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"Shi Dakai has to be eliminated!" Vézé said to the Central Committee members. The stark contrast between his casual tone and the content of his words stunned the Central Committee members.
"… Commander-in-chief, what do you mean?" Even Wei Changrong, widely acknowledged as Vézé's number one confidant, stammered. "Are we going to send troops?"
Shi Dakai had led nearly 200,000 troops from Fujian to Gannan. Along the way, he had been invincible and had seized several cities. Gannan had not been attacked. The battle between the Liberation Army and the Qing Army had been confined to Ganzhou. The battle had been swift and decisive. The Qing Army had been systematically annihilated, but the lives of the common people had not been affected. If there was one effect, it was that a portion of the impoverished people of Gannan had dragged their families to Guangdong to make a living.
After receiving supplies and reorganizing in Gannan, Shi Dakai did not attempt to advance into Guangdong. Instead, he continued westward in an attempt to fight in Hunan. In terms of military strength and combat effectiveness, Shi Dakai's troops, which had been defeated in Zhejiang and Fujian, had now recovered.
If the Liberation Army wanted to "eliminate" Shi Dakai now, the only method they could think of was to personally send troops to attack. It was obviously impossible to count on the Qing Army to annihilate Shi Dakai's troops.
Wei Changrong took the lead and asked. The others felt the same way. Regardless of how they had left the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, regardless of what role Shi Dakai had played in the rebellion in Tianjing, the Liberation Army had no intention of taking the initiative to annihilate the troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Everyone looked at Vézé with unease.
Vézé stood up and waved his hand. "I have no plan to attack Shi Dakai. The reason why Shi Dakai must be eliminated is because this extraordinary man of the Taiping Rebellion is walking towards his own inevitable destruction! "
Vézé was not good at history, so he did not know that Shi Dakai had gone to Zhejiang first, then Fujian, then Hunan. After circling around the base of the Taiping Rebellion, Shi Dakai had finally run to Sichuan with a few remnants of his troops. As Shi Dakai's troops entered Hunan, Vézé had basically given up hope for Shi Dakai's future.
The Taiping army was not the Red Army. It did not have a strong core of leadership, nor did it have a lofty ideal worth fighting to the death. It was the same for Vézé's troops. It was just that after Vézé had introduced industry to the Liberation Army, the Liberation Army had seen a new direction for victory and development. In the process of advancing towards the industrial era, it could also satisfy the subordinates' thirst for power and victory. As long as they crossed the threshold of building an industrial country, even if the future was not a smooth one, it could at least be regarded as a revolutionary success in a sense.
If Vézé could tell everyone about such a difficult path, what kind of path could Shi Dakai point out to his subordinates? With a future and hope, people could fight on. This clear future and hope was precisely what Shi Dakai could not point out. He could only rely on his past victories and his "prestige" to make people follow him. But this kind of trust from his subordinates would be exhausted with each failure. It was impossible to be like the Red Army, who persisted based on their own ideals.
Without hiding anything, Vézé told the representatives about the promising path the Liberation Army had taken, as well as the hopeless future that Shi Dakai was walking on. Some of these national representatives had never thought about this problem from this perspective, or they had thought about it, but had a very vague impression. But after listening to Vézé's explanation so clearly, they no longer questioned or objected. Instead, they could not help but frown and think.
Vézé did not give these people too much time to think. He continued, "Now is not the time a few years ago when anyone could gather a team to rebel. The time is different, and the situation is completely different. Just like in Guangdong, now not to mention dozens of people preparing to rebel, even hundreds or thousands of people rebelling, we can still easily deal with them! So far, those who have not been on this stage can forget about setting up their own forces. But those who have already set up their own forces cannot go on like this for long. The people on the stage will be eliminated one by one. The first to be eliminated is Shi Dakai, who has no future, then those who have no ideals, and then those who have no ability. In the end, the winner will step on the whole earth, the stage with the whole world as the curtain. I will take everyone to stand on that stage. Regardless of whether my brothers and sisters can understand what I am saying now, this is the future I have promised everyone! "
After saying this, Vézé sat back in his chair. Even for the 21st-century Vézé, when he first returned to this era, he only knew the direction, not the path. Advancing step by step, gathering the troops, establishing the territory, and starting the construction, Vézé was finally able to combine his imagination with reality. But Vézé could not be sure how far the people of the Revival Association could see, and whether they were willing to continue following Vézé.
After a moment, Hu Chenghe said with a puzzled expression, "Commander in Chief, do you not trust us?"
