Prince Gong watched Zeng Guofan pack up and move the Firearms Division away, and there was nothing he could do, and then he deeply realized that even if he had the authority of the emperor in name, he was still 108,000 miles away from others taking him as the emperor.

The power of those machine guns really suppressed him!

The strength he had secretly accumulated was almost half wiped out by that strafing shot, and if it hadn't been for the other party to stop, he estimated that the entire army would have been wiped out, only in minutes and seconds.

In the face of this setback, more than half of his ambition to do a big job was lost at once!

From then on, he had no choice but to follow the steps and establish the foundation first.

Just when Zeng Guofan and Prince Gong were fighting, another minister, Li Hongzhang, had already arrived at Heqi, which was the general base of the Huai army.

He also got a trap bird, otherwise it would have taken ten days and a half months on the road even if he had gone along with it.

According to the relevant regulations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, all the rudiments of the ministers of the Qin Mission could apply to ride the birds, but whether they could get them or not depended on many circumstances to decide.

On the one hand, not all missions are so urgent, and there is no need to hurry, and of course strategic materials will not be used.

On the other hand, riding the trap bird is uncomfortable and dangerous, and those high-ranking officials and ministers who are accustomed to a comfortable life also resist the trap bird from the heart.

Li Hongzhang is young, and he has been working on the most dangerous front line, so he doesn't take this danger seriously, and he is really in a hurry, so like Zeng Guofan, he got a trap bird.

Heqi is not only the headquarters of the Huai Army. It was also the military and political center of the Manchus, so he got there first, but his heart was firmly focused on the engagement in the north.

The battlefield is on both sides of the Huai River between the two mountains of Bagong Mountain and Wolf's Nest Mountain.

The main body of the enemy is the Twist Congregation, and the main leaders, except for Zhang Luoxing, are the backbone of the Celestial Army from Guangxi.

Li Hongzhang is more familiar with Wei Changhui and Lin Fengxiang.

They launched the so-called uprisings at the same time as Jintian, Shanghai, and elsewhere, and then quickly occupied a vast area from the west and Nanbo Prefecture to the east to the port of Amine Huibangbu in the east.

It was not until they tried to cross the Huai River to attack Heqi that they were intercepted in the Liangshan area.

And the main force of the lease is the clan soldiers of the local clan, the Xie clan.

Li Hongzhang's mission is to organize the government and the people. Do not let the purpose of the Celestial Army be achieved.

Li Hongzhang's efforts to form the Huai Army. He Zengguo formed the Hunan army at about the same time, so the Hunan army and the Huai army are also known as almost the same Cheng dù.

After Li Hongzhang arrived at the barracks, he immediately convened a meeting of the backbone of the Huai Army.

It's not a lot of work. The crowd arrived. After exchanging greetings. Take a seat around Li Hongzhang.

All of them are in the initial stage, and although everyone has their own division of labor, there is no fixed military rank and position. Therefore, we do not pay attention to the order and arrangement of seating.

Li Hongzhang looked to the left, and there were Liu Mingchuan, Zhou Shengbo, Zhang Shushan, and Wu Changqing sitting here, and Liu Changyou, Liu Kunyi, Zhang Shusheng, Zhou Shengchuan, Nie Shicheng, Mei Dongyi, Wei Rugui, Ye Zhichao, Ding Ruchang, and Su Desheng on the right, all of whom were military generals.

Sitting opposite were Pan Dingxin, Liu Bingzhang, and Li Hezhang, all of whom were civilian officials and were responsible for managing military affairs and other items.

In addition, there are Cheng Xueqi, Guo Songlin, and Yang Dingxun, all of whom are temporarily seconded from the Hunan Army and other places, and after completing the task of building the army, they will return them to the original army.

When Li Hongzhang saw that the personnel had arrived, he began to lecture.

He told him about his appointment as the minister of the Qin Mission and the appointment of the special superintendent of the Huai Army in Beijing this time, and everyone stood together and warmly congratulated!

