Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

Emperor Xianfeng did not dismiss Wu Chaoyue's officials, but the tone of the so-called oracle brought by Jing Shou was also very unkind.

"The emperor commanded, Ning Zhen guarded the patrol road Wu Chaoyue knelt down! Wu Chaoyue, I asked you to enter Zhenjiang, and you still dare to ask me for silver? I have given you 110,000 taels of silver, do you still think it is not enough? You said it yourself, how many team exercises have you given me, and how many victories have you given me? If you want silver, no, let's kill thousands of longhairs first! Chin this! ”

After repeating the so-called oracle of Emperor Xianfeng, for fear that Wu Chaoyue would misunderstand, Jing Shou hurriedly said: "Lord Wu, your military salary is much less than that of others, but Xiang Rong, Qi Shan and Zhou Tianjue are banner soldiers and green battalions after all, and you are running a regimental training, and the military expenses should be raised locally by themselves." The imperial court will pay you military salaries, once this precedent is set, and the regimental training in various places also reaches out to the imperial court to ask for money and food, how can the imperial court deal with it? Therefore, the monk and Lin Kui used this excuse to oppose the imperial court's allocation of military salaries, and Su Zhongtang couldn't help you even if he wanted to help you speak. ”

Wu Chaoyue kept a straight face and didn't speak, in fact, Wu Chaoyue was not short of military salaries and silver, and some wealthy merchants and gentry in Shanghai were willing to donate money and food to Wu Chaoyue to handle regimental training to defend Shanghai, but when he thought that he had paid so many sacrifices and fought so much, and the silver he got from the Manchu court was far inferior to Xiang Rong, Qi Shan, Zhou Tianjue and other straw bag fools, Wu Chaoyue was angry-it was too unfair!

Seeing that Wu Chaoyue's expression was not good, Jing Shou took the initiative to say again: "Lord Wu, Su Zhongtang also asked the subordinate to bring you a word, if you are really short of silver, you can find a way to get it yourself." As long as you don't violate the law of the country, you can use any method, and the court will find a way for you, and he will never let Seng Lingqin and Lin Kui make trouble with you again. ”

I didn't know how important Su Shun's promise was, Wu Chaoyue just nodded sullenly. casually thanked Su Shun for taking care of him, but Zhao Liewen's eyes lit up next to him, and he couldn't help but show some joy. Accompanying Wu Chaoyue to send Jing Shou away, Zhao Liewen didn't care that Wu Chaoyue was about to collapse, so he couldn't wait to grab Wu Chaoyue, and said quickly: "Comfort Pavilion, it's a good thing, Su Zhongtang promised to help you, even if you don't want to get rich this time, it's difficult." ”

"What do you mean? Why can't I understand? Wu Chaoyue asked suspiciously.

"Su Zhongtang let you figure out how to get the money yourself. and promised to help you in the court, which is equivalent to giving you a chance to make a fortune! Zhao Liewen said excitedly: "Such a good opportunity, why don't you want to think about how to make good use of it, but sigh?" ”

"How to make good use of it?" Wu Chaoyue was really tired, and it was difficult to even use his brain, so he just asked Zhao Liewen directly.

"There are many ways, and I've already thought of two." Zhao Liewen raised two fingers and said, "First." Please ask Su Zhongtang to let the emperor and the court allow you to pay with salt! I won't say how important the salt tax is, and the imperial court has always been very strict about private salt. But if you ask the imperial court to allow you to bundle salt and sell it for yourself in exchange for military salaries, it is equivalent to opening up an endless source of wealth, and from now on, you will no longer have to worry about military salaries! ”

insisted on thinking for a moment, and felt that Zhao Liewen was very reasonable. Wu Chaoyue nodded at this time, and asked again: "What about the second way?" ”

"The second method was not something I came up with, but a long-term wish of my fourth brother-in-law, Zhou Tenghu." Zhao Liewen said again: "Please allow the imperial court to allow you to mint silver dollars by yourself, under the pretext that it is convenient to buy weapons from foreigners, and to earn profits as military salaries." Let the imperial court allow you to set up a silver dollar minting bureau in Shanghai, and collect the miscellaneous silver on the market and mint it into a Qing silver dollar equivalent to the foreign silver dollar, so that you can not only trade with the foreigner, but also make huge profits from it. ”

Wu Chaoyue is not good at economics, but Wu Chaoyue still understands how important the coinage right is, so Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate, nodded and yawned and said: "Good idea, according to your ideas, write these two methods into an excerpt and a letter to Su Zhongtang, and let him take it back by the way when Jing Shou returns to Beijing." I'm so tired that I need to rest. ”

After all, Wu Chaoyue was so tired that he couldn't even open his eyelids, and in the end, Zhao Liewen personally carried Wu Chaoyue back to the room to rest.

