"Shilu Chengxuan wears brocade robe, how do you know that the people are half a bit shattered
Pour a thousand blood of fine wine, and finely cut the fat sheep Wanxing ointment.
Candle tears are dripping with tears, singing is loud and resentful;
The flock of sheep paid with the jackal shepherd, letting the court use Ercao. "
Ming Feng Menglong "Guangxiao Mansion"
—The dividing line of the number of cheats —
And in Chang'an City, which is known as the East Guixi Conservatory, the south is the north is solid, the most elite and prosperous area.
Guanglufang, located just between the Daming Palace, Taiji Palace and Xingqing Palace, spans several streets in the corner of Wang's Residence Garden; the former prime minister, the facade and representative of Jinyang Wang's, the current white body The common man Wang Duo, also wearing a loose gray gown with melon back, was eating slowly.
It's just that after thousands of slaves and maids have been dismissed, they are still forced to stay in this house, and all kinds of kings, relatives and doormen, and clear guests who are worried, fearful, or sorrowful day and night;
Once known as the facade and eagerness among the five surnames and seven hopes, it is best to enjoy extravagance and ostentation. Every day, Wang Duo, who is nicknamed "San Le Tang Lao", is surrounded by dozens of beautiful girls and serves daily life. At the moment it looks quite calm and calm.
He was seated on the mat in front of a picture of Wu Daozi’s "Ming Emperor's Seal Painting". On the stripped wooden plate, there was only a bowl of chanterelle boto and three pieces of silver crumb cake. He even gave him a simple diet. Use a pair of wooden chopsticks to inadvertently eat some kind of food under the porch in the large interior, and serve it in a leisurely and graceful manner.
Of course, he really fell into this situation, but Wang Duo had a bit of a thorough understanding, and he began to use his own means of keeping away from sensuality and abstinence; it was like Mr. Wuliu (Tao Yuanming) in the past "do not like things. The transcendence of sorrow for oneself is the result of this.
Of course, his other, more famous anecdote is related to fear inside. It is rumored that when he served as the all-daoxing camp to conquer Huang Chao, he left the wife of the Cui family, who was also a five-name and seven-famous family, in the capital, accompanied by only his favorite concubine Ji.
As a result, he reported one day: "Madam has left the capital and is already halfway." Wang Duo asked in a panic: "The nest thief is gradually approaching from the south, and the wife rushes from the north again. Arrived, what can I do?"
Sometimes an aide joked: "It's better to surrender to Huang Chao." Wang Duo couldn't help laughing. In the end, I didn't expect to be utterly deceived.
You must know that he was also one of the promoters who advocated wooing Huang Ni, but he never thought that now that he turned around, it was the yellow thief who wanted to woo him.
That's right, Huang Chao, the head of the anti-thief who now occupies Chang'an, wants to help him.
Therefore, on the one hand, not only sent people to guard his mansion, and faintly threatened with hundreds of relatives from all over the clan, but also let General Zhang Zhifang, who had already sent the thief, come to his house to persuade him that he was defeated because of a deserter. Therefore, he was reprimanded and retired the former elder who had thought about it at home.
But at any rate, he is also the head of the five surnames and seven hopes—the patriarch of King Jinyang in Beijing. He was once one of the few ministers who left the town and entered the pavilion. In the face of adversity, Jiang Shunhe followed a group of vulgar grass thieves.
Even the Huangchao was just a mere scholar who landed in the first place. Even if he wanted to post under his own door in the early years, he would be thrown out by the humble people immediately by the defense pavilion on the display board, but now he wants to be called lonely. The "national decent" of the widowed self serves as a foil and decoration.
However, now that the arrogant and arrogant power of the thief is stronger than the others, he can only be half imaginary and half secretive, using some vague prevarication methods to hang the other party first, and wait for the situation. Let's talk about development and direction.
