In Taiwan's capital city, the newly appointed Taiwan military commander Wang Ziyu has recently been busy entertaining local civil and military officials and local wealthy families.

In this era of inconvenient transportation, Dongfan Island is relatively isolated. The more isolated a place is, the stronger the local power becomes.

When the sky is high and the emperor is far away, they all become earth emperors.

If the imperial officials want to govern smoothly, they must rely on the local and powerful clans.

"Hmph, they are a bunch of misers, misers, and roosters who live for nothing. If you have the ability, don't come to me when the gangsters start." After the others left, Wang Ziyu cursed in his mouth.

After he arrived, he discovered that the island's armaments were lax and the green camp was seriously short of resources.

If a rebellion broke out somewhere at this time, he would only be able to mobilize a thousand troops from the city.

As for the 500 Eight Banners stationed on the island, they are the boss, and they will not obey orders.

After all, Wang Ziyu came from a staff background and was influenced by Wang Yide, so he is relatively pragmatic.

As soon as he arrived at Dongfan Island, he immediately visited various counties.

During the visit, he discovered that the situation of civil association was serious in various parts of Dongpan.

Affected by the uprising of the Little Knife Society, Wang Ziyu knew that these gang organizations were potential factors of unrest.

However, he did not immediately order a crackdown. Instead, he first sorted out the forces under his control.

Because he knows that once these organizations are banned, chaos will immediately occur.

If there is no force on hand, the chaos will soon spread and affect the entire Toban Island.

This time he summoned local officials and squires, in fact, he wanted to recruit money to train a regiment of two thousand people.

Whether it was the war to conquer the Taiping Army or the previous war to annihilate the Xiaodao Society, local regiment training played an important role.

Moreover, the imperial court gave heavy rewards to local officials who recruited regiments to practice suppressing bandits.

Wang Ziyu has entered the officialdom, and climbing up has become his important goal.

He is now a fourth-rank official, and his sudden rise to a high position has made his ambitions expand.

His next target is a political envoy.

The chief envoy of Fujian is still held concurrently by Qingrui. Maybe he can take over and share the worries of Governor Qingrui.

"Sir, my subordinates have heard that recently there are rumors in various counties in Tainan that there are two great heroes named Xiong, who have gradually taken control of several bandit organizations and are quite powerful." The speaker is Ye Shengcai, the leader of Wang Ziyu's subordinates.

Ye Shengcai, a local, was originally a gangster on the road, but was promoted by Wang Ziyu to help him spy on intelligence.

Wang Ziyu himself came from a humble background, and he knew that these people in the market had their own unique way of survival.

As an important member of a party, you can't just use scholars, but you must also learn to use those streetwalkers.

"What is the background of these two people?" Wang Ziyu asked with a frown.

"This... Sir, these two people seem to be from other places. I have never heard of them here before. I only know that these two people are very powerful. Basically, the leaders of the bandits they annexed were killed by them. It is said in the world that

These two people are the kings of hell who seek death."

"In this case, if you go to inquire about the movements of these two people, don't alert them first." Wang Ziyu ordered.

"Besides, don't the bandits on Wuling Mountain want to be recruited? Contact them and help me do something. Once done, I will take them in." Wang Ziyu continued to order.

Aren't the gentry in that place stingy?

Then let them experience the consequences of banditry. Then these people will not obediently give the money over.

The time came in February of the third year of Xianfeng.

The first anniversary of Dong Liang’s uprising of Chinese workers.

He erected a stone monument in Kawanhira Bay, Ishigaki Island, where the Chinese workers originally landed.

Then he took his men to this place to pay homage to the Chinese workers who died in the uprising.

Standing in front of the stone tablet, Dong Liang sighed, time flies so fast.

However, most Chinese officials thought differently from Dong Liang. What they lamented was that Dong Liang had led them to do so many things in just one year.

