Li Haoran's Renaissance Army was about to leave. The number of Yangzhou citizens and disaster victims who were willing to leave with Li Haoran was as many as 160,000!
However, Li Haoran had to take the water route to transport so much food and silver. There weren't that many ships!
Li Haoran temporarily took away 40,000 young men and women to ensure that there was still a young man in each family who could take care of the old and young in the family!
"Fellow villagers, Yangzhou is very important to the Manchu Dynasty. They must take it back no matter what.
They still had hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners Steel Cavalry and millions of Green Army soldiers. Yangzhou was a battleground, so it would be difficult to defend it.
For the sake of the bigger picture, we will temporarily give up this place. Because there are not many ships, we can only bring so many people with us.
But in the long run, our Renaissance Army will not give up on our compatriots!
Within four years, we will definitely recover Yangzhou. At that time, all the people will be able to live and work in peace and contentment, and we will no longer have to worry about the Manchu massacre!
But now, I hope that after everyone takes the silver and food, they will quickly escape into the mountains and escape to other places. Don't stay in Yangzhou City!
Don't forget that the Manchu barbarians are still a beast. They slaughtered 800,000 people here 24 years ago, and they will do the same thing again in the future!
Please hide for four years. In four years, perhaps less than four years, I will return with my army and reclaim the Han Empire!”
Li Haoran was now a semi-Zongshi. When he spoke loudly, his voice was almost tangible and could be heard throughout the entire Yangzhou City!
Most of the people left behind in Yangzhou City were old, weak, sick, and disabled. They knew that they couldn't follow Li Haoran and fight thousands of miles, so they didn't want to drag Li Haoran down!
After all, it had only been 24 years since the Ten Days Massacre in Yangzhou. Those old people still remembered it and persuaded their families to leave Yangzhou City and escape to the mountains or other places!
Their escape was organized because Li Haoran left Wu Dengke and 100 political workers behind!
Give each of them a manual and train them on how to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and how to mobilize the masses!
The hundreds of thousands of people left behind in Yangzhou and the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims worshipped Li Haoran and hated the Manchu Dynasty. They were the kindling of the revival of the Han Dynasty!
This kind of spark could not be extinguished. Therefore, he wanted these 100 political workers to hide well, organize them, train them, and carry out guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines to cooperate with the frontal battlefield!
Li Haoran emphasized in his belief that if they were harmed by the Manchu traitors, they could still ascend to the immortal world.
He even promised them in reality that if they could actively mobilize the masses to arm the masses, their contributions would not be forgotten. Everyone could at least become a county magistrate or even a prefect in the future!
The 100 of them had joined Renaissance Society before they left and became the first batch of members!
They would then actively recruit members according to the standards of the Renaissance Society!
The 100 experienced Revival members would develop into 1000 Revival members, and then they would bring in more than 100,000 people!
Li Haoran's standard for Fuxing Club members was to have both virtue and integrity!
Ability and character must be outstanding. Those with mediocre ability or poor character are not allowed to join the Renaissance Society!
Of course, more importantly, he had to agree with Li Haoran's thinking!
The core of Li Haoran's thoughts was that the Renaissance Society must represent the interests of the majority of the people and not be like the Donglin Party and Renaissance Society in Jiangnan!
Previously, the Donglin Party had boasted that they were clean and clean. In the name of satirizing the government, they had protected the landlords and profited for the rich merchants. On the surface, they looked sanctimonious, but in fact, they were the representatives of the big landlord and big merchant groups. Once there was a levy for disaster relief, they would do their best to obstruct it because it hurt their own interests. As a result, their selfishness led to the bankruptcy of the country's finances, which led to a series of evil consequences!
The Fu Society was also a group of radical young Dong Lin Party members. They were even more disgusting than the Dong Lin Party. They were a group of ambitious young people who were extremely conceited. They pointed their fingers at the matters of the imperial court and arrogantly promoted the freedom of speech. There were endless gatherings and lectures everywhere, and their reputation was even more impressive. However, they did not have any practical contributions to the affairs of the country.
It wasn't entirely correct to say that this group of people was just pretending not to do anything. At least there was one thing that they had been doing from the beginning to the end: Refuse to pay taxes.
The imperial court wanted to resist the Qing Dynasty and pacify the peasant army. Whenever the imperial court wanted the rich Jiangnan area to pay for the silver military expenses, it immediately attracted the strong opposition of the Fushe. It was so fierce that it could drown the officials in charge.
Then, the 1,000-person event of the club was even more impassioned.
It was easy to understand why they were so proactive. The main source of funding for the club was from the Jiangnan families. After receiving money from them, they had to do things for them.
The Donglin Party's Reshuffle Society was like this, it only represented the interests of a small number of scholars, big landowners, and big businessmen!
Such an organization would only cause the Han Dynasty to decline and be oppressed by the Manqing Tartars. It would not be able to revive the Han Dynasty!
Li Haoran was determined not to allow the Donglin Party to revive their society!
There was only one Renaissance Society in the world!
He wanted to build a strong organization of unity, discipline, responsibility, and agility.
They hoped to rely on this organization to awaken the people, resist the foreign invaders, and finally revive the Han Dynasty!
For this reason, Li Haoran had specially formulated a program and constitution for the Renaissance Society.
The workers, farmers, soldiers, literati, and other advanced members of the social class who have reached the age of 15 can apply to join the Revival Society if they acknowledge the program and regulations of the Revival Society and are willing to join an organization of the Revival Society and work actively in it to carry out its decisions.
Revival members had to sacrifice everything for the revival of the Han people.
As for the myths about the immortal realm and hell, Li Haoran knew that they would be exposed in the future, so he didn't write them down in words and only passed them on by word of mouth!
Later on, the people spontaneously formed a sect called the Tongxian Sect. It was a sect that led to the immortal world, and Li Haoran was naturally the sect leader!
Initially, Li Haoran didn't want to continue playing tricks. However, in order to resist other foreign beliefs, Li Haoran could only do that in the future. He turned it into a Tongxian Sect, which was later called the Science and Technology Sect!
After all, the immortal world was a peaceful and prosperous 21st century after the development of science and technology.
That was a matter for the future. Right now, Li Haoran's focus was to leave Yangzhou as soon as possible!
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。