When he was halfway through the meal, Fang had an old man with a gray beard and an old black shirt, kneeling his hands and whispering beside him:
"Nowadays, in the city's market, there are those greed and forgetful people who have failed the emperor's grace and don't want to serve the country. They are rampant for a while."
"Those humble people in the city, just because these thieves executed the Wufang children who had caused disasters in the market, and copied the locations of many eunuchs, their minions and pawns, they were easily encouraged and celebrated. Up."
"Those Dousheng officials, how can the Kingdom treat their peers poorly? However, since the thieves are arrogant, they are easily lured by the petty profits in front of them, and they are bent on paying for the accounts and rewards of the thieves..."
"In the days before yesterday, there were various masters of Tongshou, Renshou, and squad horses who ran for free, but they were uncovered by their peers and became thieves again. The two squad horses were driven to the streets by thieves...
"There was also Minister Xiao Taichang and Li Shuibu who left the north gate together, and was reported to be imprisoned on the spot by the despicable people in the workshop."
Hearing this, Wang Duo couldn't help but feel a certain sadness in his heart, and he sighed secretly.
Even if these thieves are only attacking the ruined and badly criticized inner officials and their related party members; but who can guarantee that they will not be too hard to fill in in the future, and they will continue to treat their own pillars of the country. What about the family.
What's more, between these great eunuchs and foreign ministers, although there is usually no lack of confrontations and disputes with each other, they are basically strong and consistent in maintaining the authority of the country.
Therefore, the city of Chang'an right now is a dark day of dignity and disobedience, decency of ethics, and the dancing of demons.
However, there is another major problem related to the South-Taiping Thief, but it is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Although it is said that compassion does not kill indiscriminately, but it likes humiliation and harsh and decent people excessively;
In particular, many people think that those mud-legged eyes and the reasons for grievances have been copied, and after they have confiscates the most powerful surnames and families of the local people, they will all be used as humble slaves and called "labor reform". This is unprecedented in the past. The evil you have heard.
At least in comparison, willing to recruit and retain their old yellow nests, they can still consider the decent existence of the gentleman.
At this time, another cautious voice sounded from outside.
"Enlighten the master, there is a new palace etiquette envoy, Cui Miao, who is waiting for the mansion..."
Wang Duo couldn't help but move in his heart. This Cui Miao, who was once the governor of Yuezhou and the observant of Eastern Zhejiang, was a small house of the Cui clan of Qinghe in the five surnames and seven hopes. He was also the first court guard to surrender to the thieves; therefore, it is said that It is also quite trustworthy of Huang Ni.
This time, thanks to him taking the initiative to come to talk, I'm afraid that Huang Chao can't wait to do the thing that is extremely famous.
—To make up the dividing line of the number of words —
It took a short while to win the Xiangyang City Gate Index, but it took more than three days to quell the participating resistance forces in Xiangyang City.
At least those on the brink of desperation, the Volunteers and Mendi Private Soldiers, in guarding their respective owners' resolute resistance to the last resort, showed the fighting spirit and resilience that were different from those of the two when they were on the wall.
During this period, it is not that no one has sent representatives, wanting to put forward the conditions for obtaining relative preferential treatment and preservation; for example, let them retreat out of the city with details and steps, or liquidate certain people from the Taiping Army in the future. Clouds are removed from the blacklist.
For this reason, they even robbed and hijacked the remaining defenders who had retreated into the inner city and Yacheng, as well as a large number of officials belonging to the Jieya, Yunsi, and Yantieyuan, and controlled many official private warehouses as a bargaining chip. And price.
It's a pity that Zhou Huai'an, who is in control, can no longer appreciate their little speculation. Only when the overall situation is settled, fools will leave themselves with these stubborn rice-style hand tails and future troubles.
Therefore, within a large circle around the inner city radius, the residences of many big households, wealthy families, officials, and wealthy merchants were set ablaze, destroyed and demolished one after another, and the remaining people could only accept it. If you don’t surrender and accept the follow-up trial, you will die immediately.
