Facts have proved that there are no heinous people in human history, and there are no perfect good people, saints will always be sealed by posterity, as long as you are a human being, you will definitely have selfishness. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zeng Guofan is the same, no matter how many people in later generations belittle him, or how many people praise him, even if he is pushed to be the same as a saint, in fact, he is just an old man with selfish intentions but at the same time with great righteousness in his heart.

The terms of his secret agreement with Xiao Letian are very detailed, retaining the foundation of the survival of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in China, hoping that Xiao Letian will not destroy it, which is out of the righteousness of his heart, which is his spiritual pillar.

But at the same time, the secret agreement also stated the privileges he had won for his family, and the children of the Zeng family secretly had a Chinese identity, and at the same time he also entrusted Xiao Letian to help the children get a household registration in the United States or Prussia.

In other words, Zeng Guofan left at least three back roads for his descendants, one is to continue to stay in the Qing Dynasty, studying, taking the imperial examination, or just being a rich man. But once the situation changes, the descendants of the Zeng family can immediately enter the territory of the Chinese clan under the protection of Xiao Letian.

What if the Chinese people have also been wiped out? Then start the third way, move the family to Europe and the United States, and let the whole family branch out in a foreign land.

The Zeng family has now learned to distribute wealth equally, they did not put all the family's property in the basket of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestral house and fields are still there, as long as the Qing Dynasty does not fall, his name as a handsome man can at least protect the children with food and clothing.

Within the Chinese family, Zeng Guofan also secretly bought a lot of assets, such as land, the original shares of Lotte Bank, and even a group of housekeepers who were dealing with the direct business of the Zeng family.

In Europe and the United States, the Zeng family's wealth investment methods are very conservative, they have opened a large number of accounts in many banks, and even opened special gold accounts in Switzerland and the United States, these are the last assets of the family, can not take any risks, so stable interest is the best choice.

Three roads, this is an old man's last dedication to his family, and these arrangements are inseparable from Xiao Letian's help, these are the core of the entire secret covenant.

And what did Zeng Guofan pay? It was to help Xiao Lotian successfully obtain Jiangnan!

Zeng Guofan's time is running out, and he can't see the day when Xiao Letian occupies Jiangnan militarily, but he can see Xiao Letian's economic occupation of Jiangnan.

This good start of the Suzhou stock market was actually expected by Zeng Guofan, he and Xiao Letian had made sufficient preparations before, and they even calculated the reaction of every idle prince in Beijing in this financial crisis.

The most typical example is the little fifth master of Jingshi, the elder brother of the devil six, and even Zeng Guofan roughly judged who Yi Cheng's secret subordinates in Jiangnan were, and the money Yi Cheng made in this financial crisis was also a lot of money, but Yi Cheng didn't know that every yuan he earned was actually earned by Xiao Letian and Zeng Guofan.

The layout is too big, and it consumes too much energy, Xiao Letian is young and strong, and he has boiled out panda eyes, and he even needs to participate in soup to replenish his vitality, not to mention the elderly Zeng Guofan.

His condition has worsened dramatically in the past year, and his cough has become more and more serious, in fact, he is tired, exhausted and exhausted. And all this Nine Marshals Zeng Guoquan didn't know.

It wasn't until today that Jiu Shuai understood the hard work of the eldest brother, and he knew how much he had paid for the eldest brother of this family.

"Old Nine...... I have to leave a way out for our Zeng family, and I have to leave a way out for the doctrine of the saints...... It can't just be ruined!"

"Don't fantasize about the glory of the Hunan army anymore, the Hunan army is gone, from the day Ma released Nanshan, I knew that the Hunan army would not be able to revive again!"

"Ahem, ahem...... Because our Hunan army has no roots! Do you know? We don't have roots! So I've always been against which step you take, because if you go up, you're going to die!"

"What is the Hunan Army? hahaha...... It was just a group of peasants who wanted to keep their homes, plus a group of people who had a grudge against Longhair, and finally a group of adventurers who coveted wealth and riches......"

"If you think about it carefully, aren't these three types of people who make up our Hunan army? People who are afraid of their families being ruined and people are going to protect their hometowns, they join the Hunan army, and those people who have enmity with long hair also join the Hunan army, and finally a group of adventurers who want to be promoted and make a fortune come to follow ......."

"What can such an army do? In fact, you have seen very clearly in your heart, the closer such an army is to your hometown, the stronger its combat effectiveness will be, and once it is far away from your hometown, you have to use silver to motivate it!"

"Why do they all shout that we have shaved our heads? No way! The court has no money, and the army still has to fight, if you don't let the soldiers rob and play with women, this combat effectiveness will not come up!"

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Zeng Guofan coughed violently, and it took a long time to recover his strength.

"But Xiao Letian is different, his army has a mind and a soul! You have also studied his battle examples, Xiao Letian can move his small class to the company of the big head soldiers! And he also requires the whole army to be literate!"

Not only that, but he also put forward the concept of the Chinese and formed an incentive mechanism of six lords and eighteen others...... It is precisely because he injected soul into the army that the Chinese army never needs money to fight!"

"Unbelievable! So many life-and-death battles, life-for-life white-knuckle fights, he Xiao Letian actually didn't use a copper plate to boost morale?

"Lao Jiu! Only such an army can compete with foreign devils, and only such an army can leave their homeland for 100,000 miles and fight such a victory in Europa!"

"I'm jealous of Zeng Guofan! I'm so jealous that I'm going to die! If I am allowed to win such a battle in the realm of foreign devils, I will be blinded when I die!"

The hysterical Zeng Guofan slapped the bed and coughed violently in his throat, "Ahem, cough...... But I ...... cough cough cough ...... But I will always be a person who has shaved my head, and I will kill my own people in my life...... Ahem, ahem!"

Jiu Shuai was shocked, this was the first time he had seen his brother lose his temper like this, and he realized today that what he had thought before had gone astray.

The Hunan army is at best a local warlord! It seems that 500,000 people are swallowing mountains and rivers, but in fact they are just a joke in the hearts of foreign devils!" Jiu Shuai laughed miserably.

"Big brother is right, we can't be like Xiao Letian, we are not as good as him! Our army is actually just a private army in a place, and his army can really be called the army of the nation!"

"That's it, that's it, I already understand what the big brother means, you let me take over from you and continue to guard Jiangnan?

Jiu Shuai wiped a handful of old tears, "Even if our brothers owe him, this secret agreement...... I'll take it!"