Chapter 289: It’s raining on the road (Part 2)
Before dawn, the Taiping Army had cleared most of the areas in Guizhou Prefecture, leaving only a few strongholds that were still fighting stubbornly. In fact, from the moment these unknown enemies were unable to regain the city gate as soon as possible, the end of the city trap was already destined.
"They are local tyrants..."
Looking at the prisoners who were taken across the street, Zhou Huaian said in a little surprised.
"What's the rebels garrisoned locally? Where did they go?"
"Most of them have been harmed by the enemy, and at least thousands of corpses have been found in the moats in the inner city."
Ge Congzhou, who was in charge of the entire city of Dasuo, said with a heavy expression
"It's just that a few people survived by hiding in their homes... and came out to pray."
"Call all the people who are not on duty here..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sigh heavily.
"I'm going to hold a ritual in public..."
"It's really shocking, shocking..."
Then, on the edge of the trench where even the lime was covered with corpse smell, Zhou Huaian yelled at the gathered subordinates and said,
"Now there are still people who have luck and lenient thoughts towards those gentry, powerful people. If they want to cheat and slim down, this is the most intuitive ending...
"What we do is to break the justice of the world, but we also want to dig out the root of these greedy and leash on the corpses of poor people. How can these jackals truly repent and atone for their sins, let go of prejudice and exchanges to cooperate with the rebels and compromise with the rebels."
"Under the threat of the rebels, they may be able to deceive and confuse for a while, pretend to be kind and harmless and harmless. But whenever they have the opportunity, they will have to counterattack and get even more serious and harshly harm back."
"The vast majority of soldiers of the Rebel Army may be fearless in their opponents with swords and guns, but they are a little too cautious about such soft knife that slowly cut their flesh invisibly, or the plot behind their backs after being careless."
"And the rebel brothers lying here are the best portrayals of those who have been relieved of their vigilance and caution, and have no burial place to die; I hope that each of you will see it, remember it in your heart, and learn from it deeply..."
"Never compromise,."
"The power is not in harmony."
"Revenge..."
"Never forgive me..."
"Kill all the big dogs..."
"Eradicate all local tyrants and evil gentry..."
Below was there a wave of arms waving like a forest and roaring like a tide. Then the captured leaders of the earth group and their accomplices, as well as the large households and gentry in the city, were escorted over and pressed down one by one on the edge of the ditch;
Again, in the midst of the clamor of the same hatred of the enemy, no matter how they shed tears or yelled or begged, they were cut off their heads and threw them into the ditch as a sacrifice. Finally, every soldier present had to bring a shovel of soil to bury the ditch in turn, and erected the monument to engrave some kind of commemoration.
This is obviously the result and sequelae of the failure of the rebel army to eliminate evil after the rebel army; although they cleaned up the big and rich people in the city, the gentry, big and powerful people scattered in the countryside took the opportunity to fill the gap in the upper city in a short time;
As the territory where the governor of Lingxi Jiedushi took over the first major strategy to enable Guiguan to rule the strategy, the ten counties of Guizhou are rare among the mountains, and therefore they are also the key guarding place for the Long March athletes from Hunan, Jiangxi and Jianchuan.
In addition, the local people are fierce and fierce, so it has become a common practice for the imperial court to recruit local young men to guard Annan for a long time. The Guan Guiwei envoy, Li Zan, who was now writing memoirs in the Taiping Army, used this to make the front line from Liuzhou to Hezhou for the sake of the foundation, and most of the headed rebels resisted for several months without getting close.
It was not until the local garrison troops that mutiny and disturbed the generals of the local garrisons, because of the lack of food and wages and the long-term desire to return home, that the Guizhou-led states were successively under the control of the rebels; but the rebels under Huang Chao were only divided into their troops to control them; some cities including the city were only controlled.
In the villages of the ten counties of Guizhou, these spontaneously emerging land groups were controlled in disguise. In addition, when the main force of the rebel army was still strong, they were low and small, and they were dormant for a while, but when most of the rebel army headed north one after another and the rear was empty, they would inevitably have various ideas to win.
The example of the great hero Chen Yanqian in Guiyang is obviously not the only one or the last one; there are many people here, coincidentally. But they are all temporarily united and act in a more concealed way.
Then, in the arch-style test of various daily trivial events that gradually occur, the advantages of familiarizing yourself with local channels and connections are gradually isolated and emptying the local rebel army;
Originally, they needed these resident rebels to maintain open cover and make profits from the goods and supplies of the transshipment persons; therefore, they further paralyzed the generals of the resident rebels with considerable enthusiasm for cooperation and collaborators.
