Chapter 347: The Calm Before the Storm
It took time for the Honghuahui to occupy the territory of the two provinces, and the Qing army was unable to attack after losing the last of its mobile forces, and the two sides entered into a brief peace. However, various uprisings of all sizes continued to break out in the provinces within the Qing court, and the provincial officials were miserable, and some big families secretly held regimental exercises for their own safety, and the local officials also turned a blind eye.
Aligon's death was a blow to Qianlong as well as to the Manchu nobles, for whom he had lost a reliable confidant at the military aircraft, and for the Manchu nobles, many of the dead officers and soldiers were their relatives.
The only happy person may be Prince Zhuang in the Northeast! Now that the troops on the Mongolian side have been buried by Aligon in Zhejiang, it means that most of the obstacles to his westward entry into the Mongolian steppe have been removed, plus he contacted the Rakshasa people in the northeast and obtained a lot of firearms from the Rakshasa people, and in his opinion, the rearmed Eight Banners will return to their invincible heroic appearance.
However, it took time to train soldiers to use firearms, so the northern front of the Qing court came in and quieted down; But whether it was Qianlong, Chen Jialuo, or Prince Zhuang, they all knew that these were just the calm before the storm, and once one of them had accumulated enough strength, the flames of war would immediately rekindle.
The most anxious of these three forces is probably the Qianlong side, after losing two or three hundred thousand horses in the war with the Red Flower Society one after another, the imperial court has almost no available troops, and these horses in the capital have to guard against those Manchurian princes who can't move lightly; It seems that now is the time to promote group training, Qianlong thought secretly in his heart.
But if this matter is openly discussed, it will not be possible to pass it anyway with the opposition of Laibao and others, thinking of this, Qianlong sighed softly, but unfortunately now Bai Zhen is dead! Even the loyal masters in the Ouchi guards are almost dead, and there are some things that are not suitable for public at the moment, and it is difficult to find someone to do them.
Now in charge of managing Ouchi's guards is Fukukangan. He is loyal enough, but doing this kind of dirty work is still not as good as Bai Zhen, if Bai Zhen is still letting him secretly solve Laibao, and if he has a surprise attack, the matter of group training can be passed quickly, but who should he find now? Ay. I have to go to the Queen Mother!
Bai Zhen told him earlier that the old eunuchs around the Queen Mother were all masters of the masters, and even he didn't have the confidence to defeat these eunuchs, he pretended not to know before, but now there is no way, no matter what, she is also the Queen Mother, her wealth all comes from being the emperor, no matter what, she will not sit back and watch herself fall.
Come to the Queen Mother's Palace, please go after peace. Seeing that Qianlong wanted to speak and stopped, the Queen Mother retreated, and Qianlong only then told his current predicament, and then looked at the Queen Mother silently.
The queen mother knows very well that the person in front of her is not full of blood, but she can enjoy countless concubines and court wives in this palace, isn't it because of this person? If there is no such person, I am afraid that I can only live miserably in the cold palace like other concubines, and look at Qianlong with dead eyes, "Emperor, this matter is over!" But you have to remember that you are the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Don't do anything that is sorry for the ancestors of the Aixin Jueluo family! ”
Qianlong hated Bai Zhen again for not being there, if Bai Zhen was still there. Now that the Queen Mother has no threat of an edict at hand, she has already done her secretly! Anyway, she is not her own mother, and if she dies, she will die, so as not to always press a mountain on her head.
gritted his teeth in his heart, but his face showed a grateful smile, and he said a lot of words to love the Xinjue Luo family and the Qing Dynasty. Only then did the Queen Mother wave her hand in satisfaction and let him retreat.
A few days later, the Manchurian ministers were recruited by the Queen Mother into the palace to give a banquet, and they were full of encouragement, I don't know if it was because they were old or because the imperial wine was too good, they stumbled slightly when they came out of the palace. Fortunately, Father-in-law Chi, who sent them out on behalf of the Queen Mother, helped him so that he didn't fall.
Laibao also thanked Chi Gonggong gratefully, who knew that a few days after returning home, he began to feel distressed, and he didn't survive a few hours and died; If there is a martial arts master who sees the whole process, he will understand that Laibao's death is because Chi Gonggong took the opportunity of supporting him to use internal force to break his bloodline.
Laibao just died last night, Qianlong re-proposed the matter of the group exercise in the court the next day, and Han Chen, who had already received the news, rushed up, and the Manchurian side was gone, and the leader of Laibao was at a loss for a while, and when they reacted, the article for the group exercise had already passed.
Then, the officials of the court took action one after another, thinking about what benefits their families could get from this opportunity, and for a time running a group became the most enthusiastic thing for all big families in the country.
Chen Jialuo just smiled lightly after receiving the news, since neither the Huai Army nor the Hunan Army, nor even Yuan Shikai's new army could deal with the foreigners, then why should he worry about these scattered armed forces that are destined to be far inferior to the Huai Army.
And these landlords will have to deal with it sooner or later, and now they have just given the Red Flower Society an excuse to run a group exercise, and besides, whether it is people or money, it is not obtained out of thin air, what else can they do for those landlords except to pull strong Ding and squeeze the people? This method will undoubtedly intensify the relationship between the local landlords and the common people, and it will be easy for the Red Flower Society to deal with them and win the support of the common people.
In this calm, Chen Jialuo's second son was born smoothly and was named Chen Xiaotai by Chen Jialuo, because when Chen Jialuo married Huo Qingtong, the external reason was to inherit the incense for Yu Wanting, so the child born by Li Yuanzhi became Chen Jialuo's eldest son, and this child is the first heir of Chen Jialuo in the traditional sense of China.
This news made Li Kexiule bloom, if Chen Jialuo ascended the throne, his grandson would be an out-and-out crown prince! At the beginning, I blamed my daughter for running around and missing a lot of good family things, but now it seems that my daughter is still smart!
After the birth of the child, there was an endless stream of people who went to Chen Jialuo and Li Kexiu's mansion to congratulate them, and even the dustless Taoist and Chang's Shuangxia, who had been separated from the Red Flower Society for a long time, also sent congratulatory gifts.
In this case, the rumors of persuading Chen Jialuo to ascend the throne spread again. (To be continued......)