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"The situation in northern Guangdong is very chaotic."

At the Tianzi Pier in Guangzhou, Zuo Zongtang, who accompanied Zhu Jishi to see off Liu Peng's delegation, had a very worried face.

Among the more than 20 counties in northern Guangdong, only the Shaozhou capital city and Lingbei place held by Seng Lingqin and Saishan'a, as well as Yingde County, Qingyuan County and Fogang Hall guarded by Yanping Marquis and Han Si Overseers were not ...... by these so-called Hong soldiers."

Zhu Jishi already knew the content of Zuo Zongtang's report, and Jinyiwei and the Generalissimo's Office Staff Headquarters all sent more detailed reports. In addition to northern Guangdong, although the situation in western Guangdong and Qiongzhou is slightly better, there are also heroes who have risen one after another. And most of these heroes have the background of the Heaven and Earth Society, and they can be regarded as peripheral members of Zhu Ming Group. Now the army is in response to Zhu Jishi, but it is Zhu Jishi's trouble. The reason why I say this is because the nature of these "Hong soldiers" is similar to the "Qing soldiers" gathered by the Liu family in Lanfang, they are all unorganized, undisciplined, and armed gangs with little combat effectiveness. If the Qing troops in Guangdong had not been defeated by Zhu Jishi's Ming army, it would have been impossible for them to occupy the prefecture and seize the county to make a big noise. These guys are not so much here to help as to pick peaches.

"What's the situation in Guangxi?"

Zhu Jishi is more concerned about the situation of the God Worship Society, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history has almost become a great cause! The main force of the Qing army in this time and space has been attracted to Guangdong by itself, and it should be easier for the Taiping army to develop and advance northward, right? As long as the Taiping army can capture Wuchang as in history, whether it is north to Henan or east along the river. The pressure on my side is reduced. You can free up your hands and slowly comb the place...... Use the special words of the later generations of online texts. It's farming.

"Just received the message. They laid down Wuzhou, and it seems that ...... I want the Qing army to mistakenly think that they are coming to Guangdong to join us. It is estimated that they will soon turn around and go north to Hunan, and now that the Qing troops in Hunan are coming to Guangdong, it is convenient for them to enter Hunan, and they should be able to make some noise. ”

Zuo Zongtang is still not very optimistic about the Taiping Army, Zhu Jishi shook his head slightly, but he didn't say much, Zuo Zongtang naturally didn't know that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom almost overthrew the Qing Dynasty in history! If it weren't for the infighting and arrogance of the Taiping army after entering Nanjing. The Qing Dynasty should blow the lamp and pull out the wax in the Xianfeng year. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty in history did not rely on the Eight Banners and the Green Camp to suppress the Taiping Army, but relied on the Han warlords such as the Hunan Army and the Huai Army. Among the three largest warlords, Zuo Zongtang is already Zhu Ming's prime minister, Zeng Guofan seems to be very bad, Li Hongzhang...... It seems that no one knows, and it is estimated that there is no Zhongjinshi (Zhu Jishi doesn't know that Li Hongzhang is a Jinshi in Daoguang's 27th year, and now he has been Zhongjinshi, but he didn't stay in Beijing as a member of the Hanlin Academy as in history, but gave him an official who was an alternate Zhongshushe, and then sent to the Shanghai Ocean Affairs Yamen to Lin Zexu as a staff member).

I don't know if the Manchu Qing in this time and space still has Liliang resisting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so Zuihou shouldn't fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by himself......

"Now we still have to settle on Guangdong first. The soldiers of Seng Lingqin and Saishan'a were not troublesome, but the Hong soldiers who were entrenched in more than 20 counties in northern Guangdong. They must be incorporated as soon as possible, otherwise this place in northern Guangdong will let them be poisoned. But it's not easy to co-opt, there are hundreds of thousands of people in their hands, and they can't spend millions a month? Where are we throwing so much money at them? ”

Zuo Zongtang said what he was most worried about, and now the situation is good or bad, and the Manchu Shili in Guangdong has been almost swept away. In addition to the armies of Seng Lingqin and Saishana in Shaozhou, only the three prefectures of Qiongzhou, Leizhou, and Shaozhou were still roughly under the control of the Manchus. However, there were not many Qing soldiers guarding there, but the Ming army was wiped out as soon as they arrived. The troublesome thing is that there are more than 100,000 or 200,000 miscellaneous troops under the banner of Daming.

