Chapter 12: The New Faith of the Taiping Party
Last time, it was said that Zhang Jiao was depressed when he knew that his uprising would fail, and Zhang Ping was dismissing him.
Zhang Ping knew that he was only 1 year old, and he could neither carry nor lift his small arms and legs, let alone go into battle to kill the enemy. Moreover, in his previous life, he was engaged in IT, not to manufacture TNT, and he didn't know the principle of manufacturing guns and ammunition, let alone the giants of aircraft, artillery, tanks, missiles, warships, and other high-tech stacks. But he was still very confident, because he was born in a great country in his previous life, and the first leader of that country was an outstanding strategist and theoretician. The idea of a great leader is a compulsory course in the university, even if he does not understand the essence of it 100%, but it is still not a problem for Zhang Ping to draw a scoop according to the gourd.
So Zhang Ping told Zhang Jiao about "the countryside encircling the city," "the 16-character principle of guerrilla warfare," "the mass line," and "uniting all those who can be united," and gave a general explanation.
These truths are familiar and very simple and easy to understand in the eyes of modern people, but they have opened a door to a new world for Zhang Jiao.
What is a theory? It's whether you know it or not, it's there, but it's not noticed. After being said, it felt like it was just like this. It's like gravity. This concept is now known to many people, and it will not be difficult to understand, but if it weren't for Newton's fullness and nothing to do, knocking the apple that disturbed his dreams, and having to ask about the criminal purpose of the hateful apple, we wouldn't know that there was gravity, and it was all around you and me.
Zhang Jiao no longer feels that his son is just a baby anymore, and Ping'er has risen to the level of a sage in Zhang Jiao's heart. Therefore, he humbly asked his son for advice, and also gave a more detailed account of the situation of the Taiping Sect and the preparations for the uprising. There are three important points in this: the first is the teachings of the Taiping Sect, which preaches the equality of all people and leads people to goodness. The "mass line" is more specific and operational. The second is that after the original uprising, it was planned to occupy the big cities as the foundation, although the Han Dynasty has been decayed, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the strength of the Taiping Sect is still not comparable to the imperial court, so "the countryside surrounds the city", slowly trying to do it, the possibility of success is greater, because the backbone of the ruling class is basically concentrated in the big cities and the surrounding areas of the big cities. The third point is to redefine who is the enemy of the revolution. Failure to figure this out was an important reason for the failure of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in history, because the Yellow Turban Army was indiscriminate and offended almost all the other noble clans except for the family that bought them. At that time, when the scholars controlled the world, it could not be said that it was not self-defeating. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish who the enemy is and unite all the forces that can be united. Of course, the 16-character principle of guerrilla warfare is also excellent, but it is a military matter, and Zhang Ping has not been able to provide much reference advice.
Zhang Jiao and Zhang Ping discussed each other for several days around the above key points, except for eating and sleeping, they were basically talking. Zhang Jiao hopes to know more about the content details of the new idea. Zhang Ping also hopes that the new ideas will reverse the fate he will face.
A few days later, Zhang Jiao felt that he could no longer get more detailed new insights from Zhang Ping, so he gathered the core personnel of the Taiping Sect to promote new ideas to them, and brainstormed to continue to improve the specific implementation methods and methods. These core personnel also include Tang Zhou. Although Zhang Jiao wants to get rid of Tang Zhou, the time is not ripe now, and killing heroes will only lead to the centrifugation of his subordinates, so at present, he can only paralyze him and wait for the opportunity to do so. Since Tang Zhou has been accepted as a disciple of the house, of course he can be regarded as a core member.
But what did Tang Zhou think? Nobody knows. Because so far, his performance is to be more active in teaching affairs, and strive to show his talents, as if he is working harder than when he followed Zhang Bao.
After the internal meeting, Zhang Jiao began to prepare for the enlarged meeting, which required leaders from all over the country to take turns to come and hold meetings to convey new ideas and new methods.
This meeting is one meeting after another, and Zhang Jiao is very busy. The adjustment of this route also gave him one more excuse to delay the date of the incident. And now his mentality towards the incident has changed, he is now full of confidence, he feels that Ping'er is a messenger sent by God to save all the people in the world, a son of God, a gift from God to his Zhang family, and his Zhang family will be invincible!
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle. In the blink of an eye, it was the autumn of 183. Xiao Zhang Ping is three years old.
Previously, due to the adjustment of the route, the preparations for the uprising were indeed delayed at the beginning, but to Zhang Jiao's surprise, because the new guiding ideology was more operable, the preparations became orderly, and the process of the work was accelerated. According to the situation reported by various localities, Zhang Jiao predicts that next year, after autumn at the earliest, the preparatory work will be completed when the grain is collected and handed over to the government. At that time, the military rations were also prepared.
Although Zhang Jiao was full of confidence in the incident, he was not afraid of 10,000, but he was afraid of what happened, he still had to secretly send Zhang Ping's mother and son away as originally planned, and then pick them up when the world was decided.
That night, Zhang Jiao reluctantly said goodbye to his wife and children, handed over "Taiping Qing Lingdao" to Zhang Ping, and told him to keep it away and not show it to others, and explained that Zhang Sheng and Heizi should take good care of their wife and little brother. Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang also came to see them off.
In fact, Zhang Ping didn't want to leave, after all, they had lived together in this family for 3 years, and they also had strong feelings. Even Zhang Bao's feelings for his nephew have changed from guilt and fear at the beginning to his current love. But Zhang Ping also knew that his father's consideration was not unreasonable, and it was indeed safer to put his eggs in different baskets, but he preferred to stay with his father, because he was not sure if his father would still not be able to escape the fate of history. Zhang Ping felt that he might be able to help at a critical moment, but he was not very sure. So in the end, I couldn't do it, so I could only obey my father's arrangement and leave with my mother first.
Zhang Sheng rode a white horse to lead the way in front of the head, Zhang Heizi drove the ox cart, and Ji Chuer and Zhang Ping sat in the car, and under the cover of night, they left Julu City.
Zhang Jiao looked fixedly at the direction in which the lights on the ox cart had disappeared, and at this moment, he felt that everything he had had disappeared into the distant night with the ox cart.
The city gate guard stood behind Zhang Jiao, and he wondered who the Great Sage and the Great Doctor had personally sent out of the city, and the Great Sage and Master had asked the Taishou for a token for this, so that the ox cart could leave unhindered during the curfew. It's just that he didn't dare to ask, and he didn't dare to urge Zhang Jiao to go back, so that he could close the city gate again, and he didn't have to continue to eat the northwest wind in the city gate cave. After all, he himself is also an ordinary sect member in the Taiping Sect, and it is an honor to be able to stand beside the immortal-like great sage and good teacher.