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It's not the first time to eat at the same table with the royal sister, and I came to the "Champion" once. However, that's because the cabin space is narrow, the two tables are too cramped, and after all, it's a warship, not a palace.

What now?

First they stayed overnight in the palace, slept together on the big couch, and then ate at the same table, uh, there are too many new things coming too quickly, right?

Guan Zhuofan asked for peace, still hesitating, Cixi pointed to the empty chair, smiled and said, "Sit down, don't rub it in, look at it, what time is this?" You're not hungry, I'm hungry. ”

Guan Zhuofan's heart is horizontal, what does he care about, the beds are all "the same", what is the "same" table? Thank you and sit down. However, after sitting down, he put his hands on his knees, straightened his back, and put on a posture of sitting upright, cautious and fearful.

The royal sister smiled lightly, and did not come to correct his sitting posture, and said, "There are two things here. After speaking, he pushed the things in front of him to Guan Zhuofan.

When Guan Zhuofan looked at it, it was a letter of Huang Aya's seal, and an envelope specially made by Xuanjun with a message, but the caustic soda on the envelope had been broken, and the message inside should have been read by the royal sister.

"What is this?"

"The fold was sent by Zuo Zongtang, it's not too big, you can wait a while. This telegram, from 'from the east,' was somebody's reciprocal — guess it. Who is this person? ”

The Queen Mother has learned to send telegrams? Ruzi ...... Belch. Girls can be taught.

"Back to the Queen Mother. Chan wants to ...... It's about Bao Jun. ”

Cixi smiled and said, "You are actually an immortal!" This is the same as what you said yesterday...... Well, what I said this morning was exactly the same! Take a look. ”

Guan Zhuofan took out the telegram and read it again, and sure enough, it was "seeking self-clarification through self-impeachment". The text is laid out. Swaying, full of emotion, and a heart-wrenching posture - well, it's almost "tears".

Guan Zhuofan raised his head, the royal sister looked at him with a pair of wonderful eyes, and smiled lightly: "What do you think?" ”

Guan Zhuofan knew that what Cixi asked was not what he "thinked" of Baojun, but "how did he think" of the Queen Mother and Empress Dowager "what did she think" of Baojun?

Belch. It's a bit of a mouthful.

He hesitated slightly, and said, "Please ask the Queen Mother." When did you receive this telegram, where did the little station go? ”

"It's about the beginning of the afternoon."

"So to speak, the Queen Mother asked someone to send this telegram as soon as she came to the court in the morning, and there was no delay at all—the minister thought that this was ...... It can already be roughly seen that the queen mother's attitude towards this matter can be roughly seen. ”

Cixi nodded and said, "I think so." It seems that you are right, this matter, I really have to listen to your mother and queen mother first. ”

Guan Zhuofan was slightly embarrassed, and was about to say a few words to reassure the royal sister, but the royal sister continued: "Don't forget, you said 'do your best'?" ”

Do your best - catch Baojun out of the military plane.

"Yes, sir...... You can't call the Queen Mother...... Disappointing. ”

Cixi smiled: "Okay, I'll wait—okay, let's eat something first." ”

Cixi passed the meal in the palace, and it was common to watch the folds while eating, so Guan Zhuofan opened Zuo Zongtang's folds while eating.

It's about how the Dong Zhiyuan area can be restored.

The bandits entered Dong Zhiyuan, although the time was not too long, but the killing was broken, and it was extremely miserable in the world.

The excerpt says, "The forts of the cities near and far were killed and plundered, and the people were left behind." Between Ping, Qing, Jing and Gu, thousands of miles of barrenness, looking at the white bones and yellow grass, the cooking smoke is cut off, and the misery of the disaster is really unseen in the world. ”

He also said, "Wherever the division goes, the wells are barren, the water is dry and the grass is withered, and many thieves have died because of this, and the officers and soldiers have difficulty chasing." ”

Guan Zhuofan's mood became heavy, and he seemed to have pressed a heavy stone into his heart.

Continue to look, the official army entered Qingyang City, "there is no trace of the county town, the city is barren and grassy, bones are piled up, and strange birds and beasts gather together as servals." ”

"Order the brave men to cut the thorns and thorns, pick up the bones and bury them, and then they can be stationed in the city."

"The soldiers searched carefully, and there were more than 3,000 households in the city, but now there are 100 people left!"

