Representatives from the Liberation Army led the Taiping army's higher-ups to hold a closed-door conference on the history of the Tianjing Rebellion. The conference lasted for two days. The biggest result of the conference was to clarify the understanding of the Taiping army's higher-ups regarding the Tianjing Rebellion. The Tianjing Rebellion was a tragedy. It was caused by the unreasonable power structure of the system, which resulted in chaos in the personnel and power structure within the system. The result was the internal strife of the Taiping Rebellion, which resulted in the loss of the opportunity to conquer the world.
Wing King Shi Dakai's disloyal and separatist behavior further contributed to the decline of the Taiping army. However, there was a reason for this incident. Shi Dakai did not mention the reasons he was forced to do so. He only frankly admitted that his actions were wrong. Killing people was just a matter of nodding one's head to the ground. What good would it do for the Taiping Rebellion if they really punished Wing King Shi Dakai? Using Shi Dakai's confession as an opportunity, everyone once again emphasized the higher-ups' allegiance and loyalty to the Taiping Rebellion.
After straightening out the internal problems, the Taiping Rebellion's higher-ups began to complete the unfinished business of the King Of The East, Yang Xiuqing. The Taiping Rebellion had established a dualistic country in Yongan. The Heavenly King represented the divine right and the legitimacy of the Taiping Rebellion. The South King, Feng Yunshan, was the Pope and was responsible for the actual organization of the religious system. The alliance between the West King, Xiao Chaogui, and the King Of The East, Yang Xiuqing, represented the secular administrative power.
This system had a big problem from the beginning. The Heavenly King, Hong Xiuquan, was mediocre. Whether it was managing the religion or the military, he wasn't outstanding. However, the Heavenly King, Hong Xiuquan, had a supreme position in the religion. After the Tianjing Rebellion, Hong Xiuquan finally grasped power. As a result, the Taiping Rebellion was in turmoil.
Now that the Heavenly King, Hong Xiuquan, had been dead for three years, it was time to change his filial piety. Based on the common understanding of the changes in Tianjing, the various kings made major changes to the system of the Taiping Rebellion.
The first thing was to reposition the Heavenly King. After some discussion, the upper echelons agreed that the current Heavenly King, Hong Tianfugui, was only a secular monarch and was no longer God's representative on earth. After confirming the Heavenly King, the positions of the various kings were also adjusted to balance. The position of Military Advisor was abolished, and the positions of Left and Right Prime Minister were set up. Shi Dakai was the Left Prime Minister, and Lin Fengxiang was the Right Prime Minister. The Six Ministries System would be completely established and the imperial examinations would be carried out. The left and right Prime Minister worked together to implement the unified military system.
Most of the leaders of the Taiping Rebellion did not accept Shi Dakai's evaluation of Vézé. No matter what happened at the time, Vézé's actions could hardly be regarded as a betrayal of the Taiping Rebellion. Even if Hong Xiuquan had his own difficulties, he still decided to kill Vézé. After Hong Xiuquan failed, Vézé had the ability to break into Tianjing and kill or imprison Hong Xiuquan. However, Vézé did not choose to do so. This was already the most benevolent thing he could do.
Therefore, after the upper echelons of the Taiping Rebellion discussed their future strategy, they could only face reality and admit that there were only two choices left. One was to fight against Vézé to the end, and the other was to surrender.
Shi Dakai's choice was to order the middle and lower echelons of the Taiping Rebellion to obey the policy of fighting against Vézé. Lin Fengxiang would naturally continue to be loyal to the Taiping Rebellion, but he believed that a forced melon would not be sweet. Before making such a choice, he had to give his brothers in the Taiping army a chance. If they really wanted to go back to their hometown, they should be allowed to go.
When the information reached Vézé, the internal discussion of the Taiping Rebellion was still ongoing. However, on the whole, Lin Fengxiang had fewer supporters, and Shi Dakai had an obvious advantage.
Vézé did not comment on this issue. No matter how many people in the Taiping army were determined to fight against the new China to the end, the final outcome could not be changed. After reading the information about the Taiping Rebellion, Vézé commented, "The Taiping Rebellion has finally eliminated Hong Xiuquan's influence, and it has become a traditional small court in China with a powerful minister in charge."
This was something that Yang Xiuqing had tried to do, but he had failed in the end. Later, many people, including Lin Fengxiang, had tried to do this, because Hong Xiuquan himself had tried to seize power, but he had failed. Three years after Hong Xiuquan's death, the Taiping Rebellion had finally completed this process. Fifteen years had passed since the coup in Tianjing.
Although he was busy with work, Vézé still wrote an article titled "The Limits of the Taiping Rebellion's Political Expansion," which introduced the historical limitations of the Taiping Rebellion. This vigorous peasant uprising had eventually become a traditional change of dynasty. Although the Taiping Rebellion had imitated the success of the Liberation Army and established modern military organizations such as the General Staff, this change could not change the feudal nature of the Taiping Rebellion. The establishment of the new system announced the end of the Taiping Rebellion, and the rulers of the Taiping Rebellion could only go so far.
