It is the basic truth that the economic base determines the superstructure, and the superstructure affects the economic base. The gradual collapse of a dynasty is basically accompanied by the deterioration of the social economy and the collapse of the country's finances, which eventually leads to a vicious circle of more and more chaos and more chaos.

Therefore, if the Taiping Army wants to reform the old and make new ones in this era, the best choice is to abandon the old system and its derivatives that have accumulated and deteriorated, and start again to lay the foundation and forge a more dynamic social system and political power system.

A new economic system with the "Taiping Tianmu System" and the "Taiping Shengku Outline" as the core, which can be well self-consistent and circulating, is also an indispensable part of it.

Among them, the coinage right composed of a large number of precious metals, and the money circulation and political credit system derived from it, are undoubtedly the most important. After all, the territory, population, and army under the rule of the Taiping Army, although they do not yet have the name of a country, they are better than the reality of a country.

Today, Lingnan is under five jurisdictions and 67 prefectures, and the Taiping Army has completely controlled 39 prefectures, and has partially controlled 11 prefectures through reclamation and reclamation at key points. As for the rest of the country, it is a relatively fragmented and cramped state, with a weak population.

And these places, even in the most powerful period of the Tang Dynasty, were controlled by the local Hao chieftain cave lord himself, and there were not many real Han people.

The original intention of the establishment of the administrative system was mainly to maximize the need for differentiation and antagonism, and to make it fragmented into a history of assassination and a county order. Therefore, there are no more than 1,000 households in the large ones, and only hundreds or more than 100 households in the few.

Therefore, in the historical records of the past dynasties, the land of the five governors of Lingnan was able to easily defeat and pacify the surrounding states and more than a dozen states with a limited garrison; And when they rebelled, they also eroded the scale of several states and more than a dozen states, and then they were pacified by tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

Especially after the key armed cantonment for the Taiping Army, which is now being promoted by the Taiping Army, has occupied the key points of transportation; The long-standing ties and ties between these barbarian mountain rangers have been cut off by disguised separation; And it is even more difficult to gather into a momentum.

On the contrary, the economic lifeline and people's livelihood needs of their daily foreign transportation and trade exchanges were controlled by the Taiping army. Therefore, in addition to the death and destruction of some of the more important ones, the remaining Tumandongxia villages have also undergone relatively favorable changes, or have been forced to adapt to the new situation.

Among them, there were young men and women from the barbarians in the deep mountains who ran out to join and ask for shelter; There are also enlightened chieftains, chiefs, and village elders who directly drive their slaves and subordinates to work for the Taiping army, thinking that they are making profits or in exchange for corresponding in-kind rewards.

Therefore, Liangling is also the most important grain producing area and the production area of military and civilian products in the rear of the Taiping Army, but at present, in addition to mining, metallurgy, and commerce, the development potential of other aspects has almost reached the upper limit of what land and population can carry. At present, there are more than 2.4 million people registered.

However, for Zhou Huai'an, the original 60 states in Liangling were a bit too much, and there were only one or two in many states, and two or three counties with weak household registration; It was a bit of a waste and a stretch to maintain the administration and support the officials.

Therefore, this time in the land of the five pipes in the ridge, after the completion of the basic geographical survey and graphic drawing, as well as the subsequent road construction; There will be a corresponding round of mergers and dismantling, so as to be relatively reduced to about 20.

In addition, the Hunan Observation Mission, which was occupied a little later, now has a total of 940,000 households under its actual control; In addition, the eight prefectures of Jingnan Jiedu Envoy were subsequently controlled, and the total number of households under actual control reached 980,000;

Connected to this is the Xiajiang Province belongs to the two prefectures of Fu and Chongqing in Shannan West Road, but because of the limited population and the cramped place, coupled with the cost of military maintenance on the front line in Yuzhou, it is still in a state of loss where input exceeds output; Negligible for the time being.

In addition, there are two large prefectures of Eyue in the south of the Yangtze River, which also have a population of nearly 230,000. After some period of purging and rectification, the five prefectures controlled by Jiangxi Province have also become most of the eight prefectures under the Jiangxi Observation Mission, and the actual number of households under control is more than 760,000;

Although the territory adjacent to the three prefectures of Chi, Run, and Xuan in Jiangdong did not expand directly, it absorbed a large number of exiled people who fled because of the war between Jiangdong and Zhejiang, and the population doubled to about 410,000.

In addition, the area from Dantu to Xunyang here is also one of the key naval bases invested and operated by the Taiping Army, with at least five or more large transport fleets; The sixth battalion of the Fifth Army's navy was also stationed in turn to maintain the advantage of living on the waterway of the Yangtze River, as well as to contain the tentacles of Huainan Town on the opposite bank of the Yangtze River in disguise.

(According to the Taiping Army system, the captain of the 500-material large ship is the rank of captain, the 500-material medium ship is the rank of brigade commander, and the 100-material small boat is the team leader and team deputy; Then, several warships were organized into regiments/squads, and several ship groups formed a battalion of sailors/warship detachments. ）

Finally, the newly occupied and settled down eight states in Shannan Dongdao were sorted out; Today, the registered population under the rule of the Taiping Army has reached more than 7.6 million, and nearly 2 million people have been registered.

Therefore, compared with the existing Taiping Eighth Army and the six major garrison areas, it is almost the proportion of seven or eight households raising one soldier, of course, mainly the front and garrison soldiers; As for the Jiansheng Army and the Patrol Team, they belong to the semi-full-time self-sufficiency sequence, which can be ignored for the time being.

