"No, we don't defend Shaozhou." When Hong Xiuquan's main force fought fiercely in Changsha, no one opposed Zhao Kuo's opinion at the officer meeting of the Southern Expedition Army.

The situation is very clear.

If you guard Shaozhou, the Hunan-Guangdong level, you will inevitably face full-strength attacks from Qing Yao from Hunan and Guangdong.

The Qing officials all thought it was very simple, so it was easy to predict.

Except for Xianfeng, any official in Qingyao will not have a deep hatred and will kill the disaster. They just hope that the disaster will flow to other people's territory. As long as you don't have it on your own territory, you can do whatever you want, just don't mess with me.

If the Southern Expedition Army is stuck here, the Qing army in Hunan will inevitably be under pressure, trying to force the Southern Expedition Army into Guangdong; and the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Ye Mingchen will also concentrate the Qing army in Guangdong, intending to squeeze the Southern Expedition Army into Hunan. This is equivalent to the beans between the two millstones, and they will definitely face all the pressure on the Qing demons of the two provinces.

If the Southern Expedition Army breaks into the hinterland of Guangdong, it will face only military pressure from the Guangdong province. Moreover, if the Heavenly King Hong Xiu can take Changsha and occupy the entire Hunan area, the Taiping Army will easily break through the Lianzhou checkpoint in Shaozhou and connect with Guangdong.

Similarly, if Hong Xiuquan was unable to conquer Changsha, the Southern Expedition Army would not be able to advance and retreat between the two millstones, which would be like committing suicide.

Therefore, after the Shaozhou army was completed, Zhao Kuo immediately led a large army to attack Fogang Hall, and threw the occupied Shaozhou to the Manchu Admiral Kunshou, and asked him to collect the lost land for Xianfeng.

But the situation in Guangdong is really good, and the good ones are beyond the expectations of Zhao Kuo, who is familiar with history.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Mars jumped into Guangdong, which immediately frightened the disciples of the Qing Confucians, and the oppression and exploitation of the people several times.

Because Changmao entered the country, your superiors need to organize a group to fight against bandits. The court will not pay the money for the group training. Even if they say it verbally, there will be no money for you. So what should you do with your parents?

Of course, they are levied happily and all kinds of taxes.

In history, Qing officials liked to make disasters the most. If a flood was caused, a sum of money to build a dam would be enough for his grandson to eat the Republic of China. If a drought was caused, it would be even better to sell the food for disaster relief. A hundred years later, his descendants became nobles in the United States. The same is true for bandits. Collect money! Make money! Greedy! What are you doing? The money is in your own hands, and most of the ghosts know, what are you doing? Xianfeng? He knows a **! He is a **!

Therefore, since Zhao Kuo's troops entered Guangdong, taxes and taxes and taxes in various places have almost increased several times. Officials from all over the country are so righteous that they scream and do not pay the people's houses! After all, Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, jumped and asked local governments to organize groups to train militia to stop the long-haired beasts.

Of course, this has no effect on the big landlords and gentry.

Historically, scholars have noticed a clear and strange phenomenon. After the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing and demanded Boxer Indemnity, land rents in various parts of China made a qualitative leap. This is the consequence of the upper class passing all the burden on the poorest people, while the vested interest groups were not lost.

The same is true in Guangdong now. Zhao Kuo inspires the goal of the 1854 uprising in advance, which was achieved by the Qing officials. They were afraid that all regions would not rebel and would bully the people and scrape the ground. It has reached the point where the heavens are angry and people are resentful.

Wherever the Taiping Army arrived, it would echo the situation, killing officials and eliminating evil gentry, and welcoming the royal army all the way.

Fogang is a small area between Guangzhou Prefecture, Shaozhou Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture, so it is called Fogang Hall. As soon as the Taiping Army arrived, the military and political chief immediately fled at night. Zhao Kuo's army occupied Fogang without bloodshed, and then rushed to Huizhou.

Before his army could arrive, the famous He Lu (He Liu) in history had already raised his troops to capture Dongguan County and waited for Zhao Kuo to accept it.

This He Liu is like Zhu Qingzheng. Some people say that as long as you have enough food, who will rebel?

But every dynasty has a lot of food and is dedicated to rebelling!

For example, Mr. He Liu from the Tiandihui Society has begun to "visit in the hometown and plan to rebel" since the Taiping Army. How powerful is his energy? Even more than ten patrol ships in the government "followed the thieves", and his subordinates had already contacted the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Hong Xiuquan had already signed him as "Wu Yaohou", and this order was placed in Zhao Kuo's arms. (See "Dongguan County Chronicles")

He Liu, from Tan Village, Shunde, Guangdong Province, was originally named Jindian and his courtesy name was Xianxiang. He was born in a small businessman family. He lived with his father in Dongguan rice shop when he was young. He was an active figure in the Dongguan Triad Association (Tiandi Society) and soon became a leader.

