Feng Yunshan has such insight into Li Hongzhang at this time, which is very strange!

You must know that Li Hongzhang in history, at the beginning, was shocked by the foreign guns and cannons of the Taiping Army because of the war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so he also followed the purchase of foreign guns and cannons from foreigners, trying to "learn one or two secret methods of Westerners" to facilitate attack and suppression, but found that it was more cost-effective to introduce machinery and equipment to produce by himself, and felt the long-term threat from abroad, so he decided to follow the example of the West, set up imitation foreign ship cannons, and established a military industry. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

But now, the entire trajectory of history has been changed by itself. Li Hongzhang didn't have the opportunity to come into contact with a large number of foreign guns and artillery, so how could he still have this kind of thinking and insight?

Feng Yunshan couldn't help but guess that this Li Hongzhang had already effectively imitated the West's mind. Perhaps, as early as the First Opium War more than ten years ago, he noticed the sharpness of foreign warships and foreign guns and artillery, and had the idea of improving the weapons and equipment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Feng Yunshan praised: "What Li Aiqing said is reasonable! That's what I'm thinking about! There are other Aiqing, all of them are talking about it! ”

Li Hongzhang only felt that his heart was beating hard, His Majesty actually praised him, and for a while, his whole body was refreshed.

Zeng Shuiyuan, the governor of Yunnan, said: "Your Majesty, the ministers believe that on the one hand, it is necessary to follow the example of the West and set up factories to attract landless displaced people and hired peasants to work in the factories, and on the other hand, the government will come forward to purchase land from local gentry and landlords, and give priority to the military dependents of the captives, and rent the excess to landless tenants at low prices, so as to alleviate the contradictions between landlords and tenants in various places. At the same time, Your Majesty, in order to alleviate the crisis of land annexation, it can be carried out in two ways by providing fresh fields! ”

"The first is to encourage the people who have no land and little land to open up the wasteland! The minister heard that the empire had set up a special petroleum and fertilizer department, and built fertilizer factories in several provinces occupied by the original Holy State, which could produce a fertilizer called phosphate fertilizer, which can quickly make crops grow gratifying, so it will be easy to do! If the people open up the wasteland and then borrow money from the government to purchase phosphate fertilizer, they can also grow crops and grow food on the wasteland, and wouldn't it be able to greatly alleviate the shortage of land? Second, the minister heard that the ancestral land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Manchuria, is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is fertile, although it is a little cold, but it does not affect the cultivation, and can be reclaimed as fertile land. Your Majesty, the minister suggested that the army should be sent to occupy Manchuria earlier, first, to completely eliminate all the remnants of the Qing demons, and second, to increase a large amount of arable land. As long as the Manchuria region is occupied, the landless people in the northern areas of Henan, Shandong, and Zhili can be relocated, which will not only solve the problem of disaster victims caused by the diversion of the Yellow River, but also reduce the number of unstable displaced people in the entire Central Plains, and within a few years, a large amount of grain taxes will be collected, and it will also completely occupy all the land of the Qing demons, thus fundamentally alleviating the problem of land annexation. ”

Zeng Shuiyuan's words made everyone in the hall nod their heads, Feng Yunshan was even more overjoyed, and secretly said that he couldn't imagine that Zeng Shuiyuan's idea was really to the point, although the reclamation was slow, it could indeed alleviate a lot of land shortage problems, not to mention how he forgot the role of phosphate fertilizer, it was to turn wasteland into cooked land, which was the best for clearing wasteland. And the capture of Manchuria was even more clever.

Before, I had been thinking about the lack of troops, first waiting for the captive army to stabilize the entire Central Plains, and then after making sufficient preparations, I would occupy Manchuria in one fell swoop, but now after Zeng Shuiyuan's reminder, the sooner I have to occupy Manchuria, the better! Completely eliminate the Manchu Qing Dynasty as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night, and you can also emigrate as soon as possible and launch the "Breaking Kwantung Movement"!

Feng Yunshan remembers that in the early days of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, their ancestral land of Manchuria was listed as a sacred place in the "Land of Longxing" and forbade Han Chinese to enter. However, because the Manchuria region in the Guanxi area is rich in products and sparsely populated, the displaced people in Shandong and Zhili will still risk being killed, cross the Shanhai Pass, and enter the Manchurian area to seek a living. Therefore, despite the painstaking efforts of the Manchu court, the northern refugees were repeatedly prohibited from entering the customs to seek affairs, and the trend was constantly expanding, and by the end of Qianlong, the number of Han people in the eastern part of the country had reached nearly 2 million.

On the eve of the Second Opium War, due to the continuous southern invasion of Tsarist Russia in the north, coupled with the fact that Korean immigrants crossed the Tumen River without authorization to reclaim the Changbai Mountain area, the border crisis became increasingly serious, and Shandong suffered from the Yellow River breach, the displaced people were on the verge of rebellion, Shandong's population increased dramatically, and there was a lack of arable land. Suddenly, the official and mighty migration of the population to the eastern part of the country began, and the population of the entire Manchuria, from 3 million people at the beginning of the First Opium War (less than 1 million Manchu bannermen, including many early Han army bannermen), to the time of the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had reached 18 million people, except for the factors of returning to their hometowns a few years later, starvation, disease and death, and birth and reproduction, an average of more than 300,000 people poured in every year. In the later Republic of China, there was even a migration of millions of people every year.

