"The public is not only into Lianzhou, but also in Chenzhou; It is to hoe the strong, to accumulate evils, to help the poor, and to prosper production; And the place was governed...

The mountain people and miners all think that they are kind, and those who join the community benefit the people, and they get a teacher.

Over the years, he has been able to see the officials in his place.

Although it has experienced several tribulations, it is especially the crown of the states. ”

"Nanling Old Records".

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When Zhou Huai'an set off from Guiyang City, the last group of armed teams loaded with supplies and equipment had also been dispatched to more remote places. It is said that it is a follow-up that begins with military conquest and ends with economic means.

Under the new order established by the Taiping military regime, most of the miners and mountain villages outside the direct management of the Taiping army no longer had to go through the layers of squeezing of the shanty chiefs, bosses, supervisors, and mine owners who were linked by the clan and the village party, but through the connection function of the newly built roads, they could directly trade with the convoys sent by the Taiping army on a regular basis.

In addition to the ore quota handed over in accordance with the agreed proportion, the other income is at the disposal of small groups in their own village settlements, which can be described as the realistic result of more mining and less mining; Among them, the leader is elected once a year under the notarization and auspices of the rebel army, and the election of those who occupy the majority can be regarded as a kind of primitive democratic self-government.

In this way, the rebel army, which has mastered the main logistics and foreign material channels, only needs to play a seemingly fair arbitration role on the basis of a suitable pricing and material supply category; On a regular basis, we should deal with some of the problems and group contradictions that have arisen and carry out gradual influence and transformation work.

Although it is also a means of exploitation, the way derived from capitalism is more subtle and more gentle than the model under the traditional feudal society; For their situation, it can be regarded as a rare progress and improvement.

As a harvest that Zhou Huai'an tried, it came from the local flavor of Lianzhou, such as pickled sour radish, garlic sprouts and beef and mutton, wrapped in rice milk balls and cooked dumplings and cakes. In addition, there are sour horn intestines, pickled cabbage heart, bean soaked beef trotters and so on, which are also quite distinctive; The energy bar in his field of vision increased slightly.

On the way back, Zhou Huaian also received several other important news.

First of all, in Qingyuan County, in the upper reaches of the Pearl River, the finished product of the first vehicle and ship has been manufactured, but it was directly washed to the shore and stranded due to an accident during the trial voyage in the waters of the Xiaojiang River, and the specific losses are still being assessed; However, Zhou Huai'an has already approved more specifications for manufacturing projects.

It is mainly for the relatively abundant and abundant water system in Lingnan, and the size and specification test of different river depths, so as to make full use of the relatively developed local water transportation resources.

In Guangzhou, a newly established exchange called "Sihaihao" has been open for some days. It is mainly an early financial business that evaluates, exchanges, and stores a wide variety of goods, gold, silver, and copper coins in foreign circulation; It is also the only place in Guangzhou that is designated to exchange with foreign fans. At the same time, there are also redemption outlets in the cities and towns at the county level in other prefectures, and the post road system of the righteous army is used to exchange and adjust.

On the basis of the original seizure and confiscation of many mansions and cabinets, a little renovation can come in handy, and it can be said that except for the specific manpower, everything else is ready-made and can be integrated.

Therefore, in accordance with his requirements and the preliminary financial system, the "balance sheet", "income statement" and "current cash statement" for the first month of compilation have been sent to him by fast horses.

Then, following the alliance between the shipping and the Maritime Trade Guild, a group of merchant forces in Lingnan began to lose their sincerity to the rebel forces represented by the Left-behind Division; Even the newly established Flying Money Associations under the rules dominated by the rebels have also begun to try to operate under a simple internal consultation mechanism.

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Outside Gangneung City, on the gray and mighty river, the sun hidden in the clouds is like a red-hot iron juice, staining the surrounding clouds and river surface into blood-colored patches.

Liu Jurong, the envoy of Shannan Jiedu, who was dressed in black and sparkling black and purple robes, also stood on the river bank and looked thoughtfully at the city full of smoke and fire traces in the distance. The red, black, white, blue and purple banners of the official barracks under the city are waving in the wind among the undulating and winding hills, appearing and disappearing from time to time, looking very magnificent.

The assault and defense around this city has entered the seventh day; The small group of grass thieves attracted by the brigade was also endless, and the officers and troops who were deployed and affected by the periphery clashed and fought all day long.

