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Zeng Guofan in Anqing breathed a sigh of relief, in October, he received the emperor's last message to him was to let him lead troops into Beijing to capture the king, at that time Xianfeng said that the monk Lingqin had led troops to block the British and French forces in the area of Bali Bridge, Xianfeng was worried that the monk king could not stop, and hoped that Zeng Guofan would go north to capture the king with the elite of the Hunan army.

When he received this news, Zeng Guofan immediately fainted, and after waking up and discussing with his staff, his staff said that the great trouble in the world is the Cantonese bandits (Taiping Army), the whole country is raging Cantonese bandits, only Anqing is the only good, once the march to the north, Anqing does not guard, I am afraid that the Cantonese bandits will sweep the world.

Zeng Guofan didn't say that he wouldn't capture the king, but sent a letter to Xianfeng, asking about the actual situation, in fact, he was delaying, and the battle was over as soon as he came and went, and it was clear whether Seng Lingqin was losing or winning at that time.

But after that, Zeng Guofan never received any more news, until he received the news of the fall of Beijing and the emperor's abandonment of the city, he suddenly felt that the world was turned upside down, and then he couldn't eat and sleep, and he was extremely worried.

With the worldview of a scholar like Zeng Guofan, it is really difficult to imagine the future situation of the imperial court after the fall of the national capital, whether the world captured the king by soldiers at the end of the Ming Dynasty, or whether the two emperors of Huiqin at the end of the Song Dynasty were captured by the Jin soldiers, and then half of the country fell, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties reappeared.

He couldn't figure it out, because the situation at this time was different from any situation in history, because there had never been a situation in history where the country was occupied and the emperor ran away.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State went south, the troops approached the Yellow River, Tokyo shook, Kou Zhun forced the Song Emperor Zhenzong to personally conquer, and finally signed the alliance of the Yuanyuan, which is the best example of dismantling the crisis.

In the Ming Dynasty, the situation was like the Song Dynasty, the worst time was the invasion of Wara, the emperor Ming Yingzong personally conquered, was captured by the Warat people, as a result, Yu Qian supported the new monarch in Beijing, swore to defend the city, and finally the Warat people could only retreat.

During the Chongzhen period, Huang Taiji plundered Beijing many times, Chongzhen ordered the capture of the king many times, and did not leave Beijing from beginning to end, so that Huang Taiji never captured Beijing City, and could only look at the city and sigh.

As for the situation that the city was broken, for example, during the period of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers went south, and finally broke through the Kaifeng City, and the two emperors of Huiqin were captured, and the end was the destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zhao Gou crossed to the south to establish the Southern Song Dynasty, which lasted for another two hundred years. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide and martyrdom.

Counting the history of recent generations, Zeng Guofan found that almost everything that the capital was breached caused by the destruction of the country, and even if the emperor was captured, as long as the capital was in hand, a new monarch would be established, and the foundation of the world could not be moved.

But this time he really couldn't understand it, the capital was gone, but the emperor ran away!

What's going on?

He didn't despise Emperor Xianfeng's courage, to be honest, if the capital was really unable to hold, Zeng Guofan would rather the emperor choose to run than see the emperor captured by foreigners, which would be troublesome, and it caused the momentum of the Jin and Song dynasties. If the emperor runs away, he can at least come to Jiangnan to take charge of half of the country.

But the foreigners are different from the Jin soldiers, the Jin soldiers are from outside the border to the south, and the foreigners come from the ocean, and they always invade the east.

At this time, Zeng Guofan pinned his hopes on everyone's understanding of foreigners, that is, they only came for money, hoping that they would be able to sign a contract with victory, even if they wanted more compensation, as long as they could keep the court, it would be a great luck!

So when Zeng Guofan received the news of the foreigner's signing, he was finally relieved, even if he heard that the foreigner was missing three mountains and five gardens (the Old Summer Palace was only one of them), he was not shocked or angry, although for the emperor, it was precisely because the foreigner entered his private garden outside the city, the Old Summer Palace, offended his heavenly face, that he gave up the opportunity to last peace talks, but in Zeng Guofan's view, it was just a garden, and there was nothing to rebuild.

After receiving the news, Zeng Guofan asked the spies to inquire again to see how the emperor was doing and whether he would return to Beijing?

Like Zeng Guofan, there was also Bai Gui in Guangzhou, who heard that the foreigners were still negotiating and signing the same agreement as before, and sighed that God blessed the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, he was also like Zeng Guofan, sending people to secretly inquire about the emperor's news. The treaty has been signed, and I heard that the foreigners are also withdrawing their troops, so there is no need to worry about the news of the destruction of the Qing Dynasty, and the most important thing now is to let the emperor return to Luan to calm the hearts of the world.

Among the officials in the world, Zhu Jinglun is probably the only one who is not worried about the demise of the Qing court, but has long been clear about the outcome.

Of course, there is another person who is not worried, Zhang Qianshan, who is in Heshan at this time, is not because he has no court, but because he is in big trouble.

Half a month ago, Zhu Jinglun came back from Guangzhou, Zhang Qianshan immediately transferred over, not that he was anxious, but Bai Gui was anxious, Bai Gui was anxious to let Zhang Qianshan take over the defense of the township Yong in the Xinhui area, not that Zhu Jinglun was afraid of this, but that the situation in Beijing was unclear at that time, in case there was a change in the world, he needed Zhu Jinglun to deploy heavy troops in Xin'an, whether it was to attack Hong Kong, or to defend the gate of Guangzhou, in short, he needed Xin'an's county Yong to return to Xin'an immediately to garrison.

