January 20, 1851, 8 a.m., Pan Ji.

Wei Changhui stood on a mound in front of the camp, with Lin Fengxiang on the left and Zhang Luoxing on the right.

Although Wei Changhui is in charge of the three-way army of the Northern Front of the Heavenly Army, he has always been rooted in this road, and has gone all the way with the uprising and development of the Twist Army.

For the northwest road of Wulan Yihuang and the northeast road of Lin Fengxiang, he only commanded by remote control, and the main content was to listen to their progress and the relevant information collected.

Zhang Luoxing, according to the deployment of the Heavenly Army, revolted at the same time in the two central areas on January 8.

One is in the central region of Henan, that is, the three regions of Nanyang, Nanzhao and Tangxian, from Nanzhao in the Funiu Mountains to the Nanyang Basin.

The southern end of the Nanyang Basin is Xinye, which is adjacent to the northern part of the country.

This area encompasses the entire southwest region and is strategically located.

The other center is the northern Anhui region, which is set in the Pheasant River in Bozhou, Huihui.

Judging from the area where the Twist Army has been active, at the same time, this area also includes Yongcheng, which belongs to Henan.

In terms of the leadership of the Twist Army headed by Zhang Luoxing, heroes from all walks of life were gathered, among which the main figures were Gong Deshu, Hou Shiwei, Han Laowan, Su Tianfu, Liu Yongjing, Sun Kuixin, Zhang Zongyu, Ren Huabang, Zhang Yujue, Han Qifeng and others.

These heroes are fat burly and skinny spirits, and each one of them has left a heavy mark on the magnificent picture scroll displayed in history.

It was these people who, when the Twist Army reached its peak, had a strength of 500,000 troops. The total number of cavalry alone reached 200,000!

If this is used intensively, all the armies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be added together, and they will also be stewed in one spoonful!

In addition, these cavalry, which are very mobile, have a main area of activity, that is, in the Lianghuai and Gyeonggi areas, and can go straight to the heart of the enemy! If there was a correct strategic coordination at that time, the consequences would definitely be different!

The Twist Army, not counting the cooperation with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Army, also crisscrossed eight provinces and survived for ten years.

The biggest result of the battle was the total annihilation of the cavalry of Seng Lingqin. This can be said to be the last elite of the Manchu Qing Dynasty; There are no more heroic Eight Banners soldiers.

Even Monk Grinqin himself died in this battle.

But it was these heroes who died before they could get out of school, and they were brutally suppressed by the Manchu rulers.

Although the repression of the rulers was very brutal. A mess of their own. is the real fatal cause of failure.

In view of these historical facts and lessons from history. As early as November last year, Mai Ke held strategic talks with these leaders of the Twist Army, and made a series of important decisions and strategic arrangements.

Under the command of Mai Ke. With the full participation of the Celestial Army, the trajectory and outcome of the Twist Army uprising completely changed.

Mai Ke first adjusted their plan for the uprising, and the basic policy was to cooperate with the plan of the Heavenly Army and act in unison.

That is, there is no plan, and now it must become planned, planned, and adjusted according to the plan of the heavenly army.

From a strategic point of view, all uprisings of the Twist Army must echo with the Celestial Army, and strike at the Manchu forces in Lianghuai in unison.

After taking the two Huai, and then developing to the east, the monk Hai knife will revolt with each other, and strive to take the eucalyptus emblem of the area where the two Huai are located as the foundation, starting from here to open up Jiang Su separated from Shanghai.

Then, together with the Heaven and Earth Society, the two families joined forces to unite these three regions, waved their troops to fight in Shandong, took the entire territory of Shandong, and then passed through Guò Tianjin and directly inserted into the Gyeonggi region.

In order to complete this strategic arrangement, Maike took two measures.

First, as with the Heaven and Earth Society, the Celestial Army sent a mixed regiment of teaching teams and military pastors to the central area where the Twisters gathered to help them improve their tactics and beliefs.

Second, the Celestial Army sent the Northern Expeditionary Army to join the Twist Army, and joined forces with the Twist Army to face the enemies who hindered the development of the Twist Army.

After the expected military victory, the Celestial Army sent civilian personnel to establish power and restore order, as the Celestial Army had already done elsewhere.

