Han’s Son is Not a Slave

phone-reading

After the townships and village offices in the newly occupied eight counties and one Sanzhou were established, like Xiangshan County, in addition to implementing the collection of money, grain and taxes handed over by the county, it was also necessary to organize young adults to conduct some military training during the slack farming season. During the training period, young adults can get some money and food subsidies, or reduce or exempt some taxes from their families, so as to stimulate their enthusiasm for participating in the security team.

Zhou Shixiang clearly required that the security team in each township should be maintained at about 100 people, and the security team in each village should be maintained at about 30 people. Ages 14+ and 50 years old.

The strength of the security teams in each village should be under the direct command of the township and village offices, and in addition to serving as military preparations, they should also be responsible for maintaining public security within the territory.

In view of the Taiping Army's priority to fight against the Qing army in the future, Zhou Shixiang specially allocated a batch of weapons from the Pingnan and Jingnan treasuries to the county security teams to strengthen their own strength.

Based on the number of villages in one county and ten townships, the number of security teams in each county should be around 2,000. The Taiping Army actually controls nine counties and one scattered prefecture. In this way, more than 20,000 armed security teams can be obtained, although this force is half army and half civilian. In nature, it can play a huge role in stabilizing the rear. When the main battle of the Taiping Army is in crisis, this force can be integrated to quickly support the front line.

"Our weapons are not stronger than Qing Yao, our number is not larger than Qing Yao, and our territory is not larger than Qing Yao, but as long as our mobilization efforts are stronger than theirs, and we mobilize people faster than them, we can win!"

"Don't be afraid that the people are unwilling to support us. As long as we make them feel that we can bring them more benefits, then there is no unwillingness to support! This benefit must be visible and tangible!"

"All land in each county must be re-registered and exchanged for deeds. For individual areas with tight arable land, the original land deeds exceeding 100 mu must be re-measured and reviewed. For those landlords who support us, we can give them a certain amount of ransom. The land that came out will be redeemed. It will be distributed to those peasants who do not have land to cultivate, and the personal leasehold relationship that was vassalized on the land will also be terminated. For those who refuse to support us, they will be eliminated from the **. Don’t be afraid of killing people. If killing some people can make us quickly gain a firm foothold in these places and gain the support of the majority of the people, then we must kill them, kill them fiercely!"

"You have to be clear, the officials you are doing now are given to you by me. It is the Taiping Army of this commander who protects the officials you are doing. If we can't defeat the Qing Yao, then you officials will not be able to do it, not only can't you do it. , and will be beheaded!"

"The security team of each county must be firmly in the hands of the county government. No clan forces are allowed to meddle in the security team. If they find one, they will kill the other. It must not be tolerated!"

"I've never eaten pork, but I've seen a pig run before? You don't need to spend a lot of brains on doing things like the county magistrates. The chief envoy will transfer people from Xiangshan to assist you. All you have to do is supervise and supervise!"

Zhou Shixiang emphasized this to the county magistrates at the meeting of the military commander's mansion on the third day of October. Zhou Shixiang didn't care about whether those demoted officials really listened to his words and were really willing to do this for the Taiping Army. He doesn't care, he is in charge of himself, Song Xianggong, the political envoy, is not a dry cook.

.........

When the Qing army marched into Xiangshan a few days ago, although the security teams in each township did not directly fight against the Qing army, they played a huge role in transferring the people. When Duke Xiang of Song opened the public treasury to reward the entire army, not only did he reward the Taiping army who fought directly, but also the security team and reserve soldiers who had successfully transferred from the rear were rewarded.

The security team of Longyan Township cooperated with the reserve soldiers of the former cottage to effectively block the green camp in Tanjiang. The reserve brigade commander, Qianhu Yu Shizhong, who was directly commanded in this battle, was reused by Zhou Shixiang and transferred to the second town as a brigade school. He Bao, the township chief in charge of the Longyan Township security team, was also transferred to Lianzhou as the prefect.

Rewards and punishments are clear, and equal treatment is a basic requirement of Zhou Shi to himself and to his subordinates. As long as you have made merit, it doesn't matter if you are a soldier or an auxiliary soldier. Whether it is an officer or a gang, whether it is a Han or a Manchu, the reward will be generous.

Whether it was the Taiping Army or the security team, Zhou Shixiang had to hold it firmly in his hands, and the gun would come out of power. What he is doing now in Guangzhou is to break the original feudal order. Taking advantage of the two conditions of massive population loss and land waste in the war, to implement military reform, land reform, and political reform, an interest group from bottom to top is firmly tied to the interests of the Taiping Army.

