The blanket-wrapped walls of the car and the burning stove made Zhou Huaian’s numb and stiff body blown by the cold wind revitalized; and on the stove, warm soup was prepared. The pot is boiling a thick white and fragrant juice.
Among them, there are the unique local fish cakes, shrimp white, eel segments, soft-shelled turtles, lotus roots, jiangmi yuanzi, and water chestnuts; I saw the interlacing of meat and yellow pigments and white, which is really appetizing. .
I saw pork, eggs, and surimi made into fish cakes that were smooth in the mouth. The mellow and lively eel and soft-shelled turtles melted in the mouth. The white prawns were soft and soft, and the lotus roots (buds) and water chestnuts. Crisp and fragrant, the glutinous teeth of Jiang Mi Yuanzi are fragrant. .
There is also the soup that has concentrated a lot of umami and mellow taste, which only allows the population to produce fluid and does not want to stop at all. However, the softness of these ingredients is a common source in the local area. However, it is not easy to make preparations for this pot in this winter.
If you want to enjoy it for a long time in the past, you will have to exchange the lives of fishermen and boat owners on the river; after all, fishing on the river during the harsh winter of the river is a particularly risky thing.
Nowadays, the large river boats of the Taiping Navy are relatively well-prepared; under the guidance of local veteran fishermen for generations of winter fishing, they use the new large brown and hemp nets to conduct semi-trained and semi-productive fishing. Work to enrich the non-staple food content and nutritional sources of the local garrison; incidentally, Zhou Huai'an also produced these ingredients in large numbers.
Zhou Huaian also moved his chopsticks and wooden spoons, feasting on the soothing soup, while listening to Xiao Qi’s report.
"The more than 10,000 copies of winter clothes and blankets recently transferred from Cantonese have been distributed..."
As the winter in Gangneung approaches, the problem of southerners’ ignorance of frost and snow becomes especially obvious after going north; after the first rain and snow in early winter, many soldiers from Lingnan or Annan who don’t know the greatness of Lingnan or Annan, because Lack of experience and basic common sense, and some examples of frostbite and illness have inevitably appeared in various duties and training.
Therefore, we should strengthen the corresponding warm measures and popularize the common sense of the other party, so that these soldiers can survive the winter safely, and initially complete the over-adaptability in the cold environment of the north. It has become the top priority right now.
Fortunately, although Guangzhou is located on the trade wind route between the subtropical and tropical regions, it is the largest port and foreign port that has a long-term distance to the outside world, and the corresponding commodity circulation and trade categories are quite complete;
With the gradual mobilization of the left-behind staff from the rear, thousands of rolls of unsold velvet blankets in Persia and West Tianzhu were found in several ransacked warehouses. After a little cut, they were changed to those with poultry. Down is the raw material of good thermal sleeping bags and mattresses;
In addition, there are many old felts and leather cloths, which are also taken out from the depths of the dust-eating warehouse and used; after being cooked in a large pot and washed and dried, they are then tailored and sewn according to uniform standards. Formed into a corresponding military structure to ensure that each of the tens of thousands of soldiers on the Northern Expedition can get a short cloak that can be wrapped to protect against the cold when on duty; some old soldiers and horses also have a piece that can be rolled up and folded on the backpack and hanger Coarse felt bedding.
Then from the territory of Guizhou in Lingxi, a lot of thick and dense cinnamon tube cloth was purchased and collected on the spot. After soaking in tar and drying in the shade, it can prevent mold and repel insects, and is not afraid of rain and snow infiltration and penetration, so that camping in the wild The ledgers also make up a link.
Then, based on the experience and lessons of those northerners in the rebels, using spicy crops and animal fats to temporarily concoct simple formulas and rescue medicines, ointments, etc., which are not to be discussed.
Xiao Qi continued to say,
"There are also several leaders from the old rebels who secretly wanted to detain or embezzle them for other purposes. They have been rectified by the representatives of the scholar (pawn) committee (members) and handed over to the Law Cao to strictly deal with them..."
This Committee of Soldiers and Soldiers is a grassroots organization in the military that directly receives subsidies. Its members make a special trip to supervise and report from the bottom up. The relevant violations of discipline and law by the rebel generals and officers; therefore, their identities are relatively hidden. People have. As one of their representatives, they also have exclusive channels and channels to directly respond to problems at the upper levels of the Taiping Army.
