In a flash, it has been more than a month since the Taiping Army started from the Guannei class, and it has completely entered the harvest season of the last wave of late autumn. Therefore, you can see old and golden wheat stacks and straw silos everywhere. And in the fields that were re-turned after harvesting, they were also full of oxen and carts sowing winter wheat.
Compared to this familiar and gracious scene, the intrigue from the city of Chang'an before seemed to be a very distant matter. In the words of a certain "Obsidian Sacred Stone", only a noble purpose can promote noble means, and only with a noble purpose can there be infinite motivation.
Instead of letting the ideals and lofty careers that were originally pursued, quickly degenerate and degenerate into a tool for personal self-interest under various "expedient measures" and coercive methods under the banner of tactics and tactics.
After all, the Taiping Army now has a relatively good agricultural foundation, a sufficient scale of market and currency in circulation; a good technical guidance and professional personnel training system, sufficient labor surplus, and a relatively rich source of raw materials.
It's not guilty of indulging in camp drills as other people imagined. It is obviously a weak strength to survive in the cracks, and it requires strange adventures or opportunistic, ingenious and subtle ways.
For example: Daye Iron Ore (Ezhou) and Shilu Iron Ore (Hainan), with the best quality content of more than 50% in China in later generations, were all under the rule of the Taiping Army. Although open-pit and shallow mining can only be carried out at present, even a decent deep well cannot be drilled, but it is enough to meet most of the needs of this era.
At present, the biggest problem with the Metropolitan Government is that the connecting shafts from Shannan to Xiajiang Road, Jiangdong, and Guanzhong have been continuously recruiting troops, which makes a large number of social resources inevitably inclined to the operation of the military system.
As a result, the society began to spread a kind of impetuous and radical atmosphere of light warfare, and even some public opinion clamored that Chang'an was not far from Xia Luo, and that the peace of the world was in front of blind optimism.
On the other hand, it is the offset effect of social resources. Except for major projects such as roads, water conservancy, and signal tower communications under the leadership of the Metropolitan Government, investment in construction and reproduction in other places will inevitably be affected by austerity.
For example, in some newly-occupied village development projects, the production plans for the necessary infrastructure materials and ration tools are scheduled for the next year or even the next year. This is undoubtedly a serious unreasonable matter.
In addition, the infrastructure and social functions of the city under the control of the Metropolitan Government have many gaps such as inadequate laying and insufficient manpower and material supplies. Just taking the cities along the Xiangshui River, Han River and the Dajiang River as the benchmark, the deeper the inland the more problems will arise.
Among them, such as antimony tartrate used to control the Yunmeng Daze water system and the Dongting, Poyang, and Taihu watersheds, the frequent occurrence of schistosomiasis in the field reclamation, Bordeaux mixture to restrain crop diseases and insect pests, the lime-sulfur mixture for poultry epidemic prevention, and field operations. Realgar water and pyrethrum are beginning to be in short supply.
Because with the work of Kiyotokakuta after the war, the demand that emerged one after another was far greater than expected. This is also the inevitable process and product of the Taiping Army regime, determined to abandon the old system and existing structure, and create a new path under the new framework.
If we can slightly compromise with the old forces, such as the powerful and powerful, who have mastered the bottom of society, then we can naturally save time and worry and only seek the final result; and the pain and collateral damage caused by the bottom people can be regarded as inevitable costs and consumables. Up.
So say one thousand, ten thousand, these signs and problems require Zhou Huaian to set an example personally, to sort out and rectify, guide the current overall development trend, and return to the daily state of focusing on people's livelihood and infrastructure.
After all, the wartime system is cool for a while, but if the brakes can’t stop, it will explode every second. Don’t you see the Qin Empire, which was defeated by the Tiger and Wolf and unified the six kingdoms but died in the second world? I don't know how many generations have been rotten.
However, what surprised Zhou Huaian a little bit was that after the return of the Taiping Army, there was a new wave of dedicated family studies, and even private collection of books and literary works. As the counterpart missionary department and large seminar room, at most, you can receive dozens of books and contributions a day.
Although the noble clans from the Three Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties have been decayed and degenerate, some things have been passed down to some extent, which is the so-called "family learning."
It represents the academic achievements of these ancient classics and the accumulation of experience in governing the government that have long controlled and monopolized the middle and upper classes of the society.
This is also the proof that they have been able to monopolize political resources for generations and win at the starting line in the imperial examination and official selection system. Then, these family studies have been added and supplemented after the tribe’s spread and generations and generations of officials, and have formed a relatively considerable scale.
It's just that with the inevitable decline of the gentry family system. The development and evolution of these family studies after the Tang Dynasty was almost accompanied by the stepped political formation and social transformation process of the Tang Dynasty.
For example, during the period from the reign of Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty to the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, the government supported the state-supported government school with the township examination system; even the system of state and county officials to Guozijian and Taixue became the main right way and priority for imperial examination The place of admission.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the country was in decline, and the investment in official education was gradually inadequate and withered; so private schools of various backgrounds and academies began to flourish to fill the gaps in the imperial examination.
