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Chapter 107: Letter from the Red Lady, Gao Xiucheng is weird

The importance of intelligence to a force is self-evident, just like human ears and eyes.

Liu Sheng had not set up an intelligence agency before. First, because the force was still small and the scope of activities of the rebels was not large, there was no need for a specialized intelligence agency.

The second reason is that we haven’t found anyone suitable to take charge of this matter.

Nowadays, the use of Ma Jinshui is just to make the taller one out of the short ones, and to use it ad hoc.

When there are more talents under his command in the future, if Ma Jinshui cannot do things well, he can just choose someone who is competent.

As for the internal supervision agencies and intelligence agencies, Liu Sheng plans to wait until the strategic plan to capture Runing Mansion is realized before looking for suitable candidates to do it.

After Ma Jinshui was appointed as the sentry commander of Xunfeng Camp, his mental outlook immediately changed.

When I went to watch the reserve training of Shengjie Camp with Liu Sheng, I looked at each person carefully to see if they were suitable for being admitted to Xunfeng Camp...

On the afternoon of the third day of October.

Liu Sheng was training the reserve soldiers of Shengjie Battalion to climb the city wall with hook ropes outside the west gate of Dashui Pingzhai, when he saw a standing soldier with an order flag flying over.

"Report!" The soldier shouted after coming over, clasping his fists and saying: "Report to the leader, Commander Red will send back the letter!"

After speaking, he handed over a letter.

Letter from the Red Lady?

Liu Sheng was slightly surprised.

After taking it and opening it, I found that the handwriting of the letter was clumsy, as if it was written by the Red Lady herself.

As far as Liu Sheng knew, although the red lady knew some words before, she was not good enough to write letters.

Now that I can write, I must have learned from military and political officials.

It was probably checked by military and political officials. There were no typos in the letter, and the content was in simple vernacular.

It turns out that in the past half month, nearly two thousand more refugees have arrived outside Queshan County.

After discussion, Wen You, Peng Youyi and others decided to follow Liu Sheng's previous methods and provide relief to the refugees.

After the Red Lady left, she wanted to move all these refugees to North America.

He also believes that since Queshan County is accumulating refugees so quickly, a permanent refugee reception point can be set up. As long as enough refugees are accumulated, they will be allowed to come to Tianmu Mountain and then be transferred to North America.

The migration of refugees is ostensibly based on the wishes of the refugees.

But in fact, there is no choice left for the refugees.

Liu Sheng said at the east gate of Queshan County that only those who are willing to join the rebels and accept their arrangements will receive relief.

After all, the food for the rebels is not free, nor is it infinite. It can even be said to be quite tight.

Not much was used to provide relief to those refugees who were unwilling to join the rebels.

In this case, if a refugee would rather not receive relief than join the rebel army, it only means that he is not hungry enough.

For most refugees, they are so hungry that they have to exchange their children for food. They don't care whether they are rebels or rebels in front of them, or how they will be arranged afterwards.

All they wanted was a meal that could save themselves and their families.

Therefore, during the relief operation conducted by Liu Sheng in Queshan County, almost all the refugees joined the rebel army and were moved to North America.

The very few who did not join did not reach the end of the road yet, so they did not stay outside the county and continued to flee south.

Red Lady, Wen You and others also provided relief to the refugees who came from Queshan County.

Therefore, Liu Sheng believes that the permanent refugee reception point mentioned by the Red Lady is feasible and can continue to increase the number of immigrants from China in North America.

So, after reading the letter, he wrote a reply to the Red Lady, agreeing to the matter and saying that he would make corresponding arrangements at Tianmu Mountain.

He also asked the Red Lady and others to select single young men between the ages of 18 and 35 among the refugees and compile them into civilian husbands.

The civilian husband was under the Minyong, and was only provided with two meals of porridge every day. He had to help the rebels repair the city walls, dig ditches, etc. At the same time, he was also the source of soldiers for the Minyong and the standing army.

Liu Sheng did this because of many considerations.

First, single young men who immigrate to North America are not as easy to control as young men with families, and the male-to-female ratio in North American camps is already severely imbalanced. The immigration of these single young men will make this problem even more serious.

Secondly, immigrants in North America still mainly rely on transshipment for their food rations and cannot be self-sufficient.

These single young men must also be fed with food transported back from Queshan County.In this case, it is better to let them stay in the county.

Third, after the autumn harvest, the rebel army always needs people to attack Ruyang and other places.

Whether it is to expand the army again or to recruit civilian husbands, the single young adults among these refugees are good candidates.

The next day.

That is the afternoon of the fourth day of October.

When Liu Sheng led his troops to train in Dashui Pingzhai, they encountered another unexpected thing.

But it was Gao Dequan from Gaolaozhuang who came.

"I pay my respects to the leader."

When Gao Dequan met, he would kneel down and bow to Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng motioned to his guards to stop him and said: "Gao Yuanwai is only over 50 years old, so he is not considered old."

"The leader is joking." Gao Dequan didn't seem to want to kneel down, so he stood up with the help of his guards.

Speaking of which, people in their 50s during the Ming Dynasty could indeed be called decrepit.

But as a landowner with thousands of acres of land, Gao Dequan had good living conditions. His hair and beard were black, and he looked like most men in their 50s in later generations.

Liu Sheng's time was precious. After a few opening remarks, he asked directly: "Why did Gao Yuanwai come here?"

"I want to see my son."

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "Didn't I say that you can see him if you want, but if you go, you have to wait three years before coming out."

Gao Dequan sighed and said, "Then the leader may give this letter, some clothes, and food to Xiucheng?"

"can."

When Gao Dequan left, the training of the Shengjie Battalion reserve soldiers also ended.However, on the fifth day, more than 200 reserve soldiers were eliminated, leaving only more than 500.

