warring states careerist

Chapter 974
The gentleman talks about the world through the song of wine.

Outside the tent, the soldiers who smelled the wine sniffed vigorously, trying to forget the seductive aroma coming from the officers' tent.

Unlike the gentlemen, these pawns composed of subordinate peasants and peasants did not know the concept of the world.

Even before joining the army, some Jiaodong soldiers may have known the world all their lives within the range of [-] miles around their village.

Everything is business as usual, as it should be, the endless cycle of life and death.

There is no past, no future, as if it has been like this since the beginning of the universe, and it will still be like this until the end of the universe.

As for the world, it seems to have nothing to do with them.

Several soldiers were sitting around the fire, holding corn in the earthen jar with their hands.

An older soldier of the Qi army touched the "military coins" in his pocket, thinking that after the battle, he would be able to save enough money to go to the "nvlu" for fun once.

Military currency is not a common currency, and you can hardly buy anything in the market. Merchants don't recognize the military currency issued by Qi State at all.

But as a special reward for service and military exploits, you can enjoy some military paradise treatment-you can use the accumulated military coins to sleep with a woman once in the camp prostitute.

Both Qi State and Yue State were the first countries in Zhuxia to implement the prostitution system. Qi State was economically developed at that time, and Guan Zhong set up a female husband.

After the reform of Qi Houyan, this system of official-run official prostitutes was also preserved and became an important source of Qi State treasury revenue.

A real gentleman once thought that this is an unrighteous bad habit and should be abolished.

However, those who supported Qihou Shan's reform refuted it with righteousness, and believed that it had two advantages.

First, some cities in Qi State have begun to think that wild marriage is a bad habit. The industrial and commercial development of Qi State in the Qi Huan era made women prefer rich or official gentlemen.

After the Marquis of Qi reforms the military system and the reactionary reforms, some people at the bottom may find it difficult to taste the relationship between men and women for the rest of their lives, so setting up official prostitutes can solve some of their needs.

The second is that nowadays women have to rely on men to live. Sishang's industry and commerce are developed, allowing women to engage in industries such as textiles to support themselves. However, Qi's industry and commerce is suppressed by Sishang, and agricultural work is still respected by men.

Many widows undoubtedly make a living, and this can solve the widows' livelihood problems and make them "self-supporting".

In addition, having official prostitutes can put an end to the bullying of women by some villainous youths in the countryside.

What seems to be very reasonable this time, coupled with the existing female concubine system in Qi State, has greatly developed the official prostitutes in Qi State: the country's industry and commerce are sluggish, but there are many businessmen and smugglers close to Sishang. Hou brought a lot of income.

And under the standing army system under the new army system, a large number of low-level conscripts have left their homes, and it is even more difficult to solve their needs. Therefore, things like the military paradise of the prostitute system appeared as a kind of reward for military merit.

Now that the Qi State has started a reactionary change, it is impossible to use land as military merit to confer on the lower classes, because someone who gets the land must lose it. The nobles are now the foundation of Qi’s rule, and it is impossible for the nobles to cut their own flesh.

This kind of military currency accumulated in service can pay for the fees of the bottom camp prostitutes.

Aristocratic officers have wives, vacations, manors, and money, so they look down on those corrupt, dark, extremely old widows or forced women at the bottom.

But the soldiers at the bottom need it very much. They don't have wives and concubines, and they can't afford to go to regular women who spend money and have a relatively high price, so they need to save military coins to go to this lowest-level camp prostitute.

Basically, this kind of lowest-level military camp prostitutes are not open to the outside world, mainly to entertain the bottom of the army. Most of the women are either descendants of slaves, or were sold, or they were women and children who were plundered during the occupation.

The veteran who is counting military coins is already 28 this year, which is basically getting old at the bottom of this era.

He has served in the army for six years, and many of the original family lands were forcibly taken back by the fiefdom nobles, and only four mu of land was reserved for them to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes from Sishang to make a living. .

After the official business is over, he dares to govern private affairs.

The aristocrats' land closures required labor, nearly 20 days a month. In addition, the planting and harvesting of potatoes and wheat were staggered, so that they had to work for the landowners almost every day during the busy farming season.

The nobles in the fief did not grow potatoes, because Sishang needed commercial grains such as corn and wheat or fodder grains. The price of potatoes was too low, and it was not worth selling them.

Later, after the winemaking industry in Qi State developed, some emerging nobles planted potatoes, etc., and built some winemaking workshops in their fiefs, and then some public lands began to grow these high-yielding crops.

The 28-year-old veteran is similar to most low-level village farmers. He does not have a surname, only a first name, because only nobles are eligible to have a surname.

