What surprised Song Zhi even more was that when the people walking in the market, they were walking in rows and columns unconsciously, like well-trained generals, with the unique toughness of soldiers in their bodies.
Not only that, the people who came and went were all strong in muscles and bones, full of qi and blood, and judging from their aura, they all had practiced martial arts. Even though they were not considered popular in Song Zhi's eyes, they were still quite amazing.
Such disciplined and strong people are simply the best source of soldiers.
There must be at least hundreds of thousands of young and strong men and women in the entire Wuhou territory. If their physical fitness is of this level, they can be converted into a powerful source of troops at any time.
If the situation is urgent and Wu Hou mobilizes to the limit regardless of the loss of territory, he can mobilize at least 300,000 elite troops. This is an extremely amazing force!
Thinking of this, Song Zhi felt shocked, envious and worried.
What is surprising is that Wu Hou has accumulated such a powerful foundation without saying a word. Even if the Lingnan Song Dynasty mobilizes to its maximum, it can only gather an army of 200,000 at most, and most of them are untrained troops with poor combat capabilities.
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Lingnan is not as good as Taihu and Qiantang County. There are dense jungles everywhere, and the land development and utilization rate is pitifully low. Coupled with the monopoly of the Song clan and the barbarians from various mountains, imagine that Wu Houling can feed everyone.
Rice, that is simply impossible.
If you don't eat enough, your body will have no strength, and if you don't undergo long-term training, how can you become an elite soldier?
Walking around the streets of Qiantang City for a few times with full thoughts, Song Zhi was amazed by the so-called reduction.
He also discovered a strange phenomenon. He didn't even encounter a single idle kid on the street. As for the green-skinned gangsters, they simply disappeared.
Out of curiosity, he led several of his guards in civilian clothes into a noisy restaurant.
Although Song Zhi is young, he also knows that restaurants are places where news gathers, and they are also the places where folk news spreads fastest in a city or a place.
As expected, he was not disappointed, and he soon got his doubts cleared up from the words of local drinkers.
Boy Scouts! Boy Scouts!
No wonder there are almost no children running around having fun on the street, or young people who are energetic but have no ability to support their families and are idle. It turns out that they all entered these two military camps due to the signs of Wu Hou's army.
Just by hearing the names, you can tell that these two places are dedicated to recruiting and training children and teenagers.
only……
Doubts arose in Song Zhi's mind again. Fortunately for the young man, although they were unable to shoulder the burden of supporting their family, they at least knew what was right and what was wrong, and they could also understand military orders and be trained.
But children as young as six or seven years old can't practice at all, okay?
But according to what the drinkers in the restaurant said, they are very confident about the so-called Boy Scouts and Youth Corps. They hope that their children can be trained well and learn a lot of skills. That is to say, they will not hang out in the military camp in the future, and they will be able to do it after they come out.
Easily get a good job and support your family.
Isn’t this nonsense?
A group of boys and teenagers who have been trained for a long time are already very good without learning the stereotypes and customs in the military camp. They still want to learn a skill?
Song Zhi wondered if these drunkards who sent their children into the Boy Scouts and Youth Corps were out of their minds and couldn't even see the situation clearly?
It was not until much later that he realized that it was not that the parent who sent his child to the military camp was out of his mind, but that he was not familiar with the rules and policies of the Marquis of Wu at all.
Lei Hu has always had the idea of popularizing education. Only by universalizing education and improving the cultural level of all people can the territory have a steady stream of talents from all walks of life.
Unfortunately, the mainstream at this time was that aristocratic families controlled all resources, and ordinary people basically had no access to and learning useful cultural knowledge.
There is also an academy here, which is also monopolized by the powerful nobles. Even if there are occasional children from poor families who enter to study, they only have a chance to have a close relationship with the powerful nobles.
Besides, the so-called poor families are also local landowners who are not very powerful. They have no shortage of money and food, but they lack precious books. They can only bow to wealthy families and strive for opportunities to learn more knowledge.
As for ordinary people, they don't even have the opportunity to become literate.
They have to run for a living every day and put too much energy and thought into food. How can they find the time and confidence to learn cultural knowledge and join the gentry circle?
Moreover, the wealthy families would not allow the forces in the world to popularize education. Once they appeared, they would immediately be strangled crazily. They would never allow harmful people to shake the foundation of the noble family.
Lei Hu was not afraid of the powerful suppression of the noble clan, but he had no intention of quarreling with these guys all day long, nor did he want to be the one who was targeted.
Therefore, there were no elementary schools and various schools for imparting knowledge in the Marquis of Wu. It was not that Lei Hu did not have teachers, but that such institutions could not be opened at all.
It is impossible to establish universal education in an open and honest manner, but Lei Hu has a curved way to save the country, and that is to establish the Boy Scouts and Youth Army.
It is claimed to be a reserve talent pool for the army led by Marquis Wu, but it is actually a school in disguise, a school under strict military management.
