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"Law," "Discipline," and "ideals," Vézé believed that these three issues could be solved in three or four days. In the end, after a week had passed, there were still people among the national representatives of the Restoration Party who did not understand. Those who didn't understand were basically people who didn't have a clear understanding of "punishment", or it could be said that these people confused power with punishment.
I call the shots in power. Being punished was equivalent to being caught. Vézé discovered that this problem, which had not been completely solved in the 21st century, was also a big problem in the 19th century. Moreover, if many people insisted on the simple concept of "I am working hard for the commander-in-chief", they would do a lot of things well. However, this group of people clearly lacked modern national consciousness. They really couldn't understand power and responsibility, and even more couldn't understand the concept of being a part of the country.
Faced with such a thorny problem, Vézé could only admit that the current national concept wasn't fully understood by everyone. Then there was only one thing left to do, and that was to send competent comrades to work, while the incompetent ones stayed in the Party School for training.
The transfer of personnel in the liberated areas began in early 1864 and ended in July 1864. The secretaries of the Party committees of the various provinces were reshuffled. Those who were unclear about their ideology and responsibilities were all transferred to the Party School of the Central Committee to study.
When the Party Secretaries of the various provinces, prefectures, and counties arrived at the local level, they all had to start a large-scale study. Vézé ordered that anyone who could not accept the idea of abiding by the law could be expelled from the Restoration Party. If you feel that you cannot accept the discipline of the organization, you can retire early.
From the reports from various places, seeing that the Central Committee of the Recovered Empire was serious, purging the party and persuading them to quit, the whole atmosphere changed. There was still a long way to go before the unification of the world. If he quit the Restoration Party now, not only would his personal future be ruined, his pension that might have increased would also be ruined. When it came to their own interests, everyone made the same choice. That was to "persevere."
Of course, this wasn't something that could be persevered just because one wanted to. As soon as the anti-corruption, anti-waste, and anti-bureaucracy movement began, many of the corruption and degeneration of Party members and cadres in various places were exposed, and many cadres suddenly fell from power. And when the Restoration Party members saw their comrades in bad luck, they vented their anger on the landlords, gentry, and scholars of the old era. Within the Restoration Party and the government, there was a great purge of these people. All members of poor backgrounds were affected. At the very least, from Vézé's point of view, there were signs of a complete rupture between the new government and the old era.
Of course, there was no lack of people with "poor backgrounds" among the early cadres of the Party, and this group of people criticized and opposed this. However, Vézé wasn't too upset about it. This was not the era of the new China. Faced with enormous external pressure, all capable people had to think of ways to rope in under their banner. Are there any students studying abroad in the olden era? No! Are there any new ideas among the people of the old era? No! Were the people of the olden era willing to work with the Liberation Army to liberate China? No! Since they didn't take the initiative to make a clean break with the olden era, Vézé really couldn't see the need to drag this group of people into the new era.
As the saying goes, injustice cries out. Throughout 1864, whether it was the landlords of the two lakes and Huainan, or some of the scholars who, because they were rejected by the Restoration Party, "sought refuge with the imperial court," brought the news to the Manchu Qing: "Wei Gou is going against the grain, the common people are homeless and destitute, looking forward to the restoration of the country by the imperial army."
The Manchu Qing court, which should have been happy, showed no signs of happiness.
Thanks to Ceng Guofan, there were no Jiangxi people among those who went north to "seek refuge with the imperial court." In the tug-of-war between the Taiping army and Ceng Guofan in Jiangxi, Ceng Guofan's Xiang Army frequently plundered and plundered, wantonly using the common people as the vanguard to besiege the city. Jiangxi's population wasn't large to begin with, and after the Xiang Army slaughtered several million people, the land reform didn't encounter any problems. The Jiangxi old cousins felt that they would rather accept the land reform than seek refuge with the Manchu Qing court, which Ceng Guofan belonged to.
Of course, the unhappiness of the Manchu Qing court was not because Jiangxi was disloyal to the court. Nor was it because the Liberation Army had news of going north at this time. The Liberation Army had no plans to go north at this time. In addition to internal reorganization, the main strength of the Liberation Army was going south.
After reaching an agreement with the French in 1863, the Liberation Army had no enemies in Southeast Asia. The Liberation Army, which was not worried about war, sent a fleet south to Borneo. The total number of people in this fleet was more than 4,000. After the army landed in Borneo on steam-powered ships with a tonnage of more than 5,000 tons, the entire Lanfang Republic was shocked.
The Dutch had always been eyeing the Lanfang Republic, which occupied the entire Borneo, covetously. In order to protect themselves, the Lanfang Republic once expressed that it would submit to the Manchu Qing government. After the first and third Great Smoky War, the Manchu Qing completely knelt to the foreigners, and the French also fiercely invaded Vietnam. The Dutchmen were getting restless again.
The powerful military power shown by the Liberation Army was exactly what the Lanfang Republic needed. They quickly reached an agreement with the Chinese Min dynasty. The Lanfang Republic was changed to Lanfang Province and officially became a part of the Chinese Min dynasty.
