Zhou Shixiang highly recognized the words of Duke Xiang of Song. In his previous life, he knew a famous saying, that is, wars are logistical, and wars without logistical support have no hope of victory.??.?`co?m. In this era, this sentence can be directly summarized as-the war in the late Ming Dynasty was a war of food.

The rebellion of refugees during the Chongzhen period was ultimately because the people were too hungry to bear it. In order to survive, they could only take up weapons to build an anti-official government. The same was true for the rebellion outside the Qing Dynasty. In order to be able to eat well, they could only make the Ming Dynasty's idea of ​​being richer than them. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, why was the north suppressed by them in a short period of time? The most important reason was that the population in the north was lost!

If there are fewer people, food will naturally be enough to eat. If there is food in your stomach, the people will not ask whether you are a Han court or a Hu court. Whoever can fill our stomachs will be the court!

Although many people advocated the rule of the Qing Dynasty in their previous lives, Zhou Shixiang, who was immersive, simply believed that the Qing Dynasty could steal the Central Plains and stabilize the situation quickly because of their countless massacres on the Han territory.

The massacre was not because of the resistance of the Han people, but because they had no food!

The Qing Dynasty could not provide food to the Han people, but was afraid that they would not be able to resist, so they simply killed them all. In this way, there was no one left, and no matter how small the production in the field was, it would be enough for the remaining people to fill their stomachs. In this way, the Qing Dynasty did not need to bear the heavy population burden of the Ming Dynasty, nor did they have to be afraid of re-taking the old path of the demise of the Ming Dynasty. It would be so cost-effective to do something!

The Qing army was able to fight because they could eat enough. If the Taiping Army wanted to defeat the Qing army, they also had to fill their stomachs.???`c?o?m Only full soldiers had the strength to go to the battlefield, and only full soldiers would talk about the people who could fill their stomachs.

The five words "My mother" that have milk is a mother, whether it is Zhou Shixiang's past or present life, are derogatory words, often describing people's ungratefulness. However, if it is placed on the army, these five words determine everything.

Why can the Taiping Army recruit new recruits? Are these recruits all caring about their family and country, and carrying blood hatred to be mortal with the Qing Dynasty? Obviously not. They came to join the army to eat the Taiping Army's rations, to reduce the burden on their families, and to obtain benefits from the Taiping Army for their families. If the Taiping Army cannot make them full, they will be dissatisfied and then doubt the policies implemented by the Taiping Army in Xiangshan. In the end, they will abandon the Taiping Army and even turn their heads to bite the Taiping Army.

This is how human hearts are.

Zhou Shixiang never expected many of these new recruits who really fought against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. So he had to solve the problem of military rations. Don’t say that the two-month food shortage period is not enough for one day.???`c?om not only needs to ensure that there is rice, but also needs to ensure that you can eat meat from time to time. At least the soldiers have enough strength to participate in training and have enough confidence to rush to the battlefield.

Zhang An brought information from Zhaoqing that Beijing would set up a city in Guangzhou, and also spent a lot of money to get the details of the Qing troops stationed in various parts of Guangdong from Tang Sanshui.

At the latest March, the Eight Banners of Manzhou that came from Beijing would arrive in Guangzhou. By then, Shang Kexi, who had been in Guangzhou, would definitely have a tiger out of the cave. Now it is difficult for Zhou Shixiang to judge whether Shang Kexi should first set up a new tour or sweep the Taiping Army in Xiangshan first. However, no matter which direction Shang Kexi chooses first, it is not a good thing for the Taiping Army.

Zhou Shixiang was very surprised that Zhang An was able to squeeze Tang Sanshui's useful value to the greatest extent. This ambassador of the Military Intelligence Department, which he set up on a whim in Luo Ding, was really impressive.

Zhou Shixiang asked Song Ying to accompany Zhang An to travel around the Xiangshan townships, and then took out 600 taels of gold from the public treasury and handed it to Zhang An. He asked Zhang An to return to Zhaoqing to display the intelligence network to Guangzhou City and immediately established two secret communication channels with Xiangshan.