Seize the ship, land on the island, defeat the Satsuma forces on the island, rescue the Chinese slaves in the Satsuma plantation, repel the encirclement and suppression by foreigners and the Satsuma family, establish the Chinese ethnic group, capture Tong'an County, take back the families of the Chinese workers, conquer Satsuma in the north, and control

The entire Ryukyu Island, then attacked Gulangyu Island, rescued Piggy, and went to Fuzhou to help the Manchu Qing repel the siege of the foreign fleet, and finally conquered the pirates in the East China Sea.

Over the past year, the Chinese have continued to fight while developing production.

Accumulate and grow in production, hone yourself in battle.

As a new army, the Guards were trained by Dong Liang to become veterans of hundreds of battles.

Looking at the entire East Asia region, the Chinese have unknowingly grown into a decisive force.

Also developing rapidly was the Taiping Army.

Since the Jintian Village Uprising, they have experienced ups and downs, and were almost wiped out by the Qing army several times.

However, after the establishment of Yong'an, the policies of the Taiping Army were supported by the people at the bottom who had been oppressed for a long time.

They began to use their specialties and move around to fight, and the team expanded like a snowball.

Everywhere you go, your power can be expanded.

As long as the Taiping Army is still on the move, they will have an inexhaustible supply of troops.

Moreover, the Taiping Army continued to learn in battles and grew very rapidly. In just one or two years, Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Luo Outline, Lin Fengxiang and others all grew from ordinary civilians to outstanding generals.

After Yang Xiuqing became the Eastern King, the Taiping Army established a dual leadership system, and he led the Taiping Army to make important choices with his excellent strategic vision.

On the morning of January 12, the third year of Xianfeng, the Taiping Army attacked Wuchang City from the ground and demolished more than 20 feet of the Wenchang Gate wall in the southwest of the city. Lin Fengxiang, the first checkpoint on the left in front of the palace, Li Kaifang, the second checkpoint on the right in front of the palace, Luo Ganggui, the commander on the left of the palace, and others

He led his troops to attack the city one after another.

The Qing army abandoned the city and fled, Shuangfu, Chang Lu, and Wang Jinxiu were killed, Chang Dachun committed suicide, and Wuchang was occupied by the Taiping Army.

This was the first provincial capital captured by the Taiping Army since the Jintian Uprising.

When the news of this battle spread, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were shocked.

Emperor Xianfeng was so angry that he almost fainted due to an old illness.

At this time, the Qing government asked Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, who was dealing with the floods in the Yellow River, to go to Anqing to rectify the defense of the Yangtze River. At the same time, the Eight Banners of Mongolia rushed to Henan to garrison to prevent the Taiping Army from moving north.

Wuchang is the thoroughfare of nine provinces. From here, the Taiping Army had too many options to attack, making it even more difficult for the Qing Army to encircle and suppress it.

Similarly, the Taiping Army was also confused about the direction of its next actions.

Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, believed that we should go north to the Central Plains, join the Nian army in Henan and Huaibei, and then go straight to the capital.

Hong Xiuquan believed that as long as he attacked the capital, the Han people in the world would immediately abandon the Manchus and support himself. This would be a shortcut to quickly pacify the world.

Yang Xiuqing felt that we should march eastward and go down the river. His reasons were also very good. First, he analyzed the shortcomings of going north. Most of the Taiping Army were Cantonese and were not adapted to the northern climate. At the same time, they were good at water warfare. At this time, he analyzed the shortcomings of going north.

The Central Plains will inevitably have to fight against a large number of Manchu and Qing cavalry. The Taiping Army has no way to fight against the cavalry. They have been fighting in the mountains and forests of the south.

If it goes down the river, it can give full play to its water warfare advantages and use the Yangtze River waterway to shock the southern provinces.

Furthermore, Jiangning City is an important town in the south. If we can capture it, we can also shock the world.

There is another group, headed by Shi Dakai, who believes that Bashu should be marched westward. They also have their own reasons. Bashu is a land of abundance and has terrain advantages that make it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

At the end of the discussion, there was almost a quarrel, but there was still no result.

Yang Xiuqing had no choice but to twitch directly in the main hall.

When everyone saw it, they all knelt down quickly. Even Hong Xiu got up from his throne, prostrated on the ground, and said, "Welcome to Heavenly Father."
Chapter completed!