Several rows of wooden houses have recently been built at the entrance of Songshan Village. These rows of wooden houses are the offices of Baoxiang Camp.
Guo Quanshu was sitting in front of the wooden table that still smelled of logs, writing with a brush.
Although the quality of this brush is not very good and the ink is even worse, his handwriting in Guange style is still extremely beautiful.
Guo Quanshu has always been very diligent in his calligraphy and has practiced it painstakingly for many years. After all, he is a scholar who aspires to take the imperial examination.
And if you want to pass the imperial examination, you can't do it without a beautiful official style.
All the candidates for the imperial examination are rushing to become officials, and being an official naturally requires writing memorials and official documents. Instead of using the standard Guange style, you can use other elegant fonts or even wild cursive. Who knows what you are writing...
If someone mistakes your words for other words in memorials and official documents, then things will be very serious, ranging from misunderstandings to confiscation of your property...
Therefore, scholars who aspire to take the imperial examination, regardless of other things, are indispensable for having first-hand standard Guange style.
Guo Quanshu also worked hard on Guange style, and he also thought that one day he would use his beautiful Guange style to sit in the court and write official documents.
However, no matter how rich his imagination was, he would never have imagined that one day he would use his carefully trained pavilion style to write official documents to a group of rebels...
This feels as awkward as it needs to be.
When he was asked to write an official document for the first time three days ago, he took more than an hour to write a mere official document of a thousand words, which shows the entanglement and resistance in his heart at that time.
But there is no way, if I don’t write the official document, I will have nothing to eat...
After Guo Quan wrote an official document, he stopped writing and looked up at the sunshine outside the door. He estimated that it was almost lunch time, and he had not finished any of the official documents ordered by his superiors, so he immediately suppressed many worries in his heart. With mixed thoughts, he picked up the brush and dipped it in ink and continued writing.
The title of this official document is "First Edition of Detailed Rules for Recruiting Grain."
Yesterday, the chief rebel leader of the Baoxiang camp, the general named Luo Zhixue, convened a group of people to discuss the detailed rules for collecting grain from each village. He said that he wanted to finalize the detailed rules and make them public, and set various rules for subsequent grain collection. A perfect rule.
It is no longer the same as before.
Many of the details of the discussion were finalized yesterday, and Guo Quanshu also listened and took note of the key points.
Now it is time to compile it into a document and submit it.
Although writing this kind of thing made him feel a little awkward and even resisted, Guo Quanshu was also a talented person. He began to take part in the imperial examination at the age of fifteen. He passed the county and government examinations in his first attempt, and finally failed in the college examination. Failed to obtain meritorious service.
But even so, he can be considered an official Tong Sheng, unlike other scholars who are not even Tong Sheng.
When he took part in the imperial examination for the second time, he still failed in the college examination.
I thought I would continue to work hard and get rid of the humiliation of passing the examination for the third imperial examination. However, before I had time to participate in the third imperial examination, I was kidnapped by these rebels to Songshan Village and forced to be a prisoner. A so-called document.
As a student who has passed the county examination and the government examination, there is no problem in writing an ordinary official document. There is no need to think about it, just pick up the pen and write.
I quickly wrote out the detailed rules for the grain collection. According to the key points I wrote down yesterday, I wrote more than 20 items in total.
Although these more than 20 detailed grain collection rules are still very rudimentary, they can already provide a basic operation manual for the Baoxiang Camp's subsequent grain collection.
At least let the people below know what to do.
After writing the detailed rules for the grain collection, Guo Quanshu's wrist was a little sore. He put down the pen and stretched his wrist, when he heard a voice: "Brother Zhongchen? Are you finished?"
Guo Quanshu looked up and saw a young man wearing a robe and a scarf like him walking in.
He immediately stood up and said, "Brother Songhua, I just finished my work here."
He naturally recognized the person coming, not just him, he basically knew all the dozen or so scholars arrested this time. After all, these people were scholars from the villages in the south.
There are not many scholars in this small place, and if you look up or down, you will naturally know each other.
The person who came was Huang Chengxuan, named Songhua, from the village next to his home. He was a boy in the same class as him. They were about the same age and lived close to each other, so they moved around a lot on weekdays.
Huang Chengxuan walked in, looked around, and when he saw no one, he showed a bitter look on his face and said: "Brother Zhongchen, you don't know, I wrote a total of seven official documents this morning. I have written like this, alas, I didn’t know that they brought so many official documents for us to write, and they are just a bunch of rebels and they really think they are a government official."
After Guo Quanshu heard this, he said: "Brother Songhua, be careful what you say."
This is a den of rebels. Even though they have emerged from the prisoner of war camp, become a clerk, and gained superficial freedom, in fact, the rebels are not really at ease with them. Apart from anything else, there are people at the entrance of this courtyard. There are guards standing guard. If you leave without permission, the consequences will not be good.
Under such circumstances, don't say this nonsense, otherwise it will easily cause trouble for yourself.
Those rebels made it very clear that if you want to do it, do it; if you don't want to do it, go back to the prisoner of war camp and stay there.
But once you do it, you have to do it well, otherwise if something goes wrong, it won't be as simple as returning to a prisoner of war camp as a coolie.
These are rebels and will kill people!
