In the city of Yichun, Yuanzhou, in the Zheng family mansion where Zheng Gu's relatives lived, some people were reading a new booklet published in Tanzhou.
The main content is the theory of "Five Beetles" by Han Feizi. It is also one of the content that needs to be studied for new supplementary officials and generals in the Taiping regime. The simple and straightforward meaning is:
Those who write books and speak, use the way of the ancestors to promote benevolence and morality, pay attention to appearance and dress and decorate with clever arguments, to disturb the current laws and regulations, thereby shaking the determination of the monarch;
Those political strategists resorted to falsification and deceit to achieve private goals by resorting to foreign powers, thus giving up national interests;
Those ranger assassins gathered party members, flaunted their integrity and made a name for themselves, and violated the national ban;
Those who evade military service depended on powerful officials and aristocrats in large numbers, willingly offered bribes, and resorted to requests from important officials to escape the toil of fighting in the army;
Those industrial and commercial people make poor equipment, accumulate extravagant assets, hoard them and sell them on standby, hoping to make huge profits from the peasants. The above-mentioned five kinds of people are all moths to the country.
If the monarch does not get rid of these five kinds of worm-like people, who are not broad and upright, then it is not surprising that even if there are dilapidated and perished countries in the world, the imperial court will be abolished.
And now the sixth beetle has been added to the Taiping Army’s argument, that is, the wealthy family, the landlord, the gentry and the like;
Although they occupies a large area of land, they are insatiably greedy for mergers and plundering and plundering the properties of the weak and small civilians and the poor. There is almost no place for the laborers to stand. The plowers are especially starved to death, and the weavers are almost frozen to death; even if the sale of children and girls has no alternative but to sacrifice, they can only fight to fill in the gully by selling themselves as slaves or fleeing famine.
Therefore, only by following the banner of the Taiping Army, smashing these blood-sucking silverfish, and the cannibalistic rules and shackles they have woven and created, under the leadership of the Taiping Farm System, can they reopen the Pingtian story. It is possible to return to the good times in ancient times when everyone had land and work, and depended on hard work and diligence to be self-sufficient.
"Sure enough, he respects the old school of law, advocating the severe punishment of the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, and the origin of Han Zi. What is in his bones is the old wisdom of the ancient military skill Tianjue..."
The clan chief Zheng, who was wrinkled like a gully, said in earnest to Xu Dongye, another celebrity who was a guest at the mansion.
"It's just that Shang Monarch's reform was at the invitation of Qin Xiaogong. From top to bottom, he made a lot of money and suspended the pillars to establish credibility, and slaughtered the old nobles to establish prestige, so that he was able to bring the law of strong Qin to generations. But this is the master of Taiping thief. It is the opposite, and it uses the bottom-up to confuse and agitate the grassroots and the gangsters as the forerunner and build momentum; the killing of the powerful and powerful people thinks of power, gathers the land and wealth to buy the hungry, the poor people think that they are attached, and what they do is to overthrow The way of chaos in the world..."
"Now that the state and city are changing hands soon, I, Zheng, as the city's surname who bears the brunt of the brunt, is inevitable... I can only hope that he is a disciple of the Legalist school, so that he will not be ruined and abused. Up..."
"In these years, under the arduous things of the world, although my Zheng family has acted without a clear conscience, there are still some children who can be regarded as clean and self-conscious and have nothing to do with everything; therefore, I asked my husband to take them out and leave the family. It’s about pursuing the relationship..."
"Now my family has Shouyu (Zheng Gu) Wenda, and the family has to be counted on. Therefore, in the future, it doesn't matter whether the husband asks them to go to the scene or the thief on the spot... This way at least the world will be stabilized in the future. My family has a blood that can be passed down..."
However, before his words fell, someone stumbled in and cried,
"Aweng's big business is not good. Suddenly someone opened the door to welcome the thief army into the city. They have already controlled the entrance and exit of the gates, and the crowd is coming to my house..."
After a while,
With the exclamation and cry of breaking in, the noise of cursing, the Zheng family in Yichun, who had been rooted in Yuanzhou for more than ten generations and now known as the "little half city", was so wiped out in the rush of the era. Up.
And Xu Dongye, who was brought out from the back door, could not help but feel a little faintly sad and sad. However, his mood just appeared on his face, but he was seen by his former student, Chen Yanzhang, who is now in charge of contacting him, and couldn't help but ask:
"Does the sir feel a little unbearable? To tell the truth, I was a bit unbearable and puzzled at the beginning, why some well-known good homes are not immune..."
Then he talked to himself again and continued.
