Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 145 To build a new army
It was too tiring to build roads, so I changed to three meals a day, including lunch.

He stopped his work and saw that Wang Xiaolie was still there.The old man wondered: "We are going to eat, are the officials still there?"

Wang Xiaolie said: "Of course I am. Today is a coincidence, so I will have a meal with you."

The old man rubbed his hands together and said, "Let's not lie to the officials, our country people just want to be full, and the food is not exquisite. If the officials and people eat together, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat. You rich and noble families, if you don't have wine and meat, how can you eat?" go down?"

Wang Xiaolie said with a smile: "Old man, I'm not that picky. As long as you can eat enough, what can't you eat?"

While talking, someone brought the food over.Each person has a large bowl of corn rice and a large spoonful of vegetables.There is no meat in the dish, but there is tofu every day.Add any vegetables that are readily available and cook together.

After eating, Wang Xiaolie held the bowl and squatted with the old man and his son.

In Wang Xiaolie's previous life, he drank too much millet soup, but never had millet rice.It's been almost a year since I arrived in this world, and I'm still not used to it.I always feel that millet rice is too dry and thick, which is not easy to swallow.But I have been forcing myself to adapt.

See Wang Xiao hunting down a big mouthful of rice.The old man said: "I heard people say that many wealthy families in the city are not used to this kind of rice. Every meal they eat is polished white rice, or just white flour. The rice cooked with corn is too dry, and many people can't swallow it."

Wang Xiaolie said: "To be honest, corn cooking is indeed not as good as white rice or white flour. But there is no way, there is too much dry land, so we can only grow these. If ditches are opened, we can change to wheat, and it will be different."

The old man laughed when he heard this: "We have been used to snacks, so it is different. If we can have a full meal of this meal for a year, it will be a good day. In the past, every time when the farm was slack and we didn't work at night, we would just drink some thinner for dinner. Yes. Just a few grains of rice, mostly wild vegetables for soup.”

The son on the side said: "The rice here has vegetables to eat every day. There is also tofu in it, and there is enough salt. It's really delicious!"

Looking at the two, Wang Xiaolie smiled and did not speak.

The life of a farmer is indeed bitter.Even in this resource-rich era, it is still the case.It's not that they don't produce much food, and it's not that the whole society can't produce so much material, but that the distribution is uneven.A large amount of social wealth is actually taken by the powerful, and in the words of later generations, it is the ruling class.They want to eat white rice and white noodles, and drink and meat regularly, and the people at the bottom will not have enough to eat.

The majority of social distribution is not the government and bureaucrats, but the middle and lower classes.The powerful families in the prefectures and counties, the landlords in the countryside, and all kinds of local snakes who work for the government.Can we do without these people?Actually it doesn't work.At least the government's governance capacity has not improved, and these people are indispensable.Without them, the government's ability to govern would not be able to reach the bottom.

Since he was in Ruzhou, Wang Xiaolie has rectified the official style and attacked the middle class of power, which is the reason.Without this, the richest social resources will not be obtained.With the absence of the middle class, the people at the bottom will benefit, and the income of the government will increase.

Of course, cracking down on the middle class must be accompanied by changes in governance.Therefore, it is necessary to build schools extensively and train talents.The quality of talents can be ignored for the time being, as long as reliable people can be selected, the management method should be as simple as possible.

The two tasks complement each other, and without one, the other cannot be done well.Without the rise of new talents, there will be no one to fill the vacancy left after the attack on the middle class.If the middle class is not attacked, talents will be cultivated, and there will be no jobs.

After the founding of New China, the overthrow of the local tyrants and evil gentry was actually accompanied by the training of new cadres and the change of the way of governance.Together, the situation turned upside down.If one item is missing, the work will be very difficult to complete.

In addition to being full with rice, the folk husband often eats tofu to supplement protein. In fact, oil is also added to the dishes.With oil, meals are quite different from before.Eating the same amount of rice, the civilian husband will not be easily exhausted.

Seeing Wang Xiaolie eating a big bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables, the people around were all amazed.When officials and officials ate corn, they mostly cooked porridge, which was easy to swallow.It is still rare for someone like Wang Xiaolie to be able to eat a bowl of corn and rice.

After eating, we visited the construction site again.Watching the sun set to the west, Wang Xiaolie returned to Xinye City.

As soon as he entered the city, he saw Shao Ling scolding an official there.The official lowered his head and didn't say a word.But looking at his eyes, he should be dissatisfied.Beside the two of them stood a fat and tall young man, looking at them at a loss.

Wang Xiaolie stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter? We're arguing here! What do other people think when they see it?"

Shao Ling hastily crossed his hands: "Back to Zhizhou, this person is an official from Tangzhou, who sent the soldiers here. But Zhizhou saw this person, although he was tall and strong, but he was obese. His family was rich, and he was young. How can such a person be a soldier? Because he is like a soldier, and if this person wants to be a soldier, the people below dare not make decisions, so they come to me.”

