Although Xu Tong and Chen Qiaoshan are both fellow villagers in Shandong, they have never had any dealings before because of their different starts.

However, during the Xiangfan Battle, Xu Tong had dealt with the Henan Corps and was appreciated by Zhang Yuejing. Therefore, he met Chen Qiaoshan several times and was considered an acquaintance.

Seeing that Chen Qiaoshan was so depressed, Xu Tong smiled.

"The Henan Corps has a heavy task. I heard that some reconstruction tasks in the two provinces of Hunan and Hubei have fallen on you. The manpower is very tight. I feel embarrassed to leave two divisions' reserve teams for my affairs. How can I be embarrassed to ask you to provide more help?"

"Indeed, the reconstruction task is indeed very difficult. Many places need to use the army to maintain order. My assistance task was approved by the General Staff Headquarters personally. Even the headquarters did not prepare for this. It is not easy to collect food and salary for tens of thousands of troops to enter Sichuan to fight."

Chen Qiaoshan smiled wryly and said, "It's okay for Hunan Province. Some areas of Hubei and Jiangxi Provinces have basically been destroyed. Many residents have been displaced and need to settle down and rebuild a lot of things. There are also many defeated Song soldiers who have leaped into the mountains and fell into the bandits. The troubles are not safe and the army needs to wipe out them."

"So, I'm embarrassed to ask for your help."

Xu Tong smiled and said, "At present, the situation in Sichuan and Sichuan is not very good. Our strength is still very weak, but the final outcome should not be unexpected. The Chengdu court is seeking death by itself. It is not difficult to destroy them. As long as I give me enough time, it is not difficult to destroy the Chengdu court in the end."

"But you only have two thousand soldiers at the moment, right?"

"So, we still need the help of the Henan Corps at the moment."

Xu Tong blinked and smiled, "I have always heard that the new recruits in the Henan Corps have done the best and most meticulously. I borrowed some experienced training officers from me. I don't have enough staff here, and many people have to lead and train troops, and they have no skills in their clones."

"This is a trivial matter. I have so many people who can train troops here, but that's enough?"

"Of course not enough. I want steel knives, spears, shields, armor, and muskets. Since it is difficult to improve the quality of the army in a short period of time, I can only use the advantage of equipment to replace it. By the way, I heard that there is still a team of troops left for you to prepare for war at any time, right?"

Xu Tong looked at Chen Qiaoshan expectantly.

Chen Qiaoshan's eyes suddenly became sharp.

"Shenji Camp...what do you want to do?"

"The Henan Corps is strong enough and there is no war mission at the moment, so I specially made a report to the Central Military Affairs Department and the Privy Council, hoping to lend me the team of the Shenji Camp for temporary use. Next, I will definitely go up the river and go to Chongqing Prefecture first, and then Chengdu Prefecture. Shenji Camp will be of great use to me."

As soon as Xu Tong finished speaking, Chen Qiaoshan suddenly widened his eyes.

"Why are you so unfair? This Shenji Camp is under the command of our corps. I have never heard of this? You guys are playing sneak attack!"

"It's all comrades, what are you and me? Go wherever you need it. Isn't this a normal thing?"

Xu Tong's face was full of pride: "Now the Sichuan-Shu branch and the Revolutionary Army need the Shenji Camp the most. No matter from which perspective, it is okay for us to borrow the Shenji Camp, right?"

Chen Qiaoshan opened his mouth for a long time without saying anything.

After finally swallowing this breath, Chen Qiaoshan looked up and down at Xu Tong, his face full of dissatisfaction.

"I know why you kid can stand out from Yucheng. Yes, it's OK to pick out unexpected places to launch sneak attacks. It's too unethical.

Commander Zhang always talks to me about wanting to transfer you to the Henan Corps. I think you should not come. Once you come, the good things in the entire Corps will be yours sooner or later."

"The most important thing on the battlefield is not martial ethics, but victory. If you win earlier, the people of Sichuan and Sichuan will suffer less."

Xu Tong raised his head a little and smiled, "Don't worry, I will use the Shenji Camp well. As for the Henan Corps... I probably don't have the opportunity to join. When the Sichuan-Shu Corps is established in the future, I think the Sichuan-Shu Corps must also have a Shenji Camp."

After saying that, Xu Tong blinked at Chen Qiaoshan.

Chen Qiaoshan immediately had nothing to say.

Good guy, Sichuan and Shu Corps.

Looking at Xu Tong, who was several years younger than him, Chen Qiaoshan suddenly felt that the Yangtze River waves pushed the previous waves and overturned the previous waves on the beach.

If Xu Tong had participated in the Shandong Uprising before and had created the rebellion of the Jin Kingdom in the same batch as Su Yonglin, the Five Tiger Generals of the Ming Kingdom today should have a place for this kid.

But even without this experience, this kid is still dazzling enough now. He fought several bold battles in Jiangxi, and some generals in the army highly praised his boldness and accuracy of his vision.

He had heard before that Xu Tong was personally received by Su Yonglin. The task of doing things in Sichuan and Sichuan was arranged by Su Yonglin himself, which was a real person.

If this wave can achieve results in Sichuan and Sichuan, Xu Tong's future achievements will definitely be limitless. If he achieves higher in the future, it is not impossible to transfer back to the central government. Even if he is not one of the Five Tiger Generals now, it is hard to say in the future.

Forget it, just treat it as a good relationship.

Chen Qiaoshan recognized it.

Not long after, Xu Tong was busy in the East Sichuan Military Region for a while, and Zhou Qiang came to replace Xu Tong to preside over the transformation tasks and agrarian revolution in the four prefectures in eastern Sichuan.

The Henan Corps arranged a part of its manpower to help deal with some military affairs issues and assist the revolutionary army in expanding its manpower.

For example, the more than 12,000 surrendered Song army and more than 5,000 captured Song army were identified, some scumbag waste was detected and then the political cadres in the army were sent to help the revolutionary military and political cadres do ideological work together for captives.

Xu Tong returned to Zhongzhou to continue to deal with the frontline affairs, do some work in building ships, and prepare to go downstream to attack Fuzhou in the next stage.

He didn't know that in the rear, the political cadres of the Revolutionary Army and the political cadres of the Henan Corps worked together to do some interesting things.

The cause of the incident was that everyone worked together to expand their troops as soon as possible for the Revolutionary Army, and the best and fastest source of troops were these Song army prisoners. However, the traditional method took a long time to transform the prisoners and join the army, but now it is obvious that such conditions are not met.

Political cadres gathered their ideas together and brainstormed. Finally, a brigade instructor of the Henan Corps proposed their own ideas.

"In the old days, the emperor used the imperial examination to win over landlords and gentry, and selected elites from the landlords and gentry class known as Jinshi to serve the dynasty. I heard that after scholars passed the imperial examination, there was a ritual that was to praise officials that had to be passed once.

The specific content is probably to let the new top scholar lead the Jinshi on the imperial street where only the emperor can walk on, enjoy the congratulations and envy of the soldiers on both sides of the road, and finally let them enter the imperial city and officially become members of the ruling class.

I think this is a very ritualistic etiquette. The reason why this etiquette is used by the rulers is simply because it can bring great glory to the new Jinshi and make them feel a sense of belonging. From then on, they realize that they are people of the ruling class, which is completely different from the past.

So I think that they can use this sense of ritual to make the social elites identify with themselves as they have separated from their original class attributes and become a complete ruler, so we can also use this sense of ritual to make the captives identify and belong to us."
Chapter completed!