The top is inside the city, and the bottom is outside the city, "Sometimes there are one or two remnants, who live in caves, eat grass seeds, and look like ghosts." Suddenly, I saw a trace, thinking that the thief was coming, and I ran wildly, chasing and asking, not only did I not know the thief's consumption, but also did not tell the year. ”

Guan Zhuofan thought, this is still talking about the situation around Qingyang Mansion, where the terrain is more complicated, there are peaks, there are ravines, the people can still hide, Dong Zhiyuan is flat and empty, where should the people flee? It is about a village occupied by the Hui bandits, and this village is a "desperate village"!

The delicacies of the mountains and seas, when eaten in the mouth, have completely lost the taste.

I think of a poem: Thousands of villages are lost, and thousands of households are singing.

Stealing Cixi, eating calmly, graceful as usual, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

Next, it's about how to deal with the aftermath and recover.

Zuo Zongtang believes that "at the beginning of the military affairs, we must first arrange the Ping, Qing, Jing, and Gu areas bordering Shaanxi, and then advance to fight, and retreat to defend." ”

To this end, Zuo Zongtang "sent officers and troops to guard Dong Zhiyuan's key passes on the one hand, and handled Bingtun, Mintun, Qingyang, Heshui, and Ningzhou on the other hand, and was the second manager." ”

For specific methods for restoring the aftermath, Zuo Zongtang proposed five paragraphs and ten articles, which are roughly as follows:

First, the selection of officials.

Zuo Zongtang asked the imperial court to "break the grammar, visit the personnel of Gansu, act as the seals of Qingyang Prefecture and County, summon exiles, and calculate the distribution of food to prolong breathing and regulate the long-term." ”

Second, to solicit refugees.

Qingyang Province has become an empty city, and the population must be replenished. Where does the population come from? Zuo Zongtang decided to recruit the refugees from Ping and Qing who were in exile back to their hometowns.

Most of these refugees have flowed into northern Shaanxi, and many of them have become bandits. Repatriation of origin. It has enriched the population of Gyeongyang Province. It also solved the problem of public security in northern Shaanxi.

And also. "In Yan'an and Suide places in northern Shaanxi, the people can avoid the suspicion of being forced to deal with them, and they cannot afford to provoke the host and the guest."

Third, the great revitalization of the reclamation.

The reclamation planned by Zuo Zongtang is divided into "Bingtun" and "Mintun".

"Choose the dangerous pass as the soldier, the commander, the battalion officer; As far as the fort is for the people, the government, the state, and the county lord are all suitable for their places. ”

It's winter. With proper planning, as soon as the spring of the next year begins, it will be possible to "sow millet, millet, buckwheat, and wheat, supervise the military and civilians, and hoe and reclaim every day." ”

Fourth, add counties.

Zuo Zongtang criticized the imperial court for ignoring the administrative construction of Gansu in the past, and pointed out that this was the beginning of the rebellion. Coping with the important causes of weakness.

It's a fact. After the imperial court subdued the north-south road of the Tianshan Mountains and expanded the territory of Xinjiang, it paid attention to the northwest region. It is mainly placed in Xinjiang and Shaanxi, and Gansu, between the two, is indeed ignored by Yan zhòng. Of course, it is also one of the reasons why it takes up a lot of resources to expand the new land, and it is inevitable that there will be more and less than the other, and the balance is not easy to maintain.

It's never too late to make amends.

Zuo Zongtang pointed out that Dong Zhiyuan "lived in Qinlong, and the shape was heavy, which has been since ancient times", but administratively, Dong Zhiyuan has long been under the jurisdiction of the three counties of Anhua, Ningzhou, and Zhenyuan, and not only has different powers, but also because he is on the edge of the three counties at the same time, it is natural that he is also ignored by the three counties. In fact, it has become a "three-regardless" zone.

Zuo Zongtang said that Dong Zhiyuan "has no officials, money and grain are litigated, there is a lack of managers, there are many inconveniences for the people, politics and religion are not good, treachery and hiding, and the relationship is not small." ”

Therefore, he asked the imperial court to add a county official named "Dong Zhi County Cheng" in the establishment of Anhua County, and positioned the "shortage of complicated and important things", specifically responsible for the management of Dong Zhiyuan.

At the same time, please add one more township school instructor to Dong Zhiyuan, and increase the original number of school places in Anhua County from 15 to 18, and the three new ones will be owned by Dong Zhiyuan and "educate and educate people."

Fifth, ban opium poppy and advocate cotton mulberry.

The land in the Guanlong area is barren, and in order to make ends meet, the people have always had the bad habit of growing opium poppies. And if you grow opium poppies, you will not fail to smoke opium. The cultivation of opium poppy and the smoking of opium are not only the cause of poverty in Guanlong, but also the source of decline and chaos.

