"Do you want us to ask the Military Aircraft Department to discuss the promotion of Hubei Governor Wu Chaoyue?"

"Did I hear it right? Is the sun coming out of the west? Aren't Bai Zhongtang and Su Zhongtang mortal enemies? Why does he still want our officials to ask the Military Aircraft Department to discuss the promotion of Wu Futai? Everyone knows that Wu Futai is a self-absorbed person carried by Su Zhongtang? ”

"Don't be surprised, you can't see such a shallow thing, just this little bit of Taoism, I really don't know how you got into our ministry!"

"Have you ever heard of what it means to rise and fall? Where is the richest province in the world now? Jiangsu Anhui was scrapped by long hair, Zhejiang and Fujian were half disabled, there were foreigners in Liangguang to make trouble, Cao Yun was cut off, and the two Huai salt could not be transported, and Hubei was the most stable and the most abundant money and grain, and the Qing Dynasty silver yuan was cast in Hubei, and the governor of Hubei was already the fattest fat shortage in the world! If Wu Chaoyue is not promoted and transferred, can the position of governor of Hubei be vacated for others to sit? ”

"But if Wu Futai rises further, he will either be promoted to governor or return to Beijing to be a scholar, and Bai Zhongtang will be happy?"

"What's the way to be unhappy? Who called Wu Futai to be excellent in the three-year assessment of our ministry, in addition to promoting Wu Futai's official, what else can Bai Zhongtang do to drive Wu Chaoyue out of Hubei? Besides, do you think the current governor is more comfortable than the governor of Hubei? The two rivers are all wasted, Fujian and Zhejiang are half wasted, and the governor of Liangguang is even roasted on the stove, if Bai Zhongtang really gets Wu Chaoyue to these positions, then Wu Chaoyue will have a good life. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Amazing, so that's the case, I finally understand, we are also flag people, why are we only the six-grade principals, Lord Bai can enter the military machine to do the middle hall, it seems that Wu Chaoyue's dumb loss this time is decided."

"It's not that easy, Bai Zhongtang is fine, Su Zhongtang is not stupid, look at it, there will be a lot of excitement in the court."

The Qing public servants of the Ministry of Officials expected that when they submitted the ministerial proposal for Wu Chaoyue's promotion to the Military Aircraft Department according to Bai Zhongtang's instructions, Bai Ye Bai Zhongtang really forwarded the request of the Ministry of Officials to the Yangxin Hall as soon as possible, and tried his best to persuade Emperor Xianfeng to give Wu Chaoyue a promotion and make a fortune. Bai Zhongtang's nemesis, Su Shun, Su Zhongtang, also immediately jumped out to kill his relatives in righteousness, strongly opposed the promotion of the party henchmen and accomplices, and resolutely advocated that Wu Chaoyue should be trained in Hubei for another term.

"Su Zhongtang, I heard you right, right? I remember that you were the one who overrode public opinion and strongly advocated asking the master to promote Lord Wu unusually, why did the officials ask Lord Wu to be promoted, and you stood up against it again? Lord Wu is your protégé of Su Zhongtang, why is Zhongtang so harsh? Bai Ye asked with a smile.

"At this time, at that time, I asked my master to promote Wu Chaoyue to the governor of Hubei because Wu Chaoyue had that talent, and now I oppose the promotion of Wu Chaoyue's official because Wu Chaoyue still lacks experience, and he can continue to be promoted at least one term as governor. Besides, two hundred years after the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there was a twenty-three-year-old governor of Yipin? If Wu Chaoyue is promoted so high now, how will he be rewarded in the future? Su Shun replied with a serious expression.

