Facts speak louder than words. When the shining silver dragon-patterned silver coins were slapped on each family's Kang table, the hostesses grabbed them excitedly and turned them over as if they were cherishing their eyes.
Silver is such a good thing. People in poor ravines usually use copper coins to trade. There is even barter in the market. I will exchange you for half a bag of corn crumbs with a pheasant, and you will use a It is very common to replace the kitchen knife with two large sauerkraut jars.
Moreover, local security chiefs and district chiefs often use physical objects to pay taxes to the county. Of course, the value of physical objects must be underestimated, because the tax collection by the Yamen also has to calculate the fire cost, and there is also a handling fee for helping you convert silver. .
To be honest, some people in the big ravine have never seen what a whole silver ingot looks like in their whole life. They can see small silver dimes and silver scum a few times, but they are not qualified to use silver directly as money.
Women are born with a affinity for shiny things, and the stamped dragon-patterned silver coins were so beautiful that they took their breath away. Therefore, these women made up their minds to keep the money as family heirlooms.
"Master Jun, go to the Kang to make it warm. I'll boil the wine and cook the vegetables... The head of the house, you can take out the frozen elbow meat in the back room. Today we will celebrate the New Year in advance..."
The same scene was repeated in everyone's home. The security chief and the veteran leader even took people to drive sledges in the wind and snow to a town thirty miles away for large purchases. Especially for drinks, they pulled two big sledges. They were tired. The mule was huffing and puffing, and white smoke was coming out of its mouth and nose.
When the purchased sledges returned to the village, it was already dark, and the heavy snow still did not stop. At this time, there was thunderous snoring on the kangs of every household, and the tired soldiers had not yet woken up.
It wasn't until the sky was completely dark that the dinner party in the small mountain village officially began. The happy villagers brought out pots of chicken stewed with mushrooms, sauerkraut stewed with white meat, as well as venison jerky, salmon and other kinds of mountain food. Jane... Places where the natural environment has not been damaged are rich in products. Food has never been a problem for the people here. Their poverty is actually more due to policies and economic structure.
Ye Qiu teamed up with Inoyama Cho and Maeda Yujiro this time. The three of them stayed at Bao Zhang's house. Naturally, the dinner standard was much higher than that of other families. Liu Bao Zhang even took out a pair of treasures. Let everyone try the black bear paw.
After three bowls of wine, the distance between people was naturally shortened. The old veteran and the security chief became bolder and dared to ask about the details of the Battle of Sandaogou. Ye Qiu and the others picked some interesting things to say. After a few words of introduction, the blood of these mountain people boiled.
When the large army was split up, Ye Qiu couldn't figure out why Master Long asked each team to bring a few heads of old men. These things couldn't be used as food, but now he knew the use, and the men outside the customs were even more Trust your eyes but not your ears. You might as well let them take a look if you tell them ten thousand times.
Human heads are the most effective way for the volunteers to show their military might to the people. As soon as they were hung at the entrance of Xiaotumen Village, all doubts disappeared, and the entire volunteer army penetrated into hundreds of villages along the Wusuli River like mercury. It can be imagined that How big will this impact be?
Competing for people's hearts is a clever job. Using both soft and hard tactics is the way of civil and military forces. When you show your people-friendly side, don't forget your identity as a military, because people's hearts are naturally willing to follow the strong.
Without personal contact with the indigenous people here, Ye Qiu would never have imagined that there are so many things to pay attention to when fighting in this white mountain and black water.
The bold villagers began to criticize the volunteer army for various omissions. Many of their practices were problematic in this cold area.
When the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, sledges are definitely more useful than war horses, and dog-pulled sledges are better than mules and horses. The war horses used by the volunteers now are actually a burden.
The antifreeze ointment that Ryukyu spent a lot of money to purchase is a joke. The antifreeze effect of the oil made by the locals using roe deer meat is a hundred times better than those high-priced products.
I don’t have a layer of fur inside the cotton coat. Isn’t it just asking for death if it can’t block the dampness and coldness? Even if you can survive temporarily by relying on your youth, you will be crippled when you get old in the future.
The indigenous people who have lived here for thousands of years have rich experience in living in harmony with nature. One by one, these young men from the south took out their notebooks and started taking shorthand. When the local people saw that these things were useful to the military master, they suddenly became proud. Tingzhi felt that he had gained a lot of face, so he sold all the goods at the bottom of the box.
If we have a pair of God's perspective, we can overlook the more than 400,000 square kilometers of land on both sides of the Ussuri River from the sky. In the cold night and snow, the stars on the earth are all the lights of villages and houses, countless The village is hosting a banquet for their distant relatives, and the fusion between the volunteers and the locals is perfect in the bowls of soju and the pieces of white meat.
Countless Ye Qiu knew how to tell the direction in the old forest, how to hunt a blind bear, where wolves often appeared, and where there were trails in the mountains and dense forests that could be used for sneak attacks.
This land belongs to the Chinese. This cannot be changed by a treaty. The Chinese nation has lived here for thousands of years, and their souls have long been integrated into this land.
If the invaders think that the few lines drawn on the map can cut off the blood connection between the Chinese and their ancestors, then the volunteers will use bayonets and bullets in their hands to wake them up.
It's not too late now. The blood in the hearts of the remaining people in the Far East is still boiling. Their feelings for the mother country have not faded, and the brutal massacre by the invaders has just begun. The hearts of the people in this land in the Far East still belong to China.
That night, the volunteers recruited countless old hunters as guides and young people as recruits.
But everyone knows that when the long winter passes and these brave soldiers fight against the enemy again, they are destined to fall into the vast sea of people's war.
Xiao Letian's volunteer army created a myth that could not be replicated in that era. The benefits of the elite military policy were clearly highlighted at this moment. In the mid-19th century, no country in the world could have such a high-quality group of junior officers.
Take Ye Qiu as an example. With his level of higher education, he would definitely be qualified for the position of battalion commander even in Europe, but in the Volunteer Army he could only lead one platoon.
Ye Qiu is not an isolated case, but a common phenomenon in the volunteer army. It is precisely because of such a high-quality low-level officer corps that Xiao Letian and Long Ye feel confident and bold to break the army into pieces and integrate them into the civilian population.
They are not afraid of mutiny or independence of these troops at all, let alone low-level officers not being able to understand their strategic intentions. These soldiers even know many people-friendly methods.
This is already an elite team that can run the army and bring peace to the people. Such a large number of talents is the foundation of Xiao Letian's career.
