no consideration of whether the other party will look at the map, it is usually used to assess the officer, as long as the other party really has some cultural background, you can join the cold front. As for whether you can have a higher culture, there are still a lot of opportunities to learn in the future, and the other party is also young, so there will be no shortage of opportunities.
"Yes, villains are literate." Peng Yue was still a little confident when he talked about this. When I was in Chichicheng, my parents and sister found a teacher to teach me for their own future.
"Okay, just find a book and let him read it." Yang Chendong nodded, he believed that no one would dare to lie to his face in such a matter, so he said to the tiger man on the side.
Soon, an ancient book was found, with three big characters written on the outer skin, which was more suitable for newcomers to read.
He still seemed to take the ancient book with some trepidation, but when he saw the first line, Peng Yue's face was full of confident smiles. He had read three words, but if he took this test, he would not be frightened. "At the beginning of man, nature is good. Sex is similar, Xi is far away. If you don't teach, sex is migration. The way of teaching, you are specialized..."
Peng Yue can read and write, although the writing is not good-looking, but this has reached the rules set by Yang Chendong at the beginning, you must know that in the current environment, not everyone is qualified to read and write, and at the moment he became an exception and was promoted from an auxiliary soldier to a cold front, which became the envy of many people.
It's just that Peng Yue's knowledge is still a little low, at least he doesn't know how to look at the map, so he is just an ordinary cold front, and he has not been awarded any official position. But only if you work hard in the future, once you have more culture and recognize the map, it will be a matter of time before you become an officer.
Even if he didn't become an officer, Peng Yue was already quite satisfied. Being able to join Leng Feng after being an auxiliary soldier for half a year was something he never dared to think of. Not to mention, this time, the exceptional promotion was still presided over by the Sixth Young Master himself, and just by virtue of this, he was proud of his life.
Peng Yue happily left the big tent, in addition to being asked not to tell the auxiliary soldiers that Yang Chendong was the sixth young master, he also became a member of the cold front team that everyone envied.
Subsequently, this incident spread among the auxiliary soldiers as if they had grown wings. At the moment, there are many envious people, and everyone is holding back a force in their hearts, that is, they must perform well in the next battle, and strive for the opportunity to be promoted.
If you want to win a battle, you need morale, and you need to command properly, but there is also a standard requirement for the number of soldiers. For example, when 100 people meet 10,000 people, how difficult will it be to win? This is the disadvantage of the difference in numbers.
Chichicheng has developed rapidly, but in the end, the foundation is too thin, and the time to establish it is too short, resulting in a lack of soldiers, and now there is an opportunity to expand its strength, whether it is Commander Luo Po or Commander Lu Zhuo, of course, they will not let go of such an opportunity.
At that moment, with the support of the two of them, the political commissars of the two regiments began to get busy with a group of political and political personnel, and a group of strong prisoners were brought to them and began to register to understand the situation.
Although it is said that the opportunity can be taken to expand the army, the regulations that should be implemented cannot be relaxed. The first step is a strict political review.
"Register carefully to see if they still have family members left behind, especially if they are single..."
"Not only listen to him, but also let him name at least two or more captive friends, and verify from their mouths whether he is right or wrong. As for those who can't find a person to prove it, they will put it aside first, and they must not ask for it if they don't know the foundation..."
"If he is alone, you have to understand why he fell like this, why his family left him, whether he was oppressed by the Yellow Bandits, or the oppression of the Ming army, you have to find out one by one..."
"Seriously ask them if they were literate before, whether they have practiced martial arts, and who they worshipped? All of this must be registered..."
One question after another came from the mouths of the two regimental commissars, and became the standard for testing which prisoners were suitable for being called up into the army and which were not.
While these political and political workers are doing specific work, Guan Ying's logistical support is also effective, and even Ma Wei is also very cooperative. Some big families in Guangzhou Mansion felt that Yang Chendong led the troops to rescue them, and they took out silver taels to buy wine and meat to reward the victorious army. Leng Feng and the auxiliaries were able to feast greatly for several days.
The people live on food.
Originally, some of the prisoners did not cooperate with the various inquiries at first. But when they saw that everyone who cooperated could be rewarded for eating meat, everyone's enthusiasm was mobilized, and some people didn't even wait for anyone to take the initiative to ask, so they poured beans into a bamboo tube, and told what they knew, about themselves, and about the people around them. All they did was get a few more pieces of meat.