"Listening to what Su Zhongtang said, it is indeed very reasonable, so let's just do this, how about transferring Wu Chaoyue to other provinces? Under the governance of Lord Wu, Hubei is peaceful and prosperous, and letting Lord Wu continue to patrol Hubei is just the icing on the cake, and it is difficult to go further. However, if Lord Wu is transferred to other provinces to benefit the people of other provinces, with the ability of Lord Wu, he will definitely be able to quickly govern other provinces as rich and stable as Hubei, benefiting the country and the people, and getting the best of both worlds. Bai Ye said with a smile again.

Bai Zhongtang's words are wrong, although Wu Chaoyue also has a set of civil affairs, but he is still best at training and commanding troops, Hubei Tongqu nine provinces, west of Bashu, east of Wu Yue, north of Henan and Shaanxi, south of Ping Xianggui, the position is the most important. Now that the imperial court is taking the pacification of long-haired bandits as a major matter, Hubei is in need of a capable minister like Wu Chaoyue, who is both civil and military, to train troops and appease the people, and to assist neighboring provinces. Su Shun replied with a sneer.

Thanks to Wu Chaoyue's backer in the Manchu court, Su Shun is in power, and there is a group of **** foils, otherwise Wu Chaoyue, the governor of Hubei, will definitely not be able to keep it no matter what. Not only is Su Shun's sworn enemy Bai Ye determined to disgust Wu Chaoyue, but the attitude of the other three military aircraft and the six Shangshu in the Military Aircraft Department is also obviously inclined to transfer Wu Chaoyue, whose term of office is about to expire, to other provinces as governors. - Of course, these people didn't want to help Bai Ye disgust and be obedient, but felt that it was too wasteful to keep Wu Chaoyue in Hubei. Therefore, even Su Shun, who was strong enough to dare to smear and change the annotations of other Zhongtang scholars, felt very difficult and under great pressure when helping Wu Chaoyue keep the position of governor of Hubei.

Fortunately, even if he is very inclined to transfer Wu Chaoyue out of Hubei, Emperor Xianfeng is still very cautious and careful about this matter, and it is rare that he has not made the old mistake of having soft ears, and he has not let go of his mouth even once in the appeal of the Sixth Military Department, and has repeatedly calculated and analyzed the pros and cons of transferring Wu Chaoyue out of Hubei in his heart.

In the eyes of Emperor Xianfeng, the biggest advantage of releasing Wu Chaoyue to other provinces is, of course, that he can use Wu Chaoyue's ability to conquer and quell the rebellion, so that Wu Chaoyue can fight more victories and kill more long hairs. The disadvantage is that there are some adventures, taking the only relatively stable Hubei in the Central Plains provinces to take risks, giving the Taiping army the opportunity to invade Hubei again, the Taiping army has conquered Hubei Province twice, and has caused huge losses to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which will be in the case of erosion in the Central Plains, and then let the Taiping army take the opportunity to enter Hubei, which has finally settled down, and the Xianfeng Emperor must not be able to cry.

Wu Chaoyue's military power is too heavy and the ability is too outstanding, but also Xianfeng Emperor is very jealous, before resolutely refused to give Zeng Guofan local real power, Xianfeng Emperor is afraid that Zeng Guofan's power is too big and has a different heart, although Wu Chaoyue is not as flamboyant as Zeng Guofan, as soon as he makes a move, he will only obey Zeng Guofan's orders of tens of thousands of Hunan troops, but he also accumulated 10,000 Fu Biao in Hubei piecemeal, and also made what Daye Iron Works and Daye Gun Bureau, grasp the financial power with one hand and the military power with the other, and he can fight well and make weapons. If such a person has any dissenting intentions, the harm is only greater than Zeng Guofan's direct rebellion.

Now that Wu Chaoyue is transferred out of Hubei, it can effectively prevent Wu Chaoyue from being in trouble at the end of Hubei, which Emperor Xianfeng understands very well. But Emperor Xianfeng understood one thing better, if there was no Wu Chaoyue in charge, let the Taiping army take the opportunity to enter Hubei again, then the entire Central Plains would be completely eroded, and Yungui, Sichuan and Hunan, which relied on the Hubei barrier, would also be in danger. In a dilemma, the left and right are in a dilemma, so Emperor Xianfeng did not dare to make this determination to make this big gamble.

