"First of all, conscription in Hebei first. Each village must have at least two males over 18 years old and under 22 years old. Make our conditions clear, whose family is a military dependent, and during the three-year service period, the immediate family members do not have to pay taxes. After arriving in Beijing, Wei Ze did not go to live in the Forbidden City, but went to the Old Summer Palace. After setting up the headquarters in the Old Summer Palace, Wei Ze immediately began to arrange the work.

"And then?" A group of Northern Command personnel all took notebooks to record, and Ruan Xihao asked after finishing the memorization.

"The issue of land reform is over for the time being, and then it is the construction of railways and the elimination of the Manchus." Weese replied.

The personnel of the headquarters looked at each other, and everyone didn't expect Wei Ze to put the issue of land reform here so lightly. Ruan Xihao had been following Wei Ze for so long, and he asked, "Dudu, is it too hasty to do this." Our tax system is not in place at all. There is no way to avoid this tax exemption. ”

Weser nodded, "Well, too." Then sue them, whoever joins the army, and then give a family a subsidy of three eagles. ”

Listening to the donkey's answer to the horse's mouth, Ruan Xihao hurriedly said: "Dudu, this is not Latin, what are you doing with money." ”

"There's no one in this place to work with us, so that's not a problem. Bring in these young people, and immediately there will be people to work with. Weser laughed.

"How could they listen to us right away?" Ruan Xihao immediately retorted.

"Of course not for a day or two, you can try again in a month or two. We must work through guò ideology and let these newly recruited comrades become members of our ranks. Let me ask you a question, do you think the children of the landlords will come to serve as soldiers? Weeser explained his train of thought.

"Of course the landlord's child refuses to be a soldier!" This is the common view of the Northern Command. Everyone has been fighting for so long, it is not the landlord armed like the Hunan army, and the landlords are doing their best to avoid having anything to do with the war.

Since the opinions are highly unified, Wei Ze continued to explain, "As the saying goes in the north, a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail. In other words, only young people who are unsatisfactory in the local area, or who are really poor and can't get by, will come to us to serve as soldiers. And what will be the attitude of these people towards the forces of tradition? Have you ever thought about it? ”

Since the Liberation Army began its operations in Anhui, it has actually directly transplanted a fairly advanced formal government system, from taxation to military service. Ruan Xihao and they came into contact with these, so after they arrived in Hebei, they also began to do it step by step. The problem was that the people in the Yangtze River valley were really living in poverty, and everyone was willing to follow after the rebellious army came.

There is a joke in the notes of a certain Manchu literati, it is said that during the Tongzhi period, an imperial envoy read the promotion history of a certain military attaché, and then criticized: "This person is promoted every year, he must have taken some way!" His colleague said to him: "That man is a credit for suppressing the rebellion of the Cantonese bandits." The envoy said, "Cantonese bandits rebelled? I seem to have heard of it, but I have a hairy relationship with this! ”

The veracity of this joke is questionable, but it is also true that the north was very little influenced by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Twist Army once entered Hebei, but soon went to Henan and Shandong to carry out activities, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have the strength to resist when the Guangfu Army entered Hebei, so except for the spontaneous uprisings and struggles of peasants of various sizes throughout the Manchu Dynasty, Hebei did not feel much about the change of dynasty.

However, after all, the comrades in the Northern Command started as a rebel, and as soon as they tasted the meaning of Wei Ze's words, everyone understood a little. Those who had to live in the lower strata of society by being soldiers were the victims of the old era, or at least the oppressed. Two people in each village came out to serve as soldiers, and they didn't look like anything. But if you can really gather this kind of people from all villages in Hebei, it is a powerful force.

"And what are we going to tell them?" Ruan Xihao asked.

Weeser replied: "We must talk about our discipline first, but we should first listen to what they have to say before we educate them in politics. In addition, these troops should not be sent to the front line for the time being, we need manpower to build the railway, and we can just let them do these tasks. If we can get to know more about these fighters, we can actually have a discussion with them to see if they can go to their villages and help us bring in more people to participate in the work. The north is different from our south, as long as there is land in the south, it has not been expropriated and expropriated under normal circumstances, and it can barely survive. But the north is different, and if there is land in the north, it may not be able to survive. Moreover, the north has to have nothing to do for half a year in a year, and the number of laborers that can be brought in is far more than everyone can imagine. ”

Listening to Wei Ze's explanation, Ruan Xihao couldn't help but ask, "Dudu, have you ever been to the north?" ”

Wei Zexin said, I have lived in the north for more than 20 years, if it wasn't for crossing, how could I have gone to that place in Guangxi? It's just that Weese can think so, but he definitely can't say that. He smiled and said, "Travel thousands of miles and read thousands of miles." This book is not necessarily a book on paper, each place will be different from the others, why it is different, even if you don't understand it, at least think about it. Let me ask you one thing, have you noticed the difference in roofs from south to north? ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but nod their heads again and again, the houses in every region of China are different, especially the roof. The reinforced concrete forests that began to emerge in China were a different story, and the roofs changed depending on the climate.

