Chapter 71 The Song of the Rural Soldiers
At this time, Lin Feng successfully completed the editor of Shouzhou Business Daily and recruited teachers from young military academy, agents commissioned by wealthy businessmen from all over the country escorted a lot of investment funds to Shouzhou one after another. Lin Feng immediately began to make a series of big moves inside and outside Shouzhou City:
The city recruited a large number of stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters and laborers with high salaries. We began to build Shouzhou Academy of Sciences in Bagong Mountain outside the city, build five factory sites on the weed piles at the foot of the mountain south of Bagong Mountain, and build large garbage pools at the beginning and end of each street in Shouzhou, while making every effort to promote the construction of supermarkets in the city center;
The pier in the north of Shouzhou City and the Zhengyangdu pier 30 miles to the west were expanded and renovated;
A trading market was built on the left side between the north gate of Shouzhou City and the wharf; and a temporary military camp was established on the foot of Bagong Mountain West Mountain on the right;
On June 19, Lin Feng, who was giving lectures in the Junior Military Academy, received a secret report, which was sent by intelligence personnel arranged by Kang Renjie in Dongdu, saying that Li Hongji intends to build a bank and supermarket in Dongdu.
After hearing the news, Lin Feng immediately rushed back to the governor's mansion and wrote three secret letters urgently, arranged for people to send them to Situ Zhouzong's mansion, Yan Chenxing's mansion and the Fang family of overseas trade. That night, Lin Feng wrote several secret letters again and secretly sent them out overnight.
Early in the morning of June 20, Lin Feng, accompanied by Feng Jingyun and Cheng Yuehai, rushed to the temporary military camp in the north of the city. Today is the first time for the five thousand Shouzhou Township soldiers to gather for training.
"See Lin Tuanzhuang." Seeing Lin Feng and his group riding in, the village soldiers who had already lined up in unison roared in unison.
Lin Feng smiled and waved.
Township soldiers, also known as militia, are local militia systems in ancient China. They originated from the Baojia system during the Zhou Dynasty. They were generally selected according to the proportion of household registration, or recruited local people to make the people "protect each other and accept each other" and "match each other". Township soldiers are still engaged in production and slack farming training, and are generally responsible for tasks such as building cities, transporting grain, catching steals or jointly guarding the border.
Since the Tang Dynasty replaced the government soldiers by recruiting troops, during the Later Jin Dynasty, the collection of rural soldiers began to be collected. It was stipulated that each tax household would send one army to seven families, and each tax household would bring its own weapons. It was also divided into various types of rural soldiers such as civilians, archers, and regiment training.
Cheng Yuehai explained embarrassedly: "The number of registered soldiers in the village exceeded expectations. The military uniforms transferred from the Shouzhou army were not enough. Only a thousand rural soldiers were equipped with military uniforms."
Lin Feng looked at the various clothes with mottled colors in front of him, shook his head and smiled: "The combat effectiveness never depends on what clothes he wore. My suggestion is to keep it the same and not change his military uniform."
Cheng Yuehai nodded and said that he had written it down.
Lin Feng asked: "How many of the five thousand people are from the countryside."
"Today, a total of 5,120 soldiers gathered in the village, 1,050 people from Shouzhou City, and 4,070 villagers from all over Shouzhou." Cheng Yuehai replied quickly, obviously knowing the situation of the army.
Lin Feng nodded with satisfaction, took the lead in walking onto the temporary high platform, waved to all the village soldiers, and cheers like tsunamis suddenly sounded among the village soldiers.
After the cheers fell, Lin Feng raised his qi and said loudly: "Two days ago, I accidentally heard a joke. Someone said that the village soldiers are not fragrant at all, and they cannot smell good, because they are all stinky legs. I was so angry that I made a bet with the joker on the spot: In time, our Shouzhou village soldiers will definitely become the number one village soldiers in the world. Do you have confidence?"
"Yes." The village soldiers below looked at each other and replied unevenly. Cheng Yuehai's face turned red. He took two steps forward, and was about to reprimand him loudly, but Lin Feng reached out to block him.
Lin Feng looked at these hesitant village soldiers and shouted:
"Everyone's shouting shows that everyone's confidence is obviously insufficient, but there is an old saying that goes, 'Is there any king, prince, general, and minister?' Those famous imperial guards in the world were also selected from a famous imperial guards in the world. I have been to the northern Liao Kingdom, and their palace tent troops and tribal troops were also selected from a famous local soldier. Even the powerful special soldiers in our Tang Dynasty were selected from the imperial guards, and some were just ordinary hunters and fishermen before."
