I don't know when Su Shun will be able to come over, and he can't just go back to Nanyuan, Han Xiufeng simply ate a few pieces of dim sum, walked out of the flower hall and sat in the pavilion in the small courtyard, while admiring the garden under the moonlight, while recalling everything he had done over the years.

The big head didn't dare to gnaw, so he sat on the stone bench and waited honestly. As a result, after waiting and waiting, he fell asleep on the stone table, snoring like thunder, and even vaguely saw a large amount of saliva.

Looking at the appearance of the big head sleeping soundly, and then thinking that he is always worried about this and afraid of that, saying that the good point is "plan and then act" or "do not say victory and defeat first", and the bad point is "afraid of the wolf and the tiger later", when encountered, he is always afraid of hands and feet, and does not dare to make decisions easily, Han Xiufeng suddenly realized that he has been very shrewd in small things in the past few years, but he is very confused in big things!

If you just want to make a contribution, you can lead the Eastern Sichuan Regiment to enter Guizhou to suppress the bandits and quell the chaos when you are worried in your hometown, or when you are outside Wuchang City, you can persuade Hu Linyi to stay in Hubei to serve.

It is not so difficult to suppress those bandits in Guizhou and the long hair of Huguang and Liangjiang, as long as the food and salary can be paid, as long as the food and salary can be steady, don't rush forward, fight a few victories well, recover a few cities, and it is not impossible to take charge of the situation like Hu Linyi and Zeng Guofan.

As a result, I missed the opportunity to return to Beijing again and again, at that time I always felt that Xiyi was more important than long hair, and it seemed that only I could do it by myself, looking back, it was not the case, in the final analysis, I still remembered the prosperity of the Beijing Division, or wanted to be closer to the emperor.

As for the things in front of me, they are not as bad as I thought before.

At least the emperor and Prince Zheng, Prince Hui, Su Shun, Seng Lingqin, Gui Liang and Huang Zonghan and other princes and ministers have made up their minds to fight the foreigners, and have discussed a basically feasible countermeasure, no longer taking the foreigners seriously as before, and no longer "fighting and uncertain" as before.

Hit it!

As for the future, everything will be said after the fight!

To put it mildly, this country has long been riddled with holes, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be?

Thinking of this, Han Xiufeng's mood was much better, and even his mind seemed to have become broader.

Just when he was wondering whether Huang Zonghan could hold back the foreigner and how many soldiers the foreigner would bring when he came to change the contract next year, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

"Xiufeng meets the adults, it's so late, why haven't the adults gone back to rest?"

"Don't be so outside, don't you have no rest, keep you waiting for a long time." Su Shun saw that the big head was sleeping so dead, so he simply pointed to the flower hall: "Let's go, let's go in and talk." ”

"Your Excellency, please."

followed Su Shun into the flower hall, and as soon as he sat down with Su Shun, Su Shun looked at the excerpts on the case and asked, "Zhixing, have you seen all of this?" ”

"Your Excellency, I've seen it all."

"What do you think?"

Han Xiufeng arched his hand towards the excerpt with the emperor's imperial approval and said, "The emperor is sage." ”

Su Shun didn't expect him to do this, and couldn't help but laugh and scold: "Zhixing, you learned this from Peng Hulu, right?" ”

"My lord misunderstood, Xiufeng's words came from the bottom of my heart."

"I thought you'd think it's wrong to just go to war."

"To tell you the truth, when I just finished reading the excerpt, Xiufeng really felt that it was not appropriate to start fighting like this. But if you think about it, if you don't start fighting now, when will you have to wait? And as long as you start fighting, people will die, you will spend money and food, and as long as you fight, there is nothing proper. So since this battle can't be avoided, it's better to fight early that night. ”

"This is reasonable, the Yi people have bullied us, and they want to send envoys to Beijing, and they will let the soldiers pay for the soldiers, which is unbearable!" Su Shun clenched his fists tightly, and continued: "The gunboats that broke into Tianjin Haikou have returned south one after another, and according to Gui Liangzuo, only a few damaged ones are being repaired, and they will leave when they are repaired." When they all return to Guangdong, Huang Zonghan will supervise the regiment to train their strength to attack and suppress, even if they can't recover Guangzhou for a while, they will be dragged to the death, so that they can't get out and go north. ”

Han Xiufeng didn't think that the group training convened by Huang Zonghan could win, but he thought that it would be good to kill a few foreigners, kill a few here, kill a few there, add up to a lot, foreigners can't stand it, maybe they can really hurt foreigners, so he asked curiously: "My lord summoned Xiufeng here, do you plan to let Xiufeng go to Guangdong to serve?" ”

"Zhixing, Ming people don't say secret words, I really thought about asking the emperor to let you go to Guangdong, but I want you to go to Tianjin."

"It's okay to go to Tianjin."

