The chieftains did not expect that the Taiping Army was not busy dealing with the Qing soldiers who were about to attack, but came to dig their walls.

A new list of articles has been posted. On this new list, the Taiping Army refused to submit to the chieftains for crimes, saying that they were not engaged in production and were dedicated to enslaving their tribesmen to enjoy their fortunes and killing people at any time. In fact, they were a group of bandits and harming the country and the people. The Taiping Army regarded the people of all places, and whether they were local or local, they were all citizens of the Ming Dynasty. They could not bear to see that the people of the Ming Dynasty were bullied by the chieftains, so they called on the natives to go down the mountain and join the Taiping Army to control the towns.

The Taiping Army will ensure the safety of the lives and property of the natives who came to the country. If there are any complaints, the Taiping Army will make the decision for him and the chieftains will fight against the most evil. All natives who come to the country will be registered and granted households and will be treated as new Han people. The government will provide them with land and houses, and will be exempted from money, grain and taxes for three years. The young and strong men will be recruited to join the army and enjoy the treatment of Taiping Army auxiliary soldiers.

The Taiping Army also guaranteed that the children of the natives who came to the country had books, studies, and work, and would never allow the Han people to oppress and hate the natives. In short, when the people who came to the country, the government would treat the affairs impartially and treat them equally. For those who did not understand the language, the government sent special communications to establish schools, allocated special funds to build schools, and invited Confucian scholars to teach. Children with excellent academic performance may receive money or food.

He also informed all natives that those who provide the chieftain's hiding place and the stronghold of the village can be given a generous reward. If there are those who capture and kill chieftains and local soldiers, they will be rewarded according to the level. If there are bandits from Han families or who join the Qing army, their families will be encouraged to persuade them to return. As long as they put down their weapons and return, they will also be given land. If the killing official comes back, they will be given a generous reward. For the bandit leader, who will automatically return, they will be determined by the situation, or they will be a good citizen and will be given a guarantee of life and safety; or they will be given an official position as a soldier in their subordinates.

Those who were captured by the chieftains and had clues, the Taiping Army immediately sent troops to suppress and rescue people. Those who fled and returned were properly arranged and sent troops to suppress the chieftains of the unit.

At the end of October, when Zhou Shixiang met with the Kuidong Army's special envoy in Changde to discuss the joint operation of the Taiping Army and the Kuidong Army to prevent and block the military affairs of the Yunnan, Guizhou and Qing Dynasty in Changde, he specially took the initiative to formulate a plan for the Jinggang of Xiangxi.

This policy will be regarded as bandits and bandits who refuse to submit to the chieftains and natives, which are the same as those of the Qing army's green camps and bandits in the mountains and forests. This policy will be changed to the policy of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and will no longer recognize the two specific government agencies, Xuanwei and Xuanfu Division. In other words, the Taiping Army will no longer recognize all the official treatments given to the chieftains by the Ming Dynasty in the past. As long as the other party refuses to lead the tribes, they will be regarded as unforgivable bandits and will be wiped out. After finally eliminating these anti-Ming forces, which were combined by the chieftains and the Qing army, combined with bandits, Zhou Shi intends to promote the transformation of land and return to the land in western Hunan, re-planning the administrative area, and then implement it in other places in the future. At the same time, the military commander's office will write various government offices, and will no longer be called native people (all young tribes). Those who come to submit to the new Han people will no longer be regarded as Han people after a few years. Those who fail to submit to the bandits will no longer be called bandits, and they will no longer be called local officials.

Zhou Shixiang ordered all government officials to regard Jingkou as the top priority of the current government, and to organize people to support and cooperate with the Taiping Army to pacify the enemy in various places. At the same time, it is necessary to count the number of arable land land in the jurisdiction, and to "take up" or replace land for large landlords and farmers occupying too many lands, and to make clear the land without owners to ensure that the natives who come to join the country have land to settle and have houses to live in.

Because he was unable to promote rural construction in the two lakes for the time being, Zhou Shixiang could only mobilize the surrender of officials to the greatest extent with his strong might, and he should also suppress the uncooperative Han gentry. What Zhou Shixiang did not expect was that he thought that these powerful policies would be deliberately downplayed by the surrendered officials, or dragged them back. Unexpectedly, the surrendered officials showed unprecedented motivation and completed the various commands issued by the General Office in advance.

Afterwards, Zhou Shixiang learned that the reason why the demoted officials worked so hard for the Taiping Army was that on the one hand, they had to show a certain loyalty after just surrendering; on the other hand, they were able to make a fortune from it.

The county magistrate was destroyed and the magistrate of the family was defeated.

With the strong support of the Taiping Army, a large-scale wave of bankruptcy and escape in the occupied area appeared. Many of their land and wealth were flowing to the hands of the surrendered officials.

Any policy has its pros and cons. The superiors decide only the pros and cons. For a long time now and in the future, the main enemy of the Taiping Army is still the Qing court and its countless lackeys and minions. Anti-corruption is not an urgent task. As long as these demoted officials do can meet military needs, Zhou Shixiang turned a blind eye to it. Of course, he also ordered several people who aroused public anger to vent the anger of the people, and the rest were still ordered to do it.

