Han’s Son is Not a Slave

After returning to Guangdong from Liuzhou, Zhou Shixiang stayed in Zhaoqing for two days to deal with the disaster in Chaohui.

Ma Anmin, the prefect of Huizhou, and Song Xian, the prefect of Chaozhou, sent an urgent report on the disaster of Chaohui to the Guangdong Governor, saying that the territory was hit by a typhoon, and nearly 1,000 people were killed and injured. There is nowhere to live. Although the typhoon has weakened, there are still floods. The strong winds passing through the border brought heavy rain, especially in Chaoshan, Huidong and other places. Some towns and towns were even submerged, and Huidong City was also flooded. Many local official roads were flooded, and people outside could not get in, and people inside could not get out. In some downstream rivers, corpses are washed down every day, and entire villages are buried by mudslides washed down from the mountains. Many sleeping people are buried alive.

In the past, regardless of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, what could be done in response to disasters was to send personnel to set up disaster relief points to give the people some food rations to feed their stomachs, or to set up some cauldrons to cook porridge at the gate of the city, and then send people to bury the bodies of the dead, and then take the orphans. placement with the elderly. If the disaster victims are in chaos, they will send the army to suppress it. This is a rare ability of officials and good governance. It should be written into the local chronicles, and it is also worthy of special mention in the history books.

However, these were not enough for Zhou Shixiang, who dealt with the disaster for the first time. Chaohui's disaster aroused his attention, and ordered the seventh town stationed in Chaozhou to immediately send troops to rescue the disaster. This is the first time that the Taiping Army has used the military for disaster relief since the founding of the Taiping Army. Since the seventh town was mostly a green camp of the Qing army and lacked disaster relief experience, Zhou Shilian formulated a disaster relief manual overnight, listing as much as possible the disaster relief methods of the army in his previous life. , in order to guide the seventh town disaster relief. In addition to the seventh town, Zhou Shixiang ordered the third state of Guangzhou to transfer a brigade to Huizhou immediately.

Zhou Shixiang put forward a resounding slogan - "disaster situation is military situation", disaster relief is like firefighting, all ministries must unconditionally rescue disasters after receiving orders, and everything must make way for disaster relief.

At the same time as the deployment of troops for disaster relief, Zhou Shixiang also ordered Guangdong's political envoys to urgently transport food, quilts and other materials to Chaohui, and called on all parts of Guangdong to lend a helping hand to the disaster-stricken areas. In addition, Zhou Shixiang transferred 900 tents from the second town, the sixth town, and the eighth town in Zhaoqing, which had just returned from Hunan, to Chaohui. In addition, Ma Anmin, the prefect of Huizhou, and Song Xian, the prefect of Chaozhou, were ordered to organize disaster relief for the people and not allow the victims to be displaced. At the same time, all the staff and nursing staff of the Taiping Army Field Hospital under construction in Guangzhou also rushed to Chaohui to treat the wounded on the one hand, and carry out post-disaster plague prevention on the other hand.

The last command issued from Zhaoqing clearly required that the Chaohui government must strictly control the public sentiment. Once rumors were discovered, they must be refuted immediately. At the same time, those who spread rumors must be arrested. Regardless of gender, age, or motive, all beheaded.

Thousands of years of history and everything in previous lives told Zhou Shixiang that no matter how people's wisdom is opened, there will always be a market for rumors, which will always make most people believe it, and then panic, doubt and deny the government. And almost all the peasant uprisings in Chinese history are linked by rumors, such as Chen Sheng and Li Guang’s fish belly Danshu in Daze Township, the fox call, the Yellow Turban Army’s “The sky is born, the yellow sky is born”, and Han Shantong on the Yellow River at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Get the one-eyed man and so on.

Zhou Shixiang was not afraid of Chaohui victims rebelling and rioting, and he also believed that this possibility was rare, but he had to prevent people with intentions from using the victims. All innocent victims and people. The population of Guangdong is already sparse, and everyone is extremely valuable. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang will never allow the people to be fooled by rumors, and will never allow any of the people to die because of this. It is even more impossible for a common person to live in hardship after a disaster because he has no house to live in and no land to grow.

At the same time as the army and the government organized disaster relief, Luojiao in Guangdong were also organized, and this matter was led by Tie Yi, the town general of the second town. In addition to the identity of the general of the Taiping army, Tie Yi also has another identity, that is, the great lead of Luo Jiao.

