Han’s Son is Not a Slave

To go north to Liaodong, you can forcibly push forward with your own authority, but how to make the generals and soldiers go willingly instead of being negatively treated is also a difficult matter for Zhou Shixiang to solve. Because this matter is directly related to military morale.

Zhou Shixiang believed that if he announced an immediate northern expedition to attack the capital city of Beijing, the morale of the Taiping army would be high, everyone would be eager to fight, and he didn't need to do any pre-war mobilization at all. Go to make great achievements. Even the blind man Li didn't need any high-ranking officials and rich salaries, the lure of gold and silver treasures, just for the satisfaction of the conquest of his mother riding a Tartar, he could achieve "whoever dares to leap on a horse, only I, Li Fengming". But if it is announced that the north will go to Liaodong, there will be complaints from below, and the morale and morale of the army will not be high, because this matter is too different from everyone's imagination.

There is not enough profit as a driving force, and I simply hope that my subordinates are immortals who do not eat the fireworks of the world. It is obviously unrealistic to die without giving up, to be majestic and high-spirited.

No morale, how to fight this battle?

Does it mean that Zhou Shixiang must personally supervise the formation in every battle, and can't he come to the front line every time?

There are policies on the top and countermeasures on the bottom. If you can't stimulate the motivation of the people below, Zhou Shixiang didn't dare to pat his chest and say that going north will definitely succeed.

Therefore, he must mobilize the following and let everyone know that going north to Liaodong is not a meaningless thing, but a good thing that can make a big difference.

In this world, what kind of things are called good things, of course, only good things can be called good things.

The benefit is something that is said on the mouth, white teeth are false, and it is the benefit that can be seen.

There is an old saying that money and silk move people's hearts, money can make ghosts push the mill, and even let the mill push ghosts. This old adage is a well-known saying in a thousand years.

The Taiping Army is not a people's army, and the generals of the Taiping Army are not revolutionaries with the consciousness of national liberation. In essence, whether they are the first to act righteously or those who have been recruited recently, they are all out-and-out profit-seekers, and they are the most powerful people in this era. Typical soldier. In addition to feudal loyalty, having milk is probably the most vivid portrayal of most generals.

It is natural that Zhou Shixiang used the old-fashioned solution to improve the morale of the army on the word "interest."

He plans to seal land in Liaodong, that is, all generals and soldiers who go north can have their own land in Liaodong in the future, and if they are capable enough, they can also have their own servants. As big as the town general, as small as the auxiliary soldiers, or even the civilians who follow the army, as long as you make an effort, you can get benefits. Of course, the servants were definitely not Han people in Guan, they could be captured Manchurians and Jurchens outside Guan, or they could be other people, such as Koreans, Mongolians and so on. If you are powerful enough to capture the Russian Cossacks, you can still take them as slaves.

This seal of land is not merely the grant of land, as implemented in Guangdong and other places, but a real "land seal" - having absolute sovereignty over the people and things on a piece of land.

In other words, Zhou Shixiang wanted to implement the lord system of the Europeans in Liaodong, and the lords large and small were the generals and soldiers who accompanied the army to the north. As long as you have sacrificed your life and made meritorious deeds, then you can become a lord, a lord granted a title by the Ming Dynasty, and have complete rights over the land and servants under your control.

Moreover, for quite some time in the future, Zhou Shi also decided to boldly delegate power to Liaodong and Guanwai. These military elites who became lords would protect the Guanwai for Daming, and continue to expand under the drive of interests, so as to relieve the central government on the one hand. On the other hand, it can also firmly control Guanwai in the hands of Daming.

Zhou Shixiang had this idea a long time ago. At that time, he considered that Liaodong and Guanwai would always be re-incorporated into the Daming territory in the future, but there were no Han people in those places, and the two capitals and 18 provinces in the Guan were devastated by decades of war. The genocide with the Manchu and Qing Dynasties led to a sharp decline in the population, and it was difficult to restore itself, and a large number of immigrants filled the border.

