"The Yellow Turbans fell, but the Yellow Turbans could not have the Han Dynasty;

Those who perished Sui Dynasty had thieves, but the thieves could not have thieves;

The one who destroyed the Tang Dynasty, but Huang Chao could not have the Tang Dynasty.”

Wang Fuzhi's "Reading the Comprehensive Discourse":

——I am the dividing line—

"So, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) finally reacted and completed the connection and negotiations. Have a coalition force formed on the south bank of Qiantang River to fight?" Zhou Huaian said, looking at the latest love in his hand.

"However, it's better to let them gather together. At least there is no need to go all over the ground to clear out the riots who flee in the village and who may have climbed up the mountain to gather and hide as bandits."

"Next, we don't have to rush forward. We will defend several important nodes as support, clean up the land and collect labor, replenish soldiers, and try our best to consolidate the situation in the rear. Let's see who can survive."

After a lot of preliminary preparations to accumulate strength, the 30,000 Taiping Army's 30,000 troops were in a state of western Zhejiang, and the rapid attack was turbulent, so it should be reorganized and replaced here.

Otherwise, even if you have to use the hundred-forged sharp blade, let alone the atmosphere of underestimating the enemy and arrogance that has been raised in the army, it also needs to be cooled and adjusted in time.

In fact, when the Taiping Army swept across Jiangdong, there were many people who were full of active minds and various potential informed partners who wanted to seek existence and change;

Especially those who have done business with the Taiping Army, there is always a way to find a channel to deliver useful information here in exchange for corresponding amnesty or preferential treatment, and even possible privileges.

So the biggest problem at the moment is to select the really useful things from them, as well as clues hidden in the vast sea of ​​messy messages, and summarize the basic truth and things.

For example, although a large number of troops gathered in Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), a coalition force was formed, but the corresponding household registrations were sent to you privately; just like a kind of two-head betting-style survival desire is very common in history.

As an important part of the largest (Hangzhou-Jia-Hu) plain in Jiangdong, Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) also has a population of 120,000, second only to Suzhou and Hangzhou, ranking third in Jiangdong prefectures.

Moreover, in terms of the addition attributes of traditional fish and rice land and water conservancy irrigation; compared with Suzhou's tea and silk fabrics, shipbuilding, Hangzhou's rice, sericulture, papermaking, and hardware construction, Yuezhou is famous for highlighting fish salt, mining and smelting, and porcelain making.

For example, there is Xishan in Kuaiji, iron ore in Shanyin, and silver pits in Zhuji, so the local metal smelting is very prosperous; not only can it produce various fine artifacts, but it also provides corresponding materials to nearby Su, Hangzhou, Huaiyang and other places.

The local Lanting Salt Supervision also produces more than the Jiaxing Salt Supervision in Suzhou and Linping Salt Supervision in Hangzhou; the three together produce 1.5 million stones each year. Yuezhou is one of the four "four (distribution centers) and ten (original places)" of Southeast Salt Industry.

Because of the high-quality kaolin everywhere, the Yuezhou porcelain produced is famous all over the world and is sold all over the country. The Yuezhou-style celadon is also known as the two two major production areas of "Yueqing Xingbai".

The most famous one is the secret color porcelain that is known as the "clear and cold water, green as clouds". In comparison, Hongzhou in Jiangxi, Tanzhou in Hunan, and Shaozhou in Lingnan can only be regarded as a first-class place of origin.

Just like Lu Guimeng, a poet under Zhou Huaian, who has specially created "Secret Color Yue Qi":

"The wind and dew in the nine autumns open across the kiln, and it has won the green color of thousands of peaks.

I am so happy to be in the middle of the night and share the cup of Ji Zhongsan Dou.”

The next step is Yuezhou's shipbuilding industry. Compared with the inland ships that Suzhou is good at, Yuezhou, located on the south bank of Qiantang River, mainly manufactures large floating sea ships. However, it is considered to be the neighboring Mingzhou (Ningbo), and is ranked among the shipbuilding centers such as Tianxiajiao, Guang, Fu, Hong, and Yang.

Therefore, this is also a matter of observation of Zhejiang East in the past. Du Mu said that Yuezhou was "a place that expresses farming and enfeoffment of Jiuzhou, and during the cocoons and fish and salt, food and clothing for half the world," although half the world is exaggerated, at least half the east of Zhejiang is not a problem.

According to another normal historical record, when Dong Chang seizures east of Zhejiang and before he became emperor, he would donate 10,000 taels of gold, 100,000 silver ingots, and a large number of treasures and other items every ten days;

A large part of its source of wealth depends on the income from Yuezhou and Mingzhou.

However, there is a situation in Yuezhou today. Since Cui Miao, the former Zhejiang East Observer, was captured by Huang Chao, who had been in a transit, surrendered to the rebel army, and is now one of the five ministers of the Political Affairs Hall in Chang'an City.

The observation and disposal of Liu Jiang, who came across the sea to succeed, encountered Huang Chao's massive attack again before he could even sit in this position. As a result, because of his lack of kindness, the Yisheng Army under his command simply sent him out to surrender.

Since then, he has become the fifth senior official of the imperial court to be captured by the thief army; and after being included in the rebel system, these surrendered former subordinates of the Yisheng Army also became the faction and basic force of the Situ and Tong Pingzhangshi in Chang'an.