These people are called yellow bandits, but most of them are made up of ordinary people who have no livelihood. As far as they are concerned, they don't particularly care about what rebellion is or not, as long as they can follow whoever they have enough to eat, they will follow whoever they do.
And for these people, the temptation of meat is naturally great. Since seeing this, Yang Jiajun's political personnel have made full use of this. It is thanks to the large number of delicacies that the work of calling them is very fast.
And under this quick work efficiency, many prisoners with suitable conditions were selected. After a short period of ideological work, they became part of the temporary auxiliaries. Temporary auxiliaries are the lowest level of existence that distinguish them from real auxiliaries. But even so, out of the 30,000 captives, only about 2,000 were selected. These people were quickly disrupted and assigned to the auxiliary barracks, and the old led the new, which was also the experience of the rapid development of the Yang family's army.
Badaojiang is one of the temporary auxiliaries.
At first glance, this name does not sound like a personal name, but rather a place name, but it is actually a nickname given by people in the rivers and lakes.
This person's complexion is slightly dark, and his figure is not very tall, but the muscles of his whole body seem to be in an explosive state.
In fact, Badaojiang did practice martial arts since childhood, and after leaving the school, he mixed in the rivers and lakes. When he first debuted, because he had no experience in the rivers and lakes, he offended people and was almost plotted to death. Then he began to chase the real murderer, this chase was to chase the other party for three days and three nights, during which he passed by eight rivers of different sizes, and then he would eventually kill his enemy, and later he was also known as the Eight Rivers.
Over time, after being called for a long time, he forgot his original name and called himself Badaojiang.
This time, he was originally wandering around Guangdong, fighting unevenness and looking for his own future at the same time. Coincidentally, the city of Wuzhou, where he was before, was broken by the Yellow Bandit army, and he was trapped in the city, so he joined the team by ghost.
Wandering around the rivers and lakes, he has seen many things, which makes Badaojiang more and more unaccustomed to some local officials in the Ming Dynasty. They often bully people and prey on the common people, and just what he has seen, he doesn't know how many people have been forced by the government to ruin their homes and die.
After losing confidence in the Ming Dynasty, Badaojiang joined the Yellow Bandit Army, thinking to see if they could really bring new hope to the people. But the burning and looting when he captured Zhaoqing Mansion disappointed him again. This is the heart to leave, but before there is a good place to go, barely survive in the Yellow Bandit Army.
Unexpectedly, when attacking Guangzhou Mansion, he was sleeping in the barracks, when suddenly there was a sound of chaos outside, and when he got dressed and left the camp, he saw the Yellow Bandit Army fleeing in all directions. In order to save his life, he was also ready to escape, and in the process of his run, he also injured two auxiliaries, but was finally stopped by the cold front elite from the periphery, when he saw that more than a dozen bandits were killed from a distance by advanced muskets, Badaojiang wisely did not make a bird, and finally became a prisoner with the crowd.
With so many captives, Badaojiang is only one thirty-thousandth of them. In addition, he has not done anything to hurt heaven and reason, but he is not in a hurry, he just thinks that the law does not blame the public, and in the end these people will be dismissed, because even if they want to be in prison, there is no prison in any government that can accommodate so many people. In such an unhurried wait, he was attracted by the meat that Leng Feng took out.
Badaojiang has no other hobbies, just good wine and good meat, how can you not be moved when you see the food in front. In this way, in order to achieve the goal, he told some of his own situation, because he had no relatives in the first place, and his parents did not know where the person was, so it became an important target of investigation. After learning from his friends that he had not been in the Yellow Bandit Army for a long time and had not done anything to harm the people, he was selected into the temporary auxiliary army and lived a life of meat to eat.
To say that there is no such thing as a free lunch. After eating delicious meat, Badaojiang and other temporary auxiliaries would be called to a meeting every night. The meeting was presided over by a Leng Feng and two auxiliary soldiers, and the content was to let everyone speak separately to talk about their past and history, about the injustices they had seen, and about the grievances they had suffered.
At first, Badaojiang didn't know why he said this, but when he saw that some people were encouraged to talk about themselves seriously, and some people really burst into tears and heartbroken when they talked about how their former relatives died in vain under the corruption and oppression policies of the Ming Dynasty, and were finally forced to die or starved to death.