The core of this interest group is the common people, who account for 95% of the total population. In other words, to gain the support of these people is to gain the support of the people's hearts.

According to the statistics of the counties, the existing population is 580,000 people, and land is the best tool to exchange for the support of these 580,000 people!

This year, the harvests of autumn grains in various counties have been mixed, and the best harvest is in Xiangshan. Even though several townships in the northern part of Xiangshan were destroyed by the Qing army, the autumn grain output of the southern townships still reached a historical high, which is higher than the previous one. The annual harvest is more. This is due to the Taiping army's whole village work in Xiangshan and the large-scale military camp in the former cottage. Collective farming has proven to be more efficient and more productive than retail farming.

The towns also cleared a large amount of grain in the fight against bandits within their jurisdiction. These grains were transported into Guangzhou by trucks, which quickly stabilized the market price of grain and made the people in Guangzhou feel at ease. For the newly controlled counties, if there was a shortage of food in the county, Zhou Shixiang asked the officials he sent to organize the people to help themselves, and at the same time, he also transferred military provisions to help them, and also spent a lot of money to buy a batch of food from Tang Sanshui in Shaozhou.

The crackdown on the landlords and gentry in the counties also released a large amount of food that they had hidden. Half of the food was distributed to the local people who supported the Taiping Army, and the other half was sent to the garrison as military rations.

The Taiping Army's vigorous and resolute action to suppress bandits and clear grain, and the effective construction of villages and reclamations, maximized the use of human and material resources, resulting in food shortages to varying degrees in Guangdong Province, but Guangzhou has not only had no food shortages but has surpluses.

With food, officials have confidence in their work, and soldiers don't have to worry about killing themselves on the front line while their family members are starving; having food also means that the Taiping Army can have further combat capabilities. In this day and age, wars are actually fighting for food.

The Han army family members in Guangzhou City, except for some people from the Jingnan Palace, stayed in the city, and the rest were allocated to the counties for resettlement. The other tens of thousands of people in the city were also arranged by Wang Zhangjun, Zuo Qing and other demoted officials. They are all parents and they know what to do. Zhou Shixiang as long as they do not starve to death. Restore the market, so that people have a stable source of income, and there is a market where they can buy and sell.

The large merchants in Guangzhou that were related to the Qing army were also targeted by the Taiping army. Zhou Shixiang even asked Song Xianggong to set the official grain price. The market price of grain is not allowed to exceed 20 percent of the official grain price.

At the same time, in addition to handing over 40% of the food harvested by the people of the townships and villages to the public treasuries set up by the Taiping Army, the remaining surplus must also be sold to the Taiping Army first. Zhou Shixiang's grain purchase price for the common people is 80% of the market price.

Salt, iron and other strategic materials are also all subject to government pricing and supervision. In short, what Zhou Shixiang implemented in Guangzhou is similar to the planned economic system of later generations. Everything revolves around the development and growth of the Taiping Army, doing what is beneficial to the Taiping Army, and then losing the benefits to the people who support the Taiping Army through the benefits obtained after the Taiping Army has grown. Even Zhou Shixiang was thinking about whether to give some military rewards to those farmers and craftsmen who worked hard in ploughing the fields and smashed iron well, so as to stimulate them to serve the Taiping Army more diligently. weaving...

As long as it is beneficial, Zhou Shixiang is willing to do it, no matter whether the system is poisonous or not. to try. In his previous life, he was just an ordinary soldier, with limited knowledge, and it was impossible to do everything in one step, so he was also crossing the river by feeling the stones. No one is born to be a master of literature and martial arts, and no one is born a genius. If you do poorly in any area, you can improve it. But the premise is that the Taiping army must be strong enough that there will be no defeat.

.........

In view of the years of war and chaos in Guangdong, there were too many orphans who lost their parents. Zhou Shixiang ordered the counties to send these orphans to Guangzhou to be raised by the Taiping Army. The counties reported more than a thousand orphans. The oldest is 13 years old and the youngest is only a few months old.

Other orphans in Daming are usually raised in temples. Occasionally, large families donate their houses for orphans to live in, whether in temples or other places. The local government will hire teachers to teach these orphans to teach them how to read and read. If one of the orphans can pass the examination as a scholar, it is a good performance of the local government education. Fame can be known all over the world. Not only will the official career be smooth, but the history will also be famous, and at worst, it will leave a strong ink stroke on the local chronicle.