Vézé shook his head. "This is not a question of trust or not. Shi Dakai's experience will show everyone how terrifying it is to walk on a path without a future. This future is not a continuation of the past. Shi Dakai could fight a war in the past, and he had won a war. In the end, a group of brothers felt that following Shi Dakai had a future, and that following Shi Dakai could be the same as before. As a result, they were unable to gain a foothold in any place. Shi Dakai was still the same Shi Dakai, his brothers were still the same, and his tactics were still the same. In the past, you could defeat the Qing Army just because you wanted to, but there was no way you could defeat the Qing Army. As for us, since the founding of the army, from training to equipment, from combat methods to combat concepts, we have revised and changed countless times. Everything about us is changing, except for winning a war. So in the military academy, I have repeatedly repeated a phrase from Sun Tzu's Art of War: Victory is known, but it cannot be won! Does everyone understand now? "
Using the phrase from Sun Tzu's Art of War, which everyone had repeatedly studied, everyone, especially those who had experienced war, was suddenly enlightened. Wei Changrong immediately shouted, "Shi Dakai thinks he wants to win a war, but he only wants to find a direct path to victory before the war. We only know what is the right path, but we don't know how to win before the war, so we can only fight and see. So the more we want to win, the more Shi Dakai wants to win, the more he is afraid of losing. In the end, he can only run around like a dog. As he runs, he causes the troops to scatter! "
This explanation was even more straightforward. This principle wasn't just limited to war. Everyone who made steel had similar experiences. Pang Congcong said, "If you know how to make steel, you can make steel. But as for what kind of steel, we can only know after the final test. "
Vézé's original meaning was actually quite far from everyone's level of understanding, but now that everyone had finally understood this principle, it could be considered a gain. Not wanting to muddy everyone's already clear thinking, Vézé said, "Shi Dakai is finished. We don't know exactly how he's finished, but if he continues like this, it won't be long before his name is gone from the martial world. He's out! We don't need to think about supporting Shi Dakai anymore. We don't want to waste our money. What we need to worry about is what Shi Dakai will do on his path of failure. From Jiangnan to Hunan, he must attack Chenzhou, so we have to wait for him to leave Chenzhou before we go there. After he attacks Chenzhou, the Qing Army can't possibly not suffer losses. At that time, it will be even easier for us to take Chenzhou. We need to pay attention to this. "
"Okay! Let's wait a little longer! "Pang Congcong said immediately. As long as there was a clear timetable, the steel company wouldn't be so impatient.
Vézé continued, "In addition, we also need to prepare to march into Guangxi. Our goal is to seize the area bordering Annan. Because Annan's Hongji has a coal mine, we need to rent that area from the Annans. Then we will transport coal from Hongji Coal Mine! "
"Annan?" "Hongji Coal Mine?" The representatives couldn't keep up with Vézé's jumping train of thought. They were talking about the war at home, but suddenly it jumped to another country. This was an extraordinary leap.
Since Vézé had already started planning, he didn't care about causing more shock. "We should thank the French for this. They are ready to annex Annan. After Annan was attacked, they need help, and we are the only ones who can help them. Our condition is very simple. We will rent the area around Hongji Coal Mine. This process is very complicated, but when the external conditions are in place, we can start … "
Everyone was dumbfounded as they watched Wei Ze talk about the foreign affairs. Wei Changrong couldn't help but laugh and say, "Commander in Chief, you go to work and get off work like us every day, but when you're with us, it's as if the world has become smaller. The number of things we can do has become unimaginable! "
Vézé laughed, "That's a good idea! There are countless things to do in this world. There's no way we can be lazy! "
After saying this, Vézé suddenly changed the topic, "If we want to transport coal to Annan, we must hope that the ship will be big and fast. If they wanted to build a big ship that could sail fast, the shipyard would need a steam engine and a navy to escort them. We need more iron and more wood. In order to complete this task, the prerequisite is to produce more steel … "
Pang Congcong laughed, "Commander-in-chief, according to what you said, in order to be able to produce more steel in the future, we must produce more steel now. Isn't this what comes first, the egg or the chicken? "
Vézé nodded, "That's right! It seems to be so. If we want to meet the needs of the factory, we must solve the problem of the iron mine and coal mine. If we want to solve the iron mine and coal mine, it's not something that can be solved by a simple steel company. It requires the cooperation of all the departments in the country. The reason why the Manchu Qing is destined to be destroyed is because the officials are just officials. The reason why we will definitely win is because we have to do things. In order to do things well, we have various management positions and administrative departments. Therefore, building a country and running a country is a very difficult process. But I have confidence in my comrades. We will definitely overcome the difficulties and become the final winner of the whole of China, and even the whole world! "
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