Xianfeng was tossed miserably by that Xingzhen again, this time not to mention sleeping with an eighteen-year-old girl, this time he was even not very stable in his daily walking. Pen Fun Cabinet www.biquge.info but the ministers all feel that this Xianfeng is very "diligent", and they still insist on reviewing and revising.

However, only the specific parties know that it is not Xianfeng who is reviewing and folding, but Xingzhen, who has just been promoted to Yi Concubine. Xianfeng rested beside him, but Concubine Yi added a small chair next to the original emperor's chair, where she reviewed the folds on behalf of the emperor. And Xianfeng has seen this benefit directly after the situation in the past month, because this Xingzhen's review is very reasonable, and even Xianfeng is very satisfied, so Xianfeng is also relieved. Anyway, it's my own woman, although I haven't really been pampered, but I'm my own woman anyway.

"Bastard, that damn one, slashed him with a knife, he was so cheap, he really deserved to be executed at Ling Chi!" Xianfeng cursed in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, who are you scolding?" Xingzhen asked.

Xianfeng took the initiative to explain: "I am scolding the guy who made my body like this, if it weren't for this, then I would have been pampered by you a long time ago." ”

Xingzhen barely showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, if Xianfeng knew that it was not the little eunuch who tossed his body like this this time, but it was her Yehenara Xingzhen, then she would be in danger like this. Now Xingzhen is not concerned about the so-called "favor", but about the review and review, which is what she really cares about.

However, this situation did not last long, and soon there was a book sent through the emergency channel, and after Xingzhen took it out, she immediately became a little nervous.

"Your Majesty, this one, the concubine doesn't dare to make decisions without permission." Xingzhen finally said.

Xianfeng is strange, this Xingzhen is still very bold, and she dares to make her own decisions on almost all big things, but she doesn't dare to make decisions about things, which is really not small.

Zeng Guofan, the squire of the military department, proposed that the imperial court was not enough because the traitor Yiliang had embezzled a lot of grain taxes. He specially asked the emperor to set up a centime to supplement the military, and whenever a pass was set up in the locality, he collected a centime of gold for goods to subsidize the military. ”

"What's in this? Approved! Xianfeng said.

Now since Yiliang launched the Jiangning Incident, the Manchu court's finances have immediately begun to be very tight, and if you can use the gold to alleviate the urgent need, this is also a good idea. If we fail to maintain the stability of the army, then I am afraid that this will lead to the collapse of the army, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

"However, Zeng Guofan also proposed that the emperor allow the local gentry to organize group training and hang the thieves themselves, and the imperial court would give official appointments based on merit, even including titles." Xingzhen said.

"What?"

No matter how weak Rao is Xianfeng's body is, he was stimulated to stand up when he heard the news. Tsang suggested that the local gentry should be allowed to form their own militias, which would be very dangerous. As long as anyone who has studied history knows that this means delegating the power to form an army, then this is drinking to quench thirst!

As the emperor, Xianfeng certainly knew that military power was very important in a country, and even the foundation for the emperor's survival. But once this military power is delegated, or even directly to the civilian gentry, this is simply drinking to quench thirst. Even if all kinds of traitors are exterminated, it will leave behind a military group that cannot be defeated.

"Your Majesty, Zeng Guofan proposed that the imperial court no longer has enough financial resources to support the army. Even, since Yiliang cut off the transportation and taxation, the funds of our imperial court have become increasingly difficult. The grain and taxes given by Yiliang were all divided among the ministers of the imperial court, and not a single grain or two silver was sent to the front. If a few more days pass, the army of our court will be at risk of lace. Xingzhen said.

"Bastards, these corrupt officials should have slaughtered them in the first place!" Xianfeng said angrily.

Yiliang cut off the supply channels of food and taxation, so that Beijing's food and taxation became increasingly difficult, and at this time, those powerful people not only did not think about how to raise food for the country, but instead satisfied those sent by Yiliang to satisfy themselves first, rather than to satisfy the army.