Luojiao, also known as Wuweijiao and Luozujiao, arose during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, and has been developing in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places since then. Luo taught people to be kind, which has been passed down to this day and has formed its own class. For example, in Luojiao in Guangdong, believers are divided into 9 stages according to the degree of practice. "Big Yin", the sixth is "Xiao Yin", the seventh is "Three Multiplication", the eighth is "Mahayana", and the ninth is "Theravada". The eighth and ninth are awarded to new believers, the seventh is obtained by chanting sutras after reaching a certain level of merit; the fifth is awarded to give money and spiritual assistance to associations, and can keep the five precepts, which is enough to be a model. Followers of Kai; the secretary is responsible for the record and clerical work, and is appointed by "Kongkong". From "Theravada" to "Secretary", they can marry, and they are lay followers with secular occupations. The top three "Kongkong", "Space" and "Qingxu" are single, and most of them are held by monks, who are full-time teachers.

At present, the Ministry of Military Intelligence has not figured out who the three members of the Guangdong Luojiao, Kongkong, Space, and Qingxu are, not even Tie Yi, a senior believer who inherited the position of the teacher. Some people speculate that the first three of Luo Jiao are likely to be monks.

Zhou Shi had no sense of exclusion from the religions of the Han people, and he always wanted to support a religion that could compete with all foreign religions in the present and future generations. There are many, so Zhou Shixiang always acquiesced that Luo Jiao would preach in the army. Tie Yi and others continued to publicize Zhou Shixiang as the incarnation of Luo Zu among the believers, and later publicized Zhou Shixiang as Yue Wumu's return to the world, and led the group to kill the Tartars, so Zhou Shixiang, the commander, was very prestige in the eyes of the Luo believers.

The mysterious top three never showed up, and to a certain extent Zhou Shixiang became the big leader of Luojiao. Regarding this situation and guidance, Zhou Shixiang is also happy to see it succeed, but he has never made clear instructions on it, and his attitude is to neither support nor deny it. It all depends on Luo Jiao's own development and whether it can be used for himself. . If the final development of Luojiao deviates from the track set by Zhou Shixiang for it, then Zhou Shixiang would not mind a major purge. Even a Luojiao in a high position like Tie Yi would not hesitate to take it down. The Ministry of Military Intelligence has been secretly investigating the "top three". If they find out who the three are, Zhou Shixiang's instruction is to wipe them out of this world.

Religion must not dominate the regime, and religion must not have extrajudicial privileges. Any religion is a tool to deceive the world, but there are people who believe in this world, and Zhou Shixiang does not occupy this market of liars, but others will occupy it. Those religions with violent teachings are the best among them. Therefore, Zhou Shixiang didn't think it was necessary for him, the two-generational commander, to support Luo Jiao in disguise.

With the progress of society and civilization, the Han clan will definitely be broken up in the future, because the clan is the biggest obstacle to the liberation of productive forces~www.NovelMTL.com~ The clan is actually dominated by the landlords and gentry. These people have always been The biggest enemy of liberating the population, Guangdong's "building villages and townships" can achieve results, and the most important point is that it has given a ruthless blow to the clan. But without the clan to unite the Han people, if the people of later generations feel dizzy and do not recognize or value China as a Han China, the interests of the Han people are the interests of China, and they only wag their tails to curry favor with outsiders. Then, a religion that can unite the Han people and call on the Han people becomes particularly important. If Buddhism is not good, or Taoism is not good, it depends on whether this Luojiao is good.

The Han Chinese need a tool that can speak for themselves and a tool that can safeguard their own interests. If the government cannot do it, then religion must do it.

Tie Yi, in his capacity as a great leader, issued instructions to order the Luo believers from all over the country to cooperate with the government in disaster relief. Zhou Shixiang highly appreciated this, and ordered the Department of Military Intelligence to cooperate and actively publicize the performance of the Luo believers in disaster relief, so as to attract those people who were addicted to religion to join the Luojiao. .

For two days in a row, the temporary military commander's mansion in Zhaoqing was very busy. Facts have proved that the military operation of the Taiping Army is very effective. After receiving the disaster relief order, the third town in Guangzhou immediately dispatched troops to Huizhou. Hu Qili of Chaozhou did not dare to have any delay and sent all three brigades to the disaster area, and the disaster relief was maintained at the same time. order, arrest the ruffians. The officials in Chaohui and Huizhou also organized security teams in various townships and villages to produce self-help.

All the arrangements have been arranged, and Zhou Shixiang does not need Zhou Shixiang for the rest, nor does he need to go to Chaohui to sit in town. After all, it is only a local disaster, with tens of thousands of victims, not a catastrophe that spreads across Guangdong. Zhou Shixiang decided to go to Wenchun, and he was pressed for time. He didn't even have time to go back to Guangzhou. When the military commander's mansion was packing up and preparing to go to Wen Village, a guest came uninvited.

The person here is Zhou Shixiang's good brother and good business partner - Tang Sanshui, the Admiral of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. (To be continued.)