It is time for the city to start singing and shouting routinely. Under the cover of the preset baffle, the corresponding personnel can go directly to a very close place under the city wall through the bent and detoured trenches; it is almost a distance that can be shot by bows and arrows, but the casting of stones and rolling wood is not even enough.

Then, the rebel soldiers with their own accents of fellow villagers shouted, and indirectly wavered and affected the morale of the defenders. The main content was nothing more than promoting the rebel army's propositions and slogans, and even promising the people in the city to escape and return home without being disturbed.

Of course, this is just to cover up other things. The city responded to the scattered arrows and extremely poorly accurate stones, but it also exposed and marked some key long-range projection positions in disguise.

On a large earth platform where the central army set up a tent, Zhou Huaian was also looking at it alone. The large sand table made based on the terrain in Runzhou, the various small flags that originally represented the interlaced between the official army and the rebel army had been removed or replaced, and became sparse and brighter.

It was mainly because Zhang Quan, a coastal envoy, one of the main forces of the three official troops, retreated near Jintan; Hailing Town forced Gao Ba to destroy Yanling City, which resulted in the implementation of the plan to siege the city and attack the aid plan.

Among the remaining parts, the largest official army represented the largest, the Hangzhou regiment, which was trained by the Badu regiment, was in an unknown state where the news was delayed by at least two days. Therefore, it was also marked with key points.

During the period of time he was in charge of the besieged city, Zhou Huaian became a little more idle; because he was destined to give specific things to his subordinates to perform, the common affairs that he needed to do in person became much less and less.

Therefore, there is also more time to deal with reports and requests for in-river matters delivered by water and land transportation.

For example, under the rule of the Taiping Army, most of the areas have been completed, whether it is the civilian supervision of production activities, or the collective spring farming operations in the garrison and military farms;

After last summer and autumn, harvest and winter consumption, there is still a gap of about 100,000 stones of grain in Hunan, which needs to be transported from the outside of the Ling River for adjustment and replenishment; the situation in the west of Ling River is slightly better, and there is still a surplus of more than 20,000 stones, mainly from the output from the Guilin Basin where Guizhou is located.

Another related good news is that a new batch of water-wheeled vehicles have been invested in the daily transportation of various tributaries in Lingbei, and have achieved good results; for example, the Qitianling and Yuechengling lines from Lianzhou to Chenzhou have increased by at least 30% to 50%.

Therefore, the next step is to continue to manufacture and use waterwheelers and ships in Hunan, and to demonstrate and try projects. In addition, there is a related news that has been involved.

As the Taiping Army gradually stabilized and settled the territory outside the Lingnan area, a group of merchants who actively moved closer to the Taiping regime and requested cooperation began to appear in Canton and Chaoxun. The reasons they claimed were also very simple;

Since most of these businessmen who have been doing business for generations have relied on the Taiping Army to reopen their shipping routes and expand foreign trade, they have gained a lot of benefits and convenience; if they cannot provide feedback and rewards to the founders and maintainers of all this, they will not be able to continue to do these businesses with peace of mind and ease.

Therefore, this time, under the name of corresponding trading companies and guilds, they are willing to raise personnel, materials, cars, horses, etc., to purchase and carry some materials and outputs designated by the rebel army on behalf of them; they are willing to do their best to transport the Taiping Army between the outer ridges of Lailing and Outer ridges.

Of course, if they can be allowed to use their carriages and horses to bring some products from Jingnan, Hunan and Jiangxi on the way back, they will be even more grateful and excited.

Seeing this, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but smile; based on the vision and foresight accumulated by later generations in studying history, how could he not see the subtext behind the main content of the merchant losing the army and helping the army?

The so-called self-provided personnel, carriages and animals, use this to feed back and give back to the Taiping Army's convenience, which may be part of the truth, but it is not the complete content and demand; the real foreshadowing is still on the last point of the request. Obviously, they are interested in the potential emerging markets and business opportunities represented by the Taiping Army on the territory outside the ridge.

Of course, this is not a bad thing or a strictly prohibited matter; it only needs to be further detailed and guided, and a corresponding reward and punishment mechanism is established; it is enough to ensure that under the natural instinct of merchants seeking profit, some bottom line and standards will not be easily broken.

Just like in the early days of liberation in later generations, TG also tried to strive for and unite the national bourgeois merchants who were harvested and tortured by the comprador regime again and again; they even planned to use them as external bridges to play their role.

However, driven by huge profits and opportunistic nature, capitalists who provided black-hearted cotton and fake wounded medicine to the volunteer army to die again and again. This was why the three anti-rebellions, five anti-rebellions, and the movement to comprehensively redemption and transformation of the industrial and commercial system of New China.

However, after carefully reviewing the various proposals in the following notes, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but sigh again; but he also felt a sense of déjà vu, and then he thought about it.

Isn’t this the prototype of the “Kaizhong French” implementation of the Ming and Qing governments in the later Ming and Qing dynasties using salt and tea as intermediaries to recruit merchants to receive military rations, horses and other materials? It actually sprouted by accident among such a group of foreign merchants.

In this feudal society based on relatively backward agricultural standards, although merchants are mostly despised, suppressed and suppressed in the social class because of their profit-seeking nature and hoarding nature;

But from another perspective, they also have the adventurous spirit of exploration and pioneering, dare to break the old barriers and restrictions, be good at seizing opportunities and using all their means to achieve corresponding goals.

Will it be possible that under my own rule in the future, we will cultivate and spawn a group of emerging ling merchants similar to those of later generations of Shanxi merchants and Hui merchants, just like the Ming and Qing dynasties?

