Video spoilers history, starting with the blitzkrieg on Poland

A new curtain begins to play.

The sky screen is an ancient scene.

Although it is an ancient scene, the protagonist is a young man dressed in modern style.

He appeared at the construction site holding a loud speaker and spoke to the poor laborers around him who were wearing coarse linen clothes.

The content of the call was that it was time for dinner and they should come and eat white porridge.

The subsequent content is that the poor servants who had been eating bran and watery food every day ate the white porridge and pickled vegetables provided by the protagonist.

I was a little surprised at first.

It even felt like the last meal before execution.

But later I felt that it was so delicious and so happy!
These people, who come from poor backgrounds, work on the protagonist's construction site and have plenty of porridge and pickled mustard greens to eat every day!

This is the happiness I have never experienced before.

After eating and drinking their fill, the laborers on the construction site expressed their willingness to die for the protagonist.

They became the first group of loyal soldiers that the protagonist had after traveling through ancient times.
……

At the end of Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng saw the poor people on the sky, gathered around the construction site, happily eating rice porridge and pickled mustard.

I couldn't help but say:
"All the porridge and pickled mustard greens you can get? That's a good treat!"

"If it's a good year, this rice porridge with some unknown pickled mustard tuber wouldn't be a big deal."

"But even if it's nothing, it's still something that ordinary people at the bottom of society can only dream of."

"In this year of famine and drought, white porridge is simply a killer!"

"If I, Li Zicheng, could freely supply white porridge, then I'm afraid the number of soldiers and horses of our army would exceed 1000 million!"

After saying that, Li Zicheng took a bite of the roujiamo.

"Of course, this white porridge, or even the roujiamo in my hand, is nothing to those wealthy landlords, princes, and corrupt officials."

……

And it was at this time that Tianmu officially began to tell the story.

[In costume dramas, we often see scenes like this:]

[A young man who traveled through time and space with his own system, seemed to be able to attract countless people to join him as long as he set up a few big pots, cooked white porridge, and placed a few dishes of pickled mustard greens in a year of famine.]

[These people are grateful to him and are willing to go through fire and water for him, becoming the so-called "death warriors".]

[But in the real ancient times, was the situation really that simple? ]

[Can eating porridge and pickled mustard tuber as a food to feed a hungry person produce a group of warriors? ]

【Today, let’s talk about this matter. 】

[First we need to clarify, what is a death soldier? ]

[During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were already death squads. ]

[First of all, in a narrow sense, the death warriors are first of all scholars, and they are basically people with a certain status, such as minor nobles, geniuses, industry leaders, etc. ]

[It's not like the ordinary errand boy in the video just now that can be called a sergeant. 】

【They are not ordinary thugs. 】

[Instead, they are elite assassins or private soldiers who are willing to die for their masters. At the very least, they will take the knife for others, and at the worst, they will carry out high-risk missions such as assassination and rebellion.]

[In ancient times, many powerful people, such as nobles and powerful officials, kept assassins.]

[The purpose is to enhance one's own strength, so that one can have a trump card that can help one in a complex political struggle or a chaotic situation.]

[Then the question is - if you travel back to ancient times and want to raise a group of death warriors, and feed them with porridge and pickled mustard every day, will this method work? 】

[First of all, we must make it clear that the death warriors cannot be fooled by simply giving them a bite to eat. ]

[Although the average living standard of ancient people was low, white porridge was still a top-notch delicacy. ]

[But those who are willing to risk their lives do so either for money or for a better future.]

【Just feeding yourself is not enough. 】

[Take Mengchangjun, one of the four nobles of the Warring States Period, for example. He had 3,000 retainers, many of whom were ruthless and capable of death.]

[These people are not treated like porridge and pickles - "fish for food, cars for driving".]

[High-ranking retainers have meat for every meal, have private cars to travel with, and can even receive fiefs and salaries. ]

[Even if they were low-level retainers, they were at least guaranteed "brown clothes and food", and other benefits.]

【But it’s just white porridge and pickled mustard tuber? 】

[Unless you allow him to take unlimited porridge and pickled mustard tubers and then sell them at the market, it is unlikely that he will be loyal to you just by eating porridge.]

[From historical records, the treatment of true warriors is not just porridge and pickled mustard.]

