After being on duty from outside the Palace of Heart Cultivation, King Alcohol and Guan Zhuofan returned to the court room of the former minister one after another. King Alcohol first took a few sips of the hot tea sent by the eunuch, looked at Guan Zhuofan, and had something to say.

"Yixuan, in my mansion, you have never been here, this is not quite right."

"What is the identity of the prince, what is my identity? Don't dare to disturb the prince. Guan Zhuofan said with a grin.

"!" King Alcohol scolded with a smile, "If you are reluctant to take out that door bag, tell me, I will give you a waiver." ”

The rules of the palace are big, and the king of alcohol is new and useful, and if you want to enter his door, you must pay tribute to the door with a package.

"Don't dare."

"Come and eat tomorrow night, I have invited several chief officers of each battalion, let's have two glasses of wine and have a good chat about military affairs." After joking, King Alcohol said brightly.

"Yes."

"By the way, there's one more thing." King Alcohol seemed to remember an interesting thing, and his tone was very proud, "Qifujin wants to tell you a family matter, I'll talk to you first, and I won't blame you for not telling you." ”

Family affairs?

Guan Zhuofan's head buzzed loudly, he was really afraid of something. The current Guan family's mansion has been run by him as his base camp, and the Bai family and the Ming family are both friends in distress, not only similar to wives and concubines, but also confident that they will never betray themselves, and they are people who can be kept secret. The subordinates in the house, he used carrots and sticks to clean up properly. Now that King Fujin wants to say kiss, the other party will naturally not be an ordinary family, and he must not be as carefree as the Bai family and the Ming family. If you rashly let your new daughter-in-law marry in, not to mention how things should be laid out in the boudoir, you can't afford to hurt yourself when you talk about the big things you want to plan - the Guan family's mansion will no longer be an airtight fortress.

However, how to refuse is really a nerve-wracking matter. It's okay here, he is not the main owner of this matter, and his temperament is also the kind of person who is easy to talk to, and he has made great contributions for him, even if he is unhappy for a while, he can always be coaxed back. Qifujin is the main son and the sister of the queen mother, if she refuses this family business, it is equivalent to greatly cutting her face, and she will bury a deep mustard.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Guan Zhuofan was silent, King Alcohol said in his heart, is he happy and confused? But looking at his face, there was no trace of joy, so he had to say two more words, "It's Chonglun's granddaughter, sixteen years old, and she has a good character and appearance!" Not to mention Chonglun, who has been in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, the famous God of Wealth, is now a second-class viscount. Aren't you still living in your sister-in-law's house? Your Yue's family said, you can choose a place and buy a new house, and everything will be paid to the Yue's family. ”

Hmm, sixteen-year-old Lori, plus a mansion? Most of them will also give away a group of young maids, and all this is completely free? Guan Zhuofan smacked his lips, then came to his senses, and secretly scolded himself, why is his will so unfirm?

King Alcohol's words were a tone that he thought was a certainty, and even the "Yue family" said it - obviously Qifujin hadn't spoken at all......

By the way, the key is that "Qifujin hasn't opened his mouth yet"!

Guan Zhuofan figured it out, since Qifujin hadn't spoken yet, what the alcohol king said was all "breathable", and it was impossible to count. Now is an excellent opportunity, as long as he speaks in front of him, so that Qifujin can't open this mouth at all, it is not a "refusal", and it will not be a loss of face.

But how to say this? With no way out, he actually thought of a very good statement for him.

"Go back to the prince, don't dare to mark it." Guan Zhuofan leaned over and asked for a double peace.

"Why don't you dare?" Seeing him suddenly make such a salute, King Alcohol was surprised and his eyes widened. I don't dare to say anything else, I haven't heard of someone who doesn't dare to marry a daughter-in-law.

"The Huns have not been destroyed, why should they be at home!" Huo Quai's sentence is really appropriate here.

The alcohol king was dumbfounded for a moment.

