The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 274 Let the foreign devils wait, this warlord is fighting Su Sanniang! (Please subscribe, please vote)
Prince Wu's Mansion.

"Your Majesty, please stay for two more days."

While making her request, Su Sanniang offered her mature and charming body and her most abundant fruits to the "clutches" of the devil Luo Yaoguo.

Luo Yaoguo's big hands stroked her slender body and round curves, and suddenly he had the thought of "I am so happy here that I don't want to go back to Shanghai".

"Then stay a few more days. There's nothing urgent to do in Shanghai anyway."

At this moment, Luo Yaoguo did not know that his "clone" in the Qing Dynasty had been promoted again, and that Cixi was planning to give him her twelve-year-old sister as his wife. In addition, there were three envoys from foreign powers waiting for him to sell out the Qing Dynasty.

But even if he knew, he had no way to refuse Su Sanniang now.

With a cry, Luo Yaoguo, who had been gathering his strength for the whole night, pounced on Su Sanniang like a hungry tiger. Facing the rough and aggressive Luo Yaoguo, Su Sanniang was not afraid at all, and let her hands be held and pulled up by him, exposing her chest and abdomen completely. Seeing that his "sneak attack" was successful, Luo Yaoguo was overjoyed and said, "Haha, Miss Su, I caught you again, surrender!"

Su Sanniang cast an unyielding look, shook her chest, and snorted, "I'd rather die than surrender!"

Faced with Su Sanniang's unyielding attitude and provocation, Luo Yaoguo instantly became eager to fight and his morale was high!

After conquering Miss Su once again, Luo Yaoguo, accompanied by Miss Su who had just surrendered, arrived at the second hall of the palace, ready to discuss important issues such as military reform and land reform with his subordinates.

While expanding and consolidating the base in southern Jiangsu, completing the military reform and reorganizing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's First, Second, and Third Armies into divisions of the new army is the current primary task of Luo Yaoguo and Su Sanniang.

Everything comes from the barrel of a gun!

Without a strong and obedient Taiping New Army, everything is just wishful thinking.

The division of the Taiping New Army is of course based on the template of the understaffed division of the Shanghai New Army. It will adopt a seven-level organizational system including division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, platoon and squad. It will also combine infantry, artillery, cavalry, baggage and engineering arms at the division level.

A division is composed of 12,000 men, with the division headquarters directly under the command of one regiment each for artillery, cavalry, logistics, and engineering. The infantry is organized according to the standard of one division with two brigades, one brigade with two regiments, one regiment with four battalions, one battalion with four companies, one company with four platoons, and one platoon with four squads. In addition, at the brigade, regiment, battalion, and company levels, there are corresponding direct-affiliated units.

If the 123rd Division of the Shang Army and the New Shanghai Army Division were fully staffed, then the field forces under Luo Yaoguo's command would be expanded to four divisions with a total of about 48,000 people.

In addition, Luo Yaoguo will also set up a general's office under the Wu Wang Mansion in Kunshan to be in charge of military affairs, a military advisor's office to be in charge of diplomacy, and a minister's office to be in charge of the administration of the region. He will also set up a Jiangnan branch of the God Worshipping Society in Kunshan to be in charge of the affairs of the God Worshipping Society in Suzhou, Songjiang, Taizhou and Zhejiang.

Luo Yaoguo himself served as the chief general of the commander's mansion and the military advisor of the military advisor's mansion. Su Sanniang, in the name of the commander-in-chief of the upper army, was in charge of the commander-in-chief of the upper army during Luo Yaoguo's absence from Kunshan.

Luo Yaoguo plans to hand over the daily management of the Westernization Army Advisory Office to Wu Ruxiao, who is still in Shanghai.

The daily work of the Shangshu Mansion was handled by Zeng Tianyang, the Minister of Revenue of the Wu Wang Mansion. In addition to the Ministry of Revenue, the Wu Wang Mansion also had the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works, and the Ministry of Punishment. The Ministry of Rites was located in Tianjing, which was actually a "Beijing Office". The Ministry of Personnel was concurrently held by the head of the Jiangnan branch of the God Worshipping Society. The Minister of War was concurrently held by Su Sanniang. As for the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Punishment, they were held by Zeng Shuiyuan and Zhang Sanxiang respectively.

The current main task of the Jiangnan branch of the God Worshipping Society is of course to lead the distribution of land, which is the second priority after military reform!
Chen Ji, Ma Baocai and Zhang Bao, who were all from the Twelve Disciples, formed a "three-person team" to be responsible for the daily management of the Jiangnan branch of the God Worshipping Society. Among the three, Chen Ji and Ma Baocai performed well in the land distribution movement in Hunan, and also presided over the land distribution in Zeng Guofan's hometown.

Because of his young age, Zhang Bao has been studying under Luo Yaoguo for a long time. Now he is traveling between Shanghai and Kunshan, serving as Luo Yaoguo's "mouthpiece".

There are now eight counties under the jurisdiction of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Wu Wang Mansion, including Kunshan, Jiangyin, Changshu, Zhaowen, Zhenyang, Qingpu, Huating, and Louxian, plus half of Jiading, most of Changshu, Yuanhe, and Wujiang.

These are the most beautiful regions in China! The land in these regions must be divided, and the gentry and landlords must be attacked. Without dividing the land and attacking the gentry, the Taiping Wu Wangfu regime would not be able to gain a foothold in this area.

But it cannot be as violent as in Hunan, because the area around Shanghai has benefited from the opening of Shanghai as a port, and the economy has been growing in the past decade.