From then until the uprising at the beginning of the month, the Celestial Army had completed all its support, and the Twist Army had made the necessary preparations.

Under the guidance of Zhang Luoxing as the general liaison and Mai Ke at any time, the preparations progressed smoothly.

They twist individual twists into group twists, twist small strands into coarse twists, and twist coarse twists into total twists!

Finally, at the scheduled time, the Eucalyptus Bozhou Pheasant River set launched a general uprising.

At the same time, an uprising broke out in southern Henan at the same time.

In addition to all the twisters who participated in the uprising, there were also large forces of the Celestial Army.

Mai Ke learned the lessons of history, not only sent all the famous generals of the Northern Expedition at that time, but also increased the number of troops sevenfold, bringing the total number to 200,000.

Mai Ke was bent on letting these people avenge themselves and return all the grievances they had suffered to those Manchu enemies.

In addition to overwhelming the enemy on this battlefield, Mai Ke also sent Wei Changhui to take charge of the overall situation and ensure the victory of the Twist Army on a larger level, that is, the victory of the Northern Expedition of the Heavenly Army.

Lin Fengxiang, as the commander-in-chief of the Middle Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, sat at the headquarters of the Pheasant River Twisting Army and sent Li Kaifang to southern Henan to support the uprising of the Twist Army there.

Zhang Luoxing also adopted the corresponding configuration and sent his right-hand man Gong Deshu to command.

On January 8, the Twist Army Uprising broke out punctually at the scheduled time and place.

The organizational form of these uprisings followed all the methods of the historical Twist Army Uprising.

Under the highest military structure, the five banners are directly under the command of the commander-in-chief.

Zhang Lexing led the Yellow Flag and was also the head of the Yellow Flag.

Su Tianfu, Gong Deshu, Han Laowan, and Hou Shiwei respectively served as the commanders of the black, white, blue, and red flags.

In addition to the Five Banners, there is also a coalition army of various ethnic groups in the northwest led by Bai Yanhu in the northwest

Under the general flag, there is the "big flag", which is the basic unit that makes up the twisted army.

The big flag sets up a big banner head, called "the master of the trip".

There are also "small flags" under the big flag, which are the most basic organizations.

This organizational form of the five-banner military system. The Twist Army, which was in a state of dispersion, was initially unified.

Zhang Lexing is the leader of the alliance, but this alliance leader is not only the leader of the various forces, but the leader of the alliance appointed by the Heavenly Army, which means that according to the requirements of the Heavenly Army, manage these twisted army associations and realize the tasks of the Heavenly Army.

At the same time, the creed was proclaimed and marching regulations were formulated, which were the relevant regulations existing in the Celestial Army.

The slogan of the uprising: Save me from the remnants, eliminate treachery and violence, and establish the kingdom of heaven.

Among them, the military regulations. All of them were aimed at the Manchu army and the bandit forces at that time. A clear ban was made, including a harsh thirteen slashes.

Wherever the soldiers arrived, they defiled the women and beheaded them.

Polluting young children is immediately beheaded.

Those who take women and children captive and do not offer them are immediately beheaded.

Those who do not obey the order will be beheaded.

The pawn is unreasonably armed and dares to refuse the leader's beheading.

When he was in battle, he deliberately leaked and fetched food. Privately go to the countryside to look for belongings. Those who defile women are beheaded.

Those who collect grain without orders are beheaded.

Those who flee without permission when facing the enemy will be killed.

Get up and listen to the three horns and cannons gathered;

Both the cannon and the walker slashed.

Those who set fire to the camp without permission were beheaded.

Those who deliberately go down the road while traveling are chopped.

Those who defend the camp are beheaded.

this regulation. The most important content is the relationship between obedience to orders and the people, in addition, there are clear regulations such as marching, camping, and returning weapons to the public. It shows that after the Great Uprising, the army was already a regular army with strict discipline.

They also wrote a folk song to publicize the uprising of the Twisted Army, so that everyone could get acquainted with it more quickly so that they could be accepted and supported.

Pheasant River set, like the capital, the five-color handsome flag floats in the sky.

The yellow flag is erected in the center of the set, and the red, black, blue, and white formations are in all directions.

