The Jingshi in winter should be leisurely and safe, the old people and children leaned against the corner to bask in the sun, the women took advantage of the leisurely sewing and mending in the winter, and the men's work was less, and it was time for the cat to winter.

But with the words of the Admiral of the Nine Gates, the entire Beijing Division was busy, whether it was a man, a woman, an old man or a child, a group of Beijing soldiers, as long as they saw that there were idle people on the street, they would immediately catch strong men and send them to work near the city wall.

The abandoned houses and idle land in the city of Jingshi were also used by the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, and many people in Jingshi, who had no way to continue their lives, also happily knocked down the new houses outside the city after taking a sum of money from the imperial court.

With silver, everything is easy to do, from learning the defense of the capital to building dozens of large official warehouses, the busyness in the capital is day and night.

It was the same outside the city, the men and horses of the four battalions began to appear near the city wall in groups, and a group of more than a dozen people shouted trumpets around the capital.

The huge Jingshi, since the Sushun rebellion within a few days has become a huge construction site, the people of the Jingshi are also slowly adapting, they found that the winter in the Jingshi, there are also many opportunities to make money, it is not easy to make money from the imperial court, it is not easy for the imperial court to cash on the same day, with the drive of interests, from the people in the city to the refugees outside the city, have begun to take the initiative to join this busy construction site.

The quarry of Fangshan Jietai Temple, tens of thousands of people gathered in a few days, and the personnel of the Ministry of Engineering began to explore the quarry around Miyun and Huairou.

The amount of lime used to tamp the roadbed is also not small, and the coal kilns and iron kilns around the suburbs of Beijing have also begun to slowly gather people. Winter may not be the time to do this. But with the support of silver. How dare not?

"Third master, the route map of the railway is already there, it is estimated that two months is still a little rushed, it will take more than ten days for the train to be assembled, the railroad tracks outside the capital, it will take about a month to finish, if the line is shortened to Bali Bridge, near Zhangjiawan, maybe it will be faster."

Even with the addition of hundreds of thousands of people in Beijing and refugees in the suburbs of Beijing, the Beijing-Tianjin railway network planned by Yang Meng. It is not something that can be completed within three or two months, many things are not enough to be solved, the railway is a new thing, even Europe and the United States are constantly groping, although there are many plains in the Beijing and Tianjin areas, but many hardships to lay the railway can not be solved by a few orders, and these difficulties need time to solve.

"! It is really not possible to follow the official road of Beijing and Tianjin, and the foundation is not large, and two railways between Beijing and Tianjin are paved first. Looking at the current situation, Britain and France want to play big!

Directly captured the Jingshi and coerced the Qing Dynasty. It may be that Britain and France are thinking now, such a war lasts the shortest, and the logistical pressure is the least, and now the intelligence that the Beijing division has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops has been detected by Britain and France, and they are slow to move, probably because they want to finish their work in one battle.

The army required was at least between 150,000 and 250,000, and Britain and France, especially England, had a lot of experience to rely on for the combat effectiveness of the colonies.

The English navy, the French army, and the mercenaries of Tsarist Russia, after such a long time of preparation, these bastards may be preparing cavalry!

As soon as this battle starts, I'm afraid it will be a rush to take over, once we can't stop it, once the backup can't arrive in time, things will be in trouble!

How much time, you have to have a number in your heart, Jingshi is a good transit station, people and horses from Zhilu, Northwest, Mongolia, and Eastern Provinces can gather in Beijing, where your railway is built, we can control where, the reason is clear, except for the completion of the death, the commander, you have no choice here! ”

Today's war, just three or two, want to fight a protracted war, the trench warfare used in the Crimean War is a good choice, want to fight a blitzkrieg, cavalry is indispensable, want to quickly capture the Beijing Division, in Yang Meng's imagination, only the combination of cavalry and army tactics.

The British warship, except for transporting troops and landing, has no use for fart, although there is such a water area as the Haihe River in Beijing and Tianjin, but the Haihe River is a river after all, and it is very easy to block him!

If this battle is to be fought, it will be a land war, and Britain and France cannot afford to fight a protracted war because of logistical reasons, so sending more troops and attacking quickly is a very helpless and realistic choice for them.

"Hmmm! Knowing it, I can only try my best to supervise.

The third master's current staff group is still a little powerless! Now we have to deal with the government affairs of all provinces first, although dozens of people have been added, but it is a drop in the bucket! ”

Fighting a war is not child's play, since the third master has made it clear, Xu Ziwei also knows that even if he dies, he must let the people below pave the railway, but now Xu Ziwei is not worried about the railway, but more and more official affairs of the staff group.

