In Xunyang City after the war, there are not many traces of the original residents. The streets are full of all kinds of rebels who stand or stand in groups, or are swimming in groups. Soldiers: Most of the shops along the street were open, but there was a mess and mess, and only some volunteer soldiers came and went or occupied it during the period.
I immediately asked Zhao Zhang a little bit, only to realize that he had followed the Taiping Army’s early men’s and women’s separate camp system, and had banned and managed the remaining civilians in the city elsewhere. Well, at this moment Zhou Huaian didn't know how to complain.
It is important to know that the male and female division system under the military management of the Taiping Army in the early days was mainly designed to quickly control and use the human resources in the newly occupied cities within the calculation time, at the expense of a certain degree of efficiency and mobility. Expedient.
In this way, when the Taiping Army was engaged in an offensive, the men were assembled to provide the corresponding labor transfer, while the women stayed in the rear cities to accept collective arrangements or household assignments in exchange for rationed food. Supplies
In this way, with limited resource input and management costs, there is not much room for people to stir up chaos in the rear, and the young people who provide assistance in the front are also tied, and for the sake of the family, they can endure hard and heavy labor. Will not easily escape or rise up against chaos.
However, as the resources that the Taiping Army could mobilize in the later period gradually increased, the manpower of the bottom management was supplemented one after another and the division of labor of many occupations was refined, the objects of this kind of management were gradually reduced to specific professional expertise and categories.
Therefore, although there are still women's camps, they are mainly listed in the logistics department. It is specially used to house the families of the rebels, both old and new, as well as to accommodate widows and widows displaced by the war; and even recruit some local women to work, and use long-term or short-term labor to make money to subsidize the family.
However, if you think about it for a moment, this rudimentary and rudimentary system really fits the style of a peasant rebel army with strong mobility like Huang Chao. At least in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in later generations, the original Taiping Army took it from a corner of Jintian Village to quickly seek Chinese learning and move to more than half of the Yangtze River, and finally one of the important reasons for the advancement of Nanjing as the capital.
In addition, among the current Huang Chao's troops, there are actually other traces that are obviously or not obviously imitating the Taiping Army. For example, the logistics system of the Grand General's Mansion is obviously relatively concentrated and detailed. Among them, there are many things that Zhou Huai'an personally created in Lingwai, and then inherited and changed its appearance;
Among them are the workshops dedicated to managing various craftsmen, raising materials, and simply repairing armors; and the aftermath camp where all the wounded are treated and recuperated in a unified manner.
For another example, although they did not directly copy, the Taiping Army has clearly established the sacred treasury system of the team; but they also imitated similar models and principles under the name of the Duzhi Envoy, and made a rake on the seizure of all the horses under their command, and then carried out a new one. The so-called "junction method" of distribution, withdrawal and adjustment.
And under the hand of Zhao Zhang, the right branch envoy of the General's Mansion, there is even an establishment of the Changping Division and the Commissioner Yuan. At first glance, the former is the set established by Zhou Huai'an, which exchanged information among the various branches of the rebel army and held regular flea markets.
The latter is dedicated to doing business within the Rebel Army, which is obviously similar to the number of channels in the Taiping Army's supply and marketing system at all levels; but it is much more diverse in categories. In addition to the sale of traditional tea, wine, salt, vinegar, sauce and rice cloth, it also includes some part-time craftsmen in the service industry; and even the public prostitutes and official troupes of the army, who specialize in the business of skin and meat in the army.
Obviously, the peasant army led by Huang Chao is not ignorant of the workaround and finding shortcuts in the difficult and dangerous environment that has repeatedly failed after going north.
Of course, according to the development trajectory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the later generations, once the upper strata began to covet the ease and prosperity and stayed down and did not entertain, and in the mutual comparison of large-scale civil and extravagant things, one after another from top to bottom would be seized into the sacred treasury of the public and on-demand. After the system and the division of men and women to do their best, the valuable lessons and precedents that were relied on for development and growth at the beginning have been destroyed; it will inevitably lead to an infinite cycle of ultimate decline.
I don’t know how far Huang Chao can go with these things in this misplaced time and space; at least he won’t be able to enter Chang’an for a few years in the future; he obviously has hundreds of thousands of accounts in Beijing, but he’s caught up in it. At least few people can be used or even in the predicament of all enemies.
After passing through at least six newly erected bamboo shed color buildings, and Sandao deliberately renovated and strengthened decoration, and stood full of armored soldiers and the endless guards of the city gate; Zhou Huaian finally arrived in the west of Xunyang city. North Point, known as the largest garden in Hecheng.
This is also the famous line made by the famous poet Bai Letian of the previous generation-"The Trip to the Pipa". The master of the background story, Chen Zhifan, a big tea merchant known as "paying more attention to profit than parting", set up the garden-"Guang Paradise".
It is said that after "Pipa Xing" gradually became popular in the world, he didn't care about his concubine's private handover story, but instead minded the Qingshan Sima Bai Letian's evaluation of "Xunyang is secluded without music"; The garden was renovated and expanded. He also widely placed the singer and beauty in it, and invited the literati and music everyone to travel to the mansion, singing and composing thoughts that it was famous for this to have the temporary reputation of this Guangyuan.
