Chapter 1129 At that time, the Tanabata laughed at the morning bull (2)
In Chang'an City, as the continuous heavy snow has stopped since the deep winter, Zhou Huaian once again braved the severe cold to inspect many resettlement areas and Yingtian Districts in Gyeonggi Province, and by the way, he made some poems such as "The North is frozen and the snow falls thousands of miles away." It is considered to be passed down from generation to generation.
"After capturing the Taining Army, he actually received 30,000 surrendered soldiers, and 20,000 strong elites who were temporarily recruited? Do you have such room for that person?"
Zhou Huaian said in surprise:
"It was just because of the military and military power. Yanzhou only had tens of thousands of household registrations, and only half of it was found in Xiaqiu City. However, in order to prepare for the war, almost half of Ding Zhuang was given time..."
Zheng Yangbao, who is responsible for connecting with Henan and from the Young Army, explained:
But no matter what, these prisoners are good things! Especially for the Taiping Army, which is relatively lacking in manpower in almost all aspects, it has long been explored and summarized a set of mature plans and strategies for identifying, cleaning, resettlement and transformation of the surrendered soldiers and prisoners of the old army during the process of conquering the world.
Therefore, in most cases, after preliminary mobilization and mutual reporting, the generals and the leaders in the army were separated; the trials that should be made public, the punishments that should be executed, and the exiled; then the old and dirty people among the ordinary soldiers who were full of illnesses were further exposed and sentenced for additional judgments and punishments; finally, the ordinary soldiers who followed the crowd were left.
Except for a few that are identified as supplementary to the auxiliary forces, the others can be enriched in the organization and management areas, mines and construction sites in various places; under the supervision of local departments, they accept labor reforms for several years to decades, erase the hostility and bad habits brought by the army, and then allocate them to newly established settlements and camps, and even supplemented to the Jiansheng Army.
Of course, the treatment and choice of actively surrendering is better than that of passive prisoners. According to the specific situation, there are also subdivided treatments such as the battle, the city, the post-war and the road to escape as an example. Now, as the Taiping Army gradually controls Guanzhong, Hexi, and the Yanbian land in Hedong, these surrendered soldiers and prisoners have another choice, that is, they can take their families to guard the border for several years and start a new life.
However, these long-standing vassal states in the Central Plains are different. Compared with those border guards and defense-type military towns that need to rely on the central support to maintain for a long time, or are simply the imperial court's money bag and the main source of tribute and taxes; Liangling, Huainan, Zhenhai/xi, Zhejiang, eastern Zhejiang, Xuanshe and other Southeast Eighth Routes have greater economic effects than those of the military-existing financial towns.
Or it is a disguised Central Army sequence and inner circle barrier, and the eight towns in the northwest of the Jingbei region, which have a thousand historical origins from the camps of the left and right Shence Army; there are only two types of Fang Towns located in the Guandong/Central Plains region. One is the three towns of Heshuo, which have undergone several changes since the Anshi Rebellion and have been essentially separatist to the present, and the other is the military town that is set up to prevent these separatist forces.
For example, the Tianping Army, Heyang Army, Zheng Hua Army, the Xuanwu Army and the Zhongwu Army, which are the barriers of the Eastern Capital; or the Yiwu Army and the Henghai Army, which are the nails that penetrated into Hebei; and even the Pinglu, Xusi and Yanhai Towns that were divided into Qingzi Town, which was pacified by the court, were all products born under the corresponding historical background.
However, the positions and roles between the two often change with the change of power in the court, and even disguised mergers and alliances are carried out to fight against pressure and decisions from the court. Among them, the climax of the intensification of contradictions and the climax of the situation was in the Xianzong Dynasty. Wu Yuanheng, the prime minister who advocated weakening the vassal states, was hacked to death on the Zhuque Street of Chang'an on the way to court.
Therefore, the local military group formed by soldiers and generals, after the Zhenyuan period, there were some mutiny at the least, and in the most serious cases, they were used to kill the generals, and in the most serious cases, they had become commonplace; they had become another timeline, and the heroes fought for chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, leaving disaster to the middle and late Five Dynasties. Therefore, in the corresponding disposal, we must adopt specific methods of analyzing specific issues.