"Of course, that's not our main task right now. The matter of land reform is a work that completely touches on the basic level of society, and it cannot be rushed. However, there is no need for the Manchus to stay, and we will destroy them as soon as possible. And after the elimination of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I was ready to formalize the era name. Everyone, you need to hurry. Weeser quickly moved on to the next topic. Recently, some cultural people have been raising the issue of era names, believing that the use of the Western calendar is too embarrassing to lose the face of the Heavenly Empire. Since everyone mentioned it, Wei Ze also felt that it made sense. Just in time for the First Five-Year Plan, Wei Ze prepared to make 1869 the first year of the Republic of China.

Since it was the first year of the Republic of China, it was necessary to kill the Manchus, otherwise it would be a bit lacking in self-confidence. What's more, the small Manchu court outside the customs is still there, and the Tsarist Russia is afraid that it will not take advantage of the good situation. Another thing is that at the time of the negotiations between China and Britain, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army had already entered Pyongyang. At this time, the capital of Goryeo was already Seoul, and Pyongyang was still an important city in the north of Goryeo. In addition, the situation in Japan also changed greatly, and the Japanese shogunate army began to launch a counteroffensive, and fought fiercely with the shogunate army in the area of Kyoto, losing the support of the Chinese side, and the shogunate army had an unfavorable situation in the war, and finally had to withdraw from Kyoto. At this time, the toppled faction supported the emperor, and the entire situation in Japan was turned upside down. At this time, if it could not quickly control China's northern territories, it would be difficult for China to negotiate effectively with Japan. Weeser didn't really care about building a Republic of Ezo at all.

The situation in Goryeo was not so rosy at this time. In August 1866, the General Shemen incident occurred in Pyongyang, and the American armed merchant ship General Shemen forced its way into the Taedong River in Pyongyang, opened fire indiscriminately, and was finally sunk by Pyongyang soldiers and civilians. The hand of the foreign devil has reached Goryeo at this time, and it is impossible for Wei Ze to take domestic affairs first so leisurely and leisurely.

Of course, it's interesting to see how history has changed. Weser intervened in the sale of Alaska with a heavy attitude, and to Weese's surprise, he made it yellow. Britain said at the time that they didn't like it, and that Russia was selling Alaska because it was worried that the British would seize Alaska. Russia will be worried, and the United States will be worried. There were people in the United States who were dissatisfied with spending a million dollars on the gold standard to buy Alaska, a land where birds don't lay eggs, and China mixed in with it, and finally let the opponents have the upper hand. That's the end of it.

At this time, there was nothing to do with the Russian fleet in the western Pacific, and if the Russians really intervened in China's affairs, China could logically march into Alaska and become a stakeholder in Alaska. At that time, even if a country went to war with China, China could have a very convincing domestic reason. "That's the meat that we China gnawed down, and no one wants to dig it out of China's mouth!"

On the way to Beijing, Wei Ze had already made a good use of his wishful thinking. Now it's time to realize your wishful thinking step by step. Wei Ze stayed in the Old Summer Palace for two nights, and on the third day, Ruan Xihao told Wei Ze a piece of news. On the day Wei Ze arrived in Beijing, the security department caught the spy during an investigation near the city of Beijing. After a few days of torture, the identity of the spies was confirmed, and they were personnel sent by Zeng Guofan. Attempts were made to contact Zeng Guofan's personnel who remained in the liberated areas of the Republic of China.

When he reported the news to Wei Ze, Ruan Xihao was very uneasy in his heart. He knew the importance of secrecy, and after returning to the Northern Military Region, he made a lot of efforts in this regard, and finally made the military region establish a certain degree of secrecy vigilance. Unexpectedly, not long after everyone started doing this, they discovered the Manchu spy network, which proves that the Manchus had made relatively early preparations in these aspects. Before I paid attention, how many spies had infiltrated the liberated areas?

Wei Ze was not so nervous, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not as good as the intelligence work of shit, and the possibility of them making a spy network was equal to zero. There should be scattered personnel, such as Nguyen Hee Ho who reported copying a roster from Tsang Quoc Fan's spies. However, it is not a simple matter to have a spy network with its own complete intelligence and communication capabilities, and the transmission of information alone is a huge problem.

"It's not your fault, the Northern Military Region has discovered the enemy's spies, which means that everyone is working hard." Weser laughed.

Seeing that Wei Ze did not blame, Ruan Xihao finally breathed a sigh of relief. He said with a little hesitation: "Governor, is it better to delay the matter of the big conscription in the north?" ”