Until now, Hu Linyi hadn't completely reacted, and said unconsciously in his mouth: "It's okay...... No, there's something ...... do."

For Hu Linyi's appearance here, Nanbo Hang can be said to be the most hated person, every time Hu Linyi appears, he will take away part of the military's power afterwards, so he said directly: "Is there something wrong or is it okay?" Your Excellency, I am very sorry to inform you that the proposal to request the restoration of civil administration in the whole province of Henan has been rejected after our communication with Your Majesty. ”

Hu Linyi didn't expect to be bombarded by Nan Bo Hang, he even knew the meaning of Nan Bo Hang's words, so he was not polite: "Whether Henan will continue military control, this is a question that Your Majesty needs to think about!"

"Your Majesty has ......"

Liu Chang now has to make a statement: "Stop, stop, stop!" I still have that opinion, until there is no reply to the situation in Henan, I do not advocate the end of military control between Shandong and Henan. ”

His words seemed to support Nanbo Airlines, but Hu Linyi realized a more far-reaching meaning, and Liu Chang was supporting him - as long as the situation resumed, the two extremely important provinces of Henan and Shandong could stop controlling and leave the political affairs hall completely responsible.

Therefore, he had to affirm: "I came to Your Majesty for the issue of Shandong and Henan, and I have a suggestion to communicate with Your Majesty." ”

"You?" Liu Chang couldn't believe his ears: "Runzhigong? ”

Although he said that he gave Hu Linyi the privilege of meeting Hou Jin at any time, and even said cruelly: "Even if I am in bed, as long as the prime minister sees Jin, he will drag me up", but Hu Linyi has not exercised this privilege for a year.

In fact, there was not even a single open and honest negotiation between the two most powerful men in the empire, the emperor and the prime minister, but because Hu Linyi was a general. I know my position, so I have been working together quite happily until now.

Now Hu Linyi proposed to communicate with Liu Chang for the first time, and Liu Chang had to pay attention to what he meant: "Okay! We can have a good talk!"

Nan Bohang was a little anxious, he didn't know what Hu Linyi was hiding in his stomach, and even regretted that he had spoken too fast just now: "Your Majesty, I'm about to have dinner with all of you!"

"It's okay, since the prime minister is here, let's have dinner together! Inform the wissies. It's time to eat!"

For his subordinates, it was a great privilege to participate in the emperor's family banquet, and now Hu Linyi enjoys such special treatment.

There is a total of one table of people, in addition to him and Liu Chang, there are seven concubines eating at the same table, in addition. There was also a table of the same meal next to it, which was a few substitute concubines, because of the arrival of Hu Linyi, which caused an unfortunate concubine to be demoted to this table.

Hu Linyi saw the showmanship of this table, a stunning beauty, and his heart was a little drunk, although the aesthetic views were a little different, but he had to admit that this Liu Jiehu would really enjoy life.

Beauty is like jade. He remembered the romantic life when he was a teenager, but at that time, the Qinlou Chu Pavilion was not as beautiful as the world that Liu Chang had created with all his heart, not to mention that he had been unable to do it in the past few years.

"This is Mr. Hu Linyi Hu Runzhi, our Prime Minister, presiding over the political affairs hall, you have all met Premier Hu......"

Liu Chang casually introduced Hu Linyi, and this group of jade people all got up and saluted Hu Linyi, but they never introduced their identities. Hu Linyi only knew half of them. Among them, there are Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei, who were the first to follow Liu Juehu, and Ye Niangniang, who gave birth to a pair of twins for him. and Zhang Lexing's little wife, Du Jinchan, are all influential figures in Liu Chang's harem.

It's just that in this family banquet, there is also a handsome and handsome Zhou Xiuying, and Liu Chang also introduced: "Commander Zhou, you all know each other." ”

The meals are ordinary, they are all home-cooked dishes, but they are superior to the food materials, and the chef is very attentive, although Hu Linyi is a native of Hunan, he is not used to the sweetness and softness of Hangzhou dishes, but he can barely eat: "Your Majesty is usually very simple and ......."

"It's very comfortable!" Liu Chang sandwiched a piece of braised pork by himself and took a bite beautifully: "It's better than the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, I can't even eat a hot dish or a hot meal!"

