Hearing the news of Zeng Guofan's victory, the atmosphere in the Jinluan Palace in the capital city was finally not so solemn. Hundreds of civil and military officials congratulated Xianfeng one after another, "Ask the emperor to be blessed, God bless me in the Qing Dynasty." ”

Xianfeng smiled happily, and it seemed that the cough was not as bad as before. He looked at Su Shun with admiration: "Su Aiqing, you really have the wisdom to know people, Zeng Guofan is indeed a talent." The national domain, the national domain, interesting, very good! Xianfeng was in a good mood and spoke much more powerfully.

Su Shun hurriedly lost no time in putting a high hat on Xianfeng: "This is all the emperor's good knowledge, without your holy decree, Zeng Guofan can't do anything." ”

Xianfeng nodded, and smiled at Su Shun's sycophant, "Zeng Guofan is not simple, originally Hunan and Hubei needed support from other provinces, but now it's okay, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army is together, and now Hunan and Hubei can not only protect themselves, but also go out of the province to provide foreign support." I heard that Zeng Guofan has gone to Jiangxi? ”

"Yes, yes, Zeng Guofan is going to Jiangxi to encircle and suppress their puppet king Shi Dakai, saying that he will give His Majesty another head of a puppet king." Zeng Guofan did a good job, and the recommender Su Shun also had a lot of face on his face.

"Actually, I asked him to form a group to practice before, just hoping that he could maintain local law and order, but I didn't expect this Zeng Guofan to be so capable and make such a big move, which completely exceeded my expectations of him. By the way, Su Shun, I listened to your recommendation and handed over the vacant position of governor of Hubei to him, did he turn back? Xianfeng felt that it was time to give Zeng Guofan a little reward.

"Your Majesty, the minister is trying to talk about this, this is Zeng Guofan's excerpt, please take a look at it." Su Shun handed the excerpt to the eunuch, who walked to the dragon chair and handed it to Xianfeng.

Xianfeng opened the fold, and Zeng Guofan's gist was to the effect: he said that his ability was limited, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hold such an important position, and asked the emperor to withdraw his fate.

Zeng Guofan's call this politeness, and it is also a kind of fake "shirk" in the officialdom, the emperor promoted you, and you immediately agreed, which seems that you are very addicted to official duties and very superficial. In the officialdom, everyone has to pretend to pretend to resign first, and then accept it. Only then does he appear to be high-spirited and not greedy for power. The courtiers are like this, the emperor is like this, when Wang Mang usurped the throne, he also asked the ministers to persuade him again and again, and finally made it seem that if you don't become the emperor, you are sorry for the high enthusiasm of the ministers.

With a stroke of his pen, Xianfeng was ready to hand over the position of governor of Hubei to Zeng Guofan. At this time, Prince Gong Yixun snorted coldly beside him: "Zeng Guofan is just a temporary servant in Hunan, and he gathered tens of thousands of people and horses as soon as he ascended to the heights, and controlled the two provinces of Hunan and Hubei. If he has the real power of the governor of this province, and there is no shortage of food and salary, if he does not listen to the dispatch of the imperial court in the future, who can cure him? ”

Prince Gong's words made Xianfeng a little frightened when he heard it, now Zeng Guofan has military power, but his financial power is in the hands of the imperial court, which means that there is still a rope around him. After making him governor and the financial power of a province was returned to him, his troops really became private soldiers.

This regimental training is different from the Eight Banners of the Green Battalion, he is who leads the troops and recruits, Zeng Guofan selects the battalion officer, the battalion officer selects the sentry officer, and the sentry officer chooses the chief, layer by layer, whoever looks for it will listen to whomever he says, and finally push it up from the bottom, and the whole army will only listen to Zeng Guofan. If the imperial court wants to replace Zeng Guofan, the battalion officials below are not the ones you transferred can command.

