I have a backstage in Datang

As expected of a man from Shandong, he speaks and does things with a sense of seriousness. There are no tricks in his words, and some are just a heavy promise.

No matter how far Youzhou is.

It doesn't matter how heavy the tent is.

As long as he has breath, he promises to keep up with the big team.

This is ancient logistics!

And this kind of men in charge of logistics are basically in their 40s and [-]s. They are no longer eligible to become government soldiers, but they are also recruited. It is the man just now.

The heavy snow was raging, and the cold wind was like a knife.

Cheng Shiqi, the captain of Zhechong, stood on a tall boulder at this time, as if he himself was a stone, allowing the cold wind to rage and not move.

There was impatience in his eyes, and deep guilt in his impatience. He fixed his eyes on the whole Zhechong mansion. Whenever he saw a tent being dismantled, he would let out a sigh of relief, and then continued to look at it. To another tent dismantling place.

The hot scene in front of him meant guilt in his eyes, because it was his order, and he wanted everyone to leave within an hour...

In such a bitter cold weather, such a hasty military order, if not for the reputation of the Cheng family in Jeju Prefecture, the soldiers of the government would have been enraged by his order and bombed the camp...

But these government soldiers did not bomb the camp at all, and none of them even expressed displeasure. On the contrary, when they heard that this was the request of the Cheng family, and hearing this would give the whole of Jeju Dong'e a sigh of relief, almost all the government soldiers expressed their displeasure. Fanaticism, they seem to have forgotten the severe cold weather.

This is the heavy Shandong Han.

Don't make promises easily, but promises will be fulfilled.Once people have a request, as long as I have the ability, then even if I put my whole body to it, I will fulfill your request.

The snow fell more and more fiercely, and the cold wind blew harder.

Cheng Shiqi took a deep breath, and then exhaled a thick white mist. Suddenly he stood on the boulder and spoke again, loudly shouting: "Brothers, uncles, everything you do today, I Cheng Shiqi Qi must report to the Patriarch..."

"Everyone should know that the head of our Cheng family has now become a Duke. He is the pride of our Jeju Prefecture, but he has never forgotten his father and fellow villagers."

"This time, Lord Cheng made a bet with someone in the court. The bet is that the soldiers of our Jeju Prefecture can enter the top three in this competition."

"I have confessed to everyone before that the Cheng family is going for the rewards in this competition, but the Cheng family not only wants the rewards themselves, but the Cheng family thinks that all the Jeju soldiers can get the rewards."

Cheng Shiqi roared loudly, constantly encouraging the soldiers, and said like a roar: "Why does the Cheng family want everyone to be rewarded? Why does Mr. Cheng value rewards so much? The reason is very simple. A great encounter in Dong'a..."

His roar became louder and louder, gradually gaining the momentum to overwhelm the wind and snow.

The wind roared all over the sky, and he couldn't suppress his sincere roar: "We Shandong people are the poorest in all dynasties. And we suffer disasters almost every year, either drought or flood, so we Shandong people flee from famine the most. The impression left on people is always that the people in this place are really spineless, fleeing famine at every turn, leaving their homeland at every turn..."

"But how do those outsiders know how important our Shandong people's hometown is? If it wasn't because we couldn't survive, how could we be willing to leave the hometown where we were born and raised."

"In the past few years, everyone fled to Guanzhong. It has been known as the hinterland of the Central Plains since ancient times. As long as you escape there, you can always live if you are willing to endure hardships."

"But in recent years, we Shandong people have found a new place to flee famine. When I mentioned this, everyone must have guessed it. That's right, I'm talking about Youzhou."

"In the north of our Tang Dynasty, there used to be a desolate land. It was called the Youyun Zhuzhou, and it was occupied by the Turks before. Three years ago, our Tang Dynasty had a battle with the Turks. In the hands of Mr. Gu Under the plan, we took back the Youyun Zhuzhou that belonged to the Han people."

"From that day on, Mr. Gu's family moved to Youzhou City."

