Northern Expedition to Henan!

After hearing this plan from the mouth of the lord, Zuo Zongtang's heart couldn't help but tremble, and he was a little excited, and he immediately asked in a row. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The lord has already decided to go on the Northern Expedition!"

Northern expedition!

Although he has already joined the lord, Zuo Zongtang knows very well that as long as the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still in the day, then, he will not be able to get rid of the reputation of "traitor", as the governor of Hunan, he has also received some letters from fellow villagers who served in Beijing, in which some of them even directly use "thief" to describe him.

But if the Northern Expedition is successful, then who are the "traitors", there is no doubt that those who serve in the Beijing Division are traitors and thieves! And what his Zuo Zongtang conforms to is the general trend of the world, and it is the heart of the Han people!

How could he not support the Northern Expedition!

"If the lord wants to go on a northern expedition, Hunan can send at least 60,000 mules and horses and 300,000 people......"

Zuo Zongtang, who only thought that the lord needed to transfer materials from Hunan, said hurriedly, and then recalled the amount of grain in the grain depots in Hunan.

"You can give 1 million stone of military rations!"

There are only 1.2 million stones of grain stored in the granaries of Hunan's prefectures and counties, and 1 million stones of military grain is almost all that is poured into Hunan. But even so, Zuo Zongtang was still afraid that the Northern Expedition would be affected because of the lack of military food, and added.

"If there is a shortage, the minister can also raise 500,000 stones, and when the new rice is put on the market this year, he can also supply another 5 million stone of military rations......

1.5 million stone military rations!

How much can the army eat?

In fact, the army really can't eat much, the real big head is not eaten by the army, but used to help the people in the north, and the place where the army passes will inevitably produce a large number of refugees, and these refugees need the army to give relief, and they need the government to give relief. Millions of stone grains may be needed at that time, or even more.

"There is no need for food for the time being, and there are 3 million heather rice stored in the granary of Wuchang,"

In the past two years, Nanyang rice has always been the most important overseas procurement material for the governor's government, in Wuchang a stone of Changsha rice costs 2.6 silver dollars, and the most expensive Nanyang rice is only one yuan, the cheapest is not even 0.7 yuan, even after deducting the freight, each stone still has a double profit.

Moreover, compared with the limited number of commercial rice in Hunan and Hubei, the quantity of Nanyang rice stops, taking Vietnam as an example, it can export more than 10 million stones, or even tens of millions of stones, every year! This is the case in Thailand and the Philippines, and compared with mainland rice, the price of Nanyang rice is extremely low, and it is far cheaper to use Nanyang rice to help refugees than to use Huguang rice.

"If you use the army in Henan, the military rations will not be much, 3 million Shi Nanyang rice, enough to help the refugees in Henan Province, if it is not enough, you can buy rice from Nanyang, and there should be no problem in buying a few million stones......

This will make Zuo Zongtang hear the meaning of the lord's words.

"What does the lord mean by using troops only against one province in Henan?"

Isn't it going to be a Northern Expedition? How to only go north to Henan.

"It's temporary!"

Looking at Zuo Zongtang, Zhu Yifeng, who knew that he wanted the Northern Expedition, smiled.

"Now the most important problem is to solve the traffic, solve the logistics, the Jiangbei railway is only now only repaired to Nanyang, and the railway has not been completely repaired, if we can seize Henan, you can build the railway to the Yellow River, when the time comes, from the Beijing Division, but only a few hundred miles, then the logistics can be guaranteed by carriage, but from Xiangyang to the Beijing Division, there are thousands of miles away, how to guarantee the logistics at that time? And now, it is a great opportunity to use troops in Henan! ”

Compared with the civil strife in Nanjing, Henan is the real chaos, Zeng Lichang recruited hundreds of thousands of twisters, now occupy Henan, northern Anhui all over the country, there was Zeng Lichang in the past to restrain them, now Zeng Lichang died in Tongguan, the elite of the Taiping Army on the North Road fell into Shaanxi, and has been split into two roads. The Taiping army that remained in Henan is now even more fragmented.

This is a great opportunity to use troops against Henan, such an opportunity, how could Zhu Yifeng miss it, and those hundreds of thousands of captives are the best human resources, they can not only build railways, but also if necessary can also be used to enrich overseas immigrants, in short, there are many benefits.

"My lord, if it is only the Northern Expedition to Henan Province, then when the time comes, we will have to confront the Manchus across the river."

With a frowning brow, Zuo Zongtang raised his concerns.

"Won't it mean that we will be a shield for the Taiping Army at that time?"

Tonight, the Taiping Army has been serving as a shield for the Righteous Army for several years, but in the eyes of Zuo Zongtang and other officials in the government, even if the Righteous Army is a shield for the Taiping Army for a day, it is absolutely undesirable.

Dead friends don't die poor!

What's more, the Taiping Army is not a Taoist friend.

"It's not the whole province of Henan!"

Shaking his head, Zhu Yifeng gestured with his hand.

