The spring tide of Huaishui begins to rise in March, and by the height of summer in June, the river tide has reached its peak, and the water surface is open and nearly double that of the dry season. Along an area of Huai, there are armor guards patrolling and watching, idlers and other people are strictly forbidden to approach, and the people must also avoid this area when they are fishing, hunting, and hunting.

A few days ago, strange phenomena appeared on the river. There are many floating boards flowing down the water, and the floating boards are mostly interspersed with bamboo thorns that have been soaked in water vapor and swollen human heads, more or less, more than hundreds, less than seven or eight.

When the morning light was meager and the patrol post on the river found this kind of phenomenon again, they did not dare to slack off and reported it immediately.

After receiving such a letter again, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but feel even worse, and decided to go to the riverside to take a look in person. So even under the escort of more than 200 personal soldiers, he left Shouchun City on horseback and went to the nearby ferry.

At present, the war is imminent, whether it is Huaishui or city defense, the legal ban is extremely strict. At this time, there were few pedestrians in the streets and alleys, and the only breath that could be heard was the sound of the soldiers' daily exercise flags and passwords, and the rapid sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and the inside and outside pedestrians all looked nervously looking over.

Similar to the tense atmosphere of war, once it lasts for a long time, it is a kind of destruction to people's hearts, even if it does not affect normal production, it will make people sensitive and vigilant, if any more abnormal signs occur, it is very likely that a large-scale riot will break out. Even the soldiers who have been trained in the war for a long time have been in the camp from time to time, and the soldiers have scattered in a hurry.

Therefore, morale is an illusory thing, but it really affects the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and even determines the direction and final outcome of the war. Especially in the case of a huge disparity between the military strength of the enemy and our own, morale is the only way for the weaker side to maintain cohesion.

The morale of the Huainan Army was maintained quite well, and before that, the countryside was rectified, a large number of wandering food was reorganized and naturalized, and it was centrally resettled, and there were almost no traces of people wandering between the city and the countryside. These people work intensively under the organizational control of the army, and the laws are almost rigid.

Such strict personal control seems a little impersonal. But the essence of war is the consumption of human lives to achieve a certain goal, and the most irrelevant thing in the process is the so-called human rights, whether ancient or modern.

Of course, while controlling people's lives, they must also use various means to maintain people's hearts and ease the atmosphere. For example, the reward and punishment system with clear standards, whether in the military or in the civilian population, all set up reward and punishment standards based on a certain number of people and groups, stipulating the tasks that need to be completed every day, rewarding those who excel and punishing those who are backward, so that a positive atmosphere of competition can be maintained within the personnel. Once this atmosphere is formed, it will greatly dispel some of the uneasiness and fear in people's hearts.

Therefore, whether it is an individual or a group, once you feel that the road ahead is bleak and hopeless, then do not think about anything, do not make any big plans, just bury yourself in the things at hand, set a clear goal within your ability, and concentrate on completing it.

The sociality of human beings determines that it is often necessary to accept the whole world network feedback at a point, but these feedbacks need to be self-ruminating and judgment, and what can be felt in the end is a subjective assumption, which is far from the truth.

When people have lost the ability to make rational judgments, the best way is to do less to look around, cut off the acceptance of information outside the body, and focus on improving themselves.

Of course, people are easy to control, but people are difficult. The Karma slave army is a real and imminent threat, and Shen Zhezi can't erase this part of the cognition from people's minds, what he can do is to try his best to erase the oppression and danger brought by this message, which needs to rely on propaganda.

Since he was still a small character in Jiangdong and needed to look up to his name, Shen Zhezi attached great importance to shaping and promoting his own image. Now what he wants to do is not only to himself, but to establish the image of the entire Huainan Army.

In Huainan Town, Shen Zhezi has organized a relatively professional propaganda team, led by Jiang Yu, a group of family members who picked up stars in Shen Yuan in the early years, not everyone has the ability and courage to raise a bow and fight fiercely, but in terms of controlling public opinion and influencing people's hearts, with Shen Zhezi's guidance, coupled with his own summary, he has been quite accomplished.

Under the conception and organization of these people, various brainwashing work in Huainan Town is also in full swing. Earlier, all the small victories of the Huainan Army in Huaibei were all added to the oil and vinegar, and various artistic processing were preached to the people. All kinds of folk songs and slang songs that smear the beard and praise the bravery of the Huainan Army are also sung in distant towns and towns. All kinds of passionate and heroic slogans are scribbled on every settlement inside and outside the city, and they can be seen on their heads.

Shen Zhezi attaches great importance to the slogan. Because this slogan not only conveys a message, but also a kind of literacy work, even if it can't be a long speech, so that everyone can read poetry and books, but under the influence of the ears and eyes, it is not a problem to know some commonly used words, and it can be regarded as a breakthrough from zero to one.

