Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 451

The two fathers teach and teach during the day, and teach martial arts and practice guns at night.

After a period of time, Daqiu Jili respected the father and the father very much, and all the children worshiped the old master as a teacher to learn to read and write, and the young men all practiced guns with Zhao Zhongyi.

Zhao Zhongyi not only taught everyone how to practice red-tasseled guns, but also taught everyone how to fight in the army formation, the golden drum and so on.

Soon after, a group of Nianzi attacked. Zhao Zhongyi gathered the people in the village and led the young men who practiced with him to fight against the Nianzi.

In that battle, more than 30 attacking Nian thieves came on mules and horses, but none of them left Daqiuji and were killed by them.As for the villagers brought by Zhao Zhongyi, none of them died, and only a few were slightly injured.

After this incident, the villagers were greatly encouraged, so they practiced more guns afterwards.

Even villagers from nearby villages came here to seek advice from teachers.

As a result, it was a matter of course, and the father and father officially held an altar meeting in Daqiuji, under the banner of the Loyalty Red Spear Association. They selected some brave and loyal villagers from Daqiuji who practiced guns, and accepted them as disciples. formally included in the meeting.

Master Zhao is known as the old master of the Red Spear Society and is also the president.

And Zhao Zhongyi is known as the big brother of Chuangong and the head coach.

Zhao Zhongyi selected a group of believers to join the association, awarded them the second senior brother, the third senior brother, etc., and then asked them to go to other villages to open altars to spread the practice.

The rapid expansion from one village to many villages, the old master also used the money and food donated by the villagers to recruit some scholars, and established the Red Spear Club School in other villages.

These schools not only recruit students for free to teach literacy, but more importantly, they serve as an important tool for the Loyalty Red Spear Society to break into other villages, and they also become secret contact points in various places, responsible for collecting and transmitting information.

The General Assembly will lead the sub-forums in various places. Teachers, senior brothers, and instructors are in charge of each altar, in charge of intelligence, training, etc. For the congregations that join the association, they must not only teach marksmanship and martial arts, but also organize them to learn battle formations and flag orders. It was compiled according to the law of Ming army camps.

For example, teams, outposts, battalions, etc. The congregation in a village is organized into one team or several teams, and the congregations of several altars may be organized into one post or one battalion.

Where there is a sub-forum, there must be a school.

Even to show the difference, they wear different belts, such as red, yellow, blue, black, white, cyan and purple. On the surface, they are called students of the school district, but secretly they are actually members of the group altar.

Today is Dragon Boat Festival, a nice day.

The old master asked Zhao Zhongyi to prepare for the altar tonight.

There are generally two things to do when opening an altar, one is to open an altar to recruit people, and the other is to open an altar to gather people to preach.

Red Gun will have peripheral members as well as internal members.

The peripheral members are ordinary villagers practicing guns, while the internal members must go through observation and assessment, and finally be selected and go through the altar opening ceremony.

After the altar initiation ceremony, they will be awarded belts, tasseled spears, and a plaque of the Loyalty Red Spear Club, and their names will also be included in the roster.

Nowadays, the Loyalty Red Spear Club is not limited to Yongcheng, but has spread to other counties in Guide Prefecture, and even entered Xuzhou, Haozhou, Yanzhou, Yingzhou and other places, blooming everywhere.

The combined population of the villages that joined the Red Gun Club is tens of thousands, and there are tens of thousands of gun practicers outside, and there are also many internal members.

Zhao Zhongyi went to the big drying yard in the village. It used to be a big village, and there used to be a lively market, but in the past two years, the entire banks of the Huaihe River have been devastated by war and famine.

There used to be a Daqiu Shrine in Daqiuji, which was named after the shrine built on Daqiu.
It is said that in the early Zhou Dynasty, the owner of Taiqiu Shrine moved back to Taiqiu Shrine from Nanchaoge of Yin Ruins, and was called Song Taiqiu Shrine by Sima Qian because of his transformation into Song Kingdom Shrine.

Taiqiu Shrine is known as one of the oldest shrines of the Chinese nation.

The hill is originally a tall and natural mound, and people built shrines on it. In ancient times, shrines were things that replaced totems, and shrines were sacred places for worshiping totems.

The God of Sheji is the God of Heaven and Earth.

From the shrine to the ancient city, and then gradually turning into a village, many things have changed beyond recognition with the passage of time, just like the military disasters and famines in these years are slowly destroying this place.

If Zhao Zhongyi hadn't led the villagers to defeat the Nian bandits with guns, perhaps this place would have become a deserted ruin like many other places.

The Taiqiu Shrine, which was once a Chinese national treasure like Jiuding, is now also annihilated.

There is only a large mound left in Daqiuji, and there is no shrine.

Now, on this big mound, the flag of loyalty has been erected.

early summer.

Since the Loyalty Red Spear Association was established here, Daqiuji has also become more stable. After they killed more than 30 Nianzi, it shocked the world for a while. I didn't pay attention to this at the beginning.

By the time they noticed this, the Red Spear Society had already developed very rapidly, branch altars were set up everywhere, and there were people carrying red tasseled spears everywhere, so they didn't want to touch this hard thorn easily.

"Big Brother!"

"Chief coach!"

As soon as Zhao Zhongyi appeared on the drying ground, there were countless greetings, no matter men, women or children, they would respectfully address them, and some people even handed them pancakes and other food directly.

"I just ate it. The weather is nice today."

"Yeah, it happened to be a rush to harvest the wheat, and when the weather is good, I quickly dried it and harvested it."

