The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 53 Recruiting Soldiers
Liu Tai successfully captured Xindu and immediately killed Wang Bin to intimidate the local area.

Then he led the troops to seize the arsenal and granary of Xindu, asked the local aristocratic families who supported Wang Bin the most, and then led the troops into the Wubao without saying a word, massacred his entire family, and set a fire along the way, completely destroying Wang Bin. The fort was burned to the ground.

After doing this well, Liu Tai asked Zhang Bin, who was barely considered a local, to take the invitation to the local aristocratic family, saying that I am a very reasonable person and wanted to talk to everyone. I hope everyone can give it to Liu. A thin noodle.

Zhang Bin looked at Liu Tai's orderly and sharp methods with a look of surprise, but Zhang Bin did not refuse Liu Tai's order.

After all, he was born in Zhao County and has some influence in Jizhou. If he dared not say anything about his other abilities, it would not be difficult if he just said a word.

"The next step is to release the prisoners, and then sell Wang Bin and the fields stolen from that family in exchange for soldiers!"

Chu Hui had followed Liu Tai to attack Yecheng before, and he knew Liu Tai's tactics when he was leading the troops alone and had the power to make decisions.

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded and said, "With the help of Mr. Chu and Jun Zuo, at least we will be more calm than in Yecheng back then!"

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but sigh: "The general's power is much greater than a few years ago."

Chu Hui did not persuade Liu Tai not to massacre the wealthy families who supported Wang Bin, because Chu Hui knew very well, because Liu Tai did not want to rob people by force when trying to appease people, but more importantly, he wanted to use these wealthy families through profit transactions. Take it back.

But the problem was that Liu Tai really didn't have anything in his hands. Naturally, among the many local aristocratic families, they picked the one who supported Wang Bin the most and killed him.

After all, conquering the world is not about treating guests to dinner. Since you have chosen to take sides, you must be aware of it.

He took advantage of the situation and slaughtered one of them. The local nobles were saddened by the death of rabbits and foxes, but they were more afraid.

But as long as he doesn't kill randomly without eyes, then the power of the entire Xindu will not come back to bite Liu Tai.

To be honest, with the army in hand, there will be backlash, but the problem is unnecessary. I can fully seize the resources needed, so why do I need to get to this point.

Next, Liu Tai sent his military commander to appease the captured local county soldiers.

Tell them about the glorious history of the Han Dynasty, the rule of Wenjing and Xiaoxuan during the Han Dynasty...

Then let them talk about their own sufferings. Only when they talk about their sufferings can they help you!

Some people are forced to seize land by powerful powerful people, some people are treated as slaves by aristocratic families, some people don't even have a mother-in-law...

All in all, after Military History accompanied them for a heart-to-heart talk, he told them why they were living in such misery. It was not because the Sima family members became emperors.

They themselves swore by Luo Shui, but in the end, they did not take the oath, and even plotted to usurp the throne, which led to the unjust rule of the country and the proliferation of monsters. It was the monsters owned by the state, and the Jin Dynasty was bound to perish!
It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it doesn't matter if it's false or not. What matters is that these soldiers who didn't study much resented the Jin court.
Of course, there must be diehards inside, but Liu Tai doesn't care. At the same time, Liu Tai started to pay severance pay.

Liu Tai directly said that if you want to join our army, you can naturally join the army. If you don't want to join the army, you can also take the severance payment and leave. As for the severance payment, thank you for the friendly support of the powerful and powerful family.

But one thing needs to be made clear. If you join my army, you will have to leave Xindu and venture outside.

Therefore, some local people with families and clans basically chose to take their money and leave instead of staying in Liu Tai's army.

Liu Tai had already anticipated this, so he placed a large amount of five-baht coins and grains obtained from his house raids in front of the soldiers, arranged for ten groups of people to distribute them, and then opened them generously. Enter the gate of the prisoner camp.

Liu Tai said, "Next, you guys come over here and you can go home after receiving your severance pay. We big men will always welcome you!"

These prisoners stared blankly at the grain and five baht coins in Liu Tai's hands, with a bit of disbelief in their expressions.

Because they didn't expect that Liu Tai would let them go and even let them wait for someone to go home.

When the prisoners walked out of the military camp one by one with money and food, they even thought that they would not survive. However, they did not expect that Liu Tai's army spared themselves and others, and even gave them severance pay. This is simply incredible. !

