"The Yellow Turban of the Dead Han, and the Yellow Turban cannot have Han;

The dead Sui are group thieves, and the group of thieves cannot have Sui;

The Yellow Nest of the Dead Tang Dynasty, and the Yellow Nest cannot have the Tang Dynasty. ”

Wang Fuzhi's "Reading through the Commentary":

- I'm the dividing line -

"So, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) finally reacted, and completed the tandem and negotiations, and formed a coalition army on the south bank of the Qiantang River to meet the battle?" Zhou Huai'an looked at the latest emotion in his hand.

"However, it's better to let them assemble, at least they don't have to go all over the ground to clear the chaotic soldiers in the wandering countryside and the existence of bandits who may gather and hide in the mountains after a large number of Dong Chang's missing places are scattered."

"Next, we don't have to rush into the army, hold a few important nodes as support, clean up the fields and acres of household registration in the township, recruit laborers, and replenish soldiers, and try to consolidate the situation in the rear. Let's see who can survive whom. ”

After a lot of preliminary preparations, the 30,000 troops of the Taiping Army in the western states of Zhejiang are like bamboos and drumming down the rapid offensive momentum, and it is time to reorganize and rotate here.

Otherwise, even the hundred forging blades should be dulled, not to mention the arrogant atmosphere of light enemies in the army, which needs to be cooled and adjusted in time.

In fact, when the Taiping army swept through Jiangdong, there was no shortage of people in the local area who wanted to ask for change and all kinds of potential collaborators.

Especially those who have done business with the Taiping army will always find a way to send what they think is useful news to this side in exchange for corresponding forgiveness or preferential treatment, and even possible privileges or something.

So the biggest problem at the moment is to sift through the really useful things, as well as the clues hidden in the vast sea of chaotic information, and form the basic truth and summary of things.

For example, although a large number of people and horses gathered in the territory of Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) to form a coalition army, the corresponding map books and household registers were sent privately to them; It's like a kind of two-headed bet on survival that is very common in history.

As an important part of Jiangdong's largest (Hangjiahu) plain, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) also has a population of 120,000 households, second only to Suzhou and Hangzhou, ranking third among Jiangdong prefectures.

Moreover, in the traditional land of fish and rice and the bonus attribute of water conservancy irrigation; Compared with Suzhou's tea, silk fabrics, and shipbuilding industries, Hangzhou's rice, sericulture, papermaking, and hardware construction, Yuezhou is famous for highlighting fish salt, mining, metallurgy, and porcelain.

For example, there is a tin mountain in Huiji, an iron mine in Shanyin, and a silver pit in Zhuji, so the local metal smelting is very prosperous; It is not only able to manufacture all kinds of precision utensils, but also provides corresponding materials to nearby Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huaiyang and other places.

The output of the local Lanting Salt Supervisor is also higher than that of Jiaxing Supervisor in Suzhou and Linping Supervisor in Hangzhou; Together, the three produce 1.5 million stone per year. Yuezhou is one of the four fields of the "four fields (distribution center) and ten prisons (production areas)" of the southeast salt industry.

Because of the high-quality kaolin everywhere in the territory, the Yuezhou porcelain produced is famous all over the world and is sold at home and abroad. The celadon with the characteristics of Yuezhou is also the white porcelain of Xingzhou, Hebei Province, which is known as the only two major production areas in the world.

Among them, the most famous is known as "clear as water, green as a cloud" tribute - secret color porcelain. In contrast, Hongzhou in Jiangxi, Tanzhou in Hunan, and Shaozhou in Lingnan can only be regarded as second-class production areas.

is like the poet Tortoise Meng, who is under Zhou Huai'an, once made a special "Secret Color Yue Weapon":

"The nine autumn wind and dew are more and more kiln open, and the thousand peaks are green.

It is good to be in the middle of the night, and the cup of the scattered bucket in the middle of the day. ”

Then there is the shipbuilding industry in Yuezhou. Compared with the inland river ships that Suzhou is good at, Yuezhou, which is located on the south bank of the Qiantang River, is mainly made by floating sea ships, but it is counted together with the neighboring Mingzhou (Ningbo), and ranks among the shipbuilding centers of Tianxiajiao, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Hong, and Yang.

Therefore, this is also the place of course for the observers of eastern Zhejiang in the past dynasties. Du Mu said that the Yuezhou place is "the machine to express the cultivation, the sealing of Kyushu, during which the cocoon tax fish and salt, food and clothing half the world," although half the world is an exaggeration, but at least half of the east of Zhejiang is not a problem.

And according to another normal historical line. When Dong Chang seized eastern Zhejiang to the time before he became emperor, he offered Chang'an 10,000 taels of gold, 100,000 silver ingots, and a large number of treasures and other things every ten days;

A large part of the source of its financial plan is obtained from Yuezhou and Mingzhou.

But today's Yuezhou is a leaderless situation. Since Cui Miao, the former observer of eastern Zhejiang, who was tenacious and stabbed in Yuezhou, was captured by Huang Chao who was crossing the border and surrendered to the rebel army, he is now being added as one of the five ministers of the political hall in Chang'an City.

And the observation and disposal of the successor who crossed the sea made Liu Yu, before his butt was hot in this position, he once again encountered Huang Chao's large-scale attack leading troops out of the ridge. As a result, the Yisheng army under his command simply sent him out and surrendered because of his lack of kindness.

Since then, he has become the fifth imperial feudal lord to be captured by the thief army; And these surrendered old departments of the Yisheng Army, after being subsumed into the Yisheng system, also became the faction and force base of Chang'an's Situ and Tongping Zhangshi.