After receiving the defense, the first two days were quite stable, the local squires had a family of filial piety to Zhang Qianshan, whether they were natives or guests, they were the majority of squires who were eager to live a peaceful life, and they hoped that Xin'an County would go bravely, and Zhang Qianshan could continue to protect them.

After accepting the filial piety of these people, Zhang Qianshan didn't think that the relationship between the Turks and guests here was very difficult, and felt that Zhu Jinglun was exaggerating, and even suspected that Zhu Jinglun was scaring him for a while, and didn't want him to come here to take over, because Zhang Qianshan found that the conditions in this area were too good, close to the sea, and trade was prosperous, especially Xinhui, which was simply a port to sea in several nearby counties at this time, and ships came and went frequently.

So Zhang Qianshan chose Xinhui as his base camp, because he got Bai Gui's permission to let him set up a card in the station, and he got this privilege because Bai Gui could not provide Zhang Qianshan with enough military salary.

Looking at the amount of money that comes in every day, Zhang Qianshan felt that Zhu Jinglun didn't want him to come here to make a fortune, and slowly turned a deaf ear to Zhu Jinglun's advice.

As for the Tuke Fight, except when he first arrived, he invited the gentry of the country to get together once and gave his own admonition to these people, and then he didn't pay much attention to it.

Often, things happen carelessly.

There have always been small-scale fights, and when Zhu Jinglun was there, he strictly ordered anyone who made trouble to suppress it immediately, no matter who it was, and if he violated the township agreement, he would be beaten.

But Zhang Qianshan was a little sluggish, he heard the fighting in one or two villages, and he wouldn't move. The local county order requested, and he also blocked the other party back on the grounds of the promotion fee.

The reason why the Tuke made a township covenant and still had to fight was mainly an economic problem, the Turen were better, and after settling down, they soon began to rebuild their homes, and their influence in the government was relatively large, and this influence was generally reflected in the county officials in the local yamen were all natives, so they not only got the government's money and grain exemption, but also some could win some assistance, and the local public bureau of the Turen was relatively perfect, and some big landlords and clans were also trying their best to help their fellow villagers at this time.

The Hakka people are different, their main organization is the clan, the rich landlords are relatively few, and as a result, they have also returned to their dilapidated homes, the first is rarely able to get help from the government, and the second is that their savings are almost none, it takes time to build their homes, and it takes time for the bankers to mature, but people's stomachs cannot wait.

At this time, they encountered this situation again, no one was willing to sit still, so someone took the lead and began to attack everywhere, just to loot the subsistence food, Zhu Jinglun's army did not hesitate to suppress it when it was there, so this kind of fighting for food in order to grab food happened from time to time, but it could soon be calmed down, when Xin'an County Yong left, Zhang Qianshan changed his guard, he saw that this kind of small-scale weapon fight had no need to suppress at all, not waiting for his army to drive over, The Hakka people have fled back to the mountains, he doesn't want his soldiers to attack the mountains, and after a few times, they will be completely carried, anyway, these people are just grabbing some food, and they don't kill people much, so they can go.

Therefore, there was only such a small-scale fight at the beginning, but once someone saw that the government ignored it, they would have some thoughts that they shouldn't have.

On the grounds that the Hakka people did not abide by the township covenant and plundered everywhere, he united with the Yangjiang Bureau and other public bureaus to secretly mobilize troops, and directly killed Cangcheng and Yunxiang in Heshan, where the Hakka people lived, from Kaiping.

When the armed fighting developed from the spontaneous snatching of grain in individual villages to an organized vendetta, it was too late for Zhang Qianshan to intervene.

It's not his instigation, Zhang Qianshan has a kind of bravery, and the soldiers he brings also have it, but it is only limited to the cavalry under him, which has now expanded to a horse team of 1,000 people, and there are 2,000 infantry left, which are all tools that make him drink the blood of soldiers, and they are all delicate.

But this area is all mountainous, and his horse team can't be used at all, so he is too lazy to attack the Hakka cottage, just for fear that his elite will be lost in vain.

But this time, seeing the huge scale of the Tuke fight, the Turen first killed the Hakka people, and the Hakka people also organized a counterattack, and the five or six counties around Kaiping were tired of coming in in an instant, and the two sides fought while they were also in tandem, seeing that there was a possibility of another six-county battle, Zhang Qianshan remembered Zhu Jinglun's warning.

Hurriedly sent troops to suppress it, but the tens of thousands of Turks who had been organized made his troops dare not move.

But the trouble is not over yet, the county commanders of the six counties saw that it was not easy to settle down in the territory, and they thought that they could live a stable life, who knew that as soon as Zhang Qianshan came, he made a good situation like this, especially the several county orders who had been urging Zhang Qianshan to send troops when they encountered a fight, and at this time they seized the handle, united, and sued Zhang Qianshan fiercely.

The most powerful thing is the Xinhui County Order, and he ran directly to the provincial capital, and cried in front of Bai Gui in person, saying that as soon as Zhang Qianshan arrived in Xinhui, he set up a card and did not say anything, and his soldiers oppressed the good, and they simply did all kinds of evil, and they were angry and resentful, and they were fighting for the first place when they looted the people, and they were unable to move forward when they pacified the place, and he accused Zhang Qianshan of lazy and neglectful government! asked Bai Gui to put Zhang Qianshan in prison to make the people angry.

Xinhui County Ling Nie Erkang actually directly put the responsibility for the spread of the Tuke weapon fight again on Zhang Qianshan. (To be continued.) )