Chapter 25 Consolidating the Two Broads
The Wehrmacht captured Guangxi as quickly as possible, which caught the Taiping generals off guard, and Guangxi was occupied before the Taiping army could react, and Zhang Yuanzheng declared his independence from the Qing government as soon as he occupied Guangxi. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe new government building of the Guangzhou government is built in the center of Guangzhou, and the government building with modern and classical style stands in the center of Guangzhou. Today, the new government building was crowded with people, and Zhang Yuanzheng and a group of officials ascended to the rostrum, facing the people of Liangguang, looking at the people in the audience, and clearing their throats.
"Dear compatriots of Liangguang, I declare that starting today, Liangguang will officially become independent, break away from the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and establish a new government." Zhang Yuanzheng's deeds in Guangdong over the years have won the hearts of the people of Guangdong, and as soon as he finished speaking, the audience erupted in thunderous applause.
In the conference room of the new government, Zhang Yuanzheng and his subordinates discussed the rewards for each army after the war, as well as the future development plan of the two Guangzhous. Yang Huaifang stood up and said: "Dashuai, now we have just conquered Guangxi, I think we are not in a hurry to expand the territory, first of all the two Guangxi steady development, now we must carry out a thorough reform of agriculture, commerce, industry, and education, due to the continuous war, the people of Guangxi have no harvest, and now the food problem of the people of Guangxi also needs us to solve, although the development of Guangdong in recent years is good, but our grain stock is not very much. “
Zhang Yuanzheng stood up and walked to the window, turned around and said: "The problem of the people's livelihood is a big problem, since we have shouldered this heavy burden, we must be responsible to the end, immediately allocate grain from the granary to Guangxi, in order to appease the people, the agricultural department should set up a research group as soon as possible to increase the grain output, we must learn to use scientific methods to solve these problems, from today onwards, our rations will be reduced, and we will get through this difficult period first." “
Zhang Yuanzheng returned to his seat and sat down, listening to the opinions of his subordinates, "Huaifang, each factory should be established and improved as soon as possible, and our industrial base should be formed as soon as possible, if we want to strengthen the country, we must have talents, where do talents come from, only through education, we will have more talents, we want to build an equal and free world, the premise of these achievements is to have talents, set up six-year primary schools in various towns, establish corresponding junior and senior high schools in each county, establish some professional technical schools, and some corresponding higher universities, In addition, I have heard that there is still a bad custom of binding women's feet in many places, and this must be strictly prohibited, and in order to show the new government's respect for women, Guangzhou Women's University was established in Guangzhou. Such a huge reform can be implemented in batches, and at present we are obviously short of teachers, and we can establish normal colleges to train enough teachers. In the new school, there must be a new atmosphere, and what to learn cannot be limited to Confucian doctrines. “
After arranging the affairs of the government, it is time to discuss the development of the army, the main officers of the original fourth, fifth, and sixth divisions have been vacant, and this time it should be filled, Zhang Yuanzheng remembered the two outstanding students, "It was decided to appoint Nie Shicheng as the commander of the Fourth Division, Zhang Zhichao as the commander of the Fifth Division, Hu Zhi as the commander of the Sixth Division, the Third, Fourth, and Sixth Divisions in Guangxi, and the rest of the divisions to be deployed in Guangdong, and implement the compulsory military system under the rule, and at the same time set up a reserve to solve the problem of the rapid shortage of soldiers in the future." “