"Don't rush to say yes yet, I haven't finished yet." Su Shun smiled, and continued: "I wanted to ask the emperor to let you go to Tianjin to replace Chonghou as the Changlu salt transport envoy, but I thought that it was not suitable for you to let such a third-grade Fengchen Yuanqing be the salt envoy from the third grade, so I asked the emperor to let you be directly subordinate to the political envoy, or to assist in military affairs with the rank of political envoy. ”

Han Xiufeng subconsciously asked, "Is the emperor gracious?" ”

"The emperor neither allowed nor dismissed it, but asked me to talk to you first."

"What are you talking about?"

"Talk about this," Su Shun pointed to the secret folds and secret instructions on the case again, and then changed the conversation: "At the beginning, I was also confused, and I couldn't understand what the emperor meant. Later, after listening to what the emperor said, I understood the emperor's good intentions. ”

"Dare to ask your lordship, what does the emperor mean?" Han Xiufeng asked.

"The emperor said that when you returned to Beijing from Hubei a year ago, he asked you some rumors about Hu Linyi, and you seemed to mention some things when Changmao just invaded Hunan. said that the reason why the foreigners were able to succeed easily this time was that the foreigners were arrogant and unreasonable, saying that they would start a war, and they caught Tan Tingxiang and others off guard; Second, because he had never thought of starting a war with foreigners before, he first ordered Tan Tingxiang and others to go to Tianjin, and then ordered Guiliang and Hua Shana to go to Tianjin. ”

Looking at Han Xiufeng's thoughtful appearance, Su Shun said again: "Monk Lingqin is good anywhere, but he is a little stubborn and self-serving, if he just lets you go to Tianjin, he may not be able to listen to your words, let alone help with military affairs." It's better not to go than just go and not be able to work together. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Aren't you dredging the river in Nanyuan and renovating the Haizi in Nanyuan? It is rare to dredge and remediate once, so it is natural to purchase some materials. Therefore, I plan to ask the emperor to let you go to Tianjin several times in the name of procuring materials, and see on the spot how the forts on both sides of the Dagu Pass are being built, how the military training is, and how the various anti-blockade measures are handled. If there is any shortcoming, the emperor will call him back to Beijing, and it is appropriate to give him a face-to-face lecture. He couldn't listen to other people's words, and he didn't dare not listen to the emperor's words. ”

"Okay, Xiufeng is at the mercy of your lord."

"Zhixing, I don't know about military affairs, and I don't know much about Monk Greenqin, Tianjin Haikou can only rely on you for blockage matters."

"What are you talking about, my lord, Xiufeng is deeply gracious, and he should have served the court and shared his worries for the emperor."

Su Shun nodded with satisfaction, and then changed the conversation: "Then the emperor kindly approved the request of Bai Gui, the governor of Guangdong, this afternoon, and allowed him to return to Beijing to recuperate, and ordered the political envoy Bi Chengzhao to serve as the governor of Guangdong. ”

Han Xiufeng muttered: "Bi Chengzhao, is the former Anhui envoy who went to Guangdong with Lord Huang to handle razing affairs?" ”

"Yes, that's him." Su Shun looked back at the big head who had just woken up and was standing at the door rubbing his eyes, and then said: "In addition, the emperor also issued an edict to dismiss Jiang Guolin and hand him over to Huang Zonghan for interrogation. ”

"What's wrong with Jiang Guolin?"

"When the foreigner entered the city, he lost the silver in the treasury, and he was already to blame. Last month, he went so far as to abandon the unfinished military affairs and leave the province without authorization in the name of preparing for the suppression of military affairs in Xijiang. According to Luo Xuanyan and others, he not only led the officials to meet with the Yi people on the New Day of each month, and was bound by it. He also went to Huaxian County to ask the gentry to suspend the siege, claiming that foreigners could not be offended, and he was really called a vegetarian and greedy, the first rat at both ends! ”

Han Xiufeng couldn't hear the meaning of Su Shun's words, and hurriedly said: "My lord doesn't know, although he and I are fellow villagers in Sichuan, we have never met him, and I have no friendship. ”

"That's fine, otherwise I don't know how to explain it to you if you ask me."

"I'll just help Qingxian and his Ama ask for a favor, okay?"

"You dare to help you even ask for Qiying's love, can I not worry that you will help Jiang Guolin intercede?" Su Shun asked rhetorically, then stared at Han Xiufeng and said: "Zhixing, I know that you have some friendship with Qingxian for a few years, but you really have no place to be sorry for him, besides, you have sheltered him for so many years, and you are still protecting him, if it weren't for you, he would have been sent to the military station to fill the drudgery!" ”

"My lord, let's not talk about this, okay?"

"Okay, okay, don't talk about this, the matter of going to Tianjin is so decided, you won't see the emperor today, you will stay here at night, and you will hand over the sign to see you tomorrow morning."

"You should go back and rest sooner."

"It's been a busy day, it's time to go back."

"Xiufeng sends off my lord."