Soon after Zuo Zongtang arrived in the northwest, he wrote a letter to Guan Zhuofan, bitterly complaining about the harm of opium, "the calamity of long hair, twisting, and returning are all caused by this poison", saying that as soon as the chaos is settled, he will strictly ban opium.

Guan Zhuofan replied: "Guan Long's rule of law must take the prohibition of opium as the first priority. Ji Weng is old enough to seek the country, and he has insight into the roots, and his brother sighs and admires! The only thing that is the opinion of the emperor is before the gentleman: opium originates from the opium poppy, and if you want to ban opium, you must ban the cultivation of opium poppies. If you want to ban the cultivation of opium poppies, you must first think of a kind of profit that can be taken away, and then the people know that you can only benefit from poppy cultivation. ”

This "profitable" is cotton and mulberry.

Guan Zhuofan said, "Persuading the planting of grass cotton and sericulture, with its one-year plan, is better than poppy, and the people are clearly choosing because of it!" If the method is used to seek quick results, Ji Weng's military affairs will inevitably be lost, so that it will not work. Brother Yu District, Ji Weng is clever, you should be able to see it! ”

Guan Zhuofan's construction, Zuo Zongtang almost accepted it. Just a silkworm, although Longdong has a record of raising silkworms since ancient times, but thousands of years of soil and water changes, has not been able to find a suitable tree species for feeding silkworms, new planting, and slow is not urgent, put it down first, the main force to promote cotton.

On top of the fold, there are other charities, digging wells, planting trees, and so on.

sprinkled thousands of words, Guan Zhuofan finished reading it, and couldn't help but admire in his heart: Zuo Ji is high-energy to fight, understands the economy, knows power changes, and is a poor person, he is really a character with a lot of hills and valleys in his chest!

Zuo Zongtang's articles and statements can be decided by himself to appease exile, reclaim land, ban poppy planting, advocate cotton, and run relief, but the selection of officials and the addition of county officials must first ask the imperial court for permission.

Zuo Zongtang, as the commander of the army, has the right to appoint state and county officials on his own after recovering the lost territory, and he can make up the procedures to the imperial court afterwards, and the imperial court has no permission. However, this time, Zuo Zongtang has a special request - "break the grammar, visit Gansu personnel, and act as the seals of Qingyang Prefecture and County".

Locals don't become local officials, that's the basic rule. Zuo Zongtang's request can be regarded as an exception, so he must apply in advance.

Zuo Zongtang's reason was that there were too many vacant state and county officials in the local area, and there were not so many candidates in his pocket—his generals at all levels had to stay to fight.

If the household department selects and transfers them from other places one by one, first, it will not be able to slow down the urgency, and second, the northwest is barren, and many people may not be willing to come, and most of those who are willing to come over are people who are evil and incapable of doing anything -- this kind of person is willing to take risks and endure hardships, but the only purpose of being an official is to scrape the ground and put them in Gansu after the chaos, and they are definitely the best candidates to rekindle the people's uprising.

Therefore, Zuo Zongtang asked to "break the grammar" and make special arrangements. Besides, being a local official also has the advantage of being familiar with the situation and getting started quickly.

As for the addition of counties, there was no such thing as the original style, and it was necessary to ask for a decree first.

This is also why Ci'an sent this fold over - the left one makes an exception, the right one makes an exception, the matter is too big, she can't decide it herself.

Cixi saw that Guan Zhuofan had finished reading the excerpt and asked, "What do you think of Zuo Zongtang's excerpt?" ”

Guan Zhuofan said: "Back to the Queen Mother, Zuo Zongtang has become a countryman, and everything he has done is right. There is a matter of experience, and there is also the right, and Zuo's request to act as a local state and county is not excessive; The addition of 'Dong Zhi County Cheng' is even more far-sighted, and the Queen Mother is invited. ”

Cixi nodded and said, "Okay, just do as you say." ”

"Zuo Zongtang's excerpt, although it is not directly involved in the military, but the northwest road is far away, and the court will send it to the court, please send it to the court with 'six hundred miles to step up', one is to save time, and the other is to show the full support of the imperial court."

"Okay, it's up to you."

Guan Zhuofan said: "Empress Dowager Xie." ”

After a pause, he said: "The minister has a thought, and he feels that the long-term peace and stability of the northwest is quite important, and he must know the queen mother." ”

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(Hehe, 3,600 words, I don't know if it's a "big chapter"?) ）

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