During the period when Guan Zhuofan entered Atlanta from Chattanooga, the political situation on the other side of the ocean was quite volatile.

The chaos is getting hotter and hotter, and the chaos is difficult to appease.

The Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion, which began in the first year of Tongzhi, has intensified so far, with fires burning everywhere in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and other provinces, and the communication between the Central Plains and Xinjiang has been completely cut off.

Not only that, but Xinjiang has also seen turmoil due to the impact of the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion. Kucha, Hotan, Kashgar, Turpan and other places successively erected rebel flags, and the local Qing army hung alone in the Western Regions, struggling to support.

And the imperial court can't even clean up the chaos in Shaanxi and Gansu, and Xinjiang is even more out of reach.

At that time, the minister who was responsible for supervising the suppression of the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion was Shengbao.

Shengbao is a person with eyes on the top of his head, Xinyou coup, he received Guan Zhuofan's secret report, commanded the troops into the guard, coerced Su Shun, and thought that he had set up a world-famous feat of spinning the world and protecting the sky, but he was completely empty-eyed.

Although King Gong is not in his eyes, he is the queen mother and the emperor, and in Shengbao's eyes, he is just an orphan and widow who has been blessed by him.

Cixi once warned Guan Zhuofan that "you must not learn Nian Qianyao", Guan Zhuofan will never learn Nian Qianyao - how difficult is it stupid. But for some reason, the person who Shengbao loves to learn the most in his life is the young general who was forced by Emperor Xianzong to hang himself with a rope.

When the Shengbao overseer army entered Shaanxi, his energy was not focused on calming down the chaos as soon as possible, and his greatest interest was to imitate what Nian Qianyao did.

He wrote to the governors of Shaanxi and Henan, who were of the same grade, and did not use parallel "consultations", but used the "za" from above and below. The old master in the curtain persuaded him, and Katsubo Zhenzhen said: "The minister of the Qincha is the general." The general controlled the civil and military officials in the defense area. To the governor of the text. Use '札' as usual. Regardless of grade. ”

This is what Nian Qianyao did back then.

It was a common thing for Shengbao and a deputy commander to have a dispute over military affairs, but he was furious and ordered the deputy commander to go down and beat the military stick hard. The deputy capital commander protested and said: You and I are both second-class, how can you beat me? Sheng Bao said loudly: I am the minister of the Qin Mission, don't say that you can beat your military stick or cut off your head!

In the end, the deputy capital was beaten well, and he was not good at acting. Unable to command military affairs, he had to be sent back to Beijing. Up and down, the government and the opposition were horrified.

This is also Nian Qianyao's style.

Shengbao eats, called "passing on the meal", and imitates it very authentically, each dish in duplicate, eats happily, and "spreads" at every turn, rewards a bowl of a certain soldier, and rewards a bowl of copywriting.

This is still Nian Qianyao's style.

Once. said that the leeks were not fresh, and actually killed the cook who made this dish.

No one knows that the new leeks are not new. But the taste is not right, and killing the cook is something that Nian Qianyao has also done.

Shengbao was born in a person, is well-versed in Hanmo, and likes to draft his own recitals. But that's where things are bad. His favorite two sentences are quoted, one is to quote the story of the Han Zhou Yafu wall, "In the army, I hear the general's order, but I don't hear the edict of the Son of Heaven"; One sentence is, "'The rule of generals outside the imperial court' is beyond the control of the imperial court."

This kind of thing, just say a sentence and a half sentence occasionally, he repeats it over and over again, as a king, no matter how broad his bearing is, he can't stand it.

Shengbao forgot how Zhou Yafu and Nian Qianyao died.

If Shengbao can really win the battle, it will be fine, the problem is that after he entered Shaanxi, he did nothing, and whenever there was a battle, there was no defeat, and people gave the flower name "Defeat Bao".

In addition, Shengbao's fishing color and encroachment are also bad.

According to the Qing system, it is not allowed to bring family members with the army, but there are more than 30 concubines in Shengbao's army!

The most beautiful one of them is surnamed Lu, who was originally the wife of Chen Yucheng, the "British King" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

At that time, Chen Yucheng was poor and had no place to return and defected to Miao Peilin, the general manager of Shouzhou. Miao Peilin swayed between the imperial court and Hong Yang, and when he saw that the overall situation was unfavorable to Hong Yang, he tied Chen Yucheng to Shengbao, who had always been friends with him. Shengbao fell pie in the sky, not only achieved the achievement of capturing the first brave general of long hair, but also accepted Chen Yucheng's wife with a heavenly appearance, and he was happy.

As for the embezzlement, it is also Shengbao's hobby. Since he likes to use "Za" for the governor, the relationship with others is naturally not good. The provincial "salaries" are often not received on time, and the military is already extremely scarce. He enjoys it personally, but he spends extravagantly, and if he has a little military spending, he must first spend a river of water. So the subordinate officers and soldiers, hungry and cold, turned away from morality.

