When the seven special zones were set up in the empire and the treaty ports were developed, and the merchants, squires and other wealthy people from all over the country, under the call of the special zone government, were in full swing to set up industries and factories, the army of the Chinese Empire launched a low-key all-out attack on the north --- the Chinese army of prisoners. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, as early as half a year ago, Feng Yunshan asked the General Staff Headquarters to draw up an expedition plan to capture all the remaining northwestern provinces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and realize the reunification of the land of China as soon as possible.

However, there were still some remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and bannermen scattered in various localities, and from time to time they rebelled and attacked the surrendered county government and state capitals, and it was necessary for a large number of soldiers and men of the captive army to be stationed everywhere to clear out these rebels, so that the strength of the captive army was insufficient and could not be effectively concentrated to form an effective large-scale attack.

Second, at that time, the relocation and treatment of the victims around the time of the Yellow River breach, Feng Yunshan transferred a large number of soldiers of the captive army to Henan and Shandong to rescue the victims, and dug the river together with the requisitioned people, so it was even more difficult for the captive army to mobilize troops.

Although Feng Yunshan and Zuo Zongtang at this time had already realized the problem of the shortage of troops in the captive army, even if they recruited troops temporarily, they would not have time to train them immediately. Feng Yunshan has always thought that the empire should adhere to the strategy of elite soldiers, and now, veterans of more than three years have to pay a lot of money, he doesn't want to move millions of troops, in that case, even if the financial resources of the entire empire are amazing, it can't bear for many years, not to mention, those wealth, Feng Yunshan can be used to carry out the big things of strengthening the country and enriching the people.

In his opinion, although he snatched a lot of wealth from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was not cash, just like the treasures in the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, although there are many treasures, and many of them are priceless, but they are only superficial, if they are all used for sale, I am afraid that they will not be so expensive. At this stage, it is not as cost-effective as tens of millions of stone grains or tens of millions of taels of silver.

And these wealth, he is going to use as the basic capital for China's industrialization, and more importantly, to build a military power, especially the naval fleet.

In the first five-year plan alone, the construction of official roads and railways alone will cost hundreds of millions of taels of silver, which will be converted into today's holy coin, and it will cost nearly 200 million yuan. Feng Yunshan calculated that the Guangdong-direct railway from Guangzhou to Beijing was planned to be built alone, and in addition to the part of Guangdong Province that had already been built, there were still more than 4,000 li, and if they were all built by the American contractor John Da John, a price of 6,000 to 7,000 taels of silver per mile, a total of nearly 30 million taels of silver, or 45 million yuan, would be required. The official road to be built seems to be relatively cheap, but in fact, it costs a lot of money, such as purchasing cement, crushing stones, river sand, etc., and hiring a large number of people, and the most important thing is that the mileage of this official road is too huge. In the first five-year plan, Feng Yunshan did not require that all the official roads from each state and county to the state capital be completed, but he clearly listed that all the official roads between the state capital and the provincial government should be built, and the official roads between the prefectures and cities alone have more than 100,000 miles, even if there are more than one or two thousand taels of silver per mile of official roads, it is an astronomical amount, more than the railway.

Therefore, the construction of infrastructure such as road construction alone is an astronomical amount, not to mention the construction of forts in various places and the construction of garrison camps, which make Feng Yunshan more urgent, will cost a lot of silver taels.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan did not dare to recruit hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or other peasant rebels in history, and recruited displaced people to expand the army on a large scale, but he still insisted on his policy of elite soldiers. However, although it was a policy of elite soldiers, because of the wide territory occupied, Feng Yunshan still ordered to recruit soldiers on the spot after occupying the city of Beijing, and pay close attention to training to transform them into qualified soldiers of the captive army.

Therefore, in the first half of the second year of Taisheng, the newly occupied province of Zhili recruited 30,000 soldiers from among the people, plus more than 50,000 Manchu troops who surrendered in Zhili and other places, and the captive army selected 40,000 soldiers from these 80,000 soldiers, and then dispersed after intensive training, and transferred to other places to serve as local garrisons, while the remaining 40,000 strong people were trained intensively as the field army of the captive army.

