All the people are human beings, but everyone has all their thoughts. The so-called rice is a breeding of hundreds of people. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that a hundred people have a hundred hearts. However, on the issue of participating in the "Ming Army", most young and strong people in Luoding City collectively reached an agreement, that is, this army cannot be regarded as.

Why can't it be?

The answer is very simple - I'm afraid!

Since the first year of Yongli, Luoding City has stationed more than ten groups of troops, including Li Dingguo's army, other Southern Ming generals, and more troops who were the Ming army first and then the Qing army, such as Xu Anguo's troops, the former General of Luoding of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Of course, the Qing army coming from the north, such as the Kong Guoliang troops who were beheaded by Zhou Shi, were the troops coming from Jiangxi to the north.

If the troops stationed in the city, the military will naturally be indispensable. No matter which army, it is not that you will be a regular soldier with a knife and a gun as soon as you enter, but that you must start with the Master.

The army called the Master nicely, saying it was an auxiliary soldier, but the people didn't know which one of them was the strong men and soldiers. Only when you waited for the army to follow you for a long time, the companions who came in with you died almost the same, or if you were lucky enough to kill a head and come back, or if you had a serious shortage of the main soldiers, you would have the opportunity to become a main soldier. Only then will you be considered a soldier who is truly a soldier and cannon fodder, or you will be a master who will not be buried even if you die.

There is a folk saying that ten masters and one soldier is called "one soldier" and it means that the hardship of being an auxiliary soldier. Generally speaking, only one of the ten auxiliary soldiers can become a regular soldier. As for whether they can return to their hometown alive or whether they can make a personal appearance in the army, it depends on their own luck.

After all, there were at least thousands of young and strong men in Luoding City captured by the army and became masters. When the soldiers caught people, they said it nicely. They wanted to expand their strength to protect the country and the people. But in the end, the soldiers who often talked about protecting the country and the people were always talking about protecting the country and the people without exception, they abandoned Luoding City and ran away when the enemy came!

When they ran away, they had a hard time in the city. You must know that all young and strong people are the pillars of their families. Whoever is not behind them has old and young people? If your army says they will pull people away, what should the elderly, young, women and children in this family do?

If someone is a little kinder, he can give him a piece of money to settle his house before leaving. If someone is not kinder, he will use a whip and use a knife or a gun to drive him away. If he can't even whip, he will drag it out and behead his head. There are hundreds of young and strong men buried under the gap in the East City Wall!

In recent years, the Ming and Qing dynasties fought in Guangdong, but there was no news about the men at home. They didn't know whether they were dead or alive. The elderly, weak, women and children who had no pillars would either endure hard at home or flee with the elderly and children. But even so, they couldn't last much time. The final outcome was to sell their children and daughters, or sell themselves with a straw label. Otherwise, how could they live?

In troubled times, people are worse than dogs!

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In any place, once men, especially young and strong men who are the main labor force, will be lost in large quantities, the impact on the economy and people's livelihood of this place will be absolutely fatal. Sometimes, ten, twenty, or even forty or fifty years will no longer be allowed to repeat the prosperous scene of the past.

Luodingzhou was originally a newly established Zhili Prefecture during the Wanli period. It has mountains in its territory, its economy is backward than other parts of Guangdong, and its population is even smaller. How can it withstand the large loss of this young and strong person?

Not to mention the distance, the Zhao family, which has the largest number of land, once had hundreds of tenants farmed his family, but now there are only a dozen left. This shows how the loss of young and middle-aged people has a great impact on local people's livelihood.

In addition, the Qing army had the practice of massacre and baptizing the newly occupied Ming Dynasty territory. On the one hand, they hoped to obtain money, food and resources in this way, and on the other hand, they wanted to use this tragic means to shock the rest of the places and dare not resist anymore.

After a series of man-made disasters, Luo Ding's total population dropped from more than 170,000 in the first year of Yongli to more than 3,000 today. Even if those who fled to other places or hid in the mountains and forests, the total number would not exceed 10,000.

Luodingzhou City, which once ruled two counties and directly led one state, is now just a larger town.

With the bloody lessons over the past few years, the young and strong people in the city are not willing to be the "cannon fodder" of General Hu of the Ming army. Even if the young and strong people who were suffering from disaster at home want to take these two taels of silver, they will be hugged by his wife and children.

Although two taels of silver can solve the urgent problem, it will not last long. As long as there are men at home, they will be frugal and eat, and they will always survive when they go out to famine and beg for food. But if there is no man, the day will be collapsed!

Looking at the white-haired father and mother, looking at the despicable wife, and then touching the thin child, how could this young and strong dare to get the two taels of silver?

When people live, there is always hope. When people die, what else can they talk about?

This soldier cannot be taken, and this money cannot be taken!

Those who are truly willing to give up these two taels of silver are mostly those who are full of one person and their whole family is not hungry. The more than thirty young and strong people recruited by Zhao Sihai are such people. Apart from a few who have blood feuds with the Qing army, the rest are bachelors who have no wives and children.

They could see through it. If they couldn't live a life, they might as well fight in the army. Maybe they could become the master soldier as a soldier if they fought well. If they were good, they might even be promoted to personal soldiers by the chief general. Then they could become an officer in the future, which was much better than the current situation.

In short, the reason why Zhao Sihai could not recruit people was that the young and strong refused to abandon their relatives and went to the army to die, which was the same as Zhou Shixiang was worried about the difficulty of leaving his hometown. Of course, the Ming army has repeatedly retreated in recent years, and the situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty was not optimistic, which has affected the enthusiasm of the people to join the army to a certain extent.

If we want to solve the concerns of young and strong people, only by taking the method of being a soldier for the whole nation, as long as we include all the young and strong people and their families in the army and adopt the same method as Li Zicheng or even the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations, we can integrate people into the system in the shortest time, so that the upper and lower levels can be united and thus gain greater strength.

Zhou Shixiang didn't think much about it, and immediately asked people to gather all the affected people, and he wanted to recruit soldiers himself.

After the fire on the eve of the last day, Duke Xiang of Song demarcated the area of ​​the East City Wall for the affected people to temporarily live, and provided some food through the large households in the city. At present, most of the affected people still stayed here because they had nowhere to go.

After hearing the sound of the gongs, the victims were summoned to the city gate, either willingly or reluctantly.

Zhou Shixiang asked Peng Dazhu to move Zhang Baxian table, and stood on the table and started his recruitment speech to the confused people.
Chapter completed!