Flourishing of the Ming Dynasty Novel - Chapter 87

Chapter 87 [sailor]
Great Ming had always followed the military household system set down by the Great Ancestor. This system naturally had many benefits. For example, the local Ming army was both a warrior and a peasant, so they could save a large amount of military expenditure for the Imperial Court; In addition, the families of the army were all descendants. For example, there were more father and son siblings fighting side by side in the Northern Army, so the cohesion of the army was enough.

But at the same time, there were also many drawbacks. Once the generals above began to seize the land of the soldiers, the lives of these soldiers would not be able to continue. Afterwards, the number of the army would also drastically decrease, and this gave the generals a loophole. The reason for that was because the Imperial Court could not know the number of soldiers in the army at any time. They would only be paid according to the number of registered soldiers, and the money would naturally fall into the pockets of the generals.

Of course, this calamity has not really appeared yet. It is a serious drawback that will slowly form decades later and completely destroy the Great Ming army. However, another problem with the military household system could easily be seen. Although the father and son brothers could indeed unite the army, as long as there were casualties, the impact would be far greater than that of an ordinary army.

Apart from the bitter hatred for the enemy, there was also sorrow for their loved ones who had been killed by the enemy. Perhaps this emotion would be deliberately concealed during a battle, but once the battle ended, this sorrow would naturally quickly spread and even spread to everyone around him.

This was the situation at Guang Ling City. An unknown soldier who had lost a relative suddenly couldn’t suppress the sorrow in his heart, so he began to cry. Although he was trying his best to suppress it, the sorrow that came from the bottom of his heart still made everyone feel the same way. Many people who had also lost their loved ones felt even more sorrowful and began to cry together.

For a moment, the entire city wall was completely enveloped in sadness, a miserable cloud, no longer as grand and fierce as before. And those low-level military officers were also at a loss when facing the soldiers in such a state. Although they knew that this was a serious blow to their morale, they did not know what to say or do. In fact, their hearts were not feeling well either.

Looking at the scene in front of him and listening to the crying, Lu Zhen’s heart was heavy. At this moment, Dai Zhang walked over with a serious expression. “Lord Lu, you can’t let them cry like this anymore. Otherwise, tomorrow’s battle won’t be easy. Not only are they angry, but even the people who took the initiative to go up to the city are making their hearts skip a beat because of their cries. It looks like someone is going to escape.”

“Is it this serious?” Lu Zhen’s expression instantly changed. He had originally thought that letting the sergeants vent their emotions could be considered venting their negative emotions, but he hadn’t expected that there would be such a big problem.

Dai Zhang nodded. Even his mood was fluctuating, not to mention the people who had never experienced a cruel battle.

He had to think of a way to boost his morale! Lu Zhen thought quickly. Forcibly preventing them from crying was naturally impossible. That would only have the opposite effect. Only by diverting their attention and letting them pull themselves out of their sorrow could they alleviate this emotion.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Lu Zhen’s mind as he thought of the role of the literary troupe advocated by the army in future generations.

Actually, Lu Zhen used to have a lot of opinions about an army raising artistic soldiers who could not sing and dance, and he felt that they were useless at all. Only at this moment did he understand the truth.

On the difficult battlefield, the soldiers’ mentality was too oppressive. They really needed art soldiers to inspire their morale and heal their wounds. In such matters, the role of literary soldiers was sometimes more effective than what the highest-ranking generals said or the gold, silver, wine, and meat bestowed upon them by the Imperial Court.

However, the current Great Ming army clearly did not know this. They could not equip the army with any cultural corps. Even the military (female corps) was only available in a major town like Datong, much less enjoyed by ordinary soldiers. No one would care about their mentality, let alone inspire and placate them.

Therefore, after discovering this problem, only Lu Zhen, the temporary replacement general, would be able to solve it.

Fortunately, he came from a few hundred years later. Although he wasn’t a member of the Cultural Group, he knew some of the reasons. At this moment, if he wanted to inspire the morale of the army, singing some cheerful and inspiring songs might be the simplest and most effective method.

Of course, many of the military songs that Lu Zhen knew were not suitable for this era, and Lu Zhen, as a young man, could not learn to sing these songs. But what kind of exciting song was there?

Lu Zhen frowned and quickly searched in his mind for a song that could be used. Suddenly, a song that was popular when his father was young and had been hung by his mouth ever since. It even jumped into his mind as an inspirational song that he could sing!

Without much hesitation, Lu Zhen patted his hand and loudly said, “Everyone, listen to me.”