The first channel is through Guangzhou to Xiangshan, and the second channel is through Xinhui to Xiangshan. Zhou Shixiang told Zhang An that these two secret contact channels must be controlled by the most trustworthy people, and the intelligence officers on both lines cannot know the other party's existence. The same information must be transmitted to Xiangshan at the same time through two lines. In this way, even if one of them has problems, the other side can send the information to.

Zhou Shixiang was just an ordinary soldier in his previous life. He didn't know much about intelligence, intelligence network construction, intelligence personnel training, etc., but his underground struggle dramas seen from movies and TV are definitely the most valuable intelligence knowledge of this era. So he took two days to teach Zhang An and Song Ying all the knowledge he knew about the intelligence front. He transferred 8 veterans who had followed the Taiping Army since Luo Ding and asked Zhang An to bring back to Zhaoqing in order to strengthen his power.

After learning that Zhang An and Tang Sanshui had a rice shop, Zhou Shixiang asked Zhang An if he could secretly transport part of the food to Xiangshan. Zhang An was a little embarrassed about this. After all, Zhaoqing and Xiangshan were too far away. There was Guangzhou City in the middle, and it was definitely not possible to transport grain to Xiangshan. But Zhang An still agreed to go back to find Tang Sanshui to see if he could transport grain to Xiangshan through Xinhui.

The Xinhui is now guarded by Chen Qice's navy and general Zhu Tong and others. They are also short of food. If Zhang An really uses the Tang Sanshui route to transport grain from Zhaoqing, Zhou Shixiang is sure that Chen Qice and Zhu Tong will definitely want to get a share of it. This is not to say that Chen Qice and others are greedy, but are forced by reality.

Zhou Shixiang asked Zhang An to go back and think of a solution. If it really doesn't work, it would be fine. If Tang Sanshui agreed to help and the grain could really be transported to Xinhui, then he would discuss the matter with Chen Qice and the others. No matter what, they would get some points. After all, they were in trouble, and they had to point at the people and use the navy to transport the grain across the river.

After Zhang An left, Zhou Shi discussed food with Liao Ruixiang and Song Xianggong for two consecutive days.

After the establishment of the township offices, the first order the township chiefs received was to collect tax grains for the tenth year of Yongli in each village, saying that they would collect tax grains for the tenth year of Yongli, which is the tax grain for the tenth year of Yongli, but this year's end of the year, and the spring plowing has not yet begun, so in fact, the Taiping Army collected money and grains for the nineth year of Yongli.

In the ninth year of Yongli, that is, the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, Sun Wenzheng, the magistrate of Xiangshan appointed by the Qing Dynasty, had already collected two seasons of money and grain. Because of the need for the Xinhui siege, he was expropriated again. Even though Xiangshan was fertile and ripe for two a year (the former Shanzhai and other places could reach three acres), he could not withstand the Qing army's collection. He thought that the Taiping Army was going to conquer this year's summer grain, but what he didn't want to conquer was last year's autumn grain. This made many farmers who had just tasted the sweetness from the Taiping Army were very dissatisfied. The township offices were full of complaints about the county's grain collection order, thinking that it was appropriate to collect grain, but it could not conquer the grain from last year this year. This made the people think and how the township chiefs were working.

However, soon, the county came to the official documents, asking each township to immediately check the population in its jurisdiction and re-register it into a yellow book and send it to the county. At the same time, all Dingkou registered in the yellow book will no longer be sent to the government for corvee service. Not only that, in the future, the government will need to recruit people to build roads, bridges, dig ditches and canals, and travel on business trips and transportation will be different from before. Not only do they not need to bring their own tools and rations, but they will provide food and accommodation. After completion, they can also settle the service fee at a price of 6 yuan a day.

There is also a big stick that is smashed together with carrots. Anyone who does not cooperate with the government to register will not only be exempted from corvee service, but also has to increase the local tax. The government will have some levies, and these families are also the first to collect. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!