After the establishment of the township and village offices in the newly occupied eight counties and Yisan Prefecture, like Xiangshan County, in addition to implementing the collection of money and grain taxes distributed by the county, it was also necessary to organize some military training for young and strong people during the agricultural slack.
During the training period, the young and strong people can get some money and food subsidies, or reduce some taxes for their families, so as to motivate them to join the security team.
Zhou Shixiang made it clear that the security teams in each township should be maintained at about 100 people, and the security teams in each village should be maintained at about 30 people, and the officers and backbone officers and backbones must be wounded and retired soldiers of the Taiping Army, or men with family members serving in the army.
Applicants must be over 14 years old and under 50 years old.
The security forces of all villages should be under the direct command of the township and village offices, and in addition to serving as a reserve force, they should also be responsible for maintaining public order within the territory.
In view of the fact that the Taiping army would still take fighting against the Qing army as its primary task in the future, Zhou Shixiang specially transferred a batch of weapons from the Pingnan and Jingnan domains to the county security teams to strengthen their own strength.
In one county, ten townships, and a number of villages, the number of security teams in each county should be about 2,000 people, and the Taiping Army actually controls nine counties and one scattered prefecture, so that more than 20,000 armed security teams can be obtained.
"Our weapons are not stronger than the Qing Demons, our numbers are not more than the Qing Demons, and our territory is not larger than the Qing Demons, but as long as our mobilization is stronger than theirs, and we mobilize the people faster than them, we can win" "Don't be afraid that the people will not support us, as long as we make them feel that we can bring them more benefits, then there is no such thing as not being willing to support this benefit, you can see and feel it."
For those landlords who support us, we can give them a certain ransom to redeem the excess land and distribute it to those peasants who have no land to cultivate, and the personal tenant relationship that used to be attached to the land will also be dissolved, and those who refuse to support us will be physically exterminated.
Don't be afraid to kill, if killing some people can get us to gain a foothold in these places quickly and gain the support of the majority of the people, then kill, kill hard" "You have to know that the official you are doing now is what I gave you, and it was the Taiping Army of the Shuai who protected you to do this official, if we can't win the Qing demon, then you officials can't do it, not only can't do it, but you will be killed."
"The security forces of each county must be firmly grasped in the hands of the county government, and no clan forces will be allowed to get involved in the security forces.
"I've never eaten pork, I've always seen pigs run, I don't need you county masters to go to Fei Duo to do more brains, the political envoy will transfer people from Xiangshan to assist you, what you have to do is to supervise and supervise" Zhou Shixiang emphasized this to the county commanders at the meeting of the military marshal's office on the third day of October.
For those who were demoted, whether they really listened to his words and were really willing to do this for the Taiping Army, Zhou Shixiang didn't care at all.
He doesn't care, he has someone to take care of, and Song Xianggong, the political envoy, is not a dry meal.
When the Qing army marched into Xiangshan a few days ago, although the security teams of the townships did not directly fight the Qing army, they played a huge role in moving the people.
When Song Xianggong opened the public treasury to reward the whole army, not only the Taiping army that fought directly, but also the security forces and reservists who had made meritorious contributions to the rear were rewarded.
The security team of Longyan Township cooperated with the reserve soldiers of the former cottage to effectively block the invading green camp by the Tan River.
Yu Shizhong, the commander of the reserve brigade and Qianhu who was directly commanded in this battle, was reused by Zhou Shixiang and transferred to the second town to serve as a brigade school, and He Bao, the head of the township in charge of the security team of Longyan Township, was also transferred to Lianzhou as the governor.
The rewards and punishments are clear, and treating everyone equally is Zhou Shi's relative to himself, and it is also one of the most basic requirements for his subordinates.
As long as you have made meritorious service, whether you are a soldier or an auxiliary soldier, an officer or a gang leader, a Han or a Manchurian, you will be rewarded.
What he is doing now in Guangzhou is to break the original feudal order, take advantage of the two conditions of the war, the loss of a large number of people and the abandonment of land, to implement military reform, land reform, and political reform, and establish an interest group that is firmly tied to the interests of the Taiping Army from the bottom up.
The core of this interest group is the common people, who account for 95 percent of the total population, in other words, to win the support of these people is to win the support of the people.
According to the statistics of each county, the current population is 580,000, and land is the best tool in exchange for the support of these 580,000 people This year's autumn grain harvest in each county is good and bad, the best harvest is Xiangshan, even though several townships in the north of Xiangshan have been destroyed by the Qing army, but the autumn grain output of the southern townships has still reached a historical harvest high, more than the previous year's harvest.
