Xinshun 1730

Chapter 166 The strong army fighting for no reason

To do business, you still have to rely on the soldiers in Liu Yu's hands.

Bai Yunhang didn't know the concept of organizational ability, but he had a vague understanding.

With the little manpower in the state capital, it is absolutely impossible to complete the state's census, field acreage measurement, and teach the technology of planting and relief grain.

Wendeng Prefecture is not too big, but at least three to 400 people are needed to be able to "power down the village", which is impossible to achieve in all dynasties.

The previous army could not reach it, but Bai Yunhang believed that these officers in Liu Yu's hands could do it.Because these officers are all from camp school or higher Wude Palace, they are literate, educated, and have accepted the discipline and practice of camp school since childhood.

"Master Liu, although I am grateful to Master Liu and hope for Master Liu's help, we can't just think about ourselves. Master Liu's military training is a top priority and should not be neglected because of this."

"Don't worry about this. The recruits recruited are all hungry and skinny, and it will take at least a month to train. Now I am afraid that they will eat too much and die. They are only responsible for the recovery of these people's diet, and not many people are needed."

Liu Yu had already thought about this matter.

Although the new army he compiled and trained had learned some of the Westerners' changing formation skills at this time, in fact, in terms of tactical system, what he really learned was the revolutionary military strategy of Lazar Carnot in France in 1791, which did not exist at this time. The new tactical system of the safety committee.

Emphasis on column change and maneuvering speed, with the most basic units of battalions and companies, the time it takes to convert a horizontal formation into a hollow formation has dropped from an average of 25 minutes to 4 minutes.

These were not created out of thin air, but the focus of the training was different. Liu Yu thought about it and modified it in practice, coupled with some Western drill regulations obtained before, focusing on mobility and change.

It is hard to say how effective the practice will be in the future.

But in terms of tactical theory alone, it must be at the Prussian level to beat the clumsy Seven Years War.The Prussian level of the Seven Years War basically represented a new level of European army theory in the next 30 years.

This is a question of thinking, and more company-level and subordinate platoon-level officers are needed.

Liu Yu trained the first batch of good family soldiers who were given to the formation by the emperor as company and platoon-level officers, and when taken alone, they have a high degree of organization and learning ability.

Now those recruits may not be able to walk on a hungry road, and the officers have learned almost everything they should have learned. It is a time when they can spare time to do some civil work for disaster relief.

The two discussed it, and this matter cannot be done in vain.Although Liu Yu could order these officers to do nothing, he didn't want to, so the state had to pay.

Bai Yunhang originally wanted to give Liu Yu gold as a thank you, but he was also happy to hear that Liu Yu wanted to pay.The yamen pays a part, and he pays another part privately. According to the calculation of 2000 taels, 400 alternate officers and alternate non-commissioned officers of the Qingzhou Army are hired.

Let Liu Yu train these officers, just seven or eight days, just learn how to transplant rice seedlings and grow sweet potatoes.

Some old farmers were hired on board, and these candidate officers who were born in battalion schools did not have the burden in their hearts that "learning to farm is something that gentlemen despise".

After discussing the details, Bai Yunhang went to get the money and asked someone to bring it to Liu Yu.

Back in Weihai, I learned from the old farmer how to grow sweet potatoes, how to dig vegetable cellars for storage, some daily management, etc., and compiled them into a book.

After waiting for four days, according to the plan made by the staff officers, all the recruits from various places have arrived.According to the plan of the trainee logistics staff, some cooks were also recruited in advance, and some nearby houses were rented as barracks temporarily.

The people in the staff squad are counting the manpower of each unit, and the recruits are all under the young and strong, but now everyone is hungry and swollen, like bean sprouts. When the navy, which immigrants, which go to work.

The remaining women and children should also be sorted out separately.

Women had to be moved or “sold” to those villages in the Songhua River where the ratio of men to women was seriously out of balance; children were also sorted out to be apprentices in the future, and the younger ones were sent to Yixue School to receive education.

A few disaster victims were crying in the distance, Liu Yu walked over to have a look, and found that they were from a group of people recruited by Mantou.

A little girl about ten years old was pulling a young man of sixteen or seventeen, hiding behind the young man.

The young man was extremely hungry and thin, but he stood up straight and stood in front of the little girl, asking the registered soldiers what the little girl was going to do.

Liu Yu thought it was the story of Amir and Gulandam, and asked the steamed bun next to him, "What's going on? Baby pro? Child bride?"

"No, it's his sister. I'm afraid we are giving the little girl to the old bustard. There was already a quarrel when we recruited."

After asking about the general situation, Liu Yu walked up to the young man.He was wearing an official uniform. Under the official authority accumulated over thousands of years, the clothes seemed to possess endless magic power. Once he passed by, the noisy young man dared not speak.

"What's your name?"

"My... my lord, my name is Zhang Hu. This is my younger sister, and that is my cousin, Dadun and Erdun."

"Why, are you afraid we won't do good things?"

Deliberately saying it was a bit heavier, Zhang Hu looked at the blue official uniform, his legs trembled in fright.

