In fact, contrary to these people who came to the city, there were also many people in Tanzhou who were busy leaving the city; most of them were poor people, most of them were small merchants, porters, or travelers to make a living; and some were so-called "desperate people". They had no overnight food and could only rely on a one-day household registration, and were almost eliminated by the sudden influx of refugees and the high prices caused by the price increase.

Therefore, although the government has been promoting how the thieves lead beasts to eat and possess the demons that everyone eats, they can't stop the rumors that are passed down from behind: for example, according to songs and local ballads from the south, these "drama thieves" and "thieves" not only do not eat people, but also give people food and salt to eat.

Although it is said that if you eat their "average" food, you will be obsessed with their magic and have to follow them, and be sent to fill the moat and block the city, which sounds quite scary; but as the saying goes, "A thousand deaths are hard to die, and a hunger is hard to bear." Instead of slowly starving to death in the city or being unable to bear hanging, it is better to go out of the city to gain a chance; perhaps there is a possibility of being a full-fed ghost who dies after eating.

So these people were riding at the city gate and running desperately, and the guards guards were busy collecting money from the people who were pouring in, without any extra time to interrogate them. Therefore, after the rebels arrived first, they could easily get relevant information about Tanzhou City.

Then during the brief confrontation, some songs from the Rebel Army began to take the opportunity to circulate and sing randomly in the streets and alleys of the city.

"Welcome the Huang King, and hope that the Huang King will not pay the food when he comes..."

"Chao Dengtang, Mu Dengding, wealthy families rob your mother..."

"Eat his mother, tell him his mother, open the city gate to welcome the Huang Wang... It's a good place to eat and wear and warm the world."

"I seek promotion in the morning and harmony in the evening. Recently, poor men are unable to survive. I open the door early to worship the Huang King, and I am happy to discipline all over the world."

"No need to bear the burden, no need to pay food, no need to eat all the Huang Wang."+

"Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine and slurry, open the city gate to welcome the Huang King, and the Huang King will not pay food when he comes."

"The Huang King went to Jiangling, and the capital was Qingping; the Huang King took Xiangyang, and everyone ate pigs and sheep... "

All of this originated several months ago. As the premise and first task for winning the trust of Huang Chao, Zhou Huaian needed to formulate a suitable slogan for the rebel army to represent the most basic style and concept of conduct.

This was really too simple for him. China has been going on for five thousand years and has been dying again and again to resist countless peasant uprisings that have tyranny and social injustice. How fewer will it be?

From the initial "Three Dynasties of Governance" of the Xia people, "I will die together!" to the Qin Dynasty Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's "Would you rather have a genital? To attack the unjust and punish the tyrannical Qin." The Yellow Turban Army uprising in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty "The sky is dead, and it is in Jiazi every year."

Then, the second generation ancestor who defeated the country at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the "Song of the Death of the Undirected Liaodong Wave" ruled by Emperor Yang of Sui, who had great ambitions in the end of the Sui Dynasty; or the Song Dynasty, where the internal and external ruling happiness index was blown up to heaven, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's uprising, "I am sick, rich and poor, and now I will be equal to you." Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao's uprising, "Even the noble and humble, rich and poor,"; there are not too many along the way.

If you don’t have to make it more appropriate, you need to make careful choices; for example, the slogans of the Huang Chao Uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty, just "the sky makes up for equality" and "seeking life for the people" are too rough and simple. For example, how to make up for the average of the world and who will make up for the average are not clearly pointed out, but gives people too much room for imagination;

Therefore, if you need to be more realistic and more straightforward and easy to understand, and can touch the lower class people personally; the best choice and reference object is undoubtedly the Ming Dynasty in later generations, who was unemployed due to unemployment in the evil politics and was unwilling to starve to death at home and embarked on the road of gathering crowds to petition, and eventually forced the emperor to be the first person to hang himself on Jingshan, the way to break into the king.

So there are these series of songs and rumors that are convenient to sing and easy to understand, including "Welcome the Huang King, and hope that the Huang King will not pay food when he comes."

