"Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? Your Majesty, you have been thinking too much, although Hong Tiancheng's rise is a bit sudden and legendary, I have already asked people to deeply explore the administrative system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for most of the past six months.

Perhaps, this Hong Tiancheng is a good hand at fighting, but he is still at the stage of 'nouveau riche bandits' when it comes to governing the localities, and the military and political bureaucrats under him are only relying on the veneer of the Taiping religion to openly rob and enslave the civilians in the occupied areas.

The rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be described in four words - rootless duckweed! ”

Andre commented on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with a disdainful expression.

"Look at what ridiculous things Hongtian has done since the founding of the country? From the local nobles who took refuge in him, blackmailed the clan girls to fill his harem, enjoyed the depraved life of beauty elixir all night long, and showed unscrupulous luxury everywhere in daily life, and more than eighty percent of the administrative work was handed over to his subordinates.

If it weren't for the Taiping Army's serious brainwashing of religious ideology, the foundation of Hong Tiancheng's rule would have been broken from within.

However, Hong Tiancheng himself is absurd and uninhibited, although his subordinate bureaucrats have strong executive power, but they do not know the way of being an official and the truth of living with the people, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for half a year, the population of the occupied area of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has decreased by as much as three percent out of thin air, and a large number of young and strong laborers have been forced to pull coolies by the cavalry teams scattered by the Taiping Army.

And the young and strong coolies who were plundered to the city of Kiev were actually driven by Hong Tiancheng to build a large number of useless palace complexes for him, just to satisfy Hong Tiancheng's inflated vanity!

This kind of thing has spread throughout Eastern Europe with the plundering of the Taiping cavalry, and fresh corpses are brought out of the city of Kyiv almost every day for burial.

Not to mention, the ridiculous sacred treasury system of the Taiping Army, which pays lip service to the equality of all people, is in fact turning all the ruled people into 'equal poor', except for the basic necessities, the Taiping Army has robbed almost all the valuable property of those who have not taken the initiative to take refuge in them. ”

After hearing Andrei's statement, Tsar Mikhailovich couldn't help but wonder: "Why didn't any civil unrest break out in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom when the Taiping army was so retrograde and abused civilians in such a retrograde way?"

If we let the soldiers go door to door and snatch all the fruits of their labor, the next day there will be a civil unrest in the city. ”

After hearing this, Andre pondered for a moment and replied solemnly: "The reason is very simple, because the Taiping Army belongs to foreign invaders, and they are self-contained and very united, united with the outside world, and the force is strong!"

The Taiping army only occupied three large cities, and the area they controlled was not large, but they had tens of thousands of troops, including a large number of cavalry teams with strong mobility ability, even in remote villages, as long as they showed a little resistance, they would be slaughtered by the cavalry of the Taiping army. It also deprived the local civilian population of the basic force to create an insurrection.

Without young and strong men, relying on a group of old and young women and children will never be able to accomplish anything, and they will not even dare to have the idea of revolting.

In fact, the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rule is so stable today is mainly because of the imbalance in the military and political composition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupies a large number of people and the army it has is completely incompatible, the Taiping Army is now completely dependent on looted materials to support the huge army, is to rely on the excessive exploitation of civilians in the occupied areas to support the excessive number of Taiping soldiers, this way may not be much in the short term, but after a long time, a large number of Taiping soldiers who do not produce will definitely drag down the economic foundation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

No matter how stupid and unreasonable the religious fanaticism of the Taiping army is, they are still human beings after all, and if they are human beings, they need to eat, drink, and Lazar, and the daily consumption of tens of thousands of non-productive troops is a terrifying number, even if they do not go out to reduce the loss of logistics and transportation, they will not last long.

As long as Hong Tiancheng, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is not a fool, he should have already seen the biggest drawback of his approach, and the phenomenon that the military strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom exceeds the material bearing capacity of the population in the occupied area cannot be compensated for in a conventional way, Hong Tiancheng wants to make the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom not collapse by itself, there is only one way out - to wage war with the outside world, consume too many troops through war, and make up for the bottomless pit of feeding the huge Taiping soldiers through plunder!

It is precisely because of this that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not become a threat to our Russian Empire, and it will not be long before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom needs to maintain its imbalanced existence by constantly plundering foreign wars. ”

Andrei came to the unfolded map and pointed: "Your Majesty, the border of the occupied area of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not border with us, and to the north of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is the city of Chernihiv, which is occupied by the Cossacks.

Although the absolute strength of the Cossacks was not strong, they had a wide popular base in the Desna River basin and the middle and lower reaches of the Dnieper River, and not only the Ukrainians supported the Cossack regime, but also the most capable Zaporozhye Cossack tribes, and most of the Cossack settlements supported Khmelnitsky, the highly respected Cossack leader.

And to the east of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although there are no big cities, but there are Cossack towns and tribes everywhere, these Cossacks have never put down their swords in their hands since they migrated here, they are not cowardly Polish serfs, but fierce robbers and robbers!

With the fierce reputation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom outside, and Hong Tiancheng's identity as a yellow-skinned Tartar, he could not be recognized by the Cossacks at all, not to mention that Hong Tiancheng's glorious deeds of massacring the Cossack rebels in Kiev had already spread throughout the Cossack tribes.

Therefore, the Cossacks in the east and north were the natural enemies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it may not be difficult for the Taiping army to defeat this group of Cossack bandits who only had a strong fighting spirit, but they don't have to think about it if they want to rule them, you know, the Cossacks are not best at frontal battles, but guerrilla harassment without a lower limit!

If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wanted to march to the east and north, it would first have to face the perennial 'law and order war' to suppress the Cossacks, which was undoubtedly a chronic suicide for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which had a weak foundation! ”