Chapter 21 Amends the Dogma of Military Discipline

It has been three days since the Taiping army occupied Daozhou City, and the lives of the people in the city have gradually settled down, and some of the people who had fled in the city have also returned one after another with their families. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Feng Shaoguang began to work on his army expansion and rectification.

Regarding the military discipline of the army, Feng Shaoguang already had ideas. The armies with strong combat strength since the dynasties have always had strict military discipline. There has never been a free and loose rabble that can be invincible and conquer cities. And Feng Shaoguang is engaged in a rebellious business, if you want to win over the people and follow yourself to resist the Manchu court, it is definitely not enough to rely on coercion alone, you must also win the hearts of the people! Therefore, in order to make oneself, the Taiping Army, win the support of the people, military discipline must be strict, and the people must be free from any offense.

For this reason, Feng Shaoguang deliberately referred to the military discipline of the invincible army of the **** in later generations, and revised the military discipline of the Taiping Holy Army and the heavenly rules of the Holy Sect.

First of all, Feng Shaoguang released the five major military disciplines of the Taiping Holy Army in the army:

1. Respect superiors, obey orders, and listen to commands.

2. Don't commit any offense to the people.

3. Caring for the Holy Religion, all seized and handed over to the Holy Treasury.

4. Work together, move forward bravely, and do not retreat from the battle.

5. Do not abuse prisoners or bully women.

Then, Feng Shaoguang announced that the original ten heavenly rules of the worship of God were defective, and by the inspiration of the Heavenly Father Emperor God, he revised them and turned them into five heavenly rules that were in line with the reality of the holy kingdom:

First, if you have the Emperor God in your heart, everyone is a child of the Emperor God and preaches the Holy Religion.

second, filial piety to parents, care for family members, the division of men and women in the army, and friendship with brothers and sisters of the Holy Church;

Third, have good thoughts, not good at harming others, not good at stealing and robbing, not good at deceiving people, not good at being greedy, not good at gambling and smoking, not taking public property privately, and not comparing and enjoying yourself;

Fourth, care for women and children, do not commit adultery, and be diligent in hygiene;

Fifth, love to read, work diligently, take care of weapons, join the holy army, defend the holy country, and create peace together.

Through these new five heavenly rules, the original outdated and harsh ten heavenly rules are replaced, the religious atmosphere is diluted, and reading and work are encouraged, integrating the concept of the majority of the current population.

First, it has cleared the obstacle of hostility caused by religious concepts among readers. In this way, scholars can be recruited into the Taiping army. Instead of being like the previous Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, because he had taken the Xiucai exam four times and failed to pass the exam, he was angry with the scholars all over the world, openly declaring that "there is no need for scholars", coupled with the exclusive respect for God in the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the extermination of Confucianism's policy, and pushed all scholars to their hostile side.

Second, the Heavenly Article only mentions that the holy soldiers in the army are divided into male and female camps, which means that ordinary people who are not holy soldiers and holy soldiers can reunite as husband and wife during their vacation outside the military camp and return to the right path of human ethics.

Originally, this canon that violated human nature, except for a few high-ranking members of the Heavenly Kingdom, the rest of the sect members suffered greatly, and everyone opposed it in their hearts, but the canons were strict and no one dared to mention it.

Until after the occupation of Tianjing, Chen Zongyang, who was the official and the prime minister of Dongguan, was found to have a private meeting with his wife Xie Manmei, even though the husband and wife were both cronies of the Eastern King, but they were still beheaded for violating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rules of separating men and women from the camp. In addition to the rank of king and above, even the position of prime minister must be divided into male and female camps, not to mention ordinary sectarians.

The people within the rule of the Taiping Army were forced to work hard for a long time and their wives were separated, which undoubtedly made the people hate the Taiping Army. On the other hand, the king of heaven Hong Xiuquan is constantly choosing concubines, and beauties are constantly filling the harem, in just two years, there are more than the Manchu emperors, which cannot but be said to be a huge irony!

This is also an important reason why the Taiping Army has not been able to truly integrate into the local people and win the hearts of the people! If it weren't for the pressure from the people and the army at the beginning of 1855, the Taiping army ended the separation of men and women and restored the family system, or it would not be long before the Qing army attacked, and the people and believers in the kingdom would have fled.

