Before dawn, the Taiping army had cleared most of the city of Guizhou, and only a few strongholds were left that were still stubbornly resisting. In fact, the end of the fall of the city was already doomed from the moment these unknown enemies were not able to recapture the city gate in the first place.

"They're the local bunch."

Looking at the strings of captives who were escorted across the street, Zhou Huai'an said with a little surprise.

"What are the rebels stationed there, and where have they gone?"

"Most of them have been killed, and at least a thousand corpses have been found in the inner city trenches."

Ge Congzhou, who was in charge of the whole city of Dasuo, said with a somewhat heavy expression

"It's just a few who survived by hiding in people's homes. And come out and pray. ”

"Call all the people who aren't on duty."

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but sigh heavily.

"I'm going to have a public ceremony."

"It's shocking, it's shocking."

Then, on the edge of the trench that was full of corpses even if it was covered with lime, Zhou Huai'an appeared loudly to the gathered subordinates

"Now there are still people who have luck and leniency for those gentry and powerful people, and if they want to steal and cheat and work without help, this is the most intuitive end."

"What we are doing is to break the injustice of this world, but we are also going to dig up the roots of these greedy and unscrupulous people, who lie on the corpses of the poor and knock out the bones and suck the marrow. How can these jackals be truly repentant and atone, put aside their prejudices and past, and cooperate and compromise with the rebels? ”

"Under the coercion of the rebels, they may be able to deceive and deceive for a while, pretending to be kind and harmless and harmless. But at the first opportunity, I have to counterattack and intensify the mutilation. ”

"The majority of the soldiers of the rebel army may be fearless of the opponent with knives and guns, but for this kind of soft knife that slowly and invisibly cuts flesh, or the conspiracy behind the paralysis and carelessness, it is inevitable that they are a little unguardable and unguarded."

"And the rebel brothers lying here are the best portrayal of those who have let down their vigilance and vigilance and died without a place to be buried; I hope that each of you will see it in your eyes, keep it in your heart, and learn from it. ”

"No compromises."

"It's incompatible."

"Revenge."

"No forgiveness."

"Kill all the dogs."

"Eradicate all local tyrants and inferior gentry."

There was already a forest of arms waving and roaring below. Then the captured chiefs of the Tu Clans and their accomplices, as well as all the men of the great men of the city and the gentry, were escorted over and fell down one by one on the edge of the ditch;

In the midst of the cry of the same enemy, no matter how painful they wept or scolded, pleading, without exception, they were cut off and thrown into the ditch as a sacrifice, and finally every soldier present had to bring a shovel of soil, take turns to bury this ditch completely, and engrave the inscription on the monument as some kind of commemoration.

And this is obviously the result and sequelae of the failure of the righteous army to eliminate the evil after the rebellion; Although they purged the big and rich people in the city, the gentry, big families, and powerful people scattered in the countryside took the opportunity to fill the gap left in the upper city in a short time;

As the Lingxi Jiedu envoy waved the first major economic strategy to govern the Guiguan strategy, the ten counties of Guizhou are a rare and rich land in the mountains, so it is also the key place for the Long March athletes from Hunan, Jiangxi and Jianchuan to defend in those years.

In addition, the local people are fierce and brave, so it has long been a practice for the imperial court to recruit local young men to fight in Annan; Li Zhuo, a veteran of the official army who was the original envoy of Guan Guijing and is now compiling memoirs in the hands of the Taiping Army, took this as the basis for the line from Liuzhou to Hezhou, and most of the righteous army led by General Shang Rang resisted for several months.

Until the local guest garrison, because of the lack of food and wages and the mood of longing for home, mutinies and riots will rise up and expel them from Ben; The states of Guiguan led by Guizhou were able to fall into the control of the rebels one after another; However, the rebel army under the command of Huang Chao was only divided and controlled; Some of the cities, including the state city.

In the countryside of the ten counties of Guizhou, it is controlled by these spontaneously rising local forces in disguise; When the main force of the Righteous Army is still strong, they will lie dormant for a while, but when most of the Righteous Army goes north one after another and the rear is empty, they will inevitably win all kinds of different ideas.

The example of Guiyang magnate Chen Yanqian is obviously not the only one, and it is also the last; There is no shortage of people here. It's just that they are all temporarily united and act in more subtle ways.

Then, in the gradual occurrence of various daily trivial events, the advantage of being familiar with local channels and contacts was used to gradually isolate and empty the other parts of the local garrison of the rebel army;

Originally, they also needed these garrison rebels to maintain cover on the surface and profit from the people and goods transferred; Therefore, with the appearance of quite enthusiastic partners and collaborators, the generals stationed in the rebel army were further paralyzed.

And further introduce these people to all the positions in the city, and the lowly background of the volunteer soldiers are neither familiar nor good at. By the time he came to his senses, it was too late, and he could only continue to cooperate with his subordinates when his subordinates were co-opted and corrupted, and those who adhered to the purpose of the righteous army were excluded and mutilated, and he was reluctant to bear the threat of his life, but he was actually a puppet at his mercy.

