The next day, Zhou Shixiang overslept, and Lin Wan'er didn't dare to call him. When he woke up, it was already noon. After ate a few bites of the porridge cooked by Lin Wan'er, Zhou Shixiang hurried out.

The people who transported the grain to the village came back and brought back two trucks of grain, which totaled less than twenty stones. In addition, they also brought back all the goods that Boss Hu and his team had robbed back, including hard currency such as silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, two sacks of large salt, half a bag of tobacco leaves, a bag of oilseeds, and half a pig made into bacon, two sheep that had not had time to slaughter, and many jars and jars were brought back. There were even a few straps used by women for household use. I don’t know if they were directly pulled from others or some fetish guy brought back. In short, there were all kinds of messy things, just like the stalls set up in rural markets in later generations, with a wide variety of colors.

Looking at the guys who were so tired that they were breathing heavily but had a sense of accomplishment, Zhou Shixiang couldn't scold them for making random things and brought back the useless things, but he couldn't praise them for doing a good job. He impatiently counted these "dirty dirty things" and asked someone to invite Duke Xiang of Song over, and then pulled the leading man aside to ask about the women's situation, but was told that everyone had left.

Leaving?

Zhou Shixiang was stunned, and then he remembered that he had instructed those women to leave the village. He felt relieved: those women were originally snatched into the village by Boss Hu and others, so if he had the chance to leave, he would not stay.

He asked if the little mute had left too? After receiving the affirmative answer, Zhou Shixiang sighed, feeling a little disappointed and worried: The little girl is still young, and I don’t know if there are any relatives in this world. If there are no relatives, where can she go? How can she, a little girl, survive in this chaos?

With this worry, when Duke Xiang of Song brought people to receive the food, Zhou Shixiang asked him about the specific situation of the little mute, wanting to know if the little girl still has home to go back.

"That girl was picked up halfway through the way we escaped from Xinhui last year. She was mute and covered in blood. She asked her not to know anything. She thought that her family had been soldiers, and the little girl escaped alone. Seeing that she was pitiful, Boss Hu asked her to follow everyone and act as a little maid on weekdays."

Duke Xiang of Song knew that Zhou Shixiang was worried about the little mute, but he knew only so much that he really couldn't help Zhou Shixiang.

Zhou Shixiang frowned and said, "So, this girl has no relatives in the world?"

Duke Xiang of Song shook his head and said, "If there were relatives, we wouldn't have taken her back to the village last year, so we just asked her to go home. Such a young girl, my brothers are not beasts, so how could they ruin her?"

"Then where will she go?" Zhou Shixiang became more and more worried about the little mute.

"The women in the village treat her well on weekdays, probably have left with them." Seeing Zhou Shixiang's face full of worries, Duke Xiang of Song sighed and advised him, "Okay, I know that my good brother can't bear to leave that little girl, but now we can't take care of ourselves. So what if you ask you to find someone back? Could she let her be with us for the rest of her life? Let's leave, and no matter which family will take in this girl, and raise it for two years, you can marry her after marriage. This is better than following us."

Duke Xiang of Song said this, Zhou Shixiang thought about it, so he put away his thoughts and asked him: "Have Qi Yuantai and the others sent the remaining food?"

"Gang Lu Changyuan talks back and forth and will be delivered in an hour."

Duke Xiang of Song said, commanding people to unload the food, and then register it with the account book. Zhou Shixiang couldn't help at the side, so he went to find Boss Hu.

.........

The entire area near the east gate was designated as the Taiping Camp by Duke Xiang of Song. The back camp where the elderly, weak, women and children were located occupied most of the houses, and the places where the tents were originally set up were designated as school grounds. At this time, Boss Hu was taking Ge Wu, Zhao Sihai and others in training.

"Brother Zhou is here!"

Seeing Zhou Shixiang, Boss Hu showed a cool smile, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, joking him, "Did you sleep well last night?"

Ge Wu also smiled wickedly and said, "Is that daughter of the Lin family so enjoyable? Tsk tsk, but the number one beauty in Luodingcheng, if it weren't for the elder brother and Mr. Song pointing it to Brother Zhou, the brothers would also want to be happy."

"Ahem..."

Zhou Shixiang fought, but didn't tell them about this, and asked Boss Hu how he was doing. When it comes to serious matters, Boss Hu pulled Zhou Shixiang up the city wall, and then signaled Zhao Sihai below, and bald and others to practice Zhou Shixiang for him to see.

Zhao Sihai and Bald Zi were not surprised by Zhou Shixiang's military training. They had typical characteristics of the times. The commanders of each rank were either holding whips or wooden sticks. Once the recruits did not obey their commands, they would be beaten immediately.

However, these new recruits who were still civilians yesterday were not dissatisfied with the attack, and there was no complaint on their faces. Instead, they trained very hard. Some new recruits were taller and stronger than the squad leader and the team, but after being beaten, they also laughed on their faces, and they did not dare to show any dissatisfaction at all.

