Compared with the conservative and unpretentious Cantonese government, there has been no news for a long time because of the natural barriers and delays. Qu Chengyu and Min Xie's strategy in Qianzhong Road, the progress sent back now is actually not bad. Not only regained the entire area of Qianzhong Road and opened up the land connection with Annan Duhu Mansion, but also entered the territory of Nanzhao from the ancient road of Banzhou.
Of course, at this time, the Erhai Basin/plain, which is the heart of Nanzhao, has fallen into the civil war of Zheng (Mai Si), Yang (Deng), and Zhao (Shanzheng) with the destruction of the royal family; therefore , The troops originally stationed on the border all returned to Wang Hao (Kinkidi) in the Erhai River Basin, and the remaining native leaders and soldiers stationed in the Tunfu were also sitting and watching.
For the forwards of the Taiping Army in the Guizhou attacking army in the Dianchi Basin, these scattered sand-like existences did not have any decent defense and resistance. They were defeated one by one or they continued to open the city from inside and outside. Under the circumstances, he hit the Tuodong City (now downtown of Kunming) in the Shanfu of the Tuodong Jiedu, and captured the local Jiedu and general Gao Yuanqing's clan.
Then, Qu Chengyu, who temporarily reached its limit due to the excessively long logistics and supply lines, also stopped in Tuodong City to repair and supplement. On the one hand, he recruited and maintained several auxiliary troops from the local Hanshangman with the money and food captured, and hired civilians and civilians from the surrounding areas to repair, strengthen and widen the corresponding roads and build more signal towers under the guidance of the engineers. ；
On the other hand, Min Xun and Deng Chuna divided their forces to attack the surrounding cities and settlements of Great Wall County, Heyang County, Puning Prefecture, and Qiuzhou. In the name of Taiping New Dynasty and Annan Duhu Mansion, they were forced to surrender and provide money, food, strong men, etc.; and for those barbarians such as Maitreya, Milu, and Shizhong in the mountain forests, they thought of the exquisite Tangland. The property is **, and it is encouraged to come out for trade with each other.
Therefore, in a short period of time, with no more than 10,000 troops (most of them were retreated and retained in the Guizhou Army) expeditionary troops, expanded and mastered twice as many local affiliated troops; and initially mastered the surrounding area of Dianchi Lake. The situation in the plains of the country began to feed back to the local products carried by the steady stream of caravan merchants.
Therefore, in the next step, Qu Chengyu intends to send people to continue westward to dive into the territory of Jiedushi, and try to contact the Hao Chief Duan family in Dali City, in order to intervene in the subsequent Nanzhao situation as a foreshadowing; at the same time, After obtaining follow-up supplements from Hunan and Xichuan, he avoided Wang Hao (Erhai Plain) during the Civil War, and continued north to the Huichuan Dudu Mansion, one of the two capitals of Nanzhao Six Sections.
In the end, it realized the strategic goal of entering the Wang Chongba subdivision of Nanzhao Jianchang Mansion (now Xichang City, Sichuan) from Qingxi Pass from Qingxi Pass, and meeting the divisions within the territory of Huichuan Dudu Mansion. At least from the feedback from all parties in the military right now, it seems that he has been very satisfied and immersed in this, similar to the "contemporary Ma Fubo" general role play and achievement expectations.
(The administrative divisions of Nanzhao are more complicated. There are many tribes headed by the so-called Heiman tribes, and the city lord located in the border and key places; it is also effective for the Tang Dynasty system to organize the household Qimin, and set up states, counties, and prefectures. The appointed governors, county magistrates, and generals also have territories directly under the management of the royal family.
Of course, Zhou Huai'an is happy to see the result of this; at least his expected bottom line and requirements are actually not high, that is, after dismembering the divided Nanzhao, he will directly control the most elite areas of Yunnan Province-Dianchi and Lake. The two major river basins of Erhai Lake are also the most densely populated and most developed grain-producing areas for traditional agricultural production;
As for other places, it can continue to exist for a period of time by supporting the vassal forces and tribute to the geniuses, and then wait for the opportunity to promote the reform of the land. After all, before the fundamental improvement in transportation infrastructure and communication conditions, the cost of directly attacking and maintaining the occupation of these areas is not worth the loss compared with the output and harvest cost of the two major river basins.
Of course, based on the overall size of the Taiping Metropolitan Government House, Zhou Huaian is more concerned about the local mineral deposits than the dispensable agricultural output in Yunnan; for example, the large-scale distribution in northern Yunnan, eastern Yunnan and Shallow copper veins in central Yunnan. In the later Qing Dynasty, Yunnan copper had an annual output of more than 10 million catties, accounting for more than 95% of the country's copper output at its peak, and it was the main raw material base of the national coin industry in the Qing Dynasty.
Other associated and single-born silver, lead, tin, and antimony minerals are also not a few. However, because of the generally low development in most areas of the local area, the cost of mining and transporting out has become high; therefore, Qu Chengyu was established in the Dianchi Basin where population and agricultural output are relatively rich. Such a point of support for China is very important.
