Chapter 393: The Heart of the People (First Update)
White sails dotted!
Standing on the embankment by the river, the weeping willows are still there, fluttering in the wind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info can not only see the white sails on the river, but also can walk on the embankment, this hundred miles of river embankment is not only in early winter, but also can attract others to play here.
"Gradually, look at this embankment ......"
Pointing to the continuous stone embankment, Zhou Fu said in an emotional tone.
"The 600-mile Hangong embankment on both sides of the Yangtze River and the Han Dynasty ensured that the three towns of Wuhan would not worry about floods for a hundred years, and such a huge project lasted only two years, employing 300,000 people......
"Hangong embankment" is the name of the people of the three places for the three river embankments, the hundreds of embankments along the river are different from the old embankments, which are not only built by rammed earth, but also have a stone base than the old embankments, in addition, it is also equipped with a number of flood gates,
When the flood comes, it can pass through the flood gates to the hundreds of lakes in the three places. In fact, the Wuhan Three Towns Water Conservancy Project is China's first modern water conservancy project, which was designed by the Dutch water conservancy engineer, and is not just a dam built, and the old dam in blocking the flood at the same time, cutting off the inner lake and the Yangtze River, so as to achieve the purpose of enclosing the lake to create land, this project is not only blocked, but also takes into account the dredging.
In fact, when the dam was first built, it took into account its other role - the park, it can be said that for the people of the three places, this "Hangong embankment" is actually the largest park in the three places.
"There are 300,000 people, most of whom are refugees from the north, and there are no less than hundreds of thousands of living people......
For Li Hongzhang, who has already come to Wuchang, this is the first time he has come here, looking at the stone embankment, his expression looks a little complicated.
When he was in Jiangxi, he had heard too many descriptions related to Zhu Yifeng, and in the mouths of the Huguang gentry who fled to Jiangxi, he was nothing more than a "short-haired thief". But it was this "short-haired thief" who spent millions of taels of silver to build the river embankment that was in the middle of the war, so as to ensure that the three towns would no longer be flooded.
With such a meritorious deed, is it possible that the double is established by ordinary "traitors"?
Not to mention the rest, with this mind alone, not only surpassing others, even if it is his own master in Nanchang, he may not have the heart to help the world and the people, after all, for them, the current priority is either to oppose the Israeli court, or to calm the thieves, who will ask the people? Who cares for the people?
As for spending millions of taels of silver to build the river embankment, I am afraid that even in the heyday, there were no officials to build it, let alone in this troubled era?
"Han Gong has benefited the three towns, which is really a thousand years of work!"
Despite being an enemy, Li Hongzhang still couldn't help but say a word of praise.
"Gradually, this is not true!"
Zhou Fu shook his head.
"The benefit of the Han Dynasty is not limited to the three towns, tens of millions of people in Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong, who is not affected by its favor? At present, the world is in turmoil, no matter whether the officials and bandits are raising military salaries, they are all extremely oppressing the people, and for the people, "bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates" can be said to be deeply suffering from war, such as Anhui and Jiangxi, and those who are even more miserable are ......
The reason why Zhou Fu, a native of southern Anhui, fled to Wuchang was precisely because of the impact of the war and to avoid the mutual killing of officials and bandits.
"Wherever the thief passes, kill all the shaved people, and the soldiers pass through, kill all the hair-keeping. Gradually, tell me why the people have been so slaughtered? ”
After this sigh, Zhou Fu's whole person fell into silence, his hometown was in the midst of war, if it weren't for this, how could he have fled here.
"Yushan, at this time of war, this is inevitable."
Noticing the change in his friend's expression, Li Hongzhang comforted him, in fact, the two of them are not friends, they can only say that they know each other. When the two met when they went to the exam in Anqing, the relationship was quite close, and they were able to see acquaintances and fellow villagers in this foreign land, which really made the two sigh in this troubled era, so that the two naturally got a lot closer.
"Gradually, this is not inevitable, but man-made!"
Zhou Fu's finger pointed to the north.
"At this time, our Han army's northern expedition, everything we do is not worthy of the name of "righteousness", everywhere we go, we help refugees with military food, and hire people with money and salary to maintain the livelihood of the people......
In Zhou Fu's words, Li Hongzhang's expression was a little complicated.
"Whoever the thief passes, kill all the shaved people, and the soldiers pass through, kill all the people who have their hair." He is no stranger to this, and even, he still supports "killing all the people", why should he "kill everything" regardless of the soldiers and thieves, just to deter the people, so that they dare not be used by thieves and soldiers.
"What a crime the people have been so slaughtered!"
This question fell on Li Hongzhang's ears, he thought of his hometown, and now the people there are not the same? If one day the official army takes over Luzhou, will they also have to "kill all the people"?
Of course!
