Chapter 33: Purging (7)

On June 2o, 1855, the latest news about the Tiandihui arrived in the city of Guangzhou. At the beginning of May, after the Tiandihui withdrew from the siege of Guangzhou, the total number of Tiandihui troops that had reached more than 40,000 people was left with nearly 30,000 left.

Internal divisions arose among the leaders who commanded the 30,000-strong force. Chen Kai and Li Wenmao led the main force to Zhaoqing first, and joined up with Liang Peiyou, another Tiandihui rebel army. Then he led more than 1,000 warships, traced the Xijiang River and sailed straight into Guangxi, attacking Wuzhou along the way, and then bypassing Wuzhou and breaking through Tengxian County, and arrived outside the city of Xunzhou on June 5. The rebel army adopted the "cave siege method", but failed. He also sent troops to guard the mouth of the Dahuang River, trying to deprive the Qing army of food in Xunzhou City.

Xunzhou Prefecture governs four counties of Guiping, Pingnan, Guixian and Wuxuan. There is Jintian Village under the rule of Guiping County, where the Taiping Rebellion broke out. Jintian Village is located at the southern foot of Bauhinia Mountain, more than 50 miles north of Guiping County. This is the hometown of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Wei Ze was also greatly surprised by the swift movements of Chen Kai and Li Wen.

Chen Xianliang, the leader of the other Heaven and Earth Society, did not choose Wei Ze either, taking advantage of the opportunity that Wei Ze had conquered many cities along the way, but there was no one left to defend him. Chen Xianliang went straight from Guangdong to Jiangxi. The latest news is that this force has occupied Ganzhou, and there are signs of staying in Ganzhou.

"Are we just so unwelcome?" Weeser couldn't help but complain. It stands to reason that this complaint is actually very unreasonable. Because in Wei Ze's instructions, the attitude of Heaven and Earth as a potential enemy is only clearly written. But the situation that the world would run to and run to the original did not appear, and Wei Ze felt as if he had been despised again.

Luo Xuan hurriedly persuaded: "Governor, the Heaven and Earth Society was beaten away by the landlord's group training, and they should have had their own plans a long time ago." Presumably they were just going according to the original plan. ”

This is true, and Wei Ze can't help but hold the action of the Heaven and Earth Association to leave Guangdong. Soon, Weeser turned his mind to the current situation. The failure of the Heaven and Earth Society troops to capture Wuzhou City was news that made Wei Ze feel a lot more relieved. Wuzhou is a strategic place for Wei Ze to aspire to. Regardless of the opinions of these people of the Heaven and Earth Society, Wei Ze was determined to win this city located above the waterway. He asked: "If we send troops to attack Wuzhou now, will there be a problem of insufficient troops to defend Guangzhou?" ”

At present, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no more than one million troops, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also has nearly 200,000 troops. Weeser's troops were well-equipped, well-trained, and brave and good at fighting. The number of troops that can be used as combat troops is only a little more than 50,000. The Pearl River Delta has more than 50,000 square kilometers, and more than 50,000 people and horses are scattered on it. It is obviously unrealistic to use military force to suppress the populous Pearl River Delta.

Without strong grassroots capabilities, Wei Ze could only occupy a part of the main points. There is basically no chance that the attack on Wuzhou will fail, but this also means that Wei Ze's forces will be further diluted. Tens of thousands of Tiandihui troops were beaten by the landlords' regiment and became untenable in Guangdong, and had to run to the neighboring Guangxi and Jiangxi. Wei Ze was also worried that if he was a big one, he would end up making a joke about the siege of Guangzhou City.

"Our First Army sent a division to attack Wuzhou, and after defeating it, we used a brigade to defend Wuzhou. Probably about the same. Wei Changrong replied.

"If Wuzhou can't become a recruiting base for our army, let us collect a large number of troops from Guangxi in Wuzhou, then it is meaningless to capture Wuzhou." Weese replied.

"I'm willing to go to Wuzhou." Luo Xuan said.

"I'm willing to go to Wuzhou." Nguyen Hee Ho also replied.

"Commander Ruan, let you go to Wuzhou, can you scare the Tujia to death?" Weeser said. Wei Ze is from Guangxi, and he is well aware of the fierce contradictions between the Turks and Hakka in Guangxi, and when Wei Ze considered educating the troops, he wanted to focus on the position of the rulers of the contradictions between the Turks and Hakka. Ruan Xihao's origin, Wei Ze is too familiar. It was when Wei Ze led his troops to fight in Wuzhou that he led Ruan Xihao to slaughter the Tujia town of Wujia, and the Hakka forces in the local area completely overwhelmed the Tujia.

After the troops captured the city of Guangzhou, the intelligence officers had already gone to Wujiazhen to contact at this time. The news I got was quite "exciting". The Hakka villages slaughtered Wujia Town, and after occupying the fortified town of Wujia Town, they attacked everywhere with this as the center. A large number of Hakka forces around have joined in, killing the nearby Tujia corpses all over the field, and the blood is flowing like a river, forcing the Tujia to run away from here.

If Ruan Xihao is sent to Wuzhou, after defeating Wuzhou, Ruan Xihao will raise his arms and shout, thinking that the Hakka will immediately flock to respond. The final result is inevitably that the Hakka with the support of the Liberation Army will be the king and hegemon in Wuzhou, and act recklessly. If such a result were to be achieved in the end, Wei Zeningken Wuzhou would remain in the hands of the Manchus for the time being.