Lao Lebu set up a brotherly formation, moving knives and guns in all directions.

today, practice tomorrow, and learn all eighteen kinds of martial arts.

The black flag obeys the order to go northwest, and the blue flag dominates the northeast.

The red flag returned to the south like fire, and the white flag turned to the west.

The Twist Army, together with the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Celestial Army, soon reached 500,000 in numbers.

In the early days of the uprising, Zhang Luoxing, with his personal reputation, attracted many people to join the rebel army.

His birthplace is in Pheasant River Collection.

The area of Pheasant River, located in the northwest of the Huaibei Plain, is sandy land, the frequent floods and droughts are very much, the Qing Dynasty rulers of the exploitation and landlords plunder, the peasants are extremely poor, the vast majority of the peasants are deprived of the land, all year round, most of the days to rely on wild vegetables and yamsoca leaves to satisfy hunger.

To the north of the Pheasant River, there is a river that has almost disappeared from siltation, leaving only a long strip of grass and a small ditch only five feet wide, which is called the chasm.

The chasm is the boundary river of Bozhou and Suzhou, and it is the boundary between the two salt areas of Luyan and Huaiyan.

In the Qing Dynasty, salt was sold by the state.

The country is divided into several salt areas, and the salt in one production area can only be sold in a fixed area, and when it reaches another area, it is considered private salt, and it must be confiscated by the law.

The gap is appropriate for the junction of the two salt areas, the north of the ditch eats reed salt, and the south of the ditch eats Huai salt; Huai salt is expensive and bitter, and reed salt is cheap and good, cheaper than half.

Of course, the people in the Huaiyan area want to eat reed salt, so there are many smuggled salts.

From here, the smuggled salt crossed the blockade line, and once it entered the counties south of the chasm, there was no problem.

Therefore, the Manchu government set up a large number of salt police in the chasm to strictly crack down on smuggling salt.

In this way, the shore of the chasm became a place for smugglers and salt police.

For many years, I don't know how many lives have died. Although the government strictly forbade the illegal use of salt, the peasants had no choice but to take risks because they had no way to live.

The chasm is indeed a place of many disasters.

In the sixteenth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Luoxing was born in Zhang's hometown on the south bank of the chasm.

Seven years before Luo Xing's birth, the White Lotus Sect revolted and failed.

At that time, Yingzhou and Ruzhou in Henan should be recruited as farmers who were brave in their hometowns and disbanded and returned to their hometowns, when they were in the midst of famine, famine and cold, they were deceived by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty and recruited as villagers to fight the White Lotus Sect.

During the war, they gradually raised their awareness of the deception of the Qing rulers, and at the same time, they also trained themselves.

Therefore, after the White Lotus Sect was defeated and disbanded and returned to their hometowns, they organized a secret society called "Twist", so they transformed from "Xiangyong" who helped the Qing rulers into an organization that rebelled against the Qing rulers.

The development of the Twist is very rapid, and three years after the birth of Luo Xing, it is only ten years of wrapping noodles, and it has been "sporadically hidden" from the beginning. incomprehensible to each other", and developed into a large-scale group.

In Yingzhou, Kouzhou, Fengyang, and Nanyang, Ruzhou, Wuzhou, and Chenzhou in the south, it developed into a number of large and small shares, each with its own leader and armed forces, and established prestige among the masses.

At that time, corrupt officials and corrupt officials were like tigers and wolves, and since the people in the Huaihe area had a twisting organization, when they were oppressed by local tyrants and bullies, they no longer went to the yamen to complain. and turned to the Twisted Crowd Organization to seek redress.

"A torn jacket is not as warm as a leather jacket. It's better to ask for an official than to sue for a twist", which has become their common cognition.

After organizing the accusations of the oppressed people in the streets, they will deal with them immediately, so that the weak can be stretched. The strong are suppressed. Grievances were given to those who received the oppression. And beat down the prestige of the local tyrants, bullies and inferior gentry.

In this way, the Twisting Masses organization actually gained the right to rule and govern in the countryside. In Luoxing's early childhood, the prestige of the people in the Huaihe region was already "full of praise and bombardment".

Zhang Luoxing's family. It is a large clan, scattered in eighteen villages near Zhang's hometown, known as "Nine Miles and Eighteen Zhang", and there are thousands of people in the same clan.

