The whole shack was silent.
Most of the Han people who could survive the harsh environment on the grasslands had a bit of toughness in their bones, and the Mongolian methods of managing them were no different from herding, so slaves often had to fight with each other for a little benefit. After they were relocated to Jinshan City, Shi Mo also led people to manage them very carefully. However, because most of the people in each shack were reorganized and were not assigned according to the original thousands or hundreds of households, various internal conflicts continued. Just trying not to be discovered by the superiors.
A skinny guy like Lu Wusi had been beaten several times and always failed in his fight for food. Fortunately, the man with the dark circles was not a villain. He was fierce at first, but later he took over the position of leader of the shack, and the distribution of food was generally fair. Lu Wusi could get one or two rice balls from him every time, so he wouldn't be hungry.
Everyone in the shack looked at the man with dark circles.
The man laughed dryly, took the chicken in his hand, and said to everyone: "Don't stare like that... Bring some firewood and follow me to the stove in the back. Once it's cooked, everyone will share it."
Lu Wusi thought for a while and threw the other fat chicken over: "The chicken wings belong to me, and the rest should be divided among everyone!"
The atmosphere in the entire shack suddenly became lively.
By lunch time, the twenty people in this shack became the center of envy among those around them. Many people said that if you go for an errand, you can catch two chickens. This means that the navy officers are actually kind.
Over the past few days, these slaves have become more and more relaxed. Although they are still skinny, they seem to have more energy, and they have more private discussions about Ding Haijun. At this moment, some people were chatting and saying:
"I thought that the army that could defeat the Mongolian master must be ruthless and capable of killing people. In the past two days, it seems that they are really polite and treat us as the same people."
"Not only are they polite to us, but the generals and commanders in their own army also don't show off."
"Yes, that Zhao Xuan is the general who guards Jinshan City. He has more than 3,000 armored soldiers under his command. I heard that he took two big swords and slashed from the Tongxuan Gate to Fengyi Gate half a year ago! Look at him. In this city, don’t you walk around with a smile every day and chat with the soldiers everywhere?”
"The officers of the Ding Navy also eat the same food as the soldiers! The stoves are all in one place! Another general, Zhang Shao, invites meritorious soldiers to eat with him every day!"
"After all, it is Han'er's own army. If the army is like this, why don't the people become meat on the ground? I guess the life of farming for them will not be bad."
"Speaking of farming, we people went to the warehouse in the north of the city this morning and carried rakes, hoes, shovels and other tools. They were all useful iron tools, at least more than two thousand pieces. I think Ding Haijun is serious about farming. Yes. By the way, did you see the newly opened ditches at Baiyan Spring in the west of the city yesterday? It looked like they were done by experienced farmers..."
"Who is not a veteran of farming? What I'm anxious about is the regulations for farming! What percentage do we get when a crop of grain is harvested? What percentage do the military men get? The regulations haven't come down yet, which is really worrying."
"Autumn is about to come, and sooner or later this matter will be ordered. Why are you in a hurry?"
While chatting, someone whispered: "Ahem, speaking of this, I heard some news."
"What news? Tell me quickly."
"At the east end of the camp where women and children were, a woman said that she was asked by a military commander to help her. She mended her clothes and collected the soles of her shoes, and she came back in just an hour. The military commander asked her not to say anything and secretly gave her We have money and food! Tell me, if you get benefits from doing this, farming is so hard, so how can the Navy still treat us badly?"
When he spoke these words, he did not receive the expected response. Instead, he aroused suspicious glances from all around. Many people's attention has turned to another aspect.
"An hour? Just sewing and fixing the soles, is there any benefit? Could it be that..." Someone whispered, and they were a little envious: "It is easier for these women to live, just lie down like this..."
"You fart!"
The Han'er slave who had spoken earlier was furious: "These military men in the navy are all strong and powerful. I heard that they are all country squires in Shandong. What kind of women do they want? They can look at those black charcoal-like men in Dongying who are covered with blood." You stinking bitch! Just mending clothes and tying shoe soles!"
When the man said this, he looked around, pointed at Lu Wusi and said, "Lu Wusi went out for two hours in the morning, and he brought Fat Chicken with him when he came back. Could it be that he was also slept with by the military commander above?"
The crowd laughed loudly. Someone said: "He has thin skin and tender flesh, and looks like a girl. It's not impossible..."
The man with the dark circles immediately jumped out and yelled, and the men in the same shack as Lu Wusi also agreed, for the sake of the fat chicken.
There was a commotion for a while, and Shi Mo, who was not far away, also noticed it first. The old man glanced at him and said a few words to the Mongolian prisoners of war beside him.
After all, the Mongols still have some power, and everyone knows that they are all prisoners who surrendered after being defeated by Ding Haijun, but these prisoners are more terrifying to the Han slaves than the officers of Ding Haijun. Just as the Mongolian prisoners of war were about to come over, their noisy voices suddenly dropped.
After a while, the aroma of roasted chicken and rice balls emerged, and everyone felt happy again after smelling the smell.