Propaganda to the people is to be deceptive, because the people themselves do not need to face the problem of confronting the karma head-on, even if it is clearly told how strong the karma is, it will not do any good except to make people's hearts more frightened. It's not about foolishness or not, it's about the means that must be used to maintain an organization. In addition to the direct external blows to the collapse of an organization, the emergence of internal hidden dangers is often not due to ignorance and inaction, but because there are too many ideas.

Shen Zhezi does not have an exact concept of how strong Wuhu is, but one thing can be determined, even if the Three Kingdoms are in turmoil, the eight kings are in power, and no matter how many people die in the Central Plains, purely in terms of numbers, even if the Xianbei tribe with the largest number of people is combined, it is not comparable to the number of Han people.

Why is this history so murky? In the entire Han community, there is generally nothing to do, just because the mediocre are in power and there are too many incompetent? Purely from the perspective of leaders, it is not that they are incompetent, but that there are too many self-righteous heroes.

Comparatively speaking, the Hu people had simpler social relations, and they had to face fewer constraints and games in the process of their rise, so they could devote more energy to seeking direct victory in war. It doesn't matter what kind of racial inferiority there is, once Hu Lu grows to a certain scale, none of them will not stage bloody and tragic pinching of each other. And these mutual pinching, one is more cruel than the other, one is more miserable than the other, they don't even have another way to fight their opponents other than physical annihilation.

People grow up in lessons, Shi Le saw Han Zhao collapse to his relatives, the big tree relatives, and was killed by his nephew. Fu Jian himself is the final victor of the brotherly wall, relying on the legal system to alienate his relatives, but he doesn't understand that his Di regime is not as inclusive as the Han people, and even the Han people are eaten by Hu Lu, he is not defeated in the water, he has grown crooked from the roots, how great Wang Meng's achievements in governing the country are, how big the pit dug for him is!

The great misfortune of a world is not that it has been sinking for a long time without a savior, but that heroes have come out repeatedly. The prestige of the world is full of blood and tears of the people.

Maintaining morale is a different concept than inspiration. These soldiers who need to face the threat of death, if they just lie and boast, will inevitably be delusional, and they will have no desire to fight for a long time. They need tangible, tangible incentives.

Therefore, although Huainan has been very tight, all military merit rewards will be implemented as soon as possible. Several towering warehouses were built in Luocheng, Shouchun City, called Jiagong Warehouse, which stored the money, grain and salaries of the soldiers. And these warehouses, and correspond to the number of acres of tuntian in Huainan, once the strong enemy is broken, Huainan turns stable, and after the tunken is on the track, there will be a steady stream of mu yield pouring in.

In terms of money and grain, Shen Zhezi is particularly generous and heroic, but he is extremely stingy in the distribution of means of production such as acres and people. Whatever the use of these acres of land must be held. At present, Huainan has a shallow foundation, and there is no need to face too many problems of corruption for public and private interests, and if time awaits his power is increasingly consolidated, he will have enough ability to determine this situation by means of laws and regulations.

So in terms of morale and people's hearts, Shen Zhezi has done a good job of asking himself, but when facing real challenges, there is still a sense of powerlessness that he doesn't know how to face them.

Shen Zhezi once imagined that when the Qianhu army came south, what kind of attitude would it appear in the field of vision of the Huainan military and civilians, whether it was a thousand boats racing and thousands of flags, or a light attack and a surprise attack on the fortress? But the real situation, there is no fixed script, the first thing he sees is not the traces of the slave army, but the many crimes they have committed!

When Shen Zhezi arrived at the riverside ferry, Zuo Jin had been surrounded and protected by the armor group, and several guards from Zuo Jin were all present, and when they stepped forward to greet them, some were full of melancholy, some were full of resentment, and their expressions were difficult to calm down.

There are several large bamboo rafts on the wharf, which are piled up with wet, swollen heads soaked in the river, and there are about hundreds. At the same time, there are more than a dozen Jin people who were injured, or their hands and feet were cut off, or their ears and noses were cut off, some of them were already dying, life and death were unknown, and some could still stay sober, but their spirits were already muddy, repeating some words of forgiveness or cursing in their mouths, and there was no response to the soldiers' questions at all.

The origin of these heads and wounded was already clear to the Huainan Army. Now that the river is rising sharply, it is difficult to successfully deliver the heads to the other side with the simple bamboo rafts, and most of them are not on the way. But even so, the patrol army has found salvage on the river recently, and it is conceivable that the atrocities of the slave army in Huaibei are not limited to these in front of you! What the Huainan Army salvaged and found was only a small part of it!