The gentleman borrowed wine and sang to talk about the world.

Outside the tent, the soldiers who smelled the wine sniffled vigorously, trying to forget the tempting scent coming from the officers' tents.

Unlike gentlemen, these soldiers composed of peasants and peasants did not know the concept of the world.

Even some Jiaodong soldiers may have known the world for a lifetime before joining the army, which is the range of thirty miles around their villages.

Everything is as usual, as it should be, the cycle of life and death is endless.

There is no past, no future, as if it has been like this since the beginning of the world, and then it is still the same until the end of the universe.

As for the world, it seems to have nothing to do with them.

Several soldiers sat around the fire, clutching corn from the clay pot with their hands.

An older Qi soldier touched the "military coins" in his pocket, thinking that after the battle, he would be able to save enough to go to the "Nulu" to enjoy once.

Military coins are not a common currency, and they are basically impossible to buy in the bazaar, and merchants do not recognize the military coins issued by Qi at all.

But as a special reward for service and military exploits, you can enjoy some of the treatment of a military paradise - you can use the accumulated military coins to go to the camp prostitute and sleep with a woman once.

Qi and Yue were the first countries in Zhuxia to implement the prostitute system, and the Qi country was economically developed that year, and Guan Zhong set up a female lu.

After the reform of the Qi Hou Yan, this system of official prostitutes was also retained and became an important source of revenue for the Qi treasury.

There were once true gentlemen who thought that this was an unjust habit that should be eliminated.

However, those who supported Qi Hou's reform refuted it with righteousness, arguing that there were two advantages to this.

First, some cities in the Qi State had begun to consider wild cooperation as a bad habit, and the industrial and commercial development of the Qi State during the Qi Huan era made women prefer rich or official gentlemen.

After the reform of the military system and reactionary changes by the Marquis of Qi, some low-level people may find it difficult to taste the taste of men and women for the rest of their lives, so the establishment of official prostitutes can solve some of their needs.

Second, now women have to rely on men to live, and Sishang industry and commerce are developed, so women can be engaged in textile and other industries to support themselves, but Qi industry and commerce are suppressed by Sishang, and agricultural work is still respected by men.

Many widows are undoubtedly subsisting, and this will solve the problem of the widows' livelihood and make them "self-reliant".

In addition, after having an official prostitute, you can put an end to the bullying of women by some evil teenagers in the countryside.

This seems to make a lot of sense, coupled with the female lu system that existed before the Qi State, which made the official prostitutes of the Qi State develop greatly: the country's industry and commerce are sluggish, but there are many smugglers and smugglers close to Sishang, which does bring a lot of income to the Qi Hou.

Under the standing army system under the new military system, a large number of conscripted low-level people left their hometowns, and it was even more difficult to solve the needs, so things such as the camp prostitute system and the happy land in the army also appeared, as a kind of reward for military merits.

Since the Qi State has started a reactionary change, it is no longer possible to use land as a military merit to award the bottom, because someone who gets land must always lose land, and the aristocracy is now the basis of the rule of the Qi State, and it is impossible for the nobles to cut their own flesh.

This accumulation of military coins for service can pay for the fees of the low-level prostitutes.

The aristocratic officers had wives and concubines, vacations, estates, and money, so they looked down on the most corrupt, black, very old widows or forced women.

But the soldiers at the bottom are in great need, and they don't have wives and concubines, and they can't afford to go to the regular women who spend money and have relatively high prices, so they need to accumulate military coins to go to this low-level camp prostitute.

Basically, the lowest-level prostitutes in the army were not open to the public, mainly entertaining the lower ranks of the army, and most of the women were either descendants of slaves, or were sold, or they were women and children who were looted during the occupation.

The veteran who is counting military coins is twenty-eight years old this year, which is basically getting old at the bottom of this era.

He has been serving for six years, and the nobles of the fiefdom have forcibly repossessed a lot of his family's native land, and only four acres of native land have been reserved for them to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes from Si to make a living.

After finishing official business, he dares to govern himself.

The nobles had to work for nearly twenty days a month, and the potato planting and harvesting times were staggered, so they had to work for the owners of the fiefdom almost every day during the busy farming period.

The nobles of the fiefdom did not grow potatoes, because the demand for commercial grains such as corn and wheat or feed grains was too low for them to be worthwhile.

Later, after the development of the wine-making industry in the Qi Kingdom, some emerging nobles planted potatoes and so on, and built some wine-making workshops in their fiefdoms, which allowed some public fields to also start planting these high-yield crops.

The twenty-eight-year-old veteran, like most of the low-level village farmers, has no surname, only a first name, because the surname is only qualified for the aristocracy.

Their fiefdom nobles had 19,000 acres of fiefdom and managed a total of two village communities, and when they were conscripted for service, they were recruited according to the population of the village community.