For example, the three towns on Huai Shang were actually in a state of semi-separation and half surrender, and were in a dynamic game with the court for a long time. Therefore, when the court was slightly revived and strong, these towns were the court's loyal Pingfan and the ministers, and played the role of good towns guarding the Central Plains against Heshuo. However, once the court showed a downturn, they would cause trouble and even change their orders to seek more benefits.
However, the frequent civil strife and change of this disorder is the price of every new commander's rise, almost accompanied by bloody massacres and purges, blood and tears of soldiers plundering local scholars and people, as well as the increasing rewards and gifts of the insatiable appetites that have been raised again and again.
Therefore, given the lessons learned by Li Guangbi in the late Anshi Rebellion that he did not dare to return to the dynasty throughout his life, Zhu Cun and others in the forefront army did not dare to be proficient in or exert excessive subjective initiative on this sensitive issue, but directly sent the problem to Chang'an through their own exclusive channels, asking Zhou Huaian for the next guidance and instructions.
Therefore, Zhou Huaian also thought about it for a while before speaking again:
"Taking the existing Hezhong and Hedong disposal strategies as a model, we will compare the many foreign troops (defense, defense, and united troops) in Yanhai Town."
"As for the original subordinates of the army, the family must move away from their hometowns and send them to Hexi, Jiannan, Guanbei and other places to manage labor. Those who are willing to exchange for redemption will be charged to Shuofang, and the garrisons in various places in Daibei will be fine."
"And the yamen and yamen and the soldiers in front of the yamen are the root cause of local disasters, so they cannot be kept. The salt ponds, mines and other places in the river can be strictly supervised."
"The White Army, a group of the Uttar Regiment originated from the Caizhou thieves, is mostly a thief who has been around for a long time, and also needs to be dealt with separately. After the selection, the generation was escorted to the south in batches, and traveled to Yizhou and Silla from the sea to explore the land."
In addition, although there have been no new changes in the newly occupied Hedong/Daibei, after obtaining the key raw material quota for salt ponds in the Hezhong area, and the fact that the Hezhong area also produces carbonite (now shallow mineral deposits in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province). Regarding the layout of the emerging industrial system and its supporting workshops in the pass, it can be launched one after another.
For example, as one of the few Pan Technology Tree projects that Zhou Huaian personally inquired: the nitride collected through the condensation tower during the coal coking process can obtain crude ammonia water after being replaced with quicklime and alkali; this ammonia water has a wide range of uses as a technical prerequisite.
In addition to military-related additives as gunpowder/emitter/dynamite, it can be used as surgical sterilization drugs, and can also be used for damaging and insecticidal treatment in agriculture. It is also the preparatory basis for urea, a major weapon for increasing agricultural production in later generations.
In addition, during the extraction of coal tar, a pink impurity was accidentally obtained; that is, phenol, also known as carbolic acid and hydroxybenzene, is the simplest phenol organic substance and a weak acid. However, phenol itself has a plasmonic toxicity; it can coagulate or denature the protoplast proteins of bacterial cells and sterilize, and become one of the best disinfectants in early medical operations.
What’s more important is that after phenol reacts with concentrated sulfuric acid, a yellow chemical dye can be produced - trinitrophenol. In the history of modern military development, it has another more famous name - yellow explosives (picric acid), which is ten times more powerful than nitrifying explosives and chemical fertilizers - ammonia nitrate.
Although it is still only the stage of micro-preparation in the laboratory, it is already considered another pre-open technology tree besides nitrifying gunpowder. Basically, as long as you conduct continuous trial and error and exclusion in this direction step by step, you will eventually find the correct answer you want sooner or later.
Regarding the strategic process of the Southeast Indian Zhu, the Canton side has new returns. It is probably after the two ridge coalition forces from the Tang land, Luo Jaya, the new king of the Palo Kingdom (Polo Dynasty), successfully captured and defeated the invaders who stole the capital Deva, the army of the Gala Zhuli Dynasty, who occupied the capital city of Deva. The situation in Southeast Indian Zhu also underwent subtle changes.
