"When food and wealth are on the pavilion and wearing brocade robe, how could the people be in trouble?

Pour the blood of thousands of families with fine wine and cut the fat sheep and the paste of thousands of families with fine cuts.

The tears of candles are pouring out, and the songs are loud and complaining;

The sheep gave to the wolves and gave up the court to let you go."

"Guangxiao Mansion" by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty

——The dividing line of the number of words—

In Chang'an City, which is known as the most important and prosperous area in the east, the east, the west, and the south, the north.

It happened to be in the Guanglufang between the Daming Palace, Tai Chi Palace and Xingqing Palace, spanned several streets in a corner of the Wang family's residence. The former prime minister, the storefront and representative of the Wang family in Jinyang, Wang Duo, the current white-body commoner, was also wearing a loose gray silk melon-backed robe and was having a slow meal.

But compared to those Wang clan members, relatives, disciples, and guests who were forced to stay in this house after being dismissed, all kinds of fear, fear, or sad day and night;

Wang Duo, who once claimed to be the storefront and lookout among the five surnames and seven hopes, is the best luxury and enjoyment and showcase. He is surrounded by dozens of beautiful girls every day. The nickname "San Letang Old" looks quite calm and calm at this moment.

He was standing on the mat with a group of Wu Daozi's "The Emperor of Ming Seals" on the mat. On the painted wooden plate, there was only a bowl of chicken oil bottou and three slices of silver crumbs. He even used a pair of wooden chopsticks to inadvertently eat some kind of food under the corridor where he was in the inner room, making a leisurely and graceful manner.

Of course, when he really fell into this state, Wang Duo had a great sense of enlightenment and began to use his own means of staying away from the sound and color, and resolutely cultivating oneself; it was as if he was deeply influenced by Mr. Wu Liu (Tao Yuanming)'s transcendent state of "not being happy with things or being sad with oneself".

Of course, another more famous anecdote of him was related to Fear. It was rumored that when he was the chief of the various camps to conquer Huang Chao, he left his wife, the famous Cui family of five surnames and seven hopes, in the capital, and only accompanied him with his favorite concubines.

As a result, the troops came down one day and reported: "Mrs. I'm already halfway through the way." Wang Duo asked in panic: "The thief gradually approached from the south, and the wife rushed from the north again in anger. She was about to arrive overnight. What should I do?"

Sometimes an aide joked, "It's better to surrender to Huang Chao." Wang Duo couldn't help laughing. Unexpectedly, he was actually a prophecy.

You should know that he was also one of the pushers who advocated pursuing Huang Ni back then, but he never thought that now he turned around and that Huang thief wanted to pursuing him, his old husband.

That's right, Huang Chao, the leader of the rebel who now occupies Chang'an, wants to urge him to use it.

Therefore, on the one hand, he sent people to guard his mansion and vaguely threatened hundreds of relatives from all over the tribe, but also asked Zhang Zhifang, the general of Jinwu, to come to the door to persuade him, the old man who was demoted and retired to his home to think about his mistakes because of his defeat.

But he was the leader of the five surnames and seven hopes - the leader of the Jinyang King's clan in Beijing. He was once one of the few prime ministers who had left the town and entered the cabinet in the world. How could the decent role models and examples of the clans in the world be so easily in adversity, and he was a group of vulgar and unwilling thieves.

Even Huang Chao was just a mere scholar who had just landed on the ground. Even if he wanted to post it under his own disciple in his early years, he would be thrown out by the guard cabinet on the display board. Now he is called "decent nationality" like himself, who is lonely and widowed, as a foil and decorate.

However, now that the thief is more arrogant than others, he can only be half empty and half secret, and use some vague means of shirking the other party first, waiting for the development and direction of the situation.

When he was halfway through the meal, there was an old Cangtou with a gray beard and an old black shirt. He bent his hands beside him and whispered:

"Now in the streets in the city, there are those despicable and righteous people who fail to live up to the emperor's kindness and do not want to serve the country, and they are rampant for a while."

"The humble little people in the city were easily encouraged and celebrated by just because these thieves executed the children of Wufang who were causing trouble in the streets and had also captured the places of many eunuchs, their minions and pawns."

"How have the dynasty who have been promoted to the dynasty treated those people too much? However, since the thief is arrogant, he is easily tempted by the small profits in front of him, and is determined to make the thief's accounts and rewards...

"The day before yesterday, there were two masters of Renshou. The prince consort flew away while dressed up, but was exposed by the other generation and became a thief again. The two prince consorts were even killed by the thief on the streets."

"There is another minister, Xiao Taichang, and Li Shui's troops joined forces to leave the North Gate. They were reported to the despicable people in the yard and were imprisoned on the spot."

Hearing this, Wang Duo couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, and sighed secretly.

Even if these thieves are now only attacking the officials and their related party members who have a bad reputation and have a very bad reputation, who can guarantee that they will not be able to fill in the future and continue to do the things that are the pillars of their country.

What's more, although there are many oppositions and disputes between these eunuchs and ministers from the outside court in normal times, they are still basically powerful and consistent in maintaining state authority.

Therefore, in Chang'an City, it is now a dark sun that is full of rebellion between high and low, morality is lost, and demons are dancing around.

However, another major concern in the south - the Taiping Thief, is not a good-looking lamp. Although it is said that compassion does not kill too much, it is even more overwhelmingly likes humiliating and harsh and decent people;

Especially those who think that those rich surnames who are looking for the clan and seeking grievances are confiscated, and after the family of the great clans, they will all be subdued as lowly slaves and call them "labor reform". This is an evil thing that has never been heard of before.

