In today's Jiangling City, although it is still not the old style of staying on the road and not closing the house at night, it is also a new atmosphere of prosperity and the people's peace. The reason is also very simple. Basically, most of the factors that can threaten and hinder public order no longer exist.
Whether it’s the wicked and idle teenagers, or the most common city fox, stove-rats, rogues, pickpockets and beggars in Dayi City, they have gradually disappeared after the patrol team’s repeated searches and dragnets; because of the Taiping Army’s Under governance, idleness or inactivity is itself a sin.
Therefore, in addition to the criminal officials at all levels that Facao belongs to, a new place called the Department of Correction and Education was established to be responsible for these various criminals.
Whether it’s littering, filthy minor fouls, or arranged work in the nearby area; or petty theft, stealing chickens and dogs, punished to go to estuary sandfields, logging yards, and quarrying places; or committing crimes and crimes. What is filled is in the mines and mines that have not seen the sun for a long time.
In the words of a certain Taiping army figure, it means "No matter how filthy things are, they can be grown in fertile fields."
And as a landscape that only appeared in the recent Jiangling City,
Groups of young people wearing uniform gray-blue uniforms and singles, shouting faint slogans in the crisp whistle, lined up through the street, and followed the small flag led by the head of the team. Disappeared in the city square.
If you observe carefully, you will find that even though they are thin and uneven, but their complexion and energy are still refreshing; and even if they are in the most thrilling and restless year, they tend to walk in the same direction. There is not much mess in the queue either.
It was as if they had been regulated one by one by some special tool, showing a completely different style and atmosphere from those ordinary poor children who were left undressed and covered in mud.
"Under Jing Nan nowadays, there are so many orphans..."
Yang Shigu, who had just returned from a visit from outside the city, just stared blankly for a while before he came back to his senses.
It was because the youngest of them could not help but remind him of his daughter who died young because of the lawsuit he was framed. If there is this kind of rebels to bring good governance, maybe you will be able to survive that despair and disaster.
Although he later broke the rebels in Yunzhou, killed the upstart who framed him, made the first move to sue his colleagues, and the head of the cell who tortured and persecuted his family in prison; but the wife and daughter he lost was never again. Won't be back.
"Master Yang misunderstood,"
The young staff accompanying him smiled.
"Most of these are the children of the people in the city. The true orphans and young people have other arrangements. Now according to the strategy issued by the leader. As long as the households of the lower third-class households registered in the register must be ten years old. Among the above-mentioned children, one person has been enlisted to come to work and study in the city to do things for several years."
"These recruited young people have to enter the field during the day to work, go out in the afternoon and do miscellaneous work in the camp, and only teach writing and counting in the evening. Anyway, the demand is not high, as long as a little achievement is enough, in fact, they think Alternatives for apprenticeships in workshops, mining and metallurgy, and labor service in the future..."
"Because the work-study office provides food and lodging to save the cost of the home inspection, and also includes the work clothes, teaches knowledge and learns the craftsmanship, there was once a rush to send it in the city, and then there is such a situation and atmosphere. ..."
"Naturally, because of the limited conditions, it is only limited to a dozen larger cities under the rule of the army..."
After listening to this series of introductions, Yang Shigu was a little sighed but moved.
Even if it is only for board and lodging, you still have to work to pay for it, even if it is limited to the children of the people in the city, it will be a lot of money over time. It can make the people rush and compete, this is the tripod. Ge Yixin's weather.
As for where I am, although I have established Wang Hao and Nian early, and established many officials over and over again, and the backing has been outstanding; but there is no place where I can stop to live and feed the people well, fulfill their wishes and display their ambitions. The foundation of his governance.
In other words, there had been similar good choices and opportunities, but the army was greedy for the gains and losses in front of them, and the trend and momentum of rash advancement was missed in vain and voluntarily given up.
As a result, the rebel army that died one crop after another is gradually not like the rebel army at the beginning, and the people in poverty are still the same people. Apart from the brief carnival when the rebel army went through the warehouse, life was stressed. The sufferings and hardships of the body may not be able to be reduced a little bit.
Even if they defeated many officials, sank many cities, killed more officials and wealthy people, and gained a lot of wealth, but the ideals and roads that were balanced by the sky at the beginning were nevertheless Still at a loss in the foreseeable future.
As an old man who accompanied the rebels all the way, he really felt a little tired and sleepy, and gradually became more and more confused. And the old brothers who survived with him are fewer and fewer, but most of them are no longer willing to think about it, and they don't bother to think about this problem.
Perhaps for them, being able to go back to their hometown in this way and live a life of being a master in the village is enough to become the only pursuit and thought for the rest of their lives. But just like this, how willing is Yang Shigu in his heart
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On the ninth day of March, it is spring and tomorrow.
After receiving a large amount of food and armor supplies from Jiangling, as well as the garrison of the third battalion and the supplementary troops of the third battalion; the Taiping Army, which has been dormant and repaired for more than half a month, finally ushered in another whole army out of the battlefield. The day.
In fact, after leaving Jiangning City and crossing the hills of Zhongshan, there is a flat and open southern Jiangsu Plain (the western end of the Yangtze River Delta). I saw the army marching in the wilderness like weaving banners, spears like forests and chariots.
