Zhou Shixiang, who had not slept all night, found Song Xianggong the next day, and without waiting for him to ask, Song Xianggong confessed the fact that the rations allocated to the people of Xinhui had decreased.
The reason given by Song Xianggong is that "there is a difference between relatives and relatives", the public grain can only last for another two months, but the Qing army is far away from the siege, and after two months, he does not ask and knows that the city will run out of food, and then there will be no reinforcements outside, no grain inside, and the city will be broken only for a while.
Therefore, in order to solve this crisis, or to give the Taiping army more time to wait for the situation, Song Xianggong had no choice but to reduce the supply of rations for the people of Xinhui since last month.
At the beginning, the rations of the people of Xinhui were two-thirds of the rear camp, and after half a month, it was reduced to one-half, and now one person is only given one piece of pancake a day, and the rest is completely cut off.
There are more than 2,000 people left in the city, regardless of men, women, old and young, who only live on a piece of thin cake with a portion of less than one tael, how can they live If they are given more food, how can the Taiping army have more monks and less porridge, and Song Xianggong can only ruthlessly deprive the people of Xinhui of rations, so as to be able to squeeze out more food to supply the front and rear camps.
Song Xianggong's words made Zhou Shixiang speechless, reasoning, although many of those Xinhui people are his fellow villagers, it stands to reason that the Taiping Army he pulled single-handedly is his closest person, and it is also the strength he should preserve the most.
In the case of food shortage, it is not impossible to abandon the people of Xinhui and save the Taiping army.
However, Zhou Shixiang, who had a difficult conscience, still could not agree with Song Xianggong's proposition, and he insisted that Song distribute the grain to those people, but Song gritted his teeth as if he had eaten the scales.
Zhou Shixiang managed the army with a thousand households, and Song Xianggong managed the people with the general affairs, money, grain, and official duties, which was the division of labor set in Luo Ding that day, so Song Xianggong was absolutely unable to interfere in the organization and command of the Taiping Army, but in the same way, Zhou Shixiang could not interfere in everything in the rear camp, unless his opinion did not harm the interests of the rear camp, so that Song Xianggong would cooperate.
For example, on the same day, the establishment of a back-camp security team and the establishment of a public treasury system.
Now Song Xianggong insists on not letting go, no matter how anxious Zhou Shixiang is, he can't help it, so he can't gather the officers and battalion elders for this matter to discuss, the result of this discussion Zhou Shixiang doesn't have to think about it and knows that it is not what he needs.
If he forcibly ordered Song Xianggong to release grain with his authority of a thousand households, this would also be contrary to the original intention of Zhou Shizhi to set up a rear camp on a later basis, and this decision would probably be contrary to the wishes of the Taiping army.
The bald Jiang He, the Ge Zheng brothers, and Zhao Sihai's gang will support him, the thousand households, or Song Xianggong, the result is unknown.
Zhou Shixiang was reluctant to do it, let alone split the Taiping Army because of this incident, but he was also unwilling to give up the more than 2,000 people, he told what he witnessed last night, and emphasized several times that an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl was only worth two large pies.
"Without food, these people can only starve to death, starve to death" "Can we really bear to let those people die because of our cruelty?"
"We are anti-Qing to save the people of the Han family who were poisoned by the Tartars, not to do the same things as the Tartars, if we would rather let these people starve to death in front of our eyes, what is the difference between us and the Tartars?"
"Last year, just last year, my parents, wife and children were brutally killed by the Qing army, and now, Mr.
Song, are you going to force me to kill other innocent people again?"
"As long as I, Zhou Shixiang, are still alive, as long as our Taiping Army still exists, and as long as Xinhui City is still in our hands, I will never let the tragedy happen again" Zhou Shixiang's almost roaring roar alarmed the guards outside the hall, and they rushed in nervously, then looked at each other and quietly retreated.
"That's it, since Qianhu insists on doing this, it is inconvenient for me to be this wicked person again."
Zhou Shixiang's fierce reaction finally made Song Xianggong relieved, he is not a hard-hearted person, just a few months ago when the Taiping army just occupied Xinhui City, he had a warning to Zhou Shixiang in the city, hoping that Zhou Shixiang could sympathize with the remnants of Xinhui and not let them die too innocently.
But at that time, Zhou Shixiang did not have the kindness of a woman like today, but rejected him without hesitation.
Now, the two sides have been adjusted, and the good man of the day has become the evil man, and the evil man has to be a good man.
Just when Zhou Shixiang thought that Song Xianggong was willing to give grain to those people, Song Xianggong said another plan.
"The matter of human trafficking in the city was reported to me in the early days, so the matter was caused by the reduction of food, so I suppressed it and did not report it to you, and now thousands of households already know, and blame me for being ruthless, I have to save one or two."