Faced with Liu Tai's operation, Chu Hui did not stop him, because Chu Hui knew very well that the wealth looked like wealth, but in fact Liu Tai could not take it away.

Especially after preparing to recruit soldiers in Xindu, they have to go back to Yecheng to face Wang Kan.

Under such circumstances, there is nothing better to do with the wealth than to use it.

Let alone Liu Tai's actions, at least one effect can be exerted, that is, when Liu Tai is allowed to negotiate with other aristocratic families, Liu Tai's goodwill will be further released.

A man with military power who is willing to release goodwill is naturally the best thing for the local aristocratic family.

Because the aristocratic family class really exists based on rules. No matter how bad the rules are, they are better than a reckless man who doesn't follow the rules at all.

Liu Tai's release of these prisoners showed that he was a rule-abiding person.

At most, his rules are unfamiliar to the local aristocratic families and it takes time to adapt, but the aristocratic families' ability to adapt to the rules is after all very strong.

And almost in the evening, Zhang Bin, who went to send invitations to his family, also came back.

He saw some captured local soldiers walking in twos and threes in Liu Tai's military camp, which made Zhang Bin quite confused as to what was going on.

After all, no matter what Zhang Bin thought, he had never seen an enemy soldier receive severance pay after being captured.

This made Zhang Bin and his men rush to the military camp quickly. When they arrived at the location, they saw Chu Hui taking the military history to register the surrendered soldiers who were willing to stay.

After Zhang Bin saw Chu Hui, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "I don't know what happened. Have all the captured Xindu soldiers been released?"

"The general is kind-hearted and has indeed given these soldiers severance pay, which has allowed a large number of soldiers to leave. Of course, there are also some soldiers who are willing to stay and join our army. There are about 600 people!" Chu Hui said, "Registration is in progress. book!"

Zhang Bin looked at the scene in front of him and asked the doubts in his heart, but said:
"Isn't the general afraid that these people will be recruited again by the Jin army and then fight against our Han army?"

"Don't worry about this!" Chu Hui smiled at this time, and then said, "There are roughly two types of people who go back, those who have family members and those who do not.

If they find that their family members are gone, they may come back to us again if they have nothing to worry about.

There are two types of families: one is a clan and the other is a single household.
If it is from a clan or aristocratic family, you have already summoned the local aristocratic clan to come over, and then you can just negotiate the price.

If it is a single household, then he must have been forcibly recruited. As long as no troops occupy Xindu in a short period of time, he will not be forcibly taken away, and naturally he will not be an enemy of our army.

As for how to deal with it, that is a matter for the people who will govern Xindu in the future and has nothing to do with General Liu.
After all, everything has to wait until the cavalry general Wang Kan is defeated. "When Zhang Bin heard Chu Hui's words, he saluted Chu Hui solemnly, and then said, "General Liu is indeed benevolent and righteous. "

Chu Hui was already accustomed to Liu Tai's operating mode, even this kind of raiding the homes of local aristocratic families in the occupied areas, and then decisively distributed part of the proceeds from the raids to the soldiers, and part of them was used as severance expenses for the prisoners.
Of course, the most important thing is to obtain land deeds from local wealthy families. These will be used as bargaining chips in transactions with local clans and families.

However, during wartime, this kind of land lease cannot be kept by the people of a single household. The only way to keep it is through collective strength.
At the same time, local aristocratic families, wealthy families, and powerful clans also had a tradition of keeping slaves.

Especially during the Western Jin Dynasty, the aristocratic family almost reached its peak. Even in the census, the slaves in the hands of the aristocratic family were not included in the normal population.

For the local aristocratic family, when Liu Tai proposed a land replacement, even ten acres of land, let alone a hundred acres of land, was cost-effective.

After all, the world is in chaos now, and people are fleeing everywhere. People themselves are only worth a few dollars.

What they are really thinking about is whether to take advantage of this time to invest in Liu Tai himself.

For example, he directly asked the literate concubines in his family to join Liu Tai's army.

At worst, if you donate more money, you can become a low-level officer as soon as you get in, or even the boss around Liu Tai.

Rather than come in and be a big-headed soldier, after all, big-headed soldiers are too dangerous.

Therefore, Liu Tai was willing to come up with the suggestion of replacing the farm owner, and basically all the local aristocratic families agreed.