Seeing Guo Quanshu's caution, Huang Chengxuan waved his hand: "Don't worry, I've already seen it when I came here. There's no one around."
Guo Quanshu said: "It's better to be careful. If you don't think about it for yourself, you have to think about it for the sake of your family!"
Hearing this, Huang Chengxuan immediately felt like a frustrated ball. He sighed and said, "If it wasn't for the sake of my family, how could I have given in? The worst case scenario would have been death."
Guo Quanshu said: "Brother Songhua, you are too depressed. The days are long and it will pass."
Guo Quanshu didn't say it clearly, but Huang Chengxuan understood. It was just that he would have a chance to escape in the future.
But how long will this take?
What are the chances?
The more he thought about it, the more pessimistic Huang Chengxuan became. How could he be so unlucky that a group of rebels came to his house to collect food?
It's okay for these rebels to come to collect food. Although the Huang family had high walls and a guarded courtyard, and tried to resist, they still couldn't stop hundreds of thieves, so they chose to surrender. If they wanted food, they would give it to them. chant……
What I didn't expect was that the thieves not only wanted food, but also hostages. They said they were afraid that their own family would find someone high in the government.
In the conscience of heaven and earth, the Huang family and his son really have no intention of doing this. It’s not that they don’t want to, but that the government is unreliable...
The Huang family knew that more than a thousand officers and soldiers were wiped out in the Funiu Mountains last month. They had not seen any other actions by the officers and soldiers for more than a month. They knew that the government would not care about it for a while. Take care of these thieves in Funiu Mountain.
Therefore, it is useless to report to the government or report anything.
However, those damn thieves still forced the Huang family to give up a hostage, and it had to be their legitimate son.
Faced with the threat of hundreds of thieves, the Huang family finally chose to surrender.
So Huang Chengxuan, as the eldest son of the Huang family, became a hostage and was taken to Songshan Village.
For the safety of his family, Huang Chengxuan does not regret the choice he made, but he still inevitably laments his immediate fate and remains extremely pessimistic about the future.
Seeing what Huang Chengxuan said, Guo Quanshu also sighed and said: "Don't think so much, just take it one step at a time. The world is like this, why do you and I have no choice but to do it?"
Huang Chengxuan said: "Oh, this is the only way."
Guo Quanshu said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. I heard from the cafeteria in the morning that there might be meat and vegetables at noon. I don't know whether it is true or not."
Huang Cheng preached: "Food is the most important thing for the people, but now they are hungry and need to go quickly."
Guo Quanshu said: "That's exactly what I meant!"
Immediately afterwards, the two people were seen starting to leave, heading towards the canteen in front.
It was already noon, and people were coming out of the other wooden houses on both sides to go to the canteen one after another. These rows of wooden houses were offices of various places, although now there were basically empty shelves everywhere. For example, there were only four of them at the grain collection office for the time being. Individuals, but there are still quite a few people everywhere.
Seeing other people coming out one after another, Guo Quanshu and Huang Chengxuan looked at each other and speeded up their pace in tacit understanding.
As for meat, they haven't eaten it for many days.
After being captured as hostages, they were not given any good treatment on the road at first. They were even tied with ropes to prevent them from escaping.
Later, when they arrived in Songshan Village, they were thrown into a prisoner of war camp and suffered for several days. During these two periods, they could not even eat enough, let alone meat.
They were not able to eat enough until they agreed to work as clerks and came out of the prisoner of war camp, but they never had meat.
Meat is an important strategic material in the Baoxiang Camp. Although the Baoxiang Camp has started raising chickens and ducks internally to obtain as much meat as possible, the quantity is still small.
Moreover, these small amounts of meat are given priority to the army. Even if the meat and eggs are supplied to the army, most of them will not be eaten directly, but will be made into bacon and bacon and preserved. , so that it can be eaten during marching and fighting.
The army usually doesn't have much meat to eat, let alone other people.
The supply of meat this time was actually specially approved by Luo Zhixue, mainly because the business offices had just been established, and the staff in each office were uneasy.
The staff everywhere are more responsible.
Some are personnel selected from the Baoxiang camp, including a few old thieves. These people are basically illiterate, and they are not very adaptable to the various current tactics and methods, and they also hope to stop fighting and killing.
There are also some half-hearted scholars who have been recruited from the mountain people in the past few months. They say they are scholars just to give them face.
There are seven or eight people who were only selected by Dong Wen who was a literate prisoner of the Ming army.
The last group is a dozen scholars who serve as hostages.
The latter two groups are actually the ones who can really do things. As for the old thieves who are illiterate, they are actually used to control the situation. To put it bluntly, they are the ones who keep an eye on their work.
So Luo Zhixue thought that we couldn't just rely on threats to the latter two groups, but also had to give them a little sweetness.
The right way to employ people is to have a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other.
At least that is the case in the early stage. As for the later stage, there is no need to worry about this. Maybe they are more active in the rebellion than Luo Zhixue.
It doesn't matter whether these people are sincere or fake, but since they have boarded the pirate ship Baoxiangying, they can't expect to get off.
When the Ming army came back, if they were caught by the Ming army, Guo Quanshu would tell the Ming army that we were not rebels, we were forced, and the Ming army would have to believe it.