Therefore, Duke Xiang of Song is prepared to invite people to teach these orphans as usual. This is of course a good thing, and it is also the original intention of Zhou Shixiang to call the counties to send the orphans to Guangzhou. Choose a place in the city to build the Taiping Army Youth Camp.

The Youth Soldiers Camp made Song Xianggong think that Zhou Shixiang wanted to train these orphans as his personal soldiers, similar to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo's children's camp in Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, so he had no opinion. He has a group of cronies who dare to fight, but no matter how kind you are, it can't be compared to teaching and training from a young age.

In fact, the purpose of Zhou Shixiang's youth camp was to imitate Zhang Xianzhong's children's camp, but the difference was that the youth camp did not simply train these orphans to grow up and think they would become members of the Taiping Army, but to train them become all kinds of people.

Zhou Shixiang asked the young soldiers not only to teach the battlefield hacking and killing skills, but also to teach them to read and write, and after they turned 16, they should be transferred to the Taiping Army or promoted to a military training workshop, or to arrange for their performance. Go to village offices and county offices at all levels to work.

The Youth Soldier Camp is the talent training base officially established by Zhou Shixiang for the Taiping Army. It is not only the orphans who enter the camp, but also the children of Taiping soldiers, and the descendants of the dead martyrs also enter the youth camp to study.

As for how to do it, Zhou Shixiang asked Duke Xiang of Song to find someone to discuss it, and he would see it after he made a specific charter.

The messenger sent to Kunming to report victory has gone to Qinzhou with Chen Qice and Zhu Tong. Now Guangxi is blocked by land, and the only way to communicate with Kunming is by sea. Counting the time, the Yamen, the governor of Qinzhou, should have already received the news of Guangzhou's recapture, and he is afraid that the messenger of the governor Lianchengbi is already on his way. Chen Qice and the others told Zhou Shixiang that Cheng Bangjun, the head of the Ministry of War, who was sent by the imperial court, went to Gaozhou. Gaozhou was the residence of Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures. Forcibly claim Luoding Prefecture City.

After a busy day of work, Zhou Shixiang was also very tired. He called Xu Yingyuan casually, but it was Li Suotai's master Gui Yongzhi who came. He said that Xu Yingyuan went to Taishan.

Zhou Shixiang slapped his forehead, and then he remembered that he had asked Xu Yingyuan to go to Taishan to invite King Tang to Guangzhou. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

I don't know if King Tang is willing to come to Guangzhou. If Yongli knows that I have brought King Tang to Guangzhou, I don't know what to think.

Gui Yongzhi looked at the very young new owner in front of him, and when he thought of what he ordered in Guangzhou, he felt quite uneasy and stood there afraid to speak.

Zhou Shixiang put aside the matter of King Tang and asked him casually, "Is Li Suotai dead?"

"Governor..." Gui Yongzhi used his old name habitually, but when he found it was wrong, he hurriedly changed his words: "Li Suotai is not dead."

"Let him stay if he doesn't die."

Zhou Shixiang waved his hand and motioned for Gui Yongzhi to go down. He originally wanted to send Li Ratetai to Kunming, but this guy was looking for life after hearing about his wife, but he couldn't commit suicide, and he became ill. It's amazing, he can't walk at all, and now people give him medicine every day, lying motionless on the bed like a living dead.

Gui Yongzhi didn't step back, but said: "Commander, Xiang Rong said that Geng Jimao wants to see the commander."

"No, tell Xiang Rong to tell Geng Jimao, stay for me in the Jingnan palace, don't think about it all day, this commander won't kill him." Zhou Shi calculated, this was probably the fifth time Geng Jimao passed Xiang Xiang. Rong Chuan wants to see himself.

"Yes, Commander, I'll go to Xiang Rong now." Gui Yongzhi hesitated, then said something, "Xiang Rong led Geng Jingzhong to see that person."

"Which one?...Shi Yuanling?" Zhou Shixiang was stunned, but he didn't know what Gui Yongzhi was talking about. After a few seconds, he understood.

Gui Yongzhi nodded, but when he saw Zhou Shixiang walking out of the hall, he couldn't help asking, "Where is the commander?"

"I'm not going anywhere, I'll see Geng Jingzhong's mother, so that Geng Jimao doesn't have to worry about it." (To be continued.) xh:.35.43.66

book from