After shaking for a while, he still plucked up his strength and said: "My lord! I heard that soldiers have to be paid. I wondered, can I give my sister more food instead of paying?"

Liu Yu laughed and asked, "That's what you said. Ziming, Ziming! Come here."

When Mantou heard Liu Yu calling him Ziming, he hurried over and called Mr.

"What's the matter with you? Didn't tell him clearly? I'm running a free school to provide food and drink?"

"Say it."

Zhang Hu knew that this person really said it, and at this moment he didn't know where the courage came from, and said, "I don't believe it! Teach girls to read and write? You still need to manage food? There is no such thing in this world!"

"Bold!"

A few officers next to him scolded loudly, Liu Yu waved his hand and said with a smile, "You don't believe me?"

Being scolded by the people next to him, looking at the sharp bayonet and muzzle next to him, Zhang Hu panicked, but he clenched his teeth and said with his head held high, "Yes, I don't believe it!"

Liu Yu looked at the group of people surrounding him and asked, "Who else doesn't believe it?"

The people next to me also had a few courageous ones, and they all stood up.Zhang Dadun stretched out his hand to grab Zhang Hu, signaling not to be stubborn, but Zhang Hu threw off his cousin's sleeve.

Liu Yu counted, about [-] or [-] people who dared to stand up and said they didn't believe it, turned around and said to the officer in charge of recording: "Remember these people in a while, and arrange them directly in the navy."

"Yes!"

The officer didn't know what Liu Yu's intention was. Although he hadn't made the selection after eating, he did as soon as Liu Yu said something.

Liu Yu cleared his throat and stood on a nearby table.

"Why don't you believe it? Hmm? Is it possible that the imperial court is not credible?"

"Since you are from Pingdu Prefecture, you need to know that the state officials are called state shepherds. State shepherds and state shepherds, what is state shepherds? They are sheep herders. To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the court, you are a group of animals. Do you raise them? Over a cow?"

What Liu Yu said was ugly, but it seemed normal to these people. Zhang Hu stepped forward and said, "I raised it before."

"Yes, let me ask you then. What are you raising cattle for?"

"arable land."

"Does the cow have to be fed grass? Can't let the cow starve to death?"

"Yes."

"When you are working, especially when the farming is busy, do you have to give me something good?"

"Yes, I have to eat more ingredients when I'm working. Eggs, which people are reluctant to eat, will also be mixed into the ingredients, so eat two."

"That's it. You are all starving to death. Who is the court looking for to collect taxes? Who is the court asking for labor? Believe it or not, even if you are treated like animals, they can't starve you to death, right?"

Mantou listened from the side, and thought: "If any official is raised as an animal, that would be fine. To raise a cow, you have to mow and dry the grass, and you have to get up at night to add fodder. If you are an official If people raise the common people as their own domestic animals, then the water of the Yellow River will be cleared, and it will truly be a prosperous age.”

Seeing that everyone seems to have listened, Liu Yu said again: "In the last years of the previous dynasty, people were not treated as animals, but as oxen and horses. The soldiers were owed all their salaries, and they were only allowed to work and not eat. This dynasty really treats people If you are a beast, you should at least serve as a soldier to feed your family. If you are paid enough, your family members will also be taken care of. Now that you have served as soldiers, is it possible that you have to send your sisters and relatives to the Jiaofang Division? How can you not believe that soldiers are like oxen and horses?"

These people have no culture, but they have heard the story of the Three Kingdoms, and they know what a wooden cow and horse are.Thinking about it, it does seem to make a lot of sense.

Seeing Zhang Hu sullenly, Liu Yuju asked, "Why, you still don't believe me?"

"My lord...it's not that I don't believe it. But...but animals don't need to be literate."

"I mean, according to what I said before, the weather in this dynasty is naturally different. Although it can't be done at this time, the people will be people in the future. Literate, can people be illiterate? Now that you are recruited, you Sisters, of course you must learn to read. Give food, learn to read, and teach more people how to read and how to farm better in the future, so that there will be no so many famines and sufferings in the future. Tell me, okay? "

Zhang Huxin said that this is of course good, thinking that he is a high-ranking official, so he couldn't believe it, so he finally nodded.

Seeing that everyone else believed it, Liu Yu jumped off the table, thinking about Zhang Dadun and Er Dun, and then thinking about the word "tiger", and said with a smile: "Okay, you guys are brothers and sisters, and you want to join the army, I think How about this, I'll change your names to you. Zhang Dabiao, Erbiao, Sanbiao, this little girl's name Biao doesn't sound good, so I think she's called Zhang Simei. Well, let's go, let's go."

The work that was interrupted just now continued.

Zhang Hu looked at Liu Yu who was going away, thinking that this grown-up spoke quite differently.Thinking again, the name of Er Biao was reserved for himself, and his cousin Er Dun would have to be called San Biao, thinking that maybe what the lord said was true?

Zhang Simei didn't quite understand what was going on here, she just held her brother's hand firmly.Zhang Erbiao turned his head, squatted on the ground, touched his sister's face and said, "Nini, don't be afraid, just go with them. If you really learn to read in the future, remember to study hard."

