Before dawn, the Taiping Army had cleared most of the Guizhou city, leaving only a few strongholds that were still stubbornly resisting. In fact, from the moment these unknown enemies failed to recapture the city gate in the first time, the outcome of the city collapse was already doomed.
"They are the local soil group..."
Seeing the series of prisoners being taken across the street, Zhou Huai'an said with a little surprise.
"What are the rebels stationed here? Where have they gone..."
"Most of them have been harmed, and at least thousands of corpses have been found in the inner city trenches..."
Ge Congzhou, who is in charge of the whole city of Da Suo, has a heavy expression.
"It's just that a few survived by hiding in private homes... and came out to beg..."
"Call everyone who is not on duty..."
Zhou Huaian sighed involuntarily.
"I'm going to hold a sacrifice in public..."
"It's really shocking, shocking..."
Afterwards, on the side of the ditch that was full of corpses even if it was covered with lime, Zhou Huaian showed up and said loudly to the group of subordinates who had gathered.
"There are still people who are lucky and lenient towards those gentry and powerful people. If they want to stealthily and work without effort, this is the most intuitive end..."
"What we are doing is to break the injustice of this world, but we are also going to dig out the roots of these greedy people, who are lying on the corpses of the poor and sucking bones... How can we make these jackals sincere? Repent and atone for sins, put aside prejudices and past relationships, cooperate and compromise with the rebels..."
"Under the intimidation of the rebels, they may use false deception and confuse for a while, pretending to be a soft and harmless posture of kindness and harmlessness. But whenever they have a chance, they will counterattack and come back with more severe damage. ..."
"The generals of the Rebel soldiers may not be afraid of opponents with knives and guns, but they are somewhat invincible about this kind of soft knife that slowly cuts meat invisible, or the secret calculation behind the paralysis..."
"And the brothers of the rebels lying here are the best portrayals of those who have relaxed their vigilance and vigilance and have no place to bury their bodies; I hope that each of you will see it in your eyes, keep it in your heart, and learn from it..."
"Never compromise."
"There is no ambivalence."
"Vengeance and hatred..."
"Never forgive..."
"Kill all the big dogs..."
"Get rid of all local tyrants and evil gentry..."
Underneath is already a wave of arms like a forest and roars like tidal waves. Then the captured leaders and their accomplices, as well as all the men of the big family and the gentry in the city, were escorted over and fell on the side of the ditch one by one;
In the midst of the voices of the same enemy, no matter how painful they spit, or scream or plead, they were cut off without exception and thrown into the ditch as a sacrifice. In the end, every soldier in the room was treated as a sacrifice. It is necessary to bring a shovel of soil over, take turns to completely bury this section of the ditch, and set up a monument to engrave it as a kind of commemoration.
Obviously, this is the result and sequelae of the inability to eliminate evil after the rebels passed. Although they cleansed the big and wealthy people in the city, the gentry, big and powerful people scattered in the countryside took the opportunity to renew themselves in a short period of time. Fill the gap left by the upper city in the city;
As the governing land of the Lingxi Jiedu, the first major economic administrator, the Guangxi governor, the ten counties of Guizhou are rare and prosperous places in the mountains, so they also came from Hunan, Jiangxi, and Jiangxi. The long march athletes in Jianchuan are the key defense areas.
In addition, the local folk customs are sturdy and aggressive, so the imperial court has long recruited local youths to Shu Annan, and it has become a common practice. The former Guan Gui Jingwei is now an officer who compiles memoirs under the control of the Taiping Army. Army veteran Li Cuan used this as a basis to move from Liuzhou to Hezhou on the front line, and most of the rebel army headed by General Shangrang resisted for several months.
It was not until the local guest soldiers, who were driven by mutiny and riots because of the unsustainable food and long-term sentiments of returning home; Guizhou, the various states under the control of Guizhou, were able to fall into the control of the rebels one after another; but Huang Chao The rebels under his command were only divided and controlled; only part of the city including the state city.
In the countryside of the ten counties in Guizhou, these spontaneously rising soil groups were under the control of these forces in disguise; when the main force of the rebel army was still strong, they stayed low for a while and hung down for a while, but When most of the Rebel army went northward and the rear was empty, it would inevitably win out all kinds of different ideas.
The example of Chen Yanqian, a tycoon of Guiyang, is obviously not the only one, and the last one; there are no shortage of unique examples here. It's just that they are temporarily united together to act in a targeted manner with more covert means.
Then, in the gradual trial of various daily trivial incidents, using the advantages of familiar local channels and contacts, the other parts of the local rebels in the local garrison were gradually isolated and emptied;
Originally, they still needed these rebels stationed in order to maintain the cover and profit from the transfer of people and goods; therefore, they also further paralyzed the generals stationed in the rebels with the appearance of quite enthusiastic partners and co-workers.
