Chapter 95: No Faith

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When Hong Xiuquan came back to his senses, they were the only ones left in Nanjing City. Including the soldiers who followed them halfway, they all ran almost as well. Those who stayed were the ones who ran out of Guangxi with them. The once claimed 500,000 people were now at most 100,000 in the city. There were no people, no one to manage, and the city of Nanjing was empty and chaotic at this time.

It can't be said that they are hindsight, but that they walk very secretly. This has to praise Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan. They followed the team of Monk Greenqin, and when they saw the situation in Nanjing City, they suddenly had a flash of inspiration, we can't fight, can't we slowly 'transform' them?

Transformation is probation, or use the people of the six kings, plus the respective militia groups led by Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan. Everyone is Han Chinese, and they are still militia groups, everyone has the same idea, and slowly persuaded the people to go out. Then there are seven aunts and eight aunts, and there are always some lively little fart children running out along the way, thinking that what can really happen, but they ran all the way, and now they understand it, and they feel that it is not what they think, so they watched the people run away, and they secretly ran out with the people and ran home by themselves.

Monk Lingqin is actually not very interested in this, he is a real soldier, let him not fight, but let the people run, this is not his style at all. However, Li Hongzhang is also a prisoner of the army, and he let him control the military supplies, he and Zeng Guofan are both the masters who have a three-inch tongue, Monk Greenqin was really annoyed by the two of them, and finally he could only comfort himself, the emperor said, only surround and not fight, he can be regarded as complying with the holy decree.

But he couldn't do nothing, so he simply pulled out the soldiers he brought and the soldiers gathered from all over the country and trained them fiercely. This Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan were very supportive, and Li Hongzhang deliberately asked Huishang Yinhao to take 200,000 silver and pile it in the center of the school yard, shining with dazzling silver light under the southern sun. He remembered the shock he felt when he saw the full box that day. He also learned from Xianfeng and used cash to boost morale.

Under such a double-track operation, Hong Xiuquan first found that he was surrounded, but he was not very worried, because he had already recruited Shi Dakai who went out to fight, and he brought a large army that was ready to march westward, and he didn't believe that the court soldiers who would disperse in a dozen could do anything to them. He had a smooth journey and didn't take it seriously at all.

But Shi Dakai found the problem early, as soon as he returned to Nanjing with his troops, he knew that the problem was serious, and he had persuaded Hong Xiuquan, but looking at Hong Xiuquan's disapproving attitude, he understood that all this was led by Hong Xiuquan.

His heart was suddenly discouraged. Thinking of Li Zicheng in the former Ming Dynasty, why did he fall so quickly? People finally entered Beijing City before they started killing heroes, and this one can't wait? At this time, he had already determined that Yang Xiuqing's violent death was caused by Hong Xiuquan.

Discouraged, he also said that he was sick and went home to study. At this time, the city of Nanjing has been surrounded. Seeing the silver glittering school field outside the city in the sun, and the earth-shattering sound of military training, he knew that the general trend had gone. It is impossible for him to break away from the Taiping army with his 10,000 soldiers, as he has done in history. He was a man of true faith, and he joined the Taiping Army because he really wanted to overthrow the Manchus and restore the Han people.

He wouldn't surrender to the Tartars, but he didn't want to follow his own people and die in vain. All he can do is to read behind closed doors and see when Hong Xiu can understand it himself.

Until Hong Xiuquan recruited him into the palace, Shi Dakai smiled at the eunuch who came to recruit, this one also used eunuchs! He looked down at the date cards on his table, and every day that passed, he drew a big red cross, and looking at the red cross on the table, he could only look up to the sky and sigh. Let the eunuch wait outside, Shi Dakai took the sword and kissed himself, and he was gone.

Shi Dakai's self-kiss became the last straw that broke the Taiping Army, and Hong Xiuquan found out that Shi Dakai's family had already gone out of the city with the fleeing people. And the elite division that he once trained himself had long since been spent to nothing and disappeared without a trace. The remaining soldiers in the city, as long as they surrendered, they could change into the clothes of the militia and not be held accountable. Tens of thousands of people disappeared in this way!

An empty city of Nanjing, full of garbage. Hong Xiuquan was no one available at this time, and there were no soldiers to defend. Escape? They were sealed to death in all parts of the city. Don't even point a fly and fly out.

Monk Lingqin didn't fight, just trained outside, and Hong Xiuquan and his kings and the villagers who followed him were in a panic all day long.

"That's it?" Qingyu listened to Xianfeng tell him a story in the palace, and she couldn't stop laughing. She doesn't know this history very clearly, but she has been saying to Xianfeng that the people are very kind, as long as they can live, they will not rebel, where there is oppression, there will be resistance, and at this time we must be gentle with the people.

Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan don't need Qingyu to teach, they know better than Qingyu, so this time they are all in charge. Their militia has grown greatly this time. And Li Hongzhang also got inspiration in this battle. The disaster of redundant soldiers in the Song Dynasty was actually that where there was a disaster, let those disaster victims form an organization such as a militia group, so that when they had something to eat, they would wait for the good year to go back to farming. However, Li Hongzhang and they believed that in this situation, although the imperial court asked for help in time after the Jiangnan disaster, it was still full of victims, and a careless accident would provoke a popular uprising, so they went to the fold and asked these people to become a militia group.

"What does the emperor think?" Qingyu thought about it for a while and felt that there was a problem. It has already been said that this is the root cause of the redundant army in the Song Dynasty, why do you still bring it up?

"I'd like to talk to you about it, okay? In this way, there are more militia regiments than the Green Army Camp and the Eight Banners soldiers. Xianfeng bit his lip. What he thinks is completely different from what Qing Hao thinks.

"How many soldiers are there in Jiangnan now?"

"With the addition of the later militia groups, there are 200,000 people." Xianfeng also had a headache, Hong Xiuquan's death, he didn't feel anything, but Shi Dakai's troops left Nanjing City in pieces, and at that time, for the sake of the overall situation, Li Hongzhang gritted his teeth and let them go. But they knew very well that these people would soon be able to gather again as a force. That's why he wants more soldiers. These people are much stronger than Hong Xiuquan's tried and tested Hong Xiuquan.

"Tell Li Hongzhang, why don't so many people help the people rebuild after the disaster? It's only August, the weather in Jiangnan is good, and it's not better than others to rush to plant another season of grain? What benefits can it bring to the people by recruiting those victims as soldiers? Hurry up and scatter 200,000 people and help the people to work. Also, another million taels of silver will be allocated. Express your concern for the people of Jiangnan. ”

"Let the soldiers help the people?" Xianfeng was stunned for a moment, he really hadn't thought about this.

"Didn't the soldiers also let the soldiers serve as soldiers when they were idle and farmers when they were busy? Autarky! "Qingyu's books are not read in vain.

Xianfeng was right to think about it, so he hurriedly ran out and summoned people to discuss, this was fast, in less than an hour, eight hundred miles were urgent, and he rushed out of Beijing from the palace. Qingyu let out a long sigh of relief, she was really embarrassed to say that these soldiers were not the people's soldiers! Think about yourself when you see a disaster happen, it is those who are soldiers who rush to the front line. How did it come to the Qing Dynasty that being a soldier became a relief? No wonder they scattered as soon as they hit it. It can be seen that an army without faith is actually soulless.