This mutiny in Ji Town caused serious harm to the Shuntian Prefecture.
This is the saying goes: Bandits go through like a comb, soldiers go through like a grate.
The military disaster is more terrible than the bandit disaster. The biggest casualties in this incident were young adults. Both sides were forced to recruit men. Prevent the strong men from being used as soldiers by the other party to beat you.
The rebels marched and looted all the people's food and valuables. Then set fire to the house. The people were left without food or shelter. If they did not want to die of hunger and cold, they could only follow them to rob other people.
This has been a fixed pattern of rebellion for two thousand years. These same tactics were used until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
It's just that they are more ruthless, they are religious in nature, and their thoughts are more paranoid. They don't even spare women. Men are organized into the men's camp, women are organized into the women's camp, and children follow their mothers into the women's camp.
All property and food that can be taken away will be collected into the Chinese treasury. owned jointly by all. They preside over the distribution.
Strictly speaking, men and women are not allowed to have relationships, and couples are not allowed to have sex. We must severely crack down on this evil. ..net
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was even reported because some generals secretly went to the women's camp to find their spouses to live as husband and wife. As a result, the couple was beheaded together in public, and a conference was held to educate the congregation about this. Ideologically realize the importance of keeping your thoughts pure.
But the high-ranking upper class, such as the kings, can go to the women's camp to choose beautiful women to serve them at will. Because they are the incarnation of God in the human world. Not bound by human constraints. Their minds will not be polluted.
The middle and lower levels can't do anything, only those who are capable of doing it can do it if the King of Heaven says they can do it. Otherwise you will be severely punished. Control people tightly. Don't talk nonsense. But the Heavenly King himself does not need to worry about this. He overhauls the Heavenly King's palace and has thousands of wives and concubines. Food and drink were spent extravagantly.
In the late Ming Dynasty, whether it was the rebels or the grassroots rebellion. This is also the way to play. Wherever it flows, it will be destroyed. Only society is destroyed. They can survive better. It's rolling like a snowball.
What the court wants is stability. Stability brings order and is the basis of their rule. The goal of the court's counterinsurgency campaign was to restore local order.
What rebellion wants is chaos. Only when society collapses can they grow from weak to strong. In peaceful times, who would rebel against them? They understand this truth.
Li Zicheng is a typical example. After they finally caused the complete collapse of the Northern Ming Dynasty. It only took him three months to go straight from Shaanxi and Shaanxi to Beizhili and capture the capital.
Therefore, if they want to succeed in their rebellion, the first thing they need to do is to harm the people and get them out of their comfort zones.
They are like locusts. When they go to a place, they completely destroy it, completely destroying social institutions and production. Humans are social animals. Without society, it is difficult for an individual to survive.
All real estate and property that could not be taken away were burned. Let the war horses eat the crops and trample the seedlings. Destroy the seedlings in the field. Because it is a mobile operation, we cannot leave crops behind to help the enemy. The livestock were driven away, and those that could not be moved were killed and eaten.
After the local destruction, if the people did not follow them to rob other people, they would starve to death.
Anyway, government relief is very unreliable. The rebellion has not yet been suppressed, who will have the energy to care about the life and death of these people.
I just want to follow the rebels. The Rebels' HR is pretty awesome.
People still want to pick people, not those who are not strong and those who are sick. In short, don't do anything. The desperate people have to beg their grandfather and grandma to compete for jobs.
As for the question of whether people can fight or not, there are fixed routines. The rebel ancestors had already studied it clearly. A three-level selection system was implemented, with one battalion of hungry soldiers, one battalion of young and strong soldiers, and one additional battalion of veteran soldiers.
The hungry soldiers were only given enough food to survive every day. Just give weapons and some farm tools. This prevents them from resisting because of their hatred of burning houses and grabbing food. It also saves food. After all, the number of hungry militiamen is the largest. Rebels are also pyramid-shaped structures.
Engage the officers and soldiers, let them take the lead, let the young men supervise the battle from behind, and kill those who escape on the spot. Behind Qingzhuang is Laoying, who supervises Qingzhuang. The old battalion is generally composed of cavalry. Come and go like the wind, fight if you can win, run away if you can't win. This is the so-called rogue warfare, which has no basis to rely on.
If defeated, these rebel leaders would let the old camp leave first with property and food. After the Qingzhuang camp is destroyed, if it doesn't work, abandon the hungry soldiers and the Qingzhuang camp. As long as there is still the old camp. Wherever you go, you can still reproduce the method of destroying the local social structure. Tens of thousands of people could soon gather.
If there are people here who dare to fight desperately, they will be promoted to the Youth Camp after the war. You can have a full meal when you arrive at Qingzhuang Camp. If you perform well in the young camp, become an elite, and kill many enemies, you will be promoted to the old camp.
When we arrived at the old camp, we had white-toothed soldiers who were equivalent to establishing slaves, and they had wine, meat, and robbed women. Therefore, we must not only squeeze the hungry soldiers, but also give them a way to rise. Force them to risk their lives.
During the Five Dynasties, there was a Jiedushi envoy who wanted to prevent the urban gangsters who had captured refugees and forcibly conquered the city from escaping. He invented a method of warfare. That is, every three armored soldiers look at ten people. Their necks were fastened with iron rings and chains, and they were strung together. During the war, let the soldiers use five-meter-long bamboo poles or wooden sticks. Hold them at both ends and in the middle to push them forward and force them to fight the enemy soldiers.
After this chaos, more than 20 counties and rural areas in Ji Town were devastated to varying degrees. A large number of young and strong men died in military disasters.
These days, it is almost impossible for a family to survive without a man. Especially with the continuous drought in recent years.
Women and children cannot cultivate much land, and the yield per acre is too small to pay the land rent.
So, when the news came that people from the capital were recruiting women to be spinners. Many people seem to see light from despair. There were swarms of people coming from all over.
The remuneration is not good, but food and housing are taken care of, and wages are calculated on a piece-rate basis. Calculations are graded according to the quality and quantity completed. Basically, you get what you do.
This has surprised many people. Now they are still worried about eating.
Most of the cotton mill owners also agreed to allow them to bring the elderly and children into the factory. After all, children in this era work early and learn to spin from a young age, and their skills are better than those outside.
It is common for children of poor people to start working at the age of eight or nine. There is no such thing as child labor in this era.
Single widows are hard to find. If they are not allowed to take care of their families, it is impossible for them to leave their families behind. That would be equivalent to letting them starve to death. You can't recruit people like this. But the boss is not willing to support a large family.
Finally, a compromise was made. Change the food control to a basic salary of three kilograms of cornmeal a day. It doesn’t matter whether it’s enough to eat or not. Discuss among yourselves. If you think you can support your family, come to work.
The factory provides open space where some straw sheds can be built to barely live in. When the first month's salary is paid, you can rent a house. If you don't want to spend money, you can barely live in a shack made of straw and mud branches, but it's very cold in winter.
But now that briquettes are cheap, if you bite the bullet and buy an iron stove, you can still survive the winter. The elderly and children at home can also find some work in washing and sewing. After all, the suburbs of the capital are close to the capital. There are more job opportunities.
So, it started when the Royal Woolen Mill supported its own suppliers and opened a yarn mill. Women from the counties hit hardest by the war came to the suburbs in large numbers to work as textile workers.
Most of these newly opened yarn mills were located near woolen mills, and they rented small plots of land. Set up a temporary work shed and start production. These small cotton mills used Jenny machines and quickly increased their cotton yarn output.
