The three monarchs and ministers, or the three teachers and students, all muttered, and decided the fate of Mu Zhang'a University. Soon after, the imperial secretary general, the head of the Manchu organization, was removed from his post and never to be replaced.

The end of the tiger was even worse, first he was removed from his post, and then he was given death by the emperor on the grounds that he returned to Beijing without authorization.

Lin Zexu had already returned from the exile of Ili at this time, and the emperor removed all the punishments imposed on him in the past, crowned the crown prince Shaobao, and cultivated first. When the sick body is healed, it will be used again.

This then turned to the next question, how to build a foundation against the rebellious party. Lao Zeng continued to talk about his concept. This is a more critical part that has a direct impact on his deployment in Hunan.

"In the past, when I suppressed the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect, I used the regimental training to contribute. Because at that time, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion had no combat effectiveness. Team training is different. Its essence is the transfer of the people to the army, because if you don't transfer, you can't do it, and if you don't transfer, you will be wiped out. Therefore, the purpose of team training is to protect yourself.

"This does not have the shortcomings of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion. It will not lose its combat effectiveness because of long-term pampering. It won't be without a goal.

"In fact, all dynasties in Chinese history have had group exercises. Some dynasties were even the main armed forces. Even with the mediocre military system, regimental training is also an auxiliary force.

Therefore, the response plan proposed by the minister is to establish a group training to deal with the chaos of the party in various places. Don't count on those Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers. Those chaotic parties are all new forces, and they have great motivation and vitality, so they must also use regimental training with the same vitality and motivation to deal with them, so as to protect their relatives and property. ”

The emperor and Du Zhitian agreed with Lao Zeng's assessment of the existing Manchu army. Although the two of them have no personal experience, they are still very clear about the nests of those Eight Banners disciples. The Green Battalion still had some combat effectiveness in the early years, and now they have completely stepped into the footsteps of the Eight Banners.

"So, what is Mr. Zeng's detailed plan?" the emperor asked Lao Zeng.

"It's simple, it's complicated. Lao Zeng replied. To put it simply, it is nothing more than asking people for money, and to put it more complicatedly, it happens that the imperial court is short of people and money. ”

Seeing the blank eyes of the two listeners, Lao Zeng continued to explain.

"The person in charge of the regimental training must have innovative ideas, and he cannot rely on the imperial court to give him instructions on everything. At the same time, he had to work in solidarity with the local landlords and gentry. This requires sufficient prestige and competence of the principal.

"As for the money needed, it is impossible for the imperial court to come up with it. The existing needs are still stretched. The annual income of 20 million taels of silver of the imperial court, except for the officials' income, was basically occupied by those troops who could not be used. Of course Lao Zeng knew about this.

"Yes, yes. The creation of a regiment is acceptable, but there is no public money to spend. Although I have only been on the throne for a short time, I am well aware of its embarrassment. "Emperor Xianfeng is known as the most frugal emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although there are reasons why he is not luxurious, but the main reason is that the country is troublesome, and money is needed everywhere. And the sources of money are shrinking and shrinking.

"If you run a group exercise, the money you need can only be raised by the Fuzhou and county governments themselves. Du Zhitian also emphasized.

I didn't expect the court to pay for it in the first place. There's no way around it. This is still the case before the chaos starts; once the chaotic parties occupy the localities, the financial resources can only be further compressed. Therefore, Lao Zeng did not dwell on this issue, and agreed with the opinions of the two, whoever is in charge of group training will be responsible for raising funds at the same time.

When selecting the candidates to preside over the group exercises, Du Zhitian and Zeng Guofan pointed out that several people did not know guò, either because they were not talented enough, or they lacked experience in Fuzhou County. In the end, Lao Zeng asked for his life to bear this matter himself, and the emperor felt satisfied. On the spot, Lao Zeng was appointed as the general regiment training envoy, responsible for the establishment of regimental training throughout the country, mainly in Liangjiang, Lianghu, and Liangguang provinces.

Later, it involved the cooperation and coordination of the various departments of the center, in order to ensure that the regimental training could be smooth, the emperor was also ruthless, and successively added four official positions to Zeng Guofan. Counting his original waiter of the Ministry of Rites, he is now a waiter of the five departments.

The other four departments are the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry. In this way, the general regiment training envoy did not need to beg from others everywhere, but had soldiers, criminals, officials, workers, and rites as backup, except that he was still short of money, he could be regarded as having everything ready.

In the support of the center, now Du Zhitian is the first deputy secretary general, and Mu Zhang'a has been determined to be taken down, so in fact, Du Zhitian is in charge.

In this way, preparations were made for Zeng Guofan's great display on the greatest stage. He originally wanted to ask the emperor for special approval to bring all the civil and military cadres he arranged in Hunan under his command, but there is no need for it now. Their rank is not high at present, and the power of their own deputy minister of personnel is sufficient to use.

In the end, he also asked the emperor for one thing.

"Holy Grace: The minister has suggested several times to reduce the redundancy of arrogant soldiers, and put it on hold when it is time to use the army. The number of provinces that the minister wants to go to also garrison the green battalion of the flag soldier, which can not be reduced, but the beggar saint allows the minister to gradually replace it. ”

"Mr. Zeng, please make it clear how to replace them?" the emperor asked. Du Zhitian also listened.

