In August 1853, it reached Shouzhou in the north, Anqing in the south, Dabie Mountain in the west, and Chuzhou in the east. In almost the entire central Anhui region, Wei Ze's subordinates began to carry out the final action.

As a temporary worker, Shen Xin got the news at the end of July that his salary in August and September doubled, from four taels to eight taels. However, the excitement did not last long, and the work like a mountain came to my face.

From the south to the north, the taxes of each village had to be sent down. First, they were worried that some landlords would dare to resist, and if there were troops going down, they could immediately suppress them. Second, they were worried that if they did not send people down, the landlords would play old tricks and pass on the tax burden to the tenant farmers. In the newly defected troops to Weizer, peasants from poor backgrounds accounted for the vast majority, and how could such a poor army stand on the position of the landlord and the old wealth. The third is that the troops hope that this tax can be used as a standard. The amount of tax in the future is probably at this level.

When Shen Xin and the team arrived at the first village, they saw the poor people coming back from afar. As a casual civil servant who understands culture, Shen Xin is responsible for posting notices and reading the contents to the people. The specific administrative work made Shen Xin extremely unhappy. These things haven't changed at all, and they were repeated less than a month ago. But the people were as if they had never heard of it.

"Sir! Did you say that last time? That's a good way for the people to put it.

"Sir! Our family's xxx is in our army! "There is never a shortage of people who pull relationships.

"Sir! How do I remember saying that last time! "Some people just try to mess around.

"Who do you bluff? Do you dare to xxx? "There are also some guys with ulterior motives who start to provoke.

"Sir! Here xxx is talking nonsense to you, and he has done xxx things! "Others began to snitch.

At the end of each day's work with the people, there is a work summary meeting. All kinds of reactions are summarized, and the sinister nature of the human heart is also explored in these summaries and discussions.

One of the core points of Weeser's actions against the troops was, "Take me first!" "The people's statements, perceptions, and even incitements differ from Weese's orders.

"We can't do anything that doesn't require discipline!" The captain Bi Qingshan was also annoyed, and he yelled at the staff attending the meeting with a bad attitude.

"How do we tell them! I've promised a few things. A member of the working group shouted.

Shen Xin tried his best to keep steady on his face, but he was very disappreciative in his heart, and before he could say anything, the people below dared to agree, which was too bold.

Captain Bi Qingshan had a straight face, "What do you say, I'll give you two an explanation." The first one is that he said that he didn't know some of the rules at all, so he said a big thing to the fellows! If you feel that you can't hold your face, then you can choose the second statement, just say that you really want to do things for your fellow countrymen, but your captain is a big bad guy, and he won't agree! ”

Although Bi Qingshan had a straight face and looked quite scared, Shen Xin couldn't hold back his laughter when he said this. This Bi Qingshan's mind is too big, and he can calmly let his subordinates pour dirty water on his head.

Bi Qingshan glared at Shen Xin, and then turned to the other team members, "You guys remember it clearly for me, we now have clear rules and regulations, black and white, ......oh white and black!" If you don't know what to say, read me these rules, these policies! I don't care what you say in the past, how round you are, how you push. But there is one thing, if any of you dares to agree to anything that is not in this policy, you should find a way to solve it for me! ”

Because as a temporary worker, Shen Xin is not a core member. And this mentality also allows Shen Xin to handle work with the mentality of "being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day", and under the protection of this mentality, Shen Xin has a lot of fun in the process of completing the work. Those who once commanded in the countryside are now forced to bow their heads. When they were forced to pay grain according to the number of acres, they wanted to laugh at the same time, but because of the pain in their flesh, the smile and the painful expression merged. When they signed the checked account books, almost all the landlord gentry cried loudly.

There is pain, reluctance, grievance, and a feeling of humiliation in this cry. Shen Xin privately felt that this humiliation was probably because they had never handed over food to people outside the government, and the current regime of the Taiping Army was undoubtedly not regarded as an official government by the landlords and gentry.

Although the collection of grain is the main task, it is not without any internal problems. During Shen Xin's unit, there were two incidents of dealing with insiders. There was a small leader in the army who tried to give his subordinates extra treatment, but after the captain refused, he made some small moves by himself. The results were found out.

Even as a temporary worker, Shen Xin was ordered to participate in the trial. Bi Qingshan stared at the two little leaders who looked a little unconvinced, and turned his head to ask a question to the team members participating in the trial, "Can military law be disobeyed?" ”

"Of course you can't disobey!" The team members all replied. Even if Shen Xin didn't dare to answer, he knew the correct answer.

The captain continued to ask: "Then have I conveyed the order of the General Staff, this time we are paying taxes on the finished food, and we are practicing military law." Have I let everyone see the order of the General Staff! ”

"I've seen it!" The team shouted.

"I haven't seen it!" Shen Xin replied in his heart. As a temporary worker, he is not qualified to see this kind of thing. And after realizing this, Shen Xin couldn't help but feel a little unhappy.

"Now that I've seen it, there are so many people now who have disobeyed the military order for me!" After Bi Qingshan finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the two little leaders who looked very unconvinced, "You two must have read the text, so how dare you disobey the military order!" ”

"Captain, those two families do have grievances!" Even at this point, the two small leaders did not mean to be convinced.

Waving his hand impatiently, Bi Qingshan shouted: "I don't talk about their grievances, what I'm talking about is that you dare to disobey military orders!" Do you know what's wrong? ”

"Me! We shouldn't disobey military orders and make our own decisions! The two little leaders seemed to be a little subdued.

