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On January 13, 1861, Zhou Jinguo, the political commissar of the Second Regiment of the Second Division of the Fourth Army, led his troops towards Yongxing.
At that time, the Chinese Liberation Association had changed its name to the Chinese Liberation Party, and the General Staff had become the Chinese Liberation Army Military Committee. In the new Military Committee, the basic functions of the departments did not change much. However, Vézé changed the system of the General Staff Department to the Party Committee meeting to decide major matters.
The political commissar, as the secretary of the party committee at all levels, held the highest position. The military commander was the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, and most of the other personnel in charge were members of the Restoration Party. As members of the Party Committee, they decided the political content of the actual war operations on the basis of the various basic Party policies issued by the Central Committee.
As a test, the Fourth Army was the first to implement a complete reorganization. A large number of comrades who were outstanding in military affairs and relatively reliable in politics became political commissars at various levels. After so many years of talent accumulation, with the help of the "storm" caused by the land reform in the Fourth Army, the professional political commissars took on the responsibility of leading the army as a political party after fully learning the program of the Liberation Army.
When he joined the Restoration Society, Zhou Jinguo thought that the Liberation Army was one of Military Governor Vaize's own people. Now that the Restoration Association had become the Restoration Party, Zhou Jinguo finally understood what it meant to be one of his own.
In the party class, Zhou Jinguo, who was the son of a farmer, understood the core program of the Restoration Party. "Productivity is the main driving force for social development." Most of the members of the Restoration Party were the sons and daughters of peasants, so it was very easy for them to understand the contents of the meeting.
When the average person had five mu of land, agricultural production technology could effectively promote the development of society. For example, a white iron sickle or a cast iron plow could increase labor efficiency under the same amount of labor. Nowadays, the agricultural production level depended on the Heavens to make a living. If the harvest was completed a day earlier or a day later, the results would be completely different depending on whether it was raining or windy. That was the question of whether they would be able to eat their fill or starve for the next year.
However, at a time when there was less than two mu of land per person, unless there was a fundamental breakthrough in the development of agricultural technology that doubled the yield of grain per mu. Otherwise, as long as there were landlords, there would be problems of uneven distribution, and a large number of peasants would be destined to starve, go bankrupt, and die in a certain year.
Before he joined the rebellion, Zhou Jinguo, a farmer's son, didn't fully understand these things, but he knew that the world was too evil! I can't survive in this world! " After learning how to settle accounts, everyone understood how the landlords, gentry, government, and temples shamelessly and cruelly exploited the peasants. After learning the latest party lesson, everyone was enlightened. Everyone's initial understanding was not wrong. There was indeed a problem with the way of the world.
Originally, everyone thought that there were good landlords and bad landlords in this world. The cruel reality was laid out in front of everyone's eyes. Everyone understood that only if hundreds of millions of farmers died and the average area of cultivated land returned to more than three mu would the conflict be alleviated. Otherwise, the existence of the landlord class and the existence of the old land system that the landlord class relied on was the root cause of the tragedy.
This group of farmers, of course, had the class consciousness of the simple peasant class. Everyone was human, and the farmers did not think that there was any reason for ten peasant families to die in exchange for the safety of one landlord family. Only the destruction of the old land system would save hundreds of millions of peasants, and millions of the landlord class could go to hell.
The Military Governor Of Vaize had once made it clear that if he did not farm, he would not make any inch of farmland his private property. Everyone originally thought that the Military Governor Of Vaize was too pretentious. For a man who was going to be the Emperor, if he owned some land, everyone would sincerely let him have this exceptional privilege. After learning the party lesson, the members of the Restoration Party finally understood why the Military Governor Of Vaize did not want any inch of land. This was not a matter of human kindness, but a fundamental moral problem. If the Governor occupied land that he had no use for, then it was very likely that people would die because they did not get their hands on the land. The Military Governor Of Vaize would never do such an immoral and conscienceless thing.
Zhou Jinguo felt that it was a pity that he could now completely understand the reasons for the land revolution, but he could not quite understand the many other reasons raised by the Military Governor Of Vaize. He could not completely understand many of the central government's policy documents. But at the party meeting, Director Shen Xin, who was in charge of the Fourth Army's political department, had also said that it was not a problem if they did not understand now. As long as everyone followed the Military Governor Of Vaize, they would definitely understand what would happen in the future. Zhou Jinguo regained his confidence when he heard that Director Shen had let Zhou Jincai off the hook.
Of course, as one of them, Zhou Jinguo also knew why the troops didn't directly head north after entering the southern part of Hunan. Hunan was the headquarters of the Xiang Army. If they fought too fiercely, the Xiang Army would have no choice but to return. Everyone had come from the Taiping Rebellion, and the Restoration Party's main goal for the next ten years was to seize national power. If Manchu Qing fell first, everyone would eventually have to fight against the Taiping Rebellion. Since the Taiping Rebellion established by the trickster Heavenly King Hong had to be finished, everyone would feel much better if Manchu Qing destroyed the Taiping Rebellion.