Many village soldiers who were originally frowning gradually stretched out their eyebrows. Zhao Changsheng, who was encouraged by Lin Feng to participate in the village soldiers at the city circle competition, stood in the front row. When he heard this, his fists couldn't help but clenched.
"I dare to make such a bet because, I have, believe, and my heart." Lin Feng roared, pointing to the sky, pointing to the earth, then pointing to his heart, and then saying.
"Why, because the heaven here is the heaven of our Shouzhou people, the land here is the land of our Shouzhou people, the home here is the home of our Shouzhou people, and our determination to defend our country will not be worse than anyone else, do you think so?"
"Yes." This time, the shouts of the villagers' soldiers became much more straight and louder.
"Because of this, once a war occurs, anyone else can retreat, but our village soldiers must not retreat, because behind us is our home, our relatives, we are their last support, and we are the last line of defense in Shouzhou. Do you think we can retreat?" Lin Feng roared.
"No." The voices of the village soldiers began to become uniform, and they all roared angrily as Lin Feng raised their arms.
"Yes, it can never be. However, war is not a joke, not a play, but a struggle that must pass through the blood sea and corpse mountain, a battle that can never stop if the enemy fails. It is not possible to speak loudly, it is not possible to rely on confidence, it is not possible to rely on blood and courage alone. What should we do?" Lin Feng paused for a moment, looked at the quiet village soldiers, and then shouted.
"There is only one way. From today on, each of us should work hard and learn hard, exercise our bodies stronger than the enemy, and learn more powerful war skills than the enemy. This is the foundation of our life, and this is the capital for us to defend our country. Now everyone, with me, run, and the goal is: on the bank of the Huai River."
Speaking of this, Lin Feng quickly walked off the stage and took the lead in jogging towards the camp gate. Cheng Yuehai, Wang Jianfeng, Liu Chongjin, Yang Kuai and other township soldiers immediately ran to the township soldiers and commanded everyone to line up and follow behind.
At this time, the sun had risen from the horizon, casting the rays of heat from the moxibustion to the earth, and also pulling the shadows of the village soldiers on the ground for a long time.
The temporary barracks were less than one mile from the open area on the east side of the pier, and the team soon arrived by the river. The village soldiers lined up again and looked at Lin Feng, who was standing on the levee on the bank with his back to the river.
Lin Feng shouted loudly: "All physical exercises and military skills will be responsible for Cheng Yuehai and other five generals. I dare not interfere. Today, I just want to learn to sing a new song with you."
He pulled all the people here just to learn songs. Now Cheng Yuehai and the others and all the villagers were stunned for a moment.
Lin Feng pointed to the Huaihe River behind him and said loudly: "Huaihe River is our mother river in Shouzhou. Lin was inspired a few days ago and wrote this song "My Motherland". Please listen to me sing it first."
As the eyes of more than 5,000 village soldiers, Lin Feng cleared his throat and sang loudly: "A big river has a wide wave, and the wind blows the fragrance of rice flowers on both sides. My family lives on the shore. I am used to listening to the boatman's trumpet and seeing the white sails on the boat. The girl is like a flower. The young man is so broad-minded. In order to open up a new world, he awakens the sleeping mountains and changes the appearance of the river.
This is a beautiful motherland, the place where I grew up, and there are bright scenery everywhere on this vast land;
Good mountains, rivers and places, all roads are wide, and friends come with good wine. If the jackal comes, there will be swords and guns to welcome it. This is the hero's motherland, the place where I grow up, and there is the power of youth everywhere on this ancient land;
Good mountains, rivers and places, all roads are wide, and friends come with good wine. If the jackal comes, there will be swords and guns to welcome it. This is a powerful motherland and the place where I grow. On this warm land, there is peaceful sunshine everywhere..."
The song is the supporting song in the classic movie "Shangganling" of later generations. "My Motherland", Lin Feng will naturally pay attention to changing the "hunting rifle" in the original song with "swords and guns", and replace the concept of the big river in the song with the Huai River.
The good song, although its tone began to appear a little gentle, contained endless love and surging passion, with a majestic momentum and shocking heart. Cheng Yuehai and others looked at each other and conveyed the same feeling with their fiery eyes.
All the soldiers listened to the sound of the river flowing in their ears, looked at the rolling rice waves not far away, and were immediately drunk into the poetic and picturesque artistic conception of the songs, and many people began to hum.
Chapter completed!