The success of the White Lotus Church is the view of Zhou Lang's staff.

Because with Zhou Lang's capture of Jiangnan, the general trend of the world will inevitably undergo huge changes, whether the Qing army is willing or unwilling, they have to focus on confronting Zhou Lang, with the example of Zhu Yuanzhang in front, no matter how low-key Zhou Lang is, he will become the priority target of the Qing court.

In contrast, the situation of the White Lotus Sect was much better, and as soon as their pressure was small, there was enough room for development.

Now the White Lotus Sect seems to be oppressed by the Qing army in the narrow Sichuan-Chu border area, but Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Henan and even Shaanxi have appeared in the White Lotus Sect activities, according to the former Liangjiang Governor Fu Ning to Jiaqing report, "the number of thieves has decreased, and the large shares are divided into small shares, and the name of the thieves is many", now more and more White Lotus Sect is the first to raise troops, once there is space, it will change from small to large, quickly sweeping several provinces, and then join forces in one place, there will be the power to subvert the Qing court, forming a situation of Li Zicheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

This is all a reference to the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, every time Li Zicheng was about to fall, there would always be a turning point, many times the Qing army suddenly entered the customs, Chongzhen had to transfer the world's soldiers and horses to capture the king, as a result, the army that suppressed the peasant uprising withdrew, giving Li Zicheng the opportunity to pull the team again, the worst time, Li Zicheng only had eighteen cavalry left, but it still swept the world.

The aides believe that this is the general trend and cannot be reversed.

Zhou Lang also felt that the analysis was very reasonable, the Qing army has been suppressing in the Sichuan and Chu areas, but the more they fight, the more they rebound, this is determined by social contradictions, a large number of White Lotus Sect rebels are poor people who can't survive, they are all marginal people in society, many of them have broken away from the clan, separated from the land, and entered the deep mountains to reclaim the emperor, every day I am worried that the officers and soldiers will kill them as thieves, or cut wood and burn charcoal in the mountains, and dig minerals, these are all forbidden by the Qing court, and these people become miners.

There are too many such people, and in the mountains and rivers in the Sichuan and Chu areas, there are even a large number of people who have fled to the mountains to reclaim, and have also formed organizations and established cottages, which not only do not care about the government, but their cottages even have fixed shops, and there are merchants doing business here, and establishing economic ties with the outside world. Such an independent organization, which is independent of the government, will immediately become an army and establish a political power at the first opportunity.

There were also rebellions among the Miao people in western Hunan, northeastern Guizhou, and southeastern Sichuan, which were also mixed with ethnic contradictions, and were closely related to the large-scale policy of reforming the land and returning it to the river during the Kangqian period. They not only fought the government, but also fought the Han people who had entered Miao Xinjiang since the Qing Dynasty, and these Han people had already cultivated land here, multiplied for several generations, and formed an agricultural society of local landlords and gentry, yeoman farmers and tenants through reclamation, and had the ability to organize spontaneously.

At the same time as the government and the landlord armed forces to start a war, but to seize the landlord's land, kill the local Han people, basically the Miao people's rebellion is doomed to failure, these failed Miao rebels, can only join the wandering White Lotus Sect armed forces, and at the same time continue to destroy the local order, creating a large number of displaced people are also forced to continue to join, as long as the White Lotus Sect is not exterminated, sooner or later it will snowball in strength, Funing also reported, "thieves threaten to increase day by day...... There are more new thieves than they are eliminated."

The problem of the White Lotus Sect has indeed become a hidden danger, not only from the Qing court, but also with Zhou Lang, because everyone knows that Zhou Lang is fighting with the Qing court for the world, and any third force will become a competitor. After Zhu Yuanzhang seized the world, he also wanted to exterminate the White Lotus Sect, which caused Tang Sai'er's White Lotus Sect uprising in the early Ming Dynasty.

After this expansion, Zhou Lang has grown like a snake in a whole circle, and he has to stop and digest it.

The problem of Hangzhou did not drag on for too long, Wang Fuqian already had considerable organizational ability, maybe the ability to study the imperial examination was not good, but the administrative ability was outstanding, even if it was not outstanding, after so many years of training, it was also proficient, and he had a huge shogunate as much as Zhou Lang to help, he still had the ability to stabilize the place, and not long after Zhou Lang occupied Nanjing, he let the auxiliary soldiers seize the two capitals of Jiaqing and Huzhou, and then conquered Hangzhou with only one army, not that Ruan Yuan's ability was not enough, but because of the situation.

In fact, in terms of ability, Ruan Yuan's ability may be far above Wang Fuqian.

This Ruan Yuan is also a famous minister in history. Historically, it was in his hands that he exterminated the pirates who did not get Fujian and Zhejiang, and finally became the local governor, and no matter where he was an official, he would correct the maladministration and make a career. is a rare capable minister. He was also an official to the extent that he was afraid of the courtiers, just as Qianlong was afraid of Zhu Jue entering Beijing, and when Daoguang succeeded to the throne and wanted to transfer Ruan Yuan into Beijing, he was blocked by Cao Zhenyong.