During this period, the poetic monk Xu Zhong who was broken and left behind was not idle. He was arranged to conduct a religious belief survey in a sense in the newly surrendered rebel soldiers. This was also a test of him during his observation period.

Compared to the Nanchan monk Yixin who was trapped in the disguise in Canton, the monk Xuzhong, who presided over the Buddhist academy, was actually the origin of the Pure Land Sect (also known as the Lotus Sect) and was given the precepts from the Huiyuan lineage of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Donglin Temple, Lushan, Jiangxi Road.

You should know that this is a universal sect that is closest to the lower class in history and opens the door of convenience. It is said that by chanting Amitabha Buddha, you can be reborn in the Pure Land. It is also the most thorough sect among the eight major Buddhist sects.

In history, it has been repeatedly formed by anti-government associations such as the White Lotus Sect, Manichaeism and underground feudal ecclesiastical sects, and used the special existence of the believer's development model. Miller's reincarnation and the birthless mother were all fabricated from this basis.

After it was passed down to neon, a bunch of strange things were extended, such as the Pure Land True Sect (a sect in the cartoon Ikki), which used the monastery as a family business to manage and inherit the temples and practiced with the female votes and female branches, and also the Yixiang Sect, which occupied a large number of territory and population with the call of the monks, and often initiated rebellion on other people's territory by chanting the slogan of rebirth by chanting the Buddha's name and initiated rebellion on other people's territory. They are all derived from the corresponding source.

Although the Pure Land Sect in this era was not so strange, it lacked enough presence in the monk and official system established by the court, and it was also the faction that was least affected by the Huichang Dharma difficulty of Wuzong's destruction of Buddhism.

For example, the Huiyuan lineage of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was mastered by the three branches of Pure Land in the Void, is known for being proficient in Confucianism and being apart from Laozi and Zhuangzi since his ancestor Huiyuan. He often gathers disciples and believers to give lectures on the White Lotus Pond in Donglin Temple, also known as the "Lotus Sect" and "White Lotus Society". It can be regarded as one of the earliest advocates of the integration and interconnection of the three religions.

Therefore, this Pure Land Lotus Sect also inherited and followed the legacy of the early Buddhist sects. That is, most monks who came to Dongtu to preach the Dharma in the early days of the Heavenly Land mastered corresponding knowledge of medicine, astronomy, geography, calendar, philosophy, literature, mathematics and alchemy (chemistry); even professional knowledge such as room art and self-cultivation.

And he is proficient in eloquence and crisscrossing arts, as a stepping stone to impress and attract all walks of life and all walks of life in the process of teaching the Dharma, to obtain the convenience and resources for corresponding actions. For example, Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism who was able to make a fortune by playing with human organ sacrifices and practicing wife swapping with Tubo Zanpu, is the leader who has made his own way through the external teachings.

Despite this, after countless monks in the past dynasties, only a few names such as Shemoteng, Zhu Falan from the Eastern Han Dynasty, Kumarajiva, Bodhidharma from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Shanwuwei from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Vajrazhi were left in the history of Middle-earth; others were all lost in the historical dust of civilization spreading due to various accidents and obstacles.

Therefore, when the Tang monk Xuanzang, who came from the East, arrived at the Buddhist temple and began to go downhill to seek the scriptures, it naturally caused a huge sensation and response; and the schools from the Theravada of the Hinayana to the Mahayana Yoga Madhyamaka were eager to praise it as the "Xuanzang Tripitaka" and awarded the titles of "Mahayana Heaven" and "Liberation Heaven" with the highest honor to all sects.

Even as an idol, he convened an unblocked meeting to preach the Dharma to the kings of hundreds of countries and thousands of cities, which inspire people. Then, as soon as Xuanzang left, the God-like Buddhist sect that was returning to the sky began to collapse, and once again gave Wang Xuance from the Tang Dynasty a sense of existence.

So, as the origin of the corresponding Lotus Sect, Xu Zhong, who is proficient in poetry and literature, was able to have a good relationship with many famous scholars and everyone when he traveled to Beijing, and after returning home, he could gather the villagers and teach the fields and the mountains and fields.

But it also caused trouble from the government and became one of the ironclad evidence and sins of the "virtual demon monk" who was indisputable. It can be said that it has a very meaning of causal reincarnation, which is "one drink and one peck, it is nothing more than the previous determination; every word and one action, it all becomes the seed of cause".

But no matter what, there is such a bottom-level belief that is good at adapting and absorbing new things; it can form a corresponding balance and restraint on the Canton, and even an effective competitive state in the spiritual field, so as not to allow the magical version of Nan Chan's family to dominate.

"I'm a little hungry, you guys take these things first..."

Then he looked at Yu Hou and the Military Academy who were standing outside the tent and listening.

After a while, his graceful figure holding a lacquered wooden pallet appeared in the empty military tent with the sound of summoning outside. Zhou Huaian's slightly tired and tired face slowly relaxed.

During the breaks of handling these official duties, he even had time to play interactive projects that are beneficial to physical and mental health, adjust emotions and relieve stress with Yao Niang, who is with the army.

For example, "squat down and bite" when processing and annotating official documents; lying down or falling, lying on the desk between documents or cases to play; sitting inseparably on the thighs, communicating their moods in an easy-to-understand manner, reading and reciting with ups and downs, some correspondence or newly published works...

Such popular tricks and programs are constantly staged between the busy military tents. As the saying goes, the joy of life is "a red sleeve adds fragrance, serves the left and right, and is free to have a strong love".

"You feed me food first... I'll 'feed' you later...."

Zhou Huaian hugged her meaningfully, sat across his knees and said word by word.

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