"His wife is the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty. He could have stayed at home and enjoyed peace and happiness in his life. But he didn't do that. He was determined to turn the desolate north into a place for people to live and eat."

"We don't know how tired he is, and it's hard for us to understand how much hardship he has put in. But there is one thing we Shandong people know very well, that is, his Youzhou has really been developed."

"One day at a time, every day is getting better."

"And when we Shandong people are fleeing famine, we have a better choice from then on."

"Mr. Gu's Youzhou is the most kind to the people."

Cheng Shiqi's yelling didn't seem to have anything to do with it now, but this guy's words suddenly changed, and he yelled again: "We Shandong people used to go to Youzhou because we couldn't survive and fled famine. So Those fellow villagers always feel that they can’t hold their heads up, and always think that they have disgraced the Shandong people..."

"But this time is different. This time we are going to fight for glory. Not only to fight for glory, but also to get rewards. As long as we get this reward, our entire Jeju Prefecture will benefit."

"This reward is the first batch of new coins minted by Mr. Gu. It is said that each new coin is of excellent quality, and has been fired by the family at a high price of one for four..."

"Do you know what this means? It means that after you get a new coin, you can spend it as a coin!"

"In addition to the reward, there is also the settling allowance. When you were first recruited, you must have been informed by the guards in the yamen. That Mr. Gu felt sorry for the soldiers who left their homes, so he gave it to everyone when they accepted the draft. I paid a settling fee. But this settling fee cannot be issued for the time being, because Mr. Gu is temporarily unable to transport the coins to all Zhechong mansions in the Tang Dynasty at the same time. In desperation, he can only let the soldiers of the mansions arrive in Youzhou before receiving them... ..."

"In addition to the settling fee, there is also the future military affairs!"

"I, Cheng Shiqiu, might as well reveal a secret to everyone. This time, our Tang Dynasty is determined to fight a fierce battle with the Liaodong people. We Shandong people have never been afraid of fighting a fierce battle. The only thing we are afraid of is that fighting hard on the battlefield. I died but couldn’t get the money I should have.”

"As long as the money is enough, what is fate? For us impoverished Shandong people, we hope to exchange our lives for more money. Send them back home, raise children, let wives and children I can have a bite to eat and drink, and I no longer have to leave my hometown to flee famine!"

Chapter 375 [The Witness History of a Little Person]

I have a background in Datang. Chapter 375 of the main text volume [A little man's witness to history] Many battles in history may be just a hasty stroke in the history books.People will always have an illusion when reading, feeling that a big battle is always fought as soon as it is said.

However, the real facts are different from the history books.

Does it mean that war can be fought if it is said to be fought?

From making a decision, to organizing and mobilizing, from recruiting soldiers, to marching the army, and then logistics support, preparation of food and grass, morale boosting, and ordering of the generals...

All of them will eventually come together, and only then will the Great War break out.

This is not something that can be fought just by talking about it.

Nor is it something that can be understood by casual reading in history books.

Every great war in ancient times, and even every war in later generations, regardless of the size of the battle, regardless of the victory or defeat, the war will never be completed overnight.

It has countless witnesses, and there will be countless people who can sing and cry...

However, more is that ordinary experiencers, their identities are the bottom pawns in every war.

……

"My name is Zhao Si, and I am ranked fourth. I have two older brothers and one older sister, but they all starved to death during the famine years. Therefore, I am the only male in the family."

"I live in Dong'a County, Jeju Prefecture, Shandong Province. The village is [-] miles southwest of the county seat. The place is very small. There are only eleven households in the whole village. It is surrounded by mountains, and there is a small river beside the village... It is said that there are mountains and waters. Is it a good place? But our village lacks the most important fields."

"I don't know which important person once said that if the common people lack land, they will inevitably be poor. Alas, that important person is really accurate. Our entire Zhaojia Village, the whole village is suffering haha."

"If a person is poor, his ambition is short."

"The village is poor, and it is difficult to survive the famine."