Among these young people, the proportion of women and children who are excluded from the old and weak is about 3 million young and middle-aged people who can be directly mobilized or indirectly provided with labor. Among them, one-quarter and one-third of the proportion are high-quality people (reserves) who are included in the cantonments in various places;

Eliminate seasonal human resources to maintain basic agricultural output and minimum normal operation of factories and mines; The Taiping Army can mobilize a surplus of personnel to supplement the attrition of the front and provide logistical support, which is probably between more than 300,000 and 400,000.

Of course, this is only the most ideal book data; It is also necessary to determine the transportation, communication and transportation costs for requisition and mobilization according to the distribution of specific personnel and the distance between them, and it will take a longer or shorter time to reach a relatively ideal level.

In addition, among these potential reserves, they are also divided into skilled veterans who can be recruited again, second- and third-line security maintenance troops, young and strong people who have received basic military training, ordinary groups with only basic collective life and organization, and so on.

Of course, even if you want to mobilize them all, the current inventory of equipment is a little unable to keep up; The reason is very simple: in order to ensure the transformation of the existing eight military orders into firearms, the new and old workshops from the Jianghan River basin to the banks of the Pearl River have been lined up to start work in three shifts around the clock.

The armor and soldiers that were previously captured in large quantities from Jiangdong, Huainan and other places were reused to make new agricultural tools; Most of the rest were refurbished or sold to the rebels in the north as an important means of generating income for the return of resources.

Thinking of this, Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but sigh, obviously his career has developed to this point, and the bigger he does, the more he feels that all kinds of resources are not enough. In this era, it is much more difficult to insist on being a leader with ideals and moral bottom lines than a simple careerist.

Zhou Huai'an felt it, but couldn't help but exert a little force in his hand, which provoked Jiao'e, who was on her knees and let her wanton belonging, suddenly exhale softly; Only then did he react and apologize to the beauty.

"Lang Jun will only be a slave? But I don't know where it came from. These.. Strange and weird. ”

The ring-haired shawl and skirt tied around the waist, looking gorgeous and graceful, was also delicate and slightly complained, and her eyes were a little resigned and helpless.

In this regard, Zhou Huai'an just laughed and did not speak, and stroked her coquettishly like a plucked string in his hand, and could no longer speak coherently.

It is the so-called fun and elegance of red sleeves. However, in addition to the fragrance and ink that ordinary people imagine, there are actually more other pleasures that are not enough to be humane; You must know that the upper-class characters of this era are not much worse than the "city clubs" of later generations.

For example, as a recent game in the boudoir, he was willing to gamble on the cost of losing. In addition to the pair of legs that contributed to the enjoyment, on the upper edge of her light purple pomegranate pattern chest, there was also a volume of new ink books spread out like a bookshelf holder.

With the breath like Lanzhi spewing in Zhou Huai'an's ears, Wei Wei rose and fell, and seemed to be revealing some kind of soft and mellow body temperature anytime and anywhere.

Of course, the so-called knee pillows, chest rests, leg frames, leather cups and other means of service that are close to her body are the limits of what she can bear at the moment. Although there are other further tricks and means, Zhou Huai'an is reluctant to use it on such a quiet and elegant woman, and she knows that it is also harmonious.

As the saying goes, big women have the benefits of big women, and small women have the wonderful use of small women, even if they are not big or small women, there are corresponding beauty and mysteries.

For example, the small pendant that is extremely light will be like a puffer fish that has been plucked at this time, and it will try its best to lift its feet like a rabbit kicking its chest; The sensitive and delicate red medicine will be swaying and twisting like a swimming fish, and people will not be easily caught.

As for the green raise, it is like the vine dill of its name, no matter what kind of request will try hard, and then between the desire to refuse and welcome, the entanglement of people to comfort it; And when it comes to My Lady, it is plump and tight from head to toe, which belongs to the type that can be played and licked.

At this time, an untimely voice sounded outside:

"The Governor of the Metropolis, 100,000 people from the north are in a hurry to report, Wuguan has been attacked, and he has suffered heavy damage. Shangluo Road is cut off. ”

- I'm the dividing line -

And in Kannai-do, the closest to the nails and strongholds of the official army in Gyeonggi, in Mukden City, which is full of gloom and slaughter. As the last backbone and one of the backbones of the Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Zheng Zheng was also silently looking at most of the abandoned camps outside the city.

Although the offensive of the thief army for more than half a year has always been helpless, it has always been impossible to push further from his field of vision; But Fengxiang Town, with Fengtian as the core, has also paid a lot of price. The camp full of injuries and sick and the fatigue of the soldiers is the best portrayal of them at the moment.

Especially after the winter, the money and grain transferred from Qishan Road became less and less again. Whether it is reinforcements from the northwestern provinces or the local army, there has been a lot of resentment and dissatisfaction.

In fact, as the threat of external thieves has temporarily disappeared, the disputes and contradictions within the official army have slowly accumulated this winter, but everyone has not dared to make trouble because of his prestige and methods, and they are only fighting in private for the limited distribution of material use.

But how long can this situation last, even if Zheng Jin, who still holds the army and bears the expectations of the world, only feels more and more emaciated; When he returned to the mansion after inspecting the walls, he saw an acquaintance.

Dou Lu Sheng, the adopted son of the prime minister Dou Lu Wei, who escaped from Chang'an City, brought him unexpected news.

"Congratulations to Xianggong, Huang Hao, the nephew of Huang Wei who stole Chang'an, intends to lead his troops to respond to Xianggong's initiative and the imperial court anyway, and is leading troops to defect."