"Let's treat it as if there has never been Hu Linyi in Hunan, okay!"

Although Zeng Guofan wanted to be as restrained as possible, he roared again now: "When he surrendered to the thief, did he think about my feelings with you? We are waiting for change in Hunan, but he is better to simply give up the whole of Hubei!"

This is simply a knife from behind, but Zuo Zongtang still said: "Since you still remember that you are still from Hunan, you must not retreat to Guangdong, and don't forget the hundreds of thousands of Hunan soldiers who followed you to a desperate situation!"

"Each of them is the real elite of our Hunan, but what do they get now in order to follow you!"

Zuo Zongtang never liked to reason with people, so he pounded on the table with gravity: "Disheng, I'd rather you be a thief than leave Hunan!"

"Hunan ......" Zeng Guofan also has a deep nostalgia for this land: "Then we will wait here for death, and wait for Lu Ziyun to come from Hengyang!"

"That's right!" Zuo Zongtang never spoke emotionally: "Even if you have no value in life, you have to give an explanation to tens of millions of Hunan people, so that everyone knows the value of your death!"

This is an extremely heartless sentence, but Zeng Guofan understands it.

Hunan has lost this war, but at least it can't be lost in morale, after a hundred years and thousands of years, let the children of Sanxiang know that some of them have fought desperately for their hometown and neighbors: "I understand, we can't afford to lose......"

His face turned pale, he was a man of great perseverance, and in history he was able to defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, not because of his military prowess, but because of his extraordinary perseverance and persistence, but now he was completely hopeless, and he was completely desperate for victory.

"Let me die as I deserve!" Zeng Guofan exhaled deeply, he only now felt how precious this air was, and he said loudly: "Ji Gao, you have to promise me three things!"

"Don't say it's three things. Thirty, three hundred, I promise you!"

Zeng Guofan regained a little anger, he said with a smile: "I want to sit in a sedan chair with eight lifts, a sedan chair with green tweed, you must find a way to find it for me!"

Eight sedan chairs were a symbol and a symbol of status in the Qing Dynasty. This kind of green tweed eight-lift sedan chair can only be enjoyed by officials above the third grade, although Zeng Guofan has long been a second-grade official, and even directly named the king of Chu, but he still maintains a kind of simplicity, not to mention eight people, that is, there is not even a sedan chair. To show that the Hunan army is sharing joy and sorrow.

With him as an example, how dare the Hunan army generals sit in a sedan chair, but at the end of his life, Zeng Guofan remembered this special enjoyment again, he enjoyed it again during this last time, and Zuo Zongtang understood his feelings: "Disheng, this matter is easy to do......"

How easy is this matter to do, in Chenzhou, a place where there is a shortage of soldiers, you need an eight-lift green tweed sedan chair. What a difficult task, but he had to promise Zeng Guofan.

Zeng Guofan continued: "I have suffered all my life, I have deceived others, deceived the red thief, deceived you, and deceived myself, but at this time, why bother yourself, Ji Gao, help me find a few beautiful girls, I want to have fun too!"

Zeng Guofan can be said to be a well-known Taoist gentleman in the late Qing Dynasty. Although there are often one kind or another of misconduct in private morality. But as the commander of the Hunan army, he was subject to too many restrictions. Restrictions can't even be done to secretly marry a little wife, and sometimes it's simply self-abuse.

But now he figured it out, since he wanted to die for the hundreds of thousands of heroic souls of the Hunan army, and he wanted all the Hunan children to die, why not die naturally, he said loudly: "Lao Tzu wants to be the groom every night, and he will also have a romantic time!"

This thing is easy to do, not to mention the red card inside and outside the city, even if there is no woman, Zuo Zongtang can also grab a few brides back: "Easy to do, easy to do, what is the third time?" Is it to get a Chu Wangfu for you, and let everyone have a good time. ”

"Fart!" Zeng Guofan roared again: "Fart, the third thing is to ask you to write to the center with me to rehabilitate Mu Xiang!"

Zuo Zongtang was taken aback, he didn't expect Zeng Guofan to mention a serious matter after two ridiculous books.

The so-called "Mu Xiang" is Mu Zhang'a, the number one minister of the Daoguang Dynasty, he is said to be in the middle of the day in the Daoguang Dynasty, and has been in charge of the government for more than 20 years.

Therefore, if you want to talk about the success or failure of Daoguang's achievements, you can't do without Mu Zhang'a, but Mu Zhang'a also has too many controversies, for example, on the responsibility of the Opium War, there are many criticisms from the government and the opposition, and this Mu Xiang has already offended the current Emperor Xianfeng in the Daoguang Dynasty, as a result, as soon as Emperor Xianfeng took over, his ass was not hot, so he first took Mu Zhang'a, the minister of power.