At least in comparison, Huang Chao, who was willing to recruit and retain the old friends of the imperial court, was able to take into account the gentle and decent existence.

At this time, there was another cautious sound from outside.

"I have reported to the master that Cui Miao, the new palace etiquette envoy, has been waiting for him after the mansion."

Wang Duo couldn't help but feel that Cui Miao, who was once the governor of Yuezhou and the observing envoy of Zhejiang East, was a small branch of the Cui family in Qinghe, the seven-ninth surname of the five surnames, and was also the first court guard to surrender to the thief. Therefore, it is said that he was quite trusted by Huang Ni.

Thanks to his initiative to come here, I am afraid that Huang Chao can't wait to do the matter of becoming the commander.

——The dividing line for word count—

It took only a moment to take down the Xiangyang City Gate Index, but it took more than three days to pacify the participating resistance forces in Xiangyang City.

At least those Yichang soldiers and private soldiers who were on the verge of despair showed various fighting spirits and resilience that were different from those on the city walls in the way of defending their respective families to the last resort.

During this period, no one sent representatives to propose conditions for relative preferential treatment and protection; for example, they were asked to withdraw from the city with soft and soft and corps, or to remove some people from the blacklist of Taiping Army's future liquidation.

For this reason, they even robbed and held the remaining defenders who fled into the inner city and the Yacheng, as well as a large number of officials from the Jieya, the Yunsi Department, and the Salt and Iron Court, and controlled many private accounts of the officials as bargaining chips and costs for negotiations.

It’s a pity that Zhou Huaian, who is in control of the general situation, no longer looks down on their little speculation. Only when the overall situation is settled, fools will leave themselves with these hand-to-hand and future problems.

Therefore, within a large circle surrounding the inner city, the mansions of many wealthy families, wealthy families, officials and wealthy merchants were ignited one after another, destroyed and demolished one after another, and the remaining people had to accept the consequences of not surrendering and accepting the subsequent trial, they would die immediately.

However, when Zhou Huaian was surrounded by others, most of them stepped into this city that seemed to be broken after being cleaned up, and they were in a good mood.

Because it occupied Xiangyang City, Xiangzhou, a north-south transport hub and Wangyao Dayi, which was covered by mountains, not only means that the Jianghan Plain in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is under the control of the Taiping Army, but it is completely closed to the natural gateway threatened from the north.

It also represents many possibilities for the gradual opening of the road to Guanzhong to gradually open the north and the large army of Huang Chao, who was conquering cities and territory in the pass, echoing the north and south and finally connecting to the front line.

Even the barriers that crossed the Tongbai Mountains eastward again threatened the Huaixi prefectures, or along the natural victory along the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and could once again advance to the Jiangdong and Zhejiang in the lower reaches or the Huainan coastal areas.

However, after capturing the key points of Xiangzhou, which penetrated into the Nanyang Basin, the Taiping Army could not further capture the Nanyang Basin and even the entire Shandong East Road. However, the subsequent supply of fronts and local maintenance consumption were seriously beyond the Taiping Army's plan.

After all, it is now early August before and after the harvest. The consequences of the attack from the five-way government forces are continuing to spread; Jingzhou is in ruins and delays the basic farming season. Basically, don’t expect any harvest.

Others affected by the war and chaos, Yue, Heng and Tan Gezhou also had severe production cuts and poor harvests to varying degrees. Just to rebuild the villages and workshops in these places and to avoid large-scale famines and exiles in the local area, a large amount of food needs to be mobilized from outside the ridge to fill the gap.

The small and small farms under the military farms affected by the war reached 167, one-third of which were completely destroyed or almost nowhere to be used; the rest also suffered losses and destruction to varying degrees.

In this case, although the previous results and achievements were supplemented, it is already quite difficult to maintain the stability of the situation in Jingnan, Hunan, and some Jiangxi and Jiangdong, and to promote the local armed clearance and anti-revolutionary work, resettlement more villages and collect exiles.

Before fully digesting and controlling these places and persisting until the harvest is achieved in the coming year, there is no way to increase the big burden of Shannan Road and even carry out more lasting war operations.

Of course, if Zhou Huaian follows the practices of the traditional warlords of the vassal states, he will naturally be much more worry-free. Usually, as long as he sends troops to block the borders and intersections, he can let the people who have nowhere to go to live in the countryside and the mountains and forests be better; or simply drive away refugees to other places to eat to reduce the burden of maintaining their rule.

However, if Zhou Huaian wants to turn them into the mobilization base and production capacity under his own rule, he needs to invest more resources and manpower; after all, after the expansion of the territory and the in-depth cleaning of the local area, a large number of relatively qualified and reliable manpower are also needed to ensure basic execution and administrative efficiency at the grassroots level.

In addition, this incident also reflected an invisible benefit of the Taiping land and a mu system. It is the location of the resettlement villages and management sites, providing a lot of manpower and material support for the local Taiping Army to defend all key areas and key areas. Although it is dismissed and resettled back later, it also requires considerable investment.

As for the seven prefectures in the eastern part of Shannan, they cannot be easily let go; after cleaning up local forces, they followed the story of Jiangdong and Zhejiang, and appointed and supported some local garrisons to maintain the situation, and continued to exist as a buffer zone between the court and the forces of the vassal states.
Chapter completed!