When there was only more than half a month left before Wu Chaoyue's three-year term of office expired, an urgent report came from Guangdong by sea, saying that Britain and France had joined forces to garrison the mouth of the Pearl River and issued an ultimatum to Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangzhou, demanding that Ye Mingchen apologize and compensate for the losses for the Yaluo incident and the killing of the French missionary by the magistrate of Guangxi, and immediately start negotiations with Britain and France on the full opening of the country and the stationing of the minister in Beijing.

When the panicked Ye Mingchen sent the news to the capital, the ten-day period stipulated by the foreigners had already passed, and it was too late for Emperor Xianfeng to issue the most important instructions anyway, so the only thing Emperor Xianfeng could do was to pray for the blessing of the foreigners with wild boar skins in the past dynasties Just a joke, don't really fight again.

However, at this time, Weng Xincun, the minister of Anhui regimental training, who was temporarily appointed as the Taifu Siqing, suddenly sent a piece of music, impeaching Wu Chaoyue for communicating with Yangyi, conniving at the lawlessness of foreigners in Hubei, and enumerating human evidence and accompanying physical evidence, which suddenly stirred up the already turbulent Manchu court into chaos.

In fact, just after returning to his hometown in Anhui to handle group exercises, the open-minded Weng Xincun father and son had already begun to collect all kinds of criminal evidence from Wu Chaoyue, and had already obtained the ironclad evidence that Wu Chaoyue acquiesced in foreigners visiting and preaching in Hubei, and even the physical evidence of the foreigner technician's purchase of houses and courtyards in Daye County had been tightly held in the hands of Weng Xincun's father and son. There was no noise before, because Weng Xincun's father and son felt that the opportunity had not come, so they couldn't bear it, and they endured it until Wu Chaoyue's three-year term expired.

Weng Xincun's father and son have long known that no court member is not coveting the fat difference of the governor of Hubei, Weng Xincun father and son just didn't expect their luck to be so good, and they happened to catch up with Britain and France and decided to attack Guangzhou City again, so their impeachment of Wu Chaoyue immediately became a sharp knife in the hands of Bai Ye and others!

"Master, the slave thinks that this time Wu Chaoyue must not be spared! Wu Chaoyue has already done the matter of privately bringing foreigners deep into the mainland, my lord is like the grace of heaven, just a little reprimand to him, not only does he not know how to repay the favor, on the contrary, he has to inch in, more and more nonsense! If we don't punish it harshly this time, where is the law of the country? Where does the prestige of the imperial court remain? ”

"Master, the slave thinks that Wu Chaoyue must be dealt with strictly! Foreigners are rampant, and then attack Guangzhou, invade my land, and kill my people, all because foreigners think that I am weak and can be bullied. ”

"Your Majesty! Weichen asked for a three-foot sword to cut off the traitor Wu beyond the head, hang the gate, warn the world of thieves, please ask the emperor for permission! ”

"Strictly handle Wu Chaoyue, and the minister seconded it! Luo Bingzhang just privately brought foreigners to Hunan, and was dismissed from the position of governor and demoted to the prefect, Wu Chaoyue actually openly connived at foreigners to roam in Hubei, preaching and buying houses, if not severely punished, the law will be difficult to peace! ”

"The minister also seconded the proposal! Wu Chaoyue should be killed! ”

In the face of the shouting and shouting of the Manchu Dynasty, even Su Shun didn't dare to open his mouth to exonerate Wu Chaoyue at will, let alone Zaiyuan and Jingshou and others, who were not as favored as Su Shun. And what made Su Shun even more vigilant was that his nemesis Bai Ye didn't jump out immediately this time to shout and kill Wu Chaoyue, obviously holding back some bad water.

