(Xie Lu, Xie Huaai's reward and full praise)

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Du Han's father, Du Shoutian, was Xianfeng's teacher when he was the prince, and Xianfeng's ascension to the throne can be said to be all thanks to this teacher.

After Emperor Daoguang's health was not good, he began to consider candidates for Lichu. As the fourth elder brother, Xianfeng, although he is older, has a lame physical defect, and his literary talent and martial arts are inferior to the sixth elder brother Gong Wang Yixun at that time, and in his heart, he already feels that his position is hopeless. However, in Emperor Daoguang's two inspections of them, Xianfeng relied on the guidance of his teacher and outperformed the sixth brother.

The first time was to hunt in Nanyuan. The Manchurians were heavily cavalry and archery, and what Daoguang investigated was the skills of the brothers. After the competition, it was naturally the sixth elder brother who hunted the most, while the fourth elder brother did not fire a single arrow and did not get anything. Daoguang asked, and the fourth elder brother replied according to Du Shoutian's statement that he had taught Lu in advance: "When Fang Chunhe, birds and beasts are pregnant, and they can't bear to be hurt. This statement won Daoguang's admiration, and he thought that he had the degree of a monarch.

The second time, when Daoguang was seriously ill, he wanted to make the most final investigation of the insights of these two sons. The sixth elder brother talked about how to govern, how to use people, how to govern the country, and he poured out his ambitions in his chest. Du Shoutian knew that the fourth elder brother would never be able to compete with his younger brother in this regard, so he secretly instructed three words: "Just cry!" So it was the turn of the fourth elder brother to meet him, and when he answered the question, he fell to the ground and wept from beginning to end, and moved the Daoguang on the sickbed very much, and explained to the ministers around him: "The fourth son of the emperor is born with pure filial piety and can succeed the great task." ”

Xianfeng Jedi turned the tables and finally got to the throne, so he was naturally grateful to the teacher and was honored. When Du Shoutian died, he was nicknamed "Wenzheng", and was posthumously awarded the title of "Taishi University Scholar", and he was the only one among the ministers of the Qing Dynasty. And his son Du Han was inevitably favored by the emperor and was promoted to the Minister of Military Aircraft.

Guan Zhuofan thought to himself, Du Shoutian's imperial technique can be said to be the pinnacle, I don't know how much Du Han has learned such a mental technique?

Du Han always had a little doubt about Guan Zhuofan, thinking that it was really strange that he was not appreciated by King Gong with his talent.

"Yixuan, I heard that you can still speak foreign language?" Duhan asked with interest, "Where did you learn it?" ”

"If you go back to adulthood, you were taught by my husband at home when I was a child."

"Is this gentleman still there?"

Guan Zhuofan shook his head: "When I was fourteen years old, my husband was gone, and I don't know where to go. ”

"Oh, oh" Duhan nodded, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

Guan Zhuofan's statement is actually not very satisfactory, as long as it is carefully verified, it is not difficult to debunk. He was wary of Du Han, thinking that you are in Rehe, and it is impossible to investigate this matter now, but it will not be known in the future. In my heart, I added another layer of bad feeling to this Du Han.

However, what he really cared about was not Du Han, but Su Shun. Seeing Su Shun here was a surprise for him, and he wanted to hear more from Su Shun. Heaven fulfilled people's wishes, he was thinking about how to find a reason to talk to Su Shun, but he didn't expect Su Shun to speak by himself, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was a posture of wanting to talk about teaching people a lesson.

"It's not a good thing to be able to speak foreign languages!" Su Shun took the cigarette stick in his hand and lit Guan Zhuofan, "These things of foreigners, strange skills and tricks, apart from guns, what good things are there?" As he spoke, he glanced at Duanhua before continuing: "Those things in the capital are never allowed to be brought to the army, what is the Prime Minister's Affairs Yamen, and what is the Tongwen Pavilion...... The Heavenly Empire, can you use this set? In my opinion, the ports connected to trade are also forced by foreigners to have no choice, so they have to deal with it first, and sooner or later, it should be closed. ”

The latter words were no longer said to Guan Zhuofan, but to several other people, and he sighed with emotion.

