Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Zhou Shixiang recognized Song Xianggong's words very much. In his previous life, he knew a famous saying, that a war is fought with logistics, and a war without logistics support has no hope of victory. ??.??`co?m and in this era, this sentence can be directly summarized as - the war in the late Ming Dynasty was the war of food.

The revolt of the refugees during the Chongzhen period was, in the final analysis, that the people were too hungry to bear, and in order to survive, they could only take up arms and create a rebellion against the government. The same is true of the Qing rebellions outside the customs. In order to be able to eat well, they can only fight the Ming Dynasty, who is richer than them. After the Manchu and Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the most important reason why the north was pacified by them in a short period of time was that the population of the north was gone!

If there are fewer people, there will naturally be enough food to eat. If you have food in your stomach, the common people don't ask whether you are a Han court or a Hu court, whoever can fill our stomachs is the court!

Although many people advocated the rule of the Manchus in the previous life, Zhou Shixiang, who was immersed in the situation, simply believed that the Manchus were able to steal the Central Plains and quickly stabilize the situation because of their countless massacres on the Han territory.

The massacre was not because of the resistance of the Han people, but because they had no food!

The Manchus could not provide food to the Han people, but they were afraid that they would be too hungry to resist, so they simply killed them all. If there are no such people, no matter how little the production of the land is, the remaining people will be able to fill their stomachs. In this way, there is no need for the Qing Dynasty to bear the heavy population burden of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to be afraid of going back to the old road of the demise of the Ming Dynasty. This is a good deal. Ghosts don't do it!

The Qing army was able to fight because they could have enough to eat. The Taiping army wanted to defeat the Qing army, but also let the soldiers fill their stomachs. ?.??`c?o?m Only the soldiers who are full have the strength to go to the battlefield, and only the soldiers who are full will talk about the people who fill their stomachs.

No matter if it is Zhou Shixiang's past life or this life, these five words are a pejorative word, often used to describe people who are ungrateful, but in the army, these five words can decide everything.

Why was the Taiping Army able to recruit 6ooo new recruits? Are these recruits all cherishing their family and country, and having a **** feud to be inseparable from the Qing Dynasty? Obviously not. They came to serve as soldiers in order to eat the rations of the Taiping Army, to relieve the burden on their families, and at the same time to obtain benefits from the Taiping Army for their families. If the Taiping can't keep them fed. They will be dissatisfied, and then they will doubt the policies implemented by the Taiping Army in Xiangshan. In the end, they will abandon the Taiping Army, or even turn around and bite the Taiping Army.

The human heart is like that.

Zhou Shixiang never expected how many of these recruits were truly anti-Qing and Fu Ming righteous people. So he had to solve the problem of rations. Hugh said that the 2-month food shortage period is over, and even one day will not work. ?.??`c?om must not only ensure that there is rice, but also ensure that they can eat meat from time to time. At least the soldiers must have enough strength to participate in training and have enough confidence to go to the battlefield.

Zhang An brought information from Zhaoqing that Beijing would set up a city in Guangzhou, and at the same time spent a lot of money to get the details of the Qing troops stationed in various places in Guangdong from Tang Sanshui.

By March at the latest, the Eight Banners of Manchuria from Beijing will arrive in Guangzhou. By then, Shang Kexi, who has been holding back in Guangzhou, will definitely come out of the hole. Now it is difficult for Zhou Shixiang to judge whether Shang Kexi will go to the new club first or not. The Taiping army who swept Xiangshan. But no matter which direction Shang Kexi chooses first. Not good for the Taiping Army.

Zhang An was able to squeeze Tang Sanshui's utilization value to the maximum, which surprised Zhou Shixiang. This military intelligence ambassador he set up in Luoding on a whim was really impressive.

Zhou Shixiang asked Song Ying to accompany Zhang An around in various townships of Xiangshan, and then took out 6oo gold from the public treasury and handed it to Zhang An. He asked Zhang An to return to Zhaoqing and show the intelligence network to Guangzhou City as much as possible, and immediately established it. Two secret communication channels with Xiangshan.

