Chapter 37 Customization
The next morning, Chen Wen got up while yawning to attend the daily meeting of the old camp. In the past few days, Chen Wen had already begun to adapt to the routine of the Ming Dynasty's work and rest, but he couldn't stand the strategy of military affairs to the three officers last night until late at night.
In fact, Chen Wen did not talk about anything difficult, but just took out the theory of military restraint that he had previously told Li Ruixin and said it again. Not to mention Li Ruixin, he had heard of it, and Wu Dengke and Yin Yue's ability to accept is completely different.
Although Yin Yue, who is nicknamed Ergou, is quite clever and absorbs theories proposed by Chen Wen very quickly. Although his acceptance speed is slower than Li Ruixin's acceptance speed that day, considering that Li Ruixin was once Huang Degong's personal soldier, his father also became a guerrilla general, and Yin Yue was just a layman who had just met the army, it seemed amazing.
This made Chen Wen quite doubt whether Yin Yue's parents had been napping when they gave him nicknames. This guy clearly should be called Yin Houzi.
In contrast, Wu Dengke's ability to accept is much worse. In Chen Wen's impression, last night, he seemed to be breaking apart the basis and changes of this theory, but Wu Dengke's head was always like a solid one, and he couldn't get in without saying anything. It was not until late at night that Chen Wen and the other three had already yawned and he began to touch the door.
Fortunately, Chen Wen had expected this. After all, he had already seen it when he taught "Zuo Zhuan" to Wu Dengke over the days, and now he only hopes that he can take out the hard work he has listened to "Zuo Zhuan" and study this more professional knowledge.
When Chen Wen arrived at the central army hall, everyone was already approaching. Seeing Chen Wen arrived, Wang Yi introduced him to everyone present, and these officials also stood up to greet Chen Wen, and even Chu Suxian did not show any abnormality.
After sitting down, Chen Wen began to observe the people present carefully, and only felt that the officials in the old camp of Dalanshan were getting younger and better.
I saw that most of the people here were about thirty years old, and the youngest one should be Sun Yu. Of course, if you consider this guy's identity as a young man from the Ming Dynasty, it would be better not to count it, so as not to be slapped in the face.
The oldest among them is Chu Jiuru, the clan brother of Chu Suxian, the ambassador of Yinkuku. He is about fifty years old and always feels like a peacemaker. However, this peacemaker has the position of Shaoqing of the fifth-rank Honglu Temple, which is higher than the Honglu Temple Chief Wang Yi arranged for Chen Wen a few days ago. This is actually related to the work of the welcoming and sending him to contact other rebels and local gentry officials near Siming Mountain.
Today's topics are almost all linked to the newly-organized battalion head in Chen Wen's hands. Although the number of troops in this battalion is only half of the other battalion heads, this is the sixth battalion of the Ming army in Dalanshan, so it is of great importance. Therefore, Wang Jiang asked all departments of the Fifth Division to cooperate with Chen Wen's establishment work and ensure the military preparation and supply of Chen Wen's troops. The officials involved also said that they would cooperate with all their strength and would not let down the high expectations of the Strategic and Deputy Constitution.
Subsequently, Wang Yi announced the decision to compete with Chen Wen's camp and the central camp one month later.
After getting this information, whether it was the civil servant Chen Tulun who was temporarily in charge of the Central Camp, or the two guards who were responsible for the daily defense of the Old Camp, they began to look at Chen Wen carefully. The meticulousness seemed to be to make Chen Wen's body clear several hairs. The guard who was pointed to the name had a hint of hostility, because he knew very well that this game would not be too glorious, and if he lost, he would even lose all the face of the Central Camp.
After the regular meeting, Wang Yi pulled Chen Wen to chat for a while, which was actually just an encouragement to Chen Wen, a new employee of the Dalanshan Office of the Lujianguo Branch of Daming Group.
After coming out of the central army hall, Chen Wen rushed back to the military camp. According to convention, after attending the regular meeting organized by his superiors, he would hold regular meetings for his subordinates.