Hearing Song Xianggong's strange words, Zhou Shixiang frowned: "How to save" Song Xianggong said categorically: "But you can't put grain." ” "If you don't put food, how can you let the people live" Zhou Shixiang was angry and anxious, and Song Fuzi was amusing himself for half a day.
Song Xiang announced that Zhou Shixiang would be calm for a while, and let him finish his words.
"Presumably, Qianhu already knows that the women who were sold are from the families of the people in the city, but does Qianhu know who those buyers are?"
Zhou Shixiang asked: "Who?"
"All of them are former battalion soldiers."
Although he already knew the answer in his heart, Zhou Shixiang still couldn't help but "hum".
Song Xianggong sighed: "Don't be annoyed by thousands of households, the soldiers who go to buy women may not be evil, and the fact may not be as unconscionable as thousands of households imagined." ” "What does the gentleman want to say?"
"Although there are those who have married in our sergeants, there are also those who have not married a family, and as far as I know, most of the people who buy women are those who have not started a family."
"The Unmarried" "According to the rules set by thousands of households, the rations of the soldiers in the front battalion are sufficient, and the ordinary soldiers have a catty and four taels of food a day, and there are more than the officers, and the family members can also provide for their families for their own use, plus the food allocated by the rear battalion, although there is not much food in the army at present, but there is no food deduction, so there is no shortage of food in the rear camp.
Those who have not married in the army do not have to provide for their families, but they are more than enough for their own use, and they can even be used to help others.
However, the food in the army is an iron rule set by thousands of households, even knowing that there is a lot of food for the soldiers, I dare not deduct it, so as not to violate the taboo of thousands of households, and annoy the soldiers in vain. ” "Mr. did the right thing in this matter, at present, our army is trapped in a lonely city, and the spirit of the army must not be shaken."
Although there is not much food in the city, which can only last for two months, only the officers above the general flag know about this matter, and the ordinary soldiers do not know about it.
Zhou Shixiang felt that Song Xianggong was steady and grateful, but he didn't know what he had to do with his request.
"The soldiers have a surplus of food, but the people in the city are short of food, one more and one less, what do thousands of families think will happen?
"How can it be a good thing for the people to be forced to sell their women" Song Xianggong's reasoning made Zhou Shixiang cry and laugh.
I don't want Song Xianggong to say: "There is no absolutely good thing in the world, and there is no absolutely bad thing, if you haven't seen the scene of selling people, how long do you think these people can last, ten days or half a month to choose one between starvation and selling people, what will the people do, how can they live with those soldiers' food, how is it not a good thing?"
"What the hell does the gentleman want to say" Zhou Shixiang was a little confused.
Song Xianggong no longer went around in circles, and bluntly said: "Since the people in the army who have not started a family are interested in buying women to start a family, and thousands of households will allow them to be, so that under the premise of reducing the food supply, we can ensure that some people can live, why should we oppose this kind of good thing." ” "Soldiers buy women to start a family" Zhou Shixiang said hatefully, Song Xianggong said it well, but what does a soldier want to do when he buys women, can he not know what is the difference between these women and military prostitutes to a certain extent Song Xianggong said indifferently: "Qianhuquan thinks so, and it is true."
If Qianhu doesn't think so, I can't do anything, but it is absolutely impossible to put grain in the public treasury, and I, as the general affairs officer of the Taiping Army, must ensure the food supply of the Taiping Army.
Song Xianggong's words were very direct, and even threatening, which made Zhou Shixiang very uncomfortable, but he knew that Song was indeed planning for the Taiping army, after all, no one knew how long the Qing army would besiege the city, and it was always good to be able to save one more grain of grain now.
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How to do it, Zhou Shixiang hesitated.
The situation in the city was similar to that of the American troops stationed in Japan, Vietnam, and Korea in later generations, and when they had enough material resources than the local residents, the local residents did not send a large number of women to the beds of these foreign soldiers, so that the whole family could live.
Of course, the Taiping Army is not the American army, and it is 108,000 miles worse than the American army, but no matter how bad it is, it is better than those Xinhui people, two big pies can buy a young woman, or even a woman who has not yet married, but I think what point those Xinhui people have reached.
Although the original intention of the sergeants was not very good, their actions did give some people a way to live, even if it was a very short way to live, a very sad way to live, but it was also a way to live, and it was better than starving to death.
Full of warm thoughts and lust, full of warm thoughts and lust Zhou Shixiang laughed at himself, an army trapped in a lonely city can also produce this phenomenon, which made him feel funny and pitiful, and even more felt that he was too a failure, failed to educate his subordinates, and failed to build a people's army that starved to death without grabbing food, and freezing to death without demolishing houses.
Perhaps, this is the real army linked to the times, and it is the essence of the Taiping Army.
In the middle of the sound, Zhou Shixiang finally said to Song Xiang: "Okay, I no longer insist on my opinion, but I also ask Mr. to preside over this matter and turn the private office into an official office." ” "Conversion of private to government-run" Song Xianggong was confused. oshow7 t1706231537: