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    However, after the government posted recruitment notices, there were still a lot of people who responded. On the one hand, the daily relief grain distributed by the court was only for food, and there were still many young people who had nothing to eat and had nothing to do.  On the other hand, since Zheng Yunming took control of Sichuan, his reputation in Jinghu has gradually spread. The soldiers have always had one idea. Firstly, they must follow the general who loves soldiers, and they must not let the general dispose of their lives casually. Secondly,  To follow a victorious general, as long as you adhere to these two points, your chances of surviving on an extremely dangerous battlefield will be greatly improved.  Xu Yuanjie led a group of secretaries on their way to the school grounds, but were stopped several times by crowds of people. There were young students wearing white headscarves inside and outside the school grounds. It looked like there were about 40,000 to 50,000 people.  When Xu Yuanjie finally squeezed into the school grounds, he found Zheng Yunming already sitting on a temporary high platform, talking to the Sichuan scholar he had met briefly yesterday.  "Common people everywhere are accustomed to wrapping their heads with white cloth. It is said that they are mourning for Zhuge Wuhou. Is this true?" When Yang Fang heard Zheng Yunming ask this question, he had to take the trouble to repeat the answer that the outsiders had told him over and over again.  Tong Ting: "There are rumors in central Sichuan that are true, but I heard from the old people that the habit of Sichuan people tying their hair had already existed when Wu Hou was alive. It is said that Wu Hou's southern expedition was barren, and there were many barbarians in the army, with their hair cut off and bald.  It was difficult to distinguish them from the southern barbarians, so Wu Hou ordered the entire army to wrap their heads with white cloth to distinguish them, so this custom was retained by the Sichuan people. " Only then did Zheng Yunming's doubts that had been hidden in his heart for many years come to light. This matter was just a joke.  , but there are some things that I have to ask: "Sir, I am a native of Sichuan. You and I should have a solid understanding of this. Where is it suitable to recruit soldiers within Sichuan Gorge 4th Road?"  There are no young people who are not suitable for joining the army. The local people say that the children near Chengdu in western Sichuan are clever and cowardly. In fact, the farmers near Chengdu are very smart and learn things very quickly, so they don't.  They are willing to fight just because they cherish their property and do not want to fight. Now that they are living here, most of their property has been lost. If they are registered as soldiers, they will fight bravely for rewards and will be very active in learning martial arts. As for Sichuan.  The man on Dongkuizhou Road was originally a descendant of the Ba people. He was tough and aggressive. Local disputes were often resolved by fighting with the entire village. In addition, Badi was mountainous and the people were poor, which inspired good people.  The spirit of fighting bravely. As for the land in southern Sichuan, it is close to the barbarians. The martial law there has almost been abolished. Everyone carries a sword and likes to use crossbows. This is all influenced by the barbarian customs. The people here are also very good at climbing mountains.  They can march eighty miles in the mountains in one night and are nicknamed Fei Guoshan. These children from the border areas are really the best talents to recruit into the army. It is a pity that the border people have never liked to interact with the Han people. Only their local seedlings  Chief Liao went to recruit, and he might be able to recruit a sufficient number of troops. "What Yang Fang said was a verbal description after all. Zheng Yunming wanted to recruit soldiers, and his original intention was to recruit them regardless of geographical boundaries.  But he soon discovered the difference between Sichuan's recruitment and Jinghu's recruitment. He recruited soldiers in Jinghu. At first, he recruited miners as soldiers, and later he absorbed some northern generals. Although these two types of people were also related to clans,  , but after all, they are all considered a floating population, and they are already considered a fairly open group of people in the Song Dynasty regarding kinship relationships in the military.  Recruiting a new army in Sichuan is completely different. Even the refugees who lived in Chongqing, because of the proper organizational relocation, most of them maintained the intact structure of their clans. Even if they joined the army, their fathers, sons, brothers, uncles and nephews came to recruit together.  Not to mention the local people, the clan leader sent people to lead the entire clan to join the army.  Zheng Yunming is well aware that the biggest drawback of this type of recruitment is that it builds a large and complex interpersonal network in the military. The existence of this interpersonal network will attach itself to seemingly inconspicuous but quite stubborn interest groups, and eventually form a secret protection of itself.  And the power to resist the will of the commander.  Although this is not obvious enough in Zheng Yunming's army, Zheng Yunming has seen it a lot in other people's armies, such as two clans in an army. If the country needs to eliminate some old and weak people, the dominant clan with real power will  Not only will they not eliminate those without combat effectiveness in accordance with the rules, but they will give priority to eliminating the key combat members of the other faction and try their best to protect all their own members. After such elimination, the combat effectiveness of the army will continue to weaken instead of increasing.  The general way for the army to deal with this kind of clan power is to go with the flow. Generally, the leader sent by a clan is selected as the general ben, or a more direct way is to let the general be free to organize his own pro-party clans into subordinates. In this way  The army is united and can be restrained by patriarchal blood relations, which can ensure strong combat effectiveness.  But Zheng Yunming has his own way, that is, the commander-in-chief personally participates in the recruitment, captures the grassroots team officers and team officers, and then uses the team officers and team generals to control the soldiers, so he must participate in this recruitment.?Ritual.  