However, in the late Tang Dynasty, there were frequent turmoil, and even these private schools were repeatedly chaos and it was difficult to maintain; so it was the turn of these gentry clan’s ancient family studies that began to reoccupy the mainstream; but this was the last reflection.
To use the words in the history textbooks of the post, the peasant uprisings and riots led by Pang Xun and Huang Chao, with unconscious agrarian revolution violence, greatly attacked and curbed the trend of serious land annexation since the late Tang Dynasty, which was relatively light in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The prerequisites are laid in the era of bounty;
On the other hand, it carried out more in-depth sweeps and strikes against the family clan system that had begun to decline but stubbornly refused to withdraw from the stage of history, and massacred a large number of prefectural families, so that it was able to rise to power during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The rulers are mostly from the Hanwei family background.
When these clansmen and clans were swept up by the peasant uprisings in the late Tang and the Five Dynasties, as well as the subsequent turmoil and fighting, these ancient knowledge inheritances were buried in the historical garbage dump.
Therefore, when the Song Dynasty regained most of the world, amidst the chaos and loss of knowledge and experience, the re-emergence of the scholar-bureaucrat class would have much worse academic quality and political ability.
It is not surprising that Wei and Jin’s empty talk of shame on vulgar affairs has revived, or the so-called clean-liu style that only picks up faults and does not solve the problem, and uses this as a fashion and example.
Originally, Zhou Huai'an thought that his various direct or indirect social reforms in the Lingnan and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River had already cleaned up these guys; but he did not expect that after leading the soldiers to Guanzhong for a trip. , There is such a surplus of sins coming out again.
The reason why they had to take the initiative to emerge from the dormant state is also very simple, because according to the latest "Examination Success Law" supplementary regulations, if they don't want to reflect their own value, they will really have no chance to come forward in the future.
If the decree issued by other forces may still be discussed and repaid. However, there were not many decrees issued under the Taiping Army, but almost all of them were resolutely implemented with out-and-out corpses and bloody facts.
To this day, no one will doubt the determination of the Taiping Army to ban it. Therefore, for the sake of future generations, they had to take the initiative to contribute to the family and learning origin, which became the last ray of hope for their old family members.
Of course, in the first three teams of the Qingxiang movement, those head irons and diehards who dared to jump out of the family background were all cleaned up or exiled one by one in the seesaw struggle, and the rest were weaker and compromised. The reason is mostly for survival.
But the source of all this was Du Zongru, who was the former home of the head and a prominent clan in Xiangyang, and is still declining, the current patriarch of the Du clan. After the release of the Supplementary Regulations for Kaocheng, he came to the large workshop, requesting Donated the hand scrolls and manuscripts in the home collection and annotated by the ancestors, about 8,000 pieces/volume.
There used to be an old saying, "Weidou in the south of the city, go to Tianchiwu", which describes the prominent scenery of the two Jingzhao Weidou families of the Tang Dynasty. Among them, the Wei family lives in "Wei Qu" and the Du family lives in "Du Qu". That's right, the names of places such as Duqu and Duling in the southern suburbs of Chang'an are named after the Du clan inhabited.
Because the two big families face each other next to each other, they are in charge of each other in the court and the opposition, historically known as "city south Weidu". And because the two big families have more princes and generals, generations and imperial powers intersect, they are called "Li Tian Chi Wu". In the Tang Dynasty, there were 8 prime ministers from the Guangdu family. Among them, Du Ruhui, who was in the prosperous age of Zhenguan, was the prime minister of the Five Dynasties.
As a branch of Xiangyang, although it is not so powerful, it has also produced Du Shenyan, the first of the "Four Friends of Articles" and the first in the Five-character Rule of the Early Tang Dynasty; a generation of poetic saint Du Fu; after the defeat of Rus in the Tianbao period, he began to travel across Europe, Asia and Africa. , And Du Huan, the first person in ancient times to write "Jing Xing Ji". . . Such celebrities everyone.
Therefore, the history of scholarship and travel for generations has come down, and the collection of books in the family and the handwritings and manuscripts left by the people of the past dynasties and relatives are also considerable. Among them, there are many isolated and final drafts that have never been published. For example, Du Fu and Li Bai's letters exchanged text, and Du Huan wrote the manuscript of the first draft of "Jing Xing Ji". . .
As a result, this matter became a sensation all at once. Even Zhou Huaian, who was in the workshop, was unavoidably surprised, and called him nearby.
After all, as a feeling that has been soaked and nurtured by Li Du’s poems and essays in modern textbooks since childhood, it is still hard to bear to explore the story behind it; not to mention the "Jing Xing Ji" that has been lost with the dying of future generations. That was the first person to open his eyes to the world under the feelings of the Tang Dynasty.
Then I saw him, and discovered that this person is also quite interesting and knowledgeable about current affairs; not long after the Taiping Metropolitan Governor set up Xiangyang, he had already allocated the land and family properties under the name of Du to the tribesmen and set up a separate household. There are many small houses in the city, so in the follow-up liquidation, he has nothing to do with him.
Since there is such an example and example that he is willing to cooperate with, Zhou Huaian doesn't mind letting him get any good results; therefore, the first specially approved employment document should belong to this Du Zongru. So what happened next was both accidental and not surprising. (End of this chapter)