Time went back to October 1853, and Zhao Kuo had just taken over Guangzhou City. At the highest level of the civil and military conference of the Taiping Army in Guangdong, Zhao Kuo looked at the group of senior officials under his command and decided on the initial strategy:

First, diplomacy: start diplomacy with the great powers immediately and obtain everything possible;

Second, stabilize the base: immediately send troops to conquer the remaining half of the Guangdong prefecture and rural areas. Because the capital Guangzhou has been taken down, the Qing army's resistance will be minimal. The main focus will be to slaughter the Guangdong Confucian and Patriarchal System, use land to bribe farmers, distribute property again, and smooth out all possible forces in the rural areas to resist Zhao Kuo;

Third, we immediately began to reorganize the basic army again! On one side, we were rectifying and training, and on the other side, we were cut a lot.

"Marty, our morale has increased greatly and we don't need to do this at all. Our soldiers and brothers are willing to sacrifice themselves for God. They should not reorganize the army, but should lead the Northern Expedition." Dou Wenjie, an old buddy of Guangxi, said, which aroused a wave of echoes among the officers.

The third point is that it is questioned, not that it is questioning the wrong thing, but that it takes off its pants and farts, and it takes one extra step.

Zhao Kuo looked at his subordinates and said, "You know, I will not implement the Holy Kujia physical supply system in Tianjin. I do not intend to accumulate all the wealth of the people to the Holy Ku. Merchants are still merchants, and farmers are still farmers. Therefore, the army must become a new army!"

As he said that, he tapped his fingers on the table and shouted: "Now I have a fucking 100,000 troops in name! If I don't consolidate the army, I can't afford to raise this group of people even if they eat up all the land in Guangdong! And it's all about the citizens and farmers who picked up a stick and fork. What do I want them to do? I must consolidate the army. According to the current Guangdong tax revenue, I can afford to support up to 40,000 people! I require that I must be elite soldiers and generals!"

"Guangdong is a large financial and tax supply company for Qingyao, and it should be able to support 100,000 people, right?" Zhu Qingzheng frowned and thought for a while and asked.

"Don't the military pay cost?" Zhao Kuo sneered: "I want to train soldiers with high salaries! Practice elite soldiers!"

In fact, Zhao Kuo's subordinates did not think well. With the combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers they encountered, they did not need to reorganize the army at all. They directly trained and assimilated a group according to the current successful model, which would still make the Eight Banners Green Camp look for teeth.

But Zhao Kuo's eyes were not limited to the Qing soldiers. He knew that in half a year, the most organized army in the mainland would appear, that is, the Hunan Army.

Of course, this "highest" is not the world rankings in later generations, or something, but the generals who were completely drawn from the shorts, a little higher than the Taiping Army and the Qing Army.

This was done by a Confucian elite, the mainstay of Confucianism, a scholar who was more stamina than Ye Mingchen, Zeng Guofan.

He was deeply aware of the essence of Confucianism or the worst part of Confucianism. The nepotism in Confucianism has been brought to its fullest and has created a army of children.

The management system of any feudal court in China has three parts: dragon, tiger, and sheep.

The dragon is the emperor;

Tiger is an official group;

Sheep are the people;

Because the ruling system is the monarch and the family of the family keep the world and the ranch owner, he and the sheep still have common interests. If the sheep die, his family will be destroyed - because the ownership of every grass and tree in the world belongs to the emperor, and he is finished, and his entire bloodline is completely destroyed by the clan.

But the world is too big, and the dragon has to rely on external minions to help control it, that is the bureaucratic group - tiger.

A tiger is equivalent to a worker. A worker makes money by stealing toilet paper in the company. Because the company is not his, the worker has great motivation to steal sheep while completing the tasks assigned by the boss.

The sheep cannot play with the tiger, and the tiger does not care about their blood and tears, but the chairman of the board of directors cares, so when the sheep's pain reaches the sky, the dragon will definitely kill the tiger to reduce the sheep's losses.

Therefore, tigers eat sheep, sheep eat dragons, and dragons eat tigers maintain a balance, ensuring that this ancient ruling system reaches equilibrium at three levels of interest.

If it is unbalanced, you will naturally rebel: kill all the dragons and tigers, and produce new dragons and tigers.

It can also be said that tigers are the eternal rulers of this continent. However, they are too strong compared to the flock and are afraid that they will starve themselves to death by eating them all, so they have to produce a new species, dragon, to suppress their appetite and allow all three creatures to survive.

The Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties were the perfect embodiment of this balance, and Kong Laoer's loyalty to the emperor and the love for the people was precisely the lubricant and theoretical cornerstone of this relationship.