Looking at the three thousand generals and two documents under his command, Chen Wen, as a guerrilla general, ended the regular meeting with just one sentence. "You continue to do what I arranged yesterday." Then, there was nothing else.
After the regular meeting was over, Chen Wen immediately led his horse and took two more honest soldiers down the mountain, heading straight to the town where he once bought the four treasures of the study.
After entering the town, Chen Wen went to the calligraphy and painting shop first. The shopkeeper was still the shopkeeper, and the guys were still the same guys, but they could no longer recognize Chen Wen. It was not that Chen Wen went to South Korea for plastic surgery, but that he went out wearing that set of mountain Wen armor today, which had already blinded the krypton-gold dog eyes of those people in the calligraphy and painting shop.
When the shopkeeper remembered that the general in front of him was a scholar who had bought things several times, Chen Wen had already left after ordering the goods. The shopkeeper wiped the cold sweat from time to time. Obviously, he still remembered his plan to kill customers, so he ordered his subordinates without hesitation to complete Chen Wen's orders on time and ensure quality.
After leaving the calligraphy and painting shop, Chen Wen found a silk shop again. As Chen Wen's identity, he could apply for the things he needed from the cloth warehouse in Laoying, but Chen Wen learned from Sun Yu that the cloth warehouse was actually supervised by the bank warehouse, so he decided not to cause trouble for himself.
The silk shop was opened by a gentry in the town, and this gentry was close to an official on the mountain. Therefore, although the shopkeeper of this family was very pleased with Chen Wen, the new guerrilla, but he only asked him to kill the price of the goods he needed to the peaceful era. However, this was enough for Chen Wen. If it weren't for that private customization, who would go down the mountain and be slaughtered?
Diagonally opposite the satin shop is the Chenghuang Temple in the town. Although today is not a market day, there are still many people.
Chen Wen brought the two men to the place where the list was posted, posted the recruitment list he had written before, and found the fortune teller in the temple, telling him to come over and read it aloud every quarter of an hour, and give five cents a day, and settle the settlement directly after the lecture. The two soldiers brought by Chen Wen were responsible for the distribution, and they would talk for two days today and tomorrow.
Each of these two soldiers stood below the list for an hour, and the two took turns to stand until they had to return to the camp before dinner because the old camp had to be curfew at night. If someone came to ask, they would tell them that those who wanted to join the army would go up the mountain directly. Someone at the gate of the south gate of the old camp would pick them up into the camp for the assessment. Those who passed the assessment could join the army and eat food.
The military order fell like a mountain, and the two soldiers naturally expressed their determination to complete the task. The fortune teller looked at Chen Wen's mountain armor and the sword hanging around his waist, and responded without hesitation. When he got the first piece-based salary, he looked at the five copper coins. Although they did not have the gold back of the Wanli Dynasty, they did not have the brittleness of the Chongzhen Dynasty. After carefully calculating how many dollars they could earn in this day, and without delaying his fortune telling, he immediately became a smile.
Chen Wen didn't dare to let it run, after all, it would be good if he could sit on it and walk. When he returned to the old camp, it was time to have lunch, so he went straight to the grain warehouse.
When he arrived at the grain warehouse, a small official who was taking the pig and sheep business on behalf of the company yesterday saw him immediately and hurried up to say hello. Chen Wen and the small official exchanged a few words, and then hurried to see Sun Yu.
When he saw Sun Yu, Chen Wen asked directly that he asked Yi to help make a camp flag, and the materials and patterns would be sent to the town in the afternoon. At the same time, Chen Wen shamelessly told Sun Yu that he would not pay the wages, and that the remaining materials belonged to you. After that, he left without bothering and no matter whether Sun Yu agreed or not.
When they returned to the military camp, the soldiers had already started to make meals. Chen Wen was still making meals with the soldiers in the same pot and having dinner together under the surprised gaze of the new soldiers.
After dinner, he locked himself in his room to write military law.