Outside Gangneung City, because there are many hills, hills, and forests, people can't see the real situation of the peripheral battle formations clearly, and they can only see the flagtips of the two sides flashing in the sun. And the officers and soldiers and the grass thief banners will be mixed together from time to time. Bursts of war drums and shouts came from the battlefield, shaking the earth and the hearts of the spectators.

It's just that he is still dragging a whisk in his hand at the moment, which looks a little out of place with the solemn atmosphere surrounded by armored soldiers around him. However, this is a little legacy and miss left by the famous Taoist Xuanyuan Ji, who was known as "Mr. Luofu" in his early years; According to the practice of those who are familiar with him, whenever there is a major thought, he will involuntarily stir up this dust one by one.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to explain to the Military Supervision Academy."

One of the generals asked again with some concern.

"I don't know what the Prison Academy is thinking, don't I want to go down to the city as soon as possible to serve the Holy Lord?"

Liu Jurong's big hand waved forcefully and said categorically.

"But the thieves in the city are especially trapped beasts, how can it be so easy to take down Jiangling. It's better to annihilate some more grass thieves who come to my aid.,Take advantage of the situation and do your best to make plans.。。 ”

After the chaos of Qianyuan and Jianzhong, in order to strengthen the control and restraint of the military horses in the world, the Imperial Court gradually expanded the special dispatch of the Guanjun envoys who were sent to serve as eunuchs; As the so-called Dezong said: "The life of my heart is reached by the minions",

Therefore, the Imperial Court of Supervision or the Imperial Court of Supervision is also the same as that of the marshal, and there are other deputy envoys, judges, envoys and minor envoys, and they have corresponding elite armed forces as direct escorts; With "monitoring and punishment, and investigating violations", and even checking and curbing the arrogant marshal, they cannot monopolize the authority. Or when there is chaos and change in the feudal town, it will intervene and put things right in time, or even temporarily replace its authority as a transition.

However, after the evolution of the past dynasties, the military supervision institutes and military embassies in the world have also evolved into a powerful group of good and bad. Among them, there are not only the mediocre people who have become the lords of the feudal towns, but also the strongmen who have to obediently bow their heads and submit to the softness when they become strong; For example, Yang Fuguang, one of the Yang brothers, who is known as the "two sheep in the inner world" among many nobles, is a model of Weifu's self-specialization.

Because he is an eunuch, but he is an outlier who can govern the army and use soldiers. Therefore, the military town where he supervised the army was all driven to obey the orders of the running and did not dare to slack off; There is even a lack of people who deign to walk under their doors, and take their sons and nephews as their sons;

And the one assigned to Shannan Dongdao Jiedu was Yang Quanxin, a junior of Yang Fuguang; Therefore, Liu Jurong must not only rely on his strength to communicate with the DPRK and China and eliminate the suppression, but also be afraid of and tolerate his interference in military affairs.

Of course, this explanation of the Military Supervision Yuan is only an obvious reason. In the past six months, he has accumulated a lot of complaints and resentment in his heart, and he no longer works as hard as before when fighting.

You must know that Cao Quanyang, the Jiangxi envoy who was with him earlier, did not listen to his advice and pursued the grass thieves south, but after crossing the river, the imperial court suddenly ordered Duan Yanmo to be the envoy of Taining, Cao Quanhui was furious when he heard the news and stopped the pursuit and returned the troops; And he also received news that the DPRK and China intended to transfer him back to the DPRK and China to replace others on the grounds of Xu Gong. Among them, the uneven rewards of the imperial court are difficult to describe, which is also the first reason why he is unwilling to sell his best.

In addition, although Liu Jurong was the envoy of Shannan Dongdao, his subordinates were in addition to the unity and capture soldiers gathered from various states and the local Tutuan town soldiers, as well as the two or three guest troops who relied on the imperial court to send food to help; The Loyal and Righteous Army (Yakwai and Wai Soldiers), which is directly under the command of his battalion, also has almost 5,000 personnel. He thought that since he was the envoy of the Yanqiao Suppression, it was his capital to bring out these more than 5,000 soldiers with his own hands, and if there were any major casualties, he would not have the capital to obtain merit from the imperial court.

