Chapter 867 The roaring horse roars (Last Part)
Afterwards, Zhang Chengshi and others who had just arrived in Jiangling City realized the various implications of Shui Wanghan, the reception envoy who was the Taiping Army's great commander-in-chief, sighed that "the Zhang family's wealth is expected for a hundred years" and "witness the rise of the new family of foreign relatives."
Because they suddenly realized that they were just running away from the dead of their lives, as if they had improved greatly overnight. Just because the head of the Guiyi Army, Yi Chao, who came to Beijing, had a young daughter who unfortunately lived in the south fortunately, escaped the continuous disasters in the capital, and by chance, she was taken care of by the head of the Taiping Army and happened to be pregnant.
Therefore, even the "family family members" who could barely be considered a little related suddenly rose inexplicably. Not only were they placed in the corresponding exquisite museums, but they also specifically asked about their daily life and diet. Then various visits to make friends and visits were also followed one after another and overwhelming.
Of course, after seeing and hearing along the way, Zhang Chengshi also felt that these peaceful thieves could no longer be called ordinary thieves, but were at least as powerful vassals and large towns as in Huainan or Heshuo. Therefore, he did not have much rejection or resistance to accepting the corresponding protection and kindness provided.
So, just after Zhang Chengshi and others were invited to watch several polo and ball games during the "Plenary Session" and were arranged to visit many workshops set up on the Hanshui River, the leader of the Taiping Army finally remembered them and sent people to give them the choices in arranging.
The first is to accept a gift as a gift to support, and then become a wealthy man who lives in Jiangling and is free and easy to raise. The second is to find some things for them to do; for example, the young man from Jieshuai (Zhang Huaishen) arranged to go to the lecture hall to study and learn poetry and literature talents, and Zhang Chengshi and others were hired as coaches to teach horse stance and tactics with a Northwest style...
Therefore, after just a little thought, Zhang Chengshi chose the latter suggestion without hesitation. After all, he was still counting on protecting the bloodline of the Shun Gong of Huai, one day he could find Suoxun again to avenge the whole family of Jieshuai. The suggestion from the Grand Commander gave him a glimmer of opportunities and possibilities to take advantage of; even if this was a very slim hope, it was his only hope that he was obsessed with the rest of his life.
——I am the dividing line—
Even though various news about the National Games being held in full swing in Jiangling City, the sudden news of such a sudden pregnancy in the back of the governor's office was completely overwhelmed and became a street and alley and various text copying. While the most popular and relished topics were discussed, the Huainan area was also on the verge of war.
Along the southern Dabie Mountains between Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui) and Shouzhou (now Shou County, Anhui), the southern Dabie Mountains - at the foot of Tianzhu Mountain, a group of fish were followed by a group of troops. The Qian Gumei, who was not tall but riding a tall gray horse, was also a majestic marching. Looking at the scene of the prosperous military in front of him, he certainly felt that he was still in response.
Although this sudden plague caused a lot of trouble and trouble to his subsequent work of clearing the local area; most importantly, even the "Three Detachment" and some soldiers in charge of support were inevitably infected with corresponding symptoms and lay down a lot of people, but they finally relied on the continuous support from the Grand Governor's Office to deal with it.
But on the other hand, after this epidemic was controlled and stabilized, it also produced unexpected benefits. On the one hand, a large number of people who were originally wandering in the countryside spontaneously gathered to survive under the threat of epidemic, which reduced the pressure on the Taiping Army to control and guard a lot.
On the other hand, it was quickly followed by the people's hearts and people gathered together. In the eyes of the remaining local scholars, the Taiping Army finally used its strength to overwhelm the local area, forcibly changed the outsiders who had been familiar with the local customs for many years. Even if there were some favors and benefits, it was a limited thanks on the surface, but more of awe and distantness.
But after this epidemic broke out, everything was different. Although some people bewitched and incited that this was a disaster and disaster brought by the Taiping Army, a manifestation of the wrath of God's wrath of punishment, which brought a lot of trouble to the initial epidemic prevention work, and even frequent contradictions and conflicts occurred, and more than ten-digit casualties were caused in the boycott and counter-retaliation struggle.
However, as the epidemic spread more and more, more and more people fell down. On the contrary, those who were forced to accept the Taiping Army's disposal measures were able to stand up alone and save it. Therefore, the local public opinion trend inevitably turned directly to the other extreme after the bottoming out and rebounded; that is, it is rumored that those who were ridden by the Taiping Army could make the invisible plague, demon, and viruses retreat three feet.
After all, after the epidemic was rampant, we never distinguished whether you were old and young, or the difference between rich and poor. No matter how noble or lowly people were, the resources and order that could be used in the local area collapsed, and only one person was left to stay in the village and wait for death, or to run on the road and die halfway.
Therefore, when those who have ulterior motives or are stubborn also fall down one after another, the survivors who survived under the centralized control of the Taiping Army; under the contrast between the fact that the rumors have become pale and powerless, they become like they are immediately enlightened, and the most determined supporters and targets of the Taiping Army's corresponding measures have been taken.
They even actively offered and took the initiative to make heads, those who had created and claimed rumors, even found out and beat them to death on the spot, as a means of expressing their feelings and effectiveness for the local government of the Taiping Army; even some wealthy families who were once influential were no exception.
Because even they themselves are really scared. Because the people who were deeply rooted in the countryside in the past, no matter how many wealth and power gathered from generation to generation, they cannot resist and protect them from the minions of the plague. If no one who enjoys all this can survive, no matter how much wealth and power maintained by the times in the countryside, it will be nothing more than a passing cloud.
Therefore, Qian Jumei suddenly discovered that the follow-up work of the "Three Detachments" was generally easier to carry out, and they were all completed in advance in a natural way. The troops originally needed to support and suppress the local government were greatly reduced and they had more spare time. This is one of the final results achieved by the Grand Governor's Office investing a large amount of manpower and material resources.
Even the defeated soldiers who were originally scattered and hidden in the surrounding Ludang Shuize, could not help but be hungry, and they ran out to move wildly; then they hit the brim of the boat troops who were waiting for battle and the auxiliary soldiers brigade stationed around them, and almost never escaped in the end.
After all, although Chaohu has relatively abundant aquatic fish catches, people cannot live by eating these foods alone; not to mention that these defeated soldiers do not have enough fishing tools, nor can they obtain enough supplements from surrounding villages; as winter approaches, they can only make corresponding choices between being starved to death or being slowly frozen to death.
So once you get permission and opportunity from the rear, Qian Jumei really needs to find the person in Huaixi and deliberately drive the infected people over several times. Liu Hanhong, who almost failed to blockade and control the epidemic area, calculated the old debts of the new and old grievances.
However, after Qian Jumei led her troops across the natural boundary between Luzhou and Shouzhou, Huoshan, she found that the situation in that area seemed much more serious than expected. There were abandoned or burnt villages and towns everywhere, and incomplete corpses that were gnawed everywhere in the grass on the roadside.
For this reason, Qian Gumei had to specialize in seizing manpower to hunt and clean up wild dogs and crows who were wandering near the road and were no longer afraid of humans; in order to prevent these potential sources of plague from being taken to relatively safe areas as human activities.
As a result, under the corresponding propaganda, these soldiers became more and more vigilant and hated Liu Hanhong and his Huaixi Army, and bravely moved forward like a tide of wind and anger. They broke through and trapped one after another, including the Huaixi Army, and the whistle and towers.
Chapter completed!