Logically, Chen Wen could and should have used the ready-made Ming military law, but in his opinion, the Ming Dynasty's military law was too strict, and he would cut his nose, cut his ears, and rush through arrows to travel to the camp, which was really not conducive to establishing the sense of honor of soldiers, and his jurisdiction was astonishingly large. Even the volume of fart on the school ground was too large, and it would be inexplicable to determine life and death based on the mood of the military judge.
However, Chen Wen had no idea that the military men of the Ming Dynasty were actually quite grateful for their loose military laws. Compared with the Qin and Han dynasties, the military laws of the Song and Ming dynasties were not as strict as the civil laws of the Qin and Han dynasties, let alone the military laws of the Yi tribe that were often concurrently held.
Chen Wen can't remember what he saw from. It is said that the improvement of military personnel's sense of honor will not only help improve their combat capabilities, strategic movement speed and the degree of casualties, but also reduce the occurrence of military disturbances.
Of course, the commanders in ancient China had other ways, such as practicing and harsh military laws that robbing the people of the people was a death sentence. Yue Fei did not mention it, but Zhang Huangyan of this era did this.
According to historical records, Zhang Huangyan's military discipline was strictly regulated and did not violate the people. This was the case when he was in eastern Zhejiang in his early years. During the Battle of Nanjing, in order to ensure complete victory, Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan divided their troops and besieged Nanjing. Zhang Huangyan led the Zhejiang army to attack the prefectures and counties in the upper reaches of Nanjing. When he marched to Wuhu, "one soldier bought a face value of four points, only ten cents were given", and Zhang Huangyan immediately killed him!
It is precisely because of Zhang Huangyan's practice and high standards and strict requirements for the soldiers under his command that the people were eating pots of water to welcome the king's army and the Qing officials surrendered. Although they were defeated in the end, this did not hinder Chen Wen's respect for Zhang Huangyan.
Chen Wen wanted to build a righteous army like Yue Family Army that "don't demolish houses when they freeze to death, and never plunder when they starve to death". He believed that only in this way can the preservation of the nation's vitality be effectively ensured, so that the barbarians will not be repelled by the army, and the people will still live in poverty after being repelled by the army. If they want to do this, they must start formulating and implementing corresponding military laws from the beginning of the establishment of the army.
Although he knew that this was a long and arduous road and he would give a lot of money for this, he believed that success was not achieved overnight. If you want to get it, you must give it, and he firmly believed that he could do it himself.
Of course, if Chen Wen wanted to abandon the Ming Dynasty military law in his base camp, he had to pass Wang Yi's pass first. After all, he was not a general who led the army in Duzhen, and there was a civil servant who supervised the army on his head.
However, he was very confident in persuading Wang Yi.
"Modify the military law? What do you mean by Fu Ren?" In the central military hall, Wang Yi was full of doubts and could not understand why Chen Wen did this for.
"Reporting to the strategy, I will finally feel that the military law of this dynasty is too strict and that it is often subject to corporal punishment, which is not conducive to the soldiers establishing a sense of honor as a royal army."
A sense of honor?
Wang Yi frowned and then said, "The King's Army is the King's Army. What does it mean to establish a sense of honor? This dynasty has been established for nearly three hundred years, and I have never heard of the need to modify military laws to have a sense of honor. Isn't it orthodox that our dynasty would be orthodox without modifying military laws? I think this is inappropriate, so Fu Ren should think carefully about it!"
"Register to calm down." Chen Wen bowed and said, "I dare to ask the ruler if the king should take it as his responsibility to protect the territory and safeguard the people, and strictly prohibit the soldiers from robbing the people?"
"Of course! If Master Wang cannot protect the people of China, wouldn't he become a thief?"
Chen Wen had expected this answer, because Wang Yi was such a person. Historical books recorded that Wang Yi was strict in his army and did not violate the people at all. Therefore, the gentry and people in eastern Zhejiang were willing to lose sincerity, and the same was true of what Chen Wen had seen over the past few days.