Wei Ze pondered for a moment and then said, "Comrades, we are going to defeat the Manchus, not the Tujia. What we want to build is a Lang Langqi Qiankun, but whether it is a Tujia or a Hakka, they can live a good life. But it is not to kill the Tujia family, or the Hakka will ride on the head of the Tujia from now on. If we end up like that, what is the difference between us and the Manchus? ”

Unlike in the past, the civil and military officials of the Governor's Mansion were silent for the time being. After a while, Wei Changrong spoke, "Dudu, our Hakka people have suffered so much from the Tujia family, and they have killed so many people, I think the Tujia people are unreliable." ”

Wei Ze smiled bitterly: "I said Comrade Changrong, how many Tujia people have we killed?" Other comrades may not be clear enough, but the two of us should know better than anyone else, right? If we return to our hometown, I think the Tujia people will think that we are unreliable. ”

Wei Ze and Wei Changrong, as the rising martial arts stars of the Hakka back then, had too many lives in their hands. The two of them have killed too many people, but they don't have the ability to completely reverse the balance of power between the Turks near their hometown. The government offered a heavy reward for Wei Ze and Wei Changrong's heads, and the Hakka refused to lag behind, not only with a reward, but also specially organized a team to hunt and kill the two. Although the local Hakka did not betray these two people, they also made trouble to the point that they did not dare to accept these two killing gods.

When Wei Ze's position is completely on the Hakka position, such a result may be called the glory of the two. Now that Wei Ze is standing in the position of the future ruler of Liangguang, this identity is quite embarrassing. If there were no more changes in the troops, but instead followed the general Hakka position, it could only set off a more ferocious storm of slaughter in Guangxi.

Wei Ze originally thought that he could take his time and come calmly in political education, but he didn't expect that politics was deeply integrated with society, and it was not because Wei Ze wanted to deliberately avoid political problems that he would not encounter political problems.

There was no way, Wei Ze could only start political education. Before doing this work, Weeser felt a strong sense of comical. Originally, he felt that he relied on strong strength to fight the world, but now he looks at it, a considerable part of the strong strength is advanced political concepts. However, at this time, Wei Ze felt that he still had a better environment at this time, at least there was no landlord element in the army, and the concept of the landlord class had very limited influence in Wei Ze's army.

The biggest difference between New China and other countries is that New China believes that every one of its citizens is the future reserve army of the ruling class, so the curriculum is completely set up for the ruling class. New China was afraid that the people would not have enough understanding of politics, so they set up political courses from junior high school, and all the way to graduate students, they had to take political exams. This is completely different from the pig-like national education in foreign countries.

Weeser has seen a news that the hardcore old right-wingers of the 6O and 7O years in the United States lamented that with the political situation in the United States in the 21st century, their apologists and builders of the most loyal capitalist system in the 6o and 7O years have become outright **. In the 6O and 7O years of the 2O century, the United States actually had to admit that there were class contradictions. Proponents of the capitalist system believe that the capitalist system is the only way to solve social contradictions. However, in the 21st century, the political standards of the United States are concise and to the point, and whoever admits the existence of class contradictions and class struggles is undoubtedly the first to exist.

Wei Ze is very familiar with Guangxi, where the productivity is not up to the mark, and there is a situation in which multiple levels of productivity coexist at the same time, and a variety of systems suitable for the level of productivity coexist. Although it is quite sad that slavery still existed in Guangxi, China in 1855, there are facts to base it on, and it is much easier to talk about politics.

China in the 21st century is in a stage of extremely rapid industrial development, and the theory that productivity is the greatest driving force of society is extremely easy to agree. Wei Ze began with the backward productive forces of the Yao people in the mountainous areas and the slavery system that was compatible with these productive forces, and then the various corresponding levels of productive forces and the corresponding social systems and social customs living in the mountainous areas.

After all, Wei Ze's troops had traveled thousands of miles on an expedition, and there were officers and soldiers from Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, and Guangxi, as well as a small number of officers and soldiers from Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan. From the mountains to the plains, from the south to the north, from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, from the Yangtze River to the Pearl River. It's really a walk of thousands of miles to read thousands of miles. As a reserve army of the ruling class with a full set of exam-oriented education, Weeser has a lot to say.

The so-called linking theory with practice, although the content of Wei Ze's course is actually very deep, there are a large number of examples, everyone has seen too many things with their own eyes, experienced too many things personally, and the upper level accepts Wei Ze's ideas much faster than imagined. At least the productive forces, the relations of production, and the social system, the relationship between these three is very easy to accept.

With this foundation, Wei Ze doesn't need to guide himself at all, and naturally a question arises, which class will become the spokesperson of the Restoration Governor's Mansion established by Wei Ze. Whether it represents the interests of the landlords or the tenant farmers or small peasants and middle peasants, the interests of the Tujia people, or the interests of the Hakka people who are generally oppressed.

Even if Weezer didn't want to talk about this complicated issue, the world he was talking about as it really was for the members of the Governor's Mansion to find a place for themselves. Otherwise, their mighty military force would now be isolated from this society.

In the end, Weeser could only say one word, "I'm going to take you to a new world that you have never imagined, a world that you couldn't even dream of." But I now ask you to obey my orders unconditionally, can you do it? ”

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