Chapter 828: The Struggle for Imperial Power
This is indeed a great problem for Hao Fenglou.
In the past, the Lang Son army relied too much on the supply of railways and sea, and the biggest feature of these two supplies was to minimize the overall loss and generally did not delay time.
Now, the problem is highlighted, now from Guangzhou to Shaoguan, there are five or six hundred miles of road, and the mountain road occupies a lot, in the event of heavy rain, it is even more muddy.
The supply of this Lang Son army is not compared to other military horses, and the Ming army is very different, whether it is military rations, military uniforms and gunpowder, etc., it has always been sufficiently supplied, almost a Lang Son soldier's supply, at least three times the supply of a Ming officer and soldier, that is to say, to feed a Lang Son officer and soldier, so that he can give full play to his combat effectiveness, the consumption is very great, in this case, just using the people to rely on the shoulder to transport these materials, not only the loss is great on the way, but also it is easy to delay the fighter.
This is the biggest difficulty of Hao Fenglou, if it is near the sea here, Hao Fenglou will not hesitate to let the artillery under the pass roar day and night, blow up for ten days and half a month, directly raze this Meiguan to the ground, and then quickly seize the pass, but now, the supply is a little difficult, the amount of gunpowder required by the artillery and the gun every day is very large, coupled with the rash lone army to go deep, it will only continue to expand the supply line, causing supply difficulties.
At this time, Hao Fenglou suddenly remembered how good he was in Guangzhou, when he was just guarding the city, how happy he was.
At this time, the letter from the grandfather of Dingguo came.
To be honest, although Xu Jingming is a backbone, Hao Fenglou is really moved by his professional ethics. Since the two hooked up and became adulterous, this grandfather is under the city of Guangzhou. Or when I arrived in Shaoguan and Jinling, these secret letters never stopped. It can be described as rain or shine, no matter when, no matter where, whether it is windy, or rainy, whether the mother is married, or the wife has a child, there has never been an interruption.
Obviously, Xu Jingming is a spy compared to his father. Much more successful.
Every time I received a letter from Xu Jingming, it was a very pleasant process, because all the letters were sent through official channels.
The so-called official channel is that it is not sneaky in the process of transmission, and it should be used to transmit the post station, and it is 800 miles expedited, and then sent to Meiguan, and Meiguan's guards shoot down with arrows.
What is it? That's professionalism!
Xu Jingming passed the message happily, and Hao Fenglou was also very happy to receive the letter. Every time you receive a letter, you must bathe and wash your hands to show respect for the Duke of Dingguo.
Today's epistle is unusual.
Because although the letters were frequent in the past, they were because they were frequent. So sometimes, most of them are about some old sesame rotten grains, which is equivalent to daily news. It's not possible to have earth-shattering news every day, so most of them are out of the water. Which brother in the army made a mistake when he ate wine.
But today, the information brought is very shocking.
The first piece. His Majesty appointed Qiu Fu as the commander, Zhu Yong and Zhang Fu as the deputies, and transferred all kinds of military horses, enough to 200,000 people, to join the defenders in Jiangxi and assist in the defense of Jiangxi.
Hao Fenglou couldn't help frowning, Qiu Fu is obviously not a good person, he is not only a veteran, but also has a very high prestige, and he is the only remaining veteran among the heroes of Jingjing. Such a person must be extremely difficult to deal with.
In addition, there is a huge problem, that is, the imperial court encourages the gentry to train the group in the local area, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the nest of science, and behind the science is the gentry.
If the capital of the chaebol wants to develop, it is bound to liberate a large amount of manpower and land from the hands of the gentry, and lose the land and manpower, how can the gentry be gentry, this is their foundation, so a certain process, the development of capitalism, in fact, is a process of eliminating the landlords, some people may say, the gentry and landlords, although there are also bad, some collude with the government, and even grasp the local patriarchal power, with the way of loans, to bind the tenant farmers, hindering progress, but in the locality, there is no shortage of good gentry, some of them, It is also the family wealth that has been slowly accumulated, and the family business created by generations of hard work is also a genuine family of goodness, they encourage running schools, building bridges and paving roads, and have high moral character, but ...... The Hao family group headed by the chaebol still wants to eliminate these gentry, this has nothing to do with morality, just because this class has hindered the interests of the chaebol, and they also restrict the progress and development of society, so from the perspective of Hao Fenglou, the only way to completely eliminate them is to eliminate them.
Naturally, there are many ways to exterminate, such as the British after the Industrial Revolution adopted a policy of redemption, and this way, which seems to be moderate and beautiful, is based on the fact that the gentry class is not deeply rooted, a glorious revolution, as soon as the parliamentary army defeats the royal army, the gentry and nobles immediately disarm and surrender.
Later generations of Americans, on the other hand, took the most radical approach, that is, war, through the Guò Civil War, which completely defeated the lords of the manor, made it difficult for their estate economy to sustain, and emancipated the black slaves, leaving them without sufficient labor. The fact is that the lords of the manors are often much more merciful than the industrialists of the north, and they have their own deep-seated morals, and possess many qualities that are enough to be feared, but once they become a stumbling block to the industrialists, it is natural that this class will be completely uprooted, even physically eliminated.
The situation of the Ming Dynasty is also about the same, this is not the Britain of the Industrial Revolution, there is fertile land here, there is a way of life that has lasted for thousands of years, the landlords and gentry have ruled this land for thousands of years, they control the words, control the thoughts, control the land, control the population, control the resources of qiē production, they are much deeper than the foundation of any dynasty in ancient and modern China and abroad, therefore, any hidden danger that is unfavorable to them here is enough to arouse their vigilance, Even if it is an overwhelming counterattack.
There is no room for manoeuvre in this contradiction.
Therefore, Hao Fenglou's only choice is to completely destroy them, if they are willing to give in, then they will be eliminated from the spirit and foundation, and if they are unwilling to give in, then they will be destroyed physically.
And now, the imperial court has also seen this, and they seem to understand that although the current struggle is a struggle for imperial power, it is also a class struggle in a certain way, so the imperial court finally began to prepare.
This...... It will also be a great trouble, creating a great obstacle for the Lang Son army. (To be continued......)