In the sparse snowflakes at intervals, Song Hao, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, who had not long been in office, was also running on the road to lead troops to attack Jingmen. The elongated queue stepped on the still thin snowy road, and in the middle of the ice and snow, it turned into smoke like a long dragon shaking its head and tail.

As a veteran general from the loyal army, he never believes in the excuse that a grass thief suddenly becomes fierce and difficult to entangle; And I am deeply suspicious that it is just an excuse for this Liu Jie Shuai to start repeating his old tricks in the city, and even unwilling to protect his own strength in the grass thief battle.

Therefore, he simply used the name of Jingnan Jiedu envoy to collect the remaining officers and soldiers and soil regiments in the territory under his jurisdiction, and with the help of Duan Yanmo, he brought the Yanzhou cavalry in the Taining army, and took the funds of the treasury to join forces to make more than 10,000 people. Taking advantage of the real heavy snow in winter before blocking the road, he suddenly went south to test the quality of this peace thief; It is also to build his reputation and authority as the newly arrived Jingnan Festival Marshal.

Otherwise, as Jingzhou, Lizhou, Langzhou, Xiazhou, Kuizhou, Zhongzhou, Wanzhou, and Guizhou under the jurisdiction of Jingnan Jieshuai, most of them either fell into the hands of thieves, or they were self-reliant for the locality; and need to live in Xiangzhou in the Shandong Jiedu envoy's office; This is too embarrassing and helpless for a general who has ambitions.

After all, with the Shandong Jiedu envoys who led Xiangzhou, Yingzhou, Junzhou, Fangzhou, Tangzhou, Fuzhou, Suizhou, and Dengzhou, as well as Cao Quanxi, the Tianping Army and Jiangxi envoy in the same situation; It was not too easy to fight for the authority of the local financial levies and the levies of the local servants. And the soldiers and Taining guest troops he brought also need corresponding rewards and sources of military merit.

Otherwise, according to the consistent style and routine of the children of the military town, a little longer will accumulate corresponding dissatisfaction and resentment, and finally backfire on him, the marshal; You must know that even as one of the most loyal military towns and Ping clans in the imperial court, it is not without examples of expelling or even killing the festival marshal.

Just like the former Zhongwu Army Festival Envoy, who was born in Jinshi and came out of the handsome probation, Xu Si and other festival envoys, Xue Neng, who is also the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is a world-famous generation of great poets. As a result, because he treated the old Xuzhou army in transit a little bit well in office, it aroused the dissatisfaction and anxiety of the local Xuzhou soldiers.

As a result, Zhou Qi, the general of the Ya soldiers from the local area under his command, took advantage of the public's suspicion and anger, and instigated Xue Neng to instigate the chaos and expulsion of Xue Neng according to Yacheng's claim to stay behind on the grounds that Xue Neng intended to use the foreign army to suppress and slaughter the children of the town; and a few days later, he killed Xue Neng and slaughtered his family. The imperial court could not even control or punish him, but had to pinch his nose and send an envoy to posthumously become the new town commander.

And Song Hao, who was born in the Chenzhou system in the Zhongwu Army, although he did not directly participate in this matter, he can be regarded as witnessing the whole process, and he did not have the sorrow of the rabbit and the fox; And this time, Xiao Yang (Fuguang), who is known as the "two sheep in the big interior", supervised the town, and promoted him out of Jingnan with his father Yang Xuanjie's old cadres, and he must also have enough feedback and returns.

If not, I believe that Xiao Yang Jianzhen, who coerced the towns, would not hesitate to give his titular deputy, Duan Yanmo, the commander of the Taining Army, more opportunities; Although his rank and rank in the imperial court are higher than those of the other party, this deputy, who is also one of the generals of the feudal town, does not look like a person who is willing to live under others for a long time under his rather respectful appearance.

It's just that at the moment, they are all guest troops from afar, and they lack real territory. It can be said that there is not much room for foothold except to recover the lost territory from the hands of the thieves, and if you don't get together to get through the difficulties together, then you really don't have to count on anything.

And the existence of Duan Yanmo is another vassal who used the Tianping Army to make the envoy and Jiangxi recruit Cao Quanxi's heart disease; At least for a day, he didn't expect to be supported and echoed by this powerful ally. This is obviously a bad thing made by the courtiers, and it is simply an inexplicable disaster that falls on them.

