Receiving Yang Xiaoshan's good news, Yang Xiuqing was overjoyed and shouted: "Okay, this Xiaoshan is really a blessed general of my heavenly kingdom." ”

Since Yongzhou had no hope of being breached, Xiaoshan took Daozhou again. Yang Xiuqing immediately decided to go south to Daozhou. Although Daozhou has a long history and is an ancient city, the original city was not large. Maybe it's a good name, there is a word "Dao", Xianfeng's father, Emperor Daoguang, once carried out large-scale repairs and expansions in Daozhou.

The scale of Daozhou that has been renovated is not comparable to that year, the city is more than 2,000 meters wide, the city wall is nine meters high, four meters thick, there are more than 1,500 battlements for defense, there are eight city towers, fifteen forts, twelve watchtowers, and the moat outside the city is wide and deep. Such a strong city was actually surrendered to the Taiping army by Admiral Yu.

After Yang Xiuqing came to Daozhou, he praised again and again, and was pleasantly surprised, the Qing army gave this big gift too generously. So he happily convened the first military deployment meeting in Daozhou.

"Changhui, I have to leave this matter of city defense to you." Yang Xiuqing still arranged the city defense to Wei Changhui, and Wei Changhui was the city defense supervisor in Yong'an.

"No problem, leave it to me." Wei Changhui is already familiar with city defense.

"Da Kai, your people will be arranged to Shuangpai Town to strictly prevent Hechun's team from attacking Daozhou." Yang Xiuqing continued to arrange.

"Okay, I'll cut it off." Shi Dakai also gladly accepted the order.

"Chaogui, your team is scattered to various key roads, and Axe Ridge, Hongjia Village, Hejia Village, Ganxipu, and Baitouling must be garrisoned, encamped, and defend Daozhou." Although he has only been in Daozhou for a few days, Yang Xiuqing already has a considerable understanding of the terrain in this area. Defending the city first and guarding the danger is the consistent style of the Taiping army.

"Command!" Xiao Chaogui also nodded and accepted the battle arrangement.

"Previously, we discarded too much baggage in order to hurry, and now that we are in this state, it's time to take a breath and replenish it, but it's a pity that the king of the south has returned to heaven, and now no one is responsible for the logistics. Hill, look? "Yang Xiuqing plans to let Yang Xiaoshan take charge first, this logistical matter must be literate and clear, and the head must be clear enough, which is not something that ordinary martial artists can do, but now there are too few talents like Heaven Kingdom.

"I think let Lao Wu be in charge, Lao Wu has been in charge of the Holy Treasury, and he is the most suitable for this." Yang Xiaoshan hurriedly proposed, the logistics are too trivial, everything has to worry about everything, it is not easy to take over and want to throw it away, Xiaoshan hurriedly found Lao Wu to top the cylinder for himself. Lao Wu also had a good relationship with his colleagues, and this can be regarded as a fat water left to his own people.

"Wu Ruxiao is not bad, then leave it to him, and his official position should be promoted." Yang Xiuqing thought about it for a while and accepted Xiaoshan's proposal. Wu Ruxiao is still very reliable, and Yang Xiuqing has a good impression of him.

"Our brothers have killed all the way and suffered a lot of losses, isn't it time to recruit troops?" Shi Dakai proposed.

"Dakai's proposal is very good, this king is about to talk about it. In Guangxi, I heard that there were many parties in Hunan, and there were many rebels who opposed the Qing Dynasty. Especially the heaven and earth will be very powerful here, let's set up a Daozhou banner here, specifically recruit Hunan villagers, what do you think? Yang Xiuqing agreed with Shi Dakai's suggestion, in fact, he had already made arrangements.

"Outline, you are familiar with the people of the Heaven and Earth Society, you go and contact them to see if you can recruit them into our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." Yang Xiuqing turned his head and said to Luo Xuan.

"There is no problem with this, I have a relationship with Cheng Xuetian of the Huihui Yitang of Chenzhou Tiandi in Hunan, He Zhigou in Daozhou, Hu Youlu, Zhu Hongying and others, and I can persuade them to join our Taiping Army. It's just that...... Luo Xuan was still a little hesitant.

"Just what?" Yang Xiuqing asked.

"It's just that these people are a little wild, and they are used to being free and casual, and I am afraid that they will not be able to stand the discipline of our heavenly kingdom, and it will not be good if something happens." Luo outlined his concerns.

"Can we slowly run in, weren't you also in the Heaven and Earth Society before, don't we get along well now? Jiao Er, who joined recently, has also made a lot of contributions, and if we want to develop and grow, we must absorb talents. Yang Xiuqing knows very well that if you want to grow, you can't waste food because of choking. Heaven and Earth will be a powerful anti-Qing force, but they do not have a unified big organization, each playing its own game, so it has not been able to develop, if they are all integrated into the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it will be a powerful boost to the Taiping army.

"Okay, I'll try, I think they'll join, as far as I know, they're not in a good place right now." Luo Xuan nodded, although Hunan continued to revolt, but it was unsuccessful, and he hid in Tibet under the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, and he did not have a good life.

"Dongwang, are you also considering recruiting some cultural people? We have no shortage of military generals, but there are too few civilian officials. Yang Xiaoshan hurriedly proposed. The lack of literate people has always been a common problem in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it has always been difficult for scholars to have an instinctive resistance to religion.

"Xiaoshan is right, this king actually inquired about the names of some Hunan talents. For example, Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi are all well-known talents, but they are all on errands in the imperial court, and they will never join us. However, there is one person who is also quite famous, named Zuo Zongtang, who is a man who has not yet had an official body. Xiaoshan, you try to pay a visit, and see if you can make it available to our heavenly kingdom. Yang Xiuqing himself is not very literate, but he still respects scholars, although he is the king of the east, he uses Mr. to call scholars, and there are many cultural people under him to make documents for him and deal with government affairs. But at best, they are just talents, not a big talent.

"Zuo Zongtang?" No matter how bad Yang Xiaoshan's historical knowledge is, he has heard of this name, this is one of the famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, and later recovered Xinjiang and made immortal achievements. "Okay, I'll pay you a visit." Yang Xiaoshan became excited, if Zuo Zongtang returned to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it would really be a blessing from heaven.

"However, this king wants to remind you that this Zuo Zongtang is a madman. He calls himself Jin Liang and thinks that he is the reincarnation of today's Zhuge Kongming, don't have too much hope. "Yang Xiuqing did investigate very carefully, talents are rare, and they must do their homework in advance.

After arranging various matters, after everyone dismissed the meeting, Yang Xiuqing left Xiaoshan behind.

"Let's take a look, how about you take a look at the three essays that this king asked Lai Wenguang to draft?" Yang Xiuqing took out the text. These are also the three famous texts in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they are "Fengtian curses the demon to save the world and an people's message", "On all natural natural Chinese people's message", and "Fengtian Hu Shubu Sifang Message".