And because of this operation, the field price can be grasped more accurately, and the price can even be further reduced.

The local nobles did not feel that Liu Tai himself had suffered a loss.

They more or less understood that even if they only traded one or two people, they would at least recognize Liu Tai's rule over Xindu.

If they don't listen to Liu Tai, they will know very well where Liu Tai's fields come from.

Therefore, those who were willing to invest in Liu Tai threw a few literate branches into military history. Those who were unwilling to invest in Liu Tai followed suit and traded slaves for farmland. At least they would not lose money.

Liu Tai just watched these silently and didn't say much.

Because to some extent, these fields can be regarded as the fields where they bought their lives, or became the ransom fields for their freedom.

It doesn't matter what kind of field it is, at least recruiting these soldiers in this way can reduce their resistance.

This is very important to Liu Tai, as it can reduce his management costs.

And for people who come in this way, it doesn't mean that they won't become deserters, but the probability of becoming deserters is much smaller.

At least for Liu Tai, it basically only takes a week. If they can adapt to it, they will basically stay.

If they can't adapt, they won't be able to return home if they don't have family members, and if they have family members, their tribesmen won't want to spit out the land they've already obtained.

On the contrary, here you have food to eat and comrades in arms. Although the training is hard, it at least gives you a way to survive in troubled times.

Through this method, Liu Tai recruited about 2000 people in Xindu. Counting Liu Tai's original army, it was directly expanded to 5000 people.

This forced Liu Tai to dismantle the organizational structure of about 500 people and reorganize these new recruits.

Of course, the real headache for Liu Tai is the insufficient number of military historians. The only thing to be thankful for is that military historians asked them to cultivate successors at the beginning. Now they can only bite the bullet and let these people bear the burden first. I hope they can practice at the same time. , while learning.

At the same time, Liu Tai also began to conduct basic training for these 5000 people, including physical fitness, organizational skills, discipline...

At this moment, Liu Tai couldn't bear to use one day as two days, but the final result was that they could only follow the veterans in their team.

To be honest, Liu Tai didn't know how useful it could be during the war.

But this process will eventually take place, and it is impossible for our own army to never expand.

Now I can only believe that the way in which the camp commanders I established are responsible for cultivating military skills and the military history is responsible for the ideological construction of the Han Dynasty can really play a role. I don’t expect them to play a big role and not cause trouble in wartime. That’s it!

However, God did not give Liu Tai much time. In less than ten days, Shi Le sent a messenger to ask for help. Wang Kan, the general of the Jin army's cavalry, had already crossed the Yellow River.

Without any hesitation, Liu Tai took five thousand soldiers and set off immediately, heading straight for Wei Commandery's location.

This time there was no need to travel day and night, but he rushed to Wei County as quickly as possible. Tian Zhen came to Liu Tai with about a thousand soldiers.

At this moment, Tian Tian looked at Liu Tai with a bit of joy, and then said with a bit of sadness:
"After Wang Kan led his army across the Yellow River, Ran Zhan cooperated with him inside, and General Shi Le suppressed him from outside. The beggar army was recruited by General Shi Le.

Now the only people around me who are willing to stay and follow the general are left! "

"Oh!?" When Liu Tai heard this, he patted Tian Tian on the shoulder and said, "Soldiers are more expensive than fine ones. I will give you another 2000 people, so you can find a way to disguise yourself as 3 people and make a big fanfare. Everyone knows it, and as a pioneer, I continue to join Shi Le."

"What do you mean, general?!" Tian Tian couldn't help but feel a little confused.

"Pretend to be the reinforcements of the King of Chu!" Liu Tai said solemnly, "I will give you the weaker troops in the army, and then lead the elite to join General Shi Le. The Jin army thought that we would wait for the main army to join forces. When the decisive battle comes, launch the decisive battle decisively so as to catch the opponent by surprise."

"Tian Zhen understands, Tian Zhen will walk slower!" Tian Zhen thought about it and said to Liu Tai.

Zhang Bin listened to Liu Tai's words, but his expression was inevitably a bit surprised.

At least in Zhang Bin's view, Liu Tai created a decisive battle opportunity almost out of thin air and maximized his own chance of victory.

What a natural star!

Along the way, Zhang Bin couldn't help but sigh.

　One update today, no need to wait any longer, we will continue to pay off the debt tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)