The "guest and host" reached an agreement on borrowing food, and the final number was set at 120 shi.

Zhou Shixiang explained it to them clearly that they would send them all within three days. One day later, he took someone to pick them up in person, which scared Qi Yuantai and the others to wipe the sweat on their foreheads with their sleeves.

After Lu Changyuan took the people away, Duke Xiang of Song asked Zhou Shixiang a little angry why he was so rude to these gentry. You should know that they all have status and status in Luoding, and have a great influence on the people. Sometimes what they say is more useful than the government said. If Zhou Shixiang really intends to do a big fight in Luoding, then he should win over these gentry families and speak kindly to them instead of intimidating and threatening. The latter is equivalent to pushing these people to their opposite side. There is no consequence at the moment, but over time, this disadvantage will definitely appear, and it will be too late to regret it.

Duke Xiang of Song repeatedly emphasized that the so-called people's hearts are actually the ideas of these gentry and wealthy families. If they master them, they will master the people's hearts, and on the contrary, they will lose the people's hearts. Without the support of the people, it is impossible for the people in Daqiaoshan to gain a foothold in Luoding, so they should not strengthen their strength to do great things.

Duke Xiang of Song was a man of talent, but after all, he was an ancient man. His thinking must be contrary to the Zhou Shi, who was a man of two lifetimes.

Zhou Shixiang felt it was necessary to talk to Duke Xiang of Song to let the other party accept his ideas and be able to help him do major things in the future.

"Sir, do you think it is to let the people obey our orders directly, or do not care about the people, as long as the gentry obey our orders?"

"Since ancient times, we will make the people obey orders because of the gentry and tycoon!"

This question made Duke Xiang of Song briefly stunned. In his opinion, the government has always relied on local gentry and wealthy families to govern the people. Otherwise, why would there be only magistrates but ignorant towns and villages?

The city is in the middle of the city, and the countryside is not a big family!

Gentlemen are even scholars. Scholars are learning Confucius, wise things and know the great power. If they don’t rely on them, do they have to rely on those mud legs that cannot be understood by big words?

What do mud legs know?

The government governed the people under the jurisdiction of the gentry through the control of large gentry households, which was a practice of dynasty over the past thousand years. This method was effective, and today's Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the Qing Dynasty still used this method to control the people, and never heard of them killing gentry like Li Chuang to please the people.

Duke Xiang of Song was a little unable to understand Zhou Shixiang's behavior. According to his original intention, he just needed to threaten Qi Yuantai and the others. Unexpectedly, Zhou Shixiang asked Ge Liu to carry a string of heads over, which was too much. He had trouble having an attack in front of the six families. Now that there was no one in the hall, he could not speak well with Zhou Shixiang.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Shixiang shook his head and said, "If we follow the teacher's approach, then we will not be able to gain the hearts of the people in Luoding and will not be able to gain a foothold!"

Duke Xiang of Song was surprised: "What are these words? All the gentry are on our side. How can the people's hearts not on our side?"

"Sir, you must understand that these gentry and wealthy families are not on our side. They are temporarily obeying us without resistance. Once they have the power to resist, they will inevitably turn against us! Furthermore, we occupy Luoding to do great things in order to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Naturally, we need a lot of money and grain to do great things. Luoding has a sparse population and limited income. How many days can it last for ordinary people to plunder those ordinary people? Therefore, we must attack these big families. Ask Mr., in this case, will the gentry and wealthy families still look to us? If they don't look to us, how can we get the people's hearts? What's more, in their eyes, our identity is doubtful!"

Zhou Shixiang tried his best to explain that he almost pointed out that Duke Xiang of Song was not Luo Ding's prefect appointed by the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but a bandit who became a bandit! It is true that the gentry obeyed the government, but how could they obey the bandits!

In his opinion, Duke Xiang of Song tried to win over the people's hearts by winning over the great gentry families, which was wishful thinking. He could even be said to be extremely stupid. He did not realize that they had not completely controlled Luoding City! Putting hope on a group of gentry who could bite back at any time would not wash their necks clean and wait for others to chop them up!

Duke Xiang of Song was speechless and realized that his thoughts were a little confused. He sighed and said, "But I am confused. But we just borrowed some food from them. They may not dare to turn against us. Most of them still have to listen to us. As long as they listen to us now, the people's hearts are on our side and can still be used."

"If the dog is anxious, he still bites people. If it were a sir, the food at home was borrowed by us, but in fact it was stolen. The sir is happy? He has no idea?"

Zhou Shixiang never believed that landlords and merchants would be kind-hearted, and a class that was oppressed but would not resist.

Duke Xiang of Song said, "Without external force, they dare not move."

"I admit that as long as the Qing army does not fight, these people will not dare to act rashly. But have you ever thought about it? Once we have troops, we must first deal with the Qing army's attack. We must first settle the internal situation when we fight against foreign countries. If we lead our troops out and these gentry families are in chaos behind, will we still need to fight this battle?"

Duke Xiang of Song was silent. He naturally knew what the consequences of chaos in the rear were.

"To avoid chaos in the future, I think not only do you need to be polite to these people, but you should also be cruel to them!" Zhou Shi looked at each other with a fierce look, "According to me, only dead people will not cause trouble for us!"

"This... won't work, it won't work!"

Duke Xiang of Song was shocked. Unexpectedly, Zhou Shixiang had the idea of ​​killing all the gentry and wealthy families in the city, and he couldn't accept it for a while.

"I will be uneasy if I don't kill them all! But we are not able to kill them yet, so we are so anxious that it is difficult to solve the problem when we pick them up. Therefore, the most urgent task is to recruit soldiers immediately!" Zhou Shixiang knew what it was so light and heavy at the moment.

"The recruitment of soldiers has been done by the brothers from all over the world. If you have money, the young and strong in the city must be enthusiastic."

Zhou Shixiang asked a question, "What should we do if those young and strong follow us? Do we care about it? If we care, where will the money and food to support them come from? If we care about it, how can these young and strong still be willing to follow us? If we want to do big things, we can't stay in Luo Ding. What if we want to leave, what should we do if these young and strong refuse to follow us?"

"This is a trouble." Duke Xiang of Song frowned and looked at Zhou Shixiang and said, "What's your idea?"

"I just thought about the idea. If we want to solve these problems, we need to do extraordinary measures!"

"What is an extraordinary means?"

Zhou Shixiang said four words: "All people are soldiers!"

"All people are soldiers?" Duke Xiang of Song looked puzzled.

"Yes, the whole people are soldiers. I want to make the more than 3,000 men, women, young and old in Luoding City all soldiers. There are old camps, few camps, and women have women's camps. In this way, everyone is soldiers and everyone is a civilian. No matter where we go, these people will follow us, and will not be unwilling to leave their hometown because of their relatives."
Chapter completed!