Liu Sheng didn't care, and instead planned to increase the intensity of follow-up training - because these reserve soldiers would endure more hardship than he expected. If he didn't increase the amount, he was afraid that there would be many more people left behind than expected.

Before dinner, Liu Sheng came to Huachuying, called Liu Dachuan, and asked, "Where is Gao Xiucheng?"

"Go back to the leader, we should be digging sweet potatoes over there."

Under normal circumstances, Liu Sheng is a person who keeps his word.

At the beginning, he promised Gao Dequan that as long as Gao Laozhuang assisted the rebel army in capturing Wang Yingtai and other officers and soldiers, the rebel army would not treat Gao Xiucheng as a prisoner.

Afterwards, he had Gao Xiucheng taken out of the prisoner camp and placed in Huachu Camp, and asked Liu Dachuan to send several civilian soldiers to work with him.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to bring something, Liu Sheng wanted to meet Gao Xiucheng to see if there was any possibility that this person could be used by the rebels.

After all, there are still too few scholars in the rebel army today.

If Gao Xiucheng is a young scholar after all, if his thoughts have changed and he has talent, he will appoint him eclectically...
"Look at this sweet potato I dug. It weighs more than half a catty!"

"I'm not even half a catty, but I'm not too small either."

"My dear, this acre of land can't produce a thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes, right?"

"No!"

"···"

The entire sweet potato field was enveloped in great joy.

The young men in the same team were happily digging sweet potatoes.

Gao Xiucheng followed the example of others and carefully dug up the soil, then also used his hands to scoop out the sweet potatoes in the soil.

After picking out two sweet potatoes that were bigger than my fist, I stood up and looked at the entire sweet potato field. Thinking back on my experiences over the past half month, I felt a little unreal.

After he became enlightened at a few years old, he read the books of sages.

If you are a little sensible, you will always hear about people rebelling in the Ming Dynasty, establishing slave entrances outside the customs, Tatars from the grasslands going south, and so on.

It can be said that he grew up in the atmosphere of internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, when he was not studying, he often thought about becoming a capable minister after entering the official career in the future and restoring the peace and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty - although he had only heard that scene described by his teachers and father, but had never seen it with his own eyes.

Therefore, when he knew that the rebels in Tianmu Mountain were causing harm to the village, he would lead the villagers and villagers to resist.

Unfortunately, he was locked in the room by his father.

Afterwards, his father asked him to go to Fucheng to contact his classmates and let the government officials and other officials pay attention to the matter, and he spared no effort to do so.

Hard work paid off, and with the help of some classmates, he succeeded.

He was appreciated by General Wang Yingtai and became the military counselor.

But what happened next was something he never expected.

One thousand six hundred battalion soldiers, one thousand local warriors, and five hundred civilians were defeated by less than 1000 bandits, and even the entire army was annihilated!

What was even more difficult for him to accept was that he could have escaped when the army was defeated.

Just because he made a suggestion, the angry Wang Yingtai was kicked down. He missed the opportunity to escape and became a prisoner!
The experience after becoming a prisoner made him feel like he was in a dream.

First, I saw a place suspected of being a fairy cave, and then I came to this wild land said to be overseas in North America.

At that time, a treacherous thought came to his mind - Could it be that the thief leader Liu Sheng had such an adventure and magical power because of destiny?
Is the Ming Dynasty exhausted?

Then he began to worry about gains and losses.

Being captured, as a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, should he die loyally, or should he just live?

He thought that if he were a parent official such as a county magistrate or a magistrate and lost his land and was captured, he would definitely die.

But he was just a scholar, only 17 years old, and an only son.

If he dies, what will happen to the old father?
But if he had to survive... could he really endure the humiliation of being a prisoner of bandits just to survive?

Don't wait for Gao Xiucheng to figure these issues out.

He was taken out of the prison camp and sent to a production team.

It was said that his father assisted the rebels in capturing Wang Yingtai and hundreds of other Ming soldiers, so the bandit leader pardoned his status as a prisoner.

But he needs to work in the production team in order to have food to eat.

As a result, he, a scholar who originally only dealt with the pen and ink of books, became a farmer who worked all day long.

Every day I have to clear land, chop firewood, and carry water.

At first he was so tired that he didn't want to live.

But looking at the people in the same production team, whether they are young and strong men, women or old people, everyone works so hard all day, with almost no time for leisure, but they are all happy.Unlike the tenants and farmers in Gaolaozhuang, who always have sad faces every time they see them, there are very few smiling faces.

Gao Xiucheng felt that it would be too shameful for him to commit suicide because of these hardships.

After enduring the fatigue of the first few days, he found that such a busy day of work was not that painful, and even had some fun in it.

During the more than half a month in the production team, Gao Xiucheng's favorite time period was undoubtedly after dinner every day.

Because at this time many people will go to adult night schools to learn literacy and arithmetic.

To this day, Gao Xiucheng still remembers how shocked he was when he saw the adult night school for the first time - he never expected that a thief would want to make everyone literate and arithmetic!
And he put it into action and achieved good results - almost everyone in his production team is literate!
Things that many Confucian sages only dared to dream about were actually put into practice by a thief leader, and he practiced them well.

It can be said that this subversion of his three views was even greater than when he saw the fairy cave!

Now, I saw this sweet potato yielding thousands of kilograms per acre again!

This made the thought come to his mind again - Could it be that Ming Dynasty has really run out of energy?
Could it be that Liu Sheng, the leader of the Tianmu Mountain rebel army, is the destined emperor to end the troubled times and establish a new dynasty?
When Gao Xiucheng was thinking carefully about this issue, he suddenly heard louder cheers——

"Look! The leader is here!"

　Second more.

　　I'm late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)