In terms of internal slogans, Zhou Huaian mainly declared to the students of the lecture halls in this way.

"There was the Tangwu Revolution before, and the Huang King's Soaring Sky Revolution now and now... This is the number of days that came into being and the basic reason for me to join the world."

"We are to eliminate the decay of this corrupt Tang Dynasty and change the world into the new dynasty's tripod."

Therefore, now on Yuelu Mountain outside Changsha City, Tanzhou, you can still hear the faint singing from the camp at the foot of the mountain.

On the side of the Yuwang Monument on the top of the mountain that was cut down, it has become the commanding heights for the rebels to see the movements in the city. Therefore, they deliberately piled up soil to form a small platform and built a tower with cut wood.

"Cao Shizi..."

Standing on the high platform, the General of the Central Army and the Army leader Wang Chongyin, who was standing on the high platform, faced the General of the Left Front and the Swift Commander Cao Shixiong.

"After listening to these songs, I remembered the monk again... He is really an extraordinary genius."

"It's a pity that he has some illness and depression in his heart, and has repeatedly refused to participate in this pioneering cause."

Cao Shixiong also sighed in disappointment.

"Otherwise, it's probably very useful... I have recommended him so hard, it's better to join my left wing..."

"Why are Meng (Kai) Feihu in the back? Doing that thankless thing?"

"If he really becomes useful in the northbound journey, the people around Huang Wang will probably have heart problems and trouble again."

Wang Chongyin shook his head helplessly.

"When the two sides are not in harmony, Huang Wang can only make choices and make people lose sight of it... After all, he is still very experienced..."

"It's better to invite him to work together after we don't go out of Jiangxi and make some moves alone."

Just as they were talking, amid the cheers and noises in the distance, some large objects were transported from the rear along the Xiang River. Then they were assembled into tall stone-treating machinery outside the city of Tanzhou; this was also the siege equipment built and managed by the monk for the rebel army.

Although it is really hard and troublesome to bring this thing to the road and marching, it is really difficult and has severely dragged down the journey; once you encounter such a strong city, you will completely feel that this hard work and burden is worth it.

Hengyang City, which was surrounded and planned to attack for several days, was accidentally knocked down by this thing. The city was shocked and full of morale. Even the routine affiliation (driven the hungry people into cannon fodder) flooded the city, and it was taken down just by a single encounter.

This made the rebel generals who were once accustomed to squeezing human lives and were still unable to adapt and accept it for a while.

However, more people were glad to the upper level of the second-tier troops, mainly under the deputy general manager Shangrang, who then arrived at the top of the second-tier army. Fortunately, Monk Xu was not able to be joined in this time, otherwise with his endless means and skills, this opportunity and good thing that could win with one go, wouldn’t it give him more attention and gain credit to the other party.

Of course, in the eyes of most rebel generals, the task of protecting the rear is more like a disguised punishment and exclusion; because according to their past experiences and lessons, the people responsible for the rear are often also represent huge risks and troubles; not only does not have much credit for defeating the enemy and prioritize the benefits of dealing with the benefits of the loss, but it is not certain when it is entangled or caught up by those wild dog-like official troops and earthen groups, it means that the entire team has been disbanded or disbanded, which is also a common thing.

Although the rebel army has occupied the territory of Lingnan, in the hearts of most people, they still fought everywhere in their early years and went to eat wherever they went. After eating, they were even better at eating in another place. Instead, they were taught to calm down and learn from the government to govern the place and maintain temporary order, which was a difficult and painful thing.

...........

At this moment, Zhou Huaian, who was being talked about with boycotts, was assisting the nominal Guangzhou left-behind commander, the left army envoy and the rear wing of the General's Office, to deal with some personnel turmoil and chaos. This sudden personnel turmoil originated from the places occupied by the rebel army.

It was mainly because after the rebels began to advance north, the officials appointed to the local area were still very beautiful and scattered, but they also became panic and worried about the future, and even caused their own instincts. Some people even began to consciously fail to do it and fled.