Bi Qingshan didn't talk as Shen Xin thought, and after taking advantage of the reason, he chattered endlessly, and he didn't make up accusations. Bi Qingshan said: "We are not on the battlefield, so those who disobey the military order will be beaten with ten sticks!" If you still do this next time, you can only double it! ”

After beating the military stick, the captain Bi Qingshan said again to the people under him: "The military order cannot be violated, this is the rule." No one can do what they want in private! ”

However, this matter was not as intense as Shen Xin thought, less than a day, Shen Xin happened to see Bi Qingshan and the two small leaders who were beaten walking together, talking and laughing together, it seems that the matter of beating the military stick was uncovered like this.

Grain began to be transported from the villages, like a trickle, gradually gathering and becoming more and more things. The Taiping army had already prepared its own preparations, some of which were transported by six routes, and more by ship. And the direction of grain delivery is even more in all directions.

In September, when the double salary of eight taels of silver, as well as the bonus of two taels, were handed over to Shen Xin, Shen Xin not only did not feel how much money there was, but felt that his harvest was compared with labor, and he felt that he had a big loss.

September 5, 1853, Shouzhou.

"There is a Zhu Yuanzhang in Fengyang, and there are nine years of famine in ten years......" Fengyang's drum team is singing.

Wei Ze, who led the troops to Lu'an, and the cavalry troops arrived in Shouzhou first, and it was still a day or two before they arrived in Shouzhou, and the brigade escorted a large amount of food and supplies. When Wei Ze passed through the small and simple residential area outside the city, he heard the most commonly sung flower drum words in this Fengyang flower drum.

Snorted slightly, but Wei Ze didn't make any comments. The meaning of this hub word is not literal. In the relevant historical commentary that Wei Ze saw, Fengyang's natural environment was far less bad. It's just that the local bureaucrats in Fengyang played with the common methods of officialdom back then, in order to repay the emperor, so Fengyang was smooth every year. Since the wind and rain are smooth, there is naturally no problem of not being able to harvest grain. As a result, the life of the people of Fengyang is just like in "The Snake Catcher Says", the government is harsh and fiercer than the tiger!

** tragedy is often better than natural disasters, in the flower drum play of the people of Fengyang, it has become a disaster for nine years in ten years.

For the Huai River in 1853, Wei Ze really didn't feel this way. Compared with the Huai River in New China, the current Huai River can be called Tianhe. Jiang Guangtou blew up the Huayuankou embankment and rolled the Yellow River southward, causing the ecology between the Yellow River and the Huai River to be almost destroyed. Swamps, saline-alkali land, and overhanging rivers on the ground have put a heavy burden on New China. Until Wei Ze crossed, more than half a century passed, and the Huai River was not completely governed.

And back in the Qing Dynasty, although the current Huaihai is not too good, it is far better than the Huaihe River inherited by New China. However, Wei Ze ordered people to translate a lot of water conservancy materials. He saw another strange thing. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers went south. Du Chong dug up the dam of the Yellow River in an attempt to hold back the Jin army with floodwaters. As you can imagine, the confrontation did not play a dime effect, but drowned 2o million people, and the entire lower reaches of the Yellow River became a disaster area, and floods continued for hundreds of years. Du Chong single-handedly changed the flow direction of the Yellow River and the geography of the middle and lower reaches!! He's not fighting alone!!

This bald Du Chong's personality is also very similar to that of a bald head, and both have an extremely brutal temperament. Du Chong, as Zong Ze's successor, how many thieves were turned into rebels when Zong Ze was in office, and how many rebels became thieves after Du Chong took over. The civil anti-gold teams recruited by Zong Ze were all forced to rebel by him.

The capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Tokyo Kaifeng, was in danger, and Du Chong, who was left behind in Tokyo, slipped away with his army, and called him the "King of Qin" in the south, throwing the defense of the capital to the subordinates. As a result, the subordinates also drew gourds in the same way and threw them to the subordinates. The subordinates also follow the same example, and throw it to the subordinates......

After fleeing to the south, Du Chong continued to be entrusted with important tasks. Because he disliked the Privy Council officer who was too young, he pretended to be sick and claimed that he had a stroke. Until he was appointed as the right minister, he immediately jumped out of office with all his spirits.

Enjoying the incomparable grace given by the Song Dynasty, Du Chong learned that after the Jin soldiers crossed the Yangtze River, he immediately surrendered to the enemy as the prime minister, becoming the highest-ranking of those who openly treasoned against the country.

Wei Ze always believed that if it weren't for his American godfather behind the bald head, the bald head would definitely surrender to the Japanese. After reading Du Chong's information, Wei Ze couldn't help but want to believe that some people are traitors in their bones and can be called natural thieves!

But Wei Ze did not immerse himself in the anger brought by history for a long time, and he also had obligations to more realistic people, so he took a deep breath to soothe the feelings, and Wei Ze led the troops into Shouzhou.

Shouzhou was already an important fulcrum on the front line of Wei Ze's confrontation with the Qing army. There is a waterway from Lu'an to Shouzhou, and blocking Shouzhou is equivalent to ensuring that the waterway is unblocked, and it can also push the battle line to the Huai River. The emptiness of the Qing army's forces in Anhui, as well as its slow action, gave Wei Ze great room to act.

Throughout August, Weeser's troops had almost given up preparations for war and were making every effort to implement the "tax payment for the completion of grain" in the control area. This operation was undoubtedly a success, and in the central Anhui region, Wei Ze collected nearly 600 million catties of grain, and if according to the standard of 400 catties of rations for one employee a year, Wei Ze could theoretically feed 150,000 troops.

But this is obviously unrealistic, Wei Ze first has to transport a large amount of grain to Tianjing City. There were about 100,000 horses in Tianjing who needed to eat, and even if the upper reaches could provide a certain amount of food, Wei Ze had no intention of evading his work. If the troops of the Western Expedition had been able to focus more on fighting wars than on levying food, Weeser believed they would have done a better job than they had historically done.

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