In addition to Mongolia and the three eastern provinces, Xu Ziwei's staff group has to intervene in the government affairs of various parts of the Qing Dynasty.

"Didn't you ask Minghu to send someone last time? You also have to be considerate of Minghu's difficulties, now that there is a shortage of people everywhere, you can't increase the pressure on Mr. Wei again and again!

But this staff is important, so be it! You can say hello to Mr. Wei, let's build another administrative center in Beijing, with 30 people in one province, right? The specific amount is determined by the amount of government affairs, your staff is in charge of the big work, and the administrative center is responsible for specific affairs.

The candidates for this administrative center are mainly the elite managers of the Yang family, and they will be built quickly, and while the administrative difficulties of the local government offices are in place, we will also place personnel in the local government offices, or impersonate them as before!

Calculate this time, there will be a big exam next year, let Mr. Wei get an exam question related to administration, after you think about it, send it to Zeng Zuo for their opinions.

To govern a country, Minghu's power is a little smaller, let Mr. Wei prepare to build administrative academies in various places! ”

The rapid expansion of the territory, the Yang family's manpower is obviously insufficient, although Minghu has been cultivating talents for more than ten years, but the cultivation of talents is not a matter of more than ten years, moreover, Yunnan also has many places to employ people. Minghu was not Yang Meng's focus before. The number of personnel is insufficient. It has become a problem that Yang Meng has to face now.

But Yang Meng is not very worried about this kind of problem, governing the country is not a matter of a family, it is a matter of the people of a country, although the imperial examination is not good, but he is also a worry that leads the trend of scholars, and then the big examination, Yang Meng will use the imperial examination. to let the scholars of the Qing Dynasty pay attention to foreign affairs and administration.

As an official, it is not a matter of knowledge, how to administer Confucianism does not have a special classic, many officials are after having fame, referring to their own experience in history books to administer, how to administer, how to administer, I am afraid that Peng Yunzhang is the first assistant of the military aircraft, and I can't understand.

What is is what it is, what you should do as an official and what you should not do. It is necessary to have a clear and definite management system and understand the spirit. Is this?

As far as officialdom culture is concerned, Europe and the United States can't catch up with the Qing Dynasty, but as far as the actual administration is concerned, the confused Qing officials can't catch up with Europe and the United States.

The master and the staff are the embodiment of the lack of administrative management ability, and what an official needs is administrative ability, not a full stomach of moral articles!

This official has achieved a certain amount of Cheng dù, and may need a certain amount of cultivation, but it doesn't matter if the low-level official is illiterate or not, as long as he knows how to manage it, he can be a good county magistrate.

"Hmmm! The third master's method of this matter is clever, so I will contact Mr. Wei. ”

The hectic chaos of the Beijing division was just the beginning, as time passed, the railways outside the capital slowly took shape, and the places of the Qing Dynasty began to be busy under the orders of one by one.

The previous place was spent in a hurry, and the anti-corruption was accompanied by the division of land and grain protection, the division of fields, the shelter of disaster victims, refugees, and the distribution of fields to the people within the jurisdiction, the imperial power was not under the county, which was a big loophole in the imperial court, and now the Yang family's farm and martial arts system has replaced the original system of the imperial court with the old squires and the management of townships and towns.

The complete administrative system at the bottom does not conflict with the imperial court, and today's squire clan is just a tool to mediate the relationship between the bottom, and it is the people of the Yang family who are really administering.

The officials of the imperial court, in this process, are just a disguise, they read out the order, the Yang family takes the people to do specific things, the low-level government has a prototype, as long as there is a little development, the Yang family is a country.

Dividing the fields, fixing the river, repairing the canal, and protecting the grain is also a big matter that involves a wide range, and the resettlement of the people and the division of the fields are not a very simple government affairs for the state and county government offices, plus the river consolidation, canal repair, organization of labor, distribution of grain and grain planting, the people of the government office are not busy at all, and the Yang family at the bottom also has the opportunity to participate in political affairs.

Yang Meng's words are good, as long as the above gives a framework for a big topic, the people below will gradually be complete, and the state and county officials rely on the Yang family's grange and martial arts, which is also a matter in Yang Meng's plan, so that even the state and county officials at the bottom are also hollowed out by the Yang family.

Townships and counties are overhead, prefectures and counties are overhead, and provincial governments are overhead, and the Yang's grange and Wuzhuang system have made the official office of the Qing Dynasty an empty shell.

Whether these can be achieved or not, it still needs time to verify, shelter the people, establish Wuzhuang Grange, and ensure the output of grain, which is the most realistic thing, people coax the land and coax the belly, this is what the people believe, with grain and land, with lower taxes, and to build canals, this is the most real thing in the eyes of the people.

