Chapter 577: The Coming Era of Troubled Times (3)

The world is impermanent, and providence makes people......

The situation in the world is changing rapidly, and the troubled times are also an opportunity to reshuffle the cards, who would have imagined that a former Bai Ding climbed to the position of captain in a year, and if he worked hard, he might still be able to become a lord, then his family is also a member of the so-called scholar clan. If you are lucky, you are assigned a good task or participate in a battle and make great achievements, it is not impossible to become a noble of the class.

Oh, the so-called "noble class" is a very formal title, after all, there are five classes of duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male.

Shen Tujia simply loves to death this social environment where as long as you are willing to work hard and have determination, you can climb up, and the fairness of the social environment is for everyone, meritorious deeds will be rewarded and punished, and I have not seen those who followed the Lord in the early days become nobles without profit and merit, but those who follow later are constantly rewarded and promoted for merit, isn't this kind of environment fair? He believed that not only was he willing to die for such a political system, but anyone who was not stupid would fall in love with such an environment, just look at the soldiers who marched in the rain with high morale!

There are also changes faster, Shen Tujia never thought that the change of the situation was so weird, his loyal lord led the army to Chenjun's Shenhui Alliance, originally thought that it should be peaceful for a while, many people don't know how many times they sighed secretly that there was no chance to make meritorious contributions, but they didn't expect that not only did they not welcome peace, but they also seemed to make a big noise.

Riding fast horses back and forth in the countryside, a line of wolf smoke stretched from north to south, and the people who saw it were all shocked in their hearts, and they subconsciously wanted to cry with a sad face and roar with a question, "The lord has fallen in the north?" After holding back stubbornly, I began to think in my head, "The Lord died in battle, so does the Lord have the blood and bones to continue to lead us on, and live this kind of life that can be changed for the better as long as we are willing to work hard?" The chaotic thoughts finally passed the rain and the sky cleared with the shouting of Hongling's anxious horse.

It turned out that the ruler was fine, and now there is no "Amitabha". Buddhism will not be introduced to China until the Ming Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, otherwise I don't know how many people would reverently recite "Amitabha" with their hands together to comfort their injured and almost desperate little hearts.

By the way, although there is Huang Lao's doctrine now, there is no Taoism, so what "three clear on the top" and "Taoist compassion" mantra can not be recited, people know what is happening is to silently recite a sentence "ancestors bless", some prime of life is shouting "long live!" "Wan Sheng!" , the women and children showed joyful expressions and couldn't help but murmur, "Great! ”。

The whole territory has been mobilized, and if the country is founded, it will be the whole country mobilized......

Then again. The land of eight counties, the army of millions, why didn't Lu Zhe build a country? I don't know how many people are thinking weirdly in their hearts.

Those words that come from the heart are justified. Under the rule of Lu Zhe, the social environment remained relatively stable, and the continuous paid labor projects of the government were also one after another, and if you were not lazy, you would not starve to death, and if you were willing to work hard, you could improve your life, and no one wanted such a ruler to disappear in a flash in the pan.

In the prime of life, it is even more reasonable to know that the whole territory is mobilized, and now who does not know that there is a salary for being a soldier. Food, drink, clothing, and weapons were all provided by the army, and the ruler attached great importance to military merits, and the battle robe was too decent and beautiful, that is, the ruler's insignificant recruitment was disappointing. Now mobilize the whole territory. The lads seem to want the opportunity to be part of the military, how can they not be excited?

The joy of women and children is even more justified, because if the ruler wants to fight a big war, the orders of the government will surge. The grain produced in the family's farmland will be sold at a good price, and the number of uniforms distributed to the households will naturally increase, so they will not have to worry that they will not have any work to do except housework because they have become peaceful. How can you continue to earn a little more income for your family?

Shen Tujia was in Anlu in Nanjun at that time, and was the supreme general of the garrison of a county. At that time, it happened to be the season of compulsory military drills, and he was in charge of the drills of more than 8,000 school-age men in a county. He still remembered that after the order to mobilize the whole territory was issued, the men who had been trained intensively let out earth-shattering cheers, and many of them were still crying with joy and shouting, "Finally eat the soldiers' rations!" ”。

In fact, the treatment of the non-commissioned officers under Lu Zhe's command is really good, the food and drink utensils are all provided by the army, and the ordinary non-commissioned officers are at least one and a half taels a month, and the military salary of the officers is more than the first order, such as Shen Tujia has a military salary of five hundred and a half taels a month after becoming a captain.

Now one and a half taels can buy one stone of rice, and if it is miscellaneous grains, it is at least three stones or more, and one stone is dozens of catties. How much grain can an acre of land produce in a year? Ueda probably has a production of about five stones, Nakata about four stones, and Shimoda is three stones.

