818 Jiangnan strikes hard
Since ancient times, the White Tiger has been in charge of military killing, so the lobby of the military headquarters is also called the White Tiger Festival Hall, and the big tent of the governor and marshal of foreign operations can also be called the White Tiger Festival Hall.
Zuo Zongtang's big tent in Ganshan and the hall of Zeng Guofan in Jinling City are all places where soldiers are majestic and murderous, and one after another generals are countless heads on the ground, and the generals who received orders from the White Tiger Festival Hall are all puzzled but dare not ask more questions.
Zeng Guofan has always considered himself a Confucian scholar to govern the army, and his style is always gentle and elegant, although everyone is afraid of him, but it is difficult to see Zeng Guofan angry and stern in his usual work.
Even when the war to suppress Long Hair was the most unsmooth, he was just depressed and sighed, and he never became angry with others, glared and cursed.
But today, Zeng Dashuai's face was pale, and after every general order was issued, he would viciously threaten the other party with a few words, what to mention to see him, throw himself into the river to apologize, anyway, that means that if you have a business trip, you will want to die.
The marshal will not be joking, everyone mentions the spirit of 120,000 points, and goes back to restrain the army to straighten out the place.
"The Yangtze River, Jinling to Changshu from today, Qingjiang set up a card...... All ** water bandits are unforgiving...... The naval battalion was purged according to the wartime discipline ......"
"The Taihu Lake Navy patrols the river day and night...... In case of illegal killing, there will be no forgiveness!"
"Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Wuxi, Suzhou, Huzhou...... All the defenders were on the highest alert, and cooperated with the local authorities to severely punish the stubborn...... Don't let go of the long-haired remnants and the omissions of the twisted army, and even the local scoundrels and ruffians will clean up for me......"
"Pass my command...... Jiangnan cracked down for three months!"
The roar of the marshal in the White Tiger Festival Hall was endless, and in the end, all the orders were gathered into one sentence: "The marshal feels that the place is not quiet, and he will be severely beaten for three months!"
Fast horses galloped out of all the city gates of Nanjing, Hongling rushed to various counties in the south of the Yangtze River, all the telegraph rooms began to tick and tick, and the south of the Yangtze River, especially the Taihu Lake Basin, officially launched a three-month crackdown.
At this moment, I really saw the control of Jiangnan by the marshal, and the military officials put down all their work at the moment, and put their experience on social security, and for a while, the whole Jiangnan chickens flew and the dogs jumped.
No one collects the tax, your shop can't run away anyway, and no one cares about the water conservancy.
Every village must be registered, and every town must be sent to the army, not to mention bandits and bandits, and even the ruffians and scoundrels who are idle on the streets are all in bad luck, and even gifts will not be easy to give in this crackdown.
Zhenjiang County Order first invented the sign-in system, as long as the neighborhood believes that someone is an idler, then I'm sorry, register and make a register every day to catch the fast house to sign in to prove that you are honest today.
If you don't sign in for one day, you will be fined silver, you won't sign in for two days, and if you don't show up for three days, you'll be sorry, the Hunan army will personally take the messenger to invite you, and you will have to peel off your skin if you don't die.
No one knows what kind of madness Da Shuai is going to be, many people analyze that it may be that Da Shuai is going to be transferred out of Jiangnan, this is the last time to exert his power, just to deter those who have other intentions, and tell them that you have to be honest when I leave, Da Shuai is going to be the real king of Jiangnan.
That's right, before the Spring Festival, there were all kinds of rumors circulating in the local area, saying that the imperial court was going to transfer Zeng Guofan to the north to become the governor of Zhili, which was nominally promoted, but in fact, it was put in the Gyeonggi land to be guarded.
Messages are flying, and after the big move after the year, the entire Jiangnan once again confirmed the rumors.
In the Jinling White Tiger Festival Hall, Zeng Guofan and his most talented brother Zeng Guoquan sat together, and those generals were ordered to leave, and now there were only two old men left in the hall.
Zeng Guofan felt that all the strength in his body had been drained, and sighed, "I hope nothing happens, I don't have an accident, I can't afford to toss this old bone......"
Jiu Shuai also lost a little bit of his usual arrogance this time, "What does this Xiao Lotian want to do? How can he bring His Majesty? I was so scared that I sent out all the eagles, and now I can only believe in these hardcore descendants......"
I heard Hu Xueyan say that His Majesty has now let Xiao Letian educate a little demon, and I am afraid of this, because no one can guess what the demon is thinking in his heart......
"Last year, His Majesty's hand in the Ryukyus was really very beautiful, and he went to Sijiu City to dance three hundred children, what did he think, they didn't nod their heads, and it was not right to shake their heads, they ate a dumb loss ......in vain."
Zeng Guofan sneered, "Suffer, those bastards won't admit this, so after that, they will speed up the training of new soldiers, steal the secret recipe of bonds, and even Cixi will threaten us to use Western soldiers to suppress us!"
"They are all like dogs guarding food, whoever dares to touch their dog food plates, they will fight with whom! After grinding the wild nature for more than 200 years, why haven't they ...... it well?"
Jiu Shuai smiled, "This is the same as the proud eagle, wild and untamable, but after more than 200 years of Confucian nourishment, I don't believe that a lotus flower can't grow out of this rotten quagmire...... If you want this all-inclusive country, I can see through it, it is not enough to rely on the mobilization of troops, we have to split a few outliers from the Manchurian system, only in this way can we not lose the name of righteousness, and we can gradually take over the country......"
Zeng Guofan smiled, "This is not what you usually look like, haven't you always believed in fighting the country with a gun?"
Jiu Shuai sighed, "It's not Xiao Letian who made trouble, what he did in Japan makes me extremely admired, if his bloody battle in Europe proves that he is a qualified commander, I don't feel unusual, because there are more commanders who can fight all day......"
"But he was able to use water to grind his work to transform a country! Even though it was only a small Japan, I was already impressed, and what he did in Japan was completely a poisonous ploy to extract wages from the bottom of the kettle, and in less than three or four years, he would be able to drain more than half of the hearts of the Japanese elites......
"Talent is the foundation of a country, that is the fire in the heart of a country, talent is pumped clean, can the stove of Japan still flourish?"
"The universities of the Ryukyus have opened their doors to the Japanese elite, the military of the Ryukyus has provided opportunities for the ambitious samurai in Japan, and the Fuso Bank has invested heavily in Japan to do good, which can greatly confuse the Japanese people......"
"In three or four years, a trend will surely be formed in Japan, that is, the civil and military elites will all leave the Ryukyus, and the Ryukyus will definitely offer a price that these people cannot refuse......"
"When those people find out that only by following Xiao Lotian can they realize their ambitions in life and display their talents, how many people do you think will go back?"
"Exquisite, with one hand to siphon off the financial resources of the Fusang Bank, and with the other hand to use the opportunity of higher education and employment to kidnap talents, what a cow's desperate plan! I'm really looking forward to it now, I want to see what our majesty has made Xiao Letian's education look like......