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Spend almost every day in fear!

For Zhou Shunchang, since he beat the brigade commander of the Taiping Army who lived from home, his heart was trembling like that, trembling, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be cut off by others, which would make him regret why he didn't sell this ancestral mansion at the beginning, but now it's good, the mansion left by this ancestor is the largest and most magnificent house in the set, and it has naturally become the residence of the "anti-thief" leader.

Let's stay! You can do it directly, just drive the people of the Zhou family out, but you don't rush it, you have to leave the people of the Zhou family here, here and there, it is clearly "kidnapping", and you are trapped in this house all day long.

If you annoy those "anti-thieves" by then, this week's family may be over......

What a time of the day?

Zhou Shunchang muttered silently in his heart, every time he raised his head, he looked at the melancholy in the heart of the "anti-thieves" in the courtyard, and on the other hand, he was also worried, worried that after these "anti-thieves" left, the government would not treat him for the crime of "harboring", after all, these "anti-thieves" could live in his house.

It's not that he's too careful, but he, who has been doing business all year round, naturally knows what the government does, and the government is not just extorting good people!

For Zhu Yifeng, who is a "guest", he doesn't know what the "host" is thinking? Of course, he didn't have the leisure to ask the master, and even according to the traditional point of view, he restrained his subordinates not to rob, two not to plunder, three not to ****, four not to set fire, and just lived in the "idle house", which was already worthy of those people, as for the rest of the things that he was not considering.

In the past few days, in addition to the continuous "ushering in and sending off", through the information brought by the fleeing people, combined with the understanding of history, Zhu Yifeng has a certain understanding of the situation in this era.

First of all, the Taiping Army is still the same as in history, after the occupation of Wuchang, through both soft and hard measures, persuasion and bluffing, half mobilization and half threat, the residents of Wuchang are basically incorporated into the army. In order to turn the inhabitants of Wuchang from ordinary citizens into soldiers as quickly as possible, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom continued to implement the system of separating men and women into separate camps, turning the whole of Wuchang into a large military camp. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom dismantled the family, abolished the private ownership of property, divided the residents into men and women into the barracks, men and women in the women's hall, the elderly, children, and the disabled into the Paiwei Hall, and twenty-five people were divided into a hall, supervised by soldiers, and lived in the barracks, and were given a ration, a cup of oil, and three rice by the Holy Treasury every day, and the husband and wife were not allowed to meet, and at the same time all marriage matters except for the kings were stopped.

After the people of the three towns were integrated into the army, the Taiping army, which had completed the great expansion of the army, celebrated the New Year in Wuchang and abandoned Wuchang to take Jiangnan along the river. The Qing army fought a long battle with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and has always had a numerical advantage, and now the Taiping army has expanded to hundreds of thousands, but the Qing army is only a few thousand people along the way, so they flee along the way.

Since the Taiping army abandoned Wuchang, the Qing army and the brave training in the cities along the river have all collapsed without a fight, and the officials have fled and killed, as for that Xiangrong, after the Taiping army abandoned Wuchang, they first "recovered Wuchang", and then gathered all the elite to pursue along the river in the south of the Yangtze River.

Even Qi Shan, who led an army of more than 100,000 troops to reinforce Hubei, is probably as in history, and has already turned east in the Henan area, instead of going south to reinforce Hubei before.

Recalling the materials he had read in the history forum in the past, Zhu Yifeng didn't even notice that his breathing seemed a little short, and he could even hear his heart beating violently.

Boom...... Boom......

In the violent beating of his heart, he took several deep breaths to calm the seemingly agitated emotions,

Then he stared at the map again, which was a simple map in English, although it was a simple map, but the landforms and administrative areas were marked in much more detail than the maps of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"Jiayu, Wuchang, Hanyang, Hankou, Jiangxia, Hanchuan, Qishui, Qizhou, Huangzhou, Jiujiang、......"