Xianfeng has a good impression of Zeng Guofan, but the ancestral system of hundreds of years is still in his ears. It is an unwritten political rule to be full of people and light on the Han people, and to protect the Han people. Don't look at Xianfeng's difficult time and say that he wants to use Han people and capable ministers, when it comes to the reward, the ancestral system still can't completely ignore this tight spell.

"Wait, don't worry, let's see how he performs in the future." Xianfeng said to himself that for the imperial power of the Manchus, Hong Xiuquan was a Han who wanted to be dike now, while Zeng Guofan was a Han who wanted to be dike in the future, and the difference between the two was only a matter of time.

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Zeng Guofan didn't know that his hat of the governor of Hubei had been blown off, and he was still looking forward to the emperor's reward.

After the victory in Tianjiazhen, Zeng Guofan was full of spirits, he was no longer satisfied with staying in Hunan and Hubei, and his next target was Jiujiang in Jiangxi.

The location of this Jiujiang is too important, it is the northern gate of Jiangxi, and it is the confluence of the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake. Conquering this place cut off the back road of the Wing King Shi Dakai and cut off his connection with Tianjing.

Zeng Guofan's ambition is very big, he just wants to suffocate Shi Dakai's team in the hinterland of Jiangxi. And Shi Dakai's current situation is indeed very dangerous, he was going very well, but King Yu asked for help, and he sent a part of his troops to support. As a result, when the provincial capital Nanchang was attacked later, the troops seemed to be a little stretched. Nanchang couldn't be attacked for a long time, and faced Zeng Guofan's knife in the back.

"Peng Yuqi, you and I will take the sailor to Jiujiang first to cut off the retreat of the bandits in Jiangxi." Zeng Guofan arranged it in the military tent.

"Order!" Peng Yuqi took the order.

"Taqib, your Lu division will be stationed in Tianjia Town for a few days to prevent the bandits from returning." Zeng Guofan was afraid that Qin Rigang's team would come again, so he left Taqibu in Tianjia Town to watch him. "If the bandits don't come to attack, you go south to join Peng Yuqi and attack Jiujiang together." Zeng Guofan arranged it very carefully, and all aspects were taken into account.

But in fact, he made a mistake at this time, the parallel development of water and land has always been something he attaches great importance to, but now the water division and the land division are separated.

It's not a big deal in normal times, it's just a matter of a few days later. But now it is different, Yang Xiaoshan launched a second expedition to the west on the order of the king of the east, starting from Luzhou and rushing straight to Tianjia Town, which was aimed at Zeng Guofan.

Yang Xiaoshan, who had arrived in Anqing from Luzhou, and Luo Xuan, who had come to support, converged, and Yang Xiuqing knew that Zeng Guofan's sailors were powerful, so he specially asked Luo Outline, who was stationed in Zhenjiang, to lead the sailors to help.

"Shizi, this is the handsome seal that the East King asked me to bring you. This is the second western expedition, and all the teams, including the teams of the Wing King and the Marquis of Qin, and other nearby Taiping troops are at your disposal. Luo Xuan took out the handsome seal and handed it to Yang Xiaoshan.

Yang Xiaoshan was full of emotion with the handsome seal, since he entered Tianjing, the king of the east has been guarding himself, but now, he can rely on himself in the end.

"Outline, you asked the fastest brother in your team to take Lin Qirong and my personal battalion to Jiujiang first, and be sure to arrive before the Qing army invaded and occupied. The location of Jiujiang is too important to be missed. Yang Xiaoshan knew that Jiujiang was the focus of the battle this time, and he transferred his most powerful pro-soldier battalion to support.

"The others followed me and pulled out the top in Tianjia Town first, and the Qing army thought that their Hunan and Hubei were at ease? We have to tell them we're coming! "Yang Xiaoshan has already detected that Zeng Guofan's main force is on the way to Jiangxi, as long as he knocks out Tianjia Town, the gate of Hunan and Hubei will be opened again, and if he is not turned upside down after he enters it, it will definitely give Emperor Xianfeng another headache.

"Order!" Everyone is full of confidence in Yang Xiaoshan.