Chapter 641 Destruction of the Ryukyus
It is not a miracle that the Taiping army can maintain 300,000 people in the end, because in addition to the 100,000 or so real veterans, most of the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled, from the old man with white hair to the immature boy scouts, and these people are not all captured, many of them are for a bite to eat, and they are willing to sell their lives to the ordinary people of the Taiping army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Behind the 300,000 troops, there are more than 500,000 living and dead Taiping soldiers' family members, Jiangnan has suffered so many years of war, there are more women than men, and many ordinary soldiers of the Taiping Army can marry two or even three or four wives in the past peace season, and these family members came to Tianjing with the army in the process of the Taiping army's collection of Tianjing.
In addition to these soldiers and their families, there are not many ordinary people, but there are also 300,000, so there are millions of people in Tianjing City.
To transport millions of people away, this is not a small project, if it weren't for the disaster relief period, Da Ming groped out a whole set of experience, and it really wouldn't be so smooth to send these people away.
It is stipulated that soldiers who have surrendered their troops must be with their families, and as long as they are with their families, everyone will have peace of mind, and their peace of mind will not get out of control, which is a lesson in blood.
So although it seems busy, the work is orderly.
The agreement with Li Xiucheng is that they will all be sent overseas, but there is a part that can stay, that is, craftsmen, Daming attaches great importance to craftsmen of various handicrafts, and will give them loans to support them to continue production, because Daming's handicrafts are second only to raw silk and tea export commodities, with an annual export value of more than 10 million.
The first is that they are worried that their spiritual beliefs will be difficult to integrate into the current Ming Dynasty, and secondly, they also need to open up living space for the Chinese nation overseas, and the killing skills they have cultivated by killing their own compatriots are an expensive and scarce skill.
As a result, a large part of the Taiping soldiers would be transferred to California as laborers, and the valley land full of Indians that Stanford sold to labor companies would be. Wherever they went, they had to carve out the fields that were provided for them with their hands, but also to protect their land with their hands.
However, it is not reassuring to announce that these people will be sent to Alaska, because it is not reassuring to send the battle-hardened army directly to other countries in batches. They will indeed go to Alaska first, and no one knows if they will move from Alaska to other places.
Before such a large population transfer was completed, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army had to stay outside the city honestly, while the Ming army was also nearby to guard against the Hunan army.
The Ming Dynasty repeatedly promised that after the population transfer was completed, the army would be withdrawn from the Jiangnan region, and at the same time, the wealth of Tianjing would not be destroyed, and it would be handed over to the Hunan army together.
Of course, there will be no less friction, the military discipline of the Hunan soldiers is always a problem, when they are not fighting, if they don't loot the nearby residents, it will be a strange thing, under normal circumstances, Zeng Guofan acquiesced in this situation, but now he is trying his best to suppress, obviously he does not intend to get Jiangnan, and lose the hearts of the people.
In addition to looting, there were occasional clashes with the Ming army, these Hunan soldiers who were used to fighting, no one was convinced, and the reason why the Qing army fought well with the French in Vietnam in history was because a group of Hunan veterans had not all died.
But Zeng Guofan's bullet pressure was very hard, because most of the Hunan soldiers were originally to maintain military discipline for the purpose of being able to capture Tianjing and plunder, and now that Tianjing was handed over to the Ming army, could they have no complaints, so they plundered the people and clashed with the Ming army.
But the Ming army was not easy to provoke, and most of the Hunan troops who dared to provoke did not end well, and even the Hunan army that formed into a system was annihilated by the Ming army, so Jiangnan not only did not return to calm at this time, but became more chaotic.
Zeng Guofan's suppression did not have much effect, but caused a large number of Hunan troops to flee and fall into the grass. Historically, after Zeng Guofan invaded Tianjing, he disbanded the Hunan army on the spot, and a large number of soldiers did not return to their hometowns, but fell into the grass, which poisoned Jiangnan for more than ten years.
At this time, the attitude of the great powers was very inconsistent, France did not say anything about this because of the good relations with the Ming Dynasty, and the British expressed concern about this, but they were obviously unwilling to intervene, and they hoped that the order in Jiangnan would be restored as soon as possible, and the British interests in this region would be restored as soon as possible.
In order to prevent long nights and dreams, the Ming Dynasty rented a huge civilian fleet established during the disaster relief period, using tens of thousands of ships of various sizes, first transferred the Taiping army to Kinmen Island, a coastal island in Fujian, and then ascended the throne here, sorted it, and sent it to different places.
Craftsmen who can produce civilian handicrafts are sent to the cities of the Ming Dynasty for local resettlement, and those with ordinary skills such as bricklayers are sent to the reclamation land of the Pacific Ocean to be resettled, where all kinds of craftsmen and craftsmen will not be able to be self-sufficient even in basic daily necessities, and the transportation cost is too great if they rely on domestic supply, which is why this colony continues to lose money.
Those who have no skills at all will be sent to Alaska.
But all of this does not include princes of all levels, but these princes have their own choices, Wang Haiyang chooses to stay in Fujian, Yang Fuqing chooses to go home, and as for Li Xiucheng, he unexpectedly decides to go overseas with his subordinates.
The Jiangnan issue dragged on for more than half a year, and after all the Taiping troops and their families and people in the capital were transferred away that day, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing court carried out a territorial exchange, and began to gradually withdraw the Ming army from Jiangnan, and marched from Guangxi to Yunnan.
The Jiangnan issue basically ended like this, despite the twists and turns, but the result was quite satisfactory, mainly the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the upper and lower breathed a sigh of relief, the thorn in their throats was finally removed, many Qing court officials who had experienced the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement from beginning to end, and even had a feeling of not being able to believe that it was over like this, and the children of the Eight Banners also felt that there was light on their faces, and they bragged all day long in the restaurants and teahouses, and they spoke of contempt for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the clown who jumped the beam in the world was the Qing Dynasty in the final analysis, And they completely ignored the Ming Kingdom established during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement as air, and the same did not talk about it, as well as the first hero of the suppression of the Taiping Army, Zeng Guofan.
Zeng Guofan also faced a problem at this time, that is, how to deal with the Hunan army, the Hunan army has always been not a regular army, but a village warrior, and the military system should be abolished with the end of the military operation, but the Hunan army was abolished, leaving the army to defend the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, Zeng Guofan's dilemma, if he does not dismantle the Hunan army, the endless military-civilian conflicts have made him unbearable, and the Hunan army is dismantled, so close to the Ming Dynasty, who will guard against it.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty had temporarily shifted their attention from Jiangnan, and their eyes were turned to the east, and just this year, the Japanese exiled the Ryukyu royal family to Tokyo, and completely destroyed the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Daming's attitude towards this is absolutely unacceptable.