It's time for the city to start the routine singing and shouting again. Under the cover of the preset baffle, the corresponding personnel can get directly close to the city wall through the curved and circuitous trenches; It's almost within the distance that a bow and arrow can shoot, but a stone-throwing or a log can't be reached.

Then, the rebel soldiers with their own accents shouted and indirectly shook and affected the morale of the defenders. The main content is nothing more than the propagation of the ideas and slogans of the rebels, and even the promise that the people in the city can escape and return to their hometowns without interference.

Of course, this is just to cover up something else. The city's response was to return to the random arrows and the extremely poor accuracy of the stone, but because of this, some key long-range projection positions were exposed and marked in disguise.

And on a large earthen platform that served as a tent for the Chinese army. Zhou Huai'an was also looking at it alone, according to the terrain in Runzhou, the large sand table made according to the terrain in Runzhou, the various small flags that originally represented the official army and the righteous army staggered together have been pulled out or replaced by a lot, and have become sparse and clear.

Mainly because Zhang Quan, one of the main forces of the current three-way official army, was frustrated near Jintan and retreated; Hailing Town stifled the collapse of Gaoba in Yanling City, and caused the implementation of the siege plan to be a half-tone result.

In the remaining part, the largest officer and army, the Hangzhou regiment to which Dong Chang belonged, was in an unknown state where the news had been delayed for at least two days. Therefore, it is also highlighted.

During the days of the siege, Zhou Huai'an became a little more idle; Because he was destined to have the corresponding strategic direction and handed over specific things to his subordinates to play, the chores that required his personal contribution became much reduced.

As a result, there is more time to deal with the reports and requests for instructions on matters in the Lingnan that have been submitted from place to place by land and water.

For example, under the rule of the Taiping Army, most of the local activities under the rule of the Taiping Army have been completed, whether it is the people's supervision of production activities or the collective spring plowing operations in the areas under the management of the land and the tuntian.

After the consumption of last summer's and autumn's rush to seed, harvest and winter; There is still a shortage of more than 100,000 stone of grain in Hunan, which needs to be transported from outside the mountain for adjustment and replenishment; The situation in Lingxi is slightly better, and there is still a surplus of more than 20,000 stones, mainly from the output of the Guilin Basin, where Guizhou is located.

Another side related good news is that a new batch of waterwheels and ships have been put into the daily transportation of various tributaries in Lingbei, and good results have been achieved; For example, the efficiency of material circulation has increased by at least 30 to 50 percent on the two lines from Lianzhou to Chenzhou, Qitianling and Yuechengling.

Therefore, the next step is to continue to manufacture and use hydrovehicles and ships in Hunan. In addition, there is a collateral message that has been involved.

It was with the gradual stabilization and stabilization of the Taiping army's territory outside the Linghai that a group of businessmen began to appear in Guangfu and Chaoxun and other places who took the initiative to move closer to the Taiping regime and asked for cooperation; The reasons they claim are simple;

Since most of these families who have been merchants for generations have relied on the Taiping army to reopen shipping routes and expand foreign trade, they have gained a lot of benefits and conveniences; If they can't give feedback and reward to the people who created and maintained all this, they really can't continue to do these businesses with peace of mind and steadfastness.

Therefore, this time, in the name of the corresponding trading company and guild, they collectively applied for it, and were willing to raise their own personnel, materials, carriages, horses, etc., to purchase and carry some materials and outputs designated by the rebels on their behalf; It is good for the Taiping Army to and from the transshipment and transportation between the mountains and the mountains, and do what they can.

Of course, if they could be allowed to use their chariots and horses to carry some products from Jingnan, Hunan, and Jiangxi on their return trip, it would be even more grateful and excited.

Seeing this, Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but smile slightly; According to the vision and foresight accumulated by later generations in the study of history, how could he not see the subtext behind the main content of the merchant's defeat and assistance to the army.