In January 1853, in order to respond to the offensive of Zhao Ziwei, the powerful general of the Taiping Army, He Liu raised troops to revolt in Shilong Town, Dongguan, gathering 30,000 party members and more than 600 ships. His action program was "hold a dragon, hold a tiger, block a sheep, worship Buddha, welcome monkeys (marquises), and build a paradise!".

Take the Dragon: Take the Shilong Town;

Tihu: Capture the Humen;

Stop the sheep: conquer Guangzhou;

Worship Buddha: Buddha is Foshan, where there is another group of friendly troops;

Yinghou: Hou is Zhao Ziwei;

Building a paradise: refers to taking over the whole of Guangdong.

This slogan is slightly different from that in history. First, it was not welcomed by the Marquis of Pingnan in history; second, it was "going to the West" rather than "building heaven", which refers to going to Guangxi.

This difference is mainly because the future speculator Zhao Ziwei sent someone to participate in guiding Mr. He Liu's uprising. He himself thinks that going to Guangxi is a mess? Do you fight guerrillas? Once, you have to conquer Guangdong under the various righteous men!

Their uprising was mainly due to the gift of Jiang Zhaoen, a corrupt official in Dongguan. Originally, this man was a three-foot-high character who was in peace and prosperity (scrape off the land). Now that Zhao Kuo's bandits were in trouble, they immediately made Dongguan frustrated and the people were living in miserable life. He Liu seized the opportunity of the county magistrate taking advantage of the bandits' crazy plunder, gathered workers from various shops in Shilongxu to revolt together, and took advantage of the night to come to Dongguan County.

Comrade Jiang Zhaoen and his confidant Si Moqiliang were unwilling to believe that someone was rebelling. They had received extremely accurate information, but they just didn't believe it! - Damn, now Zhao Kuo has entered the hinterland of Guangdong, and everyone is enthusiastic about suppressing bandits. Where can an uprising appear? This is a good opportunity for him to get promoted and make money. Could it be that he reported to Guangzhou that the people here are unstable? If you do this, are you a Qing Dynasty official? How did you become an official? Idiot!

At dawn, He Liu led tens of thousands of people to attack the county town, and Jiang Zhaoen and Comrade Mo Qiliang, who had just gotten up from the bed, fled out of the city, and ignored the city gates. As a result, the four city gates were wide open. The rebels entered the city from the north gate, burned his yamen, and released the prisoners in the prison. The officers and soldiers and yamen runners who were still staying in the city smiled and wrapped the red cloth around their heads, and all surrendered to the enemy!

Then the county magistrate and his good helper Mo Qiliang were unable to escape and were all caught.

Jiang Zhaoen was better, but he was fisted and beaten, washed his face with spitting, and then grabbed him in prison and waited for Zhao Kuo to come and fall. His confidant Mo Qiliang was in trouble.

This man's name is well-known, and it is dark. He is Jiang Zhaoen's confidant and minion, and has made great contributions to the boss. He said that his sins are not as good as Jiang Zhaoen, and it is just a tool, but the people don't think so.

What he felt pitiful was that Chinese people always hated corrupt officials not the emperor, hated tweezers not the thieves, hated knives not the robbers, because this boy had a very familiar face and was so vicious in front of the common people that he was so well-known, but he was even more unlucky than his boss.

This guy has always been on the front line of oppressing the people and is the first person to corruption and abuse his power. People in the county hate him so much that his teeth hurt. Before he could be imprisoned, he was dismembered after wandering among the people for a few times!

With the response of such a huge Dongguan Triad Rebel Army, Changmao Zhao Kuo, who was already known as lightning breaking the city, immediately scared the prefect of Huizhou City to death. The defender abandoned the city and fled into Guangzhou City. Huizhou City was easily taken down with internal and external cooperation.

By this time, Zhao Kuo had already controlled Huizhou Prefecture, Fogang Hall, and the southern part of Shaozhou Prefecture (both eastern Guangzhou), which was almost half of Guangdong, but he was not in a hurry to attack the capital of Guangdong, which had only 15,000 troops. Instead, he started to consolidate the army and clear the countryside.

Zhao Kuo understood that in this barbaric era, only by taking over Guangzhou could the whole province be able to control the whole province, but fighting in Guangzhou was not something that could be solved by war. This is essentially a diplomatic issue, a diplomatic issue of global powers.
Chapter completed!