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Qifujin entered the palace once a month to visit his sister, the former Concubine Yi, and the current Empress Dowager Cixi. When I arrived at Changchun Palace, I asked the Queen Mother to say goodbye, sat on the stool at the bottom, talked about the situation of the family one by one, and talked about the situation outside, and then turned the topic to Guan Zhuofan.

"Didn't I mention last time that I want to tell him a good family thing, which is considered to be a reward for him?" Qifujin said, "Chonglun's granddaughter hasn't left the cabinet yet, I asked someone, and their family is willing." ”

Cixi listened, glanced at her sister, and replied with an expressionless face for a while: "Hmm." ”

"As a result, he refused, and our seventh master showed his mouth, so he asked others to block it back."

"Oh?" The corners of the Empress Dowager Cixi's mouth turned up slightly, showing a very faint smile, "It's really interesting...... What did he say? ”

"But it's strange again, instead of saying 'the Huns have not been destroyed', I asked him who the Huns were, and he said it was Long Hair." Qifujin said with a little dissatisfaction, "The seventh master told me that Zeng Guofan knocked down Anqing, Jiangnan is worry-free, and the days of long hair are not long. That's it, is it worth it for him not to marry a daughter-in-law? ”

Anqing broke the city in August, and it was Zeng Guoquan, the ninth brother of Zeng Guofan, who was called "Zeng Lao Jiu".

For the Taiping army, Anqing was an important town for the wings to defend Tianjing, so in the past year or so, the two sides have fought hard around Anqing's attack and defense, fighting wits and courage. Zeng Guoquan brought more than 10,000 people, and did not retreat from the siege of Anqing, while Li Xiucheng, the "loyal king" of the Taiping army, and Chen Yucheng, the "king of England", saved Anhui in five ways in order to relieve the siege of Anqing, and also exhausted the magic weapon.

In order to force Zeng Guofan to withdraw from the siege of Anqing, the Taiping army entered Hubei twice, and the troops were directed at Wuchang, but they were all defused by Hu Linyi, the governor of Hubei, and returned in vain. And Zeng Guofan, as the minister of the Qin Mission and the governor of Liangjiang, set up the camp in Dongliu, and even when he was in the most critical situation, he refused to draw a soldier and a general from the ninth brother to help, and it was clear that he was betting on the victory and defeat on Anqing City. When the situation eased slightly, Zeng Guofan commanded Duolong'a, Bao Chao and other generals to pounce on the Taiping army, and successively broke the Taiping army at the Trailer River and Jixian Pass, so that Zeng Guoquan relieved his worries and was able to besiege Anqing with all his might.

The troops in Anqing City resisted very hard, but unfortunately after a long siege, the weakness of the lack of food was exposed. The land route was all stuck, and he could only count on the help of the waterway, but his own grain ships were robbed by Yang Yuebin's sailors of the Hunan army every time, and none of them could reach the shore. Fortunately, you can also buy some grain from foreigners and ship it from Shanghai for temporary maintenance. The Hunan army did not dare to move the foreigner's ship, so one of the strategists in the shogunate of Zeng Guoquan came up with an idea to take a big ship to guard both sides of Anqing City, and there were foreign ships to transport grain, so they bought all the grain from the foreigners at double the price.

This time, the bottom of the kettle is drawn, and Anqing can't hold it anyway. At the end of August, it was finally destroyed by the Hunan army with explosives to a section of the city wall in the north of the city, and the ants attached it to Anqing, which had been fighting for more than a year, and finally conquered it.

As soon as Anqing was born, the imperial court took the initiative militarily, not only with confidence, but also with certainty, so Qifujin felt that Guan Zhuofan said that "the Huns have not been destroyed", which is a bit of a fuss.

"In my opinion, he didn't even look down on people. I don't understand, how can a young lady from a second-class viscount family not be worthy of him? Qifu Jin chattered, and suddenly had an idea, "Queen Mother, otherwise you will come to the marriage, will he dare not listen to your words?" ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi was silent, her eyes crossed the palace gate, and she looked into the distance emptily, not knowing what she was thinking. After a long time, he retracted his gaze and sighed.

"His vision is high," the Queen Mother said softly, "and he can't force it." ”

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