Three days later, Ma Anmin reported the number of acres of Dingtian in Huizhou and the counties in Huizhou, with a total of more than 287,000 people and a population of more than 770,000.

This data is the Shunzhi seven years of Huizhou Qing Ding household to make a book, these years in Guangdong successive years of military disasters, the provincial capital Guangzhou and Chaozhou were slaughtered, but Huizhou suffered a small military disaster, only Chongzhen in the last years of the Su Cheng peasant army when the uprising raided a few counties, and then has been in Huidong activities, Huinan, Huixi has little impact. On the one hand, this is due to the special geographical location of Huizhou, which is not as important as Guangzhou and Chaozhou; On the other hand, thanks to the Ming Dynasty officials in Huizhou who "knew the times", they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty early, which made the Qing army not massacre the city on a large scale in Huizhou and indirectly preserved the vitality of Huizhou. This can be seen from the statistics of Guangzhou's population by the Political Envoy Department, and the population of more than a dozen counties in Guangzhou is now added together, and there are only 500,000 displaced people recruited, while there are nearly 800,000 in Huizhou, which can also see how serious the damage of the Qing army to Guangzhou is.

When Wu Liuqi attacked Huizhou and the Taiping Army's Eastern Crusade, the battlefield was mainly in the area of Lufeng and Jieshiwei, so the casualties of the people were not large. However, this yellow book of people is still a little inaccurate, at least it is definitely not as thorough as what Guangzhou does, and Zhou Shixiang estimates that there are tens of thousands of black households hidden by the gentry and landlords in various counties.

There must also be a problem with the area of money and grain fields, but on the whole, the data reported by Ma Anmin is still seventy percent credible, after all, in the eyes of Ma Anmin and other officials, those tenant farmers who are personally dependent on them do not seem to be Dingkou, let alone mention the landlord's field, so they cannot be demanded. One thing is certain: Huizhou officials headed by Ma Anmin and the local gentry must have an interest group. And this interest group is the enemy of the Taiping Army, and it is a stumbling block that affects the Taiping Army to build villages and townships in Huizhou and mobilize all manpower, money, and food resources to resist the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, it is necessary to use a knife on them.

Before the knife was moved, it was necessary to disintegrate and reorganize the Huizhou soldiers who had colluded with the local gentry. Han Chaozong, Wang Dalin and others reported the actual situation of the Huizhou soldiers, counting more than 9,500 soldiers, and only more than 1,200 veterans and Shunde battalion soldiers remained, and the rest were the original Huizhou battalion soldiers and recruited bandits, and these people were also uneven.

Zhou Shixiang ordered the establishment of the seventh town, selected more than 5,000 people from the Huizhou soldiers to organize into two brigades, and transferred the surrendered Guide soldiers and the rest of the Nanyang soldiers plus the Chaozhou battalion soldiers and some young and strong soldiers to form a brigade. Han Chaozong was the Brigade A Brigade School, Nanyang General Soldier Zhang Chao was the Brigade School of the B Brigade, and Cui Bao, the deputy battalion officer of the Fourth Town Brigade School and the former deputy battalion officer of the Heavy Battalion, was transferred to the Brigade C Brigade School. After the replenishment of the three brigades is in place. Zhou Shixiang ordered Hu Qili to be the general of the seventh town, and Liu Zhong, the general of the German army, was the deputy general.

This arrangement is also a mutual check and balance, although Hu Qili is a general, but Han Chaozong has only Zhou Shi and Ma Xiang. Naturally, it is impossible to follow Hu Qili to rebel; Zhang Chao, the chief soldier of Nanyang, was originally older than Hu Qili, the governor of the Guangdong Green Battalion. Senior, succumbing to him to a brigade school is already a grievance, obeying orders to fight, and don't even think about making trouble. If you really want to make trouble, Zhang Chao is afraid that the first thing he thinks about is to ask Hu Qili to listen to him, not for him to listen to Hu Qili.

Cui Bao, the brigade school of the C Brigade, is an old man who joined the Taiping Army when Luo was timed, and he is loyal to Zhou Shixiang, how could he follow Hu Qili to rebel. Adjutant generals Liu Zhong and Zhang Chao are of the same nature. The two brothers and sisters were really desperate Taiping troops who surrendered, and Jidu died. His brothers, like the Mongols, had no way to retreat, so they could only follow the Taiping army to the end. The more the Taiping army can fight, the stronger it is, the more their lives can be saved, and in the future, they may be able to get higher officials than those in the Qing court, so it is simply impossible to think about letting them make trouble again.

Basically, all the generals in the Taiping Army have the same idea as Liu Zhong and Zhang Chao, but the Mongols think the same way, no way, who let them get on the ship of the Taiping Army. If the ship of the Taiping Army sinks, it is conceivable how the Qing court will deal with these betrayers. The Mongols were even more afraid of this, Prince Jian Jidu was killed by them, others may have a chance to survive, but the Mongols have no chance at all, others want to jump into the water when the Taiping army sinks, but they have to desperately scoop the water to prevent the ship from sinking.

After the establishment of the seventh town, it was not stationed in Huizhou, but moved to Qingyuan. As a result, the officials and gentry of Huizhou could not be supported by the armed forces of the Huizhou soldiers, and Huizhou was taken over by the sixth town of Suna, which was stationed in Lufeng.

