The news of the White Lotus Sect was also collected by Zhou Lang.

Contrary to the expectations of the staff, the White Lotus Sect did not succeed, but took the road narrower and narrower.

Zhou Lang's Great Zhou regime has already helped them attract most of their firepower, and it is said that their room for activity will be larger, but it is still weakening step by step.

Later commentators commented on the failure of the White Lotus Sect, mainly attributing it to the improper way in which the White Lotus sect acted.

At the beginning, the White Lotus Sect did not have the ability to attack the county seat, when they hid in the mountains and rivers in dangerous places, built their own walled cities to defend, which was considered the first big mistake, and the result was that they were broken by the Qing army one by one, after all, as a regular army, the Qing army was equipped with a lot of artillery.

After the failure of the sticking strategy, the White Lotus Sect learned a lesson and began to fight on a mobile basis, at this time they began to "not face the battle, do not go to the plains, only hundreds of groups, suddenly divide and merge, suddenly south and north", this tactic did make their ranks grow rapidly, and where they walked, the social order collapsed, because no matter what, they were going to eat, and the landlords were willing or unwilling, they would be swept away, not only the landlords had nothing to eat, but the poor people had nothing to eat, so they could only follow them. Those who agree with the White Lotus Sect say that they are absorbing the masses, and those who disagree with them say that they are coerced.

This kind of mobile warfare is still criticized by experts, saying that they have not established a base area.

Anyway, it is also a mistake for the White Lotus Sect to defend the city and be broken, and it is also a mistake for the mobile battle to have no foothold, because they failed, then they must have made a mistake.

There is also a saying that the White Lotus Sect does not pay attention to unity and always fights alone. As a result, although the White Lotus Sect revolted everywhere, it was defeated by the Qing army one by one.

But in fact, in Zhou Lang's opinion, the White Lotus Sect did not have many choices. Sticking to it has been proven to be unworkable, and mobility has also been proven to be unworkable, as for the union, no matter whether the leaders of the White Lotus Sect are really unwilling to unite, Zhou Lang feels that they may not be able to unite even if they unite. Because many White Lotus Sects often have tens of thousands of people, and every time there are more than the Qing troops chasing them, the places they pass are slightly sparsely populated, and they will fall into a food crisis. Such a situation, for them to be united, will only make the crisis worse.

Speaking of which, those evaluations are also correct, and if they can build a stable base, these will be solved.

According to Zhou Lang's own experience, the establishment of this kind of base is really the most difficult thing for rebels, because the establishment of a base is equivalent to the startup company starting to make a profit, achieving a stable cash flow, and it is not far from going public, and this is very difficult.

Zhou Langguang was in order to get recognition in Fengshan County, and it was tax exemption and banditry, and in the end, it was mainly because Chen Zhouquan in the north vigorously attacked the landlords, and the landlord class in Fengshan County began to support Zhou Lang to a limited extent under the panic and no choice, and it was only limited to the dissolution of the regimental training, as for putting it under Zhou Lang's command, it was all after Zhou Lang occupied Fujian.

Zhou Lang was supported by the venture capital of the East India Company, and on the basis of blackmailing 20 million silver dollars from Guangzhou, he did all this, which made the White Lotus Sect, which was already impoverished, really unrealistic, so they couldn't have a stable foothold at all, so they could only go all the way to eat all the way, eat all the way and destroy all the way, how to build a base in this case. Li Zicheng was also so mobile back then, and the reason why he was able to succeed in the end was mainly because the military strength of the Ming Dynasty was really no longer powerful under the repeated tug-of-war between the peasant army and the Eight Banners, and in the end he was unwilling to confront Li Zicheng, so he surrendered in large numbers and established a stable base in Shaanxi, which gave him the strength to march into Beijing.

And the Qing army, which was chasing behind the White Lotus Sect, was always stronger in combat than the White Lotus Sect. Zhou Lang did not break through the entrance and rob many times in a row like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because Zhou Lang regarded himself more as a regular army than a rogue, and did not have much interest in robbery. Even before going on the expedition, it is necessary to consider the issue of peace and security. As a result, the support given to the White Lotus Sect was limited, giving the Qing army ample opportunity to suppress the White Lotus Sect.

The most important reason is that in this history, because Zhu Qi experimented with group training in Guangdong and the presence of Zhou Lang, the Qing army's strength was stretched, and as a result, they were promoted to host group training in the theater in advance. As a result, in front were the landlords' earthen cities and cottages, and behind were the Manchu Qing troops in hot pursuit, and if they stopped for a while, they would be hit twice. The landlords held a large group training, and also absorbed the local name, resulting in the soldiers of the White Lotus Sect also being absorbed by the other party. Under the elimination of the other, the White Lotus Sect lost all its living space.

In fact, their only chance, I am afraid, is to mobilize the masses, not to divide the grain of the landlord's family, but to directly divide the land of the landlord's family, and then it is possible to establish a base in a certain place. But this is also based on the fact that their soldiers are strong enough to hold a place, but it turns out that they lack this ability. Troops armed with religious superstition, consisting of outcasts who did not have enough to eat, proved to be loose.

After all, at this time, the whole of China has just crossed the 300 million population mark, and there are still many wastelands in the country that have not been developed, and the wind and rain are basically smooth during the Qianlong period, and there are no major disasters throughout the country, and the reserves of the Qing government are rich enough to withstand the toss.

If it had been thirty or fifty years later, when 400 million people were pressed on this grade of land, and the Qing government was financially empty, it might have been easier for them to revolt.

With the extermination of the largest White Lotus Sect, the White Lotus Sect gradually began to disappear, and a small group of the White Lotus Sect hid in the mountains, which was no longer a cause for concern, and the Qing court even began to dismiss the Xiangyong. After all, they are not at ease with anyone in their hands on the armed forces.

One autumn, the White Lotus Sect was basically destroyed.

And Zhou Lang's army also recovered, and the main force from Fujian and Guangdong adapted to the local climate, or the nutrition was replenished. Zhou Lang also completed a series of military movements before the Northern Expedition.

Zhao Wen's 13th Army, as well as the five Guangdong Infantry Corps were left in Wuchang Mansion, and then the Shuai Battalion, the 14th Army and the artillery units all returned to the Beijing Division (Nanjing).

Finally, a treasury bond was issued before the Northern Expedition. This is already the second treasury bond, the first of which was issued in Guangzhou after the occupation of the whole of Jiangnan last year.

The issuance of the two treasury bonds can be regarded as building a bond market that is not perfect. There is a modern financial market, and even if Zhou Lang is not successful in this Northern Expedition, he is confident that he will continue to spend ten or eight years with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.