On January 13, 1861, Zhou Jinguo, the regimental political commissar of the Second Regiment of the Second Division of the Fourth Army, led the troops to set off in the direction of Yongxing.

At this time, the China Liberation Association was renamed the China Liberation Party, and the General Staff had become the Military Committee of the China Liberation Army. In the new military committee, the basic functional departments have not changed much, but Wei Ze has changed the original decision of the general staff into a system in which the party committee meeting decides on major matters.

Political commissars, as secretaries of party committees at all levels, are in the highest position. As deputy secretaries of the party committees, the military commanders and most of the other responsible persons are members of the Liberation Party, and as members of the party committees, they decide on the political content of the actual war operations on the basis of the various basic policies of the Party issued by the party Central Committee.

The Fourth Army, as a pilot, was the first to implement a comprehensive reorganization. A large number of comrades with excellent military skills and relatively reliable political positions have become political commissars at all levels. After so many years of accumulation of talents, and taking advantage of the "turmoil" within the Fourth Army over the land reform issue, the political commissars with professional military qualities assumed the responsibility of leading the party after fully studying the program of the Liberation Army.

When he joined the Restoration Society, Zhou Jinguo believed that the Restoration Army was all his own people. Now that the Liberation Society has become the Liberation Party, Zhou Jinguo finally understands what it means to be a real "own person".

In the party class, Zhou Jinguo, who is the son of a farmer, understood the core program of the Liberation Party, "Productive forces are the main driving force for social development." Most of the members of the Liberation Party were children of peasants, and the content of the meeting was very easy for everyone to understand.

When there are five acres of land per capita, agricultural production technology can be very effective in promoting social development. For example, a sickle made of white iron and an iron plough made of cast iron can improve labor efficiency under the condition of paying the same amount of labor. At a time when the level of agricultural production is dependent on the sky for food, it is likely that there will be completely different results because of whether it rains or blows on this day. It's a matter of being fed or hungry for the rest of the year.

But when there are less than two acres of land per capita, unless there is an essential breakthrough in the development of agricultural technology, the grain yield per mu will be doubled. Otherwise, as long as there are landlords and there is a problem of uneven distribution, a large number of peasants will be destined to starve, bankrupt, and die in a certain year.

Before joining the rebellion, although the children of peasants like Zhou Jinguo did not fully understand this, they all knew that "this world is too bad!" I can't live in this world anymore! After learning "settling accounts", everyone knew how the landlords, gentry, government and temples shamelessly and cruelly exploited the peasants. After learning the latest party class, everyone suddenly realized. Everyone's initial perception is not wrong, there is indeed something wrong with this world.

Originally, everyone still thought that there were good landlords and bad landlords in this world. The cruel reality is that everyone understands that unless hundreds of millions of peasants die, the per capita cultivated land area can be returned to more than three acres, and the contradiction can be alleviated. Otherwise, the survival of the landlord class, and the existence of the old land system on which the landlord class depended, were the root cause of the tragedy.

Of course, these peasant children have the class consciousness of the simple peasant class. Everyone is human, and the children of the peasants do not think that there is any reason to die ten peasant families in exchange for the peace of one landlord family. Hundreds of millions of peasants could be saved by destroying the old land system, and millions of landlords could die.

Governor Wezedu had made it clear that if he did not farm, he would not turn an inch of farmland into his private property. Everyone originally thought that Wei Ze Governor was too hypocritical, for the Governor, who wanted to be the emperor, if he owned some land by himself, everyone would sincerely let him have this exceptional privilege. After studying the party class, the members of the Guangfu Party understood why Wei Zedudu did not want any inch of land, this is not a matter of human feelings, this is a fundamental moral issue. The governor took possession of the land which he did not need at all, and it was likely that someone would die because he did not get it. Governor Wezedu would never do such a thing that lacked virtue and bad conscience.

Zhou Jinguo felt a little regrettable that he was now able to fully understand the causes of the agrarian revolution, but he could not quite understand many of the other principles put forward by Wei Zedu, and could not fully understand many of the central government's policy documents. However, at the party meeting, Shen Xin, director of the political department in charge of the work of the Fourth Army, also said that it is not a problem not to understand now, as long as everyone follows Wei Zedu, everyone will definitely be able to understand what will happen after that. Listening to what Director Shen Xin, who let Zhou Jincai go, say, Zhou Jinguo also regained his confidence.

Of course, as "his own person", Zhou Jinguo also knew why the troops did not go north directly after entering the southern part of Hunan. Hunan is the base camp of the Hunan army, and if it fights too hard, the Hunan army has to come back to help. Everyone used to be from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the main goal of the Liberation Party in the next ten years was to seize power in the whole country. Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established by the Divine Stick Hong Tianwang must be finished, the destruction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by the Manchu Qing Dynasty makes everyone feel much better.