The result was not unexpected, and when the sound of shouting and killing came to an end, Bai Ye Bai Zhongtang really stood up, kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, Wu Chaoyue connived at foreigners to do misdeeds in Hubei, although the evidence is conclusive, but Hubei can have a stable situation today, and Wu Chaoyue is also indispensable, so the slave has the courage to ask the master to be extrajudicial and allow Wu Chaoyue to atone for his crimes." ”

"Lord Bai, Wu Chaoyue connived at foreigners to do mischief in Hubei, the evidence is ironclad, and the crime is unforgivable! What grace can he add, and how can he atone for his sins? ”

This sentence made Su Shun's heart tense again, because the person who said this was Shangshu Quanqing, the mite of the Ministry of Officials, and he was Bai Ye's henchman, and he stood up against Bai Ye, so he was naturally helping Bai Ye brew more ruthless poisonous tricks. Then as expected, Bai Ye replied immediately: "Your Majesty, the servant please demote Wu Chaoyue to three levels, transfer the minister of Guangdong regimental training, and handle the regimental training to resist Yangyi, so that Wu Chaoyue can not only prove his heart, but also use Wu Chaoyue's good fighting ability to resist Yangyi outside the country!" ”

There was a gasp everywhere in the Jinluan Palace, and there was not a single official who did not admire Bai Zhongtang's ruthless move to kill people without seeing blood, and Emperor Xianfeng, who was thinking about how to clean up Wu Chaoyue, also had his eyelids jumping, and his heart moved, and he said secretly: "This idea is not bad?" Let Wu Chaoyue go back to his hometown to hold a group exercise, not only to punish him, but also to force him to break off with the foreigners, and then he can also use him to fight the momentum of the foreigners, a clever move to kill three birds with one stone? ”

Fortunately, Emperor Xianfeng didn't want to use this matter to rectify Wu Chaoyue, and Wu Chaoyue escaped by luck - the last time he borrowed the foreigner's matter to rectify Luo Bingzhang, the real purpose of Emperor Xianfeng was to break up the combination of governors and appeasers who endangered the Manchu court's strong control of Huguang, and now Luo Bingzhang, who is effective in governance, has been transferred to Shandong, and Emperor Xianfeng certainly does not want to kill Wu Chaoyue, who is also powerful. At the same time, thanks to the bitter pleas of Su Shun and Zaiyuan and others, they reminded Emperor Xianfeng that the old Weng family and the old Wu family had a deep blood feud, and it was not ruled out that Weng Xincun was slandering and retaliating, and Wu Chaoyue would definitely be driven back to his hometown on the spot to start from scratch.

However, even if he was temporarily held back by Su Shun and others, he decided to discuss it another day, and after returning to the harem, Emperor Xianfeng was still very moved by Bai Ye's proposal and wanted to adopt it. Then when it was time to prepare for the piston movement, Emperor Xianfeng told Bai Ye's good idea to his beloved concubine and consulted his beloved concubine's opinion.

Wu Chaoyue accepted a good niece, and at the critical moment, his beloved concubine resolutely stood on Wu Chaoyue's side and warned Emperor Xianfeng: "Your Majesty, don't!" Don't do that! If Wu Chaoyue is allowed to return to Guangdong to handle the group training, the consequences will inevitably be even more unimaginable! ”

"Please think about it, if Wu Chaoyue is dismissed and demoted for the sake of Tongyi, and is sent back to his hometown to handle the group training, what will Wu Chaoyue think? What will foreigners think? At that time, even if Wu Chaoyue does not have a rebellious heart, foreigners will inevitably think that Wu Chaoyue has the value of attracting support, and give birth to the idea of using Wu Chaoyue to invade my Qing Dynasty. Zhang Bangchang's lesson, haven't you thought about it, Your Majesty? ”

