Some homeless people really have no homes, and even no land in their hometowns that were affected by the disaster, so in order to eat for themselves and their families, they have to take the initiative to join the army as strong men.

On the side of the Xiang Army, although everyone is clearly eating empty salaries, when they report to the imperial court every year, they always have to talk about the entry and exit of some personnel, and the old and disabled need to be replaced by new people.

It is always impossible to fabricate some non-existent people out of thin air to deceive the imperial court, and it is also necessary to maintain the number of about 2,000, so it has become a common practice to arrest displaced people to come in to replenish personnel.

So in the long run, everyone can understand who are in the Xiang army, a group of homeless people, and what kind of thieves are secretly spilling an army, usually it's good if you don't cause trouble, and it's strange if you have combat effectiveness.

Such an army is not so much an army as a group of coolies, because they usually do drudgery.

Although the people of the Great Song Dynasty were required to serve in the law, each household contributed one strong laborer every year, and the service period was fifteen days.

However, unlike other dynasties, the Song Dynasty had money and food for servitude, which was not much, but it was enough to compensate for the basic loss of labor or other livelihoods that the people had delayed during their labor.

But here in the south of the Yangtze River, the common people still have a relatively good family background, especially those who have a lot of income at home, and they are even more reluctant to work for the strong men who can work in the family to serve in the imperial court.

As for the rich and the traders, not to mention, who will personally go to the labor service?

Generally speaking, they hired people to serve the annual labor of the imperial court for themselves, and as long as there were people working on the court's side, they didn't care who it was and whether it was hired or not.

Therefore, every year, when it is necessary to dredge the river, repair the city or drain and irrigate the fields, the commander of the Xiang army will clearly mark the price, and whoever is willing to pay will let the people in the Xiang army serve for them.

From the point of view of social development and the rationality of the division of labor, it is of great help to social and economic development to let the common people continue to engage in their own careers and let the idle people of the Xiangjun serve them in the labor of the imperial court.

It's a pity that they have suffered from this group of van troops, not to mention the hard work, and their profits are only the money and grain given by the imperial court, and the money that really employs them can't reach them.

If you meet a good Shangguan, maybe you can buy dozens of jars of bad wine to comfort them, regardless of whether the wine is enough or not, it is good, it is better than not being able to catch anything.

Revolt? It's useless, the lives of the literati of the Great Song Dynasty are worth much, and the lives of the homeless thieves are not worth anything, especially when they are in the Xiang army, their lives are even less valuable.

If you don't listen to the command, the general will casually arrange a charge for you to violate the military order, and at least you will be killed and served, and at worst, no one will say anything if you cut off your head.

In these years, what do you mean by sluts, these people in the box army are real sluts, their labor is cheap, and their lives are cheap.

When people's lives are cheap, they begin to get by, stealing and playing tricks are all light, in order to survive, they are willing to do anything, and it is normal to have no bottom line.

The 300 or so people He Cunbao brought out a few days ago were the most capable of fighting among the 2,000 Xiang Army, and the rest of the people, no matter how they could use knives and guns, they would be trained in peacetime? Inexistent.

Yang Huairen felt that it was not enough to govern the Xiang army with the same set of governing the Cao army, and before he could figure out how to do it, something big happened when the Xiang army gathered for training on the first day.

Huang Dayin took control of the camp of the Xiang army with 200 forbidden troops, arrested Lord He's cronies and sent them to the Yangzhou Mansion to convict Lord Zhu, and the rest of the people asked them to start training the forbidden army the next day.

Huang Dayin thinks that good soldiers are trained, and the more they don't practice, the more garbage they are, but if the garbage is practiced, it can also be used as waste, and they are not expected to go into battle to kill the enemy, at least it should be no problem to deal with local bandits or something.

But early the next morning, I finally scolded the box army and walked out of the camp tent, and before I started to run, the people sent by the forbidden army to temporarily manage the generals just said according to the rules of the forbidden army that the last third of the people who ran would not be given food, and half of the box army did not want to run.

Their reason is very simple, they know what they are, they definitely can't run, since they have no food to eat if they run, and they have no food to eat if they don't run, so why run?

The forbidden army went up with a whip, but those people just didn't move, they would rather be beaten to death, and they were not far from hungry, and the forbidden army saw that there were too many scoundrels in this gang, and it was not good to tie them up, so they had to tie up more than a dozen people who took the lead in making trouble, and reported the matter to Yang Huairen.

Yang Huairen thought about Huang Dayin, this is the old man of the Tongyuan Border Army, and he is the best at training soldiers, and even he can't handle it, it seems that he is really in trouble.

When he came over with a few brothers and personal soldiers, he understood what was going on.

The rice warehouse in the Xiang army is full of brown rice, and this is still mixed with sand to support the weight, it is said that the money and grain given by the imperial court to the local Xiang army are supplied by the yamen of Yangzhou Mansion, and with the temperament of Lord Zhu, it will not be eaten by people mixed with sand.

Yang Huairen thought about it, people like Zhu Runqing would not withhold the money and food of the Xiang Army, as for why the white rice issued to the Xiang Army became brown rice, it was a good thing that Lord He and his cronies had done.

Now that these people are in prison, Yang Huairen is not afraid that they will not get the punishment they deserve, Hu Tie was promoted by Yang Huairen, and now he is specially responsible for extorting confessions, and the method is called a skill.

It doesn't make sense to want the horse to run, but not to feed it. Xiang Jun didn't eat well, and if he didn't give him food, it really wouldn't work.

Yang Huairen thought about it, he can't compare the Xiang Army with the Forbidden Army, some methods are suitable for the Forbidden Army or the Cao Army, but not for the Xiang Army.

Although the previous forbidden army was a bastard, he still had a sense of honor, and his competitive spirit was no worse than that of the warriors in the rivers and lakes.

Of course, there is no real garbage in this world, even if it is a mud without bones, it has its use.

Isn't it that there are no bones, so burn them with fire, and burn them until the mud becomes green bricks, and then there are hard bones.

Today's training was so exempted by Yang Huairen, he didn't say anything else, and directly sent someone to send the brown rice in the rice warehouse back to the Yangzhou Yamen, and then asked Lord Zhu for new rice.

Lord Zhu is a person who understands, although such a request is a bit unreasonable, but he naturally knows what the situation is, and there is no shortage of food in the warehouse of Yangzhou Mansion, and this loss is still bearable.

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