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Jiang Bald sat there with a human appearance, putting on a picture of listening to his ears, and he didn't know that he thought that this guy had changed his mind. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Blind Man, as before, had never been interested in such a thing as military discussions, holding his sledgehammer and leaning against the pillar far away, looking like he was napping, but in fact his mind was constantly turning, and his mind was full of worry. But he is not worried about Zheng Jun, but about the Qing army in Nanjing, if these guys don't do anything and let Zheng Jun break the city, the Manchurian ladies in the city will have nothing to do with him Li Blind.

How good is that!

Li Blind pouted, with an unwilling look, his back moved, ready to change to a more comfortable position, but now Jiang Bald was staring at him, his expression was extremely weird, and he couldn't help but feel excited, I don't know why this bald man looks at himself like this.

Thinking of Dashuai's advice, the blind man Li subconsciously turned his face sideways, and said in his heart that this bald man is not a good person, so I have to stay away from him, so as not to be cheated by him.

Zhou Shixiang didn't think that Jiang Bald didn't remember the fight, and he "didn't die of a thief's heart", and planned to pull Li Blind on the thief ship, and after the Northern Expedition, he would also make a Chenqiaoyi mutiny, so as to satisfy their "Conglong" wish. What he thought was that no matter how the Zheng army fought in Nanjing, the Taiping army must immediately go on a northern expedition, seize Ganzhou, Nanchang, and Jiujiang, completely occupy Jiangxi, and control the upstream, so that no matter what happens to Nanjing downstream, he can calmly deal with it.

His plan was that if Zheng's army broke through Nanjing, the Taiping army would wave its troops to Zhejiang and Fujian and seize the territory of the two provinces; If the Zheng army can't break Nanjing, then the Taiping army will go to Nanjing. It is true that the city of Nanjing is strong, and it is not false that it is difficult to attack, but Zhou Shixiang has great confidence in breaking the city - carrying the coffin to explode is to carry the coffin to explode, if one body does not work, there will be two, and if two bodies do not work, there will be three, to see how solid the Nanjing city wall is.

At the same time, Zhou Shixiang also prepared to implement a new military merit knighthood system in the army after the Northern Expedition. He thought about this idea for a long time, and after weighing the pros and cons in every possible way, he made up his mind that the premise of implementing the new military merit knighthood was to no longer recognize the title that had been wrongfully awarded by the Yongli Imperial Court in the past, and instead re-award the military knighthood in the name of the Tang Dynasty Eunuch, which would definitely cause a backlash from some people. Because if this is done, those who could be the princes and marquis in the past may not even be able to be a general and a general soldier, and they will not be able to give up their titles willingly. Therefore, the implementation of the new military merit knighthood system must require strong means, and now that Guangdong is suppressing the rebellion, Zhou Shixiangyi handed over the matter to Wang Shirong to do, so that those lords who weigh themselves lightly know how to choose. Those who are interested in it will be taught by their ability, and those who are not interesting will be reinstated if they can't say it.

Zhou Shixiang even prepared to establish a system of "no marquis shall be awarded to non-military merits, and no marquis shall be allowed to enter the cabinet", but this involves too much and is related to the structure of the entire imperial court, and he can hardly take out the civil and military talents who can enter the cabinet to manage the government.

This matter can only be cultivated step by step, and the current cadets of the Military Preparedness Training Institute, the Junior Soldier Battalion, and the Guangdong University Hall are where Zhou Shixiang will rely on in the future. Only when they have completed their studies and been trained, when outstanding talents among them have emerged, and when they have become the backbone of the Taiping Army, can the entire government system be completely changed.

If this policy can be completed, Zhou Shixiang does not have to worry about his death after his death, the country is still as heavy as before, and finally led to the tragedy at the end of the Ming Dynasty. This policy was military service in later terms, and those who did not serve in the military were not allowed to enter the school or become officials, and those who were not marquis were not allowed to be the center. In this way, the martial spirit is deeply imprinted in the hearts of the Han people from the bones, from the daily customs, from the people, and from the court.

