Inside Chang'an City. As the continuous heavy snow stopped for a while since the deep winter, Zhou Huaian once again braved the severe cold to patrol the resettlement sites and camping areas in Gyeonggi Province. By the way, he made several poems such as "The North Country is frozen and snow drifts for thousands of miles." This kind of occasional poem is thought to be passed down to future generations.
"After the Taining Army was broken, he actually got 30,000 soldiers, and another 20,000 soldiers who were temporarily recruited? Is there such a room for them?"
Zhou Huaian said in surprise:
"It's just because of the impoverished military. Yanzhou has only a household registration of tens of thousands, and only half of it in Xiaqiu City; however, in order to prepare for the war, almost half of Ding Zhuang was emptied..."
Zheng Yangbao, the head of the staff team responsible for docking the Henan side and a background in the young army, explained:
But anyway, these prisoners are good things! Especially for the Taiping Army, which is relatively short of manpower in almost every aspect. Therefore, in the process of conquering the world, I have explored and summed up a set of mature plans and strategies for screening, cleaning, relocating, and reforming the soldiers and prisoners of the old army.
Therefore, in most cases, after initial launching and mutual accusations, the generals and the leaders of the army are separated; the trial of the public trial, the punishment of the punishment, the exile of the exile; and then the ordinary soldiers are covered with bodies. If there are more faulty old oils and tainted crimes, they will be further exposed and will be judged and punished. In the end, ordinary soldiers will remain with the masses.
Except for a few screened out as a supplement to the auxiliary forces, others can be enriched in the management areas, mines, and construction sites in various places; under the supervision of local departments, they will accept labor reforms for several to more than ten years. It is a good choice for the hostility and the accumulated years of bad habits to be distributed to the newly established land reclamation and camps, or even to be added to the Jiansheng Army.
Of course, the treatment and choice of active surrender is better than passive captives. According to the specific situation, there are also three-six-nine kinds of subdivision handling such as the battle, the city offering, the post-war, and the escape road as an example. Now that the Taiping Army gradually controls the Yanbian areas in Guanzhong, Hexi, and Hedong, these soldiers and captives have another choice, that is, they can take their families to defend the border for a few years, and then they can start anew. life.
However, these long-separated vassal towns in the Central Plains are different. Compared with those military towns of Hexi, Shuofang, Yinxia, Zhenwu, etc., which need to rely on central support for long-term maintenance; or simply used as imperial money bags and main sources of tribute, Liangling, Huainan , Zhenhai/West Zhejiang, East Zhejiang, Xuanshe and other southeast eight roads, the economic role is greater than that of the military presence of the wealth-oriented Fangzhen.
Or as a disguised central army sequence and inner circle barrier, and with the recent defensive forces-the left and right Shence army camp, eight towns in northwest Beijing with inextricably linked history; Fangzhen in the Guandong/Central Plains region There are only two types, one is the three towns of Heshuo that have undergone several changes since the Anshi Rebellion, and the other is the defensive/dominant military town set up to guard against these separate forces.
For example, the Tianping Army, Heyang Army, and Zheng Hua Army across the river from Weibo Town, the Xuanwu Army and Zhongwu Army as a barrier to the eastern capital; or they are between Chengde and Lulong as a nail into Hebei The Yiwu Army, Henghai Navy, and even the division of Qingzi Town, which was put down by the imperial court, the three towns of Pinglu, Xusi, and Yanhai were all born under the corresponding historical background.
However, the positions and roles between the two often change with the changing situation of the court's power, and even merge and form an alliance in disguise to counter the pressure and decision-making from the court. The most intensified contradiction and state of affairs was in the Xianzong dynasty. The prime minister Wu Yuanheng who advocated weakening the town was hacked to death on Chang'an Suzaku Street on the road to Shang Dynasty.
Therefore, the local martial arts group composed of soldiers and generals, after Zhenyuan, became a mutiny, and the heavy ones carried the massacres, handsome Yi Shuai, and became commonplace; it has become another timeline and has been running through the Tang Dynasty. At the end of the war, the war was left to the malignant tumor in the middle and late Five Dynasties. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a method of specific analysis of specific problems in the corresponding handling.
