After copying one by one, they can be stacked together and rolled up, and then they can be stuffed into bamboo tubes or hollowed logs, or spread flat and hidden in carriages, sandwiched in the mezzanine of tents, etc.
There are countless ways to hide, all it takes is a little thought.
But if it's a bamboo slip, that's the end of it... It's not that bamboo slips can't be hidden. In fact, most bamboo slips can be hidden where paper can be hidden.
The problem is that the mezzanine and the bamboo tube are enough to hide one or two bamboo slips, and you can't carry much even if you are exhausted.
Not being able to bring many means that it is difficult to form a group effect.
Then Shen Bing asked his soldiers to dress up as Chu people and sneak into the Chu territory carrying these leaflets.
Originally, Shen Bing wanted to go out of his way to let Chu Min do this.
It is not difficult to do this. After the Qin army occupied Huaibei and harvested a large area of land, it also gained a large number of Chu people. These Chu people can be used by the Qin army.
All that is needed is to use a small amount of money and then use his family as hostage... During this period, it was common to use people as hostages. After any friendly relations were established between countries, princes were always used as hostages.
However, Shen Bing sent people to conduct reconnaissance in the Chu Kingdom and found that this seemed not necessary.
The reason is that the Chu State's household registration management is very chaotic. For example, the household registration systems of the three major clans, Zhao, Qu, and Jing, are not integrated... Of course, they will not be integrated. Their respective fiefdoms are private property, including the common people, so there is no need to combine household registrations with those of other nobles. integrated together.
This can cause a series of problems.
For example, if the people under the management of the Qu family want to go to the Zhao family to do business, and the Zhao family suspects that he is a spy of the Qin State and wants to check his household registration and other details, he must go to the Qu family to check.
Even going to the Qu family to check was not enough, because after the Qu family found no such person, there was no guarantee that he was from the Jing family, and then there were the Dou family, Cheng family, Ban family, Sun family and other small clans.
After checking each one, there is no result. It seems that it cannot be proved that he is from Qin, because there are still refugees in the Huaibei area who were exterminated. Where can I check this household registration?
From this we can see the advantages of the Qin Dynasty’s system of prefectures and counties at this time.
The national household registration system is integrated into one system. As long as you tell where you are, and search from county to county, you will be able to find out if the person is indeed a spy. It will be clear at a glance whether he is a spy.
Chu State did not have such a strict household registration system, so the interrogation of foreigners could only be limited to the level of "listening to their words and watching their actions".
No matter what you check or report, it's all fake, just take a quick look and you'll pass it by.
The main purpose is to interrogate where they came from, and then search to see if there are any hidden weapons.
What the Chu army was most worried about was that spies with hidden weapons would sneak in and work together inside and outside to seize the city.
If there were no weapons... what kind of big waves could be caused? So we just turned a blind eye and passed by.
These "spies" sent out by Shen Bing were all unarmed, and they brought a few authentic Chu people to guide them to find a suitable excuse and enter the city easily.
That night these people started their activities.
To be precise, it's not that night, but the moment the curfew is lifted...
In order to facilitate management during a state of war, various countries will implement curfews.
Pasting flyers on the wall during curfew is very dangerous and pointless: as soon as it is posted, it will be discovered by patrolling soldiers, and then it will be torn off before dawn, and it will be the same as if it is not posted.
But at the moment the curfew was lifted, the soldiers and roadblocks on the streets had been removed, and there were only a few people on the streets. No one found anyone posting leaflets everywhere on the streets.
Some people even dropped leaflets from high-rise buildings at the crowded market entrance, and they fell all over the ground like snowflakes.
What's even more terrible is that these leaflets are written on paper.
You must know that a piece of paper is worth thirty dollars and six kilograms of rice in Chudi.
Even if the written back is barely usable, it's probably worth eight or ten bucks with a discount.
So isn’t this just money sprinkled from the sky?
Immediately, the people of Chu were looting everywhere, and soon the people who were still lying on the bed in the house came out to snatch it.
After grabbing it, you will naturally look through the content. The simplified pictures on it are clear and easy to understand. Many Chu people understood it at a glance... As long as they go to the Huaihe River to surrender to the Qin Dynasty, they can have land and houses, and they will also be given farm tools and live a good life.
This is a great thing for Chu people.
One of the reasons why Qin was able to unify the six kingdoms was that it gave its people certain powers.
For example, if you serve as a soldier and gain military merit, you can be promoted to become a landowner or even a high-ranking noble.
Even if you don't serve as a soldier and farm at home, it's because of the county and county system implemented by the Qin State that the people's management rights are state-owned rather than the private property of the nobles...
On the surface, there seems to be no difference. State-owned and aristocratic privately owned, the people have no power.
But when you think about it in detail, the difference is huge.
The private property of the nobles is also the slaves of the nobles. You can do whatever the nobles ask you to do, even take away your life.
But state-owned... That is because the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. There is only one emperor, and the people in the palace are waiting on you. He will not hang around in front of you every day, shouting at you to work or even kill you.
If the people have any responsibility towards the nobles, it is to pay taxes, so they have more freedom and much greater power.
Before this, the people of Chu State did not know this.
This may be strange, but it's not surprising at all.
Because the king of Chu and the nobles knew that it would be of no benefit to the people to know these things. Just like the state of Wei, the people of the neighboring state of Qin fled to Qin one after another once they knew about these systems of Qin.
So Wei State had only two choices:
Either it should reform itself like Qin, or it could wait for fewer and fewer people to destroy the country.
Wei State carried out reforms, but the pace could not keep up with Qin State, and the country was eventually destroyed.
The Chu State was unable to carry out reforms due to its own reasons, and it was also the country with the least reform among the seven countries, so it had no choice but to choose the third way: blocking the news.
Blocking news is easy to do in this era of extremely backward communication. Occasionally, a few businessmen come and go and say something that shouldn't be said... If they are caught, the businessmen who come later will not dare to say more.
So the people lived in confusion, and the princes and nobles continued to drink and eat meat.
If Qin had not come to attack, the situation in Chu would have continued.
But when Qin came to attack, not only did they come to attack, they also came with Shen Bing.
Shen Bing only had to ask the Chu people in Shouchun, and he immediately knew that the information between Qin and Chu was extremely asymmetric... The vast majority of the people in Chu knew nothing about Qin's superior system.
Or even if you know something about it, you just take it as a rumor and only half-believe it.
In this way, Shen Bing knew what to do.
Paper, if you have such a good publicity tool, why not use it?
This thing is the best, most convenient and cheapest propaganda tool in this era.
What does it mean to own and monopolize this propaganda tool?