Qian Song

Chapter 14 The Complaint Conference
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Use gentle methods against the recruits of the Huben Army, just like the squad leader Shi Jin did to Xu Sanduo in "Soldiers Assault"?

This simply doesn't work.

First of all, Li Cun, who has been a soldier, knows deeply that there are definitely few veterans who treat recruits like Shi Jin, but they are definitely rare.

In the real military camp, many veterans have the experience of beating up recruits, especially those thorny recruits, who will be beaten by veterans in all likelihood.

Just like what the veteran who beat Li Cun said to Li Cun when Li Cun was in the army: "Don't blame me, I was beaten by the veteran in the same way, this is the rule."

Later, when Li Cun became a veteran, he also beat up recruits.

After beating up the recruits, Li Cun treated the recruits who had been beaten up by him to a drink like the veterans who had beaten him before, and then said to the recruits at the wine table: "Don't blame me, I was beaten by the veterans in the same way. Come out, this is the rule."

Li Cun's understanding of this is that this is a tradition of soldiers.

I have to admit that this tradition is dross, but it is really effective for training recruits, because fists are really easier to obey than mouths.

But this is not the main reason why Li Cun was so rude to the recruits of the Huben Army.

The main reason is that the Huben army has no time.

It's October tenth.

Wait until November 22, that is, more than a month later, will be the famous battle of the pit.

Some people may say that there is still more than a month, which should be enough for Li Cun to train a new army, right?
wrong.

Because during this period, the rebel army will also be encircled and suppressed by the private armed forces of the Xiang soldiers and officials and gentry in Qingxi County.

War may break out at any time.

Therefore, Li Cun didn't have time to slowly train the Huben army. He had to use the fastest way to make the Huben army a strong army capable of fighting.

Let's put it this way, it's better for Li Cun to beat up these recruits a few times now, than for them to lose their lives on the battlefield in a few days.

Of course, blindly suppressing it will definitely not work.

In fact, Li Cun had already arranged for He Jiu and the others to cook pancakes, stew beef, and boil the eggs they bought from Hou San and the others yesterday, and distribute one to each recruit during lunch break.

Fortunately, most of these recruits were farmers, and they were already suffering. After seeing such good food, half of the hardship and tiredness they had suffered before disappeared immediately.

When the recruits were almost done eating, Li Cun gave Zhang Shi a wink.

Seeing the signal from Li Cun, Zhang Shi took a deep breath, and then said to the people on his left and right: "You all know that my mother was born as a prostitute, right?"

As soon as the word "prostitute" appeared, it immediately aroused ambiguous expressions from all the men.

Zhang Shi didn't care, and continued to say to himself:

"My grandfather's family has been farming for six generations. He does not gamble or drink alcohol.

But just because his family is Li Yuan's family and the client does not have his own land, he has to hand over [-]% of his hard-earned farming income to Li Yuan's family, and he also has to accept various disciplines and labors from Li Yuan's family.

My mother said that her family always has unpaid debts and unpaid debts. Before the spring debts are paid off, the autumn debts will come again, and the debts will increase and the debts will be repaid. , and even paid off the debts owed by his family for some unknown reason.

When my mother was 13 years old, Mr. Li took people to my natal home to collect debts.

Because my grandfather couldn't afford the money, Li Yuanwai sold my mother to Wazili.

My mother said that her first man was a manure collector, and his body stinks.

The dung collector had never touched a woman in his life, so he took out the money he had saved all his life, went to the old bustard, and said he wanted to buy a chick.

The bustard readily agreed and asked my mother to pick up the guests.

My mother refused to say anything, so they ripped off my mother's clothes, whipped them with belts, and burned them with incense.

When my mother was tortured to death by them, she was carried into the inner room by the dung collector and ruined.

The manure digger ruined my mother for three days in a row and almost killed my mother.

After my mother was broken into a girl, she could only accept her fate and pick up the guests smoothly..."

Talking about his mother's tragic past, Zhang Shi couldn't help but shed tears from the corners of his eyes, but he still didn't know it, and he was still talking to himself.

"I don't understand why those big households occupy countless lands and don't do any work for a whole year, but they just eat well and wear good clothes. Dozens of concubines and maids live in the boss's Zhuangzi, just like Fang. Youchang, not to mention such a big lacquer garden, almost all the land near Qixian Village belongs to his family. The family has tens of thousands of grains, thousands of silks, and countless gold and silver all the year round. Grandpa has been working hard all year round, but his wife is cold and starved, and in the end, Li Dahu has to sell my mother, I can't figure it out, why is this?"

What Zhang Shi said resonated with many people!
"My situation is similar to that of Zhang Er's grandfather. The year before last, under Fang Youchang's persecution, I had to sell my daughter to a prostitute to pay the rent. My daughter is suffering in the county's wattle. As a father, I'm really sorry for her!"

"Your family is not bad, at least there are daughters to sell, but my family doesn't even have anything to sell. My mother-in-law gave me three births, and I drowned them all by my own hands as soon as they were born. I really can't support them. They, rather than letting them suffer in this world, it is better to let them go back where they came from before they know anything."

"I just can't figure it out, why am I so tired and live like a dog?"

"..."

A group of new recruits from the Huben army, you say, I say, not long after, there will be those who have truly sad experiences and cry together with Zhang Shi!
Seeing this, Li Cun looked at the "Queen Five Idiots" and gave them an encouraging look.

Sun San saw it in a daze, and stood up "Teng", and said: "My father has cut lacquered wood for Fang Youchang's family all his life, and besides felling wood, he also helped his family with other chores. You Chang's family picked eighteen large tanks of water and fell ill from exhaustion, but Fang Youchang still forced my father to cut lacquer wood. When the second tree was felled, my father lost his energy. Chopped on his own leg."

Speaking of this, Sun San's eyes were already red, but he still insisted: "When others carried my father down from the mountain, my father was already dying. He said he wanted to drink a bowl of thick porridge."

"But there is really no grain of rice at home."

Having said this, Sun Sandai finally couldn't help crying.

After crying for a while, Sun San stayed and said again: "My mother went to Fang Youchang's house and wanted to borrow a bowl of rice. The eldest lady of the Fang family said: "You can keep food for the dog and watch the door. What's the point of giving it to the dying person?" Use?'. My mother bowed and kowtowed, but the eldest lady of the Fang family refused to borrow rice. When my mother came back, my father had already swallowed his breath, and my father died...unable to eat a meal Have a full meal."

Sun Sandai couldn't go on talking any more, and wept bitterly with his head in his arms...

Then, Zhao Han'er, Kong Lengzi, Er Ganzi, and Zhang Goudan all talked about the hardships they had experienced.

Gradually, others also began to talk about the hardships experienced by themselves or their family members.

The family members of the recruits did not know when they all gathered together.

As a result, there was a grand scene where thousands of people shed tears together.

Li Cun saw that the fire was almost ready, stood up, and said, "Do you know why we live in such misery, while Fang Youchang, a wealthy outsider, lives so comfortably?"

While sobbing, Zhang Shi asked, "Why... why?"

Li Cunlang said: "In today's world, there are two kinds of people, one is the oppressor, and the other is the oppressed, and we are the latter kind of people! Countless money, countless food, countless wives, concubines, and maidservants live such a luxurious life, but we work hard all year round, but we don’t have enough food, clothing, and sleep. fruits of labor..."

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(End of this chapter)