The so-called self-provided personnel, horses, and materials to feed back and give back to the convenience of the Taiping Army as a reward may be part of the truth, but it is not the complete content and demand; The real foreshadowing is in the last incidental request. Obviously, they are looking at the potential emerging markets and business opportunities that the Taiping Army represents in the Lingwai territory.

Of course, this is not a bad thing and a forbidden thing; It is only necessary to further regulate and guide in detail, and establish a corresponding reward and punishment mechanism; It is good to ensure that under the natural profit-seeking instinct of businessmen, they will not easily break through a certain bottom line and standard.

Just like in the early days of liberation, TG also tried to win over and unite those national bourgeois businessmen who had been harvested and tossed back and forth by the K-Ji comprador regime; It is even intended to use them as a bridge to the outside world to play a role.

However, they couldn't stand the capitalists who provided black-hearted cotton and fake wound medicine to the volunteers under the drive of profiteering and opportunistic nature, and died again and again. Therefore, there were later three anti and five anti movements, as well as a comprehensive redemption and transformation of the industrial and commercial system of New China.

However, after carefully reviewing the various proposals in the following notes, Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but sigh a little; But there was a sense of déjà vu, and then he remembered.

Isn't this the prototype of the "Open China Law" implemented by the Ming and Qing governments in later generations, using salt and tea as intermediaries to recruit merchants to pay for military rations, horses, and other materials, and it actually sprouted out by mistake among such a group of merchants outside the mountains.

In this relatively backward feudal society based on the agricultural standard, although the merchants belonged to the despised and suppressed groups in the social class because of their profit-seeking nature and hoarding;

But from another point of view, they also have the adventurous spirit of exploration and pioneering, dare to break through old barriers and limitations, and are good at seizing opportunities and using all their means to achieve corresponding goals.

Could it be that in the future, under his own rule, he will rely on this system of conveying autocratic power like the Ming and Qing dynasties to cultivate and give birth to a group of emerging Ling merchants similar to the Jin merchants and Hui merchants in later generations?

During this time, the poet and monk who was left behind was not idle, and was arranged to be among the newly attached righteous soldiers to conduct a certain sense of religious belief. It was also a kind of test for him during the observation period.

Compared with being stranded in Guangfu in disguise, the Nanchan monk Yixin who presided over the Buddhist college; This monk Xuzhong, who is known as a generation of poets and monks, is actually the source of the Pure Land Sect (also known as the Lotus Sect), and was ordained in the Eastern Jin Dynasty Huiyuan lineage of the Shandong Forest Temple in Lushan, Jiangxi Province.

You must know that this is a universal sect that is closest to the people at the bottom in history and opens the door of convenience, claiming that as long as you recite Amitabha Buddha, you can be reborn in bliss, and it is also the most thorough sect among the eight major Buddhist sects.

In the same way, it has been repeatedly used by anti-government associations such as the White Lotus Sect and Manichaeism and underground feudal associations to support the theory and the special existence of the development model of believers. What Miller reincarnated, and the childless mother, are all made up from this basis.

After it was passed on to the neon, it extended a bunch of strange things, such as the Pure Land True Sect (the sect of the cartoon Yixiu) that treats the temple as a family business and cultivates with the female ticket and the female branch, and the Yizong that occupies a large number of territories and populations with the call of the Sangha, and launches rebellions on other people's territory with the slogan of chanting the Buddha's death at every turn, all of which are derived from the corresponding sources.

Although the Pure Land Sect of this era was not so strange, it was also the faction that was least affected by the Huichang Dharma Disaster of Wuzong's destruction of Buddha because it lacked sufficient presence in the monk-official system established by the imperial court.

For example, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Huiyuan, who inherited the three branches of the Pure Land from the Void, is known for being proficient in Confucianism and bypassing Laozhuang since the ancestor Huiyuan; He often gathers disciples and believers to give lectures on the side of the White Lotus Pond in Donglin Temple, also known as "Lotus Sect" and "White Lotus Society", which can be called one of the earliest initiators of the integration and interconnection of the three religions.

