Chapter 54: The Difficulty of Scale (11)
"Knotted rope notes? I've heard that before! β
"When can you use the "Xinhua Dictionary" to publish a new version of traditional Chinese?"
"It turned out that the whole crowd was smashed by a bunch of smashes!"
"I said that Hong Xiuquan said that he was the king of heaven, how do I think Du Du is a real immortal?"
"What nonsense! The Governor is a ...... It's a ...... He's a reader! β
"The most annoying thing about the governor is whether the scholar is good?"
"Then TM recognizes a few broken characters and claims to be a reader? Bullshit! Will they farm or will they fight? Do you know how to make fire or how to govern the country? There is not a good thing for readers! β
"We are Chinese, China has benefits, we have benefits." The big river has no water, and the small river is dry! β
"Only by destroying China's enemies can we live a comfortable life."
"China's enemies must be eradicated! Men and thieves are not separated! We Chinese and China's enemies will never have the possibility of coexistence! β
As the course of the plenary session of the Liberation Society progressed step by step, various kinds of remarks boiled throughout the Liberation Society.
We are Chinese! We are a unified Chinese nation! We are all descendants of Yan and Huang! China is our motherland! We love our homeland! We have an obligation to defend the Motherland!
The concept of the modern nation is an either/or concept, and if we look at it from the perspective of historical materialism and the "imaginary community", this concept is actually a very unscientific concept. However, the idea is very simple and straightforward, so simple that anyone can understand it.
"Any idea is not just thrown out and settled, it must be supported by a matching system. Now that we have combined the concept of a modern nation-state with the program of land nationalization, we need to come up with a system of land granting laws. Wei Ze said frankly at the meeting of the Central Committee of the Liberation Society.
The concept of modern state is a very interesting thing, Wei Ze was still a second teenager in high school, and when he went to college, the moment the "feeling" of taking himself as the core of the world was shattered, Wei Ze suddenly realized that he was actually a "Chinese". This feeling is very interesting, "Chinese" people mean an absolute identity, that is, the identification of friend and foe, the identification of a position. For children in the rebellious period, it is only worth pursuing self-realization. For young people who have gone through the rebellious period, they need a sense of self-identity. Undoubtedly, "I am a Chinese" is a highly credible and feasible self-identification.
I am a Chinese, which means that everyone outside China is a "foreigner", and there is a natural distinction between Chinese and foreigners. In the 21st century, in an era of considerable globalization, there is still a distinction between Chinese capital and foreign capital, between a Chinese-dominated world and a foreign-led world. In 1856, this distinction was undoubtedly more relevant.
Why did the British ignore the fact that the big tobacco was poisoning the physical and mental health of the Chinese, even if they did not hesitate to go to war, they had to ensure the British cigarette trade. An explanation that can be easily understood is that "British people are foreigners"!
Why did the British demand reparations for the cession of land after defeating the Manchu regime, because "the British are foreigners!" β
Why did the Manchu Qing Dynasty disregard the fundamental interests of the Chinese in the light of the harm caused by the big tobacco, in order to be able to collect that huge tobacco tax, so they agreed with the deposit of the big tobacco trade. Because the Manchus were Yidi, and the Manchus were not China.
Who is our enemy and who is our friend! Modern nationalism uses very simple and straightforward theories to come up with theories and conclusions that are very easy to understand and accept.
Wei Ze himself was deeply influenced by the concept of historical materialism, but he was still an absolute minority in the face of thousands of members of the Liberation Society, tens of thousands of members of the Liberation Governor's Office, and tens of millions of people in Liangguang. Wei Ze wanted to lead the Restoration Society, the Governor's Mansion, and the people of Liangguang, not because he put forward theories that these people could not understand, but because he put forward theories that could be understood and agreed by these people, and because Wei Ze represented the interests of these people, so that he could get support.
"What the Governor's Mansion has to do is to expel the Tartars and recover China! If you don't have a broom, the dust won't run away on its own! β
"Who is our friend and who is our enemy! This is the key question of the revolution! β
"Get up! Get up! Get up! The Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time! β
Wei Ze spared no effort to propagate the modern nation-state theory of salvation and survival, and while carrying out these propaganda, Wei Ze also did corresponding propaganda, "Every Chinese who identifies with the motherland and every China that identifies with the Chinese nation is a part of China and the Chinese people." The new China we want to build is made up of these people. Comrades, we must keep this in mind! β
"The Workers' and Peasants' Alliance is the foundation of our Restoration Society, and all those who agree with the program of the Liberation Society and accept the policy of nationalizing land must incorporate it into the new China we want to build!"
"The land grant system must be seriously implemented, this is not a system in which a few people or a certain group of people control the land, but the basis for all Chinese to benefit from it in the future!"