"However, when I was with the rebel army, I saw and came into contact with the refugees who were hungry on the road, the corpses of children abandoned in the gully, the shackled households and tenants in torture rooms and dungeons, those who looked like pigs and dogs. The slave servant who was wantonly killed and abandoned...I am no longer confused and panicked..."
"Where did the so-called house of goodness in this world come from, and where did it come from? Isn't it piled on the bones of countless gangsters after generations have been stripped of it by poverty? Don't you dare to say this house? Most people in the mansion are unaware of the actions of the servants underneath."
"They just pretended not to know or turned a blind eye to the evils and sufferings in this, so that they could comfortably receive the blood collected from their homes and maintain their daily deeds of wealth and decent; then they chanted poems and sighed against each other. After the people’s livelihood is arduous and the government has fallen into disrepair, they have ridiculed each other's reputation by praising and teasing each other, and they have become a conscientious family..."
"Therefore, there is often a saying in the Taiping Army that is completely innocent under the tumultuous landslide, or is there any piece of earth and rock that has nothing to do with it? It is this world that can no longer tolerate these vain and apparently good homes, stealing the world The deceitful people continue to survive. However, that adult has another sentence that I am deeply impressed by, that is: crying for one family or even for a few families is always better than crying for thousands of families.. Cry for thousands of families is better than the world. cry..."
"Now that the world's troubles are most lacking is this kind of unworldly person who makes a family or a few cry and the world laughs; a thousand families and thousands of furniture cry and the world is full of joy, changing the world's latitude and longitude..."
"And Mr. has always been clean and self-contained and happy, only to keep the original intention of enlightenment; will he still have empathy for these silverfish generation who have eaten their lives and blood... They have forced countless people to ruin their lives and make their relatives safe and comfortable. At that time, did I think of my husband’s teaching and friendship..."
"Although most of the Taiping Army today started in the cold, they are determined to practice the ancient sages' avenue of'education without class', and it has given thousands of gangsters and civilians the opportunity to enlighten, enlighten and enlighten. . It’s exactly what Mr.’s knowledge and ambitions are needed to participate in the grand occasion..."
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Time passed by like sand between fingers, the river in the beginning of spring was still cold wind, but Zhou Huaian was standing on the bow of the boat and patrolling his team along the river.
During this period of time, relative to the limited peace in Hunan, which was busy with production and construction; the periphery of Jingnan was fully penetrated toward Shannan; and the roads in the east of the Yangtze River were resurrected everywhere.
After receiving support and passing the initial period of weakness after the war, the East Road army led by Huang Chao's relatives was once again invincible as a broken bamboo along the river, looting 15 states including Raozhou, Xinzhou, Chizhou, Xuanzhou, Shezhou, and Hangzhou. In this place, the masses have grown to 200,000 people.
Of course, the so-called 200,000 people who have expanded in a short period of time, it’s totally hard to say how much water there is and how much true color they have; but no matter how they will be under Huang Chao’s military front, Jiangdong, south of the river, There is no way to stop and restrict his existence in Jiangxi and Liangzhe.
Even Zhou Bao, who is known as one of the strong towns in the southeast, can only reluctantly divide his troops to keep the several famous cities in the city where he is right. Went out.
As for Pei Qianyu, one of the three towns in Jiangdong, the observation officer of Xuanshe, Pei Qianyu, even after the defeat of the Ning Guojun, abandoned the city and fled; he directly threw the governing office of Xuanzhou to Huang Chao's main formation;
Even the observation of East Zhejiang in another town in the east of the Yangtze River made Liu Yuan's subordinates even more unbearable; at the beginning, he was appointed by the court to cross the sea to clean up the local situation, except for the accident of a few boats to reward things, there are not many soldiers who think they can rely . Even the Yisheng Army under his command is the choice of a new division that has been rebuilt in recent years.
Therefore, after losing the Huainan army as foreign aid and echoing, and under the pressure of Huang Chao's army, his rebellious army had a dispute over uneven rewards. Then he was persuaded and persuaded by his former subordinates, Cui Miu, who had already surrendered to the thieves, and while he was watching the battle at the gate of the city to boost morale, he broke out and sent out to Kaicheng and surrendered.
As a result, most of the Rebellious Victory Army in the city was scattered, some surrendered and belonged to Huang Chao's main formation, and some were scattered throughout the countryside and became a new source of banditry and banditry. In the ensuing period, the main battles and conflicts faced by the rebel camp occurred instead with the local forces represented by the soil regiments and squadrons.
For example, through the sea, he has been in constant contact with Canton. Dong Chang, the training ambassador of the Badu Regiment in Hangzhou, defeated several other parts of the rebel army that had lightly swept the territory. Instead, he took the opportunity to travel in Yuezhou (now Zhejiang Shaoxing) and Huzhou have expanded a lot of territory and population.