For example, the three towns of Huaishang are actually half-separated and half-submissive, and they have been in a dynamic game with the court for a long time. Therefore, when the court is a little bit more vigorous and strong, these towns are the court’s loyal Pingfan and Shunchen , And play a good role in the defense of Heshuo in the Central Plains; but once the imperial court shows its decline, they will cause trouble and even change the commander in order to seek more benefits.
However, this chaotic and disorderly frequent civil unrest and change comes at the cost of every new coach’s superior position, almost always accompanied by bloody massacres and purges, as well as the blood and tears of looting the local scholars and civilians. There are also the ever-increasing indiscriminate rewards and the appetite that has been elevated again and again.
Therefore, in view of the experience and lessons learned by Li Guangbi who did not dare to return to the DPRK in his life in the late Anshi Rebellion, Zhu Cun and others in the front army did not dare to be expert or excessively exert their subjective initiative on this sensitive issue, and directly addressed the problem through their own exclusive channels. It was sent to Chang'an and asked Zhou Huaian for guidance and instructions on the next step.
Therefore, Zhou Huaian also thought about it for a while before speaking again:
"Using the existing Hezhong and Hedong disposal strategies as a model, the many foreign troops (defense, defensive, and united soldiers) in Yanhai Town will be treated as a model."
"As far as the original soldiers belonged to the town, they must also move their families away from their homes and send them to Hexi, Jiannan, Guanbei and other places to organize and manage labor. Those who are willing to exchange for redemption can be used as defenses in Shuofang and Daibei. ."
"The roots of local disasters that belonged to the tooth soldiers, Ya Nei, and the former soldiers and horses of the past dynasties cannot be left behind. The salt ponds, mines and other places in the river can be strictly supervised..."
"The Baitiao army of the Tuban, which originated from the Caizhou thief, is mostly the old thieves and needs to be dealt with separately; after the selection, they will escort this generation and set off in batches to go south by sea to Yizhou and Xinluo and other places, and they are ready to open up. ."
In addition, although there are no new changes in the newly occupied Hedong/Daibei area, after obtaining the key raw material quotas for the production of salt ponds in the Hezhong area, plus the reason that the Hezhong area also produces carbon (now the shallow area of Yuncheng, Shanxi) Layer of mineral deposits). Regarding the layout of the emerging industrial system and its supporting factories in the Guan, it is possible to start one after another.
For example, as one of the few projects that require Zhou Huaian’s personal intervention, the nitrogen compounds collected in the condensation tower during the coal coking process can be replaced with quicklime and alkali to obtain crude ammonia. ; And this kind of ammonia has a very wide range of uses as a technology front.
In addition to being used as a gunpowder/propellant/explosive additive in the military; it can be used as a surgical bactericidal drug to be formulated, and it can also be used for pest control in agriculture. At the same time, it is a big killer for agricultural production in later generations— The pre-foundation of urea.
In addition, in the process of extracting coal tar, a pink impurity was unintentionally obtained; that is, phenol, also known as carbolic acid and hydroxybenzene, is the simplest phenolic organic compound, a weak acid. However, phenol itself has a kind of protoplasmic toxicity; it can coagulate or denature the protoplasmic protein of bacterial cells to sterilize it, making it one of the best disinfectants in early medical operations.
More importantly, after phenol and concentrated sulfuric acid react together, it can produce a yellow chemical dye-trinitrophenol, and in the history of modern military development, it has another more famous name-yellow explosive (picric acid), The power is ten times that of nitrifying explosive and fertilizer-ammonium nitrate.
Although it is still only the stage of micro-preparation in the laboratory, it is already another pre-opened technology tree in front of the nitrate gunpowder. Basically, as long as the trial and error and elimination are carried out step by step in this direction, in the end, sooner or later, you will find the correct answer you want.
Regarding the progress of Southeast Tianzhu's strategy, the Cantonese government has a new return. It was probably the two ridge coalition forces from Tang that supported the new king of Palo (the Palo dynasty), Luo Jaya. Under the internal echo of the old subjects and nobles, they successfully captured and defeated the capital city of Deva. After the invaders of the Gallozhuli Dynasty, the situation in Tianzhu in the southeast has also undergone subtle changes.
