"Fourth uncle, there must be someone in our door who has revealed a lot of our affairs to the East King. Otherwise, how would the East King know how many weapons we have. Wei Changrong and Wei Ze were discussing the most confidential topics in the office. Wei Changrong gritted his teeth when he spoke, and there was great resentment in his expression. If the informant is caught now, Wei Changrong is only afraid that he can kill that guy with his own hands.

Wei Ze looked at Wei Changrong's indignant appearance, and couldn't help but sympathize with the young man's straightforwardness in his heart. Moreover, Wei Changrong and Wei Ze are called uncles and nephews, and they are actually good brothers and close comrades-in-arms in the trenches. Because of this relationship, Wei Ze looked at Wei Changrong's annoyed appearance, and he even felt that Wei Changrong was so angry, which helped Wei Ze relieve the resentment in his heart.

The resentment was relieved, and reason prevailed here in Wees. stood up and patted Wei Changrong on the shoulder, Wei Ze let Changrong sit down, and Wei Ze also sat down, and then said: "Changrong, don't worry, listen to me slowly." ”

Wei Changrong saw that Wei Ze was so calm, and he also felt that he had a backbone in his heart, he concentrated his attention and asked seriously: "Fourth uncle, what do you want to say?" ”

"Changrong, why did the two of us join the Taiping Army back then?" Weeser asked.

"This ......," Wei Changrong groaned. Although it has been less than three years since the two joined the Taiping Army, they have experienced so many things and so many changes during this time, Wei Changrong suddenly can't remember what happened more than two years ago. After thinking carefully for a while, Wei Changrong said: "At that time, we had just fought with the Tujia, and you and I had killed many people. There's a reward of five hundred taels of silver for our heads. We think that Wu Changgui of the Hakka family is only afraid that he wants to be unfavorable to us, but he can't kill him. I happened to meet the worship of God to recruit troops, so let's say that we will worship God first. ”

After finishing speaking, Wei Changrong frowned and thought about it again, and said, "I remember that it was like this." ”

Weser nodded, "I remember it was pretty much the same. Then, we discussed at that time, saying that we were going to rebel, and we couldn't do this anymore. After we overthrow the government, we don't have to be angry, we can say whatever we say. Do you remember? ”

Hearing Wei Ze mention these old things, Wei Changrong's old memories immediately recovered, and he patted the table and said, "Fourth uncle, at that time, you still said that we were the government ourselves, so we were not afraid of anything!" Do you remember? ”

Wei Ze also smiled: "Of course I remember!" ”

Wei Changrong said with a nostalgic expression: "Fourth uncle, although you are younger than me, you can speak to my heart at any time." At that time, we killed too many people, had too many enemies, and we were scared in our hearts! How many people want our lives, and how many people go to the government to sue us. At that time, as soon as you said that it would be good if we were the government, I felt in my heart that what you said was so right! Now that we're in the government, we don't have to be afraid of anything! ”

Seeing Wei Changrong on the road, Wei Ze continued: "That's right! The purpose of joining the Taiping Army is to rebel and overthrow the Manchus! I don't think the king of heaven is a person who can do things, Changrong, you still remember when we highlighted Yong'an, the king of heaven asked us for hundreds of sets of clothes and hats, so that our brothers were drenched in the rain, and his guards and wives who did not fight, as well as those coachmen, did not need to be drenched in the rain. Do you remember? ”

"Hmmm! I remember! Wei Changrong nodded and replied, "Fourth uncle, I see that your face is ugly, and I didn't dare to say anything at that time!" ”

Wei Ze also nodded and said, "Before that time, I thought that the East King could be relied on. At that time, I was even more convinced that the East King was reliable. ”

After thinking for a while, Wei Changrong said in a low voice: "But the East King is saying something ugly to us now, what is the difference between him and the Heavenly King at that time?" ”

Seeing that Wei Changrong also calmed down, Wei Ze said, "Changrong, don't think like that first. You think the way I want to. Expelle the Tatars and restore China! This is my sincere thought, and my fundamental purpose is to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Every qiē I did was to expel the Tatars and restore China. If it's for this purpose, then do you think I should follow Dongwang? ”

Wei Changrong first frowned and thought, and after thinking for a while, his brows relaxed. After thinking for a while, that resentful look disappeared from Wei Changrong's face, and he sighed and said, "In order to expel the Tartars and restore China." We can only participate in the Taiping Army, and after joining the Taiping Army, we can only follow the East King! ”

"That's right! That's it! Weeser said in a firm tone.

As early as the original era, the reason why Wei Ze chose to stay in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was because he knew that the anti-Qing cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had gone from Guangxi to Nanjing. And the reason why Wei Ze chose to defect to Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, was because Yang Xiuqing did show the ability to lead the Taiping army to continuous victories. Moreover, compared with Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing's level of understanding and views on politics are more in line with Wei Ze's attitude.

It is precisely on the basis of the anti-Qing point that Wei Ze will be loyal to Yang Xiuqing. Now Wei Ze has decided to change his own thinking, not because the anti-Qing foundation has been broken, but because of the conflict of interests between Wei Ze and Yang Xiuqing. Although Wei Ze did not agree with Yang Xiuqing's practice of weakening Wei Ze's strength, this was a conflict of interests based on cooperation, and this more superficial conflict of interest could not be used as a reason to deny the anti-Qing cooperation basis.

Even if he was no longer willing to be loyal to Yang Xiuqing himself, Wei Ze still felt that he must unswervingly cooperate with Yang Xiuqing in the matter of opposing the Qing Dynasty. At least Yang Xiuqing annexed Wei Ze's subordinates and deprived Wei Ze of the Anhui he occupied, still for the purpose of fighting the Manchus. Wei Ze still appreciated Yang Xiuqing's actions in expelling the Qing army from the Jiangnan camp.