Some of these marked maps on the map have been abandoned by the Taiping army after the seizure, and some are about to die in the future, and without exception - the officials in these cities either committed suicide or were killed by the Taiping army, of course, many more officials fled the cities, it can be said that the government has collapsed, even after the Qing army followed the "reconquest", it was only to make the local gentry organizations brave and maintain on the spot, and even this state of affairs continued until the beginning of next year, or even the middle of next year.

Next year, in order to solve the food problem, the Taiping Army, which had expanded its strategic space, launched a westward expedition and fought all the way from the Yangtze River to Wuchang, and it was still unstoppable.

It can be said that in the next year or two, the land of central Hubei will be completely a power vacuum. And this seemingly power vacuum is a treasure land of feng shui, even the so-called "land of fish and rice" Suchang area cannot be compared.

In the history of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom for more than ten years, perhaps its manpower support was continuous, but the supply of materials was very problematic, the most prominent of which was the food supply, which led to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom always being troubled by the food problem, and the majority of them were short of food and salaries, and even the heart of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Tianjing, became one of the main areas of food shortage for a long time, and even throughout the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is not difficult to see that the food problem directly affected and restricted the success or failure of the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's military operations.

In contrast, since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the phrase "Huguang is ripe and the world is full" has been famous all over the world, and the former "granary of the world" in the Suchang area has been required to buy grain from other places since the end of the Qing Dynasty due to population growth. And it has not changed since, even more than 100 years later, the plain of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, centered on Hubei and Hunan, is the most important grain base in the country.

Not only did Hubei have abundant food, but more importantly, although Hubei was now ravaged by the war, in fact the damage caused by the war was extremely limited, even the areas once occupied by the Taiping army were not severely damaged, and its agriculture and commerce were basically not affected much, in other words, its financial foundation was solid.

Historically, especially after Hu Linyi became the governor of Hubei, Hubei has always been the most important source of income for the Hunan army, and Hubei Province under Hu Linyi's rule can be said to be a solid base for the Hunan army to lock in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and a reliable supply for supplies at the front. It can be said that it is thanks to Hubei's grain and salary that the Hunan army has been achieved, and the world often only sees the name of the Hunan army, but does not see the importance of Hubei salary to the Hunan army.

And now for Zhu Yifeng, it is precisely because of his understanding of this period of history and the current situation along the river in Hubei that a thought came to his heart, can he seize this opportunity?

Since he has borrowed the banner of the Taiping Army and hid here for several days, can he take the opportunity to lay down a piece of his own territory under the banner of the Taiping Army?

No, you don't need to hit at all, you just need to receive!

Take advantage of the limelight of the Taiping Army and take the opportunity to take over the empty city! All that is needed is to take advantage of the power vacuum in Hubei to establish its own "base area" and own its own territory on this land that has been swept away by the Taiping army.

"In these years, the key is strength, no strength, just like this time in Hankou, people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, if you have your own territory and strength, then ......"

Staring at the map of Hubei, Zhu Yifeng whispered,

"You beat you, Lao Tzu robbed Lao Tzu!"

Staring at the county on the map, Zhu Yifeng knew that this was his best opportunity, now the Qing Army's Eight Banners and Green Camp were rotten and useless, and the local training had not yet become a momentum, and the Xianghuai Army, which was regarded as the pillar of the empire in the following decades, did not even have a shadow, as long as he seized this opportunity now, he could gain a foothold in central Hubei and then use it as a base to expand around.

"But you're less than two hundred people right now, can, can you? ……”

Just when this doubt rose in his heart, another voice appeared in his heart.

"More than two hundred? There are quite a few, how many Anglo-French troops there are, not to mention ...... You're a team of foreign guns! ”

Thinking about the "foreign gun team" that was practiced by unintentionally inserting willows, Zhu Yifeng's expression became more and more excited.

Isn't that what you want to do?

Just when Zhu Yifeng's heart was stirring because of the great cause he was about to achieve, suddenly the unforgettable neutral voice sounded in his mind again after a long absence:

"Do you want to go home?"