Feng Yunshan thought of this and praised loudly: "Zeng Aiqing's words are very kind! The occupation of Manchuria in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the organization of the landless people in the Central Plains by the imperial court and the unified migration to Manchuria can greatly solve the current dilemma! It not only opened up the territory of the empire, but also broadened the living space of our Chinese people, and sought a great thing for the people! I have written down this matter, and we must hurry up and let the General Staff of the Capture Army come up with a strategy and reach the conditions for entering Manchuria as soon as possible! ”

"Your Majesty is wise! It's a great move! Yuan Jiasan, the governor of Zhejiang, said: "Your Majesty, the empire has a suggestion for the problem of a small number of soldiers!" In fact, the imperial court can prepare in advance, post notices in Shandong and other places, and directly recruit displaced people and landless young people in densely populated and disaster-stricken state capitals to form an army occupying land! After some training, the two main divisions of the captive army were sent to lead the young and strong people in these places and drive directly to Manchuria, and the land occupied by them would be returned to the imperial court, and then distributed by the imperial court according to the size of the population and merit. With the desire of these landless people for land, they will enthusiastically join the army and fight to the death. ”

Before Feng Yunshan could respond, Zhejiang Governor Luo Zenan spoke up: "Although Lord Yuan's plan is wonderful, it is very harmful, Your Majesty, I hope you don't use it!" Organizing the people to go to the battlefield to grab the fields, although it can increase the number of soldiers, it will cause many injuries to the people, and if there is a land dispute in the future, it will be easy to fight, or even mutiny for the field! ”

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen suggests, be a little flexible. On the one hand, he recruited the able-bodied people among the landless people in the Central Plains and other places to serve as soldiers of the captive army and conduct training, but they were permanently recruited as soldiers of the captive army. However, in the near future, his relatives could receive a piece of land in Manchuria given by the imperial court. The Qing army in Manchuria was no longer in the limelight, and His Majesty only needed to send tens of thousands of troops to defeat it in one fell swoop. It is only necessary to prevent it from escaping in all directions, Manchuria is vast and sparsely populated, deep in mountains and dense forests, and it is difficult to completely eliminate it. Therefore, Weichen suggested that it is better to show the enemy weakness, send a small number of troops, and use the strategy of elite troops to cause a decisive battle, and completely wipe out its main force in one fell swoop. ”

Feng Yunshan was very happy to see that Luo Zenan had an idea, he valued this figure who was highly respected by later generations, and even regarded him as a figure like Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang.

"What the two Aiqing said is all a clever strategy, Rong Zhen should think about it." Feng Yunshan laughed, and he didn't let Yuan Jiasan feel cold, but what he was thinking about was deeper and farther.

Shandong Henan Zhili area, especially Shandong, the land is scarce and densely populated, and the teeth are very numerous, especially in the Qianlong Dynasty, which experienced economic prosperity, it was overcrowded, and the labor force was overpopulated, and the countryside with the land annexation and concentration, not only the landless people increased, but even the tenants were difficult to continue because of the increase in competition and rents. Coupled with the flooding of the Yellow River, Feng Yunshan thought worriedly, only afraid that it would be more serious this year. It is necessary to change this situation and expand the territory.

Feng Yunshan thought of North Korea, which borders Manchuria, as well as the outer northeastern regions such as Vladivostok, Temple Street, and Sakhalin, as well as Siberia further north.

Feng Yunshan vaguely remembered that he had read a book that stated that China's cultivated land in later generations was 1.8 billion mu, and the cultivated land in the entire Outer Northeast region was nearly one billion mu. Of course, this is only a number on paper, Feng Yunshan guessed that the cultivated land in the outer northeast region must be alpine regions, and many of them are difficult to have good yields, but this number is enough to make Feng Yunshan so impressed. With such a large base, even if the cultivated land in the alpine areas is excluded, there will be at least 200 million or 300 million mu of fertile land that can be cultivated in the same way as the Northeast in later generations. How much population can this feed? It can be said that this part of the land alone is enough for the imperial court to get rid of the problem of land shortage.

Moreover, Feng Yunshan remembered that Tsarist Russia was hurrying to occupy the Outer Northeast region at the whole time. Especially after the defeat in the Crimean War, Europe suffered heavy losses, and Tsarist Russia aimed its main foreign invasion at Siberia and the Outer Northeast. It seems that he has to speed up and occupy these fertile fields earlier.

The first step was to completely defeat the remnants of the Manchu Qing forces, occupy the vast and sparsely populated Manchuria, and emigrate millions of people to open up the wasteland and cultivate the land, and develop the Northeast and the Outer Northeast, so that the Han people could gain a firm foothold in these places.