Zhang Luoxing's father is called Zhang Weizu, three brothers, the big song Zhang Wenxing, died early, the second Zhang Minxing, and later a famous general who also twisted the yellow flag, Zhang Luoxing is the third.

Zhang Luoxing was born in a landlord family and owned more than 140 acres of land in his father's hands.

Later, his eldest brother succeeded his cousin Zhang Nianzu, and he and his second brother Zhang Minxing divided their families, each with more than 70 acres of land.

After the separation, Minxing bought more than 300 acres of land one after another because his wife's family was rich, built a new house nearby, and moved away.

Only the young Luo Xing stayed in Zhang's hometown.

Zhang Luoxing is tall, with a slightly bent waist, and the Huaibei people call it "hemp waist", and his face is a little white pockmark.

Zhang Luoxing doesn't like to speak, he thinks about problems, and when others speak, he always listens sideways and doesn't express his opinions, but as soon as he turns around, he makes a decision.

When encountering things, he is brave and calm, and his attitude is very calm.

Zhang Luoxing's most prominent character is to be generous and helpful, as long as he asks for help, there is no disagreement, a group of buddies say that he is a well-known good "Baoshi" person, that is, a person who is responsible and dares to be responsible, therefore, everyone trusts him very much.

Zhang Luoxing often gives help to people who are living in difficulty around him, and there is a folk song:

Zhang Laole, can be pretentious,

Send steamed buns from all directions.

Zhang Luoxing is good at fighting grievances. Whenever an outlaw came to his house for refuge, he took refuge and entertained him with hospitality, and the longer he went, the more enthusiastic he became, and if the rumors were urgent, and it was impossible to stay any longer, he would personally escort him out of the country with a generous fare.

Zhang Luo is righteous and wealthy, generous and chivalrous, just like the Zhu family, Guo Jie, Chao Gai and Chai Jin in the Western Han Dynasty. Therefore, Zhang Luoxing was supported by the masses and also by the outlaws from all over the world.

A figure like Zhang Luoxing is exactly what the Twist Organization needs to be a good leader. He also joined the Twist Group in the context of "one village has a twist and one Zhuang An, and one clan has a twist and one family is lucky" in Huaibei at that time, and became the leader of the Twist group in the Pheasant River Collection.

After Zhang Luoxing joined the twist, he relied on this organization to develop his talents, and finally became the leader of the whole twist.

Zhang Luoxing has more money to use, although he has opened a grain store, a grocery store, and a soju workshop in Wuqiaoji, near Pheasant River, but the income is far from enough for him to use.

At that time, the poor peasants in the vicinity of Pheasant River had participated in the smuggling of salt for a long time because of the convenience of living in the area.

At the same time, Zhang's hometown is the main road leading to Yongcheng, Henan, and there are many private salt cars coming and going, and they also take refuge in Zhang Luoxing.

As a result, Zhang Luoxing formed an armed force to protect the transportation of illicit salt.

They used one of the most powerful weapons of the time, the black gun, known as the Eighteen Gunners.

Later it was increased to fifty gunners, one hundred gunners.

Zhang Luoxing naturally became the "salt master" of transporting smuggled salt.

At that time, four-wheeled ox carts were used to sell smuggled salt, each cart loaded with 20 to 30 bags of salt, and the freight was guaranteed for one package.

Since then, Luo Xing has often had a large amount of income to do his cause of righteousness and wealth and benevolence.

In the spring of the second year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he led 18 people to return from the north to transport smuggled salt, passed through Yongcheng County, and drove away more than 100 sheep that a large landlord had placed in the field to graze.

The Yongcheng county magistrate arrested them and put them in prison.

Luo Xing got revenge, he was very angry, and he and Gong Deshu mobilized more than 10,000 people to besiege Yongcheng County. Open the prison and rescue Zhang Decai and others.

At this time. Under the reactionary rule of the Qing Dynasty and the brutal exploitation of the landlord class, the peasants in the Huaibei region were unable to live anymore due to successive years of famine, and the Yellow River broke through Feng County in Jiangsu.

The revolt of the kingdom of heaven met their expectations, and at the same time, it greatly encouraged them, so that the revolt had a deep foundation.

