If you want the teacher to give yourself thunder, you naturally have to ventilate first, so Li Hongzhang wrote a letter to Zeng Guofan in Tianjin. The attitude in the letter is a little too flat, not like a student's tone to a teacher, but like a colleague with a normal relationship. This is also Li Hongzhang's cleverness, the teacher is a person who understands, there is no need to move with emotion and reason, the more bland it is, the easier it is for the teacher to accept.

Li Hongzhang said in his letter: "Hongzhang braved the summer to travel far away, and after visiting the province, he had to rest a little. At the same time, the initial government was guilty of public anger, and then all kinds of difficult facilities. The honorable punishment can negotiate the murderer and settle the matter according to the limit. Ji Hongzhang went to Tianjin to take over the matter, and in addition, he must bear all the things that have not been done. It means that since the teacher has his own opinions on the handling of the lesson plan, I, Li Hongzhang, will never object, but this will definitely "offend the anger of the public", so please ask the teacher to take it down alone and "settle it according to the limit"! Otherwise, I would have been furious as soon as I took over this case, and I wouldn't have been able to do it later. Leave the aftermath to me, so you can rest assured. I know that this is to make the teacher wronged, but I can't help it for the sake of the Qing court. Li Hongzhang is really filial, anyway, teacher, you are squatting in the pit, so you can simply fill the pit!

Zeng Guofan understands the meaning of this letter very well, he is a traditional Chinese Confucian, does this matter need to be so straightforward? Whether he is willing or not, he will naturally bear it with all his might, and he will be able to stand up to the top, and the white face that should be sung will be sung, paving the way for the student Li Shaoquan. Zeng Guofan is already old, and his illness has become more and more serious recently, and there is not much he can do for this world. And Li Hongzhang is still young, and he still has a great future, and he can take over the banner of Zeng Guofan in the future and continue to support the world. Anyway, Zeng Guofan has been destroyed, and there is indeed no need to bring in another Li Hongzhang, all the sins will be mine!

With the teacher's reassurance, Li Hongzhang's confidence doubled, when he heard that France and Germany had started a war, and the war situation was unfavorable, he had no time to pay attention to this little matter in the East, and the old foundation of the French minister Luo Shuya was touched by him. Li Hongzhang knew that the opportunity to make him famous had once again luckily fallen on his head, how could he not take it? Therefore, he immediately ordered the whole army to form a whole army and march to Tianjin with great force. The cars were sparkling, the horses were whistling, and facing the aroma of zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, Li Hongzhang took his Huaijun brigade and drove into Jincheng with bright armor. These Qing troops, armed with Manchurian guns, are rarely seen by the common people in Tianjin.

The first thing Li Hongzhang did when he entered the city was to issue a stern proclamation to calm the people and arrange for his subordinates to occupy the key points outside the city, and now Tianjin fell into Li Hongzhang's hands. Hearing that Li Hongzhang entered Tianjin, Hurd, the chief tax department of the customs department who was picked up by Guo Xing'a, said a very vivid sentence, "It's like a rat falling into a rice tank." Seven years ago, Hurd worked as a lobbyist for Li Hongzhang and Gordon, and he knows Li Hongzhang's details and personality very well. One red and one white, one volt together, in a sense, Zeng Guofan really willingly fell victim to his student Yangmou. Li Hongzhang has made great achievements, but his title of the first Hanchen in the imperial court began in Tianjin. And Zeng Guofan only left a sentence of "guilt to the gods, offended to the Qing Dynasty" and left Jincheng in disgrace, and since then he has been in a slump, silently dying in his most glorious position as the governor of Liangjiang.

When Li Hongzhang arrived in Tianjin, the Tianjin teaching plan was finalized and dealt with according to the principle of paying for the life of a foreigner who was injured. This idea was thought up by Zeng Guofan, and the Westerners did not accept it, but there was no better way, and they could not kill all the people who participated in the riots, so they could only nod and admit it. After Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan agreed, the first batch of 16 people was killed, and 27 people were exiled from the army. Zhang Guangzao, the prefect of Tianjin, and Liu Jie, the prefect of Tianjin, sent Chonghou to France to apologize, compensate France with 60,000 taels of silver, and the Qing Dynasty funded the reconstruction of Wanghailou Church and Mercy Church.

Before Zhang Guangzao and Liu Jie went to the northwest, Zeng Guofan had a long conversation with them, not only giving 3,000 taels of silver to himself, but also coming forward to raise 10,000 taels of silver to settle their families. Zeng Guofan felt guilty about these two unlucky people, but he couldn't change their fate. These two brothers are nothing, they have a single-minded attitude, and they also comforted Zeng Guofan, who was ruined. They don't really have to go to Xinjiang, it's almost the same when they go to Shaanxi, just make a show for foreigners, they can go home after traveling west to Yumen Pass, and maybe they can come back in a few years! Zeng Guofan was relieved by the open-mindedness and satisfaction of the two, and at the same time felt a little nostalgic, Zhang Guangzao and Liu Jie still have a future, but he was handsome but had no future. Helplessly, when will the flowers fall, when will the sun set? The big guy will finally enter the twilight.

Zhang Guangzao and Liu Jie left, Zeng Guofan also set off back to Liangjiang, Tianjin completely became Li Hongzhang's stage, and he was about to start his own performance. Early on the morning of the third day after Zeng Guofan left Tianjin, a large group of soldiers and officials brought a cadre of prisoners led by Feng Cripple to the county yamen, preparing to formally conclude the Tianjin teaching case. The news has long been spreading, and the Tianjin gentry have suppressed the siege of the government for their bravery. A vigorous death penalty has officially begun.

