When the drama on the stage sang that the warlords of the four towns of Jiangbei had hundreds of thousands of troops but were vying to surrender to the Qing, the eyes of the audience were full of anger and contempt.

Subsequently, it was Shi Kefa who led 3,000 men and horses to defend Yangzhou, when his sentence "It is not good to go into battle, defend the city; The defense of the city is unfavorable, street fighting; Street fighting is unfavorable, short-circuited; Shorting is not good, suicide. After the words were finished, the audience was already crying, so much so that the stage had to be paused.

There are also many people who spontaneously look in the direction of Yangzhou and kneel down to worship the Shi Gebu.

Who says that these illiterate peasants are ignorant? It's just that no one told them the details of what happened, no one told the world in a way that they could understand, and no one was willing to take the time to channel their patriotic fervor. In fact, their feelings for the Ming Dynasty are more simple and profound than those gentry and officials who are full of poetry and books!

After a long while, the gong started again on the stage, and the tragic situation of the next ten days in Yangzhou once again ignited the anger in everyone's hearts. Wang Ke shouted at the right time: "Kill Jianyu, take revenge!" ”

When the villagers heard this, their eyes instantly turned red.

"Kill Jianyu and take revenge!" The shouts suddenly resounded in the sky.

"Didn't Wang Zhixian say last month that the Long Wei Army was going to recruit soldiers? I'm going to join the army and kill Jianyu! ”

"Yes, go to the army!"

"Kill Jiannu and avenge Master Shi!"

But the impulsiveness of young people is immediately suppressed by their elders.

"From what army? Stupid you? Once you join the army, I'm afraid you'll be fifty or sixty years old when you go home again! ”

"The more soldiers, the more promotions, where do we have surplus food to pay?"

The promotion is to levy a special tax from the local people to feed the local army. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the peasants' taxes were already heavy, and where could they bear more exploitation.

At this time, the play was finished, Wang Ke returned to the stage again, and read out aloud the recruitment notice written by Su Chengyu: "...... Therefore, thousands of soldiers were recruited to defend the Qing Dynasty...... Those who join the army this time will not be admitted to the military and can be discharged from the army and return to their hometowns in as little as three years...... All the money was broadcast by the imperial court, and no local penny was used. The military salary is three taels and five cents per month for the senior soldiers, three taels for the first class soldiers, two taels and one yuan for the second class soldiers, and one or four dollars for the third class soldiers. Those who have been in the army for five years can be divided into one and a half acres of fertile land, and those who have been in the army for ten years can be divided into two acres ......"

After reading the notice, the villagers immediately fried the pot.

"Three years to be able to go home?"

"Three taels and five dollars a month?! I've never seen anything like three or five dollars of silver when I'm so old! ”

"No requisition? I'm relieved. ”

"If you don't join the military household, you still divide the land? There are three and a half acres of fertile land in ten years?! ”

"Missionary, this can't be us, is it?"

Wang Ke smiled and said loudly: "The mission never tells lies!" Regarding the recruitment of troops just mentioned, you can rest assured, it is estimated that in the next two days, Wang Zhixian will issue notices with the same content, and use the big seal of Zhixian to post them in each village. ”

The villagers began to talk enthusiastically again.

Not long after, voices such as "killing Jianyu" and "avenging Lord Shi" sounded again. The service time is short, the salary is high, and the land can be divided, and the young man who has no elders in the family immediately runs towards the elder's house. Usually the recruitment is the responsibility of the lieutenant chief.

But the older villagers still held on to their juniors, intending to wait for the news to be confirmed.

Wang Ke never imagined that he would be able to climb so high one day one day, and when the echoes gathered, a sense of pride arose. He didn't delay much in Heigou Village, and while it was still early, he ordered the troupe to pack up their baggage and rush to the next village in a hurry.

The same scene was staged in various villages in Longnan, and the new drama about Shi Kefa touched the hearts of countless people.

More than a dozen missionaries sent by the mission office brought their troupes and storytellers to gather the people's hearts and minds in various parts of Longnan. On the same day, local lieutenants sent hundreds of young people who volunteered to join the army to the Longwei camp.

In the Longwei camp, the registration of recruits was so busy that several officers were sweating profusely.

In the evening, Yu Xin handed over a few rosters to Su Chengyu, "Lord Commander, this is the person who came to join the army today." After a simple screening, there were 211 in total. ”

"Strict selection, leaving only young people who are physically strong and honest will have a very sufficient supply of soldiers in the future." Su Chengyu instructed, "In addition, within a month, those who still do not meet the standards of third-class soldiers in the current Dragon Guard Army must gradually be arranged to leave the combat establishment." ”

"Yes!" Yu Xin is on the right path.

According to the password rules in the "Training and Operations Manual" of the Long Wei New Army, it is now necessary to uniformly answer "yes" to the instructions of the superiors.

The work of the mission began to bear fruit, and Su Chengyu nodded secretly in his heart, not in vain the more than three hundred taels of silver he invested in the mission every month. He believed that as propaganda continued to increase, public opinion would become more and more favorable to the imperial court and the Ming army, and that recruitment was just an appetizer.

Moreover, at present, the activities of the mission are only in Longnan and its surroundings, and in the future, the whole of Jiangxi and even the whole of Jiangnan will be included in the scope of influence of the mission.

In the future, all kinds of new policies of the imperial court can be implemented without resistance, and the rumors of the enemy cannot be spread at all, and the Ming Dynasty is united in all of them, and even uses public opinion warfare to affect the stability and morale of the enemy, which is his ultimate goal!

On the same day, the picket team of the Longwei battalion was also officially established. There were only 12 people in total, and most of them were junior officers and non-commissioned officers of the personal company.

After dinner, each barracks will face a picket "baptism".

As early as a few days ago, Su Chengyu specially convened a meeting of the officers, emphasized the internal affairs stipulated in the "Military Discipline Regulations", and personally instructed the officers to fold the quilts into "tofu blocks".

However, it has been more than a year since he last went to the army to do a project, and he has forgotten most of the work of folding quilts. Even so, the angular quilt surprised all the officers.

Of course, when they heard that the bedding of all officers and soldiers would be stacked like this in the future, their eyes widened.

However, it was not until the pickets came to the door that most of the soldiers remembered the officer's request a few days ago to sort out the housekeeping.

In the barracks, not to mention the quilts folded into "tofu blocks", there are few quilts folded. There was also garbage littering on the ground, and even dirty clothes and smelly socks were thrown everywhere.

Along the way, it was found that few officers had done a good job in internal affairs in accordance with the requirements of the "Military Discipline Regulations." Counting Yu Xin and several second lieutenant officers, only sixteen of them barely met Su Chengyu's internal affairs standards.

According to Su Chengyu's instructions, all the soldiers who did not do a good job in housekeeping were punished for 30 frog jumps, and then carefully folded "tofu blocks". He was also told that if he did not take his internal affairs seriously next time, he would be punished outside the barracks until he was criticized.

Today, the soldiers who were required to do internal affairs were given a special commendation. Everyone is studying the military discipline regulations these days, and a total of five commendations is equivalent to one third-class meritorious service! And the third-class merit is a good field! It made the other soldiers drool.

Su Chengyu knew very well that the internal affairs of the army seemed to be a small matter, but in fact reflected the spiritual outlook of the soldiers. A neat barracks can subconsciously influence servicemen, enhance their sense of discipline and norms, and are by no means trivial.