The identity and environment are different, no matter how tired he is, Wu Chaoyue didn't dare to sleep until noon as before, and the next day was just dawn, Wu Chaoyue quickly got up to handle various affairs, and the first thing was to go to Jingshou's Qin Cha Xingyuan to visit Yang Wending, who had been dismissed from his official position. As a result, what made Wu Chaoyue quite sad was that he hadn't seen him for one night, Yang Wending seemed to be ten years old, and when he saw Wu Chaoyue, he was full of tears, Wu Chaoyue was helpless, he could only comfort him with kind words, and promised to find a way to intercede for him, and he must also ask Jing Shou to take care of him on the way north, so that Yang Wending was a little quieter.

After calming down a little, Yang Wending of course remembered his granddaughter's relationship with Wu Chaoyue, and hurriedly wiped his tears and asked Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, what are you going to do with the old man and granddaughter?" ”

When he said this, Yang Wending, who had no exchange chips in his hand, already had some pleading in his tone, and although Wu Chaoyue wanted to repay the debt, his cheeks were not thick to that point after all, so Wu Chaoyue could only say stubbornly: "Please rest assured grandfather, my son-in-law will definitely send someone to Dingyuan as soon as possible to agree on the marriage date with my father-in-law, and marry your granddaughter as soon as possible." As for your grandfather and the rest of your family, you can rest assured that as long as I have a bite to eat, I will never let them go hungry. ”

Hearing Wu Chaoyue's words, Yang Wending, who had fought to the death with the old Wu family, of course couldn't help but cry again, crying and crying just to thank Wu Chaoyue. When Wu Chaoyue helplessly continued to comfort, Zhao Dezhe, Tai Wenying and Mo Zai also came to Jingshou's Qincha Xingyuan to visit Yang Wending, and also took advantage of this opportunity, Wu Chaoyue hurriedly discussed with everyone who would be the leader of Jiangyin in the future, and the result was that Wu Chaoyue was quite surprised that Zhao Dezhen and Tai Wenying, who had higher official positions than themselves, actually took the initiative to abdicate and let Xian, expressing their willingness to obey Wu Chaoyue's command and let Wu Chaoyue take over Jiangyin's city defense and the grain and grass army in the city.

Unable to refuse everyone's kindness, Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to temporarily pick up this burden. As a result, just as Wu Chaoyue was discussing the next plan of action with everyone, someone suddenly came to report outside the door, saying that the new governor of Liangjiang, Yiliang, had sent a guerrilla Deng Liangfu to lead two hundred soldiers to escort salt to Jiangyin, and asked Wu Chaoyue, Zhao Dezhen and other Jiangyin bigwigs to deal with it.

When some of them laughed and took the officials of Jiangyin to see Deng Liangfu sent by Yiliang, they were really guessed by Wu Chaoyue, and one of the two messengers sent by Yang Wending arrived at Changzhou Mansion to govern the martial arts and enter the city. Seeing Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang stationed there, Yiliang really believed the nonsense that there was only a shortage of salt and no food in Jiangyin City, so he really sent someone to send a hundred stones of salt and some gunpowder to Jiangyin.

After crying and laughing and telling the truth to Yiliang's subordinate Deng Liangfu, Deng Liangfu, who ran away in vain, didn't mind, and after complimenting Wu Chaoyue, he also asked people to bring a Taiping prisoner, saying that he was caught on the way to transport salt, and also found a letter from him that Lin Fengxiang ordered the Wuxi guard Xie Changsha to abandon the city and break through, and at the same time, the prisoner confessed that Lin Fengxiang only sent him a messenger, so Xie Changsha probably didn't know that the main force of the Taiping Army had been defeated and fled.

Since the Wuxi Taiping Army, which has become a lone army, has not yet run. For Wu Chaoyue, the credit for recovering Wuxi is naturally at his fingertips, but just when Wu Chaoyue was overjoyed, Deng Liangfu took out a letter, saying that it was a handwritten letter written by Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, to Wu Chaoyue, or a private letter to reminisce about the past. I haven't seen him, have I? ”

"Lord Wu, you haven't seen our Yi Zhuangtai. But he knows you, and he knows your grandfather Master Wu very well. Deng Liangfu said flatteringly: "Lord Wu may not know. During the Opium War, after Duke Lin Wenzhong was unjustly dismissed from his official position, after he took over as the governor of Liangguang, not only did Duke Lin Wenzhong live in the house of Yiliangtai, but your grandfather Lord Wu also continued to serve as an interpreter for Yiliangtai, so Yiliangtai not only knew you. I also had a little friendship with your grandfather. ”

Rolled his eyes, and said in his heart If it weren't for Lao Tzu mixing so well now, you Yiliang would be able to take me in your eyes? But it is undoubtedly a good thing to be able to have a good relationship with Yiliang, who is in charge of the Liangjiang military, so Wu Chaoyue can only quickly shout that there is still such a thing. Then took Yiliang's old letter and read it carefully, but the content of the letter was not nutritious, Yiliang in addition to introducing his past contacts with Wu Jianzhang, and then regarded himself as Wu Chaoyue's elder, hoping to meet Wu Chaoyue as soon as possible.