These bluish-gray soldiers straddled their bows, raised their guns and raised their flags. With the smooth and brisk sound of the flute, they flocked to the road to accompany the chariots and horses, pulling out columns of different lengths, and running with strides. Step forward. There are also many small groups of cavalry, slowly and lightly in the field beside the road.
It's just that elsewhere, it was already a busy season of spring plowing, but now it is a scene of cold and withered and extinct people. After the spring thawing, there was only a piece of dry, hardened soil in the paddy field that was supposed to be opened and filled with sleep. But as long as you step on it, the mud will pop out loudly.
Many fields have been trampled by the traces of large groups of people, and some river channels have also been cut off or dug artificially, which flooded the nearby fields, turning them into muddy and difficult to navigate. Temporary swamp.
The villages encountered from time to time are also completely dilapidated. Some of them have already escaped. The empty cottages, shack houses, and fences, even if the spring breeze blows over like ghosts, make a whimper of wind and rain; there is no densely populated southeast land of fish and rice, boats and carts in the southeast The sight and charm of a rich place.
Of course, behind this scene, there may be the result of Zhou Huaian's promotion in it. Although I know that this is the inevitable price to be paid in the process of ending this troubled world, or the result of helplessness; but after seeing it with my own eyes, I still let Zhou Huai's heart remnant the moral bottom line and three views of later generations, which are quite different. taste.
"Leaders, according to the already proven enemy situation, these newly added enemy forces are volunteers from all over the eastern Zhejiang..."
Ge Cong Zhou Yibu followed the same direction as the chase-riding companion said:
"Volunteer? What is the origin and relationship of this..."
Zhou Huaian asked involuntarily.
"It's the native army and town soldiers who originally recruited themselves in various villages; it's just that the old thief from Zhenhai Zhou issued a lot of confession a few days ago, and listed all of them under his command as a volunteer army;"
Ge Congzhou continued to explain.
"Later, orders were passed on to the Quartet. Anyone who would like to come to Runzhou to prepare for the enemy's battles will be rewarded and rewarded; Nailing opened the state treasury and spread it out for ordnance and material use... Therefore, they gathered in a short time. It's so many, and it's called the "Hundred Thousand Righteous Camp".
"There are many people who were deceived by the government and bravely fought for the sake of keeping the land and the people peaceful; they were also quite familiar with the geographical advantages of the country, and the people who were moved by the wind. This is the only way to build the headquarters of the old capital. In addition, the remaining rebels all suffered defeats..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sighed. This is where the traditional rebels were short-sighted or focused on shortcomings in propaganda and mobilizing the people. The Taiping Army not only cruelly and resolutely suppressed the upper strata and their vassals, but also paid attention to the subsequent excavation and destruction of the corresponding root causes and soil.
And can use the follow-up means of not taking away floating wealth and materials to win and unite the silent majority, and bind them in disguise to the chariots of the Taiping Army camp. After all, most people have very limited vision and a lot of luck.
However, once they took the things distributed by the rebels, the follow-up liquidation from the government and powerful households regained power, it would not be so easy to let them go. As a result, those who were originally unwilling to go with the rebels will also throw in one after another under the pressure of the environment and behavior.
On the other hand, there are obviously the taboos that Ge Congzhou said directly, that is, these other rebels, which have been expanded in a short period of time and have mixed good and bad, various ineffective disciplines, corruption, and indiscriminate killings. The expansion of local damage and the rapid alienation of people's hearts.
This is not a factor and result that you can control.
There is also a third reason, which was vaguely judged by Zhou Huaian from the collected data through the three teams of census, investigation, and work in the overseas place;
Compared to other places where the famine has been raging for years; after all, the land of Jiangdong, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang is a land of rich fish and rice. Even the people who fled under the exploits of the imperial court, can rely on the relative abundance of fish and aquatic products in the wild to survive by clinging together.
Therefore, the real mass refugees here are only a few examples; even those who jumped out and raised the flag to echo them were quickly flattened and extinguished. On the contrary, those local tycoons who control most of the social resources were able to intercept taxes and corvee in a disguised form, and then quickly grew in the name of preparing for banditry.
In addition, the Langshan Town in West Zhejiang Province, which was troubled a few years ago, contained the rebellion of Wang Ying, allowing the local wealthy and powerful tribes to relax and lessen the exploitation of the township to some extent while protecting their wealth; it also caused the bottom layer in recent years The villagers have a kind of false hope that they can survive as long as they obey and obey.
This greatly weakened the ability of the rebels to lay down their ground, and they mobilized and recruited people from one place to strengthen and enrich their foundation; after all, the plot of people leaving their homeland and the hard-to-leave homeland is still the mainstream of society.
And when the foundations of these people at the bottom are forced or actively to stand on the opposite side of the rebels, it can be said to be a difficult situation and even frustration everywhere, which is not surprising.
This can be clearly reflected from the progress and encounters of the three teams sent out. Of course, this is not a problem that the Taiping Army dispatched at the moment can solve the problem in one go.
But in any case, only by destroying the current enemy first, will there be more room and space for vertical and horizontal curtains in the future. Zhou Huaian was thinking about the important gains and losses, and he could see that he galloped and shouted:
"Report, the first group that came forward met the enemy towards Guping Temple in the northwest..."
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