Therefore, this observer of eastern Zhejiang, together with the position of concurrently serving as the assassin of Yuezhou, was also suspended because of the high risk in a certain sense, and no one else was delegated;

Then, with the large-scale northward movement of Huangchao, the rebel army in eastern Zhejiang began to gradually recede and turn into depression under the encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the local regiments and official troops.

In the end, the local rebels who ran rampant and wandered in Yuezhou either perished, surrendered or fled to other places, or defected to the military horses of Dugaihong on the south road in Huzhou, and never returned.

But it also created an emptiness in force and power in Yuezhou. So much so that the surrounding forces wanted to compete for the dominance of Yuezhou and the name of eastern Zhejiang, and occupied Zhuji, Yancheng, Shangyu, and Yuyao counties respectively.

The result is that the fight has been going on for many years, and no one has ever had an absolute advantage. Even the state city council is in the hands of the wealthy families in the city, and the delicate balance is maintained by desperately resisting all foreign pretenders.

This time, the two ends of the first rat secretly exchanged money with the Taiping Army, and the side was these big businessmen who occupied the state city. They also expressed their willingness to give up and surrender all land property and mansions in exchange for forgiveness in maritime trade and commerce.

However, according to the experience of dynastic change in later generations, when a new regime is established, it must reach an agreement with the local production groups in order to maintain the stability and continuity of the regime.

For example, those heroes and heroes of the Three Kingdoms period compromised with the families and wealthy families in various cities, because these local families mastered the local production organization and social relations;

Therefore, it is necessary to obtain the ability to collect and mobilize taxes and levies by recruiting and appointing each other's sons and daughters; And then transformed into a part of the chips/resources that he was able to stand out from the various princes who competed for dominance in the world.

If no agreement can be reached with the local production organization, then the organization must be decisively destroyed, and then the other organizations must be replaced by a new class of vested interests before the organization can do something for itself.

The biggest vested interest group that the Taiping Army wanted to support in Jiangdong was the collective peasant households with local farms and farms as the core. Therefore, of course, the fewer these old interests are kept, the fewer they are, and it is better not to preserve any of them.

Otherwise, the new regime will need to spend greater long-term costs and more political resources to check and balance and maintain the internal balance, and to erase and neutralize the influence of these old forces.

However, as a righteous division that hangs the people and fights crimes, after all, they are also directly attacking or abandoning their collaborators who lose their sincerity and dedication on the surface.

Therefore, Li Shicheng, who is in charge of external liaison, privately offered an idea. For example, if a suitable opportunity is needed to release the clues of the corresponding news, there will naturally be people in the enemy-occupied areas on the other side to clean up these people at both ends.

Of course, this kind of thing, which obviously belongs to the private and gray realm, can only be understood by the heart and not put into words.

At the same time, on the south bank of the Qiantang River, Yongxing County, which is across the water from Xiling Town on the periphery of Qiantang City, is also full of people and horses, banners and guns; The dense sound of drums and trumpets can be heard from afar even if you stand on the north shore.

And on one of the high platforms surrounded by colorful curtains, there is now Zhong Jiwen, the assassin of Mingzhou, who is also the leader of the current anti-thief coalition, and is proudly presiding over the oath ceremony of all parties.

He was originally a native of Chengcheng (now Yinxian County, Zhejiang), and since Wang Ying's old department occupied Mingzhou after Zhao'an, and after General Jinwu destroyed Zhang Quan's northern division along the eastern coast of Zhejiang, he took advantage of the time to kill all the remnants of Zhang Quan's remaining party.

In this way, he mastered the state city and occupied most of the four counties of Mingzhou, and also ordered the rest of the rest to be armed and gathered around him. Huang Sheng, the general of Wanghai Town that he valued, was one of them.

In addition, there are many soldiers and horses from the local and foreign support such as Yuyao Town General Xiangjia, Zhucheng Commander Ma Xuan, Xinchangzhai Town Commander Xu Yue, and Tiantai Town General.

There are also Wuzhou (now Jinhua) Assassin Shi Wang Tan, Quzhou Assassin Shi Chen Ru, Chuzhou (now Lishui) Assassin Shi Luyo, Wenzhou Assassin Shi Zhu Bao, Quzhou Assassin Shi Yuantai, Muzhou Assassin Shi Du Ruxiu and other powerful factions in eastern Zhejiang, sent reinforcements.

Among them, there are more than 1,000 people, and more than 1,000 people, after cooperating together, they suddenly cover the sun all day long and stretch the riverside for more than ten miles, and every sentry tower and fence is full of residence.

In the grass by the river, the commander of the naval brigade who was responsible for crossing the river to reconnoiter Chai Zaiyong was also staring at these hedgehogs and the banners that had gathered a large number of people, and the corresponding symbols were placed in the sketchbook.

- I'm the dividing line -

In the city of Chang'an, although it has resettled on the bright side with the awakening of Huang Chao; But the blood shed on the streets is still vivid, and it has always lingered in most people's memories.

And those who secretly returned to Chang'an City in batches under the orders of the five ministers, the six Shangshu, and the generals of the political affairs hall also had no intention or intention of withdrawing from the city again, but just stalemate.

The three-way army and its remnants, which were routed and retreated from the front line respectively, seemed to have been temporarily forgotten by everyone, and no one paid attention to or appeased them.

During this period, the only bright color was a large number of military materials sent from the south in the name of condolences to Huangchao and gifts to Queen Cao. However, the distribution and expenditure of this large amount of military materials made the Great Qi court secretly troublesome again.