Old Summer Palace, Western Building.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is obedient to Wang Aixin Jueluo. Min Ning has left, and in the lobby, there are only three left: Yang Xiuqing, Yang Fuqing and Li Xiucheng. Yang Xiuqing's expression did not move, still his unfathomable "God" style, but Yang Fuqing and Li Xiucheng frowned deeply, obviously worried about the future and fate of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Yang Xiuqing looked at Yang Fuqing and asked quietly: "Fuqing, can you be sure of your trip to Shaanxi?" ”

Yang Fuqing shook his head and arched his hand: "His Royal Highness the East King, the Qing Demons are all untrustworthy people, I'm afraid they won't keep their promises. ”

Yang Xiuqing looked at Li Xiucheng again: "His Royal Highness the King of the East, it is estimated that the three cities of Taiyuan, Datong, and Linfen can still be obtained, but it is not easy to get the best place in Shanxi......

Yang Xiuqing saw that Li Xiucheng wanted to speak and stopped, and already knew what he wanted to say, so he sighed and said: "It's not that I refuse to use the gentry, but the gentry can't be used by me in the end, and the kingdom of heaven also has imperial examinations, but how many scholars are there in Zhili to take the exam?" In eastern Henan, Zhili, and northern Lubei, we didn't even implement the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System", but the township officials were in charge, and how many gentry were willing to do things for us? These gentry, I'm afraid they still have their hearts set on Zhu Ming! ”

Li Xiucheng was silent, he is now fully responsible for the military and political affairs of the Taiping Army in Shanxi, and he is in charge of the army and the people on the horse. At present, the Taiping Army implements the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" in Beijing and western Henan, and maintains the original system in other places, including Shanxi, and uses township officials to govern the people. But the village officials and local authorities of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were surrounded by a "peasant movement" led by the landlords and gentry, which sometimes presented itself as armed resistance and at other times as non-cooperation. In short, the regime of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not penetrate into the people at all. It is extremely difficult to levy land endowments. Even if you receive some belongings. It is simply not enough to support the military. Therefore, some high-level officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, including Yang Xiuqing, began to try their best to win over the gentry and landlords to serve the Heavenly Kingdom, but the effect was extremely unsatisfactory.

Yang Xiuqing believes that the main reasons for the northern gentry to resist the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are two: first, the conflict between the worship of God and the religion of the same name; The second is the great attraction of the Zhu Ming regime in the south to the gentry in the north. The former, Yang Xiuqing, has no room for concessions, and if he does not worship God, he will not have his status as an agent of "God". And the latter...... can only be broken by fighting with Zhu Ming.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty is dead, and it is inevitable that we will fight with Zhu Ming!" Yang Xiuqing's tone was extremely solemn, he got up from his chair and stamped in the study.

"This battle ...... Let's be honest. I'm not sure I'll win. Although Zhu Ming's strength is not as good as mine, but his financial resources are ten times that of me, and he has set up an arsenal to make his own foreign guns and cannons. For the sake of today's plan, it is better to make a quick decision. However, victory and defeat are commonplace, since you have to fight, you must have all kinds of plans, what if you don't win? ”

Yang Fuqing and Li Xiucheng glanced at each other. Li Xiucheng said: "Guanzhong is better than the world, and Shanxi is called the mountains and rivers in the surface." If we can defend Shanxi according to Guanzhong, our heavenly kingdom should be invincible. ”

Yang Fuqing also said: "Does the king of the East want to take Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu as a way out? ”

Yang Xiuqing nodded: "I will bring all the left and right armies of the East Palace, and Li Xiucheng will also help you, don't think about winning Guanzhong without a fight, you must have the plan to strike first...... Don't wait for the Daoguang Demon Head to hand over the head! Hit the demon by surprise! ”

"What about the light demon head? Do you want to ......" Yang Fuqing waved his hand and made a head-killing gesture.

Yang Xiuqing waved his hand: "Don't kill him, just send him to Mongolia and hand him over to Yixin after taking Shaanxi......"

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At this moment, in the Phoenix Tower of Fengtianxing Palace in Shenyang, Li Hongzhang, Peng Yulin, and Liu Jiong were listening to the holy teachings of Zhu Datianzi. The battle of Fuliao has already been regarded as a complete merit, and Zhu Jishi naturally wants to return to the dynasty with victory, but the matter of western and eastern Liaoxi has just begun.

"Although the battle of Fuliao has been won, it is still far from our ability to win Liaodong and the northeast.