Because by restoring most of the former territory (now Bangladesh and most of the Indian Bihar state), and defeating many great nobles who had divided their homelands, including the Anqinash clan of the former hereditary king, the attitude of the new king Pamo III also seemed to have undergone subtle changes. At least, he was no longer as close to and relied as before, and these foreign war-assisted Tang Diyi had come from the coalition forces.
In addition, the old small and medium-sized aristocrats and city lords in China came to visit each other, and gathered under his command to form an unignorable force. The behavior of cedeing coastal land, including many Hong Kong markets, to the Tang people for rewards was also quite criticized, but there was some undercurrent and formed a certain external rejection.
Especially now, the enemy has changed from many traitors who are independent in the country to extremely vassal troops of the Kalajuli Kingdom, which are still entrenched on the remaining land in the north; the new king Pamo III, who is consciously growing in prosperity, has fewer opportunities to use and use these foreign troops, and has even begun to disguise alienate and keep a distance; and even have fewer opportunities to seek insight and communicate.
However, this also caused general dissatisfaction among the Yichi coalition forces, those maritime merchants and associations who had invested a lot of manpower and material resources in advance. Therefore, when the ships returning to Guangzhou routinely returned to various Indian goods and foreign treasures half a month ago, they also brought local joint requests, hoping to punish and counterattack the acts that might be ungrateful and turn against each other under the appropriate opportunity.
Because, this Fanjun, who was supported by the East Turkish coalition, had determined to marry the princess of another great country in the southern part of the land of the South Heavenly Kingdom, the Zhuluo Kingdom (Note Nian Kingdom), as his queen; on the other hand, although he had recovered the large temples built during the Palo period, the Chaojie Temple and the Feixing Temple, which were built during the reverence of the law of the Palo Kingdom, he refused Dongtuyi's request to continue to advance to the former land of the Magadha Kingdom from the coalition forces, and to recover the former highest Buddhist institution of the Heavenly Kingdom, Landa Temple;
Then, he once again denied the suggestion of the monks from the East Land to re-cultivate and preside over the ancestral temples of the two major Buddhist sects (Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism); and changed the position to manage and maintain it by local monks. He even announced the national policy of making Buddhists and Brahmins respect the royal family. This even angered the monks from the East Land to follow him to Tianzhu to restore the country and preach the Dharma, and rebuild Buddhism again.
Therefore, under this situation, many forces seem to be ready to make some big news at the wedding of the foreign queen in the future. However, the most important thing is that the support and recognition of the Taiping Army, the Grand Governor from the mother country, is the initiator.
After all, among these overseas charity coalition forces, the most capable and elite core sequence is the ones trained by Cantonese; at the same time, the spoils and territories they obtained from India also need to be transported back to Jiaozhou, Cantonese and other places to obtain corresponding benefits, and thus obtain continuous supplements and feedback from the country.
Of course, because it is separated by sea and land routes between the east and west, it is more than a few thousand miles away. If Zhou Huaian's instructions are really implemented locally, it is probably not a delay of a month or a half to several months, and the daylily may have been cold. Therefore, he only gave limited statements and support at the macro level, and at the same time gave some guidance in the general direction.
The attitude towards Canton is relatively conservative, and it is probably because it is better to sit back and forth. Anyway, winning or losing does not harm the overall situation in the country, but the tendency of these overseas merchants and large clan forces to act on their own is not worthy of encouragement and prosperity. However, Zhou Huaian disagreed and even made an oral edict on the spot, vaguely criticizing this kind of desire for control and short-sightedness under the position of small peasant.
Because this is a pilot project related to the future pilot of the New Dynasty for overseas expansion and expansion, it is urgent to need a successful example of sufficient scale effect to lead and start all of this. Of course, as a corresponding statement, the Canton side also needs to arrange a specific person in charge of the coordination of the general sum.
Chapter completed!