For all of them, Li Hongzhang can be regarded as a positive result.

Although he was also in power before, he had been serving under Zeng Guofan, and he was controlled by his remote control, and many things could not be done according to his own ideas.

This is very important for those who follow him, and they can finally raise their eyebrows!

However, Li Hongzhang immediately poured cold water on everyone!

"Our status is on an equal footing with the Hunan army, but our responsibilities are the same as theirs!

"The Heavenly Army in front of us is equally fierce! The Hunan Army has such good conditions, and it is not yet the opponent of the Heavenly Army, so we know that we are even more inadequate! Thinking about this, are you still happy?"

As soon as everyone heard this, the joy just now suddenly dissipated, and they all became frosted eggplants.

"Li Hezhang, you can report on the overall situation!" Li Hongzhang said by name.

"Yes! Commander!"

The Huai army also had a rule that names must be called on formal occasions, and if there is no confusion, they can be called positions.

This Li Hezhang is Li Hongzhang's younger brother.

At this time, the army they were training in was still officially called regimental training, with a total of five battalions.

Each battalion has 500 people, and the soldiers are recruited by the barracks, and the soldiers in each battalion obey only one battalion officer, and the entire Huai army obeys only one person, Li Hongzhang. Military salaries also had to be self-funded, such as donations to wealthy landlords. The Huai army used foreign drills for training, guns for weapons, and hired Western officers for teaching, which was different from the Hunan army's brave battalion system.

The Zongren Mansion was only in charge of the Manchus, and the Ministry of Officials was in charge of the other tribes.

Like the principle of the Manchus, naturally those important ministers of the court took the lead in paying money, and others were naturally all included!

As a result, a broader campaign to conscript and pay for food was launched.

The results of the first two activities are all collected by the household department and the military department, with the household department receiving money and grain, and the military department receiving soldiers.

Since this time it was a top-down action, there was an unprecedented high speed!

The Gyeonggi region was the first to complete the concentration of soldiers and money and grain.

The statistics were sent to the imperial study, where the emperor and Zeng Guofan, Prince Gong, Qi Junzao, and Du Shoutian were deliberating, and the other was Regent!

A few people stopped talking about it and turned to see what the statistics were.

As a result, such a number exceeded everyone's expectations!

The total number of troops turned out to be 300,000!

A total of 50 million stone of grain!

Twenty million taels of silver!

This is a veritable rich country!

Take a look at the following instructions, and you will know that these 300,000 soldiers are not idle!

How to be unequal?

Some of these people. It is from the family of the official eunuch, the rich and the rich, and most of them are masters of taking care of the house!

The leaders of these caretakers can act as mid-level officers!

Other martial arts masters, in addition to strong martial arts, also have certain experience in organization and management, can serve as junior officers!

There are about a dozen noteworthy candidates for officers listed below, and when they are concentrated, they are already outstanding!

The soldiers' suzhì are by no means comparable to those green battalion soldiers who have taken out their bodies, they are not only physically strong. Many are also martial arts.

Look at the money again. It's just like fun.

Anyone who received more than 500,000 silver was recorded.

There is also a record of those who paid 500,000 stones.

Everyone looked through the detailed records and were all attracted by the first payment.

It's not the number that attracts everyone, but the quantity. A whole ten million taels;

That signature is - and the descendants of the gentry!

There is no specifics in the back. Only two sentences.

"The former is rich but the enemy is guilty of the country, and the younger generation destroys the family to atone for the country."

Everyone here is familiar with the stories of the former dynasty and the gentry. He is recorded in the history books as the most corrupt criminal, but he did not expect his descendants to take the opposite move, whether he can bring his ancestors to atone for their sins, but there is no doubt about the love for this Manchu regime at a critical time.

Xianfeng secretly made up his mind. Once this crisis passes, even if no one can be found, an amnesty must be given to the descendants of the gentry.

According to the practice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if a person commits a crime, he will inevitably suffer on his descendants.

