You can’t kill them all as I want, so that Clear The Demon can’t get the support of this class
Wang Lei’s policy is so simple and rude.
Wang Lei not only cleaned and killed the gentry class in the ruling area, but also "team-cleaned" the gentry class everywhere.
"Either go with Taiping rebels or go with Clear The Demon. It’s black and white. There’s no gray. Don’t give the swing a chance."
In this way, even if some places were recaptured by the Qing army, the gentry class had been killed or swept away, and the Qing dynasty had little rule over the bottom.
Rebuilding the foundation of local rule is necessary. When it is necessary, Wang Lei will either take extreme measures to forcibly pull the grass-roots rule of the Qing army and the Taiping Army to the same starting line, and then defeat all the land of the other side in the simplest and rudest way. The Taiping Army will collect 30% of the land rent and then donate taxes.
It is impossible for the Qing court to take the world by storm to reform the land, which is the greatest advantage of the Taiping Army and the Qing court in fighting for the grassroots.
Chapter one hundred and forty There is nothing new under the sun
However, the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was broadcast to let the poor people see that hope and popular support have been gained, and it will be easier for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to govern again in the future.
Wang Lei is well aware of the importance of propaganda, so a large number of people in the surrounding areas have been sent to publicize the deeds of killing landlords and distributing land in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Of course, they are only broadcast in the vicinity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He does not want to provoke a war between the Qing Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom now.
Even so, this kind of legal action completely caused the gentry in all parts of the country to panic, because there was no such thing as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom before, and now this Wang Lei-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is so radical that Wang Lei’s action completely aroused the hatred of the gentry, bringing hatred but fear.
In the middle of the palace, the memorials came like snowflakes. These memorials all asked the court to stop the footsteps of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as soon as possible, and the memorials were sent by government officials or so-called local gentry celebrities
But there is nothing new under the sun.
The Taiping rebels fought in Clear The Demon for many years, and the battlefields were the richest in the past. The finances of the Qing court in the south of the Yangtze River had already gone bankrupt. Because of the "bandits’ salaries", the people had already been pushed to the limit because of the exorbitant levies. Where did the imperial court really want to continue to fight endlessly with the Taiping rebels for salaries? No matter how hard it is, it will force him to rebel again.
How can we fight, recruit and destroy bandits without money?
At the end of Chuang Wang’s entry into Beijing, he fought against the enemy because of financial bankruptcy. When Emperor Chongzhen asked the minister for salary, all the gentry and ministers refused to pay, preferring to keep their money and defend the city, break the city, and seize tens of millions of silver property. When the family was ruined, they refused to pay some money to defend the city and save lives.
The same was true at the end of the Song Dynasty.
Another more famous and closer example is the four families in 1949. When the PLA artillery had set up a tree on the other side of the Yangtze River and it was about to fall, the parasitic tree moths were still madly carrying out the last doomsday carnival before the tree fell.
Those who clamor for the elimination of long-haired bandits will never compromise with the gentry. What they can do is just verbal support.
Wang Lei from another world is very white. In this era, the so-called gentry face. They hate the Taiping Army very much, and they hate everything he is doing. But what about this? They all stop at talking about playing political correctness, but when they are asked to give real money and silver support, they cry all the time.
It’s impossible for them to take out real money.
"The so-called enemy of the gentry is just a joke. Those idiots put the knife rest in front of their necks. They are just talking. They can be enemies with us, that is, those old friends of Huai Army and Xiang Army."
Things are just like Wang Lei guessed.
The slogan of the Qing court’s suppression of long hair was loud, but the gentry were asked to search their own homes. Did the court share their worries and donate money to help suppress it?
"get out!"
that’s it
There was no silver war in the Qing court, and obviously there was only one way to make peace.
Ye Helan, the supreme ruler, is unwilling to make peace with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he also knows that if Wang Lei is not stopped as soon as possible, he is afraid that the court will completely lose the trust of the gentry class and no longer have credibility.
Now the situation facing the Qing court is just like the general battlefield in the late Qing court, but it can’t beat a bunch of gentry bureaucrats shouting political correct slogans in the DPRK … The slight difference is that there are still third-party foreigners and their attitudes are ambiguous.
Fight, stop, stop, stop, talk, talk, fight, and so on and so forth.
At this time, Wang Leizhi, the Taiping Army’s offensive against the Qing court was completed, and the Qing court in Northeast China repeatedly entered the looting means at the end of the period. He knew well the current shortcomings of the Taiping Army’s external offensive, taking looting means to attack one place and plunder population wealth, and then withdrawing.
At this time, whether it is the Taiping rebels or the Qing court, it is exhausted. However, with two powerful people, bring up the rear, everyone plays a less bad war than the Taiping rebels, and the local battlefield can prevail.
The guiding ideology of looting warfare is that important people don’t want money or cities. Every time Taiping rebels go to war, the gains outweigh the losses, and some small battlefields often gain.