At the very least, on the original sites of many copper factories around Kunming in later generations, you can consider recruiting enough manpower on-site for initial mining and smelting. Thinking of this, Zhou Huaian once again ordered:
"Yang Shigu, the ambassador of Jiannan Sanchuan Rehabilitation Department, didn’t his subordinates just take over and manage hundreds of thousands of Dongchuan and Xichuan’s soldiers? From among them, choose more than 10,000 elites, and then a ten-to-one match. The veteran of the team formed the Nanzhao Construction and Production Corps and proceeded from the Luzhou Ancient Road to Nanzhao for preliminary reclamation..."
"At the same time, Chuanwen Medical Bureau prepares the corresponding medicines and consumables such as pyrethrum, qingzhu, mosquito coils, cooling oil, marching powder, dispelling ointment, baiyao, etc.; at the same time, inquire about the medicines and consumables that have been promoted and applied in Annan and Liangling. Can the epidemic prevention methods and plans be slightly adjusted and then transferred to the sequence of troops entering Nanzhao?"
After all, it is winter. For the army who will spend the winter in Yunnan, it is just a little bit cold and can tolerate. However, after the beginning of spring and summer, the wet and rainy season when mosquitoes and miasma breed and snakes are active, if these emergency supplies are not in place, it is inevitable that a considerable proportion of non-combat attrition will occur.
This is also the main reason why most of the dynasties and dynasties since the Han Dynasty have repeatedly conquered the land of Yunnan, but most of them have not been able to gain a firm foothold or just gain a foothold for long-term effective rule. Even if he defeated and conquered the local natives like Zhuge Liang's Southern Expedition, the subsequent plagues and dissatisfaction made the achievements of military methods inevitably compromised and even abandoned all previous efforts.
The best example of this is the operation of the Prime Minister Yang Guozhong during the Tianbao War against Nanzhao; for example, after the first Jiannan soldiers’ attack on Nanzhao failed, they were prepared to attack the Turkic Albus from Hebei, In Henan, a large number of soldiers were mobilized to fight in the hot and humid rainforest of Nanzhao. As a result, before they met the enemy, they died of various diseases during the march, and finally they could only give away their heads.
Then, after a few years, Anlu Mountain revolted against the chaos. There were not many soldiers in the area of the two rivers, so that there were not many famous generals such as Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, but they could only rely on the ten local recruits. Tens of thousands of recruits defended Luoyang, and then the whole army was destroyed by a wave of people. Then, after Yan Zhenqing, the prefect of the plains, fled to Qinghe County, he found that the arsenal that had been prepared for the war had accumulated millions of dollars, but no one had used it anymore.
Zhou Huaian was thinking about it slowly, and he heard a general voice from outside the carriage that looked like a small living room:
"My lord, Chencang County has arrived..."
Then, he stepped out of the carriage that was warmed by the fire and separated by a thick curtain, and the oncoming chill immediately refreshed him; and as the county lieutenant and inspector of Chencang County, Chen Yanzhang, had already taken people. Waiting outside the gate of the largest camp/relocation site in the local area, and with a thin layer of snowflakes falling from his body, he eagerly greeted him, bowing and saluting:
"Meet the king, Wanfu Jinkang..."
"My temporary surprise, I am disturbing each other..."
Zhou Huaian waved his hand and said:
"If you go back to the king, because it came so quickly, the place has not been approved, so naturally there is no way to disturb..."
Describing Chen Yanzhang who was thin and slightly refined, he said without raising his head:
"That's good, I just want to see the daily operation of the other generation's rule. If you prepare carefully in advance, it will be a little unbeautiful..."
Zhou Huaian smiled slightly:
"The greater the wind and snow, the king is invited to go to the village first, dare to ask where to start first?"
When Chen Yanzhang heard the words, he only slightly asked for instructions.
"Then go to the housing and public treasury first."
Zhou Huaian waved his hand and said:
As a major feature of these villages, each household among them usually runs their own farms, and they cook their own meals at home. Then wait until every ten days to go to work regularly to participate in collective labor, or when going to the workshop during the slack season, Zhuangzi will take the lead and organize women and children to start the collective to start the group, but according to the work points, the distribution and replacement of rice cloth grain oil Allotment of tickets.
Therefore, the large camps/central villages set up near the city of Chencang County like this will gather the hands of each family to open fire in the public after the winter, in order to save resource quotas such as firewood, carbon, grain and oil; and each household only needs to follow Young people (full labor) and women (half labor), children and the elderly (no labor), pay a certain amount of rice cloth based on the head, and they can eat and warm in the public hall to spend the winter.
It can be regarded as some kind of relatively primitive collective public ownership welfare. Therefore, at this time, it is also possible to see the daily life closer to the real in places such as houses and canteens where people usually get together. Just take a look at the look and spirit of the staff, the types of food being cooked, and even make people secretly investigate the condition of kitchen waste, you can get a good grasp of the daily level.
As the extension of the sacred treasury system and the end of the Tunzhuang public treasury of "Tai Ping Yaolue", it represents the situation of local villages for winter reserves and countermeasures. In addition to the usual half-harvest harvest, 10% will be used as the maintenance cost of the grassroots, and the leftovers and agricultural and sideline products processed and sold are converted into rations of varying quantities and fed back. Therefore, the storage situation also reflects Corresponding to the management level of the village.
At least for such a short period of time, it is impossible to blatantly resort to fraudulent coping methods, because it is too easy to leave traces afterwards. (End of this chapter)