This was due to the work carried out by the Taiping Army in Xiangshan to merge the whole village and the large-scale military cantonment of the former cottage.
Collectivized farming has proven to be more efficient and rewarding than individual farming.
In the course of the anti-bandit battles in their jurisdictions, the towns also cleared out large quantities of grain, and these grains were transported into Guangzhou one by one, quickly stabilizing the market grain prices and reassuring the people in Guangzhou.
For the newly controlled counties, if there was a food shortage in the county, Zhou Shixiang asked the officials sent to organize the people to help themselves, and at the same time transferred military rations to help them, and also spent a lot of money to buy a batch of grain from Tang Sanshui in Shaozhou.
The repression of the landlords and gentry in the counties also resulted in the release of a large amount of grain that they had hidden, half of which was distributed to the local people who supported the Taiping Army, and half of which was sent to the garrison as military rations.
The Taiping Army's vigorous and resolute campaign to suppress bandits and clear grain, effectively build townships and villages, and make the greatest use of manpower and material resources have led to grain shortages of varying degrees in the whole of Guangdong, but Guangzhou has not only no grain shortage, but a surplus.
With food, the officials have the confidence to do things, and the soldiers do not have to worry about their lives and deaths on the front line, while their families are hungry; With food, it also means that the Taiping army can have further combat capabilities.
In this era, wars are actually fought with food.
The Han army family members in Guangzhou stayed in the city except for some people from the Jingnan Palace, and the rest were allocated to various counties for resettlement, and the arrangements for the other tens of thousands of people in the city were also in charge of Wang Zhangjun, Zuo Qing and other officials, who were originally parents and knew what to do.
Zhou Shixiang As long as they don't starve to death, restore the market, so that the people have a stable source of income, and there is a market to buy and sell.
The large merchants in the city of Guangzhou who were related to the Qing army were also targeted by the Taiping army, and Zhou Shixiang even asked Song Xianggong to set the official grain price, and the market grain price was not allowed to exceed 20 percent of the official grain price.
At the same time, in addition to handing over 40 percent of the grain harvested by the people in various townships and villages to the public treasury set up by the Taiping army in various places, the remaining surplus must also be sold to the Taiping army on a priority basis.
The purchase price of grain given by Zhou Shixiang to the people was eighty percent of the market price.
Salt, iron and other strategic materials are also all subject to the government pricing, supervision system, in short, Zhou Shixiang in Guangzhou is similar to the later planned economic system, everything revolves around the development and growth of the Taiping Army, what is beneficial to the Taiping Army to do, and then through the Taiping Army after the growth of the benefits of the loss to the people who support it.
Even Zhou Shixiang was thinking about whether to give some military rewards to the peasants and craftsmen who worked hard and fought iron, so as to encourage them to serve the Taiping Army more diligently, and to produce more grain in a variety of fields, and to weave more iron As long as it is beneficial, no matter whether this system is toxic or not, Zhou Shixiang is willing to do it and try it.
In his previous life, he was just an ordinary soldier, with limited knowledge, and it was impossible to do everything in one step, so he was also crossing the river by feeling the stones.
No one is born to be a master of literature and martial arts, and no one is born a genius.
But the premise is that the Taiping army must be strong enough that there will be no day of defeat.
In view of the fact that there were too many orphans whose parents had died in the years of war in Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang ordered all counties to send these orphans to Guangzhou and be raised by the Taiping army.
There are more than 1,000 orphans reported from various counties, the oldest is 13 years old, and the youngest is only a few months old.
Other orphan care centers in the Ming Dynasty are generally in the temple, occasionally there are large families who donate their houses for the orphans to live, whether it is a temple or other places, the local government will hire teachers to teach these orphans to teach them to read and write, if some of the orphans can be admitted to the show, it is a meritorious performance of the local official's education, if you can take the exam to raise people or even Jinshi and younger brothers, then the reputation of this magistrate can be famous all over the world, not only the career is flat, but the history should also be famous, At worst, it will leave a strong ink mark on the local chronicles.
Therefore, Song Xianggong is also ready to ask for people to teach these orphans according to the custom, which is of course a good thing, and it is also the original intention of Zhou Shixiang to ask the counties to send the orphans to Guangzhou, but he did not build any nursery and charity hall, but asked the Guangzhou government to choose a place in the city to establish a Taiping Army youth soldier battalion.
