If you go north to Liaodong, you can force it forward with your authority, but how to make the generals and soldiers go willingly, instead of treating them negatively, is also a tricky matter for Zhou Shixiang to solve. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info because this matter is directly related to the morale of the army.

Zhou Shixiang believed that if he announced the Northern Expedition now, he would immediately go to the north. In the capital, the morale of the Taiping army must be high, everyone is grinding their fists, seeking to fight, and they don't need him to do any pre-war mobilization, so they are going to make great achievements one by one. Even the blind man Li doesn't need the lure of high-ranking officials and gold and silver treasures, just for the satisfaction of the conquest of the Tartar mother, he can do "Whoever dares to leap on the horse, only I Li Fengming". But if it is announced that he will go north to Liaodong, there will definitely be complaints below, and the morale and morale of the army will not be high, because this matter is too different from what everyone imagined.

There are not enough interests as a driving force, and it is obviously unrealistic to simply expect that his subordinates are immortals who do not eat the fireworks of the world, they are all the only ones who are handsome and look forward, and they are all like him Zhou Dashuai who has insight into the future opportunities, and they are all ordered to go to the soup and fire, and they will not give up their deaths, and they will be majestic and high-spirited.

If there is no morale, how can this battle be fought?

Is it necessary to personally supervise the battle of Zhou Shixiang in every battle, and it is not possible to go to the front line in person every time?

There are policies and countermeasures, and they can't stimulate the motivation of the people below, and Zhou Shixiang didn't dare to pat his chest and say that he would definitely be able to succeed if he went north.

So he must mobilize the following to let everyone know that going north to Liaodong is not a meaningless thing, but a good thing to do.

In this world, what kind of things are called good things, of course, good things are called good things.

The benefits of this thing, what is said on the lips, empty mouths and white teeth are fake, and what can be seen is called benefits.

As the old saying goes, money moves people's hearts, and money can make ghosts push and grind, and even let the grind push ghosts.

The Taiping Army is not a people's army, and the generals of the Taiping Army are not revolutionaries with a sense of national liberation. In addition to feudal loyalty, having milk is the mother is probably the most vivid portrayal of most generals.

Naturally, Zhou Shixiang used the solution of improving the morale of the army in an old-fashioned way on the word profit.

He was ready to seal the territory in Liaodong, that is, all the generals and soldiers who went north would be able to have their own land in Liaodong in the future, and if their ability was great enough, they could also have their own slaves. From the town generals, to the auxiliary soldiers, and even the people who accompany the army, as long as you contribute, you can get benefits. Of course, the slaves were certainly not Han people in Guannai, they could be captured Manchurians and Shengjurchen outside Guanwai, or they could be others, such as Koreans, Mongols, etc. If you are good enough to take the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia captive, you can still take them as slaves.

This land enclosure is not just a land grant as practiced in Guangdong and other places, but a real "land enclosure" -- the absolute right to dominate people and things on a piece of land.

In other words, Zhou Shixiang wanted to implement the lord system of the Europeans in Liaodong, and the lords of all sizes were the generals and soldiers who accompanied the army in the north. As long as you sell your life and make meritorious contributions, then you can become a lord, a lord with a title granted by the Ming court, and have complete rights to the land and slaves under your rule.

Moreover, for a considerable period of time in the future, Zhou Shi also decided to boldly delegate power relative to Liaodong and Guanwai, and these military meritorious classes who became lords protected the Guanwai for the Ming Dynasty, and continued to expand outward driven by interests, so as to reduce the financial burden of the central government on the one hand, and firmly control the Guanwai in the hands of the Ming Dynasty on the other hand.

Zhou Shixiang had this idea very early, when he considered that Liaodong and Guanwai would always be reincorporated into the Ming Dynasty in the future, but there were no Han people in those places, and the two capitals and eighteen provinces in Guannai had a sharp decline in population due to decades of war and the genocide of the Manchu Dynasty, and it was difficult to recover themselves, and a large number of immigrants enriched Guanwai.