A young man wiped his saliva and said expectantly: "If the navy's regulations don't deceive people, we can always save some money by farming for a few years. By then I will have to find a way to find a woman..."
Having said this, he raised his hands and made a kneading gesture: "As long as it's a woman, I don't mind it even if it smells like sheep."
The weather is not cold these days, and people are energetic when they have food to eat. The entire current discussion is skewed towards the indescribable.
However, after coming to Jinshan for a few days, all kinds of details clearly fell into everyone's eyes, and some information was obtained one after another. Everyone can be sure that this army is really the same as the Tatars on the grassland. They are different, and they are not the same as the army of the Jin Kingdom in their memory.
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Some people already have a vague feeling that these naval officers are "family members".
In fact, Guo Ning did not specifically emphasize the national attributes of the army. His army is a new sprout that has emerged from the huge zombie of the Kingdom of Jin. Due to various factors, there is no need to say something.
In the Ding navy, there were many wild Jurchens sent from the Liaodong expedition in the past few months, and even more Khitan and Bohai people surrendered after the war in Zhongdu. In his official military orders, Guo Ning never talked about his ethnic group, nor did he issue any order to kill Hu.
However, the structure of the Ding Navy determined that they were an army composed of large and small landowners. Those who are willing to obtain land from the military government and obtain more land through military exploits are always Han'er. Even if there are foreign races, they are all foreign races that are deeply Chinese.
As for the wild Jurchens from Liaodong, they were the main targets of the Dinghai navy's national integration. The process of large numbers of them being signed into the army was that the foreign races from the northeast were constantly moved into Shandong by the Dinghai navy, and then dispersed and resettled, forcing them to gradually hear about Han words, the process of learning Chinese characters.
Guo Ning didn't want to preach the equality of officers and soldiers in the army. That kind of thing that transcends the times may not be able to be implemented in a thousand years, let alone now. Soldiers serve as soldiers for food, and for meritorious service they serve for rewards and wealth. If anyone tries to reduce the treatment of different ranks to the same level, the soldiers themselves will not agree.
However, every ordinary soldier in the Ding Navy controls multiple households at the same time and has certain local governance rights. They are not the same thing as the poor people in the Kingdom of Jin who were forced to sign for the army, nor are they the same thing as the poor and howling wolves in the Mongolian army.
Ordinary soldiers in the Ding Navy can also live a comfortable life and are dignified and respectable people. Compared with them, the generals only have more land and more people to protect them. Due to the limitations of the system, the differences between the two parties will eventually become larger and larger as time goes by, but in three to five years, they will not be completely different.
Some veterans of the Ding Navy cannot be promoted because they really cannot pass the level of literacy and numeracy. They have accumulated a lot of land through their meritorious service. When the officers above return to the countryside, they may have to rely on them to stabilize the place.
On the other hand, the Ding Navy was in a period of rapid expansion. As long as soldiers could pass basic cultural and educational courses and perform meritorious service in several battles, they could be easily promoted. There are many examples of people who are in the army one month and become lieutenants or generals the next month.
And this promotion process, because of the fierce battles one after another, there is absolutely no possibility for the officers to give and receive privately.
In this way, the upper and lower classes in the navy are not separated from each other, and ordinary soldiers also have a promising future to look forward to. This creates a relatively equal relationship.
This is certainly the case in the army, and even the prisoners in front of them, the officers and soldiers of Dinghai Navy generally feel that they cannot be ignored.
None of them looked human. But there is no guarantee that in a few months, he will become a military household; according to the rules of Dinghai Navy, the probability of transforming from a negative household to a military household is really not small...
For example, Ge Qingshu, the officer in charge of maintaining order at the moment, had joined the army in Laizhou two years ago. At that time, he was arranged by Wang Shixian to go on guard duty at the watchtower outside Haicang Town. As a result, he was suddenly attacked and set on fire by the Mongolian army. The entire sentry team died, but he survived. He still has large scars from the fire.
Now Ge Qingshu is also the number one figure in the army. Who knows whether there will be a leader among the Han slaves in two or three years?
After all, we are all in northern Xinjiang. Even if the Mongols are not so arrogant, fighting is always inevitable. Guo Ning, the head coach of Ding Haijun, was just a pawn three years ago. Who among the soldiers can look down on whom?
As for Zhao Xuan and Zhang Shao's generous treatment of the soldiers, it was the basic means for heroes to win over the morale of the military in Tangluo, Hebei Province, and it was taught in special courses in the military academy. In such troubled times, it is necessary to rely on the soldiers to fight desperately at any time, which has pissed off the lower-level soldiers. Are you looking for death?
This is what the Jurchens did back then, and as a result, countless generals and officers died on the battlefield at Yehuling and Juyongguan. When the land around Jinshan was being renovated, rotten corpses and even bones of soldiers were dug up from time to time. With such a reminder, who would make the same mistake again?
In the Ding Navy, the officers who had fled all the way from Yehuling were not dead yet, and countless pairs of eyes were staring at them!
