In fact, in contrast to these people who came to the city, many people in Tanzhou are busy leaving the city; most of them are from poor people, and most of them are small businessmen, porters, laborers, or busy travellers for their livelihoods. ; Another part is the so-called desperadoes. They have no overnight food and can only rely on a one-day household registration, almost all of them are eliminated by the sudden influx of refugees, caused by the high price of goods.
Therefore, although the government has been promoting how the grass thieves led the beasts and cannibals to possess the monsters that eat each other, they cannot stop the secret rumors among them: for example, according to the songs and rumors from the south. Not only do these "troopers" and "grass thieves" not eat people, they also give people food and salt.
Although it is said that after eating their "average" food, they will be caught in their spells and have to go with them, and they will be sent to fill the trenches. This sounds quite scary; but the so-called As the saying goes these days, "A thousand deaths are hard to bear, and one starvation is hard to bear." Rather than starve to death slowly in the city or can't bear to hang, it's better to get out of the city and have a chance; maybe there is the possibility of a satiated ghost who will die after eating.
Therefore, these people are all riding desperately outside the city gate, and the guards are also busy collecting money from the influx of people, and there is no extra time to question them; therefore, wait. After the rebels first arrived, it was easy to get relevant information about Tanzhou City.
After a brief confrontation, some songs from the rebels also began to circulate and sing randomly in the streets and alleys of the city.
"Welcome to the Yellow King, look forward to the Yellow King, the Yellow King is here and can't pay for the food..."
"Chao dengtang, twilight going to bed, the rich and powerful rob your mother..."
"Eat his mother, pass on his mother, and open the city gate to welcome the Yellow King... Eat and dress well..."
"The day seeks to advance, the evening seeks to unite. Recently, it is difficult for the poor to survive. Open the door early to worship the Yellow King, and the discipline of all people is happy."
"If you don't have to bear the burden, you don't have to pay for food, you don't have to eat the king." +
"Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine slurry, and open the gates to welcome the Yellow King. When the Yellow King comes, he will not be able to pay for food."
"The King Huang went to Jiangling, and all the debts were cleared; King Huang fetched Xiangyang, and everyone ate pigs and sheep..."
And all of this originated a few months ago. As the prerequisite and first task to win the trust of Huang Chao, Zhou Huaian needed to formulate a suitable slogan for the rebels to represent the most basic style and philosophy of behavior.
This is too simple for him. There have been countless peasant uprisings in China for five thousand years to resist tyranny and social injustice, and their related slogans will be far less.
From the original "Three Generations of the Rule" of the Xia people, "The time is mourning, let you die!" To the Qin Dynasty Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's "Prince and general, Ning has a kind of humiliation? Punish the innocent, punish the Qin.", Han The Yellow Turban Army uprising of the Last Three Kingdoms "The sky is dead, and the age is in Jiazi."
Then to the end of the Sui Dynasty, the second generation ancestor who broke the country, was blown out by the brainless emperor Sui Yang, the first emperor with great aspirations, and ruled the "Wuxiang Liaodong Wave Death Song"; or it was cruel inside and outside. In the Song Dynasty when the happiness index was blown to the sky, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun uprising's "I am sick and the rich and the poor are uneven, and now you are equal.", Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao's uprising "equalize the noble and the low, equal the rich and the poor"; Not too much.
Don’t choose the ones that are more suitable for the situation; like the slogans of the Huangchao Uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the slogans of “Tianbu equals peace” and “seeking a living for the people” are still too crude and simple, such as the average of this world. How to make up, who will make up the average, is not clearly pointed out, and it gives people too much room for brain supplement;
Therefore, it must be more practical and straightforward to understand, and it can touch the people at the bottom; the best choice and reference object is undoubtedly the Ming dynasty of the Shanzhai later generations, because of the evil politics and unemployment, they don’t want to starve to death at home. Embarking on the road of gathering people to appeal to petitions, the emperor was finally forced to hang on Jingshan, the first person-Chuangwang.
So there is a series of easy-to-sing and easy-to-understand songs and rumors including "Welcome to the Yellow King, look forward to the Yellow King, and the Yellow King is here to pay."