However, thinking of this, he was even more resentful of leading troops south, and the loyal army that had been cut off so far was Zhou Yanling. This guy who was originally just a general but relied on the festival to bring his relatives to the top of the position, and the three thousand loyal martial arts athletes he took away should have been allocated under his command. If these 3,000 loyal soldiers were confident, he, the Jingnan Jiedu envoy, would not be so "lame" in his actions there

At the beginning, before he went to office, he smashed pots and sold iron to gather and gather troops, and he was able to pull out three battalion leaders from Chenzhou, about 1,700 useful soldiers; It's a shame in comparison. Of course, Song Hao didn't think that there were any grass thieves in this world who could threaten these three thousand loyal martial artists; I'm afraid that I was tied up somewhere in Hunan because of this guy.

But in any case, now there are three major festival envoys in the territory of Shannan Province at once, which is also a huge pressure and pressure on the local people's livelihood and the supply of taxes and servitude; Therefore, he didn't want to be between the other two old feudal towns with big businesses, and if he was squeezed out in the subtle daily life, he could only lead the troops to fight out as soon as possible.

It's just the big families and wealthy estates that have been obviously looted or torn down into white land along the way, and the survivors who have run out of hiding places to complain and plead; It made him very unhappy in his heart. Under the rule of Liu Jurong and Liu Deliang, they were too laxative and indiscriminate, and they actually allowed the local civil uprisings and robbers to act recklessly, which was still in Xiangzhou, which was taken for granted by the festival.

According to the reactions and expressions of the good families and the heads of these places, these thieves acted in a very cruel and rude manner, and their equipment was even more sophisticated and orderly, and they used many means to do everything. He even dared to pretend to be an official and military faction to deceive the gates of towns and villages, and kill all the gentry and wealthy families who had surrendered to them, and then scatter them with small favors and small favors to collect and drive them.

Therefore, although there is no shortage of self-raised soil groups in these places, there are many knives, bows, and drums, and they are echoed by various towns and villages; But under the attack of these elusive thieves, they couldn't take care of themselves and suffered heavy losses and repeatedly broke their homes. But this is also a potential trouble for Song Hao, who is unable to get enough supplies and cooperation from Xiangzhou.

Although there are still some walled cities, towns and the like that still remain, but the things and servants that can be provided in them; For the tens of thousands of Jingnan troops under his command, it is only a slightly better than nothing. Instead, he had to find a way to restrain his subordinates who didn't get enough of the benefits, lest they couldn't resist robbing these decent places.

If he didn't want to rely on the wave of food for the place to solve the southern bandits, he had to rely on these relatively intact local strongholds to establish his own back road and supply grain platform. Just after he arrived at Zhangmen Town, on the border between Lexiang County and Jingzhou, the southernmost county seat of Xiangzhou, the newly formed Jingnan Army finally encountered an unknown attack.

Of the eleven cavalry teams that went out to guard the food, at least three did not return on time, two were almost wiped out, and only a few cavalry fled back to report the news; The few others who had caught very little were returned to the team safely, and they also brought back news that there were traces of a group of thieves.

"These ditch rats have finally come out. It's time for us to serve the country and kill the thief."

But Song Hao was not angry, but happily said to the left and right.

That night, in the dark and sparse bushes, a few reddened figures in thick wool jackets and mottled snow-like white cloaks, but still reddened from the cold, were trying to lift a few thick and bulky objects and staggered a little closer;

and in the ensuing time assembled it into a decent, but extremely short-lived catapult; Then another pack horse was brought in, and out of the basket was a jar filled with arson, and carefully put it into a holster; He began to move slowly forward again.

However, the camps set up by these officers and soldiers outside the town were still in good order, whether it was on the makeshift watchtowers and arrow towers, and the torches faintly dangling behind the fence walls, they were all constantly moving back and forth, and it seemed that a considerable number of men were used to maintain sufficient vigilance.

Therefore, they did not dare to get too close to each other, but only began to adjust this small mechanism within the maximum projection range, and launched it with the maximum charge without hesitation.

In the night, when a faint spark appeared in the eyes of the sentry at the wall, it had not yet attracted much notice; Then the faintly flickering spark quickly grew larger, and in the eager shouts of the alarmed sentinels, it fell near the fence with a clatter; And the bright fire burned on the spot, and it also illuminated the wrong shadows of horses, trenches, sharp piles, mixing cables and other fortifications within a radius of more than ten steps.

At this moment, the camp of the officers and soldiers was also like a pot boiling rapidly, and with the torches and fire cages that were constantly lit, it became full of people in an instant, and it seemed that they had been prepared for a long time, but there was not much chaos in the noise.

On the contrary, someone on the wall began to launch rockets one by one in the direction of the fire, and then inserted them into the dark snow outside the camp from far and near, and became a guide in a certain distance and direction; Then the gate of the camp was opened violently, and out of the same open fire staff-wielding armor soldiers, under the guidance of these fires, they fought towards this general direction with all their might.