Now that such a revision has returned to the right path, everyone in the army applauded and approved of it, and won the hearts of the congregation!

The rest of the dogmas have also been greatly improved. Such simple traditional virtues as "having good thoughts, not harming others, not taking public property privately, and not comparing themselves with pleasures" have enabled the people outside the church to understand and agree with the teachings of the Holy Religion more quickly, and at the same time, the people have also identified with the Holy Religion and accepted the Holy Religion. I feel that this foreign holy religion is not so bad, and it is also to persuade people to be good, so this holy religion is not as declared by the Manchu court, doing some things to kill people and destroy ancestors.

On the other hand, the hierarchy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was still strict, ensuring that the military system in times of war could be strictly enforced, and at the same time, it was also better to motivate the low-level holy soldiers to fight bravely and kill the enemy for meritorious service. How can a soldier who does not want to be a general be a good soldier?

As soon as the new five military disciplines and the five heavenly rules were released, the Taiping Holy Army was full of jubilation.

Except for a few elder brothers in the church, they are all very much in favor of the fact that there is no rule that evil gods should not be worshipped, that there is no requirement to pray every day, and that the love of reading is opposed. However, Feng Shaoguang was the king of the south who was most admired by the old brothers of the sect, and he was the actual organizer and developer of the Church of God. Who told them that they are also the beneficiaries of the newly revised dogma, naturally it is not good to oppose the whole dogma, in case they change all of them again, and they and their wives are separated, who is to blame?

After finishing the matter of military discipline and dogma, Feng Shaoguang suddenly remembered something.

It turned out that Feng Yunshan, the king of the south whom he possessed, had a wife and two sons in his hometown in Huaxian County, and before the Jintian uprising, he sent people to his hometown to take the king and his family to his side, but unexpectedly, his wife and son were not willing to follow him to rebel. After the Jintian Uprising, Qing officials came to his hometown to arrest family members. His mother, Hu Shi, his younger brother Feng Wuke, and his second son, Feng Qimao, were all arrested and imprisoned, and they all died in prison soon after. His wife, Lian, and eldest son, Feng Guifang, were fortunate to escape, and their whereabouts are now unknown.

Although Feng Shaoguang is no longer the original Feng Yunshan, he doesn't have much affection for those relatives, but when he travels through other people's bodies and doesn't help others take care of his relatives, he always feels a little indebted. Send 2 people, and then go back to Huaxian to investigate, and do your best.

Through this incident, he remembered a few people he wanted to invite and force them to join the Holy Army.

Feng Shaoguang immediately summoned people to invite his personal guards Liu Shengbang and Tan Shaoguang, the head of the army, and led more than 30 meticulous guards and personal guards to sneak to Xiangyin County in the north of Changsha in makeup, find a person who is Zuo Zongtang, and quietly deceive or kidnap him and his family, and take him and his family away safely, and take them to Daozhou to rendezvous.

For this famous military strategist and national hero of the late Qing Dynasty in another time and space, one of the commanders of the Hunan Army, who had important achievements such as suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, carrying out the Westernization Movement, quelling the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu and recovering Xinjiang, Feng Shaoguang has admired it for a long time, and he is also very greedy. Such a character must not be allowed to be a slave for the Manchu Dynasty, so Feng Shaoguang listed Zuo Zongtang as the first person to be invited, and he even sent Liu Shengbang, a personal guard with high martial arts, to ensure that nothing goes wrong!

He also asked Fan Ruzeng to make more than ten people and guards, pretending to be Guangdong merchants, sneaking to Leiyang City, looking for a shopkeeper with Peng Yulin's name, and transporting his old mother and family in Hengzhou Mansion to Daozhou.

The families of Jiang Zhongjun, Liu Changyou and others are all in Xinning County, Hunan Province, not far away, and when they left Huangshahe Town in Quanzhou, Feng Shaoguang had already asked Tan Tiyuan to bring someone to pick them up.

After that, Feng Shaoguang ordered people to invite Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Luo Xuan, Liang Litai, Huang Yukun, Su Sanniang, Hu Damei, Huang Yiyun, Wu Ruxiao, Bai Huihuai, Zhou Shengkun, Zeng Yuheng and others to arrange the expansion of the army.