After the political zhì study, Zhou Jinguo became the political commissar of the regiment. Zhou Jinguo was originally very unconfident that he was the leader of the group. However, in the new system, the regimental political commissar must respect the military command of the regiment commander. If the regimental commander does something too outrageous, the political commissar can remove the regiment commander through the party committee meeting, but the political commissar himself cannot directly issue military orders before he is also the regiment commander.

This arrangement also made Zhou Jinguo feel at ease, and there were special people in charge of fighting the war, so that he, the political commissar, could spend his time on the political education of the whole regiment.

The anxious idea of going home immediately to take a look faded, and Zhou Jinguo's heart boiled with a sense of mission. He hoped that in the shortest possible time, all the officers and men of the regiment would understand the significance of the agrarian revolution and the agrarian war. When he began to work in the whole regiment, he received an order. The Second Division left Chenzhou and settled down more than 30 miles to the north. His regiment advanced in the direction of Vinhing. The goal of this trip was not to seize Yongxing, but to clear the strongholds of the Hunan army in the Yongxing area and prepare for the launch of propaganda against the people in Yongxing.

If it was the previous system of the General Staff, the General Staff would have worked out the basic combat tasks in accordance with military orders, and then the military meetings would discuss them, and each unit would have its own tasks. The staff officers of the troops will then make preparations and arrangements for the problems in the actual implementation.

In the past, there was only the task of fighting a war, and there was no political propaganda task. Let's start with a purely military operation. Kill the enemy and seize the land, or kill the enemy without taking the land. If this is the case, everyone's target must be the Hunan army in Yongxing. Just like the Guangfu Army has eliminated the Qing army in Ganzhou several times, but has never occupied Ganzhou. Let Yongxing nominally be under the control of the Hunan army, but in fact at the head of the Yongxing Xiang army, there is also the preservation of the Guangfu army. The Yongxing Hunan Army was able to survive in Yongxing because they were able to help the Guangfu Army maintain order.

Now that the party committee has become the number one, the military meeting has become interesting. The repeated slaughter of the Hunan army in Yongxing became a very inefficient method, and Zhou Jinguo firmly believed that as long as the local people in Yongxing could understand the truth of the agrarian revolution, they would defect to the banner of the Guangfu army. Without the support of the countryside, Yongxing City is a fart. There is no even need to fight, as long as Yongxing can't harvest food, the defenders will starve to death. This is the strategy of "the countryside encircling the city" proposed by the governor of Wezet.

So at the meeting, Zhou Jinguo spoke enthusiastically, "I originally hoped that the Hunan army would not defend the city, and it would always be difficult to attack the city." Now I hope that the Hunan army can stick to the cities, and if they hide in the cities, we can move freely in the countryside. If they go down to the countryside in small groups, we will be better able to fight in the field. ”

The regiment commander Liu Fei knew that Zhou Jinguo was quite capable of fighting, and if it hadn't been for the toss of the land issue in the past few months, Zhou Jinguo would have been promoted to the regiment commander. The military opinions of war experts such as Zhou Jinguo were agreed by Liu Fei, "Yes, it is indeed more troublesome for more than 2,000 people in our regiment to fight Yong'an, which is held by more than 2,000 people. If they really dare to go out to fight in the field, we will not be afraid of two thousand, five thousand. As for the Hunan army's troops in the local area, there are at most a few hundred people. Killing them is like pinching a bug to death. ”

"Yes, as long as we can pull out the local Hunan army strongholds, we only need to send troops to monitor the Hunan army in Yongxing City, and we will fight after they leave the city. Convenient very. Zhou Jincai, the commander of the third battalion, also spoke. He was not deprived of his position, so now he strives to express himself. Don't let others have an opinion.

Of course, the military headquarters did not really completely let go of the regimental headquarters to act arbitrarily, after all, the army is an army, and the overall arrangement is also necessary. The entry point of the second regiment is to "do business". The troops brought a large amount of salt, iron and farm tools, and began to sell them in the Yongxing area while attacking the local strongholds of the Hunan army. This is part of the "economic war". Now in order to raise military spending, the Hunan army is charging a lot of money, and the price of salt, which was originally stable at 20 wen yuan a catty, has now skyrocketed.

Occupying Liangguang and Qiongzhou, the Guangfu Army adopted a policy of monopolizing salt, and the salt was of good quality and low price. The people can afford it. The price is at the level of one yuan (100 Wen) and twenty catties. Moreover, Wei Zedudu also made an iodized salt, which can cure the big neck disease after eating. It is also said to make people smarter. When the governor said this, everyone was a little skeptical. But he didn't refuse.

When Chenzhou was defeated, the salt in Chenzhou was already fifty wen a catty. According to the survey, the price of salt in Yongxing is even as high as 60 wen. There should be no problem with selling it at the pre-war traditional price of fifteen wen a pound. The people bought the low-cost salt of the Liberation Army, so naturally they would not buy the salt of the Hunan Army, which was urged by the centigold. This will not only benefit the local people in Yongxing, but also deal a heavy blow to the Hunan army's gold system.

Escorting a large number of daily necessities, Zhou Jinguo's second regiment began to march north. R1058