However, coincidentally, the horn of the alarm was suddenly sounded in other directions, and there was also a little ignition head flying out and falling into the camp, and in an instant a section of the fence where the guard tower was located was ignited, and several of the sentry archers who burned it screamed and fell and jumped down...

After dawn, Song Hao, who had an unhappy face, looked at the small half of the camp that had been burned to ruins, and a number of corpses scattered among them; Compared with the sleepless night that was harassed, the main formation was still in good morale; However, it was the camp of more than 1,000 Tutuan troops attached to the southwest corner, and after being hit by a few of the fire groups that attacked at night, there was actually a camp roar.

Then these Tu soldiers, in the panic of being awakened, rushed and trampled each other and ran out of the camp; However, he was shot and slaughtered a lot by the Xiangzhou unity soldiers in another battalion near the guard, as an incoming thief; Then the Taining cavalry rushed out to support the main formation, and smeared and slashed a lot.

As a result, except for a few unburned fragments in the withered bushes, all the thieves who harassed and attacked outside the camp escaped; After dawn, the cavalry of the official army found out the truth and stopped, but it was too late to regret it, and almost all the Tutuan soldiers in this camp were killed and wounded or fled. And the rest of the Tutuan soldiers in the other battalions couldn't help but feel a little sad and demoralized.

Jingzhou suffered this kind of defeat just after coming out of the battle, which couldn't help but cast a heavy shadow on Song Hao's heart, and he also became more and more cautious and attached importance to the opponent who planned it.

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At the same time, Zhou Huai'an, who had just sent a support army to Jingmen City, also pretended to listen to his opinions and spoke enthusiastically through the screen at a routine forum full of retreat with the merchants in the city, and began to summarize and reflect on the gains and losses and achievements of governance in the recent period.

As various post-war policies for stabilizing and governing Hunan were implemented one after another, it was not surprising that various localities in Hunan were met with varying degrees of resistance and resistance. And the Taiping army is the least afraid of the old acquaintance of the open act of resistance; Because it also means the liquidation and confiscation of the justifiable liquidation, and the entire net worth of these rebels and their implicated stakeholders.

On the contrary, those who resist and do not cooperate secretly are more troublesome and more hidden; In addition to overt force repression and deterrence, it is also necessary to have enough people with simple training to go down to the grassroots level as the basic enforcement power of the executive order. And gradually remove the soil of such resistance and non-cooperation.

After all, under the small-scale peasant economic system inherited from the original feudal society; Although the economy as tenants is extremely fragile, the system of collecting taxes by landlords and large households at the grassroots level, and by raising their families and thugs, is also known for its inefficiency and high cost.

Among them, the routine loss caused by the waste and greed and deduction behavior is extremely considerable; These extra costs also have to be borne by the farmers and tenants themselves, often several times or even more than ten times the original base amount of the levy.

Therefore, the regime of the Qin and Han dynasties, with less hukou and productive forces than later generations, was able to burst out with a stronger national mobilization capacity than in most later periods. It is because of the ability of officials to go deep into the grassroots townships to execute, and even to implement responsibilities and powers to households in the basic plate such as the Guannai area; Instead of sacrificing efficiency and cost to fake others.

This point is completely worthy of the Taiping Army's efforts to promote the establishment of a more advanced and rigorous political management system in the name of retro and sage teaching, so as to obtain corresponding administrative efficiency and diminishing implementation costs.

In this process, it is not possible to absorb the scholars from the corresponding land interests, or to retain those who are from the old system, and give them the opportunity to participate in it, or to deliberately distort and deviate things from the aspect.

The resulting overcorrection or inexperience of the corresponding personnel is one of the unbearable and unavoidable costs in the process of establishing a political power that goes deep into the grassroots.

In this chaotic world of cannibalism, even overkill is better than doing nothing, just sitting back and watching everything happen or sitting and waiting for death; In the words of a later forerunner: Only after there is nothing to lose, completely destroy everything and recreate everything, can the whole new world be obtained.

Although he can't guarantee what kind of thing this hodgepodge and four dissimilarities he has made will become in the future; After all, under the conditions of the productive forces in ancient times, there was a lack of realistic foundation and guarantee conditions for the implementation of many modern social systems and measures in later generations.

But the most basic requirement of being a superior is to ensure a good outcome for those who are willing to follow and trust him, and to make the lives of all kinds of people under his rule better than before through the rational redistribution of resources and the promotion of more value created by productive labor.

Or in the future, perhaps a not-so-bad version of the demonic feudal system can be used to replace this terminal dynastic system that has developed to the point where it is difficult to return; Then, through the means of routine external social contradictions in later generations, we will continue the life of the regime of future generations, and by the way, leave some signs of enlightenment ideological awakening.

The 4,500-word chapter was presented as promised, and I hope everyone can also give a little more └(^o^)┘

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