After two consecutive days of rain, the weather finally turned clear. For the crops in the fields, the rain fell very timely, but for Taipingying, the rain fell too badly.

Under the leadership of Zhou Shixiang and Duke Xiang of Song, the strategy of entering Xiangshan has been finalized and has been spread to the level of the small flag, but the rear camp has not been notified. Not only did no one tell these old, weak, women and children that they were going to Xiangshan thousands of miles away, but no one even told them that Taiping Camp would leave Luo Ding soon. In order to keep it a secret, Zhou Shixiang issued a strict order, and no matter who leaked the news, he would be executed.

It is not actually Zhou Shixiang's style of doing things. He really wants every man, woman, young and old in Taiping Camp to know what they are going to do, because only by knowing what they are doing can they follow with confidence, instead of escaping in large numbers or resisting on the road, so as to reduce the morale of the entire Taiping Camp to freezing point. It is impossible for an army without morale to complete the goal of moving a thousand miles. The biggest possibility is that it will be scattered halfway through the road.

However, even though he knew that concealment would be more harmful than good, Zhou Shixiang still chose to conceal the news of blockade, because this was not a battle with Baili, but Qianli, and completely abandoning his hometown to a strange place. In contrast, his biggest enemy was not the Qing army, but the unique rural concept of the Han people.

Whether it is Luo Ding or Deqing, they are not too far apart. In the hearts of the people, these two places are both western Guangdong and their own hometowns, so there is no difference between Luo Ding and Deqing and Luo Ding. They may not have been to the provincial capital in their entire lives, but it is common to go back to relatives in neighboring counties, so this distance of 100 miles is nothing to them. But if they know that they are thousands of miles away and may never return to their hometown in this life, they will most likely be lonely ghosts who die in a foreign land. Then they will most likely be panicked. Even if there is a butcher knife on their necks and force them to leave, they will not be willing. Escape will naturally become their choice. Escape is precisely what Zhou Shixiang cannot tolerate, because he cannot let Taipingying lose morale because of the people's escape.

People can make it through, but not know it.

Zhou Shixiang dared not take risks. The components of Taiping Camp were too complicated. If these people refused to leave, it would be difficult for him to force them to leave by force, because his soldiers and the people were one. So he could only hide it, and he would hide it one step until the people knew the truth, but they could never look back that day.

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The ideological work of officers is also divided into batches. Zhou Shixiang first came forward to personally work on the thoughts of officers from Daqiaoshan, such as Ge Zheng, Zhao Sihai, Ge Yi, Jiang He. The most common thing to talk about these people is that Luo Ding is too poor and Xiangshan is too rich. If you continue to stay in Luo Ding, not only do you have no money to make, but you are also easily attacked by the Qing army. Although the journey to Xiangshan is too dangerous, you can make a fortune if you really get to the place, and you are not afraid of the Qing army coming to fight. If you really can't beat everyone, you will go to the mountains and do your own business. The left and right are all newcomers, as long as the old brothers are afraid of something.

Finally, Zhou Shixiang patted his chest again and described the beautiful prospects behind Xiangshan. After coaxing and deceiving, the general bannermen who were born in bandits were so happy that they could not stop. They wanted to go to Xiangshan County, which was said by brother Zhou, to make a fortune immediately. As for the dangers they might encounter, they turned a blind eye. Anyway, with brother Zhou, the brothers would not suffer any loss!

Blind arrogance and confidence are exactly what Zhou Shixiang needs. He is not afraid of these general bannermen being arrogant, but he is only afraid that they are not arrogant enough. Before an army is truly formalized, arrogance is a kind of capital and a kind of confidence. Of course, if Zhou Shiying takes charge of the command, he certainly doesn’t have to worry about the signs of failure.

Only Shao Jiugong was still sober. He was not stupid. Others didn't know what it meant to go to Xiangshan, so how could he not know? However, seeing that everyone was incited by Zhou Shixiang, he did not dare to stand up and sing the opposite tune with Zhou Shixiang. After others left happily, he hesitantly told Zhou Shixiang about his worries.

Basically, Duke Shao Jiu's worries were exactly the same as Duke Xiang of Song. The difference was that Duke Xiang of Song was a good explanation for Duke Xiang of Song, and Zhou Shixiang was given up with just one sentence to Duke Shao Jiugong and Zhou Shixiang.

Zhou Shixiang said, "If you can erase those words on your back, you can't go."

Dog day!

This was the first time that Duke Xiang of Song secretly cursed Zhou Shixiang in his heart after joining the Taiping Camp. After scolding, he could only sigh, feeling helpless as he could get off the pirate ship: go to Xiangshan County, I hope that this time, the poor scholar Zhou won’t take me to death.

As one of the only two hundred households in the Taiping Camp, Tieyi also commanded Zhou Shi as a "magic weapon" engineer battalion, so Zhou Shi gave him the most instructions, and asked him to return to the camp immediately to prepare for the enemy-killing weapon that was urgently needed on the way southwards - the Thunder.