In Peng Qing's previous "Tripartite Arrangement Strategy", the most important measure was to kill people and colonize, pay attention to killing and expelling enemies, and colonize the poor people of our two rivers. Now that the enemy has been killed, the Mengman Eight Banners in Liaodong and Liaoxi have all been withdrawn to the north, and I have exhausted the thousands of miles of fertile land. However, the colonial policy is still the beginning, and there are only about 780,000 Koreans in Liaodong and Liaoxi, and about 250,000 people in the former Han army, totaling about 1 million. These people must be properly resettled first, but they cannot be relied on as the foundation of Liaodong and Liaoxi. Therefore, the matter of migrating from Liangjiang to enrich eastern and western Liaodong must be stepped up.

This method of colonizing the vast land, the lonely king should have three main points.

The first point is to establish a guard post and implement military cantonment. The law of garrisoning soldiers was practiced in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. There are two towns in Liaodong Town, which are divided into five routes: east, west, south, north and middle. There are twenty-five guards under the road. In addition, nine separate acropolises were established. There were one hundred and twenty-seven guards, and there were one hundred and seven forts under them. Nearly 2,000 miles of the Great Wall of Liaodong and 12 Guancheng were built. It is actually the first important town on the nine sides. Although the guard house later decayed, the combat power declined. However, there are also merits to this system of guarding the military cantonment. Now that I want to collect all the land, I still have to rebuild the guard and set up a military cantonment. However, the law of this military tun is different from that of Emperor Taizu at that time, not to engage in the hereditary military system, but to implement it for 10 years, men in the Guan, all young and strong can sign up as a guard, a soldier to serve for 10 years, the military and the people are one, and fight and cultivate. A soldier can divide 30 acres of land outside the customs, and allow his family members to settle down with him, and when the 10-year period expires, all the land divided will belong to the soldier. However, the Korean governor and the Han military banner under the control of the Korean governor and Liaodong Town must serve 5 years of hard labor before they are eligible to be transferred to the military guard tuntian soldiers. During the period of hard labor, the government provided meals and wages. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Jishi paused, turned his head and looked at Zhang Zhiwan, the secretary who was in charge of recording on the side. Although he is now a secretary, his identity is still "the Han Army's banner", and he can only receive the minimum standard salary within five years, and he has no official status, so he can only be regarded as a seconded person from the imperial study to Liaodong Town (there are many such secondments, such as a large group of people from the Lei family who have been seconded to build a house for Zhu Jishi).

"The second point is to build roads, ports, fortresses, cities, and factories. Among them, roads, ports, fortresses, and some urban foundations must be funded and built by the towns of Liaodong and Liaoxi, and millions of Korean and Han Eight Banner laborers did this. Within five years, the fortresses and ports of Lushun and Vladivostok must be built, and the city must begin to take shape. Shenyang, Liaoyang, Zhenliao, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, and other cities should be expanded in scale so that they can become the foundation of eastern and western Liaodong in the future.

In principle, factory industrialists should be privately owned, but the situation in eastern and western Liaoning is special and should be specially arranged. The Cabinet will set up the Northeast Development Bureau and open a new factory in Liaodong, but all systems must refer to foreign companies, and Western experts will also be hired for management. ”

Zhu Jishi then said eloquently. How did he not know that the Northeast was the heavy industry base of China in later generations, and now that this land belongs to the Ming Dynasty, it is natural to develop and utilize it well. Moreover, the development of Northeast China was also a model for Zhu Ming to develop other colonies or new territories in the future.

"The third point is to expand northward, step by step. The Principality of Bohai is not an independent country after all, but it is actually a vassal of our Ming Dynasty. However, its intentions are unpredictable, and it is not comparable to North Korea. Therefore, it must be weakened by all means, and there will be a war of annihilation to be fought in the future when necessary. But for now, we have to use the method of cannibalization to slowly figure it out. ”

After saying these three articles, Zhu Jishi set his sights on Li Hongzhang and Peng Yulin, and now Zhu Jishi has only set up one province in the northeast, which is Liaodong Province, and there is also a military town - Liaodong Town. Li and Peng, one served as the governor, in charge of civil affairs and supervised the military town; One is the chief soldier, who manages the Liaodong Tun army, and is a feudal official. Liaodong is only a preliminary decision, and it is also the front line of the confrontation against Russia, and even within 10 years, it will be difficult to establish a perfect civilian, judicial, and public bureau system like the inland provinces. Whether the development of Liaodong is successful or not, whether the two of them are effective or not is the key.

Both of them understood the meaning of Zhu Jishi's gaze, and stood up and saluted respectfully: "The ministers should do their best to rejuvenate Liaodong, level the Bohai Sea, and resist Tsarist Russia for His Majesty." (To be continued......)