Another leader of the uprising, Gong Deshu, was also a native of Pheasant River, but he was not in the same natural village as Zhang Luoxing, and his birthplace was Mopansong in Miyoshi Temple.

Gong Deshu was born poor. But a little bit of book history.

Therefore. Gong Deshu served as the leader of the White Banner, and he presided over the military affairs of the Twist Army.

Therefore, he became the mastermind of the whole army, and everyone called him Mr. Gong.

Gong Deshu was born with a pair of photophobia. Often squinting during the day. That's why people called him "Gong Blind".

He is resourceful. Good at robbing camps. The first battle after the uprising was the battle to annihilate the Qing Dynasty and the Chong'an army of the general army of Beizhen in Linji.

Chong'an chased Zhang Luoxing from Gongji Temple for four days and nights, and arrived in Linji, Suzhou, on this day. Zhang Luoxing and others hurriedly crossed the Hun River. Hold the bridge over the Hun River.

When Chong'an's troops were exhausted, and he was arrogant and unequipped, Gong Deshu used a plan, and when he was in the third watch, he divided his troops into four ways to rob the camp. When they arrived at the enemy camp, they immediately killed people, surrounded the enemy on all sides and slaughtered them, and Chong'an fled back to Bozhou City with only more than ten people.

The army turned defeat into victory, and reversed the shape of the beating. Tokushu even used camp robbery tactics to destroy the enemy. To this day, there is still a glorious tactic of singing the virtue tree in folk songs.

Gong is blind, not blind, and secretly counts him.

Gong is blind, he is a good man, he can climb the city wall and calculate.

The donkey kicks, the turtle crawls, and the ghosts are all scared to be killed by him.

Gong Deshu is good at adapting to opportunities, winning by surprise, and has excellent strategic thinking.

Two more folk songs sang to him:

The clever Gong is a blind man, and he can compare literature and martial arts to Zhuge Quan.

Zhuge Liang is resourceful, but he can only be literate but not martial, but Deshu can be literate and martial, so he is more complete than Zhuge Liang in the eyes of the people at that time.

Tokushu was not only a military strategist, but also a far-sighted politician. He insisted on joining the Heavenly Army, and he never wavered.

After gaining a firm foothold, the army followed the original plan, pursued all the way, surrounded Bozhou, surrounded the enemy's regiments, prepared for a larger-scale battle, and wiped out all the Manchu troops and regimental training gathered here.

Just when the Pheasant River Gathering Rebel Army was preparing for a big battle, it fought with the Nannanyang Twist Army and the local Manchu forces.

The main figure of the enemy is Gu Jiaxing, the prefect of Nanyang.

The support he received was mainly from two sides, one was Tutana, the general soldier of Nanyang, who led 6,000 green battalion soldiers.

The other is the local gentry, who organized quite a powerful armed force to defend their family, but under the inspiration of Gu Jiaxing, they were effectively organized.

Gu Jiaxing, whether it is his character or his ability to be an official, is outstanding.

He studied hard under his father's teachings since he was a child, and was very appreciated by his father, and once wrote a poem to praise Gu Jiayun: "Sit and call guests to drink in the cold of spring, and lie quietly at night to listen to children read." ”

In the 20th year of Daoguang, Gu Jiaxing passed the Beijing examination, and the fifth Jinshi in the second class of the middle school, and was awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing.

In the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang, he served as the prefect of Nanyang Prefecture in Henan Province for the first time.

When Gu Jiaxing served in Nanyang, he was diligent in government affairs, guided agricultural affairs, developed production, and made things safe for the people. At the same time, he repaired the city and completed the gods, trained soldiers and practiced martial arts, so that the Nanyang people and rabbits were devastated by the war.

Therefore, he was valued by the imperial court, and served as the prefect of Nanyang for five consecutive years, which lasted nearly 20 years.

At that time, the people of Nanyang put him alongside the Zhao Xinchen of the Western Han Dynasty and Du Shi of the Eastern Han Dynasty, two Nanyang Taishou who benefited the government and the people, and was known as the "Summoning Father and Du Mother" of that era.

Gu Jiaxing is good at poetry couplets, and there are many couplets inscribed in the Wuhou Temple in Nanyang.