As soon as he spoke, Sure enough, it attracted the attention of many soldiers. Everyone subconsciously turned their attention over. Lu Zhen cleared his throat and continued, “I know that our situation today is very difficult, but I believe that as long as our Guang Ling army and people work together, we will be able to overcome this difficulty. The reinforcements from Datong and other places will definitely arrive in time, and the Dazi outside the city will be chased away or eliminated by us!”

Although his words were imposing, there were very few respondents. Few people could really believe this kind of empty-mouthed words, even though Lu Zhen had already gained quite a few people’s support.

Seeing this, Lu Zhen was not discouraged. He smiled and continued, “How about this, I sing a song for everyone to boost our mood.”

“Ah?” Everyone, including Lin Lie and the others, was stunned when they heard him suddenly say this. Although there were military songs in the army now, few people could sing them. Moreover, those songs were not very graceful. Why did County Magistrate Lu suddenly think of singing?

Under the astonished gazes of everyone, Lu Zhen straightened his body and loudly sang the song that he had heard countless times at home:

“The bitter sand blew painful face of the feeling, like a father scolded mother’s crying, never forget; Young me like a person at the seaside, rolled up trousers barefoot on the beach; Always fantasizing that there was another world at the end of the ocean, always thinking that brave sailors were real men; Always weak and cowardly, and always heard the sailor say–”

At this point, Lu Zhen’s voice paused for a moment before continuing in a louder and more exciting tone, “He said that this little pain in the storm is nothing. Wipe away your tears. Don’t be afraid that at least we still have dreams! He said that this little pain in the storm is nothing. Wipe away your tears and don’t ask why!”

Lu Zhen didn’t have much talent for singing. At most, he could only sing in the same tune, and without accompaniment, a song called “The Sailor” was even sung in a slightly different way by him. But even so, the surrounding soldiers and civilians were stunned. They didn’t make any sound for a long time, only staring blankly at County Magistrate Lu.

Although this song is still somewhat out of tune with this era, good music can travel through space and time, allowing people from hundreds of years ago to feel its charm. The optimism and open-mindedness that stimulated people to move forward without fear of danger, and the attitude towards life that they had to face firmly even if they encountered great difficulties, had truly struck many people’s hearts, causing their hearts to be shattered with sadness and cowardice one by one.

Yeah, even though he was in a dangerous situation, as long as he could still fight, what did it matter? Everyone was united in their determination. Could it be that they could not repel those enemies and defend Guang Ling City to protect the safety of those old, weak, women, and children behind them?

The eyes of the soldiers lit up. The sadness and hesitation they had felt before were gone, replaced by determination and courage. Ordinary people clenched their fists and their gazes became firm.

Lu Zhen’s song was still being sung, and those few words that were catchy and colloquial were quickly remembered. Many people even began to snort softly after him, “He said that this pain in the wind and rain is nothing. Wipe away your tears. Don’t be afraid that at least we still have dreams! He said that this pain in the wind and rain is nothing. Wipe away your tears and don’t ask why!”

At first, there were only a few people, then a few dozen people. Finally, the entire city, whether it was soldiers or civilians, began to sing these exciting lyrics in the voice of diverting troops from the south to the north and running into outer space.

For a moment, a song of fear sounded in the silent night sky. It was as if it was announcing to the Meng people outside the city-even if your army attacked, we would not be afraid, nor would we retreat!

When this song faintly sounded out, there was a commotion in the Mongolian army camp outside the city. Yu Tai had to report that he had walked out of the tent and looked at the pitch-black city from afar. His expression became gloomier and gloomier.

While Lu Zhen was singing “Sailor” over and over again, he didn’t feel a little strange in his heart. How could such a simple song be so useful?

He didn’t know that although there were military songs in the army, there were many great writers who had left behind a popular frontier fortress poem. However, those songs and poems were too elegant. They were only suitable for people with knowledge to understand and remember, but for ordinary soldiers and civilians who didn’t even know a word, their influence was too small.

But this song that was completely colloquial was different. The simple lyrics of the song were something that people could remember with a single listen. When the two were combined, everyone was naturally moved.

No one would have imagined that Lu Zhen would use a pop song that had long since been forgotten to forcefully reverse the morale of the army that was about to collapse and lift it up!

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To be honest, there are many good pop songs now, but there are few that can be sung for a few years or even decades. This must be said to be the sorrow of this fast-paced era, as well as the sorrow of those writers and artists. Or are the songs of the 1990s more impressive and more representative of Chinese music.

Mom finally got out of the hospital safely. She could finally write in peace of mind and offer better plot content to all of her fellow readers. . . .

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