Wei Ze has understood the core of politics and political parties, and that politics is to determine the difference between the dominant positions of various classes in society and various social strata in society, so the purpose of political parties is more straightforward, and political parties should become political groups that dominate social leadership.
For Wei Ze, he needed to have a hard time increasing the number of comrades who agreed with the political philosophy of the Restoration Society and supported the actions of the Liberation Society. The move to expand the size of the party was very difficult. On the other hand, when the Liberation Society was composed of people who had awakened their class consciousness, and when the Party was deeply rooted in the land of China, no organization could eliminate the Liberation Society from the outside.
In Wei Ze's opinion, this meeting may have been held a year ago, but at that time he was still holding the title of King Qi of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Tianjing Incident certainly caused great confusion among Wei Ze's followers, erasing the divine projection on the head of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, and making everyone instinctively surround Wei Ze. However, the ideological reconstruction is far from complete and has not even begun.
Wei Ze once agreed with Cheng DΓΉ's idealistic attitude of "how big the heart is, how big the world is", but the reality has profoundly educated Wei Ze. Material is always primary, and in the face of chaos, the panic of death that comes from life, and the rejection of insecurity, can make subordinates instinctively condense in a small environment that can make them feel at ease. However, the ideas that originate from them can be far less direct and quick than the reactions. In other words, in the face of unknown changes, the material is completely above the spiritual.
The Manchus paid no less attention to Wei Ze than they did to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was called "Cantonese bandits" by the Manchus, because the first few major leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were Cantonese, and now this group of Liberation Army that broke away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has just returned to Guangdong, which has the meaning of returning to their hometown. The southward Guangfu Governorate did not gain a foothold in Guangdong, as the Manchus thought, but quickly quelled the rebellion in Guangdong, and even extended its hand to Guangxi. At this time, Guangxi's main military forces had been transferred to the Yangtze River Valley, and no force could return to Guangdong to attack the Guangfu Army.
Emperor Xianfeng was worried about this, but at this time, the attitudes of the three ministers he cared about were unprecedentedly unanimous. All three of them believed that between the Liberation Army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, what was even more difficult was the power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As long as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is eliminated, all forces can be gathered to go south and wipe out the Guangfu army in one fell swoop.
In fact, this is not necessarily a real comparison between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Liberation Army, but more realistically the issue of the territory occupied by the two sides. After the Taiping Rebellion, it still controlled the vast area of Huainan. This area alone provided a steady stream of energy to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Jiang Zhongyuan, the governor of Anhui, put forward in a clear-cut manner, "If you don't recapture Huainan, you can't destroy the Guangdong bandits!" β
Emperor Xianfeng only had to look at the map to understand how correct this strategy was. Although the diversion of the Yellow River caused a huge psychological shock to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Emperor Xianfeng still gave Jiang Zhongyuan greater support, hoping that this feudal official who started with the suppression of bandits could realize his strategic plan of retaking Huainan as soon as possible.
"Jiang Gong, are we going to wait. This time to attack Shouzhou, Huo Qiang is not ready! "Suzhou Governor Li Hongzhang was very cautious in making a decision to Jiang Zhongyuan.
Jiang Zhongyuan shook his head calmly, "I can't wait!" We already have a thousand fire cap guns this time, and if we wait any longer, we can only make the Cantonese bandits in Shouzhou even more powerful. Now that Shouzhou has been lost for three years, if Shouzhou cannot be recaptured this year, then who else in the place will feel that they are the people of the Qing Dynasty? β
The strategic location of Shouzhou is too important, and if you master Shouzhou, you will be able to support each other with Fengyang and other places, and then maintain the Huai River defense line.
After beating Wei Ze and moving south, the Taiping army's offensive to cross the Huai River to the north finally stopped, and Jiang Zhongyuan finally dared to start the southward attack. In addition to carrying out military strikes against the Taiping army, Jiang Zhongyuan also began to implement a policy of surrender against the Taiping army. Although there are not many people who take refuge, some of them are literati who once followed Wei Ze in Huainan. The information they brought made Jiang Zhongyuan startled.
Wei Ze once designed a complete set of strategies of "guarding the river and guarding the Huai", and Wei Ze did not treat this strategy as a great secret. At least in Weese's opinion, this was just a basic knowledge that he was familiar with.
The correctness of this strategy, especially the rationality of Weeser's design, is the reason why many "people of insight" are willing to follow Weeser. As long as this strategy can be implemented smoothly, at least it will be a situation between the north and the south. The literati defected to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there was a result.
The Tianjing Rebellion completely shattered the illusions of these "people of insight", Wei Ze, the actual executor of this strategy, ran away, and Yang Xiuqing, the supreme supporter of this strategy, was killed along with his subordinates. The upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had abandoned this strategy.
If there is no future to see, then it is time for everyone to break up!
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