Furthermore, these people were introduced to various positions in the city, and the lowly-born volunteer soldiers were neither familiar nor good at positions. When he wakes up, it is too late. He can only continue with his subordinates who have been wooed and corrupted, those who adhere to the purpose of the rebels have been squeezed out and mutilated, and they are reluctant to bear the threat of wealth and life. Maintain the cooperation on the surface, but is really a puppet at his mercy.
However, in the end, he obviously wanted to be a puppet to be a public recommendation. These local tycoons and squires initiated the local forces, and received news of the defeat of the two main forces of the rebels in the north. In addition, after the rebels stationed in Canton also suffered heavy casualties due to infighting, they also began to become independent and independent. According to momentary thoughts.
However, because many internal opinions differed, and they were reluctant to carry the benefits of the transportation convoy, and wanted to intercept and do a big business, it was delayed more than ten days in the hesitation, and it was confirmed that the Jiangling side in the upper reaches of Jianghan was also the same. Only after the crisis, did I decide to start;
The rebel king who was used as a puppet and a signboard, along with his relatives in the local area, was dragged out to cut the sacrifice flag, and then announced the restoration and return to the imperial rule, and then appointed a large number of princes, long histories, and histories to each other. Sima, Biejia, Master Book, Classic History, Joining the Army.
But what I did not expect was that they were subsequently caught up in the wrangling and persecution of internal profit sharing. The various series and gang formations have not yet come to a basic result, and they have been re-established by the Taiping army from the Cantonese expedition to Jiangling. I'm here. And they didn't even decide the leader of the referral and the negotiating representative on the face.
Then what happened was natural. After each family pieced together a desperate night attack and failed, it was inevitable that the Taiping army who took the opportunity to seize the city would take it out one by one to kill the whole family.
Because the military situation is urgent and cannot be delayed for too long, there is not much time to stay to carry out the screening and investigation, and then carry out the public trial; therefore, it is a quick knife to wipe out all the big names first; this is also the case. Practiced in the land of Annan
First, punitively execute the adult males that can be found, and then escort the women and children together with the captives of the Tujunjun to Guangzhou for another treatment. The latter is allocated to the mines to supplement labor and labor. The former is placed in a special labor camp near the factory, and under the supervision of the female camp representatives, they start from learning the simplest self-reliance.
Although this cannot completely eliminate the real source of the problem and the signs of resistance, it can make these remnants of the opponent and the old forces no longer a problem for the rebels within a short period of one and a half years;
Even the remaining powerful landlords in the countryside still generally hold uncooperative and confrontational attitudes, but after losing these powerful leaders and their armed forces; they want to reconnect and communicate to form a new joint force and reorganize Arming and deciding on a new leader of the local regiment is not so easy.
During this period, there will be corresponding time and buffers to allow the Cantonese government to send more suitable officials and grass-roots officials to cooperate with the three teams of investigation, census, and work to mobilize the poor people at the bottom of the society to further deal with and eliminate them. Get rid of those who escaped the remnants of the initial liquidation but the greater public anger, or the dissidents who secretly hide and wait to move.
Then, after the establishment of the new farming office and the resettlement site, a contract was truly made in the local area, and through enclosure and resettlement methods, a group of supporters of local vested interests were formally owned; and then these Artificially rely on the implementation of further land clearance, population search, and registration work;
In Zhou Huai'an's follow-up plan, the ultimate goal is to gradually seize the personal relationship and public opinion dominance that has been monopolized and controlled by generations at the grassroots level in the township from the stricken squires and powerful households; as long as there are enough foreigners The comparison and reference model of new things, the blockade and monopoly they insisted on the township will eventually become vulnerable.
Then, based on the core model demonstration area and mature experience initially formed in Guizhou, it is further extended to the main plains and agricultural production areas of the thirteen states of Guizhou in the northwest of the Ling. Finally, it is strengthened in the economic lifeline and political organization. Control and follow-up influence on the local area.
Of course, this is the most ideal state, and it requires more time and cycle. It is not without repetitions and twists, and there are also prolonged confrontations, see-saws, and conflicts. But as long as those who execute it can perseverely and resolutely carry it out, they are not afraid of making mistakes or going through detours. The ultimate winner will still be the one dominated by the Taiping Army.
Therefore, Gushi County, the prefectural city of Guizhou, was down, Lingchuan County and Linyuan County in the upper reaches, and Qincheng Defence, which was the starting point and stop at the southern end of the Gulin Canal, followed one after another. , And fell into the hands of the rebels without resistance and twists and turns.
The local scholars, people, and common people even gathered for "pots of pulp and food", as if the turmoil and betrayal that occurred in the state city did not exist at all. It also made the rebels' actions along the way full of a certain irony of "awe-inspiring but not virtuous". And the other benefit of getting these places has gradually emerged from this.
It is through collecting warehouse stocks along the way and investigating the income of large households and gentry, which not only doubles the money and food carried by the rebels, but also has a large amount of surplus used for subsequent various resettlement projects to attract and help the poor.
Therefore, after only three days of delay in Guizhou, the army on the expedition had already marched between Yuechengling and Dupangling, above the deep gorge canal as high as a knife.
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