But the Qing court always believed that it was its foreign nouveau riche, as Cixi said: "We are the masters of China, but we are not Chinese."

This is because the dragon and the sheep are not one. There is no interest in controlling the life and death of the sheep. This is completely colonial.

The effect is like a hotel with extremely poor management without a chairman (a good emperor), and the biggest person in charge is a contractor (the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty). He doesn't care about the subsequent survival problems of the hotel. He just needs to squeeze out any benefits during his lease period. When the lease period ends, he dares to sell the benches and tables for you!

And because he is not the chairman, he is completely in love with Tiger Group, not a restrictive relationship. He has completely contracted out the various departments under the company. You can play whatever you like, as long as there is no accident, just give me rent on time.

Naturally, the official group was dying about China. At this time, Hong Xiuquan came out. The group of people who rotted into the bones of the Qing Dynasty were all seriously obese tigers. Not to mention fighting with new tigers like Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they could not bite a dog.

Zeng Guofan opened a new branch at this time. His idea was very simple: According to the fact that you play like this, you will definitely be done. Since everyone is nepotism and has become corrupt and degenerate, then my new company can just open a family business.

The financial manager is his younger brother, the sales manager is his classmate, the human resources manager is his friend, and even the old man in charge of the door is his relatives, and the whole family of relatives, you can't be corrupt, right?

Because Zeng Guofan directly achieved the highest goal of Confucian corruption - the entire company belongs to him!

Everyone makes money by their own lives and for themselves!

In this way, this company's combat effectiveness will definitely be stronger than that of corrupt companies that are fighting against each other! They are just one mountain, and they are in one step.

Of course, such a company can make money when it is a small company, but it will never become a global large company. This is also the reason why Zeng Guofan would never overthrow the Qing Dynasty as emperor. It is not that he didn't want to, but that the Hunan Army system he created did not have this ability at all!

Not to mention escorting him to the throne, from the same time together, the Hunan Army was more cruel to the people than the bandits, and the Sanguang policy was everywhere, and Zeng Guofan, the so-called "the best man in the ages", pretended not to be visible at all.

Because the essence of his Hunan Army is "the family raises the mountain and works hard for wealth!"

They are not corrupt and inefficient internally, but if you let him, the fighting body that combines the worst essence of Confucianism, not "corrupt" the outside world, wouldn't it take their lives?

Why do Chinese people have intrigue? Why do Chinese people have a mountain? Why do Chinese people have a backdoor?

Isn't it just the fuck for money?

But can that bandit group be regarded as worshipped by the king? It only started to rot a hundred years later in the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties. From the beginning, the Hunan Army was formed with the "badest" foundation!

Therefore, Zeng Guofan could not become an emperor, but his small fighting group was more than enough to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because the latter did not look like a king, and was just a cult that was quickly rotting into one's politics and religion.

His Hunan Army once fought the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Western Expedition Army to be afraid of the tiger because the Hunan Army soldiers were even more desperate than the civilians enforced by the Taiping Army.

Compare the Hunan Army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom:

The essence of the group is half a pound, so don’t bother with the crow;

The Hunan Army has much better quality than the Taiping Army because the latter is just a civilian who is trapped or blindly trusted, and training is not as good as the former.

Some scholars once said that one of the reasons for the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the late period was that it captured wealthy places such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Nanjing, and the local people did not like to fight, which led to the lack of combat effectiveness of new soldiers. This is a bit funny. Didn’t Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang also started from Nanjing? These so-called young master soldiers in Jiangnan not only liberated their compatriots in the north, but also chased and killed Mongolian cavalry all the way into the northern desert. What a courage!

Of course, there is no need to compete with the Qing soldiers. When they wear the body and the hexagram, they will encounter someone who dares to fight with them, even if it is a common group, their combat power will drop to negative value. Lewis will immediately possess her and run away.

Now that Zhao Kuo wants to reorganize the army, he doesn't learn anything from Hongwu Taizu. He doesn't understand the great men, these great men, and he has no choice but to do anything about this land full of slave braids and illiterate people. So he learns directly from the future enemy, the Hunan Army.

At the meeting, he waved his hand and set the strategic standards for the army: "It's very simple. My army is about to be elite and soldiers are stupid!"

There is nothing to say about being sophisticated, but it is just not going to go through the back door and being promoted fairly according to military merits. These are just the old "Kintian spirit".

Zhao Kuo studied it for a long time. At the meeting, he set several standards: "Believers are preferred! Honest people are preferred! Poor people are preferred! Farmers are preferred! Those who have had clear demon blood on their hands when dividing the land! Non-gang members are preferred!"