After thinking about it for a while, in order to please Yiliang, Wu Chaoyue still asked Zhao Liewen to write a letter to Yiliang for himself, asking Yiliang to personally lead the army to Wuxi and join him to attack the city of Wuxi together - and then naturally give Yiliang a share of the credit to please him.

Zhao Liewen agreed to Wu Chaoyue's request, and then said that there was too much official business and he didn't have time to write for the time being, but fortunately, there was no urgency in this matter, and Wu Chaoyue was not reluctant, but he hurriedly sent someone to set up a banquet to entertain him, and then he was busy taking over Jiangyin's government and military affairs, pacifying the wounded soldiers and organizing the people to clean up the battlefield, and soon forgot about it.

In the end, when it was time for lunch, Zhao Liewen seized the opportunity to talk to Wu Chaoyue alone, and after asking Wu Dadao to guard the door of the house to prevent outsiders from eavesdropping, Zhao Liewen asked Wu Chaoyue directly: "Weiting, do you really plan to join forces with Yizhitai to attack Wuxi?" ”

"Of course." Wu Chaoyue nodded while chewing his meal, and said vaguely: "Yang Wending has fallen, before the new governor of Jiangsu takes office, my top boss is only Yi Zhitai, if you don't praise him better, maybe he won't be able to withstand the pressure of Xiang Rong and Qi Shan, and force me to go to the battlefield of Ningzhen to be cannon fodder." ”

"Comfort Ting, if you think so, then you are wrong, or very wrong!" Zhao Liewen said with a sneer.

"What do you mean?" Wu Chaoyue was stunned by Zhao Liewen again, and hurriedly asked, "Why am I wrong?" ”

"Once you take Wuxi, not only will Yizhitai not thank you, but on the contrary, it may really send you to the battlefield of Ningzhen as cannon fodder!" Zhao Liewen said coldly: "Why don't you want to think about it? You have recovered Wuxi, there is no longer a long-haired threat to the east of Zhenjiang, and your army is also idle, in such a situation, can Xiang Rong and Qi Shan, the ministers of the Qin Mission, not immediately target you and force Yi Zhitai to send you to the battlefield of Ningzhen to be cannon fodder? When the time comes, you will fight, and you will die, and the credit will be Xiang Rong and Qi Shan, are you happy to see this? ”

Wu Chaoyue's face changed, and he was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered this important question - as long as he was idle, Qi Shan and Xiang Rong would definitely immediately target him!

"Comfort Pavilion. You are a military genius and a foreign genius, but you do need some training in officialdom. Zhao Liewen pointed out: "You haven't even heard of the phrase self-respect for thieves, right?" Back then, in order to stay in Yunnan as the emperor of the soil, Wu Sangui asked Hong Chengchou for advice, and Hong Chengchou directly told him - don't let Yunnan be idle for a day! If you don't want to be cannon fodder on the battlefield of Ningzhen, you want the imperial court to pay more attention to you. The only way is not to let the east of Zhenjiang go undone for a day! ”

"Only by leaving the long hair of Wuxi can Yi Zhitai have a justifiable excuse to refuse Xiang Rong and Qi Shan, and they will send you to Ningzhen to participate in the war! You ask the court to pay for salt and mint silver dollars, so that you can get the approval of the emperor and the court! ”

After thinking for a moment, Wu Chaoyue suddenly asked, "Then what should I do?" ”

"There are two ways, one is to exaggerate the thief's feelings, and the other is to complain!" Zhao Liewen replied in a deep voice: "Exaggerate the thief's feelings, and boast about Wuxi as much as possible, and even deliberately send the green battalion to fight one or two defeats in front of them." Crying bitterly. The excerpt said that you suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Jiangyin, with too many casualties among the soldiers, the exhaustion of ammunition, the lack of food, horses, materials, and salaries for the army, which exaggerated your difficulties tenfold! Anyway, with Jiangyin's victory in hand, are you still afraid that the imperial court will condemn you for not being able to recapture Wuxi for a long time? If they really want to condemn themselves, you will ask the imperial court for reinforcements, and call the reinforcements of the imperial court to fight Wuxi City! ”

After nodding slowly. Wu Chaoyue hesitated and said: "But over there in Yizhitai, he is not far from Wuxi. I know very well the situation of Wuxi long hair! ”