Just like he advocated "killing all the people who have accumulated hair" in Jiangxi, it is naturally impossible for other people to have the slightest sympathy for their hometown fathers.
On the other hand, what the righteous army did did not live up to the name of "righteousness", even the Huguang gentry who lived in Nanchang did not accuse them of indiscriminate killing, in fact, except for the time when they conquered Wuchang, they had killed thousands of Chu Yong, and there was no way to kill indiscriminately. Subsequently, instead of killing innocents indiscriminately, they gave more relief to the people who had suffered losses in the war.
Just like they and Henan, the amount of grain used to help the people alone is as much as one million stones. Compared with the killing of officials and thieves, the "righteousness" of the "righteous army" is far beyond what officials or thieves can compare.
Eat pot pulp to welcome the king...... Then Zhu Yifeng wants more than just the world!
What he wants is the hearts of the people of the world!
Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong provinces have never been harmed by war, but in places such as Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and even Jiangxi, the more the areas that have been harmed by war, the more popular the people will be towards the "righteousness" of the "righteous army."
The people's heart!
Thinking of this, Li Hongzhang immediately thought of the news that the newspapers had reported at length how the Righteous Army had helped the people in Henan, and how the Righteous Army had to stop and wait for the grain and grass to arrive in the rear because the military rations were used to help the refugees.
All this news is not for others to see, but actually for the common people, so that the common people know the difference between the righteous army and the officials and thieves. In Henan, they do it for the people of Henan, and here, they write it all down on newsprint and pass it on to ...... To whom do you pass it on? To whom do you hear it?
Of course, it will not be the people in Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong provinces who have not been harmed by the war, but the people in Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and other places who want to survive but cannot survive.
Why let them see all this.
Suddenly, Li Hongzhang's heart tightened, and he immediately realized the problem.
"It's over!"
Li Hongzhang, whose face changed suddenly, instantly understood, and at this moment, he seemed to understand why the rebels took out millions of stone grains to help the people.
Where there are millions of stone grain, it is clearly a cannonball that attracts the hearts of tens of millions of people.
The people's will seems useless!
When the lives of those people who can be called ants are in chaos, they will not only "rejoice" in the thief's sealing knife, but also "cheer and cheer" for the government to issue a shaving order.
That's because they don't have a better option.
But now, the rebels have given them a choice!
The rebels undoubtedly became the best choice.
They do not kill indiscriminately, they do not exploit the people to the extreme, and they even give relief to refugees.
In this way, once the righteous army marched eastward, the people naturally ate pot pulp to welcome the king, and the people were naturally willing to be driven by the righteous army.
At that time, it will be an official or a thief. In the eyes of the people, they are all thieves and bandits who everyone gets and condemns.
There is only one king, and that is the righteous army! It's the Han army of the Han Gong!
Li Hongzhang, who had figured everything out, only felt dizzy for a while, and at this moment, he seemed to understand, understand, why Zhu Yifeng did not take the opportunity of the bandits' civil strife to break up and stand on his own, why did he not take the opportunity to go straight down the river.
He is not just waiting for the opportunity for his civil strife to intensify, but waiting for the people's hearts, waiting for the people's minds to change, and waiting for the people to be willing to "eat pot pulp to welcome the king".
At that time, there will be only one king in the world!
As for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which has been in the world for 200 years, it is just a "Manchu captive". Today, the king's direction is to settle the people, and his king's division is to go on a northern expedition to restore China.
Yes!
Li Hongzhang, who was in a trance, has finally figured out everything now, and has figured out everything that he can't figure out at the moment.
At this time, he even felt sad for his master, after arriving in Wuchang, he bought 5,000 foreign guns for his master, when the division and Nanchang were preparing to drill the foreign gun team to "regain the whole day", in Wuchang, this Han Duke was already planning for the future after seizing the world.
At the same time, he thought of the Taiping Army, and the Cantonese bandits who fought from the two vast mountains to the rich land south of the Yangtze River, who fought in the east and west for several years, and in the end they just made wedding dresses for others.
Even the indiscriminate killing of officials and thieves finally achieved everything - the people of the Han Dynasty who will reign over the world in the future!
This popular will cannot be obtained by saying "expel the Qing captives and restore China", and this popular will needs chance. In Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other places, the butcher's knives raised by the Cantonese bandits and the official army and the lives of millions of people have created this opportunity, and now for the Han Gong, he only needs to grasp the "righteousness" and only need to apply a little "benevolence". Since the people's will can be driven by it, the gentry and the common people who live under the sword of the thief for the rest of their lives, they will not remember what the court is, what the government is, and they will not even remember what the Han and what are the full.
But they will remember who kept them alive!
They will rush this grace and wear this virtue.
And all this is the foundation of the Han Dynasty in the world, and it is the people's heart! It is the desire of the people!
And the imperial court ...... It has lost the hearts of the people!
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