The recalcitrant behavior of Mozili City and the revenge of the Taiping army for the massacre of the city spread rapidly in all directions like wings, and at the same time, the news that the Taiping army was still strong also spread, and it was obvious that the latter news was even more fatal to the local nobles.

The Lithuanian aristocracy, which had suffered a great loss of strength, was shrinking its strength at the appeal of Grand Duke Janusz Rajvir, recruiting new soldiers, and wielding the few remaining zloty mercenaries around the world, while at the same time making frequent contacts between the Sym parliaments of the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania to find a way out for themselves.

I don't know if it is because of Hong Tiancheng's own skin color and race, or because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's practices are too rough, there are very few Lithuanian nobles who take the initiative to bow to Hong Tiancheng, and a few of them are also because the Taiping soldiers are in the city and are reluctant to surrender to the Taiping army.

Of course, this flaw did not affect the expansion of the Taiping Army, and after the authority of the Total War system was raised to a high level, the calculation of the sin value reward was no longer calculated solely by capturing a certain city, so Hong Tiancheng did not receive an immediate reward after capturing Mojili City.

However, the resistance of the city of Mozyri was also the hardest stone in the early stage of the Taiping army's march into Lithuania, and there were not many nobles like Michau who would rather die in battle than pull the enemy back, even if most of the nobles did not want to be traitors, they could at least flee to other regions with floating wealth.

These local nobles had a certain prestige in their realms, and the kings and lords outside were willing to accept their refuge and exile, which was a strong excuse for the acceptors to meddle in the territory of these exiled nobles in the future.

In the 17th century, the power of the people was far from being awakened, but the will of the people was often an important bargaining chip in warfare, and an army with the support of the people could obtain a large amount of information and supplies without much effort, while an army without the support of the people not only did not receive the help of the locals, but also had to be constantly wary of them making trouble in private.

Of course, the power of the people's will is of a subsidiary nature after all, and the focus of wars between countries is still on the decisive battle of the army.

The Taiping army's next attack was much easier than that of Mozili City, the Taiping army was notorious, and those cities surrounded by the Taiping army in order to avoid following in the footsteps of Mozili City, under the promise of Hong Tiancheng, changed the king's flag at the head of the city before the battle was fought.

Of course, what Hong Tiancheng promised was the powerful local aristocratic class in the city, which was nothing more than to ensure the safety of their lives and property, and the idea of the burghers in the city was insignificant in this era.

No matter how much the civilians in the city don't want the Taiping army to enter the city, as long as the nobles and lords above open the city gate in order to save their lives and wealth, the low-level civilians living in the city can only watch the Taiping army's military flag come in with their might, and then implement a cruel and inhumane holy treasury system on them!

Hong Tiancheng is not a rigid person, the holy treasury system seems to be equal to everyone, but there is a big difference in the implementation, the biggest difference is that all the local nobles who take the initiative to surrender are not poisoned by the sacred treasury system, they can even participate in the administration of the occupied city, help the civilian officers of the Taiping army to better maintain order in the occupied area and suppress the small Xiaoxiao.

In the face of absolute force, many local white aristocrats became the vanguard of the Taiping army's governance of the local area, and they lived in this area all the year round, which brought great convenience to the Taiping army's suppression and rule.

The fact that so many local white aristocrats defected to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was inseparable from the Polish traitorous signboard of Krysztof set up by Hong Tiancheng, whose current status in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was second only to the senior officers of the Taiping Army, which naturally gave hope to other white aristocrats who were cornered.

In the area of Polesye, which had lost its armed resistance, a large number of selfish aristocratic leaders emerged under the aggressive military posture of the Taiping army, and Hong Tiancheng occupied Brest, Shirov, Pinsk, Slutsk, and countless towns and cities in less than three months.

Under Hong Tiancheng's relatively 'gentle' policy, the local nobles of Polesier, who did not have much moral character, expressed their submission to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Taiping army did not even need to send garrisons to the towns and villages, but only needed to order the local nobles who had surrendered to the city to go down with their private soldiers to 'collect taxes'.

The Taiping army set a tax target according to the local wealth, and when the time came, the Polesiye nobles who surrendered to Cheng only needed to submit materials according to the target, and the Taiping army would not rob them if they collected more, and they had to pay out of their own pockets to make up for the less.

This method seems to give the local nobles of Polesiye a great 'room to operate', and they can rob openly in the towns and countryside under the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but as everyone knows, this is exactly what Hong Tiancheng wants them to do!

In the land of Europe, due to its special political situation, a separate aristocratic class is nothing, and a single rebellion of the low-level commoners cannot become a climate, only the rebellion of the aristocratic class with intellectual and cultural network resources and the low-level commoners with a huge population is the most deadly!

Throughout the European peasant uprisings, the leaders and generals were almost always from serious military officers or aristocratic families.

Hong Tiancheng didn't care about the white civilians' views of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping army had done more than one massacre of the city, and the reputation for brutality had long spread across the Eastern European continent.

A nobleman who is greedy and ignores the life and death of the people is not terrible, and a good lord who is benevolent and fraternal and has a prosperous reputation is what Hong Tiancheng is most worried about!

Because as long as the good man lord who has great influence among the people has the heart to ascend to the heights, it will bring great trouble to the ruling foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

As long as the lords can't lead a large number of civilians to revolt, relying on the little private soldiers that the lords themselves have raised may be useful to deal with mud legs, and when they encounter Taiping soldiers, they will deliver food, and Hong Tiancheng will naturally sit back and relax.

After the Taiping army swept all the way through the Polesiye region and laid down a large piece of land, the long-lost all-out war system reward prompt finally sounded in Hong Tiancheng's mind.

[Congratulations to the host for completing the strategic-level expansion achievement, your banner has been planted all over Polesye, which is on the verge of Lithuania, and the rewards are now distributed during this period.] 】