When you go north to Liaodong, you can force it with your own authority, but how to make the generals and soldiers leave willingly instead of treating them negatively is also a difficult thing that Zhou Shixiang needs to solve. Because this matter is directly related to the morale of the army.

Zhou Shi believed that if he announced the immediate Northern Expedition to attack the North. In the capital, the Taiping Army would definitely have high morale, everyone was eager to fight, and he didn't need any pre-war mobilization, and they would just make great contributions. Even Blind Li didn't need any high-ranking officials and generous salaries, and the temptation of gold, silver and treasures. Just for the satisfaction of the conquest of the Tartars, he could achieve "who dares to jump on the horse, only I, Li Fengming." But if he announced that he would go north to Liaodong, he would definitely complain, and the morale of the army would not be high, because this matter was too different from what everyone imagined.

Without enough interests as motivation, I simply hope that my subordinates are immortals who are not as good as the world's fireworks. They are all the only ones who are in charge of the future. They all have the ability to go through fire and water with orders at once, and they are determined to die, and are proud and proud. That is obviously unrealistic.

Without morale, how can I fight this battle?

Could it be that Zhou Shi personally supervised the battle every time and went to the front line?

There are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom, but they cannot stimulate the motivation of the people below. Zhou Shixiang dared not pat his chest and said that if he goes north, he will definitely succeed.

So he had to mobilize the people below to let everyone know that going north to Liaodong is not a meaningless thing, but a good thing that makes great achievements.

In this world, what kind of things are called good things? Of course, what is good is called good things.

Benefits are all fake, and what you can see is good.

The old saying goes that money can touch people's hearts. Money can make ghosts push and even make ghosts push. This old saying is a thousand years later and is a famous saying.

The Taiping Army is not the People's Army, and the generals of the Taiping Army are not revolutionaries with national liberation awareness. In essence, whether they are the first to prove their righteousness or the recently incorporated, they are all real profit-seekers and the most typical soldiers of this era. In addition to feudal loyalty and righteousness, having milk or mother is probably the most vivid portrayal of most generals.

Naturally, Zhou Shixiang used the old-fashioned solution to improve military morale to the word "interest".

He was preparing to enfeoff the land in Liaodong, that is, all the generals and soldiers who went north would have their own land in Liaodong in the future. If they had great skills, they could also have their own slaves. From generals to auxiliary soldiers, or even civilians who followed the army, as long as you work hard, you could gain benefits. Of course, the slaves were definitely not Han people in the Guanzhou, but could be captured by the Jurchens outside the Guanzhou, or other people, such as Koreans, Mongolians, etc. If you were powerful enough and able to capture the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia, you could still take them as slaves.

This fining is not just a land grant promoted in Guangdong and other places, but a real "fining" that has the unique dominance of people and things on a piece of land.

In other words, Zhou Shixiang wanted to implement the European lord system in Liaodong, and lords of all sizes were the generals and soldiers who went north to accompany the army this time. As long as you sold your life and made contributions, you can become lords, become lords who were granted the titles of the Ming Dynasty, and have complete rights over the land and slaves under your rule.

Moreover, for a considerable period of time in the future, Zhou Shi decided to boldly delegate power compared to Liaodong and outside the pass. These military meritorious classes who became lords protected the Ming Dynasty's outside the pass, and continued to expand outward under the driving force of interests. On the one hand, it could reduce the financial burden of the central government, and on the other hand, it could firmly control the outside of the pass in the hand of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Shixiang had this idea very early. At that time, his consideration was that Liaodong and outside the pass would always be re-introduced into the Ming territory in the future, but there were no Han people in those places. The two capitals and 18 provinces in the pass also saw a sharp decline in population due to decades of war disasters and the genocide of the Qing Dynasty, and it was difficult to restore itself, and a large number of immigrants enriched outside the pass.

No matter how big a place is, if there is not enough population, it will be just a nominal territory. If you want this land to be completely integrated with the mainland, there must be someone.