No matter how big a place is, if there is not enough population, it is only a nominal territory. If you want this land to be completely integrated with the mainland, someone must be there.

There are no local Han people, and immigration within the customs is unrealistic. What Zhou Shixiang can think of and can implement is to convert his growing army into defenders and occupiers outside the customs.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty implemented the Weisuo system outside the customs. Nuergan was very large, and in its heyday, there were more than three million Han people in Liaodong alone. In terms of population alone, it has far outnumbered those born outside Guan, including Manchurians, who were born there. However, the military household system of the garrison failed to bring enough benefits to ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, and there was no way to convert more than three million Han Chinese into an armed force, and over time, the garrison gradually deteriorated and lost its value. The early military functions resulted in the later Liao affairs.

In some respects, the "territorial fief" system that Zhou Shixiang planned to implement outside the customs was somewhat similar to the "guardian" system, but the key point was that Zhou Shixiang gave rights to everyone, not just generals and officials.

Just imagine, if an ordinary sailor captured more than a dozen slaves because of his merits outside the customs, and was granted the right to produce a piece of land that might be as big as a village, in order to keep this family business, in order to expand this family business, He will definitely defend it to the death. If he wants to have a bigger family business, he has to continue to make merit; if he wants to make merit, he has to have more slaves, so that he can lead them to captivate new slaves.

This is almost like the withdrawal of the Eight Banners system, and it is also very similar to the armed maritime merchants in Guangdong going to sea.

Outside the customs, in the eyes of the people in the mainland, it is a place of bitter cold, but Zhou Shixiang knew that outside the customs is a treasure land with many resources, and it is also a big granary. The climate has changed slightly in recent years. During the Chongzhen period, some seas in Xiamen would freeze with thin ice, but now it is no longer frozen. The old people said that the temperature is constantly increasing, and it will not be long before the climate outside Beineiguan will return to before Wanli. At that time, outside the pass of the bitter cold land will be a treasure land, a real treasure land.

After making the plan to go north, Zhou Shixiang immediately convened a meeting of senior generals, at which he announced the intention of going north and the "territorial closure" system. Although some generals still couldn't figure it out, most of the generals still accepted going north. Fighting, after all, the matter of "closing the land" is not only beneficial to them, but also to the soldiers under them. Besides, we can also get food from the North Koreans~www.wuxiaspot.com~, so we have long-term support, and we don't have to worry about food shortages.

After the meeting, each of Shui 6 will seize the time to prepare for the battle.

The navy had to do a lot of preparations. In addition to loading grain, they also had to load a lot of tea and vegetables. In addition, a lot of soybeans were also transported from all directions. This is mainly used for raw bean sprouts at sea, and the sailors attach great importance to bean sprouts, which can ensure that they will not get sick for several months at sea.

In addition, the navy generals Liu Guoxuan, Xiao Gongchen, Gan Hui and others worked together with the military to study a detailed operational plan. In addition to Jeju Island and Dongjiang Islands, the navy also needed to have some transit points along the coasts of Shandong and Beizhili. Zhou Shixiang asked Liu Guoxuan and the others to study these things in detail, but he didn't ask them. He believed that these people were better at it than himself.

Li Blind was quite opposed to going north to Liaodong. More than once, he muttered in front of Zhou Shixiang that he couldn't enter the Forbidden City if he went to Liaodong, and to see what Fulin's mother looked like. Finally one time, Zhou Shixiang couldn't help it and said to him: "If you don't take Liaodong, his mother Fulin has run away, where are you going to catch her?"

Having said that, Li Blind understood somewhat.

After returning from Kinmen, Zhou Shixiang was going to go back to Zhenjiang to deal with the matter of Jiangnan after he went north. But before that, he went to see Zheng Sen's wife Dong Xian.

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The month in April is unfavorable. Both father and son have a viral infection. One is afraid of injections and the other is afraid of getting wet because it hurts.

Recently, my state is not very good, and my house is also being renovated, so the update of my works does not feel very good to everyone. This, I apologize.

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