This mutiny in Ji Town caused serious harm to the Shuntian Prefecture.
This is the saying goes: bandits are like a comb, soldiers are like a grate.
The military disaster is more terrible than the bandit disaster. The biggest casualties in this incident were young men. Both sides forced young men to recruit young men to prevent the other side from recruiting young men to serve as soldiers to attack themselves.
The rebels marched all the way and robbed the people of all their food and valuables. Then they set fire to the houses, leaving the people without food or shelter. If they didn't want to die of hunger and cold, they had no choice but to follow them and rob other people.
This has been the fixed pattern of rebellion for two thousand years. These patterns 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 men's camps, women are organized into women's camps, and children follow their mothers into women's camps.
All property and grain that can be taken away are collected into the Chinese treasury and are jointly owned by everyone. They are responsible for distribution.
Strictly speaking, men and women are not allowed to have relationships, and husbands and wives are not allowed to have sex. We must severely crack down on this evil.
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 husband and wife were beheaded together in public, and a conference was held to educate the believers on this. Ideologically, they realized the importance of keeping their 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 and are not bound by the human world. Their thoughts will not be polluted.
The middle and lower classes can't do anything. Only those who can do what the King of Heaven says can do it. Otherwise, they will be severely punished. People are strictly controlled. They are not allowed to talk nonsense. But the King of Heaven himself doesn't have to worry about this anymore. He has overhauled the Palace of the Heavenly King and has many wives and concubines.
Thousands of people, eating and drinking in an extremely extravagant manner.
In the late Ming Dynasty, whether it was the rebels or the rebellion at the bottom, it was the same way. Wherever they flowed, they would be destroyed. Only when society was destroyed could they survive better. Like a snowball, it would get bigger and bigger.
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What the court wants is stability, and stability brings order, which is the basis of their rule. The goal of the court's counterinsurgency is to restore local order.
What rebels want is chaos. Only when society collapses can they grow from weak to strong. In times of peace and prosperity, 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 to Beizhili and conquer 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 zone.
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 cannot be taken away are burned. The war horses are allowed to eat the crops, trample the seedlings, and destroy the seedlings in the fields. Because it is a mobile war, crops cannot be left behind to serve as enemies. The livestock are driven away, and those that cannot be removed are killed and eaten.
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After the local area is destroyed, if the people do not follow them to rob other people, they will starve to death.
Anyway, government relief is very unreliable. Until the rebellion is 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, not those who are sick. In short, they don't want all kinds of people. People who are in despair have to ask their grandfathers and grandmothers to compete for jobs.
As for the question of whether the common people can fight or not, there are also fixed routines. The ancestors of the rebellion have already studied it clearly. They implemented a three-level selection system of one battalion of hungry soldiers, one battalion of young and strong soldiers, and an additional one of old battalions.
The hungry soldiers are only given life-saving food every day. Just give them weapons and some farm tools. This not only prevents them from resisting because of their hatred of burning houses and grabbing food, but also saves food. After all, the number of hungry militiamen is the largest. The rebels also have a pyramid-shaped structure.
When fighting with officers and soldiers, let them lead the battle, let the young and strong men supervise the battle from behind, and kill those who escape on the spot. Behind the young and strong is the old camp, supervising the young and strong. The old battalion is usually composed of cavalry. They come and go like the wind, and fight whoever wins.
If you can't win, then run away. This is the so-called rogue warfare, which relies on no basis.
If they are defeated, these rebel leaders will let the old camp take the property and food to go first. After the young camp is destroyed, if it cannot be done, they will abandon the hungry soldiers and the young camp. As long as there is still the old camp, they can still copy it wherever they go.
Destroying the local social structure can quickly gather tens of thousands of people.
If there are people here who dare to fight desperately, they will be promoted to the Qingzhuang Camp after the war. Once they arrive at the Qingzhuang Camp, they will have enough to eat. If they perform well in the Qingzhuang Camp, become elites, and kill many enemies, they will be promoted.
Enter the old camp.
When we arrived at the old camp, the white-toothed soldiers were equivalent to slaves. They had wine, meat, and plundered women. Therefore, we not only squeezed the hungry soldiers, but also gave them a way to ascend and forced them to risk their lives.
In the Five Dynasties, there was a military governor. In order to prevent the urban gangsters who were captured and forcibly recruited from the city from escaping, he invented a set of tactics. Every three armored soldiers looked at ten people and tied their necks with iron rings and iron.
The chains are fixed and threaded into a string. During the war, the soldiers are asked to use five-meter-long bamboo poles or wooden sticks to hold them up at both ends and in the middle to push them forward and force them to fight with the enemy soldiers.
After this great chaos, more than 20 counties and villages in Ji Town were devastated to varying degrees. A large number of young and strong men died in the military disaster.
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.
Therefore, when the news came that people from the capital were recruiting women to be spinners, many people seemed to have seen light from despair and came swarming 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. Calculated by grade according to the quality and quantity of the work done. Basically, you get what you pay for the work you do.
This has made many people overjoyed. Now they are still worried about eating.
Most owners of spinning mills also agree that they can bring the elderly and children into the factory. After all, in this era, children start working early and learn spinning from a young age, so their skills are better than those outside.
It is common for poor children 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. This way, they cannot recruit anyone. But the boss is not willing to support a large family.
Finally, I compromised. I changed my food control to a basic salary of three kilograms of cornmeal a day. It doesn’t matter whether it’s enough to eat. You can discuss it among yourself. If you think you can support your family, come to work.
The factory provides open space where you can build some straw huts that are barely enough to live in. When the first month's wages are paid, you can rent a house. If you don't want to spend money, you can barely live in shacks made of straw and mud branches, but it is very cold in winter.
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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, when the Royal Woolen Mills supported their suppliers and opened yarn mills, women from the counties that were most severely affected 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. They rented small plots of land, built temporary sheds, and started production. These small yarn mills used Jenny machines and quickly increased their cotton yarn output.