Everyone was reading the report, and Prince Gong came in and reported that the army had been assembled at the East Gate Schoolyard, and invited the emperor and a few adults to go and review it.

Now Prince Gong is in power, and under the establishment of Zeng Guofan, he is not called regent as usual, but has a title, prime minister.

He actually learned this concept from Mai Ke.

Regardless of whether it is the regent or the prime minister, the power of the Northern Meridian Center has been concentrated in his hands.

Xianfeng had detached himself from those specific affairs and concentrated on thinking about the expedition.

At the same time as he served as prime minister, he also joined the Military Aircraft Department and became one of the ministers of military aircraft, and the chief minister of military aircraft was still Qi Junzao, but he had decided to follow the emperor on the expedition, so after he left, Prince Gong became the chief minister of military aircraft.

The advantage of the Chief Minister of Military Aircraft is that there is no rotation, while the other Ministers of Military Aircraft must take turns on duty.

Xianfeng was interested in the newly formed army, and when he heard Prince Gong's invitation, he immediately agreed to go and watch.

Everyone rode forward, but only the spirit could not, and went to the East Gate School Yard together.

Along the way, everyone hurried up, and the streets and houses on both sides flew by.

At first, everyone was worried that the spirit would fall behind, but unexpectedly, he was like a leisurely stroll, and I didn't see how he moved, but he was faster than these horsemen.

And if you don't look at your face, the cheongsam is fluttering, and the figure is well-proportioned, just like the image of a turbidity son.

But when you look at your face, you will spoil the scenery, and the whole thing is a gloomy hanged ghost.

Everyone didn't say anything all the way, and it didn't take long to arrive at the elementary school.

The overall area of this small school yard is about seven or eight hundred acres, and it is usually used for drills and military ceremonies.

Today, hundreds of thousands of people have gathered here, not only the newly formed army, but also their families.

300,000 Dou Su stood in the middle of the school field, standing in a neat square!

This square team is so huge, the square team itself covers an area of about five hundred acres!

Although they have just enlisted in the army, the clothes on their bodies are still the same as before, but once they become an army, once they know the mission of their soldiers, once they are given the responsibilities of soldiers, their overall momentum will change suddenly, forming a powerful aura!

Even if everyone's aura is still very small, the base of 300,000 is not trivial!

Moreover, these people are all strong and strong, and they have not been polluted by the vices of those soldiers, but they have the simple atmosphere of the toiling people at the bottom, so the momentum gathered together is pure energy, and it can also bring positive influence to others.

Therefore, as soon as Xianfeng and the others arrived, they immediately felt this momentum, and they were also affected by these pure momentum.

And these newborn calve-like recruits. Seeing that this emperor was the commander-in-chief who was about to lead them to the enemy, not only was his morale greatly boosted, but his momentum climbed to a new height!

Prior to this, Xianfeng also got a new title for himself, Commander-in-Chief of the Three Armed Forces, referred to as Commander-in-Chief, he likes everyone to call him Commander-in-Chief the most, and he also emphasized that in addition to the court. Don't call him emperor.

At the time of the highest momentum. 300,000 people shouted in unison: "See the commander-in-chief!"

Sonic boom in the wilderness, angry in the sky!

As he walked, Xianfeng waved to everyone, with a smile on his face.

There are still words in his mouth: "Brothers, hard work!

Walked into the middle of 300,000. Prince Gong specially called out a pro-year officer.

Looking at this tiger-headed materialist youth. Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan, Qi Junzao, and Du Shoutian all felt familiar.

This man came to them. He bowed and saluted, and said, "Meet the emperor, with your armor on your body." Please forgive the ministers for not being able to pay full courtesy! Uncles, the little nephew is so polite!"

Everyone wondered, "Who is this?"

Prince Gong said with a smile: "This is the eldest son of the old monk and the prince, Bo Yan Nemohu! All-round talent in civil and military affairs, unparalleled in bows and horses, and a true hero! Tiger father has no dog, and he is honest and credible!"

