Empress Dowager Cixi was not a stupid person, and after taking power from eight ministers, she wanted to establish her prestige, first of all, to quell the Taiping Rebellion. And judging from the current military situation, this Zeng Guofan is doing very well now, although Zeng Guofan is a person promoted by Su Shun, but he is also very familiar with the wind at this time, and Su Shun actively expressed his loyalty to Cixi as soon as he died.

Cixi knew that the Manchus were useless now, and that they could only rely on these Han Chinese to suppress the peasant uprising. So in accordance with the advice of Zeng Guofan and others, a large number of Han officials were appointed as feudal officials and local officials, such as Zuo Zongtang as the governor of Zhejiang, Shen Baozhen as the governor of Jiangxi, Li Hongzhang as the governor of Jiangsu, Liu Changyou as the governor of Guangxi, Zheng Yuanshan as the governor of Henan, Li Xuyi as the governor of Anhui, Yan Shusen as the governor of Hubei, Mao Hongbin as the governor of Hunan, Jiang Zhongyi as the governor of Guizhou, and a large number of Han people became political envoys and envoys of various provinces

After these appointments were issued, the government and the opposition were in an uproar: this was the biggest personnel change since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a "big blood change"! What's more, the people who were reused this time were all Han people without exception, and some of them didn't even have a high reputation (for example, Zuo Zongtang was just a lifter, completely based on military merits), and at the same time handed over the military and political power of so many provinces and regions to the Han people, this skill is too powerful!

The people and nobles jumped up immediately, and this is worth it! Isn't this going to ruin more than 200 years of ancestors! It's also a risk! However, these complaints and protests were blocked back by Cixi's words: "You don't need them, it's okay, then please go to the front line to clean up the mess!" "Now, those relatives and nobles have no voice.

Since then, among the 10 governors in the country, except for one of the governor of Huguang, Guanwen, the remaining 9 are all Han Chinese, and the governors of the 15 provinces are all Han Chinese, and the degree of reuse of the Han people is unprecedented.

Yang Xiaoshan is now a minister of the dragon, and the reduction of the monk king is an order from the first emperor, and Cixi is not good to change this decision as soon as she comes to power, so she can only add an official to Yang Xiaoshan to the knighthood to show comfort. After all, no matter how unbearable the monk king is, he also holds the military power of Mongolian Horqin, and he is also the object that Cixi needs to try his best to woo.

Now Yang Xiaoshan is ranked as the king of the county, and the title is only below the prince, and the promotion speed is already quite terrifying. You must know that the degree to which the monk Gelinqin is deeply favored by the emperor is also a middle-aged person who is crowned a prince.

At this time, Yang Xiaoshan could already casually talk to Prince Gong to ask for an official, and in the face of the continuous reporting of the military situation, he learned that the Anhui Taiping Army was very passive, Anqing had been broken, and the Hunan Army was preparing to besiege Luzhou, and in Sichuan, Shi Dakaibu was surrounded by the Qing army.

Yang Xiaoshan was in a dilemma, he was quite entangled in whether to go to Anhui or Sichuan. In the end, considering that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom still held southern Jiangsu and would not be destroyed in a short time, he felt that it was better to go to Sichuan to save Shi Dakai first. Because of the history he can remember, Shi Dakai was destroyed near the Dadu River in Sichuan, and in the end, Shi Dakai was executed by Ling Chi, and the ending was quite tragic.

So Yang Xiaoshan was appointed as the minister of the Qincha, in charge of all military affairs in Sichuan, and rushed to Sichuan.

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Shi Dakai faced the natural danger of the three major rivers and knew that it was very dangerous, but he still led his troops forward to enter the Chengdu Plain, which is the closest.

Tens of thousands of troops went south along the river, and it took a month to reach Zhujiazui upstream, before crossing the first dangerous Wujiang River.

This first natural risk is quite smooth, but the second natural risk Jinshajiang is not so easy. The Qing army had discovered Shi Dakai's intentions, and the troops came over, and Peizhou along the coast was reinforced, but Shi Dakai could not attack it for a long time, and the Qing army surrounded him from all directions.

In order to avoid being surrounded by the Qing army, Shi Dakai could only look west for a suitable opportunity to cross the river.

But the terrain here is really dangerous, Shi Dakai from Peizhou to Nanchuan, then to Qingfu, and then to Xuyong, has never been able to cross the river.

And Luo Bingzhang had already moved all the boat people in this area to prevent Shi Dakai from crossing the river, and constantly used the terrain advantage to besiege Shi Dakai, so that he suffered a lot of losses.

Shi Dakai was reluctant to pursue the Qing army, feeling that the large army was moving slowly, and the Qing army was taking the lead everywhere, and fell into passivity. So he divided the team into three: Lai Yuxin led 20,000 people to go west to Yunnan and then to Sichuan, Li Fu led 30,000 people to the east into Guizhou, and then into Sichuan, and he led the remaining 30,000 people west along the Jinsha River, waiting for an opportunity to cross the river.

The strategy of dividing the troops into three ways is also Shi Dakai's desire to confuse Luo Bingzhang, so that he can't target them all, so that the chance of crossing the river is greater. But at this time, Luo Bingzhang had already learned that the Taiping Army in the middle was the main force of Shi Dakai by bribing spies, so he bit him tightly and handed over the other two roads to others to deal with.

The number of people has decreased, there are advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that Shi Dakai's team has moved faster, so he successfully crossed the Jinsha River at Shaotong Miliangba, but the disadvantage is that the strength comparison between himself and the Qing army has changed, Luo Bingzhang used tens of thousands of Qing troops to attack Shi Dakai, so that he had to march quickly and did not dare to stay and rest.

After forcibly crossing the Jinsha River, Shi Dakai faced the last natural danger, which was the very famous Dadu River. Led by a local guide, he came to Zidadi near the Dadu River, which is an extremely dangerous place.

Zidadi is a small open land at the ferry port on the south bank of the Dadu River, where the river flowing south from Luding encounters a mountain obstruction, suddenly turns around and makes a 90-degree turn, roaring eastward with a huge drop.

Zidadi is located just downstream of this big turn, and there is a small river called Songlin River to the west of it, a mountain called Ma'anshan Mountain to the east, and a river called the Charo River on the east side of Ma'an Mountain. The three rivers were covered with bald treasures, covering Shi Dakai's team like a pocket, and entering this pocket was the sheep's intestine path in the valley, which was easily blocked.

So when Shi Dakai came here, he gasped, he was a very good commander, and he knew that this place was extremely dangerous, because there was no Qing army on the other side for the time being, and Shi Dakai still had a chance to cross it at this time. You must know that the Red Army also broke through from here back then.

On the day he arrived, Shi Dakai built a raft and prepared to cross the river. Because the current of the river was so fast, it took an hour to go back and forth, and now it was almost night, and it was impossible for the whole army to cross the river.

Shi Dakai considered that the Qing army was around, and in order to prevent the Qing army from attacking half-crossing, he decided to cross the river early the next morning.

When they got up the next morning, the whole army was dumbfounded, and the water of the Dadu River had suddenly risen several feet, and the current was even more turbulent than before, and as soon as the raft was released into the river, it was washed away without a trace, and even experienced ferrymen could not cross the river.

Moreover, the river water is formed by melting the snow on the mountain, which is extremely cold, and people will be frozen when they get off the river, and the river water is more than 300 meters wide, and no matter how good the water is, it cannot swim through.

This sudden rise in the water trapped Shi Dakai's department, and tens of thousands of people were confined to a small purple field, while the Qing army was quickly surrounding.