Chapter 139: Who in the World Is Not a Thief (Part II)

After a month of arrangement, Chen Dingtian and several women finally discussed the next plan, especially the plan of how to occupy the countryside of Zhejiang and Fujian, so that as long as they master the countryside of Zhejiang and Fujian, then the next step is actually equivalent to mastering the whole of Fujian and Zhejiang, because the countryside occupies more than 90% of the entire country's area, and even the countryside is the source of material supply for the city, if the supply is cut off, the roots of the city will not survive. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 On the contrary, rural technology strikes at those feudal landlord forces and dismantles them at the root.

Of course, Chen Dingtian was also "cured of a serious illness" a month later, and he could finally push this Qiu Erniang down. On the day of "recovery from a serious illness", Chen Dingtian immediately had a "round room" with Qiu Erniang, and successfully turned this Qiu Erniang into his own woman. After Qiu Erniang and Chen Dingtian were like glue for a few days, they hurriedly returned to Fujian by boat from the sea to arrange the corresponding plan to seize Fujian.

In Zhejiang, many Qing soldiers also fell into a pessimistic atmosphere, because they knew from their families that this traitor near Zhejiang had begun to expand his power in the countryside below. continues to encroach on the rural areas of Zhejiang, but the officials and men in those counties are almost unable to lead the city, and they almost lose control of the countryside.

On the contrary, the rapid expansion of the rebel army of the Heaven and Earth Society quickly expanded a lot of militia and professional teams, and adopted the strategy of hiding soldiers from the people. Not only did the officials and gentlemen not think about how to change the changes in these villages, but even adopted a policy of appeasement under the constant promises of these traitors that they would not take the initiative to attack the cities. The hometowns of these officials are not here, and even many of them are transferred from other provinces, and they don't care about the changes in these lands at all. Even they are very afraid that once they send troops to exterminate the thieves, not only will they not be able to take credit, but they may be defeated. Once defeated, the county town was breached, and there was no place for them to die.

As long as the traitors don't attack the city, then they will all be monks for a day and hit the clock for a day, and they can get by, and even take the initiative to adopt the policy of appeasement, choosing to hope to appease these traitors.

"Did you hear that? Many old men under the county were also cleaned up, and even robbed of land. However, I heard that the rebels have begun to divide the land. Priority is given to those who serve in the army, and officers get more. And there are many conditions that can be allocated to the land, and even for those brothers who took the initiative to take refuge in the past, we can get priority distribution! "There was a Qing army spy who said.

Many of these Qing army spies went down to the countryside, and then found out about the situation, but in fact, most of them were very jealous. In addition, under Chen Dingtian's suggestion, the rebel army of this Tiandihui adopted the practice of a thousand gold and bones, giving priority to allocating land to those Qing troops who had taken refuge, so that many Qing troops could not sit still.

Especially in this chaotic situation, the road to the north in Zhejiang Province has been cut off by the Heaven and Earth Society. As for the west, it has also been blocked back by Yiliang, a self-respecting person, and as for Fujian in the south, Fujian is also difficult to protect itself, where is it possible to have the ability to help them?

The Qing army here in Zhejiang has been surrounded by the Quartet rebellion, and even although Yiliang is named under the banner of the same Qing Dynasty, not only did not help them, but did not know what was going on, and actually reached a tacit understanding with the traitors, and the two sides did not disturb each other. Yiliang adopted a policy of appeasement towards the Heaven and Earth Society, allowing the Heaven and Earth Society to launch an attack on Zhejiang.

This Qing army in Zhejiang has been in a panic all day. The news from the outside can't get in, and most of the news inside can't get out. Although there are some flying pigeon messengers, but the cost of transmission is too high, and the flying pigeon transmission can only be used to deliver those high-level and urgent news, and the officers and soldiers at the bottom are not qualified to use it.

Under such circumstances, these Qing troops have begun to have a lot of despair, and the pressure is too great.