The food in the backyard of the palace of the Qing Dynasty, even Hu Linyi knew that he could not enter the food just because of his reputation, not to mention that the chefs were hereditary, and they could only eat at least three bites of each dish, and they had to try it in advance.

Liu Chang came out of the grassland, but he has this advantage: "Hu Gong, eat, you came in a hurry today, otherwise I will get you a Hunan dish, although we don't have a chef in this area in the palace, but it's no problem to find someone to buy a few kinds of hemp and human food!"

Yang Changmei next to her added: "A small half of it is bought directly from the market." ”

Hu Linyi shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I have good intentions, but although we in Hunan eat spicy, we can't eat hemp, it's numb and spicy, it's Sichuan cuisine, not Hunan cuisine!"

"Good!" Liu Chang is also very chic: "I said it wrong, a few concubines made a note for me, Runzhigong eats spicy food, and he can't eat hemp!"

Hu Linyi was very moved, Emperor Daoguang was close to his courtiers, that is, this kind of bearing, he immediately said: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Liu Chang took two more meals and drank a big mouthful of soup before asking Hu Linyi's intention: "Hu Xiang, it is the first time that you and I have been a monarch and minister for a lifetime, and we have sat together to eat and talk about things, so I don't say any more nonsense, if you have any ideas, just say it directly!"

Now Hu Linyi doesn't know how to say it, he understands the meaning of Li Hongzhang's words, this Liu Juehu doesn't look at the usual people as just a Chinese person, but when it comes to really doing things, it is definitely not simple: "Your Majesty, there is nothing else, I just want to ......"

He paused for a while before he thought of how to organize the language: "It is the White Lotus Sect ...... in Henan and Shandong."

"It's not the White Lotus Sect!" Liu Chang corrected: "It should be the Bagua Sect, especially the Hexagram Sect." ”

There is a Qing generation, the Qing Dynasty government for these tricks of underground sects are generally called "White Lotus Sect", for its origin, theoretical basis and many other details have not been clear, but this is not the case, the orthodox sense of the White Lotus Sect, to the middle of the Ming Dynasty has been completely extinct, there is a Qing generation of sects are generally and Luo Sect, Bagua Sect, Wenxiang Sect and other late Ming sects have a profound relationship, the belief is the birthless mother, vacuum hometown, Longhua three degrees and other teachings. It is far from the White Lotus Sect, which believes in the Pure Land of Mida.

Now the main force to launch a rebellion in Henan and Shandong is the Bagua Sect system, especially the most active in the line of Hexagram, Hu Linyi saw that Liu Chang corrected a small mistake of his own, and he was not angry: "No matter what sect it is, whether it is the Bagua Sect or the White Lotus Sect, it is actually the same thing. ”

Liu Chang agreed with him and nodded. Several ladies continued to eat with great interest, and they didn't dare to disturb the conversation between Liu Chang and Hu Linyi, Hu Linyi continued: "Today's performance of the Spanish envoy, presumably Your Majesty also saw it, and now the Spaniards, Russians and this group of White Lotus bandits are launched together, and there must be someone behind it. ”

Liu Chang said more: "I have to add one." The Qing demon also made a move, and Monk Greenqin worked hard to cross the old Yellow River, wanting to make us cheap!"

Hu Linyi immediately said: "So the old minister wants to say a word." ”

"Old Prime Minister, please speak ......" Liu Chang was particularly polite to Hu Linyi: "I'll listen to you!"

Up to now, Hu Linyi has thoroughly realized Liu Chang's strengths, so he said: "Your Majesty is from the grass and the field, knows the people's sorrows best, and has the most mercy for the people, even if they are bandits!"

As soon as he changed his words, he had already begun to criticize Liu Changlai: "But even though Your Majesty loves the people like a son. But the head of the White Lotus Sect did not know His Majesty's intentions, openly colluded with the Russian army, a major rebellion, His Majesty's heart of love for others, but connived at these bandits, and now the thieves are all over Shandong, Henan, Guangxi, Guangdong provinces, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui are also affected, Your Majesty must not have a benevolent mind, and should use thunderbolts to pacify the bandits!"

This is to say that Liu Chang's methods are too soft. However, Liu Chang was concerned about another matter: "The rebellion in the provinces." What does it have to do with Russia? Prime Minister, this is not an empty talk!"