Vézé felt that this article was very important, but no one in China felt that it was important to define the Taiping Rebellion. The universities hoped that the scientist Vézé would give lectures to the professors. The industrial departments hoped that the expert Vézé would help them to point out the direction and methods to solve the technical difficulties. The economic departments hoped that His Majesty Vézé would quickly convene more analysis meetings to make a more detailed judgment on the future economic direction. The military departments were slightly better. The navy was waiting for the Military Governor Vaize to discuss the specific battles of the navy in the future. The local governments hoped that His Majesty Vézé could allocate more large-scale agricultural and transportation equipment to help them solve the problems they encountered during the land reform.
The Taiping Rebellion was nothing. As long as the commander-in-chief gave the order, all the departments would immediately work together to crush the Taiping Rebellion in front of the Military Governor Vaize. Since the Taiping Rebellion had wasted a lot of the commander-in-chief's energy, it was undoubtedly good for everyone to save the commander-in-chief's energy.
"I heard that the Heavenly King has agreed to let us go home to visit."
"Really?"
"Some people said that Prince Yi is willing to submit to the Prince Of Qi. The Prince Of Qi will bestow the northwest to us, and there will be no more wars with the Prince Of Qi in the future!"
"It doesn't matter whether we can fight or not. I just want to bring my wife home to visit. To burn some joss paper at the ancestral graves. "
"At least let us write letters home to see how things are going at home."
All kinds of rumors began to spread within the Taiping army.
In the areas south of the Yangtze River, the grass-roots also began to mobilize. It didn't matter if those people really missed their relatives who became Taiping army soldiers, and it didn't matter if those people were still alive. At least they had to write letters to their relatives to see if they were still alive and hope that they could go home to reunite.
Since July, through the intelligence system of the Liberation Army, some letters had reached the hands of the Taiping army. It really was a three-month war, and letters from home were worth ten thousand gold. There had been no news from home for more than ten years. Once they saw letters from their families, the excitement was indescribable. The letters described the situation of their families. They had been given land and had food to eat. Their brothers and sisters were married. They had children. Their children had gone to school. They talked about trivial family matters and the hopes of reuniting with their families. The soldiers of the Taiping army were naturally overjoyed when they saw the good news. The Taiping army soldiers who learned that their relatives had passed away could not help but cry bitterly.
Shi Dakai and Lin Fengxiang stood on the left and right of the Prime Minister. At this time, the two of them were implementing and straightening out the internal system of the Taiping Rebellion. When Lin Fengxiang suddenly heard that Shi Dakai had ordered the execution of more than ten low-ranking officers of the Taiping army, he was shocked.
After the intelligence system of the Liberation Army began to operate, the various armies were under a lot of pressure. In fact, Lin Fengxiang did not have any special fighting spirit. The reason why he continued to persevere was because of his loyalty to the Taiping Rebellion itself. After nearly twenty years of struggle, the dream of the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth had been shattered. The dream of conquering the world had been shattered. The dream of saving the world and the people had been shattered. The Taiping Rebellion was just a local force. No one really believed that they could defeat Vézé. At most, they hoped to establish an independent force.
Lin Fengxiang had been a fortune-teller before. A fortune-teller always pretended to study the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes was a very important philosophical book in China. It talked about the rise and fall of the world and the changes of people. No matter how one looked at it, the Taiping army was in a downward direction. From the point of view of a force leader, this was naturally the time to fight with all their might. But from the point of view of the brothers below, it was responsible for them to look for a better future.
Shi Dakai had successfully united the upper echelons of the Taiping Rebellion. Naturally, these brothers still wanted to fight with all their might. Therefore, Lin Fengxiang hoped that the brothers could make their own choices and keep those who were willing to follow the Taiping army. Now, Lin Fengxiang had undoubtedly become the minority. Lin Fengxiang did not think that Shi Dakai and the others had done anything wrong. Therefore, he did not have the intention to argue with Shi Dakai. However, Lin Fengxiang did not expect Shi Dakai to really start a massacre of the "breakaway members."
Now that things had developed to this point, Lin Fengxiang thought about it and decided to bear with it for the time being.
"Shi Dakai is quite decisive." The Luoyang Military District was responsible for cooperating with the intelligence department. Therefore, the political commissar and commander of the military district attended the meeting. After the political commissar praised Shi Dakai, he smiled and said, "But I think that the thirty thousand people in the Luoyang Military District are basically enough to defeat the Taiping army head-on."
For soldiers, intelligence operations were something they hated the most. Intelligence might be very useful when dealing with the enemy, but the army also had to face the enemy's all-pervasive intelligence attacks. Between the two, it was easier to simply use military strength to defeat the enemy.
The intelligence department wanted to cooperate with the Luoyang Military District. Naturally, the intelligence department had to divulge some information to the military district. The person in charge said, "The problem now is not the upper echelons of the Taiping army. Our intelligence department feels that the problem is the new Northwesterners who have joined the Taiping army in recent years. They are all local forces. The upper echelons of the Taiping army are fighting with us to conquer the world. On the other hand, the local Northwesterners are mostly local landlords. The purpose of joining the Taiping army is to find a backer for their families. These people are not easy to deal with. "
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