"There are three things to do now, the first is to guard the territory we occupy, not only to prevent the Qing army from coming in, but also to prevent Shi Dakai from fighting back. If Shi Dakai tries to enter our territory, we must beat him out! Wei Ze's words are categorical, and both his attitude and stance seem murderous.

Everyone who participated in the meeting of the Central Committee of the General Staff was quite surprised, Lei Hu had just rushed from Shaoguan to Foshan to attend the meeting, he said: "Dudu, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is very weak, and the good led by Shi Dakai is also the elite of the Heavenly Kingdom, will he lose?" ”

"I don't know if Shi Dakai will lose, but he can't win. For the current Shi Dakai, if he can't win, he will lose. Weeser's words were flat and straightforward.

"Dudu, can you stop playing dumb riddles?" Wei Changrong also put forward his opinions without subtlety.

This straightforward analysis is Wei Ze's carefully condensed language, but he didn't expect to be evaluated by Wei Changrong like this, but Wei Ze was very thick-skinned, and he laughed: "Shi Dakai wants to win now, or he himself has embarked on a path where he has no choice but to win." If Shi Dakai hadn't fled from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he would naturally have won well in Zhejiang, and if he didn't win, there would be a way out. The purpose of his exodus from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was for the better, not for the worse. Therefore, Shi Dakai must take Zhejiang. What happens if you only pursue the goal without focusing on the process? It was all too clear when we fought the British. ”

When the generals listened, they already understood what Wei Ze meant, and when Wei Ze used the example of beating the British, everyone naturally knew better. When fighting the British, the troops were more interested in winning the war, but they did not comprehensively outperform the training of the British. In the end, it was a pyrrhic victory. Shi Dakai's attack on Zhejiang is also underprepared, but he must strive for a complete victory, and the result will naturally not be optimistic.

"But the Hunan army is very weak, and the Qing army in Zhejiang is only afraid that it is not as good as the Hunan army." Lei Hu put forward his opinion.

Wei Ze said with a smile: "Strength and weakness are a relative concept, and against our Guangfu Army, the Hunan Army is indeed very weak. But such an army was able to defeat Jiujiang, which was guarded by 20,000 people. It can be seen that the Taiping Army is not a strong army. The Taiping Army and the Hunan Army are troops of this level, who are a little stronger in battle, a large factor is waved on the spot, and there is no doubt about what will happen. ”

Lei Hu thought about the British army, and then thought about the Hunan army, and accepted Wei Ze's point of view.

Wei Ze continued: "Since Shi Dakai must win, his bottom line is very high. As long as he can't win, he will choose to retreat. Then the more you retreat, the more you can't win, and the more you can't win, the more you have to retreat to a place where you can win. Guangdong is better, separated from Fujian and southern Jiangxi, Shi Dakai may not be able to get here. However, it is more likely that he will go to the south of Hunan and return to his hometown in Guangxi. At that time, I didn't know if Shi Dakai would be obsessed with ghosts, thinking that he could find some victory in us. ”

The more you understand Shi Dakai, the faster the aura that shrouds Shi Dakai will disappear. When Shi Dakai chose to break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Wei Ze felt that he had seen through Shi Dakai. And now, Wei Ze feels that he can finally look at Shi Dakai from the perspective of human nature.

If one's bottom line is too high, the odds of failure are greatly increased. Originally, Wei Ze felt that Shi Dakai made a mistake when he chose to break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Looking at it now, Shi Dakai made a huge mistake at the time of the Tianjing Change. This mistake is not to say that he watched the Heavenly King kill the East King, but that Shi Dakai actually felt that he could control the situation after the Tianjing Change. Since then, Shi Dakai has forced himself into a position where he must win and cannot lose.

Although Yang Xiuqing failed in the Tianjing Rebellion, from a strategic point of view, when Yang Xiuqing was in charge of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was still able to accept some failures. At this time, Shi Dakai couldn't accept defeat. Any failure would peel off Shi Dakai's aura very quickly. The feathered phoenix is not as good as a chicken, this is simply a word customized for Shi Dakai.

Retracting his thoughts, Wei Ze said: "The second thing is to guard all roads leading to Jiangxi, and never allow the epidemic to enter Guangdong. ”

Although the epidemic in Jiangxi is mainly in the north and central parts of Jiangxi, Wei Ze is very nervous in his heart. As a person from New China, where has Wei Ze seen the pandemic. The worst epidemic he knows is just a **. The tumultuous China is a plague that the whole world is boiling, and how many people have died? According to intelligence, tens of thousands of people have died in Jiangxi so far. This number really scared Weser away.

The Governor's Office quickly came up with a policy. Knowledge about hygiene and epidemic prevention also began to spread in the army and in the cities. Washing hands, drinking boiled water, and a lot of content about it began to be posted on special billboards on the streets of the city.

"Governor, will this cause the panic of our Guangdong people?" Bi Qingshan, the governor of Guangdong Province, is very worried about this.