The veteran was drafted into the army that year, and once he served for several years, he had no chance to go back at all, and he didn't want to go back.

He has adapted to life in the army, and he doesn't know what he can do when he goes back, and what will happen when he goes back?

Continue to cultivate his four acres of native land, and then work for the nobles day and night?

In the army, there is at least one set of clothes to wear, most of the time you can still be fed, and you don't need to train all the time every day, you can also get some military coins after the war, and you can go to the camp prostitutes to relax after the war.

He didn't have too many complaints, he felt that it should be so, the nobles often said that there was a difference between the noble and the low, look at those nobles who exported chapters, brocade clothes and jade food, faces like crown jade, talked about the world, and held swords and bows, and then looked at themselves, they did feel that there was a difference between people and people, no wonder the noble were always noble and the cheap were always cheap.

After dinner, the men of the accomplices sat around and boiled a pot of water in a crockpot on the campfire.

When the water was boiling, it was boiling and steaming, so he took off his clothes and approached the crockpot.

Under the heat, the lice that were hidden in the clothes and made these low-level soldiers miserable were crawled out one after another by the heat, and moved densely at the neckline.

A group of people gathered around the fire and began their daily routine of entertainment, biting lice.

Look at who bites loudly, and who bites crisply.

As if showing off his trophy, a recruit pinched a well-fed lice to death, showed it to his accomplices, and said, "Tsk! Such a big lice. ”

The rest of the people also chimed in: "Great! It's huge. ”

As if it weren't lice, but a trophy to be played with, expensive, and comparable to show off that had made your face shine.

This time, they went on an expedition, but they only besieged the Ningling Tomb, but did not capture it, and they did not grab any valuable loot.

Before coming, the officers propagandized that Sishang was rich and could be plundered after being captured, and whoever ever wanted to attack the city would have a big battle tomorrow.

It is difficult for these low-level soldiers to understand what the world and etiquette are that make the nobles and gentlemen move themselves, but they know that many nobles will cry for the world.

The world or the rituals, these things are too far away, far less recent and more important than the rattling lice that are being bitten by them.

After the recruits routinely finished biting the lice, they took the veteran's clothes and cleaned them up, and at the same time asked flatteringly: "Brother, didn't you say that the prince and the Mo family fought?" Will tomorrow's battle be easy? ”

The veteran has actually never fought with the Mo family, many years have passed since the Qi-Mo War, and the Qi Hou has been broken when the veteran served.

In his impression, the Mo family has many cannons, good guns, and money, but he doesn't know much else.

The siege of Ningling did not fight much, just a few days after the siege, the fortification was just dug and was transferred, they did not know the specific situation, because the officers would not tell them the intention of the war and what to do, so it was easy for them to know that after the break, the morale of the army was greatly demoralized.

The veteran pondered for a moment, and then said, "When the time comes, just listen to the order and fight." However, there is no way to make a musket miss you. ”

As soon as he said this, the rest of the people gathered around, many of them recruits who had never fought before, but they knew the horror of muskets.

Moreover, the quality of the musket used by Qi is very poor, and it is often blown up, and there are often cases where the face is blown up or the eyes are blinded.

They hadn't seen it before, and after seeing it, it was like that, and when they were familiar with it, it was just a weapon, but this weapon was dangerous.

When the veteran saw that his companions had gathered around, he said, "When I went to live happily among the prostitutes the year before last, there was a woman who was a widow, and her lover used to do divination. ”

Many veterans like him who have completely lost hope in life, the greatest pleasure is to be happy among the camp prostitutes, because life is like a pool of stagnant water, even if they are not soldiers, they still live the same boring and tired life after going back, and they don't know if they can live tomorrow today, so it is a very common thing to go to the camp prostitutes to live happily.

The veteran added: "When the woman's husband died, and he had no income, he went to work as a prostitute, which is exactly what the gentlemen call sacrificing himself for the country." ”

She said, "What were the muskets before?" This is the chaos in the world. What is the difference between a musket and a crossbow, his husband said? It's just that the musket has fire. ”

"And water is the best way to overcome fire. But there is gold in the musket, and it needs fire to overcome gold, so there is such a way to dodge the musket. ”

"I hadn't fought much with muskets before, so I forgot about it. When you asked me today, I remembered. ”

Seeing that everyone was expecting his reply, he said mysteriously: "There must be both water to overcome fire, and fire to overcome gold, and before the war, the partners can see whose urine is the most yellow." The yellowest drowning, that is, there is water and fire in it, which can be used to overcome muskets. ”

"With this yellow drowning and mud, apply it to the chest and forehead, and you can dodge the musket, so that the musket will kill others, but it will not hit yourself."