"Hahaha!" Zhao Liewen laughed loudly, and then said in a low voice with a smile: "Weiting, you are really sincere in this regard!" Deliberately leaving Wuxi long hair, wouldn't it be good for him to make a table? For you, the long hair in Wuxi can be destroyed with a backhand, and there is no need to be afraid at all. However, if they are left behind, the military rations transported from Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Huzhou must be landed in the lower reaches of Wuxi, and they must be reloaded and transported to Zhenjiang by land. How much oil and water is fished, and the Yi system table can't see it? ”

"And." Zhao Liewen's voice was lower, and he said with a cruel smile: "Leave the long hair in Wuxi, Yi Zhitai will not have to worry about the imperial court and the emperor will transfer the soldiers of southern Jiangsu to the army, with the army in hand, Yi Zhitai will not need to be safe under his rule, and there is no need to worry about being like Yang Futai, who was forced by the imperial court to lead the army to the battlefield of Ningzhen to participate in the battle, and to be affected by Xiang Rong and Qi Shan's bird anger and carry the black pot!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Liewen smiled slightly and added in a low voice: "Another point, Qi Shan signed the "Nose Piercing Treaty" with foreigners behind the back of the imperial court, and this matter was exposed to the imperial court by Yi Zhitai at that time. In such a situation, can Yi Zhitai not prevent Qi Shan from using the power of the Qin Cha in his hand to rectify him, and can he not think about the farther away from Qi Shan, the better? ”

After being silent for a long time, Wu Chaoyue sighed: "Listening to your words, it is better to read for ten years, I am indeed too inexperienced and city government in these aspects, you are right, this long hair in Wuxi really cannot be annihilated, they must be left behind!" ”

After thinking for a while, Wu Chaoyue instructed: "Huifu, in that case, you write a letter to Yi Zhitai for me, and try to be as respectful as possible, and then tell him that this long-haired force in Wuxi is not trivial, and the thief general Xie Changsha is a long-haired famous general, and the three armies of Yongguan have the unstoppable courage of ten thousand people, and my army suffered heavy losses in the Jiangyin War, and the ammunition was exhausted, so it was really impossible to send troops to annihilate Wuxi Longhair, so I could only temporarily send five hundred green battalions to Wuxi outside the city to contain Longhair, and I could help him fight if he could take Wuxi. I really couldn't fight it, so I helped him escort the grain and grass across Wuxi to the battlefield in Ningzhen, and asked him to be considerate of my hardships. ”

"It's growing so fast, it's even a hint." Zhao Liewen said with a smile: "I believe that Yi Yi's ingenuity and talent will definitely be very happy to accept your request from a junior, and promise to let you be stationed in Jiangyin to rest and wait for ammunition to be replenished." ”

"Isn't your teacher a good teacher?" Wu Chaoyue replied with a smile: "Stay with you all day long, I just can't learn the bad points if I don't want to." ”

According to Zhao Liewen's material, after Wu Chaoyue's letter was sent to Wujin City by a fast horse, Yiliang, an old official of the officialdom, really happily accepted Wu Chaoyue's request, and while sending more than 1,000 soldiers to Wuxi City to meet with the green battalion sent by Wu Chaoyue to protect the canal channel, he personally wrote a pen and exaggerated the more than 1,000 second-line Taiping troops in Wuxi City to nearly 4,000 people, and also casually boasted about the famous Taiping Army General Xie Changsha Yitong, so that the Qing Dynasty and the Xianfeng Emperor knew that it was not Yi Zhitai and Wu Chaoyue who did not want to take back Wuxi City. It's just that the objective situation is too difficult, and the Taiping army in Wuxi City is too powerful, so there is no way.

In fact, there is no need for Wu Chaoyue and Yiliang to boast too much about the Wuxi Taiping Army, after the main force of the Taiping Army led by Lin Fengxiang was defeated by Wu Jun Lianyong, many Taiping soldiers who failed to escape on the boat almost chose to flee south to Wuxi City, and went to take refuge in the Xie Changsha Department of the Taiping Army stationed here, adding a lot of combatable troops to Xie Changsha. And Xie Changsha is also a dead brain, knowing that Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao have run away, but because he did not receive the breakout order, and because the water and land roads have been blocked by the Qing army, he categorically rejected the suggestions of some subordinates to abandon the city and break through, and chose to wait for reinforcements to defend the city, intentionally or unintentionally becoming a big nail in the throat of the canal.

So, soon, Xiang Rong, Qi Shan and other ministers urged Yiliang and Wu Chaoyue to recapture Wuxi as soon as possible, and the order flew into Wujin City and Jiangyin City like snowflakes, but Yiliang and Wu Chaoyue tacitly said in unison, "No weapons, no ammunition, no soldiers, no military salaries, Wuxi Long Hair is too powerful, you can't beat it, you can't get it back!" If you don't believe it, you can send your own troops to fight Wuxi Changmao! ”

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