There were no local Han people, and it was not realistic to immigrate within the pass. What Zhou Shixiang could think of and implement was to transform his increasingly large army into defenders and occupants outside the pass.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty implemented the Weiyuan system outside the pass. Nuergandus was very large. During his peak, there were more than 3 million Han people in Liaodong alone. In terms of population alone, it far exceeded the Jurchens outside the pass, including the Manzhou people. However, this military household system of the ward did not bring enough benefits to ordinary soldiers and the people, nor could it be possible to convert more than 3 million Han people into an armed force. As time went by, the Weiyuan gradually deteriorated and lost its early military functions, which resulted in the Liao incident.

In some aspects, the "country" system that Zhou Shixiang was preparing to implement outside the pass was somewhat similar to the "guard office" system, but the key was that Zhou Shixiang gave everyone rights, not just generals and officials.

Just imagine, if an ordinary sailor captured more than a dozen slaves outside the pass because of his contribution, and was granted the right to produce a piece of land that might have a large countryside. In order to preserve this family business and to strengthen this family business, he would definitely defend it to the death. If the family business is bigger, he had to keep making contributions; if he wanted to make contributions, the more slaves he had to be under, so that he could take them to plunder new slaves.

This is almost like the Eight Banners system, and it is also very similar to the armed maritime merchants going overseas in Guangdong.

Outside the pass, to the eyes of the people in the mainland, it was a place of bitter and cold, but Zhou Shixiang knew that outside the pass was a treasure land, with many resources, and a large granary. In recent years, the climate had changed slightly. During the Chongzhen period, some sea surfaces in Xiamen would have thin ice, but now they are no longer frozen. The old people said that the temperature is constantly increasing, and it will not take long before the climate outside the north inside and outside the pass will return to the Wanli period. At that time, outside the pass of the pass, the cold and cold land would be a treasure land, a real treasure land.

After deciding the plan for the northward battle, Zhou Shixiang immediately convened a meeting of senior generals and announced the intention of the northward battle and the "country-finishing" system at the meeting. Although some generals were a little confused, most generals still accepted the northward battle. After all, the "country-finishing" incident is not only for them, but also for their soldiers. Moreover, they can also get food from the Koreans, so that there will be long-term support and there is no need to worry about food shortage.

After the meeting, each of the water and land will seize the time to make preparations before the war.

The navy had to make a lot of preparations. In addition to loading grains, it also had to load a large amount of tea and vegetables. In addition, a large number of soybeans were transported from all directions. This was mainly used to grow bean sprouts at sea. The navy's people valued bean sprouts very much, which could ensure that they would not get sick for several months at sea.

In addition, the navy generals Liu Guoxuan, Xiao Gongchen, Gan Hui and others studied the detailed combat plan with the military headquarters. In addition to Jeju Island and Dongjiang Islands, the navy also needed to have some transit points along the coast of Shandong and Northern Zhili. Zhou Shixiang asked Liu Guoxuan and others to study these things in detail, but he believed that these people were more capable than him.

Blind Li was quite resistant to going north to Liaodong. He muttered more than once in front of Zhou Shixiang that he could not enter the Forbidden City if he went to Liaodong, and saw what Fulin's mother looked like. Finally, one time, Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but say to him: "Don't take Liaodong, Fulin's mother ran away. Where did you go to catch her?"

After saying this, Blind Li understood a little.

After returning from Kinmen, Zhou Shixiang prepared to go back to Zhenjiang first to deal with the matter of going north and going to Jiangnan. However, before that, he went to meet Zheng Sen's wife Dong Xian

April is not good, and both father and son are viral. They have a cold, one is afraid of injections, and the other is afraid of water, because they are both painful.

I am not in good condition recently, and my house is also being renovated (I am doing carpentry), so the update of the work does not give everyone a good feeling. I apologize for this.
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