Officers and generals are rigorously testing the martial arts of the new recruits in the large martial arts field. Xichuan has a strong Confucianism style, but there is little martial arts style. Therefore, the targets often miss the target, and even the stone used to test the strength cannot be lifted.  , Zheng Yunming touched his forehead with his hand in frustration: How should such young people be trained to turn them into qualified warriors?  The only thing you can rely on is time and unremitting efforts. As long as you accumulate bit by bit, one year will pass by in vain, and ten years will be just a blink of an eye.  A detective horseman carefully controlled the mount under him and cautiously approached the stone bridge. He had to avoid the sight of the Song army's watchtower at the bridge. If it weren't for the fact that the Song people had planted trees extensively for hundreds of miles around Xiangyang in the past ten years,  It is used to form a barrier to block the Mongolian cavalry assault, or it is not so easy for the Song Army's lookout posts to detect him.  It is now August of the sixth year of Baoxing, which is August of the sixth year of the Christian calendar.  Twelve years have passed since the Mongols first invaded Jinghu.  In these twelve years, both countries have undergone tremendous changes.  As far as the Mongols are concerned, after Ogedei Khan died of illness, after a short period of Queen Naimazhen's rule, and after a period of chaotic rule by Guyuk Khan, power finally fell into the hands of the Tolei princes again.  .  The newly enthroned Mongolian Khan showed a unique attitude as soon as he took office.  First of all, he ordered the abolition of the ban issued by Guyuk Khan previously prohibiting scholars from serving as judges, and promoted six scholars of Han origin as judges in Yanjing 10th Road.  This is seen as a positive signal for the new Great Khan, which will set off a refreshing storm in the young Mongol Empire.  Although everyone knows that the reformists represented by Meng Ge and Kublai Khan are in fierce conflict with the old Mongolian aristocratic forces that Guyuk Khan relies on.  Among them, Kublai Khan was the most radical. He proposed to Guyukhan many times that he should follow the example of the Southern Dynasties, open colleges, develop technical education, reform the selection system, promote new technological innovations, open handicraft workshops, and develop trade.  While cultivating national strength, while reforming the army, after decades of bloody struggle, Mongolia now has a vast territory stretching from the food country in the west to the sea in the east. It is time to settle down and develop its national strength.  Although the Song Dynasty in the south has been actively developing in the past ten years, it has only established some strongholds in Nanyang. In the eyes of the Mongolian nobles, these strongholds with only hundreds or thousands of people are not considered a major event at all.  Even in the territory where Mongolia has the weakest garrison, there is at least one Minhan Nayan force. What role can a stronghold like the Sinansi people with only a few hundred people on the southern sea have any effect?  However, Kublai Khan had already found out through various reports the terrible aspects of the Southern Dynasty's trade network in Nanyang.  If nothing else, let's just say that the Kunlun Island Forge Market, which has only 320 troops stationed there, imports more than 10 million yuan of goods into the Southern Dynasty every year, and the total amount of goods exported from here even exceeds this amount.  The Southern Dynasty relied on import and export business taxes and the country's trade fleet to conduct trade every year, and its profits were enough to support two or three routes of army supply.  The key points don¡¯t stop there. Most of the materials exported by the Song Dynasty were tea, ceramics, glass, handicrafts, brocade, guns and armor, etc. The items were small in size but had extremely high added value, while the Song Dynasty imported bulk commodities.  , such as refined copper purchased from the Fengnan Islands, rice imported from the Champa Kingdom, pig iron imported from the Nanyue Kingdom, gold and silver imported from Srivijaya, and so on. In the past ten years, the Song Dynasty¡¯s  The number of imported luxury goods is only increasing steadily, but the number of imported bulk materials is growing rapidly.  These foreign materials greatly strengthened the national power of the Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan believed that this was one of the reasons why the repeated southern expeditions were ineffective.  The intelligence sent back by Hao Jing's spies said that the Southern Dynasty was negotiating with the princes of India to build gunpowder factories in the coastal areas. Using India's rich saltpeter resources, it is expected to produce 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder every year. If this is the case, how to conquer the Song Dynasty?  The plan almost came to nothing.  Furthermore, the threat to Mongolia from these huge ships built by the Song Dynasty was far more than what it seemed on the surface.  They are quietly eroding the foundation of the Mongol Empire. Ever since the Song Dynasty envoys arrived in Ceylon and used generous bribes to make the King of Ceylon surrender to the Song Dynasty, they immediately opened a trading post and a market in Trincomalee City, and sent them every year.  Dozens of large ships went to the Big Food Country and other countries in the Far West for trade. The direct connection between Sinansi people and the Big Food Country led to a serious consequence. The Big Food merchants took advantage of the huge size of Sinansi ships.  , with the advantage of a large number of loads, it abandoned the land trade route from Persia through Khwarizm into the Central Plains, and switched to the sea trade route via Trincomalee, crossing Srivijaya to Guangzhou, and the safety and loading capacity were greatly improved.  The Sinansi ships have offset the operational risks caused by traveling across vast oceans.  Instead, it is the comprehensive advantage of maritime trade over land trade. Regardless of the volume of freight, safety or economy, maritime trade lines are the first choice of merchants.
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