"In the next year or two, what we need is a part of Henan, so that we can build the railway to Zheng County, and as for the rest of the land, I think it is better for the Taiping Army to continue to control ......."

To a certain extent, the reason why he is willing to hand over half of Henan to the Taiping Army is that there is another layer of thought, that is, to absorb the surplus labor force in the countryside of Henan through the Taiping Army, Zhu Yifeng knows that at least in the next few years, he has not yet been able to solve the ability of millions of surplus labor, at this time, those bachelors to join the Taiping Army is undoubtedly the best choice, at least for himself, he does not need to consider this problem.

As for the future, all that is needed is to bring them down!

Now, as civilians, there are always restrictions on the use of these human resources, but if they become prisoners of war, then there will be no restrictions, and when the time comes, even as coolies, they will be grateful to Dade for sparing their lives, and as for exile overseas, or even to Africa, that is a matter of course.

If you don't kill them, it's already an extrajudicial favor!

These prisoners of war were undoubtedly more suited to colonizing overseas than ordinary immigrants, and as northerners, they were better suited to the natural environment of East Africa and to living in Africa. This is a form of compulsory immigration, and there are plenty of them.

Seeing that Zuo Zongtang was about to speak, Zhu Yifeng changed the topic and asked.

"Ji Gao, I heard that you are planning to set up a middle school in every prefecture and city in Hunan, and next year you will open a higher primary school to every county seat, right?"

Knowing that the lord was changing the topic, Zuo Zongtang knew that he should not continue to ask questions about Henan. At least not for now, he replied in accordance with the lord's words.

"My lord, it is inevitable that Fucheng will set up a middle school and a higher primary school in the county, if you don't do this, then the future Hunan College will be rootless!"

For Zuo Zongtang, after becoming governor, he suffered too much misunderstanding from his fellow villagers in Hunan. It is precisely because of this that he hopes to change the perception of his fellow villagers through the emphasis on education, and Hunan College is the foundation of his pursuit of this change, he knows that now his fellow villagers may not see what this college means to Hunan, but ten years later, they will know that the Hunan College built on the Hunan Gongyuan will fundamentally change the future of Hunan.

However, Hunan College is only higher education, and if you want to develop higher education, you must lay a good foundation, and primary and secondary schools are the foundation of Hunan College. That's why he formulated the Hunan education plan for the next ten years.

"The minister plans to use ten years to establish primary schools, higher primary schools, and secondary schools and college preparatory departments, fourth-class education system, the first five years in each province to set up a middle school, middle school outstanding students can go to Changsha to study in the preparatory school of Hunan College, the college selects its outstanding students to admit, five years later, the middle school can be set up in large counties, within ten years in each county of Hunan, each county has a middle school......"

For Zuo Zongtang, who bears too many misunderstandings among his fellow villagers, he needs to prove himself through education and make his fellow villagers change their views on him. Therefore, in the past year, he continued to ask those Western professors about the Western school system, and then combined with the actual situation in Hunan, he designed such a set of "school system". At this time, he didn't even know what he had unknowingly created, and in his opinion, this might be the most suitable for Hunan.

"Why do you want to set up a preparatory school?"

Zhu Yifeng asked with some curiosity.

"Back to the lord, the minister thinks that in China, this university preparatory department must be set up, first, since ancient times in our country, only eight strands of articles, not arithmetic, such as Xiucai, people are not fluent in English, set up a preparatory department, they can learn arithmetic, English in the preparatory school. Second, there is no teacher required for the establishment of a general high school in the prefecture at present, and if you want to be like the West, the establishment of a general high school is not a matter of more than ten years, and it may be difficult to achieve this, so the minister thinks that it is possible to set up a four-year junior high school in each prefecture, and then change the higher secondary school into a preparatory school, which will be located in the provincial capital, and in the future, the higher secondary school will be slowly set up in the prefecture and county......

Zuo Zongtang's step-by-step method is undoubtedly a method that is in line with the actual situation in China now, and Zhu Yifeng naturally agrees with his method.

"Ji Gao, you can come up with such a solution, it can be seen that you attach importance to education, and there are not many people in the house who can have your vision!"

While praising Zuo Zongtang's opinion, Zhu Yifeng said.

"Many people think that with foreign guns and foreign artillery, they are waiting for a strong country, but in fact, they don't know what is the foundation of a strong country, and it has never been a foreign gun or a foreign artillery."

If the foreign artillery in front of him was really so useful, how could he sell so many muskets to the Taiping army, the Qing army, and even the Manchu Qing in the north, although most of the muskets and artillery they used were eliminated by the righteous army, but foreign guns and foreign cannons were always just weapons! However, it took more than half a century in history for the Chinese people to vaguely understand this.

"Anyway, the foundation of a strong country is education!"

When he made this kind of exclamation, the corners of Zhu Yifeng's lips raised slightly, and he said in a mocking tone.

"However, now is the time to teach them a lesson, let them know that this strong army still needs foreign guns and artillery, and the more the better......"

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