Therefore, this Zhejiang East Observer, together with his position as the governor of Yuezhou, was also suspended because of the high risk in a sense and no longer appointed others;

Then with Huang Chao's massive move northward, the rebels in eastern Zhejiang began to gradually recede and turn into depression under the encirclement of the remnants of the Turkish regiments and the remnants of the government troops in various places.

In the end, the local rebels who were rampant and wandering in Yuezhou either collapsed, surrendered or fled to the foreign land, or defected to the southern commander of the Huzhou area, Gai Hong, and then they were no longer returned.

But this also caused the emptiness of force and power in Yuezhou. Even the forces emerging around wanted to compete for the dominance of Yuezhou and the status of Zhejiang East Observation, and occupied Zhuji, Yancheng, Shangyu and Yuyao counties respectively.

The result was that after a year of fighting, there was no absolute advantage in the family. Even Kuaiji, the city of Zhoucheng, was in the hands of the powerful and wealthy families in the city, and fought to the death to resist all foreign pretenders and maintained a delicate balance.

This time, the one who secretly communicated with the Taiping Army at both ends was the big merchants who occupied the prefectures and cities. They also expressed their attitude and were willing to give up and hand over all land property and houses on land in exchange for mercy in maritime trade and commercial affairs.

It is only based on the experience of the replacement of dynasties in later generations that when a new regime is established, an agreement must be reached with the local production group to maintain the stability and continuity of the regime.

For example, the heroes and heroes of the Three Kingdoms period compromised against the aristocratic families in various cities because these local aristocratic families mastered the local production organization and social relations;

Therefore, it is necessary to obtain the ability to collect and mobilize taxes and labor by collecting and appointing each other's children and tribes; and then transform it into a part of the bargaining chips/resources that can stand out among the various princes who are fighting to dominate the world.

If an agreement cannot be reached with the local production organization, it must be decisively destroyed, and then before the organization causes trouble for itself, other organizations will replace it and create a new group of vested interest classes.

The biggest vested interest group that the Taiping Army wanted to support in Jiangdong was the collective farmers with farms and farms in various places as the core. Therefore, of course, the fewer these old interest classes retained, the fewer it was best not to save any one.

Otherwise, in the future, the other party's order rebuilt by the new regime, it will cost more long-term costs and more political resources to check and balance and maintain internal balance, erase and offset the influence of these old forces.

However, as a righteous teacher who punishes the people and punishes crimes, he has directly attacked or abandoned them in an unfair manner.

Therefore, Li Shicheng, who is responsible for external contact, privately made an idea. For example, if you need a suitable opportunity to release the corresponding information, there will naturally be people in the enemy-occupied area on the other side to deal with these people at both ends of the rat.

Of course, this kind of thing that is obviously a secret and gray area can only be understood and not put into words.

At the same time, on the south bank of Qiantang River, in Yongxing County, which is across the water from Xiling Town outside Qiantang City, there are people gathering, flags are waving and guns and halberds; the dense drums and whistles are heard one after another, even if you stand on the north bank.

On one of the high platforms surrounded by colorful curtains is the current governor of Mingzhou Zhong Jiwen, who is also the leader of the anti-thieves coalition, who is proudly presided over the oath rituals from all parties.

He was originally from the prefecture's command, Zhengcheng (now Yin County, Zhejiang). Since the revenge of the amnesty, he occupied the old subordinates of Wang Ying in Mingzhou and the army envoy of Jinwu General Zhang Quanbei, who was defeated, took advantage of the times to kill all the remnants left by Zhang Quan.

He then controlled the prefecture city and occupied most of the four counties in Mingzhou, and also allowed the remaining armed forces to gather around him. Huang Sheng, the general of Wanghai Town, whom he valued, was one of them.

In addition, there are many troops including Yuyao Town General Jia, Zhucheng Commander Ma Chuo, Xinchangzhai Town Commander Xu Yue, Tiantai Town General and other troops.

There were also powerful troops sent by powerful troops from eastern Zhejiang, including Wang Zhi, the governor of Wuzhou (now Jinhua), Chen Ru, the governor of Quzhou (now Lishui), Lu Yue, the governor of Wenzhou (now Lishui), Zhu Bao, the governor of Quzhou, Yuantai, and the governor of Muzhou, Du Ruxiu.

Among them, there were as few as thousands of people, and as many as thousands of people. After they joined forces, they immediately covered the sun for more than ten miles by the river all day, and they were full of jaunts and villages.

In the grass by the river, the water army commander Chai, who was responsible for crossing the river to investigate, was also staring at the crowds of people and banners, and there were corresponding symbols on the sketchbook.

——I am the dividing line—

Although Huang Chao woke up again in Chang'an City, the blood flowing on the street seemed to be still vivid in my mind, and it was still lingering in the memories of most people.

And those troops who secretly returned to Chang'an City in batches under the orders of the Five Prime Ministers, Six Ministers and Generals of the Political Affairs Hall had no intention or intention to withdraw from the city, but just became a stalemate.

The three armies and their remaining troops were defeated and retreated from the front, as if they were temporarily forgotten by everyone, and no one would pay attention to or appease them again.
Chapter completed!