Although most of them did not do a good job, it was not too much to describe it as a vegetarian corpse or a corpse that helped the more they helped, but it also represented the authority and credibility established by the rebels over the past few months. Therefore, the consequences and troubles caused by their personal resignation or acted randomly require time and energy to clean up.

This burden was completely pressed on the three chariots, and the only "half-barrel" that claimed to be "understanding everything" - Zhou Huaian; fortunately, the cruel exploitation and oppression of the previous government rule had greatly expanded the psychological endurance and tolerance of ordinary people. Under normal circumstances, their power to establish officials in the rebel army would not be worse than the previous government, or even more bizarre.

Usually, in addition to some ridiculous and powerful acts similar to nouveau riche-style display and demonstration methods, there are sporadic events that bully men and women to satisfy their personal desires; or there is not enough time to allow them to expand the negative impact to a certain extent, or to be a critical point that makes people intolerable. Therefore, Zhou Huaian still has the opportunity and room to make up for and adjust.

As his deputy and chief clerk, Chai Ping, who has not lost his ideals and sense of justice, became the best candidate for leading the team to take specific decisions. There will be a trial almost every few days, and then he will bring back a few chopped heads, or some people tied up. But this also brings a disguised benefit.

Because it was then used to fill these temporary vacancy positions, Zhou Huaian had supported and selected hundreds of people in the process of rectifying the logistics affairs of the rebel army and gathering military services, and was able to really come in handy. After most of the work was completed, they were in a state of idleness with nothing to do, which could be used to cash in fulfilling Zhou Huaian's promise to support and find a way out for them.

According to the previous plan, Zhou Huaian planned to eliminate most of them and fill them into the army to do things; although most of them were only promoted to minor officials, and had no vision and pattern of governing the country; but they could not resist the large number of people, and after practical training, they were still familiar with the situation at the grassroots level, and the worst was that they were more than the previous rebel dispatched officials who were both disgusted with eyes and were more advanced in the bottom line and level.

Before this, many of them were just the humble origins of businessmen in the city, managers, even friends and even apprentices. Because they did not want to be recruited by the rebels to do hard labor, they defected to Zhou Huaian, who was recruiting people to do things, and obtained the qualification to be exempted from labor and certain status treatment. This was because they could only be disappointed in their special performance and professional qualities, which was considered a result of being taller among short people.

This is because Guangzhou City itself is the foundation of a thousand-year-old port. Otherwise, if it were in other places, even these part-time talents who could read and count and count were not able to extract many.

Therefore, Zhou Huaian can completely decompose and refine the powers such as county magistrates, county magistrates, and county magistrates, and become the contents responsible for several individuals or small groups. Although this efficiency is lower than that of a person's arbitrary authority, it also ensures a certain degree of fault tolerance while increasing the cost of manual operation.

In this way, the prototype of a grassroots regime was built with the six to eight directors and the plural boards in the county as units, and a basic system prototype of internal flow and upward space.

First, we will start the trial from 11 counties under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Governor's Office, Nanhai County, Panyu County, Zengcheng County, Sihui County, Huaiji County, Huameng County, Ban'an County, Bao'an County, Qingyuan County, Yunqi County, and Zhenyang County; then we will go to Duanzhou, Xinzhou, Enzhou and other places on the Pearl River Delta Plain. At least, we must initially grasp most areas of Lingnan East Road, which are relatively rich in population and have a large plain area.

In the current situation, it is also quite beneficial to him; he just needs to find a way to deal with Lin Yan, who gradually showed his preference for enjoyment and tendency to be negligent after the army left, and the left-behind deputy envoy, the transfer official and the government partner; the remaining one, Meng Cai, who came to stay in the army, focused on paying attention to the war ahead and the specific mastery of the rear army, and basically would not cause any decent obstacles or deliberate attention to the "trivial matters" that occurred in the operation of these places.
Chapter completed!