New Shun 1730

To do the right thing, we still have to rely on the soldiers in Liu Yu's hands.

Bai Yunhang didn't know the concept of organizational ability, but he had a vague understanding of it.

It was impossible to complete the population census, land measurement, and teaching of famine relief grain planting technology in the state with the few people in the state government.

Wendeng State was not too big, but it still needed at least three or four hundred people to achieve "power down to the village", which was impossible to achieve in all dynasties.

The previous army could not do it, but Bai Yunhang believed that the officers in Liu Yu's hands could do it. Because these officers were born in the military school or the higher Wude Palace, they were literate, educated, and accepted the discipline and training of the military school since childhood.

"Lord Liu, although I am grateful to you and look forward to your help, I cannot just consider myself. Lord Liu, training soldiers is the top priority, so we cannot give up on this."

"Don't worry about this. The recruits are so hungry that they are skin and bones. It will take at least a month to train them. Now I am afraid that they will eat too much and die. It doesn't take many people to recover their diet."

Liu Yu had thought about this a long time ago.

Although the new army he trained learned some of the Western people's formation changing skills at that time, in fact, in terms of tactical system, what he really learned was the new tactical system of the French Revolutionary Military Public Safety Committee of 17 Carnot, which did not exist at that time.

Emphasizing the change of column formation and the speed of mobility, with the battalion and company as the most basic units, the time consumed to convert the horizontal column into a hollow formation was reduced from an average of 25 minutes to 4 minutes.

These are not produced out of thin air, but the focus of training is different. Liu Yu pondered and modified it by himself, and combined it with some Western drill regulations he had obtained before, focusing on mobility and formation change.

It is hard to say how effective the future training will be.

But in terms of tactical theory alone, it is definitely the level of Prussia, which was clumsy in the Seven Years' War. And the level of Prussia in the Seven Years' War basically represents the new height of European army theory in the next thirty years.

This is a problem of thinking, and more company-level and subordinate platoon-level officers are needed.

Liu Yu trained the first batch of good-family soldiers given by the emperor as company-level officers, and their organization and learning ability are very high.

Now those new recruits may not be able to walk because of hunger, and the officers have learned almost everything they should learn. It is a time to spare time to do some disaster relief and civil affairs.

The two discussed it and decided that this matter could not be done in vain. Although Liu Yu could order these officers to work for free, he didn't want to, so the state had to pay.

Bai Yunhang originally wanted to give Liu Yu gold as a thank you, and he was also straightforward when he heard Liu Yu said he would pay. The government paid part, and he personally paid part, and he hired 400 reserve officers and reserve non-commissioned officers from the Qingzhou Army according to two thousand taels.

Liu Yu will train these officers for seven or eight days, and they just need to learn how to plant rice and sweet potatoes.

Some old farmers were hired on the ship, and these candidate officers who came from the camp school did not have the psychological burden of "learning farming is the behavior of villains and gentlemen despise it".

All the details have been discussed, Bai Yunhang went to get the money and asked someone to send it to Liu Yu.

Back in Weihai, he learned from the old farmers how to plant sweet potatoes, how to dig vegetable cellars for storage, some daily management, etc., and compiled them into a book.

After waiting for four days, according to the plan made by the staff, the recruits from various places have arrived. According to the plan of the trainee logistics staff, some cooking staff were also recruited in advance, and some nearby houses were rented as barracks temporarily.

The staff class was counting the staff of each unit. The recruits were all young and strong, but now they were swollen with hunger, like bean sprouts. They had to wait until they were full before they could choose which ones would be the army, which ones would be the navy, which ones would be immigrants, and which ones would go to work.

The remaining women and children were also sorted out separately.

Women were to be relocated or "sold" to villages and communities in Songhua River where the gender ratio was seriously unbalanced; children were also sorted out to be apprentices in the future, and the younger ones were to receive education in charity schools.

A few disaster victims were crying in the distance, and Liu Yu walked over to take a look and found that they were among the people recruited by Mantou.

A little girl about ten years old was holding a boy of sixteen or seventeen tightly and hiding behind the boy.

The boy was extremely thin and hungry, but he stood up straight in front of the little girl and was asking the registered soldiers what the little girl was going to do.

Liu Yu thought it was the story of Amir and Gulandam, and asked Mantou next to him: "What's going on? Child marriage? Child bride?"

"No, it's his sister. I'm afraid we are giving the little girl to the old procuress. There was already a commotion when we recruited her."

After asking about the general situation, Liu Yu walked in front of the boy. He was wearing an official uniform. Under the official power accumulated over thousands of years, this uniform seemed to have endless magic. Once he passed by, the noisy young man dared not speak.

"What's your name?"

"Sir... Sir, my name is Zhang Hu. This is my sister, and those are my cousins, Da Dun and Er Dun."

"Why, are you afraid that we will do something bad?"

Zhang Hu deliberately said it a little more seriously. Looking at the blue official uniform, his legs trembled with fear.

After shaking for a while, he still gathered his strength and said, "Sir! I heard that soldiers also need to have salary. I was thinking, can I not have salary and give my sister more food?"