Since the Taiping Army's uprising, Jiangnan and Southwest have been unable to restrain the people's land, and they are also rapidly recovering their strong binding force, starting from Lianghu, Liangguang and Sichuan, which are the most powerful of the Yang family, this powerful binding force has been passed on by word of mouth of the people, and with the return of the victims from all over the country, it has also begun to spread rapidly to Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The one most affected by the land policy was undoubtedly the Taiping Army in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Taiping Army had the greatest influence on the troops of Shi Dakai and Wei Changhui in the Anhui and Jiangxi regions.

The reason is also simple, that is, in the huge eyes of the Second Army of Hunan and Chu, as well as the unfavorable situation of the Taiping Army in Anhui and Jiangxi, most of the Taiping Army guarding Anhui and Jiangxi are locals, and the advance of the Second Army of Hunan and Chu also means the advancement of Yangjiawuzhuang Grange, and what is the prestige of Yang Laosan in Anhui and Jiangxi, it goes without saying, let alone the Taiping Army, it is the Second Army of Hunan and Chu, and when you meet Yangjiawuzhuang Grange with the blood flag of Yang, you have to go around.

The price of looting the Yang family's Wuzhuang and farm is terrifying, and the Taiping Army and the Xiangchu Second Army both know that as long as they rob the Yang family's Zhuangzi, the Yang family's people and horses don't care if you are an official or a long-haired thief, and the revenge is extremely cruel.

Zeng Laojiu's men and horses were dominant, robbed a Zhuangzi of the Yang family, and killed a steward, Yang Yi of Jiujiang directly sent troops to attack Zeng Laojiu's camp without saying a word, and could not find the person involved, for a steward of the Yang family, Yang Yi's men and horses slaughtered Zeng Laojiu's five hundred pro-army.

Zuo Jigao's side is similar, the two Huai people recruited during this time, there are always some bandits and the like, for the people who robbed the Yang family's Zhuangzi, there is no need for Yang Yi to do it, Zuo Jigao's side is also how many kills, without him, the Yang family can't afford to provoke it!

Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai have a deeper understanding of this, but any heavenly soldier who robbed the Yang family's Zhuangzi, whether it was an army or a squad, the reaction of the Yang family's side was to slaughter them all.

The Yang family Zhuangzi of the hard state is the shelter of many people, there is no field in the early Zhuangzi, many people can only wait and see, and now the Yang family's grange is greatly expanded, not only the people in Anhui and Jiangxi, but even Xiangyong and Chu Yong have people who have left military affairs and joined the Yang family's Zhuangzi.

As for the Taiping Army, which is full of bitterness, it is even more so, the battle between the Taiping Army of the Second Army of Hunan and Chu is becoming more and more intense, rather than losing their lives on the battlefield, it is better to enjoy the Zhuangzi of the Yang family, and the Zhuangzi of the Yang family represents stability and wealth.

The Second Army of Hunan and Chu and the People's League of Jiangsu and Zhejiang continued to shrink the encirclement, and a large number of people from the periphery defected, and under the joint action of land and army, the influence of the Taiping Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi became weaker and weaker.

A certain amount of pressure can make a group of people hold together, but too much pressure will make this group formed under pressure collapse, from Anhui Jiangxi to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then from Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Tianjing, the strong binding force of the land, and the power of faith in the worship of God founded by Hong Xiuquan, began the battle for population.

The battle situation is almost one-sided, the swords and guns in the hands of the Taiping army were held up by the Jiangsu and Zhejiang militia of the Hunan and Chu Second Army, and the powerless threat has no effect, and the rest is the people, making their own choice, whether to follow the Taiping army, or follow the land that has fed them for generations, such a choice should not be too difficult.

Different from the chaos in various parts of the Qing Dynasty, the land under the jurisdiction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has now entered a panic, if faith is under the condition of abundant food and clothing, it may be a faith, but once faith becomes a stumbling block to food and clothing, the consequences are also terrifying.

The Taiping Army, which started the incident in the first year of Xianfeng, also faced the biggest difficulty since the beginning of the uprising, that is, the defection of a large number of peripheral people, worshipping God for six years, there is no doubt that there are a group of devout believers, but the purpose of most people joining the Taiping Army is to simply eat well.

When faith fights with the land, some people will find that the power of faith is not as huge as imagined, and it has become a boiling rumor in Tianjing City, which has a population of at least 600,000 Tianjing City, how much supply burden there is, and the clearest one is none other than Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East.

Not having enough to eat and starving to death is the current situation of the people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Tianjing, and there is a better way to live, and Tianjing is shaken! (To be continued......)