It was not enough to just destroy the tyrant of Big Cliff Village. This was equivalent to an internship, and the real highlight was yet to come.
One Dayan Village was far from enough.
The whole of Ningbo Prefecture was going to blossom.
The whole of Zhejiang Province was going to blossom too.
For this, Xie He decided to do whatever it took.
"Then … Qing Quan, what should we do next?"
Xie He's deputy, Huang Xiu, asked.
"The next step is to firmly control the whole of Yinxian County! The next step is to control the whole of Ningbo Prefecture! "
Xie He's eyes were filled with coldness.
Zheng Ying and Deputy General Zhao, who were sitting at the side and listening to the meeting, looked at each other with a complicated expression.
What about the next step?
The working group's thoughts were once again unified. Xie He insisted on Xiao Ruxun's policy and divided the working group into a few smaller groups. They went to the villages around Dayan Village to carry out their operations. All the operations were successful.
Everyone in the working group began to familiarize themselves with the methods and methods of carrying out the operations. The torment and self-blame in their hearts also lessened. It was as if they had gotten used to it.
The feeling of holding power was really good. It felt good to have the power to decide one's life and death.
Everyone in the working group had the same thought.
The people in every village and every villager had almost the same situation and way of doing things.
This work did not seem to be difficult.
During the land reform, Xie He was more concerned about maintaining order. Xiao Ruxun had reminded Xie He to pay attention to the speed of the land reform. In other words, they could not let the land reform go too far to the point where they could not maintain their normal lives.
The most important point was to not let the farmers who had gotten the benefits of the land reform go crazy and rush into the town to capture the escaped rich families.
The agricultural production was not important. If the big families were destroyed, the farmers would be more motivated. They would be able to cultivate the land. If the landlords were gone, the farmers could easily replace them and increase the farmers' enthusiasm. However, if the handicrafts and small traders were destroyed, it would be a bad thing.
Scholars, farmers, merchants, and businessmen. Apart from scholars, farmers, merchants, and businessmen had to perform their own duties. Moreover, most of them were at the bottom of society. They couldn't say that they had to destroy the big businesses of the big landlords and the small vendors at the same time. Wouldn't that be too unfair?
Therefore, in the current big business, the shops of the rich families in the cities and towns were directly swallowed up by the government under Xie He's command, becoming the government's property. However, the people managing the business remained the same. The people who were originally hired by the rich families were now hired by the government, and the income was directly recorded into the government's account. To the outside world, it was announced that business was going on as usual.
Xie He was also very busy. She sat in Yinxian County and suppressed all the possible hidden dangers that could be predicted. As for the other things that couldn't be predicted, she could only deal with them as they came.
While Xie He was doing well in Yinxian County, Xiao Ruxun sent the second and third groups of land reform working groups to Ningbo to help Xie He. He also sent two groups to Zhangzhou to carry out the land reform work in Fujian to deal with the increasingly intense local training in Fujian.
In Huguang, Xiao Ruxun led the main force to conquer Xiangxiang and Xiangtan with irresistible force. On the 20th of September, Xiao Ruxun defeated the last resistance army in Changsha and successfully occupied Changsha City. The vanguard was headed straight for Wuchang.
Since entering Huguang, this was the third resistance army that Xiao Ruxun had defeated. The other armies either surrendered or fled. There were very few who dared to resist. Basically, there were no cities that resisted. Many cities surrendered at the mere sight of the army. Before the army arrived, the city gates were already opened.
Xiao Ruxun was very happy that the progress was smooth. Of course, he also knew that the smooth progress was not entirely a good thing. For example, the base was too small. There was obviously not enough manpower to control such a big place, so he needed these surrendered officials to manage it.
They could surrender to him, but who knew if they would secretly stab him in the back? Of course, if his progress was smooth and he could successfully defeat Shen Yicheng's government, these people would not resist and would continue to be their officials.
Compared to the local authorities, Xiao Ruxun was more worried about the army. The army was his foundation. Currently, the entire army had expanded by nearly 100,000 people compared to before the expedition. The Zhennan Army's and the surrendered army's numbers were almost equal.
The Zhennan Army's loyalty could be guaranteed, but the surrendered army's loyalty could not be guaranteed. The surrendered army was not as loyal to Xiao Ruxun as the Zhennan Army was. Once they encountered a setback, it was hard to imagine that they would fight to the death for him.
Therefore, in addition to worrying about the land reform, Xiao Ruxun was more concerned about digesting the surrendered army. He would disperse the surrendered army and reorganize them. Then, he would arrange for the veterans in the Zhennan Army to become officers. They would enter the surrendered army and take control of the surrendered army from the bottom.
He also had to screen the surrendered army. The old, the weak, and the slippery ones would all be sent to the logistics unit to be responsible for logistics and transportation. Only the strong ones would be accepted into the army and accept the personal command and training of the Zhennan Army's officers.
He also had to tell them about his tragic story and the story of how he got a new life under General Xiao after he arrived in Myanmar and joined the Zhennan Army.
At this moment, the original plan to train the elite soldiers had shown even more usefulness. The earliest thirty thousand soldiers of the Southern Battlefront Army had the qualifications to be an officer, and even the weakest one could be a ten-man squad officer. It was the safest to let them take over the positions of the basic officers, and through battle and training, they could directly control the surrendered soldiers themselves.
Xiao Ruxun did not want the combat effectiveness and sharpness of his army to be affected by the addition of the surrendered army. He also did not allow the quality of the army to decline. Therefore, it was the most appropriate way to arrange for the basic officers to control the army.
In any case, during the war, there were many soldiers who had performed meritorious deeds. Many veterans in the Zhennan Army who had performed meritorious deeds could be promoted to officers. There was no shortage of people in his hands.
The situation in Huguang had already taken shape. Wuchang was in imminent danger. Many other prefectures surrendered at the sight of the wind. Not many people were willing to resist.
As for the cities and civil officials who had the intention to resist, they were either killed or captured by their subordinates. Or they were killed after being defeated due to the great disparity in strength.
Speaking of which, in the process of Xiao Ruxun's raising of the army, there were many examples of generals suddenly killing or capturing their civil officials and then opening the city to surrender. It felt like a group of people who had been oppressed for a long time suddenly rising up to vent their dissatisfaction.
Ever since they entered Huguang City, 13 cities had been taken down in this manner.
Xiao Ruxun felt like he had become the leader who led the majority of his brothers in the army to turn things around.
In Sichuan, with the intentional or unintentional avoidance and fear of war, on the 13th of September, Liu Gu and Ma Wei swept away all the obstacles and led the army to the southern suburbs of Chengdu. In the end, they found out that the city gates of Chengdu had been opened and there was no defense.
Liu Gu and Ma Wei were shocked and immediately went to check. In the end, they found out that just a day ago, Sichuan's Inspector Tan Xisi had lost confidence after knowing that there was no hope of resisting. He thought that Chengdu could not be defended. Therefore, he brought his trusted aides and guards to protect the King of Shu's family and fled north.
The huge Brocade Officer City was thrown to Liu Gu and Ma Wei's 50,000 rebel army just like that.
Liu Gu and Ma Wei looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly with a bitter smile.
They thought that they would be besieging the city and fighting a siege. In the end, they did not even fire a single shot and ran away. They even took the King of Shu's family away. This was really unbelievable. However, they had no choice but to believe it. When they led the army into Brocade Officer City, it was indeed smooth. The rebel army quickly occupied the entire city.
Just like that, the administrative, economic, and military center of Sichuan was occupied without any suspense.
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