And further introduce these people to positions that are not familiar or good at in the city. When he wakes up, it is too late to come. He can only continue to maintain open cooperation with him when his subordinates are attracted and corrupted, and those who adhere to the purpose of the rebel army are excluded and harmed, and those who are reluctant to give up their lives and are threatened by their own interests.
However, in the end, he obviously wanted to be a public-recommended puppet. These local tyrants and local gentry launched the land group forces and received news that the two main forces of the northern rebel army were defeated one after another. In addition, the rebel army stationed in the Guangzhou government also began to become independent and claim to be in charge due to the internal strife and heavy casualties.
However, because of many internal opinions, and the benefits of passing the transport fleet were unwilling to stop the transfer, they wanted to intercept and do a big business. This delayed more than ten days ago, and decided to start the Jiangling side in the upper reaches of Jianghan. They were determined to start the campaign;
The rebel general, who was a puppet and a sign, dragged out the sacrificial flag together with his relatives in the local area, and announced the restoration and return to the imperial court. Then he appointed a large number of governors, chief ministers, Sima, Biejia, chief clerk, clerk, clerk, military officer, etc.
But what they never expected was that they were then caught up in the dispute and fight between internal interests. Before they could get a basic result, they were found again by the Taiping Army who had been expeditioning Jiangling from Guangzhou to Jiangling. And they did not even decide the leader of the public and the open negotiation representatives.
Then what happened naturally. After the families pieced together a desperate night attack, they were inevitably raided and killed by the Taiping Army who took the opportunity to seize the city.
Because the military situation is urgent and cannot be delayed for too long, there is not much time to stay for screening and investigation, and then implement the public trial; so it is a quick knife to cut all the wealthy families and make the best friends first; this has also been implemented in Annan
First, the adult men who could be found were executed punitively, and then the women and children, together with the captives of the Uttar League, were escorted to Guangzhou for another disposal. The latter was assigned to the mine as a supplementary service, and the former was placed in a special labor camp near the factory, and under the supervision of the female camp representative, he started with the simplest way to learn to support himself.
Although doing so cannot completely determine the real root of the problem and signs of resistance, it can make these remnants and old forces of the opponent no longer become the problem that the rebels have to face in a short period of one or two years;
Even the remaining landlords and powerful people in the countryside still generally have an attitude of non-cooperation and confrontation, but after losing these strong leaders and their armed forces, it is not so easy to reconnect and communicate and form a new synergy, and reorganize the armed forces and decide to develop a new leader of the earth group.
During this period, there was a corresponding time and buffer to allow Guangzhou to send more joint officials and grassroots staff to cooperate with the investigation, census, and work detachment mobilized the poor people at the bottom of society to further deal with and eliminate those who escaped the initial liquidation but had a great remnants of public anger, or secretly hid themselves and waited for the opportunity to move.
Then after the new military farm and management resettlement land was established, a deed was truly laid in the local area, and through land enclosure and resettlement methods, a group of supporters of local vested interests could be officially established; then, based on these people, further land clearance and population inspection and registration work could be carried out;
In Zhou Huaian's subsequent plan, the ultimate goal is to gradually seize the personal relationships and public opinion dominance that the grassroots and generations of people in the villages are monopolized and controlled from the hands of the gentry and powerful households. As long as there are enough comparisons and reference samples of new foreign things, the blockade and monopoly they insist on for the villages will only become vulnerable.
Then, with the initially formed core model demonstration zones and mature experiences in Guizhou, it will be further promoted to the main plains and agricultural production areas of the 13 prefectures in Guizhou in the northwest of Lingnan; ultimately, it will strengthen local control and subsequent influence on the economy and government organizations.
Of course, this is the most ideal state and requires more time and cycles. There are not without repetition and twists and turns, nor are there any shortage of long-term confrontation, tug-of-war and conflicts. However, as long as the person who executes it can persist and resolutely implement it, he is not afraid of falling or going through detours, and the final winner will still be the party dominated by the Taiping Army.
Therefore, Guizhou Prefecture City, then Lingchuan County, Linyuan County, which is located in the upper reaches, and Qinchengjun, which is the starting point and pass through the southern end of the Guling Canal, was also in full swing, looking down, and falling into the hands of the rebels without any resistance or twists and turns.
The local scholars and civilians even gathered together to "smash and eat with food", just as the accident and betrayal that occurred in the prefecture city did not exist at all. It also made the various actions of the rebels along the way here full of irony of "fearing power but not loving virtue". Another benefit of obtaining these places was gradually reflected.
It is to collect warehouse inventory along the way and search for large households and gentry income, not only do they double the money and grain carried by the rebels, but also a large amount of surplus are used as various resettlement projects to attract and provide relief to the poor.
Chapter completed!