The Dragon Boat Festival is also the wheat harvest season in Guide. They have started harvesting wheat one after another a few days ago. Now they are busy, and they have to catch up with the weather to finish harvesting as soon as possible.

The whole summer wheat harvest lasts about half a month.

"How's the harvest?"

"This year's wheat is average, and the growth is not very good. The weather has been bad in the past few years, and the war has been chaotic. The water conservancy is also in disrepair, and there is not much time to take care of it. It is not bad to be able to harvest some." Several old men looked at the field just picked The wheat that came back said.

Although the wheat ears are not full enough, everyone is still full of joy when looking at these golden wheat stalks.

After a long and cold winter, and a hungry spring, I finally harvested in this warm summer.

Seeing the new wheat harvest, everyone can finally feel more at ease.

"When the new wheat comes down, I will send two buckets to the old master and the instructor soon." An old man said gratefully. The world is too chaotic these days, and it is difficult for ordinary people to survive. Even if they form a group, there is no capable person to command and lead. It is also very capable of defeating those bandits and officers and soldiers.

It is not easy for Daqiu Jineng to have the stability it has today, and they are very clear who is responsible for it.

"When the new wheat comes down, everyone should store the grain first. The old master and I are just the two of us. We don't need to use as much grain as we can eat."

He greeted everyone with a smile, and when he met the congregation, he would step forward to explain and open the altar at night.

Because Daqiuji is the main altar of the Red Spear Club, many people come here every day, and it even faintly becomes the market center of various villages that have branch altars.

Everyone will also bring some things here to exchange information, because the Red Gun will be responsible for maintaining the law and order here, and ensuring fair transactions, and will not collect taxes and fees indiscriminately. Not only the villagers are willing to come here to exchange information, but even some vendors Come too.

Slowly, some traditional handicraft industries have also been restored, such as blacksmithing, silver making, papermaking, weaving, wine making, printing and dyeing, even tofu grinding, vinegar making, soy sauce making, oil pressing, tailoring, stonemasons, shipwrights, carpenters, Castration, kiln firing, carpentry, etc., there is a new shop opened every few days.

Just because the place is getting more and more stable, because there is a red gun team standing guard here every day, there is no messy apportionment, and there are no various demands for cards.

This makes today's Daqiuji even more lively than Yongcheng County.

In fact, Daqiuji, under the control of the Red Gun Club, also collects money, but the rules are the rules. Whether you come to open a shop, open a workshop, or sell things, the uniform is a percentage, that is, it is worth a hundred. .

And some small transactions of ordinary people do not charge money.

Besides, nothing else.

Safety and fairness are important reasons for attracting nearby traders and people to trade here. Even many landlords and gentry come here to live temporarily because of the stability here.

Zhao Zhongyi used to be an orphan in Huangtian Port outside Jiangyin City. He made a living by doing odd jobs, but he was generous and generous.Jiangyin Juyi, who was still called Zhao San at that time, called on the villagers to respond to the righteous men in Jiangyin City, but was ridiculed by the villagers, and was even beaten by the servants of the landlord Zhao Si.

But he still asked the old master for the word loyalty, and asked the widow next door to sew a flag of loyalty for him, and one of them held the flag sewn from bed sheets to support the Jiangyin rebels.

The old master was moved, and he went with his sword, and the two entered Jiangyin City to join the rebel army and fight against the Tartars.

Last year, they went north to Shandong with the imperial camp, and finally decided to stay. They were sent to Yongcheng to establish an underground organization. They played the banner of the Loyalty Red Spear Club. After nearly a year of development, they have achieved their current results.

The current Zhao Zhongyi is a big brother who is respected by the villagers and the head coach of the club. No one knows that he is actually the head of the regiment training of the Ming Dynasty, and he is regarded as the seventh rank.

Wherever he went, everyone greeted him.

"The altar will open tonight, there is an important announcement!"

"Okay, we must be there."

"Open the altar tonight!"

"punctual."

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After walking around, I greeted the core members of the village and asked them to split up and pass on the news.

Then he went to the entrance of the village again.

There is a team of Red Gun members standing guard with red tassel guns. Although it is the busy season of harvesting wheat, Daqiuji still has a team of Red Guns patrolling the village.

This red gun team belongs to the emergency mobile force directly under the Red Gun Association, also called the escort team. It has a small number of 500 people in total, but it is divided into four guards and guard teams, which is a standard battalion.

Usually the four whistles are on duty in turn.

These 500 people were drawn from the core members of the entire Red Gun Club, and they took turns on duty.

They are transferred to work, and they can also have additional ration subsidies.

It is precisely because of the existence of this red gun team that Daqiuji is becoming more and more stable now. Not only the Tang generals and Nianzi in the nearby ten miles and eight townships dare not provoke them, but also the Tartar green camp in Yongcheng County. The Qing soldiers at the head of the battalion didn't dare to provoke them easily.

In name, Zhao Zhongyi gave money to the county magistrate of Yongcheng, and even gave gifts to the prefect of Guide, and reported it, so they belonged to the township group under the leadership of the government.

This world is so strange, it is obviously a secret anti-Qing organization, but because of the money, they are still recognized by the government as a village brave organization organized for the gentry and righteous people.

And after Zhao Zhongyi gave money to Fatty Wang, the garrison of Yongcheng Green Camp, he directly got a batch of 'broken and eliminated' swords, guns, shields and helmets from him.

The two sides also considered brothers, and agreed that if Lao Tang, Nian Zi and other bandits invaded the country, Zhao Zhongyi's Daqiu Xiangyong would gather to help defend.

(End of this chapter)