Not long ago, Zeng Lingqin went to clean up the rebellious people, but he was defeated and captured, and his life and death are still unknown.

In particular, Qi Junzao and the old monk king are very kind, and they are very familiar with this Boyan Nemohu, he is about fifteen years old this year, if the date of birth that the old monk king said is accurate.

However, Qi Junzao is deeply suspicious of this, and the Mongolian people don't take these things seriously at all.

After a few days, I knew that most of that age was wrong, looking at the figure, at least eighteen, right?

He began to practice martial arts at the age of ten, studied in the capital since he was a child, and was smart and studious, proficient in Mongolian, Chinese, and Manchurian languages, and could use fluent Manchu conversations.

Not only that, but Boyan Nemohu also inherited the resolute style of Seng Grinqin and began to be appreciated by the imperial court.

And the old monk king is also a good godson, and he is strict with the size and never tolerates and accommodating.

Therefore, from an early age, Boyan Nemohu received a strict moral education from his father, which was an important factor in his later efforts to always be diligent and honest.

Qi Junzao's recollection was interrupted, and it turned out that Xianfeng had already asked Prince Gong what official position he had arranged.

Prince Gong replied: "The hero should be put to good use, and I have appointed him the commander of the Chinese army! His task is to go out with the emperor! The Chinese army has a total of 50,000 troops, all of whom are the most powerful of the new six armies!"

"Good!" Xianfeng was very satisfied with this arrangement!

He also said to Boyan Nemohu: "Brother Boyan, do a good job! Inherit the name of the old monk king! Establish greater meritorious deeds! I will not hesitate to reward you!"

"Thank you for the emperor's grace! The minister and his father thank the emperor, even if the minister is broken, he must repay the emperor's grace!"

Seeing Bo Yan Nemo's majestic spirit, a talent, dealing with it appropriately, deeply understanding the sacred heart, Xianfeng was overjoyed, and he was rewarded immediately!

The first is the title of the Iron Hat Prince who inherited the monk Grinqin, that is, the Prince of Bodol Katai, even if he doesn't know the accurate news of the old monk king.

This means that if Monk Rinchen returns unharmed, he will remain his prince, and the same title of Boyan Namohu will remain if it is not specifically deprived.

In this way, there will be a unique phenomenon of "double iron hat prince" in the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

It can be seen that this Xianfeng Emperor is not a stubborn person, and he does not hesitate to break the routine if necessary.

In normal times, the court would have to argue for seven or eight days, and even if a person's head is beaten into a dog's head, no conclusion may be made.

Now for a word!

None of the ministers spoke out against it!

Xianfeng enjoyed this state and this feeling.

Subsequently, Prince Gong reported on the other five armies, namely the front army, the rear army, the left army, and the You army.

The last army did not have a number, but Prince Gong said that it could be called a hidden army, which could be used for special tasks and as a mobile unit.

These six-way armies, in actual battles, can be divided or combined, can be concentrated in one direction, or dispersed to different directions.

Thus, under the commander-in-chief, there is a general staff, which is specifically responsible for the development and implementation of different operational plans, the achievement of operational objectives at various stages.

The resolution of the Imperial Council. Not only did it produce great results in Beijing, but it also quickly spread to all parts of the country.

At the same time that the Beijing division achieved decisive results, the main Manchu gathering places were also undergoing earth-shaking turmoil.

One of the most drastic is Shengjing.

But from the perspective of the ancient family power, the prosperity is more entrenched than the northern longitude, and there must be great resistance.

However, if it was not resolved, they set up a banner of disobedience to the emperor's orders, and the reform fell short.

Therefore, Xianfeng made up his mind to solve it.

This determination. Only Xianfeng can go down. Others didn't dare to say a word in front of those old people.

Therefore, Xianfeng sent Prince Zaiyuan to run away personally.

Zaiyuan is the order of the Zongren Mansion, and theoretically anyone as long as they belong to the register. and give him dominion.

This at least gave him the convenience of carrying out the emperor's orders justifiably.

