Wang Chongba, a rebel general and liaison from Jiangling, his name sounds quite mighty and domineering, but he is a rough-looking and steady man with few but concise words.
During the conversation with him, Zhou Huaian realized that he had actually been the former military envoy of the Grand General's Mansion—one of the three pioneers under Fei Chuangu; he followed the tribe to escape from the famine and famine in Hebei. Old members of the rebel army who came across the Yellow River;
Therefore, as a town party and a trilogy, he participated in most of the rebels' campaigns in the Southern and Northern Wars; and was able to serve in the old camp of the rebel army, one of the only three remaining military envoys, and the brave and seasoned veteran Fei Chuangu was greatly affected In the end, he was promoted to a pioneer officer who didn't lead a strong team.
It was only later that Wang Chongyin and Cao Shixiong joined forces with most of the left wing, and the surprise attack occupied Jiangling and did not leave; as a related person working under the Yellow King's account, he was inevitably affected and implicated;
First, Fei Chuangu, a veteran who always believed in him, began to avoid suspicion and alienate him, and then the generals who were the same pioneers also squeezed him out and secretly, so that after repeated bloody battles and defeats, his troops always supplemented and became poor. It's getting weaker day by day.
Therefore, in the end, he accumulated enough irritation and turned away with a group of cronies and the old ministry for excuses, and switched to the subordinate Wang Chongyin who was recruiting troops to expand the site in Jiangling. Since then, he has become the commander of the newly established Jiangling Navy. Of course, it is the Jiangling navy leader, but in fact it is just leading the transportation fleet that goes to and from the Jiangling waterway.
Most of them are merchant ships and civilian ships from the local community, and there are not many surface combat ships in the true sense; the main guarding force is the guards, bows and slings, shots, etc. with the pawns. It's quite crude and shabby.
However, he mainly dealt with the remnants of the rebels, the army, the rebels, the bandits, and even the hungry people who had gathered for the pirates after the rebels left. He never made any mistakes; so This time, he became the first person to ask for help.
Of course, in a sense, this man is actually a sequelae of Zhou Huaian's early layout, a product of disguised pitfalls. Now most of his naval forces stayed in Jiangling Xie Shou, but he hurried over with only a hundred and eighty people.
Therefore, Zhou Huaian simply pulled out dozens of old and replaced cyclone cannons, hair rods (catapults) and stone cannons (catapults) from the warehouse, and installed them on the bow and tail of the river transport team as long-range projections. Strengthening of strength; it can also be regarded as a closer relationship and goodwill.
Before leaving for the journey, Zhou Huaian even signed a new order or incentive measure. The main contents are twofold:
One is to encourage more women to participate in production and labor, mainly to satisfy the expanding workshops, which are divided into short-term odd jobs during the slack period and long-term fixed labor positions with food and lodging; at least for the sericulture, which has a strong export market. In the face of labor demand such as printing and dyeing, it can be said that men and women are relatively equal.
Although the calculation of salary is also for the purpose of exploitation and squeeze, at least it is obvious that there is a meager salary with food and beverage, which is more effective than eating directly from the ground; in addition, as an encouragement and welfare for women to work, they reach a certain level. There is also a small amount of in-kind subsidies to families within the time limit.
And the women of this era do not have the side effects and the stinking problems of ethics and ethics brought about by the prosperity of Neo-Confucianism after the emperor Song Dynasty; under the pressure of their livelihoods, they often have to assume the same roles and contents as men’s labor, even in After the husband was taken away by Racha, he took on the burden of supporting his in-laws and children, so in this regard, the rebels opened up a channel for them to increase their income in a disguised form.
In contrast, the parasitic pastoral feminists who lay on the relatively complete social welfare system and exaggerated the equal rights of men and women but only need rights and not obligations, all day long dreaming of marrying a wealthy husband. , You can enjoy the domineering life of a young grandma without work for the rest of your life, the so-called "new women of the era"; it's just a joke.
On the other hand, it is the need to replenish new blood. There were female camps in the previous rebels, which were mainly used to do some logistical chores such as sewing, repairing and washing mines, nursing, clothing and other technical requirements; the main source was shelter and resettlement. The dependents of the rebels, the helpless women in society, and the refugee women who fled. But in terms of the newly added labor demand and gap, these people seem to be far from enough.
The same is the need to mobilize every force in the society. Another accompanying measure is to publicize the decision to recruit apprentices in the cities and the countryside in the name of a consortium of workshops under the supervision of the department; in fact, it is a disguised form. Encourage the people to send out children over ten years of age who cannot support them, and receive apprenticeship education that they can support themselves.
It is expected to start with the simplest sorting work, carry out the basic process of working during the day, training skills and learning culture at night; until adulthood, continue to continue the residual collective labor or serve for ten or twenty years under the arrangement of the rebels. (According to performance), can we give the possibility of returning home.
The main purpose is to cultivate seedlings and fires that are more in line with the needs of the rebels from young people who have not yet formed the Three Views. They are also a potential supplement to the regular sequence (soldiers) and the grassroots government (officials), industrial workers (skills), and even the division of labor of various social occupations, in addition to the stray orphans housed by the rebels. Therefore, although this part is seen as a continuous loss in the short- and medium-term accounts, it is basically earned in the long-term;
Now the Taiping Army in Lingwai claims to have a full 50,000 troops. However, after mobilizing the more than 10,000 people who have gone out of the battle, the remaining garrison force is inevitably a little nervous.