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The battalion of young soldiers made Song Xianggong think that Zhou Shixiang was going to train these orphans to be his own soldiers, similar to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, who were in Zhang Xianzhong's children's battalion in the Western Army, so there was no opinion, which of the generals of the Ming Dynasty did not raise a group of cronies who dared to fight, but no matter how kind they were, they were not as good as teaching and training since childhood.
In fact, Zhou Shixiang's purpose in building the Young Soldiers Camp was indeed to emulate Zhang Xianzhong's children's camp, but the difference was that the Young Soldiers Camp did not simply train these orphans to grow up to become a member of the Taiping Army, but to train them to become all kinds of people.
Zhou Shixiang demanded that the battalion of young soldiers not only teach them the skills of slashing and killing on the battlefield, but also teach them to read and write, and after reaching the age of 16, they should consider whether they should be transferred to the Taiping Army or promoted to the military training center, or arranged to work in village offices and county offices at all levels.
The Junior Soldier Battalion is the talent training base officially established by Zhou Shixiang for the Taiping Army.
Not only orphans but also children of Taiping soldiers and soldiers must enter the camp, and the descendants of dead martyrs will also enter the camp for young soldiers.
As for how to do it, Zhou Shixiang asked Song Xianggong to find someone to discuss, and show him after a specific charter came out.
The envoy sent to Kunming to report the victory had already gone to Qinzhou with Chen Qice and Zhu Tong's people, but now Guangxi is not accessible by land, and the communication with Kunming can only be by sea.
Counting the time, the Yamen, the governor of Qinzhou, should have already received the news of the recovery of Guangzhou, and he was afraid that the envoy of the governor and the city wall would already be on the way.
Chen Qice told Zhou Shixiang that Cheng Bangjun, the head of the Ministry of Military Affairs sent by the imperial court, had gone to Gaozhou, which was the residence of Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of the four prefectures, and Zhou Shiji was not interested in this person, and even had a bad feeling, because he sent people to forcibly claim the city of Luodingzhou that day.
After a busy day's affairs, Zhou Shixiang was also tired, he casually shouted Xu Yingyuan, but it was Li Shutai's master Gui Yongzhi who came, and he said that Xu Yingyuan went to Taishan.
Zhou Shixiang patted his head, and then remembered that he asked Xu Yingyuan to go to Taishan to invite Tang Wang to Guangzhou.
I don't know if the Tang King is willing to come to Guangzhou, if Yongli knows that I brought the Tang King to Guangzhou, but I don't know what to think.
Gui Yongzhi looked at the very young new master in front of him, thinking of what he ordered to do in Guangzhou, and he was quite apprehensive in his heart, and stood there and didn't dare to speak.
Zhou Shixiang put down the matter of King Tang and asked him casually: "Is Li Shuitai dead?"
"Governor" Gui Yongzhi habitually used the old name, and when he found that it was wrong, he hurriedly changed his words: "Li Shutai is not dead." ” "If he's not dead, let him stay."
Zhou Shixiang waved his hand and motioned Gui Yongzhi to go down, he originally wanted to send Li Shutai to Kunming, but this guy was looking for death after hearing about his wife, but he couldn't commit suicide successfully, he couldn't afford to be sick in a hurry, and he couldn't walk at all.
Gui Yongzhi did not retreat, but said: "Dashuai, Xiang Rong said that Geng Jimao wants to see Dashuai." ” "No, tell Xiang Rong to tell Geng Jimao, obediently let me stay in the Jingnan Palace, don't think about it all day long, Ben Shuai won't kill him."
Zhou Shixiang calculated, this is probably the fifth time Geng Jimao has asked to see him through Xiang Rong.
"Yes, Dashuai, I'll go tell Xiang Rong."
Gui Yongzhi hesitated, then said something again, and he said, "Xiang Rong led Geng Jingzhong to see that one. ” "Which Shi Yuanling" Zhou Shixiang was stunned, and he didn't react to which one Gui Yongzhi said, and it took a few seconds to understand, but the three words Shi Yuanling made his heart flutter involuntarily.
Gui Yongzhi nodded, but when he saw Zhou Shixiang walking outside the hall, he asked, "Where is the big handsome going?"
"Don't go anywhere, I will see Geng Jingzhong and his mother, so that Geng Jimao's kid will always worry about it." oshow7 t1706231537: