Red Alert 1895

Hearing Zheng Hong asking whether to recruit troops from Taiwan, or from Zhili and Shandong, Wang Guorui began to think seriously about this. √∟, these two recruitment methods have their own advantages. If recruiting in Taiwan, Taiwan's complete military industrial system, as well as major military academies, can provide complete equipment and human resources. Moreover, Taiwan's army has a large number of reserve personnel, and these reserve personnel are also ready to join the formal army at any time, and they can join the army when necessary.

Moreover, people in Taiwan have a strong military style, and many workers are very disciplined. Taiwan's industrial level is relatively strong, and this allows them to have better discipline. In fact, it is easier for a worker to develop into a qualified soldier than a farmer, because workers are subject to constraints in the factory. There are various disciplines and production processes in the factory. Workers have already initially adapted to these processes. Let them adapt to military life as soon as possible, which can save a lot of time and material costs in training.

When Qi Jiguang recruited troops back then, the first thing he did was to recruit miners, and he gave priority to recruiting troops from miners. This is the reason. What Qi Jiguang realized back then was that miners are disciplined, and the mine owners of those mines have worn away the "personality" of those workers, making them more obedient. In addition, mining in ancient times is more risky than mining in later generations, and it is more prone to accidents, so they must be brave enough to be miners. Coupled with years of physical labor, this makes them healthy and strong. In this way, it is not unreasonable for Qi Jiguang to give priority to the miners to join the army.

But farmers are different. China has always been a small-scale peasant economy. Everyone cultivates their own land and rarely organizes production with others. In this situation of cultivating their own land, everyone mostly goes their own way. Very little contact with each other. And each of their families also has the production rhythm of each family, and each family has the production process and methods of each family, so their living habits are different. Once these people join the army, the first thing to do is not to train their military skills, but their obedience. It's like entering the army. First, you have to train for several months in the queue. Many people think that queue training is no longer needed. Wang Guorui personally came to this era and led troops before he really discovered that queue training is very important. He wants to "adjust" fragmented people and people with different living habits into a coherent whole . They must be able to run in perfectly, otherwise, if they do their own things in the army, not only can one plus one be greater than one, but they will tear each other down and become disorganized.

So Zheng Hong proposed whether to recruit troops in Zhili or in Taiwan, this is also a question. If you recruit troops in Taiwan. Not only are there abundant military talents, but also a large number of workers can save a lot of time. If recruiting from Zhili and Shandong at present, the recruit training period may take a full three months, but if recruiting from Taiwan workers, the recruit training period may only be one month, at most it will not exceed one and a half months. It is not only the training cost but also the time cost, which cannot be ignored.

"I think we should recruit in Zhili and Shandong!" Wang Guorui said.

But Zheng Hong asked: "Husband, isn't this an increase in cost?"

"The cost is certainly one aspect, but there is another aspect that you may not have accounted for. That is the issue of popular sentiment. This popular sentiment is also very important. If we recruit troops directly from Taiwan, of course our soldiers can be trained as soon as possible , but it is not conducive to us winning the hearts of the people in the mainland. You may not know how the people in Shandong and Zhili view our war? They may also adopt a "do nothing" approach to our fight against foreigners. The people in Shandong and Zhili, although they raised their hands to applaud us for fighting against foreigners, they don't have deep feelings for our behavior of fighting against foreigners. Because we soldiers are all Taiwanese, and most Taiwanese are immigrants from Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang. These people in Shandong and Zhili don't have much affection. Our arrival is somewhat like a "guest army". We came from other provinces, a large number of Purchasing the daily necessities of the people here certainly made them a fortune. But we soldiers don’t have much relationship or relationship with the people here, so they treat us more as if they were from other provinces’ The guest army', did not regard us as soldiers."

However, Hu Wei immediately scolded in a low voice: "Don't they know that we are protecting them from aggression? Without us, their Zhili and Shandong would have been in a mess long ago. At that time, foreigners invaded and they ceded land and paid compensation. Do you want to be implicated and suffer?"