The literati and writers debated endlessly whether Longzhong was in Zhuyang or Nanyang, especially the literati of Hubei and Henan provinces, all quoted scriptures and classics, and regarded it as glorious to be included in this province.

Although this kind of controversy is an academic issue, it is inevitably mixed with local sentiments.

Gu Jiaxing's nationality belongs to Hubei Yichang, but he is the prefect of Nanyang in the south, he tried his best to overcome public opinion, and waved his pen in the Wuhou Temple to inscribe a couplet: "The heart is in the imperial court, no matter the first lord and then the master;

Its couplet calligraphy is vigorous, the style is charming, and all visitors to the Wuhou Temple are doubly appreciated and praised.

Of course, what is more convincing is his magnanimity.

Gu Jiaxing's fifth term as the prefect of Nanyang expired and he was over sixty years old. Returned to Lili with his family and returned to Hubei Yichang to live.

When I returned home, in addition to the clothes I brought with me, I had a lot of books, antiques and an ancient inkstone.

His wife, Wei, presided over the housework, lived within her means, and was diligent and thrifty. He is very strict with his children and grandchildren. Although it belongs to the family of officials and eunuchs, it has no luxury and luxury, nor is it arrogant and corrupt.

Hence the local people, both squires and commoners. They all have deep support for him.

Especially if he has been an official in a place for 20 years. has always been able to receive the support of the people under his rule, which shows that his character and official style are persistent.

However, he was in the midst of a corrupt environment at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and had to go with the flow many times.

Speaking of his five governors of Nanyang. It's also quite a sigh.

Autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang (1847). Gu Jiaxing was promoted to the prefect of Nanyang from the fourth rank of Hanlin to the seventh rank of Hanlin.

Next year. Because of his mother's illness and death, Ding returned to the house.

In the first year of Xianfeng, he served as the second prefect of Nanyang.

Xianfeng three years of spring. Gu Jiaxing's father Gu Huai died of illness, and Gu Jiaxing returned to the house.

At that time, it happened that the Twist Army came from the north, and the soldiers reported urgently, and Gu Jiaxing was ordered by the Qing government to return to his post, which was for Gu San's Nanyang prefect. Since then, Gu Jiaxing has served as the prefect of Nanyang for the fourth time.

Regarding Gu Jiaxing's fifth term as the prefect of Nanyang, there is a typical case among the common people that can reflect the corruption of feudal society and the sinister officialdom.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty government implemented the system of donating officials, that is, the government exchanged officials for money and openly sold officials.

Although the Qing government used "donation" as the name, it actually sold it, and the officials of various prefectures and counties were salesmen for donating officials.

"Donating officials", also known as donations, is a way to allow people to donate money and goods to the state to obtain knighthoods and official positions in order to make up for financial difficulties in feudal society.

As a result of the rampant donations, officials are corrupt, bribery is commonplace, and corruption is rampant.

The so-called "three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", to buy a prefect of the county to die six taels of silver, but his salary is only sixty taels of silver.

In order to get back the money from the "donors", the officials concerned will often choose to accept bribes, just to get back the capital, but they have no intention of doing anything.

As soon as the rule of officials was bad, thieves were everywhere, and social problems of strict government appeared.

By the Qing Dynasty, this trend was at its peak, and many of the officials were donors.

The donation system was a very important system in the Qing Dynasty, and it complemented the imperial examination system, with some people becoming officials through the imperial examination and some people becoming officials through the donation system.

There are no restrictions on those who buy officials, not to mention landlords and merchants, even hooligans and thieves.

According to the donation system, the people can not only donate officials, but also donate canons, false titles, and the treatment of wearing official uniforms.

The bigger problem is not to donate a rank to enter the officialdom or enjoy the treatment of officials, but to donate for the change of office.

Gu Jiaxing encountered this problem.

If he still wants to do it, he needs to compete with them like businessmen, even ruffians and hooligans, to find a way, and donate money to buy officials.

There was no way, at that time, Gu Jiaxing went to Dengzhou as a "donor", and stayed at Mabuqu's house in Dongdong on the way, hoping to get help from old friends.

Ma Buqu was the son of Ma Dianjia, the champion of Xinwei Kewu in the sixteenth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty and the governor of Guangxi.

