Song Daming of Conghua County and Wan Changlong of Longmen County were transferred from the post of township chief of Xiangshan, both of whom were originally veterans of the Taiping Army's rear camp and did not have any meritorious reputation. Guo Shao, the salt ambassador of Xiangshan Zhixian County, who received Liao Ruixiang, is famous and demoted; Wu Eryuan, the magistrate of Shunde County, was also demoted, and Chongzhen was born as a jinshi for fifteen years.

Zengcheng Zhixian is retained by Jiang Qingzhi, the county magistrate, who was born in a person; Dongguan Zhixian is a person transferred from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Qian Feng, the person in charge of the Agricultural Reclamation Division, the former general banner of the Taiping Army, and he does not know a single big character; Sanshui Zhixian is another general banner Li Zhengguang who retired from the Taiping Army, and he is also illiterate in big characters. Qingyuan Zhixian is Hu Weiqing, the former owner of the Xiangshan County Ya recommended by Liao Ruixiang, who worked very well in the Xiangshan County Ya and was deeply valued by Liao Ruixiang.

Xinningzhi County is the person who Zhou Shixiang personally gave the point - his nominal father-in-law Lin Wanfu. Of course, when it was announced that Lin Wanfu would be appointed as the county governor of Xinning, Zhou Shixiang constantly emphasized how outstanding and effective Lin Wanfu's work in the Military Uniform Department was, and this was the only reason why he was entrusted with the principle of employing people. As for what Song Xianggong thought about them, Zhou Shixiang didn't want to think about it, because he blushed a little when he thought about it.

When Lin Wanfu got the news of his transfer to Xinning Dangxian County in the Military Uniform Division, he happily said, "How is it?" My son-in-law hasn't forgotten my father-in-law! I, Lin someone, will also be a county master in the future! ”

Lin Wan'er, who was still in Xiangshan and was about to leave for Guangzhou, was angry and annoyed when she heard about her father, but she was happy in her heart.

The Yamen of the Guangdong Political Envoy was the original Mancheng Jingnan General's Mansion, after the Mancheng was emptied. The city wall was demolished by the Taiping army. The official Wang Zhangjun, who had previously served as the prefect of Huizhou and was the highest-ranking civilian official in the Qing court who had surrendered to the Taiping Army. is also the most loyal one among the demoted officials, there is no way, who let him kill Zhu Guorong, the prefect of Guangzhou, with his own hands.

Zuo Qing is to drive ducks to serve as the Ming Dynasty Guangdong political envoy Zuo to participate in politics, his surname is Zuo, what he used to do is Zuo to participate in politics, and now he is still Zuo to participate in politics, but he wants to bring this "left politics" to the coffin. Zuo Qing was actually unwilling to submit to the Taiping army. When he received the appointment, Zhou Shixiang had never seen him, and the Zuo Senzheng was also forced by the soldiers to go to the Yamen of the Political Envoy Department with a knife.

The former yamen of the governor of Guangzhou, and the secretary of the staff of the prefect of Guangzhou were all enriched to the yamen of the political envoy and the yamen of the prefect of Guangzhou. In addition, some were transferred to the military marshal's mansion. All the county lords, wardens and other officials who did not die or ran away were retained by the Taiping army, but they were all sent to the townships to carry out the affairs of building townships and merging villages, and no longer interfered with the previous affairs, so as to prevent these local snakes from overthrowing officials. Of course. Under the threat of the Taiping army's broadsword. There are few officials who dare to have the courage to fight.

The massacres of the Qing army in Guangdong and the years of war caused the population of Guangdong to plummet, which gave the Taiping army enough land to settle the families of the surrendered soldiers, and enough land to reclaim.

Zhou Shixiang gave only one order to the political envoy Si Yamen, that is, all counties must follow the example of Xiangshan, break the original local clan system, let the "imperial power" go to the countryside to the villages, and integrate all the manpower and materials in the actual control area, with only one order. All forces in the areas occupied by the Taiping army could be mobilized. The importance of this matter is no less than the expansion of the whole army, and Zhou Shixiang gave Song Xianggong the greatest power. He can act cheaply.

The so-called cheap action means that the political envoy can mobilize the garrison to ensure the progress of the work of building townships and villages, and can suppress the local gentry and landlords who refuse to cooperate by force.

The fundamental purpose of building townships and villages is still Tuntian, how to Tuntian, Daming has more than 200 years of experience to follow, as long as things are done according to the rules, and there is no need to think about anything, things can be done very badly.

Although the 200-year-old military household system of the guard center has long been rotten, Zhou Shixiang believes that this is because it is too old and the result of various historical reasons. The method of single tuntian is still operable for Guangzhou, which has already been emptied. A large number of wounded soldiers withdrew from the army and transferred to the local government to serve as township and village heads, and the village office system is actually a strengthened version of the armor protection system, and it can also be said that a village is a miniature version of the guard station.

Although this system caused a heavy setback to the clan power and made it impossible for the rural gentry to gain their original political power, it was the most favorable political structure and system for the Taiping army.

For those landlords and gentry who refused to cooperate, Zhou Shixiang was no longer as hypocritical and gentle as Xiangshan, but directly tore through the disguise.

"Suppression, we must resolutely suppress these traitors, and insist on suppressing these scum who collude with the Manchurians!" It was Zhou Shi who said the most to the officials of the political envoy and the yamen.

Four towns, one brigade and two battalions, and the Taiping Army, which occupies an absolutely dominant force in Guangzhou and even Guangdong, is Zhou Shixiang's greatest confidence. With a knife in his hand, he can carry out what he wants, even if it will make the Taiping army a public enemy in the future, he has to do it strongly, because his time is running out.

After he survives and becomes stronger, he can only consider whether the political system is suitable, whether the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, or whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. It is ridiculous to consider whether these unrealistic political systems are appropriate until they are strong.

The Taiping Army is now far inferior to Li Zicheng's Great Shun Army, nor as good as Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong both started in rebellion, but they were not defeated in the hands of the landlords and gentry, they were actually defeated in the hands of another Manchurian Eight Banners with better organization and cohesion than them, not the resistance of the landlords and gentry.

If Li Zicheng had not been defeated at the hands of the Qing army, the landlords and gentry would have adopted a 100% cooperative posture towards the Dashun regime rather than confrontation, because their swords were not sharp enough, and their strength was not as strong as that of the Dashun army.

With the two examples of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Zhou Shixiang does not care whether the current political system will provoke the rebellion of the landlords and gentry in the world.

"Building townships and setting up villages" to crack down on the few landlords and gentry and the clan forces in the countryside was something that Wang Zhangjun, Zuo Qing, Wu Eryuan and other officials did not dare to think of in the past, and they did not dare to do it, but now they can only do it hard.

Xiangshan's template is placed there, and they don't need to use any brains, just copy it. They could choose not to do it, but the results were terrible. Don't look at the people in the city, you can see that they are still as awe-inspiring as before, and they are called adults one by one, but in fact they are not as good as these people. People are not afraid of losing their heads, but their heads are not very stable. (To be continued.) )