Unlike other places in the country, the landlords and farmers in this area did not become increasingly poor. Even poor farmers who could not make it in their hometowns could go to Shanghai to make a living. A large number of landlords engaged in the sale of raw silk and tea had accumulated huge wealth in the past decade. Originally, the profits from the export of raw silk from Jiangnan were taken by a large number of middlemen along the route from Jiangnan to Guangdong. Now that the export port was at their doorstep, the landlords in places like Susongtai who had large tracts of mulberry trees at home could make a fortune.

For Luo Yaoguo, the capital in their hands is necessary for Shanghai to grow into the largest metropolis in the Far East! If these people can send their spare money and their families to Shanghai, buy real estate in Shanghai and deposit it in the bank, then Shanghai's real estate and finance will rise.

Real estate makes money quickly!
The modern financial industry can provide sufficient and cheap capital for industrialization!
Their mulberry gardens can also provide a steady stream of financial income for the Jianghai Customs Office and the Prince of Wu's Palace, and will also be the foundation for the future industrialization in the Susongtai region.

According to the general law of industrial development in history, light industry, especially textile industry, has always been the first sector to start industrialization. At least in the mid-19th century, it was almost impossible to industrialize in one step by giving priority to the development of heavy industry.

The advantage of the Susongtai region with Shanghai as its center in developing industrialization, in addition to sufficient and cheap labor and Shanghai as an international port, is the silk industry. If this industrial chain of mulberry planting, silkworm breeding, silk reeling, silk weaving, printing and dyeing, and ready-made clothing is developed, the foundation of the machinery industry will be laid, the capital transferred from the countryside in southern Jiangsu will have a place to go, and the abundant labor force will also have a way out.

Therefore, the land distribution carried out by Luo Yaoguo in Hunan was mainly "destructive", with the main purpose being "feeding" - people had to eat!

The land policy he planned to implement in southern Jiangsu was "constructive". His goal was to scare the landlords into moving to Shanghai, divide up the land used for growing crops and vegetables, and preserve the high-value mulberry orchards. It would be best if they could be organized.

The difficulty is indeed high. It is impossible for Luo Yaoguo to accomplish it alone, but with Luo Xueyan's help, it will be no problem.
As for the God Worshipping Society's lecture group, it will be based in the Wu Palace in Nanjing, led by Luo Yaoguo's eldest disciple, Wang Yan, the Minister of Rites of the Wu Palace, and three of the twelve disciples who are relatively unknown, namely Wang Ziru, Chang Shuangqing, and Wu Sanhao, who will be in charge of daily affairs - these three have always served as lecturers in Xiao Chaogui's army and are familiar with Hong Xuanjiao.

Now, in addition to managing the lecturer group's business together with Wang Yan, the three of them have also opened a "Shaman Dance School" under the guidance of Hong Xuanjiao, recruiting a group of "little brothers" from Guangdong and Guangxi to learn shaman dance from the Sixth Daughter of God.

In addition, Luo Yaoguo and Hong Xuanjiao also wrote a letter to Feng Yunshan, another missionary expert in the God Worshipping Society, requesting Feng Yunshan to set up a similar "Shaman Dance School" in Hengzhou Prefecture, and also requesting Feng Yunshan to send Luo Dagang to Kunshan.

Luo Yaoguo hoped that this important official of the Heavenly Kingdom, a senior figure of the Tiandihui and a Hakka leader, who was also related to the Lan Fang Luo family, could be appointed as the Consul General of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Singapore.

The Dark Hall of the God Worshipping Society will be moved to Shanghai, with Yu Garden Manager Xu Yuegui in charge of its daily work. The Dark Hall's current focus is no longer on spying on the movements of the Qing army in Jiangnan - the Shanghai Governor's Office is in Yu Garden, so there is no need to spy!

The main task of the Dark Hall now is to infiltrate the Cao Gang, which is the "food and clothing of millions of Cao workers" and arrange for the Hunan Tiandihui members who have defected to Luo Yaoguo to enter Shanghai. In the future, Shanghai's cake will definitely get bigger and bigger, so Luo Yaoguo must let his people eat a little more.

Therefore, after Luo Yaoguo prepared to stay in Kunshan for a few more days, he asked Zhou Xiuying to return to Shanghai first, and at the same time asked her to pass a message to Xu Yuegui, ordering her to come to Kunshan for a meeting immediately.

But I didn’t expect that Zhou Xiuying left in the morning and Xu Yuegui arrived in the afternoon!

"Sister Yuegui, how come you came so quickly?" Luo Yaoguo, who had just presided over the military reform meeting, returned to his office and saw Xu Yuegui who had been waiting there.

Xu Yuegui bowed to Luo Yaoguo in a hurry, and then said quickly and hastily: "Your Highness, the Qing Demon Xian Demon Head has promoted you again. You are now the Shanghai Governor and the Minister of Trade of the Five Ports!"

"What? I am the Minister of Trade for the Five Ports?" Luo Yaoguo was stunned. "Does that mean I have to take charge of the Qing Dynasty's foreign affairs?"

Xu Yuegui nodded and said, "Yes, now that Wen Xian, who just returned to Shanghai, and the American Minister Marsali and the French Minister Bourboulon are sending people to look for you everywhere. They want to discuss with you the revision of the Treaty of Nanjing! Wu Jianzhang and Wu Ruxiao can no longer handle it. You should hurry back to Shanghai!"

Luo Yaoguo didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but after a little thought, he waved his hand and said, "There's no rush to sell out the Qing Dynasty. Yuegui, you can go back to Shanghai and tell Wu Jianzhang, Wu Ruxiao and others about me." At this time, Su Sanniang happened to walk in. Luo Yaoguo pointed at her and said, "Just say that this warlord fought against the long-haired female bandit leader Su Sanniang outside Kunshan City. Let the foreign devils wait first!"

(End of this chapter)