Not only Hong Tiancheng, but also Xue Taishen, who was in charge of intelligence, and Zhao Yan, who was a part-time minister of war of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, were all incredulous when they heard the figure of '50,000'.

Due to the absolute loyalty of the characters produced by the all-out war system, the spy organization of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Jinyiwei, naturally did not assign personnel to supervise Zhang Juzheng's work, and naturally it was impossible to obtain detailed information about the indigenous soldiers and civilians in Zhang Juzheng's hands.

War Minister Zhao Remnant was mainly responsible for the security forces produced by the all-out war system and the overall planning and reporting of the main corps of the Taiping Army, and he also knew nothing about the chaotic and unstructured local militia.

Because the number of local militias is never fixed, it is very likely that a hundred people were recruited the day before, and half of them escaped the next day, so this kind of work is the responsibility of the administrators of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it is classified with the people's livelihood, who said that the combat effectiveness of those local militias is only 5?

At the same time, in order to show respect for Zhang Juzheng, he rarely exceeded his authority to meddle in the affairs of the local militia, anyway, when the security forces of the all-out war system needed manpower, it was enough that the indigenous local militia had never been short of manpower when they were dispatched.

"Back to Your Majesty, you have every opportunity to 'day', so these miscellaneous ministers have not reported to you in detail on weekdays, according to your ministers' understanding and governance of the occupied areas of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania during this period of time, they found that the territory under the rule of the Poles is still in a relatively backward feudal serfdom system, and there are more restrictions on the farmers in the fields than the eastern motherland at the same time!

Moreover, due to the unique authority of the feudal lords in the fiefs in Eastern Europe, the land annexation was very serious, almost except for the fields that the lords divided to the minor nobles and knights under their command, it was the land of the feudal lords, and the number of yeoman farmers was extremely scarce, and they had to bear a large amount of additional 'taxes'.

In the same way, the minor nobles and knights under the command of the feudal lords also kept a large number of serf laborers to support them, and only a few poor minor nobles and knights needed to go down to the land and cultivate with the serfs themselves.

This has led to a common phenomenon - a large number of young and strong laborers are tied to the land to work all day long, and can only get barely enough food, most of them have not received any basic education since childhood, they are illiterate everywhere and cannot even write their own names, in addition to religious beliefs, they also have a very little knowledge of the outside world, and their short-sightedness makes people feel ridiculous!

On the contrary, the poor burghers in the cities were more prescient, and these burghers were also the base of the army against the rule of the heavens, because their personal freedom was not too confined, they could enjoy a certain 'national welfare', and at the same time they could have a deeper understanding of religion and a much stronger sense of resistance to foreign rule.

Because of this, when the Christian Brotherhood uprising broke out, the first cities to fall were those cities and well-developed towns, and the burgher class was the main body of the rebel army, and the serfs who were pulled into the rebel army were just people who blindly followed the crowd in order to make ends meet.

Our Taiping army entered Lithuania to destroy this feudal lordship system, and wiped out a large number of nobles who rebelled against us, plus the uprising of the Christian Brotherhood, and the loss of the honorary nobles in Lithuania who had defected to us, which left us with a group of precious treasures - a group of young and strong but simple-minded serfs!

The most important thing in the life of these serfs was to be fed, clothed and warm, and then to have children, because they had been exploited by the feudal aristocracy for a long time, their demand for means of subsistence was extremely low, and their spiritual concept of self-awareness was very shallow.

Basically, as long as you give them a bite to eat and warm clothes for the winter, you can easily get their favor.

Of course, this kind of kindness of food and clothing will gradually diminish over time, so the courtiers used a long-term and more tempting 'way of buying' - land!

His Majesty generally implemented the military land system in the land left by the feudal lords in the Heavenly Domination Area, and the subordinates lowered the conditions for those ignorant and ignorant serfs, as long as they converted to Taiping Doctrine and knew a few simple words of Chinese for daily communication, they could join the militia and obtain military land, and in a family, the more young men of the appropriate age to join the militia troops, the better the quality of the military land obtained, and the larger the area.

In addition, his subordinates announced the system of rewarding acres of land for military merit to encourage the enthusiasm of these serf children who entered the militia to train and fight, at least, to ensure that they would not be inexplicably rebelled.

Their military land comes from the kingdom of heaven, and the collapse of the kingdom of heaven means that their military land is very likely to be recovered, and the appearance of the feudal aristocracy is best known to these oppressed serfs, and we only need a little propaganda to get very good results.

Even among the serfs, there are religious diehards, who hold the Christian faith and die unrepentant, and are unwilling to join the Heavenly Militia system, but they will lose all the land they originally cultivated, and they may not see anything in a short time, and after a long time, these diehards who have lost their source of livelihood have only two ways to go - to fall into the grass or change their minds before starving to death!

This is the reason why the Kingdom of Heaven needs to maintain a certain number of militia security forces in the countryside, and those serfs who refuse to convert have fled to the mountains and forests with their families in order to avoid persecution by the Kingdom of Heaven.

Of course, this is also a virtuous circle for the kingdom of heaven, when more indigenous whites see the safety of the military fields, they will put aside their last scruples to join our militia, and with more militia, our law and order force becomes stronger, and we can have more troops to do other things.

As His Majesty said before, on the premise of not affecting the security of the countryside, we can pull out tens of thousands of indigenous militia troops, if we temporarily abandon the problem of rural law and order, pull out 50,000 people, after all, we are going to fight, even if those militia are dissatisfied, the moment they join the army, they should also understand that sooner or later there will be such a day.

As for what will happen after the transfer of the rural security forces, it is impossible for the white militia to know in wartime, and when we have won the battle, whether or not those white militia know will not affect the stability of the kingdom of heaven. ”