Cao Zhenyong is not a corrupt official like He Shen, but just like his name, he is a mediocre official, and the mantra of being an official is "kowtow more and talk less", he was born in a salt merchant family and is not short of money, has a good temper, and has excellent popularity, but he doesn't do things, and he doesn't do anything wrong.

Such Ruan Yuan should have made greater feats that a civil official in traditional society could do, but unfortunately the traditional platform he relied on was smashed by Zhou Lang, and the platform built by Zhou Lang allowed Wang Fuqian to play to his heart's content, so Wang Fuqian defeated Ruan Yuan and entered Hangzhou.

The auxiliary army that invaded Hangzhou suffered serious casualties, 3,000 out of 10,000 people were killed in battle, and more than 2,000 were wounded.

With such a military exploit, Wang Fuqian wrote a letter to Zhou Lang that should not have been his participation.

The army has a mechanism for the army, Zhou Lang has established a personnel department dedicated to managing the appointment and dismissal of officers, called the official section, each army has a relative official, specially used to record the merits of officers and soldiers, the merits of the small soldiers are declared by their captains, and the merits of the officers are the clerks of the officer section are responsible for recording, and check clearly with the parties, and the signature can be recorded in the archives after the signature is postponed, and the promotion is finally determined by the official section according to these file materials, rather than a random recommendation of an official.

After Wang Fuqian wrote this letter asking for merit, some of Zhou Lang's staff members immediately stood up and warned that Wang Fuqian was too powerful and should be guarded against, and Wang Fuqian should be beaten on this letter.

Wang Fuqian's power is indeed too great, but this is determined by the reality of the situation, not by man. Zhou Lang established two sets of teams, and the unfamiliar traditional civil affairs were handed over to Wang Fuqian, and he was in charge of military affairs, as well as financial development and use, the most important financial and military power were in his hands, and his basic plate was stable.

However, Wang Fuqian is in charge of civil affairs, and a large number of officials are recommended and appointed by him, which will indeed make him too powerful, but this is not the result of Wang Fuqian's stubborn grasp of power, or excessive power, in fact, Zhou Lang has no way in this situation.

It is impossible for a country to be as big as a corporation to completely eliminate factions formed by problems of connections and abilities, unless human beings cease to be social creatures one day.

But the precautions should have been done earlier, not that Zhou Lang didn't trust Wang Fuqian, but to prevent the slightest, this is also a kind of protection for his subordinates, he can't be like Zhu Yuanzhang, wait until the country is stable, and kill the heroes!

So he immediately wrote a letter of reprimand to Wang Fuqian, telling the other party that the military system has its own regulations, which is enough to alert Wang Fuqian, and it is estimated that this kind of civil servant, seeing this kind of letter, will break out in a cold sweat.

But he was very interested in the heroic auxiliary army Zhou Lang, because since the rejuvenation, his army has always relied on strong firepower and military discipline to crush the opponent, and this is the first time that he has encountered this kind of case of relying on the will to fight to achieve victory.

If the officers under his command have reached such a high level of loyalty to Zhou Lang, Zhou Lang does not believe it, cultivating the loyalty of his subordinates is not an overnight thing, let alone soldiers, before the establishment of the modern state system, without the brainwashing of the modern education system, Zhou Lang does not believe that there will be soldiers and officers who are infinitely loyal to him, with the honor of the first modern army, Zhou Lang cannot be snatched from Napoleon.

Zhou Lang believes that if he encounters danger, the current officers such as Ma Dalei and Hong Jiuzhi will stand in front of him to block bullets, but this is not out of loyalty in the modern sense, but a kind of loyalty with feudal personal attachment, their family, the wealth of their descendants, are tied to Zhou Lang's body, which will make them instinctively regard Zhou Lang's safety as more important than anything else.

But that auxiliary unit, whether it was an officer or a soldier, Zhou Lang had never seen it, why did they do this kind of behavior to fight for Zhou Lang, Zhou Lang wanted to know.

So Zhou Lang summoned the chief general and main officers of that army, and he immediately understood the reason.

This is a hometown soldier with a patriarchal color, all the officers and soldiers are from the same place, just like Ruan Yuan's militia, in the case of the officer's bravery, the soldier will not flinch, their motivation to unite and fight to the death is not loyalty to Zhou Lang, but from the leadership of the officer.

Why did Zhou Lang's auxiliaries appear in the color of the militia.

This has to start with the purpose of the establishment of the auxiliary army and the way of formation.

The auxiliaries were formed as garrison troops, and to put it bluntly, according to the standards of the security army, Zhou Lang regarded them more as policemen than as military troops.

Compared with the soldiers, although the organizational structure is the same, the weapons and equipment are similar, but they do not even have a number, that is, in the name of the place where they were formed, this army was formed together with the training of the landlords in the Zhangzhou area, so it is called the Zhangzhou Army.

The predecessor was the landlord's group training, and when he saved a piece, it was still the landlord's group training. The officers, from top to bottom, were all disciples of the landlord's family. All officers also have no formal ranks, and from corps to corps, that rank is called so-and-so chief, and apparently unofficially to the point that these corps are intended to be abolished at any time.