"I heard from the old people in the village that the population in the village used to be quite large, but disasters hit Jeju Prefecture every year, and once the people were hit by disasters, it was difficult for the people to survive, so the able-bodied people in the village would go out to flee the famine, and the people in the village would be left behind. Gradually, all the people who went down were old, weak, sick and disabled.”

"The ones left behind are all the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. It is said that they would not be able to survive the famine years, right? You must think so, but I tell you not..."

"We Shandong people are kind-hearted. Those who go out to flee the famine don't just leave cruelly. They always try to think of ways before leaving, and try their best to help the village once."

"For example, they go to the mountains to dig grass roots, pick bark, and whatever they can eat, they take it back to the village like scraping the ground. They keep all these things so that the old and weak in the village will not starve to death."

"There are disasters every year, every year like this, the population of our village has indeed decreased, but no matter how it decreases, we still retain Zhaojia Village. In the words of the old people, this is the root of our Zhaojia Village people..."

"No matter where those fleeing famine go, and whether they survived or starved to death on the road, as long as there is a chance in the future, they will always find a way to come back..."

"Since I was five or six years old, I have been looking forward to the return of those people mentioned by the old man. Because among those people, there is the third uncle who loves me the most, and the fifth brother who is the strongest in the village. If they can all come back, The old and the weak in our Zhaojia Village have helpers to work."

"It's a pity that I have been looking forward to it since I was five or six years old, but I have never looked forward to anyone."

"On the contrary, I gradually grew up!"

"I became a strong man in the village..."

"When I was 17 years old, the ninth grandfather in the village came to my door. He carried a bag of sweet potatoes and came to my house panting. Then my mother nodded and said, accept it, and my baby will carry it. gone."

"My mother said in the first sentence that I accepted it, referring to accepting a bag of sweet potatoes brought by Grandpa Jiu. In fact, the bag of sweet potatoes was not given by Grandpa Jiu, but was dug from the mountain by widows in the village. In order to save up a bag of sweet potatoes, it is said that everyone can eat a bite of food in two days."

"My mother's second sentence said that my baby has resisted. It means that the men in this village will start to take responsibility from now on. There are eleven families in the village, four of which I am responsible for, four widows, and seven children. From that day on, everyone will live with me."

"I became a father to children and a man to four widows."

"Now you understand, the sack of yams brought by Grandfather Ninth is a dowry gift. But it is not a dowry gift for me to marry a widow, but a dowry gift for widows to ask me to step in."

"Don't laugh at this kind of thing. In our Shandong area, there are many adult men who are the treasures of the village."

"Hey, it's actually a treasure, it's a big punishment."

"A total of seven dolls, opening their mouths to eat and drink every day. The kind of exhaustion, the kind of panic of worrying that the children will starve to death every day, you don't understand, and you can't understand..."

"But since they call me daddy, I can't let every child go hungry..."

"It's just like when I was a child, my father starved to death in the famine, my mother became a widow, and I became a child without a father... At that time, it was also Grandpa Nine who came forward and asked my mother to take me to the village A man. That man is not my real father, but he can always find a way to get me something to eat and drink."

"So instead of being starved to death, I grew up and became a man."

"Now, it's time for me to take over the responsibility."

"It's tiring to feed seven children. The key is that there are few fields in the village. So I have exhausted all methods, either going up the mountain or down the river every day, catching birds, catching animals, catching fish, touching shrimp..."

"The children are skinny and skinny, but they are barely able to survive, so Grandpa Nine in the village often smiles, showing his toothless mouth and nodding to me, saying yes, yes, Xiao Si, you are very good. Wait until you take these seven Once the dolls are raised, our village will gradually get better."

"Actually, both the fourth master and I know that this is a hopeless statement. How can the village get better? We are just suffering and waiting to die."

"All the men in the village plus me, there are only three men in total. One of them is still lame, and it is not easy to work... When there were more than a dozen strong men in the village, it was not seen that the whole village could be brought together. Now we are the only ones left to support us, so how long can the three of us last?"

