Luoding is poor and bad, and the prefectures and counties in the territory have experienced successive military disasters, and the population is less than 10,000, and it is located between the Ming and Qing forces, which is the place where the Ming and Qing dynasties want to move forward.

Throughout the ages, if any force wants to develop, it depends on nothing more than population and money and food, and if you want to have money and food, you must first have someone, and someone who has money and food can do things such as accumulating grain, building a high wall, and slowly becoming king, in the words of later online novels, is to farm and farm again, and then take money and food, population, advanced systems and weapons to brutally overthrow the other party.

On the contrary, what is lacking in this place in Luoding is precisely the population and money and food, how can no one play without money and food?

It is one thing to coerce the people to strengthen their own strength, but there is no coercion of the people in the world, and you can't go to the end just by robbing! Even Li Zicheng in the later period is also vigorously in Huxiang development base, Zhang Xianzhong ran around and didn't run to Sichuan to develop in peace, if it wasn't for the Qing army suddenly entered the customs, I am afraid that the Great Western Dynasty and the Great Shun Dynasty can really stage a "Shunxi hegemony".

Coercion is only a means, not an end.

If there is no place to develop, it is to coerce another 100,000 people into the camp, and Zhou Shixiang does not think that he can compete with the two traitor princes in Guangzhou. Even Geng Jimao and Shang Kexi may not be able to beat it, but what about the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners?

There should be more soldiers, soldiers should be trained, soldiers should eat and drink, and equipment should be upgraded, what should I do? There must be a foundation under the high-rise buildings, if you want to truly become an army that makes the Qing army fearful, you must first have a place that can develop in peace, and this site is the foundation under the high-rise buildings, which is indispensable!

After thinking about it repeatedly, Zhou Shixiang decided to make a deal with the tens of thousands of people in Luodingcheng and the Taiping Camp. He didn't ask for too much, but only hoped that the Guangdong authorities in the southern Ming Dynasty would be able to take any county in Lian and Lei, which are located in the coastal areas, for the Taiping camp to eat and garrison. As long as the other party can agree, it is not a problem for the Taiping Camp to listen to anyone in name, anyway, he is now playing the banner of the Son of Yongli, and it is also the righteousness of the Son of Heaven, as for who he actually obeys, it doesn't matter at all.

There is really a place to live, when the time comes, it will be a matter of the future, this year, the generals who support the army do not listen to the tune more, and the son of Yongli Tianzi can't command the largest army leader in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Sun Kewang, it is difficult to stare at him with a thousand soldiers.

As for why you chose Lianzhou or Leizhou County, instead of Gaozhou or Qiongzhou? The answer is simple, because Zhou Shixiang heard Song Xianggong say before that it was not Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, who really controlled Gaozhou, nor Lianchengbi, the governor of Guangdong, but the general army under the command of Li Dingguo, the king of Xining.

Li Dingguo's name is famous in both his past and present lives, and at first Zhou Shixiang's decision was to go to Guangxi to vote for Li Dingguo, but because he was unwilling to send people to the fence later, he would put the anti-Qing national fortune and personal revenge on others, so he took the opportunity of Cheng Bangjun to recruit the bandits in Daqiao Mountain to encourage Hu Boss and them to seize Luoding, so that they could make a difference on the eve of China's complete descent into a foreign race. Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, you have to be hard to strike iron, as long as you have soldiers under your own hands, why do you need to fake other people's hands!

Now that he has the heart of self-reliance, Zhou Shixiang of course refuses to go to Gaozhou, for fear that Li Dingguo's soldiers and horses will not accept them, and second, he is also afraid of being swallowed by Li Ministry, after all, the strength of the Great Western Army is too strong, and the Taiping Camp is just a little doll who can just climb compared to them.

How can a little doll fight a strong man?

In this way, Gaozhou was naturally excluded by Zhou Shixiang, and there were many forces in Gaozhou from all sides of the Southern Ming Dynasty, including Li Dingguo's army, and the soldiers and horses of Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures. Zhou Shixiang didn't know how these forces reached an agreement to garrison Gaozhou, but he knew that Gaozhou was actually not rich, and at the same time supported so many soldiers and horses to eat, he was afraid that the people of Gaozhou would have been miserable for a long time, and if he led the Taiping Camp to rush into it headlong, I am afraid that he would not get much food support.

It is better to eat other people's leftovers, it is better to find another way. Qiongzhou, that is, Hainan Island in later generations, is also a good place for long-term development, because Qiongzhou is far away from the mainland, and there is no need to worry that the Qing army will cross the sea and attack. If there is no threat, you can naturally let go of your hands and feet to vigorously develop, whether it is climbing the science and technology tree, or making inventions in the big bang of science and technology, whether it is successful or not, at least you can do things in peace, and you don't have to worry about tomorrow today.

It is true that you can stay away from the mainland and not be attacked by foreign enemies, but the problem is precisely because you are far away from the mainland - there is no sailor in the hands of Zhou Shixiang!

If there was a strong naval division similar to Zheng Chenggong, Zhou Shixiang would naturally go to Qiongzhou without saying a word, but he didn't, Hugh said that there was a boat, and he didn't have a sailor. Moreover, the Han people on Qiongzhou Island are scarce, and most of the islands are indigenous people, such as the Li people. Zhou Shixiang is not hostile to the indigenous people on the island, but as a Han Chinese, he subconsciously has the supreme idea of the Han people. Accept.

Chinese. Those who accept only accept the same race, only affirm the interests of the same race, and put the interests of their own nation first, and those who are willing to be Han people will gladly accept them, and those who are unwilling to be Han will face each other with swords and guns. The Han nationality has the highest and most advanced civilization in the world, and most of the other ethnic groups are still backward, so the civilization naturally has to be integrated and backward, and it is difficult to let the barbarians annex the civilization in turn.

The Han nationality itself is also constantly integrating foreign races, and thousands of years of history have already proved that the inclusiveness of the Han nationality is far better than any other ethnic group in the world. End species. Patriarch. The righteous, on the contrary, is a pragmatic people. Tribe. Host. The Righteous One. He is glad that those non-Han people can automatically integrate into the big family of the Han people, enjoy the civilization created by the Han people, and make progress with them. In terms of human emotion, he has no idea of killing any nation, but hopes that all nationalities will disappear, of course, this disappearance does not mean that those nationalities ** disappear, but that they all become Han Chinese.

Only by becoming a family and a nation can there be no turmoil in China, and there will be no eight words engraved with blood -- if it is not my race, its heart will be different.

In short, the fact that there are more indigenous people than Han people on Qiongzhou Island is not the reason why Zhou Shixiang is reluctant to go to Qiongzhou, the main reason is that he does not have a sailor in his hand, a sailor who can dominate the South Seas!

Without a water division, there was no way to transport the population on a large scale, nor could it conquer foreign countries, and in ten or twenty years, when it was impossible to obtain a large number of Han people from the mainland to enrich Qiongzhou, Zhou Shixiang was simply unable to build the Taiping Battalion into a strong army with 100,000 troops, or even more.

Moreover, no matter how well it develops in Qiongzhou, it is just an island, and it is obviously difficult to achieve it with the power of an island if you want to expel the Hu people and restore China. Zheng's Taiwan and later Jiang's Taiwan have proved this, so Zhou Shixiang will not go to Qiongzhou unless it is absolutely necessary, because that means to a certain extent that he may never be able to return to the mainland and return to his hometown in this life.

"Choose any county in Lian and Lei Prefectures, if the governor agrees, my Taiping Camp will be the first to look forward from now on!"