Their fief nobles have a fief of [-] mu, and they are in charge of two villages. When they were recruited for service, they were paid according to the population of the villages.

The veteran was conscripted into the army back then, and served for several years. He had no chance to go back, and he didn't want to go back.

He has already adapted to life in the army, and he doesn't know what he can do after he goes back, and what will happen after he goes back?

Continue to cultivate your own four acres of land, and then work for the nobles day and night?
In the army, you still have at least one set of clothes to wear, you can still eat enough most of the time, and you don’t need to train all the time every day, you can get some military coins after the war, and you can go to the camp prostitutes to relax after the war.

He didn't complain too much, and felt that it should be so. The nobles often say that there is a difference between the noble and the humble. Look at those nobles who speak well, wear fine clothes, have a face like a crown of jade, talk about the world, and wear swords and bows. Then look at yourself , I really feel that there are differences between people, no wonder the noble are always noble and the cheap are always cheap.

After dinner, the accomplices sat together and boiled a crock pot of water on the bonfire.

After the water boiled, steaming hot under the boiling, he took off his clothes and approached the crock.

Under the heat, the lice that were hidden in the clothes and made these low-level soldiers miserable crawled out one after another, and were densely active at the neckline.

A group gathers around the fire and begins the daily routine of entertainment, biting lice.

See who bites loudly and who bites crisply.

One recruit crushed a well-fed louse to death as if showing off his loot, and showed it to his accomplices, saying, "Tsk tsk! Such a big louse."

The rest of the people also echoed: "Big! It's really big."

As if it wasn't a louse, but an expensive trophy to enjoy, to compare and to show that he had made himself proud.

This time they went out to fight, but only surrounded Ningling, but did not capture it, so they didn't grab any valuable spoils.

Before coming here, the military officers publicized that Sishang is rich and rich, and can be plundered after it is captured. Whoever thought that if the city could not be captured, there would be a big battle tomorrow.

It is difficult for these low-level soldiers to understand what the world and etiquette are that move the nobles and gentlemen themselves. They just know that many nobles will cry for the world.

The world or etiquette, these things are too far away, far less important than the closeness of the rattling lice being bitten by them.

After biting the lice routinely, the recruits fetched the old soldier's clothes, cleaned them up, and asked flatteringly, "Brother, didn't you say that the Junhou and the Mo family fought? Is the battle going to be easy tomorrow?"

In fact, the veteran had never fought against the Mohists. Many years had passed since the Qi-Mo war.

In his impression, the Mo family has many guns, good guns, and rich money, but he doesn't know much about others.

The siege of Ningling did not take much action. It was just a few days after the siege, and they were transferred away just after the fortification was dug. They did not know the specific situation, because the officers would not tell them the intention of the war and what to do. It is easy for them to know that the queen is broken, which will cause the army's morale to be demoralized.

The veteran pondered for a while, then said, "Just listen to the order and shoot. However, it's not impossible to prevent the musket from hitting you."

When he said this, the rest of the people gathered around. Many of them were new recruits who had never fought in battle, but they knew the horror of muskets.

Moreover, the quality of the muskets used by Qi State is very poor, and the chambers are often blown up, and the face or eyes are often blown out.

They haven't seen it before, and after seeing it, it's just like that. It's just a kind of weapon when they are familiar with it, but this kind of weapon is very dangerous.

Seeing his companions gathered around, the veteran said: "The year before last, when I was having fun among the prostitutes, there was a woman who was a widow. His husband used to do divination."

For many veterans like him who have completely lost hope in life, the greatest joy is to have fun in the camp, because life is like a pool of stagnant water. I can't live, so it is very common to find a camp prostitute to have fun.

The veteran said again: "After the woman's husband died, he didn't have any income, so he became a prostitute in the camp. This is exactly what gentlemen say about sacrificing one's life for the country."

"She said, how could there be any muskets in the past? This means that the world is going to be in chaos. Her husband said, what is the difference between muskets and crossbows? It is because muskets have fire."

"Water is the best against fire. But there is gold in muskets, and fire is needed to overcome gold, so there is a way to avoid muskets."

"I didn't fight with people with muskets much before, so I forgot about it. When you asked me today, I remembered."

Seeing that everyone was expecting his answer, he said mysteriously: "Water must be used to overcome fire, and fire must be used to overcome gold. Before the battle, my friends can see whose urine is the yellowest. The yellowest Drowning means that there is water and fire in it, which can defeat muskets.”

"Using this yellow drowning and mud, smear it on the chest and forehead, so that you can avoid the muskets, so that the muskets can kill others, but you can't hit yourself."

(End of this chapter)