"Perhaps when the next famine comes, our whole village will starve to death together."

"But the new year's famine has not yet come, we first encountered the selection of the soldiers..."

……

That year, Niu Wa, who worked as a servant in the Yamen, came to our village.

What he said made the whole village panic.

Relying on his age, Grandpa Ninth began to curse.

Niuwa, on the other hand, has been explaining with a smile on his face from beginning to end...

"According to the rules, only ten people will draw one. It's not your Zhaojia Village's turn at all. But Jiu Ye, this time it's really not my bully. The main reason is that there is also pressure in the yamen. The population of our Dong'e County in Jeju Prefecture is too small. gone."

"Jiuye, you don't have to jump up and down and scold my grandma. Although I, Bullfrog, am not from Zhaojia Village, I was born in Niujia Village not far away. When I was young, the children from the two villages played together... We all grew up bare buttocks together, do you think I will cheat Zhao Laosi and the three of them?"

"Fubing is our system in the Tang Dynasty. As long as he is an adult man, he must be selected as a Fubing."

"Actually, we don't have to be afraid at all. Instead, we should consider it a good thing. As long as you become a soldier, you will be deducted from taxes. In addition to reducing taxes, you can also replace corvees... That is to say, the grain harvested from farming in the future Almighty left to eat."

"Master Jiu, think about it carefully. Why is our area poor? Isn't it because there are all mountain villages? There must be a shortage of land in mountain villages."

"If there is less land, the harvest will be less. However, since the dynasties and dynasties, it is only natural for the common people to pay taxes. The same is true for being a corvee. I have never heard of any common people who can resist it!"

"If you become a government soldier, you can be exempted from paying taxes and corvee. For the villages in our area, isn't this a chance for people to survive?"

"As for the war that you are worried about, I, Niuwa, can assure you. I will definitely not fight again. The Tang Dynasty has just been established, and I will definitely not fight with people everywhere. Since I don't know how to fight with people, I will definitely Can't recruit government soldiers... So, becoming a government soldier is a great thing to catch mistakes."

"Jiuye, I explain to you so much to respect the elderly. In fact, even if I don't explain, this matter still has to be done according to the rules. The laws of the court and the errands in the yamen are not something we ordinary people can resist. , the only thing we can do is beg for no war."

"If there is no war, the court will not recruit government soldiers."

"Then Zhao Laosi and the three of them don't need to worry about going to the battlefield!"

On that day, Niu Wa finally completed the errand.

Or it should be said that it wasn't that he did it, but that we ordinary people really couldn't resist.

So my fourth son, Zhao, and another man in the village became soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who might be recruited at any time. As for the third man in the village, his ankle lameness was disabled, so he would not be a soldier of the Tang Dynasty. He was chosen to be a government soldier.

Fubing corvee is different from ordinary corvee.

This kind of corvee is only used when going to the battlefield.

It is precisely because of the possibility of going to the battlefield that this kind of corvee will also enjoy tax deduction, but, after all, it will go to the battlefield.

So for a long time, people in our Zhaojia Village have always been in a state of panic. Everyone is frightened every day, fearing that one day they will hear that there is going to be a war.

However, it may be as Niu Wa said.

The Tang Dynasty had just been established, and he was unwilling to fight with others, so the government soldiers were not recruited.

We gradually stopped being afraid, and slowly began to work hard for life.

Gradually, the three of us men forgot that we were soldiers of the government.

……

But who would have thought that the recruitment came so suddenly.

Niuwa once again appeared in front of our village.

After three years, I am already a 20-year-old man. Maybe it is the hardships of life that make me look old prematurely, but you must believe that I am really only 20 years old this year.

When Niuwa came, he had obvious guilt on his face, as he said before, he was a partner who grew up with me naked, and he made me a soldier at the beginning, and he patted his chest to make a promise: He doesn't know how to go to war, but when he comes again, he has a mission in the yamen.

"Fourth Brother, our Tang Dynasty is going to war..."