I have to say that there must be fools when the country is dying, and there are many times when the country is dying, there will be many people doing stupid things, which make many ordinary people feel incredible and incomprehensible. Not only do these officials not think about satisfying the military as soon as possible, but they want to embezzle it themselves, which is simply disregarding the country.

But no matter how Xianfeng scolded, it was helpless, he couldn't kill all the officials in the capital. But this kind of decentralization of military power makes him still unwilling!

"Your Majesty, Concubine Rong said something unpleasant. I'm at this time, so there's no need to worry about anything. If we can't hold on, then everything is empty. Although delegating military power is to quench thirst, but if we don't decentralize, how good will we be? In that case, simply decentralize. If even if it is decentralized, then I will still be the co-owner of the world, and those guys will not dare to mess around, but once I am cleared, ...... Then it was all useless. Even if it is to drink to quench your thirst, you must drink it first, at least there is a possibility of rescue. Xingzhen said.

Xianfeng sighed, this time it really had to be like this. Although delegating military power is to drink water to quench thirst, but if you do not decentralize military power, most of them will definitely die, since this is the case, it is better to simply choose "drink to quench thirst", at least there is a chance to rescue. At present, the Manchu court has no money, and it can't get any food and military expenses at all, and Yiliang rebelled, which made it increasingly difficult for the Manchu to pay for food in the north. Even Xianfeng didn't dare to kill Yiliang's family, especially Yiliang was a Guarjia clan, and he didn't really pull up the banner of rebellion, so of course he didn't dare. Even Yiliang gave them fifty percent of the grain and thirty percent of the taxes, which made those officials in the capital eat a lot of money. Of course, they didn't want to kill Yiliang's family and then let Yiliang completely cut off the supply from the north.

Xingzhen quickly gave instructions for this note, and then handed it over to the military department to execute.

The news of the decentralization of military power by the Manchu Qing Dynasty immediately spread throughout the country, and this news made many local gentry feel rejoicing. They finally have the ability to form their own troops, especially their own armed forces, so that they can protect themselves. Before, they had no power to raise troops, and they could only watch themselves be killed and their wealth robbed. Now once you are allowed to form troops, then you can get more capital in the future, so that in the troubled times, everything is nothing, and only military power is real.

In this troubled world, many people have seen that what official position and title are false, and only real military power is real. The Manchus now actually drank water to quench their thirst and chose to decentralize the troops, so that they would definitely cause all kinds of problems. Even this news quickly spread throughout the country through carrier pigeons, so that Chen Dingtian also knew about it.

"The Manchu court allowed the formation of a militia group, so it's drinking to quench your thirst!" Chen Dingtian said.

Chen Dingtian didn't know that the Manchu court allowed the formation of a militia group, which was actually very simple, the later Hunan army of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang's Huai army were both born from this policy, and after allowing themselves to form a militia group, the local Han governors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty began to rise. Even later, from this Hunan military and civilian group and the Huai military and civilian group, it developed step by step and evolved into two political groups.

As for Li Hongzhang's Huaijun clique, if we measure it from the perspective of a political bloc, from the period of Li Hongzhang to the later 20 th century when Zhang Xueliang changed banners, it still exerted some influence. Although it started with Yuan Shikai's small station training, although it was militarily detached from the influence of the Huai Army. However, even if it is Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army, it also belongs to the same lineage as the Huaijun political group back then, in fact, this political group is still exerting influence until the Republic of China.

The formation of this militia group, if you look at it from the butterfly effect, began to rise from the time when the militia let the Han people supervise it. After the Han governors began to rise, the power of the Han governors soared, and they even ignored the central court. The Han superintendent supported the army in the local area and respected himself, and all kinds of local armies and new armies, etc., were all controlled by the Han superintendent. The central authority of the Manchus was reduced to the lowest point, and the Han superintendents did not buy the Manchu accounts one by one.

