In early April 1854 AD, the war in Xinjiang that had been stalemate seemed to decide the winner in a very short period of time.

One hundred thousand Qing coalition forces were destroyed at Xiaocao Lake near Turpan. According to the news after the war, the whereabouts of the coalition commander and the regent of the Kokand Khanate, Mullah, are unknown and may have been killed! Kokand, Bukhara, Greece

The 30,000-strong army of the Wasan Khanate was almost completely wiped out. The local H army in Xinjiang also suffered heavy losses, with no less than 30,000 casualties and prisoners. The only remaining

Only the 40,000 troops of the Western Qing Dynasty successfully withdrew from the battlefield. They retreated first in the battle that day, and maintained good order during the retreat. It took three days to return to Gongning, the city of Dihua Prefecture. Then only

After staying in Gongning for a day's rest, we continued to retreat along the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains toward Ili. It seemed that we had become a frightened bird.

Turpan.

After the Taiping Army captured the place, Hong Xiuquan ordered it to be used as the new "capital" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Families and civilians who had moved from Hexi and Hami slowly gathered here. Millions of people, just for food,

The amount of fodder the horses eat is astronomical. The soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven may not be paid, but they have to eat. Fortunately, the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army moved quickly enough. The local forces here in Xinjiang have never seen this before.

Unreasonable Central Plains armies like the Taiping Army - Under normal circumstances, the Central Plains armies like to pretend to be benevolent and righteous troops. They rarely steal things and do not disturb the people. Their supplies are transported thousands of miles from the east. Even if

When raised locally in Xinjiang, money was given according to the price. However, when the Taiping Army came, they not only disturbed the people by promoting God worship, but also robbed grain, grass and livestock. Soon the people's resentment boiled over.

In Turpan, people are shouting horses neighing these days. Hundreds of thousands of people are arriving one after another, and there are tens of thousands of carts, tens of thousands of hand-pushed wheelbarrows, hundreds of thousands of mules, horses and camels... they are coming like a tide.

, endlessly. A battle on April 1st, peace

The army achieved a decisive victory. At night, the victorious cavalrymen felt one after another. The 100,000 Qing and H coalition forces were defeated, and more than 50,000 prisoners were beheaded! In the city of Turpan, there were cheers all night long, and the morale of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which had been sluggish for a long time, was suddenly boosted.

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Three days later, Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, sat in a large sedan chair carried by 64 people. Under the protection of 3,000 female soldiers and 3,000 imperial guards, he brought his concubines, female officials and eunuchs, as well as the ministers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in a mighty manner.

Arriving at Turpan City, we moved into the original Prince's Mansion.

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"Dihua...Tianshan...Ili..."

In the Tianwang Mansion (formerly the Prince's Mansion of Turpan County), Hong Xiuquan held a candle and looked at the map that had just been hung up in his study. At the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, a red line was drawn - this is Will Heming and Trigo

The chosen westward route.

Feng Yunshan also held a candle, bent down and stood behind Hong Xiu, shining more light for him.

After half a day, Hong Xiuquan put down the candle and clapped his hands. He sighed thoughtfully: "In the first battle, we defeated more than 50,000 of them, and we only lost more than 1,000 people. We fought well! It seems that the foreign brothers of the heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals have real power."

Those who are capable...if we can seize the victory and take down Dihua, most of Xinjiang will be ours..."

"King of Heaven, we can't stay in Xinjiang for a long time!" Feng Yunshan seemed to hear something from Hong Xiuquan's words, and quickly persuaded: "Emperor Zhu will not agree to give us Xinjiang, we still have to go to the Western Regions early..."

Hong Xiuquan smiled coldly, all the excitement on his face disappeared.

"This Zhu Jishi knows how to follow us and take advantage! If Dong Wang hadn't conquered Beijing, how could he have won Jiangnan and Sichuan so easily? Now he doesn't want to give up even a single Xinjiang..."

Feng Yunshan smiled bitterly: "King of Heaven, although Zhu Jishi is good at driving away tigers and swallowing wolves, the strength of the Ming army is real! We are really no match. If we force ourselves to stay in Xinjiang, we will definitely be attacked by the Ming army. And... Xinjiang is suffering.

This barren land, after this war disaster, is about to run out of money and the people are impoverished. If we stay in Xinjiang, we are afraid that food and clothing will be a problem. We should hurry west and conquer the rich land in the river."