As for the internal slogan, Zhou Huaian mainly declared this to the students in the training center.
"There was the Tangwu Revolution before, and the Huangwang Revolution in the past and now. This is the number of days that came into being, and it is also the basic reason for my entry into the WTO..."
"We are to get rid of this decadent Datang fate and change the world to the new dynasty Ding Zuo..."
Therefore, on the Yuelu Mountain outside Changsha City, Tanzhou, one can still hear the faint singing from the camp under the mountain.
On the side of the felled monument of King Yu on the top of the mountain, it has become the commanding height of the rebels' observation of the city. Therefore, it is purposely piled up into a small high platform and the felled wood is used to build a watchtower on it.
"Cao Shishi..."
Standing on the high platform watchtower, the left-wing general Zhong Lang and the commander of the army Wang Chongyin, facing the fellow left forward general and cruising envoy Cao Shixiong.
"After listening to these songs, I think of the monk again... really an extraordinary wizard..."
"It's a pity that he feels sick and frustrated in his heart, and he has repeatedly shrugged off his unwillingness to participate in this pioneering cause..."
Cao Shixiong also sighed a little angrily.
"Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be a useful field... I tried my best to recommend him and enter my left wing..."
"Why is Meng (Kai) flying tiger in the back road, doing that thankless business?"
"If he really wants to use the field when he enters the North, the people around Huang Wang are afraid that he will be sick and troubled again..."
Wang Chongyin shook his head helplessly.
"When the two are incompatible and difficult to reconcile, Huang Wang can only make a choice that makes people invisible. After all, he is still relatively junior..."
"It's better to invite him to come and join forces after we don't leave Jiangxi all the way and play some situations alone."
In between their conversations, amidst the cheers and noises in the distance, some large objects were transported by ship from the rear along the Xiangshui River. Then it was assembled into a tall catapult outside the city of Tanzhou; this was also the siege equipment that the monk built and managed for the rebels.
Although carrying this thing on the road to march, it is really quite hard and troublesome and seriously drags down the trip; but once you encounter this kind of strong city and big city, you will completely feel that this kind of hard work and drag is worth it.
The city of Hengyang, which was previously besieged and planned to be forcibly attacked day after day, was knocked down by this thing unexpectedly. The city was shocked and full of morale, and even routinely attached (driving the hungry people into mixed currents) flooded the city. No need, just a face-to-face rush has been taken down.
This made the rebel generals who were once accustomed to relying on human lives to squeeze a sea of blood and blood, and then came to the weak army to find fighters and flaws, but for a while, they could not adapt and accept it.
However, with the second-run soldiers who rushed to the deputy director Shang Rang's command, more people were fortunate. Fortunately, the Xu monk was not able to join in this time, otherwise he would use his endless methods and skills. This kind of opportunity and good deeds to win with one effort, wouldn't it make him more prosperous and take credit for the other party
Of course, in the eyes of most rebel generals, the task of protecting the back road is more like a disguised punishment and exclusion; because according to their past experience and lessons, the people responsible for the back road often represent huge risks and troubles. ; Not only is there not much credit for destroying the enemy and the benefits of prioritizing and disposing of the gains, it is impossible to say when it will be entangled or overtaken by those wild dog-like officers and soldiers, which means that the whole team will be here. It was not or was broken up, that is also commonplace.
And now although the rebels have taken the territory of Lingnan, in most people’s minds, they still fought around in the early years to eat wherever they go, and they are better at eating at a different place after eating; instead they teach. They calmed down and learned how to govern the place and maintain a temporary order, but it was a difficult and painful thing to do.
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At this moment in Canton, Zhou Huaian, who has been talked about and boycotted, is assisting the nominal Guangzhou left-behind envoy, the left army envoy of the general’s mansion and the rear wing general Meng Wei, to deal with some personnel affairs. confusion. This sudden personnel turmoil originated in places occupied by the rebels.
The main reason is that after the rebels began to move north, the officials who were previously assigned to the local government, although they were still a little bit uneven and the dregs appeared, but also all kinds of panic and worry about the future, and even self-disorder. The situation in the battlefield; even some people have already started to abscond and abandon it consciously.