The amount of farmland owned by each family varies, but most people are busy working for a year, which is the income of four or five and a half taels, and the grain and vegetables can be grown by themselves, but buying cloth, buying salt, and some bits and pieces of life are counted, where is four or five and a half taels enough? It's rare to be able to taste a small piece of meat a year, bitter!

If you can make meritorious contributions to become a captain, even if you are a soldier, you will have a gap of thirty-six, sixty, and one hundred and twenty! Oh...... Many people don't dare to think about becoming a hundred generals, and most people's highest wish is to become a commander in the army, because literacy is too difficult.

Eight counties, the size of one and a half Central Plains, and the population is about 5.5 million, but the ruler is only willing to maintain a standing army of 450,000, so there is almost one out of twelve people to eat military rations. The best part? Most of the soldiers were not local residents of the eight counties, at least 200,000 of them started with the ruler in Yiling, and then there was a very large influx from the Central Plains, and the result was that only about 150,000 of the millions of locals ate the soldiers' rations.

Those families with people in the army not only receive great preferential treatment from the government in the township, but the military salary sent back every month alone can greatly improve the family's life.

The family government of someone who is a soldier takes care of everything, in fact, most people can understand this, who let this family have a man doing that, what is it called? Oh! That's right, it's to protect the family and defend the country! It is said that it is precisely because of their existence that everyone can live in peace and stability, and there will not be a guy who kills a thousand knives and rushes in to burn, kill, loot and humiliate the women in the family. These are all true, the military households who defend the country are very worthy of the attention of the government, but it is not only they who want to protect the family and defend the country, okay...... In fact, everyone wants to live a life that is valued by the government, and in addition to ordinary food and drink, the family can also cut some meat and eat from time to time, but the ruler just doesn't expand the army!

Mobilization across the territory? That's great! Is it possible to become a member of the army yourself, the elderly in the family will send condolences from the government during the New Year's holidays, the orders that the yellow-faced woman can receive will also increase, and the children can also go to that school for free to read and write, and their brothers will also be given priority when they apply for government projects?

There are risks in being a soldier, but in these years, there is a shortage of soldiers, even if you don't go out of the house without a soldier, you may be gnawed by wild beasts, people need to face all kinds of dangers to live, and being a soldier can improve the family living environment, and you can get preferential treatment that ordinary families don't have, these are all fart! Besides, isn't there a twenty-year-long one that died in war? His own family is also regarded as an invalid household, even if the yellow-faced woman remarries, her parents and children can still be taken care of by the government, it is worth it, even if she dies on the battlefield, isn't it worth living for her parents and future generations!

Everywhere there was a cheering crowd, and everywhere you could see shouting "Serve the Lord, fight to the death, fight to the death!" "Guy of the awesome. Some slightly older people in the prime of life are also full of radiant faces, and they will be more reserved to ask their parents, wives and children to live a good life, and fight for the future of the family without dying on the battlefield, and they will also be taken care of by the government if they die in battle, and they are ready to use these hundred or ten catties of meat to fight on the battlefield.

After the mobilization of the whole territory, because it was originally the season of compulsory military drills, there were thousands in this county, tens of thousands in that county, and a little more than 500,000 soldiers in Nanjun County, and one or two thousand soldiers in Nanjun County, which had a smaller population, and one or two thousand soldiers in Nanhai County, and more than one million troops in eight counties were pulled up.

Since Lu Zhe has always issued orders to the people to make war robes, more than one million men or healthy women are not missing a battle robe, but to be honest, the number of weapons is not so sufficient, more than one million soldiers only organized about 600,000 people who can hold standard weapons in their hands, and the rest are either empty-handed, or they are civilian weapons carried by themselves, to be honest, from wooden sticks, hoes, shovels to spears and spears that have been passed down for generations, everything is available.

The assembly of countless teams is actually not an easy thing to coordinate, especially when Lu Zhe, who is the most proficient in the transfer of large corps, is not in the country, if there is any big mess, it is not true, but the newly assembled troops are taken around blindly by a group of officers, and in the end, Sima Xin was ordered to return to Nanling to be controlled.

It is not too complicated to say where the troops of which counties will be assembled, and where the troops of which counties will go after they have been assembled, but it is a great test for the generals who give orders and command the army.

In addition, the million-strong army has been assembled, but what about the logistics supply? Xiao He was already busy, but now he not only has to dispatch the logistics of Lu Zhe's own army, but also the logistics of the million-strong army in the territory has to be regulated and operated, and I don't know how many gray hairs have increased in just two months.

After the establishment of the Chu Front, Ji Bu shouted like a mad dog to "destroy the Chu State and occupy the whole territory", Shen Tujia's school and many troops marching towards the Chu State were not running errands in the autumn rain? (To be continued......)