Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 185
Today's situation in Shandong is unstable, and many officials have chosen to rule by doing nothing. Anyway, big bandits like Liangshan are only making trouble outside the city. It is still safe for officials to close the city gate. The imperial court also understood the situation. When the officials reported a reason that the land was robbed by bandits and could not collect taxes, the imperial court had nothing to do with them.

Under such circumstances, Zong Ze would take the initiative to decide to vigorously level the land in Dengzhou, and he was indeed an ideal official.

He asked Lu Zhishen, "How many troops does he want from our Sun Family Village?"

"There are not many people who want it. The higher-ups asked for a hundred soldiers by name."

The number of Baojia places approved by their Sun Family Village is only in the early [-]s. Of course, Sun Xin has actually trained more than a thousand Zhuang Ding with this number.

"Should we send out troops?" Le He asked Sun Xindao.

Sun Xin thought for a while and decided: "Send troops, and choose the best Zhuang Ding to go out. I am worried that there is no place for us to train soldiers. If there is such an opportunity, the village must pay attention to it."

"But this money..."

Naturally, the imperial court will not make up for the expenses required for the dispatch of soldiers. This is all paid by Sun Jiazhuang himself. Other Zhuangzi are definitely not as active as they are, so the cost of going out to pay the thieves is thousands of guan. .

Sun Xin made a decision, and said, "Didn't we harvest a crop of corn? We planted more than 1 mu of corn this season. After harvesting, there will always be a prospect of [-] shi. This year, Sun Jiaji and Sun Ji The business is not bad, and the grain and gold and silver stored in Zhuangzi are enough for us to spend thousands of coins to help Zong Tong convict the thieves. Let's go, call everyone to touch."

After some planning at the Supervisory Committee, Sun Xin finally decided that the hundred peasants and soldiers to be dispatched this time were all elites from his village, led by Luan Tingyu, and all of them were equipped with muskets.

This matter caused a discussion in the supervisory committee, and the main opponents were Tang Long and others.

Their opinion is that the effect of muskets has been greatly improved compared with the cold weapons at this time. They are afraid that muskets, as Sun Jiazhuang's sharp weapons, will be disclosed in advance, which will greatly expose Sun Jiazhuang's hidden strength. There will be no surprise effect.

However, Sun Xin knew that long after they retreated from Liangshan with muskets, the reputation of Sunjiazhuang Musketeers had already spread.

But the effect is the same. Musketeers are basically regarded as a strange type of arms in the arena at this time, and not many people think about equipping their own weapons with this weapon they have heard for the first time.

Moreover, more than 100 Musketeers go out to fight, no matter how good the effect is, it will not cause much sensation.

For Sun Jiazhuang, they are extremely lacking in the actual use experience of Musketeers in field battles. It would be too wasteful if the Musketeers were not allowed to go up and fight with such a good opportunity for training.

In the end, Sun Xin made a decision and decided that Sunjiazhuang would select a group of the best farmers and soldiers to go out.

Three days later, when Dengzhou Mansion sent a flag to Sunjiazhuang Baoding to promote Sun Xin as the capital, Sun Xin also held the first swearing-in meeting for Sunjiazhuang farmers and soldiers in Sunjiazhuang.

All the soldiers who went to the expedition wore red ribbons, and Sun Xin came to the stage and gave a generous speech on the significance of their actions to eliminate harm for the people on Dengzhou Road on behalf of Sunjiazhuang this time, and encouraged the farmers and soldiers to strictly observe discipline, fight bravely, and play the style of Sunjiazhuang.

At the end of his speech, Sun Xin awarded the titles to the more than 100 elite musketeers: the first battalion of farmers and soldiers, battalion commander Luan Tingyu.

After announcing the serial number, Sun Xin displayed the flag of the First Battalion that had been prepared by Le He earlier on the high platform.

It is too difficult to print graphic patterns with the printing and dyeing technology these days, so just like the design method of most flags these days, Sun Xin adopted the method of writing directly on the flags.