Anyway, it has become a rule for Lei Hu's troops to be literate. The Boy Scouts and Youth Corps, which are the reserve talent pool, must also be literate, read and write.
Just as Earth Sword Song Zhi sneered, a group of six, seven, or eight-year-old boys could not conduct military drills at all. Lei Hu had never thought of training them in the same way as the army since he formed the Boy Scouts.
If that really happens, I'm afraid not many children will be able to grow up alive.
It's just a matter of popularizing gymnastics and Wu Qinxi. Basically, half of the time is spent playing various physical exercise games with the instructor's knowledge, and the other half of the time is spent reading and literacy.
Cuju, badminton, sepak takraw and other sports were enough for the little boys who joined the Boy Scouts to get enough exercise every day. Marquis Wu provided them with three meals a day and seasonal military uniforms for free.
In addition to the above-mentioned contents, the Youth Army also has some simple military training. The food and military uniforms in the military camp are also provided free of charge by the Marquis Mansion.
Whether it is the Boy Scouts or the Youth Corps, it is compulsory to join. No matter what your origin, you must join when you reach your age. Otherwise, you will become an alien in the territory, and you will also have to pay fines that are getting higher year by year. Only then
Only powerful families of the Bangzi gentry can afford it.
This is also the main reason why Song Zhi did not see any children or teenagers on the street. They were all staying in the military camp to receive both civil and military education.
The common people naturally welcomed this, not only because the Hou Mansion helped them raise their children, eliminating the huge burden on the family, but also because their children could learn real skills in the military camp. This was the main reason why they were willing to cooperate.
Even so, there are no helpers for farm work at home, but they don't care much, it's just a matter of being busy for a while. If they can't even bear this little hardship, in the early Sui Dynasty when productivity was extremely low,
He won't live long enough to grow up.
As for the reason why there are no green-skinned gangsters in the bustling market next to it on the street, it is because the government has effective control.
Although Wu Marquis is considered one of the most fertile places in the south, it is not easy to keep the people well fed and looking forward to the future.
But Lei Hu is obviously not satisfied yet. The development potential of the territory is huge, so naturally he will not be satisfied with this situation of settling down with a small fortune.
Therefore, various infrastructure construction projects in the territory have never stopped.
It requires a lot of labor. Although most of the labor is handled by the production and construction corps in various places, there are still some jobs that are extremely labor-intensive and dangerous and cannot be done by ordinary people in the production and construction corps.
The strong soldiers stationed in various places can do some work occasionally, but they cannot leave the military camp for a long time. At this time, the green-skinned gangsters captured from various places come in handy.
They will be organized into labor camps by local officials and criminals, and will be responsible for jobs that require a lot of labor, may be dangerous, or require long hours of labor. They will be reformed through labor for a certain period of time, and wait until they sign the government's guarantee document that they will no longer be idle.
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Because of the various stringent measures taken, the entire Qiantang County gave Song Zhi a very good impression. It was not only neat and clean, with almost no domestic garbage visible on the streets, but also the order of the city gave people a very comfortable feeling.
As soon as I went there I felt like this was a good place.
A great place indeed!
After Song Zhi wandered around for a few days, his mood gradually became heavy, but it was not easy to show it.
Previously, the power of the Lingnan Song Clan was the largest in the south. In terms of family power and available resources, perhaps only the Nanchen royal family and a few important officials were stronger than the Lingnan Song Clan.
However, after the Sui Dynasty and the Chen Dynasty were overthrown, the Song Dynasty in Lingnan became truly the number one power in the south.
Especially when the Lingnan Song clan and the mountain barbarian coalition defeated 300,000 Sui troops and forced the Sui emperor to sign a peace agreement of non-interference, the Lingnan Song clan's momentum reached its peak.
Song Zhi has always been very proud of this. Even though his eldest brother Song Que, the Heavenly Sword, admired Wu Hou very much and Wu Hou Leihu also showed that he was more powerful in martial arts than his eldest brother, he did not waver in the slightest.
But now, the belief in his heart was shaken.
It was obvious to see the leopard through the tube. Although he only wandered around Qiantang County where the Hou Mansion was located for a few times, the atmosphere of Wu Hou's territory, the aura of enthusiasm, and the vague strength that could not be seen clearly made him unable to resist.
He was frightened, and compared with the results of the Lingnan Song Dynasty, he was even more depressed.
Wu Hou Leihu has silently accumulated very amazing strength. In terms of money, food, materials and army strength, he was depressed to find that the Lingnan Song clan may no longer be his opponent.
Really, it’s a cruel reality!
Song Zhi was very depressed, but he couldn't show it on his face, lest he be looked down upon by Marquis Wu.
On this day, Wu Hou once again gathered his request for a meeting. Song Zhixinzhong was helpless and had no choice but to continue wandering around the bustling and noisy streets with his personal guards.
Suddenly, as if he sensed something, he looked towards the city gate and saw a woman with a beautiful face, followed by several men with different auras coming in a hurry.
"They are masters of the Yin Kui sect. Why are they here?"