There was a third reason why he was reluctant to work hard, because the court owed too much. So far, Shandong has a wide area under its jurisdiction, but many places are dilapidated. Except for the loyal and righteous army under his command, which was still able to maintain basic support, the officers and soldiers of the rest of the various departments were already in arrears for several months to half a year, and could only rely on plundering/extorting places to survive for a while; Therefore, he knew very well that even if he wanted to work hard, the officers and soldiers of all walks of life under these subordinates might not be willing to sacrifice their lives.

As the so-called is the right time, place and people, there is a discord, what is his suffering to go against the trend; Therefore, even if the army of the yellow thief has almost destroyed most of the scope of Jiangxi's recruitment, Cao Quanxi still leads troops to sit in Jiangbei and does not move; And the fact that Duan Yanmo, the Taining general, has not come to take up his post for a long time, which is a good illustration of this treacherous situation of mutual control and jealousy.

And his willingness to personally lead the army and horses south to attack Jiangling in order to contain the eastward advance of most of the grass thieves sweeping Jianghuai can be regarded as a sincere explanation and response to the imperial court; But most of the generals under him who are eager to attack don't understand, if they really kill all the grass thieves in front of him or drive them away, then how can he continue to make contributions and consolidate his power.

Therefore, whether it is Huang Wei who captured Hanyang in Chuzhou, or conquered Jiangxia in Ezhou, broke Huangzhou and Jiangzhou, and forced Hongzhou and Raozhou; The more ruthlessly the grass thieves attacked, the more obvious and important the credit for the recovery of Hunan and Jiangxi became by sitting in the south of the mountain and enterprising.

However, he was waiting for the results of the battle of the generals on the periphery, when he suddenly saw the latest letter from the dusty letter horseman. Then Liu Jurong couldn't help but be surprised, because the fire paint and embossing on it were from Huainan Jiedu envoy and southern camp recruitment, Jianghuai transfer envoy, and it was also his early righteous brother and close old friend, who had just been crowned with the title of envoy, Gao Biao presented the official document.

If it were to be said that the instructions and strategies from the courtiers of the court, he might still have reservations and disapprovals; However, this old righteous brother who sits in charge of the army and the wealth of the southeast is an existence that he must treat and maintain very carefully;

Then, I saw him sigh heavily and glared at him, and ordered loudly: "Tell Zhou and Dong to attack desperately, and if you don't go to the city, you can raise your head to see you!" ”

After issuing this strict order, he also knew that it would not be easy to seize the city well from the grass thieves, and he had to personally lead his soldiers into battle to attack fiercely, so he shouted again: "Wine! …… Beat the drums! Line up! ”

The two soldiers brought over the wine jar that had been prepared, poured a large bowl for him, and brought a whole steaming cooked leg of lamb. In the deafening sound of war drums, Liu Jurong tilted his head to look at his Yaqian soldiers and Ya soldiers and horses, quickly lining up in the dust, while drinking and eating meat.

After drinking five bowls of wine and eating most of a whole leg of lamb, the elite soldiers of the camp who gathered afterwards had already lined up with bright armor and waiting to leave. He threw down the leg of mutton, threw away his cloak, drew his sword with a brush, and said, "Get on your horse!" A large group of soldiers and generals flew on his horse with him, and rushed to the Gangneung array with thousands of cavalry with shining armor and flags and several times the number of swords and spears.

At the head of the city, a tall, skinny, bloodshot general of the righteous army was also looking at the cart under the city with a worried look, regrouping the general trend of the officers and troops who came to the great soup; Cao Shixiong, who is nicknamed "Cao Lion" because of his upturned and messy hair, has not had a good rest for two days, and his two big eye sockets have collapsed deeper than in recent days, and the bridge of his nose and eyebrow bones have also appeared higher.

However, it was several offensives launched by Liu Jurong from the eastern province of Shannan, each time more fierce; There was even a time when he hit the city of Gangneung, only to be forced back by the hastily battle-packed navy. After several times like this, he naturally caused a lot of losses and morale of his rebel army to decline.

Now as his general and military leader along the way, Wang Chongyin, a veteran of the Righteous Army, was also seriously injured by the piggyback cannon issued by the official army. Therefore, the heavy responsibility of leading the rebel army in the city to hold on had to fall to him. Therefore, when the eastward army did not respond, and there were only some other parts of the righteous army that spontaneously came to help but were defeated by the official army, he pinned more hopes on the reaction and countermeasures of Guangzhou.

"Brother monk, I can only count on you."

(End of chapter)