However, when Zhou Huai'an was greeted and embraced, most of them stepped into the city that had been cleaned up and appeared to be everywhere, and he was still in a good mood.
Because it occupies the intersection of several waters in Xiangyang City, Xiangzhou, the north-south transit hub hidden by the mountains and behind the Wangyao Dayi; it not only means that the Jianghan Plain in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is under the control of the Taiping Army, and it is completely closed and threatened from the north. Where the natural gateway is.
At the same time, it also represents the gradual opening of the road to the north of Guanzhong, and there are many possibilities for the Huangchao rebel forces that are attacking the city in the pass, and the north and south echoes and finally unites into one line.
Even eastward crossing the barrier of the Tongbai Mountains, once again threatened the Huaixi prefectures, or the natural victories along the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, at any time, once again enter the lower reaches of Jiangdong, Zhejiang and Huainan coastal unlimited opportunities.
However, after taking down Xiangzhou, the key point of going deep into the Nanyang Basin, it is possible that the Taiping Army can take the Nanyang Basin and even the entire elite area of the Shannan East Road in a further step. However, the corresponding follow-up front supply and local maintenance consumption have seriously exceeded the Taiping Army's plan.
After all, it is now the beginning of August before and after the harvest. The consequences of the five-way offensive from the official army are continuing to spread; the territory of Jingzhou is broken and the basic farming time is delayed. Basically, don't expect any harvest.
Other Yue, Heng, and Tan prefectures affected by wars and turmoil were also the result of severe production cuts and poor harvests to varying degrees; only to rebuild the villages and workshops in these places, and to avoid large-scale famines and exiles. A large amount of food needs to be mobilized from outside the Ling to fill the gap.
The number of large and small Zhuangzi under the Tuntian area that were affected by the war alone reached 167, of which one-third were completely destroyed or had little useable places; the rest also suffered varying degrees of loss and damage. .
In this case, although the previous victories and gains are supplemented, to maintain the stability of the situation in Jingnan, Hunan, and some Jiangxi and Jiangdong, we must advance the work of in-depth armed clearance and suppression of rebels, and resettlement of more villages and villages. Gathering the exiled population is already quite strenuous.
Until these areas are fully digested and controlled, and until the harvest is held in the coming year, there is really no way to increase the burden of Shannan Road, or even carry out more protracted war operations.
Of course, if Zhou Huaian followed the practices of those traditional warlords, it would naturally be much easier and more worry-free. Usually, as long as troops are sent to block borders, intersections, and rushes, the people who have nowhere to go within the territory can be left to fend for themselves in the countryside and forests; or they can simply drive the refugees to other places to eat, to reduce the maintenance burden under the rule. .
However, if Zhou Huaian wants to turn them into the mobilization base and production capacity under his own governance, he needs to invest more resources and manpower; after all, after the expansion of the site and the in-depth clean-up of the place, a large number of relatively qualified and reliable manpower is also needed. To ensure basic execution and administrative efficiency at the grassroots level.
In addition, this turmoil also revealed an invisible benefit of the Taiping farm system. It is used as the place to resettle the villages and the place of management, and provide a lot of manpower and material support for the local Taiping army to defend the key areas and key areas. Although he was dismissed and resettled after the event, he also needed a lot of investment.
As for the seven prefectures in the Shannan Eastern Province, they can’t be easily let go; after purging the local forces, follow the story of Jiangdong, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang to assign and support some local teams to maintain the situation and continue to serve as a buffer zone between the imperial court and the vassal forces exist.
Therefore, he had to sit in the city of Xiangyang in the hottest months of the local area. Spend some time successively to issue corresponding rewards, punishments, rewards and punishment orders, as well as other military repairs, reorganizations, supplements and transfers, post-war local recuperation and relief, signs of famine relief, organization of production and self-rescue, etc. The aftermath of affairs. (End of this chapter)