The thugs at the last moment of their lives were dressed in brand-new silk clothes, embroidered shoes on their feet, combed various hairstyles like women, and wore headwear commonly used by Chinese ladies. They laughed freely, and some of them shouted at the officials in the hall, and the officials all chose to keep silent.

The Dharma field is located outside the West Gate, and although it is still dark, the road leading to the West Gate is already crowded. Along the way, the gentry and the common people set up incense tables, melons, fruits, wine and food, and after all the heroes came, they offered wine and food one after another. The officials in charge of the bullet pressure just drove the people to the side so that they could make their debut, but they didn't interfere too much. The officials are also from Tianjin! They also admired these heroes who went to pay for their lives, they died for Tianjin. Everyone applauded these heroes who were dying, and when they saw everyone cheering, these heroes came to the spirit.

"Are you scared?" The heroes asked in a loud voice

"Nope!" Everyone replied in unison, as if it were an interaction between the stage and the stage.

"Have your faces changed color?" The heroes shouted again.

"Nope!" The interaction is louder.

The people who saw them off huddled together and hugged the death row inmates and walked towards the court outside the west gate, if there were no cries from the families of the death row inmates, it would be as if they were attending a grand ceremony.

The supervisor ordered that when the hour came, the knife would be beheaded!

The heroes clasped their fists one after another, "Everyone, brothers have taken the first step, and twenty years later, they are still heroes!" Then he turned to the executioner holding the ghost-headed knife, "Come, give you a good time, I will go to the underworld to thank you!" "And then he was killed, which was really heroic.

It was the five or six Huai soldiers who entered Tianjin with the governor, and they didn't know if they understood or not, anyway, the snow bright steel knife flashed, and sixteen human skulls fell to the ground, blood sprinkled on the loess, and then wept and shook the sky all around. Zeng Guofan is also kind, although everyone is scolding him, but he still thinks of it for everyone, every good man who goes to death, he gave 500 taels of settling-in allowance before leaving. There were even many rumors about this incident, saying that many of the people who were killed were Zeng Guofan who asked Ding Richang to be transferred from a prison in the autumn to death row prisoners, and promised to use silver money and a good coffin, and the name of the first offender, Feng Cripple, was written when he was verified before his execution.

No matter what the rumors say, Li Hongzhang is like a mirror in his heart, these heroes who are dying are all local gangsters in Tianjin, and these outlaws can leave a deep impression on Li Hongzhang. These people don't care about their own life and death at all, and they don't take other people's lives and deaths seriously. The gang of people in the Water and Fire Society have some scruples, and they are definitely not as bold as them.

After Li Hongzhang took charge of Zhili, he did not go to Baoding, but lived in Tianjin. The treaty port is a good place, for Li Hongzhang, who is devoted to foreign affairs, it is much better than the closed Baoding, and it is very close to North Manchuria, Li Hongzhang is still very concerned about Guoxing. He brought the Zhou Battalion and the Sheng Battalion belonging to the Huai Army to be stationed in Tianjin, which also gave the accents of the people in Tianjin the blood of Anhui.

The matter of Tianjin's lesson plan is over, but Tianjin has not stopped. Seeing that the limelight had passed, those water and fire clubs and gangsters slowly became active. Li Hongzhang ordered the leading figures in the local area to be guarantors, and allowed them to make names, but they were not allowed to make trouble, and the violators sat together, and it was not easy to deal with those gangsters. Those people have no worries, no fixed residence, cause trouble all day long, and bully their neighbors, if the incident in Tianjin is not for them, it will not evolve to the point of being out of control. Although they were used for the foreigners' fate, Li Hongzhang didn't want to let go of it, but he didn't make a move because of the instability of the market.

After waiting for half a month, Tianjin has returned to calm, foreign trade has resumed, and Li Hongzhang is about to make a move. Li Hongzhang opened more than ten tables in the most famous restaurant in the city, and invited all the leading people on the ground in Tianjin. Just when the big guys were red-faced and staggered, the raid began, and although the gunfire was not dense, it also made the gentry tremble. They all know that a few years ago, Li Hongzhang set up a Hongmen banquet in Suzhou, planning to kill the Taiping Army's generals, and they thought that Li Hongzhang was going to repeat his old tricks? And Li Hongzhang stood up with a smile on his face, raised his wine glass and said, "It's okay, it's okay!" This is under the will of the imperial court, to protect the territory and the people, and to exterminate the pot gang! Keep drinking, everyone! ”。

It turned out that Li Hongzhang quietly transferred the Zhouzi Battalion and the Shengzi Battalion stationed at the small station into Jincheng in the name of protecting the banquet, divided the old city into pieces, and let them divide them into pieces, and launched a surprise attack according to the news heard in advance, and eliminated most of the pot guys in one fell swoop. The execution ground outside the West Gate was lively for a while, it was like a watermelon field, and the heads were all over the place. But the vitality of this thing is too strong, Li Hongzhang killed a batch, and immediately another batch came out. So ten years later, Li Hongzhang came again according to the prescription, but he never got rid of it.

When Li Hongzhang was in high spirits, Zeng Guofan, who went south with illness, was complaining about the heavens, and the court treated him too coldly.