In the past, most of Zhou Shixiang's agitators started from two points, one for money and the other for officials. The former naturally made a group of bandits have a head, and felt that it was absolutely worth the vote to follow Zhou Shi, and the latter was a high hat. For example, what he said to Ge Zheng, Jiang and them, the most profitable thing in the world is to be an official, and today he is working hard to be an official, and if he becomes an official, he will naturally have a large amount of money in the account.

To a certain extent, the establishment of the public treasury system caters to the psychology of these bandits from their subordinates, and it is also the system that most motivates them to continue to work hard. It is precisely because of the presence of the public treasury that the subordinates of these bandits feel that the money in the public treasury is earned by their own efforts, so whether it is public or private, they must not let the public treasury be robbed by others, and they do not want to let the goods they have worked so hard to rob others to rob, so they naturally have to rob others and scare others, so that they dare not worry about the things of the Taiping Army. And in order to better protect the proceeds of their looting, they have to constantly expand the team, and allocate a small part of the money and food from the public treasury to ask others to work for them. When the Taiping Army becomes a tiger that no one can mess with, then the goods in the public treasury will really belong to them, and there is no need to fear that someone will come to rob them. On the contrary, if there is no public treasury, and the money and property grabbed every time are divided according to the head, then everyone will be stuffed with their pockets, and who will be willing to rush forward and kill the enemy desperately in a war.

To paraphrase a line from a movie in later generations, it is natural that the Tartars occupy our territory, rob us of our money and food, and play with our women.

The interpretation is different, but the meaning is the same.

Zhou Shixiang had never said any big truth to these subordinates, or preached any national righteousness to them with deep affection, because he knew that these words were absolutely to these bandits who didn't know a single big word.

Whether it is a troubled time or a peaceful and prosperous world, bandits only exist for a better life. No matter how righteous you talk to them, no matter how fanciful you are. It's all useless, but it's not eggy.

Therefore, when his fist slammed on the table, and his red eyes said that he wanted to make up for this leak, all the generals in the hall were a little stunned. Except for Qi Hao, who was a little enthusiastic, the rest of the people didn't react.

Song Xianggong reacted, but unfortunately he did not cooperate with Zhou Shixiang to say something to continue to encourage as usual, but said very calmly: "Qianhu's analysis is good, but even if the situation is really as Qianhu said. But how can the two or three thousand people of my Taiping Army make up for this leak? Don't forget that we are currently trapped and killed in Xinhui City by tens of thousands of Qing troops. ”

Zhao Sihai was silent for a moment and said: "Mr. Song's words are reasonable, we don't want to drag the Qing Demon at the moment, but we have to have the strength to drag it, this fucking is all trapped in the city, eating and drinking are problems, and the brothers are not immortals, they can't even get out of the city, what kind of leak did they go to make up for yesterday?" ”

After thinking about it, Li Fuguo said: "According to what Qianhu said, I want to make up for this leak in the sky." We can only hold back the Qing army in Guangdong and prevent them from advancing westward, in that case, our Taiping army will inevitably have to make a bigger move, whether it is blocking or blocking, we have to try to drag the Qing army in Guangdong and prevent them from advancing westward. As long as Guangxi is still there, Li Dingguo will always have a chance to make amends, and if Guangxi loses it, I am afraid that there will be no chance to make amends. However, when he was in the Green Camp, he had heard Shangguan talk about it. After the defeat of Guilin by Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, although Li Dingguo took advantage of the situation to occupy most of Guangxi, there were still thousands of people entrenched in Guangxi under the command of Dingfan, led by the Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan. Humble worries. If Shang Kexi had sent troops together with the national security of the liaison line, the situation would have been as Qianhu said, the two provinces would have been lost, and Li Dingguo would be trapped in Yunnan and Guizhou. ”

Li Fuguo, who was born in the green camp, was not used to using honorific titles for Li Dingguo for a while, but he was polite to the former owner, but no one cared about it at this time. They were just thinking about the message contained in his words.

Line Guoan?

The first time Zhou Shixiang heard of this person, it was also the first time he knew that Li Dingguo did not fully occupy Guangxi after Kong Youde's death, and the Qing army still retained part of its strength in Guangxi.

Song Xianggong knew about the line Guoan, and said a few words on the side. It turned out that this line of Guoan was also born in the Ming Army of Liaodong, and he followed Kong Youde to reduce his gold together, and later entered the customs with Kong Youde to participate in the battle against Li Zicheng's Dashun army. After Li Zicheng's defeat and death, he followed Kong Youde south, and when Kong Youde was trapped in Guilin, he led his troops to march to Wuzhou. After Kong Youde's death, it was the line Guoan who led his troops to recapture Guilin, and then Li Dingguo attacked Guilin for the second time, because the line Guoan failed to win the battle, so that the Qing army firmly controlled Guilin. However, although it occupied Guilin, the capital of Guangxi, the Ministry of State Security was unable to seize the rest of Guangxi's prefectures and counties, and it was in a situation of stalemate with the soldiers and horses left by Li Dingguo in Guangxi.

After listening to Song Xianggong's introduction to the national security of the line, Zhou Shixiang nodded slightly, ignored this lackey who worked hard for the Qing court in Guangxi, and turned to everyone: "It is precisely because the situation is favorable to the Qing army, so what we have to do is not to let the Qing army in Guangdong advance westward, so that the Ministry of State Security of the Guangxi line does not dare to move!" As long as the Qing army of Liangguang cannot take advantage of the internal strife between Anxi and Sun Kewang to seize Liangguang, the sky of the Ming Dynasty above our heads will not fall! ”

"How?"

Zhao Sihai and Ge Yi, who was standing behind him, asked in unison, Qi Hao's eyes also flashed, Song Xianggong was thinking about what Zhou Shixiang's method of filling the gap was, Li Fuguo was also thinking in his heart, Ge Zheng, Peng Dazhu and others were confused, I don't know whether they don't want to think about the problem or don't want to think about it at all, as long as Xiucai says what it is.

Zhou Shixiang glanced at a group of subordinates, and said slowly: "I heard that in the Liaodong battlefield, the Guanning army took Ningyuan and Jinzhou as the defense line, and the two cities depended on each other and were each other's horns. It is said that the old Nu Hachi abandoned Jinzhou to fight Ningyuan, but fell into a dilemma before and after, and finally defeated Ningyuan City. And this Xinhui city is equivalent to the city of Jinzhou, Guangzhou is the city of Ningyuan, originally Xinhui called the Qing army to occupy, forcing Anxi to lead a large army to attack, the result of the defeat and retreat. At present, Xinhui has asked us to occupy it, so if Jinzhou calls us to occupy it, the Qing army in Guangzhou will not advance westward, and once it advances westward, it is necessary to pull out our nail, otherwise we will be left behind, and they can go west with peace of mind? If we don't pull out our nail for a day, it will be difficult for them to go west with all their might. ”

When the generals were about to echo him, Li Fuguo shook his head and said: "The Qing army may not pass from us, they can also advance west from Zhaoqing." ”

"Yes, the Qing army can bypass us and go from Zhaoqing, but," Speaking of this, Zhou Shixiang's finger had already pointed on the black circle representing Zhaoqing, "but have you ever thought about how much strength the Qing army in Guangdong can advance west?" (To be continued.) )