Because a small portion of them needs to be stationed in the Wuling Pass fortresses from Chenzhou-Lianzhou, Shaozhou to Meizhou generation; a small portion is used to guard the port of Annan, Tuntian, and saltworks, and some are used to patrol the sea and inland waterways.
As a result, in addition to leaving a small number of mobile forces in the two core hinterlands of Guangzhou and Chaozhou, the other dozens of states have used dissatisfied new battalions to control key areas, and the lower level of the county can only rely on a limited number of garrisons. , And the patrol team from Tunzhuangli half-time to maintain daily order.
Therefore, this extraordinary state cannot last too long, and once external forces are involved, the elbows and axillas will change. Therefore, as far away as the three states of Chaoxun, Meizhou, and Guangzhou, they have begun to recruit more young men than they have come out of the battle, and conduct half-year military training to prepare for it.
Zhou Huaian was particularly cautious about this time, he would rather hand over the follow-up of Lianzhou and Chenzhou to Chai Ping, and personally lead the team to organize reinforcements, and drew most of the men who believed to be capable.
Hao Hao’s army is water skiing along the northwest branch of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, taking boats and walking all the way to the Sihui, Huameng, Huaiji, Cun’an and other counties, all of which can be obtained along the way. Corresponding material and manpower assistance, and even a small number of young men who came to join the army spontaneously upon hearing the news.
Then turn from Cun’an County to the west and walk more than ten miles by land, and you will enter Hezhou on the edge of the Pearl River Basin; this is already under the jurisdiction of one of the three administrative envoys of Lingxi Jiedu. To the ground. However, the smooth road, which was originally traversed by the wind and the water, with people and boats running side by side and facing each other, has also become a mountain road winding up and down, hovering high and low between the gorges and valley roads.
Then board a floating boat near the local Fengyang County, and continue along the upper reaches of the Xijiang River known as Heshui, passing through Linhe and Fuchuan counties, and then passing Siqin and Longping counties in Fuzhou and Zhaozhou. Pingle County has officially entered the territory of Yangshuo where the Dazhou-Guizhou boundary lies in the mountains of Lingxi.
(Many of the place names and county administrations mentioned above are similar to the current geographical location and names, and no additional introduction is needed.) On this road, it can be said that in addition to mountains or mountains, from the low and rolling hills to the continuous and steep mountain gorges, it will be huge. The terrain direction of the city is fragmented and fragmented, and it also confines the villages, towns, and towns where humans live, among the large and small river valleys and basins like isolated islands.
Along the way, you can also occasionally see traces of the old and new battlefields, as well as some abandoned military villages and fortifications, or empty and half-collapsed castles; but it was the rebels who attacked Lingxi and the economic envoys of Guiguan. The officers and army under his command, as well as the local soil groups along the route, remained where they had fought back and forth.
As the states and counties in the arms of the mountains in Lingxi, although they have not undergone thorough transformation and reconstruction in the local area, they have been cleaned back and forth during the initial seesaw of the offensive. Therefore, the original left-behind divisions of the rebels also had a small number of locals. The garrison and temporary officials sent to maintain.
Some money, food, and materials can be collected from the county and the countryside on a regular basis to solve Guangzhou, and at the same time, the left-behind department will send a trade convoy to ensure the basic order of transit transportation, so the basic status of semi-autonomy is still maintained for the time being. Although they did not provide much assistance to Zhou Huai'an's marching army, they did not constitute any hindrance;
In fact, those who dared to jump out of the tens of thousands of troops as a cart have almost all died in the previous seesaw campaign; therefore, some villages and countryside are still sparsely populated and semi-destroyed, even the savages and Shanyi. The frequency of activities has become less and less.
Therefore, this time with the construction of the Liangtaiyuan and Liangyuan along the way of the expedition, more than a dozen cities on this line, as well as the towns and villages within 20 miles on the side of the road, will also be brought back into the direct line of Liusi. Under control.
But anyway, once you enter the territory of Guizhou, the speed of travel becomes more convenient and smooth again; Lingxi's rolling mountains and narrow rivers seem to have broken through a big gap here. The terrain dropped rapidly and suddenly became flat and wide;
Under the dappled light beams reflected by the low and fine clouds, I saw several clear and shallow rivers winding like dragons and snakes winding in many rugged and strange shapes, and they were washed and mottled by the rain. Between the white isolated hills and stone mountains.
It is the karst landform that is generally broad in the geographical sense, with large and small rivers alluvial in a staggered distribution. The so-called beautiful scenery of Guilin's landscape, which is known to be the best in the world, seems to have been pulled away here.
In a sense, this is also Guizhou Shi'an County, the most densely populated and richest native of the forty-seven counties in the 12 prefectures under the rule of the old Guangxi administration.
With the assistance of a small number of local rebels stationed in Yangshuo County, the Taiping Army found and requisitioned many river boats and large bamboo rafts used to transport goods. Therefore, along the lower reaches of the Guijiang River (also known as Lishui), you can already see the city walls of Guizhou from morning to dark.
It's just that the closed city gates and the city that didn't respond no matter how the first wanderer called, made people feel a little abrupt and unexpected.
"I came before, but I was alive... It was the king in the city who personally sent Yangshuo to Yangshuo..."
Wang Zhongba, who was the liaison to the south, couldn't help being surprised.
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