Wang Guorui shook his head and said, "Don't expect the people of this era to have such a high ideological level. In our era, local xenophobic thinking is still very serious."

This is also the impact of traditional Chinese regional thinking. Many people in China have gone to other places, and there are many organizations such as "Villagers' Associations". They hope that these fellow villagers can unite in other provinces to safeguard mutual interests. People also restrict outsiders from getting too many benefits here. This is the so-called local protectionism, and in a more popular way, it is the so-called xenophobia. And there is another saying that people are cheap when they leave their hometown. Once people go to other places, they will be discriminated against by the locals. Even the army is the same. The army transferred from other provinces can easily conflict with the local army. Especially in conflicts over food supplies, if there are no officials with sufficient status and prestige to "reconcile the mud", then the guest troops from other provinces and the local army may have to fight over food supplies. Especially in ancient times, there was no practice of buying grain, and wherever they went, they were directly asked to provide grain and grass locally.

The Taiwanese army directly used real money to purchase food and grass supplies, which resolved a lot of conflicts in food and grass supplies, so the people in Shandong and Zhili did not have much opinion. If the Taiwanese army asked the people in Shandong and Zhili to provide food and grass supplies for 200,000 troops free of charge, then who knows how the people in Zhili and Shandong would treat the Taiwanese army at that time, and they might all regard the Taiwanese army as a plague.

The national awareness of the common people in this era is too low to truly have too noble ideological consciousness.

"We recruit troops from here, that is, we hope to resolve the problem of the composition of our Taiwan army. Our Taiwan army is mainly composed of Taiwanese, Fujianese, Cantonese, and Zhejiang people, and there are very few people from other provinces. Therefore We must increase the proportion of people from other provinces in our army. If we can recruit soldiers in Zhili and Shandong, then we can completely let the local people begin to have a real sense of identity with our army. Only by letting them Being able to join our army is equivalent to binding the people of Shandong and Zhili to our chariots. We have recruited 200,000 troops in Shandong and Zhili, so we have given at least all the relatives and friends of these soldiers If it is tied up, the population may not be less than two million."

"And these two million people can also influence more people and make more people identify with our army. As for us expanding the source of the army, it can also effectively resolve the so-called regional thinking. Our army is not We can recruit from Taiwan or a few coastal provinces alone. Otherwise, how will the inland people think of us? How do the people in the north think of us? At that time, they had a relatively low sense of identity with our army because they did not have troops from their own provinces. 'Children' serve in the army~www.wuxiaspot.com~Can they agree with us? So I insist on planning to recruit a large number of soldiers in Zhili and Shandong, this is to let the people in Shandong and Zhili truly feel that they are the same as us People who breathe and share fate, they will not end well when we are finished. Their relatives and friends are all in our army, so that they can truly be with us. If there are no locals in our army, then How can they identify so deeply with us?"

Hu Wei immediately said: "Master Wang is right. We were negligent. We only noticed the training level and training cost of the army, but we didn't notice the problems in this aspect. It seems that Mr. Wang sees farther than we do. I have no objection to this. The military must be subordinated to politics. Although the cost of recruiting troops from Zhili and Shandong is higher, our army must also cooperate with Mr. Wang's plan to get the hearts of the people in Shandong and Zhili as soon as possible. It's all in the bag."

Hu Wei also had no objections, and Zheng Hong had no objections either. Because if the people's hearts cannot be rectified as soon as possible, then Wang Guorui's plan to proclaim himself emperor will continue to be delayed, and Zheng Hong's position as "Queen" will also be postponed. Although the queen's power in the future will not be as great as in the past, she still attaches great importance to Zheng Hong, who was born in this era. In the eyes of a woman in her feudal era, the position of the queen is far more important than her position as a general. Therefore, she would not stop the idea of ​​making Wang Guorui the emperor as soon as possible. What's more, she was already the pre-determined "first" queen, so she was naturally more anxious than other women. (to be continued.) u