During this period, there was also a lieutenant named Shi Jingdu named Qian Wei who began to emerge and be famous for his bravery and skillful fighting. Then, as expected, it aroused Dong Chang's taboo and caution, and he was appointed as a navy general and was responsible for the escort of ships between Guangzhou and Guangdong.
As for the Huainan Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, in this winter, it was as if blinded that they turned a blind eye to the flames on the opposite bank. The only clear news is that Yangzhou has begun to convene defenders and garrison generals from all over the country.
In fact, the Taiping Army in the General's Mansion now actually has corresponding sources of information and relatively stable communication channels.
The reason is very simple. Although under the name of the General’s Mansion, many rebel generals have all kinds of envy, jealousy, and disapproval of the strength of the Taiping Army, but there has been no communication between subordinates in private. When we broke off.
Especially during this period, there is an explosive growth trend. The reason is not difficult to understand. Most of them have experience in fighting and plundering, but they don't have the concepts and means to gather and produce.
However, the casualties in the war need to be compensated and supplemented, the daily army needs to be supported, and to maintain the condition of training and equipment, and the generals also need to maintain a high level of luxury enjoyment and corresponding treatment. Not to mention the huge resource gap created by the rebels after the Shinshu War a few days ago.
Therefore, after every battle, the gains should be realized as much as possible, instead of piled up in tents, mold and decay, it is inevitable to deal with the Taiping army who has mastered the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the outer regions of the Yangtze River in private. Needed materials and wealth.
Although they are in a clear and unanimous position, most of them are verbally incompatible with the leader of the Taiping Army; but privately through Cao Shixiong, Zhu Cun, Zhang Juyan, or lower-level Gao Jichang, Wang Zhongba, Li Xiangzhi and others All of them are the old origins of secretly communicating under the corresponding name; that is, Guo Yan has no one to hook up.
Therefore, when Huangchao’s army swept the southeast and was raging like a raging battle, the ships carrying various products from Jiangling on the river are also in an endless stream like crucian carp crossing the river, and the projects in which they operate are also from the original basic food and military resources. , And quickly expanded to all aspects.
This is also a good thing for the Taiping Army. It is very profitable and beneficial for the Taiping Army to clear the stocks that have been accumulated over the years in exchange for the property and other resources looted by the rebels. It can also support and support the rebels in a disguised form. More business.
As a result, even audacious Rebel generals began to sell the corresponding prisoners of the official army and the wounded and sick of the rebels. Of course, the former is considered to be a strong labor with a good average level, which can be used to undertake some dangerous and heavy labor, while the latter is an addition to the buy one get one free match.
Because for some Rebel generals, except for a few elites from relatives and Qin soldiers, most of the wounded and sick are a drag and burden in a certain sense. However, for the sake of overall morale, they cannot be discarded casually; therefore, once the Taiping Army provides a corresponding solution, it can't wait to secretly arrange it under various banners and excuses.
At least for them, with the money they saved, they can recruit more Ding Zhuang who can't eat to work hard for themselves. Although some people feel that this is not the right way, they cannot resist the overall momentum of rapid results brought about by immediate benefits.
Therefore, as the core secrets headed by the middle and high levels of the general's mansion, although it is not so easy to detect, the various sources of news from the middle and lower levels of the military mansion and the peripheral ministries are quite substantial. Therefore, there is even news from the eight sons of the Huangmen, or from the left army master Li Junru and others;
Even if some people hate the false monks who act and style different from ordinary people, and the Taiping forces they represent, basically no one will hate the goods obtained from the Taiping army; or it is hidden in various names and relationships. Below, the benefits and benefits obtained directly or indirectly are enough to make people selectively ignore them.
Therefore, after more than half a month of preparation, collecting and inquiring about the transition and buffering of information exchanges. Zhou Huaian, who publicly declined the appointment and award of the Grand General’s Mansion, decided to go to Jiangzhou to meet with the co-leader of the World Rebel Army for a while; he was also seeking an alliance to determine the future sphere of influence and business direction.
Of course, this time it must have brought an army of sufficient scale to participate in the alliance, which is also a corresponding means of declaring arms and strength. Although invited, there are also other rebel forces that are already standing on their own in the locality; but the actual camp pattern is still dominated by the Taiping Army and Huang Chao's main formation.
To show off the ever-changing muscles of the Taiping Army, it can also avoid more frictions and conflicts in the rebel camp in the future; even some unprovoked malice and troubles from the secret. Hiring hatred is one thing, but being able to make the other person feel that the gain is not worth the loss is another.
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