It is mainly used to fill the gaps in the middle and lower classes after the trend of the township party and relatives grouping together is broken up, and to secretly mobilize the consciousness and introspection of the soldiers at the bottom to deal with, on the grounds of maintaining their own reasonable expediency and circumstances in daily training. Fight and clean up the traditions of the old rebel army with strong colors, and the many unreasonable routines and old habits left behind.
Now the Taiping Army has absorbed a large number of swelling effects and a series of incidental problems caused by the old rebels, which will continue to exist for a long or short period of time. Compared with the forced reforms from below and the resistance to administrative orders, this indirect guidance and shifting the focus of contradictions from the bottom is undoubtedly much easier to accept.
Then Xiao Qi said again:
"Today, one thousand four hundred and sixty-seven people have been sent and resettled to Chaoxun from the retrenchment of the troops stationed in the states along the route..."
Zhou Huaian nodded slightly again.
This is actually cleaning up those veteran soldiers who are greedy and fearful of death and good at fleeing for their lives, sending them to the farming camp for discipline; no matter how they have the means and scheming, they will be powerless if they are out of the familiar environment.
Of course, in the traditional army, this kind of veteran oil who can survive many battles has some merits and is regarded as a kind of precious wealth; therefore, in the traditional army Masters and Shangguans can tolerate their various problems, accumulated habits, and factions, in exchange for their relative obedience and cooperation, and even become the basic support for Jiangling to control the army and issue orders.
And after these veterans can continue to develop through wars, they often degenerate into an ultimate version. It is those who are constantly volatile and only fight for rewards and rates; often they disagree with each other or when things go wrong, they use the township party and related interest groups to clamor for benefits and more treatment; Officially set up a new head, a typical predecessor of the professional warrior group in the late Tang and Five Dynasties.
However, the Taiping Army under the leadership of Zhou Huai'an emphasizes the maintenance of the purity of the modern army, which is guided by discipline and organization, and prohibits no time to think. There is no need to keep these and neither accept changes nor take the initiative. It's a tasteless one to withdraw from the stage of history. The specific process is also very simple, as long as routine physical examinations can be screened out.
As a peasant army that has always lacked protective equipment, every survivor is unavoidable from the scars left by injuries. Therefore, as long as the scar is located in the front and rear position and distribution, it can be distinguished whether this is a brave or unrelenting warrior, or always hiding behind Gouquan Dean, or an old oil who can only run away from the wind, or simply just The bragging king who can boast and fool others.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that most of the troops in this era are in a wave of quality; basically, after the first rough array and rush out to fight, most soldiers can no longer control it; or It is a combination of fleeing, or hiding to the side to be lazy and slippery, or to fish in troubled waters.
Even after the winner is divided, there is still a considerable probability and proportion of the soldiers who are unwilling to assemble upon orders; they ran around to rob or fight for the seized spoils, and even ran into the sheep without knowing it. where it goes. Basically, otherwise they are satisfied with their own spoils, and they will not easily return it.
And the troops who can endure the kills and other pressures in the battle and regroup in the chaos with flags and drum horns are undoubtedly the so-called strong soldiers in the usual sense. It can launch offensives back and forth, and become the core and mainstay of the battlefield.
And this was just a level that was barely enough in Zhou Huaian's mind, who was too far-sighted.
"The construction site in Xiangtan County collapsed when it was about to be completed, and dozens of civilians and workers were killed and injured on the spot;"
Xiao Qi opened a piece of paper with an appendix.
"The exploratory team and the census team have already started the investigation on the ground. For the time being, it is not ruled out that man-made damage and local remnants are causing trouble..."
"It's just a maniac arm as a car. The mere setbacks can no longer reverse the current situation and general trend of Hunan..."
Zhou Huaian said lightly.
Anyway, before the onset of winter, on the two lines from Guangzhou to Guizhou and from Guangzhou to Lianzhou, the supporting post roads and signal tower systems have been initially completed; this, in addition to the water transport of the Hanjiang River to the Xiangshui River Basin Convenience, the delay of the news from Guangzhou to Jiangling is probably controlled between two to three days; and it is a double line supplemented by fast horses.
