Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 105 The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Shi Dakai
At the end of Qing Dynasty, Nanjing.

All the main generals of the Taiping Army gathered together, all of them looked solemn.

For the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it can be said that it has reached a critical period of life and death.

In the north, although the Northern Expedition led by Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang was in turmoil at first, because there was no follow-up reinforcements, they are now being besieged by officers and soldiers.

To the west, the Western Expeditionary Army encountered resistance from the newly established Hunan Army in Hunan, and was even pushed all the way back to the vicinity of Jiujiang.

On the Nanjing side, the imperial envoy Xiang Rong established the Jiangnan camp, and the imperial envoy Qi Shan established the Jiangbei camp. Coupled with this new Hunan army led by Zeng Guofan, the three armies formed a siege and besieged Nanjing.

Such a situation can be said to be the most critical moment since they started their army, and every face present was full of solemnity.

"I said a long time ago that I will go straight to the north with my army, break through Beiping City, and completely destroy the rule of the Tartars. If I followed my plan at that time, how could such a thing happen?" Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, was full of irritability. Open your mouth.

"Hmph, this is the will of the Heavenly Father, how can we disobey it?"

"Heavenly Father came down to earth to attach to me, and personally said that Nanjing was the capital, and I wanted to make eight words later. You also agreed at the time, why do you want to open the old account now?"

"Could it be that you want to say that Heavenly Father is wrong?"

Eastern King Yang Xiuqing looked around everyone with a gloomy face, and finally softened his tone and continued: "God is omniscient and omnipotent, so he can't be wrong. The current crisis is just a test for us."

"It's not like I haven't encountered such a critical moment. The Qing army came and fought back. It's no big deal. The key is that we have to stabilize ourselves."

Everyone was silent when they heard what he said.

Hong Xiuquan was even more disgusting as if he had eaten flies. He founded the religion of worshiping God, and later established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He always claimed that he was the second son of God, who was sent by God to save the common people.

The lieutenant generals of the Taiping Army also believed in his rhetoric.

It can be said that the Taiping Army was able to capture more than half of China in just a few years, and it was this firm spirit of faith that played a role in it.

This was originally good, but it was bad because of Yang Xiuqing, this rat shit.

When Feng Yunshan was arrested in Guangdong, Hong Xiuquan went to the rescue. It happened that the Guangxi Worship Church was besieged by the government. In a critical moment, Yang Xiuqing used the words of the heavenly father to stabilize the church's hearts for the first time and repelled the officers and soldiers.

After Hong Xiuquan came back, he chose to give political endorsement to this kind of rhetoric that God came down to earth.

If the time could be restarted, Hong Xiuquan felt that he would have to hack this bastard to death himself, instead of admitting that it was reasonable for him, a god of shit, to come down to earth.

Because since then, every time the Taiping Army has a major event, Yang Xiuqing will "god down to earth" once.

It was like this when we attacked Nanjing, and it was like this when we chose whether to make the Northern Expedition or not.

It can be said that in today's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, his leadership power has been left behind, all of which have been stolen by Yang Xiuqing.

But there is no way, people are descended from the heavenly father, and he is the second son of God. How could his son disobey the words of the heavenly father?
"Heavenly King, Eastern King, I am willing to lead the army to fight against the Hunan Army. The officers and soldiers of the imperial court are not to be feared, but the Hunan Army is different. I have a hunch that Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army will be our number one enemy. We should take the initiative to attack. Take advantage of his army's first training, and directly defeat him!" Seeing that everyone was silent, Shi Dakai spoke first.

"Okay!" Yang Xiuqing's face flashed with admiration.

He likes people like Shi Dakai.

He is brave in combat but doesn't like politics.

Or it should be said that they are not greedy for power.

If everyone in the entire Taiping Army was like this, then he would be ten thousand times easier to lead.

"Since King Yi has spoken, I will give you [-] elite soldiers to fight that Zeng Guofan, and you must bring his head back to me." Yang Xiuqing said in a deep voice.

Hong Xiuquan next to him opened his mouth halfway, but when he reached the point of his mouth, he choked back.

That bastard Yang Xiuqing said everything he wanted to say, and he even said a hammer!

With Shi Dakai taking the lead, Wei Changhui, Hu Yihuang, Lin Qirong and others also called for the battle.

Yang Xiuqing assigned tasks to everyone one by one, and soon the entire combat deployment was arranged by him.

During the entire meeting process, Hong Xiuquan, as the heavenly king, had almost no sense of presence, basically becoming a mascot.

"Too much deception!" After everyone left, Hong Xiuquan punched the table with resentment written all over his face.

He secretly vowed in his heart that one day he would make this Yang Xiuqing pay the price.

"It's the first time to participate in such an important military meeting today, how do you feel?" On the other side, Shi Dakai and Feng Sheng walked out of the Heavenly King's Mansion slowly, Shi Dakai looked at Feng Sheng and asked with a smile.

This man named Feng Sheng is an extremely rare general he has recently excavated from the army. Regardless of his age, he has performed extremely well in the previous series of battles.

Shi Dakai felt that Feng Sheng joined the Taiping Army relatively late, and if he joined together, it might be difficult to say whether the title of King Yi is his own now.

"Hehe, I just feel a little confused!"

"Isn't the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Hong Xiuquan calling the shots in name? Why do I think the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing is giving orders from the beginning to the end?" Feng Sheng asked in surprise.

"This……!"