Although Zhu Jishi is rich, he is not so much that he can raise so many gangs. And now that the country is just established, there are too many places to spend money, and the dividends that Zhu Jishi has received from the four major banks alone can no longer support it. Before the financial and tax affairs of Guangdong Province were straightened out, the current Ming army and the Ming court could only rely on borrowing money from HSBC to survive.

Zhu Jishi frowned and asked, "Zuo Xiang, how much income and expenditure do you need a month now?" How much money can be taken out to settle these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods in northern Guangdong? ”

Zuo Zongtang smiled bitterly, and counted with his fingers: "The Tian Fu and miscellaneous factions in Yongli 201 have been exempted. The current income is the confiscation of the fields and mansions of corrupt officials and gentry (in fact, it depends on the position) and the commercial tax of the Guangzhou Mansion and the customs duties of the Guangdong Customs, and the Lanfang Governor's Mansion also has a surplus every month...... If you don't count the confiscation, the monthly income is only 300,000 yuan at most, and the expenses are at least 600,000 yuan, mainly the expenses of military salaries, grain and grass, military uniforms, and officials' salaries, and weapons and equipment are all paid to Lan Fangxing on credit. ”

This rebellion is really a costly business, only an army of more than 50,000 people (including the Lanfang Legion and the Navy), not counting the arms, it will cost 600,000 yuan a month! If you count the arms, you need at least a million ......

Fortunately, he opened an HSBC bank and "defrauded" a deposit of nearly 100 million silver dollars. Otherwise, this rebellion would have been unaffordable!

"But we haven't been able to copy a lot of farms, shops, gold and silver, and HSBC deposit receipts." Zuo Zongtang showed a crying and laughing expression. There are a lot of confiscated possessions, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. Haode is rich on the one hand! The bad side is that there are still many gentry and officials who are loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

"According to the preliminary data reported by the 14 counties of Guangzhou, there are more than 2.8 million mu of land, more than 10,000 houses, more than 25,000 shops, and 10.35 million yuan in silver dollars for gold and silver deposit receipts!"

This copy is really a very fast deal! Of course, the reason why there are so many gains is inseparable from the status of Guangzhou Prefecture as an important economic town and the contribution of the vast number of Guangzhou banner people.

The first thing to be confiscated was the flag property. Including the houses and shops in Guangzhou and the "flag fields" outside Guangzhou (including the industries purchased by the banner people in the past 200 years and the industries obtained from the Shang Domain), they will naturally be confiscated! There's no need to be polite about this.

The second is the industry of imperial merchants and official businessmen in Guangzhou, which is the largest commercial city in China in this era. For example, the Thirteen Walkers are officials and businessmen, but they are rooted in Guangdong and can turn their backs on the Ming Dynasty under the drive of economic interests. However, there were still many imperial merchants, officials and merchants based in the north and south of the Yangtze River, so they could only give up their industries in Guangdong to continue to serve the Qing Dynasty.

Thirdly, the gentry and Manchu officials who were trapped in the city of Guangzhou, as well as some of the officials' families who refused to cut their braids, were all stripped naked and expelled to Shanghai.

Zuihou is the "local tyrant" who is not eye-opening in Guangzhou Prefecture, there are not too many such people, most of them just don't cut their braids and study behind closed doors. In fact, I want to sit and watch the dispute between the Ming and Qing dynasties and stay out of the matter. Therefore, it was only confiscated from the fields, not from the house. There are also a small number of people who took the wrong medicine and called the group to bravely resist the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow, naturally their families were ruined and became the martyrs of the Manchu Dynasty.

Of course, there were many official properties of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that were not counted, and those properties had to be used by the newly established Ming government and were not included in the distribution and sale.

"Being able to steal so many belongings is probably inseparable from the help of the Heaven and Earth Society and the Thirteen Elements, right? Especially the Heaven and Earth Society, in the end, people are the biggest snake in Guangdong, if it is not handled properly, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles! ”

The "disposal" mentioned by Zhu Jishi here includes two aspects, one is the armed gangs in northern and western Guangdong; The second refers to the local heaven and earth society in Guangdong -- although they are supportive of Ming, after all, they have the nature of an underworld, and if they are not governed, I am afraid that there will be no peace in Guangdong.

"Your Majesty, in order to solve the problem of Hongbing and Tiandihui Shili Taisheng in northern and western Guangdong, we need to start with the confiscated more than 3.8 million acres of fields! These Hong soldiers and the bigwigs of the Heaven and Earth Society must have contributed to the restoration of vision. We can't unload the mill and kill the donkey, or the northern party will not follow us in the future. But we can't raise so many people one by one, and the best way is to divide the land and pay for it. (To be continued......)