It's one thing for bandits to become chaotic. Collusion with foreign Yi is another matter, Hu Linyi swore and said: "If it weren't for colluding with the Russian Yi people, how could the time of the incident be so unified, so that I would be tired of taking care of one thing and the other?" There must be someone to manipulate it, and it is good for Your Majesty to be kind, but to pacify the bandits, you need hard means! A nest of bandits like Jinlouzhai has to be washed!"

"Wash the village!" Liu Chang smiled: "In the past, I fought in Zhejiang Province, and I had to accept the Qing demon and not give up, and give me a beautiful name, but I have a false name over the years, but in fact, since the prime minister insisted, and the bandits colluded with the foreign people, it is natural to need a thunderous blow, what is it to wash a few bandit villages!"

This is Liu Chang's domineering, but he is concerned about another thing: "But the prime minister said that the bandits started at the same time, and someone must be manipulated for the Russians later?" Is this really the case? ”

Hu Linyi immediately replied: "Although there is no evidence, there is something to do!"

Liu Chang immediately cared about this matter: "Okay, this matter will bother the prime minister!" ――

The "man behind the scenes" that Liu Chang and Hu Linyi said was now in the middle of the flowing water on the bank of the Heilongjiang River, with full pride and said to Muravyov, the governor of East Siberia, who had already been reinstated twice: "Your Excellency the governor, I have instigated the uprising of the sects in Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi in accordance with your orders!"

For the secret society of the Qing Dynasty, the north is an underground sect that has been passed down from generation to generation, and the south is the world of the Heaven and Earth Society, and the party completely overwhelms the sect or after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, for this person's performance, Murajoviv expressed considerable satisfaction: "You have done a very good job, very good, Russia will not forget your friendship!"

"I don't want any friendship, what I want is for you Russia to fulfill your promises, that's right, I just want to be the emperor of China, you promised me, as long as I do this well, I will borrow 30,000 elite soldiers, kill in the pass, and sweep away the willow households!"

Muravyov looked at the surging water of the Heilongjiang River, looked at the little ice floes on the river, and looked at the beautiful mountains and rivers in the south, and he already thought of a picture of the Russian army being invincible in the north of the entire Great Wall, annexing a territory larger than the Russian mainland, and naturally there was a lot of excitement in his heart: "Yes, we will fulfill our promise, but this also requires you to work harder!"

"What I need is real support!" The careerist shouted loudly, he was already so proficient in Russian that he did not need a translator: "I, Ge Mengjin, am the real emperor, and I must catch those adulterers and adulteresses and torture them to death by a thousand means, and I will ...... them."

That's right, this person is Ge Mengjin, Ge Wuye, who was once popular in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Ye Niangzi's former ex-husband, but since the Hong Army conquered Zhoushan, he has disappeared without a trace, and he has not even mixed with Buxing, so no one thought that he would actually defect to the Russians, and even make such a big storm.

Murajoviv disagrees with Ge Mengjin's statement: "We have given you the greatest support, and the key is that you have not been able to organize a larger army. ”

"I need 30,000 elite Russian soldiers, but how many troops do you give me now? A Cossack company, plus an artillery company, an infantry company, and that's it. Ge Mengjin was full of grievances to pour out: "If I want to conquer the whole of China, I need at least 10,000 Russian soldiers!"

Murajoviv also roared: "But where are the troops you promised? Where the hell is it? You promised us that 10,000 soldiers would fight with us, and where are those 10,000!"

Ge Mengjin threw a punch into the air, and he said angrily, "But I've done my best, and I now have a small elite army fighting with you. ”

The scale of this "elite small army" is not small at all, he has a cavalry regiment composed of 250 cavalry, two infantry regiments composed of 650 infantry and artillery, a total of 900 soldiers, these 900 soldiers are all outlaws that Ge Mengjin has worked hard to gather from all over North China, and some are even the remnants of Ye Mingchen that he found from Guangdong, but the size of his troops has reached the limit, even if you add the reinforcements planted by the Russians, it is only a little more than a thousand.

It was impossible to realize Ge Mengjin's dream of being emperor with a force of more than a thousand men, so he made his own proposal to Murajoviv: "Could it be that the Russian Empire has abandoned the entire Chinese Empire?" ”