On weekdays, Ma Buqu and Gu Jiaxin have a very good relationship, and at this time, Gu Jiaxing will explain and entrust Ma to raise funds to "donate officials", and agree on the sharing method.

Because Ma's father is a martial champion, and his grandfather is Wu Hanlin, he has always attached importance to Kedi and is very disgusted with the matter of "donating officials", so Ma Buqu immediately declined Gu's entrustment, and said angrily: "I, Ma, will never do such a thing that insults my ancestors." ”

Gu Jiaxuan was a very arrogant person who thought highly of himself, and he was humiliated by this, so he brushed his sleeves away.

As soon as Gu arrived in Dengzhou, he instructed the state official Yang to weave a horse to Buqu for a crime to vent his anger.

But Ma is more popular in the local area, and there is no enemy, so the official had to buy a family to sue Ma, and Yang immediately accepted it, intending to bully Ma Buqu and vent his anger for Gu Jiaxing.

Yang invited Ma to the state government with a prayer post, revealing that someone had accused him, and persuaded Ma Buqu to go to the government office in person for help.

Ma Buqu changed color after hearing this, and immediately took a sedan chair to Nanyang, and after staying in the hostel, he presented a plea to the government office.

After Gu Jiaxing approved the complaint, Ma Buqu took down the approval document and immediately drove into Beijing to accuse Gu Jiaxing of being framed by the officials. At that time, the secretary was the brother of Ma Dianjia in the same year, that is, Ma Buqu's uncle.

The Qing Dynasty society was the most important friendship, and Ma Buqu did not hesitate to buy it up. Soon, the officials removed Gu Jiaxing from his post as the prefect of Nanyang.

Ma Buqu and the new prefect went to Wan in the same car. In this way, he declared his victory over Gu Jiaxing and avenged his humiliation.

However, Gu Jiaxing did not stop there, he immediately returned to his hometown to make some silver taels, and regained the position of Nanyang prefect, which was Gu's fifth appointment as Nanyang prefect.

However, in order to meet Gu Jiaxing, Ma Buqu soon drove into Beijing again, this time he almost scattered all the silver in his family, and finally removed Gu from the post of Nanyang prefect again.

It can be seen that no matter how good his personal qualities are. He is not exempt from vulgarity. And in order to vent his anger, he tried to suppress those who resisted him.

Gu Jiaxing admired Zhuge Liang's personality very much, and admired him very much for cultivating Wollongong back then, so he rebuilt the Wuhou Temple.

He personally presided over the restoration. The high platform hall was renovated. The high-rise buildings are made of masonry. And build the dragon horn tower in the south of the ancestral hall.

He also paid attention to enriching the cultural connotation of the Wuhou Temple, and once engraved four articles in the "Zhuge Liang Anthology" that can reflect Zhuge Liang's self-governing country, such as "General Kindness" and "Military Power", and made a number of nostalgic poems.

Plus he loves calligraphy. So far, the plaque of Wuhou Temple written by him has four sides, there are six couplets, and there are more than a dozen stone carvings of inscriptions.

Nanyang set up a mansion in the Yuan Dynasty, and all dynasties have repaired, and Gu Jiaxing's predecessor Yue Xing'a had overhauled it in the spring of the 27th year of Daoguang, so that all kinds of ruins were destroyed.

However, in the first year of Xianfeng, many buildings in the government were destroyed and destroyed, so Gu Jiaxing carried out a certain scale of repair and reconstruction. At the same time, he also built many buildings around the backyard and inner house of the government office, and personally inscribed his name.

In any case, Gu Jiaxing was indeed a capable official at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After he was promoted to the prefect of Nanyang, the first thing he paid attention to was to appease the people and seriously try the backlog of cases.

In the first few months of being the prefect, Gu Jiaxing only cleared up more than 300 backlogs, and paid attention to rectifying social order, stabilizing the social order in Nanyang at that time, which was well received by the people.

Gu Jiaxing also attached great importance to military affairs, especially the city fortifications of Nanyang.

On the one hand, Gu paid close attention to organizing group exercises, and on the other hand, he built the immersed Nanyang City.

Gu Jiaxing's construction of Nanyang City this time is unprecedented, the city is two feet high, and the north and south moon city gates can go directly to the main gate.