Du Han coughed and reminded Su Shun that there were still outsiders present. Su Shun didn't know the way, but in his eyes, he didn't take Guan Zhuofan seriously at all, and when he saw Du Han making such a statement at this moment, he simply made the decision for Duanhua.

"Go down." Su Shun waved his hand.

"Yes." Guan Zhuofan greeted the few people in the seat again, and then bowed down and exited the room and walked out of the house.

Su Shun didn't know what to say, and his life and death were doomed during this conversation - after all, it was impossible to escape the knife at the entrance of the vegetable market.

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In fact, whether it is Cao Yuying, King Gong, or Concubine Yi, none of them can completely look at Guan Zhuofan. Only the Bai family, when he fled from the British headquarters, had faintly felt that there was an aura in him that could not be resisted. But whenever he left the house, this momentum would be deliberately concealed, as if the steel knife hid the shining blade, and the beast put away its claws and fangs.

In his heart, there is a set purpose, which is indestructible and irreplaceable. No matter how he lowered his eyebrows and acted on the spot, his pure heart did not change in the slightest.

For him, the fire of the Old Summer Palace has never been extinguished.

You broke my things, and I want you to pay for them. The blood debt you owe will be paid with blood.

Money, power, and beauty can't slow him down; The laws of the world and the promises of a thousand daughters can also be discarded by him. He had too much to do, too big, too hard, and would never be bound by anything.

He has never become a "person of King Gong", nor will he become a "person of Concubine Yi".

He has always been his own person.

Now that history is about to come to a fork in the road, Kwan Cheuk-fan is convinced that he has the ability to determine the future.

To the left, or to the right.

The two palaces have the same respect, Prince Gong has been in the country for more than ten years, although it cannot be said that there has been no action, there has been the so-called "Tongzhi Zhongxing", but the national situation has never been fundamentally improved, and it is an indisputable fact that it has been thrown farther and farther away by the powers. Therefore, he always had a little hope for Su Shun, he wanted to see what kind of person this was.

The supree, domineering, arrogant, and mean recorded in the history books is a powerful minister and a traitorous minister. None of this is false, but the other side of Sushun has been ignored intentionally or unintentionally, after all, history is written by the victors.

What Guan Zhuofan can be sure of is that in addition to being a powerful minister and a traitor, Su Shun is also a capable minister! He did things neatly and resolutely, purging the dynasty and discipline internally, and brazenly killed Bai Ye, a bachelor involved in the fraud case in the science field, although the means were excessive, but the science field was clean and bad for a while, and it cannot but be said that it was his credit. Externally, he fully supported Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Hu Linyi and other Han ministers, which was also an important reason why the Qing court was able to turn the situation around in the struggle with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

However, no matter how good it is, it is dispelled by Su Shun's sentence of "closing himself off from the country". From this point of view, if Su Shun's group of people are in charge of the country, it can only be even more unbearable.

As for when he should intervene in history and when he should reverse history, Guan Zhuofan himself has the most profound considerations and plans.

Intervening in history is like finding a good position and taking one more person on the big car of history. This is to follow the trend, save time and effort, and will not have a fundamental impact on the trend of this car. At the same time, as a prophetic crossing figure, he can always know where the next stop of this car is.

To reverse history is to be the mantis arm that blocks the car, not only to make the greatest efforts, but also to risk being crushed by the wheel of history at any time. The bigger problem is that once you succeed in changing the direction of the car, you lose your greatest advantage – no one knows where the car's next stop will be.

It's not worth doing this for the sake of Su Shun.

Su Zhongtang, I'm sorry, Guan Zhuofan thought to himself, you have to be that powerful minister and traitor again.

And I want to be the hero who protects the sky and spins the world.