"I heard from a distant relative of mine that the whole world was in chaos. In the area of Hunan and Hubei, Changmao has 800,000 troops and has begun to attack Jiangning from the waterway. And Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang in the imperial court, has actually rebelled, and he has self-respecting troops in Liangjiang, and he has long disobeyed the orders of the imperial court. Even 50 percent of the grain and 70 percent of the tax burden were withheld to expand the army and support the army for self-respect. ”

"These Tiandi Society traitors, they don't know what's going on, they actually colluded with Yiliang, Yiliang gave up encirclement and suppression of them, and let them encroach on our Zhejiang. Fujian's female traitor Qiu Erniang is also expanding her team, using the same methods as Zhejiang's Tiandihui. Occupy the countryside first, then quickly encroach on the territory, and even faster and faster. ”

"So, half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River is already in chaos?"

"Yes! There is no chaos except Sichuan, but there is chaos everywhere else. However, Sichuan can no longer be so peaceful, and Yunnan is also unstable when I hear it. Therefore, half of the south half of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty has been completely messed up. ”

"Hey, you're already outdated news, I heard that the twisters in the north are going to raise troops, and I heard that there are millions of twists. Once they rebel, the north will be completely chaotic, and the Taoist court may even have a problem with whether the order can be sent out of the Zhili! ”

"Oh my God! In this way, I eat jujube pills in the Qing Dynasty! ”

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All kinds of rumors spread among the soldiers of the Qing army, and some of these rumors were generated by themselves, because the current situation was already very terrifying, and for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, half of the south of the Yangtze River had been turbulent, and in this case, they were already facing the result of losing half of the south of the Yangtze River. So under a closed environment, there are rumors everywhere in Zhejiang.

Of course, there are also some rumors that will be spread by the people of Fujian, deliberately half-truths and half-truths. And rumors, once they start spreading, they will naturally spread falsely. The consequences of false rumors are becoming more and more exaggerated, and finally even more terrible.

"I heard that hundreds of thousands of twisted troops have besieged the capital, and the emperor has ordered the king to be diligent!" "King Qin, King Qin, we in Zhejiang are difficult to protect ourselves."

Soon, someone said, "It's better to do this, let's just do the opposite!" simply take refuge in the rebel army of the Heaven and Earth Society, so that we can divide the land in the future, and maybe we will still be a founding hero in the future. ”

"Are you crazy, you want to rebel against traitors?" Someone exclaimed.

"Hmph, rebellion? The court is going to be finished, what are we afraid of? Now that the world has been in turmoil, this court has long been vulnerable, what are we afraid of? Are you going to sink with this broken ship? ”

When these words were spoken, many Qing soldiers were also silent, they did not have much loyalty to the roots of the Manchu court, and these soldiers went with the flow in the troubled times, or even just to be soldiers and eat food. How can such thinking have much loyalty?

Now the Qing Dynasty is eating jujube pills, and even Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, has rebelled, although he has not directly erected the banner of rebellion, but the fact has been divided. If it weren't for Yiliang's fifty percent of the grain and thirty percent of the tax, the Manchu court would have killed Yiliang's family a long time ago.

If it was a peaceful day, the Manchu court would undoubtedly kill such a traitor, even if it was a banner man. But in this situation, the Manchu court pinched its nose and recognized this result for the sake of grain and taxes, but only put Yiliang's family under house arrest, but also had to provide good words and peace, isn't it because of Yiliang's fifty percent of the grain? If he really made anything good for his family, then fifty percent of the grain would be gone, and it would be even more difficult for the Manchus to supply food.

Because there was not enough food, the Manchus did not wait to adopt the strategy of decentralization of Bing, which quenched their thirst. The landlords and gentry in various parts of the Central Plains gained the power to form their own militias, and the official hats of the Manchu Qing Dynasty began to be worn directly by various "meritorious heroes" like wholesale. What alternate prefects, alternate prefects, and even alternate envoys have come out. However, it is useless, and I don't know when I will get the real deficiency. Half of Jiangnan is also completely chaotic, and it is impossible for those alternate official positions to be truly replenished. Anyway, at this time, the Manchus also knew that everything was false, and it was true to keep the country. directly smashed all kinds of official hats that didn't want money, hoping to buy people's hearts.

