Duke Xiang of Song was not wrong. What Zhou Shixiang said about "the whole nation is a soldier" is actually a disguised encirclement of the people.

What are the old camps, few camps, and women have girls, and they sound very well, but to put it bluntly, it is not a sinful means to force the people to follow in order to strengthen their own momentum!

It is not without benefits to placing the people. For example, if Zhou Shixiang could only recruit 300 young and strong men to join the army in Luoding City, then in the eyes of the Qing army, they were just a small group of Ming troops with 300 troops. Naturally, the Qing army did not take this number of people to heart, and they would not be afraid. But if Zhou Shixiang had more than 3,000 people under his command, no matter how many young and strong men were there or how many old and weak were there, in the eyes of the Qing army, they were also a large group of Ming troops with 3,000 troops!

The march of more than three thousand people is definitely more spectacular than the march of three or four hundred people. From a distance, it is dark and the potential energy is not great!

Faced with a much larger number of people than our own, the Qing army, with fewer troops, naturally did not dare to fight easily. If the other party hit the city, most of them could only shrink into the city. In this way, the crowded side could naturally continue to cope with more people in villages outside the city like locusts passing through the border, and obtain more money and food, so as to roll bigger and bigger like snowballs until they become a truly unsightly crowd. At that time, it would not be a small thief, but a large thief!

This method is not uncommon. Peasant uprisings in all dynasties have been used by this method. Not to mention the farthest, but there are big thieves such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong who have taken advantage of the people at the beginning of the uprising. By enlisting a large number of people to join the army, they have indeed defeated countless Ming troops who came to encircle and suppress the Ming Dynasty until the foundation of the Ming Dynasty was shaken. Therefore, it cannot be said that this method is completely useless.

However, Duke Xiang of Song, who had worked in the camp for two years, hated the behavior of bullying the people. He firmly opposed Zhou Shixiang's absurd means of using the so-called "all people are soldiers" to expand his power. Because he was too surprised and angry, his voice trembled a little.

"Since ancient times, no bandits can accomplish great things! The lessons of the trespass are not far away. You can't learn from Brother Hu. The method of destroying Hu is too absurd and undesirable, and you must not do it!"

Duke Xiang of Song was sincere, but Zhou Shixiang was unmoved. Instead, he said: "If we do not enslave the people, how can we quickly strengthen our strength? If we don't even have the power to protect ourselves, how can we do something big?"

It is naturally not a long-term solution to enforce the people, and it is too disadvantageous. It is easy to be criticized by others. It is easy to be regarded as a bandit and thus lose people's hearts. However, Zhou Shixiang cannot think of a better way. Moreover, his "all people are soldiers" and simple enforce the people's growth momentum are different. There must be no confusion between the two.

More importantly, what Zhou Shixiang is facing now is not whether to establish a base in the future, and a land that can continuously provide money and grain to support the long-term anti-Qing war, but the problem that the young and strong hometowns such as Luoding City are difficult to get away from!

It is difficult to leave his hometown, but the unique complex of the Chinese people for thousands of years. It is very difficult to leave a person with his hometown under the premise of inconvenient transportation and little knowledge, especially when facing powerful enemies.

If the problem of Luo Ding's young and strong man's hometown cannot be solved, it will be useless no matter how many young and strong man are recruited in Luo Ding. If the young people who want Luo Ding voluntarily follow him and Zhou Shixiang to do great things, he must solve the problem of their hometown being difficult to leave. Otherwise, all his efforts will be castles in the air and there is no foundation.

Just imagine, when one day Zhou Shixiang issued an order to go to Guangzhou, to Fujian and even further away, or decided to temporarily give up Luo Ding for a certain strategic purpose, the Luo Ding army, who was subordinate, refused to leave his hometown because he was afraid that his relatives would be retaliated against by the Qing army, and even scattered, how could Zhou Shixiang deal with it?

"I also understand the concerns of Mr., that there is no rootless water in this world, so it is only a temporary solution for the whole people to be soldiers. When we become stronger in the future, we will naturally have to open a yamen, manage the local government, and collect money and grain. This is the way to go."

Zhou Shixiang could not lose the support of Duke Xiang of Song, so he patiently wanted to convince him, "If the gentleman thinks that the whole nation is not advisable, but he doesn't know what the gentleman has to do to make those young and strong follow us? At least when the Qing army comes, they can fight to the death for the safety of their relatives, rather than scattering and running home!"

Duke Xiang of Song could not tell him and knew that this was the truth, so he could only say: "Even if you want the whole people to be soldiers, the people may not be willing to let you coerce."

Duke Xiang of Song was overjoyed by Zhou Shixiang: "So let's start with the affected people first and control half of the people in the city, so we don't worry that the remaining people will not follow us!"

Zhou Shixiang's method is very simple. He used money to buy the people affected by the disaster in the city. After these people were controlled, he could naturally use them to threaten the remaining people who were not affected. As for those gentry families, it was no problem. They could be solved at any time as long as they needed. When all the people in the city were gathered under his banner, there was no need to worry about these people turning against each other, or they would be afraid to fight in the face of the Qing army's attack.

The whole family is in the army. Can you do it without obeying orders and fighting to the death?!

"Forget it!"

Duke Xiang of Song stared at Zhou Shixiang for a while before sighing: "If you really want to do this, I can't persuade you. You should understand the pros and cons more than me. I hope you won't go astray in the future." After saying that, he looked out of the hall and said with a little worry: "I wonder how many people Zhao Sihai and the others have recruited?"

"I'll go and have a look now."

Zhou Shixiang was also concerned about recruiting soldiers. If he had not needed to raise food first to maintain the food and clothing of the new recruits and their family, he would not have let Zhao Sihai and Peng Dazhu take charge of the matter.

However, Duke Xiang of Song grabbed him and advised, "You haven't been in love for a whole day and a night. It's not too late to do the recruitment of soldiers tomorrow. You should go and have some food first and have a rest." After saying that, Zhou Shixiang refused, so he called a minor official and ordered him to ask someone to prepare some food.

When Kong Guoliang was there, there were people helping the kitchen in the yamen, and someone brought the food over.

After dinner, Zhou Shixiang listened to Duke Xiang's advice and found a room in the back yamen and wanted to rest.

After lying down, he realized that something was wrong in the room. It seemed that someone was peeping at him. He couldn't help but turn over and lift up, hold Yu Yunlong's sword tightly, and shouted: "Who!"

Inside her sight, a beautiful woman in the 28th place sat under the cabinet in front of the bed, shaking and looking at herself.

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Dear book friends, I’m sorry, I’m a good wine lover. I drank a bottle with my great master today. When I came back, I was dizzy and couldn’t stay awake. So I barely updated one chapter today. Please forgive me!
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