To put it bluntly, these standards are just one sentence: the soldiers he Zhao Kuo wanted to summon are the kind of honest farmers who immediately kneel down to you with a slap.

I don’t want to bare my teeth with him! I don’t want to have greasy and floury faces! I don’t want to have cunning! I don’t want to have those who know too much! I don’t want to have those who dare to reason with you!

The last world will be because most of them are natives in Guangdong, and they are small handicraftsmen living in cities, and they are familiar with the habits of the world. Zhao Kuo hates them deeply. His men in his previous life were all such little hooligans. It’s okay to take such people to deal with the people. When they encounter urban management, they will only run away, let alone the army.

Moreover, he deliberately laid a hurdle for the members of the Tiandihui Association and wanted to prevent the Tiandihui from becoming bigger. If they infiltrated his army wantonly, they would not be able to "rebelliously Zhao Fuming".

Just after taking advantage of the Great Rebellion of the Heaven and Earth, Zhao Kuo, a shameless politician, had already begun to think about how to kick these meritorious officials away.

"Marty, this is not good. The Heaven and Earth Association has made great contributions to us in taking Guangzhou City." Zhu Qingzheng of course wanted to protect the interests of the Heaven and Earth Association, and he himself belonged to this sect.

But the Guangxi brothers led by Dou Wenjian immediately had a close relationship with Zhao Kuo. Dou Wenjian said loudly: "Baotou, I think the Marquis is right. The gang will make great contributions, but they are very cunning when fighting and are not brave enough, and are not as good as farmers. You are also a general who leads troops, so I don't need to say such things."

"It is precisely because of the brave patriots of the Heaven and Earth Association, I promoted the Whitehead." Zhao Kuo sneered and flattered his men, and then issued a blank check: "But the brothers of the Heaven and Earth Association will drive away the demons and make great efforts. I will never treat them badly. First, the Sun and Moon Legion will reserve you and give you 5,000 places. You can go to reorganize the army yourself, but I will not be stuck in my faith. You must quit opium and gang habits! Otherwise, I will disband the legion on the spot! Whitehead, huh?"

"Yes! Marquis Don't worry, I personally reorganize the Sun and Moon Legion, and I will definitely leave behind the most determined and capable subordinates." Zhu Qingzheng immediately bowed and saluted.

Zhao Kuo nodded with satisfaction and continued: "In addition, all the meritorious ministers of the Heaven and Earth Association, I want to grant titles and reward land. If you want to join the army, you must consider their opium, combat experience and age. If it is not suitable, I plan to hand over the opium sales industry and the industry of Qing Yao smuggling and transportation to these brothers." As he said that, he laughed: "It is not necessarily a general, but a rich man cannot escape."

When serving in a war, there is always a risk of life. If you follow the hall leader Zhao Kuo’s rewards and go to opium or trade, it will not only be no different from the work you did, but also immediately get rich under Zhao Kuo’s protection. Zhao Kuo used this trick to separate the upper-level figures of various gangs such as Tiandihui. Many of them were granted titles and rewarded land, such as Chen Kai and He Liu, and some entered Zhao Kuo’s monopoly business field. For example, Opium Zhang participated in the Foshan opium sales system. Viscount He Bo of the Navy became the leader of the royal sea transportation, and the latter’s transportation smuggling was personally escorted by Zhao Kuo’s anti-theft team, indirectly monopolized this large amount of sea transportation business.

"You generals will start to reorganize the army tomorrow." Zhao Kuo issued the last order.

"In the first stage, select elite basic soldiers and prepare to form an army in the future; reduce the Guangdong troops to 40,000, and the others will be disbanded on the spot; allocate 20,000 of the 40,000 out of 40,000, and invade the rural areas and villages to resist the harassment of the Qing soldiers in Yungui, Xiang and Min, and do not allow them to step into Guangdong!"

"In the second stage, after sweeping Guangdong, I will streamline the standing troops to about 20,000. Other soldiers and rural militia soldiers should be used as reserve forces, and daily training should also be organized!"

"In the third stage, these 20,000 people will strengthen my faith! Give me excellent arming! Give me strict training! I pay high salaries to raise soldiers: each soldier has one or five cents of daily rations, four or five cents per month, and 30 taels of pension for deaths. Disability is calculated, and military achievements are calculated! In short, let the poor man see the salary and his eyes shine, and he will rush to join the army! The treatment of generals is more generous!"

Zhao Kuo's Song Dynasty was different from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty. His Song army was consistent with the Hunan Army and embarked on the elite military route one after another.
Chapter completed!