"The last general knows that the generals of the government will strictly govern the army and will not violate the people at all. The generals of our Dalanshan King's Army will also strictly prohibit soldiers from disturbing the people according to the requirements of the government."
Hearing this, Wang Yi nodded. The growth of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain has a great relationship with military discipline. In this era, whether it is the Ming army or the Qing army, it is difficult to avoid plundering the people. In addition to unintentional control of the Ming army, the various units of the Ming army were more due to the supply problem, while the Qing Dynasty condoned this matter out of national oppression and the purchase of traitors' armed forces.
Wang Yi learned from the beginning of the establishment of the camp that Huang Zongxi robbed the people of the people, and his troops plundered the people, so that their generals were killed by the mountain people, and declared military discipline, and did not violate the people. In the second year of Yongli, he was defeated by the Fubiao camp of the Qing army in Zhejiang. With only 400 people left, he was able to quickly eliminate the left-behind regiment training after the main force of the Qing army retreated, thus gathering tens of thousands of people, establishing Dalan Mountain and breaking Shangyu County again. Then, the gentry and people near Siming Mountain were also willing to use it. These were all related to the military discipline of Wang Yi's troops, and the support of the people was his greatest strength.
"The last general thinks that under the eyes of the manager, the soldiers will naturally not disturb the people. However, if the king's army recovers the lost territory in the future, the manager will send generals to various places, the soldiers are not around the manager, and the generals and the subordinates do not care about such affairs, how can the manager ensure that the soldiers are at peace?"
Wang Yi thought for a while and said, "Fu Ren means to make the soldiers feel from the bottom of their hearts that they are the king's army, and should protect the country and safeguard the people instead of disturbing the people?"
"That's right. The last general thinks that instead of keeping guarding, it's better to try to make them realize that this is the only way to be ashamed of their hearts. The first camp is established, and the foundation laid by the strategy and long-term efforts of their colleagues. The last general is willing to practice it and educate the soldiers as the king's army at all times to ensure the duty of protecting the country and the people."
As he said that, Chen Wen turned the manuscript to another page and gave it to Wang Yi only. "Besides, the last general also has clear provisions in military law."
Wang Yi's eyes covered a line of text with Chen Wen's fingers, and he saw that it said, "From the beginning of this, anyone who dares to seize the people's article will be killed!" The sentence was cold and the ink traces penetrated the paper.
After looking through Chen Wen's manuscript paper again, Wang Yi asked: "Fu Ren means abolishing corporal punishment, so that the soldiers can feel honor? So, how to maintain the military discipline in your camp? Is it really okay to rely solely on these whippings, cannons, etc.?"
Seeing this, Chen Wen once again sacrificed the Qiyang King Li Wenzhong. "The ancestor of the last general was once the chief military captain of the Qiyang King. The Qiyang King once told his family that the significance of the law is not the intensity of punishment, but the punishment once someone violates the law, so as to eliminate crimes. Because of this, when the laws and regulations of all dynasties were strictly enforced, most of them claimed that the prince had violated the law and was the same as the common people. The military law that was planned to be tried was limited to a non-war state. If it was on the battlefield, Qi Shaobao's method of joint seats would also be used."
Hearing this, Wang Yi smiled and shook his head. "Fu Ren, you always have new tricks." Just recalling the words that people who dare to take away the people's articles from the beginning of the year, he took a deep breath and then said firmly: "You can try it in the camp. If it works, I will write to His Highness the Superintendent of the State."
"I will obey the order."
When Chen Wen left the central army hall, Sun Yu had already paid the deposit and rushed home in a hurry. He didn't care about wages or something, but what the camp flag of Chen Wen looked like really attracted his great curiosity.
When he got home, Sun Yu looked at the fabric sent by Chen Wen on the table in the north room, and his curiosity immediately disappeared.
I saw that most of the fabrics on the table were good. Although there were not many, Sun Yu could see that if it was just made of one camp flag as Chen Wen said, then the remaining "scratch materials" would be enough to make at least three sets of clothes, just one for a man and a woman plus a half-sized boy, one for each person.
Chapter completed!