Liu Yu smiled and asked, "What are you talking about. Ziming, Ziming! Come here."

Mantou heard Liu Yu call him Ziming, and hurried over and called him Mr.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't you tell him clearly? I want to run a charity school to provide food and drink?"

"I told you."

Zhang Hu knew that this person really said what he said, and he didn't know where the courage came from at this time, and said: "I don't believe it! Teaching a girl to read? And you have to take care of the food? There is no such thing in the world!"

"Be bold!"

Several officers nearby shouted loudly, Liu Yu waved his hand and said with a smile: "You don't believe it?"

Being scolded by the person next to him and looking at the sharp bayonet and muzzle of the gun next to him, Zhang Hu panicked, but he gritted his teeth and said with his head held high: "Yes, I don't believe it!"

Liu Yu looked at the group of people gathered around him and asked, "Who else doesn't believe it?"

There were also a few brave people nearby who stood up. Zhang Dadun reached out and pulled Zhang Hu to signal him not to be stubborn, but Zhang Hu threw off his cousin's sleeve.

Liu Yu counted about forty or fifty people who dared to stand up and say they didn't believe it. He turned back to the officer in charge of recording and said: "Write down all these people in a while and arrange them directly into the navy."

"yes!"

The officer didn't know Liu Yu's intention. Although he hadn't made a selection after eating, he immediately followed Liu Yu's words.

Liu Yu cleared his throat and stood on a table next to him.

"What can't you believe? Huh? Is it difficult for the imperial court to succeed?"

"Since you are from Pingdu Prefecture, you need to know that the prefecture official is called Zhou Mu. Zhou Mu, Zhou Mu, what is Zhou Mu? They are sheep herders. To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the court, you are just a bunch of beasts. Do you raise them? Too much?"

What Liu Yu said sounded ugly, but in the eyes of these people, it was normal. Zhang Hu stepped forward and said, "I have raised him before."

"Yes, then let me ask you. Why do you raise cattle?"

"arable land."

"Does the cattle have to be fed with grass? Can't they starve to death?"

"yes."

"When you are working, especially when the farming is busy, do you have to give something good?"

"Yes, you have to eat more ingredients when working. Eggs that people are reluctant to eat will also be mixed into the ingredients and eat two."

"That's it. You are all starving to death. Who does the court look to to collect taxes? Who does it look to for forced labor? Regardless of whether you believe in the court or not, even if it treats you like beasts, it can't starve you to death, right?"

Steamed Bun listened to the side and thought to himself: "It would be okay if all the officials were raised like animals. To raise cattle, you have to cut and dry the grass, and you have to get up at night to add fodder. What if you really become an official? If everyone treats the people as their own livestock, then the water of the Yellow River will be clear, and it will truly be a prosperous age. "

Seeing that everyone seemed to have listened, Liu Yu added: "In the last years of the previous dynasty, people were not treated as beasts, but as wooden cows and horses. They were owed military pay and were only allowed to work but not eat. This dynasty really treats people. Those who treat themselves as beasts should at least serve as soldiers for food. You have enough to eat, your salary is sufficient, and your family members are taken care of. Now that you have become soldiers, is it possible that you want to send your sisters and relatives to the Jiaofang Division? This dynasty is not so stupid that it treats soldiers as nothing but horses. What do you have? Don’t you believe it?”

These people have little education, but they have heard the story of the Three Kingdoms, and they know what a wooden cow and a flowing horse mean. When I think about it, this seems to make sense.

Seeing Zhang Hu with his head downcast, Liu Yu asked from a high position: "Why, you still don't believe it?"

"Sir...it's not that I don't believe it. But...but even beasts don't need to be literate."

"I mean, according to what I said before, the climate of this dynasty is naturally different. Although it cannot be done at this time, in the future, the people will be treated as human beings. How can people be illiterate if they are literate? Now that I have recruited you, you Sisters, of course you have to learn how to read. Give them food, learn how to read, and teach more people how to read and how to farm better, so that there won’t be so many famines and sufferings in the future, okay? "

Zhang Huxin said that of course it was good. Considering that he was a high-ranking official, he couldn't help but believe that he was a high-ranking official, so he finally nodded.

Seeing that the others also believed it, Liu Yu jumped off the table, thinking about Zhang Dadun and Er Dun, and then thinking about the word "tiger", and said with a smile: "Okay, you two are brothers and sisters, and you want to join the army. I think Let’s change your names to Zhang Dabiao, Erbiao, and Sanbiao. This little girl’s name doesn’t sound good, so I think she’ll be called Zhang Simei.”

The work that was interrupted just now resumes.

Zhang Hu looked at Liu Yu who was walking away, thinking that this adult's words were very different. He also thought that Er Biao's name was reserved for him, and his cousin Er Dun would have to be called San Biao. Maybe what this adult said was true?

Zhang Simei didn't quite understand what was going on here, so she just held her brother's hand tightly. Zhang Erbiao turned around, squatted on the ground, touched his sister's face and said, "Nini, don't be afraid, just follow them. If you really learn to read in the future, remember to study hard."

