please make me king

Chapter 413

Don't look at Zhang Shun's swearing, as if he entrusted everything to Xiao Qinhu, Zhang Sanbai and Ma Yingniang, in fact, when the recruiting started, Zhang Shun was present every time, but Xiao Qinhu, Zhang Sanbai and Ma Yingniang Just as a deputy.

Lu's is a land of poor mountains and bad waters, Zhang Shun thought he had a deep understanding of this.As a result, as soon as the news of the recruitment of soldiers spread, groups of young and old came to apply for the recruitment.

The older ones were sixteen or seventeen, and the younger ones were twelve or thirteen, flocking to them.They were all armed with arrows, shouting: "We want to eat!"

Zhang Shun disliked that most of them were underage and not strong enough, so he asked Xiao Qinhu to lead people to keep them out.They still refused to leave, they just bluffed and yelled outside.

What do you think?It turns out that "half-sized children eat poor fathers".In ancient times, many children were more blessed, and no matter whether they could afford it or not, they just cared about giving birth.

As a result, when the boy was twelve or thirteen to sixteen or seventeen years old, his strength was still insufficient, but his appetite was more than two, and he couldn't afford it at all.

When those mountain people heard that Zhang Shun was recruiting soldiers here, they sent the extra boys here.Firstly, the children have a place to eat, and secondly, the kid in the family can count as a job.

Yes, you heard that right, they call this "making a living".Whether you want to be a bandit or a robber, or a young man in the army, after all, you just want to eat.

As for the matter of life and death, they take it very lightly.After all, the poor and remote places are not rich in whole grains, only inedible or drinkable things such as fur, medicinal materials and ores, which cannot stop hunger and satiety.

Rather than dying of hunger, rather than being bitten to death by ferocious beasts, rather than falling into a ravine and disappearing inexplicably.It's better to have a good time, eat meat in a big bowl, drink in a big bowl, and it's not in vain for the comer to travel the world!
After the age of eighteen or nineteen, Cheng Ding has more or less work, so how can he put down what he is doing and apply for it?As a result, Zhang Shun was surrounded by such a large group of hundreds of boys.Zhang Shun, who was full of confidence, was hit hard at the beginning of his recruitment.

When Zhang Shun was depressed, he never thought that Song Xiance, the military adviser, "broke through" the encirclement outside the camp and came to see Zhang Shun.

As soon as Zhang Shun welcomed him in, the servant said, "Congratulations, my lord, congratulations to my lord, the great work is accomplished!"

Hearing the words, Zhang Shun was puzzled, so he couldn't help asking: "Where does the joy come from?"

Song Xiance laughed loudly, pointed out the door and said, "Happiness comes from the children!"

Zhang Shun felt unlucky when he mentioned this, and couldn't help but smiled wryly, "They're all ineffective children, young and weak, they can't do anything, how can they be recruited as soldiers?"

Song Xiance smiled when he heard the words, and did not explain. He just said: "I have learned a few prophecies in the past few days, but I don't know what they mean. I didn't understand the meaning until I came to see the lord!"

"What prophecy is it?" Zhang Shun knew that he was going to play tricks again, so he had no choice but to answer.

"Baby bows and spears, boy soldiers, boy wars and discipline wins. As long as you get out of the boy's formation, boy will take Beijing City!" Song Xiance muttered, shaking his head.

Zhang Shun couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the words, that's it?Feelings, you just make up a jingle and come here to fool me?

If Lao Tzu farted just now, I guess you could have made it up: "There are hills and ravines in the chest, and there is thunder on the flat ground. This is the virtue of King Shun, and it is a sign to beat Daming!"

Seeing Zhang Shun's disapproval, Song Xiance said in a low voice, "King Shun is good at soldiers. Didn't he hear that morale is the foundation of governing the masses. When one man fights alone, the brave wins; when an army fights alone, the brave wins. Not as good as a human, but hot-blooded, reckless and aggressive."

"If it is a child, there are parents, children, old and young, there are concerns in the heart, and the mind is mixed. If you are in danger, you will avoid it, and if you are brave, you will retreat. It is useless. Only this child soldier is the best to be fooled. Seeking merit. If you practice a little bit and use it properly, you will surely be as powerful as a rainbow and unstoppable!"

When Zhang Shun heard this, he still didn't understand that this group of children was being used as cannon fodder.As a person of later generations, he still has some bottom line, so he asked in a low voice: "They are all children in their teens, how can this be? If one of them is injured, how should his parents suffer?"

Song Xiance couldn't help laughing, and said: "Although my lord is good in everything, only this woman's benevolence has never changed. There are billions of people in the world, and how many people can die of old age on the couch? How many people are there?"

"My lord, do you know how there are so many people in this poor land? They were originally farmers from other places, but they couldn't afford it because of the heavy taxes imposed by the imperial court. They wanted to sell the land, but no one bought it. I had to abandon the land and hide in this deep mountain forest Live in it."

"If there is any chance of survival, which parent would be willing to let their child come out to beg for life on the tip of the knife? But the people here are happy. The people who were begging for extravagance in the southwest and the chaos in Liaodong, the imperial court recruited tens of thousands from the land of western Henan." Hairy gourd', all died generously."

"Could it be that they are ignorant and don't know that they will die? They just responded to the conscript. Firstly, they have less food to eat at home, and secondly, they have some hope. If they die in battle, they will get some compensation; if they make meritorious service, they will be rewarded somewhat." That's all, that's all."

"If the imperial court hadn't recruited 'Mao Gourd', there would be a lot of hungry and impoverished people here, and they would turn back sooner or later. What's the difference between being slaughtered by the imperial court and joining the rebel army?"

Zhang Shun was stunned for a while when he heard this.In his previous life, he had mostly heard about the disadvantages of land annexation, but he never imagined that there would be a situation where large areas of land were abandoned and fled in Daming.

When Zhang Shun was in Chenzhou, he also saw the situation of people abandoning land and abandoned it. He only thought that this was a very small number of cases. Didn't he think that the world is so serious?
So, Zhang took the opportunity to ask: "I don't know if you know, what is the reason for this abandoned land?"

Song Xiance saw that Zhang Shun was avoiding the important and preferring the less important, so he had no choice but to respond: "I am a wandering Taoist priest, and I make my home all over the world, often wandering in the east of Henan. I have seen a lot in the past, so I know a little bit."

"I have a grain chief and a village chief in the Ming Dynasty. When I pay taxes, the amount is distributed by the grain chief and the village chief. If there are private grievances or festivals, they will definitely not tolerate it. In addition, the big households are powerful, and the small households are small. When paying grain, it is unavoidable that there will be discrepancies between the amount of land and the tax. In this way, most of these small households will end up in ruins."

"The taxes of the Ming Dynasty have always been levied according to the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book. Each prefecture, one county, one township, and one mile has a fixed quota. But in the long run, the number of registered households is less, and the household tax is heavier. The people have no choice but to abandon their fields and flee to the mountains and forests. gone."

"If these fields want to be sold, they must pay the taxes, otherwise, who would buy them? Therefore, although the people in the world want more land, the world wants less arable land, and the imperial court wants more tax arrears, so this is the end!"

Although Zhang Shun was a star fan in his previous life, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion when he heard this: "If so, this Great Ming He should be destroyed!"

(End of this chapter)