"Changrong! You remember one thing for me! Now some of our brothers have sent a message to Dongwang, in fact, I am not afraid of these people doing this. As long as these people do this, they can help to fight the Manchus. We kill the Qing Demon, and the East King kills the Qing Demon, all of which are killing the Qing Demon. There's no need to worry about you killing me. Wei Ze said to Wei Changrong.

Although Wei Changrong still couldn't accept it, he didn't resist it so much after hearing this.

Weeser continued: "A lot of brothers are unhappy now, and that's because their hearts are on me. They feel that I have suffered a loss, and if I have suffered a loss, they will also suffer! Isn't that normal? I'm glad to have such a good brother! It's really sweet! However, we can just know these things, but we can't because we suffer a little loss, then we won't expel the Tartars and restore China! The Tatars must be expelled, and China must be restored! We can't just because we suffer a little loss for the time being, so we don't expel the Tartars, but get entangled with our own family first. That's the end of the day! ”

Wei Ze's high-profile is also the real truth, Wei Changrong has gradually lost the anger of Fang Cai, it is completely based on grievances, and its basis is still loyal to Yang Xiuqing. Wei Changrong believed that he was loyal to Yang Xiuqing, and Yang Xiuqing did not give this loyalty enough in return.

After the rebellion of Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao, he said: Your generation is greedy for wealth and wealth, and you have forcibly appointed me as the Son of Heaven, and you can order from me, otherwise, I can't be the Lord! These words are about the obedience of his subordinates, and Zhao Kuangyin made it clear that he demanded absolute obedience from his subordinates. And Yang Xiuqing's request was the same as Zhao Kuangyin's, he asked his loyal subordinates to take out real things from their pockets to fulfill their oath of allegiance to Yang Xiuqing. This was understandable, and then the brothers under Weezer blew up.

This kind of stab can only show that Wei Changrong is still subconsciously loyal to the East King, so Wei Changrong thinks that Yang Xiuqing has to give Wei Changrong an equal reward according to his judgment of the world. And Wei Ze is not so naïve, after he easily decided to change his previous policy of loyalty to the East King, Wei Ze no longer has the emotional factor for Yang Xiuqing, and now he can just look at the problem calmly without any emotion.

Of course, in Wei Ze's view, changing the policy of loyalty to the East King does not mean that he will have to deal with the East King, and it does not mean that he will start to investigate the elements who are not loyal to Wei Ze internally. The main contradiction at the moment is the unending relationship with the Manchus, and based on this, Wei Ze must use the perspective of the united front to solve the current situation.

Just when Wei Ze was constantly straightening out his feelings, Wei Changrong said with a little grievance: "Fourth uncle, we have nothing now, how can we fight the demons?" ”

"Nothing? Hahaha!! Wei Ze was amused by Wei Changrong's words.

Seeing Wei Ze smiling happily, Wei Changrong didn't understand what was going on at all. He could only look at Wei Ze with a double aggrieved expression.

After laughing for a while, Wei Ze reluctantly stopped, "Changrong, you can't talk nonsense with your eyes open." When we first joined the Taiping Army, what else did the two of us have besides one person and one gun? Now we have 30,000 soldiers and horses in our hands, and 15,000 men from three armies on the way to Zhenjiang. When the three armies arrived in Zhenjiang, we had nine armies and 45,000 men. The king of the east also told me that if we conquer Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he doesn't want us to pay for grain. We just need to take care of our own food and grass. There are nine armies with strong soldiers and horses, and there is Zhenjiang, and you actually told me that we have nothing! Changrong, you ...... You can't talk nonsense with your eyes open! ”

"But our Anhui ......," Wei Changrong also tried to defend himself.

Wei Ze waved his hand, "Okay, okay!" Don't be hard-mouthed! Do you really like Anhui? After you arrived in Yangzhou, you praised the state for being good, I see what you mean, if you can not go back to Anhui, you don't want to go back at all. Do you think of Anhui again now? ”

Wei Changrong had already accepted Wei Ze's idea at this time, and his resistance was greatly reduced, and he knew that Wei Ze had made up his mind, so he could only resist weakly: "Isn't that Anhui and Yangzhou, I want to get it!" ”

"Changrong, these more than 40,000 old brothers, these tens of thousands of guns ......," Wei Ze said.

"There are more than 40,000 people, and there are 10,000 women's camps! You have to pay 20,000 guns in tribute! Wei Changrong found a reason to refute Wei Ze and immediately fought back.

Wei Ze didn't care about him either, "Okay, those 30,000 brothers are all accumulated by us." As long as there are these old brothers, we can have a better place than Anhui! If you save people and lose land, you will gain all people. If you lose your land, you will lose your land! That's the fundamentals! ”

Wei Changrong sighed after a long while, "Fourth uncle, if we defeat Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the king of the east will do it again." What should we do? ”

Wei Ze got up and patted Wei Changrong on the shoulder, "Changrong, don't worry." I'm still measured. I'm not going to let our brothers suffer. However, in the whole army, you have to be with me first, I don't care, and you can't care! If you don't have the same heart as me, who will I talk to? Who do I talk to, people can say with one mouth, how can Wei Changrong be? You've got to be with me first! You have to follow me to expel the Tatars and restore China! Do you understand? ”

Wei Changrong saw Wei Ze's attitude so resolute, he scratched his ears and cheeks for a long time, and finally got up and said seriously to Wei Ze: "Fourth uncle! I'll follow you, you can't let us work so hard and then have no results! ”

Wei Ze replied: "You can rest assured of this!" We now have more than 40,000 people, isn't that the result? We'll have more results in the future! We must broaden our horizons and understand the truth of expelling the Tatars and restoring China! ”

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