The so-called thunder of heaven is actually firecrackers, but compared to traditional firecrackers, this kind of firecracker is much more powerful. The sample of thunder of heaven was made by Zhou Shi, because there was not enough iron, so he could only use bamboo to make it. The specific manufacturing process is to take a piece of bamboo with bamboo joints, then clean up the debris in the bamboo tube, make small holes on the side, then pour the gunpowder into the bamboo tube, then wrap the gunpowder with paper, rub the lead wire, and one piece is placed on the powder in the bamboo tube, and the other end passes through the small hole on the wall of the bamboo tube and tie it outside with hemp rope. After these tasks are completed, a piece of paper is stuffed into the surface of the gunpowder in the bamboo tube as a spacing, sprinkle some broken iron nails on the paper, and finally seal the bamboo tube tightly with soil.

Traditional firecrackers are all used for black, fire and medicine. This time, Zhou Shixiang used particles of gunpowder, and added lethal iron nails. He exploded one with his own hands, and the effective killing area is five meters. In other words, after a thunderbolt explodes, not only will the person who is one to two meters in the center of the explosion be directly damaged by the gunpowder explosion, but the iron nails emitted from the explosion will also kill enemies within five meters. If it exceeds five meters, the penetration of the iron nails will be weakened. This is the shortage of using bamboo to make a thunderbolt. If it is wrapped in iron and made into a grenade that is truly used in later generations, shrapnel can kill a piece of enemies.

Due to insufficient conditions, Zhou Shixiang could only hope for mass production of the Zhentian Lei. He made three samples, two of them exploded, and one was brought back to the camp for pilot production.

The work of the thunder is very simple and the raw materials are also simple. However, a thunder requires at least five taels of gunpowder, and there are only less than two hundred kilograms of medicine in the camp. This means that even if all the medicine is used to create thunder, only four hundred can be made. In this regard, Zhou Shixiang only asked Tie Yi to do it first, because he needed a batch of thunder in his hands immediately, so that Duke Xiang of Song truly believed that they could blow all the way to Xiangshan. As for gunpowder, Tang Sanshui could have more or less batches. After setting off, he would find a way to collect saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal to prepare for making it by himself. Otherwise, no matter how good the tools or the best way was, due to the lack of gunpowder, it would be difficult to exert its maximum power.

When Zhou Shixiang and Duke Xiang of Song were working on ideological work for the small banner officials, Zhou Shixiang's statement was completely different from the statements of the general bannermen. What he said most was a way of life - going to Xiangshan for nothing else, just for stuttering!

The little flags are all from poverty. Before entering Taiping Camp, they are honest merchants. They are not as brave as bandits who robbed their families like Ge Zheng and others, so they live a difficult life. Often, they have a family of snacks and no meals. Now, it is difficult for Taiping Camp to take over them, give them a future, and give their wives and children a full meal. What else can they ask for?

Lord Qianhu said that if you stay in Luo Ding, you will all starve to death. This is true. Everyone saw Luo Ding’s situation. He was so poor that he was so poor that he had seized some food by fighting Deqing Green Camp, he could not withstand so much food. Everyone used to live a life. Can anyone live in this world last forever?

Forget it, since the Qianhu Lords found a way out for everyone, Luo Ding really couldn't support everyone, so everyone gritted their teeth and followed the Qianhu Lords. As long as they could give their wife and children a bite, it wouldn't be unfair if they died on the road.

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On the 19th, Tang Sanshui from Deqing sent someone to send a message. He was willing to do this business with Zhou Shixiang, but the deadline had to be delayed a little because he didn't have so many medicines in his hand. Now he has sent someone to Guangzhou to buy them secretly. Just wait for the medicines to be collected, and both parties can buy and sell them immediately.

Zhou Shixiang was not worried that Tang Sanshui would not make this transaction, because the transaction would be too profitable for him. If he was not a Han Chinese, Zhou Shixiang even wanted to sell Gaozhou to Tang Sanshui, and he didn't need anything to do. Just tell the other party that there was no Daxi Army in Gaozhou.

The Qing army in Guangdong could not defeat the Daxi Army, but it was a piece of cake to fight other Southern Ming troops. First, they captured Luo Ding, and then seized Gaozhou. After many great achievements, Tang Sanshui, the former Qianshui, could have a deputy general Dangdang.

However, he was a Han Chinese, and it was no longer a good thing to sell Luo Ding. If he really wanted to sell Gaozhou again, he would be either a traitor or a traitor. Besides, Luo Ding sold to Tang Sanshui was just an empty city, and there were no people who could harm the Green Camp, but Gaozhou had more than 100,000 Ming people. If the Qing army really wanted to occupy Gaozhou, his evil would be greater. With the virtue of the Qing army, if he didn't massacre the city, he would burn incense by the Buddha.
Chapter completed!