Even more terrifying is that when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded, it actually came up with a southeast mutual guarantee. Although Chen Dingtian also looks down on the Manchu Qing Dynasty very much, but you are protecting each other in the southeast at this time, which is a precedent for splitting! The local power rose sharply and the central authority was weakened, which provided a political basis for the later chaos of the Republic of China.

But tracing back to the source, this is mostly related to the decentralization of military power during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period. If military power is not decentralized, then local power will not be greatly increased. And if the local power could not rise sharply, then there would be no weakness of the central government, and there would be no political basis for the warlords in China after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

"Hey, the butterfly effect, although I don't dare to say that it was all caused by him, but a series of butterfly effects, tracing back to the source, have something to do with this!" Chen Dingtian thought.

"Husband, the Tartar court has delegated military power, so what will be the consequences?" Zhou Xiuying asked.

Chen Dingtian said: "If this is the case, then our resistance will increase a lot. Because we advocated public ownership of land, the landlords and gentry would also regard us as their first opponents. In terms of land commonality, we are similar to Zeng Ce of the Taiping Army to some extent. It's just that we are more flexible than the Taipings, but the landlords and gentry are unwilling to take the initiative to hand over the ownership of the land, they want to inherit it from generation to generation, not to use it for decades. Moreover, I am also opposed to such a simple tenant production relationship, and I think that even if agriculture is to be pursued, it is necessary to develop towards large-scale agricultural intensification, but this landlord is completely based on the method of tenants, and this is absolutely unacceptable to me. ”

"If the landlords did not have the power to form troops, then as long as we defeated the Manchu court, then they would be lambs to the slaughter. But now that they have the power to form troops, I am afraid that we will not only face the regular army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but also those landlords and the militia groups of those landlords. It may not be difficult to defeat the regular Manchu army, but these landlord militias are the most difficult. ”

"They are all enemies, and you know that when the enemy fights on their own soil, there is a big advantage."

Zhou Xiuying immediately knew what the problem was, the locals fought locally, especially in the era when the weapons were not too advanced, but they had an advantage. Fighting on the ground not only makes the locals more determined to defend their hometowns, but also familiarizes themselves with the terrain. The current weapons are not enough to completely overcome the disadvantages of the geographical environment, and this is the biggest problem. Therefore, the advantage of the geographical environment is that Zhou Xiuying also has to face the local militia.

This kind of militia group is all from the township, and they even have a lot of kinship with each other. They don't dare to run away easily, because once they run away and sell their teammates, their families will look down on them, and even their families will be discriminated against. Fighting a war without fear of death for each other is the advantage of the militia group. It is even more powerful than the decaying Manchu Green Battalion. Therefore, the regular army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty may be easy to solve, but this kind of militia pressure is the greatest.

This situation made the Heaven and Earth Society have to pay attention to it, because they originally used sports warfare next. If these local militias were also familiar with the terrain and the corresponding mobility, this would definitely make them plan to engage in sports warfare, and it would have been somewhat discounted.

"Xiuying, we have to speed up. Especially before the militia of those landlords and gentry could be formed, they seized Zhejiang. Although it is said that the power is given to form militia groups, even if there is power, it is not so simple to form troops. As long as we are fast enough, then we will not be able to defeat Zhejiang before the formation of the militia is completed. If we can take down Zhejiang, it won't be too bad. Chen Dingtian said.

Chen Dingtian is planning to grab time, only in this way can he ensure that he has an advantage, and he can allow himself to seize more advantages to gain time to grab the territory. Once these militias are formed, although these militias are not strong in combat, they are enough to disgust you! These locals took off their clothes, that is, the people, and put on military uniforms, that is, the militia. They don't even change their clothes, you don't know at all. That time is enough to disgust you and make you miserable.

Therefore, Chen Dingtian must occupy Zhejiang as soon as possible before the formation of these militia groups is completed. Only by occupying Zhejiang as a base can we gain a firm foothold in this troubled era, and can we really gain a lot of stability. (To be continued.) )