Because with the aid of the restoration of most of the former land (now Bangladesh and most of Bihar in India), and defeating the former hereditary uncle of the Anchinash clan, many great aristocrats who seized the homeland, this new king Ba Modi III's attitude seems to have undergone a subtle change. At the very least, he is no longer as close and dependent as he was at the beginning. These Tang Diyi who had assisted in the fight from outside had joined the coalition forces.
In addition, the old small and medium-sized nobles, city owners, and Fanchang Wangfeng came to vote, and gathered after forming a force that cannot be ignored; the original coastal land, including many ports and cities, was ceded in disguise. The act of giving a reward to the Tang people is also quite vexing and inevitably has some undercurrents, which has formed a certain momentum of exclusion from the outside world.
Especially now that the enemy has changed from many self-reliant rebels in the country to the state of Gallojuli and its vassal army, which is still entrenched in the remaining land to the north; the new king Patmos III, who is conscious of its growing wings, is facing these foreign troops. Opportunities for help and use become less and less, and even begin to alienate and keep distance in disguise; and even the opportunities for seeking views and communication become less and less.
However, this has led to the general dissatisfaction among the coalition forces, the maritime clans and associations who had invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the first place. Therefore, when the ship group that routinely returned to Guangfu half a month ago returned with a full load of various Tianzhu products and foreign treasures, it also brought a local joint petition. I hope that at the right time, it can turn against the ungrateful possible. Disciplinary actions and counterattacks.
Because this Lord Fan, protected and supported by the East-Turkish Allied Forces, has already decided to marry the princess of the Zhuluo Kingdom (Zhuluo Kingdom), another great state in the land of Southern Tianzhu; on the other hand, although it has already been recovered During the Dharma worship period of the Palo Kingdom, the large temples built-Chao Jie Temple and Flying Temple, but he refused Dongtu Yi from the coalition army to continue to advance to the homeland of Magadha, and regained the former highest school of Tianzhu Buddhism-Landa Temple Request
Then, he again rejected the suggestion of the monks from the eastern soil to rebuild and preside over the ancestral courts of the two Buddhist monks (Mahayana and Tantra); instead, he was appointed to the local monks to manage and maintain them. He even announced the national policy of allowing Buddhas and Brahmins to respect the royal family; this angered all the monks who followed him from the East to the restoration of the country and the teaching of Buddhism, and the revival of Buddhism.
Therefore, in this situation, it seems that there are many forces who are all gearing up to make a big news in the future wedding of the foreign queen. However, the most important factors involved are countless, and the most important thing is that they cannot do without the support and approval of the Taiping Army's chief commander from the home country as the instigator.
After all, among these overseas volunteer coalition forces, the most capable and elite core sequence is the troops compiled and trained in Canton; at the same time, the spoils and territories they obtained from Tianzhu also need to be transported back to Jiaozhou, Canton, etc. In order to obtain the corresponding benefits, and thus obtain a steady stream of supplements and resource feedback from the country.
Of course, because there is a sea road between east and west and north-south land, this distance is more than thousands of miles. It is really necessary for Zhou Huaian to implement the instructions of Zhou Huaian to the local area. I am afraid that it will not take a month and a half to several months. Delay, maybe the day lilies are already cold. Therefore, he only gave limited expressions and support at the macro level, while giving advice on the general direction.
Regarding the Cantonese government’s relatively conservative attitude, it is probably better to sit back and watch its success or failure; anyway, winning or losing will not harm the overall situation of the country, but the tendency of these overseas businesses and large clans to show their own way is not worthy of encouragement and Ethical. However, Zhou Huai'an didn't take it seriously. He even drafted an oral statement on the spot, faintly criticizing the desire for control and short-sightedness under the small peasant standard.
Because this is related to the future trials of the new dynasty for overseas expansion and expansion, there is an urgent need for a successful example of sufficient scale to serve as the guide and the beginning of all this. Of course, as a corresponding statement, the Cantonese government has to arrange for a specific person in charge of the collective and coordination.
After all, most of the enterprising talents and people with lofty ideals at the beginning followed the footsteps of the Taiping Army, and then went north to the Central Plains and became scattered on the Wudao 12 Road. No, now it is the Eight Roads and 15 Roads that are alone or governed. The person in charge of the size is now, so the rest of the place in Guangfu is basically a relatively mediocre and conservative person, or simply a senior in disguised form. (End of this chapter)