The local governor and Han Zhan Ke Dao are handed in the stamps.

Some people think that "looking at his weekday music, the heart of not being subordinate, can be generalized", and some people think that "the disease of twisting the mustard, Yuekou is only a problem of the limbs, and only Shengbao is a big problem for the heart".

One of the most murderous chapters: "The righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, 'the prince has no generals, and he will be punished', and the victory is guaranteed?" ”

Shengbao must not stay in the position of this minister of the Qin Mission, if nothing else, he is in Shaanxi and Gansu for a day, and the thief will be arrogant for a day. At this time, Cixi and King Gong were still thinking of the merits of Shengbao Qixiang's coup d'état, and wanted to transfer him to Beijing and let him choose one of the two positions of the secretary of the military department and the minister of the internal affairs.

The military department is naturally more prestigious, but the officials of the internal affairs department are rich in oil and water, and Shengbao is extravagant, which can be used to maintain his usual envoy expenses.

The two palaces and the king of the council are victorious, and they are painstaking, benevolent and righteous.

Who knew that Shengbao was like thunder, and he sent a letter to Cao Yuying: "If you want to bind the guarantor, you can immediately pay the sikou, why not use words as bait?" But remember the affairs of Xinyou, how can the public have today? ”

I don't know if he is too imaginative, he really thinks that the imperial court is going to trick him into the capital to punish him, or if he deliberately ridicules him, in short, this letter directly reprimands the two palaces, King Gong and the whole class of military aircraft for being ungrateful, so that Cixi and King Gong both have murderous intentions against him.

But dealing with winning is not an easy task.

The difficulty is not in the victory itself. Although Shengbao said that he commanded the army, his majesty had no way, and the people below would not really work for him, so there was no risk of mutiny.

The difficulty is on the other three.

One is Miao Peilin, as I have already said before.

One is Li Shizhong, this person was originally a fierce general of the Twist Army, surrendered for Shengbao, and the benevolent connection between Shengbao, the situation is like Miao Peilin.

Both of them now have heavy armies in their hands, and they occupy important positions, and they cannot be forced to rebel.

However, after discussion, Wen Xiang, Cao Yuying and others believed that Miao and Li were not really righteous people, and they just saw the wind and steered. As long as the imperial court gently comforts them and convinces them that the victory is not aimed at them, they should not make any changes.

The real difficulty lies in the third person: Guan Zhuofan.

Guan Zhuofan was born in Shengbao's army, and he is also related to Shengbao, and he is called Shengbao's "fourth uncle" on weekdays, and the two families move around frequently.

To win the guarantee, Guan Zhuofan's understanding must be obtained in advance, otherwise he will definitely feel cold when he commands troops in a foreign country.

Guan Zhuofan must be knowledgeable, but the two palaces, King Gong, and Junji have a consensus: in addition, Guan Zhuofan is still a temperamental person who attaches great importance to kindness and righteousness, no matter whether he "understands" or not, he will feel very uncomfortable when his "Fourth Uncle Sheng" is convicted.

Shengbao has been doing nonsense, the two palaces and King Gong have always been tolerant, in addition to remembering the old, largely because of Guan Zhuofan, who is desperately working in the United States with the Xuan army.

Even if Guan Zhuofan can "understand", how can he contact and communicate? It is not possible to directly send a telegram to the United States for this matter, which is tantamount to forcing Guan Zhuofan to bow his head, which will affect the morale of the military.

It's a real headache.

But this matter must not be delayed for too long, otherwise, Shaanxi and Gansu will be more and more out of control.

There is also a big headache, twisting.

Twist bandits in Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Shandong and other areas, a bunch of generals and famous ministers in the imperial court chased after each other, and they were never able to succeed. Now the banditry is quite revived, and a few days ago, it even approached Zhili.

There is another cause for concern. The twist bandits are divided into two branches, the east twist and the west twist, the west twist is obviously trying to go west and collude with the bandits, if you really let the twist round flow, then the northwest Central Plains is in chaos, once the situation deteriorates, close to Gyeonggi, the disaster is unpredictable, and the danger is not under Hong Yang.

Every time the two palaces thought about it, they felt that they couldn't swallow.

The twist bandits have not been able to be leveled for a long time, and the queen mother and several military aircraft have the same opinion, and the root lies in the monk king who is in charge of the twisting.

Although the monk king is good at fighting and willing to fight, he is too proud to listen to different opinions. His subordinates have been fighting for a long time without success, and they have become very corrupt, and their military discipline has become very corrupt, and they are very disgusted by the people of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, and Lu provinces.

Most importantly, his tactics didn't work.

*(To be continued......)