Chapter 85: Eastward Overture (17)
"Thou hast coveted myself for wealth and wealth, and thou hast made me the Son of Heaven, and if thou shalt command me, it is okay if you can command me, otherwise, I will not be the Lord!" According to historical records, this is what Zhao Kuangyin said after he was "added to the yellow robe" during the Chenqiao Mutiny.
Wei Ze once had a very low opinion of the emperor, especially the founding emperors, because he felt that these Bs were too hypocritical and hypocritical. When he saw this passage when he read the history books, his evaluation of the founding emperors changed completely. It is said that Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty became the emperor, and his subordinates asked him to enshrine Mount Tai. Liu Xiu scolded: Lao Tzu has been the emperor for so many years, which has made the people in the world boiling, Lao Tzu is now sealing Mount Tai, in order to deceive whom? Lie to God?
Weser did not look down on the peasants, and in the 21st century, the peasants are gradually no longer the object of despisis. The popularization of agricultural technology has made Wei Ze understand that agriculture is a real technology. Thanks to the efforts of China's working people, agriculture has become an art. It is a kind of artistic equilibrium ability that is finally achieved by technology, accumulation, prediction, measurement, and finally achievement.
But Wei Ze really didn't expect that his group of peasant-turned-rebels really had ideals. Even the ideal of the "little paradise" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could make these brothers dare to participate in the revolution to change the dynasty.
The "little paradise" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is undoubtedly the ideal of a small-scale peasant economy, "having food to eat, clothes to wear, land to plough, and money to make; Everywhere is warm, everywhere is uneven". This idea, in the eyes of Weizer, who grew up in industrialized China, is undoubtedly heresy. This is as ridiculous as saying that Marxism is a "communist wife".
The era of industrialization is an era of "survival of the fittest". As a technician of China's large state-owned shipbuilding group, Wei Ze learned this in the group. Britain, the United States, Northern Europe, Japan, and even the South Stick all once led the way, and the Republic began to seize the position of the world's strongest shipbuilding group with great difficulty by relying on brutal market competition.
However, Wei Ze, who is engraved with the spirit of competition in his spiritual genes, is not unable to understand this idea of "everywhere is uneven", and China's shipbuilding industry has also experienced a difficult time, and it was only by the persistence of Wei Ze's father's generation that he survived. Weeser still remembers that when he was young, whenever the state finally provided funds and orders to the shipbuilding industry, the factory was full of jubilation, and Weese's father was also relieved. Then he opened a bottle of liquor, and while drinking it, he proudly said to Wei Ze's mother, who worked in the bank, "I'm going to work overtime next month!" ”
Wei Ze's understanding of "uniformity" when he was a child was that the country wanted to build a big ship, and this was uniform. At that time, the experience left the young Weser with only one feeling, that is, "the country has become strong, so the country needs a big ship." ”
Only when the country is strong can individuals benefit. Weeser is convinced of this. Therefore, the industrialized Weeser had no special affection for the peasant revolution. He always thought that what the farmers needed was a better life. For example, the abolition of agricultural taxes, such as agricultural subsidies.
Weeser had read an article and was impressed by it. Both the left and the right in China believe that the backward small-scale peasant economy must be eliminated. The difference between the left and the right is that the right believes that capital should lead the elimination of the small peasant economy, while the left believes that the agricultural communes should lead the elimination of the small peasant economy. Although the left denounces the right as a lackey of capitalism, the right denounces the left as a remnant of the Cultural Revolution. But as long as the people who follow the industrial system have the same passion and attitude towards the elimination of the small-scale peasant economy.
In August 1854, however, Weeser experienced one of the few "soul shocks" in his lifetime. When the brothers he brought out showed that they really believed that the "little heaven" mentioned by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could be realized, when the brothers brought out by Wei Ze said that they at least really wanted the "little heaven" to be realized. For the first time, Weeser truly understood that the peasants were no different from the Industrialists in their pursuit of a happy life, in their pursuit of freedom from oppression. He finally tossed and turned in this era and couldn't sleep.
Even recognizing the urgent need of the peasant revolutionaries for revolution, Weeser still thought that Hong Xiuquan, who proposed "Little Paradise", was a bastard. And as far as Wei Ze knows, it may not be Hong Xiuquan himself who put forward the concept of Little Paradise, but Feng Yunshan, the king of the south who has died in battle, and Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, have also made great contributions to the theoretical elaboration of the concept of small heaven.
In Weeser's view, if any idea is not executed, it is a bubble that is not even as good as. That's why Wei Ze supported Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, because Yang Xiuqing was the real power core of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and only Yang Xiuqing could mobilize Wei Ze to serve the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan or the Northern King Wei Changhui and the Winged King Shi Dakai gave orders to Wei Ze, Wei Ze would have to bargain with these people no matter what.
Even if Yang Xiuqing took away more than 10,000 troops from Wei Ze, Wei Ze still thought that there was a reason for what Yang Xiuqing did.
