Han’s Son is Not a Slave: Chapter 601 Food means 1 everything

Annan had a lot of food, so Zhou Shixiang decided to go to war. 【】

Go to war at all costs, use troops against Annan under great pressure, just for Annan to have food.

Food, Zhou Shixiang is in great need.

The Ming and Qing wars were more a war of grain than a war between two ethnic groups.

In this era, anything is false, only food is true.

If there is food, there will be soldiers, and some people will sacrifice their lives; without food, as powerful as the Ming Dynasty, it will collapse in an instant.

For the sake of food, Houjin, who was still outside the customs, entered the customs many times to loot; for the sake of food, the Qing soldiers almost slaughtered every city, just to kill those extra mouths, so as to reduce the burden of the Qing Dynasty and avoid the Ming Dynasty. Lessons for the hungry refugees.

For the sake of food, the Taiping Army also used extremely **** means to suppress the Han people in Hunan; for the sake of food, the Taiping Army's Eastward Detachment bloodbathed the four prefectures of Baoqing, Yongzhou, Quanzhou and Hengzhou, causing the lives of the people in the four prefectures to be devastated. And all of this is only to support the war against the Qing army in the southwest, and only to eliminate those Qing soldiers who came to grab food.

The two sides in the war can no longer say who is the righteous side and who is the evil side. At least, in Hunan, the Taiping army played an extremely disgraceful role, even worse than the Qing army in some aspects.

The people of Hunan are thinking far and far, and the people of Hunan are miserable!

The grain trucks brought by the Dongjin Detachment to the west of Hunan don't know how many blood and sweat of Hunan people!

Zhou Shixiang knew the suffering of the people in Hunan, but he could not relieve their suffering, because he really had no food, and he really needed their food.

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Guangdong Province, which has initially completed the construction of villages and townships, has a population of only 1.52 million, of which only more than 400,000 are adult males, and the rest are mostly old and weak women and children. Before the Qing army went south, there were more than 987,000 households in Guangdong Province, with a total population of more than 7.5 million and more than 2.23 million adult males.

The 12-year war has reduced the population of Guangdong by 80%, and the population decline of Guangxi, which is already poorer than Guangdong, is even more astonishing. In the sixth year of Wanli, Guangxi had a population of more than 1.786 million, while the population of the five prefectures of Wuzhou, Xunzhou, Liuzhou, Guilin and Nanning according to the statistics of the Guangxi Governor Yamen a few days ago was only more than 120,000.

The Guangxi Governor Yamen did not count the natives in southern Guangxi, because so far, the Guangxi Governor Yamen has only established actual rule in a few important towns, and has not established effective rule for the line from southern Guangxi to Zhennanguan. However, the population of those areas controlled by native officials was not included in the Yellow Book of the Ming Dynasty. The fact is that the population of Guangxi Province can be ignored. More than half of the 120,000 people are old and weak, women and children, who can be called Dingkou. But there are more than 30,000 people.

Guangdong and Guangxi seem to have a large site, but the population is too small. Just relying on Guangdong Province to bear the needs of hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops, the pressure on Guangdong can be imagined. Song Xianggong wrote many times, bluntly saying that Guangdong's people's strength has been exhausted, and if they can't get big results, it is afraid that Guangdong will not be able to bear the needs of this war. If it is pressed hard, it will inevitably affect the production and stability of Guangdong, and may even provoke civil unrest. This major victory obviously refers to the capture of a province or even several provinces, and the area occupied is by no means a barren and sparsely populated area such as Guangxi. Song Xiang's public letter mentioned the two lakes area many times. Obviously, Song was very eager to occupy the two lakes or to obtain a grain-producing area that could stably support the Taiping army.

The pressure in Guangdong is so great that Zhou Shixiang didn't know it, and he didn't want to control the two lakes area. "Huguang is familiar, the world is full", no matter how ignorant he is, he knows a lot about these six words. However, now he has no way to establish actual rule in the two lakes area. Like Guangdong, he started to build villages and townships, so that the "imperial power" will go to the countryside. First, the Kuidong soldiers need to recuperate, so as to relieve the pressure of the Qing army in the north for the Taiping army; If the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops who came to the southwest did not settle for a day, it would be impossible for them to establish effective rule in the Lianghu area, which is the only way for them to go north. Zhou Shixiang really devoted his energy to establishing Ming Dynasty rule in Hunan, and it is likely that the wind blows the eggshell in the end.

What Zhou Shixiang is doing now is to use all the people's strength and money and grain in Hunan to deal with the Qing army, which can be harshly called disregarding the life and death of the people in Hunan. The food and salaries of the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in the southwest all came from the land of wealth in the southeast. That is to say, Zhou Shixiang used Hunan and Guangdong to support the Taiping army, while the Manchu Qing Dynasty used the land of several southeastern provinces to support the southwestern Qing army.

The pressure on both sides is equally great, but the pressure on the Manchus is much greater than that of the Taiping army. Their wealth is in the southeast, but their army is in the southwest, and the Taiping army is in the middle. The war continued for a long time, or the Qing army was unable to break through the Taiping army blockade and came out from the southwest. Over time, the Manchu rule over China would be in crisis, even if their biggest opponent, the Yongli regime, abandoned the country and fled or was captured and killed. , the situation caused by the Taiping army who stepped in sideways still makes this crisis hang on the head of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

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Years later, the Qing court had ordered Prince An Yue Le to go south. Yue Le was ordered by Shunzhi before his departure, and the young emperor could no longer contain his anxiety and urgency~www.mtlnovel.com~ had high hopes for Prince An who went south, and Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, also received an urgent order from the Qing court. He ordered him to stick to Wuchang, and at the same time rectify the Dongting Lake Naval Division to ensure that the line from Wuchang to Changsha was controlled by the Qing army.

When the Qing court responded to the changes in the two lakes, Zhou Shixiang was also responding. When the Guangxi Taiping Army fought against the Xian Guoan, he had initially made a campaign deployment against Luo Keduo, the king of Qingping County. Zhou Shixiang planned to use the second town, the sixth town and the two towns of the Xiangxi Suppression Army to surround and wipe out the King Luo Keduo of Qingping County. If Luo Keduo can be defeated in one fell swoop, the troops of the Xiangxi Suppression Army will continue to perform the important task of blocking the border between Hunan and Guizhou. The fertile land in the southeast won the southern capital in one fell swoop. With the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River, the Taiping army's current shortage of money and food is alleviated, and it takes advantage of the situation to seize Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi, thus linking Guangdong and Guangxi and the Taiping army-controlled areas of Hunan into one, forming a de facto half-wall regime.

This plan is very ambitious, but it also has certain risks. The biggest risk is the Qing army in the southwest. Whether the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in the southwest can be encircled, so that they cannot go north, is the key to the implementation of this strategy. As for the Qing army in the southeast, Zhou Shixiang did not pay attention to it, because he believed that the surname of the country would clear these obstacles for him. All he has to do is wait in Hunan, waiting for the moment when the melons are ripe, and when the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River happily celebrates the defeat of the country's surname.

Coexisting with the risk of the Qing army in the southwest is the increasingly tense food issue. (To be continued.)