Unlike tolerant to the surrendered officials, Zhou Shixiang strictly prohibited the army from participating in local affairs. He was executed whenever any collusion between the officer and the surrendered official was found. He acted vigorously and decisively and would never allow anyone to resort to personal gains or plead for it. Even if he had made great achievements in the past, he would definitely be killed without forgiveness when he touched this thunder line.

The responsibilities and power of the military envoys in each town were further magnified. Zhou Shixiang planned to set up a military discipline enforcement team similar to the military police force later to ensure that the Taiping Army would not be corrupt or degenerate from top to bottom.

At the same time, Zhou Shixiang urgently ordered Duke Xiang of Guangdong to purify the administration of Guangdong. At the same time, he accelerated the training of military and political personnel of the Taiping Army so that after the situation was settled, new-style government talents loyal to the Taiping Army could immediately take over the civil affairs of the newly occupied areas. However, those who were demoted before were demoted, those who were not talented or virtuous would all be given real positions and assigned empty positions. Those who were talented but not virtuous would use them according to their feelings, and those who were talented and virtuous would be valued.

Given that western Hunan has many mountains and rivers, the bandits have always been stubborn and cunning, and are familiar with the terrain. When they encounter a strong attack by the Taiping Army, they will be broken into pieces, drilled into mountains and entered caves, and scattered and fled. The Han people and natives in western Hunan have been bullied by bandits for a long time, and some Han people and natives are still scared, afraid that the bandits will be liquidated later, so they dare not help the Taiping Army, which makes it difficult for the results of the bandit suppression in western Hunan to expand rapidly.

Zhou Shixiang ordered a brigade from the second town, two brigades from the ninth town, and one brigade from the sixth town. The Qing army surrendered troops were organized into two brigades. The new affiliated troops were adapted from local officials and the new Han soldiers were combined into the Taiping Army in western Hunan, with a total of about 40,000 people in six towns.

After the establishment of the bandit suppression army, Zhou Shixiang established the Xiangxi bandit suppression command yamen, with Zhao Sihai, the military officer, as the bandit suppression strategy officer, the second town deputy general, and the Mongolian Su Rile as the deputy governor. The bandit suppression yamen was unified in command of the bandit suppression army in the six towns. Guo Kuoyu, the governor of Panyuan, was responsible for the logistics supply of the bandit suppression army, and the natives came to attach the resettlement matters.

According to Zhou Shixiang's opinion, after Zhao Sihai arrived at the bandit suppression office located in the southern Weizhou of Baojing, he promptly summarized the experience of various troops in advance in the early bandit suppression, combined with the strategy of bandit suppression planned by the general, he divided 16 prefectures and counties including Dayong, Yongshun, Luxi, Fenghuang, Chenxi into central areas, and eight counties including Longshan, Sangzhi into marginal areas, and concentrated their efforts to suppress bandits in the central area first.

At the same time, the bandit suppression yamen widely organized more than 80,000 young and strong Han people to lead the troops, deliver letters, food, and cooperate with the mountain search. While the military was invading and attacking, they launched a political offensive, explained the Taiping Army policy to the families of the bandit soldiers, mobilized them to persuade their relatives to go down the mountain to hand over their weapons and surrender themselves, and actively reported the bandit affairs. During this process, extreme cases occurred in some areas, threatening the bandit soldiers' families. If they did not come back, they would kill their families, resulting in hundreds of bandit soldiers' families being killed innocently.

The most important point of the political offensive was the unity and importance of the new Han people, namely the local soldiers who had made contributions in the Ming Dynasty, and they were given money, food, and armor and weapons to suppress them.

From the differentiation of the local officials and chieftains class to the differentiation of the native slaves, the zoning responsibility system was formulated. Under the dual military and political blows of the Taiping Army, the central area soon became effective.

From October to December, the Taiping Army captured the Wulian Cave of Yongshun and captured the bandit leader Mahai alive. In Zhuping, Ye, Baojing, more than 3,000 bandits led by Luo Guolong, the southern Qing Dynasty; surrounded and annihilated more than 4,000 bandits in the northeast corner of Zhijiang; and wiped out more than 2,000 bandits in Fengming Mountain in Yuanling, and captured the bandit leader Longling. In addition to these big bandits, dozens of small bandits were wiped out, and thousands of them were killed. By the end of December, the Taiping Army had killed more than 24,000 bandits, rescued more than 6,000 Han men and more than 20,000 women. More than 37,000 natives were forced to migrate, more than 40,000 natives, and more than 70,000 natives were killed, and more than 70,000 natives were taken to abduct more than 70,000 natives.

According to statistics from the bandit suppression yamen, since the Jinggang in Xiangxi, a total of 125 Tuzhai were burned and tens of thousands of houses were burned. 36 local officials, 9 green camp generals, and 25 fled innocent officials. By the end of December, during the bandit suppression, more than 3,900 Taiping Army was killed and more than 5,000 New Han soldiers were killed. Another 18 generals below a thousand households were killed and 4 local officials were killed.
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