At that time, there was a sound of killing up and down the government and the opposition, and there was a lot of momentum to quickly slash and slash the gentry, but Mu Zhang'a was the number one minister of the Daoguang Dynasty after all, and his protégés in the court had too many old names, and many things were just criticized, and he couldn't catch Mu Zhang'a's real evidence, so he let this minister of power be demoted to the people and escaped with his life.

In the third year of Xianfeng, because of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, Mu Zhang'a donated military salaries and rations, and regained a five-grade prefect, and after another three years, that is, the sixth year of Xianfeng, this Mu Zhang'a finally died of illness at home.

And Zeng Guofan is a member of Mu Zhang'a's protégé, he has always been deeply sympathetic to Mu Zhang'a, and now he has burst out: "Over the years, inside and outside the court, no one dares to say a good word for Mu Xiang, I was a lackey of Mu Xiang's family, but in order to avoid suspicion, I don't dare to say a fair word, until this time, I don't even want my life, I have to tell the truth!"

"The emperor is too mean, Mu Xiang is wronged!" Zeng Guofan said that this is an out-and-out fair sentence, the internal and external difficulties of the Daoguang Dynasty, of course, there are also personal factors such as Mu Zhang'a, the minister of power, but his responsibility is not great, the primary responsibility lies in the Qing Dynasty, which has been ineffective, and the second is that Emperor Daoguang, the diligent and simple son of heaven, is not his turn at all, Mu Zhang'a, as for his accusations of interfering with Lin Zexu Qifu and the like, most of them are chasing after the wind and shadows.

Zuo Zongtang immediately packed up the court clothes on his body, and respectfully made a big salute to Zeng Guofan: "Disheng, this matter must be done for you, and you must seek justice for Mu Xiang!"

"Mu Xiang's affairs, I have a stump in my heart about these things, I can vomit it as fast as I can today, and I have no regrets in life!" Zeng Guofan laughed: "Ji Gao, in addition to these three official matters, I also want to ask you for a private matter!"

"Disheng, let's talk!" Zuo Zongtang replied: "You, a fellow jinshi, say anything unpleasant!"

Zeng Guofan laughed loudly: "Ji Gao, you survive well, survive for me, survive for our Hunan army of hundreds of thousands of heroes, and survive for tens of millions of Hunan children, please!" You sour talent!"

One is a fellow jinshi, and the other is a person from a lifting background, this is their lifelong heart disease, and they didn't let it go when they became famous, but at this moment they finally let it go.

It's just that sometimes the heavens always fail people's wishes, and seven days later, the puppet Chu king Zeng Guofan encountered the thief elite soldiers of Lu Ziyun, the acting Hunan overseer, and was defeated and captured......

The whole year 1858 was a year of continuous success for the Rainbow Army.

Following the spring did not capture the whole territory of Hunan, from the beginning of the summer, the rainbow army began to continue to march to the provinces of the other province, in the summer Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan three provinces joined forces, in more than a month to sweep the two Guangzhou, captured alive the puppet Yue king Ye Mingchen, in the autumn, has taken most of Henan and Shandong, but also sent an advance team to attack Shaanxi.

And in the winter, the Sichuan and Shu that everyone is most concerned about also have signs of solving, and under the response of the Lan Dashun Righteous Army, Hubei has sent a detachment to break through the Three Gorges and enter Sichuan, preparing for the next step to expand to the whole of Shu.

By the time of the first month of 1859, the so-called "third year of the Great Xia Zhenyuan Dynasty", no one dared to underestimate this powerful power that occupied southeastern China, and some countries had openly recognized this government as the sole legitimate representative of China, in an attempt to obtain greater benefits in the following Chinese market.

And many more countries are betting their main bets on this enlightened new regime, and they are even ready to intervene directly in China's domestic construction - because of military relations, the Rainbow Army has never been able to concentrate on domestic economic construction, even in the few provinces that have been completely liberated, and they must spend most of their economic revenues on the war effort.

But there are also strong enemies in the rainbow army, and for the past year or so, the Russian Cossack cavalry has been crisscrossing the border, seizing land after land, and some diplomats even believe that Russia has gambled its national fortunes in the Far East, and perhaps a second Crimean war will break out between the two sides.

Spain was also an enemy of the new regime, and in a lightning raid, the Rainbow Army successfully captured the whole of Luzon and the small northern Philippines, but as an old imperialist country, Spain also had good strength, and their queen Isabella II was an existence who wanted to restore Spain's former glory.

Therefore, despite many difficulties and unfavorable conditions, the Spaniards still took great pains to transport 6,500 Spanish soldiers into the Philippine Islands and rebuild the Philippine Governor's Palace, and claimed that 10,000 soldiers would be brought in next.

The Rainbow Army formed the 17th Division on the basis of the Luzon Expeditionary Detachment, and this infantry division fought several classic island attack and defense battles with the Spaniards, so that the Spaniards from afar could not find a place to start.

It was under this circumstance that Du Jinchan and Liu Sanniang quietly left Hangzhou.