Chapter 117: The Three Great Gangs
A power confrontation between leaders in the Kingdom of Heaven ended in a farce-like situation, Hong Xiuquan was gone, took the initiative to soften, Hong Tiangui returned to Tianjing City strongly, and the entire Tianjing City fell into a state of frenzy.
As soon as the news of Tianjing City was passed on by all parties, the Manchu and the opposition sighed one after another, and the first heartfelt support for Hong Xiuquan did not get the desired result, and even the newspapers published by the Western powers lamented that they would face extremely troublesome opponents.
Since the Wehrmacht fought in the east and west, the kingdom of heaven will win every battle, and the territory has been expanding, both officials and civilians have seen the hope of the kingdom of heaven from Hong Tiangui, and they have consciously moved closer to Hong Tiangui, and Hong Tiangui's prestige has already surpassed that of Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, who does not care about political affairs. This time, the Heavenly King seized power, although in addition to the initial outbreak of the Imperial Forest Army's operation, the other encounters were mostly in the shadows, and ordinary people did not know about it. In addition, the Wing King Shi Dakai, the Loyal King Li Xiucheng, the British King Chen Yucheng and other princes with real power in the Kingdom of Heaven collectively came forward to support Hong Tiangui, which represents the recognition of Hong Tiangui by the entire Heavenly Kingdom military, and the defeat of Hong Xiuquan, who lost the support of the military, became inevitable.
For his cheap son Hong Xiuquan, Hong Tiangui was not polite this time, he announced to the public that the king of heaven was sick and needed to recuperate, and secretly escorted him out of Tianjing City and sent him to Nanchang Villa for house arrest. Hong Tiangui, the officials of the Sixth Ministry who participated in Hong Xiuquan's rebellion, did not tolerate it.
The butcher's knife was rolling, more than 30 major officials of the six ministries were beheaded for public display, and some bull ghosts, snakes, and gods who took advantage of the chaos could not be killed by hundreds. For a time, the people of Tianjing City all applauded.
Hong Tiangui, who came from a civilized society, did not kill, and the main participants could not kill them, and all those accomplices were relegated to the city defense camp and underwent labor reform as prisoners.
That's right, it is labor reform, Hong Tiangui grew up in the economy and society, and the rational use of resources has been imprinted in his bones, so he will naturally not raise them in vain, not to mention that there are many houses and buildings in Tianjing City that have been destroyed, and these need to be built, and the prisoners of rebellion are undoubtedly the cheapest labor. These prisoners are branded with their eyebrows, and even if they escape, they will not survive.
In addition to these people, Hong Tiangui once again expanded the city defense battalion and established a civil construction army, whose main task was not to fight, not logistics, or train recruits, but to be responsible for the construction of the entire heavenly kingdom. The strength of the infrastructure is the foundation of a country's strength, Hong Tiangui knows the effect of concentrating on doing great things, and the war in the Kingdom of Heaven will definitely not be less in the future, and the civil army is undoubtedly the best place for prisoners.
Sweeping away the filth of the court, Hong Tiangui's gaze turned to the God Worship Sect. Since the Tianjing Incident of that year, the organizational structure of the worship of God has been greatly changed, not so much as religion, but rather a feudal country dressed in the cloak of religion, Hong Xiuquan is a very suspicious person, especially after Yang Xiuqing forced the palace in the name of God, Hong Xiuquan began to pay attention to weakening the influence of the worship of God, so that its influence in the military has become smaller, and enlightened princes such as King Yi have no God in their hearts. The influence of the Worship of God among the people is also extremely weak. The Kingdom of Heaven lost its power and land, and the members of the God Worship Sect were among the must-kill members of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the dream of Heaven imagined by Hong Xiuquan had long been out of market at the bottom.
With the help of this rebellion, Hong Tiangui immediately issued a ban on the worship of God, carried out an inventory and management of existing religions, and strictly organized any organizations of a political or religious nature.
According to Hong Tiangui's order, most of the non-governmental organizations with political goals are in the ranks of banning, which is undoubtedly a suppression of these conservative forces.
However, in the face of the tens of thousands of elite troops transferred back to Tianjing City by Hong Tiangui, non-governmental organizations gave up the idea of armed confrontation and sought relationships to obtain a legal status. Some ancient non-governmental organizations have eyes and hands, and even found the Winged King Shi Dakai here.
"Green Gang? Hongmen? Elders? In the face of these three ancient organizations, Hong Tiangui also felt inexplicably tricky.
"Winged King, what do you think?"
The Wing King frowned deeply, shook his head, and said, "These three organizations were already large national organizations during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the water inside the gate was very deep, and it was extremely difficult for even the Heavenly Kingdom to be clear. ”
Hong Tiangui nodded, but he also understood that things were not easy to do, and said in a deep voice: "If it is difficult to do, it must be done, religion is a double-edged sword, it can easily hurt others and oneself, and religions that cannot be in our hands must be banned." What's more, what we want to build is a civilized country, and we don't need these gangsters hidden in the shadows at all. ”
The Wing King's expression changed slightly, and he said, "Heavenly King, these people are quite mysterious, once they are forcibly banned, I am afraid it will cause great trouble." ”
"There will definitely be trouble, nothing more than assassination and confrontation, what can these reckless people do in front of the real army, this king wishes they all jumped out, and now the gap in the city construction army is very big." Hong Tiangui seemed to be smiling, but under this peaceful tone, it was bloody and killing.