Xianfeng's support for him. It's also about doing everything.

First of all. He was named the minister of the Qin Mission, and every order and action was "as if I was coming in person".

Secondly. gave him Shang Fang's sword, all the military and civilian dust, etc., all of which could be killed on the spot, except for a few old antiques, with some exceptions.

However, this exception is also limited, and it can also be killed on the spot, but it needs to be reported afterwards.

Third, equip him with 36 masters with the strongest martial arts! When necessary, they can be dispatched to kill people and set fires!

Of course, the first task is to protect this Chincha-sama from being killed.

Without strong protection, a hundred chases are not enough for them to kill!

Those old people, if they are unhappy, the emperor dares to kill them;

Fourth, Xianfeng gave the right to transfer the local garrison, and if he kept dispatching, he would immediately replace them with those David masters.

Among the Davids, there are quite a few people, who are more than enough to be a general soldier or a gradient.

Fifth, according to the precedent of Zeng Guofan, the vanguard also gave him five blank letters of appointment, and if necessary, if the selection was suitable, he had the right to appoint the Qin Cha Xiangli, and had the same rights as the Qin Cha, which was equivalent to him having five more doppelgangers to serve him together.

Looking at this fully armed, Zaeyuan suddenly decided that he was ten times safer, and his rights were immediately increased by seven or eight times!

The fear of the journey, the fear of those old guys, was swept away in an instant.

He boarded a trap and set off.

The Northeast Mountain Eagle that pulled the trap bird had the opportunity to go home to see, and it was also inexplicably excited, and it more than doubled the speed!

When they arrived in Shengjing, those old guys were still face-saving, and they all received an urgent notice separately, telling them of the decision of the Imperial Council, letting them play an exemplary role and let Shengjing walk in the forefront.

The notice also said that the Zongren Mansion Zongling University Scholar Zaiyuan would go to handle it, so that they could see him as if the emperor was there in person, cooperate with the work, and ask him directly if they have any specific questions.

These people are here, but they don't take it seriously in their hearts!

Except for a few who are determined to take a look and talk about it, the vast majority of people have a disdainful attitude.

It's no wonder that a considerable number of them think that the emperor in the north is just a child's play, and they don't care about what it looks like.

However, you can make trouble by yourself, don't involve Lao Tzu! Don't even want to drag Lao Tzu to make trouble with you!

Therefore, the resolution of the Imperial Council wants everyone to go out and fight to the death with the Heavenly Army, and it has nothing to do with them at all!

This attitude is really different from the mission that Zaiyuan came to this time, that is, Xianfeng's expectations!

As a result, after Zaiyuan arrived, he waved the emperor's request in front of the gong and drum, and those old guys immediately jumped as high as they could, like a fire burning their beards!

One of the old men, tall and at least ninety years old, was very active, and while switching between his left and right feet and continuing to jump, he shouted: "What? What? Everyone went to the front? All the money and food were handed over? Who came up with such a foul idea? Was he kicked in the head by a donkey? Caught in the door before the donkey kicked it? Malnourished when he was young? Born with a difficult birth, with a lack of oxygen, and permanent damage to his brain? I'd love to see how his head is shaped, and then find some hungry sows to arch him for a long time, and see if I can cure him!"

"Brother Aoworm scolded well, scolded well!

The old men applauded in unison, applauded warmly, and the rhythm of the dance doubled!

Jae-won was scolded on the spot, in addition to thinking that they were particularly vulgar, he actually felt a little refreshing.

At this time, the army they were training in was still officially called regimental training, with a total of five battalions.

Each battalion has 500 people, and the soldiers are recruited by the barracks, and the soldiers in each battalion obey only one battalion officer, and the entire Huai army obeys only one person, Li Hongzhang. Military salaries also had to be self-funded, such as donations to wealthy landlords. The Huai army used foreign drills for training, guns for weapons, and hired Western officers for teaching, which was different from the brave battalion system of the Hunan army.

(To be continued......)