"Also, even if the concubine thinks that Wu Chaoyue will definitely be loyal to the Qing Dynasty and the emperor, refuse to be co-opted by foreigners, and handle group training and bloody battles with foreigners to the end, what can you get, emperor? The concubine's father once fought side by side with Wu Chaoyue, knowing that the reason why he was invincible was because of the foreign guns and cannons he bought from the foreigners. Can Wu Chaoyue be invincible again? ”

"At that time, the war will expand, and I will have to fight with the foreigners again while flattening the long hair, can the treasury still bear it? Does the Qing Dynasty still have a surplus army that can be deployed to resist the invasion? ”

Listening to the opinion of his beloved concubine, Emperor Xianfeng couldn't help but gasp, and said happily: "What Concubine Ai said is extremely true, and I also feel that something is wrong today, and I didn't accept Bai Ye's proposal, otherwise, the consequences will be unpredictable!" ”

"You can see what's wrong?"

The concubine was disdainful in her heart, but her smooth body was entangled in the Xianfeng Emperor's constant friction, and the Xianfeng Emperor understood the meaning of the concubine, so he smiled lewdly and put his hands up and down, but just when the Xianfeng Emperor was about to insert the small cigarette butt into it, the voice of the imperial eunuch An Dehai suddenly came from outside the door, "Master, Hua Shana's secret fold has arrived." ”

Hearing this, Emperor Xianfeng had already jumped up without even wearing pants, and the favorite concubine who was rolling in the water had a secret hatred in her heart, but she didn't dare to disturb Emperor Xianfeng to watch the secret performance of the local governor, so she could only wait in the quilt with her bare buttocks, and carefully observe Emperor Xianfeng's reaction.

“…… The world cannot be without Hubei for a day, and Hubei cannot be surpassed without Wu for a day. Without the assistance of Wu Chaoyue, Hubei will never be able to maintain today's situation ....... ”

“…… The minister is willing to guarantee with his life, and Wu Chaoyue has no ...... against him. ”

Just hearing these two sentences that Emperor Xianfeng couldn't help but read out in a low voice, the favorite concubine knew that her Uncle Wu had passed the test, and she couldn't help but secretly despise Emperor Xianfeng even more, "Idiot! Instead of sending Guanwen and Hua Shana to take turns to monitor, it is better to detain Wu Chaoyue's family in the capital first, and then put the military and political power in Hubei to Wu Chaoyue, while forcing Wu Chaoyue to beat Changmao to death, while arranging heavy troops to monitor behind his back! ”

"Also, you can't make your own ideas about such a big matter, you have to listen to the secret suggestions of the minions, and you are so unassertive, no wonder you can't finish the long hair for so long!"

In this way, even if he received an urgent report from Guangzhou the next day, saying that the British and French troops had easily taken the city of Guangzhou and captured Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, in the case of a furious situation, Emperor Xianfeng still categorically refused to transfer Wu Chaoyue to the minister of Guangdong regimental training, and issued an order to give Wu Chaoyue the punishment of still staying in his original post to be involved, and categorically refused to send another Qin to Huguang to investigate Wu Chaoyue's suggestion, and decided to let Huguang Governor Hua Shana directly investigate the case, according to the truth, and deal with it strictly!

At the end, Emperor Xianfeng also said very casually: "By the way, I will give Wu Chaoyue a decree, and clearly tell him that I originally planned to promote him this time with his political achievements in Hubei, but in order to punish him for being too close to foreigners, his promotion and transfer were dismissed, and I was honestly appointed governor in Hubei for another term, as a light punishment!" ”

Hearing this, Su Shun and Zaiyuan, who can reap countless benefits in Hubei through Wu Chaoyue every year, are of course long live the mountain, and how happy they are to laugh. Bai Ye, Mu Yin and other military ministers looked at each other, and muttered in their hearts together: "This is also called punishment? The master's other skills are not good, and the means of favoritism and cover-up are becoming more and more perfect. (To be continued.) )