This Xinjiang region has been very turbulent during the Qing Dynasty. First, there was the Hundred Years War of Junggar, then the Hezhuo Rebellion, the Zhangger Rebellion, and now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has invaded. How much more money can there be?

Hong Xiuquan hummed and said: "Which of the territory we conquered is not bitter? Even if the river is a prosperous land, by the time the war is over, it will be a scorched earth!"

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was indeed much more destructive than Zhu Ming. Although they did things thoroughly, they did damage their vitality.

Feng Yunshan frowned: "King of Heaven, we can't go back to the way we were before when we go to the Western Region. It's not the middle land, and the local forces are extremely powerful. If our Kingdom of Heaven wants to force people to believe in God, I'm afraid it will be destroyed again.

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Hong Xiuquan first nodded, then shook his head: "These people are hateful! They were very stubborn in Shaanxi, Gansu and Shaanxi! They refused to listen to my good words and persuaded them, and they raised troops one after another against me. If I didn't kill them and bleed them into rivers, they would still

Think I'm easy to bully! It's the same here in Xinjiang, you can't do it without killing me!"

Hong Xiuquan was also a religious fanatic and was never merciless in killing people. The local forces in Gansu and Shaanxi were so powerful that they were defeated by his Taiping Army. Although the Taiping Army's combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Ming Army, they also used foreign guns and cannons.

The armed semi-Western-style army cannot resist the "civilian armed forces" at all. Moreover, the Taiping Army never talks about benevolence, justice and morality, and follows the three-guang policy wherever it hits!

Feng Yunshan actually agreed with this three-guang policy because he knew that the local gentry would not be of the same mind as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the revolutionary experience in the past few years also told him that indiscriminate killing alone would not solve the problem. He shook his head and said: "The King of Heaven

,Brother Trigo told me about the head tax..."

"Poll tax?"

"Yes, heads must be left on people so they can collect taxes. In the West, this is how the Catholic Church deals with pagans. They kill some and drive out some. However, for most of the pagans, they still use heavy taxes to force them to convert.

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"Did Brother Trigo say that?" Hong Xiuquan pondered, "What's the effect?"

"The effect is not too good, nor is it too bad. However, by conquering a piece of territory, we can receive a lot of taxes... When we go to the Western Regions, we have to eat and drink. It's not enough to kill everyone."

"Aren't there millions of us?" Hong Xiuquan said disapprovingly.

"That is our inner circle, just like the Eight Banners disciples of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. How can we scrape oil and water from their heads?" Feng Yunshan said it clearly. When Hong Xiuquan arrived in the Western Regions, the situation was the same as when the Eight Banners disciples entered the customs! The Han people were there

In the future, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Western Regions will be a minority, and it will still be a minority that occupies a dominant position. Can they not be treated preferentially?

"Yunqi, do you mean to raise our people to be like Eight Banners disciples?" Hong Xiuquan frowned and shook his head.

"Of course not." Feng Yunshan waved his hand, "What are the bad things about the Eight Banners disciples? One is that Manchus and Han do not marry; the other is that they are hardcore farmers. We cannot imitate the Manchus and do not engage in Han and Han non-marriage, but we must encourage intermarriage, but

The woman you marry must believe in Christianity, and the children you give birth to must learn Chinese and become Han Chinese in the future. In this way, we will have more and more people.

And there is no need to imprison our people. Now is the era when foreign guns and cannons conquer the world. There is no need to imprison the subordinates to practice martial arts without superior martial arts. We need to help them buy properties, allocate fertile land, and give them opportunities to run businesses.

In the future, the economy of the Kingdom of Heaven will still be controlled by them..."

"What? No more returning all things to the Lord? No more "Chinese Land Acquisition System"?"

Feng Yunshan shook his head: "We can't do it, and we can't do it... If we do this, the people of the three khanates in the Western Regions will have to fight with us! And they have Persia and Turkey behind them. The King of Heaven comes from Guangdong and Guangxi.

Old brothers, there is no one left out of ten now. When they arrive in the Western Regions, it’s time for them to enjoy the blessings. Otherwise, with one move from Zhu Jishi, they might all go over there!"

After hearing what Feng Yunshan said, Hong Xiuquan was silent for a while and felt that it made sense. To be honest, in the past few years, not only the people below him were unhappy, but he, the king of heaven, was also a little discouraged. He had long forgotten about the heaven on earth, so he could have a country for him to enjoy.
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