"If he is disabled, dead, old, or sick, and he is unable to join the army, he shall not use his descendants to make up for the succession. Those who are in the green battalion should not be recruited. As a result, the idle army was transferred to the new regimental training. After a short time, they will not be able to extricate themselves. ”

"I have to deal with this matter, and it can be slowed down. If there is no descendant willing to inherit the shortage, the gentleman can take back the amount and transfer it to the group training. What if so?"

Lao Zeng thinks that this is better, those who are greedy for life and afraid of death in this eventful season, it is estimated that most of them will have to retreat.

At this point, Zeng Guofan's main expectations were basically satisfied, preparing key conditions for his Hunan army plan, and also determining the Hunan army he established and led single-handedly, delaying the quick victory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The next day, Du Zhitian convened a joint meeting of the six ministries in the name of co-organizers of the university and announced the emperor's appointment of Zeng Guofan. This meeting was supposed to be presided over by Mu Zhang'a, but he already sensed that the new emperor did not like him, so he was absent due to illness.

Knowing that Du Zhitian was the emperor's teacher and was a very upright person, no one in these six high-ranking officials dared to despise him. Hearing the appointment of Zeng Guofan, these officialdom veterans knew that the celebrity in front of the old emperor had once again succeeded in becoming the new favorite of the current emperor. Although he was not convinced, he was still warmly congratulated on the surface.

When they heard the title of Minister of the General Regiment, most of them didn't know what it was. After Du Zhitian briefly introduced the purpose of this mission, he asked everyone to fully cooperate. Everyone ostensibly agreed.

Only the household officials were relieved to hear that there was nothing about them. However, before he could sit firmly, Du Zhitian warned that once the turmoil broke out, the south would be eroded, the foundation of the annual income would be destroyed, and the household would become a pot without rice. For now, let's support the efforts of the team training as much as possible.

This warning really worked, and in the years that followed, when Zeng Guofan asked that the soldiers who had been allocated to the Green Battalion of the Eight Banners be allocated to the regimental training, they did a good job. Otherwise, even if Zeng Guofan had the emperor's edict, he would not be able to come to the door to take it.

After the routine, Zeng Guofan specially discussed the affairs of the Ministry of Industry with Du Zhitian. The Han Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry is now held by Du Zhitian, who is also a co-organizer of the university, so the Ministry of Industry is actually under his control. That Man Shang Shute Deng basically didn't care.

Zeng Guofan specially introduced Hong Rong to him, telling him that Hong Rong would play a key role in the strength of the group training in the future. Please give him strong support for Hong Rong, especially in terms of the technology used in the government-run factories, and listen to Hong Rong's opinions. If possible, we will be the first to use Western technology.

Although these two gave ideas to the new emperor, they used traditional morality and loyalty and filial piety, and they have always been based on "applying it to the world" in their bones. Therefore, when it comes to learning technology from foreigners, not only do they not hesitate at all, but they are also very interested.

After listening to Zeng Guofan's introduction and knowing that Hong Rong had studied in the United States for a long time, Du Zhitian immediately gave him an official position, Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry, which was specifically responsible for finding and introducing high-quality technology.

Hong Rong is also very happy, or follow the masters, you can get the moon first near the water. This official position is a five-grade product, and it is also a middle-level cadre at the director-level level. Before he followed Master Zeng, let alone being an official, no one listened to him.

He really has a good thing on hand right now.

The other day, an American classmate approached him and said that he would be introduced to a genius who was studying weapons. This man did not know how to hear that China was often at war, and thought that his weapons must be very popular, so he took the trouble to come to China on a merchant ship.

After Hong Rong met him, the American claimed that his name was Makqin and that he was from Maine. He first showed him some hand-drawn figures, saying that his thing was called a machine qì gun, which could fire automatically. Up to a hundred rounds per minute.

Seeing that Hong Rong seemed to understand and was skeptical, he mysteriously took out a bunch of things from his tightly wrapped backpack, which was no different from broken copper and rotten iron, except for a bright chain that still looked like a dot.

But with the movement of Makqin's dexterous hands, the pile of broken copper and iron soon turned into a weapon, just like the barrel gun on his picture. However, Makqin said that this is only half the size of a normal product, and it is still a model.

"Look!" he said, pointing to a large tree a hundred meters away. The big tree was half a meter thick. They met in a wild mountainous area.

I heard a loud "click, click", and the big tree fell with a bang, just over thirty seconds.

Hong Rong was dumbfounded, if he beat someone, it would not be enough to kill!

And it's too fast! There's at least fifty in that long list, right?

While going over to see the results, Makqin told him that this was a half-shuttle bullet, a total of fifty bullets, and it was shot in half a minute. Since this is a small gun, it is only half as powerful as normal. If necessary, the materials are complete, and the normal type can also be increased, and the power will also be increased.

When Hong Rong heard this, he immediately determined that this was definitely the technique that Lord Zeng needed the most. So, he also brought him today, and finally asked Lord Zeng to decide whether to ask for his skills.

Hong Rong said in his heart that even if he didn't want to, he must not let him go to someone else!