No matter how big a place is, if it doesn't have enough population, it's only a nominal territory. If you want to completely integrate this land with the hinterland, you must have people.

There were no local Han people, and it was not realistic to immigrate in the Guan, so what Zhou Shixiang could think of and implement was to transform his increasingly large army into defenders and occupiers outside the Guan.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty implemented the guard system outside the Guan, and the Nuergan Dusi was very large, and in its heyday, there were more than 3 million Han people in Liaodong alone. In terms of population alone, it is far overwhelming the Jurchens outside the Guan, including the Manchurians. However, this guard post military household system failed to bring enough benefits to ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, and there was no way to convert more than 3 million Han people into an armed force, and as time went by, the guard gradually eroded, losing its early military function, and as a result, there was the Liao affair later.

In some respects, the "fiefdom" system that Zhou Shixiang was planning to implement outside the customs was somewhat similar to the "guard" system, but the point is that Zhou Shixiang gave rights to everyone, not just generals and officials.

Imagine, if an ordinary sailor captures more than a dozen slaves outside the border because of his merits, and is granted the right to produce on a piece of land that may be as large as a township, in order to keep this family business, in order to strengthen this family business, he will definitely defend it to the death. If you want to have a bigger family business, you have to continue to make meritorious contributions; In order to make meritorious deeds, he had to have more slaves at his disposal, so that he could take them to captivity new slaves.

This is almost the same as the Eight Banners system, and it is also very similar to the armed maritime merchants in Guangdong.

Guanwai is a bitter cold place in the eyes of the people in the mainland, but Zhou Shixiang knows that Guanwai is a treasure land, with a lot of resources, and it is also a big granary. In recent years, there have been small changes in the climate. During the Chongzhen period, some seas in Xiamen would be frozen, but now they are no longer frozen. The old people said that the temperature is constantly rising, and it will not be long before the climate outside the North Inner Pass will return to before Wanli. At that time, outside the gate of the bitter cold land, it will be a treasure land, a real treasure land.

After making a plan to fight north, Zhou Shixiang immediately convened a meeting of senior generals, at which the intention of the northward operation and the "sealing the land" system were announced, although some generals still had some incomprehensions, but on the whole most of the generals still accepted the northward battle, after all, the matter of "sealing the territory" was not only for them, but also for the soldiers under their command. In addition, they can get food from North Koreans, so they have long-term support and don't have to worry about food shortages.

After the meeting, the land and water generals will seize the time to make pre-war preparations.

In addition to loading grain onto ships, the sailors also had to load large quantities of tea and vegetables, and large quantities of soybeans were also transported from all directions. This is mainly used for raw bean sprouts at sea, and the sailors value the sprouts very much, which can ensure that they will not get sick for several months at sea.

In addition, the generals of the naval division, Liu Guoxuan, Xiao Gongchen, and Gan Hui, worked with the military headquarters to study a detailed combat plan, and in addition to Jeju Island and the Donggang Islands, the naval division also needed to have some transit points along the coast of Shandong and Beizhili. These things, Zhou Shixiang asked Liu Guoxuan to study them specifically, and he didn't ask, he believed that these people were better than himself.

Blind Li was quite resistant to going north to Liaodong, and more than once muttered in front of Zhou Shixiang that if he went to Liaodong, he would not be able to enter the Forbidden City, and he would see what Fulin's mother looked like. Finally one time, Zhou Shixiang couldn't help it, and said to him: "If you don't occupy Liaodong, Fulin's mother has run away, where are you going to arrest her?" ”

In this way, Li Blind Man somewhat understood.

After returning from Kinmen, Zhou Shixiang prepared to return to Zhenjiang first to deal with the affairs of Jiangnan after he went north. But before that, he went to meet Zheng Sen's wife, Dong Xian.

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