The Wing King was silent, but he no longer persuaded that for the current Kingdom of Heaven, the real opponent was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Western powers, and although the three major gangs were troublesome, they were just trouble.
"It's ridiculous to think about it, the original goal of the three major organizations was to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and once we do it, they will be uncomfortable, after all, what we are doing is exactly what they established for the original purpose. Uncle Yiwang, don't you think it's funny? Hong Tiangui said with a wicked taste.
The Wing King smiled bitterly, he was not interested in a gang organization like the Hongmen Qing Gang at all. The anti-Qing rebellion has not achieved much for hundreds of years. Moreover, the Wing King believed that once the Kingdom of Heaven banned them, they would inevitably resist them, and the current three major gang organizations had already left only the cloak of anti-Qing.
Hong Tiangui's order was issued, and all the three major gangs were banned, which was undoubtedly a big earthquake for the entire Heavenly People.
And the most direct impact is that the people on the bright side of the three major organizations disappeared all at once, as if the three major organizations gave up Tianjing City all of a sudden.
The Wing King in charge of this matter did not dare to slack off, after all these years of leaving, he knew the energy of these three major organizations in the people.
At the request of Hong Tiangui, King Yi ordered the army to strengthen the guard of Tianjing City, and took the lead in the army to carry out the operation of clearing the gang members.
There are military registrations in the army, especially after the establishment of the China Democratic Party, Hong Tiangui attaches more importance to the investigation of the origins of the members of the army, and the people who came to Tianjing this time are the first to follow him, but there is no guarantee that there are no people from the three major gangs in it.
Hong Tiangui's worries did not appear, and the three major gangs seemed to have disappeared, and there was no movement for half a month.
After his initial attention, Hong Tiangui turned his energy to the construction of the entire kingdom of heaven.
After several major battles in the early stage, most of the main force of Zeng Guofan's Hunan army was wiped out, and the rest retreated to Hunan and Guangxi respectively. Moreover, with the formation of the five new armies of the National Defense Army, the number of troops controlled by Hong Tiangui has reached an astonishing 200,000 people, not counting the tens of thousands of horses under the command of Dongfang Zhongwang and Shiwang, if all are counted, the entire Heavenly Kingdom army has reached 300,000, far exceeding the strength of the peak period.
While the Wehrmacht is strong, the cost of military logistics is also staggering. Even in the affluent Jiangnan region, it is extremely difficult to feed an army of hundreds of thousands.
What's more, the Manchu Qing Dynasty colluded with the foreign powers to block the foreign trade of the Heavenly Kingdom, and with the profit from smuggling, Hong Tiangui urgently needed money and food.
The most important thing is agriculture, Hong Tiangui controls the Jiangnan River Basin, the rainfall is abundant, and the rice is harvested twice a year, but the yield cannot be compared with later generations. While encouraging the people to reclaim wasteland, Hong Tiangui issued an order to the five armies of the National Defense Force to reclaim the wasteland. In particular, in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, years of war have left large areas of good land barren, which is suitable for the army to reclaim.
In addition to rice planting, Hong Tiangui also vigorously encouraged the people to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, and personally took the lead in opening up an acre of barren land outside Tianjing City.
Under Hong Tiangui's policy of benefiting farmers one by one, the entire Heavenly Kingdom was full of agricultural mulberry in several provinces, and agriculture became the main theme of the entire Heavenly Kingdom society.
In addition to agriculture, Hong Tiangui's investment in business is also very large, the Chamber of Commerce alone has set up more than a dozen in just one month, and some private workshops have begun to develop rapidly with the support of Hong Tiangui's policies.
There has never been a shortage of shrewd businessmen in China, and as long as the policy is right, merchants will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and these private industries are the foundation of the development of the kingdom of heaven and trade compared to the royal industries of Hong Tiangui. And the biggest advantage of private commerce is the pure pursuit of profits, once they have a certain strength, they will be fearless to expand their tentacles, businessmen seek profits, driven by interests, the blockade of the Manchu Qing and the Western powers will become full of loopholes, and all crises will be self-defeating. And Hong Tiangui only needs to escort these businessmen in the early stage of development.
Of course, the basis for all this is the stability of the heavenly regime, the threat from the West has weakened, but the threat from the East has always increased, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty spared no effort to strengthen the strength of the Huai Army, according to the information obtained by Hong Tiangui, now the Huai Army under the command of Li Hongzhang has expanded to 60,000 people, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has purchased weapons and equipment from the West to modernize its armament.
In addition to the Huai army, the Anglo-French army has also expanded from the initial 3,000 to 8,000 men, and according to sources, a reinforcement of several thousand troops has recently arrived.
In the face of this threat, Hong Tiangui issued an edict to set up the Eastern Command, with the loyal king Li Xiucheng as the commander of the East, and the prince Li Shixian as the deputy commander, and at the same time transferred a battalion to the east to form a grassroots political system. For the division level and above, Hong Tiangui has not adjusted.
In addition, Hong Tiangui gave the Loyal King and the Servant the greatest operational autonomy, and the Eastern War was all in charge of the Loyal King and the Servant, while Hong Tiangui took over all the logistics support work. The weapons and equipment of the Hunan army, which had been mixed with the West, and most of the output of Sufu Province and Zhejiang Province, were sent to the Eastern Front by Hong Tiangui.
This is undoubtedly the greatest affirmation of King Zhong and King Shiwang, and the displeasure of the two because of Hong Tiangui's installation of political personnel has also disappeared.