"Brother... I..."

"Well, don't be afraid. Go, go."

I hugged my younger sister to the front to sign up, and sent it to the pile of girls in the back. Seeing my younger sister kept looking back, I finally became cruel, turned around and went to the side to register with my cousin.

In the distance, Mantou accompanied Liu Yu to a secluded place, thinking about the topic of "people" just now, he couldn't help but think of the day when he went to eat with Liu Yu for the first time as a human being.That kind of human feeling is really good, but...

But what Liu Yu said just now was too straightforward. He only said that if the court ordered the officials to treat the people as their own animals, it would be regarded as ruling the world.This is certainly true, but it is different from what Liu Yu usually taught him.

"Sir, you said that an army that knows why to fight will be invincible in the world. You said that just now, does this bastard need to know why to plow the land?"

Liu Yu laughed when he heard the words, and seeing no one else around, he said: "When Emperor Taizong was still serving as Taizu's rear camp general, he once killed a man named Yuan Shizhong. 'Xiao Yuan Ying'."

"In the 16th year of Chongzhen in the previous dynasty, the Tartars invaded Shandong, Zhejiang, and even Haizhou. Xiaoyuanying was fighting there at that time."

"There is such an incident recorded in the "Yuqian Faxia Yushi Wu Luzhong Title" of the previous dynasty. Near Haizhou, the Xiaoyuan camp killed the Tartars and fled into the city. They burned the tents of the Tartars, and the camels were injured. The pit was consolidated. Shouting for refugees to come into the trench, the soldiers wore half-green and half-red caps and said, "You people have been taken captive, and your parents want to see you. You will be rewarded with fifty cash each. Go back quickly."

"This is a matter of Xiao Yuanying. Taizong Jingxiang mentioned it more than once after that. Let's talk about the Guo Dynasty. When Emperor Taizu entered the capital, he smashed the plaque of "Respect the Heaven and Fazu" in the Qianqing Palace and replaced it with "Respect the Heaven and Love the People". Even Taizu's imperial decree is not to obey the heavens, but to 'follow the heavens and respond to people'. Not to mention that the Xiaoyuan camp was merged into the Taizu army later, do some old battalion soldiers in the Taizu army know why they fought? Do you understand fighting for 'love the people, respond to people'?"

Mantou pondered for a while and said, "Some people probably know about it and believe it."

"Yes. However, the Battle of Piece of Stone is special, so I won't mention it. What about the Battle of Tongguan after that? Do the Tartar soldiers know why they are fighting? Let's not talk about the Tartar soldiers, but the surrendered troops who shaved their heads. Don't know what to fight for?"

Mantou thought about it and shook his head.

"Although it can be said that it is for money, I understand what you mean. According to what you mean, this is not a team that knows why to fight."

Liu Yu nodded and said: "Yes. So, an army that knows why to fight and is well-trained is invincible in this world; well-trained but does not know why to fight, second; knowing why to fight but trains less, third; The next thing is not being well-trained and not knowing why to fight; the next thing is not even paying the army.”

"I know how to train soldiers, and I know why to fight. But this Qingzhou army doesn't need and has no way to know, or even know why to fight. It is still a powerful army in the world. Maybe one day they will know why to fight, and then they will also Will know who to fight. But not now."

Mantou understood Liu Yu's meaning in his heart, and also understood more meanings, so he didn't ask any more questions, and nodded in agreement.

Liu Yu thought to himself, a strong army in this day and age doesn't need to know why to fight, and doesn't even need the so-called nationalism bonus, which is not something that a so-called "modern army" must have.

The Indian-born Bangladeshi Lancers went to fight the Bali Bridge, and the Mongolian cavalry who also fought were at a loss. They were evaluated as "difficult to catch, but easy to deal with once they get close."

Indians were colonized, did these colonial armies know why they were fighting?Take the Polish soldiers and Albanian soldiers under the emperor, do you know why they are fighting?Same invincibility.

That shot of stimulant didn't have much effect, at least not as miraculously effective as many people imagined.

In this era, if a team does not know why it is fighting, but is well-trained, fully paid, has a tactical system and tactical thinking that does not lag behind, and has a sufficient proportion of officers, it is invincible.There is no need to fight for it, and it is not clear why it is fought.

At least, Qingzhou soldiers don't need to know why they fight, and Liu Yu doesn't want to teach them why they fight.A general "fight for His Majesty, worthy of military pay" is enough.

In the old era, there was no new soil for fighting, and in the new era, the emperor's changes were needed as an introduction. In Liu Yu's eyes, this Qingzhou army was raised by his stepmother, but it was just for the emperor and the court to see clearly the "outside forces" The world is already terrible, and if it doesn’t change, it will come to an end.”

Since he was raised by his stepmother, he didn't have to care so much about the quality of the soldiers, so Liu Yu gave another order to Mantou.

"Tell them again that you must ask if you are literate when registering. If you are literate, you can directly register on the Navy roster first."

"In addition, let them seize the time to hand over the officers who have completed the handover and have no new tasks, and return to the camp as soon as possible. There are other things to do."

(End of this chapter)