Qiming 1158

Chapter 736 The Importance of Thought Work

In the beginning, there were only more than 90 strong men who followed Zhao Yucheng to fight.

And now the number of villagers who can participate in the battle exceeds [-].

This is of course good, but with the accompanying family members, the total number of people who followed Zhao Yucheng into the Luoxiao Mountains exceeded [-]. This number actually exceeded the results calculated by Zhao Yucheng and others earlier.

But since people have taken the initiative to keep up, they can only accept it and cannot give up. They are all hope for the success of the future revolution.

Of course, it doesn't matter. With the amount of food they are currently storing, they are still enough to feed these people for a while, and the remaining gap will be filled after the bandit-occupied area is captured.

Several of the members who followed Zhao Yucheng to the south were born in the mountains, and they were very clear about the rules of fighting in the mountains. After the initial settlement of the people who followed into the mountains, they assembled a team of 800 people and started fighting.

It didn't take a few days for them to attack these bandit villages one by one, occupying these bandit villages, and found a large amount of food, weapons, livestock and money, and also incorporated the normal agricultural population in these bandit villages. .

After capturing these stockades, Zhao Yucheng and others made new discoveries.

They found that ordinary little bandits are of course poor, but one of those mountain kings is rich and oily, and a little squeeze can squeeze out a lot of oil and water.

They can cooperate with the government, do what the government needs them to do, and become an important tool for the government to ask the central court for money and grain to appease the local government. Of course, the government will also give them some oil and water, so that they can continue to be obedient, continue to work, and make money for the government. .

At that time, the money of the court will be divided into three or seven, or twenty-eight, and of course, nineteen.

All in all, both the government and the bandits have won, so for these mountain kings who have colluded with the government, going up the mountain to be a bandit is equivalent to an alternative way of getting rich.

The kings of the mountain have meat to eat, and the little bandits can also smell the smell, and they will never starve to death, and then listen to the words of the kings of the mountain, and contribute to the accumulation of wealth for the officials and the kings of the mountain like chicken blood, very happy. .

Then these are all cheap for the revivalists and the peasant army.

During the entire April when the Ming army advanced and the Song army was defeated like a mountain, Zhao Yucheng led the peasant army to "seek life" in the Luoxiao Mountains. Spanking shit.

The peasant army occupied a total of five relatively large mountain basins, killed many bandits, recruited a lot of agricultural population, and took over the foundation they left behind.

These intermountain basins are larger and can accommodate a little more people, while smaller ones can accommodate fewer people. Surrounding several high mountains, five intermountain basins are more than enough to accommodate more than 4 people.

So they started to live here.

At the beginning of life, Zhao Yucheng held a branch meeting to let the revival members pay close attention to the ideological education of these farmers and conduct very direct publicity to the farmers.

Let them know what's going on, let them know it's safe to stay in the mountains, or die.

For this task, Xu Tong understands it very well, and at the same time resolutely implements it.

Xu Tong announced Zhao Yucheng's decision to more than 800 villagers in the village he was responsible for, hoping that the villagers would understand.

The outside is really dangerous, not fake.

After the large group arrived in the mountains, Zhao Yucheng quickly identified the five mountain basins as five townships, and each township had a general manager and a team in charge to build a township peasant association structure.

He must first build the resistance organization structure in the entire Luoxiao Mountains. After the leadership organization structure is established, things will be orderly.

The five townships are named Dongxiang, Nanxiang, Beixiang, Xixiang and Daxiang according to their respective orientations.

Zhao Yucheng is in charge of Daxiang himself, as the president of Daxiang Farmers Association.

Deputy director Du Qi is the chairman of Dongxiang Farmers' Association, Wei Qiang, director of the General Affairs Department, is the chairman of Nanxiang Farmers' Association, Lu Chengren, deputy director of the General Affairs Department, is the chairman of Beixiang Farmers' Association, and Duan Yang, director of the Organization Department, is the chairman of Xixiang Farmers' Association. .

After the large organizational structure is established, the following is divided into several villages, which are generally distributed according to the villages to which people originally belonged, and there are also cases where two or three villages are combined.

Members of the Organization Department, the General Affairs Department, the Military Affairs Department, the Supervision Department, and other ministries went to the villages that had been created in accordance with the orders of the Renaissance Association branch, and served as the heads of the village peasant associations, leading the villagers to carry out production.

Time is tight, tasks are heavy, and there are many things to do. There is not much time left for each revival member. There are only more than 100 of them in total, and almost everyone holds two or three positions. It's really not easy.

Fortunately, every member is also an educated, literate, and ideological person who is not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and is full of energy, and will soon lead everyone to start building their new home.

During this period, ideological education is of course the top priority.

Especially at that time, some villagers wanted to return to their homes. They felt the difficulties and uncertainties of living in the mountains, and they missed their homes, small dilapidated houses and a few mu of thin fields, and especially hoped.

Although Xu Tong is young, he also knows the importance of ideological education.

Doing the ideological work well is better and more effective than restricting the freedom of the peasants by physical means.

This point, Xu Tong has personal experience.

When he just came out of the training class, he was assigned to a new village near the central capital, where he practiced with the former instructor.

He has seen with his own eyes that the instructor worked tirelessly from house to house, and finally explained the villagers' truth and asked them to obey the court's decision to stop planting wheat and instead plant soybeans.

As far as he knows, the Ming Dynasty paid unprecedented attention to agricultural production. It not only gave many welfare policies to encourage the development of production, but also adjusted agricultural production activities according to the actual situation. The scope of adjustment and projects far exceeded the previous dynasties.

The imperial court held a quarterly agricultural work meeting every quarter. At the meeting, the level and conditions of agricultural production in various regions were comprehensively judged, and then adjustments were made.

The meeting held in November of the first year of Hongwu decided to change some wheat-growing areas in Yanyun to soybean planting to increase soybean production.

The imperial court needed more soybeans to make tofu, press soybean oil, and brew soy sauce. It could also be used for war horse rearing and other purposes. The leftover bean dregs could be eaten by people and used as feed for livestock, which had many benefits.

For the common hit, which is generally lacking in protein intake, soy is the perfect presence.

However, because people in grain-producing areas are generally more willing to plant grain to gain a sense of security, and regard grain as something bigger than the sky, it is not easy for grain farmers to switch to planting soybeans, which has been opposed by many villagers. Can do work and can't do it.

So the instructor went to every villager's house to talk to them about the difference between grain and soybeans, and the similarities, as well as the court's plans, as well as the court's guarantee for soybean purchases and local grain prices.

When it came to the intense place, the instructor put the white strip in front of the villagers.

"The reputation of the imperial court is here. Since you believe in the white paper and are willing to use the white paper, then you must believe in the reputation of the imperial court, otherwise, isn't the white paper in your hands just a piece of waste paper?"

The reputation that the Ming court had built up by issuing baitiao over a long period of time eventually convinced the peasants.

It took more than ten days, the lips were worn out, and more than 30 households ran away, working almost non-stop. The instructor finally agreed that the whole village should switch to planting soybeans, and thus completed the handover from the superior. given task.

By the time Xu Tong was dispatched to the Southbound [-]-person team, the instructor had been promoted to the township peasant association and served as the president of the township peasant association, and his work was doing very well.

That work experience made Xu Tong very unforgettable. Now facing the dilemma that the revolution has just begun, ideological work is even more important.

So Xu Tong first began to explain from the perspective of the Southern Song Dynasty officials.

"We have all killed the officials and robbed the government's money. The government will not let us go, and will definitely send a large army here. Now I'm thinking about the land and house of the family. Once the official army comes, it will be death. Do you need proof?"

(End of this chapter)