Wang Xiaolie turned to look at the young man next to him.Because she is too obese, she can't tell her age, probably around 20 years old.She has a round face and a body full of fat, which trembles when she moves.Fortunately, the clothes at this time were loose and very conspicuous.

After looking up and down, Wang Xiao said: "What's your name? What do you do at home? Are you really willing to be a soldier?"

The man said: "Returning to the official. The young Chi Yuping, my family has a shop in Tangzhou, selling some food. My parents loved it since I was a child, and I also love it. I grew fatter. Now the golden men are raging in the Central Plains, and they are bloody." My son, I should be a soldier! But every time I want to join the army, they say that I am fat, and no one is willing to accept me. The officer led the army to destroy Yang Jin and treated the people well. He is a good official. When I heard that you are recruiting, I will ask Someone is coming."

Wang Xiaolie nodded: "It's good if you are willing to join the army. But let me be clear first, being a soldier has to suffer. Judging from your appearance, I'm afraid you haven't suffered from it since you were a child. Others don't accept you because you are fat. One of the reasons is that I am even more afraid that you will not be able to endure hardship."

Chi Yuping said proudly: "It's the season of national ruin and family destruction, so what's the point of suffering!"

Wang Xiao smiled, and said to Shao Ling: "As long as he can endure hardship, why would he be afraid of being fat in the army! After joining the army, you send someone to watch him carefully, and in two months, all of his fat will be lost! Judging by his appearance, he has lost his fat, and he can be regarded as a good man!"

Shao Ling crossed his hands and said yes, looking a little resentful.In this world, some people will not gain weight no matter what they eat naturally, while some people gain weight unreasonably as long as they eat normally.This Chi Yuping is obviously a man who is easy to gain weight, and he is really not suitable for joining the army.

Wang Xiaolie looked at Chi Yuping again, and went back to the Yamen without saying anything.As long as you are like a soldier, are you still afraid of getting fat in the army?If you are obese, you have not practiced enough.As long as you exercise more, you will lose weight in a month or two.

This era is different from later generations, as long as they are not sick, they will not discriminate against fat people.Even in society, the body is a little rich, which is even more enviable.Just like the portraits left by several famous generals at that time, they actually all had stomachs.

In the army, because they don't pay attention to flexible movements, they pay more attention to strength and heaviness. What they want is strength and strength.There is not much flesh on his body, and he is not a qualified soldier yet.A real elite soldier does not require height and long legs like later generations, but is as strong as a cow and has infinite strength.

After returning to the yamen and sitting down, Wang Xiaolie closed his eyes and took a rest.

Not long after, Shao Ling hurried in.After saluting, he said, "Zhizhou, like the man just now, shouldn't be recruited into the army. He is obese, not to mention that it is not easy to lose fat, obviously he is not a person who can endure hardships and stand hard work!"

Wang Xiaolie opened his eyes and looked at Shao Ling.Said: "If you can't bear the hardships in the army, you will naturally go home crying and shouting. As long as you don't run, no matter whether he is crying or shouting, he should be trained in the army! Control, the soldiers in the army can't be chosen by us , as long as they are like soldiers, there will be all kinds of people. The so-called military training means to train all kinds of people into elite soldiers! In the past, the soldiers in our army were all from poor families, and their quality was generally good. Now it is different, Too many people are recruited, so we have to practice in a different way than before!"

"What's the different way?" Shao Ling looked puzzled. "Zhizhou, the way we train our troops now is to learn from Coach Lin. Coach Lin taught carefully, and the people we learned worked hard, so we are where we are today. Another way, who knows what it would be like?"

Wang Xiaolie said: "Coach Lin's method is the method of the imperial army before. Let me ask you, is the imperial army strong? Since the Jin army came from the south, how many victories have the imperial army fought? The reason for learning the method of the imperial army is because we are Qinwang militiamen. I really don’t know how to train soldiers. After learning it, if we can’t surpass the imperial army, how can we deal with the golden soldiers? As for what method to use, of course we have to learn in practice.”

Shao Ling couldn't accept this statement for a while, and didn't know how to refute it, so he was stunned for a while.

Wang Xiaolie said: "Controlling, you need to know that this time when the Jin soldiers came to the south, the Great Song Dynasty suffered a terrible defeat! If we want to defeat the Jin army, we have to do something that no one has done before. How to do it depends on I learned it. The most important thing now is not what we already know, but what we can learn and how much time we spend to learn it!"

After a while, Shao Ling said: "What Zhizhou said is something that the general has never thought of before."

Wang Xiaolie nodded: "It's normal. But I told you, you have to keep it in your heart. The city of Xinye and the army trained here will be very different from before! We want to build a New army!"

Shao Ling stood there, not knowing what to say for a moment.Originally occupying several states and expanding the source of troops, it was a time of joy and ambition.Unexpectedly, Wang Xiaolie said these words again.

(End of this chapter)