Sichuan Chongqing Prefecture, known as Jiangzhou in the Three Kingdoms, in the second year of Jingding in the Southern Song Dynasty (1261), the Mongolian army captured Sichuan, the Song army retreated to Chongqing, and Peng Daya became the prefect of Chongqing.↑ For defense, Peng Daya tried his best to expand the Chongqing city, expanding north to the Jialing River, west to the Linjiangmen, and Tongyuanmen line. The scope was roughly twice that of Jiangzhou City expanded by Li Yan, laying the foundation for the general pattern of Chongqing city from then on to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the fourth year of Hongwu, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty (1371), Dai Ding built a total of 17 city gates, symbolizing the "Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams" at the former site, which has continued to this day.

It was just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the hot climate began to calm down. There was a lively scene inside and outside the Chaotianmen in Chongqing. Chaotianmen is located at the intersection of Jialing River and the Yangtze River on the Yuzhong Peninsula in Yuzhong District, Chongqing. It is one of the seventeen city gates in Chongqing and is the largest one. Chaotianmen is built on a high point in the river cliff. Outside the gate is a long slope to the dock. It looks very majestic from a distance. The city gate is a double-layer structure. There is also a urn city outside the main gate. The gate faces north and turns right into the Wucheng. The main gate faces east and is at a right angle to the outer city gate. Outside the Chaotianmen, the front gate of the Wucheng gate has three big characters "Chaotianmen", and the front gate is engraved with four big characters "Ancient Yuxiongguan".

Lin Qirong stood above the head of Chaotianmen City in a new army general, staring at the extremely busy dock outside Chaotianmen with bright eyes, and his heart was filled with passion. Last year, Chen Yucheng's troops joined forces with Du Wenxiu, the troops of Yunnan and Guizhou Rebel Army, and joined forces with Sichuan Paoge Rebel Army Li Yonghe, Lan Chaobi and other troops in Zigong, Sichuan. Within half a year, the wind swept across Sichuan like a broken cloud, and the smoothness of the war was beyond everyone's expectations.

Lin Qirong was transferred to Sichuan ten months ago, and Chen Yucheng's troops left Hanzhong Prefecture to start marching Shaanxi and Gansu. Lin Qirong replaced Chen Yucheng as the chief military officer of Sichuan. Now the main task of Sichuan's Taiping Army is to go down the river and point directly to the Jingxiang area. With the Yiwang Shi Dakai, the Yiwang attacked the Hulin Yijun from Hubei from the east and west. The Yiwang Shi Dakai's troops were under pressure from Hunan and Hubei Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi for many years, and it was time to relieve the pressure from the Yiwang. Therefore, fifteen days ago, the General Staff of Tianjing agreed to the combat plan of Lin Qirong's Sichuan soldiers to go east. After receiving the order from Tianjing, Lin Qirong and other troops began to mobilize troops, transport supplies, and prepare for going east of Shunjiang.

Lin Qirong stood beside him, Li Shifen, the county magistrate of Chongqing, Li Yonghe, Lan Chaobi, Lan Chaozhu, Xu Daobang and others. Li Shifen was originally from Sichuan and was the first in the Qing Dynasty to take the imperial examination. He was once the magistrate of Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province. He was captured when the Taiping Army was conquering Jiangxi. After a year of prison, the King of the Western Region was in charge of Tianjing, he was surrendered by Xu Naizhao, who was also surrendered by the Qing Dynasty. He served as the Minister of Revenue of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. With the restoration of Sichuan, he was transferred to Sichuan as the extremely important county magistrate of Chongqing.

Li Yonghe and Lan Chaobi and Lan Chaozhu were originally the leaders of the Sichuan Paoge Society. At the beginning of last year, Li, Lan and others formed an alliance in Niupi Village, Zhaotong, entered Sichuan, conquered Yunlian, Gaoxian and other places. In the middle of that year, they occupied Zigong salt fields and became popular. So they used southern Sichuan as the base. They relied on the west bank of the Minjiang River and relied on the foundation of the Paoge Society. In a short time, they gathered more than 300,000 people to stand up their flags to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After Chen Yucheng's troops of the Taiping Army entered Sichuan, Li Lan's two rebel armies changed their flags and accepted the official positions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

With the help of the two and Pao Gehui's huge influence in Sichuan, the Taiping Army's military operations in Sichuan were extremely smooth, and it was restored to the entire Sichuan area within half a year. The Qing army's Sichuan admiral Duolona committed suicide by defeating and committing suicide. Sichuan Governor Tang Yougeng was captured and surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. More than 300 Qing officials in Sichuan were captured and surrendered, and countless ordinary soldiers and generals surrendered.

Xu Daobang was also from Fuzhou, Sichuan. In his early years, he also joined the Wu Chu army. He was defeated and captured in Jiangxi. Later, he surrendered to the Taiping Army. After the new army was reorganized, he served as battalion commander and regiment commander in the Third Army. He was promoted to division commander at the beginning of the year, and then followed Lin Qirong into Sichuan to lead the troops of Sichuan ten months ago.

Lin Qirong was quite satisfied with the preliminary work of the Sichuan Taiping Army. Especially after Li Shifen was in charge of Sichuan, he immediately began to implement the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's reform policy in Jiangnan, encouraged industry and commerce, punished local bullies and wealthy businessmen who were extremely guilty, implemented policies of land redemption and rent reduction, adapted local troops and rebel troops, organized local township soldiers systems, and implemented the township official system. After months of operation, Sichuan was already a prosperous scene.

Now the Sichuan Taiping Army will use two new army field divisions as the main force, supplemented by the reorganized rebel army and the original Sichuan Green Camp soldiers, a total of 100,000 people went out of Sichuan to advance eastward, and the military, civilians and people from all walks of life in Sichuan gave great support.