Gu Jiaxing also added a stone carved banner above the main gate and the Yuecheng Gate, and in the middle of the arch ticket.

Outside the east gate, it is said that "the Central Plains Chongyao", and inside it is called "Chu Yu Xiongfan".

Outside the west gate, it is said that "control zhì Qin Pass", and inside it is called "Lu Cheng Zhaofeng".

Outside the south gate, it is called "car guide", and inside it is called "Jingxiang upstream".

Outside the north gate, it is called "Star Arch Shenjing", and inside it is called "Yuanshuo Purple Spirit".

In this way, he reflected the importance of Nanyang's geographical location and strategic position.

Since it was so important, he vowed not to let Nanyang be lost from his hands.

When he adopted the strategy, he shrank all the Manchu troops into Nanyang, and in addition to the 6,000 Green Battalion soldiers directly led by Tutana, the general soldier of Nanyang, he gathered another 4,000 Qing soldiers.

A total of 10,000 Qing soldiers, all of whom retreated into Nanyang City.

But these soldiers are far from enough to defend the city, Gu Jiayu sighed, and said to Tutana: "Brother, you are in charge of the north gate! You must hold it until the reinforcements arrive! I hope they can come!"

He had already sent a letter of help to the Manchu admiral stationed in Zhengzhou.

For the remaining three gates, Gu Jiaxing had to entrust them to the local clan.

Ximen, there is the Jiang clan in charge.

The Jiang family is the descendant of Jiang Taigongzi of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the modern patriarch Jiang Jizhou is resourceful and in the prime of life.

His entire family has more than 100,000 households, and there are 400,000 men from 15 to 65!

Jiang Jizhou took out the strongest 100,000 men and went to the first Ximen.

With Jiang Jizhou's resourcefulness, he will not honestly defend the West Gate.

In fact, the arrangements have been made, just wait for the twisting army to arrive, and give them some color to see.

He already knew from the intelligence he had gathered that the riot of the Twisted Army was also on the spot.

I heard from the old prefect that they not only have local twists, but also many foreign ones!

Not only from outside, but also with a large number of reinforcements, it is said that they are the heavenly army from the south!

What is their strength, I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I heard that it is very powerful!

Even if he hadn't heard of them, Jiang Jizhou regarded them as fierce rivals.

It's not that the Raptors don't have a river, not to mention that they have crossed more than one river.

Not to mention, even their names are powerful enough! Heavenly Army! That must be very powerful, otherwise, if you dare to call such a name against the sky, you will have been wiped out by others a long time ago!

It's useless to think too much about anything else, he is now bent on being the first to give his own Ximen, and let all the Jiang family members mobilize the whole people, except for the 100,000 on the front line, the rest of the people are always ready to protect their families.

He is more assured of his family's strength, and his trust in the Zhuge family and the Erzhang family is basically the same, those families have their own heritage.

What he was most worried about was the officers and soldiers at the North Gate.

Their problem is not only that there are few people, but that their combat effectiveness is not good!

It's a pity that these professional soldiers are far inferior to the family soldiers of these big families, in fact, their title is regimental training.

Therefore, he specially prepared 20,000 troops and arranged them in the north, of which 10,000 were ready to go to support the Qing army.

The other 10,000 people formed a defensive line to prevent the enemy from rushing into the Jiang family's residential area from there.

In fact, what Jiang Jizhou really guarded against were those officers and soldiers who fled.

Jiang Jizhou secretly instructed the children in charge of the defense line that if any officers and soldiers fled, and wanted to enter the residential area, they would be killed!

The defense of the south gate, Gu Jiaxing entrusted it to the two Zhang families, who are the descendants of Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Heng.

These two Zhang families, although each family is not as powerful as the Jiang family, but together, they are much larger than the Jiang family.

The south gate will deal with those twisted army and the heavenly army from the south, and the defense task is heavy, so let the two Zhang two families work together to defend.

There is another reason, these two have their own characteristics, and together they can better play to their respective strengths, and they can also provide protection for each other.

Zhang Zhongjing's descendants, of course, most of the main family members, are highly skilled in medicine, but there is also a side branch dedicated to the study of how to use poison to detoxify, so that he has found a unique way in the use of poison and has become a feared expert in the use of drugs.

(To be continued......)