"This kind of thing will definitely happen, so what is there to be afraid of?" Weeser replied very, very "low-key". Without universal vaccination and a better medical environment, the possibility of a plague in the area controlled by the Guangfu Governor is not low. If you measure it from the perspective of several decades, it can be said that it will definitely explode. In this case, Weeser felt that there was no need to hide anything at all.

Bi Qingshan said anxiously: "Dudu, wash your hands before and after eating, and drink boiling water." These are all things that should be done, but you openly say that if you encounter a sick person, you should immediately report it to the Governor's Office, and the infected people will be isolated and treated by professionals. Please think twice about this! ”

"I think it's better for us to be prepared for now." Weeser said.

Bi Qingshan persuaded: "Governor, you should naturally prepare, but the people listen to the wind and rain." You say you're going to prepare for an epidemic, and they think they've already broken out with a plague. If someone takes the opportunity to spread rumors, I am afraid that the situation will be difficult to clean up. I should be prepared for the same, but don't say anything. ”

Wei Ze agreed with Bi Qingshan's words in his heart, but because he was far away from Wei Ze's original idea, he also felt a little embarrassed. So Wei Ze smiled: "Comrade Qingshan, what you said is good. It's just that I think you're a little afraid to move the crowd. ”

"Move the masses?" Bi Qingshan hadn't heard much of this word, so he was stunned and didn't know what to say.

"Just do as you say, right?" Wei Ze didn't dwell on this matter, he first agreed with Bi Qingshan's judgment, and then continued: "Third, we have to do propaganda on the Manchu side. No matter how great the effect is, the effort that should be spent cannot be saved. The main point of our propaganda is that the Manchus could not defeat the foreign devils, and they were incompetent people who lost their power and humiliated the country. ”

"Isn't this the expulsion of the Tartars and the restoration of China? If the Manchu Qing is criticized for losing power and humiliating the country, isn't that an acknowledgment that the Manchu Qing is the imperial court? Wu Qilu, the former head of the political department, asked.

Wei Ze was very satisfied with this objection, "Expelle the Tatars and restore China." This is propaganda on our own territory, we are the imperial court on our own territory, and we want to fight outside and conquer the whole world. However, in the current territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the common people feel that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still the imperial court, so we must try to make the local people question the legitimacy and rationality of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Let's really say that the common people have been oppressed for thousands of years, and they don't care who the court is. We have limited propaganda power at the moment, so we can only promote it to people who have read books. Then the content of the propaganda must be that the Manchus were defeated by the foreigners, losing power and humiliating the country. ”

Most members of the Central Committee actually couldn't understand such a complicated propaganda issue, and Wu Qilu only asked based on his own experience. Wei Ze's explanation was so clear, Wu Qilu had no reason to continue to object. Wei Ze asked the personnel department to recommend a few people who were responsible for this matter, and it was Wei Ze's business to set the tone, but it was impossible for Wei Ze to do it himself. Let Wei Ze do all these things, then just tire him to death.

When the three things are arranged, the meeting is over. Weeser continued to go to the steelmaking mill to participate in the project, and the reverberatory furnace was finally built, but without the continued guidance of British technicians, the ten furnaces still failed to produce steel. On the contrary, it is an open hearth furnace used in real yàn, although the quality of the steel is not good, but at least it can ensure the level of steel produced by two furnaces and one furnace. Recently, three furnaces in a row have been steeled. As long as he could start tapping, he could start manufacturing cylinders, stilt rods and other components of steam engines. With the steam engine, there was the steamboat. Wei Ze thought that his steamship would use a second or even triple expansion steam engine in the future, and at that time it would be able to cross the western Pacific Ocean and completely cut off the clutches of the British to China. If you want to accomplish such a feat, you must first turn China into an industrial country. As far as Weeser knew, all the industrialized nations used steel to build their backbones.

The next day, the personnel department submitted a name to Weeser, and that was the person in charge of external publicity. Wei Ze didn't say anything, but directly approved it and let this comrade named Zhang Bingzhao start working.

On the third day, when Wei Ze and the technicians were modifying the production process and waiting for the new furnace of steel to come out, Bi Qingshan came to Wei Ze to talk about farm tools. At this time, it was already August, and the agricultural tools of the supply and marketing cooperatives were extremely popular, and the production plan was changed again and again.

After talking about work, Bi Qingshan couldn't help but ask: "Governor, have you seen Zhang Bingzhao?" ”

"I haven't seen it." Weese replied.

"You'd better see each other, then." Bi Qingshan gave such a Jianyì.

When Bi Qingshan left, Wei Ze still felt a little strange in his heart, did Bi Qingshan agree with Zhang Bingzhao or not? However, it is always difficult for people to resist their nature, and the attributes of the Weizer engineering dog are quickly made. Completely forgetting Bi Qingshan's words, Wei Ze's entire attention was focused on what he considered to be the most important work of open-hearth steelmaking at the moment.

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