Chapter 585 Recruiting the Farming Soldiers
After several farmers explained, Ma Su roughly understood what was going on.
Jiang Ji, an old man, didn't dare to confront him head-on, so he simply built a new road to disgust him. This turn of events left Ma Su speechless, but he had to admit that this method was indeed very difficult.
The troops in Ma Su's hands were basically infantry, and they couldn't maneuver around like in the past. If Ma Su wants to cut off the opponent's lifeline, he can only nail it to a fixed place like a nail.
But the problem is that Luoyang Yin is Cao Wei's home court. Their bureaucracy in Sizhou is still functioning, and they are constantly deploying manpower from Sizhou to build new roads.
Because of this, Ma Di had to think of other ways, otherwise cutting off the Wei army's logistics and food channels would become nonsense.
"Jiang is still hot when he is old. Jiang Ji, you have such a dark heart." Ma Di shook his head and said to himself with a headache.
The most critical problem right now is that Sizhou's manpower is still being used by Cao Wei. Unless Ma Su has the ability to quickly destroy all the farming estates in Sizhou, they can continuously provide blood transfusions to Jiang Ji.
But it is obvious that Ma Su does not have this ability, and the lack of mobility makes it extremely difficult for Ma Su to cut off the grain channel.
Just when Ma Su had a headache, several farm households carefully asked Ma Su to resign.
"General Han, can we go back? If we don't go back, according to the laws of Wei, it will bring disaster to our family..." The leading farmer said tremblingly, constantly observing Ma Su's expression for fear of angering this man. General Han.
"Baojia Law... They say that Han law is stricter than Wei law, but I don't feel it at all." Ma Su rolled his eyes, obviously knowing what the Tun Tian Hu meant.
The Baojia Law was created by the Qin Dynasty and was generally applicable during wartime. Its main function was to limit the scope of activities of farmers. If any farmer escapes, the whole family will suffer.
In the heart of the former empire, the farming households next to Luoyang had to be restrained by the Baojia Law. How unpopular Cao Wei was at the grassroots level...
"You go back, it won't harm your family." Ma Su shook his head and waved his hand to send away a few farmers.
"This Cao Wei is really crazy. He has such strict restrictions on military camps...Wait a minute? Military camps!"
Ma Su suddenly stopped, and he suddenly caught a key word.
Yes, since Cao Wei basically has military camps in Sizhou, and they are so unpopular. Then if you operate it properly, wouldn't you be able to quickly recruit this force of field troops?
You know, Ma Su leads the Selection Camp! Although they have poor mobility, they are basically capable of serving as grassroots officers.
After all, when the Frontier Camp was founded, the possibility of expanding the army behind enemy lines was considered. Unexpectedly, the first time I put it into actual combat, I immediately had the opportunity to make experiments.
At this thought, Ma Su suddenly turned around and looked at several farm households.
"By the way, fellow countrymen, I heard that as a military camp, you should not have corvee labor. But looking at you, I'm afraid it's normal for the government to share the corvée labor?"
Ma Su suddenly asked this question, and several farmers hesitated. But soon one of them stood up and replied honestly.
"General Han Mingjian, we really shouldn't have corvee service, but...as you can see, in fact, we don't lack any of the corvee service that we should have..."
To say that Cao Wei's life was the worst, it was naturally the group of farmers left behind by Cao Cao.
They were all burdened with extremely heavy taxes, which once went from 50-50 to 37-70, with 70% still from the government. Originally, the compensation for heavy taxes was exemption from corvee, but as time went by, farm officials in various places felt that leaving them idle would be idle, so corvee was still assigned.
As a result, while the labor force of the villagers was the same as that of ordinary households, their taxes were much higher. This makes life difficult for farm households. Many farmers find it difficult to maintain food and clothing even in good years.
"Then do you hate this bastard and fake Wei?" Seeing this situation, Ma Di suddenly became calm and immediately followed the good advice.
"Of course I hate it, but we are just ordinary people, what's the use?" This time, several farm households spoke at the same time, all with helpless expressions.
They are not masochists, so how could they not be angry. It's just that they could only endure it honestly due to the intimidation of the Armor Protection Law and Cao Wei's national power.
"In this case, you might as well join the big man." Ma Su nodded and quickly suggested to the villagers.
"I am the Han Hussar General, and I have come to regain Guandong on the orders of the Emperor. As long as you are willing to help the Han army unify, after Sizhou is conquered, you can turn into regular civilian households and no longer need to be oppressed by the puppet Wei!"
"What do you think?"
Ma Di's words were so persuasive that these farmers hesitated. Ma Di could tell just from their expressions that they were moved.
The lower-level leaders of Guizhou have never lacked the power to resist, they just lack a leadership and direction.
After some hesitation, a young villager finally made up his mind and spoke first.
"General Han, tell me what to do, how should we surrender to the Han!"
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At this time, Jiang Ji, who was in Luoyang, didn't know that Ma Su had broken out and planned to do a big job behind his back.
Of course, he doesn't have the energy to take care of this matter. He is quite busy now.
Although Jiang Ji was in the civil service system, he followed Cao Cao to conquer the world and was considered a veteran general. But after not participating in the military for many years, Jiang Ji found that everything had become very strange after he was once again responsible for commanding troops.
The Wei army under his command was not at all as powerful as the Wei Wu era. Their morale was low and their will to fight was weak. On the contrary, it was the Han army on the opposite side that made Jiang Ji see the shadow of Cao's army in the past.
In just one month, the several lines of defense deployed by Jiang Ji on the front line were basically penetrated. Deng Ai and Wu Pan even conquered the entire Beimang Mountain and watched Luoyang with eager eyes.
In addition, Liu Yin also began to surround Luoyang, making Jiang Ji feel a little anxious in Luoyang.
"Damn it! What good things did those bastards in Guanzhong do! They sent away all the elite soldiers of the Wei Dynasty in ten years!" Jiang Ji hated Sima Yi deeply and wanted to go to Liaodong immediately to strangle that old Sima thief.
Look at the good things you're looking at!
"Sima, we are in emergency everywhere now, and our troops are almost exhausted." Jiang Ji's generals were sweating profusely when they saw the emergency letters from various places.
"The reinforcements from Yecheng were hampered by the fall of Hanoi, so they can only bypass the Luhu Prison Pass. They will not be able to assist in a short time. I'm afraid..."
"Ask Yanzhou for help!" Jiang Ji pondered for a while and quickly made a decision.
"Yanzhou is the closest to Sizhou. Ask them for reinforcements. The reinforcements will arrive in a few days!"