Originally, most of the Chinese people here were engaged in gold mining and other industries. After becoming a part of China, the new government made plans for Lanfang. The tropical area had a large amount of precipitation, the land was barren, and the entire population of the large Lanfang Province was less than a million. Since the land here was not valuable, there was no resistance to land reform at all. Lanfang Province gave priority to the development of rubber plantations, palm plantations, and spices as the core economic crops, including food, industrial products, and other products, were exported from the mainland to Lanfang.
In August 1864, a fleet set out from Fujian and attacked Taiwan across the sea. In October, the Manchu Qing government in Taiwan officially surrendered.
The comprehensive expansion of the new government on the sea directly led to a large amount of the budget being invested in industries related to shipping. Coupled with internal reorganization, the attack on the north had been completely stalled.
However, the Manchu Qing in the north did not get a chance to breathe, and its internal problems became more and more serious.
Vézé had read about an unofficial history of the Manchu Qing era. It was said that there was a monster trainer who impeached someone for being promoted too quickly and thought that there was something wrong with the person. Others told him that the person was promoted quickly because of his meritorious service in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion. The monster trainer said, "I've never heard of the Taiping Rebellion."
Vézé saw this unofficial history as a complete joke, but it also showed that the Taiping Rebellion did not have much impact on the north of China. The situation now was completely different. The Liberation Army troops were stationed south of the Huai River. Since the Yellow River changed its course, a large area of the "Yellow River Ancient Road" appeared between the Huai River and the Yellow River. Naturally, the water here was not completely dry, and large swamps and wetlands had become uninhabitable areas. Before the Yellow River changed its course to the north, there was still a large river blocking the way. Now, this area was also an area where troops and horses could move freely. Such a geographical change made the Nian Army more and more aggressive.
The Nian Army's philosophy was not to fight against the Qing, but to establish an autonomous region in the Huaibei area that did not pay taxes. So the Nian Army not only fought against the Manchu Qing, but also repeatedly clashed with the Liberation Army. The Nian Army won every battle against the Manchu Qing, but naturally lost every battle against the Liberation Army. In the end, the Nian Army did not look south, but concentrated on attacking the Manchu Qing forces in the north.
Now that the hundreds of thousands of Jiangnan soldiers had been wiped out, the Huai army, the Xiang Army, and the Chu Army were responsible for the "border defense". The Huai army was in the west, the Xiang Army in the middle, and the Chu Army in the east. The three famous historical figures, Jiang Zhongyuan, Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Zongtang, had no choice but to fight the Nian Army.
The Manchu Qing mainly relied on the water transport from Jiangnan to support the north. Now that the Huai River had become the front line, the Manchu Qing had to use Henan, Hebei, and Shandong to support the Huai River defense line. To make matters worse for the Manchu Qing, Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Rebellion went north with the support of the Liberation Army. They went through Henan and killed their way into Shaanxi. The Shaanxi Green Camp had always been good at fighting, but their numbers were limited. They were no match for the two hundred thousand Taiping army. After blowing up the city walls of Xi 'an, the Shaanxi Green Camp fought a bloody battle with the Taiping army that broke into the city. In the end, the tens of thousands of Manchus in Xi' an were slaughtered. The Taiping army attacked cities and seized land in the northwest, and the whole northwest fell into a state of decay.
After the land reform in the liberated areas, the Liberation Army, under Vézé's order, used a lot of manpower to start building agricultural water conservancy projects. The Manchu Qing did not have such ideas, nor did they have the ability to do so. The Restoration Party may not have understood or accepted Vézé's idea of "building with the people". But after Vézé's order, the liberated areas finally moved. In the eyes of the Manchu Qing, the people existed to support the imperial court. Now that the imperial court was in trouble, the people naturally had to live frugally to provide money and food for the imperial court. Under this kind of oppression
If the people in the south could not starve to death as long as there was land, then the people in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and other areas might not be able to survive even if they had land in the era of large-scale water conservancy projects. The oppression of the Manchu Qing imperial court directly led to the local people's resistance. The Manchu Qing, who once looked like the ruler of the world, was now on fire everywhere. Even without the Liberation Army's northern expedition, the whole north was about to enter a state of chaos and be overthrown by the people.
Therefore, the number of "loyal officials and righteous people" who came to serve the Manchu Qing was less than one hundred thousand, but there were at least fifty to sixty thousand. In the eyes of the Manchu Qing, it was unknown whether this group of people could provide help, but it was certain that they needed to eat and drink. At present, the Bannermen, who had a strong support for crops, had begun to delay the payment of grain. How could the imperial court have the energy to deal with this group of gentry?
The burden of solving the problem fell on the shoulders of Jiang Zhongyuan, Zeng Guofan, and Zuo Zongtang. The imperial court ordered that all the people who went north to join the army under the command of these three people. They had no choice but to continue north. The Huai army, the Xiang Army, and the Chu Army were feudal armies. The three gathered together to try to find a solution.
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