The first passage is via Guangzhou to Xiangshan, and the second is via Xinhui to Xiangshan. Zhou Shixiang told Zhang An that these two secret communication channels must be sent to the most trusted people, and the intelligence officers on the two lines could not know the existence of the other party, and the same information must be transmitted to Xiangshan through the two lines at the same time. In this way, even if there is a problem with one of them, the other side can send the information.

Zhou Shixiang was just an ordinary soldier in his previous life, and he didn't know much about intelligence, the construction of an intelligence network, the training of intelligence personnel, etc., but his underground struggle scenes from movies and TV are definitely the most valuable intelligence knowledge in this era. So he took two days to teach Zhang An and Song Ying everything he knew about the intelligence front. Eight more veterans who had been with the Taiping Army since Luo Ding were transferred to Zhang An to bring back to Zhaoqing in order to strengthen his power.

After learning that Zhang An and Tang Sanshui had engaged in a rice trade, Zhou Shixiang asked Zhang An if he could secretly transport some of the food to Xiangshan. Zhang An was a little embarrassed about this. After all, Zhaoqing and Xiangshan were too far away. With Guangzhou City in the middle, it would be impossible to blatantly transport food to Xiangshan. But Zhang An still agreed to go back to Tang Sanshui Tongtong to see if he could transport food to Xiangshan via Xinhui.

The Xinhui is now guarded by Chen Qice's navy and Zhen Guo's general Zhu Tong. They are also very short of food. If Zhang An really passed Tang Sanshui Luzi's secret to transport food from Zhaoqing, Zhou Shixiang would be sure that Chen Qice and Zhu Tong would definitely be there. Would like to get a piece of the pie. This is not to say that Chen Qice and the others are greedy, but forced by reality.

Zhou Shixiang asked Zhang An to go back and think of a way. If Tang Sanshui promises to help, and the food can really be delivered to Xinhui, then he will discuss the matter with Chen Qice and the others. No matter what, they should be given some points, after all, they are also in difficulty, and they have to point people to use the navy to transport the food across the river.

After Zhang An left, Zhou Shixiang was discussing food with Liao Ruixiang and Song Xianggong for two consecutive days.

After the establishment of each township office, the first order received by the township chiefs was to collect the tax and grain for the tenth year of the Eternal Calendar in each village. Spring ploughing has not yet started, UU reading www. uukanshu.com So in essence, what the Taiping Army levied was the money for the ninth year of the Yongli calendar.

The ninth year of Yongli is also the thirteenth year of Shunzhi. Sun Wenzheng, the magistrate of Xiangshan County appointed by the Qing Dynasty, had already collected money and grain for two seasons, and because of the need for the siege of Xinhui, he had to collect it again. Two crops (the former cottages and other places can reach three crops) could not withstand the Qing army's expropriation. I thought that the Taiping Army was going to collect this year's summer grain, but what they didn't want was last year's autumn grain. This made many farmers who had just tasted the sweetness from the Taiping Army greatly dissatisfied, and the township offices were also full of complaints about the county's order to collect grain. , thinks that it should be levied grain, but it is not possible to levy last year's grain this year, which makes the people think, and also makes the township chiefs work as errands.

But soon, another official document came from the county, asking the townships to immediately check the population within their jurisdiction, and re-register them as a yellow book to send to the county. At the same time, all Dingkou registered in the Yellow Book will no longer serve corvée to the government. Not only that, but the government will need to recruit people to build roads and bridges, dig ditches and build canals, and travel and transport. It will not be the same as before. They do not need to bring their own tools and rations, but instead provide food and accommodation, and after completion, they can settle the labor money at the price of 6 yuan a day.

Along with the carrots, there are sticks. Those who do not cooperate with the government's registration will not only be unavoidable in corvée, but will also have to increase the land tax. (To be continued.)

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