However, in the end, he obviously came to be a puppet of public promotion, and he couldn't ask for it. After receiving the news of the defeat of the main forces of the two main forces of the rebel army in the north, and the fact that the rebel army stationed in Guangfu also suffered heavy casualties due to internal strife, they also began to think about self-reliance and justification for a while.

However, because of many differences of opinion within the body, and because they were reluctant to take advantage of the transportation ship group by the road, they wanted to intercept it and do a big business, so they dragged it out more than ten days ago in hesitation, and after confirming that the Jiangling side in the upper reaches of Jianghan was also in danger, they decided to launch it;

dragged the rebel general who was used as a puppet and signboard, along with his relatives in the local area, to cut down the sacrificial flag, and then announced the restoration and return to the rule of the imperial court, and then appointed a large number of assassins, long histories, Sima, farewells, master books, canonical histories, and military members.

But what they didn't expect was that they then fell into the tussle and tearing of internal interests, and before they could reach a basic result, they had already been rediscovered by the Taiping army who had expeditioned from Guangfu to Jiangling. And they didn't even decide the leader of the public recommendation and the representative of the negotiation on the surface.

And then what happened was natural. After the desperate night attack that each family put together failed, it was inevitable that the Taiping army who took the opportunity to seize the city would be copied one by one and killed the whole family.

Because the military situation was urgent and could not be delayed for too long, there was not much time to stop to screen and investigate, and then carry out the public trial; Therefore, it is a quick knife to cut through the mess and sweep away all the wealthy families first; This was also practiced in the land of Annam

The adult males who could be found among them were executed punitively, and then the women and children were escorted to Guangzhou for another disposal along with the prisoners of the Tutuan Army. The latter were assigned to the mines as a supplement to their labour, while the former were placed in special labor camps near the factories, and under the supervision of the women's camp representatives, they began to learn the simplest forms of self-reliance.

Although this cannot completely eliminate the real root cause of the problem and the signs of resistance, it can make these remnants of the other side and the old forces no longer become a problem for the rebels in a short period of a year and a half;

Even the remaining landlords in the countryside still generally held an attitude of non-cooperation and confrontation, but after the loss of these powerful leaders and their armed forces; It is not so easy to reconnect and communicate to form a new synergy, and to reorganize and decide on a new leader of the Tuan.

During this period, there was a corresponding time and buffer, so that the Cantonese side could send more suitable officials and grass-roots clerks to cooperate with the three detachments of investigation, census, and work to mobilize the poor people at the bottom of the society, and further deal with and eliminate those remnants who had escaped the initial liquidation but had greater public anger, or those disgruntled elements who secretly hid and waited to move.

Then, after the establishment of the new tuntian office and the resettlement site, a contract was really laid in the local area, and through the means of land enclosure and resettlement, it officially had a group of supporters of local vested interests; Then we can rely on these people to carry out further land clearance, population search, and registration work;

In Zhou Huai'an's follow-up plan, the ultimate goal is to gradually seize the personal relations and public opinion dominance that have been monopolized and controlled for generations at the grassroots level in the township from the hands of those squires and powerful households who have been hit; As long as there are enough comparisons and reference models for new foreign things, the blockade and monopoly they insist on in the township will only become vulnerable after all.

Then, with the core model demonstration area and mature experience initially formed in Guizhou, it was further extended to the main plain areas and agricultural production areas of the thirteen prefectures of Guiguan in the northwest of Lingzhou. Finally, it will strengthen local control and subsequent influence in terms of economic lifeline and political organization.

Of course, this is the ideal state, and it will take more time and cycle. It is not without repetitions and twists and turns, and there is also no lack of long-term confrontations, tug-of-wars, and contradictions. But as long as the executor can persistently and resolutely carry it out, he is not afraid of mistakes or detours, and the final winner will still be the side dominated by the Taiping Army.

Therefore, Gushi County, the city of Guizhou, followed by Lingchuan County and Linyuan County in the upper reaches, as well as Qinchengshu, which is the starting point and fortress of the southern end of the Guling Canal, also agitated and looked down one after another, and fell into the hands of the righteous army without resistance and twists and turns.

The local people even gathered together to "eat the pot and eat", as if the chaos and betrayal that happened in the state city did not exist at all. It also made the various actions of the rebels along the way full of a certain irony of "fear of power and immorality". And another benefit of having access to these places is slowly becoming apparent.

It was through the expropriation of warehouses and the seizure of large households and gentry along the way that not only doubled the money and grain carried by the rebels, but also used a large amount of surplus for subsequent resettlement projects to solicit and relieve the poor.

Therefore, after only three days of delay in Guizhou, the army of the expedition had already marched between Yuecheng Ridge and Du Pang Ridge, on the ancient canal of the deep gorge as high as a knife.

(End of chapter)