After the implementation of the military merit award, Zhou Shixiang still has one more thing to do, that is, according to the methods of later generations, the establishment of a military region model to govern the army. The military region is in charge of the local troops, the military region of the military commander's office, the presidential military region and the main forces. The level of the corps was changed to a temporary establishment, and the military commander's office temporarily appointed the corps governor in case of war, and mobilized three to four main forces to return to the corps for promotion, and after the war was over, the establishment was cancelled, and the military power belonged to the military marshal's office, and those who did not hand over the military power were regarded as rebellion, so as to avoid the generals from sitting on the big side, or forming factions in the army, and the tail was not lost.

There is a long way to go, Zhou Shixiang still needs to do a lot of things, he is not an immortal, just an ordinary mortal, before cultivating a new bureaucratic group that can implement his ideas, he can only do the same, and wait patiently for his own sowing to achieve results.

When Suna and Qi Hao were talking about Zheng's attack on Nanjing, Song Xianggong, Liao Ruixiang, Cheng Hanbin and others were also summoned to Qi.

After everyone sat down, Zhou Shixiang first asked Cheng Hanbin: "How many medicines are produced by the Ordnance Bureau now, and how many medicines can be mobilized for the Northern Expeditionary Army?" ”

Cheng Hanbin knew about the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition, and he had been preparing for it, he replied: "Boiling dung and boiling nitrate and searching copper ore saltpeter in various places, I barely got 130,000 catties of medicine, and purchased 40,000 catties from Macao, except for the allocation to Hunan and Guangxi and local mining use, 80,000 catties of medicine can be mobilized for the Northern Expeditionary Army." ”

"Eighty thousand catties? Less. ”

Zhou Shixiang shook his head, there were 12ooo soldiers in the Northern Expeditionary Army, and there were nearly 100 large and small artillery, on average, each soldier could only get less than a pound of medicine, and the rest had to be used as artillery. If there is no follow-up medicine supplement, after two or three battles, it is estimated that the medicine will be in a hurry. However, after thinking about it again, most of the Qing troops in Jiangxi were green battalions, and their combat effectiveness was not high, and there would basically be no big war of 10,000 people after entering Jiangxi, so although there was little gunpowder, it was not too little to support the end of the battle.

Cheng Hanbin bowed slightly: "The lower officials will increase the amount of work and strive for more systems." ”

"It's hard for you."

Zhou Shixiang nodded, and asked about the production of Foshan iron ore that had just been transferred to the ordnance control, Cheng Hanbin said them one by one, and finally Zhou Shixiang asked him with concern: "How is the self-generated gun?" ”

"After the last sample was approved by the marshal that there was no problem, the lower officials have been rushed to make it, but now it is only made into 3oo rods. The main reason why production cannot keep up is the lack of machinery, or simply relying on craftsmen to manufacture by hand, and the progress is naturally slow. ”

What Cheng Hanbin said is the truth: at present, the Ordnance Bureau uses three methods: metal mold construction, clay model production, and lost wax in the production of firearms and weapons, which are basically all handmade. The gun tube made by these three methods is still relatively rough, and it needs to be polished by craftsmen before it can be used, which is naturally extremely slow. In addition, the Ordnance Bureau also used rickshaw lathes and animal lathes to build guns and some classified parts, but they were also not efficient. At present, there are old craftsmen in the Ordnance Bureau who are looking for a solution to build a hydraulic lathe, using the degree of water flow instead of manpower and animal power, if it can be successfully made, the efficiency should be much higher.

"In terms of machinery, you have to pay attention to what should be bought, buy what should be made, and vigorously promote craftsmen with ability, give them official work, give them silver, let them have enthusiasm, can have more good ideas, and make more good things. Don't be reluctant to give up money on your side, military production has a lot to do with it. ”

Zhou Shixiang turned his head and said a few words to Song Xianggong, the investment in the ordnance cannot be less, Song Xianggong nodded with a smile. Originally, he was a clever woman who could not cook without rice, and his life was tight, and he used money everywhere, and he was eager to divide a penny into two halves to spend, but now with the indemnity of Annan, the pressure on Guangdong's finances has been greatly reduced.