"Well, it's caused by some past events, so don't mention it!" Shi Dakai obviously didn't want to mention the struggle between these high-level officials.

"But this is a real hidden danger!"

"As the saying goes, there are no two suns in the sky, and there are no two monarchs in the country, but the current Taiping Heavenly Kingdom actually has two monarchs. It is hard for me to imagine that such a system can last for a long time!" Feng Sheng shook his head.

"We are military generals. These matters will be negotiated by the Heavenly King and the Eastern King. In the future, remember not to talk about political affairs." Shi Dakai said with a serious face.

"The general understands!" Seeing Shi Dakai's seriousness, Feng Sheng tactfully stopped the topic.

In the past two years in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Feng Sheng can be said to have watched with his own eyes how the peasant uprising regime developed and became corrupt step by step.

With Feng Sheng's sophistication, it can be concluded at a glance that it is almost impossible for such a regime to really seize the world.

From this, he also had to sigh with emotion, Zhu Yuanzhang's fearfulness and self-discipline.

Hong Xiuquan and Zhu Yuanzhang were also peasant uprisings and also occupied Nanjing.

But the choice after the capture of Nanjing was completely different.

After Zhu Yuanzhang captured Nanjing, he killed eleven generals who violated military discipline in three months, and two of them were his absolute confidants.

At the same time, open up public opinion, check the acres of land, establish military settlements, and carry out a series of health and rest policies.

As for the Heavenly King and the Eastern King, they called on the common people to donate money and goods to the holy treasury, and forced the gentry to accept the donations. They chanted loudly, what is fair and public, but they themselves bought mansions and palaces and took the lead in breaking the rules.

Other than that, just don't think ahead.

The rebellion has just been halfway through, or even halfway through, when the political struggle began.

To be honest, with such a group of guys, he can't see the slightest hope of taking over the world.

There are not many people in the entire Taiping Army who are favored by Feng Sheng, and Shi Da is the only one who appreciates them.

This is quite a handsome talent.

But it's a pity that it was born in the wrong era, and even followed the wrong person.

Thinking of this, Feng Sheng asked involuntarily, "What does King Yi think of the man who is now occupying Guangdong, who is called Hongwu Great?"

"hero!"

Shi Dakai gave a thumbs up: "I admire the person who can beat the British devil's fleet to the ground."

"I've heard some gossip in the past few days. The Hongwu Emperor in Guangdong is preparing for the Northern Expedition to seize Fujian and Guangxi. What does King Yi think?" Feng Sheng asked again.

Shi Dakai was silent for a while when he heard the words, and finally sighed: "This man is powerful. He has occupied Guangdong for more than three years and has been fighting steadily. Now that he has gained momentum, I can only say that according to the strength of his troops and the cooperation of the navy, There shouldn't be any surprises."

Hearing Shi Dakai's sincere admiration for Zhu Yuanzhang, Feng Sheng smiled and said nothing more.

Now the regime of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is still stable, he knows Shi Dakai's character, and it is impossible to do something against the master.

But if there is a day when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is defeated in the future, I may be able to give him a hand.

And it was at the same time that Shi Dakai led his army to fight Zeng Guofan's Hunan army.

Guangdong.

Zhu Biao is reporting recent affairs to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Father, according to the report from Jin Yiwei, I think Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are likely to merge!" Zhu Biao said seriously.

"Oh?"

"How do you see it?
"As far as I know, the regime of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is very stable now!"

"And they are now being besieged by the three-way imperial army. No one in the current enemy will be so stupid as to fight at this time!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, obviously not agreeing with Zhu Biao's analysis.

"It's impossible now, but it doesn't mean it won't happen in the future!"

"Think about it, Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army is now a new army, and if it encounters the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is likely to be defeated. As for the imperial court's Jiangnan Camp and Jiangbei Camp, they are not worth mentioning!"

"If the Taiping Army really wins this battle, will Yang Xiuqing get mad?"

"At that time, the conflict between him and Hong Xiuquan will definitely intensify...!"

Zhu Biao spoke eloquently, but Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care much at first, but gradually he couldn't help squinting his eyes.

Not to mention, after Zhu Biao's analysis, he really agreed with three points.

If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is really about to have civil strife as Zhu Biao said, then he really needs to make some preparations.

Originally, his plan was to let the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stand against the Manchus in the front, and he would clean up those local tyrants and evil gentry province by province, release the land, release productive forces, and seek industrialization.

Because the entire Jiangnan gentry is too powerful, unlike the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when peasant uprisings were surging, he could quickly kill those gentry classes with the help of the overall hatred of the rebel army against the gentry class.

In this era, there are not enough hungry people to overthrow the entire gentry class. It is too difficult to rely on the army in his hands to make a decision in one fell swoop, unless he chooses to compromise with a part of the gentry class and release part of the benefits to them.

This is so simple, Zhu Yuanzhang even has the confidence to sweep the entire China within a year or two.

But relying on Zhu Yuanzhang's character, how could he do this? What he wants is to sweep the ground thoroughly, sweep away the stagnation of China for hundreds of years, and then industrialize as soon as possible to catch up with the world powers.

To be honest, those gentry who can't keep up with the pace of the times, but desperately hinder the progress of the times, can't catch his eyes at all.

But as the so-called plan cannot keep up with the changes, if the Taiping Rebellion breaks out, it may quickly decline, and the Manchu Qing may turn their attention to themselves.

It was inevitable that they would come to beat him, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it was better for him to strike first, and find a way to calm down the entire south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)