Although most of them did not do very well, it is not too much to describe them as vegetarian food corpses or more and more help, adding to the chaos; but how many also represents the establishment of the rebels over the course of several months. The authority and credibility of the people; therefore, the consequences and troubles caused by their personal resignation or chaos, it takes time and energy to clean up.
This burden is completely weighed on the troika. The only "half bucket of water" that claims to "know everything" is Zhou Huaian's body; fortunately, the cruel exploitation and unscrupulous oppression of the previous government rule has been extremely serious. It greatly expands the psychological tolerance of ordinary people and the degree to which they can tolerate mistakes; and under normal circumstances, the power of their rebel army to establish officials, no matter how they do it, it will not be worse than what the previous government did, or even more exotic.
Normally, in addition to some ridiculous domineering and nouveau-style shows and demonstrations, there are sporadic incidents of bullying men and women to satisfy their own selfish desires; or that there is not enough time for them to take the negative The impact expands to a certain extent, or the point where people can't bear it. So Zhou Huaian still had the opportunity and room to make up and adjust.
Chai Ping, who was his deputy and master book, and who still did not lose his ideals and sense of justice, became the best person responsible for leading the team to adopt specific details. There will be trials almost every three to five, and then bring back one to a few people who have been chopped off, or some people who have been tied up by five flowers. But this also brings a disguised benefit.
Because it was subsequently used to fill these temporary vacancies, Zhou Huaian used the hundreds of personnel that were carried and selected by the Shun Hand in the process of rectifying the logistics of the rebels and gathering for military use. It happened to them. After most of the work was completed, they were in a certain idle state with nothing to do, which could be used to fulfill Zhou Huai'an's promise to support and find a way out for them.
According to the previous plan, Zhou Huaian intends to eliminate most of them and join the army to do things; although most of them only have the level of being a small official, and they do not have the vision and structure of governing a place. ; But I can't help the large number of people, and after practical training, I am still familiar with the situation at the grassroots level. At the very least, they have a higher bottom line and level than the former rebel dispatching officers who had smeared eyes.
Prior to this, many of them were merely accountants and stewards of the merchants in the city. Even the humble background of a buddy and even an apprentice. Because he didn't want to be conscripted by the rebels to do hard and heavy labor, he turned to Zhou Huaian, who was recruiting people to do things, and obtained the qualifications for exemption from labor and a certain status. Therefore, the level of the special stage and professionalism can only be unsatisfactory, which can be regarded as the result of a short man.
This is because the city of Guangzhou itself is the foundation of a thousand-year-old port. Otherwise, if it is in other places, even these part-time talents who can read and count can not be extracted.
Therefore, Zhou Huaian can completely decompose and refine the powers such as county magistrates, county princes, county lieutenants, etc., and turn them into content that several individuals or small groups are responsible for; this is even more efficient than a person’s arbitrariness and authority. It is lower, but it also guarantees a certain sense of fault tolerance under the premise of increasing labor operating costs.
In this way, with six to eight director houses under the county and plural director offices in the township as the unit, the rudimentary structure of a grassroots government was built, and there was also a set of preliminary system prototypes for internal mobility and upward space.
First, start the trial operation in 11 counties under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Dudu’s jurisdiction: Nanhai County, Panyu County, Zengcheng County, Sihui County, Huaiji County, Huameng County, Lu'an County, Baoan County, Qingyuan County, Xuxu County, and Xuyang County; Then it was extended to Duanzhou, Xinzhou, Enzhou and other places on the Pearl River Delta Plain. At the very least, it is necessary to initially grasp most of the Lingnan East Road, which is relatively densely populated and has more plains.
In today's situation, it is also quite beneficial to him; he only needs to find a way to get the Lin who enjoys pleasure but tends to neglect politics after the army is gone. The left-behind deputy envoy also transfers the salt iron official and the government affairs partner. Yan; the other one who came to stay behind, Shizheng Meng Wei, focused his attention on the war ahead and the specific control of the army behind, and would basically not be aware of the "trivial things" that occurred in the operation of these places. What constitutes a decent hindrance and deliberately pay attention to it. (End of this chapter)