Zhou Shixiang glanced at Ge Yi again and instructed him: "These 3oo poles are self-generated in the first town to test the actual combat effect, and the military department will send staff officers to accompany the army and report the first-hand actual combat data, so that the Ordnance Bureau can improve and improve." ”

Ge Yi was busy, and Zhou Shixiang told him that he must ensure that these 3oo poles could not fall into the hands of the Qing army. It's not redundant, it's a must. The power and shooting of the self-generated gun are much stronger than that of the fire gun, and it can be said to be the most lethal weapon at the moment, if it can be mass-produced and equipped with an army on a large scale, it can crush almost any army of the Qing army and the same era. However, the Taiping army currently only owns Liangguang and most of Hunan, and both the population and resources are far inferior to the Qing court, and the talent is far inferior. If the Qing court also produced self-generated guns, with their resources, Zhou Shixiang's move to develop self-generated guns would be to shoot himself in the foot.

Song Xianggong and Liao Ruixiang respectively reported on the expenditure of money and grain and the mobilization of the people's manpower, and in order to ensure the success of the Northern Expedition, Guangdong began to make preparations in this regard more than a year ago. Zhou Shixiang listened to them one by one, although there were still some flaws in some places, but on the whole, the money and grain dispatch of the Northern Expeditionary Army was in place.

The specific transfer of money and grain to the towns and how to transport the front line was a matter for the military headquarters and military department of the army marshal's office, and Song Xianggong and Liao Ruixiang only made sure that the things were ready. The military officer has always been vacant, and it used to be Zhao Sihai, but he is now in charge of the field army in Hunan, and now the person in charge of the military department is Guo Xiong, the commander of the Han army under the former Pingnan Domain.

Guo Xiong was also prepared, seeing that the marshal looked at him, he hurriedly ordered people to spread out the map, which had already marked the march route of the Northern Expeditionary Army, where the red dot was the grain and grass camp preset by the military headquarters, and the black dot was the planned military post.

"According to the commander's intentions, General Zhu Tong's eighth town undertook the task of transporting grain and grass and wounded soldiers for this march, and also ensured the flood road between the rear and the front. The 5ooo people recruited by the political envoy and the Yamen were sent by the Eighth Town. The military department has dispatched more than 100 Lang Zhong and hundreds of military nurses to form a field hospital, which can be used for action at any time. ”

Zhou Shixiang carefully looked at the relevant regulations drawn up by the military department, he was very satisfied, got up and said to the generals: "The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, with the grain and grass, we can have enough confidence to go north, otherwise the soldiers will fight with their lives in front, but after the battle, they will not be able to eat a mouthful of hot food, and they have to tighten their belts from time to time, how to fight this battle?" .... In this Northern Expedition, we must establish good military discipline and no longer take food from the local area as before, otherwise, the common people will suffer again. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer. This is actually true, but we can reduce the suffering of the people, now we are not without money and food, so you all have to arrest me for military discipline, after the Northern Expedition, as when we marched into Xiangshan, you must not kill innocents, do not plunder the people's money, let alone occupy the people's houses, you are not allowed to take a needle in the people's homes! Otherwise, military law is engaged, listen to understand not! ”

"The last general understands!"

The generals roared to their feet.

Zhou Shixiang was slightly qualified, and finally in the expectant eyes of the generals, he said slowly: "The first town, the third town, the fifteenth town, the new first town, the new second town, and the cavalry town will follow my northern expedition, and the seventh town of Chaohui on the Guangdong side will not move, pressing the Fujian side, the new seventh town of Gaozhou will be transferred to Guangzhou, and the new eight towns and the new nine towns will stay in Leizhou and Lianzhou. The junior soldiers over the age of 14 in the junior battalion were drawn out to form a junior battalion and go out with the commander's guard. Tomorrow's military parade and swear to the Northern Expedition! ”

"Obey!"

The generals got up suddenly, everyone was excited, and after waiting for many days, they were finally about to raise the Northern Expedition. 8