After the farmers' association organization was initially established, the first task it faced was population statistics.
After the task was issued, the peasant association organization that had just completed construction was in a hurry.
The special commissioners sent by Su Yonglin were very depressed to find that they could not find a few helpers who could count.
When Zhou Daqiang, the special commissioner sent by Su Yonglin to Ganquan Village, wrote to Su Yonglin to report on his work, he said some things that made Su Yonglin laugh and cry.
Few cadres in the peasant association can count. Most people's mathematical ability is limited to picking things up with their fingers. If their fingers are not enough, they don't know how to count.
After receiving the order, he arranged for the cadres of the peasant association to go out to count the population. After many people were sent out, they came back with straw in their hands.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that there was a bunch of straw held between two fingers and four bunches of straw held in one hand.
Zhou Daqiang asked them why they did this. They replied that they were afraid of forgetting how many people there were, so they used a simple method, one straw for each person and one bunch of straw for each household. After asking clearly, they held a bunch of straw between two fingers to represent The number of people in a household.
In this way, they reported the population of each family to Zhou Daqiang in the form of straw, and asked Zhou Daqiang to count it himself, and then recorded it in the record.
Qian Bao, the special commissioner of Laoteng Village, also wrote a letter to Su Yonglin reporting on his work, which also highlighted this matter.
But the peasant association cadres in Laoteng Village are smarter.
They took paper and pencil and counted by drawing horizontal bars or circles. A person was a horizontal bar, and a household was a circle. Drawing bars inside the circle meant how many people were in a household.
When a piece of paper is full, if a piece of paper cannot be drawn anymore, change to another piece of paper, and finally let Qian Bao count by himself.
Farmers are so simple.
Although they were so simple, they still quickly counted 6,139 households with great enthusiasm and high efficiency, giving Su Yonglin a preliminary understanding of the power he had.
This efficiency is much higher than that of bureaucrats.
The completion of this task proves that the farmers' association can complete some of the most basic tasks and can operate and complete tasks independently, which is good.
The lack of culture does not mean that farmers cannot complete the most basic governance work. As long as someone is organized and responsible, and given methods, they can complete similar work.
Even if the method used is very "unsophisticated".
It was also Su Yonglin's first time to rule and control a region, and his first success gave him confidence and valuable experience.
He no longer had any doubts about the attempt to build farmers' associations as governance institutions in rural areas, and he decided to promote this matter more in the future.
After the census was completed, Su Yonglin issued recruitment orders to each village.
He called on families with surplus labor in each village to join the rebel army, and at the same time he went to every village to promote the concepts of "peasant's army" and "joining the Liberation Army is to defend one's homeland."
The army of farmers is composed of farmers participating in the army, and will support the farmers and make the decision.
This is the first time that someone has said that they want to support farmers and let them make decisions.
But these farmers don't have many qualms.
Because Su Yonglin really gave them the land. He didn't ask for an acre of land. He also established a farmers' association to let the familiar villagers make their own decisions and exercise their power.
This is really using farmers to manage farmers. Everyone discusses things politely. If there are any major issues, a village meeting is held to discuss them together, so that everyone knows what is happening in the village, what needs to be done, and what they should do personally.
No one rides on their head to shit or piss and do whatever they want.
The special correspondents have cheerful faces, warm words and no airs.
When the army entered the village, no one was carrying weapons. They were neatly dressed and looked neat. They came to help with the work as soon as they entered the village, and they didn't ask for a penny from everyone.
Taxation was agreed upon by everyone. All the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes stipulated by the Jin Kingdom were abolished. Only the most basic land tax was retained. Even the head tax was cancelled.
The farmers shed tears of excitement to the ground.
No one can believe that good times are really coming.
Not to mention that the farmers knew in their hearts that they had no way out.
My hands are stained with the blood of the Jin. If I don’t follow the Liberation Army, things will be very bad.
Not to mention that the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes will be returned when the time comes, that is all good. The worst case scenario is that everyone will be finished together, and the entire village will be slaughtered by the Jinmen.
They can definitely do such a thing.
So by taking advantage of the good reputation gained in the early stage, Su Yonglin successfully called on a large number of strong men to join the army to defend his home and land.
By April 14, more than 1,300 strong men voluntarily signed up to join the Victory Army.
When employing personnel, Su Yonglin did not pay too much attention to the quality of the soldiers.
Therefore, except for some who are really not fit for the battlefield, those who join the army are basically included in the Shengjie Army. The rest whose quality is really not good are included in the Huotou Army, and they can cook.
In this way, the Shengjie Army had more than 2,300 combat soldiers, more than doubling its personnel.
Of course, this is not a problem.
If there are more people, then reorganize the army and set up two new battalions, Qinglong Camp and Xuanwu Camp. The elite backbone grassroots officers from Baihu Camp and Zhuque Camp will be mobilized into Qinglong Camp and Xuanwu Camp to quickly bring the combat effectiveness of these two newly established units. stand up.
The two battalions, Qinglong Camp and Xuanwu Camp, each had 500 combat soldiers. As soon as the army was formed, intense training began.
Then, using the horses captured in this battle, Su Yonglin established a cavalry unit of 300 people as his own personal army, giving it the military name Huben Camp.
After one battle, the number of loyal troops increased tenfold, which is really gratifying.
Of course, the horses he captured were far more than 300, but more than 500, but there were not that many soldiers who were good at riding horses to fight as cavalry.
Su Yonglin's old base of 317 people is that everyone can ride a horse, but they still have many people to be placed in other positions, and the cavalry can only be retrained.
Of course, the good thing is that after the horse equipment is complete, training cavalry will not take years to ride steadily on the horse like in the era when the horse equipment was not complete. Now riding a horse is not difficult.
As for the cavalry's combat skills, they can only be developed gradually during battles.
As a rebel army, the entire Liberation Army will not have enough training time. The battlefield is the training ground.
It sounds cruel, but as insurgents and rebels who are born with deficiencies, they can only gradually become stronger under such circumstances.
That's true, but Su Yonglin's harvest along the way was also very rich.
Not to mention normal spears, knives and shields, more than a hundred pairs of valuable items such as armor were also seized, more than 200 divine arm bows made by the Jin Kingdom were seized, and more than 500 ordinary crossbows were seized.
So Su Yonglin optimized the original military formation configuration and began to train crossbowmen on a large scale, striving to make the military formation configuration more scientific and reasonable.