This is the difference between having a knife and having killed someone and having never killed someone. Zhou Shixiang only looked at it a few times and understood why this happened. In essence, these soldiers are actually ordinary people. When ordinary people face fierce people, even if the number of people on the other side is pitifully smaller than theirs, they will habitually obey instead of resisting.

This is also the bad nature of the Han people. To put it nicely, they are obedient to the public and law-abiding and unwilling to cause trouble. To be ugly, they are timid and afraid of things. They are naturally cowardly and expect others to stand up when encountering things, but they have to be a bystander, and they are willing to sit and enjoy the fruits of their own, and they are not willing to fight for them with their own hands. Even if their relatives suffer injustice, they will also expect others to help them, instead of taking the initiative to seek justice for their relatives.

Such a mentality naturally led to countless tragedies in the history of the Han people. For example, a few Hu people, the Qing army (Japanese pirates) dared to chase thousands of people, and dozens of foreign races dared to massacre hundreds or thousands of Han people, but none of the Han people dared to resist, waiting for others to resist, but they all were killed by others.

The fundamental reason for this phenomenon is that the martial spirit of the Han people was interrupted by the artificial castration of rulers of dynasties in history, because what the rulers needed was such a brave man who dared to help the people, rather than a brave man who dared to take advantage of the situation and dared to help.

Zhou Shixiang dared not judge whether this kind of obedience national character is good or bad. At least, under the leadership of a strong man, the Han people will burst out with powerful forces, which can crush all enemies. For him, what he needed is this kind of person, not the kind of brave man who dares to resist injustice at any time. It is very simple fact that if everyone on the field of the school below dares to be dissatisfied with Shangguan's whipping and resist, then the soldier will no longer need to be recruited, let alone practice, and it is useless to practice. The army takes obedience as the first principle, what battle can an army that does not obey orders fight!

The training is very simple. The team holds a small flag in their forehand. The flag is rising up and moving forward, the lower finger is stopping, and the cross-swing is running. Apart from this, there is no other movement, and even combo, chop, or prick are not trained. This surprised Zhou Shixiang. He thought that Boss Hu and his team were fighting and scolding, and they were asking soldiers to shout with swords and guns.

Seeing Zhou Shi's face confused, Boss Hu couldn't help but smile and said, "Does Brother Zhou feel like a joke?"

Zhou Shixiang didn't speak, he was considering what the purpose of only practicing these three movements was.

But Boss Hu had already explained to him, and he said, "Brother, I have worked in the army for a few years. I know how to train soldiers. Brother Zhou also said that what we need now is that these soldiers can listen to us, so I asked them to practice these three movements. If they want them to go forward, they will go forward, they will stop, and they will run away as long as they understand the banner and know how to act according to the banner. As for other things, hey, there is really no need to practice. We practiced, we have been fucking for ten days, half a month or even half a year, and they are still useless on the battlefield."

"Why is this?"

Zhou Shixiang was surprised. He was able to go to the battlefield after training for three months in his previous life. Why did Boss Hu say that the following people could not go to the battlefield even after training for the first half of the year?

"This soldier was killed by real swords and guns, not just by practicing some flower racks. In the past, the old prince was impatient to ask the soldiers to tie a wooden stake and chop it up there, but directly caught some prisoners and prisoners and let them stab them directly. Don't say it, it's a bit ruthless, but as long as this soldier is exposed to blood, he will not be afraid when he goes to the battlefield in the future, and he will not be dizzy. If he rolls a few times in the pile of corpses, he will be veterans, all of whom are elite!"

Boss Hu was very energetic when he talked about the past, "Just say I didn't know anything back then, and I relied on some skill to get through the army. I really didn't know anything in the army. Shangguan didn't teach us anything. When the war was heard, the cannon sounded, and he rushed forward with a knife. He couldn't kill the fortune-telling. He deserved it. When he got close to the enemy, he learned from the veterans. If the veterans got out, we would get out. If the veterans cut us, we would cut us. The veterans ran away, and we would run away. After a few times, I became a veteran, and then the old prince chose his personal soldiers. So, this soldier was not trained, but was killed by real swords and guns. You are just a fool. You have seen it on the battlefield several times and know how to save your life and kill people."

Boss Hu was stunned by what he said. What kind of army is this? I suddenly remembered that Li Chengdong seemed to be Gao Jie's subordinate, and Gao Jie was from Li Zicheng's peasant army. After such contact, I realized that Li Chengdong's army still used the method of bandits back then. Why could his soldiers be fought? They were all truly escaped from death, and it would be strange if they could not be fought!

Unfortunately, Li Chengdong was eventually defeated, which proved that his set of things was useful when facing the Ming army that was weaker than him, but when facing the Qing army that was stronger than him, it was useless when facing the Qing army that was stronger than him. In other words, the army of this era was not comparable to who was stronger or who was more organized, but who was more scumbag.
Chapter completed!