After the political lesson, Zhou Jinguo became the political commissar of the Regiment. Zhou Jinguo originally had no confidence in being the number one in the regiment. But in the new system, the political commissar had to respect the military command of the regiment commander. If the regiment commander did something too outrageous, the political commissar could remove the regiment commander through the party committee meeting. But before the political commissar became the regiment commander, he could not directly issue military orders.
This arrangement also put Zhou Jinguo at ease. There were specialized people in charge of war, and as the political commissar, he could spend his time on the political education of the whole regiment.
The burning desire to go home immediately faded, and Zhou Jinguo felt a burning sense of duty. He hoped to make the whole regiment understand the meaning of the Agrarian Revolution and the land war in the shortest time possible. Just as he was about to start working with the whole regiment, he received an order. The Second Division left Chenzhou and set up camp about thirty miles north. The regiment he was in headed in the direction of Yongxing. The goal of this trip was not to seize Yongxing, but to clean up the local territory of the Xiang Army in Yongxing, in preparation for launching propaganda to the people in Yongxing.
If it was the previous system of the General Staff Headquarters, the General Staff Headquarters would draw up basic combat missions according to military orders, and then discuss it at a military meeting. Each unit would receive their own mission. Then the military staff would make preparations and arrangements for the actual implementation of the mission.
In the past, there were only combat missions, not political propaganda missions. Everyone first discussed military operations. Kill the enemy and seize the land, or kill the enemy and not seize the land. If this was the case, everyone's target would be the Xiang Army in Yongxing. It was just like how the Liberation Army had destroyed the Qing Army in Ganzhou several times, but had never occupied Ganzhou. Yongxing was nominally under the control of the Xiang Army, but in reality, there was still the Liberation Army above the Xiang Army. The Xiang Army could survive in Yongxing because they could help the Liberation Army maintain order.
Now that the Party committee and the Party committee had become the leaders, the military meeting also became interesting. Repeatedly slaughtering the Xiang Army in Yongxing had become a very inefficient method. Zhou Jinguo firmly believed that as long as the people in Yongxing understood the principle of the Agrarian Revolution, they would seek refuge under the banner of the Liberation Army. Without the support of the rural areas, Yongxing City was nothing. They didn't even need to fight. As long as Yongxing couldn't harvest food, the garrison would starve to death. This was the strategy of "surrounding the city from the rural areas" proposed by the Military Governor Vaize.
Therefore, during the meeting, Zhou Jinguo spoke passionately, "I originally hoped that the Xiang Army wouldn't defend the city. It's always difficult to attack the city. Now, I hope that the Xiang Army can defend the city. They hide in the city, and we can move freely in the rural areas. If they split into teams and go to the villages, it'll be easier for us to fight in the field. "
Regiment Commander Liu Fei knew that Zhou Jinguo was good at fighting. If it wasn't for the past few months of land issues, Zhou Jinguo would have been promoted to Regiment Commander. Zhou Jinguo's military opinion was approved by Liu Fei, "Yes, it's indeed troublesome to let our 2,000 people fight Yongan City, which is defended by 2,000 people. If they really dare to fight in the field, let alone 2,000 people, we won't be afraid even if it's 5,000 people. As for the Xiang Army's local troops, they have a few hundred people. Getting rid of them is like pinching a bug. "
"Yes, as long as we can get rid of the local Xiang Army, we only need to send troops to monitor the Xiang Army in Yongxing City. Once they leave the city, we'll attack them. It's very convenient. "Third Battalion Commander Zhou Jincai also spoke. He wasn't stripped of his position, so he tried his best to perform well. He didn't want others to have any opinions.
Of course, the military didn't really let the regiment do whatever they wanted. After all, an army was an army, and it was necessary to have an overall arrangement. The second regiment's focus was to "do business". The troops transported a large amount of salt, iron farming tools, and while attacking the Xiang Army's local troops, they started to sell them in the Yongxing area. This was part of the "economic war". Now that the Xiang Army wanted to raise military funds, they were collecting lijin wantonly. The price of salt, which was originally stable at 20 wen per catty, had skyrocketed.
After occupying Guangdong, Guangxi, and Qiongzhou, the Liberation Army adopted a salt monopoly policy. The quality of salt was good, and the price was low. The people could afford it. The price was at the level of one yuan (100 wen) for 20 catties. Moreover, the Military Governor Vaize had also come up with something called iodized salt. After eating it, it could cure big neck disease. It was said that it could also make people smarter. When the Commander-in-Chief said this, everyone was skeptical. But they didn't refuse.
When they conquered Chenzhou, the price of salt in Chenzhou was already 50 wen per catty. According to the investigation, the price of salt in Yongxing was even as high as 60 wen. If they sold it at the traditional price of 15 wen per catty before the war, there shouldn't be any problem. The people bought the cheap salt of the Liberation Army, so naturally, they wouldn't buy the salt of the Xiang Army, which was driven up by lijin. Not only would this benefit the people in Yongxing, but it would also deal a heavy blow to the lijin system of the Xiang Army.
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