This morning was the first day when the army began to set off, and Chaotianmen Wharf was in full swing. Taiping soldiers gathered at the wharf to prepare to board the ship. The people were seeing off the roads on both sides of the shore. Thousands of dock workers were busy transporting food and supplies to ships of all sizes. The entire river was filled with ships, but the ships were all guided by guides. After one ship was filled with supplies, they left immediately and the other ship followed. Although the whole scene was busy, it was not at all messy.

After seeing it, Lin Qirong turned around and said with satisfaction: "Today, the army went out to Sichuan to fight, and the logistics and dispatch were so well organized, County Governor Li made an indelible contribution."

Li Shifen's poet origin was naturally very literary: "The great cause of heaven is about to be accomplished. Our new dynasty will expand our territory and move forward. The Shifen has no power to schedule, but this personnel and material dispatch are still in place, so he can only work hard to serve this."

Li Yonghe, Lan Chaobi, Lan Chaozhu and others laughed, and Li Yonghe said, "Mr. Li, I, the old man, hated the Qing Dynasty's officials the most, but I didn't expect that your brother was also an official in the Qing Dynasty. But in the past few months you were in charge of Sichuan, our brothers have seen it. You are a good official!"

Li Shifen also smiled. He recalled that Li Yonghe and others did have some prejudice against him at the beginning, but after getting along with each other, he acted with a public heart and received the support of these people over time. Naturally, everyone was very happy. He said: "In the past, the Qing Dynasty was like this, and nine out of ten officials were corrupt. Today, the new dynasty and new atmosphere are new, so he naturally had another way. Since we can be appointed as a member of the kingdom of heaven, we naturally have to meet the requirements of the kingdom of heaven. Otherwise, we would not dare to take up the position here, let alone the elders of our hometown, and it would be unfavorable if we lose face." He said this and then paused and continued: "It's just General Li, General Lan, and the kingdom of heaven has revived Sichuan. No civil organizations like Xiangpao Gehui will be banned. There is no benefit in the local peace."

After hearing this, Li Yonghe and others' expressions changed slightly. They had heard earlier that the Kingdom of Heaven would ban the gangs such as the gangsters, but they did not expect that Li Shifen would openly announce it now.

Lin Qirong smiled and said, "That's not called banning. We all know that this slap brother's club was composed of poor boatmen and boatmen on the river. Everyone formed a group of groups. The purpose was to not want to be bullied by the government and bullies and wealthy businessmen. However, after the meeting, the content of the people involved was complicated, and many gangsters also participated in it, so that the slap brother's club in some places became a reason for the unrest. Lord Li meant that according to the practice of the Kingdom of Heaven in Jiangnan, the slap brother's club was officially banned and changed to a trade union dedicated to the welfare of the poor workers. In Jiangnan, there are ship workers' unions, weaver unions, etc., which are also the same as the previous decisions for the poor workers."

Li Yonghe and others looked a little relaxed after hearing this, but Li Yonghe still shook his head and said, "The Pao Brother Association was originally a branch of the Tiandi Society. Since it was introduced to Sichuan in the late Ming Dynasty, it has been preserved to this day. It is not good to ban it rashly. We are all old people in the association, and our fellow villagers will not agree to do this."

Lin Qirong turned his head and said to Li Shifen: "Mr. Li doesn't have to worry too much about the Sichuan Pao Brothers Association. Just like the Guangdong Tiandihui, as long as they are willing to cooperate with us, they don't have to disturb them. Just like there are chieftains of all ethnic groups everywhere in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, they have great prestige and influence in the local area, and they cannot beat them up at once."

Li Shifen looked at Lin Qirong and then realized that Lin Qirong's words were just now pacified. It is indeed not the time to deal with these legacy issues. At this stage, the main goal of the Taiping Army is to defeat the Qing Dynasty first and unify the whole country. So Li Shifen nodded and said, "I am anxious. In the future, I will definitely listen to the opinions of the people and then act."

Li Yonghe and others also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the Kingdom of Heaven does not ban the Brothers Association of the Bougain, it would be great if the Kingdom of Heaven is now the generals and officials of the Kingdom of Heaven and are also from the Brothers Association. If the Kingdom of Heaven really wants to ban the Brothers Association of the Bougain, it would be really difficult to deal with the situation between them. The same problem was encountered in the new China in later generations. At that time, generals such as He Long also had many of these members of the Communist Party of China, but after the national unification, the local government began to purify and gradually disappeared.

Lin Qirong was not worried about Li Yonghe and others' rebellion. Now their subordinates are all soldiers and horses after the Taiping Army were reorganized. Most of the subordinate officers are veterans of the Taiping Army, and their weapons are also supplied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After the war, these people also had to enter the military academy to study for a period of time. Their own interests have been tied to the Heavenly Kingdom. The Qing Dynasty's sunset, and the general trend of the heavenly kingdom unification of the country has been irreversible. No one would dig his own grave under such a good situation.

However, in the process of unifying the country, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did leave many problems, such as the handling of civil gangs such as the Tiandihui and Paogehui, and the problems of Miao and Yi in places such as multi-ethnic settlements such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangxi. Many local chieftains are actually local local emperors. They also enslaved their tribe members, and no one dared to resist them. In other words, the chieftains are still slavery under the rule of the chieftains. Only after the heavenly Kingdom unifies the country can they have the energy and ability to slowly mediate these problems. Even if they have to use force, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will have the spare energy to handle them well.

After Lin Qirong made a tone for Brother Pao in a few words, he turned around and said, "The army has already set off, so we are ready to board the ship. A hundred thousand troops leave Sichuan. Let's go to Jingxiang to meet with the King of Yi. Let's go to Hu Linyi..." (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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