However, Wei Ze's unconditional support for Yang Xiuqing ended there. In the past, Yang Xiuqing's actions were still a leader's allocation of resources in his hands based on the consideration of the cause of rebellion. Wei Ze, who was mixed in state-owned enterprises, felt about this oil, in order to complete a certain project, worked overtime, and even made seemingly unreasonable demands on his subordinates. In Weese's eyes, it is nothing, and Weser himself hopes to be able to show his ability through such a job. Get promoted faster from.
It's like when the Wenchuan earthquake happened, almost everyone would sign up for the commando team and sign up to go to the hardest places. And those who get this kind of opportunity to be promoted faster are undoubtedly outstanding people on weekdays. Wei Ze had an uncle who signed up for the aid to Tibet, and when he came to Tibet, he had to be promoted to one level first, and when he arrived in Tibet, he worked hard and was promoted to another level. Because his body was not adapted to the high and distant reactions, he entered the critical care room several times, and finally had to return to his original workplace. And these two levels of promotion have really been earned.
Weese's uncle was not a treacherous man. The work of aiding Tibet is very strictly managed, if it weren't for Wei Ze's uncle, he would have to die on the plateau if he didn't return to the plains, and the organization would not have let him come back. Weeser's mother commented on this, "He is not a deserter!" It's just a matter of luck. ”
And Wei Ze was loyal to the Eastern King and truly served the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was also rewarded. His title of King of Qi was not obtained by Wei Ze by being abducted by the pit meng, but he completed the work that others were unable to complete, and he earned it through his hard work.
However, Yang Xiuqing has changed. In other words, as the situation changed, Yang Xiuqing gradually revealed a side that he had not had the opportunity to show before. Yang Xiuqing did not commit to building a more advanced system, but began to think about Yang Xiuqing himself according to the traditional model......
Maybe this is Yang Xiuqing's limit! Weeser had to think with regret and disappointment.
Between his subordinates' ideals of the peasant revolution and Yang Xiuqing's personal ambitions, Wei Ze had only one choice, and that was his subordinates' revolutionary ideals. No matter how imperfect this ideal is, it is even unscientific. Weeser still believes that the value of ideals is far greater than ambition.
Sleepless all night, Wesser's eyes were as red as rabbits. He still convened a meeting of the General Staff the next morning. "We must completely defeat the camp in Jiangbei."
Wei Ze's subordinates were not too high-spirited, and when Wei Ze said this, they just listened without reaction.
Looking at the love of his subordinates, Wei Ze smiled and said: "If you encounter such a little thing and behave like this, the East King will only become more and more harsh on us, what will you do at that time?" Scattered? Suicide? ”
"What? Will Dongwang be more and more harsh on us? Wei Changrong asked in surprise.
"I'm up to something, but you can't give me such a bear!" Wei Ze cleverly avoided answering directly, but he had actually answered Wei Changrong's question.
"Chief of the General Staff! What else can the East King do to us? Ke Gongyu asked.
Wei Ze sneered, "Let me ask you, are we here to fight the world, or are we here to fight the East King?" If you still think that you are fighting the world, the world is very big. We won't run out of places! If you think we are fighting the king of the east, then I only have one word, and you can stop doing it now! The King of the East is the law of our Heavenly Balance Heavenly Kingdom, and it is the Heaven of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! As long as we are still from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we can't sing against the East King! ”
Such a high-pressure policy left the generals speechless, and the generals were silent. And Weeser now needs the obedience of the generals, even if it is so passive, it is not a problem. Over the past two years and more, Weeser has worked hard to build a military training system in order to maintain the army's most basic combat capability. Wei Ze's enemy was not the great Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and in the face of the Manchu Green Battalion and the Eight Banners, as long as the most basic combat effectiveness could be guaranteed, Wei Ze had no possibility of losing.
"Don't worry, go west, pull down the camp of the Qing Demon one by one!" Weeser gave the order.
From August 20, the fighting continued. Even though the battle was very dull, Wei Ze's artillery still effectively destroyed the Qing army's barracks, and the infantry, relying on the advantage of training and firepower, swarmed in from the breakthrough point and drove the Qing troops out of the barracks.
By 30 August, Wei Ze's troops had broken through 20 barracks of the Qing army with less than 100 casualties.
The attitude of the command system of the troops determined the arrangement of the campaign, and Weese's troops abandoned the painstaking battle of annihilation in favor of a rather relaxed strategy of crushing the battle. The Qing army could not resist the attack of Wei Ze's troops at all. On September 2, when Wei Ze's troops rushed to Yizheng, the Qing army had already crossed the Yangtze River and retreated to the south of the Yangtze River.
Yang Xiuqing in Tianjing City showed his strength as the king of the east, with 50,000 elites in hand, Yang Xiuqing launched a series of attacks on the Jiangnan camp of the Qing army. The Qing army was powerless to resist, and by 15 September, the main camp of the Jiangnan battalion in Xiaolingwei was broken by Yang Xiuqing, and the governor of Zhejiang, Gil Hang'a, located in the Jiuhuashan area, was also unable to resist. The main force of the Qing army withdrew eastward and withdrew to the area of Changzhou.
And Wei Ze received an order for him to enter Beijing to receive the reward!
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