Suna is now a hardcore follower of Zhou Shixiang, and there are countless Manchurian compatriots who died under his knife, and he also took Guangzhou City by his advice. With Suna in Huizhou, Zhou Shixiang is naturally not worried that those officials and gentry in Huizhou will make trouble.

Suna's attack is extremely black, although he did not slaughter the city as blatantly as Zhao Ziqiang, but what he did in Chaozhou was also outrageous. Once, because the nearby village attacked his men and horses, resulting in several casualties, in order to retaliate, Suna actually slaughtered more than 1,000 people in the village along with the old and weak women and children, which made Suna's Chinese name "Wang Tai" widely spread for a while.

Suna is black, ruthless, and still a Manchurian, so naturally he doesn't have to worry about colluding with the local Han gentry, so it is extremely reassuring to let him sit in Huizhou Zhou Shixiang. As soon as Song Xianggong began to send personnel to take over Huizhou, he immediately implemented the construction of villages and townships in Huizhou and Chaozhou at the same time, replacing the original officials, those who could use it, and those who were willing to obey the orders of the political envoys could stay in office, and those who disobeyed the yang and the yin, and even secretly encouraged the people to make trouble, should be eliminated.

Zhou Shixiang doesn't need his officials to be all wealthy Jinshi and masters, he only needs people who can read official documents and know how to do it to be officials, even if he has no fame.

The tragic history since Jiashen told Zhou Shixiang that if those civil officials of the Ming Dynasty said that everyone was pushed out to kill, it would definitely be wrong, after all, there are many people who are loyal to the country, but if they kill one by one, eighty percent is right.

The Taiping Army is an emerging force, which is a soldier based on violence, and the policies implemented are all aimed at maximizing the integration of manpower, money, and food resources to resist the Qing Dynasty, rather than copying the previous set, the imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the countryside is governed by the gentry, which leads to the Qing army to pressure the border, and the vast majority of the squires are willing to be accomplices for their own interests.

What the Taiping Army needed was a general mobilization, and it did not allow any stratum to get involved in the small amount of resources, and it was duplicitous. Therefore, the officials of Zhou Shixiang are only people who can understand the official documents issued from above, can write official documents simply, and can unconditionally obey the execution. There are many such people in the yamen of various counties in Guangzhou, and there are also many township and village offices, and many of them are some guys who are forced to work in commercial banks because they cannot get into the meritorious examination.

Pragmatism is the best advantage of these literate guys, in view of the fact that the youth battalion in Guangzhou has just opened, and the earliest public schools in each county have only been open for a year, and there are not even the first batch of students to graduate, so it is impossible for Zhou Shixiang to eliminate all the original officials in various prefectures, this practice is too extreme and unrealistic. The principle he gave to Song Xianggong was that those who could use it should use it, and those who could not use it should be eliminated.

Huizhou because of the war suffered the lightest, so there are a lot of gentry and landlords in the house, compared with Guangzhou, the ability of these people is also very strong, a suppression of them will only make Huizhou fall into instability, so Zhou Shixiang let Song Xianggong postpone the office, first take a few months to find out the basic situation, for those who are willing to cooperate naturally welcome, can give them some local power, such as the township office, the village office, and even the county government can also give them some seats, those with outstanding ability to serve in the government office, the political envoy can be the yamen. For the land and black households under their names, they are also redeemed as much as possible by means of redemption and power exchange to reduce conflicts of interest. For those who are unwilling to cooperate, they must be forcefully suppressed, no matter how many people die, even if they are destroyed, they must be eliminated, and these diehards must not be allowed to continue to fish and meat the villagers, and affect the overall situation of resisting the Qing Dynasty for their own selfish interests.

The elimination of the old strata will inevitably replace them with new strata, and the class is not terrible, but the terrible thing is that the existence of the class will lead to the destruction of the country and the fall of the nation.

Zhou Shixiang is now deliberately creating a military class and a civilian official group belonging to the Taiping Army, these two groups have people of all kinds of backgrounds, even if they were just lowly beggars in the past, but now they have been rewarded for their military exploits, have their own status and power, and have their own land. For the sake of their interests, they must fight to the end with all the enemies who may affect their interests.

No profit can not be early, the Han people have said this for thousands of years, and it will never be wrong.

At first, what Zhou Shixiang promised to the people of Daqiao Mountain was the benefits, the benefits of being promoted and making a fortune. Now, he also continues this means of benefit, whether it is a bandit, a soldier, or a child of a good family, as long as you have merit in the Taiping Army, you can get benefits, so as to truly become a member of the Taiping Army. There is no benefit, even if those generals and soldiers are forced to obey the orders temporarily by the threat of your butcher's knife, but after a long time, they find that they have no status or interests in the Taiping Army, and they will always have the idea of being discriminated against and despised, so that they have different ideas, and eventually become an unstable factor.

The promotion of rewards for the meritorious soldiers of the Eastern Crusade has already been done, and this matter has become the most important thing in the military marshal's mansion like the expansion of the army. Zhou Shixiang himself is only Xingping Bo now, so he can't give meritorious soldiers a reward from the title, so he can only start from his position, from the land, and from the money. If Yongli is willing to crown him as a prince, he will start the Taiping Army's duke, marquis, and earl titles, so that his subordinates can have better expectations for the future, and those who have not been rewarded will have more motivation to fight for their titles. (To be continued.) )