The background color of the flag of Sunjiazhuang peasants and soldiers is blood-like red, with eight characters written on the left and right sides of the flag, "protect food and production" on the left, and "protect the country and protect the family" on the right.

These eight characters are the result of Sun Xin's careful thinking.

After coming to this time and space, Sun Xin has been thinking about what kind of idea he will use to organize the armed forces of this era.

It is impossible to directly copy the concept of the great army of later generations, not only because I do not have that kind of propaganda ability and a group of revolutionary teams that have been tempered by decades of national humiliation, but more importantly, the economic foundation determines the superstructure. The production conditions have no way to unite people under such advanced thinking, and even a production system that is too advanced will dampen the enthusiasm for production.

After a series of practices in Sunjiazhuang, Sun Xin finally identified his own development ideas: protecting food and production, protecting the country and family.

"Protect food and production" means that what he mainly defends is.The interests of small farmers and small traders and small craftsmen.

The tenant farmers who have been exploited to nothing have no food and assets at all, so they don’t need the farmers and soldiers of Sunjiazhuang to protect them. As for the big landlords, they are not afraid of robbers at all. The more chaotic the world is, the more they can take the opportunity to annex larger land , Just like Sun Xin's current Sunjiazhuang, the chaos in Shandong has made his assets increase exponentially.

The slogan of protecting food and production is mainly attractive to ordinary farmers and small landowners, and they are also the main driving force for the development of the times under the current economic conditions.

Moreover, this kind of concept is more in line with the basic situation of Sunjiazhuang. The supervisors of Sunjiazhuang and even the heroes of Liangshan are actually technicians and small landlords. Slogans have a natural identity.

In the future, with further changes in the situation, small farmers, urban handicraftsmen, and small businessmen are also the group of people whose interests are most vulnerable in troubled times: downward, any uprising peasant armed forces will not regard them as their own , Instead, they will rob their assets and charge them for military expenses.Upwards, the rich merchants will try their best to search for their property and make them become their own stewards. Sun Jiazhuang's slogan of protecting food and production and respecting their private property will obviously get their support.

And Sun Xin knows that if this era can continue to develop, in the future industrial revolution, these small farmers and handicraftsmen will be the soil for the birth of the new urban bourgeoisie.If his plan can be carried out, this group of forces will grow stronger in the future.

The other slogan "Protect the country and protect the family" is even more clear-cut. Under the influence of Ma Ziliu's series of dramas, the peasants and soldiers of Sunjiazhuang have vaguely thought of making a living for the nation. In the future, Sun Xin's peasants and soldiers intend to unite Naturally, it is the armed forces of the Han people from all walks of life.

The basic pursuit of "protecting the country and protecting the family" is to protect the Han people from being oppressed by other ethnic groups, and to pursue equal rights for everyone. Considering the proportion of ethnic groups in the Central Plains at this time, the only possibility for the Han people not to be oppressed is to establish a Han Chinese regime.

It's just that with Sun Xin's current strength, it is too early to propose the establishment of a political power. We can only promote this idea through Sun Jiazhuang's peasant and soldier philosophy.

The bright red flag of the First Battalion fluttered in the wind, instantly attracting everyone's attention, and directly covered the inconspicuous Baojia flag that Zong Ze gave to Sun Family Village.

The peasants and soldiers who were about to march looked at the flag with eight characters written on it, and they couldn't help puffing up their chests.

Although they may not necessarily understand the deep meaning of these eight words, looking at the bright red flag and seeing the audience looking eagerly at their wives, children, and children, the peasants and soldiers can't help feeling a sense of belonging to this flag and this team. feel.

As Sun Zhuangzhu said, they are different from other Baojia soldiers who only fight for a reward of silver. Other than the bandits in Sichuan, most of them are farmers who have their own contracted land. They can already satisfy their family's food and clothing with the income from farming, and they still choose to fight under this banner in order to protect their own family business and the interests of the happy Sun Family Village.

(End of this chapter)