But as the saying goes, the eyes of the masses are bright. There are more and more official positions, and in the end, everyone will become more and more afraid. This kind of official hat is sent out like a wholesale, which one is not the scene of the end of the dynasty? Only at the end of the dynasty will there be such a wholesale of official hats. Even if it is a corrupt official who buys and sells officials, it will not be so wholesale!

"Let's hurry up and take refuge, maybe we won't have a chance if it's too late!" Finally someone said.

At this time, every day, many Qing troops took the initiative to take refuge in the countryside and those Tiandi would rebel army, because they all knew that they needed to be as soon as possible at this time. People are now the backbone of the city, so hurry up now, so as to get the maximum benefits. If you're late, there's no shortage of people, and you'll have to start all over again.

Of course, this is also because the current situation is too unfavorable for the Manchus, and half of the south is completely rotten. The millions of twisted troops in the north are already ready to move, and Zhejiang's communications have been completely cut off, and it is impossible to transmit too much news by carrier pigeons alone, so the Qing army in Zhejiang is panicked and can't see the situation outside clearly, so it completely collapsed.

However, the Tiandihui rebel army did not directly accept all of them immediately, but selected some young, promising Qing troops with a certain cultural foundation and sent them to the Huangpu Military Academy in Shanghai for training and preparing to serve as officers. The older Qing army officers, whose development potential was limited, were promoted a little in principle out of the idea of a thousand gold city bones, and then arranged some secondary positions in the secondary troops, but the rank was relatively high, and the method of a thousand gold city bones was adopted.

There were also some Qing army officers who were assigned to various security posts, similar to the nature of the police, and were not allowed to go to the front-line battlefield to fight. These officers are familiar with the local environment, who are all kinds of characters, and even have a lot of information about various local gang forces and even various criminals, and they have certain benefits in maintaining law and order. Now is not the time to strike hard, for now we must first take control of the villages, and then find an opportunity to crack down on these gangs and those criminals in the future.

Of course, there were many more Qing troops who were pacified, and then let Magotan continue to lurk within the Qing army, obey the command when necessary, and then carry out an "uprising" together to grow in momentum.

However, in order to appease these Qing troops who took refuge, those who went undercover within the Qing army have been promised that those who go undercover in the Qing army can continue to count their military age and enjoy the same preferential treatment that military age should have. In the Heaven and Earth Society, the uprising has become more and more formalized, and this military age is also an important reference. Military age is linked to various things, such as military salary, and the land use rights that can be allocated when the military age is more than one year can be correspondingly more. When it comes to promotion, those with a long military age can be given priority to be promoted, and if the conditions are not big and there is no obvious gap, even those with a long military age can relax the conditions.

These are all benefits, so allowing them to count their military age from the day they take refuge and then be sent back to undercover is to give them peace of mind.

The reason for such a remarkable effect is that, in addition to publicity, what is more important is that Zhejiang's main channel for foreign communication has been completely cut off. They will not be able to tell the outside world, and even all kinds of rumors will spread. A very small number of carrier pigeons alone cannot meet the needs of external communication. In many Qing troops, the judgment of the situation was not clear, and this uncertainty brought great panic. This panic only adds to their fears.

So in this closed situation, they have lost their backbone. In addition, many relatives in the countryside wrote letters to them, which shook their will, so this promoted the tide of defections. Even among them, there are many Qing army officers of the fifth grade, and they have long been in the hearts of the people in Zhejiang. At this time, the Tiandihui rebel army adopted the strategy of a thousand gold and bones, as long as it is not a rotten person, it can also arrange a good-looking post, which has driven many "high-quality talents" in the Qing army to take refuge. A bad person can get a good looking position, so isn't there more of a "high-quality talent" of himself, so this is also the rental of a thousand gold bones.

Under the influence of a variety of factors, various figures in the Qing army turned against each other, and people's minds changed. The county orders of many county towns have been ordered not to leave the county seats, and their subordinate clerks have adopted a perfunctory policy, because the Tiandihui rebel army and Qiu Erniang of Fujian have also adopted another set of propaganda strategies for these Manchu grassroots clerks, which is beneficial to winning them to submission.

For a time, who in the world is not a thief! (To be continued.) )