In Henan, the captive army directly recruited 30,000 troops, and 20,000 Qing soldiers were surrendered. Among them, 20,000 were sent directly to the south and north of the country as local garrisons, and the remaining 30,000 were used as field troops of the captive army, which had been in Guide and Henan for intensive training.

In Shandong, due to the disaster victims, 100,000 people were directly recruited. Among them, 50,000 were used as local garrisons for a little intensive training, and the remaining 50,000 were sent to Jinan Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture for intensive training and turned into regular prisoner troops.

After these new local garrisons and field armies were established, and after these soldiers had been trained for two or three months and had been determined to obey the command of the officers of the captive army, the entire Chinese empire adjusted its policy, and no longer dominated the northern provinces, but was a combination of rigidity and softness, and even tended to be tough, and launched a series of activities to eliminate the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and crack down on lawless officials and evil officials.

Even if most of the Manchu army turned into surrendered troops and returned to the empire, there were still a small number of Manchu remnants of the old and young, and there were still illusions, looking forward to the day when there would be another young and promising emperor like Kangxi, reviving the Manchu dynasty, making waves in the countryside or small counties, and even forcing the Manchu officials to betray the empire again and conspire to rebel.

The Secret Service Division is scouting everywhere, and the soldiers of the captive army stationed in Fucheng are also patrolling at any time, and they are heavily guarded. The most important thing is that the local people are very dissatisfied with the previous Manchu government, and when they heard that the new dynasty will distribute land and reduce land rent, rent, grain and taxes, it is related to their interests. Willing to come in this way, more than a dozen towns and small county towns that had just begun to rebel were quickly suppressed by the nearby captives by thunderous means within two days of the rebellion.

For those Manchu widows who were still not sure to cut their braids, and those who had repeatedly demoted officials were all captured, those who were bewitched and rebelled were beheaded in public, and the organizers and demoted officials were all punished by torture such as splitting the bodies of five horses or Ling Chi.

At the same time, the captives posted notices in various towns and villages, warning the local gentry and the surrendered Manchu officials that anyone who tried to betray the empire would be dealt a brutal blow to them. More than a dozen small rebellions that had been suppressed were announced, and the bloody facts were used to alert the Manchu remnants who were ready to move, and the northern provinces suddenly settled down.

Then, the captive army organized reconnaissance, and through the secret service department and the people's informants, the Manchu remnants in several provinces and regions were continuously killed by means of late-night attacks, and these unstable factors that were not conducive to the empire were constantly cut off. He also took measures to transfer the magistrates, and transferred the local officials of Shuntian Mansion to Zhengding Mansion or Shunde Mansion, so that they could not collude with the local squires, and they were even more merciless to the local squires.

With these means, after stabilizing the rear, and the Yellow River flood in Shandong had been controlled, Feng Yunshan decided to launch a war to attack the northwest and recover Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and Mongolia.

So, starting in June of the second year of Taisheng, Chen Yucheng led the 3rd Division A and He Zhigou led the 6th Division B, and attacked Shanxi through Zhili, and entered Datong Mansion and Shuoping Mansion. The area of Datong and naturalized Suiyuan was originally an important garrison town of the Manchu Dynasty, with tens of thousands of Manchu and Mongolian banner soldiers, but later they were all taken by Yixun, who was called the emperor in Suiyuan, to attack the Rehe Palace and brought to Shengjing, resulting in Shanxi, which was originally heavily guarded, was less than 10,000 Qing soldiers.

After the captives occupied Suiyuan City, an important town in Shanxi and Mongolia, they quickly changed their clothes, collected horses everywhere, and together with the captured horses of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, they actually gathered a cavalry of more than 10,000 horsemen.

Lin Qirong led the 3rd Division and the 1st Division led by Shi Xiangzhen and Shi Zhenlun also attacked the southern part of Shanxi from Henan, and the two sides entered the hinterland of Shanxi.

And a group of wall-head grasses in Shanxi, led by Jin merchants, had already organized local squires and merchants to beat gongs and drums to welcome the capture army into Shanxi's prefectures and counties.

As a result, the entire Shanxi was quickly occupied by the captives in a period of more than a month, and the captives were hardly resisted or attacked.