In an emergency, pigeons raised in the army can also be used to deliver brief secrets. This process can probably be shortened within a day or two. In this era, the pigeons that have just been domesticated by merchants in Lingwai can send letters.
Therefore, compared with later generations of professional homing pigeons that have been bred and improved through countless generations and can easily fly thousands of miles, pigeons of this era are closer to their ancestor wild pigeons, and their size, pathfinding, and flying distance have been reduced a lot, probably. It is to ensure the accuracy within a hundred miles (a mountainous area with complex terrain) to two to three hundred miles (a plain);
But the barrier used to climb and pass through the Wuling Mountains is enough. The only thing to worry about is the hunting of the sporadic mountain people and natural enemies of thunder and raptors. Therefore, it cannot be used easily, and a complex scale must be used to ensure the probability of arrival.
Compared with the road of domestication, improvement and application of pigeons, which has a long way to go.
Nowadays, in Tanzhou, Yuezhou, Hengzhou, Daozhou, Yongzhou, and Chenzhou, the signal tower system with wharfs and pavilions along the waterways as the core is also on the basis of making use of the winter agricultural slack to easily gather a large number of surplus labor, regardless of the cost. The input of grain (remuneration) and materials are carried out simultaneously in multiple stages.
Once completed, the convenience of water transportation plus the bonus of news communication, as well as local product circulation nodes and the basis for the active commodity economy, the overall effect of this is not as simple as 1+1+1 equals 3.
Except for a small number of components of the signal tower itself, other parts and structures are simple and rude repeated labor, which can be competent to complete the silly and crude project. Even if the remaining local resistance forces disrupt and destroy one of the nodes, they cannot stop the spread and liquidity of the entire network.
Once this network node starts to operate benignly and proliferate on its own, it will be bound together in disguised form in the local livelihood needs and the livelihoods of many people; in this way, it will naturally form a potential for maintenance, exclusion, and expulsion. , The soil where the resistance forces and saboteurs exist.
In the final analysis, the convenience of transportation and communication can also be transformed into an effective addition to the weakening and resolution of local resistance consciousness and the foundation of survival, economic lifeline and people's livelihood needs. The so-called basic problem of governance is the basic principle of using auxiliary economic means to solve it.
"Zhou Yue, who occupied Shaozhou (now Shaoyang, Hunan), and Lei Man, Langzhou (Changde, Hunan), once again declined to resort to crusade against officials and soldiers."
Xiao Qi paused and said again.
"But they all agreed to communicate with their own army, the scholars, the people and the merchants..."
"It is enough to be able to achieve the latter, and the other conditions are just an addition to paying the money on the spot..."
Zhou Huaian smiled and confirmed that this was just an expedient strategy to calm the other's heart.
Otherwise, how can the rivals who have a complicated relationship with each other be willing to do their best to blend in with the Taiping Army's external forces peeking from the side. Even if they couldn't fight for a while, Zhou Huaian wanted to secretly send someone to add fire to their respective sites.
"Next, the Lord needs to meet with the newly recruited scholars and teach them the ideas and knowledge of the Taiping Army..."
Zhou Huaian nodded.
Since the Taiping Army had most of the territory of the Hunan Observatory and the core of the Jingnan Jiedu, the number of students and scholars who came out of various places to contribute has gradually increased.
Of course, it is currently only limited to those who were born in poverty; however, those born in poverty can actually support a full-time scholar, at least it is also a good family or a small landlord's family.
It's just that this kind of identity and family composition is not much better than the poor peasants at the bottom in this era of turmoil; in the face of the turbulent times, bankruptcy and unsustainable end are also inevitable;
Because after a large number of farmers at the bottom fled, the corresponding taxes and servitudes were not missing at all, so the heavy burden was naturally doubled on their small and well-established homes; the so-called farming and reading homes were quickly maintained. Can't go on anymore.
Therefore, this is a situation where there is both hatred and dislike for the corruption of the court and the government; there is also a basic belief that the worst order is better than disorder, and there is both natural sympathy and contempt for the mud leg uprising army; and all kinds of expectations. The situation is getting better and the possibility of improvement is still a group of complex contradictions with fluke and dependent psychology.
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