[During the Warring States Period, Yan Zhongzi was very generous in asking Nie Zheng to help him get rid of his enemies.] [Not only did he give Nie Zheng a huge amount of gold, several hundred kilograms, as a settlement allowance, he also buried Nie Zheng's mother with great ceremony, as if she were his own mother.]

[In that era of strict hierarchy, this kind of courtesy was like praising Nie Zheng to the sky.]

[How could Nie Zheng not be moved to the point of prostrating himself and willing to work hard for him? ]

[Nie Zheng agreed to take action only after both the economy and emotions were fully utilized. ]

[Looking at the story of Xinling Jun stealing the seal to save Zhao, Xinling Jun did not just spend money to get Hou Ying's help, but also gave Hou Ying extraordinary respect. ]

【As the younger brother of the monarch, Lord Xinling has an extremely noble status. 】

[But he was willing to lower himself and treat Hou Ying with the courtesy he would give to an elder. ]

[This respect made Hou Ying feel that he was valued and respected, and he was finally willing to risk his life for Lord Xinling.]

[Also, Prince Dan of Yan State treated Jing Ke very well in order to get him to assassinate the King of Qin.]

[In addition to beautiful women, famous horses, gold and silver treasures, Jing Ke was also allowed to enjoy a life of a prince, with plenty of beef every day.]

[You have to know that at that time, beef was a high-end food that only kings, princes, generals and ministers could eat regularly.]

【Jing Ke just thought a beautiful woman's hands were very pretty.】

[Prince Dan of Yan cut off the beautiful woman's hand with a snap and gave it to Jing Ke.]

[The treatment was so high that even Jing Ke himself felt embarrassed. ]

[For example, Yu Rang, who said that a gentleman would die for his confidant, and a woman would dress up for the man who pleases her.]

[He clearly stated the reason why he became Zhibo's loyalist.]

[It was because Zhi Bo treated him with the courtesy of a great man.]

【As for white porridge and pickled mustard tuber, haha. 】

[If Zhi Bo was only fed with porridge and pickled mustard, I'm afraid Yi Rang would never risk his life for Zhi Bo.]

[Of these things that can really drive people to death, which one is relying on porridge and pickled mustard tubers? ]

【It all depends on real gifts and respect that touches people. 】

……

Outside the sky.

Early Han Dynasty.

When Liu Bang saw this, he also nodded.

"If it was me before the uprising, and I were asked to be a retainer of Lord Xinling and become his loyal warrior, I would be willing to do so."

"But the prerequisite is that Lord Xinling is also willing to serve me as a top retainer."

"If Lord Xinling only gives Liu Ji white porridge and pickled mustard greens to keep him full, and doesn't give me any other treatment."

"Then don't even think about being his death warrior."

"Even if I stay there, I won't be happy. I will definitely leave after a short time."

The sky continues.

[Looking further back, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the treatment of death soldiers was still not low. ]

[The servants that Wu Sangui kept were all his loyal soldiers. Their wages were ten times that of ordinary soldiers. They wore high-end clothes and ate delicacies from land and sea.]

[It was only with such good treatment that these servants were willing to follow Wu Sangui wholeheartedly and fight for him in the troubled times.]

[Even in the inter-clan fights of the Qing Dynasty, those "shadow warriors" who died in place of others could receive 30 silver dollars as compensation.]

[30 silver dollars was not a small sum at that time! ]

[It’s enough for an ordinary family to live on for a while. How can it be compared with white porridge and pickled mustard tuber? ]

Outside the sky, Emperor Chongzhen of the late Ming Dynasty also sighed when he saw this.

Nowadays, most of the Ming army has little combat effectiveness and can only bully the unorganized peasant army.

They couldn't even defeat a powerful peasant army like the rebels.

And in the hands of many military leaders, they claimed to have tens of thousands of soldiers.

But in reality, the only ones who can fight are the servants who are specially treated and raised.

Relying on servants to fight wars is a very bad phenomenon, as it will lead to the warlordization of the army.

How could Chongzhen not know this?

But Chongzhen had no choice but to say:

"Of course I hope that all soldiers can be combat-ready."

"But the Ming Dynasty's finances can no longer afford it."

"If an army can have several hundred elite soldiers who can fight, it would probably be considered quite outstanding." (End of this chapter)