"Brother...I..."

"Okay, don't be afraid. Go, go."

I hugged my sister to the front to register, and sent her to the pile of girls at the back. Seeing my sister still looking back, I finally became cruel, turned around, and went to the side to register with my cousins.

In the distance, Mantou accompanied Liu Yu to a quiet place, thinking about the topic of "people" just now, and couldn't help but think of the day when he went to eat with Liu Yu for the first time as a human being. That feeling of being a human being is really good, but...

But what Liu Yu just said was too straightforward. He only said that if the imperial officials could treat the people as their own beasts, it would be considered as ruling the world. This was certainly true, but it was different from what Liu Yu usually taught him.

"Sir, you said that an army that knows why it fights will be invincible. You just said that, does this beast need to know why it plows the land?"

Hearing this, Liu Yu laughed, seeing no one else around, and said: "When Emperor Taizong was still serving as Taizu's rear camp general, he killed a man named Yuan Shizhong. This man was also the one who pulled the lever to start the uprising. His name was 'Little Yuan Camp'.

"In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen in the previous dynasty, the Tatars invaded Shandong, Zhejiang, and even Haizhou. Xiao Yuan's camp was fighting there at the time."

"The previous dynasty's "The Imperial Censor Wu Luzhong's Title" recorded such an incident. Near Haizhou, Xiao Yuan's camp killed the Tatars and fled into the city. They also burned the Tatar counting house and injured the camel. The pit was consolidated. The soldiers, wearing half-green and half-red hats, shouted to them, "You people have been captured, and your parents want to see you. Each of you will be rewarded with fifty coins. Go back quickly."

"This is a matter of Xiao Yuanying. Taizong Jingxiang mentioned it more than once later. Let's talk about the imperial dynasty. Emperor Taizu came to the capital and smashed the plaque of 'Respecting Heaven and Fazu' in Qianqing Palace and replaced it with 'Respecting Heaven and Loving the People'. Taizu's imperial edicts were not carried out by heaven, but by "submitting to heaven and responding to people". Not to mention that Xiao Yuan's camp was later merged into Taizu's army, but did some of the old soldiers in Taizu's army know why they fought? Do you know how to fight for the sake of "loving the people and responding to others"?

Steamed Bun thought for a moment and said, "Some people should know it and believe it."

"Yes. However, the Battle of Yiyishi is special, so I won't mention it. What about the subsequent Battle of Tongguan? Do the Tatar soldiers know why they fought? Not to mention the Tatar soldiers, let's talk about the surrendered troops who had their heads shaved. Don’t know why you are fighting?”

Mantou thought about it and shook his head.

"Although it can be said that it is for pay, I understand what you mean. According to what you mean, this is not a team that knows why it is fighting."

Liu Yu nodded and said: "Yes. So, an army that knows why it fights and is well-trained is invincible; a well-trained army but doesn't know why it fights is the second best; an army that knows why it fights but has little training is the third best; both Those who are not well trained and do not know why they are fighting are the next worst; those who are not even paid are the worst.”

"I know how to train troops, and I know why I fight. But this Qingzhou Army does not need or have any way to know, or even know why it fights. It is still the strongest army in the world. Maybe one day they will know why they fight, and then they will Will know who to fight, but not now.”

Mantou understood Liu Yu's meaning in his heart, and also understood more of it. He stopped asking any more questions and nodded in agreement.

Liu Yu thought to himself that a strong army in these days does not need to know why it is fighting, and it does not even need the so-called nationalism bonus. That is not something that a so-called "modern army" must have.

The Bengali Lancers of Indian origin went to attack Bali Bridge, but the Mongolian cavalry who also fought were at a loss and commented that they were "difficult to catch, but easy to deal with once they get close."

Indians were colonized, did these colonial armies know what they were fighting for? Take the Polish soldiers and Albanian soldiers under the emperor's command. Do you know why they are fighting? Just as invincible.

The stimulant shot was not very effective, at least not as magically effective as many people imagined.

In this era, if an army fights for unknown reasons, but is well-trained, well-paid, has a good tactical system and tactical thinking, and has a sufficient proportion of officers, then it is invincible. There is no need to fight for anything, and it is not clear why to fight.

At least, the Qingzhou soldiers didn't need to know why they were fighting, and Liu Yu didn't want to teach them why they were fighting. A general statement of "Fight for His Majesty and be worthy of military pay and money" is enough.

The old era had no soil for new reasons to fight, and the new era needed the emperor's reforms as an introduction. In Liu Yu's eyes, this Qingzhou Army was a stepmother, but it was just to let the emperor and the court see clearly "what's going on outside." The world is already very scary, and if it doesn’t change, I’m afraid it will end.”

Since he was raised by his stepmother, he didn't need to care so much about the quality of the soldiers, so Liu Yu gave another order to the steamed buns.

"Tell them again that when you register, you must ask if you are literate. If you are literate, you can directly register on the navy roster first."

"In addition, let them seize the time to hand over. Officers who have completed the handover but have no new tasks should return to the camp as soon as possible. There are other things to do."