Therefore, this branch of the Pure Land Lotus Sect also inherited and followed the legacy of the early Buddhism. That is, most of the monks who came to the East to teach the Dharma in the early Tianzhu land had the corresponding medicine, astronomy, geography, calendar, philosophy, literature, arithmetic and alchemy (chemistry); Even professional knowledge such as atrial surgery and self-cultivation method.

And he is more or less proficient in the art of eloquence and negotiation, as a stepping stone to impress and attract those places and social strata along the way, so as to obtain the convenience and resources to act accordingly. For example, the Tibetan Esoteric Patriarch Padmasambhava, who made a fortune by playing human organ sacrifices and exchanging wives with Tibetan Zampu, is one of the leaders who has made a difference by relying on foreign methods.

Despite this, countless monks have been carried forward one after another through the ages. Only a few names such as the Eastern Han Dynasty's Chemoteng, Zhu Falan, the Northern and Southern Dynasties' Kumarosh, Dharma, the Sui and Tang Dynasties' Shan Wudaunting, and King Kong Zhi have been able to leave their names in the history of Middle-earth; Everything else has been lost in the historical dust of civilization migration due to various accidents and obstacles.

Therefore, when the Tang monk Xuanzang from the east arrived at Tianzhu, who had begun to go downhill, it naturally caused a huge sensation and repercussions; From Theravada to Mahayana Yoga, the Madhyamaka schools are eager to promote it as the "Xuanzang Sanzang", and confer the honorific titles of "Mahayana Heaven" and "Liberation Heaven", the highest honor of each school.

He even used it as an idol to convene an uncovered conference to inspire people for a while to preach the Dharma to the kings of hundreds of countries and thousands of cities. Then as soon as Xuanzang left, the Divine Buddhism began to collapse, and Wang Xuance, who came from the Tang Dynasty, once again gave him a sense of existence.

Therefore, having said that, as the origin of the corresponding Lotus Sect, Xuzhong, who is proficient in poetry and literature, can not only make friends with many famous people and everyone when he travels in Beijing, but also gather the villagers to preach among the acres and mountains after returning to his hometown.

But because of this, he got into trouble from the government, and became one of the ironclad evidence and crimes of the "virtual demon monk" who couldn't be beaten by the eight poles. It can be said that there is a lot of "one drink and one peck, nothing more than predetermined; Every word and deed is a cause and a seed", which means the reincarnation of cause and effect.

But in any case, there is such a low-level belief that is good at adapting and absorbing new things; To some extent, it can also form a corresponding balance and containment on the Guangfu side, and even an effective state of competition in the spiritual field, so as not to let the demon modified Nanchan's family be dominant.

"I'm a little hungry, so you guys should take these things and get out of here."

Immediately, he said to Yu Hou and the military academy, who were standing near the left and outside the tent and listening to the call.

After a few more moments, the graceful figure holding the lacquered wooden tray appeared in the empty military tent with the sound of summons from outside. Zhou Huai'an's slightly tired and tired face was also slowly relaxed.

In between dealing with these official duties, he even has time to be able to play with the aunt who "takes care of daily life" with the army, and has some interactive projects that are beneficial to physical and mental health, regulate emotions, and relieve stress.

For example, "squatting and biting" when processing and annotating official documents; Lying down or falling, lying between papers or on the desk of the desk PLAY; Sitting on his lap inseparably, while exchanging his feelings in simple terms, he reads and recites with a fluctuating voice, some correspondence or new publications...

Such tricks and programs that are popular with the public are constantly staged among the military tents. It is the so-called "red sleeves add fragrance, serve left and right, and wanton affection" The joy of life.

"You feed me first. I'll 'feed' you later. ”

Zhou Huai'an hugged her meaningfully, sat on his lap and said word by word.

(End of chapter)