In front of the aconite gate in the garden, there have been several rows of flag banners, yak festivals, thatch caps, spear halberds, axes, melon hammers, and other ceremonial wars, which are held high in five directions and colors; Hang the color horse, and be the owl guard of the black-clad yellow cedar. It is said that this is a story that imitates the emperor of Chang'an University.
And on the fences on both sides of the door, there are newly built big sheds; through the curtain of colored silk, you can see musicians in scarlet shirts sitting in vertical rows, playing some kind of unknown high pitch. , Cheerful tunes.
After seeing the arrival of Zhou Huaian and his party on horseback, the lively sound of silk and bamboo lingering on it was rushed to a halt, and it was replaced with a heavier, high-pitched sound of bells, dings, and stones. It's like the illusion that people have suddenly entered a certain kind of wealthy palace.
After arriving here, Zhou Huaian gave his companion Xu Yi a wink when he got off his horse; he also took the order without changing his mind, and greeted the soldiers who had come together to stay on the opposite side of the gate. In the rest area, surrounded by a few special carriages, sat down facing the owl guards.
In the open and transparent hall on all sides, surrounded by the old and new faces and stars like the moon, Zhou Huaian once again saw Huang Chao, the commander of the million domestic rebel army, a soaring general and a generation of anti-king. The gravedigger of the last dynasty of the Tang Dynasty.
At the beginning, the rough old farmer was generally heavy and simple, and had been worn down and replaced by the richness of silk and brocade, and he looked a little old and thin.
It’s just that on the face that is obviously overworked, such as furrowed eyebrows and forehead lines, the expressions of the revealed eyes are still sharp, sharp, and deeper and more serious; while inadvertently gently turning and looking forward, and It is full of compelling meaning that seems to penetrate people's hearts.
Obviously, after this time of major setbacks and turning points, he has further transformed and matured; and has become more and more of the unpredictable tolerance of the traditional upper class and the profound city government that is difficult to guess.
I saw that Huang Chao slowly got up, in an indisputable voice, before the doorman who sang the newspaper was born, he greeted in public:
"Brother Xu is here. This is the blessing of my volunteer army..."
As soon as these words came out, they once again set off a low voice in the audience, and they turned into low and unstoppable discussions.
After all, as his subordinate Ma Yizhong became more and more powerful, the old people who could make King Huang publicly call "Brother X" are more and more handful; but I didn't expect to fall into this early days, but they are already quite a bit too late. The newcomers are on top of the virtual monk.
Then someone suddenly looked sideways at all of this, and said to himself calmly as if he was awakening from a dream; this little-known virtual monk had jumped above most people and became even the King of Huang. Are you going to be polite in public
"The King Huang is really too acclaimed. Compared with Wang Shangxing's uprising, the rebel masters cleaned up the world and made up for the people's lives and the people, I was just starting out..."
And Zhou Huaian also changed his mind to several flashes, and responded sincerely and enthusiastically.
"So this time I brought 50,000 stones of rice grains and 30,000 pieces of cloth and silk, and I would like to do my part for the general trend of the rebels..."
Then, amidst unexplained exclamations and discussions, he looked at the many familiar faces present; this time I am afraid that Huang Chao's generals, subordinates, and staff can gather the most complete occasion. , I don't know what kind of existence will Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
One of the functions and meanings of his taking the risk to come personally this time, apart from propagating and demonstrating that the main contradiction has been shifted; it is to take the opportunity to dig a corner of the yellow nest with his hoe. After all, now that he has both a territory and an army, he is already enough to become one of the candidates in the usual sense to choose good trees to live in.
According to the previous encounters of Zizhou Huai'an and the historical records of later generations, the peasant uprising in the early days of Huangchao was simply the later Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms contending for hegemony. The soil and seedbeds where the emperors, generals and ministers lurked and hung.
But right now it is a more suitable opportunity and pass. If it is earlier, it may not be that the opponent has a lack of understanding of his side and look down on him, or he may have the hind legs of the Rebel army and may further turn himself into enemies, and may even lead to the risk of his career failing and overturning.
And if it were later, once the Northern Expedition with Huang Chao's power-breaking bamboo began, how many people were willing to give up what seemed to be a great momentum of marching, staying or turning to join the Taiping Army would be totally hard to say.
In contrast, this node is more suitable right now. Huang Chao's main force has just gone through the loss of a tragic battle, so many people who can survive are talented and lucky. Then it expanded dramatically in a short period of time, and became "a large number of people" and "a great momentum" again.
At this time, digging corners and pulling away some individual people will appear relatively hidden and inconspicuous; in other words, not everyone can realize the value of the corresponding person; in this way, even if it is detected and discovered by others, The backlash and doubts encountered are not so obvious, or it is easy to make people jealous.
And the specific screening and wining of talents who may be in the future, or even things like Shien and the other party, obviously can't casually fake others.
And hearing Zhou Huaian's response, Huang Chao was surrounded by a few people who were holding their minds or tensed their bodies, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and exchange a few glances with each other;
Since the other party can lower his body and posture face-to-face, it also means that under this initial tone, there is room for further negotiations and good balance. Regardless of how things change and develop in the future, at least the immediate benefits and benefits can be captured first.
"Brother Xu is really interested... and thank you for many sons and sons..."
Huang Chao also exclaimed in admiration that he described the same but slightly satisfied. (End of this chapter)